We're excited to release a new "Mega Fix" update that addresses an incredible 40+ new features and bugs. We played through the Early Access campaign as a team and addressed as many items both small and large to improve the overall campaign experience. We hope you like it -- see the detailed change list below, and look out for more updates this month!

• Character slots now display unit ability icons and colors instead of character traits. This helps identify at a glance what character's strengths are (Damaging, Will Damaging, Healing, Stunning, etc), and supports unit building.
• Added a new view toggle for "Additional Details" in the HQ that displays a character's Traits and exact Stamina numbers. Press the I key or RB on controllers to swap views in Edit Teams or Atrium screens.
• Cleaned up the look of empty slots to declutter the unit slot / edit teams screens.
• Securing Towns now is impacted by the Units that secure them. You gain more or less reputation based on the Charisma stat of the Unit leader.
• Towns give bonus tribute based upon your overall Reputation once secured. Bonus tribute is displayed in a new town tribute callout on the field, in green or read text (ex: "(+100)").
• R2 button as well as R3 buttons on controller now control fast-forward speed in encounters.
• Fixed controller navigation not extending to all 9 units (Was limited to 7 by mistake)
• Fixed Greatlands Recruits, Leadership Training, and other technologies not being shown as completed in the UI, allowing them to be researched additional times.
• Removed repeated dialogue in Era 2 protect Raun mission.
• A few animations had broken foot IK, resulting in bad looking animation playback.
• Adjusted stats for Officer, Poacher, and most boss classes. Balanced for difficulty & gameplay interest.
• Survival days goal in Era 3 missions reduced by 1.
• Adjusted spacing of Tooltips to avoid overlap with buttons being hovered on.
• Tooltips shown on highlight in more places when in controller mode.
• Fixed Tech Tree button staying hidden in the field upon return from combat.
• Adjusted color and text of some notifications to reflect their danger level for the player.
• Added a few more places where Scout Tower supplies are awarded during the campaign.
• Fixed no rollover feedback on Diffuse Towers. Added particle effect to repaired diffuse tower.
• Fixed bug with too much tribute being given by some towns later in the game.
• Fixed EMP ability. No longer does zero damage and uses power cells correctly.
• Some classes had incorrect base classes shown in their upgrade tree. Fixed for all classes.
• Fixed a small subset of classes having incorrect models or classes upon loading a saved game.
• Fixed Mind Ray ability. Deals mental powered damage now, and has correct tooltip descriptions.
• Fixed some abilities not showing stamina or will damage as an effect in tooltips when they should.
• Added checks in rare cases where characters end up outside of the terrain to prevent crashes.
• Reversed the direction of navigation when selecting targets (was backwards from up/down controls).
• Fixed bug where moving the leader of a unit to a new slot would change the leader of the unit to another character.
• Fixed bug in Era 2 Repair mission where units could not move onto Diffuse Towers.
• Fixed Missile Silos in Era 3 continuing to move and target units even while players were in an Encounter.
• Leadership traits now only effect the leader, and display properly in the HQ character slot UIs.
• Trait and effect requirements are now checked in the HQ so that most field-only traits are shown in the UI at all times.
• Added control helper entries to the bottom bar UI for secondary info toggle (I key or RB on controller)
• Fixed some callout icons over objects not hiding when other parts of the UI hid.
• Added new visual effects to Ledding Dusk boss unit members.
• New abilities and balance for Ledding Dusk boss and unit members.
• Fixed incorrect portraits being used for NOIR civilians in Era 3 town dialogue.
• Added description to Reputation Bar tool tip that explains exactly the effects reputation is having on town tribute, Atrium recruits, etc.
• All combat hit text is now uniformly uppercase to improve readability.
• Certain HQ input is blocked when a save operation is running, to prevent high memory usage and slowdowns.
• Fixed incorrect keyboard key displayed for pause time tutorial tip in Era 1 Mission 2.

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