Cloudbuilt

Coilworks · Rising Star Games

Released: Mar 20, 2014
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 03 Sep 2026, 22:59 GMT

Updates & announcements

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06 Jan 2025Developer post
Minor Patch
No major announcement this time —just a couple of quick fixes and tweaks following our recent larger update ːdeheadː: (EDIT: Did a minor addition fix and added it to this patch note as to not spam the news feed with minor stuff) Ending Cutscene Desync We sadly had a miss here whe
27 Dec 2024Developer post
Features & Quality Update!
New Features In addition to new language support, we’ve also added two significant improvements for those who continue playing beyond simply beating the game once. New Language Support We’re excited to announce that Cloudbuilt now offers full support for Simplified Chinese, thank
New Features
In addition to new language support, we’ve also added two significant improvements for those who continue playing beyond simply beating the game once.
New Language Support
We’re excited to announce that Cloudbuilt now offers full support for Simplified Chinese, thanks to the incredible help of JACKIEXIA! This update makes the game more accessible to Chinese-speaking players, providing a smoother and more inclusive experience. The new language option applies to menus, interfaces, and story text, making the game easier to navigate and enjoy.
How to Select Your Language

Automatic for New Players On first launch, Cloudbuilt will automatically use your Steam language settings, including Simplified Chinese if that’s your chosen Steam language.
Changing Languages Later If you want to switch languages after your first launch, just go to Options > Game and use the spinner at the bottom of the window to pick your preferred language.
A Call Out to the Community
A huge thank you to JACKIEXIA for making this possible. We’re incredibly grateful for his dedication and time. If you’d like to help translate Cloudbuilt into other languages or refine existing translations, please reach out! Your contributions make the game better for players worldwide, and we truly appreciate your support.
Profiles
You can now have three simultaneous profiles, allowing you to start a new run from the beginning without losing progress on your previous ones. This is especially handy if you’re aiming for additional skins or achievements. Since the game wasn’t originally designed for multiple profiles, it took some workarounds to implement, but in our tests everything appears stable. If you encounter issues, let us know!
Level Select Details View
We’ve revamped the level select overview feature in Competitive Mode:

Expanded Information Besides your overall best ranking like you could see before, you can now also see the ranking you achieved on your current profile.
Life Tracking A new view mode also shows how many lives you’ve earned on each level (per mode/profile), making it easier to track progress for raising the life cap or collecting pickups.
Available In Any View These additional details can be enabled at any time while navigating the level select menu, not just in the fully zoomed-out view.
(As part of this update, we also tweaked some instructions text at the bottom of the Level Select screen to be more useful and less distracting. Additionally we managed to remove a 1 frame lag we had on some UI elements when the camera moves, making the menu feel more responsive.)
Smaller Updates

Asynchronous Texture Loading
We fixed a bug where the asynchronous texture loader sometimes failed to generate a new texture handle when creating texture resources to swap between levels or after certain setting changes. This could lead to reusing an existing handle and overwriting its contents, causing unexpected visuals in various places. Like in UI elements, shadow hatching textures, and similar. We’ve checked the rest of the texture loading code as well for similar issues and everything else looks fine. Apologies to anyone who experienced odd UI or shading since we introduced asynchronous loading a few patches ago.
PhysX Memory Usage
We’ve tweaked PhysX settings to make memory usage more efficient, because we've become aware that most reported crashes occur in PhysX memory allocation spikes. As a 32-bit Windows application, Cloudbuilt (like any 32-bit program) can only use up to about 4 GB of RAM, so sudden, unpredictable allocation spikes in PhysX can push the total over that limit. We suspect it may briefly duplicate internal data while reorganizing memory, but we’re not certain. Sadly PhysX’s exact internal working is a bit out of our control. The new settings should reduce memory usage and spikes, but at a slight performance cost. The performance impact of the changes should however be mostly negligible. We’ve also verified that Cloudbuilt still reliably runs at 60 FPS on a Steam Deck, even in the most heavy physics scenarios.
Leaderboards and Rankings

Reduced Save Data Bloat

To minimize how much runtime memory is used for the save data, we have introduced some changes to the local leader board data.
Local Leaderboard Entry Limits We now limit how many entries are stored in your local leaderboards (this doesn’t affect online leaderboards). If you exceed the entry limit, some older entries are removed from the middle of the list, letting you still keep a record of your best and worst runs.

Regular levels: 50 entries
Custom levels: 30 entries
Reduced Extra Data Previously, extra data (like checkpoint/restart timings) was stored for all entries but never really used. Now, we only keep that extra data for your top times; other entries have it removed.
Steam Name If you’re connected to Steam, your local leaderboard entries now store your actual Steam name instead of just “Player.”
Result Screen Time Accuracy Fixed a discrepancy where the results screen time could be one frame slower than the leaderboard-recorded time, causing slight inconsistencies.
Non-Competitive Mode Rankings Locally stored times for Default Mode now correctly use that mode’s rank times (which differ from Competitive Mode) when displayed in the Leaderboard. We mark the Non-Competitive/Default mode ranks with a bracket and the text scaled to 75% size for clarity.

Minor Stuff

Options Menu
Rearranged some settings so related options are more logically grouped.
Adjusted UI elements to shift horizontal alignment depending on the selected language.
Increased text size in spinner-based settings (e.g., resolution, texture quality, language) for better readability.
Logging Improved the log output to avoid false error messages and provide more useful data.
English Text Fixes Corrected some spelling issues in English. If you notice more, please let us know!
Competitive-Mode Hotkey The toggle for competitive mode in the Level Select screen no longer affects your ranking settings.
Achievement Descriptions Added localized achievement descriptions for Japanese and Chinese, and also refined the English descriptions a bit.
Skin Selection Menu Fixed a minor bug where the default skin’s description wouldn’t always appear.
Save File Migration We streamlined how save files migrate from the old directory (still used when not running Steam). The new system:

Keeps one local save for non-Steam play, and a cloud save for Steam
Avoids repeated migration prompts
Supports the new multi-profile setup

There may be some other small improvements, but this list covers the main changes. As always, we hope you enjoy the patch, and please report any issues or bugs you find. Thanks for your support as always!
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24 Aug 2024Developer post
Patch Notes
This update brings improvements to the game's reliability and user interface clarity. Texture Loading Reliability: We've enhanced both asynchronous and synchronous texture loading systems to better handle file access issues. If a texture fails to load, the game will now detect th
This update brings improvements to the game's reliability and user interface clarity.
Texture Loading Reliability:

We've enhanced both asynchronous and synchronous texture loading systems to better handle file access issues. If a texture fails to load, the game will now detect this and attempt to load it again later in the same frame. These adjustments ensure that textures load more reliably, even in cases where access might be temporarily disrupted.

Rank Overview Display Improvements in Level Selection:

The rank overview display in the level selection screen has been updated for better clarity:

Levels you've cleared but do not have a rank in for the selected challenge mode will now show a faded D rank icon, indicating they are available for that challenge mode.
Cleared levels that do not support the selected challenge mode will show a dark checkmark, helping you quickly identify which levels are completed and which ones are compatible with different modes.

We hope you enjoy the update!ːdeboostː
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19 Aug 2024Developer post
Minor minor fix
Just a very small patch. Fixing an issue where you would always get the default skin selected after restarting the game. If you want some more details, here is an explanation: It turns out I introduced a new bug when I optimized the load speeds in one other other patches. The ski
13 Aug 2024Developer post
Quality and Smaller Feature Patch
We've just rolled out another update focusing on refining the gameplay experience with added features, important fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. It was intended to just address two bugs, but as I saw some streamers playing, I noticed a few additional things I wanted
We've just rolled out another update focusing on refining the gameplay experience with added features, important fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. It was intended to just address two bugs, but as I saw some streamers playing, I noticed a few additional things I wanted to fixːdeheadː The big thing in this patch is the option to turn on rankings in the ‘Non-Competitive Mode’. So everyone who enjoys doing time trials and just wants to find some shortcuts, get a good run, and get scored on that can do that now without worrying about leaderboards, or the other aspects of the competitive mode.
New Features:

Ranking Support in Non-Competitive Mode: We've introduced an optional timer in non-competitive mode. Activating it will now allow you to see your personal rankings. This is designed for players who prefer to set personal challenges and goals without engaging with the competitive leaderboards.
Mid-Level Timer and Ranking Toggle: You can toggle this setting on or off even during a level, making it easier to evaluate and opt in/out. (Unlike the old competitive mode setting for turning off the timer, it takes effect right away.)

Improvements:

Menu Text Adjustments: The text for replaying cleared levels has been updated from "Start" to "Replay Level," making it clearer when revisiting levels. The button has also been adjusted in size and position.
Shield Door and Gate Feedback: We’ve enhanced how shield doors and gates respond when shot, providing more noticeable visual feedback when damaged or turning on/off.

Performance Optimizations:

Faster Hub and Level Select Loading: Load times for the hub and level select screens have been reduced. This was achieved by skipping the initialization of enemy effect objects that are not used in these areas. As these areas are loaded often it's just nice to have them load faster.

Bug Fixes:

Mouse Cursor in Photo Mode: Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor trail would remain visible in photo mode, ensuring a cleaner capture experience.
Aim Assist Camera Fix: Resolved a rare case where a mismatch between the X and Y axes in the aim assist camera could cause math errors, potential division by zero, and abrupt camera snaps in rare scenarios.
Steam Leaderboard Access Issue: Corrected a problem where leaderboards would incorrectly attempt to access data when the game was run without Steam, preventing visual errors and potential crashes in offline play.
Camera Issue with Zero Lives Restart: Fixed a recently introduced bug where the camera could disconnect from the player after trying to respawn with zero lives in competitive mode, which was quite strange (though rarely game-breaking).
Difficulty Animation Display: Fixed an issue where the difficulty animation might not display if you selected a level at the exact moment it was hovered.
Rare Effect Manager Crash: Fixed a rare effect manager crash which could happen when effects were active as a level was unloading, due to resource release order.
That’s it for this time. Hope you enjoy it!ːdeboostː
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04 Aug 2024Developer post
Patch: Fixes, Improvements, and UI Features.
New Features: Mouse Pointer Options: We've added support for both hardware and software mouse pointers. You can now choose from a variety of pointer appearances and adjust the mouse trail length to your liking. The hardware mouse pointer is enabled by default for faster response
New Features:

Mouse Pointer Options: We've added support for both hardware and software mouse pointers. You can now choose from a variety of pointer appearances and adjust the mouse trail length to your liking.

The hardware mouse pointer is enabled by default for faster response times. If you experience any issues, please switch to the software cursor.

UI Improvements:

Options Window: To make room for these new features, we've widened the options window and added a new UI-focused tab.
Reorganized Settings: Settings under the game tab have been moved around for better accessibility, making it easier for you to find the important options.
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Performance Enhancements:

Startup Time: Initially, the changes increased the startup time by 1 second, but we've optimized it further. Starting the game is now approximately 40% faster. On my PC it now loads and starts in 5 sec.
Loading Times: General loading times are also faster as textures now load asynchronously, improving your overall experience.

Bug Fixes:ːcbturretː

Sound Device Bug: We've identified and fixed the real cause of a persistent sound device issue.
Gate Colors: Fixed a bug affecting gate colors in the game.
If you encounter any issues, please let us know. As always, we hope you enjoy!ːdeboostː
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19 Jun 2024Developer post
Quality Update
Level select UI Updates: Fixed an issue with the difficulty indicator which had malfunctioned due to a prior update. Now it’s fixed and more thoroughly tested. Resolved a problem where hovering over a level, releasing, and then re-hovering at a specific timing could cause incorre
Level select UI Updates:

Fixed an issue with the difficulty indicator which had malfunctioned due to a prior update. Now it’s fixed and more thoroughly tested.
Resolved a problem where hovering over a level, releasing, and then re-hovering at a specific timing could cause incorrect UI elements to display.
Corrected a bug that caused leaderboards to display incorrectly for levels that have not been cleared.

Mouse visibility:
I added a small mouse trail in the game when the mouse is visible. This is a countermeasure to a rare issue where some players were unable to see the OS mouse while in full screen. I have only heard and seen of two such cases, so it seems really rare. Though, as it is a pretty tough issue for such players, I wanted to add something simple which can indicate the mouse position even if you don’t see the actual mouse, as it should at least help a bit. (In case people wonder why we use the OS mouse, it’s because it has the best responsiveness. If we sample the mouse and render it as part of the game graphics, it will likely be one frame behind. Which is why we have not been doing these things before.) Currently this mouse trail is not configurable, but I will try to add some settings related to this next weekend/soon.
Settings issue on game reset:
Addressed an issue where settings from a previous session would incorrectly reapply after restarting the game with different challenge mode settings. The settings will now persist correctly in all cases as I make sure to save the settings file after the reset has applied its changes.
Wallrun restart boost fix:
Improved the reliability of the boosted wallrun start from wall slide state, which previously could at very specific circumstances fail and revert to a wall slide immediately. The chance of this was usually quite low, but quite frustrating when it happened. I did a previous attempt to fix this without having time to investigate properly which sadly didn’t resolve it completely. This time a more thorough investigation to understand the full extent of it. The details are a bit involved, but here is the full rundown for those who are interested. If you have too low velocity in a given frame during a horizontal wallrun, it will end and go into the slide state. Which is how it usually should be, except when starting from this slide state. This only became an issue if you had just the right slide velocity and pushed the right directions, as then the velocity impulse you get from starting the boost would be just enough to cancel out the slide speed and land you at almost zero velocity for the first few frames of the wallrun. This then would make the wallrun exist right away. I have now made it so that it recognizes that you are starting from this slide state with a boost, which then gives you a leniency time to build up velocity before the velocity check kicks in. With this fix I have never been able to recreate the bug.
Minor achievement unlock criteria change:
The achievement for collecting all the story logs was set up for the 24 logs of the original game, and didn’t account for the logs you could get from defiance. Meaning players could get a strange and misleading achievement notification when going through the game. It is now updated to reflect this correctly. (This was intentional back in the days when Defiance was not free).
Voice Over Playback Adjustment:
Finally I did another attempt at fixing the voice over when returning to the room. There still seemed to be some players who mid session changed to an alternative sound device and then were unable to hear the VO in the room. But they seemed to be able to hear the VO when manually triggering it from the log window in the room. So I made an attempt to trigger the sound differently now to see if it might help. But as I am unable to reproduce the issue on any of my PCs, I will have to make assumptions and test things this way without knowing for sure. I’m sorry if it were to cause any issues for anyone.
Level Tweak:

The defiance level Expectations got a little bit of clutter removed at the start, which distracted from teaching the power wires setup for the generators.
The defiance level Chains got a small addition and optional section at the sniper dodge area, aimed at trying to give another hint at the ability to dodge the snipers. We have other areas in other levels intended to teach this mechanic, but as players are never required to use it before here, a good portion of players can get a bit stuck on this part. Having this new area right next to where this mechanic is needed I hope will help this a little bit further.
That’s it for this time. Hope you enjoy it!ːdeboostː
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02 May 2024Developer post
Small sound bug fix and UI animation bug
This is a minor patch fixing 2 bugs. Some sounds created from scripts didn't get their sample rate initiated correctly, so when they tried to adjust pitch they got bugged and turned off. This was so far only observed on the stationary charge boost sound, but this fix should addre
This is a minor patch fixing 2 bugs.

Some sounds created from scripts didn't get their sample rate initiated correctly, so when they tried to adjust pitch they got bugged and turned off. This was so far only observed on the stationary charge boost sound, but this fix should address other cases too if there were any.
When changing between challenge mode and non challenge mode on the level select screen through the hot key, the UI could get buggy at times. This should now be better. There might be a small pop, but the resulting state should be bug free.
Thanks for reporting issues when you find them! It's thanks to the reports we can find and fix bugs like this. That's all for this time. Hope you enjoy!
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29 Apr 2024Developer post
Render Style Setting Added
Due to a request, we just added a new setting to alter the render style. We know that some players dislike the cross hatching style and how it applies to the game. As it is a pretty strong effect and applies to large portions of the game, we can understand where they come from. I
14 Apr 2024Developer post
Quality Patch
This patch addressed three bugs, added one minor feature, and one tweak to a level. First of all, the bugs. A bug when switching or using different sound devices was fixed. It appears there were some oversights when optimizing audio playback before. The sound device was not chang
This patch addressed three bugs, added one minor feature, and one tweak to a level. First of all, the bugs.

A bug when switching or using different sound devices was fixed.
It appears there were some oversights when optimizing audio playback before. The sound device was not changed properly for all threads, and some sound resources also got buffered and reused, but did not get their device changed properly either. Making some sounds disappear completely when changing audio devices. There were many cases like this, but some examples include the voice lines played when returning to the room, some UI sounds especially in the result screen, and the player boost and weapon sounds.
One more similar bug, is that the 3D audio device settings only got set up for the default device, so all 3D sounds would disappear or get low volumes when another device was used. I am surprised this was not noticed and fixed before now, as it must have left some of the players with very empty sound space. However, the main player character sounds are not actually 3D, so it would not have been quite that obvious.
There was another bug with the level select menu when using gamepads, where the preview hover view of a level would not activate at times. Leading to some strange visuals when using gamepad controls in that menu.

Feature
As for the minor new feature, it is a dark theme of the in game UI. As I was looking at the UI code for one of the bugs, and had considered selectable UI themes for SCB, I figured I wanted to give it a quick test here. By default it is turned off, but can be selected in the game options.
Level Tweak
Finally, the level tweak was to improve readability in Redeployment. One of the jumps down was easy to miss, as it didn’t really look like something was in that direction. Especially since there were other blocks looking more enticing to the side. We added some panels and two pickups to more clearly signal that there is a path here. Some further logging was also added, so if bugs were to occur, we can get some more data on it. If you have any issues with the game, don’t hesitate to let us know! Enjoy the patch and thanks for playing!
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31 Mar 2024Developer post
Quality Patch
Fixing reliability of leaderboards. This is a small one, but important. There were some issues with the reliability of leaderboards, especially in the custom levels. This update has overhauled some aspects of the leaderboards, making steps retry if they failed, and such things. I
13 Jan 2024Developer post
Smaller Quality Update
Some smaller patches to just improve quality. Achievement for clearing all fog levels were patched to also work on other modes than the competitive “regular” mode. If you have cleared the level in the non competitive mode, it should now also count towards the achievement completi
07 Sep 2023Developer post
Minor patch
Nothing big to see here, the biggest change is that the controller support has been slightly patched in order to adhere to new Steam standards. Now, if you run the game in a level, and disconnect the controller in use, the game should open the pause menu. One tweak to the level s
21 Aug 2023Developer post
Minor level update & visuals
Based on watching a few player streams, and having seen an issue with one particular level for some time now, I finally decided to do a small update on just this level. There are no real new code changes in this update, it is just level updates on two defiance levels, and some up
11 Aug 2023Developer post
Quality Update & Editor Features
I know, I said in the last patch that it would be the final patch for now, but I was wrong. ːcbhunterː This patch however is a bit more limited in scope, mostly addressing bugs and stability of the level editor. This patch started as I was working on a community level, noticing a
I know, I said in the last patch that it would be the final patch for now, but I was wrong. ːcbhunterː This patch however is a bit more limited in scope, mostly addressing bugs and stability of the level editor. This patch started as I was working on a community level, noticing a few small issues. It then grew a bit from these initial issues and includes some fixes for the main game as well. Mostly becauseI was watching a few Cloudbuilt streams as I was working on the patch, and just found some new bugs or things to address. (Special thanks to everyone who streams or shares videos of the game!) Also, with this patch I am also patching the Metroidvania custom level I made way back. It is now significantly updated, and also works to demonstrate a lot of the more recent features in the editor. It's now longer, more decorated, and has more proper bosses, multi stage boss fights, monster closets and other more “scripted events” like things. The Level Workshop Page One more thing, before going into the patch list. The unlock criteria for some extra levels in the main game, like the remix and battle challenge levels have been adjusted again. These levels will now unlock even later in the progression, as it seems they easily created distractions from the main game before. They are intended as extra content, so when they unlock early on, players are still not 100% sure on the game's progression, it ends up being confusing. Along with this change some levels' difficulty rating was also adjusted to more properly indicate what to expect. Now, without further ado, here is the patch list:
Visuals & Audio

Triplanar projected material now has better hatching. The precision error resulting in pixelated artifacts when at large scale is removed.
Water effects are tweaked to not disappear as much with distance, and move a bit better and maintain visibility.
Damage gates have tweaked material, to be more visually distinct from the shield doors, to not just rely on the colors. (Easier to see the difference in motion)
Generators now have an impact sound from bullets, and a sound when they are destroyed which they didn’t have at all before.
When you try to grab onto a wall but fall too fast to get a grip, there is now dust being thrown out from the wall, to make that state a little more impactful.

Bugs

Checkpoint UI could in some cases be visible when it should not, which should happen less often now.
Subtitles could still desync when in the room and listening to story, and accessing the skin menu.
The audio channel used for story clips is now forced to be the VO channel, as there was a bug where it could end up on an undefined channel before. Making the audio settings not take effect as it should.
Picking up a checkpoint had a new bug where it could be picked up multiple times. That recently introduced bug is now fixed.
Fixed a bug with the story screen in the room, where it would not play the audio as expected.

Editor & Custom Levels

New variations of assets were added. Including a bunch of new colored light flares that can be placed in levels for communicating info, or just look interesting. New shield door assets that are using a concrete block like appearance has been added, so if someone wants to create a breakable door that looks like a regular wall or floor, it is now possible.
Weapon init order fix. Bullet types defined in weapons are now initiated before anything else, making it more reliable to define bullets in weapons and then use them in enemies. Before, the enemy might not have been able to find the bullet depending on the order of initiation.
Various enemies have new generator related settings exposed.
Lobbers can now be set to be killable and you can assign a new bullet type to them.
Bomb lobbers can now also be set to be killable.
Generators can now turn on doors, not just off. They can also hide enemies, not just reveal them.
Generators can be set to a different team ID, making them damageable by bombs and other enemies.
Enemies controlled by generators can now be controlled by multiple generators easier, as the generators do not interfere with each other's overlap tests.
Most enemies now have an option to make them save their death state in checkpoints.
Energy and health packs now have settings to control their respawns as well, and enable them to save it in checkpoints.
Watch cameras can be set to see through walls.
Generators have a few more settings and can now in the editor more clearly display what objects they are notifying and being guarded by.
There is now a new menu option to import an old level that you have made, so you can edit and upload it again. It will try to restore the full levels, its settings and the thumbnail from the data uploaded to Steam.
A fix was made for a serious bug where if you were editing a level, then selecting a new level from the menu and saving that new level, you would overwrite the previous level you were editing. Potentially losing a lot of data (it happened to me, but luckily due to the automatic backup system I only lost a bit for work).
Various crash bugs in the editor.
I might have missed some smaller stuff, but this is at least most of it ːcbturretː Hope you enjoy the update, and the updated level! ːdeboostː PS. For anyone wondering, yes, I am also working on Super Cloudbuilt, but as these Cloudbuilt updates can be finished in a much shorter time, and I have been a bit short on time, it has felt rewarding and refreshing to work on these, but with this done now, I really do expect to spend almost all my efforts on Super Cloudbuilt. ːHappyDemiː
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22 Jul 2023Developer post
Minor hot fix fix to the recent patch
For the full patch notes, check here: This hot fix is just addressing a spelling miss in a skin unlock text. If you know any other spelling mistakes, or translation issues, please let us know. Thanks!
21 Jul 2023Developer post
Quality Patch + Yet another new skin
This will be the final patch, for now. We made 2 more than initially anticipated, but there is no harm in more stuff! New Feature This patch improves various crash issues in the editor and two in the game as well, it also adds some new features to the custom levels menu. One of t
This will be the final patch, for now. We made 2 more than initially anticipated, but there is no harm in more stuff!
New Feature
This patch improves various crash issues in the editor and two in the game as well, it also adds some new features to the custom levels menu. One of the more significant ones being the ability to see if there are new updates to levels, new levels, or even if you have lost one of your top spots on a levels leaderboard. All straight from the main menu. If the marker is:

Blue, it means there are subscribed levels with updates on them.
Green, means there are newly updated levels you have yet to subscribe to. (The levels are newer than the last time you opened the subscribe menu.)
Orange, means you have gone down a position on a leaderboard on a level where you previously had a top position when you viewed or played it last time. Top positions means top 3, but if there are many entries on the leaderboard, what is counted as the top will gradually increase to include the top 10 positions if at 50 entries.
Purple, means you have made good progress in the main game, like beating an ending, and you have yet to check out or open the custom levels menu. Just a small nudge to help players remember there is fun to be had in here too. Will never come back once you have opened the menu.
This will hopefully make it easier to know when there are new things to play, and help players who try to stay on top of the leaderboards be aware of changes without having to individually check a hundred different levels.
Viewing Levels
There is also one more thing to help find the hard competition/popular levels; being able to sort levels based on the number of entries they have in the leaderboards. In fact, this will be the default sorting mode, if you have yet to beat 3 custom levels. We figured that when you haven't played much, it doesn't really matter what level was updated recently, so instead of sorting by update date, we try to show you what might be the most interesting content for you to check out first. On that topic, we also added a new subscription option, that just gets all the levels with the tutorial tag on them. Wehope this will help players struggling with the hard content, and help them get better at the game in various ways.
Skin
Last but not least, the newly added skin is meant to encourage players experimenting a bit, and will be rewarded to those who play non curated levels and rate them. This willhopefully help creators unlock the creator related skins easier as well. (The skin in the picture is one of the other new skins, the new new skin is still locked here)
Fixes
When it comes to bug fixes, there are a few.

Finishing a Rush Mode no longer brings you to the hospital room, it takes you back to the main menu, where you came from.
Some looping sounds that had fade-outs on them, like the slide sound, didn't get handled correctly in the recent resource reuse optimization. That should now be fixed.
There was an issue where if you placed a checkpoint down, then took a regular checkpoint and went back to take up the placed checkpoint, it caused a bug. You can no longer pick up an old peaceable checkpoint when you have taken another checkpoint. Just like if you place one checkpoint after placing another. It should be more consistent, and without bugs now.
Fixed some issues where local data for your interactions with custom levels didn't save properly.
A minor access bug which caused a crash on access of some custom levels is now fixed.
Another level index bug causing crashes on reloading custom levels is now fixed.
Fixed various crash issues in the level editor, and fixed texture filtering as well.
There might be a few more fixes, but this should be most of it, or at least all the significant stuff. Hope you enjoy it! ːdeboostː
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14 Jul 2023Developer post
Hot Fixes + One More Skin Again
This is a followup patch on the other recent one here: This is just some hot fixes, patching some bugs in the editor that could cause various crashes. Some other minor tweaks were made for improved stability, and we also fixed support for more through logging, with options to hel
10 Jul 2023Developer post
Two New Unlockable Skins & Patches
EDIT: We followed up this update with some hot fixes, and yet another skin. Check the link at the bottom of the post for more details. We made another update sooner than we had though! This one includes various bug and performance fixes, which players so very kindly have been rep
EDIT: We followed up this update with some hot fixes, and yet another skin. Check the link at the bottom of the post for more details. We made another update sooner than we had though! This one includes various bug and performance fixes, which players so very kindly have been reporting to us. As an additional bonus, we added a new skin with this update! This skin is unlocked by playing custom levels, so we hope you all will enjoy this extra incentive to have some fun with each other's creations! (I will try to create and update a new level in the coming days too! I'm excited to create a level with the Survival tag! ːcbhunterː ) I'm tempted to show the new skin here, but I'll leave that as a surprise for when you unlock it ːdeboostː Here is a rundown of all the patch notes: Skins:

Changed the skin that required your custom level to have a 100 clears, to only require 50 clears.
Added a new skin for playing and rating custom levels. (Should hopefully also make the other skin easier to obtain)
Fixes:

Added support for detecting discrete NVidia GPUs, and prioritize the NVidia GPU when an integrated GPU is present.
Adjusted the Defiance level "Desire" to have 3 fewer enemies in the non competitive mode, as some of them were just a bit too mean, and in the middle of already challenging sections. I also adjusted one of the checkpoint pickup challenges, to be a little less distracting from the main path ahead.
Performance fixes on bomb lobbers and drop mines, and mines. Mostly related to sound playback, but also minimizing unnecessary processing, and spreading out some processing to lead to less strong performance spikes when a lot of bomb lobbers were synchronized.
Bugs:

Fixed a few sound bugs. Most notable an issue where sound streams were reused improperly, leading top new instances stopping existing instances, resulting in strange pops or missing sounds. This also lead to pitch change issues which now is resolved too.
Fixed a bug with VO in the room not stopping when VO was played back on the log menu.
Fixed a bug with subtitles and audio de-sync.
Fixed a place where the toggle challenge mode prompt was displayed incorrectly in the level select menu.
Fixed various issues caused by likely making too many Steam API calls too frequently, leading to many of them failing. Which manifested as unresponsive custom levels menus, skin unlocks, and slow or missing leader boards.
Fixed a bug where custom levels data for last play time and last time opened could be lost between game sessions.
Fixed a material which was using incompatible vertex and fragment shaders, leading to crashes on some integrated Intel GPUs.
Thanks for checking out the update! Followup patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/262390/view/3645151121724033187
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21 Apr 2023Developer post
Smaller Update/Hot Fixes
I have been doing some hot fixes and minor patches over the last two weeks, so this is just a small summary of these for anyone curious to stay up to date. Here is the rundown: Fixed a crash that happened after clearing some of the defiance levels for the first time due to a miss
I have been doing some hot fixes and minor patches over the last two weeks, so this is just a small summary of these for anyone curious to stay up to date. Here is the rundown:

Fixed a crash that happened after clearing some of the defiance levels for the first time due to a miss in how the cut scenes animates their lights.
Fixed a miss where where the "ghost" form of Demi would speak during the intro level like if it was a normal level. Ruining the mood. This was due to how the sound updates were multi threaded with this previous update.
Fixed an issue with the VSync settings would not save and load properly when restarting the game, as it could not read the "off" setting correctly.
Adjusted some texture settings to fix an issue where Japanese fonts disappearing when using the low texture quality setting.
Fixed a crash that could happen when running in to mine lobbers and running the game at higher than 60 fps. There were an issue with how the physics command buffering was handled in those instances. This system also sometimes lead to the mines not spawning, but that is also fixed.
Fixed a miss in the sound update optimization, causing very noticeable pops in audio for one off sounds that were triggered on a far distance. The update cost of sound has increased with this slightly, but as it is on a separate thread, in most cases this is unnoticeable. But in a few rare frames here and there, where the sound processing already was slow, and if you run at very high frame rates, it might have a minor impact.
Improved sound resource management and overlap checks for some effects. Including bullet bounce sounds on enemy shields, pulse fields and gates. Lobbers firing sound, and the lobber impact sounds. These sounds also now does a simple distance check to not even attempt to trigger when well outside hearing range. The overlap checks both improves the sound clarity, and processing, as especially lobbers and bullet bounces could be very very frequent at times, causing the sounds to clip or almost distort. Some of the scripts used to trigger these sound effects were also retired, and integrated directly in the source code. Making it a bit faster and saving a bit of memory.
Drone hive shields now also has a sound effect when bouncing bullets.
Sound pitch distortion fix. Some sound effects used a randomized or shifted pitch, and due to how sound resources were reused with this update, and how this pitch value was sampled, it could distort over time and cause very strange sounds or even make some sounds disappear. Most notably on Arachtoids foot step sounds.
Minor text rendering optimization and stability fix.
Level editor crash fix when adding assets.
Fixed a potential hang in the localization manager/the loading of localized text.
I think that should be about it. At the very least all issues introduced in the performance patch should be addressed, and think pretty much all know issues should be fixed with this.
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Updates & announcements

Ending Cutscene Desync

Window Positioning

Shield Gates

Assisted Gamepad Camera

Drop Mines Physics State

New Features

New Language Support

How to Select Your Language

A Call Out to the Community

Profiles

Level Select Details View

Smaller Updates

Asynchronous Texture Loading

PhysX Memory Usage

Leaderboards and Rankings

Minor Stuff

Texture Loading Reliability:

Rank Overview Display Improvements in Level Selection:

New Features:

Improvements:

Performance Optimizations:

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

UI Improvements:

Performance Enhancements:

Bug Fixes:ːcbturretː

Level select UI Updates:

Mouse visibility:

Settings issue on game reset:

Wallrun restart boost fix:

Minor achievement unlock criteria change:

Voice Over Playback Adjustment:

Level Tweak:

Default, which is like it has always been.

Reduced Hatching, which removes most hatching, but keeps some of it on darker surfaces or shadows only.

No hatching, which removes all of the cross hatching from the rendering.

Feature

Level Tweak

Visualization

Levels

Visuals & Audio

Bugs

Editor & Custom Levels

New Feature

Viewing Levels

Skin

Fixes