Patch 2.04 is released, adding more optimizations and a few balance tweaks! This build should have a noticeable increase in performance for most players of 20-40 FPS in many areas.

Balance

• Reduced Blood Altar use from 50 to 40 health to prevent instant kill if you have the Scorched Choker
  
• Added secret highlights to more objects for the Leg Feelers mutation
  
• Mutation: Gaseous Sack - Increased initial boost and vertical boost speeds to make more useful
  
• Weapons: Quill Shotgun and Thorn Dealer (Variant) - Increased delay before regenerative reload begins
  
• Weapons: Stygian Hunter and Stygian Hammer weapons - Increased reload time
  

Optimization

• Cleaned Menu and Level 1 Start areas to give increased performance
  
• Disabled shadows on many light sources that weren't largely noticeable
  
• Optimized Prism Spider Droid and Shipping Drone light usage
  
• Optimized Shipping Container and Containment Chamber light usage
  
• Optimized fire effects and lighting
  
• Optimized many champion enemy particle effects
  
• Optimized many death explosion particle effects
  
• Optimized weather particle effects
  
• Optimized and improved geyser particles
  

Fixes

• Fixed Effigy core material
  
• Fixed weapons aiming at nearby player drones instead of enemies in some cases