Knight and mercs, we're here with our third update in a series of updates adding new recruits to the game, along with previous recruit balance improvements and another important balance change to the Skyrise Hit missions, addressing the last piece of major feedback we've received about that mission types balance. It is great to be churning out new content for the game, and we're excited to keep this going at a good pace to keep expanding, deepening and richening the content set of the game, for free, for you, no DLC.

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Since you'll always be seeing a lot of updates around here, we want to reiterate our saved game policy so everyone understands our commitment to your games. No saved game will ever be invalidated by an update. All new content and features will be added immediately to all saved games (with the reasonable exception of New Game options). You never have to restart if you don't want to. This is a studio commitment that we have made and kept for many years and games. We stand by it. So do not stress about the deluge of updates that is coming your way - heist on my good heisters.

We are wrapping up the third in a trio of new Underworld Hub recruits, adding a Vanguard to the Sniper and Cybersword that were released in the last week. This brings a second Vanguard to the options in the Underworld Hub with new Traits, special recruitment choices and enemies and friends. We'll let you discover the rest and make choices on their Traits and backstory tags.

We're excited to keep pushing steadily on the recruit count in Underworld Hub until we have at least 2 options per class.

With some of the latest recruits coming online, we've taken a chance to look over their new Traits as well as those of older recruits to ensure everything is staying in sold balance. We've reduced some of the stats in the Rebuilt Killer Trait to bring it better in line with other recruit Traits and also improved the Attribute bonuses in the Terminal Retrovirus Trait to properly offset its -4 Strength penalty.

Finally, we tweaked the appearance of the newly added Sniper recruit because oddly he was looking too close to the new game Agent EX.

In the Skyrise Hit mission, we've made a really important change to how secondary bodyguards work. A secondary bodyguard is a set of bodyguards who are spawned separately from the VIP. These bodyguards will close in rapidly on the VIP moving to "Protect the asset!"

Primary bodyguards are spawned at the same time as the VIP and stay in a little swarm around them.

Before Update #64, the Alert level of all VIP and Bodyguards was instantly shared. If you shot a bodyguard and they became Alerted, then the VIP becomes immediately Alerted. This rule makes a lot of sense for the primary bodyguards, but when a set of secondary bodyguards arrive halfway across the map, it no longer makes sense.

For Update #64, we've tweaked the rule to say that primary bodyguards and VIP instantly share Alert Level changes while secondary bodyguards do no share Alert Level changes with the VIP or other Bodyguards.

- Added new Underworld Hub recruit option - ex-McKellen Vanguard and internal affairs deserter

- Added balance issues in Skyrise Hit - bodyguards who are arrive in separate spawns from VIP do not immediately share status changes with VIP/primary bodyguards

- Improved attributes for Trait Terminal Retrovirus to offset the -4 Strength debuff

- Reduced Trait Rebuilt Killer to bring it into balance with other Traits

- Improved default appearance for Retired Sniper recruit

- Fixed map bugs and sight lines and cover shield issues with certain props

- Fixed reported typos across a wide variety of storylines

Knight and mercs, we've got another content and balance update coming your way. With Update #63, we've added a new Cybersword recruit to the Underworld Hub, 3 new tattoos, turned on the 3 tattoos that were announced for Update #62 but never showed up, balanced the minimum Power Level for Skyrise Hit multi-stage missions, and fixed a heaping pile of F10s (thanks community!). We're excited to be hitting the new year with a string of new content releases, and there is more coming up soon.

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Since you'll always be seeing a lot of updates around here, we want to reiterate our saved game policy so everyone understands our commitment to your games. No saved game will ever be invalidated by an update. All new content and features will be added immediately to all saved games (with the reasonable exception of New Game options). You never have to restart if you don't want to. This is a studio commitment that we have made and kept for many years and games. We stand by it. So do not stress about the deluge of updates that is coming your way - heist on my good heisters.

We are back with another update and another new recruit. With the last update, a new Sniper joined the options of the Underworld Hub and now we've pushed the second Cybersword into the options list. We're going to keep pushing steadily to release of new recruits until we have 2 recruits per class. This new Cybersword is coming back to the underworld after a very near-death experience and 2 years in a medical ward. Will you pick up this fully rebuilt blade? We'll let you discover the rest and make choices on their Traits and backstory tags.

We announced 3 new tattoos with the last update but they were accidentally left in a "developer only" state. These have now been enabled, giving you the 3 new promised looks. On top of those, we've added 3 totally new tattoo options as well for a total of 6 new tattoos in the last 2 updates.

Some of these are definitely on my new favorite "look" list!

With Update #63, we have now pushed the multi-stage Skyrise Hit missions up to minimum of Team Power Level 5. This helps avoid weaker teams getting into these much harder mission chains and likely getting in over their head. This comes directly from wide discussions with the community here on Steam, Discord and through F10s. So thank you for all the feedback helping us to better pin down this balance.

We've fixed a few visual bugs with Update #63. There was an issue where your characters' feet were clipping through the floor in the command HQ during mission deploy (only visible on wide screens), the wrong security device icon was used for the Shock Field in Matrix SCUs, and there was some bad text ("code") showing when you considered moving into a prox-mine and taking the damage.

Thanks to everyone putting in F10s big and small - everyone helps us polish and improve the game.

- Added new Underworld Hub recruit option - Cybersword fully rebuilt after 2 years in medical ward

- Added 3 new facial tattoo options for characters in appearance tab

- Fixed 3 missing facial tattoo options from #62 that didn't show up (oops!)

- Raised minimum Power Level for multi-stage Skyrise Hit missions to 5 for fairer balance

- Fixed bug with character feet going in the floor on mission deploy screen

- Fixed bug with incorrect icon for Shock Field in matrix SCU

- Fixed bug with incorrect text string for Prox-Mine movement warning