hey everyone! tj here, creator of The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight! we'd like to apologize for the months of quietness -- we've been hard at work taking your advice to heart and refining our little game further and further beyond! after a long wait, though, our update is finally ready to be experienced! we've sent our new build, v1.7u, off to our distributors to be uploaded to Steam! if you haven't picked up the game in a while, you're gonna find a lot of new things in this version; [list] [*] Lots and lots of system optimizations to make the game run faster [*] Difficulty system has been re-instated [*] Profile system update to make menus slightly less cumbersome (we're in the middle of a FULL re-build but we didn't have time to get it in this update) [*] A brand new move is now available after successfully parrying an enemy [*] Massive updates to enemy AI and attack patterns [*] Major stat rebalancing for the whole cast [*] A ton of visual updates [/list] our update was planned on being a lot bigger, but some of the system reconstructions took a little longer than planned, as well as some personal issues that got in the way (which, at this point, we are slowly learning that this is unavoidable when you want to be both a game developer and a human being), but we know that a bunch of bug fixes have been waiting for a while, and we want to make sure we cover those bases and let you guys know that we're far from dead. :) a full change log will be coming up later today that covers every single change that we've made! for now, if you're updating this game from v1.5, we request a little favor of you; we've updated our profile system a bit, and the v1.5 version is now super outdated, so in order for this update to work properly, you'll have to go into your AppData/Local/JOYLANCER folder and delete the contents and remake your profiles / re-assign your binds. we know that this is a huge pain in the butt, but you likely won't have to deal with these kinds of issues once the game leaves Early Access. for now, please enjoy the game! we're hoping to bring y'all a full package in August.