Episodes

Episodes are periodical Mush content updates released by Motion Twin. This article will try to keep track of any changes made to the game between episodes.

Episode I

As Mush started as a French-language game, an Episode I never existed on the international, English version.

Episode II: Prologue

The Prologue was Mush's closed beta period which launched on 19th August 2013. The earliest beta testers were invited directly by Epoq, the game's administrator, with limited-use beta keys being released on Facebook and Twitter as time went on.

Initial voyages were extremely limited in functionality. Motion Twin wanted to make sure that a particular module was well tested before releasing new modules for the crews to use and experiment with.

Module release schedule:

19 Aug 2013

Navigation/AstroTerminal

22 Aug 2013

Research Lab

23 Aug 2013

Nexus

27 Aug 2013

Communications Center

02 Sep 2013

PILGRED

04 Sep 2013

Expeditions

16 Sep 2013

All remaining modules

Episode III: The Dawn

This episode marks the public release of Mush and launched on 5th November 2013.

Episode IV: New Generations

The current, ongoing episode of Mush which launched on 24th April 2014. The general theme is the survival of the human race, with the introduction of two new characters with traits focused on doing the thing as well as the Pregnant status. A number of bug fixes, new skills and solutions to age-old problems has also been introduced.

Character changes

More information on the new characters, their traits and skills can be found in their respective articles.

• New character: Andie Graham

• New character: Derek Hogan

• Roland: is now gained for every 2 killed Hunters. (Before: for each Hunter)

Skill changes

• New Andie skills: 2 Devotion, 3 Polyvalent, 4 Confident, 5 Expert
• New Derek skills: 4 Motivator, 5 Hygienist

• New Mush skills: 5 Green Jelly, Defacer

• New Wrestler and Solid action: 2 Kick Out !
  • Forces the target character to leave the room in a random direction.
  • Costs 1 less for Inactive targets.
  • Not Aggressive, improving interaction with Ian's Pacifist and Chao's Crazy Eye. Bug: Still asks for confirmation of an aggressive action.
  • As a result of this, Wrestler and Solid are now kept as Mush, as the Mush test would be too easy otherwise.

• Bacteriophiliac: Action cost adjusted.

• Nightmarish: Action cost adjusted.

• Firefighter: No longer needs the Extinguisher to extinguish fires.

• Various fixes to skill tooltips across the board.

Status changes

• New status: Pregnant
  • Gained by female characters (not Andie) when doing the thing. 8% chance.
  • Gives an immediate bonus of 8 .
  • If a Pregnant character dies, the entire crew loses more .
  • If the father injects a Spore when the baby is made, the mother is affected by an extra Spore.
  • Gives various diseases like Slight Nausea.

• New status: Highly Inactive

  "You're highly inactive, not having connected in the past 48 hours. You are a punishment to your crew who has a right to dispose of you."

  • Violence against Highly Inactive players is not sanctionable

• Inactive:
  • Now prevents the character from gaining .
  • No longer lost when the character is attacked.

Item changes

• Items can no longer be hidden before the Mush appear.

• Mush Sample: Now spawns on the ship when the Mush appear.

• Myco-Alarm: Now also detects the special actions of Fungal Kitchen, Trapper, Radio Pirate, Nightmarish, Bacteriophiliac and Transfer, as well as Infectious Caress (on Schrödinger) and the act of mutating into a Berzerker.
  • To balance this, only 4 MycoAlarms will be produced from the research.

• Confirm: Phuxx has been renamed to Phuxx.

Miscellaneous changes

• New feature: Alien merchant ships which allow the trading of items and even characters (for instance, selling off Grand Inactif players with no penalty).
  • A merchant always spawns on Day 0.
  • Merchants sometimes appear in place of Hunters.
  • Interaction happens via the Comms Console.
  • Being sold is not considered a death in terms of morale loss and Distinctions.

• The chat tabs now update in real time without requiring a refresh.

• Chat history scrolling seems to have been fixed.

• Various other bug fixes.