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Underrail 2: Infusion - Dev Log #16: Targeting and Projectiles

Stygsteam_community_announcements

141d ago

Hi guys,

In this dev log I want to go over the changes that I’ve made to the ranged weapon targeting system, which could also be called the projectile attack system.

This is the system that is used primarily when attacking with any sort of projectile-based weapon, such as firearms and crossbows, but also energy and chemical "projectiles."

The reason I made the changes that I’ll describe below is partly to better integrate it into the new engine, with its 3-dimensionality and destructibility. But, also, I wanted to change the way that the difficulty of using these weapons changes with range and skill. Namely, I wanted for these weapons to still retain good effectiveness at close or point-blank ranges even at low skill levels, so they could easily be used without too much investment both in the early game and as off-spec weapons further into a play-through.

This is how it all works now.

First, in order to be able to fire at any given target, there must be a penetrable path from your firing voxel to one of the voxels occupied by the target—this is called a ranged touch check. In our engine, a voxel is a relatively large cube with the edge length of one meter (so a human takes up two voxels when standing and one when crouched, for example). It’s basically a 3D "tile."

Every object in the game occupies one or more voxels. We use these for low-resolution gameplay mechanics, such as pathfinding and vision. A voxel itself consists of the core, the 6 sides, and 12 edges. These are used to better facilitate smaller or thinner objects such as doors, columns, and such... but that’s not important right now. You only need to remember that the initial range check is done using these.

When firing a ranged projectile weapon, such as a pistol, for example, the game first calculates your attack rating. A lot of things can affect this rating, but it’s mainly determined by your effective skill level (Guns skill in this case), stance (in the case of firearms, it means what aiming device you’re using—iron sight, reflex sight, optics, etc.), and focus.

This is measured against the target’s defense rating. I’m not completely set on how this rating is going to be summed up, but for now it’s an esoteric mix of constant values, distance, momentum, and evasion. Basically, the rating grows with how far, how fast, and how evasive the target is.

These two values are then fed into a saturating (diminishing returns) function that determines the maximum degree of aim vector tilt—meaning, by how much the attacker can be off from a perfect shot. When the projectile is about to be launched, the game rolls a random value from this range and uses it to tilt the vector.

This vector is then made into a ray and traced against the bounding box of the target that the attack was aimed at. Let’s call this a primary target check. It actually consists of two checks, as it’s traced against two bounding boxes—the full and the inner bounding box.

If it intersects with the inner bounding box, which typically consists of the inner 2/3 of the full bounding box, the attack is counted as a hit. During this check, all obstacles are ignored, and we rely solely on the ranged touch check to determine if there’s a clear path to the target. When this happens, it’s called a true hit, and it means we don’t need to do any actual ray marching of the projectile through the world space.

If it does not intersect with the inner bounding box, then the projectile is traced through the actual game space, and it can hit any character or destructible or indestructible obstacle in its path.

If it ends up landing inside the full bounding box of the initial target, it will be counted as a grazing hit (which means it deals half the damage). If it lands inside a bounding box of any other target, it can be a hit or a grazing hit depending on if it also intersects with its inner bounding box.

So, unlike in Underrail 1, where only things like bursts or shotgun attacks could cause collateral damage, in Infusion, any projectile you launch can potentially end up hitting a different target or an obstacle.

It is sort of a hybrid system that allows for true hits that do not account for other obstacles and characters if you aim precisely, but in all other cases forces you to adjust for other targets and obstacles.

I found this system to be superior to true physical simulation when it comes to our engine because the player does not have the fine-grained positioning capabilities for either the character or the source of the projectile (the weapon). We do not want to constantly be ending up in silly situations due to some part of the level geometry unexpectedly fully blocking attack paths.

Now, because we no longer roll a hit chance during the attack but instead tilt the attack vector, this has a couple of (intended) consequences.

First, the targets that are small and/or far away become naturally harder to hit because for any given vector tilt angle, the gap between the traced ray and the target point increases with the target’s distance; and the smaller the target is, the more likely this is to result in a miss.

So, while you might not need that much Guns skill to hit a burrower when up close, hitting a spawn at 10+ range without significant investment in the said skill could only be the result of a lucky shot.

Secondly, it works seamlessly for any kind of thing that needs to interact with the projectile, be it another character, an obstacle (destructible or otherwise), a cosmetic particle, a cloud of flammable gas, a rip in the spacetime continuum, or whatever else we come up with in the future. As long as it can be detected during the ray marching, we can interact with it.

Finally, we can easily use this system for weapons that fire multiple projectiles, such as shotguns, where each pellet becomes a separate projectile.

One downside of the system is that it becomes effectively impossible to calculate exact hit chances for a given attack beforehand. For this reason, as some of you have noticed, I have switched to descriptive difficulty indicators (Easy, Moderate, Hard, etc.).

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So far I’ve only discussed how the projectile system is used with standard weapon attacks, but it can and will also be used for other things, such as grenade shrapnel, psionic particles, and such. It can be used anywhere where there’s a physical projectile that needs to be traced through the game space while not being affected by gravity or air drag.

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There are cases where gravity and air drag are significant factors—with thrown weapons, for example, such as throwing knives, grenades, and even simple rocks. For these, I have developed a different system, which I will showcase in a future dev log.

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Likewise, there’s more to be said about actual damage models of different creatures and how they affect hit chances and damage amounts. This topic deserves a dev log of its own.

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Obstacles, destructible or otherwise, are also a fitting dev log subject. We actually have quite precise collision mechanisms when it comes to the environment, owing to the fact that we generate low-poly meshes for our pre-rendered assets to be used for shadow maps.

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Anyway, that’s all for now.

Keep in mind, all these mechanics are subject to further adjustments pending testing, but so far I find this system quite intuitive and fun.

It’s back to the trenches for me now. I hope you found this dev log interesting. Be sure to follow me on X, where I post smaller tidbits of development regularly.

Cheers!

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Underrail 2: Infusion - Dev Log #16: Targeting and Projectiles

Stygsteam_community_announcements

141d ago

Hi guys,

In this dev log I want to go over the changes that I’ve made to the ranged weapon targeting system, which could also be called the projectile attack system.

This is the system that is used primarily when attacking with any sort of projectile-based weapon, such as firearms and crossbows, but also energy and chemical "projectiles."

This is how it all works now.

If it does not intersect with the inner bounding box, then the projectile is traced through the actual game space, and it can hit any character or destructible or indestructible obstacle in its path.

Now, because we no longer roll a hit chance during the attack but instead tilt the attack vector, this has a couple of (intended) consequences.

Finally, we can easily use this system for weapons that fire multiple projectiles, such as shotguns, where each pellet becomes a separate projectile.

* * * * * * *

Likewise, there’s more to be said about actual damage models of different creatures and how they affect hit chances and damage amounts. This topic deserves a dev log of its own.

* * * * * * *

Anyway, that’s all for now.

Keep in mind, all these mechanics are subject to further adjustments pending testing, but so far I find this system quite intuitive and fun.

It’s back to the trenches for me now. I hope you found this dev log interesting. Be sure to follow me on X, where I post smaller tidbits of development regularly.

Cheers!

Dev Log #75: Custom Difficulty and Console

Stygsteam_community_announcements

165d ago

Hi guys,

We've added a custom difficulty option (Mutant) in the game that you can use to configure the various parameters to your liking.

If you want to play with Dominating's enemy distribution, but don't like the stat bloat, you can change it now.

If you find the easiest difficulty too hard, or the hardest difficulty to easy, you can further adjust them.

If our puzzles give you headache, you can reduce it by changing the puzzle difficulty specifically.

I've even added the ability to change the level cap, but be careful when using this one with the oddity system, as I do not think there's enough experience to level you all the way to the max setting (level 50). This option is only available with the Expedition DLC because of how leveling code is structured.

My official stance regarding the default difficulty has also changed somewhat. I don't necessarily think that Underrail has one default difficulty anymore, but rather that there is a progression from Easy to Hard as the player acquires more knowledge of the game's systems and encounters (and grows in virtue of patience and willingness to suffer).

So to better reflect their purpose, I've changed the names of Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty to Beginner, Veteran and Expert, and changed their descriptions accordingly.

I've also re-enabled the game's command console, but disabled some technical commands that are used in development. I have plans of opening the game for further tweaking and modding in the future and the console will be crucial for that.

Also, I want people to be able to tweak the difficulty in their ongoing play-throughs, so they can use a new console command for this. You will not be able to change the encounter or puzzle difficulty on the fly though, because that is likely to silently break your game and prevent you to finishing parts of it or the entire thing.

Of course, we also fixed some minor bugs.

Here's the full list:

General

Added Custom difficulty (called Mutant) that allows you to configure various game system parameters for your playthrough
Changed the names of Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty to Beginner, Veteran and Expert respectively
Beginner difficulty will now halve the health of all NPCs
Re-enabled the command console
Added console commands for changing the difficulty parameters of a running game (except the encounter and puzzle presets)

Tooltips that are too big for the screen will now pan up and down slowly so you can read the text; hold the SHIFT key to freeze it in place
Vehicle status tooltips will now scale properly

Tweaks

Shock Shurikens mechanical damage now scales with the Throwing skill; also they will now properly display the same mechanical resistance penalty as throwing knives

Bugs

Fixed the bug that caused some special attacks (e.g. Rapid fire) to consider sledgehammers and crossbows to be firearms
Enraged psi beetles will no longer try to cast Bilocation on each other
Corrected the All-in status effect description
Fixed Refurbished AKX not having a unique sprite when equipped
\ Fixed the bug that caused a certain energy weapon components blueprint names not to show up in the list of blueprints
\ Fixed the bug that caused the backblast to sometimes burn the attacker even though there was enough space behind
Fixed various sprite bugs
Various minor dialog/zone fixes

That's it for now, guys. I hope you like this new feature. We don't have much time to work on Underrail 1 now, as ~98% of our production is focused on Underrail 2: Infusion. If you haven't wishlisted it yet - please do, and keep an eye out on its dev logs in the coming year.

Cheers!

10-Year Anniversary Update (v1.3) (Dev Log #74)

Stygsteam_community_announcements

222d ago

Hi guys,

It has been 10 years since Underrail hit its 1.0 version. In celebration, we're releasing a small but important update that touches up the game's visuals and delivers an extra weapon to the Heavy Duty arsenal.

First, we've created unique sprites for all of the game's unique weapons. These should now be visible when the player equips them, except on a few armor types and when riding jet skis (but we plan to correct this in the future).

Secondly, we added a new weapon to the Heavy Guns roster - the rocket launcher. As you might expect, it's a high-powered high-AP area of effect weapon that requires a lot of strength to wield. It can fire 4 different rocket types and there are even some unique ones that have their own payloads.

Lastly, we've started work on localization support. This is going to be something that will remain in slow but active development over the next year, as I slowly migrate all the game's text into external files. As it stands right now, though, most of the UI elements and the dialog can be freely translated.

To learn more about how to do this, visit our Localization sub-forum.

We also made a bunch of other smaller and medium balance changes, with the major focus being on the impact of the intelligence stat.

Here's the full list:

General

Unique weapons now have custom sprites when held (except on jet skis)
Extracted a good amount of text of the game into .txt files for localization; UI elements, object names, items, abilities, dialogs and more can be localized as of now; further localization support is in development
Intelligence now influences the speed at which the player gains level. For oddity system this is accomplished by reducing the oddity requirements at appropriate levels, while in classic mode the amount of experience gained is modified. The effect is not drastic, but should be noticeable.
\ Added Rocket Launchers

Graphics

Improved the fog of war and nightvision shaders; you can switch to the old one in video settings if you prefer the old look

Difficulty

NPCs now gain 3% crit chance bonus on Dominating difficulty for weapon and psi attacks
NPCs health is now increased by 100% (up from 50%) on Dominating difficulty
NPCs health is now increased by 50% on Hard difficulty (previously it was not increased at all)

Items

Increased the base healing amount of enriched health hypos by about 25%
Mining helmet and headlamp enhancements will now project light in a cone in front of the user; range increased
\ Increased The Stunner's hacking requirement from 120 to 150

Crafting

Changed the crafting requirement base from fixed 80% of component quality to ranging from 77% to 112% component quality, scaling with the quality itself (curving up); Tweaked the specific modifiers for various components.
Metal combat gloves have their strength scaling changed to +10% for STR over 5 (down from 7)
Reduced the shield conversion rate of High Efficiency Energy Converter
Base energy shield conversion rate increased
Circular Wave Amplifier's energy shield conversion rate penalty no longer scales with component quality
Increased the Circular Wave Amplifier's effect on shielding values
Silencer no longer reduces damage (this change does not affect already crafted/generated pistols)
\ The grenade launcher technical manuals publication used in firearm refurbishing has been changed to also include rocket launchers

Feats

Expose Weakness - now reduces resistance and threshold by 30% plus 2% per intelligence (down from fixed 50%) and the effect is halved for non-living targets; cooldown change to 5 turns (up from 4)
High-Technicalities now also increases damage from energy edge and electroshock modules
Hit and Run - when triggered multiple times in the same turn, the maximum movement points reset point gets halved with each triggering
Fancy Footwork - when triggered multiple times in the same turn, the amount of movement points gain is reduced by 1 point each time
Cheap Shots - Incapacitation chance changed to 8% (down from 15%)
Heavy Punch - Damage changed to 300% (up from 180%); AP cost changed to 150% (down from 200%); now has 3 turns cooldown
Cut-throat - Action point cost changed to 15 (down from 25)
Pummel - cooldown changed to 1 turn (down from 3 turns)
Expanded Psi Capacitance - Now also increase psi regeneration by 1% of max psi reserves
Mantra - Psi regen bonus changed to 10 (up from 5)
Added Polymath (intelligence 8) - Immediately grants 15 skill points and additional 5 skill points at every subsequent level.
\ Added Specialist (level 16, intelligence 10) - Grants 1 additional specialization point per level.
\ Shell Shock now also works with rocket launchers and the skill requirement can now be fulfilled by Heavy Guns skill
\ Demolition Man now also works with rocket launchers and the skill requirement can now be fulfilled by Heavy Guns skill
\ Bullet Trance - will only work with LMGs and miniguns
\ Added Beast of Burden (strength 10) - Increases carry capacity by 150.

Psi

Added Heavy Punch: Damage - Increases damage by 10% for each specialization point (max: 10).
Added Heavy Punch: Action Point - Reduces the action point cost modifier by 10% for each specialization point (max: 5).
\ Added Beast of Burden specialization - Further increases carry capacity by 15 for each specialization point (max: 5).

Specializations

Added Heavy Punch: Damage - Increases damage by 10% for each specialization point (max: 10).
Added Heavy Punch: Action Point - Reduces the action point cost modifier by 10% for each specialization point (max: 5).
\ Added Beast of Burden specialization - Further increases carry capacity by 15 for each specialization point (max: 5).

Psi

Forcefield now has resistances that scale with skill
Cryogenic Barrier now has mechanical resistance that scales with skill
Exothermic Aura now burns off throwing nets and webs that entangle the invoker
Psychokinetic Chain - now transfers 20%+0.2% per skill (up from 15%+0.1%) up to max of 50% (up from 30%); max flat damage changed to 30+0.7 per skill (up from 15+0.35); psi cost changed to 25 (down from 35)
Psychosomatic Predation - killing the target now also resets the cooldown
\ Stasis can now absorb maximum of 10 damage per effective skill point
\ Temporary Rewind - action point cost changed to 20 (down from 25), cooldown changed to 6 (down from 8), reversion delayed by an additional turn

Tweaks

Skill-based damage bonus for light weapons (those that have their AP cost reduced by Dexterity, which are: pistols, SMGs, unarmed, fist weapons, and knives) changed from the standard 0.7% per skill to 0.5% per skill
Cold effects will now remove a stack of Warmed Up
Minimal weapon usage action point cost changed to 5 (up from 4)
Added dry-firing sound effects
Contamined - damage taken bonus per stack changed to 5% (down from 10%)
\ Plasma grenade now performs one attack with both damage type instead of two attacks; this does not change damage in any way but will make evading it more consistent
\ Heartbreak poison duration will no longer be refreshed with stacking
\ Added new shotgun loading/reloading sounds
\ Added new grenade launcher loading/reloading sounds
\ Reduced damage of grenade launchers across the board by about 20%
\ Adjusted optimal ranges for grenade launchers, will not affect those already crafted
\ Certain truesighted robots now have their truesight sight ranged decoupled (and lowered) from their normal sight range
\ The Gunslinger will no longer give you a certain item unless you reached a certain point in the Compound quest together

Bugs

Fixed some old rare save/load bug that might have been the root cause of another rare save data corruption bug
Fixed not being able to report one of the Hephaestus Research quest outcomes to Colonel Cathcart in a specific case
No longer able to change the zoom level when using cameras, spying endoscope and the like
\ Shattering a target with a spear attack will now properly apply spear guard
\ Fixed reinforced leper serpent skin boots displaying the wrong icon
\ Fixed provoking hostilities when using a certain laptop at The Rig when reloading a game even if the player has been granted access to it
\ Locust hives no longer have knees and ribs (that can be shot and broken)
Various minor dialog/zone fixes

That's it for now, guys. There's more work to be done on Underrail 1 in the future. I don't think we'll ever truly be done with its development as there's always more stuff to add or expand upon.

For now, though, our focus is on Underrail 2: Infusion. If you haven't wishlisted it yet - please do, and keep an eye out on its dev logs in the coming year.

Cheers.

Dev Log #73: Version 1.2.0.0 and the incoming DLC

Stygsteam_community_announcements

1020d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5151043/6608fa055d8e9bff9a373ca96b1333dbc6155011.png Hi guys, In preparation of the coming release of Heavy Duty DLC (which you can wishlist now) we are pushing version 1.2.0.0 out on the main branch today. In one of the dev logs back in 2022, I hinted at a possiblity of us releasing a small DLC that would contain some important mechanics that we originally planned for a bigger DLC that would follow after Expedition. These mechanics were the new weapon types. As I said then, instead of making this large DLC we decided to move on to Infusion and basically rework the entire engine. However, we didn't want to just leave those out permanently. While I was busy working on the new engine, along with the 3D artists, I decide to have the level/quest designers, who could not do any substantial work in the new engine yet anyway, work on a short, but unique, side-mission that we could then package with the weapons as a smaller DLC. That way we could freshen up the game without disrupting the work on Infusion significantly. Granted, it did take some of my development time to code the new weapons (because at that point we only had the spritesheet renders) as well as some of the artists' time when creating the new tilesets. However, the majority of the work was done by the two level designers that had time to spare anyway. So I hope you all enjoy the new weapons, I found them very fun during testing, as well as the new adventure. I can now confidently say that this is probably maybe the last big content update to the game until we're finished with Infusion. Of course, there's still the question of improved Steam Deck support and localization tools. Also it wouldn't hurt to add a couple more unique weapons, spears in particular... Anyway, here is the list of changes in this patch. It does not include the DLC stuff that's coming later. Features

New seasonal events

Items

Increased the cost of Hexogen
Scopes, crossbow superstring, pneumatic reloader and laser sight are now stackable
Praetorian heavy armor acid resistance changed to 0% / 5 (down from 20% / 10). This was a mistake, regular metal armors have minimal fixed acid resistance
Praetorian heavy armor health bonused changed to 35 (up from 20)
Reduced the mechanics required for a number of different gun barrels (7.62, 8.6, .44, 12.7)
Increased durability of TT 3000 from 690 to 2220, and Balor's Hammer from 1770 to 3570

NPCs

Rathound King and What now have custom combat taunts
Doctor Merrick will now treat injured players
Gorsky is now immune to fear
Becket will now sell spears and offer them as a reward; also, he will now always buy some medical items per restock (was random before)

Tweaks:

Reduced the spread angle for assault rifle/SMG bursts
Echoing Soliloquy persuasion buff will now work a lot more reliably on higher difficulties
Tchortlings will now despawn (go back to their wretched holes) if the player returns to Hollow Earth zones without being affected by the Eye of Tchort debuff
Protectorate Dreadnought's minigun now behaves like a proper minigun; also, the shoot rocket ability's AP cost has been reduced from 30 to 20, whereas cooldown has been increased from 2 to 3 turns

Bugs

Item macro stacking (1000 = 1k, 1000000 = 1m...) will now properly work with the new UI settings (was Classic-only)
Fatal Throw should no longer provide any benefit when throwing acid vials
Fixed the UI bug with certain vehicle slot background icons in some UI sizes
Updated HARP rocket explosion to use the same sprites as High Explosive grenades, instead of the old one
Commando will no longer trigger when destroying inanimate objects
Certain special acid attack will now count towards "Acid Trip" achievement
Fixed being able to tell Lt. Garren that a certain sneaky person is located somewhere despite the fact that he isn't
Fixed Leo sometimes not leaving his hiding place properly and thus not being accessible for the rest of the playthrough
Fixed Epione Lab cameras sometimes tracking the player despite them having been allowed access by the front guard
Fixed Gorsky staying in Tanner's office even after certain events that should prevent their conversation from happening have taken place
Fixed being able to pickpocket femurs from hunchback mutants
Fixed certain Mushroom Root parts being selectable from outside of the actual sprite
Fixed thrown oil barrels doing acid damage on direct impact
Fixed being able to daze machines while under the influence of Scrapperac
Fixed the game not acknowledging you had paid for the Wormhole access if you did so through a mercantile check
Fixed Tchortling Sower Tentacles sometimes dropping their bio attack weapon items for the players to pick up
Fixed SRO assault squad not returning to home base upon victory
If the player manages to survive the electric shock and subsequently kill the other runners in the Gauntlet's final area, they will no longer be able to enter other lanes and go out of bounds
Buying drapes for your house will now properly remove 300 charons from inventory (as stated in Jyles' dialog) instead of 350
Death of reclined characters lke the wounded sec-trooper will no longer be displayed as destruction in the text feed
minor dialog/zone fixes - Fixed not being able to disembark at a destroyed wall section in Port Ceto during certain events
Updated Elemental Bolts feat description to include energy bolts. The text remains the same for the base game, as it does not feature this kind of bolts
Fixed the camp defense quest note not being marked as completed in certain situations
Fixed not always getting extra xp for doing the final pirate mission solo (and some other minor dialog inconsistencies)
Fixed Ladelman not selling vehicle repair kits
Fixed quests related to joining the expedition not always being marked as failed when the ship returns to the Black Sea without the player
Fixed a broken electronics check when attempting to fix an Abandoned Waterways Facility console
Fixed not getting a bonus for revealing a certain threat to the expedition
Fixed behavioural issues with Ladelman and Doc Savage when they join the camp defenses at the beach
Fixed a broken option to call for reinforcements during kidnapping negotiations
Fixed the respawning jet ski in Abandoned Waterway Facility
Fixed The Rig guard dogs engaging players riding jets skis (will occasionally growl at them only)
Fixed junk jets taken from members of a few factions still displaying red/protected cursor
Room 3 at The Rig will no longer display red/protected cursor even if Murky gave you its key
A certain persuasion option will no longer break Todd's dialog
minor dialog/zone fixes

That's it for now, guys. Look out for the DLC coming November 1st! Cheers.

Dev Log #71: New Year's Resolution

Stygsteam_community_announcements

1639d ago

Hi guys, Today we're releasing our last major free content update for Underrail. It's been just a bit over six years since the full release of the base game, and I think that's a nice and round number to rest at. After this we're going to transition to working at about 95% of our collective capacity on our next project known under codename Infusion. You can see what's this project about and follow its development here: stygiansoftware.com/infusion. We should start posting dev logs there more regularly soon. However, this does not mean that we're completely done with this game. We intend to support it as long as we exist as a company and also periodically release small content updates which will mostly feature mechanical tweaks, as well new items and abilities. We have quite a robust system for creating interesting items at this point, which we intend to use to further extend Underrail's playstyle catalogue so to speak. Also we have some bigger features planned for the future, such as better adapting the game's UI and controls to Steam Deck, creating tools for community translation projects, potentially porting the game to other platforms, and more. Another distinct possibility is an additon of a small paid DLC for Underrail, as there are some substantial gameplay mechanics that we initially planned to add in the second DLC (following Expedition), but were left in a state of limbo after we decided to move onto Infusion instead. Exactly when any of these things will come about, I do not know. They will mostly require me to spend my programming time on them, which I will not have much to spare as Infusion is going to occupy most of it in the coming years. So don't expect rapid progress in any of the things mentioned above. Before I hit you with all the bullet points, here's an important notice: due to the nature and quantity of changes made, the update will first be deployed onto the Experimental branch. To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong. Now, without further ado, here's the list of changes and additions that come with this update, minus the secret stuff, of course: MAJOR STUFF

Implemented, new slightly visually touched up, UI that is available in 3 sizes; classic UI still available
The game will now automatically be zoomed on higher resolutions (which can then be changed through manual zooming if it's enabled)
Introduced a brand new Core City questline as an alternative to joining an oligarch
Improved nearly all unique and some rare weapons and armor - go check them out
You can refurbish your old world firearms at one of the firearm enthusiasts
Characters can now save up to 10 action points at the end of their turn and add those to their next turn
Base ability values are no longer capped at 20, but instead the maximum bonus on top of the base value that you can accumulate is 10

Implemented borderless windowed display mode
Item's special abilities/attacks will now have icon in the item's tooltip next to the description
Fixed character's speech bubble and health bar offsets when zoomed in
Zooming step changed to 25% (down from 50%)
Added an option to follow the player character (default hotkey: F3). This is kind of an experimental feature, so be sure to let me know if you discover any bugs

Feats

Opportunist - description now specifies it only works against living targets
Pummel - will now list the action point cost
Fend - Base action point cost changed to 60% of normal attack ap cost (down from 100%)

Specializations

Fend: Action Point Cost - Ap cost reduction per point changed to 8% (down from 10%)

Items

Item effects (such as poisons and gun oil) will now display a small icon in the corner of the parent item
You can now use poisons to coat suitable melee weapons if you have the required Biology skill level; the poisoned weapons will then apply that poison in a certain number of attacks; you can coat a weapon with only one poison at a time
Added Sharpening Stone - Can sharpen a bladed melee weapon, increasing its damage by 10% for the next 30 strikes, but permanently reducing its max durability by 5%
Added Firecracker Cap item enhancement that can be applied to sledgehammers and crowbars to cause an explosion on the next hit
All-in now decreases intelligence by 3 instead of increasing it
Commando Belt moved to static loot
Frogfish biology requirement changed to 50 (up from 25)
Add a new unique spear and sword that can be found before going to Black Sea

Ammo

W2C bullets now ignore 35%-45% of mechanical damage resistance depending on bullet caliber (down from fixed 65%), threshold interaction remains he same
5mm Shock Round - Damage changed to 8-15 (up from 5-10) and now has 3% chance to daze target for 1 turn
7.62mm Micro-shrapnel Round - The damage that penetrates the armor is increased by 25% against organic targets
8.6mm Incendiary Round - Now also deals 10-20 heat damage on impact
9mm Acid Round - Acid damage changed to 15-30 (up from 10-20)
.44 Explosive Round - Heat and mechanical explosion damage changed to 23-45 (up from 15-30)

Crafting

Steel and tungsten plates requirement is now capped at 30 mechanics when crafting bullets
W2C Bullets blueprint now requires hexogen instead of raw tnt and produces 20 bullets (down from 30)
JHP Bullets blueprint now produces 20 bullets (down from 30)
Changed enriched health hypo critical chance to 10% (up from 5%)
Large intestine biology requirement changed to 45 (down from 50)
Taurine biology requirement changed to 45 (down from 50)
Anglerfish biology requirement changed to 90 (down from 100)
Fusing Enzyme biology requirement changed to 90 (down from 100)

Quests/Zones/NPCs

Increased t-boss health on dominating difficulty, and his damage resistance on all difficulties
Expanded upon Motion and Motioners; this drug is now both better and worse
You can now bring Gorsky high-quality energy shields from other sources as an alternative to raiding Port Zenith
Added an agility check that allows you to climb up and down between the Caerus Residential Block square and SW building second floor
Added fireplaces to certain locations in Deep Caverns
Added a hacking check to Cytosine Outpost storeroom
Added more hydraulic fluid canisters to Deep Caverns
Certain gate components can now be found at multiple locations in Deep Caverns
You can now use electronics skill to optimize Arke power plant turbine output for more total power
A certain important encounter with the Faceless will now feature some of them having their infusions active from the start (only on Dominating difficulty)
Added an extra Thought Control check to the DC mindreading that allows the player to conceal his mischievous behavior
You can now bring super steel refining data to Bernard in order to improve the quality of super steel plates; also raised the max quality from 160 to 180 for players who have Expedition installed
Leonie will now offer the Infused Leather blueprint as soon as you show her you have super steel plates (currently you have to do the melting process with Bernard first)
You can turn metal scraps into low-quality steel plates at Leonie's
Added more ways to learn about a certain Foundry arms merchant
Added more entries to the super secret organization database, and placed some of the existing ones behind higher access levels
Added more options to save Maura
You can now borrow (or "borrow") AK from Kokoschka
Becket now also offers psi inhalants alongside psi boosters when giving you your equipment package
Added Underrail Express tickets which can be pickpocketed from NPCs and used for a single ride
New models and portraits for Jon the Beautiful, Sergio the Wizard, and some super secret folks
New random events, some of them seasonal, and some related to the player's house
Introduced Jookhela's drawing skills to the world
Increased requirements for achieving Brutalizer/Brutalette gladiator nicknames, so they shouldn't be so predominant now
The Black Crawler now drops an oddity item when killed
New entries in the Institute of Tchort library, some of which contain blueprints and will require a special card
New skill checks for Octavia, Vuk and Kiro that will unlock certain items for trading
Naval mines will now be heard detonating in the distance when someone attacks the camp
Added ways to break yourself free from a certain man's mechanical grasp
Added certain dialog options to Doc Savage and Marcus that were only available through navcom

Tweaks

Optimized faction data relations serialization which should improve save/load times of mid and late game savegames somewhat
Fixed the pathfinding prioritization to prevent player from getting stuck in place when a lot of NPC pathfinding is taking place
Being in turn-based mode will now count as being in combat for purpose of changing equipment

Bugs

Game will no longer accept mouse clicks in windowed mode when the game window is not focused
Fixed the bug that would cause the carried weight to not immediately update when consuming/expending items in a stack
Pseudo-spatial Projection will now properly affect Spear Throw
Fixed the bug that allowed some items to make the player's mechanical resistance sometimes exceed the normal limit
Fixed the bug that cause the item tooltip to not correctly indicate which effects are unavailable due to unmet requirements when the item is not currently equipped
Fixed the bug that would cause Bone Breaker to trigger irrespectively of the amount of damage dealt
Negative effects of equipped items will now still properly apply even if you do not meet the item requirements
Fixed the bug that would cause assault rifle burst attack and pistol rapid fire to calculate each burst hit with the wrong bullet from the magazine (it was offset by 1)
Fixed the bug that would cause the Needler's Piercing Shot to hit the pass-through targets twice
NPCs will now properly use crossbow to fire special bolts instead of switching weapons when they are out of regular bolts
You can no longer trigger Escape Bonds when you're completely encumbered
Plasma Beam will now properly hit all targets in the target tile (the ones highlighted when targeting)
Fixed the bug that caused psi beetles to try to neural overload force fields
Fixed some esoteric explosion bugs
You can no longer climb a certain ladder before releasing the very, very bad gas in an under-passages hideout (unless you kill the person supervising you)
Captain Rastko will no longer charge double for a single ride
Fixed the Green Galaxy furniture set not appearing when switching between it and other bought sets
Fixed not being able to report Newton's death if he was killed in certain ways
Attacking Jack Quicksilver will now properly register who attacked him and will not instead be attributed to the player for certain quest purposes
Killing Vivian at a certain location will now fail the quest and prevent the player from doing certain things which might get them permanently stuck
Spear guard triggered from spear attacks will now properly replace a more powerful existing spear guard effect if the latter is about to expire
Spear throw will now destealth the thrower after the throw instead before
Fixed Improved Naval Combat checking for effective instead of base Agility value in Razor's dialog
Fixed a bug which in certain cases prevents players from sleeping in the camp bed more than once
Fixed Aran not despawning when he should in certain cases
Fixed Ferryman being stuck in the "I'm moving out." phase and not wanting to talk to the player
Fixed Dude sometimes not having certain dialogue options when waiting for the player to find something important in his cave home
Fixed Briggs getting stuck at the "Shouldn't you be looking for a microchip implant?" line in certain very specific instances
Fixed Professor Oldfield not following you when he should
Fixed receiving certain NavCom messages if you stole/looted it but never joined the expedition
Fixed being able to sail across certain cliffs in the Mutie Refuge zone
Fixed wrong closing sounds for one type of Lemurian boxes
Fixed infinite Black Eel jet skiers bug

Let us know how you like the additions and changes.

Dev Log #70: Method and Madness

Stygsteam_community_announcements

1854d ago

Hi guys, We're rolling out a new content update. The main features of this update are new psi abilities for the three psionic schools of the base game, new items, and an alternative entrance into the Institute of Tchort, which becomes available at the appropriate time. We also added an interesting new dungeon that can be accessed from somewhere in the Upper Underrail, so you might want to revisit those areas again. I won't spoil the psi abilities; you'll have to find them out yourself. We haven't added any new temporal manipulation psi abilities, but we're likely to do that in a later update. The problem with TM is that it's designed to be limited in its offensive capabilities, in a sense that it's meant to deal its damage through a single delayed effect. And on the other hand, it's already overloaded with utility. This makes it quite hard to come up with something that would fit well into the school without making it even more unreasonably useful. We have some ideas, but they will need more developing. Anyway, here is the full list of changes, except the secret ones, of course: General

A completely new way to gain access to the Institute of Tchort
Reward items for joining Preservation or Investigation in the Institute of Tchort
New dungeons and random fragments
Added another way to reach the caves beneath the Mushroom Forest; also dropped some goodies inside the forest
Certain NPCs can now consume food and drink items outside combat

Items

Tchortist Rassophore Armor resistance bonus vs bullets/shells changed to 100% (up from 75%).
Tchortist Rassophore Armor will now also reduce chance for wearer to be crit by psi by 3%.
Tchortist Rassophore Armor is no longer marked as unique (purple)
You can now add spikes or serrated blades to sledgehammer instead of electroshock module
Added a set of new luxury items to the world; some of these are unique
Blast Suit: agility penalty reduced from -6 to -3, dexterity penalty is completely removed, but there is now a perception penalty of -2 instead. Also, the armor's weight is reduced from 40 to 25
Phase Gun: reduced AP from 40 to 35 and increased energy shield dissipation from 100 to 300; it's also been moved from DC to the Lost Vault
Mind Cracker: lowered AP cost from 25 to 22, increased psi burn from 25 to 50 points, chance to apply psi inhibition from 25% to 30%, and replaced the resolve penalty with massive penalties to psi skills, regeneration and max points; also moved it to a mysterious new area
Quake: lowered AP cost from 25 to 23
Jawbone: Reduced minimal strength from 6 to 5 and increased damage from 25/60 to 30/70; meeting the 7 strength requirement reduces AP cost per shot by 3 (from 25 to 22) and boosts initimidation by 15
Industrial Powered Exoskeleton: activating it now gives 3 extra strength instead of 2, 40 MP instead of 25 (to offset the high armor penalty), and the agility penalty is removed. The drill attack AP is also reduced from 40 to 35
Makeshift Chrono-repeater: Skill malus no longer affects Temporal Manipulation itself
Changed the duration of Hypercerebrix to 8 turns (up from 5)
Added spear component that increases thrown damage and range

You can no longer see the silhouette of unobtained oddities in their window
You can no longer craft in turn-based mode
When invoking an ability that targets a tile, it will now always ignore characters and such; it used to work like that, but I broke it at some point

Tweaks

Siphoner attacks now bypasses 30% of mechanical threshold instead of being threated as a "knife" attack
Siphoner initial siphining hook attack deals 50% more damage, but siphonig is not performed if the target resists all mechanical damage (instead of it only being canceled if the attack misses)
Killing the Mushroom Forest boss will now also kill the spore turrets above it
Halved the number of spore stacks necessary to dream...
Echoing Soliloquy now gets a buff from persuasion (applied at the moment you obtain the feat and remains constant afterwards)
Improved the layout of the Gubbins' gang area in Upper Underrail
Added a new way to help the rejects (if Nevil survived), and did some general improvements and tweaks
Overhauled elevator access areas and increased the loot quantity and quality inside the residential office building. In addition, increased the hacking requirement to get inside the building.
Added new loot to the lower passages early game fragment dungeon.
Toned down item quality sold by Booth.
Added another shortcut to Nexus of Technology for those who have visited Crimson Meadow beforehand
Added a unique luxury item to Matriuss Ludenloff.

Bugs

Throwing knives will no longer play sound effects when hitting pseudo-spatial projections
Fixed the bug that would cause the game to no longer receive keyboard inputs after clicking on some areas of Oddities window
Commando specialization will now always properly award extra AP and is no longer limited by the normal maximum for the turn
Fixed certain factions resetting from hostile to neutral after the player comes in contact with a very, very bad gas and then reloads the game
Fixed Gorsky receiving an endless supply of assault rifles
Fixed certain npcs briefly turning invisible when playing custom idle animations
Fixed a rare crash when going to the island where the game can be finished in a special way
Various minor dialog and zone fixes

We are due for just one more content update before we shift fully to the Infusion project. From that point onwards there will be minor addition to the game, at least until the Infusion is released. But more on that in the next dev log. Let us know how you like the additions and changes. Cheers.

Dev Log #69: Crossing the Styx (1.1.3.0)

Stygsteam_community_announcements

1978d ago

Hi guys, We're rolling out a new content update. It's going to be a somewhat weird update because the main bulk of the content is centered around something that is not part of a mainstream playthrough. We added an interesting adventure and resolution to players who get... genetically compromised during their time in Underrail. Where and how is for you guys to find out (it does require the Expedition DLC though). Also we've added more than a dozen new areas to the game, some of which will appear randomly in different playthroughs. Mechanics-wise I've taken a look at firearm pistols, throwing, and super steel weapons and made some improvements and/or tweaks there. Anyway, here's the full list of changes, minus the secret stuff: Items

You can now throw acid vials
Obscure weapon improved in an obscure way
Infused Bison leather will now provide more fortitude when crafting boots (not applied retroactively)
Vigorous Belt now also grants 15 fortitude
AI Scrambler and Hypno Goggle value will now scale with their effective level

Added a toggle on the right side of the action bar that, when turned on, will prevent you from interacting with all containers and other usables while in turn-based mode; The main purpose of this feature is to prevent you from misclicking enemy remains, but it will also help with the doors
In character sheet window, modified skill values that are currently affected by syngergies will be highlighted in yellow

Specializations

Reduced the max spec points that can be invested in Wrestling spec to 5, since more would just take you over 100% chance to apply. If you invested more than that: lol noob! (j/k You'll get those back on the next level up (unless you're max level in which case: lol noob!))

Metal Weapon Changes

Tungsten sledgehammer critical chance reduced by 1%
Supersteel sledgehammer critical chance increased by 2%
Supersteel sledgehammer action point cost reduced by 2
Supersteel spear will now grant 3% precision bonus
Supersteel machete will now grant 3% precision bonus
Supersteel machete action point cost reduced by 1
Supersteel combat knife will now grant 5% precision bonus

Pistol changes

Increased critical hit chance of all firearm pistols by 3% (new base is 10% now)
Firearm pistols damage increased by about 25%
Firearm pistols now ignore up to 40% of target's evasion at close range
Sharpshooter now grants the critical damage bonus to firearm pistols at all times regardless of focus
Added Gun-Fu feat - When attacking with firearm pistols in melee range, your effective attack skill is increased by 40% (up to 60% through specialization) of your unmodified melee skill for all purposes, including the damage done
Added Bullet Time feat - When activated, reduces action point cost of firing firearm pistols by 30% (up to 50% through specialization) until the end of the turn.

Throwing Knives

Reduced the base damage by about 20%, they now incur 130% of mech resistance and threshold (up from 125%), but the damage that passes the armor is increased by 75%
Added Remote Surgeon feat - Increases the unresisted damage modifier of throwing knives by additional 50% (up to 100% through specialization)
Added Knife Throw's Gloves which increase knife throwing precision by 5% and reduce AP cost by 3
Added Shock Shurikens

Certain plasma sentries will now deploy their plasma cannons in real-time and wait for the player

Mechanical Tweaks

Incendiary grenades will no longer be activated if they hit a traversable water tile (they will trigger if they hit an occupied water tile, though)
Groin Guard now also grants immunity to Dirty Kick's extra stun duration
TNT Charge will now use the new explosion visuals (same as HE grenades)
Pyrokinetic stream will now emit light
Added a small cooldown to playing sounds that should, hopefully, prevent volume stacking
Fixed a number of ability and feat descriptions to properly state "humanoid" instead of "human" if they affect that category
Fixed a number of ability and item descriptions to state when the bonuses are only affecting weapon and unarmed attacks
Fortitude will now help with poison resistance (mostly manifested through reducing poison duration)

Content

Added Napalm Barrels, a stronger version of regular explosive barrel that also spawns fire; these can be thrown by the usual suspects
A certain very, very bad gas that's been released into an under-passage hideout now dissipates after some time
Added the Lost Vault dungeon in Upper Caves
Added new Core City sewers random fragments
Added new GMS vault cave which are randomly selected when starting a new game. Ongoing playthroughs will still have the default map
Added a new source of very bad gas inside a certain bunker in Upper Caves
Added the ability to climb up the cliff at the entrance to the Black Sea (requires some high agility)
Added a rift to Fort Apogee
Added a certain mentioned wild boar to the Hathorian hunting grounds. Snort!

Content Tweaks

Decreased movement speed and movements points of Tithonus Lab residents; also tweaked their AI as to make them more likely to give up chasing the player
Added the ability to peek over the guard rail outside Arke's power room to see if anything's waiting near the elevator
The player can now tell the Core City warehouse defenders to set up their defenses at three different positions in the building
Various minor changes to the Lost Vault entrance area, as well as some npc and dialog tweaks
The Emporion Mall Lunatics are now a bit less sensitive to sound. Reckless players will still be able to alert entire floors, but playing with care will result in fighting smaller groups at a time, which also prevents pathfinding slowdowns
Jookhela got a new coat of paint
Minor tweaks to Ray's Shop as to prevent a few camera vision exploits
Dude will now make you another Juice in case you waste the first one.
He'll also take hydraulic fluid from DC instead of a certain gun lube (as they're both mineral oil-based).
...and he accepts mushroom brew as currency following a certain event.
Reduced the slowdown that occurs during the boat-riding cutscene at the start of the expedition

Bugs

Pyrokinetic stream will now properly apply Thermodynamicity when the invocation ends
Pyromaniac's extra damage from specialization will now properly be applied
Thermodynamic Destabilization can now trigger Pyromaniac
Psi window will now be hidden while the character sheet is open like other windows are
Invoking Psycho-temporal Contraction while already under effects of one will not grant you more action and movement points in that turn
Fixed the value rounding bug when displaying character damage resistances
Fixed the bug that caused doppelgangers to not despawn in real-time combat
Fixed a long standing animation glitch that caused the animation to abruptly end after the psi ability is invoked
Fixed the bug that would sometimes cause the game to crash when an acid barrel is thrown
Fixed the bug that would sometimes cause the death screen to be uninteractble when you die during a cutscene
Fixed being able to avoid confronting Jookhela through the power of turn-based mode exploits
Fixed Tobias in Tithonus Lab turning on the power during turn-based combat instead of trying to make sure it's off
Fixed Aran not getting a health buff on Dominating
Fixed GMS level 3 doors not working with automatic door opening option checked
Fixed sometimes not getting xp when completing a certain assassination quest for Edgar
Fixed not being able to talk to Katya after visiting "the cave", as well as a certain dialog option not showing up regarding something you see at the entrance to the Black Sea
Various minor dialog and map fixes and tweaks

That's all for now. Let us know how you like the new content. Cheers.

Dev Log #68: The Psi Question

Stygsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

2157d ago

Hi guys, On September 7th the psi update will be release on the main branch, but before that happens I want to briefly address this controversial change again and also offer a compromise. First I'd like to restate that the reason the psi was reworked was not primarily because of its power, though it will reign that in a bit as well. I will not list all the major arguments I've given in the previous dev log here again, but the sum of it is that the psi is too cheap to spec in, in comparison to what it offers, and that there is no way to expand upon it without even further overloading it with combat versatility. There were multiple ways to address it and I went with what I think fits well. I went in a bit too hard with the restrictions, which I have since eased on a bit (check out the patch notes for details), but the point of the experimental build was to tweak these numbers and mechanics anyway. I think it's in good place now, where both the (now somewhat nerfed) pure psi wizards and hybrids are viable, though they will require more management in terms of resources and psi selection. Now in terms of adding more management to the psi build, one could argue that this is adding unnecessary tedium, but if look back at the history of Underrail's development you will find that we do tend to add these sort of complexities and restrictions to our mechanics as we flesh them out. Player is intended to have to pay attention and do some busywork in order to keep his character going. There used to be time when we had no weight restrictions, no selling restrictions, and at one point guns didn't even require ammo, though, to be fair, that was before the game was even available to play to the public. So you may not like this part of our design approach, but it is not at all inconsistent with what we did in the past. The difference here is, however, that the game has been released for a long time and that the way the psi currently works has been something that's been firmly established. I will concede to the argument that it may not be fair to change it at such a late time. I should have done it way sooner, back when I added the last batch of psi abilities in the late early access stage, but I didn't and I don't have a good excuse. I do, however, still maintain that this is a good and necessary change that will benefit the game in way of build diversity, especially in the long run, even if it comes a bit late. But for those that are firmly against this change, or maybe just want to finish their current cave wizard rampage, I've made a separate Legacy branch (on both platforms) that will permanently host 1.1.1.6 version of the game. It will receive no updates and no other version of the game will ever be preserved in this way in the future (don't worry, no further major mechanical changes are planned anyway). If you do hop between the version be advised that, as always, saves of a higher version are not compatible with older version of the game. So if you intend to keep playing on this version (either temporarily or permanently), you can switch now. I hope that this compromise will be agreeable to most of you. Cheers.

Version 1.1.2.0 - Waterways and Psi Update

Stygsteam_community_announcements

2199d ago

Hi guys, We're rolling out a new content update. It's going to land on experimental branch first in order to thoroughly test it out. To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. To do so on GOG Galaxy, you go to Manage Installation -> Configure. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong. The first major theme of this update is the change to psi mechanics. The full changes are listed below. They are not primarily meant to kick the full psi builds down a notch (though they will do that), but to address the following issues with psi that I find the most problematic and detrimental to the game as a whole, not just in terms of difficulty:

Psi gives you too many utilities. Due to how the psi functions now (prior to this update) it's almost impossible to add new stuff to psi without extending the already bloated spectrum of combat utilities of any given psi generalist (which most psi builds are) even further, since, unlike with combat utilities, there are no limits to what a psi invoker can access during combat.

Psi is cheap to spec into. Even though every psi school is a separate skill, they are all based on a single base ability, which is the only one required to be maxed out in order for your character to be powerful. If you invest heavily enough into it, the psi abilities themselves will make up for many deficiencies in other areas. No other robust build works like this, they usually require at least moderately strong investment into a secondary base ability.

Psi does not require any expendable resource. Pretty much every other build does so I introduced a resource for psi as well. Now it has a dual (or hybrid if you will) resource management aspect. Also I used this opportunity to put a sort of a limit to how much psionic output you can dish out in a single fight, so we'll see how this works out.

This is the least important point, but it's still worth addressing. Some abilities are a bit too cheesey and easy to exploit so I changed them up a bit. This does not make them perfectly balanced or un-cheeseable and I know there is other stuff out there that's cheese as well. These are just the ones that bothered me the most and were long overdue to change. Anyway, the detailed changes are in the list below. What I hope to do in the future with psi now that I've dealt with psi generalist question is to facilitate more hybrid builds, which I think the new system will support well. * * * * * The other major theme of the update is a lot of new content for the waterways - one big new dungeon, a couple of smaller locations, many new random encounters and other stuff. I'll leave it to you guys to find out for yourselves. On a related note I halved the price of all the fancy jet skis and all the parts, so they will be easier to acquire now. We do not need such ridiculous prices anymore since we added the economic component to the difficulty settings. * * * * * Here's the full change log: General

Improved the start up time for the game
Initimidation now scales off either Strength or Will (whichever is higher)
Halved the cost of most jet ski frames, engines, batteries and suspensions
Increased the damage of all jet ski weapon attacks

Psi

You now have to "innervate" psi abilities that you plan to use and you're limited in the number of innervated psi slots (1 + 1 per 3 intelligence, up to maximum of 6). Existing psi characters can use Will stat instead for the number of slots with some downsides, or they can opt to switch to Int by consuming a pill that's been subtly slipped into their pockets.
Innervating psi abilities from multiple psi schools will now incur global 15% psi cost penalty per additional school
Innervating psi abilities from multiple psi schools will now incur global 15% psi cost penalty per additional school
Introduced psi reserves, which is the long term psi resource that does not regenerate naturally, but through the usage of psi inhalant which can not be done in combat. Psi reserves are depleted when you regenerate psi naturally or through psi boosters. Maximum amount of psi reserves is equal to 5 times the maximum psi points.
Psi inhalant is craftable with some skill in biology and chemistry.
All existing player characters will get generous amount of psi inhalants first time you load the game in new version
Upon loading the game for the first time in the new version, a random set of psi abilities will be pre-innervated for you. If you don't like the random selection, just reload the same save.

Psi Abilities

Force Field psi cost changed to 40 (up from 25)
Force Field is now destructable and has its health points scale with invoker's skill. Each segment of the force field has separate health, but destroying one will destroy all of them.
Thermodynamic Destabilization base damage percentage changed to 30% (down from 50%) and it now scales by 0.5% (down from 1%) per skill point and is capped at 100%.
Thermodynamic Destabilization action point cost changed to 10 (down from 20)
Enrage maximum duration changed to 2 (down from 4)
Increased the amount of damage of Neural Overload and Psi-cognitive Interruption blocked by resolve
Added psi mentors for all psionic abilities in the game (except one) to the random loot table
Psycho-temporal dilation and Limited temporal increment learning requirements swapped to their correct positions
Psycho-temporal contraction now has a high chance of causing its opposite (with randomized power) when it expires

Items

Biohazard suit now provides full protection from a certain very, very bad gas
Spearhead sniper rifles will now have base action points of 32 (up from 30)
Rapid Reloader firearm enhancement will now also have a 25% chance of restoring a random amount of action points ranging from 50% to 100% of the base action point cost of the weapon (but capped at 20ap); this can only trigger once per turn
Dragunov now costs 30 ap to fire (up from 25) and has 60% chance to restore 10-20 ap once per turn; also has slightly increased damage
Added shiv blueprint
Psionic Accelerator now increases psi regeneration by 50% (up from 20%)
Added Kzozel Yantar, a stronger version of Kzozel

Creatures

Reduced the throwing precision of hunchback mutants
Mutant dog's acid blob attack will now deal some of its damage directly

Quests / Areas

Added a mercantile check when paying to use the Wormhole
Silas' death will no longer fail the attack on Scrapper base quest; the player can now speak with Colton to get the reward instead
Added shiv components to certain encounters in which the player loses his inventory
Added new graphics for a few secret cave doors
Added more content for the waterways - one big new dungeon, a couple of smaller locations, many new random encounters and other stuff
Added some new ways to escape from a jail guarded by a hefty knife thrower
Added a vending machine to the Gray Army base; it accepts zlatortiyas only
In the same base, it is now possible to translate messages on one of the computers with sufficient intelligence
Added a tool with which the player can repair/configure a certain camp defense asset; found in multiple locations in the Black Sea

Visual

You can now zoom the game in by holding shift while scrolling the mouse button, but the feature needs to be enabled in the options first
High explosive and frag greandes and mines now have new visual effects

Made a new death screen that will allow you to scroll through the combat log to see exactly what killed you if you didn't catch it during combat
Fixed the scroll bars so they can be mouse scrolled when moused over

Feats

Locus Of Control - Change AoE radius to 2 (down from 3)
Force User - now also increases health of force field by 50% (plus 5% per spec, max 5 spec points)
Critical Power - Base bonus changed to 1% (down from 1.5%) and spec bonus changed to 0.1% (down from 0.15%); I'm not happy with this feat in general. Straight unconditional passive damage boost feats is something I'm going to avoid in the future for sure

Tweaks

Acid pistols (and other acid attacks) will now spill acid on the ground regardless of whether they hit the primary target or not
Certain random encounters will no longer appear in low-level zones (Arsonist in early under-passages, rabid dogs in Crossroad Caves, etc.)
Balor now has Sprint, and gets an adrenaline shot on higher difficulties
Cliff can now be given a coagulation shot to stop him from bleeding to death
Kareem now needs his "memory refreshed" when asked about certain things
The Black Eels questline can now be started after you've found the drill rotor circuit board
Halved the amount of money Mykola needs to repair one big machine from 2000 to 1000 charons
Some dialogs tweaked to reflect the new psi changes

Bugs

Fixed the bug that cause the energy shield to dissipate at 2% instead of the nominal 10% rate every turn, but I set it to 5% base now instead because 10% just seems a bit too severe to me now; also changed the minimal dissipation rate to 1.5% (down from 2%)
Explosive barrels and various misc. explosions should now properly trigger volatile entities such as mines
Throwable barrels and rocks will now behave properly when throw in water (they will not detonate on impact)
You can no longer double-click while holding a modifier key (shift, alt, or ctrl). This is to prevent situations such as rapdily alt-left clicking to transfer items from a container from also triggering the double-click event and transfering extra items. Let me know if this
causes any anomalous behavior.
Sledgehammer and machete handle now also count as metal components like knife one
Fixed the bug that would cause the caster tentacles to crash the game after the player dies or disengages
Ranged weapon innate precision modifier will now always be applied if it's negative
Fixed Gorsky's base not being renovated on easy difficulty
Fixed sometimes not getting a quest note (and subsequent xp once it's completed) from Kohlmeier when starting his quest
Fixed traps not despawning after Foundry mines have been cleared, which resulted in hostile miners
Fixed spears and nets not appearing in the loot locker in the Arena
Fixed Saban not properly receiving his spare W2C ammo
Fixed JSHQ bioscan not detecting mutagens
Fixed an entrance to a cave near a certain homestead being impassable, even if discovered
Fixed an important flag not being set when going through some branches during a discussion about a truly deathly topic with the Ferryman
Fixed electrified floor destroying auto-turrets in Water Treatment Facility in one of the variations; also added a sound effect during discharge as to give the player a warning
Fixed a bug where sleeping in the camp (and under very specific circumstances) triggering a certain crucial event even if the player, paradoxically, already prevented its occurence
Fixed the final quest note prematurely being marked as completed
Fixed a crash that may occur if the player obtains some floaty things for the camp too early
Fixed certain native weapons being non-equippable
Fixed Captain Grim sometimes ending dialog when telling him about some facilities
Fixed being able to sleep in the camp even after you got fired
Fixed the bug that caused players to get stuck on some hives after destroying them.
Minor dialog/map/scripting tweaks

That's it for now guys. Let us know how you like the changes. Cheers.

Dev Log #65: Codename Infusion

Stygsteam_community_announcements

2330d ago

Hi guys, Back in October I mentioned that we started working on a new standalone Underrail campaign. This is still true, but we've also decided that we're going to give the engine a major upgrade which will help us create a much better game, both visually and mechanically. The thing is - there are certain design and technical decisions that were made early during the development of Underrail that are very limiting to us now, but are not easy to change just due to the amount of content that would have to be redone. So instead of taking a hammer to our beloved game, we're going to improve upon all these things (that we yearned to do for years) in a fresh stand-alone game that will still be based on the same engine core and gameplay mechanics. We call this game Underrail: Infusion. I'm not going to list all the things that we intend to change/improve upon in Infusion, but I will say that they include both the visuals, as well as mechanics and world design. I'm going to try to post more frequent dev logs, as I did back in Underrail's alpha days, as to keep you guys in the loop. All that you see in these early days you should consider to be work-in-progress. I don't expect we're going to enter full production any time soon - not this year, for sure, as for now we're just focusing on improving the engine, the toolset and optimizing the content pipelines. First thing I want to show you are the new environment graphics. Keep in mind that Infusion will be taking place in a completely different part of Underrail, so this is not a rework of any existing tile set, but a new one. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5151043/8f3c7caf006bd9f7008489897d8ae9b6ecffbef7.png I've done a lot of work on the rendering engine and the way the assets are organized and rendered which allows Mac to more easily produce and organize a bunch of different variations of the same object, and also to easily animate them or give them other visual properties and behaviors without having to go into the gameplay code. Inversely, gameplay stuff can now be easily implemented before the assets themselves are made as they are only loosely coupled. This is going to greatly improve our efficiency when churning out new content. Technically, we're sticking with the same tile size (96x48) but we're going to make the tile relatively smaller in regards to objects, that is, everything is going to get bigger, which will increase the graphical fidelity. This is going to affect various combat mechanics as well, but we're discuss this at a later date. That's it for now. We have more exciting stuff that we've been working on in the meantime as well, but it's not quite ready to be shown still. Let us know how you guys like the new visuals. Also, in a few months you can expect the new content update for Underrail. This one is probably going to be released on experimental branch first and will stay there for a while, just due to the nature of the gameplay changes I've made. I'm sure you'll all be very happy with the changes, but just in case you might want to experience psionic characters in their current form before that happens. Cheers.

Version 1.1.1.0 - Core City Factions Update

Stygsteam_community_announcements

2462d ago

Hi guys, We're rolling out the first content update after the Expedition release and we're doing it directly on the main branch so good luck everyone! But first, a few words regarding our current state and our future plans. Despite having hardly any mainstream press coverage upon release, Expedition sold decently well in the initial wave and then kept doing well in the following weeks. This is very encouraging because this tells me that during the years we did manage to establish a big and dedicated enough of a fanbase, that is keeping an eye on the game and spreading the word about it, that we are no longer at the mercy of whims of individual mainstream journos of dubious gaming pedigree. Speaking of individual whims, we did in the end get a huge visibility boost (that translated into a financial one) from our friendly Ugandan YouTuber in the form of this video. Much love to Sseth. Our plans for the future are two-fold. First, we intend to release at least a couple more content updates. These updates will vary in size, but you can probably expect something comparable to this one. They will feature mostly minor quest changes, new items, couple new areas and possibly some moderate mechanical changes. I don't know how frequent these will be, but we'll do our best not to keep you waiting for too long. Secondly, and this will be our major focus, we'll start working on another expansion for the game. This one will be a standalone campaign in which you'll play as a new character in an area that will not be connected to the main game. We decided to do it this way for two reasons: first, because the base game is big enough as it is and we don't want to add more of the big content chunks either horizontally or through further character scaling (we will be adding some smaller stuff through the content updates, though); and secondly, we want to be able to revisit certain base mechanics and design patterns we used in the base game and improve upon them without either making the game inconsistent or having to redesign major parts of the base game. We'll talk more about what these things are and how we're improving upon them in the future. That's it regarding our plans. We'll try to keep you guys posted on the development. * * * * * Anyway, here's the patch notes for the update (the list includes the changes from 1.1.0.13 and .14 that were not present on the main branch until now): Tweaks

Cooked shot with incendiary chemical blob pistol will now apply fear effects to the fire-fearing creatures
Fence door made a bit easier to click
Reduced the maximum combat and movement speed up while in turn-based mode to 500% (down from 1000%) to avoid it glitching out some abilities
Kareem and Freddy now also sell fish
Sapke now uses W2C bullets
Loot from Arena matches will now be stored in the loot locker behind Lanista
Locusts will now spawn out of the hive every second turn instead of every turn
The sounds of crabs poping out of the ground will no longer stack in order to burst your eardrums

Creatures

Added Mole Cricket - a puny early game insect
Added Young Psi Beetle - a weaker version on regular psi beetle to be used in the early game on lower difficulties
Added Small Sentry Bot - a weaker version of the regular sentry bot to be used in the early game on lower difficulties
A certain evil robot assistant has been upgraded
Balor and Cornell now have unique models
Core City faction members now have distinctive looks

Crafting

Added a throwing net blueprint. One net requires 50 fabric scraps.
Added a thin and frag grenade and mine case blueprints. Create multiple cases from a metal plate (scales with plate quality).
Added lockpicks blueprint. They can be crafter from any type of metal plate and lockpick level scales with metal quality. Also at very high levels of metal quality you'll create bonus lockpicks. This is a rare blueprint.
Changed the required amount of scraps when creating a repair kit to 40 (up from 20) per stack
When recycling an item, the total weight of the scraps will always be less than the weight of the original item

Items

Added a faction specific armors and item for JKK, Coretech, Praetorian Security, Protectorate, Free Drones, and
TNT Charge value changed to 800 (up from 350)
Added digital timer and cardboard container as a static merchandise to several traders
Huxkey can now be sold as electronic device
Improved Jawbone crossbow
Added a new unique crossbow somewhere out there
Changed the weight of repair kits to 1 and advanced repair kits to 2 (up from 0.25)
Changed the value of .44 JHP bullet to 52 (up from 20). No idea why it was so cheap before.
Fishing rod made a bit easier to click
Fishing rod's range has also been increased, making it possible to fish from some elevated platforms
Dismantling the fishing rod will now be done by right clicking and choosing that option
Added graphite as static merchandise to couple of stores
By popular demand the certain fancy armor will now sport the hood and mask on the player character also
Added bison milk consumable
Sormirbaren Spirit Staff no longer reduces psi costs

Quests/Areas

Added a couple of mini-dungeons that may randomly appear in the early game
The player can now ask Quinton for another set of putrefying bolts in case they used them up and still haven't managed to finish the quest
Fixed a gate leading to Depot A not being lockpickable
Added an agility check for climbing over the fence near the Protectorate embassy in Junkyard
Added a few extra visual clues to that cool dude's first old home; also lowered safe's required lockpicking skill to 60
Added an agility check for climbing over a wall in JSHQ's barracks
Tweaked the way camp loses supplies over time (slowed down and made a bit more consistent and dependent on more factors)

Feats

Cut-throat action point cost changed to 25 (down from 30) and can now also be performed out of stealth against incapacitated targets

You will now see which targets qualify for Ambush feat proc based on their and your current location. The indicator will be placed left of the target's health bar.
Fixed the small offset of different chemical ammo icons that are show above the XP bar
The log will now write "is destroyed" for non-living targets
Fixed the vehicle weight display bug

Bugs

You will no longer be able to export your character while riding a vehicle
When casting electronic imprint on a "melee" trap, such as bear or blob trap, the trap will no longer jump to your location to trap you, but instead be destroyed in a regular manner; However, in addition to this, the electronic imprint will also automatically backfire in case you attempt to place it on top of any trap and apply its damage and stun to the invoker
Fixed the bug that would sometimes cause the game to crash when fighting t-lings in DC
Fixed the bug that caused the Expose Weakness tooltip to sometimes show the wrong reduction value when specced into it
Fixed transition problems with the rocks gap on the Forsaken Island
Fixed the exploit that allows Forcefield and some other abilities to be used to determine if there are hidden NPCs on targeted tiles
Hyperallergenic will now also trigger when consuming psi boosters
Fixed the bug that caused a certain popular NPC to kill you in the end for no reason
Industrial bots are now immune to immobilization
Fixed the bug that caused knife to be invisible when wearing a riot armor with a shield and a cloak
Fixed the bug that caused chemical destabilization to expire before the damage over time effects (such as acidic entanglement) are applied for that turn; from now on, when resolving a turn, all damage over time effects will be applied before affecting the expiration of any status effect
Fixed the bug that caused the cameras to sometimes not detect your various thieving shenanigans (such as the case sometimes was in Ray's shop).
You can no longer decapitate the last boss
Fixed the bug that caused the keybindings to stop working when the map window is closed (by dialog or opening a container, for example) while you're entering a custom note
Fixed the bug that would cause the crawlers and deathstalkers to subtley hint at their future hiding location when escaping by using the ceiling
Fixed hostilities with Gorksy in CC propagating to SGS even when they shouldn't
Fixed a bug in Foundry prison where erasing security footage didn't prevent hostilities with the rest of the settlement in certain cases
Fixed the bug that allowed the special ability of a certain unique armor to be turned on even when not wearing it
Fixed the bug that caused Razor to become invisible when using the shotgun
Fixed the bug that would cause multiple paranormal entities to spawn from a certain corpse instead of just one
The expedition will now leave the items from the player's locker behind upon undeployment
Fixed Ethan being able to teach the players temporal manipulation abilities without them having psi empathy
Fixed a certain agent not recognizing you gave him Something Important(tm) in certain instances
Fixed some minor ending slides issues
Fixed an instance in which a certain kidnapping event can occur even when it shouldn't
Fixed a scripting bug that in some instances caused a transition error when entering the Arch Island docks map
Fixed being able to get a new mission even after being fired from the expedition
Fixed a group of sec-troopers appearing inside an important building in the camp when they shouldn't
Fixed Seeger sometimes hanging out in front of the Arch Island Keep when he should be in his tent
Fixed an issue with certain attacks occurring even after the defenders have left the Black Sea
Fixed the bug that caused the crash after completing the Crimson Horticultural Center (potentially can be triggered on other points during the course of the main quest)
Fixed being able to kill a certain man hanging out in the Dominating Bar in Core City with gas grenades, traps, etc.
Choosing to destroy a certain robot in Lemurian Health Center no longer breaks the quest
Fixed the bug that prevented the Sormirbaren Ballistas to not be able to detect you fully on their own
Increased the range of Sweep attack to at least match the range of regular spear attacks
Plasma mines will now have the proper explosion radius of 2, instead of 3
Fixed the bug that caused Shield Bash (and possibly some other special melee attacks) to use the current weapon crit chance and bonus stats
Shotgun will no longer trigger Ambush since it's not a single target weapon
Opportunist will no longer trigger on sea snakes
You can no longer mount jet skis while immobilized
Fixed bunch of locust hives that were inaccessible for melee attacks (this will not affect the current playthroughs in which you've already visited the area of the hive)
Fixed the bug that prevented the paranormal phenomena in certain graveyard to chill out if you leave the area for a while
Fixed a bug with a certain kidnapping event which was introduced in 1.0.1.13 experimental
Fixed a certain captain's visitor coexisting in two places at once
Fixed the certain infinite trading profit bug that was available to the master merchants
Psycho-temporal Contraction will no longer be affected by armor penalty on following turns
Various minor dialog and map fixes

Let us know how you like the changes and additions. Cheers!

Dev Log #63: Expedition DLC is Released!

Stygsteam_community_announcements

2563d ago

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/f227ae216a17fa563970560a612478a2dd523051.png After more than three years of development, it is finally complete. Whereas the base game began as a one man undertaking and slowly grew from there as people joined the team and steadily settled into their multidisciplinary positions to form the current core team of four, which gives it a recognizable progress of content quality and design; the Expedition is, from start to finish, the work of this, now more experience and skilled team, laid upon a more solid design foundations. For those who haven't been following the development: Expedition DLC features a huge underground lake on which a secondary campaign takes place. This campaign becomes accessible during the normal course of the play sometime during the mid-game. Here is a more detailed list of features:

Around 250 new areas
Leveling character past level 25, up to level 30
Ability to ride and upgrade many different jet skis that vary by speed, defense, firepower and utility
Three new weapon classes - spears, swords, and shotguns; all of these can be crafted and there are also special unique ones
New psi school: Temporal Manipulation
Just under 80 new feats, some of which are special new veteran feats that get unlocked beginning with level 26
Specializations - a new way to improve your character; starting with level 16, a character will gain one specialization point that they can use to improve their feats along one or multiple dimensions
New consumables, tools, blueprints, and more

We all put a lot of effort into this huge expansion, and each member of the team really poured his heart out into it, in his own way – through visual, narrative or mechanical aspects, to make sure it's not only big, but also a recognizable labor of love. And because it's often the case that people think that Underrail is till a one man operation, I'll use this opportunity to familiarize you with the Stygian Software core team:

Dejan "Styg" Radišić (myself) - lead developer, programming, overral lore and themes, some writing, a bit of everything
Stefan "Phrygian Dominant" Čupović - level and quest design, writing
Mario "Mac" Tovirac - 2d & 3d art, various design work
Nikola "Johnny" Petrović - 3d art, mostly character and creature models

I also want to thank our dedicated fans that helped us thoroughly test the game for bugs and imbalances, as well as build up and maintain useful player resources (wiki, character build tool). Though you come at a price of occasionally having to read through your uncalled for suggestions and complaints, I must admit that all this would be much more difficulty without you. Once the dust settles, I might do a more detailed piece about my thoughts on the Expedition development – what we did wrong and what we did right. I'll also talk more about our future plans then. In the meantime, if you enjoyed the base game, please head over to the store page and purchase the Expedition DLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/694330/Underrail_Expedition/ If you are new to the game, you might be interested in the bundle option that allow you to acquire the base game and the expansion together at a small discount: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10645/Underrail__Expedition/ Also, the release will be pushing the new version of the base game (1.1.0.9) to the live branch as well. For the full list of changes see the previous dev log and add the items below to it: Mechanics

When returning to an area after fleeing it during combat, your initiative penalty will be -1000 (up (or down?) from -10)
Cryokentic Orb can now counts towards fulfilling Hypothermia's psi ability requirement

Items

Lifting belt now increases carry capacity by 30, but the mechanical damage reduction is changed to 5% (down from 10%)
Changed the riot gear mechanical damage resistance and threshold bonuses against melee attacks to 100% (up from 75%). Will be applied retroactively.
Riot gear will now receive flat mechanical damage threshold of 2. Will be applied retroactively.
Tweaked the description of ballistic panels to better fit their use in different armors (will not be retroactively applied to already crafted items)

Listed starting action and movement points in the combat stats window

Bugs

Fixed the bug that sometimes caused player to receive fear status effect (though it doesn't affect player in any way)
Fixed the bug that caused the item immunity effects to appear as though they are not being applied in the tooltip (darkened label) even if they were
Thermodynamic Destabilization no longer ignites targets on explosion when invoker doesn't have the Pyromaniac feat
Chill and freeze status effects will now always properly remove burning effects
Cryogas will no longer affect characters that are immune to chilling

That's all for now, guys. Cheers.

Dev Log #62: Experimental Branch with Version 1.1.0.5

Stygsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

2576d ago

Hi guys, In preparation of the expansion release, we're releasing a new version of the base game (on which the current testing version is running on) to make sure that no major breaking bugs have been introduced. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/1e626bb00c26412273ad32ebfed22b7f5533da0a.png To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. To do so on GOG, you select the game and choose More->Settings. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong. Here are the patch notes: General

Added the ability to speed up the game while out of combat
Added achievements to the GOG Galaxy version

Feats

Kneecap shot bleeding percentage no longer scales from perception, but base bleeding damage percentage changed to 125% (up from 75%)

Mechanics

Unarmed and fist weapon attacks now incur 140% of target's damage threshold and resistance (up from 125%)
Increased the damage reduction factor of resolve against neural overload
Resolve will now reduce the damage received from doppelgangers
Changed the way the burning damage stacks (in cases when it stacks) - the new burning time left equals either the time left of the existing effect or the duration of the new effect - whichever is longer; the old and the new periodic damage are adjusted so that they produce the same total damage over time; one of the major effects of this change is that you can no longer increase the amount of original damage by constantly resetting the timer
Separated fear effect caused by burning into a separate status effect and limited it to 2 turns regardless of how long the burning lasts (or if it's extinguished early); this will prevent the fear from lasting too long either from a long burning effect or because of the burning effect being refreshed; also this fear only occurs when a non-burning target is ignited and not when burning is being prolonged/refreshed

Items

Throwing nets now last up to 2 turns (down from 3) and have a cooldown of 4 turns (up from 3)
Bullets have new icons
Increased the chance to entangle enemies when firing acid blob pistol
Increased the chance to freeze enemies when firing cryo blob pistols
Reduced the chance to ignite enemies when firing incendiary blob pistol; the total burning damage done from igniting the target will remain the same, but will be spread over more turns (one turn per each
80% of the original damage repeated)
Reduced the weight of chemical ammo

Nice Things

Containers that you opened once will now have darker labels
Organic enemies that die while burning will now be smoking and appear charred
HE grenades and some other explosions will leave temporary marks on the ground
Gas clouds will now fade in/out
New barrels

Bugs

Fixed the bug that would allow player to cancel leveling up without being able to reattempt it
Fixed the problem that caused the items to take up weird positions in the filtered inventory when the player attempted to reorder them manually
Cut Throat no longer bypasses stun immunities
Corporeal Projection feat now has a proper icon (instead of using the one from Fast Metabolism)
Throwing knife will now again properly play impact sounds and effects
Fixed the bug that caused expertise to add the damage bonus for each separate mechanical damage listed for the weapon, instead of just once (you thought I'd never find out, did you?!)
Fixed the hole jump crash in Institute
Heavyweight will now always apply before Critical Power
Certain giant appendages can now be hit by cryokinetic orb
Changed the way the cryokinetic orb shards interact with the orb impact tile so now the creatures occupying the tile can also get hit by some of them
Punching bags will no longer bleed when you punch them
Global entities (those that can travel between maps) will now also have their suspicion meter drain with time
Incendiary chemical pistol burning effect will now stack damage with existing burning effect
Fixed the Nimble bug that would in certain situation give bonus movement points
Various minor map and dialog bugs

That's it. Let us know how you like the changes.

Dev Log #60: New Experimental Version (1.0.4.15) and Trailer Video

Stygsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

2777d ago

Hi guys, As a lot of you know, the expansion has been in closed alpha for a while now. This helped us weed out a lot of bugs from the available content (which doesn't include the last dungeon) and we would like to thank our dedicated alpha testers for their time. Without them it would take much much longer to get the DLC to run properly and smoothly and we surely would not have found as many bugs. This is not the end of alpha, though, as it will remain in place (likely) to the very release. Speaking of release, we have the store page up now with a brand new trailer, so check it out. You can't pre-purchase it, but you can wishlist it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnKxV5tpuM In preparation for the eventual release (it will happen) I'm pushing the version on the experimental branch. In regards to the original game, this update has a bit of everything, including fixes for some old persistent bugs, but also this is the code that runs the current build of Expedition and I want to make sure it doesn't break anything in the base game before we finally release the DLC. Here is the list of changes:

Engine

Replaced the black window with a cosmetic loading bar when loading up the game

Items

When being sold by the player, items will now be valued at 50% on hard and 25% on dominating difficulty
CAU armor will now also increase the damage of Cooked Shot by 20%
Added brown worker suit as an armor item
Added the previously default model's shirt and pants as an armor item
Cost of food increase by an order of magnitude
Doctor's Coat and Biotechnician Suit can now degrade, be repaired and recycled
AKX is now indestructible (it won't take damage from use) and has been moved from the train hijacker to Kokoschka
Added new foods

Mechanics

Special attack damage bonus no longer works with "unconditional" special attacks, which are special attacks that do not have a cooldown or require special conditions to trigger. So far these are: burst, shotgun burst, heavy punch, and double shot
Immobilizing status effects will now also set your effective dodge stat to 0 (just like evasion)
Damage from standing in fire will now remove incapacitation and also remove "chilled", "frozen" and other cold based status effects
Animals and other low-intelligence enemies can now pass through curtain doors. Good luck.
Cameras will now report on you when you steal stuff
Ground fire percentual burning damage capped to 16-40 (based on fire level).
Net throw will now displace success chance during targeting
Burning and exothermic aura status effects, as well as some other direct fire exposures, will now also remove webbed status effect

Feats

Changed Quick Tinkering: Cooldown changed to 5 turns (up from 2)
Added Versatility: Your effective Guns, Crossbows and Melee skill value is brought up to 60% of the effective value of the highest of those skills.

Tweaks

Players wearing no armor will appear in their underwear instead in the default outfit
Explosive barrels will now ignore 40% of target's resistance and threshold (same as HE grenades)
New models and portraits for Kokoschka and Dude

You can now copy current dialog text to clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C.

Bugs

Fixed the keybinding for the global map
Fixed the bug that caused patrol waypoint delay to end on save/load
Hopefully fixed the bug that caused the window to lose focus when starting the game in full screen mode on some computers
Fixed (or at least) improved the mechanics concerning turn-based combat and area (blue) transitions. Player will now retain his combat turn while transitioning to a different area (section) within the same zone and NPCs will not bug out as much when attempting to follow him
Fixed the bug that caused the crafting UI to swallow up items in some rare instances
Activating exothermic aura will now also remove any burning effects the invoker has
Fixed the weird weapon rules in Fort Apogee Consulate
Fixed the bug that caused certain NPCs to respond to noise in turn-based mode, but not in real-time mode; there might be more instances of this
Commando feat will now properly trigger from kills caused by on-hit damage from special ammo
Using special attacks in real-time mode will no longer automatically be followed by a single regular attack
Hunchback mutants will now use proper yell sound
Bear traps, cryoliquid blob traps and throwing knives will no longer ignore immunity to critical hits
You can no longer add a silencer to a weapon alongside another muzzle device
Fixed the bug that caused the player to receive the strange feeling debuff after saving the game and staying still even though he should be safe from it
Shoot Dreadnought rocket ability now has actual tooltip text
Pseudo-spatial Projection will now work against throwing knives; also throwing knives will report misses in combat log now
Fixed the minor bugs with word emphasis in dialogs through bolding.
Fixed some issues with Grover's quest not being set to completed in the quest notes
Fixed an issue with a trapdoor in a certain bunker in Foundry not being properly unlocked in some instances
Fixed an issue with Azif sometimes not wanting to leave his starting zone
Fixed the Zone Rats not being hostile to mutants
Fixed the wounded man from a certain random event dying even if the player has healed him.
Fixed not being able to finish Gorsky's final mission in certain instances
Fixed an unclickable item in the abandoned sofa random encounter
Fixed invisible attackers during the Core City warehouse invasion
Fixed being able to talk to Daniel Arda in a situation where that shouldn't be possible
Minor dialog/map and scripting fixes

To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. To do so on GOG, you select the game and choose More->Settings. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong. And finally, in regards to DLC development, the final dungeon is just about done. Though the dungeon is very small, we developed a lot of custom content for it specifically, so it took longer than expected (per usual). After we're done with the final dungeon we'll need some time to wrap things up and do some final testing and then the game is good to go. That's it for now. Let us know what you thought of the trailer and the new experimental version. Enjoy the holidays and hopefully take some break from work like we will. Merry Christmas! Christ is born!

Dev Log #56: Experimental Branch with Version 1.0.3.13

Stygsteam_community_announcements

3154d ago

Hi guys, we are releasing a new major update of the base game on the experimental branch. If everything goes as planned, we'll be releasing it to the main branch as well soon. To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. To do so on GOG, you select the game and choose More->Settings. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong. We have new creatures, items and feats. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/055adaf470e32b41d690719eb6077bc357c7b2b1.gifhttp://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/4922380a9437c7c39e23691f29f69b205304f1c3.gif http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/2c1c67fad5c8d287ed0818465d883d0b1c846711.gifhttp://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5151043/c883849c3a21c32a0d26953f1e05de3aa847ed7b.gif Here are the full patch notes: Interface

You can now configure transparency of transitions (also increased the default transparency)
Objects that transition you between areas (transition that requires loading) when you use them should not display the transitioning cursor
Added transparency to NPC health/psi/shield/cast bars on the map

Items

Added new high-energy battery type
Increased the weight of the fishing rod
Removed cooldown for placing fishing rods
Increased the damage and critical damage bonus of Quake
Significantly increased the value of a lot of unique items (mostly weapons)
Nerfed Power Fist
Increased the max stack size of scraps to 999
Trapper's Belt will now increase Traps skill by 15% (up from 10%); it will no longer reduce trap arming cooldown
Added two new belts that augment chemical pistol attacks
Regenerative Mixture will now be affected by game difficulty
Special bolts affected by Elemental Bolts feat will now display the modified damage in the tooltip
Reduced the infused leather quality slightly overall and also added diminishing returns when making infused leather above 100 quality
Infused siphoner tabi boots will now give immunity to slow instead to immobilization
Junkyard surprise can no longer increase perception, will or intelligence
The following items will have their max stacks increase to appropriate amount: .44 Explosive Round, 8.6mm Incendiary Round, 12.7mm Contaminated Round, 7.62mm Micro-shrapnel Round, Corrosive Acid Vial, Incendiary Vial,
Halved the move and shoot and action point cost penalties when attaching bipods to assault rifles (not applied retroactively)
You can now use High Efficiency Energy Converter to reduce the energy cost of firing energy pistols
Energy Pistols now have two enchancement slots when crafted
Plasma pistol damage increased by 25%
Laser pistol base action point cost changed to 15 (down from 22)
Laser pistol usage energy cost reduced by 20%
Changed the base value of psi boosters to 275 (down from 350)
Changed the maximum duration of throwing net entanglement to 3 turns (down from 4)
Increased the amount of EMP dischargers generated as loot/merchandise
Changed the number of unsaturated psionic catalyst required to craft a psi booster to 3 (down from 5)
Fixed the armor description when crafting riot gear and tactical vests from super steel sheets (will not be applied retroactively to the already crafted items)
Changed the psi regen reduction of Mushroom Brew to 30 (up from 1). The previous value was geared towards non-regenerating psi pool of alpha version.
Fixed incorrectly set impact speed of unique assault rifles (raised from medium to high, as should be the value for all assault rifles) and corrected the lack of move and shoot precision penalty for those guns
Fixed Jawbone lacking move and shoot precision penalty (now set to 15%) as well as close quarters precision penalty (now 10%)
Fixed low durability of armor worn by Tchortist rassophores and recombinants; only applies to npc armor (armor in the player's possession will remain unchanged)

Creatures

Increased Coil Spider psi points and psi regeneration
Coil Spiders now have darkvision
Added Greater Coil Spiders
Added a new machinegun turret to replace the regular auto-turret in certain places and on certain difficulties
Increased dodge and evasion of burrower spawns, but also increased their susceptibility to AoE attacks
Dogs will now attempt to bump you out of stealth when the detection gets into ALERTED state, just like human NPCs (on normal difficulty or higher)
Added a stronger version of psi beetle
Increased crawler attack damage a bit; they also regenerate health now (even in combat) and have dark vision
Added a stronger version of crawler
Added stronger version of mutants Hunchback mutants

Mechanics

Added the global map
Added DOMINATING difficulty, mechanically it inherits the modifications of hard difficulty and also increased NPC health by 50% and skill levels by 30%.
Changed the way hit change display handles oscillating lighting or otherwise dynamic lighting. This also should fix some anomalies like the hit chances changing when saving/loading or transitioning.
Removed cooldown for arming traps
Removed cooldowns from lockpicking and hacking
Reduced the time it takes for the game to yield the control back to the combatant after he kills the target; it doesn't wait for scrolling text and sounds to end now
Hostilities will now instantly be triggered when you've been detected lockpicking (instead of at the end of the action)
Increased the damage of chemical pistols by 50% (will be applied retroactively on exisiting items)
Ground fire will now remove cryogas
Starting pickpocketing (opening the pickpocketing window) will now require a certain amount of pickpocketing skill depending on the target's detection so not every character can inspect any NPC's inventory (without killing them!)
Targets will no longer be able to block (in regular way) if stunned, incapacitated or frozen
You can now unload chemical pistols
As long as you haven't been fully detected by a NPC, that NPC's detection will be reduced back to zero when you get back into an area where you've been sneaking
Uncanny Dodge will no longer work while you're stunned or incapacitated in some way
Dirty Kick will now be subject to Uncanny Dodge and other special defense mechanisms
You can now root turrets (which makes them susceptible to acidic entanglement)
On normal difficulty and above, transitioning between areas (red transitions) will now cost action points
Improved NPC pathfinding slightly
Primary non-mechanical damage (not caused by on-hit effect) on melee weapons will now scale with weapon skill (like the bio damage on The Claw), but will no longer scale with strength
On hard difficulty EMP will drain energy (and subsequently deal damage to the holder) from all items in the inventory (not just equipped ones)
Reduced the ranged weapon precision reduction from low light slightly
Antidote will now randomly choose the order of poison removal, instead of going in the order they were applied

Tweaks

Turn-based mode will no longer automatically end at the end of the turn if there are incapacitated enemies near
Reduced the alpha on energy shields
Removed the movement animation reseting when rapidly clicking (there's still a very slight stutter if you click very fast, though)
You cannot change armor suit while in stealth or while stealth is on cooldown on hard difficulty or above
Turrets will now drop aggro faster
Getting additional burning damage will reset the burning debuff remaining time
New combat taunts for military personnel

Psi

You can now cast Cryokinetic Orb on any non-obstructing tile (such as water and other regularly non-traversable tiles)
Improved the shard distribution of Cryokinetic Orb on impact
Changed the range of Frighten psi ability to 5 (up from 3)

Feats

Steadfast Aim strength requirement changed to 5 (down from 6)
Cooked Shot special chemical pistol AoE attack with radius of 1
Three-Pointer Changed Throwing skill requirement to 50 (up from 45); The crit chance will now scale by 1.5% per ten throwing skill points above 50, instead from dexterity
Doctor will now also work with Regenerative Mixture as it should
Expertise changed the max bonus to 20 (down from 25)
High-Technicalities increases damage with energy pistols by 7% for each point of intelligence above 5

Quests/Maps

Because of the global map, some areas had to be added and some had to be reorganized (especially around the starting cave areas) in order to achieve geographical consistency
Added a number of possible random events around the world
Reworked a lot of encounters to scale with game difficulty (from easy to dominating). Normal was mostly kept as it is, but some encounters (typically mid-late and late game ones) were made more difficult on that level.
Reworked the Free Drone's final mission debriefing dialog with Trenton in order to better handle a certain optional outcome
DC mindreading will now take into account the number of killed Faceless, which will have negative effects of varying degrees depending on that number; however, kills during certain story-related events where combat is unavoidable will not be counted
Expanded the Hanging Rat bar and added a base ability check

Bugs

Corrosive acid bolt crits will now multiply the acid damage done just like the regular acid ones
Focus Stim will now properly display duration in the item description
Fixed the Crippling Strike tooltip
Fossilized Egg Oddity max studies changed to 3 as it should have been from the start
Spore Turrets marked as ribles, kneeless and immune to critical hits
Fixed the bug that caused NPCs to not properly react to being alerted (orange eye) to player's presence
Fixed spelling errors in special ammo hit effect descriptions
Fixed the bug that caused Eviscerate to do less damage than stated
Fixed the rounding error with Critical Power feat
Fixed a sneaky bug regarding status effect stacking
Black Dragon poison icon fixed
Fixed the bug that would sometimes cause player to become undead during cutscenes in which he unpredictably dies (this will apply retroactively, RIP)
Fixed the 8.6mm Incendiary Rounds (they weren't igniting)
Jookhela should now be immune to stun and incapacitation like the rest of senior raties (will not update for those who already encountered him)
Removed Gauntlet advertisement from DC
Crawlers and other NPCs should no longer unwittingly bump their own kind/faction out of stealth
Suppressive fire will now only be applied to enemies, as intended
There was a mess up regarding player's increased chance to get critically hit. Contrary to what the game has been saying, there is no universal to-get-crit (TGC) modifier, instead it only applied for weapon and unarmed attacks, which made things like Psychostatic Electricity rather useless. I've now added psi TGC modifier, so recklessness and psychostatic electricity will now apply to psi abilities as well. Everything else will only work for unarmed and weapon attacks. Tooltips have been updated to reflect this.
Thought control psi abilities can now be properly centered onto non-traversable (but penetrable) terrain
Disruptive Field will no longer get bugged out by Locus of Control
You will no longer hear the sound of NPCs stealthing when you enter an area for the first time, unless you can see them already
Swapping between two energy weapons while recharging the current weapon will now properly cancel the action
Fixed the bug with plasma sentry when leaving the area while it's deployed in cannon mode
Fixed an issue with player's house containers (lockers, shelves, etc.) wherein the items from upgraded or changed containers wouldn't transfer to an always-present shelf in the northeastern corner of the ground floor
Fixed certain quest notes not being set as completed/failed properly
Fixed a number of skill checks that used base instead of effective required value or had no value set at all
Fixed Sneaky not registering the death of one important npc
Expanded or reworked certain parts of npc dialogs (some more, some less) and also added a few new skills checks to some
Replaced a few windows in fo_prison with solid walls so that the cameras inside the cell block can't see inside the security room. This was done to prevent the cameras from dispatching all the guards into the room even if the player had been granted access to it
Fixed a minor issue with a certain Hathor Mine-related cutscenes
Various minor map and dialog fixes

Have fun with the new stuff and please stay patient as we continue to work on the Expedition DLC. Report any bugs you find on the forums and make sure you specify which version you're playing.

Dev Log #56: Experimental Branch with Version 1.0.3.13

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3154d ago

You can now configure transparency of transitions (also increased the default transparency)
Objects that transition you between areas (transition that requires loading) when you use them should not display the transitioning cursor
Added transparency to NPC health/psi/shield/cast bars on the map

Items

Added new high-energy battery type
Increased the weight of the fishing rod
Removed cooldown for placing fishing rods
Increased the damage and critical damage bonus of Quake
Significantly increased the value of a lot of unique items (mostly weapons)
Nerfed Power Fist
Increased the max stack size of scraps to 999
Trapper's Belt will now increase Traps skill by 15% (up from 10%); it will no longer reduce trap arming cooldown
Added two new belts that augment chemical pistol attacks
Regenerative Mixture will now be affected by game difficulty
Special bolts affected by Elemental Bolts feat will now display the modified damage in the tooltip
Reduced the infused leather quality slightly overall and also added diminishing returns when making infused leather above 100 quality
Infused siphoner tabi boots will now give immunity to slow instead to immobilization
Junkyard surprise can no longer increase perception, will or intelligence
The following items will have their max stacks increase to appropriate amount: .44 Explosive Round, 8.6mm Incendiary Round, 12.7mm Contaminated Round, 7.62mm Micro-shrapnel Round, Corrosive Acid Vial, Incendiary Vial,
Halved the move and shoot and action point cost penalties when attaching bipods to assault rifles (not applied retroactively)
You can now use High Efficiency Energy Converter to reduce the energy cost of firing energy pistols
Energy Pistols now have two enchancement slots when crafted
Plasma pistol damage increased by 25%
Laser pistol base action point cost changed to 15 (down from 22)
Laser pistol usage energy cost reduced by 20%
Changed the base value of psi boosters to 275 (down from 350)
Changed the maximum duration of throwing net entanglement to 3 turns (down from 4)
Increased the amount of EMP dischargers generated as loot/merchandise
Changed the number of unsaturated psionic catalyst required to craft a psi booster to 3 (down from 5)
Fixed the armor description when crafting riot gear and tactical vests from super steel sheets (will not be applied retroactively to the already crafted items)
Changed the psi regen reduction of Mushroom Brew to 30 (up from 1). The previous value was geared towards non-regenerating psi pool of alpha version.
Fixed incorrectly set impact speed of unique assault rifles (raised from medium to high, as should be the value for all assault rifles) and corrected the lack of move and shoot precision penalty for those guns
Fixed Jawbone lacking move and shoot precision penalty (now set to 15%) as well as close quarters precision penalty (now 10%)
Fixed low durability of armor worn by Tchortist rassophores and recombinants; only applies to npc armor (armor in the player's possession will remain unchanged)

Creatures

Increased Coil Spider psi points and psi regeneration
Coil Spiders now have darkvision
Added Greater Coil Spiders
Added a new machinegun turret to replace the regular auto-turret in certain places and on certain difficulties
Increased dodge and evasion of burrower spawns, but also increased their susceptibility to AoE attacks
Dogs will now attempt to bump you out of stealth when the detection gets into ALERTED state, just like human NPCs (on normal difficulty or higher)
Added a stronger version of psi beetle
Increased crawler attack damage a bit; they also regenerate health now (even in combat) and have dark vision
Added a stronger version of crawler
Added stronger version of mutants Hunchback mutants

Mechanics

Added the global map
Added DOMINATING difficulty, mechanically it inherits the modifications of hard difficulty and also increased NPC health by 50% and skill levels by 30%.
Changed the way hit change display handles oscillating lighting or otherwise dynamic lighting. This also should fix some anomalies like the hit chances changing when saving/loading or transitioning.
Removed cooldown for arming traps
Removed cooldowns from lockpicking and hacking
Reduced the time it takes for the game to yield the control back to the combatant after he kills the target; it doesn't wait for scrolling text and sounds to end now
Hostilities will now instantly be triggered when you've been detected lockpicking (instead of at the end of the action)
Increased the damage of chemical pistols by 50% (will be applied retroactively on exisiting items)
Ground fire will now remove cryogas
Starting pickpocketing (opening the pickpocketing window) will now require a certain amount of pickpocketing skill depending on the target's detection so not every character can inspect any NPC's inventory (without killing them!)
Targets will no longer be able to block (in regular way) if stunned, incapacitated or frozen
You can now unload chemical pistols
As long as you haven't been fully detected by a NPC, that NPC's detection will be reduced back to zero when you get back into an area where you've been sneaking
Uncanny Dodge will no longer work while you're stunned or incapacitated in some way
Dirty Kick will now be subject to Uncanny Dodge and other special defense mechanisms
You can now root turrets (which makes them susceptible to acidic entanglement)
On normal difficulty and above, transitioning between areas (red transitions) will now cost action points
Improved NPC pathfinding slightly
Primary non-mechanical damage (not caused by on-hit effect) on melee weapons will now scale with weapon skill (like the bio damage on The Claw), but will no longer scale with strength
On hard difficulty EMP will drain energy (and subsequently deal damage to the holder) from all items in the inventory (not just equipped ones)
Reduced the ranged weapon precision reduction from low light slightly
Antidote will now randomly choose the order of poison removal, instead of going in the order they were applied

Tweaks

Turn-based mode will no longer automatically end at the end of the turn if there are incapacitated enemies near
Reduced the alpha on energy shields
Removed the movement animation reseting when rapidly clicking (there's still a very slight stutter if you click very fast, though)
You cannot change armor suit while in stealth or while stealth is on cooldown on hard difficulty or above
Turrets will now drop aggro faster
Getting additional burning damage will reset the burning debuff remaining time
New combat taunts for military personnel

Psi

You can now cast Cryokinetic Orb on any non-obstructing tile (such as water and other regularly non-traversable tiles)
Improved the shard distribution of Cryokinetic Orb on impact
Changed the range of Frighten psi ability to 5 (up from 3)

Feats

Steadfast Aim strength requirement changed to 5 (down from 6)
Cooked Shot special chemical pistol AoE attack with radius of 1
Three-Pointer Changed Throwing skill requirement to 50 (up from 45); The crit chance will now scale by 1.5% per ten throwing skill points above 50, instead from dexterity
Doctor will now also work with Regenerative Mixture as it should
Expertise changed the max bonus to 20 (down from 25)
High-Technicalities increases damage with energy pistols by 7% for each point of intelligence above 5

Quests/Maps

Because of the global map, some areas had to be added and some had to be reorganized (especially around the starting cave areas) in order to achieve geographical consistency
Added a number of possible random events around the world
Reworked a lot of encounters to scale with game difficulty (from easy to dominating). Normal was mostly kept as it is, but some encounters (typically mid-late and late game ones) were made more difficult on that level.
Reworked the Free Drone's final mission debriefing dialog with Trenton in order to better handle a certain optional outcome
DC mindreading will now take into account the number of killed Faceless, which will have negative effects of varying degrees depending on that number; however, kills during certain story-related events where combat is unavoidable will not be counted
Expanded the Hanging Rat bar and added a base ability check

Bugs

Corrosive acid bolt crits will now multiply the acid damage done just like the regular acid ones
Focus Stim will now properly display duration in the item description
Fixed the Crippling Strike tooltip
Fossilized Egg Oddity max studies changed to 3 as it should have been from the start
Spore Turrets marked as ribles, kneeless and immune to critical hits
Fixed the bug that caused NPCs to not properly react to being alerted (orange eye) to player's presence
Fixed spelling errors in special ammo hit effect descriptions
Fixed the bug that caused Eviscerate to do less damage than stated
Fixed the rounding error with Critical Power feat
Fixed a sneaky bug regarding status effect stacking
Black Dragon poison icon fixed
Fixed the bug that would sometimes cause player to become undead during cutscenes in which he unpredictably dies (this will apply retroactively, RIP)
Fixed the 8.6mm Incendiary Rounds (they weren't igniting)
Jookhela should now be immune to stun and incapacitation like the rest of senior raties (will not update for those who already encountered him)
Removed Gauntlet advertisement from DC
Crawlers and other NPCs should no longer unwittingly bump their own kind/faction out of stealth
Suppressive fire will now only be applied to enemies, as intended
There was a mess up regarding player's increased chance to get critically hit. Contrary to what the game has been saying, there is no universal to-get-crit (TGC) modifier, instead it only applied for weapon and unarmed attacks, which made things like Psychostatic Electricity rather useless. I've now added psi TGC modifier, so recklessness and psychostatic electricity will now apply to psi abilities as well. Everything else will only work for unarmed and weapon attacks. Tooltips have been updated to reflect this.
Thought control psi abilities can now be properly centered onto non-traversable (but penetrable) terrain
Disruptive Field will no longer get bugged out by Locus of Control
You will no longer hear the sound of NPCs stealthing when you enter an area for the first time, unless you can see them already
Swapping between two energy weapons while recharging the current weapon will now properly cancel the action
Fixed the bug with plasma sentry when leaving the area while it's deployed in cannon mode
Fixed an issue with player's house containers (lockers, shelves, etc.) wherein the items from upgraded or changed containers wouldn't transfer to an always-present shelf in the northeastern corner of the ground floor
Fixed certain quest notes not being set as completed/failed properly
Fixed a number of skill checks that used base instead of effective required value or had no value set at all
Fixed Sneaky not registering the death of one important npc
Expanded or reworked certain parts of npc dialogs (some more, some less) and also added a few new skills checks to some
Replaced a few windows in fo_prison with solid walls so that the cameras inside the cell block can't see inside the security room. This was done to prevent the cameras from dispatching all the guards into the room even if the player had been granted access to it
Fixed a minor issue with a certain Hathor Mine-related cutscenes
Various minor map and dialog fixes

Have fun with the new stuff and please stay patient as we continue to work on the Expedition DLC. Report any bugs you find on the forums and make sure you specify which version you're playing.

Dev Log #55: Global Map

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3204d ago

Hi guys, While our development is mostly focused on the expansion there are a couple of issues that we wanted to address before its release as we think that they will greatly influence the experience of playing the DLC as well as the base game. First of these is the global map. This was a contested issue since the alpha versions and is probably the most frequent complaint we get from the people that have a positive view of the game as a whole. Some people may be wondering if the global map was something that was originally planned for the game and, truth to be told, I don't really remember (original plans for the game were laid almost 10 years ago now), but knowing myself I would probably implement one if I had the (time) resources that I have now. Back when I was at it alone I had to cut corners in both content and feature departments, and map is a bit of both really. Later, when the game has grown monstrously in size, even though I then had the time to add new features, a good amount of geographical inconsistencies made sure that there was no quick and easy way to produce a quality map, but instead some major rearragements were going to have to be made. But anyway, now that we got around to doing this, here's how the map implementation looks like (new players be careful, there are minor spoilers). http://underrail.com/images/DevLog/map1.jpg http://underrail.com/images/DevLog/map2.jpg http://underrail.com/images/DevLog/map3.jpg http://underrail.com/images/DevLog/map4.jpg We're going to have separate maps for different depths and some maps for the bigger urban areas. We've only gotten around to SGS, Lower Caves and Lower Underrail so far, but here's how the full list will probably look like:

Lower Caves (includes Junkyard and Hathor)
Upper Caves
Lower Underrail (includes Rail Crossing)
Upper Underrail
Black Sea
Foundry
SGS
DC

Core City and Institute will not be included, at least not initially, because reasons. We are, also, not going to be making any maps for "dungeon" areas and such (like GMS) unless they are part of geography of existing maps (such as Depot A being part of Lower Caves by being an extension of Junkyard). As you can see on the screenshots, maps will (usually, but not always) record and display what useful (or not so useful) creatures and plants you've encountered there as well as other points of interest (merchants, doctors, certain quest objects). These will not be updated after the initial encounter and do not always represent the actual state of the map, but are rather meant to be used as useful auto-notes for harvesting organs and plants and such. They will typically not record robotic and human enemies. You can also add your own notes to the map. A lot of static features of the map will also reveal themselves as you explore the map so that you won't automatically know, for example, if there's a power generator on that map immediately after entering. The map will be available in the next updated which will be released sometime before the DLC which is going to be released when it's ready. But on a serious note, I do hope to release a new update on the experimental branch at least in the near future so you guys can play with all the new stuff that we've added over the months and we can finally get this huge pile of patch notes off of our shoulders (and replace them with bug reports). Anyway, let us know what you think about the inclusion of the global map and about this particular implementation. In the next dev log I'll probably be talking about another important, but probably less impressive, change to the base game that we're working on. Cheers.

Dev Log #55: Global Map

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3204d ago

Lower Caves (includes Junkyard and Hathor)
Upper Caves
Lower Underrail (includes Rail Crossing)
Upper Underrail
Black Sea
Foundry
SGS
DC

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