10/31/2026 Update (Garage Bays, MOBA Kits, Formation)

Quantum Covenant Playtest · published · build 26351102

Garage Bays

  • SANCTUARY has four garage bays behind the arrival. Stop in one to change class, SIGNAL and PAINT in flight.

  • The bay cradles your Ark, lifts and turns it, and a scanner sweeps each change.

  • SIGNAL and PAINT change on your Ark at once, for everyone.

  • Your bay lights up in your color with your callsign on its rim.

  • The pause menu's CLASS row is gone, since the bays do it now.

Formation

  • FORMATION is the first co-op-only protocol. Two pilots within 25 u, both over 20 u/s for 1 s, link up.

  • While linked, both take up to 30% less damage the faster the slower one flies, or 40% when both hold the card.

  • The link breaks past 40 u or after 1.5 s too slow, and a chip by the damage slab shows it

Prototypes

  • The Serpent is a flying body you can ride, now 25 links long on a path that winds across the wrap seam.

  • WRAP TEST flies from above with the top-down camera, every pilot in one shared ship.

  • In top-down, the aim locks onto the enemy under the cursor and EVENT HORIZON lands on it.

  • WRAP HILLS TOP-DOWN shows the grass from straight above.

  • SPIRE has five tiers, spinning arms and a cap on swing speed.

Weapons

  • On the mod bench, DISCARD throws a fitted mod away, and a new mod no longer overwrites one.

  • BLAST RADIUS and PAYLOAD MOMENTUM grow the whole explosion, not just its ring.

  • SHIELD DOME sits flat on the ground under you instead of copying your ship's tilt.

Enemies

  • The SHIELD GENERATOR joins ENDLESS from wave 16.

  • Each Death Sphere after the first summons more adds: half again as many per boss killed.

  • A resumed run remembers how many bosses died, so its next Death Sphere is as tough as it should be.

Co-op

  • Click another pilot's name on a lobby card or the post-run board to ADD FRIEND on Steam.

  • In SANCTUARY, the CONDUIT RACE, PVP and MOBA domes and the sealed arch read LOCKED unless the host has test access.

Balance

  • Past wave 15, your ult core costs more each wave, and ult cells are a fixed size.

  • Tank-only waves at their cap hold their refills instead of wasting them.

HUD and Menus

  • Arrow keys and Enter drive every menu, and Space confirms like A.

  • A key held into a menu from combat presses nothing.

  • Holding the right stick at its edge turns faster, up to 1.6 times.

  • Pad button prompts are 40% bigger and follow UI SCALE.

  • The FAILSAFE tell is an oval hex vignette, shown for FAILSAFE only.

  • The crosshair always matches the view, even riding something that moves

Fixes

  • A beam whose shooter died the same instant no longer crashes the host.

  • The camera never sinks under your hull, and a top you cannot ride no longer collapses it.

  • The SCREEN SHAKE tooltip shows its real text.

  • The MOBA dome spells MOBA.