Fixing Broken New Player Experience - Playtest Hotfix - January 7th, 2026

RIG Riot Playtest · build 21413525 · published

On SteamNotes only · this build shipped before we watched the app

Hey folks, turns out new players were not being forced into the profile creation menu and that was causing people to load into the wrong stage or not receive upgrades. Very sorry about missing this, I must have skipped validating that things were working for brand new players amidst all the excitement of getting this update out. Entirely my bad

Bug Fixes

- Fixed new players not being brought through Profile Creation

- Increased energy capacity of hyaenid generator so scrapper

players have energy regen at the start