- Added right-stick camera controls: up/down adjusts zoom, while left/right rotates the fixed camera. Updated the official Xbox, PlayStation, Steam Deck and Switch Pro layouts.
- Fixed reversed controller zoom-in and zoom-out actions.
- Improved respawn placement to avoid nearby and approaching hazards. Fixed overlapping asteroids moving onto players at level transitions.
- Teleporting asteroids now stay put when no safe destination is available.
- Lance shots now continue through asteroids that evade by teleporting.
- Added an increasingly rapid shield-ring pulse during the final three seconds of shield supply.
- Fixed pause and resume synchronisation across all players in online multiplayer.
- Improved invite handling: unavailable rooms fail promptly, and full rooms reject new joins while preserving reconnection for returning players.
- Fixed an edge case that could prevent hosts from reclaiming a room after repeated disconnections.
- Improved leaderboard reliability, including score updates and preservation of uploaded replays.
- Strengthened protection against incomplete writes to saves, settings, high scores and lifetime statistics.
- Added validation for corrupt saves, downloaded replays and incoming multiplayer data.
- Reduced overall audio output to provide more headroom and reduce distortion at high volume settings.
- Fixed a startup crash on older supported versions of macOS.
- Hardened secure online connections on Windows when certificate files cannot be created or refreshed.
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- v1.63.0 - enhanced controller support and bug fixes
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