Update 0.6.4

Solar Purge Update 0.6.4 is now available on Steam! Holochamber 2.0, New Unique Weapons and Perks, Achievements and more!

 

In Development

 

 

• • Procedurally generated levels for post-campaign play
  • Face high level enemies and earn unique weapons and loot
  • Major work in progress, but the Lost City post-game level is now nearing completion in dev testing!
  • Check out our next Livestream for a sneak peek and more release details!

 

• • The Engineering Bay in the Space Station and the Holochamber starting pad will have new kiosks
  • These new kiosks will allow for more character and stat customization options
  • Other specialty loot including Cypher Keys will be saved to the Player(s) vault in future updates
  • A New rare currency is being developed and will feature both in Campaign and Holochamber

 

• • Players will explore underground research facilities and face brand new enemies
  • We will introduce the next weapons manufacturer
  • Watch our next major update Livestream for further news!

 

 

 

Achievements!

• We have added the first 3 official achievements to SP! More will be added throughout Early Access!
  • Exterminator – Kill 100 Bugs
  • Skilled Hunter – Kill 100 Beasts
  • If It Bleeds… Kill 100 Aliens

 

 

Holochamber Arcade 2.0

• • • Holochamber has underwent a major rework to allow for more dynamic gameplay
    • Floors are now divided into three waves: Slayer, Mission (chosen at random), and Elite Slayer.
    • Missions have been reworked and integrated into the core gameplay loop

 

• • • NEW: Domain Transfer – Players can now spend 3 Tessera at a new kiosk to transfer their run to a different Holochamber simulation at random
    • UPDATED: Holochamber Functions have been integrated into the wave-based gameplay loop
      • Functions provide passive boons to the player that affect their gameplay experience
      • The first Wave of each floor will provide a regular Function
      • The third wave of each floor will provide a strong Function with a small trade-off
    • Elite enemies no longer grant bonus floor progression
    • SuperArmor’s damage resist reduced from 50% to 30%

 

• • • NEW: Plunder Protocol
      • Items will drop from enemies and players must acquire enough of them to complete the wave
    • NEW: Uplink Protocol
      • Players must locate and defend a data lattice against an onslaught of enemies for 30 seconds to complete the wave
    • NEW: Elite Slayer
      • Defeat a number of Elite-tier enemies with heightened aggression to complete the wave

 

• • • The starting room of each dungeon floor now serves as a Safe Zone
      • As long as players remain in the Safe Zone, enemies will not spawn
    • Enemies now spawn more frequently in both Simulation and Boss encounters
    • Enemy threat level will rise at an increased rate per floor to compensate for longer floor durations
    • Added the Treasure Cache as a random spawn in the dungeon on each floor
      • The associated Looter Protocol has been deprecated
    • Added the Tessera Cache as a random spawn in the dungeon on each floor
      • Tessera have a very small chance of dropping from enemies
    • Added Unique weapons to the Holochamber loot pool

 

• • • The placement of Holochamber-specific HUD items has been improved
      • Score counter now appears at the bottom of the screen
    • Modifiers display has been updated
      • Modifiers are now updated in real-time with their exact percentages
      • Modifiers granted by PowerUps are now displayed
    • The display of Main Objective prompts has been improved

 

• • Adjusted the logic of PowerUps to prevent duplicate effects from stacking
  • Corrected a data error that caused initial Floor Progression Rate in Holochamber to be higher than intended

 

 

NEW Weapons & Perks

• • • Rapid Fire Perk
    • Full Auto Perk
    • Big Mag Perk

 

• • • NEW Perk “Ranger”
      • Use the targeting laser to switch firing modes between SMG and DMR
    • NEW Perk “Regen”
      • Slowly restore HP over time

 

• • Gut Punch Perk
  • NEW Perk “Super Shotgun”
    • Use the targeting laser to switch between Combat and Slug firing modes

 

General Updates & Fixes

• • • Melee damage now has a chance to knockback hit enemies

 

• • NEW: Oterion Toad
    • The regular non-infected Toad that lives in the Wetlands
    • Similar to the Infected Toad, but not as powerful
    • Appears in Wetlands and Lost City
  • Updated AI logic for Infected Toads

 

• • Added “Unique” icon to UI for curated weapons
  • Dismantling weapons from the Vault now requires a button hold
  • Added a weapon dismantling animation and SFX
  • Vault will now correctly show the current number of weapons on startup and after dismantling
  • Optimized Minimap camera
  • Fixed logic for updating correct CR amount
  • Optimized Screen rain drops FX

 

• • Added a new NPC to Engineering, Jeffrys
    • He will evolve into a weapons vendor for players
    • Watch our Discord to learn more!

 

• • Drills will now destroy all nearby enemies when starting

 

• • Adjusted some enemy spawning at higher difficulties
  • Minor art updates

 

• • Added the new wetland frog enemies throughout the southern marsh areas
  • Minor art updates at the southern edge of the marsh

 

• • Added the new wetland frog enemies in the sunken corridor area
  • Fixed an issue where outdated glyph materials were still appearing on certain wall meshes

 

• • Rygar environmental material issues
  • Rocket Launchers are using outdated character animations
  • Enemies will sometimes spawn into props in Holochamber mode
  • Cypher Keys are still not saving correctly. Fix coming in the next update.
  • Tessera are not saving at this time. They will be implemented in the next update.
  • Some Modifiers may display incorrectly under certain circumstances.
  • AoE decals used in Plunder and Uplink Protocols display abnormally on transparent surfaces.