🛠️ Patch Notes - Early Access Hotfix 5 — No Rest for the Wicked Steam update #156683

Today marks the one week anniversary since our Steam Early Access Launch and it warrants an extra beefy hotfix full of significant performance improvements, balance changes, stack size increases, 32:9 support, Quality of Life additions, 8 new shields, polish, localization and bug fixes. As always, please be sure to share any issues or feedback with us! ⚔️ Performance Improvements: Further improved Quality Settings for better performance when at higher visual quality Optimized rendering of volumetric Fog Optimized shadow rendering Reduced resolution transparency rendering tech for GPU heavy overdraw situations Significantly reduced unnecessary memory allocations across many game systems Improved handling of asset unloading to reduce performance degradation over time Tracked down and improved several sources of CPU-side stuttering when the game is loading assets Optimized instantiation cos...