Over the last few months, our efforts have been mainly focused on completing Chapter 1 and the Science Deck. We are happy to announce that they are now complete! Of course, there will still be some changes, fixes, and improvements. But it is already completely playable; the main storyline of the first chapter is ready! A full playthrough takes up to 12 hours.

• Completion of the Science Deck
  
• Fancy neon signs above doors and areas
  
• Reworked distracting enemies tutorial at the beginning of the Science Deck
  
• New plants and decor

• Improved player lighting system. The illumination of your hands and weapons now represents how visible you are to enemies.
  
• New passive PSI ability: Weightlifter. All movable objects now have weight. Strength, abilities and modules affect the maximum weight a player can lift.
  
• Added passive skill tree: Combat
  
• New passive PSI ability: Life Recovery
  
• New passive PSI ability: Resuscitator
  
• New passive PSI ability: Sniper
  
• New passive PSI ability: Sharpshooter
  
• New passive PSI ability: Psionic Charger
  
• New passive PSI ability: Bot Master. Allows you to disable security robots through security terminals
  
• New suit module: Jump Amplifier
  
• New suit software: Password Matcher

• New energy weapon: Energy Rifle
  
• New energy weapon: Hand Laser
  
• Revolver: Fixed front sight swinging when aiming
  
• Blaster: Fixed application of burning status effect
  
• Added sniper scope modification kit
  
• The selling price of a weapon now includes prices of all installed modules and bullets in the clip
  
• Energy weapon mode can now be changed from the menu
  
• Fixed the problem with the Tesla Gun arrow

• New enemy: Psionic
  
• New enemy: Big Spider Robot
  
• Improved Security Robots sounds
  
• Enemies no longer endlessly pursue the player if they lose sight of him
  
• Enemies now react to objects thrown at them and go to check the place where the throw was made from
  
• Improved turrets intelligence. Now they better target the player on bridges. Also, turrets are now found on ceilings.
  
• Fixed Rats reaction to the noise

• Automatic hacking tool. Allows you to automatically hack 1 device regardless of your skills
  
• Throwable glass. Breaks making a lot of noise
  
• Tray. Collectable item for sale
  
• Movable barrels with radioactive gas that can be penetrated by shots

• Fixed stutters when entering some zones
  
• Fixed the problem with the cursor disappearing in a menu
  
• Fixed display of keys in hints if they were changed by the player
  
• The player no longer resurrects with a movable item in his hands
  
• Cameras no longer look through walls
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from running if you died with zero stamina
  
• Psi abilities no longer automatically bind to free hotkeys after resurrection
  
• Fixed a number of errors when upgrading a character with equipped stat enhancement modules
  
• Fixed bug with saving state of hacked vending machines
  
• Fixed a looped healing animation if you die with a syringe in your hands
  
• Now you can enter a password without activating a device
  
• And many other small (and not so small) issues

We will focus on polishing Chapter 1 and improving the Intro. For example, we want to finally implement climbing. Also, we plan to re-voice the demo with professional actors.
We will continue to work on new enemies, weapons, abilities and modules.
Once Chapter 1 and the intro are polished enough, we'll move on to Chapters 2 and 3.

P.S.: if you want to participate in the beta testing of Chapter 1 (a little bit later and for free, of course), the announcement will be in our Discord channel (link below).

Stay tuned!

We've been hard at work on the player's active and passive abilities system. Most of them will be available to try out in the demo. There is a list of the main changes and improvements:

• Added passive skill trees: Survival and Technician
  
• Survival passive skill trees: Stuning Strike, Improved Treatment, Energy Efficiency
  
• Technician passive skill trees: Hacker, Repairman
  
• Passive skills for active abilities that add new possibilities
  
• New PSI Ability: Telekinesis
  
• New PSI Ability: Psionic Barrier
  
• New PSI Ability: True Vision
  
• New PSI Ability: Bending of Light
  
• New PSI Ability: Fire Trap
  
• New PSI Ability: Lightning Strike
  
• New PSI Ability: Corrosive Blast
  
• New PSI Ability: Crimson Clot
  
• Berser PSI Ability was reworked
  
• Now, to hack complex digital locks or vending machines, you need to unlock a specific passive ability in the Hacker tree.

• EMP Grenade
  
• Corrosive Grenade
  
• Nuke Grenade

• New enemy: an armored security officer with a helmet and a shotgun.
  
• Mechanical enemies can now be temporarily disabled when taking electrical damage.
  
• After using the Bending of Light ability, enemies lose visibility of the player.
  
• Improved animation of getting up from the floor after falling from the Push ability.
  
• Cameras no longer see the player in dark places or when he uses Bending of Light ability.
  
• Uncollected enemy weapons are no longer saved and disappear after reloading.

• New tutorial on upgrading player's character
  
• Enemy bodies now fly apart from grenade explosions
  
• When turning with an item in your hands, the item now always moves with the camera.
  
• Fixed issue with equipping weapons when picking up an item.
  
• Fixed a bug with double credits withdrawal for death.
  
• The circular panel has been improved to provide access to more abilities and items.
  
• Fixed a bug with installing software into the suit.
  
• Added status for dash recharge.
  
• The broken status for weapons dropped from enemies' hands.
  
• Broken weapons are no longer automatically bound to hotkeys.
  
• Reworked hacking buttons for all devices.
  
• Now when selling items the current selling price is visible on the screen

We're working on environment and plot of the Science Bay beyond the demo. There you will find new challenges, enemies and weapons. Stay tuned!