Welcome to SEASON 04 - CRITICAL CORRUPTION! Though we have gained great ground against the rampaging Lithophage in the past months, it remains a constant threat- and to make matters worse, reports of alarming new mutations are starting to come in. Let's get right into it!
— With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew
Season 04: Critical Corruption was first teased with a series of teasers on Ghost Ship Games' Youtube account, of which the first released on the 19th April 2023. They were shown during live streams through 2 months, most of the time in the later segment. In one of the patch notes before the image reveal, one of the changes listed that the season countdown timer would be accurate to the release date, and the season would roll out on time. A partially obscured an edited image teasing Season 4 was shown in a later stream, and fully revealed soon after.
Season 4 was released on June 15th, 2023 (PC) and June 22nd, 2023 (Console).
The Plague Hearts you have encountered previously have evolved. They will now turn into Lithophage Corruptors-ravenous, fully mobile abominations that spread Rockpox wherever they go. They appear impervious to normal gunfire, so you will need to use the Cleansing Equipment to get through their exterior shells and expose their soft, inner core.
A result of increased Rockpox infection of airborne fauna. The infection has changed the internal workings of its host to allow for Rockpox Larvae to sprout and thrive within its body.
As if the Goo Bomber wasn't bad enough already: The lithophage has spread to the volatile excretion this critter is so loved for, expanding the reach of the disease at a high rate.
The Rockpox Acid Spitter has turned its already impressive bio-projectiles into a highly infectious Rockpox vector, and with a suppressed pain response and high dose of combat pheromones the Rockpox Spitter poses a far greater threat than before!
The Rockpox Exploder has had profound mutations to its body, thickening its skin and reducing its volatility in turn of being filled to the brim with highly contagious Lithophage spores. Being caught in the blast zone will instantly infect any dwarves nearby, so stay clear of them at all costs!
A powerful, heavily armored beast with a grasping tail, capable of pulling in any enemy and goring them against its massive horns. Take care around this one!
The malicious cousin of our old friend, the Glyphid Spitter. This one fires heavy globules of rancid biomatter, which spread out in a wide area around impact. Mind your step and try to ignore the smell!
Jet Boots
You will now be able to recover crates of high powered jet modules in the caves. Attach these to your boots and turn them into fully functional jet boots, giving you a much- needed leg-up during any hardships you may encounter!
Space Rig Addition: Jetty Boot
Back home, a bit of redundant machinery has been cleared out, opening up the Space Rig a bit more- which handily allows plenty of space to install a training terminal for the coded locks you will encounter on the Jet Boot crates. It would appear some smart- aleck has even seen fit to build an arcade cabinet to fit it into. Bring lots of credits!
New Beer: Randoweisser
This potent ale reportedly instills a sense of adventure and lust for challenge in whoever drinks it, randomizing all equipment, perks and cosmetics for the duration of a mission. Drink it at your own leisure!
Equipment Terminal: Randomize Loadouts
At the Loadout Terminal, a new option to randomize all your gear and upgrades has also become available, enabling you to quickly set up challenges for yourself. Why would anyone do this? Well, never let it be said we do not wish to enable our employees!
Community Request: Copy/Paste Loadouts
Additionally, you can now copy and paste loadouts for a smoother experience when experimenting with new weapon and mod combinations, without the hassle of redoing everything from scratch!
Wardrobe: Sleeveless Armors
Some of your armors now come with a new option: Toggle between sleeveless versions of most of your owned sets! This does not count for DLC Armors or armors that are already sleeveless.
Weapon Input Buffer
Thanks to the hard work of the folks at R&D, all semi-automatic weapons now come with fancy input buffering. This will make it easier to consistently maintain a high rate of fire, especially on weapons like the Subata, M1000 and EPC.
The unobscured image, showing the release dates of June 15 on PC and June 22 on Console.
Post Update Hotfixes
Patch 1
June 20th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
We hope you are enjoying the sticky gooey missions of Season 4! Patch 1 has a number of fixes, including a frequent crash and fixes to loadouts and enemies.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Added sound to randomize buttons
Flaregun flares will now fall to the ground when hitting the corrupter
Fixed usable bar sticking around after someone cancels reviving you
Menace and acid spitter now plays their stun animation
Septic spreader now plays strafe and stun animations correctly
Septic spreader now checks line of sight from its center
Fixed client side butt animation issue for the Septic Spreader
The septic spreader can no longer shoot behind itself
Reverted some changes to wave manager that was causing problems
Adjusted engineer cable color on the DLC09 paintjob to red
Stingtail now only does its sting attack if its within 10m vertical distance of its target
Updated the icons of the Healthy armor upgrade so that they are not the same as the Shield upgrade
Corruptor no longer despawns if you move too far away from it
Fixed a bug that caused copying loadout changes loadout of other classes
Fixed Randoweisser picks from already existing player's loadouts
Fixed that Bet-C was targeting untargetable enemies
Steeve now has a white outline when pinged instead of the usual red
Fixed wave cooker not working for the remainder of a mission if you canceled firing right as you start firing it
DRAK-25 (Thermal Exhaust Feedback OC)
Increased the damage and heat bonus to compensate for the now properly working scaling
Hotfix
Fixed a bug that caused stingtails to sometimes pull players out of bounds
Fixed crash related to shot impact sound
Fixed issue that caused all building progress to reset when the player stopped building
Patch 2
June 26th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Just a couple of bug fixes to get your week started miners… Now get back to work!
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Typo fixes
Fixed Incorrect mission control voiceline on salvage with lithophage warning
Fixed Driller Platinum paintjob inconsistent with other classes
Fixed Sandshark teleporting to mission start when it turns vulnerable
Fixed Septic Spreader not having arched line of sight checks
Fixed cases where double boss healthbar could appear
Fixed pickaxe copy/paste changed weapon loadout
Fixed issue with small beard and armours
Fixed mission control repeating the progress shouts for the meteor multiple times
Fixed Incorrect displaying rate of fire of minigun
Reverted some changes to wave manager that was causing problems
Fixed subata explosive rounds only working on caretaker vents when more than one of them were alive
Randoweisser will now correctly randomize pickaxe again
Patch 3
June 28th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Fixed several beer bugs and the barrel hoop game will now correctly murder you if you fall into it with jetboots - very important stuff…We also fixed the broken dreadnought armour, so no more easy Elimination missions!
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed an issue that would make the lobber walk up to the player and boop them without trying to shoot at them
Attempt at fixing Randoweisser beer has problem with certain Overclocks
Fixed Players can pick up two beers at once from the bar
Fixed that you could Lose your beer when equipping Jetty Boots in Space Rig
The barrel hoop will now kill you when jet booting up through it
Fixed Macteras missing dissolve animation on their corpse (this fix fixes the grabbers)
Fixed crash when copy-pasting boscos loadout
SMG now correctly tagged as Primary weapon in the weapon id
Typo fixes
Patch 4
July 4th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Another important patch, this time fixing sleeves in caves and beards clipping into armors.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Optimized septic spreader puddles
Fixed a bug that caused Subata 120 neuro-corrosive toxic catalyst exploders and lootbugs to briefly disappear before their own explosion
Fixed beard and armor clipping that was introduced in last patch
Fixed a bug that caused Corrupter boss music to keep playing
Attempted fix for the triple bedazzled beard to clip less with armor
Fixed a bug that caused Weapon stats to not update in Equipment Terminal when changing a non-selected class
Fixed MC voice line in refinery mission after the liquid morkite extraction is done, if there are contagion spikes in the level
Fixed a bug that caused shield sound to only play for host
Fixed randomization of pickaxe when previewing classes
Fixed that Corruptor worm pods did not spawn any worms
Fixed a bug that caused the version number UI to be enabled on restart if it was previously turned off
Fixed an issue where crossbow bolts would behave weirdly when shot at an elevator plant
Fixed incorrect voice line playing when laser pointing maggots while Bosco is there
Added 2 missing scrip by increasing plague challenges from 13 to 15
Added a prompt to follow the Ghost Ship Games steam page when exiting the game
Lowered the chances of MC, Bosco and others getting a highscore on the JettyBoot Arcade
Fixed that plasma burster missiles were not working properly as client
Fixed sleeveless using only hosts options in caves, should now handle local users settings
Patch 5
August 9th, 2023
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Hello Miners,
Mission Control has been made aware of a short-circuit in the Drop Pod targeting computer, and it seems that some dwarves were using this glitch to clock out a little early. R&D has since fixed the problem, so all dwarves can enjoy the long walk home at the end of each shift.
Besides that, several issues have been fixed with the summer event and fixing a bug that gave double mission payouts in certain situations. Mission Control is not made of credits...
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed a crash that happened when leaving/disbanding team mid-steel drum concert
Reduced the size of the terrain scanner model of the Pool Float
Removed the extra pool float icon in the mission end screen
Added eyebrows inside the industrial visor headwear
Fixed a bug that caused the Shark hat to get the wrong material in some cases
Fixed the Shark hat's teeth so they now don’t clip through all the eyebrows - and when they do it looks better
Fixed French translation of the ‘launch bay/Baie de lancement’ text in the memorial hall.
Re-fixed bug that made platform-sealed holes register as generated rooms, causing drops to land in unintended places and in some cases trigger the Escape Pod failsafe position.
Fixed a bug that caused mission resources and XP to be granted double (stacking on top of the 2X Pool Float bonus) in some cases
Patch 6
August 10th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Turns out the Corruptor caused late-joining dwarves to see minerals and terrain that were no more - It is now back to only corrupting Hoxxes.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed a bug that caused minerals and carved terrain to become desynced between host and late- joining clients, if the corruptor was present in the level.
Fixed a bug where the Stingtail would sometimes fling players way too high
Fixed a bug that caused the season countdown timer to be visible if the game is offline/lost connection to the backend
Patch 7
September 7th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Another round of fixes! this time for stuck enemies, things landing in places they shouldn't and preparing for some upcoming events.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Hid debug lines on specific corruptor attacks
Fixed a bug that caused enemies to sometimes become stuck after spawning
The amount of corruptors Plague puddles is now limited to a maximum of 30 active in a level.
Fixed a bug that caused the meteor warning sound to not be played for clients
Fixed a bug that caused ‘A Journeys End’ soundtrack to not be played on some systems
Fixed a bug that caused liquid morkite wells and machine events to sometimes spawn too close, blocking the well access
Fixed a bug that caused rock cracking pods to land inside each other
Fixed a bug that caused hacking pods to land too close to other entities and colliding with them
Prepared for upcoming events
Patch 8
September 8th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
Just a small patch today, fixing irremovable plague puddles and some unintentionally free items in the forge that management had forgotten about.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed a bug that caused corruptors Plague puddles to not be removed when vacuumed
Added missing prices for season 03 forge items
Fixed a bug that caused the oppressor and bulk detonator to very rarely spawn in the tutorial
Fixed some typos
Patch 9
October 4th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
This patch contains a small number of fixes, including a fix to Rejoin game, which would fail if a host had previously hosted a game. We also added a Merch tab for the board game expansions!
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed issue where some weapons could do massive amounts of damage when shooting a puddle
Fixed that rejoin game would fail, if the host had previously hosted another game
Adjusted Large meteor carver to make rock cracker locations more accessible without mining
Fixed a few typos
Optimized contagion spikes a bit
Added a Merch tab to the menu, currently shows the DRG board game + expansion kickstarter
Patch 10 (November Maintenance Update)
November 16th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
The November Maintenance Update is here! If you haven’t already seen the trailer, it’ll give you a good overview of everything that’s coming in this update (formally known as Patch S04.10). We’ll post that here, and you’ll find the full patch notes and all the details down below.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Toggle option for seasonal content
We’ve added the ability to opt out of Season content, for those of you that want to put your game into a ‘season neutral’ state.
To unlock this ability, you need to reach level 100 in the Performance Pass, and claim the level 100 reward. After you do that, a check box option will become available in the Season Terminal interface.
If you uncheck that box, here’s what happens:
The Lithophage Corruption Zone will disappear from the map in your Mission Terminal.
The chance of encountering Lithophage Outbreak Warnings on the map will become equal to other mission Warnings (like Rival Presence or Elite Threat, for example)
Rockpox enemy waves will not spawn outside of Lithophage Warnings and Events
The chance of Meteor Strike & Lithophage Corruptor events will become equal to previous season events (like the Rival Prospector)
Put simply, this option makes all Lithophage-related content as common as the Rival content currently is in the game. Doing this will also make it harder to obtain Plague Hearts and complete some Season Challenges, as these depend on Lithophage enemies and infestations. Keep in mind that when joining a lobby, it’s the host’s own season toggle setting that will apply to the session.
This function is completely optional, and you can always turn it on or off whenever you like. We plan on keeping this feature for all future seasons.
Weapon Maintenance reward system
You’ll find a new tab in your Season Terminal: the Weapon Maintenance section. This is a bit of new content, meant to track and reward proficiency with the weapons in the DRG arsenal.
The Weapon Maintenance screen tracks your experience with each gun in the game. Once you earn enough XP with a specific weapon equipped (counting toward both your primary and secondary in any mission), you’ll unlock exclusive paint jobs for that gun!
We’re starting with four paintjobs to unlock, one for each season we’ve done so far.
These new Weapon Mastery color schemes are:
WM1 ‘Yellowjacket’
WM2 ‘Cobalt Crackle’
WM3 ‘Heroic’
WM4 ‘Grasshopper’
This is going to be a seasonal feature, so with every new season in the future, there’ll be a special paintjob you can earn for every weapon. And these are never going to be season-locked – so you can always earn them for every gun, even if you don’t manage it before the next season rolls around.
Reductions of Rockpox effects
Rockpox boils
Reduced the infection range when popping a boil
Fixed the infection not stacking properly when popping multiple boils at once
Reduced the amount of infection from popping a single boil
Rockpox infection buildup
Shortened the delay before infection levels begin to drop
Increased the infection reduction rate
Reduced the time it takes to break out when being held by Rockpox
Fixed the post-breakout infection immunity window not working properly
Made the player infection buildup stop faster when players leave the source
Fixed a bug that caused Rockpox buildup to never end
Fixed a bug that caused Rockpox Exploders to not be feared by Litho-Foam
Fixed players taking an extra tick of damage from the Rockpox immediately after breaking out
Rockpox Corruptor
Improved the visibility of the stomp attack ‘tell’ particles
Made it so that the spike attack 'tell' now shows the direction of attack
Reduced the max movement speed
Improved health bar damage feedback when hitting the vulnerable parts
Tweaks to enemy stats / behavior
General
Improved the Septic Spreader's shot prediction, so it hits ceilings and other obstructions less often
You can now shoot the Septic Spreader's projectiles out of the air
Converted some of the Mactera Frost Bomber’s snowball projectile damage to ice damage
Made the Glyphid Frost Praetorian do a little bit of damage with its ice breath attack
Stingtail
Increased the cooldown of the grab attack slightly
Added a significant cooldown after a successful grab attack
Reduced the range of the grab attack
Tweaked the base HP and added multiple damage weaknesses and resistances to improve breakpoints
Removed health scaling by player count
Fixed its horns not blocking damage
Improved the collision on the "mouth" weak point, making it easier to hit
Made the glowy armor bits glow more to improve visibility
Tweaked the spawn values to prevent too many of them at once
New electrocution mechanics
We updated the electrocution system to use the newer slowdown method, which allows enemies like the Dreadnoughts or Oppressor (who previously resisted electrocution completely) to instead partially resist and reduce the slowdown effect of electrocution while still taking damage from the DoT effect. In short, you can now electrocute these enemies. Zap!
Weapon tweaks
As always, any removed upgrades will have their cost automatically refunded. This also applies to the Necro-Thermal Catalyst upgrade for the Coil Gun, as we had to completely rebuild it.
Fixed the input buffer not working properly when shooting manually
Reduced the manual rate of fire of the LOK-1 now that it has a functioning input buffer, as the original value was high to compensate for the inconsistent firing.
Removed all randomness from the trail damage to get more consistency
Increased the bonus radius of the T5 Dilated Injector upgrade from +0.5 to +1
Made it so the base trail DoT effect can now stack
Increased the maximum damage bonus from Overcharger from 32 to 100
Added a damage bonus vs. burning targets on the T5 Necro Thermal Catalyst upgrade
Increased the explosion radius of the T5 Necro Thermal Catalyst upgrade from 400 to 600 while reducing the damage from 140 to 80, and changed it to pure fire damage to better set enemies on fire and chain the effect
Replaced the T2 reload speed upgrade with the T1 recharge speed upgrade, and moved some of the reload speed bonus to the base weapon
Replaced the T1 charge speed upgrade with a new trail duration upgrade
Hellfire OC
Removed the trail width bonus
Triple Tech OC
Increased the damage dealt by the secondary shots from 0.5 to 0.75 (did not increase shot cost)
Backfeeding Module OC
Replaced the damage penalty with a trail duration penalty
Slightly reduced the bonus of the Hollow-Point Bullets upgrade
Slightly reduced the bonus of the Conductive Bullets upgrade
Added an armor breaking upgrade to T4
Added an accuracy upgrade to T5
Slightly reduced the accuracy penalty when walking and sprinting
Turret EM Discharge OC
Removed friendly damage entirely
Removed damage falloff
Added a range indicator (visible only to player with the OC) that appears around every turret when the SMG is equipped
Turret Arc OC
Significantly reduced the rate of friendly fire damage
Completely removed the friendly fire from the AoE electrocution effect around any turret affected by Turret Arc
Updated Turret Arc particles to better match the actual AoE radius
Slightly increased the trigger size for the electric arc
Added a short tail to the DoT to do a bit more damage to enemies that manage to quickly go through the arc
Added a visual arc range indicator when placing turrets (only if you have the OC equipped)
Miscellaneous
Added equipment loadout slot icons, so you can now use the mission type icons as a loadout icon
Added more light reflection to the walls of Azure Weald and Hollow Bough to make it a little easier to see what’s going on
Merch menu: New URL to the board game expansion entry (now links to the backer kit instead of the now-inactive Kickstarter page)
Info landing screen: removed link to board game merch
You can no longer activate the Jetty Boots Arcade in the Space Rig while holding an item
Added Bloom and Lens Flare settings in the graphics options (you're welcome, J.J. Abrams)
Added a Weapon Sway slider in the accessibility options
Added a “Hold to Breakout” toggle in the accessibility options, for simpler Rockpox escapes
Changed the trigger shape of all enemy-produced "puddles" (such as from Goo Bombers and Septic Spreaders) to better match the graphics and to make it easier to cover them with Engineer's platforms.
Fixed not being able to grab Gunk Seeds while in the air (this was 98% of the whole update)
Made it so the Full Fluffy beard no longer erases your sideburns
Fixed a bug that caused Proximity Mines to put the player into a different character state when they pick them up
Fixed that the +1 Satchel Charge upgrades did not work
Sentry Gun ammo count now rounds up when resupplied
Fixed issue with Driller not getting full Satchel Charges with resupplies
Fixed beers getting a refill if you enter 3rd person (company policy is no free refills)
Fixed a bug that caused Rockpox immunity after being knocked out
Fixed a bug that caused a fizz sound to linger in empty beer mugs
Fixed a bug that caused clients to get the promotion voice line when the host reached level 25
Fixed incorrect Mission Control voicelines on Salvage Operations
Fixed throwable items on the Space Rig (like snowballs) getting stuck in the carry animation if you threw them right before you entered 3rd person
Fixed M1000 focus shot status effects not being applied to certain targets (e.g. Loot Bugs)
Fixed Gamma Contamination (Wave Cooker OC) not working if you hit armor
Fixed Mission Control shouting the wrong voice line when all pipelines are constructed
Fixed a visual bug that made it look like the Dreadnought Twins could twin-heal with the Unknown Horror
Fixed Q'ronar Shellback + Younglings briefly going into their reference pose (T-pose) when killed by fire, corrosive, Wave Cooker, or chemical explosion (from the Boltshark) before dying
Fixed Hiveguard continuing its behavior after death
Added a failsafe so that Fuel Cells dropping on top of the Uplink won't softlock the game
Fixed a bug that made it so Salvage Mission fuel lines and Rock Cracker cables could be “split” or broken, which caused a softlock of the mission
Fixed that the dwarves’ thick, magnificent necks were clipping through the Shock Trooper and Tech Trooper helmets
Added a safety timer that will force the Hiveguard to spawn the Sentinels after a certain time has passed
Fixed 5th Anniversary hat getting the color of the last hat you equipped
Potential fix for Boltshark's ammo being weird in Deep Dives (hopefully not weird now)
Potential fix for ammo not transferring between levels in Deep Dive (for turrets, shield, Satchel Charge and Boltshark bolts)
Also tried to fix the Boltshark getting stuck in a state where it can't reload on 2nd level of Deep Dives
Fixed Lederhosen first-person hands/gloves not looking right (now they’re Betterhosen)
Reduced the range a Rock Cracker pod needs from another one, and improved fail-safe if the pods can't spawn
Fixed Wave Cooker not properly gaining heat when spam-clicking
Flare Gun’s flare sound now properly fades away when the flare burns out
Clients now always see the same Mission Map as the host
Fixed lingering ambient audio after leaving Deep Dive Terminal
Fixed a bug where the Terrain Scanner would not get unequipped when the player stopped holding the button
Fixed an equivalent bug for the Laser Pointer
Fixed an issue for both the Laser Pointer and the Terrain Scanner when trying to use these items while holding something else
Fixed bug where Boltshark bolts would stick to player when having the Bodkin Points OC equipped
Added entry to Miner’s Manual for the Jetty Boot arcade game
Slightly reduced the chance of the smol meteor event
Fixed a bug where the Terrain Scanner would slide off the screen without the player releasing the button on high latency clients
Changed the Terrain Scanner slide-on-screen animation so it no longer resets every time the player releases and holds the button
Fixed an animation bug that caused the dwarf to move the weapon towards the center of the screen while walking, and view bobbing was not at maximum setting
Improved EMP discharge indicator flow
Fixed Cave Leeches’ hissing being too low quiet
Fixed issue where Boltshark bolts that are shot at other projectiles get stuck in midair
Sentry Turrets now turn off range indicators when dismantling themselves
Tweaked escape menu to better fit non-English languages
Fixed issue with perk equipper layout being weird in the Equipment Terminal
Fixed issue where accuracy penalties when moving and sprinting were not always being applied
Fixed some typos
Phew, that's everything! Hope you like it. :)
Have fun out there, be safe, and Rock and Stone!
Hotfix
Fix for Corruptor crashing the game with it’s spike attack
Possible fix for a crash when drinking beers and doing various mysterious things
Fixed Hurricane Rocket Barrage OC not deactivating missile guidance
Media
November Maintenance Update Trailer
Weapon Maintenance mastery paintjobs
Patch 11
November 21st, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
This patch fixes or attempts to fix a number of significant issues such as a render crash that happened to alot of players, a crash after drinking beers, and several gameplay issues like Machine events not spawning and Wardens not wardin’
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Potential fix for Unreal render crash that happened to many miners
Fixed Machine Events not spawning
Fix for a crash when using the Stubby
Fix for Wardens are no longer warding as well as korlokk healing pod
Potential crash fix for drinking certain beers and interacting with the spacerig (Management apologizes for the temporary lapse in morale)
Fixed Burning Hell OC having the wrong heat-up rate bonus
Fixed that Turret Arc has no effect on Shard Diffractor T5A upgrade
Fixed ammo counters clipping through sentry guns when firing.
Fixed potential crash and emp range indicator not turning on in specific cases.
Fixed potential crash and issue where the arc range indicator is not turned on, on first equip of sentry gun item.
Patch 12
December 18th, 2023
“
Hello Miners,
We did it! The last patch of 2023! Yay us - and yay you! Thanks for being awesome all year! See you in the next one.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Fixed that mission control was talking about summer when finishing ‘The fashion of yuletide past’ assignment.
Added an extra present, but don’t open it yet.
Fixed an issue that caused networking not network in some rare cases.
Hotfix 1
Attempt to fix Unreal render crash
Hotfix 2
Attempt to fix Unreal render crash
Hotfix 3
Attempt to fix Unreal render crash
Hotfix 4
Attempt to fix Unreal render crash
Hotfix 5
Attempt to fix Unreal render crash
Patch 13
January 4th, 2024
“
Hello Miners,
We have Identified our pre-xmas crash to be related to older gen Ryzen CPU’s. We have attempted some fixes, but adding additional logging, just in case the fixes do not work.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Attempt at fixes crash for older gen Ryzen CPU’s
Added additional logging
Changes from S04.12
Fixed a Steam Socket issue that caused networking not network in some rare cases.
Patch 14 (February Maintenance Update)
February 19th, 2024
“
Hello Miners,
Happy February Maintenance Update day! For this one, we’ve focused on the bugs and issues that got the most community upvotes in our PleaseFix portal. In case you haven’t heard of that, it’s the best way to report and document bugs you come across in the game.
Okay, enough chit-chat. Let’s dive into the patch notes.
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Introducing Hidden Dwarf beer
Fun stuff first: We’ve got a brand new brew up in the Abyss Bar!
Next time you mosey on over to the bar, you’ll find that Lloyd is ready to pour up a round of delicious Hidden Dwarf Double IPA.
After teasing it last week, it's been fun to see everybody’s speculations on what this beer does.
Some people speculated that it gives you Barrel Armor. This is not the case.
Others guessed that it transforms you into a barrel. This is partially correct.
A few thought they’d heard the Hydengözik Brewery name before. They have. Sort of.
So how can we describe this tantalizing new beverage? Well, to best experience the transformative flavor of Hidden Dwarf, we recommend you gather a few pals and order a round together.
You’ll find that it starts a prop hunt mode on the Space Rig. :)
Weapon tweaks and fixes
Fixed Hyper Propellant OC working incorrectly with T4A Homebrew Explosive mod. This mod was only supposed to affect the actual explosion, therefore these changes have been made to make it more clear:
The ‘Homebrew Explosive‘ mode has been changed to only affect radial damage on the weapon’s projectile.
Therefore, it should no longer affect upgrades that do direct damage, such as the Spiky Grenade modification or the direct damage of the Hyper Propellant OC.
Prior to the change, Homebrew Explosive had no effect on neither direct nor area damage of Hyper Propellant.
Fixed a bug with the Cryo Cannon's T5A ‘Fragile’ mod, where shattered enemies didn’t die as expected on higher hazards
Fixed a bug causing the Shard Diffractor’s ‘Bio-Mass Converter’ mod to not work for clients
Fixed a bug with the Turret Arc OC where the electric damage bonus from Gemini turrets didn’t cause any additional damage when used with some other weapons
Fixed a bug causing Turret EM Discharge OC to not proc at certain angles
Fixed a bug that caused the Stubby’s ‘Upgraded Capacitors’ mod to roll two proc attempts with a 25% chance, instead of one roll with a 50% chance to proc. Basically, now there’s a higher chance to proc the electric effect
Armor and 'Armor Breaking' modifications
As discussed in the preview post, we’ve cooked up a few tweaks to make enemy armor behave more consistently, and give more incentive to pick the ‘Armor Breaking’ modification on your weapons.
Fixed a bug where projectiles for the Deepcore 40mm PGL, DRAK-25, and Hurricane could hit an enemy and break the armor, but not damage the enemy in the same hit. This is a big day for Hyper Propellant enjoyers
Fixed a longstanding bug where Heavy Armor (as found on the Praetorian) did not scale in accordance with Hazard level.
Fixed a bug where the Boomstick’s ‘Improved Blast Wave’ mod did not deal damage to armor. The shockwave now uses radial damage instead of custom damage, so it should work against armor now.
General bug fixes
Fixed a bug that caused Nayaka Trawlers (AKA sand sharks) to not target players unless damaged by players
Fixed a bug that let players spam-deposit the same Kursite chunk over and over again, cheesing the Kursite Grinder event
Fixed that Dreadnoughts were teleporting for clients in certain situations
Fixed that Molly’s escape button would not appear in Industrial Sabotage missions if you completed the Contagion Spike cleaning objective last
Fixed an issue where some AoE attacks themselves could be affected by status effects
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused sleeves to not match the player’s loadout when displayed in the mission end screen
Fixed a bug with doors on the Space Rig getting de-synced between players
Fixed a bug where Mission Control would repeat On-Site Refining objective voiceline
Fixed that the Grappling Hook would immediately pull Scout (ignoring the ‘casting’ time) when using Jet Boots
Fixed a bug with the server list that caused Hazard 5 missions to always appear even when they should be locked, leading to new players accidentally joining Hazard 5 (lol)
Fixed a bug that caused Bosco skins and frameworks to appear in Cargo Crates instead of the Lost Packs as intended.
QoL features
Experience earned for Weapon Maintenance skin rewards now carries over to other unlock levels. Now you can earn everything without having to check in and ‘redeem’ stuff you’ve already unlocked. A more detailed description is available in the preview post
Reorganized the audio options, so there’s a stronger visual indicator that the ‘Character’ & ‘Mission Control’ volume sliders are both subject to the ‘Sound Effects’ volume slider
The menu’s Audio tab now has a ‘Steam settings’ button for easier access to Steam’s own audio settings
Remaned the Merch tab in the menu to “DRG Universe” and added a new module for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Got the Miner Community terminal's Discord integration to work more consistently (still can be a bit wonky, but at least it's better)
Adding a small monitor near the Assignment Board that displays a countdown until a current seasonal event ends. This will first be visible during this year’s Anniversary Event. More on that real soon!
And fixed some typos, probably made some new ones
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February Maintenance Update Teaser
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Newly added beer!
Patch 15
February 20th, 2024
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Hello Miners,
Due to demands from the Miners Union, Hunters can now Rock and Stone during prop hunt. We also fixed a pretty bad crash caused by losing a mission with bare arms, how humiliating!
— With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Options: Added more space for percentage text for volume sliders
Fixed a bug that caused Boomstick mod ‘Improved Shockwave’ tooltip showing 0 damage.
Prop Hunt: Hunters can now rock & stone
Prop Hunt: Fixed a bug that caused the bio tank prop to hover above the floor
Removed a visible box surrounding Engineers Lure Grenade
Fixed a crash when failing a mission while wearing sleeveless armor
