This update includes a number of game refinements along with combat and enemy polish. It also adds an arena mode where you can play as all four dogs and added a Punishing difficulty mode. See full notes for details.

This demo update does not contain the rest of the mission that has been created to keep it as a short taste of the full game.

New Features

• Arena Mode!
• Jump into a combat arena and face off against waves of enemies in a pure combat challenge.
• Enemy spawns are randomized with some procedural rules so it will go on infinitely!
• Arena also features new enemies! They only appear on later waves
• All dogs are playable in Arena mode!
• In the arena you can select your player to battle the monsters.
• All four dogs are mechanically the same, It’s only a thematic change.
• Skye and Pebble also got a few visual updates with unique gear
• New minimal hud
• Many elements only appear when they are relevant
• Health numbers faded and visual noise reduced
• New hard difficulty mode
• Two new weapons in Arena mode
• The shurikens and whirling blade are available to play with in Arena mode.

• 4 New Enemies
• Hardened Biters with an outer shell you have to crack, heavy attacks are more effective.
• Leapers, small enemies that attack in long jumps.
• Spikers which attack in a radius and resist staggering requiring a few more hits to interrupt them
• Stringers tiny flying enemies that attempt to dive bomb the player, vulnerable to only a single hit

Tweaks

• Lights attacks got a nerf, now dealing 20, down from 30 damage. This changes the basic enemies breakpoint to 6 hits instead of 4. Or you can kill them in  5 if you hit every attack in the light chain.
• Many attacks and actions have been sped up to give combat a quicker pace
• Enemy Aggro reworked to be more computationally efficient and account for both the player and NPCs and aggro redirection during combat
• Enemies will also aggro nearby enemies when triggered by ranged damage
• Skipping cutscenes now has a 1.5 second hold with a gui element
• A number of physics efficiencies with layers and colliders were tweaked for performance
• Many scripts and objects were tweaked to reduce draw calls and help with memory management
• Sprinting now adjusts the FOV for a more speedy look.
• Optimized damage system to be significantly more efficient and modular with its internal code
• Added billboard LOD models for many trees missing them
• Camera dynamic adjustments are more robust and do not pass through as many objects while keeping the player in view
• Number of refinements to combat with enemy and player timings, physics and movement.
• Added drag and friction to many objects and states to prevent the player and enemies from sliding in some scenarios.
• Ranged enemies now have a limited angle of attack so they don't shoot through themselves

Fixes

• Touched up bash damage triggers to more consistently stun and push enemies
• Fixed players being able to run up some steep angled geometry with little issue
• Reworked many aspects of physics that were causing players to be bounced or launched around in certain conditions
• Added considerations for the player ontop of enemies so you will slide off quickly instead of floating.

Known Issues

• Some performance issues on older machines are likely going to be still present, trying setting things to low and turning off grass in the settings
• Enemies in some hard to reproduce situations track the player during an attack animation when its not intended
• Menu GUIs are still rough, another pass will need to be made to get their look and function to a good level.
• Sometimes the boss can push the player into the ground, I added a catch to correct this for now.
• The boss can sometimes have trouble with being targeted by ranged weapons, causing them to miss and hang in the air.

v06-1  hotfix was uploaded to fix potential soft locks on later waves in the Arena mode.