The Riftbreaker Open Beta Update, July 9th, 2025

Hello Riftbreakers!

We have just published a new, sizeable patch for The Riftbreaker 2.0 Update Open Beta. We have managed to fix quite a lot of important issues in this one. Check out the changelog to learn what exactly!

The Riftbreaker 2.0 Update Open Beta, July 9th, 2025 Changelog:[

CHANGES

• Explosive mushrooms in the Acidic Plains biome now grant a bit more palladium after defusing.
• Missing loot has been added to many props - flowers, bulbs and roots.
• The Crystal Growth event in the Caverns biome will now grant significantly more loot.
• Destroying the Thornvine in the Fungal Swamp biome will now grant plant biomass as loot.
• More loot has been added to Limestone walls in the Crystal Caverns biome.
• Sent Harvester drones to a reprogramming camp to teach them that neutral creatures are friends, not food. (Harvester drones will no longer hunt down and harvest neutral creatures).
• Camera shake effect has been decreased for the Root Gun and Bouncing Blades.
• Improved the Nanobot Center building by adding lights and other effects to the rotating cylinder at the top.
• Added new local ambient effect for alien wreckage and crater sites in the Metallic Valley.
• More units added to adaptive music system - 36 new bosses and cavernot, higher rating for canceroth alpha and ultra.
• Added a pop-up message when leaving the Multiplayer Lobby screen.
• The game will now mark itself if it is modified or running in multiplayer mode and update the window title to match.
• Enabled the `Disconnect` button when `Waiting for other players` message is shown.
• Added pause options to the multiplayer pause menu.
• Small Canceroth cells can no longer be scanned for samples. Only the central cell counts.
• Underground treasures will no longer be detectable under buildings to prevent issues.
• The game is now going to pause on the victory/defeat screen.
• Added minimap config variables: minimap_min_zoom (0.6), minimap_max_zoom (2.0), minimap_zoom_step (0.1) as requested by Thompson.
• Acid Rain event will now block the ability to build new buildings as earlier.
• Bioanomaly Bosses should now spawn outside the base if it is possible.
• Underground Treasures revealed by the Gravitational Hyper Lens Megastructure can now be hidden by 'Exploration" filter on the Map screen.
• The map name will now be updated for all players after changing it on the Planetary Scanner screen.
• Added protection against some meta-text injections by user inputs in Lobby screen and in-game chat.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from using the research tab if all the Communication Hubs are being upgraded at the same time.
• Fixed many stuttering issues caused by caching errors.
• Fixed the 'Going Green' achievement trigger conditions.
• Fixed 'Tower Ammo Missing' audio announcements.
• Fixed some liquid resource name menu overlaps in various languages.
• Fixed one of the endgame objective names to make it more intuitive.
• Fixed spelling in one of the outro texts.
• Removed unnecessary " " signs in some story texts from DLC 1 and 2.
• Fixed an error that caused weapons to switch uncontrollably when they ran out of ammo.
• Fixed an error that caused double melee weapon attacks to be broken after interacting with objects on the map.
• Fixed an error that caused ranged weapons to aim upwards after interacting with objects on the map.
• Enemy units will no longer respawn after every game load.
• Restored the proper respawn times for all ambient enemy units.
• Fixed a crash when loading a map that has a building construction in progress caused by uninitialized ghost buildings.
• Fixed an issue that caused multiple award icons to appear for all players when completing missions.
• Fixed an issue that caused the voting HUD not to disappear in some instances after the vote is finished.
• Fixed issues with players not being able to respawn after choosing "Continue" on the Victory screen.
• Introduced some fixes for displaying cutscenes.
• Fixed a crash during the Resource Comet impact event.
• Fixed a crash caused by drones.
• Possible fix for wrong unit scaling for ambient enemies.
• Fixed issues that allowed text to exceed the size of the text box on the Lobby screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused some units to skip and teleport short distances in some cases.
• Fixed problems with displaying tooltips on weapon mods in the Inventory screen.
• Fixed headers in the Liquid Decompressor GUI menu.
• Added `PhysicsClientDisableCollisionComponent` to properly handle physics interactions when Vine Walls are cut down.
• Fixed tooltip positions for most buttons.
• Fixed missing parameters in vote popups.
• Fixed missing sender name in chat messages for ANNOUNCEMENT or SYSTEM types.
• Fixed research item tooltip positions & alignment.
• Fixed a problem that caused all Limestonw Walls to be destroyed simultaneously if Gravitational Hyper Lens is active.
• Added chat to the server paused screen.
• Added a button to resume the game from the pause screen for the server.
• All audio announcements should now play correctly during Multiplayer games.
• Fixed an error that caused tooltips on the research screen to display inclomplete information in Multiplayer.
• Fixed tooltip alignment and positions on the Bestiary screen.
• Fixed familiarity rewards tooltip alignment and position o nthe Bestiary screen.
• Fixed tooltip alignment and positions when inspecting weapons equipped in the Mech's right hand.
• Fixed missing chat message sender name in the 'Requested server pause' message.
• Fixed an error that caused the vote results to display incorrectly.
• Introduced some possible fixes for long loading times and deadlocks on the 'Waiting for other players' screen.
• Fixed errors that caused black polygons to appear in many buildings.

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