We’re now Steam Deck Verified alongside our bug-blasting patch

For those on their path to citizenship, the Federation salutes you! Our latest patch brings various bug fixes, optimizations and tweaks, alongside changes that mean Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is now officially Steam Deck verified!

We’ve seen all of you fighting back against the Arachnids, and our FedDev-approved team has been working alongside, to make sure our patch helps to improve battlefield performance!

Whether you’re taking to the fight on the big screen or putting the mobile in Mobile Infantry, the Federation thanks each and every one of you for your service! In today’s deployment you can find:

Addition

• Added a new secret for speed-running Troopers

Fixes

• Improvements to NPC AI to avoid them becoming stuck inside or under walls and floors (predominantly for the Assassin Bug)

• Violin achievement altered to allow the player to collect without having to lose health

• Guided missiles now correctly award Fedscore for kills

• Fixed issues with the Player-controlled Assassin Bug not colliding with (and damaging) targets correctly

• Stopped the Assassin Bug’s flight visual effects from triggering when not flying

• Running over the Morita Carbine while carrying the MK1 Morita now correctly collects the ammunition

• AI Bugs now correctly target Mechanical Bipeds while in the self-destruct state

• Fixed Taunting detection that should help Troopers to attain the Collect Them All achievement

• Fixed audio stuttering on lower-end hardware

• Fixed the Battle Chatter audio slider not correctly adjusting volume

Tweaks

• Limited the Tanker Bug’s Shake attack to Veteran and Citizen difficulty only (as well as reducing cooldown and damage, slightly)

• Improvements to Player-controlled Assassin Bug obstacle avoidance

• Improvements to the Player-controlled Assassin Bug Dive Bomb ability and collision with targets

• Balancing for AI damage on Recruit difficulty

• AI tweaks to help enemies to target the player more effectively

• Performance optimizations for Flak Bugs, Plasma Bugs and other enemies.

• Removed a barrier in Operation Graveyard that the Player could not fit underneath

UI and Visual Changes

• We’ve deployed an Accessibility option to allow Troopers to move the Active Reload UI from the corner, to just below the crosshair

• Text size increases and improvements to improve readability (including FMV subtitles)

• New prompt for Tactical support loading screen tips

• Added ammo types, weapon names and icons to the weapon switching UI

• Fixed a misspelling on the White Phosphorus tactical support pickup

• Fixed the “Press any Button to Start” text not appearing on the title screen

• Visual improvements for the Quiet Hell secret

• Added new effects to lights surrounding fire visuals

• Fixed an issue with gate assets appearing distant even while up close

• Various minor visual issues (effects being visual when they shouldn’t, being overly-pixelated, flickering etc.)

Optimizations

• Altered compression settings to reduce VRAM usage

• General mesh and texture optimizations

We thank each and every Trooper for your hard work in our battle against the Bugs! We salute your efforts and your ongoing journey towards Citizenship!

The Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! team at Auroch Digital and Dotemu

Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War

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