# Besiege Besiege: The Splintered Sea is out now! - Product: Besiege (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/besiege) - Vendor: Spiderling Studios - Date: 2024-05-24 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/346010/view/4149582637346213634 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/besiege/releases/2024-05-24-besiege-the-splintered-sea-is-out-now What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — New sound system with audio management - **added** — Soft limiting audio mastering to prevent multiple loud sound effects from becoming overly loud - **added** — New audio sliders in options menu for physics, blocks, ui, and sfx - **added** — New breaking and collision sound effects on various blocks - **added** — New cannon fire sound effects - **added** — New wheel motor sound effects - **added** — New steering hinge and block sound effects - **added** — New flamethrower sound effects - **added** — New piston sound effects - **added** — New propeller sounds - **added** — Ability to mirror half pipes and wood panels - **added** — Optional new performance graph - **changed** — Ballasts now have a maximum mass of 3 instead of 2 - **changed** — Collision sounds are now proportional to impact - **changed** — Center of mass display orb is now red rather than blue - **changed** — Flying block now spins as fast as the speed is set to - **changed** — Fireball model updated - **changed** — Updated fire spread system for more natural spreading - **changed** — FPS display changed to be a rolling average - **fixed** — Fixed performance issues with glass build surfaces ##### Besiege: The Splintered Sea is out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165710/Besiege_The_Splintered_Sea/ We’re celebrating The Splintered Sea’s launch with a biggest ever sale on Besiege, 75% off! ##### The Sound Update Besiege’s free Sound Update is now live! This update brings a new sound system to Besiege, adds a bunch of new sound effects and brings a host of improvements & bug fixes. You can learn more about the Sound changes (https://steamcommunity.com/games/346010/announcements/detail/6792069174998570968) and there’s a full changelog at the bottom of this post. ##### Besiege Supporter Edition https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41069/Besiege_Supporter_Edition/ The Besiege supporter edition is now available to purchase, as a way to offer additional support to Spiderling & our development of Besiege! The bundle includes a mastered album of Besiege’s soundtrack and a unique animated skin for the Source Cube, giving it the appearance of a motorized engine. ##### Share your creations We’re really excited to see all the wacky & wonderful creations you build for The Splintered Sea! Post them on Twitter with the hashtag #BuiltWithBesiege to share with us and the rest of the community. :) ##### Live Stream Our new community manager, Sam, will be doing a [livestream on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/spiderlingstudios) this evening at 18:00 BST (17:00 UTC) where you can watch him play through the new campaign levels and ask questions about the game & expansion! Sam is relatively new to Besiege, so please be kind :) ##### More Information about The Splintered Sea If you’d like to learn more about The Splintered Sea, you can check out a series of posts we made, where we take a deeper dive into its features and some advice on building machines for water: ##### [Feature Overview #1](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/346010/view/4196867261987848999) ##### [Feature Overview #2](https://steamcommunity.com/games/346010/announcements/detail/4176601697642985456) ##### [Feature Overview #3](https://steamcommunity.com/games/346010/announcements/detail/4193490830094173260) ##### [Feature Overview #4](https://steamcommunity.com/games/346010/announcements/detail/4207002269546450133) [](https://discord.gg/a4HaspPs) V1.5 - (21214) Changelog - Fixed some performance issues with the glass build surfaces - Ballasts now have a maximum mass of 3 instead of 2 - Fixed grabbers not being able to grab things if what they held was destroyed - Fixed center of mass display tool being somewhat offset to what actually happens in simulation - Replaced audio management system - Added soft limiting audio mastering so many loud sfx don't get overly loud - In world audio sources now respond to pitch stretching at different time scales - New audio sliders in options menu for physics, blocks, ui, sfx - New breaking and collision sfx on various blocks - Collision sounds are now proportional to impact - New cannon fire sfx - New wheel motor sfx - New steering hinge and block sfx - New flamethrower sfx - New piston sfx - New propeller sounds - Center of mass display orb now is red rather than blue - Flying block actually spins as fast as the speed is set to - Fireball model updated - Fireball now creates a burst of firespread on collision - Updated fire spread system a little to get a more natural spreading and to fix a couple of issues - Better use of space and centering on thumbnails - Fixed damage and fire consistently affecting eachother and joint health - Changed FPS display to be a rolling average, and added optional new performance graph - Center of mass now updates when changing block parameters like mass, and when using undo and redo of blockmapper values - Newly placed shortening blocks now receive mass appropriate to their length - Added ability to mirror half pipes and wood panels - Made spikes and blades less likely to break off so they aren't weaker than a machine of wood - Small update to the appearance of the wooden _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/346010/view/4149582637346213634]_