????New Handheld Optimizations 

✨Handheld Setting Autodetection

• [p]On first launch, the game will autodetect the optimal settings for handheld devices. Handheld First Launch Auto Detection is specific to handhelds. Players may further customize the settings based on personal preferences[/p][/*]
• [p]Settings are now stored per device so players may customize their play experience on a per device basis[/p][/*]

????Handheld Performance

• [p]General performance improvements specific to handhelds[/p][/*]
• [p]Added advanced optimization settings specifically for handhelds[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized SFX and VFX specifically for handhelds (Changes do not affect Consoles or PC)[/p][/*]
• [p]Handheld benchmark mode[/p][/*]

????Handheld Device Specifications

• [p]Steam Deck : 720p @ ~30FPS[/p][/*]
• [p]Z1 Devices : 720p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally)[/p][/*]
• [p]Z1E Devices : 1080p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go)[/p][/*]
• [p]Z2A Devices : 720p @ ~30FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally)[/p][/*]
• [p]Z2E Devices : 1080p @ ~60FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally X)[/p][/*]

✌️Handheld General

• [p]Added QOL input improvements when handhelds are docked to a stand[/p][/*]
• [p]Added controller detection on handhelds for wireless and wired external controllers[/p][/*]

????General Bug Fixes and Improvements (All Platforms)

????Enemy AI

• [p]Fixed an issue with Sentinel civilians‘ heads being out of place in Hebeth, Siege – Part 1, and Sentinel Command Station[/p][/*]
• [p]Resolved a rare crash if the player used the shield throw on the Plasma Shield Soldiers with the “Power Surge” shield upgrade[/p][/*]

• [p]Visuals for area denial when Prince Ahzrak blood pillars expire now render correctly[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a rare crash when using the BFC during the beginning of each phase of the enhanced Prince Ahzrak boss fight[/p][/*]

????Gameplay

????Weapon Balance

• [p]Fixed an issue where death and damage stats were not being registered properly in the case of multiple damage instances on the same frame as an entity death[/p][list]
• [p]This change also addressed a bug where the Accelerator mastery challenge wasn’t being incremented properly[/p][/*]

???? Levels

⚔Combat Encounter Updates

• [p]Fixed an issue where reloading checkpoints after the gold and sentinel shrine tutorial could cause objectives to vanish until level restart or transition[/p][/*]

• [p]Mancubus no longer respawns during the Vagary Champion boss fight[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed Hell Knight and Stalker Imp reinforcements from Mancubus Leader spawn wave in the burning tree fight[/p][/*]

• [p]Hell Knights, Stalker Imps, and Imps no longer respawn during the Vagary fights throughout the battlefield[/p][/*]
• [p]The wolf statue ruby will no longer get stuck behind a red energy gate if it is not collected after breaking the wolf statues and reloading the south gore portal checkpoint[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed an issue where an errant Titan could appear in the courtyard when reloading the checkpoint [/p][/*]

• [p]Arachnotron no longer respawns during Agaddon Hunter fight at the end of heart sandbox section[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a potential crash when loading a checkpoint after dying in the Agaddon Hunter fight in the Ancestral Courtyard[/p][/*]

• [p]Chaingun Arachnotron no longer respawns during final encounter of the cathedral stasis emitter section[/p][/*]

• [p]Arachnotron and Cacodemon no longer respawn during the shipwreck morale fight[/p][/*]
• [p]The melee pickups now appear correctly on the secret boat “Hell Knight rush” encounter[/p][/*]

• [p]The armored Arachnotron that spawns after the Acolyte dies no longer respawns during first morale fight[/p][/*]

• [p]Arachnotron no longer respawns during buffed Agaddon Hunter encounter[/p][/*]

????The Ripatorium

• [p]Vagaries should now only spawn in open areas where they can move around[/p][/*]

????Audio

• [p]Fixed an issue where the Shield Saw grinding SFX could stop playing if the player opened the Dossier while the shield is in a power node and then returns to gameplay[/p][/*]

????UI

• [p]Fixed an issue where second codex does not register progress if mission select was entered before completion or collected via mission select[/p][/*]
• [p]Resolved an issue with the tutorial in the Ripatorium menu always appearing when entering the menu regardless of whether or not the Player had already played the mode[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a bug where opening the Dossier the frame after breaking a metal lock or using any switch could cause the trigger to fail and block progression[/p][/*]
• [p]Addressed a potential crash when Alt-Tabbing away and returning to the game when the game is at a load screen[/p][/*]

????VFX

• [p]Corrected an issue where picking up a toy could cause the shield or equipped weapon visual effects to appear during the animation[/p][/*]
• [p]Stray purple lines will no longer appear when overloading a Cacodemon using the Cycler[/p][/*]
• [p]Addresses a bug where the first-person gore overlay flickered around screen edges during AI execute actions when resolution scaling was active[/p][/*]

????Newly Added Active Tunables

• [p](*AT) Reduced damage of certain attacks from the Agaddon Hunter, Cosmic Baron, Hell Knight, and Komodo to reduce the number of attacks that break the shield in one hit on Nightmare Difficulty[/p][/*]
• [p](*AT) Adjusted the Brink of Death system on all difficulties to be more in line with launch day values  [/p][/*]