Friends, in anticipation of the upcoming major update “Heavy Weight” we will share the work progress on Tenebris: Terra Incognita.

We apologize that we haven't released any news about the game for a long time, some of the players might have been alarmed by it. But we want to reassure everyone, everything is fine and the development is in full swing!

We are finalizing the new “Operations Headquarters” ship bay. Here you will be able to send groups of heroes on missions in the background. This bay will become an additional source of resources and equipment for you. And the most important thing is that you will be able to get experience for multiple groups of heroes at once. This improvement will significantly reduce the need for unnecessary grind in the game.

In addition, this bay also serves as a Memorial, where you will be able to view the statistics of your fallen heroes.

After the game was released in early access, we received a lot of suggestions and requests from you. Many players praised the tactical component of the game, but criticized the strategic depth. We have taken into account the criticism and changed the ship bay upgrade system, at the same time increasing the number of upgrades. This should add more variety and depth to the game.

We have already added new bugs to the test build and are currently working on new bosses. The new creatures are designed to noticeably diversify the game experience and remove the monotony in the first part of the game.

Regenus
Regenus is the bug colony repairman. The substances it secretes, like high-strength assembly foam, repairs the damaged chitin of its kin and after some time becomes indistinguishable from the rest of the shell. Regenus can dump the spent products of its repair fluid on its enemies in the form of poisonous and toxic mucus.

Carabid
The existence of Carabidae suggests strong intraspecific competition among the different hives. Apparently it was necessary for local evolution to create a living spear to inflict massive damage to flesh and cover it with razor-sharp armor. So attacking this thing in close combat is not a good idea.

More bosses have been added as well, they are cunning and dangerous. Some of them are completed and being tested, but for now let's get to know them better.

Venenum Ballus
Who's the most poisonous in the hive? - asks the inexperienced fighter. Venenum Ballus, of course! At a glance you can see that the creature's impressive belly is like a huge poison barrel, but that's not all! The creature spawns vile Boomitus minions at an enviable rate. So what do we do? Should we take more medics or should we stock up on flamethrowers?

Albinus
A lone monster with unusual coloration, resembling an arachnid rather than an insect. Not only can it detect a well-disguised opponent, but it clearly enjoys hunting down weak prey that is hiding from a predator. It secretes a slime that protects it from all effects, but like any bully, it is frightened when left unprotected.

Scutigeromorpha
An eternally hungry monster that grinds its opponents with dozens of blade-like paws. Scutigeromorpha will try to devour its prey, even when it is still alive and actively resisting. Add to that an incredible regeneration ability, and you get a terrifying enemy that will appear in your nightmares more than once.

Androctonus
This creature has been endowed by nature with a unique vision system and tough, spiky armor. Not only can its sharp paws inflict life-threatening wounds, but also any attempt to cut through its protective chitin will have the same results. Androctonus will always find a way to twist and pierce the attacker with its spikes in return.

The human expedition has finally managed to breach the airlock leading into the alien ship beneath the Devil's Throat. New enemies will be waiting for you there, ready to test your build with their unique mechanics.

The “Crystalloids” faction is represented in the game in the form of the ship's defense system. Aggressive mechanisms made of metal alloys, crystal growths and wires. Inside is cybernetic flesh-like tissue. These mechanisms are immune to some control and DoT effects. Such as fear and stun, as well as poison. However, they can be knocked down, set on fire and hit with acid. And since they are cybernetic mechanisms, they can also stop functioning from blood loss.

Members of the Crystalloid faction place special “High Priority” tags on their enemies. While the tag is in effect, the other Crystalloids deal increased damage with special attacks.

The player's task is to adapt to the new challenge and develop individual tactics to fight it. We've found 3 good ways to counteract the creatures, how many will you find and which one will you choose?

We have received a large number of suggestions from you to improve hero talents!
There were a number of heroes who, when switching to a new subclass, lost variety in their playstyle. Others were forced to dump talents they didn't need in the T1 branch. Libritor suffered in particular, as the class was almost unplayable as a Damage dealer.

That's why we significantly reworked and balanced the heroes. We replaced and added new passive and even active talents. Now the heroes are close to our ideal, and we believe that you will appreciate the new changes!

Vidua had the opposite situation, the hero had high damage, control and initiative at the same time. However, we didn't do what most developers do by simply weakening the class. We took a different route by introducing new enemies that Vidua would have trouble with. The character is still powerful, but now not in all biomes.

Talents of the “ Special Training ” type have been changed from simple passive character enhancements to more interesting, and specialized for the class and the whole archetype.

We've reworked the first tier negative over time effects such as poison, burning, bleeding, acid, and shock making them more diverse. There will be no more duplication of the mechanics for the effects, they are all unique now. There are also improvements to the second level effects waiting for you. The Acid Concentrate effect has appeared.
And, perhaps, the most delicious thing: we will introduce third-level lethal effects, such as NanoPest, Super Acid, Wildfire and Bloody Mess. You will be able to activate them by converting level two effects in combat.

We have finally implemented full-fledged lock picking mechanics. Now these are interactive mini-games in the best traditions of video games. Multiple attempts and rewards. The players will have to interactively try to get valuable loot or open a secret passage.

Moreover, we have greatly expanded this aspect of the game by introducing professions to the heroes.Each profession will depend on the hero archetype and will significantly affect gameplay.

• Technicus has been given the profession of “Hacker”. It will be possible to open chests in the game without him in the group, but having a Technicus on the mission will grant you additional loot and resources. However, you still require Technicus to break into terminals and locked doors.
  
  
• Medicus has been given the profession of “Reanimator”. Some heroes you meet on raids can be rescued, thus adding to your hero collection.
  
  
• Defencor has received the profession of “Strongman”. Thanks to his outstanding strength, the hero will be able to try to clear rubble to gain access to hidden paths on missions.
  
  
• Miles received the “Marauder” profession. Searching the bodies of dead fighters will now have a chance to obtain additional equipment of higher quality.
  
  
• Pellentes received the profession “Scout”. Thanks to the profession, finding hidden secrets on the mission will have a chance to receive additional resources.

Significantly improved the display of information during combat. First of all, we got rid of unnecessary information in pop-up texts and polished this block.

Moreover, when pointing at an enemy in the battle scene, you will see the hit chance for active skills.

When hovering over allies, their skill bar is displayed, showing skill cooldowns. Now it will be easier to track the heroes' actions in battle, for example to trigger combos or control enemies.

We also received complaints about the initiative queue. The older bug portraits were too similar and confusing. So we completely redesigned them in high detail.

In addition to new audio for the new content, we are also working on music diversity. Our goal is to increase the number of tracks in missions, so right now we are working on several new tracks.

The process of assembling new level types is well underway. We have already introduced new “Hunt” type quests where you will have to fight bosses, sometimes in multiple phases, or wandering creatures. We are now working on “Defense” style quests, where on every difficulty enemies will attack you in waves, and the player will need to hold out to win.

We decided to postpone this mechanic to the pre-release update, as we faced a lack of content at the moment. We came to an opinion within the team that in order to effectively implement this mechanic, the game should be 95% ready.

We are very grateful for the hundreds of suggestions and wishes we received from you. It took us 3 months to sort these endless pages of texts out!
We are looking forward to the release of the new patch, which will significantly improve the game by removing unnecessary grind and adding a lot of new things.

Our current goal is to polish the new patch in time for May and make you happy with the Heavyweight update!

Dear friends, in this diary we will tell you about our work on Tenebris: Terra Incognita.

But first of all we want to wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May the next year bring us all more luck and success!

As you know, Tenebris went into Early Access on September 30, and by December we fixed 99% of all bugs, made changes to the balance of the game and other improvements.
We've been going through all of your feedback and suggestions on the game, there was a huge amount of them. Many ideas turned out to be very useful, and we took them into work!
Now we have turned our attention to creating new content for the game. The next global update will be in spring, and we want to tell you more about what will be waiting for you in it.


In the global update called “Heavy Weight” you will get both reinforcements in the ranks of bugs and a brand new class of enemies. The Misty Wastes bug swarm will be expanded with two species - Regenus and Carabid.

In addition, you will be able to challenge new bosses such as Scutigeromorpha, Venenum Ballus and Albinosus.

Our human expedition will finally be able to breach the airlock gates leading to the alien ship under the Devil's Throat. New enemies will be waiting for you there, ready to test your build with their unique mechanics!

In the spring update, you will see the arrival of a new ship bay - “Operations HQ”. This will open up new horizons for you and add depth to the game. “Operational HQ” will receive nine improvements accessable in the Command Center. We will keep its functionality a secret for now.

We've since reworked the negative tier one effects such as Poison, Burning, Bleeding, and Shock, making them more diverse.

In the global update “Heavy Weight” you will see an improvement of the second tier effects. The Acid Concentrate effect will appear and other changes will be made.

And, perhaps, the most delicious: we will introduce lethal effects of the third level, such as Nano Plague, Super Acid, Wild Fire and Bloody Mess. They will be accessible by converting tier two effects in combat.

We are completely changing the mechanics of lock picking. Moreover, we have significantly expanded this aspect of the game by introducing professions for heroes!
Each profession will depend on the hero class and will significantly affect gameplay.

The Technicus class archetype will receive the profession “ Hacker”. It will be possible to open locks in the game without it, but with Technicus you will be able to get additional loot and resources.

The Medicus archetype will get the “Reanimator” profession. Some heroes you meet on raids will be able to be rescued, thus adding to your hero pool.

Архетип Defencor получит профессию «Силач». Благодаря его выдающимся силовым показателям герой сможет попробовать разобрать завалы, чтобы получить доступ к новым подходам в подземельях или комнатам.

The Defencor archetype will receive the “Strongman” profession. Thanks to his outstanding strength stats, the hero will be able to try to break rubble to gain access to new paths or rooms inside dungeons.

The Miles archetype will receive the “Marauder” profession. Searching the bodies of dead fighters will now increase the chance of getting higher quality equipment.

The Pellentes archetype will receive the “Scout” profession. Thanks to the profession finding hidden secrets in raids will have a chance to acquire more resources.

Right now there are 2 types of combat stimulators not yet implemented in the game, and before they are added, we would love to hear your suggestions. If you have any ideas on what kind of combat stimulators should be added, please post them here.

PS: We are very grateful for the huge number of suggestions and messages of support, as well as for the high rating of the game on Steam. There is no doubt that with your support and feedback we will make a really great game!

Combat

• Fix: “Wait” function decreased skill cooldown.

Balance

• Slightly increased experience for low level enemies.
  
• Slightly increased experience for low level bosses.
  
• The pool of possible bonuses for Implants has been changed. They are now more versatile.
  
• Bosses of level 11 and above are slightly strengthened.
  
• "Facem" (Enemy) - swapped the values of “health” and “armor”. Now they have more armor but less life.
  
• Loot generation for “chests” now depends on mission level and is no longer tied to squad level.
  
• Can no longer run away manually from the raid after an NPC "Leader" dies, could exploit to lower fatigue loss.
  
• The Antidote, Sterilization, and Panacea effect/skills have been adjusted. They now correctly prioritize strong negative effects that deal damage.

Skills

Miles

• High Explosive Grenade: Increased damage from 30% to 45%
  
• Fragmentation Grenade: Increased damage from 50% to 60% to targets with armor.
  
• Fragmentation Grenade: Increased damage from 25% to 30% to targets without armor.

Medicus

• Experienced Surgeon: Reduced the “skill critical hit chance” from 20% to 10%.

Remediator

• Easy Target: Reduced “damage vs controlled” from 20 to 10.

Pellentes

• Nerves of Steel: Changed “Damage vs. Rage” from % to a direct bonus to damage.
  
• Nerves of Steel: Reduced “Damage vs. Rage” from 20 to 10
  
• "Bursting" Bullets: No longer applies the shock 4 effect.
  
• "Bursting" Bullets: Now Ignores Armor.
  
• "Bursting" Bullets: Increased damage from 100% to 120%
  
• Laser Targeting: Increased speed penalty from 5% to 25%.

Sancto

• Fearless: Changed “Damage vs. Rage” from % to a direct bonus to damage.
  
• Fearless: Lowered “Damage vs. Rage” from 15 to 10

Other

• Revisions in texts.
  
• Corrections in levels.
  
• Fixed Megan's levels where you could enter rooms without end and loot endlessly.
  
• Fixed Grom's level where you could enter a room with no end and loot endlessly.
  
• Pressing RMB would highlight the hero card in the hub on the Gene Stimulation screen.
  
• Now you can quickly change heroes to inject stims and not wait for the process to complete. The cost will not become negative and will not eject another hero at the end of the stimulation process.
  
• Improved Grom's running animation.
  
• Added 33 new achievements.

Fix: Version number

Battle

• Fix: Boss “Sonicus” had no visual damage on the body.
  
• Fix: The mouth of the boss “Vermutoidus” was not animated.
  
• Fix: Skills that do not require an action point did not end the fight.
  
• Fix: "Sniper's Reaction" skill permanently removed the rollback of the skill "Invisible Death" after the first critical hit.
  
• Fix: The effect of “Hippocratic Oath” was not absorbed when using healing skills.
  
• Fix: The “Short Burst”, “Technotron” and “Techno-Shooter” skills can now also have effects on the technician himself.
  
• Fix: The “Ultrasonic Beacon” skill had no cooldown.
  
• Fix: The skill “Combat Firmware” with the passive skill “Multithreading” absorbed all “Droning” effect stacks.

Ui

• Fix: The reinforcement interface could appear in a boss fight.

Raid

• Fix: Dead heroes did not return to their spot after reanimation if changed their squad position while they were downed.
  
• Added: Radio messages are closed as a battle starts.

Effects

• Poison: Now deals an additional 1% initiative damage per effect counter.
  
• Toxin: Now deals an additional 6% initiative damage per effect counter.
  
• Burn: Increased the damage dealt from 20 to 30. No longer ignores armor.
  
• Shock: Increased Initiative damage from 2% to 3%.
  
• Deep Wound: Increased the damage dealt from 20 to 30.

Skills

Medicus

• Experienced Surgeon: Changed from “Enhances a range of skills Toxic Shot and Viper Bullets” → “Enhances a range of skills Toxic Shot and Viper Bullets and Poison Clot”

Defencor

• Everything Under Control : Reduced “Bleed Effect” from x2 to x1.
  
• Everything Under Control : Changed from “Enhances the skill ‘Blow to the gut’” → “Enhances a range of skills ‘Blow to the gut’ and ‘Bayonet Strike’ and ‘Swinging Blow’”
  
• Perfect Technique: Reduced “Bleed Effect” from x2 to x1.

Other

• Adjusted icons for “First Aid” and “Panacea”. They were too similar.
  
• Edits in texts.
  
• Edits to levels.
  

Friends, it's time to share our plans for the further development of Tenebris: Terra Incognita.

Technical support

• Fixing bugs and errors
  
• Edits to the balance of heroes and monsters
  
• Animations polishing
  
• Adding sound effects
  
• Introduction of new types of achievements

December 2024

Major content update.

• Introduction of Crisis mechanics and world bosses.
  
• A new area to explore, the Alien Ship.
  
• Addition of new monsters and bosses.
  
• 2 new Misty Wastes bugs.
  
• Classes revision.
  
• Complete rework of the Libritor class.
  
• Introduction of new quest types (defense and hunt).
  
• Reworking the lock picking mechanics.

May 2025

Major content update.

• New area for exploration “Bloody Crater”.
  
• Addition of new monsters and bosses.
  
• Introduction of the “Time acceleration” feature.
  
• Custom game difficulty.

August 2025

Major content update

• New exploration area “The Great Glacier”
  
• Addition of new monsters and bosses
  
• Addition of 10 new classes
  
• Introduction of unique heroes
  
• Adding legendary and masterwork gear

April 2026

Major content update

• Introduction of crafting system
  
• Introduction of equipment sets
  
• New hero archetype
  
• New bosses and other high level content.

October 2026


Friends, above are the “realistic deadlines” that we as a team should be able to meet. We have no publishers or investors, and no matter what, we want to make a great game, and we will!

Since Tenebris sales in Early Access have not yet reached sufficient numbers, most of the team has to continue working full time to support themselves and their families. If the situation changes for the better, we can expect some acceleration of the game's development timeline.

Phantasmisa Studios team.

Battle

• Fix: New enemy wave did not come if the hero killed the last monster in the reinforcements and had an action point left.
  
• Fix: The skill “Panther System” did not remove its penalty between battles.
  
• Fix: The “Russian Roulette” skill could cause an error when the last monster died while skill was still firing.
  
• Fix: The “Swarm Call” skill of the Oviparous Mortem hive queen was stopping the battle.
  
• Fix: Medicus and Ignifer some passive skills could change the damage of the active skill to negative, healing enemies.
  
• Fix: Special Training skill increased parameters 2 times more than it should.
  
• Fix: Open skill “Pitcher” did not apply the “Acid” effect.
  
• Fix: Evolving effects (deep wound, toxin, etc.) now do not absorb the base effect (bleed, poison, etc.) completely, but reduce their counters by the amount needed to transition.
  
• Fix: Effects with instant triggers upon accumulation of counters: “Bio-Nanobots”, “Epoxy Bio-Resin”, “Tech-Nanobots”, “Tissue Regeneration” now do not absorb the base effect completely, but reduce their counters by the amount needed to transition.
  
• Fix: Line attack skills did not apply combat concentration if the enemy died in the back row.
  
• Change: Combat Concentration can now be gained from killing an enemy with a negative effect (bleed, toxin, etc.).
  
• Fix: Shock and Awe (Sancto) skill activated combo without the passive talent learned.

Ui

• Fix: The skills tooltip could generate an error and the inventory would stop opening.
  
• Fix: Several Fire Support icons for passive skills in talents.
  
• Filters have been added to the hero hub to sort characters by their level and fatigue amount.

Raid

• Fix: On some raids monsters did not spawn.
  
• Fix: The sound of chest hacking did not stop if you ended the raid while hacking.

Sound/Music

• Fix: Vermitoidus did not have a growl sound when running away from the battlefield after his armor was knocked down.
  
• Fix: The volume of Impetum's shots.
  
• Fix: Technicus was missing the sound of the Combat Firmware skill.
  
• Fix: Legionnaire had no sound for shotgun fire.
  
• Fix: Wasteland music was not optimized.

Texts

• Edits in various texts.

Balance

• Adjusted the equipment of story characters.
  
• Reduced the damage of the “Blade” weapon by 15%.
  
• Reduced the damage of the “Pistol” weapon by 15%.
  
• Increased experience for killing level 10+ enemies.
  
• Increased critical hit chance for the Libritor class by +10%.
  
• Support system (Remediator): changed the requirement for learning the skill. No longer requires other connected skills.
  
• From the list of equipment items available for purchase in the “Arsenal” excluded common (gray), now all items start with uncommon (green).

Skills
Defencor

• Skill - “Direct hit”: increased damage to enemy initiative from 5% to 10%.
  
• Skill - “Loud Shots”: increased the chance to apply “Provocation” from 15% + 15% to 25% + 25%.
  
• Skill - “Large Caliber”: reduced critical hit chance from 15% + 15% to 10% + 10%.
  
• Skill - “Large Caliber”: modified, enhances the skill “Point-blank Shot” → Enhances a series of skills: “Point blank Shot”, ‘Spread shot’, ‘Imperium Ignis’, ‘Wall of Fire’, ‘Control Shot’.
  
• Skill - “Point blank Shot”: changed “Attacks one target” to “Attacks one nearby target”.
  
• Skill - “Point Blank Shot”: increased the damage of the skill from 120% to 140%.
  
• Skill - “Shotgun shot”: now applies the effect Bleed x1.
  
• Skill - “Shotgun shot”: changed from “Attacks one target” to “Attacks one close target”.
  
• Skill - “Perfect Technique”: reduced the amount of bleed from x3 to x2.
  
• Skill - “Spread shot”: now applies x1 shock per hit.

Miles

• Skill - “For Buenos Aires”: increased damage to initiative from 10% to 15%.

Impetum

• Skill - “Calculating Player”: changed from “Enacts combat concentration" to "Triggers combo".
  
• Skill - “Calculated Player”: changed position in the talent tree, swapped places with the talent “Bestial Ferocity”.
  
• Skill - “Taking the initiative”: increased initiative bonus from 40% to 125%.

Mechanicus

• Skill - “Locust Mine”: reduced the amount of Acid effect from x4 to x2
  
• Skill - “Locust Mine”: reduced the amount of Bleed effect from x3 to x2.
  
• Skill - “Ultrasonic Beacon”: reduced cooldown time from 5 to 4.
  
• Skill - “Nano-Ultrasound”: changed, instead of "applying a weakness effect to the enemy" - “Skill does not end action”.
  
• Skill - “Autonomous Control”: now enhances the skills “Technoshooter” and “Technotron”.

Sancto

• Skill - “Determined Shooter”: increased the chance to enter Optical Camouflage from 35% to 70%.
  
• Skill - “Determined Shooter”: increased the applied amount of “Laser targeting” effect from x1 to x3.

Achivements

• Fixed: The achievement “Financial Whiz” .
  
• Fixed: other achievements were not always unlocking.

Fix: Fixes an issue where enemy reinforcements did not arrive.

Fixed: The next fight after the bosses: Sonicus and Vermutoidus froze.