HELLO EMPLOYEES! The World Update is launching later this month, but you can try it out early in the public beta. Try it out, let us know what you think of the changes, and also let us know what breaks!

Please BACK UP your save file before switching to the beta branch! You don’t want to risk losing everything:

• Navigate to C:\\Users\\\[username]\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Pigeons at Play\\Mycopunk\\Profiles

• Copy the ‘default’ folder to wherever you want to back up your save

• If you ever need to restore your save data, just replace the default folder in profiles with your backed up folder

To join the beta, right click on Mycopunk in your steam library, go to properties > betas, and input the code ‘OysterAttack’ to unlock the beta branch. Catastrophic events notwithstanding, any progress you make on the beta will carry over to the default branch.

With that out of the way, here’s what’s new:

• The Flourishing Desert, Gravity Farm, and Ice Floes are available as procedural levels! Moldy Tundra and City Outskirts are still in the works…

• You can access old levels from the Legacy Missions button in the Mission Select screen

• Explosions scorch the grass in procedural levels (this can be disabled in your settings)

• Procedural levels are filled with new side objectives and points of interest (marked as ? on your map)

• Joining in progress is currently disabled for missions in procedural levels

• Saxonite Transport’s barrel sorting objective has been replaced! Now you gotta commandeer barrels from CR4T3R and B0X3R.

• Added a new mini mission which rarely appears in the mission select

• It’s a map. You can hold M to enlarge it and you can press MMB on the map to ping.

• The Blitseg is your new default vehicle. It comes with boost capabilities and you can press X to switch between first and third person.

• Added an option in your control settings to steer the blitseg with A & D instead of your camera

• You no longer drop your heavy weapon when you die

• Heavy weapon upgrades are coming in the World Update but aren’t part of the beta

• Multiple Heavy weapon beacons now spawn in every mission and are marked on your map

• Beacons (and the Acid Grenade’s Connected Systems upgrade) call in a crate that lets you select a Heavy Weapon

• Updated heavy weapon icons

• You can walk up steeper slopes

• Fixed ammo getting reset to full when exiting your inventory in a mission

• Skin drops now look different from normal upgrades

• Escalation mode in Paid Time Off defaults to off

• Added texture streaming and a graphics option for the texture streaming budget (how many MB of texture data can be loaded into video RAM at once) that defaults to 2048MB.

• Fixed an issue where your position could stop syncing to other players if a vehicle you’re driving is despawned

• Improved behavior for riding Satellite Salvage cables up walls so you’re less likely to hit the wall and fall off

• Instead of teleporting, enemies will dig to you when they can’t reach you

Hey there! It’s been a little while since our last update and we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on: The World Update. It's still very much in the works but we hope to keep you updated in its progress as we develop it!

We have two major goals with the World Update

• Make levels feel different each time you play them

• Fill levels with points of interest that make it fun and rewarding to explore

Each time you launch a mission, you’ll enter a new sector of New Atlas. We’re converting all of our current regions to procedural biomes with as much variety as we can stuff in. Just in the desert you can find sand dunes, canyons, rocky arches, and more.

These areas will come with new side objectives and encounters, most of which will appear on your new minimap! We’ll share more details on these encounters soon.

And of course, you’ll still be able to access the old levels whenever you want.

A few of our existing missions will undergo changes as they’re updated to work in procedural levels. Most notably, we’re reworking the beginning of Saxonite Transport to better flow with Mycopunk’s fast-paced gameplay. Prized Possession’s rolling power core will also be getting some much needed love.

We also have plans for some new missions which we’ll be working on after the World Update!

Dinky little karts aren’t gonna cut it when you’re driving over New Atlas’s harsh terrain. Enter the Blitseg, a new high-speed hover bike that glides over rocky hills like human skin on an asphalt road.

Each heavy weapon is getting its own smaller set of upgrades! These weapons are also receiving a few other changes to make them more viable:

• Calling in a heavy weapon from orbit will supply you with a cache that lets you choose from your selection of unlocked heavies.

• Heavy weapons are no longer dropped when you die.

• Weapon beacons will spawn more frequently and are marked on your map.

We’re super excited for you to explore our procedural worlds — and we’ll need your help finding the inevitable swarm of bugs that come with such a large change! Keep an eye out for a public beta later this month (we hope) where you can try out these changes for yourself.

~Pigeons