This hotfix sneaks in a simple 4 screen tutorial at the start of your first mission. It explains the primary objective, your secondary goals, how to dodge attacks and disrupt targeting with melee and when to consider leaving the mission.

The content of these tutorials is based on common feedback, questions and knowledge gaps observed across the forums and Discord so thank you for sharing your feedback and experiences.

The newly added tutorials have been included at the bottom of this post. If you'd like to see a tutorial of this style anywhere else please let me know.

2.0.14

• Added a pre-mission tutorial explaining primary objective, secondary goals, how to dodge attacks and disrupt targeting and when to consider extraction.

• Added extra information to the escalation tool tip explicitly mentioning its effects and how it increases.

• Increased time to rest by 3 hours on Normal difficulty in Zero Front.

• Added an extra replacement part to the starting items for all characters on Normal difficulty.

• Fixed the controller glyphs setting not applying the selection.

• Fixed seeking projectiles on the RH04 Isseleis and GT02 Tsunami not tracking after being added and removed from your mech.

• Fixed being able to stack the ammo efficiency buff of the ranged tune up if it is applied after any cannon is added and remove from the mech.

This hotfix aims to address difficulty related feedback in regards to melee and enemy density. Enemies will now block each other's line of sight and as a result will be unable to fire at a target surrounded by their allies. Additionally, reactor explosions occur slightly later to increase the window to escape on early less mobile builds.

Besides melee targeted adjustments, many difficulty related changes have been made to the Zero Front campaign. Zero Front was likely the hardest campaign due to the massively reduced player agency and rapid pace of the progression. Unlucky drops in one mission could end a campaign without any strong rest activities to make up for it and a significantly harder mission coming next. Additional items have been added to every supply pod to lean further into Zero Front's identity as a fast paced campaign focused on the missions and the overall spawn budget for each mission has been reduced.

2.0.13

• Enemies will block each other's line of sight preventing enemies from increasing their targeting timer and firing while their allies block their view.

• Increased the reactor explosion delay from 1.6 seconds to 2 seconds.

• Reduced base threat level in Zero Front Hard and Extreme difficulty.

• Reduced escalation over mission time on Zero Front Hard and Extreme difficulty.

• Reduced threat level escalation scaling in Zero Front Hard and Extreme difficulty.

• Added an extra random item and an extra ammo stack to each supply pod in Zero Front.

• Reduced the threat scaling per player in multiplayer.

• Reduced the average enemy squad size in multiplayer for player counts above 2 impacting higher player counts more.

• Hard and Extreme exclusive boss phases will be included in New Campaign+ 1 and 2 respectively when playing on Normal.

• Extreme exclusive boss phases will be included in New Campaign+ 1 when playing on Hard.

• Fixed save points being made before players are revived in normal difficulty breaking multiplayer campaign continues.

• Fixed the item details panel getting stuck on if a player removes an inspected item from the squad inventory.

• Fixed being able to apply multiple of the same modifier to parts as the Engineer in Zero Front in farmlands regions.

• Fixed not being able to apply Speed Boost to legs and Damage Boost to arms as the Engineer in Zero Front in farmlands regions.

• Fixed errors occurring when attempting to install a part from a player that disconnected from the session.

• Fixed ammo not going back into a holstered weapon when loading a save.

• Fixed being able to transfer ammunition into the squad depot while another player is using it.