Phasebreak 1.1

New Features

• Steam Achievements are now available! Including achievements for specific challenges, alongside achievements for clearing the tutorial and each level.

• Fog of War now conceals rooms you have not yet reached, revealing each area as you advance through a level.

• Added a Game Speed setting, letting you adjust the pace of gameplay from the settings menu.

• Added a new battle theme, "Roll to Win."

• Reworked the onboarding experience with clearer tutorial text and supporting images. The unique ability tutorial now appears in the third beat, once the core actions have been learned.

Gameplay & Balance

• Enemy AI now values shooting more heavily and will engage more often when your units are within range.

• Moving a unit now highlights every enemy that it will be able to shoot from the destination tile, making positioning decisions clearer.

• The tactical camera is now fully playable.

• The camera now follows Dimensional Cops when they use their warp ability.

• Refined line-of-sight and cover checks so units behind cover are correctly protected from fire.

Audio

• Added spatialized audio, giving most in-world sounds a sense of location.

• Enemy types now sound distinct, separating standard grunts from Dimensional Cops.

• Added a dedicated death sound for game over, with music transitioning appropriately.

• Fixed an issue where enemies were nearly silent during combat.

Visuals & Effects

• Reworked the warp effect so units now visibly warp in, and removed a purple artifact that could appear around the effect.

• Updated targeting lines with a cleaner Art Deco style, now consistent across standard shots, the launcher arc, and Bruce's throw.

• Toned down blood and explosion colors.

• Death effects now correctly appear in the dimension where the unit was defeated.

• Refreshed character portraits, health bars, action button feedback, and tooltips for improved clarity.

• Continued environment set dressing and lighting passes across levels, with new crate covers and destruction effects.

Performance

• Disabled hardware ray tracing and reflections, which are not needed for our fixed-camera grid game, significantly reducing GPU cost.

• Optimized grid highlighting so it only redraws when needed.

• Reduced interface overhead for smoother performance.

Interface & Quality of Life

• Updated the art for sliders and buttons in the settings menu.

• Added a button to our Discord Server to the main menu and pause screen.

• Objective and tutorial widgets now hide when you end your turn.

Bug Fixes

• DeeDee's bomb now detonates when the cover it is attached to is destroyed, and correctly travels with objects when they are warped.

• Fixed several targeting and highlight issues, including the floor losing its texture when selecting enemies, invalid tiles being highlighted, highlights lingering when switching characters via portraits, and special-ability tiles not displaying.

• Bruce's throw no longer breaks when the confirm input is pressed rapidly, the launcher now reliably destroys cover, and the camera reselects Bruce after a throw completes.

• Unit switching with Z and X now skips defeated units and works on units that have spent all their actions.

• Enemies no longer spawn on tiles occupied by your units during the tutorial.

• Fixed interface elements disappearing during opacity changes, and character portraits failing to update.

• The game can no longer be paused during loading screens.

• The objective counter now appears correctly in the first combat beat of level 2.

• Progression gates now open as intended in level 2.

• Fixed the warp preview being unavailable on low graphics settings.

• Resolved several camera issues, including unwanted zooming and incorrect movement when performing actions.

Known Issues

• Sometimes enemy turn starts but none of the enemies do anything, causing a hardlock

• Sometimes only enemy model gets warped Level 1 beat 3

• Sometimes enemy Turn ended but camera never unlocked

• Sometimes Enemy healthbars still visible in the wrong dimension