Hello everyone!

We are getting closer and closer to being able to share more details about the incoming first big update. First of all, instead of one giga giga gigantic update, we decided to break it up into two (maaaybee, possibly even three) updates.

Originally, the big idea behind 0.2 was not just to squash bugs and fix stuff, but to roll out a bunch of many new content at the same time. Ambitious? Totally. Doable? Absolutely. But... time-consuming? Oh yeah. That way, we don’t keep you waiting forever, and you get to play with the new stuff sooner. We'll also be dropping smaller patches in between to keep things fresh. Don't get this wrong, it’s still a pretty big deal for us! And we probably call this major update as 0.1


Well, firstly the programming... ohh, the coding is fully changing, we’ve moved huge part of it from Blueprints to C++, which means better performance and more flexibility down the line. Animations, Gunplay (Some new guns?) better ballistics behaviours, tweaks on UI, maybe even a few mission objective adjustments. The current content in the live version will still be there, but you’ll notice changes in the maps (lighting, atmosphere, some layout revamps) Oh, and there might (well its a big MIGHT but) be a little new mission map sneaking in.

We’ve also working on for improving the AI. AI may be not going to be perfect right now but better, no more behind the walls cheeky sneaky behaviours.

We’re listening to you constantly — what you like, what you want changed, what’s not working. Your feedback is what’s steering this ship. So don’t stop talking to us. Once 0.1 is out and stable, we’ll follow up with 0.2 that includes new shiny things. After that? We keep building, improving, polishing — and eventually, we’ll hit the next update. But we’ll keep the details for that one under wraps for now. Gotta keep some surprises, right?

We needed (still some need) time to ensure that we can meet the some basic standards you all have been waiting all along. And we've set ourselves to meet the expectations. Thanks for sticking with us. This journey's been wild, and will continue to be.

As many of you know, much of our Dev Team has changed over the past year.
The fresh team has brought new energy and perspective, and we’re excited about the progress they’ve made! They are online in the Contain Discord server and are happy to answer your questions!


[discord.gg]

We believe we’re just getting started.

– The Dev Team

Hello everyone,

This is part of the announcement we made about 3 months ago on 21th 10 2024 on our Discord channel:
It is clear that some of you have not seen it. So we present it to you here again.

You can find the latest news at the bottom of this announcement as well. So if you do not want to read this long text you can just skip to the end.

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OLD ANNOUNCEMENT

"Dear Contain Agents,

After a bit of a radio silence (sorry for that), we'd like to share the latest news on the game and company.

First, let's talk 0.2 Major. This really is a Major patch with a capital M - it will bring HUGE changes to the game, so that it will feel like a new game in many ways. But with great changes come great responsibility: We need comprehensive testing, validation and a bunch of polish. While we did our best to estimate the time needed, we realize we require more time to make sure we put something good in front of you.

While that's all very exciting and you've been an amazing, patient community, we need to face life's facts. In this case, the fact is that we need funds to continue development. We are already at a refund rate that 99.99% of developers would have already given up. We, on the other hand, have this weird belief that we should do everything we can to make this work and see it through. Our latest changes have already reduced the rates, albeit nowhere close to providing enough income to keep the lights on.

Now this is where things get interesting. Some of you know that we had a pre-prototype-level game we were working on before Contain: Revenge of the Mage. It was sitting in its digital corner, gathering digital dust, until we came up with this crazy idea: What if developers who had completed their tasks and waiting for the next phase of the pipeline would put in some work for that game? Turns out that we could pull it and the prototype we created in this way actually got good comments from players and investors alike, and the latter came up with a deal: They would provide investment for Contain if we can bring RotM to early access phase.

So, we found ourselves at a cross-roads: Do we try to get everything done in a humanly-impossible time frame and pray that we pull a miracle with this single shot or accept the deal to channel some of our resources for RotM, so we can have more time to do justice by Contain?

For better or worse, but we strongly feel for the better, we chose to take the deal.

Next Steps

What this means is that we're going to divide our resources between Contain and RotM until RotM is in Early Access period.

With the positive impressions we've gotten from the early version (which we created with basically with whatever time we had left from Contain) and all the things we learned from Contain, both in terms of the actual development and organization of it, we strongly believe RotM will be quite a fun game at early access. This will both bring us some funds by itself and help us convince our investors to continue supporting Contain on the long term.

This means Contain content will be coming a bit slower, but... well, they'll exist. We'll definitely learn from RotM and apply some of those learnings on improving Contain too."

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LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT IS HERE!!!! 16th 01. 2025

Today, we launched our second game, Revenge of the Mage, and as promised, we are resuming work on Contain where we left off.

In the meantime, we haven't been idle. We've made significant improvements to our technical infrastructure, which will allow us to progress toward our goals for Contain with a fast and stable foundation. We know that we've been silent for quite a while, and we’re committed to keeping in touch with you more frequently and updating you on what’s happening.

We’re very excited about the Contain 0.2 major update. During this time, we’ve had frequent discussions about the game’s design document and made significant improvements to our plans, considering the technical resources at our disposal. While we want to include everything in this update, our primary focus is ensuring that what we deliver enhances the fun in Contain and runs smoothly.

We are deeply grateful for your support and understanding throughout this process.

See you in our next announcement!

We need to talk about something important: The price of our game. After weeks of discussions, we've decided to lower the base cost. We're committed to being transparent and want to assure you that we have plans to compensate everyone who paid the current price.

Since our launch, we've realized the current price tag hasn't worked out. Many of you cited the high price for an Early Access game and the lower prices of similar games as reasons for refunds. So, starting the 3rd of June, we’re reducing the price with a special discount, and this will be the permanent base price after the discount ends.

We still aim to develop a game worthy of the current price (as subjective as that may be). However, to fulfill our vision we need to make this price adjustment. We are committed to deliver the Contain experience we promised.

We understand that those who paid the initial price may feel disappointed. To show our gratitude, we're handing out an Exclusive Free DLC called "First Responders". This exclusive DLC will be automatically added to the accounts of the players who purchased the game until the 3rd of June. It's our way of saying thank you, and we will continue to expand this pack from time to time with even more goodies.

This way, we can keep improving Contain, and you get some exclusive goodies for your support. Thank you for understanding and staying with us on this journey.

For more information and details or if you want to get in touch and speak with us please consider joining our Discord[discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.

• Fixed Mag Check widget reappearing and staying when changing weapons
  
• Fixed Weapon position starting off screen at customization screen
  
• Fixed Flashlight and Laser self-activation after self-revive
  
• Fixed Flashlight and Laser self-activation despite not having attachments
  
• Fixed Flashlight and Laser self-activation after Scan use
  
• Fixed free look sensitivity not changing when changing the Mouse Sensitivity slider.
  
• Fixed Medic score always being 0 on Endgame Screen
  
• Fixed some missions' score not adding up on Endgame Screen
  
• Added confirmation check for Return to menu button.
  
• Now, you can manually join a matchmaking lobby. Those are not separated session types anymore.
  
• Now, you can join a manually created lobby from matchmaking unless it's a private session.
  
• Toggle Crouch is now available.
  
• You can now rebind Primary and Secondary weapons as you like on the controls menu.
  
• Safety fire mode was causing issues and it was removed.

For more information and details or if you want to get in touch and speak with us please consider joining our Discord [discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.

- Contain DEV Team

It's been a while since we have updated the game but it's for a good reason. If you didn't catch the latest dev blog we have released, please consider checking it up from here to learn what we are cooking.

Before we mention the current bugs and the next patch details. We would like to talk about the two new features that we are working on with the Discord Community. If you are not joined yet, to get in touch please consider joining our Discord[discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.


As may you know we are working on a progression system. We are trying to figure out how to make it simple, effective, and good enough to spend time on for worthy progress with it.

A progression system has to show how much time you invested in the game. Like, do your character appearance, or even abilities, etc, reflect your time investment or not? We think it has to so we are working on this matter. Also as we can see, seems like most of the players don't like the idea of all currently available pieces of equipment, weapons, and attachments getting into a progression system, and from time to time with a reset losing it all again and again. But, Not just for Contain, but mainly with many other games that have that progressions and resets until it reaches its peak point. This is not a small issue we are concerned about.

As you all know we have a considerable arsenal, but still a small arsenal. Even though we are working on it to expand. This means, that unlocking current equipment, weapons, and attachments with a progression system will be a very short journey. Which is, that brings us to another issue, every time we try to balance leveling (experience, etc.) for the progression system or try to set the balance of weapons, etc, etc, we have to reset it from time to time. And this is unavoidable, we will have to eventually.

Long story short, for now, we decided not to add the current equipment, weapons, and attachments to the progression system when we introduce it. But this could change, with your feedback, even change at the final reset. So, no promises for that unseen feature for now! Because even a progression system can evolve many other shapes with feedback from you!


Let's talk about the other new game mechanic that we are planning and working on next to the player progression system.

This one is about adding smaller anomalies into the game that players have to capture/collect (needs to be extracted). Then, you have to use a synthesizing machine in the Base of Operations to turn them into temporary boosters (we call them candies for now). Players will be able to choose one booster at a time before a mission deployment. The booster will persist until players return to the BoO.

We created a pool in our discord for this one and it's getting upvotes! To give a vote, tell us what you think about that new feature and tell us what boosters would you like to see, join the discord[discord.gg]


You may remember that we have announced that map before and shared some screenshots of it. But it's getting bigger and more complex. This new map is not like the others before, after this one we are considering adding more maps like this one instead of linear ones. On this one, we are planning to add a specific main mission like the old ones, but this one will have more randomized starting (player spawn) locations and a few objectives. Then you have to go to a random extraction location to finish the mission. We keep sharing more detailed screenshots later!


Screenshots are not represent the final version of the map, those are WIP.

There are several bugs, some of them is seem impossible to fix until our codebase changes, but we are still fixing the current base version of the game and those fixes keep coming until we release our first Major Patch and, we call that Major Patch as Contain 0.2. As mentioned before you can read more details about it here.


You can expect it on the next week. With that we will update our roadmap too, you can reach our roadmap from here[trello.com]. That roadmap outlines the features and content you can expect to see in the feature for Contain.


With that patch, you can expect (Coming Soon);

• Magcheck widget reappearing when changing weapons fix
  
• Weapon off position at customization screen fix
  
• Flashlight and Laser self-activation after self-revive fix
  
• Flashlight and Laser self activation despite not having attachments fix
  
• Flashlight and Laser self-activation after Scan use fix
  
• Added confirmation check for Return to menu button.
  
• Now you can manually join a lobby that is created from matchmaking. Those are not separated session types anymore.
  
• Now you can join a manually created lobby with matchmaking if it's not a private session.
  
• Toggle Crouch is fixed and it's now available.
  
• Added sensitivity option for Free Look.
  
• You can rebind Primary and Secondary guns as you like.
  
• Safety fire mode was causing issues and it was removed.
  
• Endgame Score Screen details fix

• Unable to fire after self-revive.
  
• Stimpack bugs
  
• Some of specific client-side issues.
  
• Client <-> Host desync on the enemy issues. (we want to fix it, but seems like this can be left to Contain 0.2)
  
• Localization issues.
  
• Switching Sight for the Vanguard-M4 after loading a custom preset causing issues.

Thank you all for your support and feedback for making Contain a better game.

- Contain DEV Team

• In Echo Surge, the Husk horde spawn count and how often they will be have been reworked. So now that depends on the player count and the selected difficulty.

• Some layout and design changes were made in Echo Surge, Too Late, and District 8 mission maps. (Community Request)
  
• Anomaly room sequence fixed in Too Late mission. Players can't jump in the room if the Sequence has not been triggered, so they won't get stuck inside. (This anomaly sequence still triggers randomly)

For more information and details or if you want to get in touch and speak with us please consider joining our Discord[discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.

We continue to receive feedback about different problems in different systems. So to simply put the biggest reason for these problems is that the current infrastructure is not programmed as it should be, and it's hard to detect and fix it immediately, so some of them take time to fix.

Thanks to our new programming team, we were able to detect this situation and had already started preparations and work for the necessary changes at a certain pace a while ago as we told you before.

However, we could not fully accelerate the code base change because we had to continue patching the game. And trying to patch the game while using the current infrastructure made those fixes go slow.

But! We would like to happily inform you that as of today, we have started to completely overhaul the code base infrastructure and get rid of the old one.

It will not take ages for you to meet these innovations and changes, they seem to be completed in a reasonable time frame. However, we refrain from giving an exact date. And we think you will understand this. Giving a date but presenting it before reaches a sufficient level, will mean repeating the mistake that we made at the release date and will make everyone unhappy once again.

However, while making this change, we keep working on some changes, fixes, or updates to the current version, so yes patches will continue. But there is one point we need to state for sure, and that is some bugs could not be fixed in the meantime (of course, if it's a game-breaking bug we will take immediate action to fix it) therefore we decided that it would be better to do some of this fixes through the code base changed version.

While our programming team works on this overhaul and fixes, our 3D, animation, level design, sfx, and vfx reworks are also will keep coming.

Gunplay and movement changes, guns and attachment stats will impact your gameplay. The general responsiveness of the game will be different and better. Higher performance and optimization.

Also, with that new base code, we will have a chance to increase AI density and spawning systems on the maps. This also brings another freedom for the level design, we want to make them wider and break that linear feeling much more (This will take time, can't do an overnight tbh).

You may know we started with UE4 and then moved to UE5. We kept the UE4 skeleton system until now, but with the overhaul, we are going to get rid of UE4 skeleton systems and renew with UE5, this will give our animators more freedom, and with that, it will impact some of the character animations look better.

We are using LOD (for DX11) & Nanite (DX12). To do this we did every single 3D mesh with LOD and Nanite, which made our 3D teams work double. Because this double-edged work has brought many issues, we are wasting our time fixing them to make work fine on both sides. For a small dev team, this is not efficient. Also for the lighting, we did not use Lumen because Lumen works better with Nanite and/or Virtual Shadow Maps, so when we tested Lumen with DX11 results were very very bad, and decided not to do it.

But as we have seen on the reports many of the players are using DX12. So this brought us a new thought that we have started to consider removing the DX11 option, going for DX12, using Nanite, VS, and relighting all the levels with Lumen for more quality. But this is still a consideration, we have not yet reached a final decision. We just wanted you all to know this thought.

We will continue to move forward with a Roadmap but we made a board for you to see more details.

Its here: DETAILED ROADMAP[trello.com]

We believe even after that overhaul, Contain could feel like a new game. Thank you all for your support and feedback for making Contain a better game.

For more information and details or if you want to get in touch and speak with us please consider joining our Discord[discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.

- Contain DEV Team

• All difficulty settings are updated and have been made a little harder. Especially the hardest difficulty (Contain) is a bit more deadly now. (Community Request)
  
• Increased restock interaction radius.

• AI Soldier's Shotgun damage increased.
  
• Added a strafing cooldown for AR and UMP carrier soldiers. Also, they randomly stop moving while on aim/shoot action, this now feels more natural.
  
• Shotgun carrier soldiers do not get too close to the player (They do care player's personal space more lol).

• Reimplemented Hide UI Button in Weapon Customization.
  
• The HUD Laser icon is now disabled while on the sidearm.

For more information and details or if you want to get in touch and speak with us please consider joining our Discord [discord.gg]. We are online, and we mostly use Discord for instant, direct communications.

- Contain DEV Team