Barotrauma Dev Tracker

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

Hello everyone!

The next update is just a few weeks away now, and we have more new features to sneak peek at. We also wanted to give a little update on the development of the Permadeath mode that we ... Read more

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

Hello everyone!

Something that we have been working on for a long time alongside developing updates has been making Barotrauma available outside Steam as well. As we have seen unexpected successes with our little submarine simulator, year after year, we’ve been looking into ways to take it to other platforms eventually. Now we’re ready to make the game available through Epic Games Store in addition to Steam!

The Epic launch will not change anything for players who want to stick to Steam: When you launch Barotrauma for the first time following our EGS release, you will see a prompt asking you to enable crossplay between Steam and Epic. If you do not wish to do so, you can decline, and that will be all. You can also update your preferences at any time in the game settings.

If you enable crossplay, and if we find a lot of new users through Epic,... Read more

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

Hello everyone!

Let’s have another sneak peek at our upcoming spring update.

Diving suit rebalance We always intended diving suits to be used only for acute pressure protection: during hull breaches and while swimming. However, there are not many actual downsides to wearing a suit all the time, so a lot of people do just that… which has effectively eliminated water pressure as a threat. We wanted to change that by encouraging you to take your suit off when you don’t need it. Here’s what we’re changing:

• Slowed flooding speed to give the crew more time to suit up during a hull breach. Hulls will fill with water more slowly, so the pressure will not become lethal as quickly.
  
• Added new animations to diving suits and made walking and running in a suit slower. Swimming speed has not been reduced.
  
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is in the works, to be released in the late spring, and it will include some improvements to the medical system. This won’t be a complete overhaul, but we have reworked medical items to give each a clearer use case and stronger progression in the campaign, as well as added a few new afflictions to create additional late-game challenges.

Here are some highlights:

• Opiates have been rebalanced to give each a clearer use case. They also cause addiction and overdose much more easily than before, making them high-risk, high-reward treatments.
  
• Infected Wounds, a new dangerous affliction caused by Thresher attacks.
  
• Antibiotic Glue now has multiple uses, so one tube can be used to treat multiple limbs. It can also treat Infected Wounds.
  
• Deusizine ...

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

Hello everyone!

We have just released a second hotfix for the Winter Update. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers, and see the full list of changes below.


v1.2.8.0

Changes:
- Allow scaling most items below 0.1 in the submarine editor again. We set 0.1 as a hard limit because smaller scales caused issues with tiling items (such as labels), without realizing some sub builders have found some creative uses for heavily downscaled items (such as tiny turrets used as "dials").

Fixes:
- Fixed escorted characters trying to leave the sub if they can't find a safe hull to get to (e.g. when the sub is flooded).
- Fixed rotated structures not appearing rotated on the status monitor.
- Fixed wires getting misaligned when saving them in an item asse... Read more

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

Hello everyone!

The year 2024 has officially started in Barotrauma development, and we’d like to kick it off with a brief development poll.

We’re planning a new, optional challenge mode for multiplayer campaigns where respawning is limited and character death is permanent, and we have a few competing designs for how we might implement this Permadeath mode.

If you are interested, read more about the Permadeath mode on our blog[barotraumagame.com], and give your feedback via the poll attached to the blog! You wil... 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 a hotfix to address issues in last week's Winter Patch. See the list of changes below, and enjoy the holiday season!


v1.2.7.0

- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the game to crash without generating a crash report (which would lead to a "pipe was broken" error if the issue happened server-side). The issue had to do with a stack overflow when throwing specific kinds of console errors: one common case was when the game failed to connect to our server to check the GameAnalytics consent, which lead to a crash on startup.
- Fixed piezo crystals sometimes spawning right at the start of the level.
- Fixed assistants not being able to pick all tier 1 and 2 talents.
- Fixed location names disappearing when locations change their type in saves started in pre-1.2 versions.
- Fixed s... Read more

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

Hello everyone!

The Winter Patch 2023 has just been released, with quality-of-life changes, balancing, optimizations, bugfixes, and a bit of new content sprinkled in as well. You can find the full list of changes at the end of this post, and a more comprehensive preview of the update in our ... Read more

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

Hello everyone!

The year is almost at its end, and we’ve one more update left to release before that. This Winter Patch will be focusing more on quality-of-life changes, balancing, bugfixes and optimizations, with a sprinkling of new content as well. See some of the highlights below, and read more on our blog[barotraumagame.com].

Rotatable structures in the sub editor, opening up a whole world of possibilities for all of you mad scientist sub editors out there.

Option to buy items straight to you... Read more

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

Hello submariners!

The Steam Autumn Sale starts today, and with that, the Steam Awards nomination period also begins: it’s time to nominate your favorite games for awards. If you’d like to nominate Barotrauma for an award, read on!

Barotrauma is eligible in a number of categories since we reached 1.0 this year. Which one do you think is the best fit? You can nominate us for “Better With Friends” right through this post – the part about needing someone to watch your back, or someone who you can stab in the back, really resonated with us, particularly following last month’s traitor update. You can also pick another category, if you feel a different one is a better match.

Either way, we hope you’ve enjoyed this year, with our long-awaited 1.0 release and the subsequent 1.1 update. It’s been a momentous year for us, and we’re still going to round it off with a smaller update before Christmas. More about that a bit later; for now, enjoy the Autumn Sale, and rememb... Read more