Underrail - Experimental Branch

Underrail is releasing a major update for testing via the experimental branch according to the latest update.

Experimental Branch with Version 1.0.3.13

Thursday, 07 December 2017 13:21

Hi guys, we are releasing a new major update of the base game on the experimental branch. If everything goes as planned, we'll be releasing it to the main branch as well soon.

To play experimental branch on Steam, you right click the game in your library and go to "Betas" tab. To do so on GOG, you select the game and choose More->Settings. Make sure you don't override all your live version saves just in case something goes horribly wrong.

We have new creatures, items and feats.

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Mechanics

• Added the global map
• Added DOMINATING difficulty, mechanically it inherits the modifications of hard difficulty and also increased NPC health by 50% and skill levels by 30%.
• Changed the way hit change display handles oscillating lighting or otherwise dynamic lighting. This also should fix some anomalies like the hit chances changing when saving/loading or transitioning.
• Removed cooldown for arming traps
• Removed cooldowns from lockpicking and hacking
• Reduced the time it takes for the game to yield the control back to the combatant after he kills the target; it doesn't wait for scrolling text and sounds to end now
• Hostilities will now instantly be triggered when you've been detected lockpicking (instead of at the end of the action)
• Increased the damage of chemical pistols by 50% (will be applied retroactively on exisiting items)
• Ground fire will now remove cryogas
• Starting pickpocketing (opening the pickpocketing window) will now require a certain amount of pickpocketing skill depending on the target's detection so not every character can inspect any NPC's inventory (without killing them!)
• Targets will no longer be able to block (in regular way) if stunned, incapacitated or frozen
• You can now unload chemical pistols
• As long as you haven't been fully detected by a NPC, that NPC's  detection will be reduced back to zero when you get back into an area where you've been sneaking
• Uncanny Dodge will no longer work while you're stunned or incapacitated in some way
• Dirty Kick will now be subject to Uncanny Dodge and other special defense mechanisms
• You can now root turrets (which makes them susceptible to acidic entanglement)
• On normal difficulty and above, transitioning between areas (red transitions) will now cost action points
• Improved NPC pathfinding slightly
• Primary non-mechanical damage (not caused by on-hit effect) on melee weapons will now scale with weapon skill (like the bio damage on The Claw), but will no longer scale with strength
• On hard difficulty EMP will drain energy (and subsequently deal damage to the holder) from all items in the inventory (not just equipped ones)
• Reduced the ranged weapon precision reduction from low light slightly
• Antidote will now randomly choose the order of poison removal, instead of going in the order they were applied

Tweaks     

• Turn-based mode will no longer automatically end at the end of the turn if there are incapacitated enemies near
• Reduced the alpha on energy shields
• Removed the movement animation reseting when rapidly clicking (there's still a very slight stutter if you click very fast, though)
• You cannot change armor suit while in stealth or while stealth is on cooldown on hard difficulty or above
• Turrets will now drop aggro faster
• Getting additional burning damage will reset the burning debuff remaining time
• New combat taunts for military personnel

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