Hello everyone,

We’ve got a big patch for you today:

This patch introduces a difficulty selector when you launch a new run, and rebalances various game elements like bosses, turrets, and heroes, and adds access to the artbook and OST for Last Wish Edition owners through the main menu, among various other improvements. It should also resolve the problem of monsters dying immediately after spawning, fix various crashes, and numerous other bugs. You can find the full patch notes below.

However, please note that for technical reasons this patch will lock the framerate to 30fps for the time being. We’re planning to add a toggle between “Performance” (60fps) and “Quality” (higher resolution, but locked to 30fps) options later.

Xbox Series S/X Patch 1.0.7.10083 (October 30th, 2023)

• Performed an overall balancing on all game values.
• Reduced resource production for each door and generator from 5 to 4.
• Reduced the number of Elite mobs, increased their stats.
• Charging Beast is faster.
• Shield monster can no longer target Heroes.
• Reduced the pace of the waves.
• Smoothed the difficulty of the game to avoid strong difficulty spike at the mid zone.
• Every weapons, devices, heroes, hero upgrades, and steles have been rebalanced.
• Removed monster buff in 3 Heroes mode.
• Reduced Boss Health bonus in 3 Heroes mode.
• Made the fight against all Boss harder, and improved the evolution of combat.
• Scaled swarm force based on the number of players in a multiplayer session.
• Doubled Health pool of Generators, they are no longer repaired at the end of the wave.
• Generators are no longer targeted during Crystal Bot's movement phase.
• Artifacts can no longer be attacked or destroyed during research phase.
• Increased Heroes' KO duration from 30 to 90s.
• Added new Station zones.
• Improved location of Crystal Shards, Generators and Artifacts.
• Steles are no longer active during Blackout.
• In solo, player can now switch between Heroes while hacking the Blackout stations.
• Improved Artifact's odds of dropping level n+1 Turrets.
• Performed some tweaks on tutorial.
• Added starting chests system.
• Fixed several issues linked to Station generation, Bosses and options.
• Fixed an issue where the Pennypincher Stele reduced Resource generation more than what the default value was.
• Fixed an issue where monsters were spawned inside of objects causing them to be stuck in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where the research terminal may be missing in the first part of the Devotion Garden District, in some specific cases.
• Added Station player progression backward compatibility from previous content update.
• Fixed several issues of pathing.
• Fixed an issue where meta progression can be lost when the game is rebooted without saving from a District.
• Fixed an issue where a crash could occur upon opening a Chest in Astral Harbor.
• Fixed an issue where the Main menu background animation has a low framerate and freezes when returning to it
• Fixed an issue where button prompts are shown with words instead of icons.
• Fixed an issue where monsters experience pathfinding issues in the Core district.
• Fixed an issue where a crash could occur when firing a weapon in Labor Colony district, in some specific cases.
• Fixed an issue where weapons and turrets fire can pass through doors and walls.
• Fixed an issue where multiple error screens could appear on entering second zone of Core district.
• Fixed an issue where opening the last door in Core after defeating Eriaudy leads to an Assertion failed error screen in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where the Crystal Bot's Slot clips through a Room wall.
• Fixed an issue where small lag sparks when the players reach the second part of the Core district in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where torchlight weapon damage is passing though bonehead monster shield/barrier.
• Fixed an issue where some Bug monsters do not play their death animation in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where visiting Devotion Garden district and returning to Saloon does not immediately unlock Shroom in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where the session becomes visually corrupted while Crystal Bot opens the first door from the Devotion Garden district in some specific cases.
• Added 4K version of main menu background and bootstrapper.
• Heroes with an ongoing quest are now highlighted in the Saloon.
• Added new Glossary pages.
• Improved Album navigation.
• Fixed an issue where the Memento icon was the wrong one on the Station map.
• Fixed an issue where the credits are played on screen for the client when loading into the Saloon.
• Fixed an issue where the panel for abandoning runs does not reflect changes with no Internet connection.
• Fixed an issue where targeting a downed character to resurrect them can be awkward and difficult.
• Fixed an issue where within the caption of the Tactical Overlay, the monster spawner colors are not identical to those on the overlay.
• Fixed an issue where Hero upgrades could disappear and can't be seen in Upgrade Station after death.
• Fixed an issue where inaccurate game time is displayed in Game Summary after abandoning run in the Hoist.
• Fixed several text issues.
• Added missing artbook files.
• Updated console soundbanks.
• Bound audio player to Deluxe edition.
• Added an AudioSet for each NPC with dialogs in Saloon.
• Fixed an isssue where the GiantSpawner opening music is not triggered in multiplayer.
• Fixed an issue where the audio language is not correctly picked on first launch.
• Performed some replication fixes and bandwidth optimization.
• Avoided unnecessary Bolt shutdown when the player has a pending session.
• Fixed a null reference in the web socket library.
• Fixed some issues related to the session list.
• Fixed some issues related to the player progression.
• Fixed some issues related to the hero health update.
• Fixed some issues where player cannot rejoin a multiplayer game after it's launched.
• Fixed an issue where an error message from failing to join a session was displayed twice.
• Fixed an issue where the game may crash for the client when the host leaves the session.
• Fixed an issue where the game may crash for the client when using a Hero Upgrade Station.
• Fixed an issue where the game may crash for the Host upon beating Eriaudy.
• Fixed an issue where Social Menu is malfunctioning after leaving a session, in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where failing to revive a Hero in the last second causes the reviver to become stuck in some cases.
• Limit the framerate to 30. We will introduce on a later patch a way to choose between a performance mode or a fidelity mode for Xbox Series. 
• Fixed an issue where an incorrect message is displayed when user is signed out.
• Fixed several issues with the content management system.
• Increased Movement speed on Heroes and monsters.
• No Speed Up at Heroes Level Up. As we increased the movement of heroes in general, this wasn't necessary. 
• When having multiple spawn points, increased the delay of spawn among the different spawn points.
• Balanced Boss fights.
• Buffed most of the Turrets (Damage, Fire Rate, Health). As we increased the speed of monsters we give Turrets a bit more fire power. Also, we noticed turrets were dying too quickly.
• Increased Damage Absorption of Heroes.
• Decreased costs at Merchant: Weapons and Devices 
• Merchant cost types are static in function of District. Example: In Devotion Garden you will always require Food in order to buy things.
• Modify starting weapons : Bunker starts with a Shotgun, Cartie and Comrade with a Gatling.
• Tweaked Zed passive and Level Up.
• Tweaked Heroes level up
• Improved somes Steles.
• Improved all Monsters behaviors.
• Improved the steps of several Hero's quests.
• Removed Razer special wave on first floor.
• Fixed lock door issue in Core zone (exit door was accessible too early).
• Added autofire system on charge weapons.
• Fixed an issue where player progression unlocks could be not saved when leaving the Saloon to the main menu.
• Fixed an issue where saves can become corrupted and player progression was lost in some specific cases.
• Fixed an issue where Heroes could become stuck after being teleported through zone door.
• Fixed an issue where Heroes could become stuck because wave did not properly stop when finishing a zone.
• Fixed an issue where AI controlled Heroes began spinning around in one place aimlessly.
• Fixed an issue where some monsters and bosses could become stuck on invisible obstacles.
• Fixed an issue where an infinite loading screen upon loading into the Core district could occur when resuming a previously saved run.
• Fixed an issue where auto save could be erased when launching tutorial for the second time.
• Fixed an issue where a crash could occur on specific PC configurations.
• Fixed an issue where Comrade could repair Research Terminals.
• Fixed an issue where Praetorian Bot mob's ranged attack had no animation.
• Fixed an issue where Sweeper's passive VFX was displayed inconsistently across turrets.
• Fixed an issue where an error could occur when double tapping on a Research Terminal during a Blackout.
• Fixed an issue where Heroes could trespass Hoist limit.
• Fixed an issue where mandatory talks were displayed for client in multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Crystal Bot's health bonus wasn't updated for client in multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed an issue where client may be unable to move their character upon joining a multiplayer lobby.
• Fixed an issue where the loading bar was regressing when a user was joining a multiplayer session from the Saloon.
• Fixed an issue where the player could encounter an infinite loading screen when no network was available.
• Fixed an issue where game invite can be accepted while already joining the same multiplayer session.
• Fixed an issue where ping was spawned on the wrong Hero as host of a multiplayer session.
• Added Difficulty mode choice when launching a run.
• Added new loading tips.
• Added quest info in Hero back menu.
• Added 'new' hints for new unlocked content.
• Added meta collectibles stock feedback in Saloon HUD.
• Improved information displayed in the game end screen.
• Increased the font sizes throughout the whole game.
• Improved feedback in several screens in multiplayer sessions.
• Improved progress information in the Hoist.
• Improved Beverages feedback.
• Improved Station Map feedback and navigation.
• Improved several cinematics in tutorial, Hoist and Reactor scenes.
• Fixed an issue where Saloon improvements were not properly ordered.
• Fixed an issue where Steles deactivation was not highlighted enough.
• Fixed several text issues.
• Fixed an issue where SFX of explosive barrels was duplicated.

Xbox Series S/X Patch 1.2.10364  (January 17th, 2024)

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• Adds support for the Japan Pack DLC
• Adds Shroom Cherry Blossom Skin and Bunker Popona Skin.
• Added Cherry Blossom Skins for Shroom and Popona Bunker (to celebrate the Japanese VO)
• Reduced base maximum number of souls of Shroom from 5 to 3. 
• Reduced the base health of Comrade's turret from 200 to 120. 
• Reduced the base damage of Comrade's turret from 15 to 8. 
•  Increased the cooldown of Blaze's ultimate skill by 15%. 
• Increased the range of Bunker's active skill by 3 meters. 
• Increased the stun duration of Bunker's active skill from 2 to 5 seconds. 
• Increased the cooldown of Bunker's ultimate skill from 10 to 20 seconds. 
• Tweaked Bunker's upgrade 'Protect and Serve' so that it can not target bosses anymore. This is ... a nerf! 
• Tweaked Fassie's ultimake skill so that it can not target bosses anymore. 
• Increased the cooldown of Cartie's ultimate skill from 15 to 25 seconds. 
• Incrased the cooldown of Cleaner's ultimate skill from 15 to 25 seconds. 
• Capped the maximum effect of Zed’s passive skill at 40 monsters.  
• Increased the cooldown of Zed's active skill from 15 to 25 seconds. 
• Merchant now offers up to 5 choices. 
• Choices at the merchant can now be rerolled with Dust.  
• Reduced the damage of all weapons by 10%. 
• Tweaked weapon mods effects so they always give 10% more damage. 
• Increased the damage of turrets by 10%. 
• Increased the cost of the Holohero Plus! turret from 8 to 14. 
• Increased the cost of the Amplifier turret from 10 to 12. 
• Changed the targeting behaviour of Ghost monsters, they will now focus the crystal first.  
• Reduced the invisibility duration of Ghost monsters from 10 to 4 seconds. 
• Added a movement speed bonus to Ghost monsters when they are invisible. 
• Increased the base health of Ghost monsters from 150 to 170. 
• Reduced the health of Royal Shyness monsters from 140 to 120. 
• Increased the defense of Royal Shyness monsters when rolling from 30% to 70%. 
• Reduced the damage of Praetorian monsters from 80 to 70. 
• Reduced the range of attacks of Refluxer monsters from 4 to 3 meters. 
• Reduced the number of monsters present on a spawner when a player discovers it by 50%.  
• Removed the stele Finishing Move from Life Incubator district. 
• Tweaked where dark rooms could appear: they will mostly spawn in the deepest districts now.  
• Reduced the health regen on the crystal bot in the elevator by 5% in the 3 easiest difficulties.  
• Weapon drops take in account the number of heroes wielding heavy and light weapons. If you have more heroes wielding heavy weapons, more heavy weapons will drop. 
• Added a positive something (wink wink) when you discover the last room of a district. 
• Introduced a new option for PS5 & Xbox Series that allow players to choose between priorising graphics or a higher FPS count.  
• Added 4 new skins for Blaze and Cartie. Maybe one is related to a dog... 
• Added two new beverages to challenged yourself even further! 
• Overhauled the Beverage screen. 
• Added beverage information in the hero selection screen.  
• Added a way to filter weapon by elementary damage type in the workshop. 
• Improved the order of the saloon improvements in the workshop.  
• Added information about quests in the hero selection screen.  
• Added a shortcut the album in the workshop. 
• Added new tutorial instructions.  
• Improved the way critical notifications are displayed.  
• Improved feedbacks for an hero being knocked out.  
• Added feedbacks for an hero leveling up.  
• Added feedbacks to remind players they can use the crystal shards to upgrade the crystal bot.  
• Improved readibility of the feedbacks when Bug Momma and Eryaudi bosses are hit.  
• Added a localisation string to clarify the stele deactivation mechanic.  
• Improved the wording and the feedbacks for the score in the game summary screen. 
• Tweaked the sound when Bunker is hit during her ultimate. 
• Improved the audio effects on Fassie voicelines. 
• Added a new sound when Comrade heals generators.  
• Added a sound when Bunker is taking damage during her ultimate.  
• Added a new sound when discovering a monster spawner.  
• Added new sounds when switching weapons.  
• Added new sounds on the tutorial boxes. 
• Added a new sound when turrets are upgraded.  
• Added a new sound when doors are openable after slotting the crystal in a new crystal slot.  
• Added a new sound when opening a door. 
• Added a new sound when discovering the merchant. 
• Added a new sound to the environmental notes interface. 
• Improved charged weapons sound effects. 
• Improved the audio mix for the Meta Tazer weapon. 
• Improved the tutorial audio mix. 
• Added a specific 3D object for the Crypto Keys. 
• Improved the navigation in Astral Harbour landmark spaceship room.  
• Tweaked the way monsters are rendered behind walls to make them more noticeable.  
• Reduced the delay for the heroes quest preview to appear on the starting points. 
• Added the heroes quest preview for clients in multiplayer games. 
• Updated the credits of the game. 
• Fixed an issue where the monster families were not properly updated in the evelator when selecting the next district. 
• Fixed an issue where the next quest was displayed in the Pause Menu after completing a quest without having to go back to the Saloon.  
• Fixed an issue where the heroes quest preview was not properly updated in the elevator after completing a quest. 
• Fixed an issue where looting a crypto key was not properly displayed in the collectible counters in the Station Map. 
• Fixed an issue where having too many talks to exhaust with a NPC could prevent from unlocking that NPC in the roster.  
• Fixed an issue where the feedback applied on monsters by Fassie's ultimate was not properly removed after the end of the ability. 
• Fixed an issue where the feedback for Blaze's ultimate was not displayed properly. 
• Fixed an issue where the "NEW!" Labels in the album were not displayed properly in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an issue where the feedback for the passive skill of Cartie could be displayed on all heroes.  
• Fixed an issue where a "NEW!" was always displayed in the Heroes tab of the Library.  
• Fixed an issue where killing elite and quest variants of monsters was not properly taken in account in the Album. 
• Fixed an issue where collecting mementoes would not be displayed properly in the archive. 
• Fixed and issue where the breaker sound effect could be replayed everytime you loaded a save straight into a district.  
• Fixed an issue where you could hear sounds of the game during the introduction cinematic when relaunching the tutorial.  
• Fixed an issue where the loot found section in the game over summary could not be navigated using a controller.  
• Fixed an issue where the "Completed District Bonus" in the game summary screen had a negative value.  
• Fixed an issue where visual issues could appear on the health bar of the Red Dead Eye boss. 
• Fixed an issue where the Bug Momma boss was blinking when launching projectiles. 
• Fixed an issue where the visual effects of the AI Manager were not disappearing properly after killing it.  
• Fixed an issue where the health bar for Eryaudi was missing after Eryaudi reappears.  
• Fixed an issue where the visuals of the charging beast attacks were not disappearing properly.  
• Fixed an issue where tutorial boxes could disappear when opening the Pause menu.  
• Fixed an issue where the crystal shard icon used was an old asset in some places.  
• Fixed an issue where some players actions such as using a breaker could alter the audio mix very noticeably until the next relaunch. 
• Fixed an issue where sound could be missing when doors closed in specific conditions. 
• Fixed an issue where the Bug Momma boss music was played twice.  
• Fixed an issue where the characters were not positioned properly in the [REDACTED] cutscene. 
• Fixed an issue where collecting all mementoes would not unlock something I am not authorized to disclose here (sorry!). 
• Fixed an issue where the default value of the microphone volume could cause saturation.  
• Fixed an issue where invisible collision could appear (got it?) in some Astral Harbour, in Hive Mind and the Core district. 
• Fixed an issue where some 3D elements had a wrong shadow in Devotion Garden districts.  
• Fixed an issue where the space between turrets and 3D elements was not walkable in some Labor Colony districts.  
• Fixed an issue where the CO-OP menu was not properly greyed out when losing internet connection. 
• Fixed an issue where the quality of weapons dropping in the dungeon was not behaving as intended. 
• Fixed an issue where the ultimate skill of Artificer was dealing wayyyyy less damage than intended. 
• Fixed an issue where buying any hero chips would cost more than intended.  
• Fixed an issue where the Technophobia achievement could not be unlocked in most cases. 
• Fixed an issue where the Mint Condition achievement could not be unlocked.  
• Fixed an issue where Eryaudi boss encounter was too long in Friendly difficulty.  
• Fixed an issue where the "No Crystal Damage Bonus" at the end of a zone was not given to players when the crystal when it should have been.  
• Fixed an issue where the Ghost Elite monster invisibility was sometimes triggered at the wrong time. 
• Fixed an issue where you could kill the Shelldiver boss right as it spawned (no, we won't tell you how to do it). 
• Fixed an issue where blobs were in Transcendence Center instead of bots.  
• Fixed an issue where building the Party Favors turret could allow heroes to run through turrets.  
• Fixed an issue where the position of pots were causing pathfinding issues in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an issue where the Laser Blinder turret could not be upgraded above a specific level by shoving it. 
• Fixed an issue where the weapon could disappear when wielded by Cartie.  
• Fixed an issue where players in the recently played with list were incorrectly shown as offline. 
• Fixed an issue where players could be missing cells rewarded by quests in specific conditions. 
• Fixed a crash that could happen when upgrading the crystal for the sixth time for Cartie’s questline. 
• Fixed a crash when accessing the research terminal in multiplayer in specific conditions.  
• Fixed a crash when trying to load in a 3 player multiplayer session as a client in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an issue where accepting a multiplayer invite would do nothing in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an softlock happening when switching between controller and mouse/keyboard in specific conditions. 
• Fixed a softlock that could happen where finishing a district in specific conditions. 
• Fixed a softlock that could happen when loading where loading up a save made in the Bug Momma boss room.   
• Fixed a softlock that could happen when a chest was blocking players in some Astral Harbours in specific conditions. 
• Fixed an infinite loading screen when using a save in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an infinite loading that could happen after reading environmental notes in specific conditions. 
• Fixed a softlock where Bug Momma was not killable after loading a save.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where interactions with NPCs were labelled as mandatory for clients.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where the host could only see quests for heroes controlled by players in the hacking post and the heroes quest preview at the starting points. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where clients could see an empty quest box in a district in specific conditions.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where information about meta collectibles and quests were missing in the elevator for clients.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where players could not complete Shroom's first quest.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where district trophies in the saloon didn't appear for clients. 
• Fixed an issue where the icon of the game difficulty was not properly updated in the hero selection screen.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where pings were not seen by the player sending it.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where color of pings could be incorrect.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where position of pings could be incorrect.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where the activity feedback of monster spawners was not properly displayed for clients.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where the the Bug Momma boss was desynchronized for clients. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where the the Red Dead Eye boss was desynchronized for clients. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where clients could use Cartie, Blaze and Fassie ultimate abilities twice in a row.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where the number of turrets Comrade could build was not properly updated for clients.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where information about the quests were missing in the hacking posts for clients. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where reading the dialogs with NPCs didn't change the feedbacks for clients.  
• Fixed a softlock in multiplayer games that could happen when rejoining the game during the Shelldiver boss encounter. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where Zed could collide into the bar in the saloon for clients.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where clients could not start quests for heroes they didn’t own yet.  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where clients could not complete Cleaner’s first quest. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where players could receive voice communication from a muted user in specific conditions. 
• Fixed a crash that could happen when having too many Xbox Live accounts in the friend list, in the blocked list or in the muted list.  
• Fixed an issue where a wrong avatar could be loaded for the accounts in the friend list. 
• Fixed an issue where player could receive voice communication from a muted user in very specific conditions. 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer games where players could receive voice communication from muted users 
• Fixed an issue with Cells and meta progression where some players wouldn't receive Cells after completing quests on Xbox Series X 
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer preventing some players from joining online games through their friend list