Captain Hardcore 0.25 is now Available! Massive Gameplay, Sandbox & Customization Update!

Hello everyone! 👽

Captain Hardcore v0.25 is now live, and it's one of the largest updates so far.

💾 DOWNLOAD THE NEW BUILD HERE

✅ EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM

📺 CAPTAIN HARDCORE WEBSITE

Version 0.25 lays the foundations for the next part of the story. It includes a major overhaul of the first story mission, new weapons and gameplay systems, a huge expansion to character customization with over 300 new clothing items, Arena Trial improvements, difficulty settings, performance improvements, and a huge number of fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Following successful testing by our Patreon community, version 0.25 will roll out to Steam.

Thank you everyone for the incredible support! 🚀🚀🚀

Broken Core Overhaul

The first story mission, Broken Core, has been extensively redesigned and improved.

• Major overhaul of the procedural level generation system.

• New and improved room layouts, including larger high-ceiling rooms and more varied environments.

• Added new fire jets, electrical hazards, and toxic gas leaks throughout the station.

• Some hazards can be turned against your enemies - lure them into electrical hazards and let the environment do the dirty work.

• Improved enemy distribution throughout Broken Core.

• Improved ammo spawning throughout Broken Core.

• Numerous room, navigation, collision, and procedural-generation fixes.

New Weapon Unlock System

The way weapons are acquired during Story Mode has been redesigned.

• Added a new weapon unlock and progression system.

• Weapons are now unlocked progressively as you advance through the story.

• Weapons can spawn procedurally during missions.

• Added new large loot chests containing weapons and ammunition.

• Enabling Skip Story will automatically unlock all weapons.

New Enemy Manager & Spawning System

• Implemented a completely new Enemy Manager for controlling enemy encounters throughout Story Mode.

• Added a new Enemy Spawner system, replacing the previous enemy spawning logic.

• Enemy numbers are now dynamically controlled based on level progression and difficulty.

• More dangerous enemy types are now introduced progressively rather than appearing immediately.

• Provides much greater control over when and where different enemy types are introduced.

• Fapling horde size is now scaled with difficulty.

Difficulty Settings

• Story Mode now has Easy, Normal, and Hardcore difficulty options in the game settings menu.

• Enemy numbers and enemy damage now scale with the selected difficulty level, creating increasingly intense encounters on higher difficulties.

• Added God Mode for players who want to experience Story Mode without taking damage.

New & Upgraded Weapons

• The Load Blower - A formidable rapid-fire weapon that becomes increasingly devastating the longer you hold the trigger, continuously ramping up its rate of fire.

• Ultimate Pleasure Device (UPD) - Significantly upgraded into a devastating super weapon that unleashes extreme pleasure... or pain.

• Integrated the new weapon content into the updated Story Mode progression and weapon unlock system.

• Added appropriate ammunition and pickups.

Arena Trial Overhaul

• Arena Trial has received a substantial update with new procedural environments from Broken Core.

• Arena Trial can now be accessed directly from the Captain's PC on board the ship.

• Added an enemies remaining display.

• Added Personal Best tracking. Your highest Arena Trial wave is now displayed on the Captain's PC screen.

Massive Clothing Expansion

Character clothing has received its largest content expansion yet.

• Added more than 300 new clothing and accessory items, including numerous texture and material variations.

• Added new tops, bottoms, underwear, skirts, dresses, footwear, accessories, horns, tails, jewellery, and other options.

• Added a new custom weighting system for dresses, providing much smoother deformation, especially during extreme poses, with far less stretching between the legs.

Animation Presets

• Added support for saving animation presets.

• All animation data is saved to a .cha preset file which can be shared between players.

• Presets include pose data, all captured motions, hand poses, and expressions.

• Note: Animation Presets are currently in beta, so you may encounter occasional issues.

Spawnable Meshes

• Overhauled how the game handles static objects, allowing for many more spawnables to be added.

• All objects are now organized into categories.

• Added scale control for all objects.

• Added a new water object that can be used to create pools, etc.

• Fixed an issue where selecting a new prop to spawn could cause the previously selected prop to become undeletable.

• Added many new spawnable objects for decorating your scenes.

New Food Based Toys

• Added 6 new fruit and vegetable toys.

• Added 9 new ice cream and popsicle toys.

• Added new insertable bottles.

Pleasure Manipulator

• Added the new Pleasure Manipulator machine.

• Independently control Arms and Head positions.

• Adjustable speed and depth controls.

• Fully adjustable positioning allows the machine to be set up for different poses.

Mega Buy Vending Machine Upgrades

• Mega Buy vending machines have received a visual overhaul.

• Added new voice lines and reactions - Mega Buy will now insult you while you shop.

Improved VR Item Menu

• Separated items into Weapons and Tools.

• Hovering over an item now displays its name and description.

• Undiscovered weapons are not shown until you find them.

Quality of Life & Customization Improvements

• Clothing lists now sort items in proper alphabetical order using their in-game names.

• Clothing lists now highlight the currently equipped item, making it much easier to see what the character is wearing.

• Clothing, Face Preset, and Skin Preset lists now automatically initialize their scroll position to keep the equipped item visible when opened.

• Fixed a bug where male clothing category buttons opened the wrong category list.

• Particle effect scale is now adjustable.

• Improved Arena Trial feedback.

Hair Improvements

• Fixed an issue with the hair shader that could cause hair to become transparent or disappear at a distance due to the technique used for hair rendering.

• Improved hair rendering also applies to facial hair.

Enemy AI & Navigation

• Improved enemy cleanup after death.

• Fixed issues where destroyed enemies could leave behind avoidance/navigation data and interfere with surviving enemies.

• Improved crowd avoidance behaviour during large encounters.

• Improved AI behaviour around doors and procedural environments.

• Various navigation and pathfinding improvements.

• Fixed Fapbot voice-line attenuation, preventing their voices from being heard from long distances.

Performance & Procedural Generation

• Fixed a major performance degradation issue that could occur after progressing through multiple Broken Core decks.

• Improved cleanup of procedural dungeon systems after generation.

• Improved cleanup when moving between decks.

• Reduced unnecessary processing left behind by previously generated dungeon areas.

• Improved handling and cleanup of dynamically generated actors.

Character & Story Event Reliability

• Fixed race conditions where story events could trigger before required characters had finished spawning.

• Added additional safeguards for events that depend on specific characters being available.

Level Streaming & Stability

• Fixed cases where the player or characters could fall through the world while a new level was loading.

• All characters are now safely handled while floors and streamed levels are being replaced.

• Added additional safeguards for unusually low frame rates or slow level streaming.