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- Savage Vessels
Custom Inventory & Path Plotter
Custom inventory When you start a new game you always have to craft your favorite gear and to tidy your inventory. It's getting worse with higher starting levels. Now you can customize your inventory and save it. You ca…
Patch notes3 changesGameplayMaps - Savage Vessels
Explosives mainly
Sawgun As you know the original single sawblade has been replaced by 3 sub-blades. Each of these sub-blades deals half the damage of the former single sawblade. This results in 3 x 0.5 = 1.5 times the original damage. B…
Patch notes12 changes3 numericBalance - Savage Vessels
Sawgun & Co.
Dear space scavengers, I balanced some lower level weapons because the chiselgun was way too dominant. The chiselgun is ok but the other weapons don't have clear advantages or they are even dangerous to you. Sawgun I al…
Patch notes5 changes2 numericGameplay - Savage Vessels
Game update #3
Many item descriptions have been edited in order to turn them into helpful statements. This applies to weapons, devices, single-use items and consumables. Also the class of the selected item (single use item, consumable…
Store4 changesBalance - Savage Vessels
Game update #2
Crosshair camera When playing fullscreen on a 16:9 monitor the view range circle extends the top and bottom boundaries of the screen. I suppose this issue somehow applies to all window dimensions. The view flipping mech…
Store2 changesFix - Savage Vessels
Game update
Vsync issues It's possible that the vsync option doesn't have any effect on your PC. When using a tool to detect your FPS you would see no difference between the 2 modes (on/off). Until now I ignored a third possible mo…
Patch notes3 changesWorkshopGameplay - Savage Vessels
Savage Vessels is live and playable
Big thanks for your inspiration, feedback, suggestions, bug reports, questions, encouragement, excitement, rage, previews, demonstrations and so on! That's one small step for any gamer, one giant leap for the dev. ;)
Announcement - Savage Vessels
Extended Intro, brightness control and optional screenshake
1. Intro The second scene of the intro showed the wreck of your carrier and you could read the text: And every scavenger makes an unexpected find. This has been replaced by a longer scene which shows how your carrier is…
Patch notes - Savage Vessels
Loot and Rage
1. Loot You may expect loot now dropped from killed opponents. The bosses always drop flotsam (orange marked rubble) containing 2 or more items. You can pick it up later unless the void collapses on the spot. The common…
Store4 changesUI/audioWorkshop - Savage Vessels
Screen Shake and Punchy Sounds
Screen shake a) Getting hit Note: screen shake affects zoom (z-coordinate) increased by factor: 3.3 b) Recoil, depending on weapon Note: screen shake effects position (x/y-coordinate) Increased by factor: 4.0 Sound adju…
Patch notes9 changesFixGameplay - Savage Vessels
Measures Planned Concerning Game Feeling
Meanwhile the closed beta test is over. The game runs stable, as far as I know. Almost all known device issues have been sorted out. That's really nice! Recently two previews have been published: https://www.youtube.com…
Announcement5 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Savage Vessels
Rock Paper Shotgun
I got in contact with the gaming press. That turned out to be a very nice experience. But read for yourself on Rock Paper Shotgun The author is Sin Vega. For the Reviews section on the store page I picked the following…
Store2 changesGameplay - Savage Vessels
Announcing Release Date: 2 March, 2020
Release is less than 8 weeks away! In the meantime you can watch the final gameplay trailer. Music by Sweeppah
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Savage Vessels
Stories from the Closed Beta Zone
Watch the twitch.tv video from TheWoadRaiders -> Closed beta for Savage Vessels!
Announcement1 changeCompatibility - Savage Vessels
Wanted: Pilots for Closed Beta Test
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Patch notes - Savage Vessels
Taking shape
Impressions from recent work on the higher levels. Surfacing sub-warp-artillery Using up to 3 weapons of the same type Mine launching turret Torpedoes
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