It contains a handful of small bugfixes to smoothen the playing experience. Check out the Steam link for the full changelog.
Making ESC reliably pause sounds small but it’s the kind of fix players notice immediately, so nice to see it in 0.5.3. Was the pause issue related to the parallel map generation you described in the ledge-spawn devlog, or something separate in the menu handling? Also curious whether the Breached and Cracked stack cap mattered much for balance once they could actually reach max stacks.
The pause issue was caused by how Unity triggers it’s events. The ESC menu previously loaded some dependecies by script, which would only fire once the menu got activated. At the same time, it tried to set up the Options submenu, which already required one of these dependencies, causing a race condition which would then (more often than not) cause an exception and thus abort the function before the game was paused. The fix was to set up the dependencies in the Inspector, rather than by script.
The Breached and Cracked stack cap were fixed for consistency reasons. Depending on how Effects are caused, their actual value can differ, usually 2% - 4%. A stat is changed by this value times the stack. For example, Breached erroneously capped at a stack of 1, causing a maximum Energetic Defense reduction of 4%, given the value of the Effect is also 4%. Now, it’s capped at 20, which allows a maximum reduction of 80% which is quite substantial.
