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PATCH 1.5 - SHARPER HORIZONS
NEW ARENA: JAGGED PEAKS Prepare to face off in a brand new arena with combat progressing over six varied zones. PERFORMANCE AND FIDELITY This patch delivers a massive leap in visual fidelity, featuring clearer rendering…
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The Black Pool Soundtrack Releases May 21st!
UPDATE: The Black Pool Soundtrack by Angles and Under Sanction is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other major streaming services. LISTEN TO SUIT UP AND STARECASE Stream the singles Suit Up and Starecase:
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PATCH 1.4 - THE SLASHER
NEW ENEMY: SLASHER A new enemy is on the prowl. Beware, they like to get up close and personal. ADDITIONAL FLUX EVENTS Additional common flux events have been added, increasing variety. ELEMENT GUIDE One of the top requ…
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PATCH 1.3 - SPEED AND PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS The Black Pool patch 1.3 brings many performance improvements. Following the last big content patch, we devoted substantial time to evaluate and tune both CPU and GPU performance. A large focus…
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PATCH 1.2 - ARENA SURVIVORS
NEW GAME MODE: ARENA SURVIVORS The Black Pool patch 1.2 introduces an entirely new game mode: Arena Survivors— a fast and intense battle arena featuring rapid progression and randomized waves of increasingly more diffic…
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PATCH 1.2 DROPPING SOON!
Get ready—The Black Pool 1.2 is dropping soon. Patch 1.2 launches an entirely new Arena Survivors game mode, a brand new music track, and numerous new features, balance adjustments, and bug fixes!
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PATCH 1.1.0 - CHAOS
The Black Pool patch 1.1 delivers the top requested post-launch features from our Discord community, including a brand new element, multiplayer nametags, and player pings! NEW ELEMENT: CHAOS A new element has been disco…
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PATCH 1.0 - THE BLACK POOL GOES GOLD!
This patch we focused primarily on polish and smaller bug fixes in preparation for officially launching The Black Pool on Steam! It has been a long road to get here. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game to h…
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The Black Pool is launching out of early access!
We are thrilled to announce The Black Pool will be launching out of Early Access— version 1.0 of the game releases on June 19th! We entered Open Beta and Early Access a year ago. Through valuable community feedback, we…
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PATCH 0.9.3 - UBER PERFORMANCE
This patch, we focused on increasing graphics quality, performance, and overall polish. The Black Pool is also now available in 7 languages. FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS Added DLSS 3.7 super resolution support. Those with…
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PATCH 0.9.2 - BADDER BOSSES
BADDER BOSSES This patch introduces a new challenge mode: Badder Bosses, which adds new and unique challenge content to each boss, such as additional stages, new enemies, and different attack patterns. NEW FINAL TEMPLE…
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PATCH 0.9.1 - A MORE POWERFUL DEVICE
NEW MAGNUS LEVEL This patch introduces Magnus - Beta Sector, which holds some fun surprises and unique challenges. NEW DEVICE CHOICES Two new unlockable slots have been added to The Device. In addition, the STEEL OR GLA…
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PATCH 0.9.0 - NOW FEATURING 80 ABILITIES
STRONG AND AREA ATTACK AUGMENTS The Entity now offers augments for strong and area attacks! In total, this patch introduces 16 new augments, and 2 new base abilities. There are now 80 unique abilities and augments in th…
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PATCH 0.8.2 - THREE ABILITIES TO START
THREE ABILITIES TO START Players now start with three abilities, choosing from each of the offered starting elements. Previously, combat in the first world could feel limited with only two abilities. This makes the firs…
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PATCH 0.8.1 - HEALTH BARS AND DROPS
ENEMY HEALTH BARS This patch, we have delivered one of our most requested features: enemy health bars. In addition to displaying the rank and hit points for medium and heavy enemies, all currently applied elemental effe…
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SMALL FIX PATCH 0.8.0.1 - SOME UPDATES
Fix for a rare multiplayer issue where a client could not see the offered elemental upgrade. This was a rather rare issue which was problematic to reproduce, so we could not 100% verify it has been fixed. Please let us…
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