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Simulakros - Melee Combat is Available Now🗡️

25 Aug

Hello everyone,

Following the news about the new melee weapon, we’re excited to announce that the brand-new melee weapon is now available with today’s update!

You can jump in right away and try it out - full patch notes are just below:

Patch Notes:

Sword

Melee combat has been overhauledn the kick has been replaced with a blade capable of:

3-Hit Combo: each attack deals progressively more damage.
Running Attack: a quick slash with a long forward movement, executed by pressing the melee button while sprinting or rolling.
Charged Attack: hold the melee button to charge a powerful swing capable of breaking an enemy's block.
Enemies can now block melee attacks: the new Sword is very effective, but enemies have learned to block your attacks, so be careful! Enemies that are blocking can be hit by charged attacks or normal shots.
Added a sword tutorial to the Skill Info page.
On gamepad, the default melee button has been remapped to A (instead of Right Stick) for more comfortable combo inputs.

Improvements

New music has been added to exploration sections, and music behavior has been improved: more upbeat tracks activate during large encounters, with a new transition when combat ends.
A new HUD panel has been added to the bottom-left corner that shows stats for the current level completion and the current Grade.
The game's maximum volume output has been increased.
Improved player colors: some unlockable colors have been retuned for better hue and contrast, and others have been updated to feature nicer color combinations.

Balancing

The “Counter” loadout power-up has been changed: it no longer staggers enemies on counter hit, but now deals more damage, promoting a more active playstyle that better suits the new melee system.

Fixes

Fixed an issue where when playing a character with a fully unlocked loadout, the quartz discs would not appear.
Fixed collision on the ground near the entrance to the second boss arena.

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New Weapon Incoming: The Blade 🗡️

7 Jul

We're working on a brand new combat style for Simulakros: melee combat with The Blade.

This new feature should be ready in the coming weeks, but we're excited to share a first tease now!

For those interested in behind-the-scenes insights and development updates, you can follow Sigfrido, the solo developer, on Twitter[x.com], where he regularly shares progress and news about Simulakros.

And don’t forget!

Simulakros is 30% off until July 10 during summer sale

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🧰 Sales Announcement & Patch 1.2 - Photo Mode 🧰

3 Mar

Hello,

Great news everyone, Simulakros will be 25% off until the 20th of March! If you are a roguelike TPS fan, now's the time to try it out!

Patch 1.2 introduces a brand new photo mode, so you can now capture all the details of your runs! It also brings a new difficulty selection menu, improved mechanics like grenade parrying and an overhauled "Counter" neural connection, as well as several quality of life changes based on community feedback

Thanks for all your feedback and bug reports over on Discord [discord.gg]and Steam Community!

🔫 Patch notes 📄

New Features

Photo mode

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Fixes

Fixed a case when dying in cyberspace while targeting enemies with homing shots that would result in the targeting indicator frozen on screen.
Fixed Barrage weapons briefly floating during some animations.
Fixed "Tactical repositioning" neural connection cost being 0 on old saves.
Fixed an issue that would make it very hard to deal weakspot hits on the final boss with Rupture's shotgun and grenade launcher.

Improvements

A new difficulty selection menu is replacing the hard mode toggle in character selection.
Community feedback: toned down strength of cyberspace effect in biome 1 to improve visibility.
Community feedback: added automatic "vacuuming" of all health and grenade pickups when encounters end (cyberspace, terminal rooms, bossfights).
Added current difficulty displayed in the bottom left corner.
Enemy grenades can be parried with melee attacks and launched back to damage enemies.
Sharpshooter rifle screenshake intensity gets reduced when firerate increases a lot to not feel disorienting.
"Counter" neural connection has been overhauled: melee hits against enemies that are about to attack stun (10s cooldown) now deal massive damage and stagger. The counter window has been adjusted for all enemy attacks to make it more forgiving. Equip cost went down from 4 to 3.
The navigation line can now be used after completing a terminals room to find the exit.

Balancing

Reduced enemy amount in first biome.
Reduced enemy HP in fist biome.
Improved parameters for generating levels to be more consistent and avoid generating levels that are too long.
Increased XP bonus from arena grades and reduced XP from enemies so that it's more important to get good grades to get to a high level.
Community feedback: cyberspace kill combo: reduced random amount of kill combo to reach from 8-14 to 7-12.
Cyberspace defeat all enemies: increased intensity by increasing enemy count but reducing the amount of enemy waves to make the encounter shorter.
Community feedback: skill usage grade takes into account more how effective the skill use was (eg: amount of damage dealt during timeshift, number of enemies hit by magnetic pull, etc.) instead of the frequency of using skills to make it easier to get S grades during speedruns.
Removed grenade amount limit, reduced grenade drop rate.
Increased size of weakspot hitbox of the first boss.
Improved second boss movement logic and increased movement speed of barrage boss.

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🧰 Patch 1.1 - In-Run Save System & Game Balance 🧰

17 Dec, 2024

Hello,

In Patch 1.1 we’ve made several key improvements to enhance the game: we are introducing a new in-run save system, which offers more flexibility allowing you to suspend runs and continue them later, significant game balance adjustments to make the game more fun and we've also addressed a variety of bugs and issues.

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports on Discord [discord.gg] and Steam community!

🔫 Patch notes 📄

New Features

In-run Save System: progress is saved after terminal rooms and upon reaching a new Biome, allowing players to quit the game and continue their run later. Run savedata is cloud-synced so runs can be continued on a different device too.

Fixes

Fixed loading screen not showing when going back to main menu
Fixed turrets sometimes not attacking in the second biome
Fixed some lasers not dealing damage
Fixed an issue where Barrage would lose too much fire rate after a fire rate buff expires
Fixed Barrage pistol charge sound persisting when returning to main menu
Fixed looping turret sound that kept playing after dying
Fixed some issues with the navigation line in the third biome
Fixed run timer not paused correctly between some level connections
Fixed material glitch on the walls in the third biome
Fixed combat music staying active after the second boss
Fixed some incorrect voiceline triggered on run start after the final boss has beed defeated at least once
Fixed a misplaced cyberspace terminal inside a wall
Fixed slow motion effect sound staying when dying during Timeshift

Improvements

Runs are now considered as completed for stats upon killing the final boss, even after unlocking access to the true ending section
Invincibility frames on the dodgeroll are now shown with an effect on the character

Balancing

Bosses have been rebalanced to focus more on the fight with the boss itself, bosses are now more dangerous, their attacks are more frequent and complex to avoid while additional enemies spawning have been significantly reduced, only some weak enemies keep spawning as a way to get some health drops and trigger kill-related powerups.
The option to Increase health on level up has been removed, instead every level up grants +100 max health, ensuring a smoother power increase.
Player characters now have a base crit chance of 5% up from 0%
Enemy health has been reduced for most enemies
Health drops have been rebalanced, they drop more frequently and recharge a bit more health, taking damage is a bit less punishing and it's easier to recover when playing well
Some powerul enemies in later stages deal a bit more damage to adjust for the increased health amounts and more accessible healing from health drops
Difficulty curve has been adjusted to be more forgiving for the first half of the game and gradually get harder
Hard mode has been tweaked to be slightly more challenging
Drone projectiles have been tweaked to be easier to avoid
Turret damage has been reduced

Stay connected for more Simulanews and thanks for the support!

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Dev Diary 📕

5 Dec, 2024

The project started in 2019 as a passion project developed for fun by Sigfrido Cosmo (game designer) in his free time, as a fan of roguelikes and third person shooters he wanted to experiment creating this unique mix of genres that is quite rare.

As the game started to take shape, two friends joined the development: Filippo Colombo (level designer) and Lorenzo Erialti (sound designer and composer).

From the beginning we knew we wanted the game to be about advanced AI technology and taking control of synthetic bodies, we felt it was a good match with the gameplay loop of roguelikes that is about dying over and over.

The name “Simulakros” is a mix of the latin word “simulacrum” meaning representation of something, and the greek word “mechanikos” meaning mechanical, with an additional play on word with the ending SimulakrOS which stands for Operating System.

In 2022 the game started to become a reality after signing with the publisher Plug in Digital. We started working with a few freelancers for concept art, character art and rigging. Another friend joined, Alex Gallucci (3D artist).

In 2024 as the game was reaching the peak production we found another core member of the team Matteo Scarcella (3D artist) and started cooperating with Shoganai Soft to help us with environment art, especially with Imanol Delgado Salazar (Lead Artist), an old time friend of Sigfrido and Filippo from the time they all worked at CD Projekt RED.

Sigfrido Cosmo (Game Designer) has been working on Simulakros as his passion project for over four years. He set out to create a game that he would truly enjoy, focusing on both excellent gameplay and great visuals, all while aiming for the highest level of quality possible. As a solo developer with limited resources, balancing the roles of designer and programmer has been challenging, especially while managing every aspect of the project in his free time. However, it feels incredible for him to finally release the game. He is immensely proud of the result and he is super happy to see players enjoying his game.

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🧰 Patch 1.0.3 🧰

27 Nov, 2024

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports on Discord [discord.gg] and Steam community!

Feel free to share your review if you like Simulakros, it's the best way to show your support 💖

🔫 Patch notes 📄

Performance improvements

GPU optimization especially for medium/low spec PCs
General CPU optimization
Performance and visual improvements at medium and low settings
Steamdeck performance improvements

Fixes

Fixed some cases where terminal rooms would not end in biome 2
Fixed slow motion effect producing flickering on the sky
Fixed cyberspace effect in second and third biome
Fixed "Auto" resolution scale not working on AMD GPUs

Improvements

Improved volume balance of music
Improved volume of ranged enemies charging before shooting
Improved precision of laser traps
Improved gamepad button icons
Adjusted text size of UI elements to improve legibility
New less intrusive damage vignette effect that supports all aspect ratios
Added some missing Italian translations
3 new map tiles for the first Biome

Stay connected for more Simulanews and thanks for the support!

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⚙ Hotfix - Perfomance improvement (Patch 1.0.2) ⚙

25 Oct, 2024

Hello,
Thank you for your feedback!
Feel free to share your review if you like Simulakros, it's the best way to show your support 💖
Here is a new hotfix!

🔫 Patch notes 📄

Fixed cases where Rupture could teleport out of bounds in the second biome and get stuck
Fixed run results not being displayed after the true ending
Fixed some meshes in the tutorial map that were displaying an outline
Added a dark background to button prompts for interactions to improve visibility
Performance improvements
Fixed some cases that could cause a crash during the true ending fight.
Fixed a case where dying in cyberspace would not teleport out of it.

Stay connected for more Simulanews and thanks for the support!

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Small Hotfix

24 Oct, 2024

Hello community,

Thanks for all the support and love on the game, here is a small hotfix! 🔧

Fixed some cases that could cause a crash during the true ending fight.
Fixed a case where dying in cyberspace would not teleport out of it.

Battle on! 💥

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🧰 Patch 1.0.2 🧰

22 Oct, 2024

Hello,
Thank you for your feedback and bug reports on Discord [discord.gg] and Steam community!
Feel free to share your review if you like Simulakros, it's the best way to show your support 💖

🔫 Patch notes 📄

Gameplay Improvements

Added glowing outlines to enemies when only a few remain in terminal rooms
Added a short invulnerability time after resurrecting
Added 2 new level tiles in the second biome
The position of some buttons and doors in the third biome has been adjusted
Prevented accidental elevator activations with AOE abilities and changed color of elevator buttons on the ground

Balancing

Increased enemy amount in the first section of the third biome
Easy mode has been tweaked to be more forgiving: enemies drop health more frequently, reduced enemy movement speed, reduced enemy projectile speed

Fixes

Fixed sometimes not being able to reload
Fixed enemies sometimes spawning stuck in the ground
Fixed some cases where enemies could get stuck inside walls
Improved enemy pathing and fixed issues of enemies failing to reach the player
Fixed resurrecting with "Emergency Reboot" sometimes leading to an unresponsive state
Fixed cases where you could be falling down forever
Fixed a case where you could get stuck in an elevator in the third biome
Fixed a hole in cyberspace in true ending
Fixed rarely getting stuck after teleporting with Rupture
Fixed flying enemies sometimes going through walls when dodging
Fixed flying enemies getting stuck and failing to follow the player
Fixed "found loot" and "enemies killed" counters not resetting after terminal rooms
Fixed an unresponsive state when dying in cyberspace after completing the objective
Fixed the boss shotgun attack hitting through walls
Fixed grenades sometimes dropping to the ground when thrown
Fixed a case where the player would keep shooting without pressing the button after leaving cyberspace
Fixed some cases where music would change abruptly
Fixed missing cyberspace effect in true ending

Stay connected for more Simulanews and thanks for the support!

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TIPS - How to unlock colors

18 Oct, 2024

It's been already a week since Simulakros is available! 🥳🤖
I hope you like playing! The best way to support the game is sharing a review 😊

This first tip is about unlocking color combinations. Here is the list of in-game challenges that you will need to beat to get all of them!

Complete a Terminals room in less than 1 minute.
Get an S rating in one level.
Beat the first boss in under 5 minutes.
Beat the second boss in under 10 minutes.
Complete a run in less than 20 minutes.
Complete a run taking less than 5000 damage.
Complete a run without any neural connection equipped.
Complete a run with an S rating.
Beat the first boss in hard mode.
Beat the second boss in hard mode.
Complete a run in hard mode.

Have fun!

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