INTRODUCTION

Hi - I’m James, the Navigator at 8 Circuit Studios, and today I get to show you the updates that come with the Project Genesis Pre-Alpha Hercules 2.0 hotfix.

For this milestone, we wanted to focus on three major features that emphasize player progression, team play, and weapon archetypes that encourage new FPS tactics.

PROGRESSION

Firstly, we have improved the player progression experience by allocating emblems, skins, kill card banners, and unit palettes to you as you level up. There are over 200 items for you to collect on your path to achieving level 100.

For your convenience, this new system comes with green pip indicators that notify you where your newly allocated items are located in the main menu UI.

PARTIES/SQUADS

In the very near future, we will be coordinating community tournaments and collaborating with great organizations like the Wounded Warrior Project and Stack Up Dot Org.

To make team play easier in these cases, and to respond to community feedback, we have implemented the first version of our Squad system. This system allows you to create sessions and invite your Steam friends to multiplayer games.

FPS WEAPONS

One of the most exciting features we’re looking forward to bringing you is a completely revamped FPS conventional weapon system. The FPS weapons should feel quite different from each other, and they follow small tactical arms categories like submachine gun, assault rifle, light machine gun, marksman rifle, and shotgun.

TWITCH DROPS

With the Hercules 2.0 Hotfix, the highly sought-after Twitch drops have finally become available. If you are an approved Content Creator, your community will receive the exclusive Twitch kill card emblem and kill card banner...they need only watch your stream for two hours. If they watch your stream for four hours, they will earn the Twitch Wraith skin.

If you’d like to grow your community with us by participating in our creator program, join our Discord and let our team members know.

DLC PACKS

If you have purchased Project Genesis, your support means everything to us. To say thank you, we have upgraded you to receive the Gold Founders Pack with the Hercules 2.0 update.

If you’d like to show off your generous support of the dev team we are offering 5 Founders Packs that will only be available while we’re in Steam Early Access. Once Project Genesis releases as a full version, you’ll never be able to get these Founders pack items again.

IN CONCLUSION

And finally, the Hercules 2.0 milestone has hundreds of other features and quality of life improvements to enhance your gameplay experience. We look forward to seeing you in game Pilot! Good luck, and have fun.

QUALITY OF LIFE FEATURES

- Near miss indicators for FPS conventional weapons
- New EMP behaviors
- New HUD indicators for objective progress
- Ship camera shake adjusted to be less brutal when taking damage
- Ship Weapons: Primaries: Set up firing to take turns on each individual turret to reduce overpower on ships equipped with multiple primary turrets. Note: VFX ie. muzzle flash will play on all but will only be a visual discrepancy for the time being
- Ship Weapons: damage adjustments
- PVE: Added footstep audio to AI bots
- New HUD icons
- Onslaught: Reduced ship objective capture volume
- Updated loading screens with improved mask (visual)
- Added Unit & Weapon stats to in-game loadout screens
- Fixed turrets not doing any damage in battle craft theater
- Fix to disable FPS HUD once match is ended to prevent player inputs while breaching during the end of match
- Fix attempt for the crash during PvE Maps roll for players with big ping (200+)
- Fixed messaging to show proper attackers/defenders teams in RespawnMenu
- Fixed Total Score on leaderboards