This update refreshes most of the game's screens, rewrites the in-game text so it reads more naturally, and fixes the issues you pointed out in Steam reviews.
UI Refresh
- Menus now dim the world behind them, and windows are solid. Text from the HUD or other windows no longer shows through.
- Main menu: a new logo, a summary of your save under Continue, and a bottom bar with the Feedback and Discord buttons.
- Shop: cleaner item slots with the price on a strip at the bottom. Selecting an item shows its details, stats, and price together.
- Mission board: each mission shows the face of the person who gave it, and reward items are shown as icons.
- Traits: the tree is centered and every node shows its trait name. Fixed a row overlapping the Reimu-only section.
- Inventory: the center now shows one card per squad member with their face, name, two weapon slots, and three armor slots. The quick slot bar sits below the cards.
- Raid results: a new Total line adds up extraction value, bonuses, and mission rewards.
- Dialogue lines have a darker backing so they are easier to read, and the HUD steps aside during field chatter.
- The choice menu when you talk to an NPC is now a small card next to the marker instead of a large box overhead.
- HUD quick slots have been redrawn. Empty slots show a faint icon.
More Natural Text
- About 400 lines of item descriptions, trait descriptions, mission summaries, menu text, and dialogue have been rewritten in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.
- Each character's way of speaking has been kept. In Japanese, each character's speech style is now consistent from line to line.
- Terms that were called by different names in different places now use one name.
Quick Slots
- Dragging an item from a body or crate onto a quick slot now moves it into your bag first. Before, the item stayed in the body and the quick slot did nothing.
- Only items you can use (medical supplies, food and drink, throwables, and fire support) can be assigned. Materials such as scrap are no longer accepted.
- A quick slot stays assigned after you use up the item. The slot dims and shows 0, and it works again as soon as you pick up more.
- If a quick slot cannot be used, the reason now appears above the quick slots, for example when you are out of the item or your health is already full.
- To clear a quick slot, right-click it in the inventory or press X while hovering over it.
Enemies
- Enemies with pistols and other semi-automatic weapons no longer fire at the weapon's maximum rate. They now pull the trigger at a human pace and pause briefly between bursts, so they fire about half as fast as before. Automatic weapons are unchanged.
- Fixed fallen enemies lying on the ground with their arms raised, still moving in an aiming pose.
Thank you for the reviews and detailed reports. Please keep sending your thoughts through the Feedback button on the main menu or on Discord.