Developer posts and news about this game.
Wow, it's been far too long since I gave a progress update on how Factions development is going; we've actually had *three* major content updates since the last time I posted about the development on this feature, which is much too long a time to leave you all hanging! We now hav
This is another small patch with a couple of fixes based on player feedback and bug reports: Fixed a bug which sometimes allowed players to walk straight through solid buildings that they shouldn't have been able to walk through. This mostly affected buildings which could be inte
Hi folks! Today's update is just a small bugfix patch to address a few issues reported over the past week. Notable fixes: Fixed a multi-threading timing bug between texture garbage collection and MMO logo generation. Fixed a potential issue when a player was doing a quest, got di
Hi folks! This is a quick hotfix build with fixes for issues reported from the Volcanic Update two days ago. Changes: Fixed a couple of broken "Volcanic" modular building tiles. Any affected buildings should automatically be fixed when loaded in 0.30.3 or later! Fixed a multithre
Hi everyone! After the last few updates which were big tech improvements to game performance and to character behaviours, today we're rolling out our latest content update; a long-requested "Volcanic" art pack! Here's what's new: A full Volcanic theme of functional buildings! A n
Hi folks! I've been down with a nasty stomach bug for the last week, but I'm back now! (Today is my first day back in the office) Bug fixes: Fixed parties getting stuck in a 'Forming up' state when the parties were close to an obstruction or a wall (believed introduced in v0.29.7
Hi everyone! This is another hotfix build for the "Tactics Update". Here's what's new: - Fixed a crash-to-desktop issue on Windows, which could cause the game to crash without even triggering the game's crash reporting systems. - In the "Debug" tab of the Options window, you can
Hi folks! This is another hotfix patch with bugfixes for the "Tactics Update" from earlier this week. Here's what's new: Parties are now smarter around densely packed enemies. (previously they sometimes got a little single-minded and could wind up doggedly pursuing a single enemy
Hi folks! This is just a quick hotfix addressing a showstopper bug found by a player, where under certain very specific circumstances, a player attacking another player and killing them in a single hit could result in the game locking up and becoming unresponsive. I *believe* thi
Hi folks! This is a stepping-stone build toward our upcoming Factions major update. The big changes here are the new combat logic subscribers are following, making them smarter, faster, and deadlier at wielding their abilities. As a warning, do expect to see your subscribers havi
Hi folks! One more little hotfix with fixes for a few remaining edge cases from the Slimline Update earlier this week. Fixes: Fixed a bug in the redo of destroying network cables/fibers. Fixed box-select to be able to select network cables/fibers. Fixed network cables and fibers,
Hi everyone! This is a hotfix for a few more issues players have reported in the latest Slimline update, mostly to do with new edge cases around changes to our underlying tech. Changes: Implemented a more reliable way of ensuring that game data doesn't change partway through a sa
Hi everybody! This is a small update that's mostly addressing issues people found in the Slimline Update which we released a couple days ago. Most issues were around weird edge cases we had missed while the build was in our public test phase, especially around "double load" situa
Hi everyone! Every once in a while we do a major tech update which doesn't change the game, but changes the game's underlying systems to improve performance. That's what we have today. In this Slimline Update, we have a number of big tech improvements, plus a few bug fixes and qu
Hi folks! This is just a very small hotfix build. This update contains two very small fixes: Overnight we received a crash report from a player whose save failed to load because it contained a broken, non-functional network fiber placement which I had thought couldn't have been s
Hi everyone! At the end of last year we ran a poll amongst players in our Discord server to pick a future art theme. The "Eldritch" theme won with a commanding showing, and our artist has been working ever since to interpret it in our art style. This has now arrived in the form o
Hi everyone! I wanted to take a moment to talk a bit about what's coming in the Factions Update. It's still a little ways off, but hopefully this little taste will give you some insight into what's coming! This update is divided into several different parts. Let's talk about them
Hi everyone! This is another small update with bugfixes for various issues reported by players: Fixed a bug which could cause a small percentage of potential new subscribers to decide that they couldn't afford to pay your game's purchase price when they actually could. Fixed some
Hi folks! This is just a small patch with a couple very targeted fixes: In the last patch, I accidentally broke our map seeds system, so a seed from an earlier build was now building different maps than it did before; this commit fixes that, and we're back to our traditional map
Hi folks, this is just a very small maintenance patch to address a few stability issues we've seen reported over the past week or so. Changes: After continuing to see (admittedly very rare) triangulation failures reported by a few players, we're switching to a new triangulation s