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NEW ARENA: JAGGED PEAKS Prepare to face off in a brand new arena with combat progressing over six varied zones. PERFORMANCE AND FIDELITY This patch delivers a massive leap in visual fidelity, featuring clearer rendering, improved framerates, and reduced noise. DLSS has been upgra
UPDATE: The Black Pool Soundtrack by Angles and Under Sanction is now available on Spotify , Apple Music , and all other major streaming services. LISTEN TO SUIT UP AND STARECASE Stream the singles Suit Up and Starecase:
NEW ENEMY: SLASHER A new enemy is on the prowl. Beware, they like to get up close and personal. ADDITIONAL FLUX EVENTS Additional common flux events have been added, increasing variety. ELEMENT GUIDE One of the top requests from new players has been to add a way to reference the
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS The Black Pool patch 1.3 brings many performance improvements. Following the last big content patch, we devoted substantial time to evaluate and tune both CPU and GPU performance. A large focus of this effort was to ensure that biomes which were less perf
NEW GAME MODE: ARENA SURVIVORS The Black Pool patch 1.2 introduces an entirely new game mode: Arena Survivors— a fast and intense battle arena featuring rapid progression and randomized waves of increasingly more difficult enemies. It delivers a fun and highly replayable “survivo
Get ready—The Black Pool 1.2 is dropping soon. Patch 1.2 launches an entirely new Arena Survivors game mode, a brand new music track, and numerous new features, balance adjustments, and bug fixes!
The Black Pool patch 1.1 delivers the top requested post-launch features from our Discord community, including a brand new element, multiplayer nametags, and player pings! NEW ELEMENT: CHAOS A new element has been discovered: Chaos. Adding 6 base abilities, 4 augments, 11 upgrade
This patch we focused primarily on polish and smaller bug fixes in preparation for officially launching The Black Pool on Steam! It has been a long road to get here. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game to help us reach this huge milestone! FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS F
We are thrilled to announce The Black Pool will be launching out of Early Access— version 1.0 of the game releases on June 19th ! We entered Open Beta and Early Access a year ago. Through valuable community feedback, we have added a host of new content and features to the game, w
This patch, we focused on increasing graphics quality, performance, and overall polish. The Black Pool is also now available in 7 languages. FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS Added DLSS 3.7 super resolution support. Those with NVIDIA cards that support it can now take advantage of DLSS u
BADDER BOSSES This patch introduces a new challenge mode: Badder Bosses, which adds new and unique challenge content to each boss, such as additional stages, new enemies, and different attack patterns. NEW FINAL TEMPLE OFFERING After selecting your six abilities, the final temple
NEW MAGNUS LEVEL This patch introduces Magnus - Beta Sector, which holds some fun surprises and unique challenges. NEW DEVICE CHOICES Two new unlockable slots have been added to The Device. In addition, the STEEL OR GLASS and STRATEGIC DAMAGE slots were each given a 3rd option. E
STRONG AND AREA ATTACK AUGMENTS The Entity now offers augments for strong and area attacks! In total, this patch introduces 16 new augments, and 2 new base abilities. There are now 80 unique abilities and augments in the game, ensuring endless build combinations! NEW HEAVY MECH:
THREE ABILITIES TO START Players now start with three abilities, choosing from each of the offered starting elements. Previously, combat in the first world could feel limited with only two abilities. This makes the first levels feel more engaging from the start, and also requires
ENEMY HEALTH BARS This patch, we have delivered one of our most requested features: enemy health bars. In addition to displaying the rank and hit points for medium and heavy enemies, all currently applied elemental effects are now visualized as colored bars. These bars provide gr
Fix for a rare multiplayer issue where a client could not see the offered elemental upgrade. This was a rather rare issue which was problematic to reproduce, so we could not 100% verify it has been fixed. Please let us know if you run into this issue after this patch! Light Fissu
QUICK ATTACK AUGMENTS The Entity now offers augments for quick attacks. Unlike upgrades, augments completely alter abilities with new mechanics and effects. Each quick attack has 2 unique augments. Augments remain compatible with any upgrades you have selected. In total, this pat
While we have been working hard on a large content patch for January with some very exciting new features, we have addressed several performance issues and fixed some outstanding bugs. We decided to gather those up to push in a patch now, rather than waiting a few more weeks for
Hotfix to resolve an issue where a player could get locked out of casting abilities between the point of doing a decay jump and the decay double jump.
NEW BOSS: JAGGED PEAKS A massive new boss has come to the Jagged Peaks. Every world now has its own unique boss, totaling 10 unique boss encounters in the game! NEW ABILITY SUMMARY SCREEN By popular demand, we have added an ability summary screen. Now at any time during the game,