SYNTHETIK ULTIMATE is live!

The ULTIMATE EDITION update is now live! This update includes a lot of new content, enhanced story features, improvements to core gameplay systems and balancing, and much more. Even if you’re played a whole lot already, the Balance changes alone, should shake things up considerably!

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We also finally launched on Switch and Xbox One! (Playstation is TBA) So grab your copy! XBOX ONE - SWITCH US - SWITCH UK

Remember to be in our newsletter on Synthetikgame.com to not miss out on our upcoming games! Onto the new features:

NEW - Story Intro scene NEW - Outtro scene NEW - Boss Dialogs

We added a new story intro scene which finally explains the backstory a bit, a outtro when beating the new Armageddon room and Bosses sometimes also will have some dialog (Singleplayer only)!

NEW - Armageddon Final Fight NEW - Armageddon Shard Loop Mechanic

The Last Defender now finally has something to guard; the Armageddon Room. Face a last onslaught of the Red Guard while trying to override the Heart of Armageddon!

Beating the Last Defender will still count as a win for class challenges, but to get into loop, you will now have to beat the Armageddon Chamber and override the sequence in time before things go dark.

The Armageddon Chamber also Introduces a new mechanic with the Armageddon Shard, the Shard is introduced for playerd who want the game to end soon and feel like they had enough of their often 40-60minute run. Picking up the Shard will give you strong power but kill you after 3 more rooms, ending the game. Players who want to keep trying in the loop should leave the shard.

NEW - Conveyor Belt Boss Encounter

The Belt room offers a difficult new boss-like challenge, sometimes appearing after the second floor! Face a dangerous onslaught of enemies on conveyor belts with changing directions! We will see about further tuning after more player feedback.

NEW - Rare Enemy Squad spawns

Similar to everyone’s favourite loot vacuum cleaner bot or the minitank, rare enemy squads can now spawn in normal rooms in occasions near turrets, usually in squads of 2 or 3, for some extra challenge. Their rank is increased based on difficulty and grant high exp and credits, but can also be avoided if the environment allows it.

• NEW - Riotshield Medic Squad

• NEW - Sniper Black Squad

• NEW - Special Elite Shotgunner Squad

• NEW - Railgunner Squad

• Combat Engineer Squad (If owning arena upgrade)

• Psyonic Squad (If owning arena upgrade)

• More new rare enemy types!

• NEW - Ballmedic (Spawns instead of riotshield medic)

• NEW - Gatling Glider (Spawns in vehicle areas)

• ‘NEW’ - Minitank (it got lost in a patch)

• Added notification when minitank, Treasureba or squads spawn

These new enemies and squads will spice things up and add some intensity spikes. Additionally Elite enemies and rare enemies now will show their names so you know who nuked you out of the game ; P

NEW - Alchemy Synergy Terminal

One big new terminal has been added, the Alchemy shop! It can randomly occur, offering new items with designs based around synergy with other items. This should definitely shake some things up and allow even more crazy builds! A shop will always offer a choice of 3-4 each given time.

Inventor's loot-table

• New Item: Orbital Relay

• New Item: Missile Control

• New Item: Trapper’s Teleporter

• New Item: Shield Link

• New Item: Underbarrel Chip

• New Item: Energy Link

Alchemist's loot-table

• New Item: Lifeblood

• New Item: Shaker

• New Item: Elemental Resonance

• New Item: Fire Fury

• New Item: Nitroglycerine

• New Icon: Refresher

Per example, Trapper's Teleporter can spawn your trap items like Bear trap, Psy Field, even C4 and Neutrino bombs on enemies! Nitroglycerine can trigger explosions upon explosions, Shaker grants one charge to all charge based items and more fun awaits!

The alchemy synergy shops have a 15% chance to spawn per room after the first floor, max 2 per run and items cost less than other items of similar rarity. It will always have one of the two loot tables, with around 4 items to choose from.

NEW - Ghetto Blasters

Some new music tracks have been added! You can now find Ghetto Blasters in-game which play one new music track upon usage:

• NEW - 3 New Goa tracks (12 min total)

• NEW - 2 New Cyberpunk tracks

• NEW - 2 New Synthwave tracks (Main menu & Outro)

Some UI improvements have been implemented, most notably the new tooltip, the new enemy names and the new Progress menu will increase polish a nice bit.

• NEW - Room Progress Overlay Menu - Shows level progression after a boss fight

• NEW - Tooltips - Tooltip rework with added icons and more polish

• NEW - Health bars now show a additional damage effect & show healing of smaller thresholds

• NEW - Plating now shows an plating effect when shot or gained (again)

• NEW - Death statistics now shows weapon attachments

• NEW - Rare Enemies and Elite enemies will now show their names!

• Clicking the Challenge Perk will cycle to the Insanity or Default Challenge

• Chatbox will no longer block weapon firing

• Improved varied controller gameplay elements

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Item Auto Triggers:

Certain items that require button presses now auto trigger on shots when not used for a longer duration. This seems a good solution to keep the manual usage but reduce required micromanagement

• Kunai Throwing Knives (10s)

• Tomahawk (25s)

• Mass Shotgun system (35s)

• Dragons Masterkey (35s)

• Laser Mines, Stun, Acid mines now auto plants like Bear Traps when full charges

• C4 now also auto plants when at full charges but only outfight, now has 2 charges

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Attachment Update:

Attachments had a balance pass and some new attachments have been added! Attachment changes are outlined in the balancing section further below.

• NEW Attachment - Angled Grip

• NEW Rare Attachment - Titanium Eternium Rifling

• NEW Rare Attachment - Custom Fitting

• NEW Rare Attachment - Unstable Randomizer

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Achievements:

A bunch of Steam achievements have been added! Due to a backend error they seem to not be live yet but will be rolled out in the next day.

NEW - Create, import and share new weapons!

(PC Only) Tons of stats are available to be changed, you can add new sounds and new weapon images The only thing off limits are some perks the existing weapons have, but even without, there are many variables from our uniquely deep weapon system to play with.

The best part: Making your own weapon is extremely easy, everyone can do it! It mostly relies on opening a text file and changing some numbers and pressing save, No convoluted downloads, editors or strange installs. To make a good new weapon you should try to make a new weapon image and at least look for a new firing sound but it is not required.

NEW - Make your own weapons with extreme ease! Anyone can do it! NEW - Share and download fanmade weapons over our modding channel! Up to 10 modded weapon slots active simultaneously at the moment (you can store infinite on your PC of course for easy swapping out) Locally saved modded weapons of course can’t work in coop.

[https://discord.gg/BP3KeRTufh]

Quick Modding Instructions:

30 second modding tutorial - its that easy!

• 1. Open your savedata location, C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Synthetik

• 2. Open the folder "Modweapon0"

• 3. Open the weaponbalancing.sav with the Editor

• 4. Change the balancing, follow the instructions for adding sound and image, save file

• 5. Go ingame and search for "Mod weapon" in weapon database, upvote with token

• 6. Enter firing range through menu near the logo, buy weapon from shop to test

• 7. You can keep changing things and rebuy the weapon for quick iteration

• 8. To use your 10 slots, put other weapons into new folders “Modweapon1”,2,3,4 etc

More instructions can be found inside the weaponbalancing text file. For an image you can simply put a new .PNG in the folder, same for sounds. It will never get easier than this! It's actually much faster than how we created our own weapons..

Weapon Sound Creation Tips: Download Audacity for free. Find or make your own sounds like from freesound.org, edit as you like (or don’t), and then export them as .ogg from Audacity and put them in the folder with the correct naming as written in the weapon balancing file.

Weapon Image Creation Tips: You can download GIMP or Photoshop CS2 for free if you don’t have access for Photoshop, look up a tutorial for cropping, and that is all you need to create weapon images. You can also mix together images from existing Synthetik weapons. Export as 425x125 PNG, and put it in the folder. That's all you need!

Balancing & Cheating: While making overpowered weapons is briefly fun, give it a try to make something that is cool but balanced within the game and has room to scale up with the upgrades. Picking up a modded weapon right now will skip the new armageddon room and achievements, and give a small increase in terror level, you will see a “Cheat debuff”. More blatantly overpowered weapons will give a stronger “Cheat” debuff with more downsides, so there is more incentive to make something plausible. If the community mostly shares ‘balanced’ weapons, we will consider removing these debuffs but in general this is a complicated and nearly unsolvable issue.

We will keep an eye on what people do with it and adjust accordingly, but don't worry too much about it, have fun!

A firing range mode has been added! Enter by clicking the button next to the game logo in the main menu. You can test your modded weapons or simply try get a good score on the target dummies!

Some weapon shops litter around in the firing range to test tokened weapons or your new mod creations!

Here begins the Balancing part of Update 26: Ultimate Many things have been adjusted, overpowered items have been toned down and more things are being made viable. Overall we felt things had been in a good state but will definitely shake up some preconceptions and coupled with the synergy items will allow for even more builds!

Variant Balance:

• C-Charged variant crit chance 8 > 15%

• Prototype firerate and heat negatives from 15 > 10%

• Kaida Elite now also reduces deviation by 3

• Taiga Hunter damage increased by 5, now cools down 20% faster

Attachment Balance:

• Multiplier icon and name changed, multiplier icon used for randomizer

• Multiplier now reduces heat by 20%

• Super Heavy compound damage bonus from 40 > 50%

• Impact CPU turret damage increased by 25%

• Cranial CPU now reduces damage by 15% instead of 30%

• Eternium further reduces speed and gives more extreme stats

• Tri-Bolt Carrie r damage and firerate reduction reduced 0.7 > 0.75 = Better

• Spreader now also grants 25 move speed

• Hair Trigger damage bonus on semi-auto from 20 to 30%

• Caliber reduction from -15% damage to -10%

• Reload Vent heat reduction increased from 10% > 15%

• Tri-Bolt carrier now doubles damage on laser cannon instead of doing nothing

• Hyper accelerator deals a bit less damage in case it adds full penetration

Weapon Balance:

• Super 90 now properly uses the last shot crit instead of 60% more damage on last shot

• (Nets around a 10% damage increase at 4 magsize with 200% crit damage)

• Last Breath damage from 1.55 to 1.6, recoil from 60 to 55

• Desert Eagle and Titanium Eagle recoil reset speed from 0.85 to 0.95 (Buff)

• Kaida Laser Pistol maximum recoil from 50 to 45

• Armageddon now uses 5.56 > 8.8mm armor piercing type ammunition

• RPK Tundra damage from 1.05 to 1.15

• Type 89 Tokko rubber grenade chance 7 > 10%

• Type 89 Tokko damage from 1.1 to 1.2 (also benefits from AP headshot increase)

• Gladiator Gatling movement speed reduction from 150 > 100, Heat firerate 2 > 2.5

• Gladiator Gatling ammo regeneration rate 1.5 > 3, delay from 1.5 to 0.5

• Laser SUB firerate slightly reduced, now gives half in loop

• Laser SUB now gives half the shield but is multiplied by difficulty percent

• Raptor SG and Battle Hymn essentially have 10 more armor pen given the ammo change

• Tactical observer firerate scaling reduced 0.4% > 0.25%, base firerate increased

• Twin Mill boss scaling reduced, 15>10%, 6 > 5 recoil

• AKS-74U new firing sound, damage from 1.05 > 1.12, ammo gain from 45 > 55

• Pressurized impaler recoil reset from 0.8 > 0.9

• M32 reload speed reduced noticeably

• AMD65 recoil reset improved by around 10%, also benefits from better AP ammo HS bonus

• RRX Coil Shotgun is now Epic tier due to strong overperformance

• KSG 2000 is now Rare tier, damage from 1.25 to 1.1, magsize from 16 to 12, deviation strongly reduced

• M75 Heavy support now charges double as fast when below 1 charge and loses charges 20% slower

• M75 Heavy support now has 8 magsize and is dual burst

• (Experimental) M75 now gives 200 shield per second when removing the charges by moving and above 0.75

• Scar Laser Socom ammo gain from 40 > 50

• AS VAL damage from 0.95 to 1.1, ammo gain 30 > 40, +25% HS bonus

• FMG9 Medic rarity to uncommon, halved regen, regen is now multiplied by difficulty

• Sour DMR recoil reset from 2.5 to 3, damage from 1.75 to 1.85, Headshot bonus unchanged

• R5000 DMR damage from 1.25 to 1.35

• Yoko Lagann damage increased by 10%, now counts as launcher for demolisher

• Yoko Lagann now grants 7 armor when held or when in backpack to reduce risk

• GM6 Lynx and GM6 Lynx critical damage bonus from 20 > 30%, damage increased 15%

• A5C Test Version Firerate increased, cooling from 1.5 > 1.4

• Tuned M14 headshot damage bonus +25%

• Viciator ultra heat from 0.9 > 0.8, firerate heavily increased, damage from 1.45 to 1.4

• Road Warrior heat from 0.65 to 0.8, max ammo from 34 to 30

• AEK Special Elite elite kill heal reduced from 100 to 60

• Laser cannon magsize from 18 to 20, ammo gain from 30 to 20, Firerate slightly reduced

• Ion Obliterator now deals 225 > 200% headshot damage as described in Ion

• Annihilator ANH-6 damage from 1.4 > 1.2

• MAG47 Heavy MG now reduces overheat damage by 33%, magsize from 75 to 85, benefits from AP Headshot bonus, fixed seemingly infinite stacking of damage resistance

• M79 damage from 2.2 to 2.6

• Ares GL damage from 1.4 to 1.5, reload speed from 2 to 1.75

• Laser shotgun and Battle hymn now count as shotgun and laser

• Nailgun damage from 0.97 to 1.05

Item Changes:

• Unidentified Potion healing from 30+5*Power > 35+5*Power, poison and dazing duration reduced

• Methadone damage resistance from 65+5 to 45+5

• Both masterkey items pellet damage increased by 50

• Both Flare items range from 700 to 800

• Both ammo packs cast time from 1.2 to 0.7

• Tsunami Talisman is now Epic rarity

• Rosarius recycling bonus is now +100 max shield again

• Powershot damage bonus reduced to 66%

• Decoy cooldown reduced from 30 to 18

• Power array now gains 3 > 2 charges per second, kill charges unchanged

• Neutrino Bomb explosion amount from 4 to 6, timer from 3 to 2.5

• Twin Link ll duration from 1.25 to 1, Rarity increased to uncommon

• Beamer DPS increased by 40, speed increased by 50

• Heat Spreader now passively grants 10% weapon cooling

• Hyperfeed now reduces heat instantly by 15, and 10 > 20 per second while running

• Shock Impulse base damage from 0.5+0.2 to 0.4+0.1, cooldown from 4 to 5

• Refractor Crystal cooldown 70 > 80

• Psy Field range from 160 to 185

• Stinger Glider hp scaling 1.5+0.5 > 1.5+0.4

• Fangs of Mordigan health power scaling from 0.5+0.5 to 0.75+0.25

• Divine reconstructor recycling bonus changed to +250 HP, now also grants +250 on activation

• Bloodrite damage increased 50%, range from 1500 to 1000

• Redline speed 200 > 250

• Facemelter headshot damage multiplier + 20%, CD decreased by 2

• Plasma grenade now deals 100 more damage and properly alerts enemies

• Infinity drill now has 100 armor pen, can hit 8 > 14 times, cooldown 13 > 16

• Fangs of Mordigan now halves the max health gain above 50 stacks

• GPS and Black Market Teleporter are now in the mystery loot table

• Mystery Crate loot table no longer gives vial pickups but can drop a Health vial or Chaos Potion

Guardian Modules Changes:

• Aegis MK5 heat requirement from 35 to 30

• Into Battle effect lingers longer

• Fortify position starting ammo 30 > 40%

• Shield overclock 150 > 125, Shield Powerup duration 5 > 10

• Bits and pieces now grants the bonus for twice the duration at first application

• Push forward 40 > 30% speed

• Shielded nerfed hard

Rogue Modules Changes:

• Keeping Distance firerate from 25% > 30%

• Power Tuning weapon heat decreased 20 > 10

• Evasive Maneuvers dodge from 10 > 5

Commando Modules Changes:

• Weapon drop now also drops an upgrade kit

• Weapon drop now occurs after 50 > 35 kills

• Hold breath now charges up faster

• Routine stacks set from 8 to 15, effect halved (nerf)

• Heavy gunner healing passive on shots is now affected by lifesteal modifiers such as Scarred

• Scarred now works below 50 shield

• Specialized ammo from 35% to 40% critical damage

Specialist Modules Changes:

• Well oiled now continues giving the cooldown chance when at max stacks

• Unceasing from 30% to 25%

• Sun rising stack amount from 40 to 30, effect amount doubled

• Calculated damage bonus from 25% > 30%

Classes are generally considered in a good state, as such not many changes are done here. Demolisher max damage taken from 450 > 600 Breacher Item cooldown reduction (lvl15) reduced 5 > 2.5 as this was more supposed to be a small bonus to the movement speed, not make him an amazing item user in addition to strong damage and tankiness. Some very minor tweaks and fixes have been done.

• Enemy sniper bullets (Sniper, Redguard Nemesis) are now armor piercing, not anti material (75 > 30AP)

• They also properly have 100% > 75% shield damage, damage increased by 50 (overall nerf)

• Sniper turret also deals 100% > 75% shield damage, stays anti material however (75 AP), damage +100

• APC Boss now deals damage when you stand inside it

• Disco floor time before fields start to deal damage from 1.5 to 2.5

Ammo Types & Ammo Types Consistency:

These changes aim to help certain weapons / types but also push a bit forward to the future ammo design for the Franchise

Armor Piercing Technology Type ammo now gains 25 > 50% bonus headshot damage “Armor Piercing” Ammo variants for 9mm, 5.56 Ballistic Type ammo is being reworked and changed into critical chance ammo, now granting 10% increased critical chance in addition to better unit penetration damage. Renamed “Sharp Tip” It makes no sense for ammo piercing ammo to exist for non armor piercing ammo, this is more of a leftover and makes things less weird but still not perfect Keep in mind the Tooltip is not localized yet outside english

Shotgun Laser Ammo and Yellow Laser ammo now has the same penetration as default laser This is a noticeable buff for Laser shotguns and M75 Plasma ammo now deals 20> 30% shield damage (a 50% increase) and around 8% more damage Buckshot and Dragons breath deal slightly less enemy penetration damage, 0.5 > 0.4

HiggsHigs Particle cannon ammo now counts as Ion and is changed to Ion effect This means the base projectile is much stronger but the AOE is noticeably weaker, Ion weapons are intended as heavy armor piercing single target nukes and should not overlap with the role of explosive by having perfect AOE with no falloff and downsides. Particle cannon was also just great at everything

Dumbfire missiles now deal 25% more damage than other missiles to make them a potential alternative Psyonic ammo now has basic 15 armor pen

Acid ammo now only loses 50 > 35% damage on the acid proccs (other shots are normal - Acid arrows still work differently) Acid damage increased by around 200% Acid was too weak given its very slow timing, but now it should have a role in niche situations on high health enemies, especially given it is very easy to keep it running, allowing even weapon switching in between

Negative Status effects:

• Each bosskill increases the maximum damage potential of the over-time effects by 15%

• Acid tick damage cap from 400 to 600 DPS

• Fire damage cap from 400 to 500 DPS

• Bleeding damage cap from 400 to 500 DPS

• Bleeding damage strongly increased on 5.56, 7.62 and 8.8mm and Nail ammo

• Bleeding now visually ticks faster

Gameplay:

• Hyper adrenaline cost from 150 to 100, overheat damage reduced by 70%

• Overheat damage % reduced from 10 to 15 as it was not accounting damage resi scaling

• Tactical mode boss damage bonus from 35 to 50% (easier)

• Varied minor changes / fixes

Languages:

• Fixed suggested localization lines from the discord localization channel

• Replaced headline font due to missing characters on varied Languages

• Adjusted Headline font alignment on varied Languages

• APC Boss now deals damage if you stand inside

• You can no longer instantly destroy the server hack event

Engine Upgrade, Bugfixes & Bugs

• NEW - Automatic Crashlog uploading

• Crashes to desktop will now automatically upload the crashlog to us upon restart, making

• it far easier to catch crash issues.

Many bugs have been fixed but to fix the notorious coop desync issue that plagued the last update, we had to upgrade the engine to a newer version, which changed a lot of things and introduced a lot of new issues, effectively delaying Ultimate by months. The coop desync seems to still appear rarely, and we are watching closely what is happening now. Bugfix patches will follow in the coming days as needed for the issues which were left after the beta test.

As some of you have already heard, U26-Ultimate is our final content patch for Synthetik and now available on multiple platforms. It has been an almost to the day 6 years journey for Taro and me (Shrike) and we are incredibly proud of our first game. When we started working on Synthetik we mainly just wanted to make a cool game for ourselves and our friends. That it could grow into such a big game with such a supportive and passionate community is beyond our wildest dreams. So allow us again to thank you again for your support! Between U25 and U26 we have upgraded the Game Engine twice. Game seems to be in a good shape now but it has grown immensly over the years. It spans about 400k lines of code and many thousand different objects interacting with each other. So as you can immagine changing anything in the project causes issues all over the place. However, we still had a lot of ideas that we definitely wanted to fit into the game so we have worked for months to make this final, ultimative update for Synthetik, finally adressing some big oversights like the lacking Story elements. During the 2 weeks Beta a lot of issues have already been resolved but we expect to deliver more quick fix updates during the comming days. The game now automatically uploads crashlogs on PC when you start the game again after an issue so posting crashlogs is a thing of the past now. However if you experience unexpected issues please post them in the bugs channel on our discord or on the Steam forums.

We hope you are also excited about Ultimate and we hope to have you on board for what comes next!

Shrike & Taro & the FFG Team www.synthetikgame.com