War has raged under Calth long after the actions on the surface, protracted conflicts to slay entrenched Word Bearers throughout the planets depths carry on. It has been 4 years since Squad Acastus secured a teleportarium and routed the Word Bearers from their librarium outpost.

Our story picks up with a Legion Moritat, Orestes, attempting to rescue Calth Defence Forces from being sacrificed by Word Bearer cultists.


What’s New with Betrayal at Calth?
Enjoy the planet Calth on our beautiful new title screen!
ACT 3 is by far the biggest release so far with 6 new single player levels and 4 new unit types.
A number of UI updates have arrived, as always they are part of an ongoing process of updates. New Marine models are in the process of being added, they are in singleplayer at the moment and will be coming to multiplayer and other game modes as future updates roll out. For VR users, gameplay should be more stable, but we still have a lot of future changes coming up for those users specifically. Some sound fx have been updated.

NEW UNITS

• Legion Moritat: A highly mobile and deadly unit, capable of hit and run tactics and devastating damage to smaller isolated targets.
  
  
• Calth Defense Forces: Drawn from the wider Ultramar Auxilia, Calth’s mortal defenders pack a punch with their numbers. Skilled at regrouping, and reinforcing one another and using cutting edge las weaponry, these troops provide valuable assistance to the Ultramarines.
  
  
• Legion Apothecary: Practiced in both combat and healing, they can turn the tide by providing healing buffs to local forces. At close range an apothecary unit can provide deadly melee support to their brethren.
  
  
• Word Bearer Cult Troops: Mortal soldiers of the Word Bearers. Wielding traditional solid munition weapons and a ferocious devotion to their masters, these traitor forces can use their numbers to protect allied astartes, and to overwhelm careless opponents.
  
  
  
  BETA NOTES:
  
  This act will be in beta at time of release. You may notice some bugs and or visual errors!
  
  Some common known issues at time of beta release include:
  
  
• Multiplayer will have a number of hiccups and possible loading glitches, but is playable.
  
  
• Story dialogue plates in act 1 are not up to date, and not currently implemented in acts 2 and 3.
  
  
• Mission 3_1 will rarely freeze after a few rounds, this occasionally can be resolved by waiting a moment but otherwise will require an application restart.
  
  
• Some Units do not have voice lines and or final voice line at this time, these will be patched in as they are ready, we will release patch notes for this.
  
  
• Some weapon fx may sync off or trigger at odd moments.
  
  
• Armor on marines may sometimes not appear correctly, two known possibilities include marine heads becoming invisible at large distances, and shoulder pauldrons becoming invisible when certain weapons are equipped.
  
  
• Many gunfire animations can still fire in wild directions or through objects. This will be addressed in a future patch.
  
  
  As always, if you encounter any concerning issues please send a log or description of the issue to: support@steelwoolgames.com

Here's what to expect for this small patch for Act 2:

• Lighting fixes for act 2 levels
  
• Skirmish/Multiplayer levels have updated visuals
  
• The act 2 loading dialogs fixed (They had weird spacing in some text and some text was cut off)
  
• Fixed a rare issue where killing all WB in 1-2 would not give you a victory

Thank you all for waiting as we sorted this out! Steam keys are now available for everyone who purchased the game before the price drop.

Here's how to claim your free key:

1. Follow this link right here[swgcalthgivaway.000webhostapp.com]
   
2. Sign in through Steam on the Giveaway page
   
3. The sign in only checks your Steam Account ID, Steam Account Name, and that you both own Betrayal at Calth and that you owned it before May 8th 2018
   
4. If you're one of our Founders, then tada! You will be given a Steam key!
   
5. Give that copy to a friend and hop into multiplayer

If anyone has any issues with the Giveaway page and you have already received the Founder's Armor, email us at support@steelwoolgames.com and we'll get you sorted out.

Enjoy!

Happy July, everyone! Act 2 is now live! What cool stuff can you look forward to in our most recent update? Glad you asked! Check it out:


Act 2 continues our side story on Calth following the betrayal of the Word Bearers as Magos Sarc teams up with Sergeant Acastus and begins the traversal of the underground ruins of the city planet.

• 5 new single player maps.
  
• Dreadnoughts added.
  
• Terminators added.
  
• UI Overhaul (In progress) - Menus, overlays, icons, combat indicators, turn indicators, etc. are all new and animated.

Act 1 has been fully restructured! If you've played it before, definitely do a new playthrough because it's entirely different! The tutorial has been moved separate from the campaign, level 1 drops you straight into the action, and we've got entirely new maps ready for you.

• Old armor system replaced by armor chits. Armor chits completely block incoming damage once per chit.
  
• Shared Health bar. A single health bar is used to represent a hex. The larger hatch marks indicate the number of units.
  
• Critical hits added to combat. There is a slight chance to get a critical hit when attacking.
  
• All units were rebalanced and have new health values.
  
• All weapons were rebalanced and have new damage ranges.
  
• Special weapons have new critical effects.
  
• Damage ranges are now listed on weapons.
  
• Attacks can no longer “Miss”. The % to kill indicators have been replaced by a more intuitive health bar. The potential damage range is indicated by a flashing portion of the health bar.
  
• New “In cover” icons have been added.
  
• Sarc Ability added - Sarc will steal an active turret if he ends an action next to it.
  
• The “Reform” action was removed from the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where resolution settings reset

Happy Friday, y'all! We've got some new patches for ya, hot and ready for the weekend.

Here's what we got for you:

• Fixed 1-1 loading in VR
  
• Fixed a potential game lockup during turret overwatch phase (let us know if this keeps happening)
  
• Some network lobby errors (potentially) solved and a few other networking issues
  
• Fixed a NullRef that could happen when determining the cursor lock
  
• Updates to VR Tutorial
  
• Fixed an issue with combat tutorial where you couldn't teleport in VR
  
• A whole bundle of fixes for error reports and bug logs we've received since last patch

And that's all for now, but we'll be rolling out some new things very soon! Stick around, there's some exciting stuff in the works.

We need more skulls for the Skull Throne! The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth is excited to announce that not only will we be on sale for 30% off, but everyone will gain access to Dreadnoughts in Multiplayer and Skirmish!

AND


The Rictus Paulrons are only available to those who play or purchase during the sale, so grab your friends and battle! The sale ends at 10am PST Monday June 4th 2018. Once the sale is over, these pauldrons are forever locked away, so get them while you can!

What's that? You want to see the goods? Well, you're in luck!

• Rictus Pauldrons
  
  
• Word Bearer Dreadnought
  
  
• Ultramarine Dreadnought
  
  

You can also join in the community on the Skulls for the Skull Throne Twitch![www.twitch.tv] Watch or stream to get involved!

Rejoice!

And stay tuned for more big news coming at you.... soon.

We've got a new patch headed your way, so here's what to expect:


In case you missed our previous announcement, we're reducing the overall price of the game until full release. The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth will now be $17.99.

If you've already purchased the game, you'll receive TWO amazing pieces of armor for Multiplayer and Skirmish that no one else will ever be able to get again, a Steam code for a second copy of the game, and a Founder's Steam Badge.

Wanna see that armor a second time? Of course you do.

Word Bearer Diabolist
Ultramarine Legion Honor Guard
Click the images to see them larger! And if you want full details of what to expect, read our previous announcement here.

• Tutorial material removed from Act 1.
  
• Tutorial Tab including 4 tutorial levels added.

• All levels optimized. File size reduced from ~40GB to ~17GB.
  
• “REGROUP” command deactivated. This command will be made irrelevant given future updates.
  
• Special Weapon stats and critical abilities re-balanced. They are now more effective.

• Squad vocal responses added. Featuring the voices of Zoran the Bear and Warp Beacon.

• Tutorial material replaced by new game levels.
  
• 1-1 - Untouched. Will be updated in the next patch.
  
• 1-2 - NEW playable level replaced existing content.
  
• 1-3 - NEW playable level replaced existing content.
  
• 1-4 - NEW playable level replaced existing content.
  
• 1-5 - Scenario re-worked to make a more fun, exciting and tactical experience.

But don't worry- it's a good thing for everyone! Here's what's going down:


That's right, we're lowing the overall price of the game. Since we're in Early Access, we decided it would be best to reduce the price until Full Release. It's something that many members of our community have mentioned, and we listened.

When the game is fully released the price will go back up to reflect the value of the content, but until that time it's $17.99.


Since dropping the price now doesn't seem fair to everyone who's currently bought the game, we're giving you guys some cool free stuff. First up is a Steam key for a brand new copy of the game! Gift it to a friend and play some multiplayer together.

The second big gift is a really awesome special armor set that ONLY CURRENT OWNERS OF THE GAME will have access to in Multiplayer. If you have Betrayal at Calth in your Steam Library, you'll get this armor!

You'll also receive a Founder's Badge on Steam, designating you always and forever as an early adopter of Betrayal at Calth.

Once the price reduction happens on Friday, no one else will ever get access to this armor ever again. Period. It will never be for sale, you cannot buy it as DLC, it will never be given out to anyone else for any reason. This armor marks you as an early adopter of our game and we honestly can't thank you enough.

Word Bearer Diabolist

Substance Painter Turnaround:

(The "arms" on the pack were removed for the final armor)

In-Engine:

Ultramarine Legion Honour Guard

Substance Painter Turnaround:

In-Engine:

That means if you want this armor, you'll have until Thursday May 3rd at midnight PST to get it, plus a free Steam key and a Steam Founder's Badge.



We've also made a lot of changes to Act 1 that will be coming to you all soon.

• The Tutorial level has been removed and is being replaced by fully playable new levels
  
• The Tutorial is now its own new section under the Campaign tab
  
• Act 1 levels have been restructured, there's new art, new lighting, newer, prettier environment models, and overall polish added
  
• Squad chatter dialogue is in progress!!
  
• More updates will go out with the Patch Notes on Friday!
  
  And that's all for now! Stay tuned for Friday! As always, we couldn't do this without our incredible community, so thank you to each and every one of you. Your feedback has been invaluable towards making this game something everyone will enjoy.