​Hey all, I'm back with some more bug fixes that have been reported. Let's get right to it:

• Merchant screen "Tier" display on some items was not showing up correctly
  
• Combined Arms was activating after a "return fire" from an enemy on an overwatch
  
• During a Run n Shoot, if the character spotted an enemy, an extra action point was being granted
  
• Sometimes followers trying to retrieve an item that is blocked by cover were getting stuck.
  
• Swapping controllers during gameplay was resulting in UI input not working

One other note:

• Enemy movement is still occasionally causing a soft lock. I couldn't nail down what was causing this but i made sure that the bug reporting button was accessible (it was actually disabled during enemy turn whoops) so if anyone sees the issue, please let me know with a bug report!

HI, all, continuing the trend for Build 55, I have some more bug fixes. Here's the notes for the first update to catch you up first.

In 55.1 we have:

• When zoomed out on some levels at certain resolutions, the screen would shake when moving the camera. Now the screen movement will lock in a direction that is entirely contained in the viewport, which should prevent this sort of thing.
  
• On the Sub capture mission, if the party gets down to one character then the mission is a failure (even when one gets revived). fixed this to not fail the mission but not allow it to be completed if you are down to one character which allows for revives to happen.
  
• Changing the input bindings in some cases was resulting in them not being saved. I made a change that should resolve this even though I'm not 100% sure of how the issue was happening i did have an example so i'm fairly sure this is fixed now.

I'm still working on a few things for a later 55 update, so if you see bugs, please report them using the in game tool or feel free to drop suggestions. Same disclaimer as last time in that I'm not really looking to add content that would require translations or new art.

Welcome to Build 55! I'll probably do a few more updates to this build over the next month. More on that below but first here's the change log for 55.0.0

• Fixed the annoying "auto revive" soft lock issue many of you have reported. This was a tricky one to figure out but it ended up being a pretty small fix once i zeroed in on the case where the error was happening.
  
• Using the active skill Boost Aim in conjunction with a Grenade Launcher was not giving the anticipated bonus to damage. This has been resolved!
  
• Grenades were not able to do critical damage. This has also been resolved and they should now inherit the attackers critical chance (and any bonuses)

For future Build 55 updates, i am considering a few things:

• Some work on the enemy AI which i have been talking about and working on for a while but have just not made sufficient progress to result in an actual update. Will take another look at this one and see what can be done. No promises though!
  
• Adding controller rebindings
  
• Add an additional setting for HUD size and/or zoom

I'm happy to hear additional suggestions for changes for this update, but here are some things I am NOT considering:

• New map types. Partly for technical reasons and partly because I am saving any new content for the new game i am working on.
  
• New story/enemies/weapons/items. Mostly I don't want to have to get more stuff translated. But also the new content thing above.

An issue was reported affecting users playing in windowed mode causing delays in the turn changing.

Hi everyone! I thought I had resolved the overlay grid disappearing issues but have gotten a few reports of another case I must have missed. I still can't reproduce it exactly but I see the error in my logs, so i did some minor refactoring to try to resolve it. We'll have to see if this does it.

Full change list
- Overlay grid still not appearing every once in a while so did a small refactor of the code to try to fix it
- Firing on an enemy in low alert with the Wrecker's area aiming could kill the enemy without alerting the other memebers of the pod
- Cancel button on the control remapping screen was not being translated
- A few things on the main menu were not updating when the language was changed
- Updated Icelandic and finally added Alliat to the credits for his work on translating it

We're still interested in bringing new languages to Depth of Extinction. Community member Alliat was kind enough to volunteer to do the Icelandic translation for the game. If you are interested in doing (or contributing to) a community translation, please join our Discord[discord.gg] and request the translator role! Thanks so much to all our community translators for helping us expand the audience that can play Depth of Extinction. Right now we also have Japanese (thanks Kui), German (thanks Barba-Q), Spanish (thanks Emanuel) and Simplified Chinese (thanks xiaojinzhu) and we would love to add more.

• Added Icelandic language (thanks to our community translator Alliat)
  
• Added a new Raider boss for the insane missions in the Cultists area
  
• Default action for follower characters in defensive mode changed to Defend instead of Overwatch

• Fixed a bug that results in a soft lock when a character with an "auto revive" skill is killed by an enemy "return fire" skill
  
• Fixed an issue causing the movement overlay to sometimes not appear
  
• Pirate enemy icons not appearing
  
• Missed translation on Mission Loadout "no equipment" box
  
• Keyboard shortcuts for Change camera zoom and end turn were not working correctly
  
• "Get Low" skill was triggering when movement was interrupted and second action was something other than movement

In the Localization Update, I added a "secondary enemy" faction to each area. Unfortunately, I should have tested that just a bit more because the "easy" and "medium" Cultists were a bit too hard for most players at the early stages of the game. It's certainly interesting letting you get a peek at them but I nerfed the enemy stats and weapons slightly so that it's a more realistic challenge.

Also included in this update is a new music player on the music tab. That tab is now added to more screens and you can change the track that is playing by clicking/selecting the track of your choice. A second click will open a link to buy/download the track directly from the artist.

Hi all, welcome to the Localization Update (aka Build 53) of Depth of Extinction! Highlights are full translations into Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese as well as quite a few new “quality of life” features and lots of small balancing changes and bug fixes.

This was a huge update as I had to touch every system in the game to fully localize it and the final translation size was almost 25,000 words! If you have played DOE, then you know it is a very text heavy game so this won’t surprise you. I had to make a few edits to get the word count to a more reasonable size but it is very close in content to the English version.

• Added a key binding menu in the Controls tab. This should let you rebind most keyboard shortcuts in the game. Sorry, but haven't got support for gamepad/joystick remapping yet. This could be in a future update.
  
• When a dead character is revived they will immediately get a turn with a single action point. I expect there may be some edge cases that don't work quite right but using an item on the character to revive worked quite well in my testing.
  
• On Equipment lists, I removed the Tier drop down selector in favor of a toggle that will hide items that are already equipped to someone else, can't be equipped at all, or (in the case of weapons) outside of the class requirements for the character. Should help you pare down long lists of equipment in the late game.
  
• A Secondary enemy faction is now assigned to each area and can appear in Stronghold and Mini Boss missions
  
• Stat displays in various places that only showed an icon and the number value have been changed to display the text label for the stat and the value. I think this change is really overdue and should make it easier to understand the game.
  
• Character Stats panel is greatly improved and now allows selection in controller mode

The controller binding screen

• Level cap raised to 11
  
• Level up experience requirements after level 4 are greatly increased as characters were capping out way too early due to some miscalculations in the last update
  
• Increase starting health by 4 in either mode (13 is normal, 9 in hardcore) and decrease health allocated from skill point upgrades (con 4 to 3, grit 2 to 1, butcher 2 to 1)
  
• Encounter types were rebalanced, especially for later areas to greatly reduce or remove less interesting encounters (like hostage rescue) and increase the likelihood of boss fights and enemy strongholds (where you might see the secondary enemy faction)
  
• Raider Heavy Armor changed to tier 3 equipment
  
• The main enemy on the last area (avoiding spoilers but this is a late game enemy) was slightly nerfed by reducing their total ammo
  
• All AOE weapons (mostly the Wrecker weapons) were slightly nerfed by using their “minimum hits” value only (instead of random between min/max) on a “non turn” attack (i.e. overwatch, return fire, etc)
  
• The objective loadout screen’s replace character function is now more clear by showing you the character that would be replaced by a character you add
  
• Items currently equipped to a character could be sold at a merchant. Now an alert will pop up letting you know that the item is equipped and you won’t be able to sell it.
  
• Itchy Trigger and Sentry were granted with an “out of class” weapon. Now a Deadeye equipped with an SMG (for instance) will no longer get Sentry on their turn start.
  
• Enemies will now prioritize targeting your team over the turrets in the area
  
• Turrets no longer appear on platform missions
  
• Continue box gets a confirmation popup when you could retry to make sure its clear you will lose characters
  
• The menu buttons in the top right will always display on the HUD. We had some soft locks happen on enemy turn and the buttons were hidden so the menu and bug report UI’s could not be opened
  
• better formatting on the money displayed on the objective loadout as it didn’t have commas and would line break if you got too rich

Stats are easier to read with the text label replacing the icon

• Bug causing characters to face the wrong direction while moving after a stop is fixed
  
• Cases causing soft locks on enemy turn fixed (it was actually a “time out” case but the time was set to 30s so it appeared to be a soft lock to many players)
  
• A bug causing some inconsistent behavior for the “area aiming” interaction for the Wrecker weapon is now fixed
  
• Removed extra items that are not unlockable from equipment counts and database
  
• Fixed an issue where the percentage complete displayed on the save file was incorrect and it was not possible to get it to 100%
  
• Frag grenade was only showing a single action use on the HUD if used on the first action when it would consume both
  
• If the character had return fire and a revive skill/item, the revive was not being triggered when they die
  
• There were reports that saving into a new slot would reset the play time. I haven’t been able to reproduce the exact sequence that caused this issue but i made a change that I think should keep it from happening.
  
• When a stunning weapon managed to get a Stun on an enemy on an overwatch shot, they were immediately losing the stunned state.
  
• bug allowing characters inflicted with a status (like bleeding) to then pass it on in their attacks is fixed
  
• A long time bug was found and fixed! the opening encounters for the enemy class objectives were not being fired.
  
• Another long time bug as a failed or aborted mission was able to be retried from the map by clicking on the node

The DOE Translators really did amazing work on helping me get this update across the finish line, so I want to make sure each one is recognized!

• Spanish was done by Emanuel Osnay
  
• Chinese was done by xiaojinzhu
  
• German was done by Ingo "Barba-Q" Nölleke
  
• Japanese was done by Kui

We also had some smaller contributions to Japanese by Divi.

I’m really hoping to get the game translated into French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Russian in the future. If you want to help, please join the HOF Studios Discord[discord.gg] and let me know. I can give you the translator role and let you have access to the language you want to work on. Everyone that contributes even a single translation will be given a community translator credit. Making major contributions and/or helping with testing a particular language will get you a full translator credit.

If you have another language that you would like to help translate, let me know and we can investigate if it can be done!

Yet another update in the ongoing Build 53 and localization project is in the beta branch! I have some exciting news in the latest update (53.9) as Spanish is now an official language. I got the first version from the translator today so please let me know if you see any issues so i can get them resolved before the official launch of Build 53 (SOON!).

Another bit of news: Simplified Chinese is now confirmed as our next language. It will be about a month before we will get that in so it probably won’t be available at the Build 53 launch though we will have an update with it (and whatever bugs people find).

Here’s the rest of the change log for 53.9

• Added re-bindings for camera movement (so you can change it from WASD)
  
• A long time bug was found and fixed! the opening encounters for the enemy class objectives were not being fired.
  
• A bug causing some inconsistent behavior for the “area aiming” interaction for the Wrecker weapon is now fixed
  
• Map shortcut on HUD was incorrect
  
• Any “after encounter” outcomes were using the simplified version in English

UPDATE

53.9.2 is now live in the beta branch. here's the changelog:

• Fixed some font and formatting issues related to Spanish
  
• Resolved some issues with encounter and objective details not always appearing translated in non-English