2nd Beta Preview - Update 10

Dear Beta Testers, we just pushed out a new beta with a whole bunch of improvements and bug fixes, thanks to all your feedback (Quest/Rift #1429, Steam #1428). This update has gotten kind of massive.

A full list of changes since the last beta are below, but I would draw your attention to the new graphics sliders, the new reset/unstuck functionality and the boss, which, for the first time in 3 years has seen a little love and attention. It's overall gameplay balancing has noticeably changed and we'd love feedback.

New Features and Improvements:

• New Bloom Intensity and Effects Intensity sliders. Bloom Intensity controls the baseline "static" bloom strength. Effects Intensity adjusts the visual 'strength' of explosions and any other animated or dynamic effects.
• Player is now reset if they fall out of the map. This should hopefully fix a large source of frustrations.
• New "Unstuck" button in pause menu, which will reset you to the start of the level
• Improved chip and weapon tool tips in homebase
• Extra visual indicator for undiscovered chips
• Increased Render Scale to 1.35 on default settings for Quest 2
• Boss fight improved by fixing broken attack phases, improving visuals contrast and various smaller visual improvements
• New Holster Settings Menu, unifying previously disparate options. Minor cleanups of other smaller inconsistencies. Does anyone use the horizontal offset setting?
• Adjusted shotgun behavior to allow pumping if secondary hand trigger is held. Try it out, it feels quite nice
• Improved the description of various weapons
• Adjusted blaster chip explosions (less harsh now)
• Adjusted revolver muzzle flash to avoid blocking sight lines
• Improved readability of holo map with bloom active
• Toned down glow of class hands
• Balanced bloom on several environment assets
• Performance improvements of certain rooms

Bug Fixes

• Bloom no longer offsets to the right on SteamVR
• Fixed list of chips in home base
• Security bots no longer run out of ammo with certain weapons after one magazine (Grenade Launcher, Burst Handgun, Heavy Submachine Gun)
• Fixed error when destroying an EMP'd turret
• Fixed some chips (Speed Boost II/III, Overload, Overheating) not spawning in levels and unlocking properly when picked up
• Fixed interaction of Blaster Chip with other chips that change bullet types (Firepower, Heavy Ammo, Acid, Mobile Malware)
• Fixed already defeated (and exploded) turrets "respawning" inactive when revisiting a room
• bHaptics suit works again
• Hopefully fixed a possible crash for some users that may have been due to bluetooth permission
• Fixed a number of null reference exception errors that had adverse side effects

Let us know what you think. Share with your friend

Thank you,
The Salmi Games team