IMPORTANT NOTE: IF YOU ARE GETTING A LOOPING UNLOCK BUG AT THE END OF ANY STAGE, PRESS THE F2 KEY. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR ACHIEVEMENT DATA BUT IT'S EASY TO GET BACK. ALSO CONSIDER BACKING UP YOUR SAVE FILE DATA PRIOR TO USING ANY BETA PATCHES. Torque is in a good enough state to be tested. There are a few caveats of course:

• MP2 was not available for the holidays to port this to Chowdren, so the beta will have to be PC exclusive for now.
• Torque is only playable in Time Attack right now, but he is available from the start. Additionally, a few of his stages are locked out for now since I'm not 100% happy with them yet.
• I'm not sure if save files from the main version of the game will transfer over, but in any case, you should be able to play around with him right away since I unlocked all of his current content in Time Attack.
• Refer to the Known Issues section before reporting bugs.

General

• Torque is added as a playable character. He is available from the start in this beta build but can only be used in Time Attack. When the build is further along, he will be locked until the game has been completed with two characters.
• Placeholders for 8 new Torque-specific achievements have been added. They cannot be acquired yet for the most part.
• The required crystals for the Gem Hoarder achievement has been lowered from 7000 to 6000 in order to make it possible for Torque to clear when he is fully playable.
• The dialog cuts from the Wii U version have been carried over. See "Adventure Mode dialog cuts" for details.
• Begun progress on shading Mayor Zao's sprites.

Milla

• Milla is now available to play in Adventure mode. She has several new cutscenes in addition to an altered ending sequence to accommodate the fact that she's the one fighting Brevon.
• Because of Milla being playable in Adventure mode, it now has an identical character selection screen as Classic mode once she has been unlocked.
• In Final Dreadnought 3, the stage ends for Milla when she crosses under the tube where the Kingdom Stone was, instead of the right side of the room. This is to accommodate for the cutscene that now takes place here in Adventure mode and will likely result in faster clear times (by less than a second, but still notable).
• Milla no longer has to deal with the crosshairs in the red hallway before the final boss.

Carol

• Fixed a bug where Carol's hitboxes on her attacks would sometimes not register.
• Carol's energy meter drains more slowly when using the Wild Kick. (Now 1.25% per frame instead of 1.5%.)
• Carol can now cancel her rolling with a Wild Kick.

Bugfixes

• In Fortune Night as Carol, pausing the game in the area between defeating the midboss and entering the mall would make the music fade out indefinitely.
• In Final Dreadnought 3, the end boss's hitbox would linger after death, meaning that players with a fire shield would repeatedly hear the hit sound if they overlapped the hitbox during the cutscene.
• The game could be paused during the score tally in Final Dreadnought 4 as Milla, causing the results screen to glitch out.
• Pausing and selecting Next Stage during the cutscene where the heroes talk to Gong in Shang Tu Palace would make the music in Jade Creek fail to load.
• Pausing and select Skip Scene in the cutscene where Lilac is being healed in Shang Tu Palace would cause the invincibility music to play in Pangu Lagoon instead of the normal stage theme.

Adventure Mode dialog cuts

• The treehouse movie scene has been shortened significantly for Lilac and Carol. (Unessential filler)
• The "space cooties" dialog where Lilac explains the origin of dragons has been cut. It now simply jumps to Carol's question about why aliens are interested in Avalice. (Unnecessary exposition since Zao basically says the same stuff later on)
• Torque's tent scene now fades out when the girls do their victory animation. (Torque's request to keep their mission a secret never comes into play during the story. The rest is unessential filler)
• In the Zao dinner scene, removed Lilac's comment on how Milla and Carol both agree on something for once. (References an event in the story that was cut early in development)

Known Issues

• Gem Hoarder's description hasn't been updated yet.
• There's a feedback loop on the achievement screen after earning the Boomerang Wrangler achievement.
• Gold Rush, Flame War and Rock Star achievements cannot be acquired yet even if conditions are met.
• Torque does not have a Fortune Night dance or idle gestures.