We've deployed a new patch with significant performance improvements, bug fixes, balance adjustments, and quality of life updates. Thank you for your continued support and feedback!

• Identified and applied a workaround for a Unity light rendering issue, causing major performance degradation over time.
  
• Fixed an issue that was spamming error logs and significantly tanking CPU performance.
  
• Fixed varied issues around lobby menus, more fixes to come.
  
• Fixed the most commonly auto-reported random error messages.
  
• Added character safety for chat to fix performance loss from incompatible text.
  
• Fixed missing combat crosshair if setting was corrupted

• Escalation 0 ammo pickup bonus increased from 25% to 50%.
  
• Escalation 0 now gives 25% spare ammunition.
  
• Escalation 1 ammo pickup bonus increased from 25% to 35%.
  
• Escalation 1 now gives 25% spare ammunition.

• X1 Discus enemy is now spawning.
  
• Armageddon Beholder enemy is now spawning.
  
• Bosses now deal 5000 damage to friendlies on death.
  
• Sawblade Boss now properly spawns mini sawblades when other sawblades die.
  
• Fixed Chrono Chest spawning friendly Chrono units.
  
• Mark Target now lasts 6 seconds (down from 8 seconds) and can no longer stack on players.

Gunner

• Global Minimum Fire-Rate increased from 25 to 35.
  
• 10% more base fire-rate.
  
• Burst fire rate increased from 5% to 10% per stack of Ramp-Up.
  
• Deviation reduced from 0.5 to 0.4 per stack of Ramp-Up.
  
• Reloading now also pauses the decay for 2.5 seconds.

Sniper

• Target Laser is now held only.
  
• Target Laser now charges up a critical strike on maximum stacks.
  
• Replaced Sniper Kit passive with a new one.

⚡Items / Shops / Weapons

• Potentially fixed Hunter-Unit double revive issue. (?)
  
• Heat Spreader now applies a first stack of burn in a large radius on first activation.
  
• Plating Printer now triggers its explosion on activation as well.
  
• Voltaic Gyroscope range and damage increased to make it more effective at close range.
  
• RPG missile replaced with straight-fired missile.
  
• All Coil Guns damage increased from 3 to 3.3.
  
• Fixed Blessed tools not giving cooldown speed.
  
• Loop shops now give a random selection in case someone teleports with the shop opened.

• Fixed new UI bugs and integration issues for mod downloads via mod.io.
  
• Fixed Badges not showing in the end screen.
  
• Lobby leaving no longer automatically switches back to global chat.
  
• The chat disable boolean now properly blocks joining global chat (included in Sunday mini-fix); chat window and party chat are intended to stay open.
  
• Fixed the loading screen background.
  
• Fixed the Escalation Tower icon not showing.
  
• Fixed the Learning Terminal camera doing an unnecessary spin.
  
• Added class description text into the Android menu.
  
• Fixed the Apocalyptic Survival Kit not showing its tooltip properly.
  
• Replaced the intro cinematic with an Android UI style.
  
• Disabled lobby join highlighting on private lobbies.
  
• Increased scroll speed in the lobby browser window.
  
• Fixed Armory UI not scaling properly on screens.
  
• End screen quit button is now clearer.
  
• Fixed armor not showing on enemy healthbars.
  
• Added maximum plating to stats display.
  
• Weapon burst delay in the fire-rate section now shows "s" for seconds for clarity.
  
• Weapons with 0 damage and only AOE now show "AOE" for clarity.
  
• Changed Terror Level sound to not use the radio voice mixer.
  
• Renamed Control Center to Mission Center
  
• Play buttons are now more visible
  
• Android menu mentions after some time that you need mission center to play
  
• Localization fixes.
  
• Added Chinese font fallback for normal text.
  
• Added a description on how to make mods in the mod browser enabler section.
  
• Added small UniversEdit button for now in mission menu to access depots

• Compendium dosn't save for some people?
  
• Varied Lobby menu quit / ready wierdness
  
• Boss one shot issue - any infos are helpful!
  
• Quests are not saving in coop

• Varied people have bad performance on DirectX12, please switch to DX11 in steam and/or update graphics drivers
  
• People having crashes: Verify game files in steam. Crashes are 99% a faulty install.
  
• People having really poor networking performance: Google for Speedtest and Packet Loss test, if these are good, please report to us

We are reading your feedback very closely and have more fixes and improvements on the list and coming up very soon!

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Hey everyone!

Sorry for the very long wait. This is the biggest update we have ever done by a mile and left no stone unturned.

We really put blood and sweat into this and tried very hard to provide you a much higher production value iteration of the Synthetik franchise. We really hope you enjoy! As always, leave us your feedback in the Steam forums or Discord, have fun!

- Team Flow Fire Games


Info:
If you have performance issues, please try update your drivers! As this is a DX12 version, you might encounter some first time playing shader compilation stutters which will vanish.

Known issues:
- Bosses sometimes can lose a lot of health on an attack
- Music tracks can layer incorrectly
- Minimap sometimes dosn't show objects

Following Up:
We will quickly follow up with short hotfixes as needed and shorter patches to iron out bugs and other issues based on your feedback!

We know it’s been a while since our last major announcement. While we've been sharing updates on Discord and the Steam forums, not everyone may have seen them, so here’s a larger write-up:

We’ve been rolling out new builds weekly, and we’re nearly ready to begin multiplayer testing. The latest builds are quite stable in singleplayer, though there are still a few issues to iron out. You can currently try out the beta of U15 – Grand Operations on the testing branch! See the bottom of this post for instructions on how to join!

As things naturally evolved, Grand Operations has now become a sort of "2.0" version of the game. We have tackled almost all the things we planned for the real launch and so much beyond. Almost everything in the game has been touched in a major way. All in all, Grand Operations is like a new game, even ignoring the home base entirely. From enemy, weapon, item, loot, shop and map reworks, to UI, multiplayer, localization and even settings, U15 is a huge overhaul of the entire game and far beyond.

You've seen maybe some of the graphics and main menu changes. Some people voiced concern that all the development time is spent on the hub, which of course wouldn't be smart. Most of the development time actually went into everything around gameplay even with the hub being the biggest visual change - refactors, optimizations and in our new and improved systems and pipelines (a lot of code, networking, shaders, modeling, texturing, terrain, ui, animation, lighting, character creation ..). Update 15 marks the completion of many of our new workflows which were key in making Grand Operations a reality and getting the game in the best possible position for the full launch and beyond.

Anyways, here we have a spoiler of the many gameplay changes you will see with Grand Operations:

• Huge Cover Gameplay Overhaul for better tactical gameplay
  
• Tons of Map Changes implemented for improved clarity and flow
  
• Introduced the New Directives Mutator System
  
• Added New Divine Blessings for Loop gameplay
  
• New Enemies, New Enemy Abilities, and numerous enemy overhauls
  
• Implemented a New AI State Machine for enhanced behaviors
  
• Many Class Changes and balance adjustments implemented
  
  
  🚀 Items, Loot & Weapons
• Redesigned Upgrades & Shops, plus new Terminals
  
• New improved Loot Distribution system & Campaign Drop redesign
  
• Added New Weapons and improved overall Loot Table
  
• Starter Handguns Overhauled & Re-shuffled
  
• Complete Overhaul of Weapon Tech Perks
  
• Dozens of Weapon Balance Changes pushed live
  
• Tons of Item Improvements across the board
  
• Added New Multi-Variant feature & Variant Override system
  
  
  🧰 Visuals & UI
• New Muzzle, Impact, and other Visual Effects (VFX)
  
• New Cursor options and Damage Text styles available
  
• Improved Healthbar design, features and clarity
  
• Improved Unit Visibility on the battlefield
  
• Better Hit Feedback for more satisfying combat
  
  
  ..New Graphics, Music, Networking and tons more!
  
  
  
  🔧Base / Menu Upgrades
  The new Base Hub in U15 is more than a visual overhaul — it’s a complete rework of the menu system, with tons of new functionality. Our goal was to introduce meaningful meta progression without disrupting balance. That means improvements across the board: from quality-of-life to lore, and even a bit of power scaling for long-term motivation.
  
  
  🧱 New Additions:
• Construction – Progressively build up your base and unlock new features
  
• AI Core – Unlock new quests and unique in-run terminal events
  
• Mail – Daily rewards, global notifications, and in-game news
  
• Radio – Change music tracks and see community updates
  
• Tech Center – Browse and learn all technologies in detail
  
• Barracks / Medical / Shield Generator – Each includes new upgrade paths
  
  
  📁 Legacy Menu Improvements:
• Escalation – Now shows detailed info for every level
  
• Armory – The item/weapon database, now with more types
  
• Lab – New Android lab with improved UI and more style
  
• Modding Menu – In active rework with the latest Mod.io framework
  
• Mission Console – Quick restart after matches & new matchmaking
  
  This is just the tip of the iceberg for U15— dive into the test branch now and check it out for yourself. Unlock the new features and let us know what you think!
  
  
  🧬 Past U15?
  Even after U15, most of the work on the upcoming Engineer class is already completed. The new “D-DAY” environment is nearly 90% finished and should be ready to follow soon as we move closer to launch. We’re also thinking about a revamped class perk/module system, along with plenty of the usual polish and refinements.
  
  
  🚧 U15 Beta Test:
  If you want to try the latest build and give feedback to the current version, here are the steps to enter the beta testing branch:
  
  Warning: This is a Beta Testing Branch, is unfinished, single-player and potentially buggy!
  Step 1: Go to your steam game settings
  Step 2: Go to the Beta Tab
  Step 3: Enter code SECRETTESTBRANCH, and you should gain access.
  
  Please let us know what you think after unlocking all the new features and we'll keep you posted for the coop-test branch soon. Have fun!
  
  - Team FFG
  

Hey everyone!
Today we want to give you a overview of what is to come. As you may have read, we are currently working on Grand Operation which is a really huge update and might need a bit more time, but it will be one of the biggest leaps we have taken as a studio.

Keep in mind that all things are never set in stone and we always do what is best given the current situation / plans might change.

• Focus on out-game elements
  
• New Base of Operations
  
• Construct varied Buildings
  
• Unlock perks and features
  
• Interact with NPCs
  
• New difficulty system
  
• Story elements
  
• Quests
  
• Rework on menus
  
• Party System
  
• Gameplay & Balance tweaks
  
• Final Boss Blessings
  
• and more!

In Grand Operation, the main menu is removed and you start as a android pilot from the human resistance. You are stationed on the stealth Resistance base "Phantom-One" near the coast of Vietnam, right at the border of the machine expansion.

The base allows free roaming and constructing varied buildings, containing menus you know but also new features and progression unlocks. The new resistance radio allows you to play music, barracks, shield generator and fusion reactor give you improvements to tackle the higher difficulties. The radar explains the environments in the world and the state of the machine expansion but that's enough of the spoilers.

Constructing buildings increases the war effort and progresses the timeline, adding a slightly flexible but clear campaign progression throughout all the old and new features of the game. Lastly the big main building (secret) will offer quests while at your mission and form a small storyline.

The Grand Operations update takes a lot of time since we first had to develop new systems to drive the walkable main menu, rework and split up the old main menu UI and set up unlockable base buildings. We are mostly finished with this and are now shifting towards adding a first batch of story quests with voice lines, some 3d characters with animations and more.

There is a lot more to tell but we don't want to spoiler too much, so stay tuned!


In the last months we have reworked and added many core elements of the framework, such as groundwork for the new Quest systems, dialogs and dialog chains, flexible currencies and action bars, NPCs, voice lines, interchangeable hud and menus, outgame saving and reward structures, networking and lobby changes, new shader and asset pipelines, character pipelines, skin shaders, icon workflows, particle system changes, major project cleanups and so much more. The editor has also seen major improvements.

All these things will be directly in use in the game in Grand Operations or will be important groundwork for future updates. We know this sounds quite obscure but there has been a lot happening under the hood. After grand operations we will be pretty much done with foundation work however and are planning on mostly spending time on content and polish.

• Planned around christmas holidays
  
• Overhauled class perk / module system
  
• Focus on in-game Game-play improvements & classes
  
• Improvements on the base of operations
  
• and more...

Ascendency will focus on further gameplay improvements and giving the classes more variation with a new perk system. We also want to really polish up the core gameplay and the enemy encounters. As usual there will always be plenty of unplanned improvements coming in.

• Early next year
  
• The Engineer Class
  
• Boss / Gameplay Improvements
  
• and more...

After U17 we are intending to go quickly towards launch. Depending on how things go, the Engineering update might be integrated into the launch update. You can expect a new announcement for this when it's time.

We'll keep you posted about Grand Operations!
Thanks for stopping by, have fun!
- Team FFG

Heavy Gunner Fan art by Vireyn


Hey everyone!
Since the next update is on the large side (well which one wasn't..) we want to give you some infos about what is coming up next. As we are getting slowly towards the 1.0 version, and are now finally tackling some of our long desired elements. This is a more technical blog with not too many spoilers, so you can safely read.

The Elephant in the room is the new base of operations. The old main-menu is completely replaced by the new base. This is a big operation and includes larger reworks of menu structure and the lobby structure.

Gameplay wise you can walk around the base and interact with different buildings and npcs.
Throughout your play time, you can unlock new buildings and the base will look more impressive over time. We also take this opportunity to add long missing elements to the franchise, such as NPCs, story elements, voice acting and more outgame progress.

Pic: Armory Building / Database

Since this is a lot of work, we gotta see how much we can really get done for the next update, but it is critial to take the next step, leap outside of our comfort zone and take things to the next level.
We don't want to talk or promise too much about it yet so we are keeping it short, but this is the main priority for Update 15.


We planned for a longer time to do some overhauls related to the handling of the UI and general technical structure of the menus. Before, all menus were basically attached together, but we are now changing things to be "atomic" (independent) and more flexible in structure. This is much healthier to develop, debug and add new features down the road, as they are completely detached from the rest, and you do not have any complexity from intertwining features.

Pic: WIP of a world map menu

This also allows adding new menus much easier or do any other tweaks. A similar thing is being done for the HUD. Eventually it might even be possible to mod or expand some of the menus in the menu with this improved structure, although no promises.



While you shouldn't expect huge questlines or heavy story elements, we are trying to get a basic structure and more worldbuilding with characters and more overall flair.

Voice acting might not be in the first version but we are planning to add voice overs for the NPCs in the base and also the events while playing, to add more flair and make things more immersive.

All our NPCs are being done with a intricate character sheet and a logical background. This not only lets us understand the characters better and create better dialog but also helps the voice actors to understand the characters. Maybe this might even be useful to create chat bots eventually. We also noticed that this helps fill in gaps in the story and logic behind the surroundings.

Character Sheet:

• Name
  
• Surname
  
• Job / Role
  
• Current Title
  
• Previous Job
  
• Age
  
• Gender
  
• Ethnicity
  
• Language Primary
  
• Language Secondary
  
• Occupation
  
• Previous Occupation
  
• Born
  
• Affiliation
  
• Family
  
• Height
  
• Weight
  
  
• Likes
  
• Dislikes
  
• Background
  
• Personality Keywords
  
• Strengths
  
• Weakness
  
• Lie / Belief / Want
  
• Need / Absolving
  
• Speaking Style
  
• Taboo Theme

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Since we never really made humans before, we are also getting more in touch with making characters, animations and pipelines around such elements. It was only a matter of time until we needed human characters and now is the time to dig into these topics. This leads also into more questions about how clothing is setup, how it could or could not be switched, how hair and eyes are being done and such things.

We did a quick test out of curiosity with a chat AI based on GPT3.5, letting people chat with Zir on our Discord. This turned out to be very fun and working way better than expected, however the provider of the bot did not allow a lot of background story and it was very easy to change its behaviour by asking it to change itself, which allowed "hacking" it very easily. As a cause we removed it again, but we will definitely make Zir and more return as chat bots, hopefully with enough context to also give you in-depth info about game elements if possible.

The new base is also an opportunity and starting point for our future workflows relating to terrain, vegetation and rocks. We never have worked much with vegetation before and were digging into the pipelines and workflows. It turns out that our prior experience suits this very well and we were getting some great results in short time, however there is still much to learn.

This is a mixture of existing scans but some of the vegetation was also hand modelled by us, sometimes down to the very leaf, sometimes based on textures, sometimes procedually placed, sometimes manually cut out. There is really a wide variety of workflows in such vegetation assets possible.

Here is a hand modeled plant leaf:

And a handmade palm as example, which turned out quite nice.

Rocks are traditionally sculpted or hand modelled, but we did a procedual generation of the big rock set, which is based on a voxel volume system, using a mixture of shaders and displacers in 3D space.
Here you can see the input shape and the final rock highpoly model:

A bunch of work has been done on next-gening our asset creation pipelines. Our end goal is that you can just make a 3D model and have it automatically be UV mapped, pivot corrected, grouped, baked, textured and exported, while having an extreme reduction in textures used.

We are doing some solid progress on a pipeline using "Houdini", a 3D software which is often used to create such automations, and has already been helpful in creating some of the new assets, such as the huge rock formation seen below. This would require a lot of work to unwrap and optimize manually but the tedious steps could now be done in a couple clicks as example.

For the rocks, we created moss by scattering cubes, voxelizing them, and melting them together to form a moss on top of the rocks. Then in the end, a mixture of highly optimized plants are scattered on top of the rock, using around 20 different types, all using the same single texture.


We are now in the times of "Megascans" and freely available asset libraries (and soon AI generated 3D art), however most people make the massive mistake of just loading a trillion of redundant different assets and bloating their project.

Generally we do hand create all our assets ourselves, but for something like vegetation that might be out of our league, so we have to work with third party assets at least partially for the first time.

Often you do see videos where people just throw in 100 different megascans assets in their scene and it looks all great. Behind the curtains this is a disaster. Often importing a single assetstore asset is in the hundreds of megabytes on import. A single construction worker we bought was larger than the entirety of Synthetik 1. Such things need to be treated with extreme care.

Plant example from a popular library.
Looks good at glance, however there is 90% redundancy in there. And these would be 16 different textures just for one flower. Combined there are like 50 pieces, but realistically you would need around 6. Such things can go exponentially wrong if unchecked. The same counts for textures. Libraries lull you with 100 of variations of rock, while in reality you need to find and make the 1 perfect one.

We think assets are the same as lets say classes. Each needs a defined role and has to be carefully selected and optimized. We very carefully hand pick everything and often pack similar things together in texture atlases. All assets are also highly packed, so we reduce the texture count from 5 to just 2 per asset. For the vegetation on top of the rocks we packed 10 different ones together, so this uses 2 textures, while the Naive approach would have 50 textures in the project just for this. In the time of AI and huge free libraries, being able to pick well is going to be more important than ever.


We always had a history with using custom shader pipelines within Unity, and the past 7-8 years of making custom shaders in engine does really pay off. We started Synthetik 2 with a flexible master shader, which allows us to recolor and damage everything on the fly, however it still required some tranditional painting in softwares like Substance Painter and didn't look as detailed as it could, sometimes looking maybe too juicy or plastic looking.

It took many hours and iterations, we now have all the components of a great texturing job formalized and replicated in real-time in engine, so we now get amazing quality results, without having to do any texture painting at all. We are also able to fully change all colors or damage or material properties in real-time. Here is an example of the new next gen shader:

(Random video from latest discord stream)

We also employ new texture packing and made node groups which are resuable within shaders, so the new terrain shader, the new prop shader and the remade Unit shader all use the same textures, variables and nodes, making them a very unified pipeline. The rocks as seem before can use the same special texture from the ground layers to create new visual combinations as example. The best thing is that the new shaders require very few textures.

All in all, these new improved workflows make things easier to create, on much higher quality, with better performance and are easier to maintain and scale up.

We do not have a big focus on weapons right now as we have a quite huge arsenal already, however the next upcoming weapon is our rendition of the prototype G11, in resistance style. The image is not the latest version but you get an impression of it. It will likely get a feature where active reload enables fully-automatic, while non active reload keeps it in burst mode.

We have also designed resistance faction units for the new base, such as a Osprey inspired aircraft, replacing the old helicopter, a main battle tank and a smaller utility vehicle.


There are many networking changes in the works, we cannot talk too much about it, but it is a larger endeavor. In the end it should be easier to control and maintain, cost less and have better loading performance.


We are also taking the opportunity to change the Lobby behavior. We are adding something similar to a "party" where you will first join the party, then queue for the game, and you will also return to the party after the game, making the matchmaking experience much more streamlined.

You will see people in your party in your UI while inside the base of operations.
The class selection menu is also changed so you can see your party while changing your load-out.


You asked for some reward from the Last Defender, and of course something was missing.
In the future, you will gain a choice of 2 divine blessings, similar to how a class evolution would work.
With the new blessings you can start more powerful into loop. There are 8 different blessings, all with simple but useful effects. Some offensive, some defensive, helping certain builds, or in this case, give you a new chance with a new weapon to switch things up.

This hasn't been started yet, but the plan is that every map in loop (after the first one) has a cycling challenge modifier. This modifier is always single effect with a very strong implication, so if you want to get far into loop, you need to beat different scenarios. These do not stack but rotate.
One map might have very weak shields, one have no possible healing, or extreme jamming, things that will challenge your entire load-out and build over the duration of the loop.



That's it!
Stay tuned for Update 16 and have fun!
Team FFG



Cinematic Artwork from Happygull

[www.synthetik2.com]Hey everyone!
Update 14 is out and it's huge! We improved so many things for this update, it's crazy.
It started as a "spring cleaning" but then spiraled into a massive change for the game.
Check it out on our patch page![www.synthetik2.com]
[www.synthetik2.com]Have fun!
- Team FFG

[flowfires-fresh-site.webflow.io]Hey Everyone!
Update 13 is here with many great improvements. Attachments got a big upgrade, the new Endscreen makes runs more rewarding, improved co-op, our first pet class and a ton of other changes.

Make sure to check out the full notes![flowfires-fresh-site.webflow.io]
(The pet is attached to you, get it?)

[flowfires-fresh-site.webflow.io]Note: We added AMD FSR2 which is default enabled for now, you might want to increase the resolution to 0.9 or higher to have optimal image quality and it still has some hickups in loading screens, make sure to switch to DLSS if your GPU supports it. At 0.9 or higher, both provide better image quality than native.

Hey everyone!
We want to bring some more improvements at a faster pace, so here they are;

Weapon variants got an iteration and many have been improved, reworked or otherwise.
They should overall feel noticeably better and gives finding weapons a fresh new touch.
You can also now see a short description on pickup for better usability.

- Overhauled SAT Police Forces variants
- Overhauled Machine Military Forces variants
- Overhauled Human Raiders variants
- Overhauled Human Defiance variants
- Overhauled Soviet Brotherhood variants
- Improved Redguard variants (more to come)

The tutorial got many fixes and improvements.
We removed the obstacle course and added new things for testing and playing with the game mechanics. You can also call in enemy waves to test weapons and items, as well as go outdoors to test on respawning dummies. Overall the firing range should be much more interesting to test out mechanics and interactions, and offer a much better playground for learning and modding.

- New lore-conform android lab area
- Improved firing range
- Improved combat area
- Shops for testing
- Advanced combat area with attack waves
- Beach for chilling & high health dummies for testing

We did varied more coop improvements and fixes.
Dead players now can spectate
3 / 4 Player coop now has 15% faster shield delay
Improved server performance again
Fixed leaving the lobby breaking the lobby slots
Fixed loop having too many loop debuffs
Fixed being able to join a lobby while the game starts, breaking the lobby
Fixed weapon upgrades going above 4
Leaving a lobby now requries a prompt Coming soon.
Varied networking or coop related code fixes and improvements.

Players now have explosion damage resistance (50% from neutral / Enemies, 25% from friendly)
Class Evolutions can no longer roll the same evolution in the same run
Enemy Foam wheel ammo 0.5 > 0.25x dmg
Added Riot Gear upgrade to tinkerer shop
Reduced maximum damage number size
New ability in testing for Eliminator: Mangler
Fixed Refractor Sphere damage resistance scaling above 70%

LR300 now starts with 60>90 ammo, pickup 60>75
LG3 heat increased from 1>1.1
Devastator kit now increases it's spare ammo by 4% per room
PSR2000 Ninata now has a new perk
Judgement now has a new perk, recoil slightly reduced
Road Warrior slight model adjustment

We added one new map for the last area of the police academy with a garden theme.

Added controller sensitivity setting
Reworked settings drop down menus
Buttons in ingame pause and weapon menu work properly again
Buttons no longer reset the selection positioning when pressed
Removed double binding of the weapon menu

Removed content ID track from main menu
Improved some weapon models
Improved stat displays in varied areas
Loading the game no longer resets XP back to the previous saved state
Action recieved now supports categories
Fixed how flat damage, flat weakpoint damage, flat backstab damage applied
Tweaked afternoon lighting theme in Police Training Areas
Reduces impact effects on larger enemies which were overblown
Fixed Black Screens in loop
Varied 21:9 Adjustments

We Changed something about the starting of the game which might circumvent the starting issue some people are experiencing on the latest engine version, let us know. Otherwise please use the fix as described here on the forum pinned thread.

Elites don't drop upgradekills if they are stunned when killed

Have fun!
- Team FFG

Hey everyone! We are very glad about the super positive reception of U12 and want to quickly follow up with some more improvements.


The new AMD-65 is a hard hitting common assault rifle with brutal recoil and bleeding ammunition.

The classic coil gun is a fast firing and accurate shotgun with powerful charged shot stacks.

Do the famed roundhouse kick with the roundhouse boots. Applies shock combos aswell.

A new workbench with 3 strong weapon upgrade choices can appear in the late-game.

Using the power of 3D, hitting enemies now can cause oil splats on the walls!

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We made various improvements to server performance.
These changes aim to address the "desync" issues (invisible enemies, shop malfunctions, game breaking entirely, etc.). We need your feedback to determine if these changes resolve any issues you've experienced.

We continue to work on improving performance, but it's challenging to gauge the impact without your input since we cannot reproduce such problems in-house.

- In testing: new region selection when opening lobbies.
- Dropping items no longer resets cooldowns.
- Fixed lobby ready button mismatching the player.
- Various minor improvements.

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Item and ability rarities have been adjusted. This results in healing abilities and items costing less to upgrade compared to other abilities. This change offers more choices in determining which items to upgrade, thus presenting players with more strategic options.

Further improvements to item and weapon shop rarities and some costs have been adjusted to be more logical. Varied costs are reduced a bit, but epics in the uncommon weapon shop now cost 200 more, highlighting the uncommon items.
Fixed the issue of the uncommon item shop having items of too low rarity.
Corrected the bug where scavenging yielded an excessive number of upgrade kits. We are still monitoring this.

Loop enemy movement speed reduced from 50% bonus to 30% bonus.
Loop armor bonus decreased from 40% to 20%.
Fixed the issue of players not receiving the loop debuff.
Further loop improvements and additional loot are planned for the near future.

New icons for weapon chests, item chests, players, pickups.

Variant Override added to the tinkerer shop.
Weapon tuning now provides +1 upgrade kit.
Mystery trader's power has been significantly increased.
Dodgy pills and Titanium legs have been upgraded to epic tier.
Grenade arm now also boosts ejection speed.
Chaos Technology Insertion now grants 2 perks.
Fixed issues with Ammo Refit.

A new workbench with 3 strong weapon upgrade choices can appear in the late-game.

Twin link has been reworked.
Cryo Cannon is now automatically triggered.
Various fixes and improvements to the Shield Dome.

Chrono Interceptor: Fixed and enhanced various evolutions.
Power Kick/Breaching Kick now reduces damage taken by 50% during the kick.
Riotguard Crisis Medical Kit: Removed acid shot to prevent friendly fire, added handgun benefits.
Fixed the issue with the nano launcher restoring 3 shots instead of 0 upon ammo pickup; it now restores 1 shot (currently in testing).
Blockade Breaker cooldown reduced from 14s to 12s.
Guillotine now accumulates 2 stacks in games with 3 or more players.
Guillotine ejection speed bonus reduced from 40% to 25%.
Guillotine now grants a 5% passive speed bonus.
Sniper speed adjustment changed from -10% to -5%.
Smoke Discharge now also affects the main player.
Various improvements to Demolisher abilities and kits.
Dragon's Masterkey is now correctly classified as a specialization ability.
Damage for certain burning effects increased from 50 to 100 (includes Masterkey, Plasma grenade, among others).
Protector's Badge now additionally provides 10 armor; duration clarified.
Visual effects reduced on Nitro Methadone.
Negative effects of Blade Reflect no longer scale.

Harpoon now stuns for 2 seconds and offers AOE suppression.
Enhancements made to the breaching shotgun's point-blank perk.
Squad-9 carbine received improvements and a new perk.
Acid Pistol ammo damage reduced from 0.5 to 0.3 due to new stacking mechanics.
Updated Tokko and C80, LR-400 visuals

Numerous improvements.
Introduced a new alternative style for the cooling floor.
Added a loop style for the cooling floor.
Removed traps in Cooling Chambers to optimize enemy pathing.

Several improvements to arena masters.
Dogs have been refined: they now have appropriate visual effects, are slowed after one hit, and deal 40% reduced health damage afterwards for 3 seconds.
Multiple adjustments to enemy specs and attributes for better balance and gameplay.
Improved enemy impact animations.
Reduced certain oil effects upon impact.
Fixed the issue where shields dropped by shielded enemies lacked collision.

Improved visuals for the bleeding effect.
Reduced gunshot sound intensity.
Reworked Acid debuff:
Can stack up to 2 times.
Offers up to -30/-60% armor reduction.
Fixed Chinese language showing wrong letters on class evolution.
Fixed other languages having certain wrong colors for UI elements.

We updated from 2022.3.6 to 2022.3.9, which might or might not fix some engine issues people are having on Integrated GPUs / GPUs below minimum requirements where the game does not start. Let us know if things work better now.

The end boss appears twice.
Oil splats can appear on players.
AMD65 ammo says it has 20% bleed chance, which is 30%
Certain particles have a wrong setting, making them look boxy

Modders, take note: stuns and root results can now only target the user, similar to the modify stat action. To target others, create an action or use our existing stun actions.

Patchnotes of the U12 hotfix in case you missed them: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1471410/discussions/0/3819669865031720617/


We are following up with another update by the end of the month.
Have fun! - Team FFG