Additions

• Level 7 (Titan Workshop). This is the last SP level that will be released in Early Access.
• Partial support for German, Spanish, French, and Russian. This is very new so it’s probably a little rough. Robot and weapon descriptions and a few other screens have not been translated. If you’re a native speaker of one of these languages, let us know if you see any problems.
• Challenge Mode leaderboards contain additional data: score, favorite weapon and game time. Leaderboards reset and rank is now by score, not kill count.
• Combo score bonus in Challenge Mode for rapid kills.
• Steam Cloud Sync (for pilots, saved games, & local high scores).
• Enhanced the Training Mission.
• Hologuide can now lead the player to enemies & to energy centers.
• Command-line Switch “-VRDisplayOnly” makes it so the game will render *only* in a headset, and not on the monitor.
• New difficulty level: Insane+
• Updated enemy silhouettes on score screens
• PlayStation and Xbox controllers icon support.
• New ‘Restart Level’ option on pause and death menus.

Removals:

• Removed Matcens from the automap
• Removed pairing for axis mapping. (That is, if you map up on the joystick to forward, back won’t automatically be mapped to down.)
• Removed control to ‘Invert Y.’ Instead there’s a quick option inside the Tutorial Mission, and the menu option is still available.
• Removed 3 Achievements.

Tweaks:

• Changed Music tracks for a number of locations.
• Spiced up explosions a bit
• Updated version of Rewired (controller library)
• Updated some robot animations
• Tuned camera shake
• Added Crunch texture compression (shrinks the game size down a bit and shold help low-RAM systems a bit)
• Made Hologuide & Automap more consistent by only referring to them using those names
• Hologuide now default maps to ‘z’ on keyboard when remapping
• Changed the audio for a couple of pickups so that they’re distinct from each other.
• Updated some sign names
• Decreased light from secret items a bit (so they are more secret)
• Tutorial messages will only show up once per pilot now
• Faster fade-off for damage flash
• No more live-forever debris
• Changed Missile Pod pickup model
• Renamed Checkpoint Saves to Autosaves. They are now created only between levels.
• Sticky flares now limited to 10 at once
• Markers & Hologuide now match the HUD color

Game Balancing

• Changed some costs of upgrades in missions
• Cyclone & Reflex use a bit more energy/shot
• Tweaks to Variant Triton & Variant Harpy
• Ammo pickups now scale by difficulty (like Armor & Energy).
• Slightly increased the health of fabricators (robot generators) on higher difficulties.
• Robots spawn a bit slower on CM Infinite.
• Armor/energy powerups give slightly less (20 on Trainee, 10 on Insane).
• Enemies do a bit more damage on Ace & Insane.
• Firing distance of enemies is now affected by difficulty level in CM
• Some CM maps can have more enemies at once (mainly for the more open levels).
• Some anti-kiting changes in CM – enemies that have been around too long may change their AI behavior.
• Changed the enemy loadout in Pipeline.
• Tweaked Armor gain from smash attack enemies.
• Changed center tunnel in Centrifuge a bit.
• Redesigned Centrifuge and Pipeline a bit.
• Insane for CM now unlocked based on score instead of kills.

Fixes:

• Sliders/Throttles will now default with 0 as the middle (so they won’t need to be calibrated to use them to control forward/back movement).
• Corrected a few errors in backers’ names in the credits.
• Fixed an issue with switching controllers.
• Fixed an issue with ‘Apply to All’ in the Controller Axis Settings menu.
• Fixed some glitchy animations and added awaken animations for all robots

Known Problems:

• Drop 8.5 saves will not work, giving an error when attempted to load.
• There are some text overlap issues in languages other than English.
• There are a handful of lines of untranslated text.
• We are looking for incorrect translations/mistranslations, and would appreciate help from multilingual backers.