Fast Lane

Raids are a lot faster. That is the headline. Everything else is polish.

Raids are faster

  • Killing blows land instantly. Every hit used to wait ~0.1 s for the bullet to travel before it counted. If your shot kills, it counts the moment you fire. One-shot builds clear raids up to 3x faster (measured: ~9 s raids now take ~3 s at the same depth). Damage did not change, only the waiting did.
  • Abyss opening strike is instant. Past CL 25,000 the enemy's first hit resolves the moment combat starts. A timing gap let fast melee builds skip it; fixed, and the player no longer pays a start-up delay for it.
  • Reality snap fires sooner after deploy (1 s -> 0.3 s).

Headless Raid (new option)

  • Options > Display > Headless Raid: only the map, your marker, the CL badge and the AUTO-DEPLOY chip are drawn. No enemies, loot, tracers, hit effects or combat text; side notifications only for STASH FULL and rare drops.
  • Pure speed for long farming sessions. Game math is unchanged; turn it off any time.

Steam Deck

  • Layouts fit 1280x800: loadout, augments, terminal, options, quests, raid HUD. Bigger equipment slots, readable objectives and quests, tooltips no longer cut off.
  • Deck starts with CRT effects off and a fixed 70% UI scale (the only scale that fits). Font size is still yours.
  • Tap the weapon panel to switch weapons, an INVENTORY button in raids, on-screen keyboard for text fields, controller buttons in hints.

Loot & quality of life

  • Ask Before Quick Actions: new NEVER + CHASE setting (no confirmation even on chase items).
  • STASH FULL messages merge into one card and show every 10th full raid. Same-title notifications no longer stack.

Leaderboards

  • Confirmed cheaters are now shadow-banned: their scores stay on their own screen, but nobody else sees them. Global, friends and my-rank views skip them and ranks close up. Nothing to do on your side.

Fixes

  • Skill tree lines missing in outer regions (Titan, Gambler) at UI Scale below 100%.
  • GHOST Blur badge flicker and shortened evasion buff during fast kill chains.
  • Small HUD overlaps at large font sizes.