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The melee expansion focuses on fleshing out the melee capabilities of all the weapons. The firearms now have a tertiary bash and other melee weapons now have a secondary attack if they didn't already. The player can now also make unarmed strikes in the unfortunate event of having no tools on hand.

A few QoL changes have been added such as one-click sandbox and a pretty lobby background.

1.5.6

Major Features

• Replaced the blue background of the lobby with a map view.
• You can pitch down in addition to spinning background ships in the lobby.
• Added an unarmed strike with 20 damage and -25 armor penetration to help wittle down spawn campers if no tools are immediately available.

Minor Features

• Improved the smoke trail effect of carbine/revolver shots.
• Added a secondary lunge to the boarding knife that does 55 damage but a long swing time and a thinner hitbox.
• Reduced the range of the primary boarding knife attack.
• Added an offhand left hook to the boarding axe.
• Added an offhand melee to the revolver and carbine useable with F, labeled "Tertiary Attack" in keybindings. The revolver and carbine will use an alternate animation if equiped with a bayonet. Other players will see the default animation as the bayonet stabs aren't very visible in third person.
• Improved the grappling hook's ability to counter momentum from a previous hook.
• Increased hammer melee damage to 30 from 20.
• Added a hitmarker for damaging allied airships and players.
• Added a hitmarker for repairing parts and healing players.
• Sandbox starts immediately when entering.
• Typing /sandbox into chat enters sandbox ignoring ship requirements. This is nondefault to prevent new players from spending time testing and building a ship that violates requirements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a movement issue allowing players to walk on water.
• The grappling hook would sometimes fire twice.
• Fixed a bug that deletes challenge progress if the game closes improperly from the hangar.
• Dying while falling would deal falling damage on respawn.