(Sorry for being late, mea culpa)

Aight bois, so today, a few hours ago, BT has offically launched with a 15% percent for the first week.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/602960/Barotrauma/

Have fun playing, lads!

Barotrauma is now on the store page and prepped for early access(Q1 2019).
https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/602960/Barotrauma/

And you can find the official website here:
https://barotraumagame.com/

As for this group, it's been quite an adventure. I still remember the small versions when we'd be the only server holding barely 10 players, just going from point A to point B and killing a mantis on the way before crashing to the abyss desktop; it's simply evolved into something so much more. Everything from the smallest fixing the smallest bugs to interacting with new monsters, game modes, equipment and enviornments. It's truly a special place in my heart.

We used to just be a team of players who were testing and having fun, and we've become an entire community. Seriously, we couldn't have done it without the hosters keeping servers going, admins to moderate them, modders to create more content, experienced players to teach the new ones coming in and ultimately enjoy the experience. Some took a break came here and to the undertow forums to help other players who were having bugs or troubles. Each one of you have impacted this game and group, thank you all.

Of course, we can't forget the hard working developers either. They've been working nonstop to fix bugs and add new content. We wouldn't even have a game to play without them, and they've been doing it essentially out of their pocket.

We will still be here to offer assistance, and we will definitely be there when the game comes to steam officially. I sincerely have enjoyed surviving on Europa with you, and I look forward to continuing that.
As always, see you aboard!

Praise the honk mother.

Hello! Welcome to another Barotrauma Update. Update version 0.8.2.1 brings quite a few mechanic fixes and bug fixes, with small QOL additions. Changelog below, praise the honk mother! ^_^

v0.8.2.1

- Husks or huskified humans don't gain health by attacking corpses.
- Fixed dragged characters occasionally getting launched away at a high speed when moving from sub to
another.
- Fixed dragged characters staying floating mid-air after they've been dragged up/down ladders.
- Attempt to fix items occasionally dropping client-side when moving them from an inventory to another.
- Fixed incorrect rotation of welding tools and other 2-handed items that are held in one hand when not
aiming. The items were rotated according to the left hand, but positioned on the right hand.
- Spaces and exclamation marks are allowed in client names by default.
- Hitscan weapons like the revolver can hit targets outside the sub when firing from the inside and
vice versa.
- Fixed crashing when attempting to clone linked submarines in the sub editor.
- Fixed crashing when attempting to clone items with non-default required items.
- Fixed autopilot being unable to navigate to the destination in mirrored levels.
- Ragdolls can't be dragged through walls or other colliders.
- Dropped flashlights don't consume and battery and turn off automatically.
- Oxygenite tanks can be stored in cabinets.

Aloha! Between the fixes of 0.8.1.12 and the major changes coming with 0.8.2.0 there's quite a lot to talk about.

To begin, in melee combat, your swings will impact anything during the duration of your swing, as opposed to the single hit it used to conduct before. This means that if you have a morbusine needle, you can poison multiple people at once, a stun baton can stun multiple people at once, and a syringe of corrigodone will heal multiple people. Anyone in range will be impacted, so a stun baton hitting 3 people at once will drain the battery extremely fast.

There's also a neat looking low-ready position for the harpoon gun, and more colors for the wiring. Railgun shells now have colliders, which means in PVP you'll have more lengthy firefights instead of a shell just blasting through a row of people and knocking them down like bowling pins!
(like this... https://media.giphy.com/media/5t04H3ZcXmphUo7UwZ/giphy.gif )

Praise the honk mother!

v0.8.2.0

Networking additions:
- Added a server setting for selecting which symbols are allowed in client names (see
AllowedClientNameChars in the server settings file).
- Custom servers can modify all editable item properties mid-round, not just in-game editable ones.
- Clients can be given access to server logs.
- Respawn durations can be changed mid-round.
- Servers have the option to disable the disguise feature.
- Increased midround syncing timeout.

Misc changes:
- Levels are mirrored when travelling through the backwards in the campaign mode.
- Added colliders to railguns (so they cannot go through walls or enemy subs anymore).
- Melee weapons can hit multiple targets on one swing. Fixes weapons occasionally not hitting
the target in tight spaces due to touching the ceiling/walls first.
- The voltage required for a PowerTransfer item to take damage and the probability for a fire can be
configured in the item xmls.
- Docking ports and hatches aren't damaged by excess voltage.
- Added more color variants of wires.
- Characters point the harpoon gun down when not aiming.
- Added parameter autocompletion to the kill command.
- Added a property that can be used to lock connection panels but still keep the panel rewireable
in the submarine editor.
- Items outside the sub cannot be deattached from walls.
- Fabricators show the list of required items even if the character does not have the skills to craft
the item.

Networking bugfixes:
- Fixed file transfers failing if the client disconnects during an active transfer, rejoins and
attempts to receive the same file.
- Fixed a bug in door syncing that caused the door states to differ between the server and clients
in some subs with more complex door wiring setups.
- Fixed clients being able to spam kick votes (duplicate votes were not counted but caused unnecessary
chat messages to be sent).
- Fixed item conditions occasionally not matching exactly between the server and clients, causing
issues such as not clients not being able to fabricate items due to the condition being slightly
below the minimum condition at their end.

Bugfixes:
- Added a workaround to a MonoGame bug that makes the screen turn white when alt-tabbing out of fullscreen.
- Fixed docking ports flooding for no reason in some custom subs.
- Fixed LightComponents staying active on broken items.
- Fixed railguns and depth charge tubes being directly usable by characters (= they could be launched
simply by selecting them and left clicking, without the need to use a railgun controller).
- Fixed items salvaged from ruins not being saved in the campaign mode.
- Fixed LOS effect being brighter than the ambient light in some of the darker levels, causing
the player to see obstructed areas better than unobstructed ones.
- Fixed severed limbs staying disabled when a dismembered character is revived using console commands.
- Fixed characters holding non-aimable two-handed items such as railgun shells in one hand when aiming.
- Fixed stereo sounds not being loaded correctly.
- Fixed modified sprite colors not working correctly on worn items.
- Fixed modified maximum recharge speeds of PowerContainers resetting to the default value after
saving and reloading.
- Fixed handcuffed players being able to perform CPR and grab/drag bodies.
- Fixed diving suit's damage modifiers being bypassed if the character gets hit in the waist.
- Fixed clown costumes not hiding the torso of the wearer.


v0.8.1.12

- Fixed connectionpanel syncing (wires dropping client-side during rewiring).
- Characters stay alive for 30 seconds after a client disconnects, and if the client rejoins during that
time they regain control of the character.
- Changing the sprite color of an item also affects the color when the item is being worn.
- Cloned items keep the value of the "required items" field of the original item.
- Fixed crashes caused by gaps that are not connected to anything.
- Removed the unused and non-functional monitor item.
- Made medical and toxic cabinets waterproof (= potassium and other water-sensitive items inside them
are not affected by water).
- Fixed docking ports causing flooding in some custom subs.
- Fixed medical items with an immediate effect (such as calyxanide) not working when a player uses them
on themselves in multiplayer.
- Made calyxanide more effective and usable without a medical syringe.
- Fixed engines trying to apply infinite force to the submarine if MinVoltage is set to zero.
- Fixed levels resetting their mission to the previous one if the game is exited after completing a mission
without selecting the level first.

Alright lads, Update 0.8.1.11 is out and it contains bugfixes.

Those fixes include: Fixing the syncing on several inventories, items dropping to the ground when trying to place them into other inventories and refillable items appearing full once they're fresh out of the fabricator.

Furthermore, Wifi components can now transmit signals from railgun controllers (aka. you can make armed drones or control multiple guns with one controller more comfortably) while now being unable to communicate with the wifis of an enemy sub (so no sinking the enemy by changing your wifi controlled engines and ballasts channels but keeping the transmitters channel).


Below you can see the changelog:

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v0.8.1.11
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Networking fixes:
- More error logging to diagnose "unknown object header" errors.
- Fixed output inventory of fabricators and deconstructors not being synced between clients.
- Fixed servers failing to write network events for wires with an excessive number of nodes, causing
clients to get kicked due to desync.
- Fixed client-side error messages when respawning without a respawn shuttle.
- Fixed some issues in inventory and connection panel syncing when joining mid-round.
- Fixed fabricated items always appearing to be in full condition client-side (e.g. oxygen tanks which
should be empty after being fabricated).
- Fixed attachable items dropping on the ground client-side when deattaching them (but still staying
in the inventory of the character detaching them).
- Fixed items occasionally dropping instead of being moved to another inventory client-side.
- The "traitorlist" command is usable by clients who have the permission to use it.

Misc bugfixes:
- Fixed characters occasionally going inside/through obstacle when leaving a submarine that's right
next to another submarine or a level wall.
- More physics error checks and logging.
- Railgun controllers can be used over wifi components.
- Characters attach items to the walls at the position of their hand, not at the center of the body.
- Wifi components can't communicate with the enemy sub in combat missions.
- Fixed the previously selected location staying selected but start button staying disabled when
returning to the lobby screen in the single player campaign. Made it impossible to progress without
restarting if there were no other selectable locations.
- Fixed holdable components reverting their RequiredItems back to the prefab values during loading.
- Fixed wall-attached sections of a wire not rendering when the item is being rewired outside the sub.
- Fixed artifacts occasionally spawning under the sea floor.