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Patch Notes: S04.13 (build 94396 - 04/01/2024)

Hello Miners,

We have Identified our pre-xmas crash to be related to older gen Ryzen CPU’s. We have attempted some fixes, but adding additional logging, just in case the fixes do not work.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---
- Attempt at fixes crash for older gen Ryzen CPU’s
- Added additional logging

Changes from S04.12:
- Fixed a Steam Socket issue that caused networking not network in some rare cases.

Hello Miners,
This hotfix rolls the current version back to Patch: S... Read more

Hello Miners,
Ok, so third time wasn’t a charm - but we really really reaaalllly hope the fourth will be!
Thank you for your patience with our fix attempts - Y’all are pretty cool - hope you have an awesome holiday season!
Here’s to you and Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.Plzwork.kfdjfsfd.Prettyplzwithredsugarontop

And just like with yesterday's ~fixes~ we really recommend you "Verify integrity of game files" with this update.

You verify game files by right-clicking DRG in your Steam Library > Click "Properties..." > Click "Installed Files" > Click the button that says "Verify integrity of game files"


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Fixed Unreal render crash

Hello Miners,
Third time’s a charm. That is what they say, right? Right?
Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.Plzwork.

We recommend you "Verify integrity of game files" after it updates. Files can be sensitive to lots of updates, so better to be safe.

You verify game files by right clicking DRG in your Steam Library > Click "Properties..." > Click "Installed Files" > Click the button that says "Verify integrity of game files"

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Fixed Unreal render crash

Hello Miners,
Yesterday's Hotfix didn’t fix. So we’re trying again with another Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.
Fingers crossed, this will actually fix the crash (and we won’t have to spend the holidays at the office).

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Fixed Unreal render crash

Hello Miners,
DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.
Hotfix for an Unreal Render Crash we re-introduced yesterday.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Fixed Unreal render crash

Hello Miners,
We hope you are enjoying the sticky gooey missions of Season 4! Patch 1 has a number of fixes, including a fix for a frequent crash and some fixes to loadouts and enemies.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES —

• Added sound to randomize buttons
  
• Flaregun flares will now fall to the ground when hitting the corrupter
  
• Fixed usable bar sticking around after someone cancels reviving you
  
• Menace and acid spitter now plays their stun animation
  
• Septic spreader now plays strafe and stun animations correctly
  
• Septic spreader now checks line of sight from its center
  
• Fixed client-side butt animation issue for the Septic Spreader
  
• The septic spreader can no longer shoot behind itself
  
• ...

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Hello Miners,
This patch includes the 2018 Legacy Edition (if you are wondering why the game doubled in size - that’s the reason), the return of the paper crow and Promoting a dwarf will now award the player with 1 Blank core, 1 Weapon Overclock core and 1 Cosmetic core, so get mining miners!

Please note that these Promotion changes are not retroactive, so you will not be rewarded for past promotions.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Returned the paper crown that went missing last patch
- Changed promotion rewards: From this point on, promoting a dwarf will also reward 1 Blank core, 1 Weapon Overclock core and 1 Cosmetic core

GUIDE: HOW TO ACCESS THE 2018 LEGACY EDITION
For all of you excited to try out the early access version of DRG - Here’s a guide (with pic... Read more

Hello Miners,
Misc fixes and anniversary prep: We finally added a toggle option for supporter beers so you can drink those original Glyphid Slammers. Also no more despawning beers with ‘Q’. Cheers!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Added a toggle option for supporter beer, you can now choose to serve beers in regular or supporter mugs.
- Fixed that clients were sometimes not able to see holiday assets in biotank
- Tweaked deep dive mission probabilities
- Fixed bug where c4 could cancel fall damage
- Fixed controller shortcut issue that made it possible to abort un-abortable Assignments
- Fixed being able to reset the weekly assignments by starting another and then restarting the original assignment
- Fixed completing the promotion assignment changing the completed wee... Read more

Hello Miners,
Smol hotfix.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Removed some unintended meteors

— KNOWN ISSUES — - Fixed a crash that happened quite often related to meteors (both big and smol)
- Fixed some particles that caused the game to freeze first time you (or anyone on your team) encountered them
- Fixed a bug that caused plaguehearts to be invisible for hosts and non-interactable for clients in cases where two S.M.O.L.s have plaguehearts in them.

Hello Miners,
Fine, you win - the S.M.O.L Meteor is back!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Meteor Showers are being observed all over Hoxxes, even in Lithopage areas! Make sure not to stand in their path when they drop and crack them to collect Plaguehearts to progress your Season Performance and keep Mission Control happy
- Fixed the impact axe giving damage when passing through triggers such as those of the Poison Spores Fungus (You can still kill multiple of these with one axe throw, but the axe will need to come reasonably close to the fungus)
- Fixed electric crystals not electrocuting you when pickaxed
- Adjusted electric crystal resistances so that they can be destroyed with one powerattack
- Made the Impact Axes deal similar damage to electric crystals as a normal pickaxe... Read more

Hello Miners,
Management has considered its past mistakes and added more gold to the tutorial for our greenbeards. Several balance tweaks have been made to difficulty and to weapons, but most importantly, Dreadnought twins should now be 43% less buggy and 31% more killable (Note: Based on projection. Loss of life attempting to engage Dreadnoughts are not covered under company insurance)

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

— PATCH NOTES — - Fixed inconsistencies in Nemesis difficulty scaling
- Fixed fire and booster module audio on release for HPC and Microwave
- Rival Signal Event: Extended the event time limit and the time available to hack an antenna node.
- Rival Signal Event: Fixed the timer not showing consistently for clients and host, reduced the rate at which waves spawn towards the end... Read more

Hello Miners,

The armor paint jobs went a bit wild in the Lost Packs - Here’s a hotfix for it, so you won’t waste time claiming buggy loot.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES — - Fixed a bug that rewarded class-specific paint jobs to the wrong class when found in a Lost Pack
- Fixed a bug where you could not buy Equipment Upgrades for classes you did not currently have selected if your selected class was lower lvl / had not unlocked a similar upgrade tier.

Hello Miners,
We forgot the DLC pickaxe paint job, oopsie whoopsie! Happy Season 02.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES — - Edited icon for DLC pickaxe paint job and added the DLC pickaxe paint job
- Fixed Phasionite spawning in deep dives. It should not do that.
- Shard Diffractor: Added support for photo-sensitive mode on impact particles. Do not point SD towards the eyes.

Hello Miners,
We’ve moved some barrels, now they shouldn’t fall into the launch bay unless "someone" kicks them.
We also added preparations for The Great Egg Hunt event which will start April 7th,19.00 CET and end April 19th, 19.00 CET.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

• Moved some barrels
  
• Fixed that players could join after the primary objective final stage was started on Salvage and Industrial Sabotage
  
• Added The Great Egg Hunt event

Hello Miners,
Here’s a small patch with a fix for a crash we have been hunting for a while - as well as stopping an unstoppable perk bug - and a banner that we are very excited about.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES —

• Fixed a Crash related to Menace and Acid Spitter
  
• Fixed the Unstoppable Perk’s faster speed bonus not being listed in the correct order
  
• Added a banner to the Kickstarter for the DRG Board Game to the gameinfo screen.

Hello Miners,
Management seems to be hauling new decorations to the Space Rig in preparation of the forthcoming Hoxxes Lunar Festival. Peculiar energies are rumored to be released during the Lunar Convergence of the Hoxxes system, so be prepared… In the meantime, enjoy these small “quality of life” additions, including improved readability on both small and large monitors and a brand new voice chat indicator for yourself if voice chat is enabled!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES —
- Increased font size throughout the game for better readability on large or high-resolution monitors. This will be further improved in future updates.
- More mission assignments and their prerequisites are now visible by default to populate the Assignment Terminal for new players
- Added a voice ch... Read more

Hello Miners,
This is a small fix and added functionality for the mod game version control and a few fresh translations (And a note of the Crash Fix we sneaked out yesterday).

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---

• Added Checkbox to Modding menu to disable/enable auto disabling of mods with outdated game version tag.
  Note: Disable at your own risk - some mods can crash when we do updates to the game (if that happen they will automatically get disabled on reboot regardless of this setting)
  
• Removed prompt when enabling mods with outdated game version tag
  
• Added icon and tooltip next to mods that have been disabled on start because their game version tag is outdated.
  
• Added newest translations and pushed tra...

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Hello Miners! This last round of fixes will round off the Update 34 release, it includes several network optimizations and some smaller fixes. Aaand you can now Rock and Stone more than once while dancing!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---
- Fixed Character disappearing in loadout menu if selecting certain items and changing character. (hopefully for realz this time)
- Fixed issues with Saluting and Drinking while dancing and entering / leaving the dance area.
- Fixed wave music fading out much faster than before U34
- Fix supporter badge so it always shows
- Fixed Black Screen on Pause menu when character goes down
- Fixed a issue that caused clients mouse cursor to disappear upon joining a server
- Fixed micro stuttering on characters
- Fixed... Read more

Hello, Miners! We are nearing the end of the hotfix phase for Update 34. We still have some minor issues that didn’t make it for this hotfix and as always a hotfix comes with the risk of needing a hotfix! Anyways, we got a bunch of stuff to talk about!

NEW WEAPON TEASING
With the Hotfix phase for Update 34 drawing to an end, it’s time to look towards Update 35. We are already moving full speed ahead on the new mission type, the new weapons and a lot of other stuff. And speaking of the new weapons - On our thursday stream we will show you a small teaser of one of the new weapons and which dwarf will get it, so stay tuned!

UPDATE 34 ON XBOX
We are also hard at work on bringing Update 34 to Xbox and expect it to go live on Xbox on this friday - May 7th.

MODDING SUPPORT
Work on maki... Read more