PATCH NOTES: \[ RC.EA.02.00.01 / BUILD 152023]

We have a small hot fix for you.
It's just a few things as we wanted these fixes out as quickly as possible.
With love, - The Ghost Ship crew

- Fix Gotoorak sometimes teleporting to world origin on clients

- Fixed some animation twitching on the reaper worms

- Fixed lucky shot accidentally being set to 100% chance to trigger rather than the 50% it was supposed to be

- Headhunter alteration enemies no longer spawn expenite while red hostile reading is active

- Backport engine fix for niagara memory leak when game is paused

1. Spark-Booster: When enemies in medium range are electrocuted, you get 45% movement speed for +3 seconds.
   
2. Grid-Shock: Damaging electrified targets spreads +50% as electric damage to other enemies connected via electrical arcs.
   
3. Weathering Blast: When active Stone Skin expires, deal 50 Ice damage in short range. +25 additional damage per 5 Stone Skin lost.
   
4. Icy Shrapnel: Hitting frozen targets launches ice fractures in the opposite direction, dealing +25% Ice damage in a Short Range cone.
   
5. Icicle Strike: Power Attacks spawn icicles lasting for +5s.
   
6. Concussive Shot: Weakpoint hits have 25% chance to stun targets for +2 seconds. Stun is guaranteed when destroying breakable weakpoints and doubles duration.
   
7. Frostbane: For every active Stone Skin you get +5% Ice bonus on all melee damage.
   
8. [ARTIFACT] Nuclear Optics: Enemies in your flashlight beam take 30 Radiation damage per second.

1. High Stakes: Increased Luck in equipment & upgrade RNG, but reduced Expenite gains from all sources.
   
2. Siege Engines: All enemies (except bosses) move at half speed and have twice as much health.
   
3. Headhunter: Expenite does not spawn in the caves, but all enemies drop Expenite on death.
   
4. Death Mitosis: All Core Spawn split into two smaller ‘baby zombies’ when killed. All enemies (except bosses) have less health.

Update 2 is just around the corner — it’ll go live in Rogue Core on Wednesday, September 2nd at 13:00 CEST. Here’s your first look at what’s coming.
We’ll post the full patch notes when the update goes live next week. This preview will focus more closely at the biggest changes and additions, and our thoughts behind them. Bug fixes, balance tweaks, QoL improvements and smaller stuff like that will go in those patch notes.

If you’d like to get your hands on all of this before next week’s release, it's now live in the Experimental Branch! Instructions on how to activate that are at the bottom of this post.

As part of making it easier to tailor the Rogue Core experience to your own tastes, we’re implementing a new difficulty system.

With Update 1, we introduced the ‘Assault Pace’ setting to allow more options for adjusting the mission timer. Now, we’re introducing the ‘Threat Level’ difficulty scale. This will uncouple the game difficulty from the chosen Depth. It also means game difficulty is now totally independent from the mission timer, giving you more fine-tuned control over your own game experience.

In Update 2, you’ll see the screen above upon selecting a mission. This big screen will just show up once, and after that the Threat Level will join the Assault Pace toggle over on the right side of the screen.

Here’s how the new setup works:

• Threat Level: The five Threat Levels affect the number of enemies, the frequency of swarms, enemy health and movement, enemy aggression (attack frequency and projectile speed) and overall damage.

• Assault Pace: This adjusts the pacing of your run, by adding more or less time to the mission timer. Tone it down if you like taking your time, ramp it up if you work best on a deadline.

• Depth: With these changes, Depth now only determines access to certain bosses (and the associated boss biome). We’re making it more of a progression system for game content, rather than necessarily being tied to the mission timer and difficulty level. For this reason we have temporarily locked Depth 4 until the fourth boss is ready. Stay tuned!

This system will be available from the start of the game. So if you’re someone who finds Rogue Core too difficult, you’ll be able to play through all the game’s content at a gentler difficulty. And if you think Rogue Core is too easy, you can start right at a high difficulty without having to grind to unlock later Depths. Mostly. To join or host a mission on the maximum “Hellish” Threat Level 5 you’ll need to beat a run on Threat Level 4 first, just to prove you can hang with the big dogs.
We hope this addition gives everyone more options to play Rogue Core how they want. We’ve gotten good feedback on this from the Experimental testers so far, and we’ll be watching and listening to take in your thoughts.

Uncoupling Depth Level from overall difficulty also opens up for expanded matchmaking options, meaning more options for you to join a lobby or a game in progress.

With an ungated serverlist, you can now join missions that may be at Depths that you haven’t yet unlocked. Previously these would have been off-limits, shrinking your pool of joinable options. In otherwords, more matchmaking for everybody. If you’d like to host missions in certain biomes or Depths, you’ll still need to unlock them yourself.

In response to player feedback, we're getting rid of the bosses’ long invulnerability phases in response to taking loads of damage in a short time. Instead, bosses will either do a very short block, or attempt to block in a way that can still be managed via careful aim, AoE damage or repositioning. Hopefully this makes it feel like more of a fair fight.

We’re expanding the pool of Expenite Upgrades yet again, this time with a focus on elemental damage types. Seven new Expenite Upgrades and one new Artifact are coming in Update 2:

1. Spark-Booster: When enemies in medium range are electrocuted, you get 45% movement speed for +3 seconds.

2. Grid-Shock: Damaging electrified targets spreads +50% as electric damage to other enemies connected via electrical arcs.

3. Weathering Blast: When active Stone Skin expires, deal 50 Ice damage in short range. +25 additional damage per 5 Stone Skin lost.

4. Icy Shrapnel: Hitting frozen targets launches ice fractures in the opposite direction, dealing +25% Ice damage in a Short Range cone.

5. Icicle Strike: Power Attacks spawn icicles lasting for +5s.

6. Concussive Shot: Weakpoint hits have 25% chance to stun targets for +2 seconds. Stun is guaranteed when destroying breakable weakpoints and doubles duration.

7. Frostbane: For every active Stone Skin you get +5% Ice bonus on all melee damage.

8. \[ARTIFACT] Nuclear Optics: Enemies in your flashlight beam take 30 Radiation damage per second.

We’ve got a new encounter down in the caves: an unfinished, highly-classified research site left behind by R&D. This is a new event which can grant you an Artifact, which has a random chance to spawn instead of an Expenite Event. You don’t have to select the ‘Artifact’ Mission Alteration in order to encounter it.
You’ll need to reactivate the experiment and see if you can’t finish what R&D started, before they were forced to abandon the project. OMEGA will guide you along the way.

Based on player enthusiasm about the ‘Jumble’ Alteration, we’re adding four new Alterations to give more gameplay variety to your missions:

1. High Stakes: Increased Luck in upgrade RNG, but reduced Expenite gains from all sources.

2. Siege Engines: All enemies (except bosses) move at half speed and have twice as much health.

3. Headhunter: Expenite does not spawn in the caves, but all enemies drop Expenite on death.

4. Death Mitosis: All Core Spawn split into two smaller ‘baby zombies’ when killed. All enemies (except bosses) have less health.

The Engineer’s Smart Rifle from DRG is now part of the standard weapon pool. It’s taken some work to get this weapon’s unique auto-lock firing mechanism to work with Rogue Core’s player upgrades and damage systems, but now it’s tested and combat-ready. It’ll probably be really good at taking out those pesky Boomticks. Let us know what you think.

A long-range threat is coming to the mines. Meet the Voidkin Dominator, a tankier, harder-hitting version of its smaller cousin, the Drifter. Consider this a high-priority target.
The Reclaimer’s Handbook reads:

We’ve added 3 new facility entrance rooms (the place where you select your first weapon) and 15 new cavern formations to the cave generation system. We’ve also reworked the cave generator’s process for connecting individual caverns, so this will hopefully result in more variety in the physical layout of each level.

We’re putting together a new home for the Molaktula Gatekeeper boss, so now each of the Gatekeepers bosses have their own corresponding biome. Like the others, this biome should ‘bleed’ into the original mission biome more and more as you venture further down. Our intent here is to give each boss and Depth a more distinct identity, and more visual variety between missions.

All Reclaimers have been automatically granted Security Clearance Level Alpha within the Intel system. This means that brand new players will no longer be locked out of starting Expenite Events or opening the Grenade Locker during their first missions.

Maybe this is a smaller thing but hey it’s in the post now.

Like we said up top, all of this is currently live over in Experimental. We’ve started running Experimental Branch for longer periods of time, with the aim of collecting feedback on gameplay systems with enough time to make tweaks and rebalances. Much of Update 2 has already been shaped and sharpened by the feedback of our brave Experimental testers. If you’ve got the time and interest, you’re very welcome to hop in and give it a go.
Anybody can access the Experimental Branch if they own Rogue Core on Steam.
Here’s how to set it live:

1. Right click Rogue Core in your Steam library and select ‘Properties’

2. Under ‘Properties,’ click the ‘Game Versions & Betas’ tab

3. Select ‘experimental’ within that tab

Then the game will update and will boot into the Experimental branch next time you launch it. You can switch back any time through the same menu. Keep in mind that your save files from the Experimental branch don’t carry over, because we have cheats enabled there.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Again, the full run-down of everything new (even the little stuff, of which there is plenty) is coming in the patch notes when Update 2 goes live. Which is next week on Wednesday September 2nd. At 13:00 CEST right after we eat our lunch.

Rock and Stone, Reclaimers!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

PATCH NOTES: \[ RC: EA: 01.03 - 148107]

While we are hard at work on Update 2, we have a small patch for you with a few bug fixes.

Rock and Stone!
With love,
The Ghost Ship crew

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- Fixed Critical Shot saying it grants 50% crit chance when it only grants 30%

- Fixed picking Expenite Upgrade right after another player has picked theirs removing the reroll for the next player

- Fixed some Expenite Upgrades not applying correctly if chosen while downed

- Fixed Late Joiners sometimes not getting weapons

- Fixed spawns added through Risk Vectors sometimes getting out of hand

- Workbenches now update if players get a new gun after the workbench has been opened

- Potential crash fix for ALT+Tab crash on 40/50 Nvidia RTX cards

PATCH NOTES: \[ RC: EA: 01.02 - 147630]

We have one more patch for you all before we close the office for summer vacation. It's full of small fixes and difficulty tweaks. The Gatekeepers' behaviour has been expanded to they can now react defensively. As always, feedback is appreciated so let us know what you think on our Subreddit or Discord.

Rock and Stone!
With love,
The Ghost Ship crew

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\[PLAYER POWERUPS]

- Reduced Flanking critical hit chance from 50% to 25% to better match its uncommon rarity

- Added new Volatile Radiation upgrade

- Changed description of snapfire extraction to the +1 red sugar, as that's what it was doing, instead of giving you 2.

- Tweaked heavy landing damage and radius to better scale with the player’s velocity

- Updated ceramic defence to have a side widget with active percent

- Updated magnetic propulsion to have side widget with active percent

- Updated bio charge description to reflect functionality when killing small swarmer-type enemies.

- Increased Armor Battery threshold from 20% to 33%

- Fixed a bug where Safety First would only give +1 armor instead of +25% Armor.

- Fixed ceramic defense making you take more damage as opposed to less

- Fixed Thunderstrike BB text showing +0.5% electrocution when it should be +50%

- Fixed Backcharge BB text incorrectly displaying +0.5% ability recharge rate instead of the actual +50%

- Fixed Retcons ability upgrade Accelerate stays permanently active if Retcon dies with effect active

- Fixed Retcons Ability sometimes activating itself

- Fix Stone Skin not displaying correctly after loading into level

- Prevent Stone Skin from decaying when players are in the elevator

- Fix Magic Missile description text

- Fixed Frontline Medic not working

- Momentum Bio Booster now only cancels the reload if its within 0.5 seconds of the reload starting and it wasn't manually initiated

- Fix for the following upgrades and artifacts breaking and not doing anything after the player died and got revived:

-- Blood Rush

-- Magnetic Propulsion

-- Vigor Charger

-- Light Weight

-- Rampage

-- Cqc Protocol

-- Ceramic Defense

-- Bastion

-- Cascade

-- Optimized and prevented cooper from triggering several upgrades unintentionally: 

-- Sweet Surrender

-- Vampire

-- Hemoforge

-- Frost Harvest

-- Seeing Red

-- Death Resonance

-- Bio Charge

-- Blood Lust

-- Adhesive Snare

-- Rampage

\[GUNS AND GEAR]

- Fixed elemental attributes on Sludge Pump giving the wrong bonus.

- Added Radiation elemental attribute to the Sludge Pump.

- Trident Gunsling sound

- Fixed Corrosive Sludge Pump projectile velocity attribute not working

- Fixed Weapons Populate Grenade Slot in Jumble

- Fixed Weapon missing after respawn post-crash

- Fix multi-hitscan ricochet/chain-hit not bouncing

- Potential fix for lingering Trident projectiles

- Fixed long frame for first time you shoot the Sludge Pump

- Prevent crash when using double drills in rare cases

- Fixed a bug where the Trident's icon would not appear correctly

- Jet boots no longer have the image of combat cocktail

\[ENEMIES]

- Made the Voidkin Drifter shoot a bit more often

- Attempted to spread out enemy spawns across more rifts to reduce the potency of spawn-killing

- Tweaked enemy health scaling a bit to help them keep up with player power growth on later stages

- Added full elemental immunity to Reaperworms to make it harder to lock them down

- Increased presence of enemies added through risk vectors so they have more influence on the game difficulty

- Boss HP now scales linearly with facility stages in Depths above 1 to better match player power growth

- Tweaked boss health scaling based on team size so they are a bit more beefy when facing 3 and 4-player teams

- Reduced the health damage dealt by Gotoorak's force push

- Added Five-Shot and Force Bubble counterattacks to the Gotoorak to help it deal with high DPS teams

- Implemented Ram and Tornado counterattacks for Ramok gatekeeper

- Implemented Spike Shield and Teleport counterattacks for the Molaktula

- Made it so the Ramok is invulnerable during its tornado attack

- Gave a bit more airspace around the Ramok's rift

- Made it so Risk Vector enemies will spawn along with other enemies from the run’s pool during the gate-stone phases of a gatekeeper fight 

- Fixed Regenerative Enemies Risk Vector not working

- Fixed Falconer drone targeting and stunning invulnerable Gotoorak and Ramok

- Fixed the Ramok radiation element resistance not working properly

- Fixed Vanguards not spawning in Armored Mob Risk Vector

- Fixed a softlock bug during the Moloktula fight

- Fixed a bug where the spawn system would find rifts near the center of the world, instead of near a random player, spawning the enemies far from the fight

- Prevent Molaktula from being stuck in a no-collision state if the phase change triggers while it is teleporting

- Fix for Molaktula invulnerability inconsistency during phase change against high DPS teams

- Fixed the Sentinel Spectre being affected by the Regenerative Enemies risk vector

- Shortened the duration of the Ramok's tornado attack and increased the rate at which it flings rocks

\[MISC CHANGES]

- Added rewards to players who get kicked, server quests, or other server issues happen, to reward them for the time spent in the run

- Added a text to see how many upgrades you are having in a row at the negotiation screen

- Changed display of gauntlet depths to be normal and advanced (instead of depth 1 and 2)

- Improved sorting of depth and assault pace in server list

- Prevent players from losing the game after the boss is defeated E.g. if the player dies from a grenade after the boss is killed

- Change display of gauntlet assault pace to be gauntlet (since you cannot pick a pace for this)

- Reduced prices of beer

- End screen now shows max chips reached instead of zero when players got all the possible chips

- Added laserpoint shouts to workbench and elevator cable

- Made it so players you aren’t friends with are marked as  “recently played with” in Steam

- Added pace to the depth displayed in the HUD

- Nether "Void Basket" is now known as Twisted Growth

\[MISC FIXES]

- Made the leaflover “beer” actually free - you are welcome, Reclaimers.

- Prevent things from spawning inside the Research Subject Construction so they can't be grabbed/destroyed

- Fix player camera snapping to last reaperworm's grab location when player is freed in last second

- Play failure animations in end screen on players that were downed when the game ended

- Fixed voicechat mute/unmute

- Fixed a bug where when a player was downed inside the repulsion volume on the boss rifts they were not ejected from the rift and other players would not be able to revive them

- The Spectre Core sometimes gets stuck clipping through the floor after the sentinel spectre is killed

- Don't allow joining lobbies that require ascensions (Gauntlets) when the player has not ascended.

- Fix the list of upgrades in the build view flicking in some cases

- Fix for losing the game if host has died and a client takes too long to initialize the character on level start in one case

- Fixed the bar to be usable before doing a workout

- Fix one case of disconnects clearing a player's unlocks

- Attempted to fix Steam API crash at shutdown

- Fix the patch notes not showing up in game

- Fixed a crash when a player disconnects from a host during the loading screen

- Fixed tunnel construction carving

- Fix data terminal revealing all things when it is activated and not completed

- Prevent hitches when opening some of the Ramrod terminals the first time

- Fix using the wrong head for character icon previews in customization terminal and cosmetics sheet

- Fix squished chip image when max chips are reached

- Fix some particles not being cooked into the game, causing a long frame the first time they play

- Fix the server list button not always opening the server list in mission map

- Fix mission control appearing and reclaimers not shouting when depositing gems in excavation objective

- Fixed Twisted Growth terrain placement capsule being too small, causing it to overlap things like cameras bio-boosters etc

- Fixed the space above gatekeeper rifts blocking player laserpointers

PATCH NOTES: \[RC:EA : 01.01 + 146012]

A patch with a lot of fixes and tweaks to radiation and some UI improvements.

With love, The Ghost Ship crew

Changes

- Renamed Radiance to Blinding Flash

- Corrosive Sludge Pump now shows damage stats in the reclaimers manual

- Reduced Button hold time to start upgrade negotiation from 1.5 -> 1 second

- Tweaked Ionization to have each stack be more impactful while reducing max stacks and having the stacks decay

- Increased the expenite earned from events

- Adjusted the expenite upgrade cost progression to slightly speed up the early upgrades and slightly slow down later ones

- Popping a radiation weakpoint boil now does an extra flat damage amount on top of the health percentage

- The health percentage damage done by popping a radiation boil now scales with radiation resistance

- Increased radiation weakpoint boil hp so you can shoot them longer before they pop

- Radiation weakpoint boils no longer pop automatically when a new one appears and are limited to max 3 at a time

- Decreased radiation elemental resistance of bosses to compensate

Fixes

- Fixed a bug where if the Moloktula's gravity slam attack was interrupted it would softlock the boss fight

- Fixed a bug where the Moloktula would softlock when it was not able to properly shatter the gatestone

- Improved Trident projectile performance for clients

- Fix damage number option changing when changing show FPS option

- Fix magic missiles lingering after impact

- Negotiation: Fixed wrong item being shown in item bar, after selection

- Added missing fire category to Ember-Attuned

- Removed weakpoint category from Burning Propagation

- Fix aftermath biobooster upgrade not working

- Fixed a bug where the "kill hostiles" deployment did not count kills correctly

- Add check to prevent recursion in Damage Reflection upgrade

- Late joining clients now get same rarity upgrades as team has already received

- Negotiation: Fixed Cooper upgrades being added to selection when Cooper is not in the level

- Improved player cursor accuracy, in negotiation and risk vector menus

- Fix HUD icon missing for vigor charger

- Fixed technical reload enhancement and combat ready artefact not giving cooling rate bonus

- Fix radiation boil weakpoints on armor breaking radiation element buildup when damaged

We're excited to launch the first major Update for Rogue Core! After much consideration, we have decided to call this first update 'Update 01'.

It's been a busy couple weeks leading up to this. We've been doing a lot of experimenting, tweaking and adjusting, including some big revamps to core game mechanics. We also squeezed in some new content for good measure. There's a lot in here. Mark made (and narrated) a trailer to explain everything, which you can watch via the embedded link above. Otherwise, you'll find the full list of changes and additions down below.

As always, your feedback is integral to our development process, so remember to join our Discord[discord.com] or hop on the Rogue Core subreddit and let us know what you think.

Welcome to Update 01! Let's get right into it.

We've updated the mission timer's UI to better communicate what's happening during a run.

• Improved timer feedback and readability

• The last segment of the timer is now visually distinct to communicate urgency

• Optional numerical countdown showing exactly when Reaperworms will appear

To accommodate different player preferences for mission pacing, you can now select your preferred Assault Pace directly from the Mission Map. Adjusting the Assault Pace affects the time you have to complete each level and the mission XP rewards. Base reward values have been adjusted to accommodate these changes. We have also added new Tasks in the OpsCom terminal for each Pace.
You can choose from three Assault Pace options:

1. Cautious – Lower time pressure

2. Standard – Current experience

3. Reckless – Higher time pressure

Initiating upgrades at the R.E.P.D. has been streamlined, so you no longer need to group up to start the process. This change applies to upgrades from Expenite as well as Spectre Cores.
Here's how it works now:

1. When an upgrade becomes available, a button will appear on the R.E.P.D.

2. Any Reclaimer can press it to initiate the upgrade process.

3. An upgrade link will be established with all Reclaimers on the team, regardless of their location.

We've made several improvements to the shared upgrade negotiation process, to make things more fun and give everyone more choices. We've been having a lot of fun with these changes ourselves, and we're keen to hear what you think.
Here are the key changes to upgrade negotiations:

• When a player selects an upgrade, it is replaced with a new option. This ensures everyone gets the same number of choices.

• The "Skip for Health" option has been removed. (Don't worry, we've made balances to account for this. More on that later.)

• Health upgrades now appear alongside all other upgrades.

• All upgrades within a draft now share the same rarity. Either you all luck out together, or you all pick between common upgrades.

We have also tweaked many of the existing upgrades, changing some of them extensively and removing others to make every choice feel exciting and worthwhile. This will be an ongoing process, so consider this just a first iteration.

• Trident \[Energy shotgun]: A new weapon from the makers of the DRAK 25, the Trident offers two firing modes: Standard fire is a semi-automatic blast in a triangle shot pattern. Holding down the trigger will charge up a massive barrage for dealing with groups of targets, or inflicting devastating single-target damage.

• Corrosive Sludge Pump \[Heavy weapon]: Looks like goop is back on the menu. Offering a mix of crowd control and continuous DoT, the Sludge Pump is a versatile weapon that also excels at melting enemy armor. The weapon can be charged to lob a large projectile saturating an area in corrosive sludge.

Besides tweaking existing upgrades, we have also introduced 14 new ones to add more variety and spice to your builds. We are far from finished here, so you can expect ongoing balance tweaks as well as new additions to the upgrade pool in later updates.

You'll now have to contend with the Voidkin Drifter, a brand-new flying threat to expand the combat variety. Highly mobile and hard to hit, the Drifter will only stop to charge up its ranged attack. While the Void Bolts it launches may be relatively slow, they pack a heavy punch. So watch out and don’t let yourself get surrounded.

We have added 3 new Risk Vectors to the pool of possible choices, with one being negative and and the other two positive.

1. Drifter Surge \[Negative]: Brings in additional groups of the new Voidkin during your run.

2. Bio-Booster \[Positive]: Adds a second Bio-Booster to the level.

3. Workbench \[Positive]: Adds a second Workbench to the level.

Our goal is to introduce a unique Core biome for each end boss.
With Update 01, we're adding a new Core biome for the Ramok boss, to give that fight experience a more distinct atmosphere and identity. For now, our friend the Molaktula will also use this biome until its own unique environment arrives in a future update.

We've implemented 13 new mining constructions to the cave generation system, which ought to bring greater variety to facility exploration.

We have added 2 new Deployments to the OpsCom terminal. For both, you can progress in these challenges even without achieving total mission success.

• Eliminate Corespawn: Tracked as a team, not individual kills.

• Clear Facility Levels: Sometimes just making it one level deeper is a hard-fought win.

We have also added 3 new Tasks, one for each Assault Pace.

We're making a broad pass on weapon balance and weapon selection pools, with the aim of making a more consistent difficulty floor across the game. Changes are as follows:

• All starting weapons are now common, but come with 2 attributes.

• Workbenches now have a chance for offering higher rarity weapons and traversal tools.

• Heavy Weapon Crates now have a wider rarity range.

• Additionally, several harder-to-master weapons (like the Shock Striker and Devastator) have been removed from the starting weapon pool on Depth 1, allowing new players to ease into the experience more naturally. They can still be found in the Workbench, and are still part of the starting pool on all other Depths.

A few individual weapons are getting balance tweaks as well. Tthis will be an ongoing process and feedback is always appreciated:

• Reduced base spread of the Boomstick

• Slightly reduced base damage of the Boomstick, but increased the number of pellets in a shell. This increases the overall damage done by one shot.

• Slightly reduced the max recoil of the Decker SMG

• Slightly increased base damage on the M1000

• Increased the focus speed and added a damage bonus to focus shots on the M1000

• Significantly increased the explosion damage of the PGL and reduced max ammo slightly to compensate

• Set Warthog to be full-auto by default

• Increased base damage on the Warthog slightly

We've been doing a lot of tinkering to support general performance optimisation, both on the Ramrod and during missions. This includes a lot of specific optimisation for the myriad of particle systems, as these can get pretty hefty.
We also squashed a lot of bugs, including but not limited to:

• Autocannon shells bursting when passing through gas clouds, which caused Reclaimers to flash-bang themselves (lol)

• The Boss Rifts constantly spawning on top of hills, making players reenact the story of Sisyphus

• Players taking the Toolbox with them into the void if they disconnected while holding it

• The tutorial intro video being unskippable

• Players not getting their Ascension rewards if the host rudely disbanded during the ceremony

• Cooper dealing friendly fire damage to solo players (he will now play nice)

• OMEGA not flinching when a beer mug is thrown at his eye

• More Munitions Crates have been added to the Facilities to improve ammo economy

• A lot more Red Sugar has been added throughout the caves to help offset the removal of "Skip for Health" option in every negotiation

• New tracks for the Jukebox: Disco, Smooth Soul, Funk, Soul

• New model and animations for beloved maintenance drone MOP-C

• Stacking of Enhancement tiers for a cleaner overview in Loadout Terminal

• Auto-equipping the highest tier Enhancements when unlocking new Enhancements

• Adding an Autosprint toggle in Options

• Upon OMEGA's request, Leaf Lovers is now free at the bar

• New weapon inspect animations for the Zhukovs

• OMEGA's stutter effect can now be toggled on and off in the options

We've put together a little token of our gratitude for all of you who have joined us in these early days of Rogue Core, and helped us shape and sharpen the game. This free DLC is for you. Thanks for being among the first on-site, helping us identify issues, share feedback, and develop the future of Rogue Core.
The FIRST RESPONDER DLC pack is now available for free on Steam. Just head over to the page below to collect it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4813580/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Rogue_Core__First_Responder/

We're really excited to hear what you think of all the new stuff! We hope you'll have as much fun with it as we've been having. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts along the way — these changes wouldn't be possible without your input.

Now go take back Hoxxes, Reclaimer. Rock and Stone.

With love,
- The Ghost Ship crew

[c](Build: 144984 - 11/06/2026)[/c]

We are releasing a small patch with some bug fixes and a crash fix, which should reduce the amount of crashes and improve voice chat functionality. On top of this, we are releasing an experimental branch for Update 1! If you are interested and want to help us catch some bugs, please check out our blog post about the experimental and how to join it HERE.

With love,The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed an issue with the in-game voice chat

- Fixed a bug where spamming spacebar after picking a Weapon Attribute would grant you multiple stacks of the Attribute

- Fixed a crash related to audio.