• New Unique SMG: Paresthesia. Hit an enemy with 20 pink needles to trigger a large explosion
  
• Charge.bats now telegraph their charges with a targeting beam
  
• Heal.bats now stay closer to the player and don't get distracted by full health friendlies
  
• Low HP enemies now show partially derezzing (helps make them easier to target!)
  
• Chance to Poison affix values nerfed to align this with other affixes
  
• Fixed a crucial multiplayer issue where guns wouldn't fire
  
• Fixed buff display UI text being too long sometimes
  
• Fixed cluster grenade child grenades not inheriting affixes properly
  
• Fixed tracking for limited enemy types from one server (like MOS or turrets)
  
• (Back end preparations for information superhighway and new ranged flying enemy)
  

• New Damage Type: Poison. Poison is NONLETHAL! Poison damage guns don't do damage on hit, instead always Poisoning the target for 3x the hit damage over 5s
  
• New Affix: Chance To Poison. For non-poison damage base guns, this deals 1.5x hit damage over 5 seconds (nonlethal)
  
• New Affix: Poison Damage percent (increases poison damage done)
  
• New Affix: Damage Type Conversion. Can convert any gun to any non-normal damage type
  
• New Unique: Replay. The first shot of this SMG is a tracing Railgun. If it hits an enemy, all subsequent projectiles will strongly home in on that enemy.
  
• New Unlockable Talent: XP Gained! Up to +20%!
  
• New modular payload: Poison Needle
  
• Eggs now spawn 3 Nanospiders instead of one Webcrawler
  
• Payload/Treasure Crawler world events now happen more often
  
• Updated enemy color overriding system so that it falls back properly when one color wears off but another is in place.
  
• Updated the star color over the Volcano
  
• Fixed ambushes stacking improperly in the honeypot area
  
• Fixed EMPs not scaling with damage affixes
  
• Fixed Grappling Hooks being invisible
  

• New World Event: Payload - Deliver this gitsfish to the site safely to earn some loot. He'll stop moving if you get too far away, or if enemies are nearby!
  
• New Unlockable: Pulse Pack - Two affixes listed below.
  
• New Affix: Every Third Shot, pulse additional N times.
  
• New Affix: Pulse Length Reduction
  
• The hidden volcano teleporter is now a Lot easier to find (to teach people that there are several shortcut teleporters to find)
  
• Added a two-pulse hand cannon archetype
  
• Treasure Crawlers have higher HP at higher level
  
• Treasure Crawlers now color/icon match the (first) loot they're carrying
  
• Increased time between successful world events from ~1.5 to ~4 minutes
  
• Knocked back/falling enemies should be able to find the ground better and not get stuck
  
• Modding: Added no recoil affix (does not drop normally since it makes guns feel less powerful, but it's useful for testing)
  
• Treasure Crawlers now check more thoroughly in each area for server matches (and so the event should show up more often)
  
• Improved the hack meter info during the act 2 finale boss fight
  
• Bouncyballs are now less flashy right when they spawn
  
• Fixed a navigation issue in the Forest
  
• Small improvements to Volcano glow
  
• Slight performance improvements
  

• New Super Duper Recall: Resynchronizer, which lets you manually place a Recall point and come back to it within 5 seconds
  
• New Super Duper Teleport: Rubberbanding, which Recalls you back to your teleport position after two seconds.
  
• All player Lasguns have had their graphics updated
  
• All Recalls now trigger Telefrag explosions
  
• Explosive weapons now have an extra tooltip explaining that they're explosive, showing their explosion radius, and that they don't pierce/chain/headshot.
  
• The Full stats UI now shows explosion radius (after bonus radius affix calculation)
  
• The Eagle Eye perk can no longer activate while you are on the ground, saving the cooldown for when you actually need it.
  
• Impact Grenades (from grenade launchers) now have a wider hitbox
  
• Scorpion aiming lasers now only use yellow/orange colors to help differentiate them from slowing turret lasers
  
• Small performance improvements for large numbers of projectiles
  
• Small updates aimed at preventing enemies from snapping to positions inside objects
  
• Treasure Crawlers can now go to neighboring sectors (which should make them show up more often)
  
• Updated Fire Pool On End affix to have more damage
  
• Updated several fire pool affixes to actually have a chance to burn now
  
• Reworked World Event timers so that they can try again sooner if they fail to start
  
• Loot Find now drops with a higher minimum value to add more impact
  
• The Volcanyon fort server now only has one level to help with AI nav
  
• Fixed the Unstoppable buffer preventing any other buffs from applying (even friendly ones)
  
• Fixed Tracer item sometimes targeting invalid targets like explosive barrels
  
• Yoyo projectiles fixes (target position, return miss, incorrect pierce override)
  
• Fixed a rare bug where projectile death particles would play in the wrong position
  
• Fixed Speed Daemon minion buff not resetting properly
  
• Fixed Aimbot projectiles piercing incorrectly
  

• New World Event: Treasure Crawlers. This golden webcrawler will try to deliver its package from one server to another nearby. Kill it first to earn a lot of loot, but watch out for its defenses at higher levels!
  
• New Item: Tracer, which focuses all your minions on a target (and also increases its damage taken, and lets you see it through walls!)
  
• New Item: Taunt, an EMP variant which causes all nearby enemies to attack you for a while
  
• New Item: Friend Exploder, which sacrifices your target minion to deal a lot of AOE damage (Unlockable)
  
• New Item: Recall, which returns you to where you were 3 seconds ago (Unlockable)
  
• New Unique: Complete Recall, which also returns your health to where it was too
  
• New Unique: Page Swap, a decoy which can be reactivated to swap places with it
  
• New Affix: Movement Cooldown Speed (Global) - reduces cooldown times for movement items only, like Teleports and Recalls.
  
• New Affix: Chance to Trace, which increases damage taken and lets you see the enemy through walls
  
• New Affix: Chance to Taunt, which will cause the target to attack you for a while
  
• Lots of optimization aimed specifically at allowing more projectiles on screen at once
  

• New Item: Networks. When activated, Networks temporarily add constant laser beams between each of your minions. Damage scales a LOT depending on the number of minions you have. Range of each beam is ~25 max. Unlockable.
  
• New Item: Speed Daemon. When activated, it buffs your minions' Attack and Movement speed drastically for a short time. Unlockable.
  
• The Affix Reroll and Item Upgrade machines now show the complete list of affixes you can get for the item, including the chances of each affix!
  
• All minions can now drop with Attack Speed and are affected by it
  
• Critical Defragmentation now only gives 4% per stack, making the total added crit +20 instead of +25
  
• Lasbreakers now use purple beams/icons to make it easier to differentiate from incoming Scorporation targeting lasers
  
• Aimbots now fire in a two second burst no matter how many projectiles they have (small nerf for low level, big buff for high level)
  
• Scorporations and Aimbots now fire faster at higher level
  
• Fixed a bug where the Slowed debuff actually made enemies attack faster instead of slower
  

• New Perk: Critical Defragmentation: Kills with Grenades give you +5% Crit Chance for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
  
• New Perk: Left Shift: Critical hits Double the Chance to X affixes chance to activate.
  
• New Affix: On Hack Recharge: recharges all cooldown/charges on an item after you complete a hack successfully
  
• Grappling hooks now accelerate slightly over their duration
  
• Shredder executables now have a little longer range, but falloff damage like Shotguns
  
• Photosensitive Mode now makes the ground way less bright to make it more comfortable
  
• Updated saving algorithm to create a temp file, so if it gets interrupted during saving, it won't delete the old save.
  
• Made E-Snail barrel hitbox size a little bigger
  
• Encrypted hack icebreakers now take only 10% damage from zones, lava, etc
  
• Talus shooting gallery events now drop Talus gear
  
• Total Move Speed now shows in the full stats UI
  
• Weak point hit sound +50% volume
  
• Fixed a bug where movement speed wasn't updating quickly enough
  
• Fixed quest item rewards not scaling with difficulty settings
  
• Fixed an issue where Encrypted hack icebreakers spawned in inappropriate areas on linked servers
  
• Fixed grenades/missiles not playing their explosion particles if they hit a target directly
  
• Reinforced a few walls/corners in the Volcano
  

• Added a new Talus-branded shooting gallery with two challenge levels to the Arcade (look for the sparkles!)
  
• Improved the Chain after Kill perk from Chain +1 to Chain +3
  
• World Events now try to find servers closer to you
  
• Respawning will now spawn you in the most recent sector you were in
• for this difficulty setting*. This will initially reset everyone's spawn point to the startup valley, but it'll work properly when logging back in.
  
• The Yo-Yo projectile affix can now combine properly with Chain/Ricochet for multiple hits
  
• Added Javelin, Yoyo, Circuit, and Sine projectile movement types to the drop pool at level 40+, but very rare.
  
• Fixed a Teleport/Dash/Grapple issue where it wouldn't allow short range teleports after correcting for an angled floor
  
• Fixed a Grapple issue where it would cancel early if it was aimed straight up
  
• Fixed a bug where Accuracy, Crit%/x, and Attack Speed were not marked as Weapon Local
  
• Fixed a rare issue causing loading to fail (couldn't find a random server for a quest). If this ever happens again, just try logging back in.
  
• Fixed an issue where grenades/zones would (re)spawn as the wrong size after a while
  
• Fixed the Brute Force exploit not dealing damage at all. And nerfed the damage it was supposed to do, because wow it was more than I thought. Still is super strong.
  
• Fixed the Volcano end boss arena not letting people out
  
• Fixed Ride the Glide achievement unlocking too early and only when on the ground
  
• Minor AI navigation fixes
  
• Started working on the Sol Fusion tower, but it's definitely not open for business yet.
  

• Added a new mission in Act 2
  
• Updates to mission level balancing
  
• Added new mission rewards (including a new super duper!)
  
• Added more Anima chat messages to Act 2
  
• Lots of Inbox/Mission/Waypoint fixes
  
• Fixed an issue where you'd perform a short hitching mantle at the top of a ramp
  
• Fixed a few location specific navigation bugs
  
• Fixed an issue where jumps wouldn't come off cooldown after returning to the main menu
  
• Removed No-hit servers from the random drop pool. They'll return as specific servers later
  
• Updated Yo-yo projectile tooltip to mention they always pierce
  
• Improved Exploit drop rate
  
• Created a separate gambling choice cube for EMP+Decoy+Sentry, so now the executable choice cube only has executables and exploits
  
• Fixed an issue causing Unlockable items dropping or being in shops before they're unlocked
  
• Improved damage of Jash's 10 Pounder
  
• Fixed the explosion particles not showing up for the Brute Force exploit
  

Highlights

• Act 2 released! A new boss fight, new areas, and a ton of new missons just waiting for the right runner to try them!
  
• Recruit a team to break into the Quarkus Megacorp Tower and get payback
  
• Tunnel through the Firewall to discover the secrets of the Kinetic Temple
  
• Tons of new abilities, perks, and items to unlock, like Sentries, Buffers, and the Portable Cache.
  
• Improved crafting and gambling
  
• Added a world map to help you get around
  
• More enemy types, enemy powerups, and server security types!
  
• Tons of performance improvements, bug fixes, and balancing