Hello Hitchhiker. Closed Beta Playtest #2 has begun!
Since the last Beta, we've been going over your feedback, your streams and videos (yes, all of them) and everything you've written online that we can find. We're massively appreciative of your feedback on our Discord server and online.
This beta will run between now and December 13th.
For this playtest, we've made a boatload of optimizations and minor bugfixes, honestly way too many to list off. If you're playing on a mid-range machine or better, you may not notice much of a difference in the way the game runs (it was already pretty good!), but players on lower-spec machines and Steam Deck should have a smoother experience.
Enough about behind-the-scenes stuff though, onto the patchnotes! Items in BOLD are changes as a direct result of user feedback.
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- A new boss at the end of Naira’s path.
- Kera’s Energy Weapons are getting buffed.
- Jabs and Charge Attacks are much stronger than before.
- Armored enemies without a shield no longer completely Block attacks.
- More dialogue! A little extra story this time around.
- The Beetle enemy in The Wastes can now be attacked from behind.
- Ewer City has a new, heavily optimized background.
- There are now video settings and options in the settings menu.
- Guaranteed Primary and Energy weapon chests at the start of the second biomes
- This is a temporary solution for players sometimes having underleveled equipment while we re-evaluate how we handle enemy and weapon scaling
- 10% health restores are replaced with 35% restores
- Changed the unlock order in the Psychic Augments menu
- Permanent health upgrades are now in the first set of unlocks
- Some progression:
- Players will start with only Altara unlocked.
- Kera is unlocked by defeating Altara's boss or after 6 deaths.
- Naira is unlocked by defeating Kera's boss or after 12 deaths.