16 Sep 2026Developer post

Rogue Core is coming to The Big Break Showcase!

Hello Reclaimers, It’s been a couple weeks since Update 2 came out, and we’ve been happy to see your responses so far. The numerically-inclined among you will know that after Update 2 comes Update 3. We’re working on that right now — and we’ll be showing a first peek at that duri

10 Sep 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES - RC:EA:02:01:00

PATCH NOTES - RC : EA : 02 : 01 : 00 (Build: 153019 - 10.09.26) Hello Reclaimers, Got a second hotfix/small patch for you with some bug fixes and tweaks. Most of us are already working on Update 3, but we wanted to get a few things sorted as quickly as possible. With love, - The

03 Sep 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES: RC:EA:02.00.01

PATCH NOTES: Hello Reclaimers, We have a small hot fix for you. It's just a few things as we wanted these fixes out as quickly as possible. With love, - The Ghost Ship crew --- PATCH NOTES --- - Fix Gotoorak sometimes teleporting to world origin on clients - Fixed some animation

02 Sep 2026Developer post

Update 2 is LIVE! See the full patch notes / changelist here.

Hello Reclaimers, Welcome to Update 2 of Rogue Core early access! We’ve implemented some core (ha) difficulty changes in this one along with a bunch of tweaks and fixes and of course some new content. Much to get through, so we plopped it all in a big list down below. As always,

Hello Reclaimers,

Welcome to Update 2 of Rogue Core early access! We’ve implemented some core (ha) difficulty changes in this one along with a bunch of tweaks and fixes and of course some new content. Much to get through, so we plopped it all in a big list down below.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback. <3 Rock and Stone!

With love,
- The Ghost Ship crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

THREAT LEVELS

You can now tailor the base difficulty of the game to your liking using the new ‘Threat Level’ difficulty scale. There are five Threat Levels, and they affect the number of enemies, the frequency of swarms, enemy health and movement, enemy aggression (attack frequency and projectile speed) and overall damage.
This should give you more control over your gameplay experience, letting you play most of the game’s content at a difficulty of your preference. It also means that Depth is now purely geared as a content progression tree, rather than affecting difficulty.

UNGATED SERVERLIST

Most of the restrictions from the Server Browser have been removed to make it easier to find a lobby. You can now join missions that may be at Depths or in biomes that you haven’t yet unlocked. You still need to unlock a Depth to be able to host missions there, however.

WAVE STACKING

We have also officially added the possibility for the stage’s waves to stack on Threat Levels 4 and 5. This is something that was happening unintentionally for quite a long time due to a bug, but it is now implemented as a feature for higher difficulties.

NO BOSS INVULNERABILITY

We're getting rid of the bosses’ invulnerability phases triggered by taking loads of damage in a short time. Instead, bosses will either do a very short block, or attempt to block in a way that can still be managed via careful aim, AoE damage or repositioning. Hopefully this makes it feel like more of a fair fight.

NEW UPGRADES

The pool of Expenite Upgrades has been further expanded with a focus on elemental damage types. Seven new Expenite Upgrades and one new Artifact are coming in Update 2:

Spark-Booster: When enemies in medium range are electrocuted, you get 45% movement speed for +3 seconds.
Grid-Shock: Damaging electrified targets spreads +50% as electric damage to other enemies connected via electrical arcs.
Weathering Blast: When active Stone Skin expires, deal 50 Ice damage in short range. +25 additional damage per 5 Stone Skin lost.
Icy Shrapnel: Hitting frozen targets launches ice fractures in the opposite direction, dealing +25% Ice damage in a Short Range cone.
Icicle Strike: Power Attacks spawn icicles lasting for +5s.
Concussive Shot: Weakpoint hits have 25% chance to stun targets for +2 seconds. Stun is guaranteed when destroying breakable weakpoints and doubles duration.
Frostbane: For every active Stone Skin you get +5% Ice bonus on all melee damage.
[ARTIFACT] Nuclear Optics: Enemies in your flashlight beam take 30 Radiation damage per second.

NEW ARTIFACT EVENT

A new event has been added to the pool of possible stage spawns, but this one gets you an Artifact instead of Expenite. You’ll need to reactivate a classified experiment and see if you can’t finish what R&D started before they were forced to abandon the project. Hope you brought your thinking caps.

NEW ALTERATIONS

We’re adding four new Alterations to give more gameplay variety to your missions.

High Stakes: Increased Luck in equipment & upgrade RNG, but reduced Expenite gains from all sources.
Siege Engines: All enemies (except bosses) move at half speed and have twice as much health.
Headhunter: Expenite does not spawn in the caves, but all enemies drop Expenite on death.
Death Mitosis: All Core Spawn split into two smaller ‘baby zombies’ when killed. All enemies (except bosses) have less health.

NEW OLD WEAPON: LOK-1 SMART RIFLE

The Engineer’s Smart Rifle from DRG is now part of the standard weapon pool. It’s taken some work to get this weapon’s unique auto-lock firing mechanism to work with Rogue Core’s upgrades and damage systems, but now it’s tested and combat-ready.

NEW ENEMY: VOIDKIN DOMINATOR

A long-range threat is coming to the mines: the Voidkin Dominator. It’s a tankier, harder-hitting version of its smaller cousin, the Drifter. The Dominator targets foes with hard-hitting projectiles that leave volatile Rift energy lingering in the area of impact. On death, the Dominator releases its internal energy reserves, resulting in an intense explosion.

NEW ENTRANCE FACILITIES + CAVE GENERATION

Rogue Core's cave generation system has been expanded with 4 new facility entrance rooms and 15 new cavern formations. We’ve also reworked the cave generator’s process for connecting individual caverns.

NEW MOLAKTULA BIOME

The Molaktula Gatekeeper boss now has a new home with some explosive gravity defying elements. Now each of the 3 Gatekeepers have their own corresponding biome on their respective depth. As we add more Gatekeepers in the future, they too will get a biome to call their own.

ALPHA CLEARANCE GRANTED

All Reclaimers have been automatically granted Security Clearance Level Alpha within the Intel system. This means that brand new players will no longer be locked out of starting Expenite Events or opening the Grenade Locker during their first missions.

COMBAT AND BALANCE

- Fusion Rod now works with ammo pool upgrades and clip size upgrades
- Removed the ‘double mag’ attribute from the Devastator
- Increase Heavy Landing minimum radius from 1m to 2m
- Impact Axes are back in the Grenade Locker
- Removed the Burst Fire upgrade from the Hammercaster
- Temporarily removed the ‘Return to Sender’ upgrade from the Breach Cutter until it is fixed
- Removed the Salvo Module upgrade from the Hurricane
- Killing blows with the pickaxe no longer slow the player down
- Sped up the spawning of enemies in waves when enemies are cleared fast, allowing the whole wave to be completed faster
- Rifts now spawn and follow the player for each wave, so enemies try to spawn close to the player. NowhereToRun.mp3
- Slightly extended minimum time between waves
- Shotguns no longer trigger Lucky Shot multiple times
- Change ‘Duck and Weave’ to provide its block chance when jumping or sprinting
- Added more Red Sugar to the Gatekeeper’s cave
- Added 1 second more grace time for players to revive before the run fails

VOICELINES / LASER POINTER

We did a big pass of writing and recording hundreds of more voicelines, with the main goal of making the laser pointer much more useful in directing teammates’ attention toward relevant objectives.

- Added laser pointer voicelines for pinging basically all mission/gameplay-relevant objects
- Added laser pointer voicelines for pinging more passive items and scenery in the caves
- Added more OMEGA lines for rude Reclaimers throwing mugs at his bartender eye

MISCELLANEOUS

- Made it so the narrative cutscene no longer plays every time you load into the game, only the first time. You can replay it from the Reclaimer’s Handbook if desired.
- Updated sounds for many of the enemies, with a focus on audio clarity and supporting positional awareness.
- Increased Barrier Drone flight speed just enough so that players never have to wait for them to arrive
- Fixed equipment, grenades and abilities sometimes not loading on the second level of a run
- Changed time to unlock Munitions Crates from 2 sec to 0.6 seconds
- Increased the speed of both large and small lifts and repositioned their call buttons to be more accessible and visible
- Prevent players from falling out of the world and sometimes not teleporting back, and fixed that players die when they are teleported back.
- Fixed gas clouds being able to take damage
- Fixed the server list’s “team members” tooltip not working
- Fixed a bug where the server list couldn’t be seen
- Added a few tweaks and improvements to the server list and server list sorting
- Added a button in the middle of the server list to show all servers when the server list is empty. This button removes filters and helps new players know that all filters can be removed
- Moved Enhancement buying into Enhancement buttons, instead of a separate button
- Added Bio-Booster decks to saved loadouts
- Updated stagger animation on the Rammer (get staggered idiot)
- There is no longer an actual limit on how many Expenite Upgrades you can get. Instead, once you pass a “max limit,” the cost just goes up by 100 for each one after that
- Improved the timer widget to more clearly show the current and next wave when it switches
- Fixed double and triple waves spawning randomly
- Fixed that sometimes all stages in a run had the exact same wave timings
- Prevented OMEGA talking about a wave ending when there are still a lot of enemies remaining from that wave.
- Added sound to swapping Bio-Booster decks
- Added sound to unlocking Enhancement Slots
- Added missing sounds to the Broken Mule
- Fixed footsteps playing twice
- Fixed Reaperworm attack being really loud
- Disabled OMEGA shouts when producing Expenite in the Solidification Chamber event because of the constant yapping in that event.
- Fixed Shield Generator applying Workbench upgrades twice
- Fixed Shield Generator upgrades overwriting each other
- Fixed the Crit Dart only applying crit for host but not for clients
- Attempted fix for Ellis desyncing and becoming unresponsive to clients
- Changed the Depth 4 tooltip to "coming in Update 3"
- Made enemies that fall or jump better at landing on cave constructions
- The stars on Ascension reward pickaxe heads now match the owning character's Ascensions instead of local player's
- Fixed dwarves being able to be downed from fall damage in the Ramrod after Ascension ceremonies
- Fixed Ascension Hall collision issues
- It's no longer possible for clients to enter a mission in their Med Bay suits
- Multiple performance optimisations including changes to shadows, particles, bounds, and lights
- Changed the asteroid field around Hoxxes in the skybox to a Niagara system instead of like 500 meshes
- Added some changes and improvements to the electric effect
- Removed anti-grav first-person overlay
- Optimized projectiles for Wayward Spark, Hammer Caster, Scorchers, and Magic Missile
- Updated Guardian’s ability and skill VFX
- Removed shadows from smoke particles for better performance
- Optimized HUD rendering a bit
- Improved visuals of simultaneous Radiation Boils
- Added a phase change animation for the Molaktula boss
- Updated animations for Ramok and Molaktula
- Fixed the red trail VFX from Molaktula to each Core Stone not disappearing for clients when the Core Stone is shattered
- Fixed Molaktula not being able to teleport
- Potential fix for Mr. Molaktula getting stuck in Invincible Mode
- Fixed a memory leak when pausing a solo run
- Fixed Expenite deposits not being visible on the map after scanning a downed Surveyor Drone
- Attempted fix for runs not ending after all team members are down
- Attempted fix for players losing upgrades and weapons when disconnecting and reconnecting
- Attempted fix for players being stuck in elevator after disconnecting and reconnecting between levels
- Attempted (again) to fix Ellis getting stuck / desynced if player disconnects while depositing
- Fixed Reclaimers that were revived in the elevator still ending up in the Cocoon Jail on next level
- Attempted fix for the game failing to pause during Expenite upgrades in multiplayer
- Fixed Vanguards being locked in place by DoT effects.
- Fixed Vanguards screaming during their defense animation
- Fixed other Vanguard-related issues (mostly emotional)
- Fixed the Research Subject not being able to be stunned
- Fixed elements not being removed in some cases when they reach 0 element value
- Fixed Electric Tethers tethering twice between enemies, causing them to stack and deal double damage.
- Fixed Electric Tether not being visible on clients
- Fixed Axe Out triggering from sentry fire shots
- Added safety fixes to Cryo Drain to prevent it being active when it shouldn’t be
- Fixed most on-kill effects counting one kill as multiple when using shotguns or very high RoF weapons
- Fixed Elementalist effect being visible on the Zipline Launcher, Platform Gun and Flare Gun
- Fixed Reclaimers not being able to Rock and Stone while holding L.U.R.E., IFG, Proximity Mine, Springloaded Ripper, S.S.G., Impact Axe, Voltaic Stun Sweeper
- Fixed Block Chance being called Dodge Chance in the stats widget
- Fixed fire effect not dissipating
- Fixed Platform Gun’s Enemy Repellent Texture attribute not working
- Clients can no longer get infinite amount of Workbench upgrades by disconnecting and rejoining (nice try)
- Fixed light cones having collision
- Fixed the punching bag’s damage numbers so they now appear where the bag is
- Fixed crash when switching camera modes while using the hacking tool
- Disabled cloth simulation on OMEGA’s bartender rag since it causes an extremely rare crash somehow lol
- Fixed Trident projectiles sometimes floating in the air for clients
- Fixed Minigun spread increasing with spread reduction enhancements
- Fixed the Hammercaster ammo counter initializing with a negative number
- Fixed issues relating to actions (such as LOK-1 burst) being canceled when you land into a sprint
- Fixed stuck class-ability modifier and grenade re-throw on fire input
- Fixed cave generation logic issue, with tunnel constructions not carving all the way through in a lot of cases
- Improved (reduced) angle of tunnel spawns after some facility entrances
- Fixed Creeper vines doing too much damage to Reclaimers
- Fixed asteroid field in loading screens
- Fixed crash related to drills? idk man the game designers wrote this one. I’m just the proofreader
- Incendiary grenade is now much more consistent with its visuals in terms of where the fire collision is and its duration
- Fixed Slicer’s sword not being able to hit some objects
- Fixed enemy projectiles not always getting blocked by CADNA or Slicer's shield
- Potential fix for missions not loading in
- Fixed autosprint breaking if a weapon is fired using the input buffer
- Fixed autosprint sometimes not working
- Fixed sprinting canceling pickaxing when landing
- Fixed some networking issues
- Fixed ‘Tough Creepers’ Risk Vector only adding 50% HP to creepers instead of the 100% that it should
- Fixed upgrade icons not stacking together as they should in the HUD
- Fixed the ‘Caching’ Artifact not storing overkill damage properly if you do friendly fire at the same time as killing an enemy (basically, this Artifact should do what it says on the tin now)
- Fixed the Critical Dodge legendary upgrade not working
- Fixed 8-FF Booster upgrade stacking radius instead of armor amount
- Fixed the Critical Shot upgrade not stacking
- Fixed Running Blades’ bonus speed not stacking
- Allow clicking through notifications (don't block mouse clicks)
- Fixed scaling of the Risk Vector pick widget headers (clipping)
- Fixed being able to start depositing minerals and ending up in a weird state if the item you were carrying is not a resource that can be deposited
- Fixed resource filter not affecting the progress bar when depositing
- Fixed some community-reported translation issues
- Added 1 billion typos
- Fixed some issues with dwarves’ dance moves
- Fixed Elevator Cables taking a weird direct shortcut
- Fixed wrong overkill damage shown in the mission end screen
- Fixed pickaxe power attack slowing you down
- Prevented crash if pickaxing certain objects
- Made it so boss altar balls no longer rotate you when you stand on them (no jokes allowed here please)
- Removed burn damage effect from Gatekeeper altars

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28 Aug 2026Developer post

UPDATE 2 PREVIEW

Hello Reclaimers, Update 2 is just around the corner — it’ll go live in Rogue Core on Wednesday, September 2nd at 13:00 CEST . Here’s your first look at what’s coming. We’ll post the full patch notes when the update goes live next week. This preview will focus more closely at the

Hello Reclaimers,

Update 2 is just around the corner — it’ll go live in Rogue Core on Wednesday, September 2nd at 13:00 CEST. Here’s your first look at what’s coming.

We’ll post the full patch notes when the update goes live next week. This preview will focus more closely at the biggest changes and additions, and our thoughts behind them. Bug fixes, balance tweaks, QoL improvements and smaller stuff like that will go in those patch notes.

If you’d like to get your hands on all of this before next week’s release, it's now live in the Experimental Branch! Instructions on how to activate that are at the bottom of this post.

NEW DIFFICULTY SYSTEM: THREAT LEVELS

As part of making it easier to tailor the Rogue Core experience to your own tastes, we’re implementing a new difficulty system.

With Update 1, we introduced the ‘Assault Pace’ setting to allow more options for adjusting the mission timer. Now, we’re introducing the ‘Threat Level’ difficulty scale. This will uncouple the game difficulty from the chosen Depth. It also means game difficulty is now totally independent from the mission timer, giving you more fine-tuned control over your own game experience.

In Update 2, you’ll see the screen above upon selecting a mission. This big screen will just show up once, and after that the Threat Level will join the Assault Pace toggle over on the right side of the screen.

Here’s how the new setup works:

Threat Level: The five Threat Levels affect the number of enemies, the frequency of swarms, enemy health and movement, enemy aggression (attack frequency and projectile speed) and overall damage.
Assault Pace: This adjusts the pacing of your run, by adding more or less time to the mission timer. Tone it down if you like taking your time, ramp it up if you work best on a deadline.
Depth: With these changes, Depth now only determines access to certain bosses (and the associated boss biome). We’re making it more of a progression system for game content, rather than necessarily being tied to the mission timer and difficulty level. For this reason we have temporarily locked Depth 4 until the fourth boss is ready. Stay tuned!

This system will be available from the start of the game. So if you’re someone who finds Rogue Core too difficult, you’ll be able to play through all the game’s content at a gentler difficulty. And if you think Rogue Core is too easy, you can start right at a high difficulty without having to grind to unlock later Depths. Mostly. To join or host a mission on the maximum “Hellish” Threat Level 5 you’ll need to beat a run on Threat Level 4 first, just to prove you can hang with the big dogs.

We hope this addition gives everyone more options to play Rogue Core how they want. We’ve gotten good feedback on this from the Experimental testers so far, and we’ll be watching and listening to take in your thoughts.

UNGATED SERVERLIST (MORE MATCHMAKING)

Uncoupling Depth Level from overall difficulty also opens up for expanded matchmaking options, meaning more options for you to join a lobby or a game in progress.

With an ungated serverlist, you can now join missions that may be at Depths that you haven’t yet unlocked. Previously these would have been off-limits, shrinking your pool of joinable options. In otherwords, more matchmaking for everybody. If you’d like to host missions in certain biomes or Depths, you’ll still need to unlock them yourself.

BOSS INVULNERABILITY PHASES REMOVED

In response to player feedback, we're getting rid of the bosses’ long invulnerability phases in response to taking loads of damage in a short time. Instead, bosses will either do a very short block, or attempt to block in a way that can still be managed via careful aim, AoE damage or repositioning. Hopefully this makes it feel like more of a fair fight.

NEW UPGRADES + ARTIFACT

We’re expanding the pool of Expenite Upgrades yet again, this time with a focus on elemental damage types. Seven new Expenite Upgrades and one new Artifact are coming in Update 2:

Spark-Booster: When enemies in medium range are electrocuted, you get 45% movement speed for +3 seconds.
Grid-Shock: Damaging electrified targets spreads +50% as electric damage to other enemies connected via electrical arcs.
Weathering Blast: When active Stone Skin expires, deal 50 Ice damage in short range. +25 additional damage per 5 Stone Skin lost.
Icy Shrapnel: Hitting frozen targets launches ice fractures in the opposite direction, dealing +25% Ice damage in a Short Range cone.
Icicle Strike: Power Attacks spawn icicles lasting for +5s.
Concussive Shot: Weakpoint hits have 25% chance to stun targets for +2 seconds. Stun is guaranteed when destroying breakable weakpoints and doubles duration.
Frostbane: For every active Stone Skin you get +5% Ice bonus on all melee damage.
[ARTIFACT] Nuclear Optics: Enemies in your flashlight beam take 30 Radiation damage per second.

NEW ARTIFACT EVENT

We’ve got a new encounter down in the caves: an unfinished, highly-classified research site left behind by R&D. This is a new event which can grant you an Artifact, which has a random chance to spawn instead of an Expenite Event. You don’t have to select the ‘Artifact’ Mission Alteration in order to encounter it.

You’ll need to reactivate the experiment and see if you can’t finish what R&D started, before they were forced to abandon the project. OMEGA will guide you along the way.

NEW ALTERATIONS

Based on player enthusiasm about the ‘Jumble’ Alteration, we’re adding four new Alterations to give more gameplay variety to your missions:

High Stakes: Increased Luck in upgrade RNG, but reduced Expenite gains from all sources.
Siege Engines: All enemies (except bosses) move at half speed and have twice as much health.
Headhunter: Expenite does not spawn in the caves, but all enemies drop Expenite on death.
Death Mitosis: All Core Spawn split into two smaller ‘baby zombies’ when killed. All enemies (except bosses) have less health.

NEW OLD WEAPON: LOK-1 SMART RIFLE

The Engineer’s Smart Rifle from DRG is now part of the standard weapon pool. It’s taken some work to get this weapon’s unique auto-lock firing mechanism to work with Rogue Core’s player upgrades and damage systems, but now it’s tested and combat-ready. It’ll probably be really good at taking out those pesky Boomticks. Let us know what you think.

NEW ENEMY: VOIDKIN DOMINATOR

A long-range threat is coming to the mines. Meet the Voidkin Dominator, a tankier, harder-hitting version of its smaller cousin, the Drifter. Consider this a high-priority target.

The Reclaimer’s Handbook reads:

"The Dominator exists as a living siphon of Rift energy, corrupting its body in the process. Little is known about this creature in an adolescent state, before exposure to extreme Rift radiation. It is able to target foes with hard-hitting projectiles that leave volatile Rift energy lingering in the area of impact.

On death, the Dominator releases its internal energy reserves, resulting in an intense explosion. Keep your distance."

NEW ENTRANCE FACILITIES + CAVE GENERATION

We’ve added 3 new facility entrance rooms (the place where you select your first weapon) and 15 new cavern formations to the cave generation system. We’ve also reworked the cave generator’s process for connecting individual caverns, so this will hopefully result in more variety in the physical layout of each level.

NEW MOLAKTULA BIOME

We’re putting together a new home for the Molaktula Gatekeeper boss, so now each of the Gatekeepers bosses have their own corresponding biome. Like the others, this biome should ‘bleed’ into the original mission biome more and more as you venture further down. Our intent here is to give each boss and Depth a more distinct identity, and more visual variety between missions.

ALPHA CLEARANCE AUTO-GRANTED

All Reclaimers have been automatically granted Security Clearance Level Alpha within the Intel system. This means that brand new players will no longer be locked out of starting Expenite Events or opening the Grenade Locker during their first missions.

Maybe this is a smaller thing but hey it’s in the post now.

How to access the Experimental Branch

Like we said up top, all of this is currently live over in Experimental. We’ve started running Experimental Branch for longer periods of time, with the aim of collecting feedback on gameplay systems with enough time to make tweaks and rebalances. Much of Update 2 has already been shaped and sharpened by the feedback of our brave Experimental testers. If you’ve got the time and interest, you’re very welcome to hop in and give it a go.

Anybody can access the Experimental Branch if they own Rogue Core on Steam.
Here’s how to set it live:

Right click Rogue Core in your Steam library and select ‘Properties’
Under ‘Properties,’ click the ‘Game Versions & Betas’ tab
Select ‘experimental’ within that tab

Then the game will update and will boot into the Experimental branch next time you launch it. You can switch back any time through the same menu. Keep in mind that your save files from the Experimental branch don’t carry over, because we have cheats enabled there.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Again, the full run-down of everything new (even the little stuff, of which there is plenty) is coming in the patch notes when Update 2 goes live. Which is next week on Wednesday September 2nd. At 13:00 CEST right after we eat our lunch.

Rock and Stone, Reclaimers!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

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29 Jul 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES: RC:EA:01.03

PATCH NOTES: Hello Reclaimers, While we are hard at work on Update 2, we have a small patch for you with a few bug fixes. Rock and Stone! With love, The Ghost Ship crew --- PATCH NOTES --- ㅤ - Fixed Critical Shot saying it grants 50% crit chance when it only grants 30% - Fixed pi

09 Jul 2026Developer post

Beefy bosses and disconnect insurance: Update 1.2 explained

Hello Reclaimers, Lead Game Designer Mike here. With this week's Update 1.2 turning out quite large, we thought a more feature-focused version of the patch notes would help shine some light on the 'what' and 'why' of this update. Some of the changes have some more significant eff

Hello Reclaimers,

Lead Game Designer Mike here. With this week's Update 1.2 turning out quite large, we thought a more feature-focused version of the patch notes would help shine some light on the 'what' and 'why' of this update. Some of the changes have some more significant effects on the gameplay experience, so I think that’s worth looking at in detail.

You can find the full 1.2 patch notes linked right here, and our explanations right down below.

Let’s get to it.

Balancing player power and game difficulty

With Update 1 players can more consistently reach higher power levels, which is good. It has become easier to trigger synergies and deal big damage. Currently certain systems (like crit damage and fire) are overrepresented in the upgrade pool, but this will even out as we add more upgrades and artifacts that work with the other elements of the damage system. However, the game needs to respond accordingly and many of the changes in Patch 1.2 focus on how the game can better test this power.

Difficulty and Risk Vectors

We really like the Risk Vector system as it gives a bit of agency in how the game's difficulty increases. Some allow you to increase the spice, others give you some benefits that make it a bit easier. This was not always the case however, as some Risk Vectors had almost no impact on the run. We have fixed and tweaked all the Risk Vectors that bring enemies into the run (like Edgestalker Patrol and Scorcher Horde) to make sure their impact is felt. Selecting these Risk Vectors and especially stacking them now has very real consequences, which is how we want it.

Beefier bosses

With Patch 1.2 we focused on making sure the Gatekeepers (AKA the bosses) can better withstand high-powered players. It’s fun to wreck a boss, but it’s even more fun if the boss tries to fight back in the process and can still pose a threat. Each Gatekeeper type now has counterattacks that they can perform to reduce pressure (on themselves) and temporarily block some or all of the player’s attacks while still applying pressure back on the Reclaimers. We also tweaked Gatekeeper health scaling to keep pace with the players’ power growth on 5- and 6-stage missions. And in relation to the previously mentioned Risk Vectors, they now also have an impact on the boss fight by adding their spawns to the pool of enemies that assist the Gatekeepers.

More Reaperworm pressure

Staying around when the threat level becomes critical is not something Reclaimers should take lightly. To more strongly encourage teams to get on the elevator, we now spawn more additional Reaperworms over time, starting roughly 30 seconds after the first worms appear. The exact rate depends on the number of players. (This change was missing from the original patch notes.)

Safeguarding from disconnects

In the event that a mission abruptly ends (whether due to a crash, a disconnect or getting rudely kicked from the team) you will now be awarded the XP rewards and bonuses you have earned up to that point, making sure that your time was not completely wasted.

That’s the main stuff! Again, the full patch notes are right here if you want to give them a look. But these are the key changes that we felt deserved a bit more explanation.

The next two weeks we'll be closed for the summer holidays. When we're back we'll continue working on Update 2, which we expect to have out in August. Hope everybody's having a nice summer. Rock and Stone!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

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07 Jul 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES: RC:EA:01.02

PATCH NOTES: Hello Reclaimers, We have one more patch for you all before we close the office for summer vacation. It's full of small fixes and difficulty tweaks. The Gatekeepers' behaviour has been expanded to they can now react defensively. As always, feedback is appreciated so

PATCH NOTES: [ RC: EA: 01.02 - 147630]

Hello Reclaimers,

We have one more patch for you all before we close the office for summer vacation. It's full of small fixes and difficulty tweaks. The Gatekeepers' behaviour has been expanded to they can now react defensively. As always, feedback is appreciated so let us know what you think on our Subreddit or Discord.

Rock and Stone!

With love,
The Ghost Ship crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

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[PLAYER POWERUPS]

- Reduced Flanking critical hit chance from 50% to 25% to better match its uncommon rarity

- Added new Volatile Radiation upgrade

- Changed description of snapfire extraction to the +1 red sugar, as that's what it was doing, instead of giving you 2.

- Tweaked heavy landing damage and radius to better scale with the player’s velocity

- Updated ceramic defence to have a side widget with active percent

- Updated magnetic propulsion to have side widget with active percent

- Updated bio charge description to reflect functionality when killing small swarmer-type enemies.

- Increased Armor Battery threshold from 20% to 33%

- Fixed a bug where Safety First would only give +1 armor instead of +25% Armor.

- Fixed ceramic defense making you take more damage as opposed to less

- Fixed Thunderstrike BB text showing +0.5% electrocution when it should be +50%

- Fixed Backcharge BB text incorrectly displaying +0.5% ability recharge rate instead of the actual +50%

- Fixed Retcons ability upgrade Accelerate stays permanently active if Retcon dies with effect active

- Fixed Retcons Ability sometimes activating itself

- Fix Stone Skin not displaying correctly after loading into level

- Prevent Stone Skin from decaying when players are in the elevator

- Fix Magic Missile description text

- Fixed Frontline Medic not working

- Momentum Bio Booster now only cancels the reload if its within 0.5 seconds of the reload starting and it wasn't manually initiated

- Fix for the following upgrades and artifacts breaking and not doing anything after the player died and got revived:

-- Blood Rush

-- Magnetic Propulsion

-- Vigor Charger

-- Light Weight

-- Rampage

-- Cqc Protocol

-- Ceramic Defense

-- Bastion

-- Cascade

-- Optimized and prevented cooper from triggering several upgrades unintentionally:

-- Sweet Surrender

-- Vampire

-- Hemoforge

-- Frost Harvest

-- Seeing Red

-- Death Resonance

-- Bio Charge

-- Blood Lust

-- Adhesive Snare

-- Rampage

[GUNS AND GEAR]

- Fixed elemental attributes on Sludge Pump giving the wrong bonus.

- Added Radiation elemental attribute to the Sludge Pump.

- Trident Gunsling sound

- Fixed Corrosive Sludge Pump projectile velocity attribute not working

- Fixed Weapons Populate Grenade Slot in Jumble

- Fixed Weapon missing after respawn post-crash

- Fix multi-hitscan ricochet/chain-hit not bouncing

- Potential fix for lingering Trident projectiles

- Fixed long frame for first time you shoot the Sludge Pump

- Prevent crash when using double drills in rare cases

- Fixed a bug where the Trident's icon would not appear correctly

- Jet boots no longer have the image of combat cocktail

[ENEMIES]

- Made the Voidkin Drifter shoot a bit more often

- Attempted to spread out enemy spawns across more rifts to reduce the potency of spawn-killing

- Tweaked enemy health scaling a bit to help them keep up with player power growth on later stages

- Added full elemental immunity to Reaperworms to make it harder to lock them down

- Increased presence of enemies added through risk vectors so they have more influence on the game difficulty

- Boss HP now scales linearly with facility stages in Depths above 1 to better match player power growth

- Tweaked boss health scaling based on team size so they are a bit more beefy when facing 3 and 4-player teams

- Reduced the health damage dealt by Gotoorak's force push

- Added Five-Shot and Force Bubble counterattacks to the Gotoorak to help it deal with high DPS teams

- Implemented Ram and Tornado counterattacks for Ramok gatekeeper

- Implemented Spike Shield and Teleport counterattacks for the Molaktula

- Made it so the Ramok is invulnerable during its tornado attack

- Gave a bit more airspace around the Ramok's rift

- Made it so Risk Vector enemies will spawn along with other enemies from the run’s pool during the gate-stone phases of a gatekeeper fight

- Fixed Regenerative Enemies Risk Vector not working

- Fixed Falconer drone targeting and stunning invulnerable Gotoorak and Ramok

- Fixed the Ramok radiation element resistance not working properly

- Fixed Vanguards not spawning in Armored Mob Risk Vector

- Fixed a softlock bug during the Moloktula fight

- Fixed a bug where the spawn system would find rifts near the center of the world, instead of near a random player, spawning the enemies far from the fight

- Prevent Molaktula from being stuck in a no-collision state if the phase change triggers while it is teleporting

- Fix for Molaktula invulnerability inconsistency during phase change against high DPS teams

- Fixed the Sentinel Spectre being affected by the Regenerative Enemies risk vector

- Shortened the duration of the Ramok's tornado attack and increased the rate at which it flings rocks

[MISC CHANGES]

- Added rewards to players who get kicked, server quests, or other server issues happen, to reward them for the time spent in the run

- Added a text to see how many upgrades you are having in a row at the negotiation screen

- Changed display of gauntlet depths to be normal and advanced (instead of depth 1 and 2)

- Improved sorting of depth and assault pace in server list

- Prevent players from losing the game after the boss is defeated E.g. if the player dies from a grenade after the boss is killed

- Change display of gauntlet assault pace to be gauntlet (since you cannot pick a pace for this)

- Reduced prices of beer

- End screen now shows max chips reached instead of zero when players got all the possible chips

- Added laserpoint shouts to workbench and elevator cable

- Made it so players you aren’t friends with are marked as “recently played with” in Steam

- Added pace to the depth displayed in the HUD

- Nether "Void Basket" is now known as Twisted Growth

[MISC FIXES]

- Made the leaflover “beer” actually free - you are welcome, Reclaimers.

- Prevent things from spawning inside the Research Subject Construction so they can't be grabbed/destroyed

- Fix player camera snapping to last reaperworm's grab location when player is freed in last second

- Play failure animations in end screen on players that were downed when the game ended

- Fixed voicechat mute/unmute

- Fixed a bug where when a player was downed inside the repulsion volume on the boss rifts they were not ejected from the rift and other players would not be able to revive them

- The Spectre Core sometimes gets stuck clipping through the floor after the sentinel spectre is killed

- Don't allow joining lobbies that require ascensions (Gauntlets) when the player has not ascended.

- Fix the list of upgrades in the build view flicking in some cases

- Fix for losing the game if host has died and a client takes too long to initialize the character on level start in one case

- Fixed the bar to be usable before doing a workout

- Fix one case of disconnects clearing a player's unlocks

- Attempted to fix Steam API crash at shutdown

- Fix the patch notes not showing up in game

- Fixed a crash when a player disconnects from a host during the loading screen

- Fixed tunnel construction carving

- Fix data terminal revealing all things when it is activated and not completed

- Prevent hitches when opening some of the Ramrod terminals the first time

- Fix using the wrong head for character icon previews in customization terminal and cosmetics sheet

- Fix squished chip image when max chips are reached

- Fix some particles not being cooked into the game, causing a long frame the first time they play

- Fix the server list button not always opening the server list in mission map

- Fix mission control appearing and reclaimers not shouting when depositing gems in excavation objective

- Fixed Twisted Growth terrain placement capsule being too small, causing it to overlap things like cameras bio-boosters etc

- Fixed the space above gatekeeper rifts blocking player laserpointers

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18 Jun 2026Developer post

Patch Notes: RC:EA : 01.01

PATCH NOTES: Hello Reclaimers, A patch with a lot of fixes and tweaks to radiation and some UI improvements. With love, The Ghost Ship crew --- PATCH NOTES --- Changes - Renamed Radiance to Blinding Flash - Corrosive Sludge Pump now shows damage stats in the reclaimers manual - R

PATCH NOTES: [RC:EA : 01.01 + 146012]

Hello Reclaimers,

A patch with a lot of fixes and tweaks to radiation and some UI improvements.

With love,
The Ghost Ship crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

Changes

- Renamed Radiance to Blinding Flash

- Corrosive Sludge Pump now shows damage stats in the reclaimers manual

- Reduced Button hold time to start upgrade negotiation from 1.5 -> 1 second

- Tweaked Ionization to have each stack be more impactful while reducing max stacks and having the stacks decay

- Increased the expenite earned from events

- Adjusted the expenite upgrade cost progression to slightly speed up the early upgrades and slightly slow down later ones

- Popping a radiation weakpoint boil now does an extra flat damage amount on top of the health percentage

- The health percentage damage done by popping a radiation boil now scales with radiation resistance

- Increased radiation weakpoint boil hp so you can shoot them longer before they pop

- Radiation weakpoint boils no longer pop automatically when a new one appears and are limited to max 3 at a time

- Decreased radiation elemental resistance of bosses to compensate

Fixes

- Fixed a bug where if the Moloktula's gravity slam attack was interrupted it would softlock the boss fight

- Fixed a bug where the Moloktula would softlock when it was not able to properly shatter the gatestone

- Improved Trident projectile performance for clients

- Fix damage number option changing when changing show FPS option

- Fix magic missiles lingering after impact

- Negotiation: Fixed wrong item being shown in item bar, after selection

- Added missing fire category to Ember-Attuned

- Removed weakpoint category from Burning Propagation

- Fix aftermath biobooster upgrade not working

- Fixed a bug where the "kill hostiles" deployment did not count kills correctly

- Add check to prevent recursion in Damage Reflection upgrade

- Late joining clients now get same rarity upgrades as team has already received

- Negotiation: Fixed Cooper upgrades being added to selection when Cooper is not in the level

- Improved player cursor accuracy, in negotiation and risk vector menus

- Fix HUD icon missing for vigor charger

- Fixed technical reload enhancement and combat ready artefact not giving cooling rate bonus

- Fix radiation boil weakpoints on armor breaking radiation element buildup when damaged

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17 Jun 2026Developer post

Update 01 is live! See the full patch notes here.

Hello Reclaimers, We're excited to launch the first major Update for Rogue Core! After much consideration, we have decided to call this first update 'Update 01'. It's been a busy couple weeks leading up to this. We've been doing a lot of experimenting, tweaking and adjusting, inc

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Hello Reclaimers,

We're excited to launch the first major Update for Rogue Core! After much consideration, we have decided to call this first update 'Update 01'.

It's been a busy couple weeks leading up to this. We've been doing a lot of experimenting, tweaking and adjusting, including some big revamps to core game mechanics. We also squeezed in some new content for good measure. There's a lot in here. Mark made (and narrated) a trailer to explain everything, which you can watch via the embedded link above. Otherwise, you'll find the full list of changes and additions down below.

As always, your feedback is integral to our development process, so remember to join our Discord or hop on the Rogue Core subreddit and let us know what you think.

Welcome to Update 01! Let's get right into it.

--- GAMEPLAY UPDATES ---

Improved mission timer

We've updated the mission timer's UI to better communicate what's happening during a run.

Improved timer feedback and readability
The last segment of the timer is now visually distinct to communicate urgency
Optional numerical countdown showing exactly when Reaperworms will appear

Assault Pace selection

To accommodate different player preferences for mission pacing, you can now select your preferred Assault Pace directly from the Mission Map. Adjusting the Assault Pace affects the time you have to complete each level and the mission XP rewards. Base reward values have been adjusted to accommodate these changes. We have also added new Tasks in the OpsCom terminal for each Pace.

You can choose from three Assault Pace options:

Cautious – Lower time pressure
Standard – Current experience
Reckless – Higher time pressure

R.E.P.D. upgrade process improvements

Initiating upgrades at the R.E.P.D. has been streamlined, so you no longer need to group up to start the process. This change applies to upgrades from Expenite as well as Spectre Cores.

Here's how it works now:

When an upgrade becomes available, a button will appear on the R.E.P.D.
Any Reclaimer can press it to initiate the upgrade process.
An upgrade link will be established with all Reclaimers on the team, regardless of their location.

Upgrade negotiations rework

We've made several improvements to the shared upgrade negotiation process, to make things more fun and give everyone more choices. We've been having a lot of fun with these changes ourselves, and we're keen to hear what you think.

Here are the key changes to upgrade negotiations:

When a player selects an upgrade, it is replaced with a new option. This ensures everyone gets the same number of choices.
The "Skip for Health" option has been removed. (Don't worry, we've made balances to account for this. More on that later.)
Health upgrades now appear alongside all other upgrades.
All upgrades within a draft now share the same rarity. Either you all luck out together, or you all pick between common upgrades.

We have also tweaked many of the existing upgrades, changing some of them extensively and removing others to make every choice feel exciting and worthwhile. This will be an ongoing process, so consider this just a first iteration.

--- NEW CONTENT ---

New weapons

Trident [Energy shotgun]: A new weapon from the makers of the DRAK 25, the Trident offers two firing modes: Standard fire is a semi-automatic blast in a triangle shot pattern. Holding down the trigger will charge up a massive barrage for dealing with groups of targets, or inflicting devastating single-target damage.
Corrosive Sludge Pump [Heavy weapon]: Looks like goop is back on the menu. Offering a mix of crowd control and continuous DoT, the Sludge Pump is a versatile weapon that also excels at melting enemy armor. The weapon can be charged to lob a large projectile saturating an area in corrosive sludge.

New Expenite Upgrades

Besides tweaking existing upgrades, we have also introduced 14 new ones to add more variety and spice to your builds. We are far from finished here, so you can expect ongoing balance tweaks as well as new additions to the upgrade pool in later updates.

New airborne enemy

You'll now have to contend with the Voidkin Drifter, a brand-new flying threat to expand the combat variety. Highly mobile and hard to hit, the Drifter will only stop to charge up its ranged attack. While the Void Bolts it launches may be relatively slow, they pack a heavy punch. So watch out and don’t let yourself get surrounded.

New Risk Vectors

We have added 3 new Risk Vectors to the pool of possible choices, with one being negative and and the other two positive.

Drifter Surge [Negative]: Brings in additional groups of the new Voidkin during your run.
Bio-Booster [Positive]: Adds a second Bio-Booster to the level.
Workbench [Positive]: Adds a second Workbench to the level.

New Core Biome

Our goal is to introduce a unique Core biome for each end boss.

With Update 01, we're adding a new Core biome for the Ramok boss, to give that fight experience a more distinct atmosphere and identity. For now, our friend the Molaktula will also use this biome until its own unique environment arrives in a future update.

New mining constructions

We've implemented 13 new mining constructions to the cave generation system, which ought to bring greater variety to facility exploration.

New OpsCom Deployments and Tasks

We have added 2 new Deployments to the OpsCom terminal. For both, you can progress in these challenges even without achieving total mission success.

Eliminate Corespawn: Tracked as a team, not individual kills.
Clear Facility Levels: Sometimes just making it one level deeper is a hard-fought win.

We have also added 3 new Tasks, one for each Assault Pace.

--- WEAPON BALANCE ---

We're making a broad pass on weapon balance and weapon selection pools, with the aim of making a more consistent difficulty floor across the game. Changes are as follows:

All starting weapons are now common, but come with 2 attributes.
Workbenches now have a chance for offering higher rarity weapons and traversal tools.
Heavy Weapon Crates now have a wider rarity range.
Additionally, several harder-to-master weapons (like the Shock Striker and Devastator) have been removed from the starting weapon pool on Depth 1, allowing new players to ease into the experience more naturally. They can still be found in the Workbench, and are still part of the starting pool on all other Depths.

A few individual weapons are getting balance tweaks as well. Tthis will be an ongoing process and feedback is always appreciated:

Reduced base spread of the Boomstick
Slightly reduced base damage of the Boomstick, but increased the number of pellets in a shell. This increases the overall damage done by one shot.
Slightly reduced the max recoil of the Decker SMG
Slightly increased base damage on the M1000
Increased the focus speed and added a damage bonus to focus shots on the M1000
Significantly increased the explosion damage of the PGL and reduced max ammo slightly to compensate
Set Warthog to be full-auto by default
Increased base damage on the Warthog slightly

--- BUG FIXES AND OPTIMIZATION ---

We've been doing a lot of tinkering to support general performance optimisation, both on the Ramrod and during missions. This includes a lot of specific optimisation for the myriad of particle systems, as these can get pretty hefty.

We also squashed a lot of bugs, including but not limited to:

Autocannon shells bursting when passing through gas clouds, which caused Reclaimers to flash-bang themselves (lol)
The Boss Rifts constantly spawning on top of hills, making players reenact the story of Sisyphus
Players taking the Toolbox with them into the void if they disconnected while holding it
The tutorial intro video being unskippable
Players not getting their Ascension rewards if the host rudely disbanded during the ceremony
Cooper dealing friendly fire damage to solo players (he will now play nice)
OMEGA not flinching when a beer mug is thrown at his eye

--- MISCELLANEOUS ---

More Munitions Crates have been added to the Facilities to improve ammo economy
A lot more Red Sugar has been added throughout the caves to help offset the removal of "Skip for Health" option in every negotiation
New tracks for the Jukebox: Disco, Smooth Soul, Funk, Soul
New model and animations for beloved maintenance drone MOP-C
Stacking of Enhancement tiers for a cleaner overview in Loadout Terminal
Auto-equipping the highest tier Enhancements when unlocking new Enhancements
Adding an Autosprint toggle in Options
Upon OMEGA's request, Leaf Lovers is now free at the bar
New weapon inspect animations for the Zhukovs
OMEGA's stutter effect can now be toggled on and off in the options

--- FREE DLC: 'FIRST RESPONDER' ---

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We've put together a little token of our gratitude for all of you who have joined us in these early days of Rogue Core, and helped us shape and sharpen the game. This free DLC is for you. Thanks for being among the first on-site, helping us identify issues, share feedback, and develop the future of Rogue Core.

The FIRST RESPONDER DLC pack is now available for free on Steam. Just head over to the page below to collect it.

View game page

We're really excited to hear what you think of all the new stuff! We hope you'll have as much fun with it as we've been having. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts along the way — these changes wouldn't be possible without your input.

Now go take back Hoxxes, Reclaimer. Rock and Stone.

With love,
- The Ghost Ship crew

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11 Jun 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES - RC:EA:00.07.13

(Build: 144984 - 11/06/2026) Hello Reclaimers, We are releasing a small patch with some bug fixes and a crash fix, which should reduce the amount of crashes and improve voice chat functionality. On top of this, we are releasing an experimental branch for Update 1! If you are inte

04 Jun 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES - RC:EA:00.07.12

(Build: 144292 - 04/06/2026) Hello Reclaimers, We are all hands on deck with Update 1 (preview HERE ), so this is a rather small patch. It contains some tweaks to the session system and serverlist that should make things better for those who have been having trouble seeing the se

28 May 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES - RC:EA:00.07.11

PATCH NOTES: RC: EA:00.07.11 (Build 143525 - 28/05/2026) Hello Reclaimers, While we working on content for the next big update, here's a patch with some fixes for some of the most reported bugs. We are aware that some players are having issues with the serverlist, and It is somet

PATCH NOTES: RC:EA:00.07.11 (Build 143525 - 28/05/2026)

Hello Reclaimers,

While we working on content for the next big update, here's a patch with some fixes for some of the most reported bugs.

We are aware that some players are having issues with the serverlist, and It is something we are very much investigating at the moment.

Thank you for your patience, while we figure things out <3

With love,
The Ghost Ship crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

- Bugfix for Ellis sometimes getting stuck when called to weapon crates.

- Fixed that the Bio-Booster became unhackable if a dwarf disconnected/left the game mid hack.

- Fixed that the sticky grenade didn’t unlock in the Reclaimer Handbook.

- Fix for some Reclaimers losing control of their dwarves if they had the chatbox up when the level transitioned.

- Fixed that the HUD didn’t update properly for Hosts when Reclaimers latejoined.

- Fixed Omega stacking shouts and yelling about buttons forever if you kept pressing his buttons.

- Fix for the level timer breaking when players late join.

- Fixed the workbench resetting if you rejoin.

- Fixed Run history - now a Reclaimed Facility should show as reclaimed for both Host and client.

- Fix Gauntlet seeds not being serialized and deserialized properly.

- Fix for the Gauntlet serverlist.

- Fixed the elite gauntlet resetting the rewards in the normal Gauntlet.

- Removed the path finder collision on entrance elevator in Gauntlet - now the Corespawn can get you in there.

- Attempt to fix players being able to be take damage after the exit elevator has been reached.

- Made it so items (cameras, expenite, redsugar, ect.) should no longer spawn inside the Research Subject Construction.

- Made it so Core Rifts no longer will spawn right above (or on) the Elevator Drive Unit.

- Cleaned up the Elevator Drive Unit hitbox so you can shoot close to it without your shots hitting thin air.

- Reduced the Merit requirements of Early Ascensions, Enhancement Tree Gates, Deployment Slots.

- Prevent crash if starting ability at a bad time.

- Prevent crash if damage a deleted player character.

- Adding more connection logging to get some more info out of logs from users who fail to connect.

- Blocked bar from being entered when under the influence of Underhill Deluxe to prevent dwarves getting stuck.

NOTE: If you get stuck anywhere on the Ramrod, you can go to the ESC menu > hover your Icon > Click the Respawn button. It is easy for a dwarf to get stuck.

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22 May 2026Developer post

Rogue Core's Early Access Living Roadmap is here

Hello Reclaimers, Following up on yesterday’s post , we’re here to share our revised Early Access Living Roadmap for Rogue Core. We listed things in order of priority, rather than putting it all on a timeline. Knowing ourselves, it’s easier for us to keep you updated on a rolling

21 May 2026Developer post

PATCH NOTES - RC:EA:00.07.09

PATCH NOTES: RC: EA:00.07.09 - Build 143055 Hello Reclaimers, Coming in hot with day one (day two? not sure. Thursday in any case) a few patch fixes as mentioned in this post . With love, - The Ghost Ship crew --- PATCH NOTES --- Tutorial post-processing effects: Reduced default

PATCH NOTES: RC: EA:00.07.09 - Build 143055

Hello Reclaimers,

Coming in hot with day one (day two? not sure. Thursday in any case) a few patch fixes as mentioned in this post.

With love,
- The Ghost Ship crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

[TUTORIAL]

Tutorial post-processing effects: Reduced default levels of aberration and toned down ‘pulse’ effect.
Made it so that enabling Photosensitivity Mode disables pulse effect.
Added a prompt drawing attention to the photosensitivity mode at the start of the tutorial
Made the Workbench Toolbox larger on Terrain Scanner to increase visibility

[SERVERS]

Added better default sorting to server list to prevent many players trying to join the same servers at the same time.
Added a better fix so we only ping the server list every 60 seconds while still doing updates every 15, so the server list keeps being responsive
Limited frequency with which Discord checks whether you have joined our Discord server (Used to check every 5 seconds, now checks every 60 seconds), reducing server strain
Fixed an issue with joining via Steam while already in an active server. By postponing the destruction of the game connection until a join is successfully made, this should resolve the issue of a disconnect happening while joining the other server. For players, this looked like getting stuck in black screen for a minute.
Fixed the host’s server list lobby not updating itself in the server list in rare cases

[DIFFICULTY TWEAKS]

Extended the time before Critical Threat Level on Depth 1 by 10%
Extended the time before Critical Threat Level on Depth 2 by 5%
Tweaked the enemy spawn cycle for elevator defense sequence to give players more space to recover and repair
Slowed down the rate at which enemy spawns increase when you hit Critical Threat Level
Smoothed out the stage difficulty increase on Depths 1

[CRASH/BUG FIXES]

Temporarily disabled frame generation due to it crashing the game during loading screens. We will bring it back later after we have time to investigate and fix the issues.
Fixed a crash on shutdown where the online service hasn't finished some calls to the backend, causing the final returns to attempt to use a deleted object
Fixed players getting stuck mining if they were mining when the upgrade negotiations start.
Fixed interactions breaking if player ability is active when upgrades negotiation starts, which made it so you sometimes couldn’t interact with objects
A bunch of smaller and some big crash fixes

[OTHER]

Added 3 new tracks to the jukebox: blues, jazz, jungle (We need jungle, I’m afraid)

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21 May 2026Developer post

Day-after reflections: addressing your feedback

Hello Reclaimers, Hell of a day, huh? It’s been a rollercoaster of a launch and we’ve gotten lots of feedback, both positive and negative. We’re taking both seriously. We’re currently working on a patch for today with some “safe” smaller improvements, and cooking up a plan to add

Hello Reclaimers,

Hell of a day, huh?

It’s been a rollercoaster of a launch and we’ve gotten lots of feedback, both positive and negative. We’re taking both seriously. We’re currently working on a patch for today with some “safe” smaller improvements, and cooking up a plan to address more major points of critique in the immediate future.

Thanks to everybody who’s been part of this launch — both for your enthusiasm, and for letting us know how we can make Rogue Core better.

Busy days ahead! Let’s get into it.

Smaller short-term fixes coming in a patch today

There’s a whole lot of feedback to process, and much of it has to do with systems that are pretty deeply baked into how Rogue Core is designed. Those will take a bit of time to tackle. But we’ve identified some stuff closer to the surface that we can fix right now to help smooth out and improve people’s first impressions of the game.

Later today we’ll be rolling out a day-one hotfix focusing on smaller, “safe” fixes. Basically, stuff we can do right now without setting everything else on fire.

In that, you can expect:

Improvements to the tutorial: Reducing the post-processing effects during the tutorial, and clearly mentioning the photosensitivity toggle in settings. Also, more clearly explaining the Workbench/Toolbox system (more tutorial improvements coming later).
Difficulty tweaks: Smoothing out the new player’s experience by extending time limits on Depths 1 and 2, and slowing down enemy spawns in the critical threat level
Bug fixes: Standard stuff here; preventing crashes, softlocks, other high-priority issues
Musical diversions: Adding 3 new tracks to the Jukebox (Jazz, Jungle & Blues)

These will be coming in a few hours, and we'll post the full patchnotes here on Steam.

Key frustrations: timer, shared upgrades, and ammo

When we look at what people don’t like about Rogue Core, three main pain points stand out:

Lots of people think the timer isn’t fun.
Shared upgrades can be frustrating and interrupt the flow of the game.
Ammo economy is a big issue.

These certainly aren’t the only issues we’re seeing, but they do seem to be the biggest. Both in that they’re mentioned most frequently, and they take the most fun out of the experience. So we’re making them our immediate priority.

We don’t want to just rush out a knee-jerk panic fix for these things. It’ll take a second for us to reflect on how to improve them, and then to build and test those improvements. It’s not an overnight fix, but it is our main focus right now.

We’ll update you once we’ve got more here. Until then, you can trust that we hear you loud and clear, and we’re working on it.

Roadmap coming tomorrow

In light of your feedback, we’re changing up our roadmap. We want to focus on the stuff that’s most feasible for us to fix quickly, that’ll make the biggest difference for people who don’t feel like Rogue Core is up to their expectations.

We’ll post that tomorrow here on Steam. That ought to give you a clearer picture of how we’ll go about developing Rogue Core from here, and what to expect from us in the weeks and months to come.

All of us, laying aside any gripes or praises, want Rogue Core to be the best it can be. Early Access is just square one, and we’re excited to see how the game grows from here.

Hope everybody’s doing well. Talk soon!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship crew

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Updates & announcements

Hello Reclaimers,

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES --- ㅤ

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

THREAT LEVELS

UNGATED SERVERLIST

WAVE STACKING

NO BOSS INVULNERABILITY

NEW UPGRADES

NEW ARTIFACT EVENT

NEW ALTERATIONS

NEW OLD WEAPON: LOK-1 SMART RIFLE

NEW ENEMY: VOIDKIN DOMINATOR

NEW ENTRANCE FACILITIES + CAVE GENERATION

NEW MOLAKTULA BIOME

ALPHA CLEARANCE GRANTED

COMBAT AND BALANCE

VOICELINES / LASER POINTER

MISCELLANEOUS

Hello Reclaimers,

NEW DIFFICULTY SYSTEM: THREAT LEVELS

UNGATED SERVERLIST (MORE MATCHMAKING)

BOSS INVULNERABILITY PHASES REMOVED

NEW UPGRADES + ARTIFACT

NEW ARTIFACT EVENT

NEW ALTERATIONS

NEW OLD WEAPON: LOK-1 SMART RIFLE

NEW ENEMY: VOIDKIN DOMINATOR

NEW ENTRANCE FACILITIES + CAVE GENERATION

NEW MOLAKTULA BIOME

ALPHA CLEARANCE AUTO-GRANTED

How to access the Experimental Branch

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

Hello Reclaimers,

Balancing player power and game difficulty

Difficulty and Risk Vectors

Beefier bosses

More Reaperworm pressure

Safeguarding from disconnects

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

Hello Reclaimers,

--- GAMEPLAY UPDATES ---

Improved mission timer

Assault Pace selection

R.E.P.D. upgrade process improvements

Upgrade negotiations rework

--- NEW CONTENT ---

New weapons

New Expenite Upgrades

New airborne enemy

New Risk Vectors

New Core Biome

New mining constructions

New OpsCom Deployments and Tasks

--- WEAPON BALANCE ---

--- BUG FIXES AND OPTIMIZATION ---

--- MISCELLANEOUS ---

--- FREE DLC: 'FIRST RESPONDER' ---

Hello Reclaimers,

--- PATCH NOTES ---

EXPERIMENTAL LIVE

SYSTEM UPDATES

Improved Mission Timer

Assault Pace Selection

R.E.P.D. Upgrading Improvements

Upgrade Negotiation Rework

NEW CONTENT

New Weapons

New Enemy

New Risk Vectors

New Mining Constructions

New OpsCom Deployments and Tasks