Heat Signature — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Tactical Breach Wizards is out, with a little treat for Heat Sig players | 2024-08-22 | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/Tactical_Breach_Wizards/ We just released our next game, which we've been working on for more than 6 years. And it's just like Heat Signature! As long as you overlook the genre, perspective, time scale, party size, and story focus. But! But! They do have these things in common: Throwing yourself and others through windows Getting yourself into a terrible situation, and having all the time you need to think your way out of it A tendency toward emergent gameplay A wide range of tools that have a variety of non-obvious uses More importantly, there's a very cool little treat for Heat Signature players at |
| New Patch: 2021.1.20.1 | 2021-01-27 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2021.1.20.1 Fix crash from Teleporter module removing Objective module during ship generation. Fix crash when reinforcements arrive while player is unconscious. Fix crash when guards try to recruit other guards that have just been removed from the ship. Fix rare crash when player or guard is skeletonized. Better error handling when failing to read files. If you have problems with any patch, please fill our our Bug Report Form to let us know what went wrong! |
| New Patch: 2019.10.25.1 | 2019-11-04 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2019.10.25.1 Fix dashing through walls when auto-pathing. Fix player interactions mistakenly being allowed while remote controlling pod. Fix guards instantly knowing where glitch sick players are. Only send guards who have recently seen player to fetch player's body. If you have problems with any patch, please fill our our Bug Report Form to let us know what went wrong! |
| New Patch: 2019.8.8.1 | 2019-08-13 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2019.8.8.1 Daily Challenge practice counts towards the Week Streak achievement. Fixed a bug that could reset Daily Streak. Fixed crash when player is aboard a liberation ship when it arrives at station. If you have problems with any patch, please fill our our Bug Report Form to let us know what went wrong! |
| New Patch: 2019.1.10.1 | 2019-01-14 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2019.1.10.1 Fix guards unable to carry player's body to some airlocks. Fix Offworld Angel's shop description. Potential fix for getting stuck in mission end screen. 2019.1.4.1 Added player rank and count to Daily Challenge leaderboards. Fixed pilots with heat sensors not detecting player. Fixed guards knocked out by pod undocking not counting against totals. Fixed crash when teleporting an item immediately after exitting a ship. Fixed Restockable Breach Grenade Launchers losing the Restockable trait. (Doesn't fix items already affected.) If you have problems with any patch, please fill our ou |
| Space Winter is back, there's a patch, and a sale! | 2018-12-21 | Each winter, until the 31st of Space December, the Voidmother encroaches on this dark corner of the galaxy, and we all stay close to home and swap random objects with our Steam friends via industrial gift chutes. We also have a new patch that'll help more folks get into the Daily Challenge, and experienced Challengers have a smoother time. And we're half-price! http://store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Heat_Signature/ Introducing Easy Sundays On Sundays, the daily challenge is easier. Normal daily challenges are Hard > Hard > Mistake. Easy Sundays are Medium > Hard > Hard. Perfect performances still get a time bonus, so for more experienced dr |
| New Patch: 2018.11.5.1 | 2018-11-08 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2018.11.5.1 Melee impact noise causes guards to look, but doesn't automatically make them sound the alarm. (They'll still sound the alarm when they see you.) Reduced radius of Concussion Hammer's melee impact noise. Fixed pods sometimes leaving behind contents when undocking from ships. If you have problems with any patch, please fill our our Bug Report Form to let us know what went wrong! |
| Space Halloween Returns, Death Is Canceled | 2018-10-29 | Once again for the duration of Space Halloween - 28th of Space October to the 1st of Space November - life and death in the Drift will be a little different: Removed: Death Due to science, you cannot die during Space Halloween. Bleeding out, suffocating, or being incinerated in an exploding pod will permanently turn you into a living skeleton. Once Halloween is over, you’ll remain a skeleton but any lethal damage will finish you off. On the plus side, skeletons are undetectable by guard’s heat sensors, and can spacewalk indefinitely since they no longer need to breathe. Characters with the Dying trait will be rid of it if their time to live e |
| New Patch: 2018.10.17.1 | 2018-10-17 | We've uploaded a new patch, here's what's changed: 2018.10.17.1 Support longer names in leaderboards. Improved text/messaging in Glory Leaderboard. 2018.10.16.1 Fixed Detonate Remote Grenades not selectable with gamepad. Fixed Shaky warning not appearing on Grenade Launchers. Added Glory Adjustment to Traits panel. Added View Scaling to Options > Technical Options. This can help if text is too small or too large for your screen. 2018.10.15.1 Break ties in Daily Leaderboard with Missions Completed and Time Spent. Added Glitch-Proof Hull to 3rd Daily Challenge Mission. Added Mission details to Glory Leaderboard. Gloria client tries to generate |
| An update on The Space Birthday Update | 2018-10-07 | We've been patching a lot since the Space Birthday Update went live and we didn't want to spam you with announcements, so I'm writing this one to round up the changelist and highlight some things: The update is optional We heard from a few people who wanted to still be able to play without the update changes, so we've set up a permanent branch of the game without them. If that's you, right click Heat Signature, go to Properties > Betas and choose the 'prebirthday' beta. It's not actually a beta, it's the build of the game that was live for six months without needing a patch, so it's pretty solid! One thing to be aware of is that if you change |
| The Space Birthday Update is out! Daily Challenge, Character Traits, 4 unique enemies, 20 features! | 2018-09-27 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png Heat Signature is one Space Year old today! To celebrate, we've released a big free update we've been working on for five months, with over 20 features - including our own twist on a Daily Challenge. Click through for details on each: Character Traits 7 New Hazards Glory Missions & Clients Upgraded AI & Reworked Alarms Player Story Trading Cards Contractors: 4 Unique Enemy Types The Daily Challenge 10 Quality of Life Features The game is also 40% off this week, for the first time! The Daily Challenge and the new Glory leade |
| The Space Birthday Update: Quality of Life | 2018-09-27 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. The Space Birthday Update goes live for everyone in 8 hours from this post, which is today at: UK: 6pm US Pacific: 10am US East: 1pm Your time: check here Lastly, we have 10 more changes that just make the game nicer to play, better balanced, or provide more options for those who want or need them. Gamepad controls We have these now! They're designed for Xbox pads but others may work. Much smoother ship collision Oh my Go |
| The Space Birthday Update: The Daily Challenge | 2018-09-26 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. As of tomorrow, Heat Signature has a Daily Challenge! Each day there's a special character with 3 missions that are the same for all players, and leaderboards to see how you did compared to your friends. Compared to other games, Heat Signature's daily challenge is quicker to play: it only takes about 15 minutes. And we're doing a few other things differently too: The Daily Shop I wanted the daily challenge to be challengi |
| The Space Birthday Update: Contractors | 2018-09-25 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. Our philosophy with enemies in Heat Signature was to allow every combination possible, so a Glitch-Dash guard can also have Heat Sensors and can also have Shields and so on. It leads to a huge number of possible configurations, some of which have interesting consequences, but it sometimes lacks flavour. Contractors came about when trying to come up with enemies that would be a challenge even if you had the best kit in the |
| The Space Birthday Update: Player Story Trading Cards | 2018-09-24 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. One Space Year ago, we said we'd do something different with our trading cards. We didn't want them to be about the game's story, we wanted them to be about player stories. But we needed you to play a bit first, and show us what you got up to. And then it also took a really long time to make them. But now, on its first Space Birthday, we celebrate eight players and their moments of brilliance, stupidity and panic. They su |
| The Space Birthday Update: Upgraded AI & Reworked Alarms | 2018-09-23 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. Upgraded AI First up, our programmer John Winder has upgraded the guard AI with some new tricks: Errand buddies: if there are enough guards in a cluster, they'll take a buddy when they go off on errands. If the errand guard needs to check on a terminal, the other one watches their back while they do it. New patrol patterns: as well as visiting terminals, guards will sometimes now check on key rooms in their sector, includ |
| The Space Birthday Update: Glory Missions & Clients | 2018-09-22 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. The original idea for this update was just to add some optional harder missions for really well-equipped characters played by really clever players. We ended up adding a lot more besides, but Glory Missions are exactly that. 5 new levels of much harder missions that you do just to prove you can. Here's the deal: Glory missions come in 5 increasingly ridiculous difficulty levels, Glory I to Glory V Glory I, the easiest, is |
| The Space Birthday Update: New Hazards | 2018-09-21 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. Today we're announcing not so much one new feature as seven: all the new hazards you'll start seeing on missions with the Space Birthday Update. Like any hazards, the mission generator only uses these when they're appropriate for the mission's difficulty level - we didn't make the game harder overall. We did, however, add some ultra-hard missions at the top end of the spectrum that we'll be talking about later. Telepads M |
| The Space Birthday Update is out! | 2018-09-20 | Heat Signature is one Space Year old! To celebrate, we've released a big free update we've been working on for five months, with over 20 features - including our own twist on a Daily Challenge. Click through for details on each: Character Traits 7 New Hazards Glory Missions & Clients Upgraded AI & Reworked Alarms Player Story Trading Cards Contractors: 4 Unique Enemy Types The Daily Challenge 10 Quality of Life Features The game is also 40% off this week, for the first time! The Daily Challenge and the new Glory leaderboards are best if you have some friends who play, so it's a good time to unfairly pressure everyone you know to buy it - or p |
| The Space Birthday Update: Character Traits | 2018-09-20 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/a26a952cd36b2f6f95512f6f2e0d76178c10628d.png This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. Character Traits The characters you choose from at the start of a life in Heat Signature now have randomly chosen traits that change how they play - some helpful, some challenging. So one character might be: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/24196435/7714f02306ab11b2d74c5f16a4d603a5380c7c9c.png Whereas another might be: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/241 |