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UPDATE 16! + HOTFIX 2

Hey everyone!

The Steam Summer Sale is here! It is also time for our next big Update!

We ported the game to the next Engine version resulting in a whopping 50-100% performance increase! The porting took longer than we had hoped as we had to find and fix a few nasty bugs.

If you want to help test future Updates or just have an early peak, don’t hesitate to join our discord (link in launcher) and sign into the Beta channel on Steam!

As always we also took the time and improved various other aspects of the game such as the Controller support and balancing. Two new Items and the awesome new Railgun found their way into the Citadel, let us know what you think



CONTROLLER REWORK:

- We have made huge changes to controller support
- Menus now fully work with the controller
- You can now toggle between 2 controller aiming modes by pressing right stick
- Reworked and added 2 seperate working aiming modes
- Added aim assist for controller aiming
- Added proper button names and icons for controller buttons
- Reworked control scheme fully
- You can now recycle items with the controller
- Added aim assist setting
- Added force feedback on shots and damage taken
- Controllers are now automatically detected on game start


PERFORMANCE AND ENGINE CHANGE:

- We have completed the switch to the V2 version of the engine, this mostly means futureproofing and changes under the hood, as well as improved performance on all machines
- Particle performance drastically improved
- Optimized varied areas of the game
- Fixed performance leak introduced last update
- Improved coop Server performance
- Overall performance increased by 50-100%

NEW TUTORIAL:

- The new Tutorial gives a better overview of the game while also being more engaging
- Added Option to replay the Tutorial
- Usable Items now sort automatically (+ New Setting)
- You now automatically get unstuck when stuck in objects
- Prestige visual effects now start when you prestige, stat bonus is still part of 25
- Ammo unlock, Artefact and Class core chest pool drop chance from 0.5 to 1.25% and now
- can drop more than once per run
- Timed chest quest now shows the timer briefly
- Internal dodge chance cooldown from 1.5 to 0.75s
- Dumbfire missiles now have stronger aiming
- Artefacts now always give a selection of 3 and a small chance for 4
- Stat upgrades now give a selection of 3 again at the start at normal strength
- Teleporter screen flash on usage removed, added new ring effect indicating room alert
- Teleporter now triggers after 1.5 seconds of being in range when fully charged
- Added Ping display to FPS display in coop
- Loop now does not reduce below 100 Movement speed
- Jet Boss can no longer spawn pickups in the air
- Questlog made more visible

Terminal Interface improved:

- Normal Terminals are now affected by shop pricing stat
- Normal Terminals are now on a predictable loop that is persistent, not fully random anymore
- Shops: Weapon Shops now hold 4 instead of 3 weapons
- Shops: Red weapons and items now have 60% + (10% per boss kill) * luck chance of being considered for rolling (previously reds had the same chance as blues)
- Red items and weapons now gain half the discount
- Supply crate terminals removed for the moment as they added a lot of complexity for little gain
- Beta Stimulants Terminal now grants 20% critchance and 20% damage for 80 seconds
- Upgrade kit terminal replaced with new weapon + attachment terminal
- Gamble Data terminal removed
- Added gamble item terminal event
- Red Guard Riotshield now has 200 less HP but 50 Health Regeneration
- Stinger Glider now triggers shield + taser with 100% chance at <75% hp instead of 50% chance at <90% hp, so is clearly predictable
- Shotgun Glider / Executioner damage decreased
- Ballbots attacks now deal deal a lot more shield damage and slightly less health damage and are more dangerous now if they get close and have 750 > 800 HP
- Ball Defender bots now have 600 > 900 Shield as they always felt very weak
- Fixed enemy laser bullets not triggering the shield timer - This caused certain things to be much weaker than intended, for example a specialist could regenerate more shield than a elite ranked executioner glider could deal shield damage.

New Legendary Weapon - Liandry PentaBurst-Railgun:

- Fires a crazy 5 shot burst of high damage fully wall penetrating projectiles
- All Special weapons now count as specialist class weapons
- Ripjack now also counts as shotgun
- P33 firing sound changed (Tell us if you prefer that one) + 2% damage
- Ripjack weapon no longer hurts yourself when shooting the hyper blade
- Ion Obliterator max ammo 35>45, deviation reduced by 1° and also counts as sniper
- Mjolnir base ammo now loses damage per enemy hit
- Mjolnir new alternative ammo, gaining damage per hit, starting with lower damage
- Mjolnir no longer gets ammo refunded on non hit, has +1 mag size and more max ammo
- Orb of Lightning now properly shows the lightning bolt between targets and hits 3>4 targets
- Kar 9800K fire rate, damage and recoil reset slightly improved
- Nemesis Prototype ammo now destroys one additional plating on hit
- Hitting enemies now causes a small body shake animation which feels nicer
- Hitting enemies now has an additional impact light effect, colored on energy weapons
- Hitting shielded enemies now has a visual shield effect
- Firing weapons now has a new muzzle smoke effect that can appear
- Firing weapons can now cause a new bullet smoke trail depending on damage
- Firing weapons now has an additional particle effect, most notably on energy weapons
- Bullets now have a new trail effect (The white line)
- Bullets now often show a actual bullet sprite in front of the trail instead of just white line
- Firing and Hitting props now has a new smoke effect that is additive

New Interface shake effect for more impact & according Setting:

- New Item - Z1 Living Bomb
- New Item - Seismic Resonator Sticky Bomb
- Rogue Take aim is currently tied to the Power Bolt item! Power Bolt cooldown 16 > 20
- R-Plating item reworked, now destroys 1 extra plating on hit and chance to gain plating
- Lightning boots bug fixed that locked charges at 10, recharge time made 50% faster
- Gun Drone spawner new icon, 50% increased chance but 10 second cooldown
- Gun Drone spawner drones pickup chance decreased and last 2 seconds longer
- Gun Drones now spawn around the cursor and crash fixed
- Shieldburst item now deals (shield * 1.3) instead of (shield + 200) damage (+ power scaling)
- Doubleshot item duration and cooldown halved
- Splash item changed due to performance reasons, now lower cooldown and duration
- Divine reconstructor now works when hit by non bullets
- Bloodrite Stacking duration fixed
- Artefacts now always have a selection of 3 and a small chance for 4
- Ensiferum artefact now gives 2 upgrade kits in addition
- Cario artefact now gives 5% dodge chance as addition
- Hobb-s artefact tooltip fixed (Now states 125% ricochet bonus damage and 20% chance)
- Pu-55 artefact has a new icon

FIXED VARIED ISSUES + Varied unlisted things

Known issues:

- Muzzle smoke appearing at wrong places
- You can move your torso in the tutorial when the screen is freezed
- Item sorting setting not turning off
- Sprites of shops changing in crystal floor


24.06.2018 HOTFIX 2 Live!

Localization should now work again