Small quality of life improvement here.

Previously, in the game scene, every time you went into the menus the game would play a small transition animation to pan the camera to the side before the content loaded.

While this was cool at first (at least I thought so) - it broke the pacing after extended play. Particularly if you needed to jump in and out as you macro your Empire.

This animation took about 1 second to pan in and another 1 second to pan out. It meant that you were losing 2 seconds every time you went into the pause menu.

This has been removed completely so the transition is now near instantaneous!

I've also started working on some slightly bigger updates but will keep that for a future announcement. Until then!