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Update 0.6.4

πŸ”„ CHANGES there's now a slight time slowdown effect when you take damage (which scales with how much damage you took and how much Shield/Health you have remaining).

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Full Genome Guardian 2 update

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3 fixes2 additions2 changes0 removals
  • Balance
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
addedπŸ”„ CHANGESthere's now a slight time slowdown effect when you take damage (which scales with how much damage you took and how much Shield/Health you have remaining). I currently don't think anyone's going to be bothered by this new feature but I'll add a Setting if people genuinely don't like it (after they've actually had a chance to witness it in-game).
addedπŸ”„ CHANGESUnreleased Parts: 3 Parts that will be changing in upcoming major updates are now marked as unreleased- they will all eventually be replaced by something significantly more interesting (all 3 of them sucked before): "Splice" Bracket "FL-1P" Motherboard "RUPL-3" Motherboard if you used Enzyme for any of these, you'll get em' back on startup The reason why they aren't simply staying as-is until their new versions are released is that having 2 different versions of these parts has been causing problems and has just been generally getting in my way.
changedπŸ”„ CHANGESrelated to the above, I had to move some Motherboards around + some of their colours changed.
changedπŸ”¨ FIXESSETTINGS \\ Underwater Filter: toggling it was previously only doing anything if you did so mid-dive.
fixedπŸ”¨ FIXESfixed some cases when the cursor would be shown mid-wave instead of the crosshair.
fixedπŸ”¨ FIXESfixed a number of instances where having a Gene held and hovering it over a slot would say "NO EFFECT" (when there totally would be an effect).

Genome Guardian 2 changes

addedthere's now a slight time slowdown effect when you take damage (which scales with how much damage you took and how much Shield/Health you have remaining). I currently don't think anyone's going to be bothered by this new feature but I'll add a Setting if people genuinely don't like it (after they've actually had a chance to witness it in-game).
addedUnreleased Parts: 3 Parts that will be changing in upcoming major updates are now marked as unreleased- they will all eventually be replaced by something significantly more interesting (all 3 of them sucked before): "Splice" Bracket "FL-1P" Motherboard "RUPL-3" Motherboard if you used Enzyme for any of these, you'll get em' back on startup The reason why they aren't simply staying as-is until their new versions are released is that having 2 different versions of these parts has been causing problems and has just been generally getting in my way.
changedrelated to the above, I had to move some Motherboards around + some of their colours changed.
changedSETTINGS \\ Underwater Filter: toggling it was previously only doing anything if you did so mid-dive.
fixedfixed some cases when the cursor would be shown mid-wave instead of the crosshair.

πŸ”„ CHANGES

  • there's now a slight time slowdown effect when you take damage (which scales with how much damage you took and how much Shield/Health you have remaining). I currently don't think anyone's going to be bothered by this new feature but I'll add a Setting if people genuinely don't like it (after they've actually had a chance to witness it in-game).

  • "Sanguine" Guardian: Unlock by eliminating 1000 β†’ 3000 microbes during the last 10 seconds of a wave.

  • the Banish list now always lists DNAs in ACGT order.

  • Unreleased Parts: 3 Parts that will be changing in upcoming major updates are now marked as unreleased- they will all eventually be replaced by something significantly more interesting (all 3 of them sucked before):

    • "Splice" Bracket

    • "FL-1P" Motherboard

    • "RUPL-3" Motherboard

    • if you used Enzyme for any of these, you'll get em' back on startup

    • The reason why they aren't simply staying as-is until their new versions are released is that having 2 different versions of these parts has been causing problems and has just been generally getting in my way.

  • related to the above, I had to move some Motherboards around + some of their colours changed.

πŸ”¨ FIXES

  • SETTINGS \\ Underwater Filter: toggling it was previously only doing anything if you did so mid-dive.

  • fixed some cases when the cursor would be shown mid-wave instead of the crosshair.

  • fixed a number of instances where having a Gene held and hovering it over a slot would say "NO EFFECT" (when there totally would be an effect).

  • hovering over an item in STORAGE won't show the green "you can put it here" indicator right next to it.

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Steam News / 5 May 2026

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