Hey Starium explorers!
We’ve just released our first patch in early access, bringing new features, balance tweaks, and bug fixes to improve your gameplay experience. Here’s what’s new:
Local Co-op: You can now play with up to 4 players!
Controller support: Seamless switching between keyboard and controller in single-player. Menus and gameplay now feel smoother with a controller.
Weapons
Lawless Rifle: New dash-forward bayonet attack when standing still.
Long Shot:
Shoots rapidly while moving.
Fires bouncing bullets when standing still.
Shadow SMG: Grants 3 levels of Swiftness and Darkness passives (up from 2). Equipping two now lets you stack up to 6 levels.
Added Masterwork/Shiny versions of the Long Shot Rifle, GMancer Rifle, and Shadow SMG.
Armor
Outlaw Pants:
Increased poison stacks on stealth attacks (scales with character level).
Secret effect: raises target’s max poison stack cap from 200 → amount equal to your applied stacks.
Projectile silence increased to 75% (up from 50%).
Merge System Improvements
Bouncing merge bullets: No longer stack insane damage/range. Uses the highest value of the two projectiles.
Homing merge bullets: Homing range no longer stacks, only the highest range applies.
Meat quest renamed to Infinite Growth.
Added “Add Players” and “Remove Players” buttons in character creation.
Player 1 can now add/remove players anytime during the game.
Shatter Projectile:
Damage per projectile reduced: 115 → 100.
Cold stacks reduced: 30 → 8.
New XP sound effect.
New music added to the Yumgrow Meat Factory.
Demon Shot now deals the intended stealth damage.
Fixed excessive screenshake in co-op.
Fixed co-op teleporting players to the wrong location.
Fixed Sorcery Work Experience not allowing special dashes.
This patch is all about polishing the Starium experience and preparing for more exciting content ahead. Thank you for all your feedback, it helps us improve every update!
Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, keep exploring the stars! 🌠