Update (26 April 2018)

Added the Linux version of STRAFE: Millennium Edition.
Patch 1.2 Mutator Madness (06 March 2018) CONTENT

Added Tips during level loads to help teach players about deeper systems*

Added Five new Mutators:

When I move you move

Jetpack Adventure

Slappers

STRAFE: RPG

Locked Seed
BALANCE AND TWEAKS

EZ Mode damage the player receives reduced 33%

Glutton damage reduced 33%

Harvester base health reduced 25%

Harvester head shot effectiveness increased 33%

Sluggard damage reduced 25%

Explosion damage to the player reduced 25%

Rearranged barrel and c4 damage caps to happen before damage reduction is applied

Teleporters now only require 3 pieces to unlock

Power up that allows barrels to be pulled doesn't have a cook time

You can skip Gun Duchess animations

Burbs rats secret reduced from 9 to 5 rats

Thruster item re-balanced and fixed issues that made accidental activation common

Changed Athena laser grid doors to allow more clever speed running tricks

Space bar can be held to speed up coin filling bar at the end of runs
PERFORMANCE

Optimized a few aspects of enemies to increase performance in all zones

Solved rare issue that could cause fps to spiral to extremely low numbers until the next level

Reduced memory usage while playing levels (this may fix some rare crashes)

Improved performance of Athena
BUG FIXES

Fixed a few specific crashes sent in via the feedback email

Gluttons can no longer get stuck in place

Fixed issue that allowed little joby to purchase invisibility cloaks

Fixed issue that allowed soft locks to happen when robbing the second merchant

Fixed issue that would cause jumps to mis register when speed running

Fixed issue where enemies could attack you while loading into the jump map

Fixed issue where scrambled enemies Mutator could damage you on level load

Fixed soft lock where players could pick up a keycard head while dropping one and cause one to disappear

Fixed issue where players were able to earn mastery crowns when they were actually inactive when playing the STRAFEZONE

Since we don't have the budget for localization and the overwhelming majority of our audience is English speaking the tips are only available in English at the moment.

Patch 1.1 (04 December 2017)

Fixed bug causing unintended strobe effect on low performance mode during scripted lighting events

Fix for saved runs corrupting when going back and forth between a saved run and murderzone

Fixed bug stopping two projectile types from being reflect-able with the wrench

Fix for error giving backpedal penalty too often when playing with a gamepad

Fix for error sometimes leading to inconsistent aim speed when playing with gamepad on pc

Adjusted Joystick input curves for the right stick

Adjusted Joystick sensitivity acceleration

Added two new control schemes for gamepad

Removed small visual glitch during Devolver intro

Added hidden feature-length STRAFE® screenplay
Millennium Edition 14.10.2017 update (23 October 2017) Additions:

Major changes to the inventory to accommodate number keys switching between guns

Picking up multiple of the same gun now stacks the ammo beyond one clip (but limited to a fixed amount per gun)
Fixes:

Fixed issue that could cause saves from locking up

Fixed issue that could leave damage overlay visible throughout some secrets

Fixed issue making save terminals more difficult to activate than intended

Adjusted placement on the save and exit terminal in the burbs

Fixed issue stopping the canyon merchant from being robbable

Fixed issue making low performance mode not enable itself when launching the game when applicable

Fixed issue that was unintentionally reducing lil joby population

Fixed issue that reduced a few sound effects volume

Fixed issue making Luftenstein not work correctly in low performance mode

Fixed minor Z-fighting in burbs merchant shop

Fixed minor Z-fighting in the burbs exit room

Fixed additional areas where enemies could spawn on train tracks
Millennium Edition Update (03 October 2017)

Please note that the StrafeZone and SpeedZones are currently not available in the GOG version of the game. We are investigating the possiblity of having those features added to the GOG version as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Big Additions:

Added ability to save runs

Crashed runs can be recovered

Big new secret

Added 20 new unlockable game modifiers

Big Head Mode

Rocket Arena

Hardcore Mode

Hyperdrive

Enemy Blood Blasters

Scrambled Cache

Lil Chumps

Instagib

Traditional mode

Blood Lust

Threes Company

Near Sighted

Scrambled Baddies

Moon Walkin’

Get rich or die tryin’

Call me Lil Joby

Game of Guns

QB

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
STRAFE® Abridged

Added 11 new room modules to ICARUS

Added 3 new enemies (with unique a.i.)

Added the traveling Merchant

Added low performance mode
Balance & fixes:

Soldier and Host now have two enemy variants

Removed some rooms from ICARUS that were considered unfair

Revamped enemy aggro

Can no longer acquire multiple primaries by spending clip

Fixed bug related to weapons switching when out of ammo in primary weapon

Fixed issue causing inconsistent turning speed on glowbrites

Fixed issue stopping Carriers from leaping at the player multiple times as intended

Fixed issue that was causing more path calculations than needed

Improved performance of enemies that fire multiple shots at once

Lowered the time it took the Leper to transform into bomber mode

Fixed issue causing some enemies to dry- fire when startled

Made the different glutton skins more different from one another

Pale glutton is faster and lower health

Soldier glutton is slightly slower

Fixed issue causing the host to aim unreliably

Improved side to side aiming of Host

Fixed black flash when quick restarting

Fixed issue that would cause favorite weapon to always show as machinegun

Fixed issue that would incorrectly show playtime in the post game stats

Fixed issue that could cause save files to corrupt

Reduced initial spread on machinegun and rebalanced rate of fire perks for machiengun

Fixed bug resulting in enemies showing less blood impacts than intended

Fixed bug causing frame drops when using the empty machinegun

Fixed bug causing the nailguns bullet to become frozen in some instances

Rebalanced HMG - Lowered warm up time, slightly lowered reload time, increased max fire rate

Fixed global stat to correctly show total player deaths

Fixed bug stopping the “Completionist” achievement from popping

Reworked Richoshot - Pierces enemies and slightly increased initial damage.

Increased damage per tick on the shotgun gas

Lowered damage on initial spin fusor upgrade

Lowered max damage on nail gun explosions

Fixed bug causing Airbud to be less powerful than intended

Trappy robot appears longer before teleporting

Made the blood bags easier to see on their way to secret doors

Improved issue allowing turrets to get stuck inside one another

Lowered ammo use per tick on the lightning secondary for the railgun

Fixed issue causing an older version of the turret to be present rarely

(possibly) Fixed issue softlocking burbs merchant

Fixed specific issue causing levels to fail while generating causing an infinite load

Added another fix for a case where train tracks could intersect level geometry

Able to speed up end credits

Fixed bug allowing the player to jump while credits rolled

Fixed bug causing the black hole launcher to make zombie corpses

Fixed bug allowing players to Kill the merchants defense turrets without triggering a robbery

Fixed bug allowing fire to spawn too close to keycards

More to come before this is officially live!

Fixed additional bugs allowing levels to fail to load

Fixed issue that would cause the death screen to show incorrect killed by text

Airbud no longer has a thirst for Lil Joby’s blood

Fixed bug sometimes stopping the Going home secret from awarding its prize

Fixed bug sometimes stopping the Trappy Mine secret from awarding its prize

Fixed bug sometimes stopping the Rats Map Secret from awarding its prize

Fixed bug allowing food dispensers to “Stretch” in the Burbs

Fixed bug allowing lights to sometimes “float” in the Burbs

Fixed bug allowing enemies to sometimes spawn on the train tracks in the burbs

Fixed bug stopping the Brightness slider from properly updating on menu exit

Added particle effect to help illustrate remaining scrap chests value

Fixed misalignment on three crosshairs of the alternate machinegun firing modes

Lil joby no longer gets incorrectly occluded when wandering

Fixed some cases that were allowing multiple upgrade machines of the same type to spawn in the same run

Lowered the weight on servers in icarus to prevent rare cases where they could be knocked over and block progress

Increased damage on lil jobys war machine

Rebalanced enemy numbers across the game

And more smaller changes
Patch 6 (03 October 2017)

Added Easy Difficulty

30% less enemies

30% less incoming Damage

20% slower projectiles

Added Optional Slow-Mo training tool (MURDER TIME) to easy difficulty

Fixed issue causing some weapons to not fire as intended when playing with the railgun

Improved stability

Fixed rare issue that could cause the train to eject the player

Updated the directional damage indicators to be more useful

Added safety colliders to Luftenstein secret to fix rare issues

Modified menu art to read more clearly

Added keybind menu option for the Thruster item

Misc Crash fixes

Misc performance improvements
Patch 5 (02nd June 2017)

Hey Killers,

We're going to shift our focus on more meaningful additions. We will still be working on fixes and optimizations but we are experimenting with a "Training mode" that would help new players having a hard time with STRAFE®'s difficulty learn how to play as intended, with a lot of movement and strafing.

Additionally we would like to start work on the save feature but have no idea how long it will take to crack that nut so it will come when it's ready. If it works this would allow you the freedom of exiting the game and returning to your run until you die.

PATCH NOTES:

Major optimization to loading and unloading creating much smoother loads

Added Footstep audio to the GLUTTON

Adjusted Enemy Balance in Zone 1 (Icarus)

Fixed the volume on for some enemies in Zone 3 (Burbs) and Zone 4 (Athena)

Fixed issue that would grant the player bonus over-heal progress

Fixed several bugs resulting in generation errors

Fixed several bugs resulting in unintended collision blocking progression

Fixed bug that could allow ragdolls to stretch or float

Updated more weapon sound effects

Optimized Harvester deaths

Fixed an issue that would allow the player to switch guns while zooming and out of the map

Fixed an issue that could cause the items menu from correctly selecting items

Fixed bug that resulted in doors closing too early when the player had specific items
Patch 4 (25 May 2017)

Many performance Optimizations

Fixed issue that rarely allowed enemies to fire through locked doors

Fixed issue that could cause unneeded rendering in all Zones

Fixed a few bugs that could lead to game crashes

Adjustment to level unloading to increase performance in subsequent levels

Fixed major issue allowing room intersection in Zone 3 (Burbs)

Removed accidental heavy pistol knock back on the BRICK enemy

Adjusted how bullets exert force on enemies

Fixed issue that could cause the exit room in Zone 3 (Burbs) to become invisible when backtracking

Fixed issue stopping the Zone 3 (Burbs) teleporter from working when unlocked in sequence

Updated textures for Zone 3 (Burbs) enemies to increase visibility

Fixed issue where quick restarting would not give you the desired ammo in Zone 1 (Icarus) Welcome Room

Fixed issue that could cause the end stats screen from displaying correctly when dying at the boss stage

The Trappy drone now correctly finishes its teleporting sequence

Fixed Issue that could stop the railgun from receiving the correct stat upgrades

Fixed issue that stopped damage sparks from displaying correctly

MURDERZONE: Fixed issue causing enemies to get trapped in closets

MURDERZONE: Fixed issue causing enemies to become frozen in closets

MURDERZONE: Fixed some door blockers not properly blocking spawned enemies from running into connection doors

MURDERZONE: Hub rounds now properly start when you enter the hub again instead of having to go to the perk stage

MURDERZONE: Added fail-safes to prevent branch doors from closing on players

MURDERZONE: Fixed strange light halo in distance of Canyon MURDERZONE hubs

MURDERZONE: Fixed blood mapping issues and massive framerate issues in Z4H1

MURDERZONE: Fixed issues with navigating the MURDERZONE menu with a gamepad

MURDERZONE: You no longer see space in the Burbs tile or Athena door connections

MURDERZONE: Player should no longer fall when loading a subsequent run in the menu

MURDERZONE: Music should no longer glitch out in subsequent runs

MURDERZONE: Improved the way the primary guns float in their containers in the hub

MURDERZONE: Enemies in branches are now frozen until the player opens the door that makes them visible.

MURDERZONE: Made adjustments to the monster closets to make them hopefully more reliable.

MURDERZONE: A marker now appears above the MURDERZONE stage after round 10 telling the player to go there.

MURDERZONE: Stage now glows at the start and fades out after a few seconds.

MURDERZONE: Acid pools should now be marked as Acid for death screens.

MURDERZONE: Having "No Reload" unlocked no longer restricts you from manually reloading.

MURDERZONE: Guns should no longer be pickup-able once the tubes go down.

Jump Map: The progress bar now properly resets when the player restarts.

Jump Map: Decals left by the plasma gun are now destroyed when restarting or returning to a checkpoint.

Jump Map: You no longer shoot when clicking options in the pause menu.

Jump Map: Guns/Items are now properly taken away when you restart the map.

Jump Map: The attempts number now properly starts at zero.

Jump Map: The attempt counter no longer increases by one after restarting the map.
Patch 3 (16 May 2017)

Added feedback to Exit Terminals in Zone 4 (Athena)

Added display to better illustrate the power needed to open security door in 3-2

Added additional art to the end game level

Updated many more weapon SFX

Removed Glitch-Merchant from the MURDERZONE

Bench costs in the MURDERZONE now properly reflect the intended prices

Adjusted colliders that could allow players to fall onto the train tracks when exiting the train

Fixed specific geometry in Zone 1 (ICARUS) that could cause players to become stuck

Fixed occluder issues in Zone 1 (ICARUS) that could cause the player to see the skybox in certain places

Fixed specific instances where the player could soft lock when robbing merchants

Fixed issue that could cause the menu and splash screen to stretch on various resolutions

Fixed issue with the teleporter pieces that made them harder to find

Fixed issue with the teleporter batteries sometimes spawning in the wrong zone

Fixed specific case where the upgrade machine could give you the same upgrade in a row

Fixed Lil Joby's gibs to render correctly

Fixed visual issue with the "Wizard"

Fixed various rendering issues with jump map UI

Fixed case where the player could be killed when entering the Jump map

Fixed visual issue when the player has an extreme amount of items

Fixed issue that could cause the mouse to show in the center of the screen

Fixed issue with the loaded ammo value showing improperly when the player has no weapon

Fixed issues with navigating the controls options menu

Fixed issue that could cause the crosshair to render improperly

Fixed mistranslation in the MURDERZONE in some languages

Fixed issue with the jump map timer if the player took longer than an hour

Fixed issue where the MURDERZONE stats would not save properly when exiting the MURDERZONE

Fixed issue where blood would continue to be added after it was full

Added animation to display when the game is loading

Added look sensitivity Y option

Added "Are you sure" Pop up when ending a run

Fixed many issues that could cause level geometry to improperly generate stopping player progress

Tweaks to fire-rate perks

Fixed issue that could make scrap unobtainable

Fixed issues with the Zone 3 (Burbs) train from stopping game progress

Fixed issue that could soft lock progress when playing the rats map

Fixed issue causing barrel inventory problems

Main gun sounds are now in (( stereo ))

Fixed a few issues with secret weapons

Fixed multiple issues with the Jump map weapons

Fixed issue with the Jump map boundaries

Upped the dankness

Fixed collider issue in the Zone 3 (Burbs) Merchant

Fixed issue with Zone 4 (Complex) merchant Item descriptions

Changed how gun sounds are spread and spatialized

Fixed a typo with a Kickstarter Backer name

Fixed issue not resetting player upgrades in the Murder Zone

Fixed issue in the Murder Zone that could stop player progress

Increased the height that triggers fall damage

Halved the fall damage

Increased health in first zone (ICARUS)

Increased range of FOV (60-120)

Fixed issue disallowing certain systems from using all available resolutions

Weapon sounds are louder

Fixed bug with weapon inventory

Fixed problems with level geometry that could cause players to get stuck

Fixed bug causing a secret gun to not fire

Fixed bug causing secret gun to rarely not appear

Raised and lowered the extremes on mouse sensitivity

Fixed issues that could cause all enemies to freeze

Removed self damage from three of the player’s primary fire (Flak,Rebound,LMG)

Fixed volume of music in zone 3 (THE BURBS)

Adjusted audio mixer to a better balance

Adjusted some audio to have better spatialization

Fixed bug that stopped some enemies from making their sound effects as intended

Glowbrite pursue sounds

Turret footsteps have better proximity

Carrier footsteps sounds

Adjustment to Glutton proximity alert

Fixed bug that stopped item descriptions from showing in the merchant

Fixed bug that stopped the player from navigating the inventory with the mouse

Improved reliability for some minor secret activations

Fixed in game achievement tracking from showing the correct achievement