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Difficulty Opening-wave intake ramp: damage you take is x0.20 on wave 1, rising by x1.22 per wave to normal on wave 9. EASY MODE is removed. Rewards Weapon waves return on waves 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13, while a weapon slot is free and an unowned base weapon is left. Combat Held fire n
Run Saves Runs autosave at each wave boundary past wave 1. RESUME RUN on the main menu restores your loadout, mods, perks, rerolls, score, and the same wave. SAVE & QUIT in the pause menu suspends the run. Starting a fresh run over a saved one asks you to confirm. Saved runs
Co-Op Infrastructure Squads now run over Steam lobbies, so a squad survives the coordinator going down. The coordinator is still the fallback. A public squad browser reads Steam's lobby list. Every squad refusal says why, and a failed Steam join reports it instead of timing out.
Stability Several rare crashes and hitches during scene loading fixed: co-op guests, materials, decals, lighting, and particle effects could all race the level loader under the right timing. Crash reports now attach the correct log, and dismissing a crash prompt no longer makes i
Save Reliability Every player-data file (career, settings, controls, loadouts, callsign) now saves whole or not at all. A crash, power loss, or two copies of the game saving at once could previously leave a half-written file with no way back. Weapons Beam weapons tweaked: LANCE 5
Boss The Warden's eye is emissive, with a predator slit and a lock reaction when it targets you. Certification Range Station timeouts extended (45s to 90s; GRAPPLE 90s to 150s). Fixed the grapple latching onto empty air at the center of a ring instead of its actual hole. Beams an
Onboarding A new pilot's first session is one choice: SELECT MISSION shows only CAMPAIGN until your first run ends. TRAINING and SANDBOX appear afterward. The first-run HOW TO PLAY pop-up is retired; the certification range teaches instead. Certification Range Fixed a trigger-box
Steam and Party Friends can see when you're joinable and join you directly, mid-run or from cold. The squad announces what just happened to it: joins, leaves, kicks. A kicked pilot is told they were kicked. Enter joins a lobby; the squad shows itself under the button. Rewards Rer
Packaging and integrity Shipped content now loads from packed files rather than loose files, with a signed manifest that gates leaderboard posts from a modified install. Invisible in normal play. Onboarding (CALIBRATION) The drift station now requires drifting through the ring, n
Onboarding (CALIBRATION) - Two full rework rounds: co-op rings, dash-through and speed gates, a black void section, drones, a drift path, and a finale playground. Stations refuse silently if taken out of order, too slow, or without the required dash. Required speed/ability shown
⚠️ Network protocol changed. Everyone has to be on this build to play together. Run end - The roguelike has a win condition. Clear the boss on wave 15 and the run holds for a triumph screen and a vote to CONTINUE ENDLESS. Every connected pilot has to vote, or the host can END RUN
Run end - The game-over screen is three click-through beats with an XP row, and WISHLIST and DISCORD buttons on the last one. - Score converts to XP. Pilots have numeric levels, and a level-up snapshot lands at game over. Menus - The lobby's left column is SELECT MISSION now: CAM
Onboarding - A CALIBRATION range: a digital-void course of stations and skill gates with its own HUD, routed to on first launch. Utility - Two new items take the pool from four to six: HOLO DECOY and REPAIR DRONE. The drone escorts you rather than sitting where you placed it, and
Combat - The grenade gains a shove wider than its blast, tuned to peak outside the kill radius where things are still alive to be moved. COUNT fans the throw. - NOVA reworked: cooldown 4 -> 6s, radius 22 -> 44, force 600 -> 300 with a full-strength plateau out to 36. - L
Waves - Enemies scale after each boss you kill: hull x2 and damage dealt to you x2, per boss, compounding. The roster stops adding enemy types at wave 10, so past the Death Sphere a drafted build was out-scaling the wave and runs stopped resolving. Shields are not scaled. Loot -
Onboarding A first run streams its waves in rather than stepping off a cliff at wave 4. Wave 1 is drones alone. Enemy introductions: the first time a new enemy type appears, the game pauses, shows a card and highlights the actual enemy on screen. Paged cards with BACK / NEXT and
Waves Enemy types have a minimum wave now. The roster arrives across eight waves, ordered by what each type teaches rather than cost. Intro schedule stretches to wave 10. Fixed: five of nine enemies were inaccurately weighted for score/heat gain. LEECH and RAPTOR threat values in
HEAT is visible on the reward screen After each wave you get a heat strip — a segmented bar of how hot you flew it — and the upgrade it earned gets a label. In co-op an ALLY HEAT panel sits under the scoreboard, one bar per teammate: bars only, showing how the squad flew. Heat pa
Pilot profile New PROFILE tab: tier banner, signature run pinned, commendations, per-hull mastery, co-op and deathless counters — seeded from your existing run history, so it won't open at zero. Boost is an instrument Boost was a 2–4px filament on the panel edge while hull and sh
- Boss fight tweaks - Garage bug fixes - Borderless mode fixes