Korzodin here (lead dev). Season's greetings from the depths of hell, meatbags! The season: SUMMER. Its 102f / 39c in my room right now, and my bones are burning! Fortunately, I've been able to pretend to stay cool by designing...
The Snow Biome
Noah has headed up north to Hrusk; the original landing site of the terraformers, and capital city of Ross 128-b.
Hrusk is surrounded by the Dakkron Mountains, a harsh mountain range with deep snow, harsh visibility conditions, and perilous cliffs. Fun stuff to traverse, we promise!
The waist-deep snow here is deep enough to hide some smaller critters, so watch where you step...
And keep clear of the old nuclear power silos. They haven't been patrolled by the RDI in weeks, who knows what could have taken up residence?
The Convergence
A new faction of energy cultists using science and quasi-magics to harvest the life-energy from the local colonists. The Convergence presence on Ross is originally why Noah was deployed here, with the simultaneous Armillimax invasion complicating things. Despite the impending bug apocalypse, the Ardent Convergence are still moving forward with their plans, and are eager to harvest the colonists AND the bugs!
(Concept art by Metal Invader, lead dev of Hellslinger. Check 'em out!)
Also, here's footage of some (very WIP) mechanical tests of the Convergence faction:
As you can see, we've got limb damage in the works! Shoot them in the leg to immobilize them, shoot them in the head to do extra damage, and shoot them in the {redacted} to {redacted}!
The Future
Yep, we're still working on it!
We post content updates weekly on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/korzodin.bsky.social
Otherwise, we'll be making seasonal update posts here on Steam. I'll be looking to get the Convergence faction functional by then, so that we can start designing real combat encounters!
In the meantime, I'll resume roasting my bones. Peace!