Hi everyone!

Steam Bandits Outpost is going to be at PAX South 2015[south.paxsite.com] in San Antonio, Texas next week!

If you want to drop by to check out the latest updates in the game or just say hi, we'll be at booth 1446!

Hope to see you there!

--The Steam Bandits Team

You can also stay up to date with us on Facebook[www.facebook.com] and Twitter ! Feel free to share with us your comments or questions!

• Combat Update: Faster Fights, Cooler abilities, slicker UI, monsters updated
• Level cap raised to 19.
• The Atmid Survey Platform is a new area available to players ~ level 18.
• Tonics have been added! A tonic can be used for healing, or restoring energy, and some do both. Currently you can only find these from loot, but future patches will allow you to craft them and purchase them from vendors.
• Island Beacons have been added! Right now you only get one during the prologue, but we’ll be adding A LOT more for the Beta1 patch. Once a beacon is activated, you can travel to the island it’s pointing to. If a beacon hasn’t been activated, you’ll be able to trade it with other players.
• Tier0 resources and been changed to Tier1 resources. This change won’t be too noticeable unless you had a lot of Tier0 resources before (they have ‘_OLD’ at the end of their name now). You can sell those at Runner’s Rest for some gold since you won’t need them for anything.
• The foundation has been set for item augments, gadget, and combat companions. Future patches will introduce these.



• Existing players can once again purchase new islands. You’ll need to talk to Archi and be level 12+. He’ll have a conversation named “(Prologue Fix)”. Simply choose that conversation and island purchasing should be unlocked in the shop!
• More optimizations for mobile and tablet devices.
• Combat abilities rebalanced.
• Minor quest fixes.

If you have access to the game already and would like to check it out on your Android device, check out this post on our forums to join in the alpha test.[www.steambanditsoutpost.com]

We also released a new patch!

New Stuff

• Android testing is good to go! Check the SBO forums for joining in the test!

Fixes

• We have meticulously tweaked and modified existing stat formulas behind items to bring about better combat. On top of this, several items have been tweaked since the stats weren’t quite up to par. Combat should feel better across the board.
  
• Just about everything relating to monsters has been changed behind the scenes. We now have a lot more control when balancing them.
  
• Fixed some quest icons not appearing.
  
• Ability balancing for lower level items and monsters.
  
• The tutorial sword was unable to be crafted, has been fixed.
  
• Captain default equipment and weapons were not set to their initial unlock level, making them underpowered.

Hello, Skyrunners!

We looked at all your feedback and changed a few things for Patch 0.2.7


New Stuff:
First phase of the new main menu is up. You’ll need to select Log In to get to the old login area.
Starting gear and prologue items stats/attacks fixed.
We have resumed testing on mobile devices.
How combat functions behind the scenes has been improved and is being balanced. Much more to come on this.
Combat health bars changed for better clarity.
New combat abilities are now being phased into the game. Look for many new abilities in the coming patches.
New music has been added to a few areas..

Fixes:
Island load times should be significantly faster.
When respawning, captains would only have partial health.
Combat islands are being improved.
Some enemies in the prologue had incorrect attacks and stats, making them much too difficult.
Minor game performance improvements.
Enemy stat tweaks on a variety of islands.
Other minor island fixes.


We hope you have a great time in Stratos! ^_^

-LeannaBot