General changes:

• Most assets are now loaded in before the main menu instead of when the player picks a chapter in the Chapter Select menu

• Hard Damage bar now flashes yellow whenever the player takes Hard Damage

• Added 2 new major assists: Disable Whiplash Hard Damage and Disable Weapon Freshness

• Added a tutorial message in 5-3 explaining how to use the Rocket Launcher against Soldiers

• Spawner arm slot changed from 5 to 6

• Added a weapon icon for the Spawner Arm

• Added an "Under Construction" text to the Very Hard difficulties

• Cyber Grind score font size should now scale down to show more digits if required

• Disabled the "Checkpoint" option in the pause menu for the Cyber Grind to reduce accidental restarts

• A coin's max distance to attempt hitting a core eject or rocket is now based on the core's distance to the player rather than the coin to make "orbital nukes" possible again

Whiplash, Style and Hard Damage changes:

• Player will no longer descend 2 style ranks when getting hit at S or above

• Whiplash will now only cause Hard Damage if the current Hard Damage is below 50

• Whiplash no longer builds up Hard Damage while the player is underwater

• Hard damage cooldown from Whiplashing is now relative to the previous amount of hard damage rather than always resetting to the maximum total amount

• Reverted player momentum loss when cancelling a pull on a heavy enemy

• Red damage overlay no longer shows up while Whiplashing on ULTRAKILL rank

• Whiplash now passes through Idols and blessed enemies

• Blessed enemies no longer give most style bonuses

• Dual Wield will now reduce the decay of weapon freshness

• Weapon freshness regain is now also different per weapon

Rocket Launcher changes:

• Freezeframe rocket launcher will now automatically cancel its freeze if all its frozen rockets have been destroyed

• Rockets now only track towards magnets that are attached to enemies

• Rockets now break magnets after 3 hits on an enemy with a magnet attached to them (a mid-air hit counts as 2)

• Chaining 3 or more rocket rides without touching the ground will cause diminishing returns on rocket riding time

• Coins will no longer target a rocket the player is riding on

Enemy changes:

• Punches now properly auto-aim to Idols

• Idols are now breakable with a Knuckleblaster explosion

• Added a vertical light shaft on Idols that shows them from a distance

• Riding on a Malicious Face will no longer rotate the player alongside the Face

• Removed headshot multiplier from Leviathan's heart to reduce the damage of ricoshots

• Timer in 5-4 now stops when Leviathan dies to reduce frustration due to the length of its death animation

• Soldier terminal now mentions their explosion resistance

• Soldiers can no longer block explosions while blind

• Soldiers can no longer block Mindflayer death explosions or Malicious Face explosions caused by hitting a core eject or coin

• Reduced Soldiers' explosion resistance on Violent difficulty from 100% to 75%, matching Standard difficulty

• Changed most Soldiers in 5-3's final rooms into Strays

• Added enemy silhouettes and colors for Sentries, Idols and Ferrymen

• Added custom spawn sounds for Ferryman and Idol

• Gabriel 2nd now only takes half damage during his juggle phase

• Altered Cyber Grind spawn rates and waves for multiple enemies

• Uncommon type enemies can now only use a maximum of half the current Cyber Grind wave's point reserve

• Extended the distance that Swordsmachines and Ferrymen are be brave enough to jump down

• Increased tracking speed for Ferryman's lightning bolt

Fixes:

• Added keybind option for Slot 5

• Camera no longer clips through the world when shaking

• Fixed doors in some layers not closing when supposed to, causing connected rooms to no longer load in

• Fixed Ferryman's bestiary entry not having a Strategy section

• Filled 2 holes in the collision mesh of the Ferryman's ship in 5-2

• Fixed Overheat Nailgun's sound

• Fixed the restart/quit prompt appearing behind the pause menu in some old levels

• Gabriel 1st no longer accidentally uses a taunt from Gabriel 2nd

• Fixed resolution sometimes resetting on level load or reset

• Fixed Rocket Launcher sometimes becoming unequippable after using the Spawner Arm cheat

• Rocket Launcher and Shotgun weapon orders are no longer linked

• Fixed inconsistent rocket freezing with Freezeframe when under the effects of a dual wield powerup

• A rocket has to have been frozen at least once before it can be ridden

• Rocket riding rotation no longer dependant on framerate

• Ridden rockets can no longer be rotated while the game is paused

• Fixed ridden rockets jittering when out of rocket riding time on the surface of water

• Rocket Launcher now auto-aims correctly

• Fixed player pulling out a gun while using a shop after pausing, unpausing and using the scrollwheel

• Maxing out the style meter while in ULTRAKILL rank will no longer cause it to overflow and reset

• Player can no longer clip through surfaces by rotating a frozen rocket while riding it

• Player can no longer be knocked off a rocket by lag or a low framerate

• Coins now inherit rocket ride velocity

• Fixed some typos

• Cyber Grind end-of-wave heal should no longer be blocked by explosions

• Fixed 5-4 sea kill plane not being wide enough

• Fixed a softlock in 6-1 caused by placing the red skull on the secret fight altar and resetting back to a checkpoint before the exterior section

• The final arena in 6-1 will no longer re-lock if the player beats it, goes back and activates a checkpoint from a previous part of the level and then walks back to the final arena

• Smaller normal explosion inside a core eject malicious railcannon nuke connecting first will no longer cause Soldiers to block nukes

• Ferrymen now have a Stalker and Idol priority rank

• Spawn rotation for all enemies in the Spawner Arm has been made consistent

• Fixed a bug that caused scrolling in Wrath and Heresy pre-boss terminals to not work if the player has downscaling enabled

• Fixed Wrath and Heresy pre-boss terminals not displaying the correct Tip of the Day

• Made the check for a low ceiling wider to reduce chances of a crouching player standing up clipping through a ceiling

• Fixed fish in 5-1 sometimes appearing where they shouldn't

• Fixed a bug that would cause the 5-1 fish to multiply whenever the main cave is re-entered

• Fixed 5-1 intro cave pits not rendering fog correctly

• Fixed some holes in 5-1 geometry

• Arm sprites in 5-2 sea are now affected by fog

• Fixed a section of the 5-2 ship not rendering fog correctly

• Fixed the Lust cityscape not rendering fog correctly

• Fixed the rank square in the chapter select for Act 2 being visible when the chapter isn't unlocked yet

• Fixed alternate terminals in Secret mission and Prime Sanctum not playing music

• 6-1 interior checkpoints will now also reset exterior areas in case the player skips the first exterior checkpoint

• Fixed Ferryman lightning bolt windup sometimes staying after the Ferryman dies

• Fixed Gabriel getting stuck in the environment during his dash

• Fixed Gabriel 2nd freezing if hitting the ceiling right when about to swap to second phase

• Fixed Gabriel 2nd sometimes getting instakilled if stuck between the ceiling and the player in the phase change juggle