Hello everyone!

v102 of CULTIC is finally out on the main branch. This build included some pretty major changes that needed to be tested a bit more extensively than my smaller patches. Full details below!

This is a fairly lofty patch, so as always, if there are any issues or feedback, drop me a thread in the forums!

System Changes

• Unity version updated to address a crash happening with the particle engine
  
• XML culture invariance introduced to help prevent issues with save files
  

E1M6 Balancing

E1M6's encounter was a major pain point to the community, While this encounter is intended to be difficult, I do understand that replaying the entire mission was tedious, and not the kind of challenge I wanted for the players. Due to this, the following changes have been made:

• Checkpoint introduced between third wave of cultists and the boss entrance
  
• An additional supply cache is made available when the boss appears
  
• The boss now has an additional attack
  
• Smaller amount of cultists in wave 1
  
• Cultist spawns after the boss' arrival are now limited to low-rank cultists
  

Bug Fixes

• Various audio sources properly hooked up to audio mixer
  
• Textures with unintended shininess were toned down
  
• A fence in E1M9 that was solid can now be shot through
  
• Burning enemies now properly drop loot pickups
  
• Confirm action (left mouse) now properly opens the main menu on the title screen
  
• Player can no longer grow a third arm while throwing hatchets and using the lighter
  
• Intro cutscene music should now properly adhere to music volume preferences
  
• Fixed a bug where player controls would get reset to defaults if they opened the controls menu from the main menu and then cancelled out of it without making changes
  

Other Changes

• Progress menu reworked into a Scene Select menu. Allows any map that has been previously completed to be replayed, with choice of two loadouts
  
• Brightness in E1M1/M2 caves was lowered
  
• Small pistol ammo drops now give 10 rounds (down from 20). A deeper audit into ammo availability is planned to look into ammo surpluses and deficits
  
• Debug console key is now bindable
  
• A sequence break in E1M3 was made inaccessible as it was a bit too easy to access casually