Hypercharge: Unboxed

Toy Soldiers,

ADDED

• Added Russian translation
  
• Added Portuguese translation
  
• Added new Cheat code to the game
  

IMPROVEMENTS

• Huge improvement to loading times on maps, up to a 15x improvement in some instances
  
• Improved buildable's trading card selection menu input
  
• Improved Meanbot AI to be more responsive when losing their current move-goal.
  

FIXES

• Fixed missing tutorial intro music
  
• Fixed players slowing down too much when in water
  
• Fixed water missing collision and FX in Garden map
  
• Fixed localization regression issues from last patch for a few languages.
  
• Fixed many issues and inconsistencies with the English translation.
  

Small Soldiers, gather up!

We greatly appreciate all your support and feedback regarding the new female characters.
This is only the first set of free character content updates for our community. There are multiple female designs in active development and we are working diligently to complete them as soon as possible for your enjoyment. For those who don't enjoy this design, please be patient as these content updates will be delivered throughout the year, and we're sure there will be some characters in the mix that are right up your alley!

ADDED

• Added new Female Character type (Valkyrie)
  
• Added new supporter pack Female Character type (Roadwarrior) for those who purchase (OR already purchased!) the Supporter Pack DLC
  
• Added new Female Character voice lines for new types
  
• Added new Customisation idle animations for some characters.
  

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improvements to UI sounds and navigation
  
• Improvements to UI usability and mouse click interaction in many UI pages
  
• Improvements to various NPC particles when firing
  

CHANGES

• Changed "Operation Alley" entire Wave flow and progression
  
• Changed "Dawn of the Toys" wave progression and flow and is now first and Default map
  
• Changed "Garden of Evil" wave progression, balancing, teleports, jumppads, batteries and credits
  
• Changed "Garden of Evil" map flow on PvP with more jumppads and teleports in far-away areas
  
• Changed how some character skins & materials are unlocked. More are unlocked by default and Female skins/heads are unlockable in their place on the previous levels
  
• Changed repetitiveness of some Max Ammo lines to make them less common
  
• Changed damage of Flamethrower in PvP to be closer to other weapons in DPS
  
• Changed balance of Soldier shot-gunners
  

FIXES

• Fixed some issues with missing buildables when players join a game late
  
• Fixed some areas that cause Glider Planes to crash before entering the map
  
• Fixed many Player & NPC stuck-spots
  
• Fixed some issues with Player movement in low FPS scenarios
  
• Fixed some issues with Meanbots running on the spot but not moving
  
• Fixed many navigation mesh issues around various levels
  
• Fixed some impact camera shakes being too strong
  
• Fixed many localization issues with English language, everything from colour formatting, to matching common phrases and consistent use of ellipses, lots of capitalization changes.
  
• Many more quality of life improvements and fixes that we forgot to mention!
  

SUPPORTER PACK

Hello Small Soldiers!

BALANCE

• Added a method to defuse exploding Spinners and Meanbots; they will no longer explode when killed by fire damage.
  
• The power consumption of most turrets has been reduced; heavy power-consumers now eat up far less power.
  
• Vine traps apply a damage over time effect to enemies, rather than dealing damage instantly.
  
• Health and ammo pickups are now instantly collected in PvP.
  
• Adjusted the item pickup delay time for most player actions in the game.
  
• Hypercores take slightly less damage in Singleplayer.
  

NETWORKING

• Huge overhaul of entire networking system to improve performance, flow and priority of all actors in the world.
  
• Huge improvements to performance for both player hosted and dedicated servers.
  
• Game now uses up to 60% less bandwidth in some scenarios.
  

FIXES

• Fixed Build Spots incorrectly networking and not allowing some players to build.
  
• Fixed issues with Batteries/Battery power de-sync.
  
• Fixed issues with Core Health/Shield not updating fast enough to all clients.
  
• Fixed issues with de-synced Buildables (invisible on some players’ machines)
  
• Fixed map placed buildables state being de-synced for late-joining players.
  
• Fixed some pickup-spawners/collectibles being broken on some servers.
  
• Fixed issues with buildable health values being out of sync on server and client.
  
• Fixed chat box appearing when no message was output.
  
• Server browser fix to not allow joining full servers.
  
• Fixed batteries sometimes having an energy bar while plugged into power node.
  
• Fixed thrown batteries sometimes de-syncing position for some players.
  
• Fixed battery charger networking and charging system.
  
• Fixed battery charger not giving the "Batteries Charged" stat to players.
  
• Fix for plague servers not starting until enough players are in (on official servers)
  
• Fixed stat medals not counting towards lower medals (Platinum now counts towards gold for example)
  
• Fix for some score counting issues on dedicated servers (visual UI ordering issues)
  
• Fixed VSync not applying when pressing Apply in the Options > Video menu.
  
• Fixed the incorrect state of View Distance Quality in the options menu.
  
• Fixed Camera Shake not applying to some shake instances in the engine.
  
• Fixed Weapon Sway/Camera Shake not applying to the player leaning.
  
• Fixed sometimes not being able to repair a buildable on a client machine.
  
• Fixed map stat showing unlockables for locked difficulties.
  
• Fixed NPC soliders and choppers not firing at players when running on a dedicated server.
  
• Fixed players getting locked out of being able to jump when a networking collision bug occurs with jump pads.
  
• Fixed AOE turrets not cleaning up their particles on death.
  
• Fixed input rebinding system to allow overriding of default keys.
  
• Fixed invalid steam detection crashing for some users when steam failed to initialize.
  
• Fixed coins not showing up in the realtime reflection mirror.
  
• Fixed map selection unlocks only showing if there is something to unlock.
  
• Fixed many stuck-spots in Attic, Garage, Garden, KidsBedroom and ToyPalace.
  
• Fixed DLC characters, LOD issues and missing damage flash FX.
  

ADDED

• Added the ability to pause the game for Singleplayer or local-Splitscreen games.
  
• Added damage flash to all buildables, traps and turrets.
  
• Added a highlight notifier to dropped weapons and attachments to make them much easier to find in the world.
  
• Adjusted the minimum framerate system to help reduce stuttering and dynamically lowering of graphics during intense scenes.
  
• Adjusted targeting so NPCs no longer always aim for players heads.
  
• Adjusted turret enemy priority to be based on core/node distance instead of distance to the turret itself.
  
• Adjusted the Machine Gun turrets targeting to avoid the turrets attempting to shoot at enemies behind walls.
  
• Lowered brightness of the spotlight turrets.
  
• Added additional FPS limit options to Performance menu.
  

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