Version history/Alpha

Version history for Underrail releases. Complete changelogs derived from development logs.

Upcoming version

Changelog:

• Added more firearms: one new pistol, one new SMG, two more assault rifles and two more sniper rifles. Also added two new crossbows.
  • One model from each of the weapon categories (pistol, SMG, crossbow, etc) will be only available through crafting.
• Tweaked the base stats (damage spread, crit chance, crit bonus, precision, etc) of each of the firearm and crossbow models to diversify them further

• Items
  • Added throwing knives - they are fairly inexpensive and their damage scales with your throwing skill. While they are unlikely to replace your primary offensive skill, they do act as a nice ranged supplement for high dexterity characters, especially when you use the poisoned ones.
  • Added electrical pistols - a type of energy pistol that shoots electrical bolts that stun the primary target and jump a few times (similar to electroshock bolts)
  • Added two energy weapon enhancements - only applicable through crafting; one increases the critical damage bonus, while the other increases the special attack damage
  • Added 5 new crafting only meds and appropriate organs and chemicals that are needed to produce them

• Creatures
  • Added the deadly coil spider

• Psi
  • Added Thermodynamic Destabilization (metathermics) - You tag a creature with a debuff. If you kill it within 2 turns, it will explode, dealing heat and mechanical damage to everything around it. The amount of damage dealt scales with the metathermics skill and the amount of health the creature had when it was tagged
  • Added Enrage (Thought Control) - Enrages a living target for up to 4 turns which causes it to turn hostile to everyone.
  • Reworked Force Emission (Psychokinesis) - No longer provides extra range, but works with fist weapons as well.
  • Added Telekinetic Proxy (Psychokinesis) - Moves the telekinetic proxy from its current location to the specified location, dealing mechanical damage to everything in its path. If the proxy is not present, is too far away, or doesn't have a clear straight line path to the destination, a new one will be spawned. Telekinetic proxy will mimic your single target telekinetic psi abilities and effects (currently Telekinetic Punch and Force Emission) if the target is within its radius. The proxy lasts 3 turns, but the timer refreshes with each move or mimic.

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed the overly heavy boots (will only affect the newly generated/crafted items, the old ones will remain heavy)
  • Crawler poison component now correctly named (was "Cave Ear" poison)
  • Plot items can no longer vanish when attempting to transfer them to the trading window (oops)
  • Opportunity feat now works with wrestling/tacklling (they are considered slows)
  • Balaclava repair category changed to fabric
  • Armor penalty calculation rounding errors fixed (Nimble feat should now apply properly in all cases)
  • Bleeding wounds from boots/armor enhancements will now stack as they should
  • Weapons of wheeled bots and turrets now considered firearms so vests should work correctly against them now
  • Dirty kick now triggers hostilities as it does in real life
  • You can now reload chemical pistol from the quick reload bar like other weapons (cannot unload, that's inteded)
  • Combo feat will now properly stack when using armors or boots that provide extra damage
  • You can no longer use Expose Weakness to kill The Beast or other stuff that's immune to mechanical damage
  • No longer possible to beat up some creatures to the point their "armor" degrades

0.1.11.0

16 April 2014

Changelog:

• New areas and quests
• Improved the narrative, quest hub area quality and game world cohesion

• Items
  • Added new metal type for crafting
  • Added taser blueprint so electronics experts can protect themselves from hooligans and stalkers

• Tweaks
  • Throwing nets made more useful now (no longer completely ineffective against opponents with decent or higher strength).
  • Carrier vests made more common as loot/merchandise.
  • Reduced the damage scaling of bilocation, neural overload, cryokinesis and electrokinesis. These abilities should be roughly the same power early game as they were before, but the idea is to prevent them from scaling out of control mid-late game. Also keep in mind that with all the buffs to psi-related feats they might end up even stronger than the last patch so further balancing might be required.
  • Completely most quests in oddity mode now grants some (usually small: 1-3) amount of XP. This should make completing quests feel more rewarding (especially those quests that don't involve exploration) without significantly affecting the XP balance in this mode.

• Interface
  • Improved item management mechanics by adding sort button to containers and "transfer all" button to player inventory that can be used to transfer all the items to the currently opened container.

• Bugs
  • Fixed the bug with certain secret monoliths not recognizing character's psi empathy
  • Increased the bear trap triggering radius so characters cannot pass in between two adjacent traps

• New major urban area - the Foundry
• Added a new minor quest hub in the cave areas south of SGS
• Couple more quests in SGS and Rail Crossing.
• Reworked the order early game quests are received (to avoid sending people to GMS too early)
• Added some early game oddities

• Tweaks
  • Reduced electronic crafting requirements for galvanic vests
  • Increased drops rates for all types of carrier vests
  • Boots now require a pair of rubber soles to craft

• Bugs
  • Fixed the bug that caused the game to crash when attempting to set up the fishing rod on certain spots
  • TNT charges will now go off properly after loading a game in which it's been already set

• Feats
  • Changes
    • Changed the AP reduction of Tranquility to 5 (down from 10)
  • New
    • Vile Weaponry - Whenever you cause a bleeding wound with a cold weapon, armor enhancement or trap you also apply infected wound which increases the damage taken from all sources by 10% and reduces healing effects by 25%. Stacks 3 times.
    • Expose Weakness - You can preform a special melee attack that deals normal damage and reduces target's mechanical resistance and threshold by 50% if it lands for 2 turns.
    • Steadfast Aim - Increases critical hit chance with a pistol by 1% for each base action point required to fire it above 10.
    • Spec Ops - Reduces action point cost modifier for burst attack from 300% to 200% when using SMGs. Also reduces cooldown of flashbangs by 1 turn.
    • Supressive Fire - Enemies caught in your burst attack cone (regardless of whether they've been shot) have their ranged chance to hit reduced by 10%, action points reduced by 5 and movement points reduced by 10 for 1 turn.
    • Quick Tinkering - Grants you an ability that when activated will allow you to arm your next trap instantly, even in combat in which case it will cost no action points.
    • Fancy Footwork - When you land a melee attack you gain up to 8 movement points, depending on your armor penalty. This can exceed your movement point maximum.
    • Taste for Blood - Whenever you attack a bleeding target with a melee weapon, you increase your melee damage by 5% and reduce action point cost of melee weapons by 0.2 for each bleeding wound the target has. This can stack up to 20 times. Expires after 2 turns if not refreshed.
    • Eviscerate - Grants you a special knife attack that removes all bleeding wounds from the target and deals 100% bonus damage for each bleeding wound removed.
    • Hypertoxicity - Increases damage done by poisons you apply by 100%.
    • Wrestling - When you strike a living target with fist weapon or unarmed attack you have 50% chance to reduce target's movement points by 8, action points by 3 and chance to hit with all ranged weapons by 7%. Stacks 5 times.
    • Combo - If you land three consecutive damage dealing unarmed or fist weapon attacks against a single target in a single turn, the third attack will deal 100% bonus damage and stun the target for 1 turn.
    • Pack Rathound - Increases carry capacity by 50.
    • Last Stand - Grants you an ability that when activated it will temporarily reset your health to your maximum for 2 turns. After the effect expires, your health will be reduced to 1.
    • Salesman - Increases the amount of goods merchants will buy from you by 1% per mercantile skill.

• Items
  • Tabi Boots - lightweight boots that can be crafted from leather or fabric components
  • Components (these are all crafting only; that is items made of these cannot be found or bought)
    • Siphoner leather
    • Psi Beetle armor plate
    • Burrower armor plate
  • Super secret stuff

• Implemented energy shields

• Tweaks
  • Increased the block chance of riot gear shields to 30% (up from 20%)
  • Firearm ammo weight now varies depending on caliber
  • Indirect damage no longer removes incapacitation (e.g. poison)
  • Electroshock primary target damage, pneumatic hit damage and force emission hit damage no longer remove incapacitation in order to better synergies with Cheap Shot feat
  • Minimal hit chance for melee and ranged attacks is now 10% (down from 20%)
  • Increased the amount of item categories most merchants will buy per reset, included the missing categories and also changed certain categories to always be included for specialized merchants (not in the unlimited amount though)
  • Added more psi boosters to early areas to ease up the early game for psi characters who need those rather than bullets
  • Telekinetic Punch, tazing and pneumatic strike are now resisted through fortitude, instead of resolve
  • Melee skill now scales up with either Strength or Dexterity, whichever is higher
  • Boot springs now reduce stealth (will add stealth speedy boots later)
  • Aluminized cloth heat resistance increased and crafting requirements changed to 1 per quality (down from 1.5)

• Bugs
  • Doppelgangers should now properly ignore target's resistances with their attacks
  • Fixed a very serious bug that caused ranged attacks to mostly ignore evasion rating of the target. Evasion should have much the same effect in avoiding ranged attack as dodge has for melee attacks. This will definitively affect the game's balance, both by increasing the difficulty of high evasion enemies and by buffing agility based player characters, so I'll be keeping an eye on it.

• Items
  • Advanced Health Hypo added
  • Balaclava added (+10% cold resist, +5 intimidate, +stealth when crafted out of black cloth or +hear resist when crafted out of aluminized cloth)

• Reworked feats
  • Dirty Kick - now works regardless of the current weapon, the damage is equal to 200% of unarmed damage
  • Premeditation - now also reduces AP cost of the next psi ability buy 100%
  • Psychosis - psi cost increment changed to 20% (up from 10%)
  • Tranquility - reworked: now reduces AP cost of all psi abilities by 10 while the invoker is at full health
  • Cerebral Trauma - reworked: now increases Neural Overload damage by 25% (up from 20%) and burns 15% of the target's max psi points when Neural Overload lands
  • Force User - now increases Telekinetic Punch damage by 100% (up from 20%) and Force Field duration by 2 turns (up from 1)
  • Lightning Punches - now works with fist weapons as well
  • Pyromaniac - doubled the chance it will trigger across the board and the exact chance is now shown for each individual psi ability; also the bonus damage has been increased to 100% (up from 80%)
  • Crippling Strike - damage increased to 150% (up from 125%) and it no longer costs additional action points, but has 1 turn cooldown
  • Grenadier - now reduces standard grenade cooldown by 2 turns (up from 1) and special grenade cooldown by 3 turns (up from 2)
  • Hypothermia - now reduces constitution by 1 (down from 2) and stacks up to 5 times (up from 3)
  • Thermodinamicity - instead of psi cost, now reduces action point cost by 50%
  • Evasive Maneuvers - now grants evasion equal to three times your movement points (up from x2)
  • Uncanny Dodge - now allows you to dodge next three melee attacks instead of just one, but cooldown is increased to 3 turns (up from 2)

Alpha 0.1.10.1

• Bugfix patch

Alpha 0.1.10.0

16 January 2014

Changelog:

• Added alternative XP System (Oddity)
• Added difficulty setting (easy/normal)
• Game economy changes
• Added item weight
• Added Initiative

• UI
  • Added a confirmation box when changing video settings
  • Added an option to scroll with mouse while holding the right button
  • Added an option to lock the mouse to screen in fullscreen mode (doesn't work perfectly though, sorry)
  • You can double click on your (non-existing) portrait to center back to your character
  • Game window will no longer process input while inactive

• Tweaks
  • Shroomhead feat now restores 15 psi points each time you pick a mindshroom
  • Reduced base trap arming time to 7 seconds
  • Reduced the range at which the traps trigger when you step into their tile (should be more consistent with visual collision now)

• Items
  • Added electrical knives (same crafting mechanics like with sledgehammers and gloves)
  • Added more belts (belts have fixed stats and are not craftable)
  • Added bear trap - a cheap early game trap that deals mechanical damage, roots the target and inflicts a bleeding wound; like caltrops, it can be envenomed
  • Added serrated crossbow bolt that deals additional 100% of original damage dealt through a bleeding wound over 3 turns, but incurs even greater damage threshold penalty than a regular bolt
  • Weapons can now have varying base critical damage bonuses (for now only depending on the weapon base type, but in the future modifiable through enhancements)

• Added some more Lower Underrail areas

• Changes
  • Players will receive better armor at the start
  • Added more meds, ammo and such to the starting areas
  • Reduced explosive barrel health to 1
  • AP cost of using light weapons (knives, pistols, SMGs or fist weapons) or unarmed attacks is reduced by 4% for every dexterity point above 5. This is very much subject to change depending on how it works out. I want to make high dexterity builds feel more rewarding and this is just the first step.
  • Dogs now have 50% chance to apply Tackle effect on hit (down from 100%)
  • Skill requirements for recycling items reduced
  • Item durability increased, particularly for higher level items. This will make it less profitable (hopefully not profitable in most cases) to repair them for sole purpose of selling them. Also, crafters will be able to recycle them for more scraps them previously since the amount of scraps gained is based on current and max durability of an item. Rate of item degradation should remain about the same
  • Mark 2 repair kits now fix 500 durability points (up from 400). Cost increased accordingly; repair kit crafting requirements and components remain the same
  • Durability span of items looted from slain enemies increased to 5%-50% (up from 5%-20%)
  • Bandits in the "package delivery quest" nerfed
  • Minimal stealth requirements (below which player is automatically spotted) reduced
  • Increased the amount of special ammo that can be found as loot
  • Reduced the cost of ampules and syringes
  • Reduced the amount of explosive required to craft traps (it's now same as grenade recipe)
  • Increased chemistry requirements of Hexogen explosive to 50 (up from 22). Secondary explosives difficulty modifier in grenade and mine blueprint increased to 125% (up from 100%). Mark 3 grenades/mines are now crafted from 1 hexogen and mark 2 are crafted from 2 x TNT instead of vice versa. Reasoning behind these changes is that crafting high level explosives was way too easy and allowed you to obtain grenades that were meant to be used against level 20 enemies as soon as level 7 if not earlier.
  • Player character will no longer obscure targets behind them when issuing offensive commands (such as attacking or invoking offensive abilities)

• Bug fixes
  • Exporting a character while trading window is open will no longer crash the game
  • Save/load window will no longer lose focus after deletion confirmation pop-up
  • Fixed the bug that would cause optional components to give different crafting requirements depending on order they are placed in
  • Galvanic vest added to random loot table (and hence the stores too)
  • Added missing female riot gear spritesheets (sorry ladies)
  • Fixed the bug that would cause the old man in GMS level 3 to repeatedly initiate dialog with you
  • Fixed the bug in Abram's questline where you could give Garren information you didn't actually receive
  • AP should now correctly be deducted when stacking up utility items during combat

• Other
  • Added transition error log; it will be generated in Documents\My Games\Underrail every time there's a transition error. This should help us pinpoint any remaining transition problems
  • Removed Media Player requirement by popular demand (you will no longer have to have media player windows feature installed in the next version of the game)

Alpha 0.1.9.1 (First Steam version)

23 September 2013

Changelog:

• Steam integration
  • Achievements

• Bugfixes
  • TNT blueprint will no longer consume excess components
  • Tungsten steel boots icons added
  • New lens types will now be correctly generated with quality
  • Crafting window will now remember what blueprint you had selected when you last closed it

Alpha 0.1.9.0

29 August 2013

Changelog:

• Added TNT explosive charge that can be used to clear rocks. Many passages still don't lead anywhere even if you clear them just so you know though
• Did bunch of AI work, enemies can now do the following
  • Use more special attacks: kneecap shot, pummel, crippling strike, execute, heavy punch, dirty kick
  • Use "yell" special ability
  • Use more drugs: adrenaline, morphine
  • Throw grenades: frag, HE and flashbang
  • Use more special bolts: acid, shock, incendiary
  • Use offensive and utility psi abilities
  • Kite their target (like psi beetles do)

• New item: Combat Gloves

• Other minor changes:
  • Added more lens types for goggles (+crit chance, +special attack damage, +detection)
  • Damage from spikes and blades from boots and armor should now apply on special attacks
  • Reduced the damage of electrokinesis (it will still do more damage than pyrokinesis against smaller number of targets, but less single target damage other single target nukes)
  • Changed the way shock sledgehammer is made, will now require a power core
  • Junkyard surprise nerfed (+1/2 to a stat, -1/2 to a stat) and made consumable on use
  • Repairing broken equipment while worn or getting the worn equipment broken will now always correctly update armor and special effects penalties
  • Fixed bunch of spelling errors

• New armor type: Riot Gear
• Lower Underrail mapping

• Minor changes and bug fixes:
  • Increased duration of thermodinamicity to 2 turns
  • Reduced damage of spikes and blades when mounted on a metal armor suit, but increased their damage when mounted on boots
  • Fixed spikes of doom bug
  • It's no longer possible to refresh the duration of stun, fear and short-circuit effects
  • Fixed the scaling of Bilocation psi ability

• Added Psionic Headbands
• Lower Underrail mapping

Alpha 0.1.8.0

07 May 2013

Changelog:

• New feats
  • Heavy Punch - Unarmed attack that deals 200% for 250% AP
  • Bone Breaker - Critical hits from your blunt melee attacks break ribs if they deal at least 4% of target's maximal health through mechanical damage. Targets with broken ribs receive additional 25% mechanical damage from all sources. This effect stacks up 2 times.
  • Cheap Shots - Increases critical damage bonus of your melee attacks by 50% and gives your unarmed attacks 15% chance to incapacitate the target for 1 turn.
  • Paranoia - Detection increased by 20% and chance to get critically hit reduced by 3%. Also your weapon damage is increased by 20% against stealthed targets (will be useful at one point).
  • Uncanny Dodge - Grants you an ability that when activated will cause you to dodge the next regular or special melee attack targeted against you.
  • Evasive Maneuvers - Converts all remaining movement points into twice the evasion for 2 turns.
  • Grenadier - Reduces the cooldown of fragmentation and high explosive greandes by 1 turn and special grenades by 2 turns.
  • Three-Pointer - Gives your damage dealing grenades 10% chance to critically hit. This chance is increased by 2% for each point in dexterity above 7.
  • Trap Expert - Reduces time required to arm traps by 70% and increases the detection difficulty of the traps you set by 25%.

• New psi abilities
  • Pyrokinetic Stream (metathermics) - Creates a stream of fire towards the targeted location, damaging everything in its path for X heat damage every tick. The stream lasts for three ticks plus an additional tick for every 10 spare action and psi points remaining after the initial invocation.
  • Electrokinesis (psychokinesis) - Deals X electrical damage to the primary target and stuns it for 1 turn before jumping to a nearby target. It can jump up to four times, but the damage decreases by 15% of the original amount with every jump. It can strike the same target multiple times, but it needs at least two targets to jump between. Only the primary target is stunned.
  • Bilocation (thought control) - Creates a doppelganger of a human target bent on their destruction. The doppelganger is immune to all physical attacks and deals X mental damage that bypasses all shields and resistances. Last for 4 turns.
  • Mental Breakdown (thought control) - Incapacitates the target for up to 3 turns and reduces its resolve by 50%. If a detrimental thought control psi ability is invoked against the target during this period it will have double the effect, but will end the mental breakdown.

• Changes
  • Game generates a crash log now in Documents\My Games\Underrail folder when it crashes.
  • Increased the amount of health hypos, bandages and ammo the player receives at the start of the game. Player can also find a mechanical repair kit in its room at the start.

• Fixes
  • No longer possible to place the fishing rod on top of yourself
  • Game will no longer crash when attempting to disarm triggered traps
  • Game should work properly with windows on-screen keyboard now
  • Junkayrd gambling house staff and nearby Black Eels will no longer turn hostile after the attack on Scrappers

• Reworked feats
  • Burglar - Reduces the time it takes to pick and hack locks by 75%, but also add +10 bonus to stealth when in controlled areas
  • Nimble - Reduces encumbrance by 15%, but also grants 15% bonus to dodge and evasion when on zero encumbrance
  • Ninja Looter - Reduces pickpocketing time by 50% and also reduces suspicion raised when pickpocketing by 25% when hidden from the target
  • Conditioning - Increased the damage reduction to 10% + 1% per constitution above 5, but also added requirement of having at least 5 points in constitution
  • Opportunist - Upped the damage bonus agains slowed targets to 20% (up from 15%)
  • Recklessness - Grants 10% increased critical chance with all weapons, but also increases the chance of you getting critically hit by 3% (up from 3%/2% I think)
  • Yell - Reduces enemy offensive skills by 35% of your intimidation skill (up from 25% I think)
  • Snipe - Increased the base damage bonus from 100% to 125%

• Bugs
  • Fixed the game crashing when loading 0.1.6.0 saves. It's still not recommended to play the old saves, but it shouldn't crash now hopefully.
  • Fixed the problems with Cliff's quest when he would die at inopportune times

• Tweaks
  • Reduced weapon degradation significantly. The starting pistol should now be good for over 100 shots
  • Melee weapons no longer degrade on missed attacks
  • Reduced the cost of energy pistols
  • Dexterity now increases critical chance of melee attacks by 1% for each point above 5
  • Added "Already known" label to blueprints you... already know
  • Added more items to the SGS commoners to be stolen!
  • Reduced the pickpocketing cooldown to 5 seconds (down from 10)

Alpha 0.1.7.0

22 March 2013

Changelog:

• General
  • More quests added to Junkyard areas
  • Two new mini dungeons added

• Economy
  • Toned down item degradation a bit
  • Melee weapons no longer degrade faster than ranged weapons
  • Reduced the base merchant price modifier from 425% to 350% to better suit the other changes to the economy; so basically everything will be a bit cheaper

• Mechanics
  • Caltrops have a chance to miss the targeted tile in the same way the granades do

• Balance
  • Change the mutants and mutated dog health up, down and all around; can't tell if it's more or less than what it used to be but it's balanced now I think
  • NPC natural dodge/evasion changed to 1 per level
  • Off-balanced, stunned, frozen and incapacitated enemies have their dodge and evasion reduced to zero
  • Rooted enemies have their evasion reduced to zero
  • Increased the damage of crippling strike and reduced the AP cost
  • Critical crippling strike applies 2 stacks of the debuff
  • Restored health modifier to all commoners to 100% (up from 50%/80%)

• Fixes
  • High-density foam padding price now scales with quality and quality is also made relevant in all its crafting recipes
  • Fixed Telekinetic Punch to scale off of Psychokinesis instead of Metathermics

• UI
  • Disabled Trade button when nothing is set to be traded
  • Turn-based combat path visualization should now work properly in all cases

• Economy
  • Reduced the amount of loot significantly (mainly from dungeon areas and lightly guarded urban areas)
  • Wheeled bots and turrets leave loot now (ammo, scraps and sometimes more valuable things)
  • Reduce leather drop chances across the board
  • Reduced the value multiplier for certain crafted items (e.g. leather armor) in relation to their components; purchasing components from vendors and crafting them into finished items and reselling them should not be profitable (this would either force me to reduce the amount of components the merchants have or to reduce the restocking frequency and I don't want to do either); finding components and crafting them into items before selling them is profitable
  • Increased the cost of special bolts
  • Item cost penalty based on durability changed from linear function to power function; meaning that lower less and less durability and item has, the faster its value drops
  • Psi boosters now cost 5 mindshrooms to make
  • Increased deterioration rate of melee weapons by 50% to somewhat balance out them not requiring ammo

• Misc
  • Added more mutated dogs to Old Junkyard because why not
  • Player now leaves a corpse after dying instead of turning into a backpack

• Balance
  • Reduced the amount of skill points the player gets (-15 at the start, -5 per level)
  • Added activation cost to night vision goggles
  • Increased value of distance factor when calculating weapon to-hit chance
  • Weapon precision penalties (melee, on move) will now correctly be deducted at the end of to-hit chance calculation (it's no longer possible to mitigate these penalties through skill)
  • NPCs now have natural dodge and evasion bonus equal to twice their level (factor subject to change pending testing)
  • Reduced damage of shock, incendiary and acid bolts across the board; they should still be good but won't 2-shot most things in the game anymore
  • Precision bonus with special bolts removed from Marksman feat
  • Increased Pyrokinesis cooldown to 3 turns (up from 2) and reduced damage slightly
  • Premeditation now reduces the cost of your next psi ability by 50% instead of 100%
  • Increased the health of Mutated humans and restored them their normal movement points (was too easy to kite them)
  • Mutated human's AI tweaked to correctly use acid spray even when close to player if something is preventing them from engaging in melee
  • Increased mutant dog health
  • Resist chance calculations for everything (stun, entangle, etc) was previously bugged and couldn't drop below 20% no matter how powerful the attack/ability was and how bad the defense was. Also capped all resist chance at 65% (down from 80%), might change pending testing.
  • Reduced Neural Overload the damage that can be mitigated through resolve. It's also capped at ~40%.
  • Increased base psionic power of psi beetles and their synergy bonus; also their armor and health a bit (hopefully I get to watch them actually kill someone now)
  • Added some acid resistance to wheeled bots and turrets
  • Change trap detection mechanics to favor players investing in Traps skill in addition to having good perception; traps are also not revealed automatically if you beat the skill check but instead have a chance to be revealed every "tick" in real time / end of turn in turn-based mode; this will make traps a bit more dangerous than they are now for all characters
  • Changed stealth detection indicator colors for NPCs again: slowly fading in-and-out silver eye again means true-seeing again, while slowly fading in-and-out red eye means "stealth too low to hide from this NPC"; should be more intutive this way. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the stealth changes I made a while back (http://underrail.com/forums/index.php?topic=128.0)
  • You can no longer set traps, disarm traps, lockpick or hack in turn-based mode

• UI
  • When placing traps with AoE effect, their range will also be displayed; this should make it easier for players to prevent chaining their own traps and blowing themselves up Wile E. Coyote style.
  • Toggling between all feats and only available ones should now correctly update the scroll bar

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed the bug that caused players to die during transition and return as vengeful undead if they transitioned in turn-based mode with a damage over time effect that is about to kill them
  • Fixed lightning in some areas (GMS, Elwood's house)
  • Killing someone in a single turn will now correctly propagate hostilities to their nearby friends

• Added a couple of new areas, a couple of new quests and a mini-dungeon with burrowers in it.

• More changes to other mechanics
  • Grenades and pyrokinesis will now deal their full damage near the center of the detonation and less and less damage the further you move from it. Something like this was already in place with frag grenade shrapnel (you'd get hit with more shrapnel the closer you are to the detonation), but now it affects all grenade damage
  • Pyrokinesis has a chance to miss the targeted tile in the same way as grenade do; the targeting precision is derived from metathermics skill
  • "Grenades" skill has been renamed to "Throwing". It will now be used when calculating precision of all throwing actions (such as tossing flares and using throwing nets).
  • Grenade cooldown no longer decreases with skill. A cooldown reduction feat will probably be introduced in the future.
  • Grenade range no longer increases with skill.
  • Throwing precision now increases with skill and decreases with throwing distance. The less precise you throw the farther the grenade will land from the targeted location (up to 3 tiles away).

• Introduced item durability for weapons and armor pieces (helmet, torso armor and boots).

Alpha 0.1.6.0

13 January 2013

Changelog:

• Added creature respawning. Creatures in most places will respawn every two hours. Some bandits will also respawn, but most of the human enemies in the current areas will not respawn (since it wouldn't make sense in the context of these areas).
• Merchants will now refresh their inventories every 90 minutes.
• Reduced the frequency of base stat point gain. Player character will now gain an extra base stat point every four levels, instead of every two.
• Fixed the problem with indirect kills not giving the player XP - all damage over time effects, ground effects and explosive barrels will now properly credit the player with XP.
• Experience gains are now calculated against character's "potential level" which takes into account all XP gained to that point even if you stayed off leveling up.
• Opening and closing doors in combat now cost 25 action points (up from 10) so no more open-shoot-close tactics!
• Locked doors and containers will now display the difficulty rating on attempted use. Lockpicks and haxxors will display the max. lock difficulty they can handle in hands of the player character.
• SGS merchants will now accept stygian coins (charons).

• Changed the "Extract Toxin" blueprint into "Extract Humour". It can now be used to extract various bodily fluids from organs of dead animals
• Creatures will now drop organs when killed.
• Added health hypo blueprint.
• Added adrenaline shot blueprint.
• Added chemical blob trap blueprint.
• Added acid bolts to chemical bolt blueprint.
• Added caltrops blueprint.
• Added plasma pistol.
• Added Morphine Shot.
• Added export/import character options
• Added an option to autosave on transitions.

• Gameplay changes
  • Changed the way the lockpicks and haxxors work.
  • Lockpicks are now spent on successful lockpicking, so they work as a resource. They have distinct power levels and icons (+0, +5, +10) and are stackable.
  • Haxxors work similarly like they did before, but also have distinct power levels and icons and require energy (batteries) to use.
• Added blueprint for chemical pistols.
• Added "Chemical Ammo" blueprint to accompany this.

Alpha 0.1.5.0

06 December 2012

Initial alpha funding release on Desura and GamersGate.

Changelog:

• Huge new urban zone consisting of 8 areas
• Big new 'dungeon' consisting of 6 areas (twice as much as the last one)
• A couple of 'mini-dungeons'
• New quests
• New feats
• Traps skill
• Some updated game mechanics
• Re-balanced economy
• Food
• More weapons and armors
• Updated crossbows (feats, special bolts, damage boost)
• Various other smaller stuff

• Added some new weapons and armors
  • One new model of each firearm type: pistol, SMG, assault and sniper rifle
  • One new crossbow type
  • Knives and sledgehammers made of tungsten steel
  • Tungsteen steel armor
  • Regenerative vest that slowly restores health but consumes energy (can be used in creation of tactical vests or steel armors)
  • Acid resistant leather armor (this will be useful in the upcoming dungeon)

• New feats
  • Pummel - sledgehammer attack that takes the target off balance, negating dodge and evasion for 2 turns
  • Crippling Strike - unarmed or knife attack that deals 125% damage and reduces target's strength by 2 (stacks 3 times).
  • Dirty Kick - Unarmed attack that deals damage and stuns the target for 1 turn (double that if the target is human male)
  • Hit and Run - After you kill an enemy, your movement points are restored to 25 (or your maximum, whichever is lower)
  • Yell - You attempt to reduce offensive skills (guns, corssbows, melee and grenades skills) of all surrounding enemies by 20% of your intimidation skill
  • Shroomhead - You regenerate psi points in presence of mindshrooms when below 35% of your maximum psi

• Added food
• Game balance and mechanics
  • Changed a bit how stealth works.
  • Added a notification when you bump into other characters and fall out of stealth for that reason.
  • Increased health scaling with levels, for both the player and non-player characters.
  • Doubled the psi point pool as well as psi restoration from psi boosters.
  • Significantly increased base damage multiplier of snipe ability.

• Improved crossbow play
  • Increased base damage of crossbows
  • Added two multi-target special bolts

• New Skill: Traps
• Added zone control

• Tweaks
  • Buying prices are much higher than selling prices now so you won't be able to get rich quickly anymore; this also make mercantile more useful
  • Ammunition and some other resources are more expensive and scarce now
  • You cannot start combat immediately after transitioning into another area (5 second cooldown added); this should prevent most of the transition exploits
  • Critical hits are better distinguished in the scrolling combat text
  • Batteries now restore more energy, but are also more expensive
  • When attacking a passive object in real time the attack will stop after a single hit (no more auto-attacking)
  • Added more blueprints as static (non-random) merchant inventory
  • Improved some quest text to be more specific (number of outposts, barracks location, shooting practice)
  • Player movement speed slightly increased
  • Grenade damage increased
  • Flashbang duration increased to 2 turns
  • Enemy remains are now visible through walls at all times (don't have to hold down TAB or Z); this should also prevent them from being stuck behind a door or other usables
  • Added inventory sorting (merchant inventories are sorted now as well)
  • Added more item filtering categories
  • Items are unbound from action bar when they are all used up, dropped and such
  • Help option will now blink until you open it (so many people missed it completely)
  • Dragging items/ability off the action bar is made a bit less sensitive now so you shouldn't have that much trouble clicking abilities while the action is unlocked
  • A number of abilities are automatically bound to your action bar at the start of the game
  • When you mouse over an equippable item in your inventory it will highlight the slots in which the item can be equipped (this should help with the special bolts confusion among other things)
  • You can double click items to equip them / put them into the trading window
  • When mousing over an item you wish to purchase it will show the purchase value instead of the nominal value
  • Only currency will be used during auto trading
  • Auto trading will no longer try to trade currency for currency

• Bug fixes
  • Saves and user configuration are now stored in Documents\My Games\Underrail so the game will no longer require admin privileges to run
  • Saving while transitioning out of SGS into the caves will no longer get you stuck between the two gates
  • Killing the sentry near the Mushroom Cove will no longer mess up the factions
  • Attacking SGS sentry bots will no longer mess up the faction and turn your own electroshock sledgehammer against you (it was dealing electrical damage on hit to you as well)
  • You no longer remain in stealth after attacking a camera or other passive object
  • Item duplication bug fixed
  • Rathound Alphas should now properly use their Rend ability
  • Lockpicking is no longer instant with Burglar feat, but this feat has been improved to reduce lockpicking and hacking times by 75% (up from 50%)
  • You can now power up outposts in the caves after turning in the quests
  • You can no longer acquire the Sprint ability without picking the feat
  • Reloading from quick reload bar will now load up the weapon with as much ammo as you have regardless of how it's split in the inventory
  • No more blue flashes on saving the game
  • Removed "computer skill" references
  • Path estimation in turn-based combat should now be drawn properly in all cases
  • Minor AI bugs
  • Other minor map bugs

Alpha 0.1.4 (Free alpha demo)

23 August 2012

Initial alpha release.

Available as Free Alpha Demo.