A big thank you to everyone who participated in our most recent playtest. We have received a lot of great feedback, more than we can action in the next major update.
To help us focus on development we will be shutting down the public playtest servers and disabling the Steam playtest feature.
At this point in time we don't know when the next major update or playtest will be. When we figure it all out we'll let you know; please keep an eye out for future announcements.
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