- Steam App
- Element (422300)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 19 July 2016 - 23:56:13 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
After a few months of hard work in the mines, Element v1.2 'Corona' is available now! Thanks once again for all of your feedback and support. This update includes a whole lot of visual changes, a new native input system, and updates to sound, Unity, Steam, and various bits of plumbing. This update clears the way for our plans for additional game content in the upcoming releases. The biggest change is an updated renderer. The new deferred renderer allows for enhanced lighting and effects, and combined with the update to Unity 5.3 brings vastly improved batching, multithreading, and more efficient rendering. We are keeping support for the existing forward renderer for some platforms and will look to make this an option in a future update. We have added post-processing effects for antialiasing and bloom which can be enabled and disabled in the settings screen. There are also improved lighti...