• Reduced the damage of Doppelganger T3 evolution by 50%
  
• Reduced the damage dealt by Pickaxe Doppelganger leap swing attack by 20%.

• Fixed an issue where players could not use the Gotcha Machine even though they had enough gotcha coins.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could sometimes not receive the difference in cosmic coins up to the Tier Limit when turning in a contract.
  
• Fixed an issue where enemies would still retain aggro on the target it killed until another player attacked it enough to take the aggro away.
  
• Fixed a spelling error in the message for claw machine and gotcha machine when the player doesn’t have enough coins.
  
• Fixed a spelling error with hovered furniture information at the Furniture NPC that was displaying credits rather than cosmic coins.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Plunger had a sell value of 20 when it was supposed to be zero.

• Increased the amount of Cosmic Coins gained from T1 contracts from 85 to 100.
  
• Increased the amount of Cosmic Coins gained from T1 contracts from 350 to 450.
  
• Reduced the amount of damage that enemies gain at level 1 by 10% and level 2 by 10%.
  
• Increasing the Enemy Health and Damage Custom Settings NOW increases the value of Enemy Corpse as well! Challenging yourself to crank the difficulty and fight even more challenging creatures will feel a bit more rewarding.
  
• Updated the Custom Health and Damage description to explain how increasing the value also increases enemy corpse values.

• Fixed an issue where the Meat Freezer was still showing items as invisible in the apartment.
  
• Fixed an issue where picking up Toxy in a Jar was bugging the action bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where Loot Mimics were taking damage while stationary with no active target.
  
• Fixed the position of the keychain on the Super Nova Rifle.
  
• Fixed the description of the Tier 3 quota requirement in the Manager Menu from 5200 to 5100.
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes enemies could stay fixated on the target they killed rather than leaving combat or changing to another target.

Hi everyone! I've been doing some serious cooking right after releasing the Dino Map (what's new, right?). Well, this Major update came out of no where sense I typically push a preview of it before hand, but with Halloween just around the corner, I wanted to get another update out there before I begin development on Sketchy's Halloween!

• New Dodge ability – Yup you can dodge now with the defaulted “left alt” keybind. Dodge costs a base of 75 stamina. The dodge cost increases by 5 stamina for each point spent in the stamina modifier.

  

• New Suit Modifier: Exosuit – reduces all incoming damage by 5% per point while increasing the cost of dodge by 10 stamina per point. I’ve added this modifier as a counterpart to dodging. For players that find themselves struggling to dodge or simply want to be a bit more "tanky" to take on tougher enemies, the exosuit is a great option. This makes for a balanced gameplay and allows players of different skill sets/playstyles to find something that works for them.

• New Tier 3 Weapon – The “Super Nova”. This rifle works just like the pulse rifle, building heat overtime. However, the Super Nova does more damage the hotter it gets and has a 8% chance to light its target on fire or explode on the target for 30 damage if already on fire.

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  New Tier 1 Weapon – The “Pocket Rocket”. This very small rocket launcher is a mini version of the Big Daddy, Dealing roughly half the damage with a small blast radius. The smaller blast radius makes for a great means of high burst damage in small spaces/narrow corridors.

• New Custom Setting - Enemy Health (can only be applied in orbit).

• New Custom Setting - Enemy Damage (can only be applied in orbit).

• Decreasing these settings will make the game significantly easier on all Tiers, allowing enemy health and damage be reduced to as low as 50%. However, reducing these settings also reduces the worth of all newly found loot (not loot already in the ship prior to landing from orbit). The lower the settings the lower the worth of loot. This is a necessary trade off because the overallocation of quota would be way too high due to enemies being very easy to defeat.

  Note, custom settings can only be applied while in Orbit, so be sure to set your values before landing.

• Life Form discovery popup has a new look. Discovering a lifeform now displays a creature’s strength and weakness and lasts for a much longer period of time before fading. This new informational popup will allow players to learn about creature mechanics right away rather than having to remember to run back to the ship and read about them. Players can always manually force close the popup by pressing "Y", if they don't want to see the information anymore.

• Planet Teleporters have been redesigned to be more intuitive and convenient. The user interface for typing teleport commands or clicking on a teleport node button has been completely removed. Each Teleporter now has 2 sperate terminals that players simply interact with and immediately begin teleporting. This removes the tedious opening of the Teleport Screen as you move loot back and forth, making the process much more seamless.

• Additionally, Teleporters in Level 1 and Level 2 can now travel to each other. No more teleport from level 1 to Med Bay, then from Med Bay to Level 2 nonsense. Simply press the terminal with the destination you wish to go.

• The Skip Night Shift Computer has been redesigned to be more intuitive and convenient. The user interface for typing the “Land” command has been removed. Players now simply interact with the screen just like teleporting, repairing items, etc. I have also updated its appearance so that it stands out better especially for new players who don’t know about the Skip Night Shift feature.

• Updated the Custom Settings Layout to be more intuitive.

• Consumables such as donuts, milk, etc. now provide 50% increased healing per Contract Tier.

• Loot value now scales with group size. All loot that spawns on solo is increased by 30% to help with the unfair advantage of being alone. Groups with 5 or more players has slightly reduced value on spawned loot sense this number of players makes meeting quota obnoxiously easier than smaller groups.

• Players no longer earn a reward from the Happy Meal if they sign down a contract on the Final Day to prevent contract failure. Sketchy doesn’t reward people who fail to meet the originally assigned quota. Be glad Sketchy is kind enough to even allow you to prevent complete failure in the first place.

• Flamethrower Buff - Enemies lit on fire take 20% increased damage for the duration.

• Lurk Root now takes damage from all heat-based weapons meaning that Pulse Rifle and Super Nova can kill lurk roots. However, Flame Throwers are the most effective. Pulse Rifle and Super Nova do much less damage to lurk roots.

• Purchasing a new planet will automatically set that planet as the new destination (players had to redundantly reselect the planet after purchasing to travel to it which was unintuitive and inconvenient).

• Increased the base value of Night Substances from 75 to 100.

• Increased scan range of loot/items.

• Doppelgangers now copy the current Suit of the player it chose to copy! So, if you see a Cardboard Robot walking around, it might not be your friend…

• Dopplegangers have gained a T2 and T3 evolution ability.

• Doppleganger strength description has been updated.

• Reduced Mosquito initial damage on attachment by 20%.

• Some enemies have evolved at Tier 2. be sure to read about those.

• Enemy Group Scaling Reworked! Enemies no longer scale health based on the number of players in the group. Instead, they take reduced damage per player around them. This will help balance out the difficulty for multiplayer where it was very difficult before to fight a creature if you left your teammates due to the large amount of health they would have due to scaling.

• Enemies now prioritize targets with the highest damage. In other words, if you are playing multiplayer and you stop attacking your target, as long as the other person passes the amount of damage you dealt to that target, they should take aggro from you. Changing aggro has an internal cooldown to prevent the enemy from being trolled back and forth.

• Elizabeth can only be damaged if she is actively chasing someone or is attached to them.

• Toxy Corpse is now 1-handed and can be stored.

• Furniture and Player skins are no longer purchased with credits so that players can dedicate credits to items/gameplay-driven features rather than “sacrificing” credits on furniture that is merely cosmetic.

• New Currency “Cosmic Coin” – These coins are only rewarded for contracts completed over a 3-day duration. This new Currency is used for purchasing cosmetics such as Furniture and Player Skins. The number of coins rewarded is fixed per Tier, with higher Tier Contracts rewarding significantly more coins. Additionally, players can only earn a maximum of these coins based on the Tier they are assigned meaning that Tier 1 contracts cannot be farmed to buy T3 cosmetics sense Tier 1 is capped at 250 coins. If you want Tier 3 Cosmetics, then you must play Tier 3 and earn them.

• Cosmic Currency Reward amount for completing a 3-day contract:

  1. T1 = 85 (Capped at 250)

  2. T2 = 350 (Capped at 1500)

  3. T3 = 1000 (Capped at 15000)

  With this new currency, making money to buy weapons is much easier so some weapons have been increased in price.

• Shrink Ray cost increased from 200 credits to 300 credits.

• Shrink recharge cost increased from 10 credits per charge to 15 credits per charge.

• Gathering Capsule cost increased from 50 to 75 credits.

• Compact Gathering Capsule price increased from 100 to 135 credits.

• Big Daddy price increased from 350 to 500 credits.

• The number of Pet Eggs required to unlock pets has been reduced from 10 to 5.

• Currency required to purchase a pet now cost Cosmic Coins rather than credits.

• To build progress toward pets, Eggs MUST be turned in on the planet. Leaving the planet with the egg will remove its Eligibility to be turned in again. Do you sell it for money, keep it for decoration, or turn it in for pet progress and BONUS Cosmic Coins? Make this decision before you depart!

• Pet Egg Planet BONUS! If players choose to turn in the pet on the planet, they will earn Cosmic Coins as an extra reward, allowing them to save up for Cosmetics even quicker.

• Pet Egg turn in Cosmic Currency Reward amount:

  1. T1 = 75 (Capped at 250)

  2. T2 = 275 (Capped at 1500)

  3. T3 = 650 (Capped at 15000)                                                  

• Fixed an issue where sometimes gathering something with a capsule equipped could cause an item on the action bar to be swapped with the gathered item causing the origin item to be lost.

• Fixed an issue where weapons dropped in the apartment caused a fake version of the item to spawn.

• Fixed an access crate that was obstructed inside a rock in Level 2 Port Jurassic making it inaccessible.

• Fixed an issue where the Water in Port Jurassic was blocking range damage such as pulse rifle and shotgun.

• Fixed an issue where changing suits while holding an item in an empty slot would cause the item to create a false duplicate in the slot next to it.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy was not showing the Ammo Resource bar.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy was not dealing damage to players if they had friendly fire off.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy splash radius was not working properly.

• Fixed an issue where Placing loot into the Freezer in Sketchy’s Apartment would cause the loot to become invisible.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes clients could not interact with Drop Off Box.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes, items dropped into the drop off box could still be interacted with.

• Fixed an issue where replenishing an item was causing its value to become zero.

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew would sometimes continue following a player after it was done shooting missiles.

• Fixed an issue where changing a keybind would prevent the player from mouse scrolling to other key binds unless they closed the Menu.

• Fixed an issue where the T3 Bar Furniture was not loading its textures properly.

• Fixed an issue with weapon descriptions for T2 and T3 shovels, blades, and pickaxes not displaying the correct damage value.

• Fixed various crouch animations while holding weapons for the Carboard Robot and a number of weapons such as pickaxe and shovel appearing to other clients as though the robot was not holding them correctly.

• Fixed an issue where Greed would run away after stealing an item then turn and attack players who were holding items rather than ignoring them until they attacked him first.

• Fixed an issue where the Gathering Capsule would become invisible after gathering something.

• Fixed an issue where the Snowman could get stuck standing still after shooting icicles.

• Fixed an issue where the scanner would sometimes pickup things too far away or visibility obstructed.

I am currently working on Xbox Controller Support and hoping to push a beta build for the community to begin testing in the next couple weeks. Please Join the discord to stay updated with that progress.

Spooky season is just around the corner! I will begin work on Halloween right after I push Controller Support to Beta. This Halloween will bring a brand new Horror Map that I am excited for everyone to experience.

• Spectating UI now displays the message “Change Player [LMB]”.
  
• Spectating UI has been modified to appear more clearly in bright lighting such as daytime and follows the same color theme as the action bar keybinds.
  
• Closed railing gaps in the Pterodactyl Cage to help prevent players from accidentally backing up and falling off.
  
• Pets now turn and walk toward the player that begins petting them, providing a more interactive

• Fixed an issue where clients could experience having the currently held item be replaced by the item they picked up therefore resulting in losing that item and being left with a bugged slot.
  
• Fixed an issue causing action bar slots to become frozen and not allowing for other items to be picked up on those slots after interacting with 2-handers with a full action bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where players holding another player’s dead body at 8AM would have their action bar stuck on “Hands are Full” after the body is deleted.
  
• Fixed an issue where Greed was not performing his Tier 3 ability.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pets do not load into the ship/apartment on login.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pets were missing from the apartment after traveling through orbit.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Walnut was super tiny if carried with the Frog Suit equipped.
  
• Fixed an issue where while wearing the Carboard Robot suit, held items appeared too high in the viewport while swimming.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Frog Suit camera clipped into the ground when petting a pet.

• Improvements to networking regarding picking up/dropping items that lead to unexpected bugs to occur with the action bar.
  
• Improved response times for clients when performing pickup/drop interactions with items.
  
• Improved Session Security to further prevent "unwanted guests” from joining lobbies.
  
• Reworked Password security with better authentication to further prevent bypassing. Whether players join via steam direct invite or in-game invite, a password screen will prompt prior to joining.
  
• Increased the range of the Flamethrower.

• Fixed an issue where clients picking up or dropping a 1-hander while swapping different items on their action bar could experience a false swap where the item doesn’t spawn at the correct slot leaving the previous slot bugged, preventing further attempts to switch to that slot.
  
• Fixed an issue where if Greed attempted to steal an item from a client just as the client swapped items to avoid having it stolen, the player’s item could be duped or a “ghost item” could persist on the action bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Better Boombox and Ultimate Boombox were turned off when picked up into the current action bar slot.
  
• Fixed an issue with a small hole in Darkwood where players could fall through the ground.
  
• Fixed an issue with the positioning Ghoul Bat while held.

• The boombox now displays how much healing it does with and without dancing when scanned.
  
• When placement mode is activated, the action bar is covered by a “Placement Mode” text to better visibly indicate that its active should the player press the hotkey accidentally.
  
• Raised the holding positions for Dilophosaurus, Raptor, and Trex corpses which were too low for the player to see in their viewport requiring them to look down in order to see what they were holding

• Fixed an issue where clients that pick up 2-hadned items simultaneous to another player could potentially not receive said item even though it showed that they had the item picked up.
  
• Fixed an issue where players that died right as 8AM approached would be stuck spectating and unable to play.
  
• Fixed an issue where players killed by a Trex experience respawning still attached to the Trex.
  
• Fixed an issue with Dilophosaurus corpse hit boxes when trying to shrink as a client that could cause players to miss if not hitting a specific spot on the body.
  
• Fixed an issue where Big Daddy was not displaying resource when equipped.
  
• Fixed an issue where dead players continued to take damage while spectating which caused the damage visual to display while spectating.
  
• Fixed an issue where Loot Mimics were not displaying on the Echo Lens for clients.

• Players now have a secondary interaction with the drop off box "Place All" which will place all items you are carrying into the drop off box with a single click! This a huge QOL option to save lots of time when dropping off big hauls.

• Pet Egg spawn chance from Level 3 buildings has been reworked to scale based on player's group size. Each building has a 25% on opening to grant the Egg for 1-2 players. This value is then reduced the more players there are in the group. This should help solo players have greater accessibility to obtaining pets sense the time constraint for solo is much more difficult than large groups.

• Reduced Credit Cost of Base Med Gen from 75 to 50.

• Reduced Credit Cost of Advanced Med Gen from 200 to 150.

• Increased the range of placement mode.

• Increased the price of Trex by 87.5%

• Reduced Trex health by 20%.

• Big Daddy is now increased by 50% of range damage modifier allowing it to do even bigger damager.

• Reworked backend networking for picking up items as a client to prevent the “Ghosted Items” major bug (items that don’t actually exist, but the icon takes up a slot preventing players from filling that slot with another item).

• Lowered the position of the robot suit corpse when held by a player so that it doesn’t block the screen as much.

• Updated the look and feel of the Contract Manager UI providing a simpler and more intuitive user navigation.

• Updated the coloring of Steel and Carbon pickaxe to help them visually stand out more from the Iron Pickaxe.

• Moved the Custom Settings option into the Settings options as its own tab similar to Video, Audio, Keybinds, etc. This will make it more intuitive to access and also prevent players from overlooking it or not being able to find it to access certain options such as Friend Fire which can be turned off by the client to prevent other players from dealing damage to them. 

• Items now automatically snap to the ground after a short time after being dropped with physics. I’ve done this to help prevent items from clipping through the ground which can result in loss of loot/items.

• Fixed an issue where the message “Hands are full” would appear on a player’s action bar after attempting to pick up a 2-hander causing the item to disappear along with the player being unable to pick anything up without dying or leaving the session.

• Fixed an issue where sunlight brightness was not properly adjusting after transitioning from night shift to morning causing the map to appear dimmer/darker than expected during daytime.

• Fixed an issue where the mosquito was not spawning on Tier 3.

• Fixed an issue where the elevator panel on Port Glacial Level 1 was obstructed behind the train.

• Fixed spelling issue of Ammoilte to Ammonite.

• Fixed an issue where the Boombox would not remain activated if dropped via physics rather than placed.

• Fixed an issue where looting something while holding the better or ultimate boombox was causing the music to shut off.

• Fixed an issue where eating chips with a full action bar while still facing the vending machine prevents the player from purchasing more chips unless they look away then back at the machine.

• Fixed an issue with an obstructed access crate that was unreachable in level 1 Pterodactyl Cage of Port Jurassic.

• Added 10 new Jurassic themed Weapon Charms!
  
• Added a weakness description to the Pterodactyl.

• Updated lighting for Low Settings across all maps.
  
• The Brachiosaurus can now kill players if they stand a little too close beneath its feet when it finishes eating from a tree.
  
• The poisonous raffessia now has a 3 second cooldown after it returns to its deflated state.
  
• Smoothened out animations of Neutral Dinosaurs on clients.

• Fixed a few areas where AI were getting stuck in level 1.
  
• Fixed an issue where T-rex was taking zero damage from Big Daddy.
  
• Fixed an issue where Amber wasn’t spawning above Tier 1.
  
• Fixed an issue with neutral AI on other planets other than Jurassic were sliding around rather than walking.

Port Jurassic is finally here! This brand new map brings an incredible immersive experience to Sketchy's list of unique worlds to visit that I am am super excited for you all to jump into it. But be warned, this is world is full of apex predators, so take caution when you step out of your ship and into the jungle.

• New Map - Port Jurassic!

  This map was a huge challenge for me because I wanted to capture the "dino feeling" and it wasn't easy. Of course, I'm only a solo dev, so it's tough to get the visuals, sound design, and immersive experience exactly how I want it, but I feel I've managed to create something that feels fresh and unique especially in the Sketchy Universe.

  

• Breathing life into my maps is something I want to do more of as I head to Full Release, so why not start now? I've added neutral Dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurs, Triceratops, and Parasaurolophus to roam the Level 0 area which adds much more life to the map making players feel like they've walked into a prehistoric paradise. That is.... until they head to Security level 1 and level 2...

  

• Speaking of Security Level 1, players will get to ride a Triceratops there! As for Level 2, I took a different approach and have players ride a yellow rafting boat which gives the "park ride" type experience into dangerous territory.

  

• 1 New Environmental Threat (Exclusive to Port Jurassic): Poisonous Rafflesia. This flower makes the jungle feel even more treacherous and requires players to pay attention to their surroundings even more. I thought it would be fun to add a new environmental threat and this rafflesia was a nice unique addition to land mines and lurk roots.

  

• I even started to play around with some new exploration concepts and introduced ventilation shafts in level 1. I think it fits the abandoned Jurassic facility concept quite nicely and provides a fresh immersive experience as players crouch through them (we might be seeing more of this with the Full Release Map)

• 6 New Enemy AI Types (yes there is a Trex and yes there is a Raptor)

• 2 New Ore to Gather (Exclusive to Port Jurassic): Ammolite Fossil and Trilobite Fossil.

• 3 New Herbs to harvest (Exclusive to Port Jurassic): Fern, Sarracenia, and Nepenthes.

• 2 Buried Loot (Exclusive to Port Jurassic) It's buried I can't just tell you what they are, so get yourself a shovel and see what you can find.

• 5 New Level 3 Loot (Exclusive to Port Jurassic)

• 2 New Hidden Plush

• 2 New Hidden Furniture

• 2 New Claw Machine Plush

• New Pet – “Compy”

  

• Lastly. you will find in Level 2, a big red button. The question is, will you press it?

• Improved performance and optimization for shadows on Medium and High settings.

• Updated backend code to prevent dead bodies with physics from clipping through the ground when dropped rather than placed.

• Improved the quality of life of placing a player corpse onto the Medical Bed. If you are close enough, dropping the player will automatically snap the body above the bed so that you do not have to worry about throwing it just right/jumping onto the table.

• Gatherables that are above the maximum required quota to loot for T1 and T2 now only spawn if players are the Maximum quota for those tiers. For example, prior to 0.3.0.0 it was possible to see Iron Veins in Tier 1 on your second quota (550). Iron Veins require 1950 to mine which seems a bit high to be showing to players. Now you won’t see an Iron Vein unless you are at the maximum quota for T1 (1600) which is good because players will see the new vein and want to sign T2 contract (jumps you to 1950) to get it.

• Gatherables see at the maximum quota for T1 and T2 that aren’t lootable until the next contract is assigned now display the required Tier in the Requirement text to better indicate to players why signing new contracts is rewarding.

• Dropped credit pouches on death now attempts to spawn at a nearest surface in case the player happens to be midair during death.

• Updated passive sound effects for pets.

• Fixed an issue where the buried loot requirement text when scanned could differ between host and clients.

• Fixed an issue where Claustropede type AI were regaining all health when detaching from a target.

• Fixed an issue where Clasutropede type AI were regenerating to full health on initial attachment.

• Fixed an issue where AI could stop moving toward clients if too far from the host.

• Fixed a Save File issue where some items could appear floating far above the ship making it appear as though that loot was missing from the ship even though the value was reflected on the computer. Items should be repositioned back into the ship on your next login.

• Fixed an issue where Credit Pouches dropped from dying would not attach to the surface they spawned on causing these pouches to be difficult to reclaim if the player died on something like an elevator.

• Fixed an issue with Night Blossom and Night Vein displaying wrong requirements to loot.

• Fixed an issue where Shrunk Corpse were scaling loot value incorrectly.