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Steam News17 March 20263mo ago

1.7.0 Fortress Update

1.7.0 Fortress Update Fortress can be accessed by clicking in the icon above the pet icon 17 buildings to construct / upgrade using the new currency Hardware Components (HC) 7 new bosses inside the Fortress to defeat.

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added17 buildings to construct / upgrade using the new currency Hardware Components (HC)
added7 new bosses inside the Fortress to defeat.
changedSome buildings / upgrades (Security Tower, Operators, program mastery) will give you Fortress DPS.
changedSome buildings will give you passive income, such as production bonuses, more breach credits, more entropy...
changedYou’ll earn HC for first clear of bosses as well as an Exploit Package (randomized loot drops from bosses, with modifiers that persist through prestige)
addedCombat programs now have a mastery level that grows with use, adding permanent stat bonuses.

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added17 buildings to construct / upgrade using the new currency Hardware Components (HC)
added7 new bosses inside the Fortress to defeat.
changedSome buildings / upgrades (Security Tower, Operators, program mastery) will give you Fortress DPS.
changedSome buildings will give you passive income, such as production bonuses, more breach credits, more entropy...
changedYou’ll earn HC for first clear of bosses as well as an Exploit Package (randomized loot drops from bosses, with modifiers that persist through prestige)

1.7.0 Fortress Update

Fortress can be accessed by clicking in the icon above the pet icon

17 buildings to construct / upgrade using the new currency Hardware Components (HC)

7 new bosses inside the Fortress to defeat.

Now the true win condition is earned after defeating OUROBOROS, defeating all the 17 firewalls will give a ‘Chapter 1 complete’

Some buildings / upgrades (Security Tower, Operators, program mastery) will give you Fortress DPS.

Some buildings will give you passive income, such as production bonuses, more breach credits, more entropy...

You will be able to trade Entropy / Breach credits -> HC

You will be able to level up operators and send them to expeditions

You’ll earn HC for first clear of bosses as well as an Exploit Package (randomized loot drops from bosses, with modifiers that persist through prestige)

Combat programs now have a mastery level that grows with use, adding permanent stat bonuses.

Redesigned the Data Farm panel, including new crop slots, crops to plant!

Now when you buy upgrades from the Network Map related to the crops, it correctly shows the yield in data farm panel

Now in auto-plant instead of picking a single crop for all slots, you now assign how many slots each crop should occupy.

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Steam News / 17 March 2026

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