Update 0.6.8

v0.6.8

General Updates & Fixes

New Lives System

• Extra Lives System is now in effect and applies to Campaign and Holochamber: Arcade
  • Starting lives is based on starting difficulty (Easy = 4, Brutal = 0)
    • Players will respawn even if all players are down, as long as there are lives remaining
    • If # of downed players is greater than the remaining # of lives, the earliest downed player(s) will be revived until there are no lives left
    • When all players are down and lives are at 0, that is considered a “Mission Failed” and players will be given the option to restart or exit the mission
    • Respawn countdown has been reduced from 10 seconds to 5
    • Player invulnerability time during respawn has been extended by 3 seconds
    • NOTE: Extra Lives are currently not managed by the save system. This functionality will be added in a later update

 

“New” Locations: Oterion Abandoned Colony & Oterion Wetlands

• Oterion’s first level was previously the longest level in the game by a large margin
• It has now been split into two unique levels: Abandoned Colony and Wetlands
• Colony runs from the Landing Pad to the Bridge
• Wetlands runs from the Bridge to the Lost City Gate
• Players can save their progress upon entering the Oterion Wetlands, and again when entering the Lost City
• Both levels will now load faster and run at a much improved framerate on all settings
• The expanded Data Module questgiver B3-L1-5L has been moved from the Colonial Security Center roof to the Survey Zone in the Wetlands level

Holochamber Arcade

• NEW: Holochamber Anomaly – Added variations to Wave 3 combat called “Anomalies” that will augment the enemy roster with the potential for enemies from other Holochambers to appear and in strange ways. The current Anomaly list is as follows:
  • Anomaly: Elite and Dangerous
  • Anomaly: Jailbreak
  • Anomaly: Entomania
  • Anomaly: Wilderness
  • Anomaly: Thermodynamics
  • Anomaly: Bomb-Voyage
  • Anomaly: Critter Chaos
• Updated Enemy spawning and Objective logic to scale based on the number of players (Single Player experience is largely unaffected)
  • Enemy spawn rate will now adapt to the number of active players (more players = faster spawning)
  • The progression rate of some Holochamber objectives will now adapt to the number of active players
  • Adjusted the base rate of progression during kill-based waves in Holochamber
  • Spawn delay during the defense phase of the Uplink Protocol increased from 1 second to 6 seconds to offset the dynamic spawn changes
  • Key Item drops during the Plunder Protocol now have a lifetime before self-destructing (30 seconds) and are now capped at 5 at a time. More will spawn as existing ones are captured or destroyed
• Oterion Holochamber: Added more enemy spawn sets
  • Swamp Crawler x5
  • Raptor x3, Knuckleface x3
• Reduced Progress Value multiplier of Heroic enemies from x2 to x1.5
• Added Extra Lives Kiosk (Cost: 1 Tessera) to Holochamber Starting Rooms
• Increased Hold time for the SP Respec Kiosk from 2 to 5 seconds

Snap Map: Ruins

• Art updates to various modules
• Future updates will contain more Art updates

Space Station

• Updated the post-Titus dialogue for Dr. Hadley with the correct character design art
• Updated Minimap selection on the System Map
• Players can now switch between missions on Oterion including new Boomtown level

Titus

• Added Underground minimaps
• Rebooting drills should now destroy any remaining enemies

Oterion Colony

• Major art and collision updates around the Military Zone
• This should help stop the player getting lost underneath the level art
• Future updates will better refine this area and update the minimap
• New enemy encounters
• Added new objective IDs (Oterion now has 5)
• New Vista at the Dam in the Landing Zone
• Moved B3-L1-5L to the Wetlands Survey Zone
• Added new camera zooms to the Warehouse District and the Bridge
• Updates will continue on art especially in Daedalus Tower and near the broken bridge

Oterion Wetlands

• Updated Hadley’s dialogue to reflect the quest bot’s new location
• Cleaned up Sector Trigger zones near the level start
• Added a new Oterion Wetlands loading screen
• New art, landmarks, and terrain updates throughout the level
• Updated B3-L1-5L’s location to the Survey zone
• New enemy encounters
• Art updates will continue especially around the AzTek Facility

Oterion Lost City

• Fixed a lighting error (that may not have affected players, but will no longer affect dev work)

UI

• Increased Player Join text size

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing player drop-ins to not receive XP after someone in the same slot dropped-out previously
• Fixed an issue causing Gameplay Modifiers to occasionally display incorrectly
• Improved the reliability of dynamic enemy spawning across all game modes

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