Barotrauma Dev Tracker

Hello everyone!

Now that spring is slowly thawing the land (and the bones of our dev team), it’s soon time for Barotrauma’s first update of the year. The update is currently being tested by our team, and you can also start test driving it now and give us feedback before it’s released!

There’s an important new feature coming in this update which we would be happy to hear your thoughts on: The ‘Reserve bench’ feature allows you to hire bots as ‘backup’ crew members, who only spawn when needed, for example after a player death in the permadeath mode. You can also use the reserve bench outside of permadeath, for example to keep a skilled engineer handy, just in case your current one meets an untimely end.

There are also other content additions coming – more about these a little later! In the fixes and improvements department, here are some of our... Read more

Hello everyone!

As we set sail into 2025, we wanted to give you some early insights into our plans for the year ahead. Our work on Barotrauma continues, but we are going to shift gears and move towards less new content, and more changes that help to polish and improve the game.

This spring, we will be releasing a content update made up of various features and changes that had to be left out of earlier updates for one reason or another. You can look forward to a submarine rework, new events and missions, an additional PvP outpost, and more. We’ll preview this update properly a little closer to its release.

Following the spring update, we have no major content additions planned for some time to come. Instead, the later updates of this year will introduce fixes, improvements and small changes – and possibly some content additions as well, when o... Read more

Greetings everyone!

Our publisher Daedalic is currently having their publisher sale, with discounts of up to 90% on their whole catalogue. Barotrauma also has a sizeable discount of 50% off, so time to dive in!

The publisher sale is also the perfect time to find new games to try. Check out the newly released 4X strategy game YIELD! Fall of Rome, the cozy ... Read more

Hello everyone, and merry holiday season!

Our Winter Update has just been released, with various fixes, improvements and optimizations. Read more about the update in last week’s preview post[barotraumagame.com] and find the full list of changes at the end of this text.

Be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer games. We hope these improvements will make playing more enjoyable, and that you have fun times in Barotrauma over the holidays!

We’ll still be around for a little longer and release a hotfix if needed, and after next week, we’re heading out for our yearly Christmas break. We ... Read more

Hello everyone!

It’s almost holiday time, and so it’s also almost time for our yearly Winter Update. This time it will be more of a patch than a full-fledged update, as it focuses on optimizations, fixes and improvements. We hope you’ll get to enjoy smoother sailing in Barotrauma over the holidays after these upcoming changes!

In Santa’s bag of fixes this year:

• Optimizations. We’ve made changes to the Farseer Physics engine which Barotrauma uses, as well as optimized rendering. These two should result in a significant performance boost, and there are also various other optimizations coming in the update.
  
• Networking improvements. We’ve made various improvements and fixes to address “glitchy” behavior, such as enemies seeming to regenerate health after being shot, characters sometimes teleporting weirdly, or dea...

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Hello everyone!

We have just released the second hotfix addressing additional issues in the Unto the Breach update. Make sure to update your game to the latest version, and see the list of changes below.

v1.6.19.1

- Fixed chat input box getting cleared whenever someone changes their team, or when the game mode or team selection mode changes.
- Fixed stun resistance PvP setting doing nothing.
- Made Crimson Acid less powerful against large monsters.
- Fixed everyone's name tags being shown in red until you spawn when you join a campaign mid-round.
- Fixed stackable items with a non-default quality (e.g. grenades) failing to stack in the fabricator's output slot, instead just falling to the floor.
- Fixed very large PvP outposts often clipping into the level walls.
- Fixed decorative structures such as background walls not showing up on hostile (non-player) subs in multiplayer.
- Fixed "giveitem" command crashing the game wh... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

We have just released the first hotfix to address issues that have been found since the Unto the Breach update. Find the list of changes below, and make sure to update your game to the latest version!


v1.6.18.1

- Fixed several issues when the server rejects a name change due to a client trying to change their name too often: the server would start spamming the "can't change name" message, team and job preference selection would stop working too, and the game would crash when attempting to open the job preferences.
- Fixed equipped genes becoming tainted if you die due to disconnection.
- Fixed kill/death counters not working in the Sub vs. Sub PvP missions.
- Fixed gravity spheres not rotating in the sub editor.
- Fixed current generators not getting properly mirrored in ruins in mirrored levels.
- Fixed spawnpoints for escorted characters and prisoners not working.
- Fixed crashing if an AI character's hus... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

The Unto the Breach update has just been released. Be sure to update your game now for…

• Fully overhauled PvP mode with two new mission types, new maps and a slew of other improvements.
  
• Improvements to alien ruins: new modules, traps, puzzles and events.
  
• Rebalanced gene splicing system and new craftable dementonite items.
  
• Three new Husk enemies: the Exosuit Husk, Husk Prowler and Husk Chimera.
  
• 36 new outpost modules.

Read more about the update in last week’s ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

The Unto the Breach update is now almost here, so let’s take one last look at what’s coming.

PvP overhaul The PvP mode in Barotrauma has been given a complete overhaul:

• Two new mission types: Outpost Deathmatch and King of the Hull.
  
• Both teams can freely choose which sub they wish to do battle on.
  
• Use the new Perk Points to pick submarine upgrades, better weaponry, talents or other benefits to help your crew in the fight. Perk Points are also available in Mission Mode.
  
• New items to help you breach and board the enemy vessel: Harpoon ammunition for turrets, the Boarding Pod and the Timed Detonator.
  
• Multiple options to customize the PvP gameplay to your liking, and various improvements throughout.

Alien ruin improvements

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

It’s time to reveal the biggest change in the upcoming update: a complete overhaul of the PvP game mode. This game mode has not received any attention from us in a long time, so now we wanted to bring it up to par with the rest of the game.

Two new mission types The PvP overhaul introduces two brand new mission types: Outpost Deathmatch and King of the Hull.

• In Outpost Deathmatch, two teams battle inside one of two purpose-built outposts. The first team to reach a set amount of kills gets the win.
  
  
• In King of the Hull, the teams must race their subs to a beacon station, get inside, capture it and defend it from the enemy team to emerge victorious.

Improved Sub versus Sub gameplay Something we’ve seen players request many times is choosing different subs for different teams in ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

The next update is now about a month away, so it’s time to take a closer look at what’s new on Europa this time. We’ll cover the “big thing” in the update in our next post, and this time, let’s take a look at…

Alien ruin improvements Alien ruins will be more varied both in their visual and gameplay aspects: New modules and decorations will make the ruins feel more lived-in and intriguing, while new puzzles and traps will challenge your crew’s tactics more than their plasma cutters. The update will also include brand new events that will encourage exploration and give you more information on the mysterious beings behind the ruins.

Exploring the ruins will also be more rewarding. Dementonite can now be used to craft more experimental items, like gravity-affecting ammunition for your submarine. The gene splicing system is also r... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone, we've just released an extra hotfix to address two issues which have caused problems recently:

v1.5.9.2

- Fixed an exploit that allowed clients to crash servers when hosting through SteamP2P.
- Fixed crashing when loading a save in which a character has a deconstruct order and an item marked for deconstruction is outside hulls.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

We’ve been back at our desks for a few weeks now, and it’s time to turn our eyes towards the second major update of 2024.

This next update is going to be in the oven for a while longer, but remember that you can try out all the upcoming features and changes in the Unstable version as they roll out for playtesting throughout the next couple of months.

Coming in October
Just like last autumn with the Treacherous Tides update, we’ll again be overhauling and fleshing out a game mode which hasn’t received a lot of attention in recent years. Can you guess which one it will be this time?

In addition to this overhaul, you can look forward to improvements to alien ruins, new additions in the Velonaceps calyx depa... Read more