Community Update

The Community Update is Live

A year ago we kicked off an experiment with the community.

What happens when you give them access to the source code and set them free?

The result is the community comes together and makes a crazy, compelling, and fun update that expands the game with new weapons, creatures, maps, and game modes and opens up a whole new level of customization.

Every single part of this update, except for this page, was done by the community.

Thanks to everyone in our community at discord.gg/straybombay for making, helping, testing, and giving feedback.

The best way to see all of what's new is to jump into the game and make sure to hit the settings button.

There you will see all the new options available to make the game the way you want, but that doesn't show it all. Make sure to visit the workshop to see all of what is new - it's not just cosmetics and maps anymore. You can now make and use community made weapons, grenades and creatures as well!

And make sure to join the discord to find active games, test, give feedback, or just hang out and play other games on our game nights.

Highlights of this update:

New Difficulty Mode

• Ultraviolent. Harder than Intenser with even more special aliens and buffed up variants

New Aliens

• Ultraviolent Aliens appear in Ultraviolet campaign difficulty and you can play as them in versus!

Complete alien skin replacements

• This one is hard to explain... so here is a picture instead - Anacroissant (available in the workshop)! Steam post image

New Community Weapons

• Community weapons are new to our mod package and you can now choose individual workshop weapons or include complete packs like the ultraviolent weapon pack.

New Game Mode

• The workshop also contains the original mode for Ultraviolence and the brand new Versus Holdout. Let us know if you think Versus Holdout should move from workshop experiment to the main game.

Community Campaigns

• Brand new community campaigns have been added to the workshop. Try out A Thousand Lights and Ascension for original art styles and minigame event experiences.

Expanded mod tools

• We took what we learned by opening up access and worked those into the community mod kit - join our active discord for access.

The list...

Ultraviolent Difficulty added

Game Settings now have a lot more customization -- tune up special weapons, grenades, matter compilers, eggs, airlock function, and more

Added custom weapons players can create & upload to the workshop, enable in Game Settings

Added ultraviolent weapons to the base game, enable in custom weapons

Added special community aliens in versus

Flasher spawns with aliens around them in versus

Spawner players can now right click survivors to highlight them and focus their turrets on a single target

Gooper players will have an easier time aiming at incoming players now that the firing arc for goo has been smoothened

Added four new banners available for all players

Changed the Game Settings button in the Main Menu to reflect the gamemode, i.e. from (VERSUS|PUBLIC|NORMAL) to VERSUS SETTINGS

Increased the melee radius for the Flasher and Grabber in Versus

Added cleanup as players progress through levels to smoothen performance

Added a timer in Versus to allow alien players to spawn if survivors aren't ready for a special event in a couple minutes

Players have the option to turn on infinite ammo

Players can now choose to start with medkits in Versus

Ultraviolent difficulty will have unique events, Versus players can turn these events on/off

Fixed a bug in Chapter 2 where Versus alien players could accidentally die if running into two separate objects

Tightened up AI responses to the player being grabbed, to make sure they will free the player much more often

Fixed bug where Brute players in versus couldn't melee if they previously cancelled their melee attack by charging

The community modding wiki

https://theanacrusis.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Join our discord to request access to modding tools and participate in games, testing, and just hanging out - we play more than The Anacrusis there.

discord.gg/straybombay

The Workshop

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1120480/workshop/ XBOX PLAYERS With our new update out, we are currently out of sync with Xbox players, if you want to cross play go into the steam setting for the game and enter XBOX in the beta password.