The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta Update, May 16th 2025

Hello Riftbreakers!

We have just published a minor update for The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta. It includes many changes and bugfixes listed below. We also sent out a MASSIVE Playtest Access wave, courtesy of Paweł's generosity, and not at all a bug with page refresh which caused us to release twice as many as we initially intended. We are calm.

The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta Update, May 15th 2025

Changes:

• Gathering tools now include loot drones as a base parameter.

• Reworked the main menu flow and added a new “What’s New” section.

• Added password and text input popup templates with support messages.

• Added “Follow Us” toast to the main menu.

• Multiplayer saves are now filtered correctly to avoid mixing with single-player files.

• Added detailed warnings for version/content mismatches when joining games.

• Server now handles kick/ban events more reliably.

• Improved visual fidelity of alien comet decals and boss tornado skills.

Fixes:

• Fixed issues with flickering shadows.

• Temporarily disabled raytracing to filter out crash reports caused by raytracing issues.

• Fixed prediction bugs and deadlocks in burst-fire weapons.

• Fixed melee weapon stuns not triggering properly on clients.

• Added logic to prevent simultaneous use of the detector and melee weapons.

• Fixed softlocks and improved safety logic in various weapon systems.

• Improved handling of controller input changes.

• Fixed rare bugs in player migration when loading saves from another account.

• Cleaned up empty tooltips and removed outdated GUI shortcuts.

• Refined gamepad navigation across the survival screen and menus.

• Fixed incorrect gamepad shortcut behavior in the equipment screen.

• Fixed screen alignment and selection node issues.

• Fixed portal activation issues in multiplayer games.

• Improved entity replication logic and reduced desync potential.

• Added safeguards for network entity creation and removal during packet loss.

• Marked sensitive multiplayer data as non-persistent.

• Improved delta acknowledgement timing for smoother server operation.

• Fixed jittering of dead units in multiplayer.

• Fixed mech spectator camera orientation.

• Fixed creature health scaling based on player count and difficulty level.

• Added internal helper for unexpected async results.

• Fixed rare crash in the research tree if a node was missing.

• Multiple backend tweaks, bugfixes, and QoL cleanups.

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