Overview
- Breaking New Ground is live, with players donating basic materials to a global meter to open access to Stella Montis.
- Embark increased the event’s unlock requirement hours after launch when progress spiked, dropping the visible bar to roughly 1% before it resumed climbing.
- Phase I awards Merits for donations with a reported cap near 900, and Phase II, Staking Our Claim, activates once the community target is reached and runs through December.
- Update 1.2.0 adds two new ARC enemies (Matriarch and Shredder), the Aphelion rifle, Trailblazer and Seeker grenades, and three mines (Pulse, Deadline, Gas), plus new Stella Montis quests.
- The patch also delivers stability and balance fixes, and Embark has teased a December Cold Snap update with the Flickering Flames event and a snowfall map condition.