We have the 0.5.2 Patch coming at [b]10:00 AM PT (GMT-7) on November 21st, 2023[/b] This patch will fix a large number of issues along with a few improvements and adjustments to [i]Starship Troopers: Extermination[/i]. [h2]New Features[/h2] [list] [*] Epic Game Store support [*] Crossplay with Steam players [/list] [h2]Balance changes[/h2] [list] [*] 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 [/list] [h2]Notable Gameplay/Quality of Life Improvements[/h2] [list] [*] 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 [/list] [h2]Notable Bug Fixes[/h2] [list] [*] 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 [/list]