Hey all!

We wanted to update everyone and let you know that we will be temporarily retiring the store page for Starsiege: Deadzone. With that being said, we plan to maintain servers for the foreseeable future.

Thank you so much for your support!

Progression and Loadout

• Progression has been wiped.
  
• Reduced overall level count to 65.
  
• Perk selection updated.

Shop

• Weapon, Armor and Salvage Pricing updated.

Cosmetics

• Weapon cosmetics ordering updated.

Weapons

• Mythic weapons can no longer be put in secure slots.
  
• Energy SMG kick has been reduced.
  
• Hush Puppy damage has been lowered.
  
• Slow Burn damage has been increased.
  
• Double Barrel Shotgun damage has been lowered, and falloff damage increased.

Abilities

• Overshield Balance.

General updates

• Players can no longer ping while in the starting hanger.
  
• Map Legend Updated to hide med bays and added extraction pod icon.
  
• Player XP and Level is now shown above their character in the lobby.
  
• Revive timer now shows on the player's health bar HUD.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where items could be duplicated using vendors.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Weak Point perk would not be properly granted to players.
  
• Fixed an issue where a crafted item would not show until the player relaunches or returns from a match.
  
• Fixed an issue where the contract and shop timers would not display correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the ordering of weapons in the cosmetics screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where the second secure slot would not unlock properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Energy DMR and Energy SMG would not show on the cosmetic screen.
  
• Fixed an issue with the description on the EMP Blast Pulse perk
  
• Fixed an issue where sell tooltips would not show in the salvage vendor.
  
• Fixed an issue where some weapons still had class restrictions.
  
• Fixed an issue where extraction pods would not spawn in specific rooms.
  
• Fixed an issue where death crates and revive beacons would spawn above doors.
  
• Fixed an issue where spectators could not see revive beacons.
  
• Fixed an issue where certain pistols would not trigger the enhanced senses perk.
  
• Fixed an issue where some attributes would not apply correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where "using health/shield pack" text and progress bar would be stuck on screen if you respawned while your spectate target was using a health/shield pack.
  
• Fixed an issue where death crate icons would not disappear if your teammate could no longer be revived.
  
• Fixed an issue with Storm Slicer VFX would not show.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Storm Sliver SFX could be heard throughout the map.

Known Issues

• Contracts may not be granted when the player logs in.
  
• Items may be moved from backpack to stash upon extraction.
  
• Level Progress bar may not properly update in the lobby sometimes.

Hey Raiders,

An issue that is preventing some players from logging in has come to our attention. We are going to have a small amount of downtime soon to address this and hopefully fix it.

Here are the details

• Servers will go into limited at 12:15 PM EST and fully close 15 minute later
  
• We're looking at about an hour of downtime

Also, we would like to let everyone know that we are fully aware of the dupe issue and plan on addressing it later this week. I'll share more details on this as we get closer to the end of the week.

Patch Notes 9/22/2023


Inventory

• No classes or loadout restrictions.
• Players will have all abilities available and unlock perks through progression.
• Adding back in the stash and stash tabs which unlock as you level.
• Backpack slots reintroduced.
• Reduced number of available slots, but all slots can hold weapons and armor.
• Secure slots will allow players to store weapons and armor.
• Armor will remain droppable.
• Armor will stay as 4 pieces: Helmet, Chest, Gloves and Boots. 
• Weapons and armor will now roll a single attribute from set pools.
• For example, chest armor can roll Resilience, Max Health, Max Shield, or Headshot Mitigation.
• The amount of the rolled attribute increases with rarity.

Progression

• Reputation is granted on confirmed player kill and extraction, as it was before.  
• Daily Contracts will grant XP, Credits, and have a random loot pool of items.
• Progression for stash/crafting/etc will unlock with levels.
• Secure Slots: Unlocked at levels 6/16/26/36
• Stash Tabs: Unlocked at level 8/18/28/38
• Level Progression Tab removed.

Vendors and Crafting

• Adding Armor, Weapon, Consumable and Salvage vendors with level gating.
• Economy has been reworked for weapon and armor rarity costs
• Crafting will be limited to the salvage vendor and crafting from salvage (no component).
• Crafting materials removed from loot drops.
• Added ability to craft Unique rarity at later levels

Revives

• Revives will work differently now. Players will now be put into a ‘downed state' where they can be revived via their beacon found on their player crate. If an enemy destroys their beacon, they will be unable to revive for the remainder of the match.

In-Game

• Maps and Fog circle will remain the same (Squads and Solo).
• Escape pods will spawn in waves around the outer edge of the fog circle for players to use to escape.
• High security rooms will have some harder bots to fight.
• Loot rarity drop rates will be reduced slightly.
• Valuables will drop again in lower quantities for selling.

Known Issues

• Crafting an item will take components but not give the item until the player relaunches or comes back from match.
• Salvage items also may not visually be taken after being used for crafting. 
• Items may automatically move from the backpack to the stash.
• Stormslicer VFX are missing.

Raiders,

Based off of your feedback, we will be shutting servers down at 10 am EST and working toward a version of the game much closer to season 1. We will give you more info when we can. Thank you for playing this iteration and giving us your feedback!

Standard for other BR’s, players will be able to queue into Squads (Parties of 3 or they can turn Fill Teammates off to queue by themselves) or Solo mode (no teams). Map sizes will be different between the two game modes, but will be randomly generated each match for both. Drop in with basic weapons and loot as much as you can to become stronger throughout the match. Find better weapons, equip armor, and assign consumables to your belt to give yourself an edge over the rest of the lobby.


A deadly Fog will close in around the map as time goes on. Matches last 13 minutes. As the Fog overlaps sections of the ship, those sections will explode leaving behind platforms of debris to jump across. The Fog will also damage the player while they are standing in it, so it is not advisable to remain in the Fog for too long. Last team standing wins! (or player, if queued solo!)


Players will be able to customize their Abilities and Perks however they want. Players will have all Abilities available from the start, but only have access to a few Perks. New Perks are unlocked randomly when the player levels up. Players will be able to use whatever weapons and armor they find in the match! It will be best to bring a variety of abilities and perks so players can help each other out as a team in Squads, or find the perfect Solo build to dominate every match by yourself!


With the focus of the game being more PvP, Cybrids won’t be very dangerous but will still drop lots of loot. They still pack a punch, so don’t underestimate them. Eliminate as many Cybrids and loot as many rooms as you can to gear up before running into enemy players. Revives will be straight forward, as soon as you see a teammate die, find the nearest Med Bay with a Revive Station to bring them back into the fight. Of course, when you die, you drop all of your loot and will only respawn with the starting equipment.

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We are adding Reputation, which functions similar to your MMR or skill level. Once you are above a certain Reputation Rank, you will have to spend Rep to enter into matches. Depending on how long you are alive in the match and what placement you are at the end of the match, will be the way players gain Reputation (and bragging rights at higher Reputation Ranks).

‍Known Issues

• Players will not start with any abilities or perks equipped - set your loadouts!
  
• Some weapons do not have previews in the shop.
  
• The Progress tab may not properly show sometimes.
  
• Abilities may be unequipped after a match.

Starsiege: Deadzone - State of the Game 2023

Raiders, we hear your response to the latest changes over the past month & have an announcement to make regarding some changes.

As most of you can tell from our testing, we have found it very difficult to balance all aspects of PvP, PvE, Extraction and Progression into a single cohesive design. One of the core issues is that progression and fair PvP are inherently in conflict with each other (most players dislike geared higher level players killing lower level ungeared players).

Based on your feedback, and to accommodate the various playstyles we decided to move back to some of our original design.

Starsiege: Deadzone will be branching into two different games:

• Starsiege: Deadzone - will focus on short rounds of PvP gameplay.
  
• Starsiege: Raiders - will focus on a larger scale extraction and progression gameplay.

Starsiege: Deadzone (PvPvE) will have the following features:

• Free to Play.
  
• Release expected in October.
  
• All players enter a match with minimal equipment (basic weapons).
  
• Players will find various loot (Weapons, Armor, Consumables) in match from crates and bot drops.
  
• Bots are relatively easy and the focus is on PvP, with only a few bot types in the match.
  
• Maps are the current ships and will once more break apart from the outside in using the fog system.
  
• There are no classes.
  
• Progression will unlock Abilities and Perks, all players start with 2 abilities and 4 perks so all progression is for alternative playstyles.
  
• There is no extraction, no stash, no merchants, no missions, no crafting.
  
• Reputation system will return along with matchmaking.
  
• Solo and Team Queues will be available.

Starsiege: Raiders (PvPvE) will have the following features:

• Paid access (requires a Founders Pack).
  
• Test sessions will take place over the next few months to fully develop the game.
  
• Expected release is estimated to be January 2024 (not guaranteed).
  
• Large maps with outdoor/indoor space.
  
• Large variety of PvE Bots including Bosses.
  
• Large variety of missions.
  
• Crafting and Merchants similar to the current system.
  
• Classes (determined by testing).
  
• Extraction, Inventory, and Loot will be similar to the current systems.
  
• Solo and Team Queues will be available.

FAQ:

• Players who purchased the Founders Packs (and Season Pass) will get the Founders packs for both games, and the Season Pass for both games. This offer will be available until the release of both games which will then have separate Founder Packs and Season passes.
  
• All cosmetics bought or earned in one game will be available automatically and for free in the other game through cross-game progression.
  
• We plan on testing the newest update to Starsiege: Deadzone soon and we aim to do some more testing this weekend.
  
• Erez will be available for a Q&A to go over these changes and the roadmap soon.

Thank you for all your support,
Erez

9/15/2023 Patch Notes

Progression has been reset! Perks, perk slots, stash tabs and secure slots must be unlocked through progression for this test. Those who owned the season booster and/or founders pack will be unaffected by this change.

Cosmetics will begin unequipped but are not lost.

Progression

• Added rewards back to the progression track
• Perk Slots
• Stash Tabs
• Safe Container Slots
• Crafting Tiers
• Objective Keycards

UI

• Show armor rating as well as damage mitigation on the stat panel.

Missions

• Added Agent Missions
• Agent Missions allow the player to complete tasks for different Agents. Doing different missions will unlock various progression items for the player to take advantage of.
• Added missions tab to the top nav bar.
• Missions in match will be marked on their map by a gold mission icon. 
• Missions will be marked on their map. Some missions require players to extract a specific item or kill players.
• Mission rewards can be claimed in the Missions tab.

Vendors and Crafting

• Crafting adjusted
• Added new components required for crafting.
• New Salvage vendor activated.
• Salvaging weapons and armor will drop a new crafting component of equal rarity.
• Weapon and armor vendors now rotate what is available to purchase.

Weapons

• Changed knife color from purple to orange/red.

Abilities

• Some ability cooldowns adjusted.
• Added a deploy animation for healing station, dome shield, motion sensor.
• Disabled self-damage on proximity mine.
• Added a new small camera shake to proximity mine explosion.

Keycard Objectives

• High Security Levels now require a specific objective keycard to enter.
• You earn these keycards by leveling up out of match.

Map Generation

• Reduced the number of Yellow Security Levels.

Cybrids

• Increased difficulty of Cybrids in the Orange Security rooms. 
• Increased Ambush Laser Cybrids health to 1200.
• Increased Phalanx Melee health to 1200.
• Increased Guardian's projectile speed.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where vendors would not populate after a match
• Fixed an issue where contracts would not progress properly at the end of match screen.
• Fixed an issue where 1P pack VFX would remain on your screen if you respawned while your spectated target was using a health/shield pack.

Known Issues

• Stat panel in match sometimes does not update properly.
• Issue with some missions not displaying properly after completing them. After relaunching they will be fixed.
• Issue with ability and weapon VFX sometimes obscuring the camera.
• Issue with invisible collision missing VFX when entering high security rooms.

After careful consideration, we decided to end our test a little earlier than originally intended. We hear your feedback and feel like we've gotten more than enough to dive back into development and make some meaningful changes. With that being said, servers will be temporarily unavailable until later this week to facilitate the implementation of the upcoming patch. While we know it's not fun for servers to be down, this decision was made with the players in mind as we want to give you the best gameplay experience possible.

Here's what you need to know:

🔧 Server Downtime

The servers will be temporarily offline during this period.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding while we work with your feedback to improve the game.

🕒 Downtime Duration

The downtime is expected to last until later this week.
Our team is committed to ensuring a smooth and efficient maintenance process to minimize disruptions.

🌟 Upcoming Patch Testing

We have an exciting patch in the works that should bring awesome changes and improvements to the game.
Stay tuned for patch notes and announcements about what you can expect!

We greatly appreciate your patience and continued support. We understand how important it is for you to get back into the game, and we are working diligently to make that happen as soon as possible.

Thank you for being a part of our community, and we can't wait to get your feedback on the next test so we can continue working towards the best version of Deadzone. Keep an eye on our official channels for further updates and announcements.

Stay safe, stay tuned, and get ready for an incredible patch!