Hey everybody! Update 0.2.4 has arrived with Lockjaw Prison Part 2 and the all new Lockjaw Mining Holochamber. More juicy details below!

Campaign

• Part 2 of the introductory mission Lockjaw Prison is now live!
  • Make your way through the Lockjaw cell blocks on your way to the asteroid surface hangar
  • Survive a pirate invasion as you head for the escape craft
  • Face off against fully functional Warden bots

Holochamber

• NEW Holochamber map: Lockjaw Mining
  • This Holochamber features enemies introduced in the Lockjaw Mining portion of the campaign

• Boss encounters have been updated
  • Boss fights now periodically spawn enemies
  • Players can now begin boss fights by walking into the red hologram located in the arena
  • Updated Jungle Ruins Boss room layout
• Floor progress gains from completing missions now scales with the current floor by mission type and floor number
  • Successive floors require more points to complete, making higher floors last longer
  • This will incentivize completing more missions on each run

• Experience points awarded by missions now scales with the current floor, with different base values for each mission
• During Collector and Looter missions, enemies will only drop health, ammo, and any other mandatory items. Weapons, credits, and experience points will not be rewarded by enemies during these missions.
• There is a 5-second delay before enemies spawn when entering a new floor
• Drills in Titus Caverns Holochamber are now animated

Enemies

• New enemy: CT-G1 Warden (fully functional)
  • Enemy type: Robotic stage boss
• New enemy: Skorlac Warrior
  • Enemy type: Alien mid-range skirmisher
• New enemy: Cal’lun Goblin
  • Enemy type: Alien melee fighter
• Spyder Queen
  • Queen’s damage is now affected by damage multipliers (difficulty, num of players, HC floor, etc). Because of this, the base damage of her attacks has been adjusted
  • Lightning Strike (Roar Attack): Reduced damage from 300 to 90
  • Static Slash (Stab Attack): Reduced damage of thunderbolts from 200 to 80
  • Discharge Quake (Jump Attack): Reduced damage of thunderbolts from 150 to 70
  • Discharge Quake (Jump Attack): Reduced damage of AoE from 300 to 200
  • Queen’s thunderbolts spawned by Static Slash and Discharge Quake will only do one instance of damage to a given player, per thunderbolt
  • Thunderbolts spawned by the Static Slash attack now have a slight V-shape pattern to make them slightly easier to evade

Weapons

• Damage and crit modifiers based on rarity have been adjusted
  • Rare weapons: Damage multiplier reduced from x4.25 to x4
  • Legendary weapons: Damage multiplier reduced from x5.5 to x5.25
  • Legendary weapons: Crit chance reduced from 12% to 10%
  • (Developer note: Exotic weapon stats are categorized along with Legendary weapons)
  • Added Minigun power weapon (Campaign only)

Characters

• The Assassin has a new character model
  • In-game player model and UI portrait now feature finalized version

UI

• Updated News feed on Main Menu
• Nintendo Switch Controller button swapping option in Controls Menu (A&B swapped, X&Y swapped)
• Updated gamepad control scheme image reference to include camera zoom and emotes
• Added Main Menu Loading screen

General Updates

• Engineer now starts with Assault Rifle
• Added shield damage effect on player character model