• We have an additional "Experimental" Beta available for you. This will have the latest and greatest stuff, as we do it, for people to comment on; help out with issues and what not. But, people do this understanding that it may not be stable, may have unintended new issues (recent example - the helicopter camera breaking).
  This branch is active and available now (though the build is currently the same as the standard build). To access it - right click on the game in your library, select properties, select the "BETAS" tab and select "experimental" from the drop down menu. You may need to reload Steam for it to be available. A picture of this is at the bottom of the post.
  
  
• The standard branch on Steam will get new bulids less frequently. When we do one of these builds, they're going to go through a much more rigourous test process than the Experimental branch builds.

• Initial Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Danish support
  
• Fixes for the button icon replacement throughout the UI
  
• Changes to the level streaming so it's not as annoying running through/around town

NEW FEATURES

• AUDIO: Implemented VO subbus and separate volume control
  
• AUDIO: Tweaked the audio balance
  
• CAMERA: Full 1st and 3rd person inversion options (up/down and left/right) and camera speed settings (ala TY1 implementeation) are now available in the camera options menu.
  
• CONTROLS: Mouse selection of Rangs has been (first pass) updated. Hold "R" to open the rang selection screen, then you can use your mouse to point at the rang you want. Release "R" to select ("R" with default keybindings). More changes will be coming on this, so that you can click the mouse to select the rang, etc.
  
• SAVING: Ported current MKSettings source from TY1, with support for cloud settings. Custom key bindings will need to be recreated, as we've moved where the data is saved.

BUG FIXES

• ART: Updated icons for the pause menu tabs and game totals screen.
  
• ART: Added aquarang model to the game.
  
• AUDIO: Tweaks to logo sounds on main menu and volumes/ranges on rangs
  
• AUDIO: Julius Science Fact popups no longer mute music
  
• AUDIO: Shop music tracks should not get erroneously told to stop playing half a second after they are told to start playing
  
• CRASH: Fix for laser crash in the shadow bunyip (and potentially other places in the game - divide by zero issue)
  
• CRASH: Added system for referencing props that may get unloaded while other objects are still referencing them; to help with some of the random crashes
  
• CAMERA: Camera now maintains its rotation after being manually adjusted for a couple of seconds, before rotating to follow Ty. Result is that the automatic camera rotation does not fight you as you run around.
  
• CONTROLS: Fixes for mortar bunyip controls for controller. Animation of movement now mapped to right stick. Left stick is for zoom. R Trigger now also fires (in addition to X).
  
• GRAPHICS: Fix for alpha fade props for shadows to work on them properly
  
• GRAPHICS: Fix for omni light size on flamerang and frostyrang
  
• GRAPHICS: Fix for popping in water shader
  
• UI: Stopped mouse cursor displaying on the loading screen (Red spinning circle with TY logo screen)
  
• MISC: Added some additional startup logs
  
• MISC: Fix minor memory leak at startup/shutdown.
  
• MISC: Removed some log spam

NEXT MAJOR ITEMS TO BE WORKED ON

• Control icon replacement throughout cutscenes/UI, based off current selected control device (last device used)
  
• Major rework of data file structure to aid in upcoming language changes
  
• Italian, Spanish, Swedish (text only) and Danish (text only) support

BUG FIXES

• ART: Activate icon on signs etc changed to match to TY1 (! icon).
  
• ART: Changes to beach water of the overworld (Souther Rivers) to flatten water, and allow ripples.
  
• AUDIO: Fixes for music ducking erroneously muting the audio when going in/out of pause menu, pausing during a cutscene, etc. Hopefully this resolves the majority of this problem.
  
• CAMERA: Fix for everything going crazy when you try to lasharang rings, and you're running at low framerate.
  
• CAMERA: Fix for an instance of the camera position occasionally getting stuck in a position.
  
• CONTROLS: Changes to controller deadzone calculations to try to aid people having issues with "full speed run" (when holding the left stick to the maximum extent).
  
• CONTROLS: Fix so that you control the aim of the 1st person camera with the mouse, if using keyboard and mouse, and not WASD (default binding) - more control fixes are still to come for 1st person view, but this should be a good start for people.
  
• CONTROLS: mouse control of the mortar bunyip (for aiming) and W/S (for zooming) is now implemented.
  
• CONTROLS: controller controls of first person now work more like what we've done for TY1 (both sticks can aim; R trigger can also throw rangs).
  
• CONTROLS: "JUMP WITH TY" is now enabled by default when you start a new game (unless you disable it on the main menu then start a game, etc).
  
• CRASH FIX: Fix for crash if you hit F1 in the game.
  
• RACES: Some rework of the position calculations that assigns race positions after people have crossed the endpoint - hopefully fixing any "not in the correct place for how well you actually did" issues.
  
• UI: Updated controller binding information images to X360 images.
  
• UI: Copyright screen displayed for less time on boot.

NEW FEATURES

• GAMEPLAY: Made the mortar bunyip fight in the first level easier (dropships have less hitpoints).
  
• UI: You can now skip videos (eg Krome logo) with common buttons on any device (eg left mouse click).

WHAT'S NEXT

• UI: Display appropriate icons in the cutscenes, UI, popups etc depending on your current control device.
  
• CAMERA: Further fixes to the camera, to reimplement some of the changes we did on TY1 for Steam, into the new camera system in TY2.
  
• CAMERA: Implement full 1st person and 3rd person invert options as per TY1.
  
• AUDIO: Implement separate subbus for VO.
  
• LOCALIZATION: Implement Spanish, Italian, Swedish (text only) and Danish (text only).

BUG FIXES

• AUDIO: Hopeful fix for audio SFX either stopping, or having bad sounds continually loop after a period of play
  
• CONTROLS: Fix for "controller removed" message on booting the game without USB control device other than keyboard and mouse attached
  
• CRASH: Fix for crash trying to launch the game with system language set to Danish (or some other languages, more than likely!)
  
• UI: Fix the text on the auto-save UI screen

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