It's been a little over a month since the last small stability patch. I came back from a brief vacation and got back to work right away. Much of the work was (and continues to be) planning for what a 1.0 release would look like. It's still on the horizon, but it's always good to plan ahead.

In terms of this patch, it's a lot of higher level content, as well as the hardest boss in the game! It's in the Scorched desert, in the Crater. It's not currently tied to the story, but since the mechanics are basically done, I decided to add it into the game for a bit of an optional challenge.

Major Features:

• Desert Lord: Located in the Crater, this dragon-like bot slumbers, waiting for it's next meal. It's got a lot of powerful AOE attacks, as well as a large health pool. If you're going to challenge it, make sure you have a lot of allies.
• Quest Update: I've added some more post-Golem quests linked to the Communication Tower structure. It leads you to the next major part of the story, which I wont spoil.
• Chronos Contact: You can now contact the Chronos directly through Beacons. There's currently only one quest associated, but there's a bunch of lore to read through.

Minor Features:

• Added a lot of sounds for allies and enemies that were missing. Combat should line up much better with the sound design.
• Added the Drone Control Backpack. It basically adds 5 more drones to your pool of transfer drones, making item transferring go much quicker.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a major bug that was causing some of the crashes. The cause was a couple incorrectly loaded assets causing issues with World Partition. Hopefully these will be resolved with this patch.
• Fixed a bug where Events wouldn't correctly start in some situations.
• Fixed a bug where allies would sometimes spawn underground when loading into the game.

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