Update 0.5.2 drops November 21st
We have the 0.5.2 Patch coming at 10:00 AM PT (GMT-7) on November 21st, 2023
This patch will fix a large number of issues along with a few improvements and adjustments to Starship Troopers: Extermination.
New Features
- Epic Game Store support
- Crossplay with Steam players
Balance changes
- Hive Hunt: Increased XP gained from destroying eggs from 1 to 10
- Hive Hunt: Increased XP gained from destroying a Hive Core to 50
- Speed Stim: Decreased speed boost from 1.5x to 1.15x, increased duration from 7.5s to 10s
Notable Gameplay/Quality of Life Improvements
- Hive Hunt: Players can now respawn at the built resupply points (flags)
- Hive Hunt: Tweaked the number of enemy spawns, too many enemies were spawning sometimes
- Hive Hunt: Time limit extended to 20 minutes
- Watkins Trigger can now be manually detonated (hold interaction button when you are incapacitated)
- Friendly Fire is disabled during Extraction in all game modes
- Added next/previous screen buttons to the match results
Notable Bug Fixes
- Bug Unburrow FX were playing in locations that bugs wouldn’t actually spawn
- Fixed the Sandstorm mutator not appearing for all players
- Trooper names were not appearing consistently on the HUD, only the class icon
- Bugs now deal damage to the Deployable Shield utility
- First person view was not fully aligned to the trooper model, making other troopers appear shorter than yourself
- Hive Hunt: a bubbling sound effect was playing after a hive core was destroyed
- Sentry (tower) MG was not running out of ammo
- First person weapon audio was sometimes disappearing if too many sounds were playing
- Morita XXX was a bit quiet compared to other weapons
- Ultrawide monitors: The trooper model was stretched in the mission results screen
- A beep sound sometimes kept playing after returning from a match