Interstellar Marines

Released: Jul 2, 2013
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 23:04 GMT

Updates & announcements

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22 Dec 2019Developer post
Christmas Mini Update
Hello Marines, and Merry Christmas! We've just released a small update that has added the following: XMAS MAYHEM Marines and CTRs now have reindeer antlers and santa hats. These changes affect the Xmas Mayhem gamemode, Wargames, and all missions/challenges. Marines and CTRs now e
Hello Marines, and Merry Christmas! We've just released a small update that has added the following:
XMAS MAYHEM

Marines and CTRs now have reindeer antlers and santa hats. These changes affect the Xmas Mayhem gamemode, Wargames, and all missions/challenges.

Marines and CTRs now explode in a colorful display of glowing confetti particles to the tune of Christmas music upon death.

SANDBOX

The Sandbox map has been updated with a moving turret that fires a projectile at each of the display surfaces to show the differences of each individual surface. Please keep in mind that the turret can damage players.

The Recon Drone can now be killed, and will spiral out of control upon death.
Additional screenshots of the changes can be found on our Facebook page. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your Team At Zero Point Software
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28 Oct 2019Developer post
Masters of Halloween Wargames 2019
Rundown: Welcome to the 2nd annual Masters of Halloween Wargames! You are invited once again into the eerie bowels of Hell with plenty of spooks and scares awaiting you. This year we’re bringing back the Hell Week game mode (no respawns after the grace period) and introducing som
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Rundown:
Welcome to the 2nd annual Masters of Halloween Wargames! You are invited once again into the eerie bowels of Hell with plenty of spooks and scares awaiting you. This year we’re bringing back the Hell Week game mode (no respawns after the grace period) and introducing some thematic changes to spice up the event! The event will take place on October 30 at 6:00 pm UTC. Join us on Discord to chat with other players and find teammates. Participants are welcome to record or live stream the event and share it afterwards using #interstellarmarines. Note: There is no sign-up. The server has room for 64 players total, so join the server quickly to ensure your spot!
Rules:

Form a team of up to four players, or go at it alone if you don't fear the Hellbots!
Join the designated Wargames server at the time of the event
Enter Hell and exit out of Docking Bay at least once
Be the first team with 30,000 Combat Points at once to win

Winner rewards:

Team names on a screen in Hell
Masters of Halloween Wargames 2019 Discord role

Live stream:
We will be streaming to YouTube and Twitch when the event goes live, so make sure to follow! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your team at Zero Point Software
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29 May 2019Developer post
Update 29 And Beyond
Hi everyone, good news! We’re pleased to announce our new development roadmap for Interstellar Marines. We’ve decided on a 4 month development period, with a tentative deadline for each update and new priority system for WIP content/features. The priority system will sort tasks i
Hi everyone, good news! We’re pleased to announce our new development roadmap for Interstellar Marines.
We’ve decided on a 4 month development period, with a tentative deadline for each update and new priority system for WIP content/features. The priority system will sort tasks into “need, want, bonus” categories. The Game Director will designate what needs to be done, what he'd prefer volunteers do, and bonus items that can be chosen by the volunteers themselves. Anything that is not ready will be pushed to release in a later update rather than delaying the current update. Progress will be updated on our Trello page and social media, so be sure to check them out to see what is being worked on.
As a player, what does this mean for you?
The priority system will allow our Game Director Kim (ZPSHicks) to have more time to interact with the team and community, as he no longer needs to plan every little task and detail. The team will also have more freedom with what they are allowed to work on, so you might end up with some cool random content or features. The 4 month cycle means more frequent updates, and our current tentative deadline for Update 29 is September 1st.
ITO Testing
ITO Testing will continue as usual, and will take place before the deadlines with multiple builds including changes/additions according to player feedback. Once we feel we’re ready to release we’ll lock an ITO Test Build as a release candidate. To become an ITO tester join our official Discord server and post “!rank ITO Tester” in the role-requests channel. Then you'll receive access to the ITO testing announcements where you’ll find the code to unlock the beta branch in Steam. During this process we will add reported bugs and include what is being worked on via our Trello page. We’re very excited to see where this will take us and we will continue to make updates as more progress is made on our social media. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your Team at Zero Point Software Join our official social media and community groups to stay connected and chat:

Discord Server

Steam Group

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube

Twitch

Trello
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21 May 2019Developer post
Update 28 - Engine Upgrade
Update 28 - Engine Upgrade Hello Marines, we’re very excited to announce Update 28! First, we want to thank everyone who participated in ITO Testing - you’re the best! Update 28 has finally been wrapped up and released. In this update we’ve upgraded Interstellar Marines from Unit
Update 28 - Engine Upgrade
Hello Marines, we’re very excited to announce Update 28! First, we want to thank everyone who participated in ITO Testing - you’re the best! Update 28 has finally been wrapped up and released. In this update we’ve upgraded Interstellar Marines from Unity 5.1.3 (released August 2015) to 5.6.7 (released March 2019). This much needed upgrade allows us to utilize awesome new features and improvements, which includes increased performance/optimization, lighting improvements, shader upgrades, GPU instancing, PBR materials, API changes, deferred rendering, DirectX 11 support for Windows, and more. These improvements will allow for Interstellar Marines to continue to be more immersive, enhance visuals, and set us up to begin adding new features and content. Below is our brand new Update video which showcases the potential of the Unity upgrade and other cool features/content we’ve added to U28. https://youtu.be/wtiOpE2LAYY
Update 29: Planning Phase
We haven't discussed and decided what we're going to do for U29 yet, so we'll post another announcement in the coming weeks with what we have planned. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your Team at Zero Point Software Join our official social media and community groups to stay connected and chat:

Discord Server

Steam Group

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube

Twitch

Trello

Interstellar Marines - Update 28
(0.5.28 - Revision 1497) Platforms available, 32-bit & 64-bit Windows, Linux, OSX
Changelog for Update 28

What’s New
ADDED Basic lean mechanics with audio by Eduard ADDED Unity's new Post Processing v1 stack to all cameras ADDED Motion blur settings ADDED Reflection probe intensity is linked to weather state ADDED Reflection probes are eased in on forced weather system ADDED Screen Space Reflections setting ADDED Exhaustion and damage post-processing effects (Chromatic Aberration and Tonemapping) ADDED Jump penalty added to exhaustion ADDED Performance optimizations ADDED ECSChat server host defined in command line arguments ADDED [REDACTED] to Resort (first iteration)
Improvements
UPDATED Unity 5.1.3 (released August 2015) to 5.6.7 (released March 2019) UPDATED Deferred renderer from legacy deferred renderer UPDATED DirectX 9 to DirectX 11 UPDATED Metal on MacOS UPDATED GUIDamageWarning made WARN flash 10x faster for better HUD immersion UPDATED Settings on all audio clips to use "Compress on Load" and now only 2 large mp3 are still using "compress in memory" UPDATED Operations Wargames so lights occlude correctly and reflection probes with adjusted values UPDATED Intro Cinematic scene so IM logo is more lit and MEG spotlight shadows are adjusted correctly UPDATED Option to LightHandler with be able to set emissive boot (glow output) on lights UPDATED Sandbox added vending machine as emissive reference UPDATED Starcrown and NGI with foliage fixes and adjusted location of door buttons UPDATED General emissive materials UPDATED Hell Guardians to be a bit faster and easier to kill UPDATED Hell geysers to glow with orange lava UPDATED Weapon sounds and sway UPDATED Stamina recovery rate
Fixes
FIXED Players may sometimes fall through the floor of a map (Unity 5 bug) FINALLY!! FIXED CP counter bug when player has more than 15 mill. points FIXED Fire button exploit FIXED AR being able to shoot through walls
Known Issues

The game will stop updating when switching out of fullscreen in Windows. If you are on a moving elevator or platform, this will cause you to fall through it. If you are in a Party, this will disconnect you from the Party
View jittering may occur when jumping on lossy networks
Other players will seem to float above or interpenetrate while standing on a moving dynamic platforms (network smoothing will exaggerate this effect)
The gamepad implementation is early and experimental, so may cause issues (Disable Gamepad in menu if mouse/keyboard controls does work as intended)
Standing in a doorway when the door closes may result in the player being pushed vertically
The HUD names and kill messages will be clipped on aspect ratios that are less wide than 16:10
We will continue utilizing the ITO tester program to test progress on upcoming updates. To become an ITO tester join our official Discord server and post “!Enlist ITO Tester” in the role-requests channel. Then you'll receive access to the ITO testing announcements where you’ll find the code to unlock the beta branch in Steam.
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27 Oct 2018Developer post
When Will More COOP Content Release?
Hi everyone, we'd like to take a moment and answer one of the most frequently asked questions about Interstellar Marines: There really is nothing we'd rather make than COOP missions and especially unique and exciting ones; but without more advanced AI, options for scripting and m
Hi everyone, we'd like to take a moment and answer one of the most frequently asked questions about Interstellar Marines:
There really is nothing we'd rather make than COOP missions and especially unique and exciting ones; but without more advanced AI, options for scripting and more advanced gameplay setup towards tactical sandbox gameplay with a story, we can’t do that. We want the next COOP mission to feel more immersive and unique than the previous missions. The Cooperative mode was built for Interstellar Marines from the ground-up to be a multiplayer gamemode where you could play unique and exciting missions with three of your friends. However, if we decide to commit and go through the development process it would require to make another COOP mission like the Neurogen Incident, it would take months to do. With these COOP missions you play through them a few times and then wait for new content to release. It simply takes too much time and resources to create each new mission, make sure most of the substantial bugs are taken care of, then release it within a decent amount of time at the moment. The cost versus pay off just simply wouldn’t be worth it, unfortunately. If we decided to release new missions it'd simply be more of the same kinds of missions we've done in the past, and we don’t want that. We want missions with a heavy emphasis on replayability, with each playthrough feeling like a new and unique mission. For this to happen, the focus on adding/improving core gameplay mechanics, tweaking current content, patching bugs and glitches, and adding other content in the meantime will need to continue. For that very reason it makes much more sense to continue to focus on Wargames, using it as a testing ground for new features/content, improving AI, and eventually even possibly having the maps be used for new COOP missions.
We’d also like to make sure that we align all of your expectations with our current situation and progress with Interstellar Marines/Update 28:
Our game director Kim (ZPSHicks, and lone survivor of the original Zero Point Software team) currently works two jobs and has a limited amount of time being able to work on Interstellar Marines. Currently we have two of our volunteer developers working on upgrading Interstellar Marines’ game engine (Unity) to the latest available version. This will take time, but will hopefully remove a lot of substantial bugs/glitches (for example, the infamous “falling through the ground” bug) and increase optimization. For now, we are focusing on making small improvements to Interstellar Marines in general and the Wargames multiplayer gamemode. We’re not giving up hope on this, but development will continue at a slow pace until we can attract a publisher or somehow raise money for development. We have possible leads for publishers, but nothing is confirmed at the moment, so please don’t get your hopes up. Lastly, I’d like to announce that I will be your latest community manager for Zero Point Software. Expect posts to occur much more frequently, and for communication to improve significantly. I will be keeping you all updated ;) /CinemaBane FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your team at Zero Point Software Join our official social media and community groups to stay connected and chat:

Discord server: discord.gg/interstellarmarines

Steam group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/interstellarmarines

Twitter page: www.twitter.com/zeropointsoft

YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/zeropointsoftware

Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/zeropointsoftware

Instagram page: www.instagram.com/zeropointsoftware
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20 Jan 2018Developer post
Update 27 - To Hell and Back
Update 27 - To Hell and Back Good news everyone! Thanks to our wonderful crew of community volunteer developers, Update 27 has been wrapped and released! Going into the volunteer program we weren’t sure what to expect, but we knew development was much too slow and something had t
20 Jan 2018Developer post
Update 27 - To Hell and Back
Update 27 - To Hell and Back Good news everyone! Thanks to our wonderful crew of community volunteer developers, Update 27 has been wrapped and released! Going into the volunteer program we weren’t sure what to expect, but we knew development was much too slow and something had t
09 Jan 2018Developer post
FIVESTAR Championship Series
Are you a competitive Interstellar Marines player who’s found themselves hungering to return to the battlefields we all know and love? Or perhaps you’re a new player, ready to prove themselves among the elites? Whatever your motives are, long-time community member Five5staR is gi
09 Jan 2018Developer post
FIVESTAR Championship Series
Are you a competitive Interstellar Marines player who’s found themselves hungering to return to the battlefields we all know and love? Or perhaps you’re a new player, ready to prove themselves among the elites? Whatever your motives are, long-time community member Five5staR is gi
07 Dec 2017Developer post
Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4 Released
We've been hard at work on Update 27 and have made significant progress. This includes tactical reload, a fix for falling through the map in need of testing, and weapon changes for you to provide feedback on. X-Mayhem Status Right now there is a bug which spawns the present over
07 Dec 2017Developer post
Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4 Released
We've been hard at work on Update 27 and have made significant progress. This includes tactical reload, a fix for falling through the map in need of testing, and weapon changes for you to provide feedback on. X-Mayhem Status Right now there is a bug which spawns the present over
02 Oct 2017Developer post
ITO Player Testing Has Begun For U27
Thank You! First off we'd like to thank all our friends in the Interstellar Marines community who have given us your support and confidence! We are humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response and are very pleased to announce ITO Testing! Our ITO Testing program allows us to p
02 Oct 2017Developer post
ITO Player Testing Has Begun For U27
Thank You! First off we'd like to thank all our friends in the Interstellar Marines community who have given us your support and confidence! We are humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response and are very pleased to announce ITO Testing! Our ITO Testing program allows us to p
22 Sep 2017Developer post
Interstellar Marines is NOT Dead; Working on Update 27!
Community members close to me on our official Discord server, Steam Friends or Skype, should be fairly up-to-date on the details below. Lone Survivor I, Kim Haar Jørgensen (the primary creative force behind Interstellar Marines), am currently the only official developer working o
22 Sep 2017Developer post
Interstellar Marines is NOT Dead; Working on Update 27!
Community members close to me on our official Discord server, Steam Friends or Skype, should be fairly up-to-date on the details below. Lone Survivor I, Kim Haar Jørgensen (the primary creative force behind Interstellar Marines), am currently the only official developer working o
22 Dec 2016Developer post
Update 26 - Breach Operations
Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community, This is the first update in quite some time, and we've all been waiting for it! Update 26 introduce the first mission instance inside Wargames. A mission which takes place in the treacherous corridors of Operations in full lockdown. Hordes o
Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community,
This is the first update in quite some time, and we've all been waiting for it! Update 26 introduce the first mission instance inside Wargames. A mission which takes place in the treacherous corridors of Operations in full lockdown. Hordes of defective and patrols of submachine gun wielding CTRs is all that stands in the way of you (or your team) and the loot filled treasures enclosed beneath ... oh yeah, and 5 power relays at random locations! Update 26 also features a few minor bug fixes, several key improvements and various tweaks to e.g. HUD systems, foliage rendering, new loot crates, global messaging, increased performance in Wargames and more (Please check full changelog below for details). The Annual XMayhem multiplayer gamemode is back once again; allowing you to unlock our two very special seasonal xmas achievements for the duration of the holidays. From all of “us” here at Zero Point Software, “we’d” like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for supporting the game! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, ZPSHicks, last survivor of Zero Point Software
Update 26 - Changelog:

What's New
ADDED: Operations mission instance to Wargames ADDED: System setup of mission crates, waypoints and access elevator platforms to gain access to Operations ADDED: Steam leaderboards to the Wargames server browser menu ADDED: Option for inviting players from chat lobby into Wargames (joining the same team and spawning close to each other) ADDED: Backpack icon in Mission Overview at location of backpacks dropped with +500 CPs ADDED: Chat announcement of CPs amount and zone location if player is killed with +500 CPs ADDED: Overhead icon for team members in different zones in Wargames ADDED: Revamped loot crates (model details, animation and textures) - Made by Hexe the Insane and Katrina the Insane (Thanks a million guys!) ADDED: Dynamic thumbnails in Wargames server browser menu ADDED: Support from streaming text and images from URL into menu ADDED: Simple "falling out of map" trigger pickup setup to all zones in Wargames ADDED: Cull groups and cull group triggers to all zones in Wargames except Jungle (20% boost in performance) ADDED: Backpack beacon light and sounds to dropped backpacks ADDED: Support for instantiating different waypoint icons ADDED: SARA helmet announcements 60 seconds before a drop crate lands in Wargames ADDED: SARA globally announces power state of Operations in Wargames ADDED: Waypoints and power system to loot crates ADDED: Defective CTR spawnbox to Sandbox ADDED: Simple cardboard target setup to Sandbox ADDED: Mission crate and small Operations access elevators system setup to Sandbox ADDED: Containment field to Sandbox (good for testing suit system shutdowns) ADDED: Respawn protection from CTRs in Wargames ADDED: Main menu now shows how many achievements you have out of all ADDED: Best Clan is now WaR-IM (Congrats guys!)
Improvements
UPDATED: Trees and foliage shader to work with Unity 5 (Removing black edges and receiving correct lighting) UPDATED: Trees and foliage billboard shader to work with Unity 5 (removing ugly edge in fog) UPDATED: Global chat log is kept when switching zones in Wargames UPDATED: Increased player revive-able timer to 60 seconds (from 30 seconds) UPDATED: HUD revive messages is only displayed for teams in Wargames, everyone else see them in the chat UPDATED: Kill messages removed from HUD, except from team players in same zone in Wargames UPDATED: HUD correctly shut downs all intended elements when suit is offline or helmet is open UPDATED: Restyled Mission Overview and added Operations access icons to the map of each zone UPDATED: Replaced Hell Week with Wargames theme across the game (screens, audio, text and UI UPDATED: Stamina is regained 150% faster when fully exhausted UPDATED: Lowered breath audio volume when fully exhausted by 25% UPDATED: Increased HUD compass width by 20% UPDATED: Wetlands night moonlight and ambience light color 50% more bright UPDATED: Jungle dusk weather mode is now more viberant and red in tones UPDATED: Removed windows from 90% of all buildings in Wargames UPDATED: Rebaked navmesh in all zones for more accurate pathfinding UPDATED: Retry count in mission/challenges menu selection UPDATED: Playing Lone Wolf the HUD scoreboard says DELTA instead of Player UPDATED: Backpack pickup speed 2x faster UPDATED: Loot crate unlock speed 2x faster UPDATED: Weapon pickup speed 2x faster UPDATED: CTR and Marine 3p walk sounds 2x volume UPDATED: Restyled global chat UI so chat messages is shown against the dark edge of the helmet for better clarity UPDATED: Increased brightness of flashlights 1p/3p (from 1.6 to 2.5) UPDATED: Drop crates in Wargames drops every 5 minutes in one random zone UPDATED: Tweaked the vignetting image effect to be more realistic and darker edges when aiming weapon for increased immersion UPDATED: Simplified emmisive mask (shown on combat suit of team players) UPDATED: Removed low pass muffling of suit audio system (SARA and audio logs)
Fixes
FIXED: Invert mouse/gamepad Y-axis in input settings FIXED: HUD Interaction brackets not showing when suit system was offline FIXED: HUD WARN message was not turned off if opening the helmet when the suit is offline FIXED: CTR reload sound radius FIXED: Rocks in zone connection tunnels where not blocking "sunlight" flares FIXED: Waypoints staying in Welcome to Project IM introduction mission
Known Issues

Players may sometimes fall through the floor of a map (Unity 5 bug)
The game will stop updating when switching out of fullscreen in Windows. If you are on a moving elevator or platform, this will cause you to fall through it. If you are in a Party, this will disconnect you from the Party
View jittering may occur when jumping on lossy networks
Other players will seem to float above or interpenetrate while standing on a moving dynamic platforms (network smoothing will exaggerate this effect)
The gamepad implementation is early and experimental, so may cause issues
When viewed up-close, some CTR heads may increase in size
Standing in a doorway when the door closes may result in the player being pushed vertically
The HUD names and kill messages will be clipped on aspect ratios that are less wide than 16:10
Original post
22 Dec 2016Developer post
Update 26 - Breach Operations
Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community, This is the first update in quite some time, and we've all been waiting for it! Update 26 introduce the first mission instance inside Wargames. A mission which takes place in the treacherous corridors of Operations in full lockdown. Hordes o
Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community,
This is the first update in quite some time, and we've all been waiting for it! Update 26 introduce the first mission instance inside Wargames. A mission which takes place in the treacherous corridors of Operations in full lockdown. Hordes of defective and patrols of submachine gun wielding CTRs is all that stands in the way of you (or your team) and the loot filled treasures enclosed beneath ... oh yeah, and 5 power relays at random locations! Update 26 also features a few minor bug fixes, several key improvements and various tweaks to e.g. HUD systems, foliage rendering, new loot crates, global messaging, increased performance in Wargames and more (Please check full changelog below for details). The Annual XMayhem multiplayer gamemode is back once again; allowing you to unlock our two very special seasonal xmas achievements for the duration of the holidays. From all of “us” here at Zero Point Software, “we’d” like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for supporting the game! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, ZPSHicks, last survivor of Zero Point Software
Update 26 - Changelog:

What's New
ADDED: Operations mission instance to Wargames ADDED: System setup of mission crates, waypoints and access elevator platforms to gain access to Operations ADDED: Steam leaderboards to the Wargames server browser menu ADDED: Option for inviting players from chat lobby into Wargames (joining the same team and spawning close to each other) ADDED: Backpack icon in Mission Overview at location of backpacks dropped with +500 CPs ADDED: Chat announcement of CPs amount and zone location if player is killed with +500 CPs ADDED: Overhead icon for team members in different zones in Wargames ADDED: Revamped loot crates (model details, animation and textures) - Made by Hexe the Insane and Katrina the Insane (Thanks a million guys!) ADDED: Dynamic thumbnails in Wargames server browser menu ADDED: Support from streaming text and images from URL into menu ADDED: Simple "falling out of map" trigger pickup setup to all zones in Wargames ADDED: Cull groups and cull group triggers to all zones in Wargames except Jungle (20% boost in performance) ADDED: Backpack beacon light and sounds to dropped backpacks ADDED: Support for instantiating different waypoint icons ADDED: SARA helmet announcements 60 seconds before a drop crate lands in Wargames ADDED: SARA globally announces power state of Operations in Wargames ADDED: Waypoints and power system to loot crates ADDED: Defective CTR spawnbox to Sandbox ADDED: Simple cardboard target setup to Sandbox ADDED: Mission crate and small Operations access elevators system setup to Sandbox ADDED: Containment field to Sandbox (good for testing suit system shutdowns) ADDED: Respawn protection from CTRs in Wargames ADDED: Main menu now shows how many achievements you have out of all ADDED: Best Clan is now WaR-IM (Congrats guys!)
Improvements
UPDATED: Trees and foliage shader to work with Unity 5 (Removing black edges and receiving correct lighting) UPDATED: Trees and foliage billboard shader to work with Unity 5 (removing ugly edge in fog) UPDATED: Global chat log is kept when switching zones in Wargames UPDATED: Increased player revive-able timer to 60 seconds (from 30 seconds) UPDATED: HUD revive messages is only displayed for teams in Wargames, everyone else see them in the chat UPDATED: Kill messages removed from HUD, except from team players in same zone in Wargames UPDATED: HUD correctly shut downs all intended elements when suit is offline or helmet is open UPDATED: Restyled Mission Overview and added Operations access icons to the map of each zone UPDATED: Replaced Hell Week with Wargames theme across the game (screens, audio, text and UI UPDATED: Stamina is regained 150% faster when fully exhausted UPDATED: Lowered breath audio volume when fully exhausted by 25% UPDATED: Increased HUD compass width by 20% UPDATED: Wetlands night moonlight and ambience light color 50% more bright UPDATED: Jungle dusk weather mode is now more viberant and red in tones UPDATED: Removed windows from 90% of all buildings in Wargames UPDATED: Rebaked navmesh in all zones for more accurate pathfinding UPDATED: Retry count in mission/challenges menu selection UPDATED: Playing Lone Wolf the HUD scoreboard says DELTA instead of Player UPDATED: Backpack pickup speed 2x faster UPDATED: Loot crate unlock speed 2x faster UPDATED: Weapon pickup speed 2x faster UPDATED: CTR and Marine 3p walk sounds 2x volume UPDATED: Restyled global chat UI so chat messages is shown against the dark edge of the helmet for better clarity UPDATED: Increased brightness of flashlights 1p/3p (from 1.6 to 2.5) UPDATED: Drop crates in Wargames drops every 5 minutes in one random zone UPDATED: Tweaked the vignetting image effect to be more realistic and darker edges when aiming weapon for increased immersion UPDATED: Simplified emmisive mask (shown on combat suit of team players) UPDATED: Removed low pass muffling of suit audio system (SARA and audio logs)
Fixes
FIXED: Invert mouse/gamepad Y-axis in input settings FIXED: HUD Interaction brackets not showing when suit system was offline FIXED: HUD WARN message was not turned off if opening the helmet when the suit is offline FIXED: CTR reload sound radius FIXED: Rocks in zone connection tunnels where not blocking "sunlight" flares FIXED: Waypoints staying in Welcome to Project IM introduction mission
Known Issues

Players may sometimes fall through the floor of a map (Unity 5 bug)
The game will stop updating when switching out of fullscreen in Windows. If you are on a moving elevator or platform, this will cause you to fall through it. If you are in a Party, this will disconnect you from the Party
View jittering may occur when jumping on lossy networks
Other players will seem to float above or interpenetrate while standing on a moving dynamic platforms (network smoothing will exaggerate this effect)
The gamepad implementation is early and experimental, so may cause issues
When viewed up-close, some CTR heads may increase in size
Standing in a doorway when the door closes may result in the player being pushed vertically
The HUD names and kill messages will be clipped on aspect ratios that are less wide than 16:10
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25 May 2016Developer post
Interstellar Aspirations: Time for a Dimensional Shift
We've just released an exciting new video detailing our plans and opportunities. Watch the video on YouTube. Dear Marines, friends, and family, Interstellar Marines has come a long way since we launched on Steam Early Access. Every penny earned has been spent on development of In
25 May 2016Developer post
Interstellar Aspirations: Time for a Dimensional Shift
We've just released an exciting new video detailing our plans and opportunities. Watch the video on YouTube. Dear Marines, friends, and family, Interstellar Marines has come a long way since we launched on Steam Early Access. Every penny earned has been spent on development of In
21 Mar 2016Developer post
Update 25: Chameleon
Good Morning/Afternoon Marines! This latest update to Interstellar Marines increases the value of your Combat Points (CP) by offering unlockable skins allowing you to blend in, or stick out, as much as you’d like. Update 25 also adds a shining new menu interface and we've revampe
Good Morning/Afternoon Marines!
This latest update to Interstellar Marines increases the value of your Combat Points (CP) by offering unlockable skins allowing you to blend in, or stick out, as much as you’d like. Update 25 also adds a shining new menu interface and we've revamped the Introduction mission to include some of our new features. https://youtu.be/XREtCFZq7OE We’ve added a new menu interface created with Unity 5's UI system and we’ve also managed to squeeze in the option to vote for map, gamemode and difficulty in both co-op and multiplayer. In our brand new customization hub you’ll find a broad range of cool tactical skins, and you now earn Combat Points (CP) during missions, challenges and multiplayer to unlock them with. Special thanks to our community members who helped with camo designs!
Bourbon the Insane
Ninja Cat
ZundiePW
Gater
OG SWAT RV [LINUX]
TmsFin
Jackerino
Rien Moeyaert
Timothy Creitz
Five5staR
In its new iteration Hell Week has been renamed Wargames, a more fitting name for our co-op, singleplayer and player-versus-player sandbox combat simulator in the making. We’ve tweaked the server settings and added a new Wargame called Scavenge, where you can collect combat points 24/7. But look out - You are up against 128 bots as well as all the other skilled and tactical players!

Scavenge wargame is 55 minutes long.
Scavenged CP’s are collected when wargame ends.
Unlimited respawns
We’ve updated the Introduction mission to make sure new players get a more consistent first impression of the game and the features currently available. Revamped sections are shooting range, stealth test, crashed dropship mission simulation and we added a fun little stress test and maybe an Easter Egg or 2. FULL CHANGE LOG
What's Next
We’ve been taking a critical look at the inertia and general challenge of surviving in Early Access and decided to find and team up with an indie-friendly publisher moving forward to improve our development capabilities. Meanwhile, there will be updates, missions, and new game modes as often as we can make them while we search for the right partner to help realize our ambitious vision for Interstellar Marines. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, Your team at Zero Point Software
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Updates & announcements

XMAS MAYHEM

SANDBOX

Rundown:

Rules:

Winner rewards:

Live stream:

Hi everyone, good news! We’re pleased to announce our new development roadmap for Interstellar Marines.

As a player, what does this mean for you?

ITO Testing

Update 28 - Engine Upgrade

Update 29: Planning Phase

Interstellar Marines - Update 28

Changelog for Update 28

What’s New

Improvements

Fixes

Known Issues

Hi everyone, we'd like to take a moment and answer one of the most frequently asked questions about Interstellar Marines:

We’d also like to make sure that we align all of your expectations with our current situation and progress with Interstellar Marines/Update 28:

Update 27 - To Hell and Back

Interstellar Marines - Update 27

Changelog for Update 27

What's New

Improvements

Optimizations

Fixes

Update 27 - To Hell and Back

Interstellar Marines - Update 27

Changelog for Update 27

What's New

Improvements

Optimizations

Fixes

Interstellar Marines - Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4

Changelog for Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4

Interstellar Marines - Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4

Changelog for Update 27 - ITO Test Build 4

Thank You!

ITO Testing!

Development Team Update

Thank You!

ITO Testing!

Development Team Update

Community members close to me on our official Discord server, Steam Friends or Skype, should be fairly up-to-date on the details below.

Lone Survivor

Update 27

Moving forward

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME,

Community members close to me on our official Discord server, Steam Friends or Skype, should be fairly up-to-date on the details below.

Lone Survivor

Update 27

Moving forward

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME,

Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community,

Update 26 - Changelog:

What's New

Improvements

Fixes

Known Issues

Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Community,

Update 26 - Changelog:

What's New

Improvements

Fixes

Known Issues

Interstellar Aspirations: Time for a Dimensional Shift video on Youtube:

Keep track of our progress with Publishers & Investors:

Interstellar Aspirations: Time for a Dimensional Shift video on Youtube:

Keep track of our progress with Publishers & Investors:

Good Morning/Afternoon Marines!

What's Next