- Updated game launcher design and icon, re-enabled gamepad navigation
- Additional performance optimizations in open-world areas (~5–7% boost)
- Ammo is now a proper inventory item
- Added new item types in the 'Food' and 'Consumables' categories
- New items added to traders and loot tables
- Added the ability to melee while sprinting - the character stops after the hit
- Improved game randomness calculations - fixed healing animation loops and more
- Technical improvements to in-game video playback
- Many visual and technical fixes to inventory, quest journal and trading menus
- Fixed bug where a weapon's crosshair could stay on screen even when weapon mode is disabled in the level
- Fixed use/reload button logic when using a gamepad with a weapon equipped
- Added a new trader near the town entrance after finishing the Dorogin's quests
- 'Water Reflections' setting is now available again in the options menu
- Local reputation is now hidden from the UI in levels where it's not used
- Numeric reputation values are now shown as text descriptions
- Fixed duplicated item pickup sound when looting suitcases
- Some locations now have interactive campfires where you can cook raw fish
- Various tweaks for the sniper rifle and mine (both coming in future chapters)
- All traders now refresh their inventory once per day
- 'Village' level: added volumetric clouds and expanded scenes with raiders near the repair base
- 'Village (3)' level: added a letter in an abandoned house, more objects in Zhenya's home
- 'Rail' level: the wounded beggar now disappears after you talk to Olga
- 'Rail's Outskirts: Bridge Side' level: improved water shader visuals
- 'Rail: Bar' level: Rat Race minigame added (needs 15 currency to try); shooting gallery simplified
- 'Cave of Technognosis' level: cultists now wear varied outfits, base expanded, armor repair NPC added, interactive krutilo wheel and player bed added (bed becomes available after finishing Dorogin's questline)
- You can now purchase home upgrades in Rail through the Town Hall administrator
- You can watch TV at your home after buying the first upgrade
- Re-added the cut scene where you help wounded Zhenya after the Repair Base level
- Re-recorded and revised many dialogue lines for quest characters
- Fixed a wide range of minor bugs

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