• Updated main menu and loading screns to match the festive Christmas spirit!
• Your car has been gifted reindeer horns and a bright red nose (can be disabled in Options > General)
• Added speed particles to cockpit view
• MIDI files can now be attached to all songs with 4x BPM requirement
• Priority of "Player Finished" trick text was adjusted to so it'll appear in front of other, less important messages
• Updated the Game Lobby to better handle author names and how "Playlist" is displayed

• VR is now enabled in the default branch, and the experimental-VR branch has been removed
• Smoothed camera movement in cockpit view
• Smoothed out head rotation spring in cockpit mode
• Motion blur is disabled in VR since it doesn't work
• Reduced max turn speed in VR since fast turning was jarring

• Added the StormNoise skybox
• Added WorldText object to the level editor
• Added the "Box" volume type to biodomes
• Now if you hold down Shift, Control, or Alt when clicking on a Library Object to add to a level in the Level Editor it will rotate towards the cursor's rotation
• Changed the biodome's directional light rotation to be based on Longitude and Latitude properties
• Biodome volumes are now based on object scale, so they can have rotation and non-uniform scale
• Sunshafts/godrays are now emitted from the directional light's direction, not position
• Directional lights are now removed from the game. As a replacement, Level settings has properties for a global directional light
• The ability to set light types has been removed
• A Spotlight prefab has been added
• An option has been added to biodomes to make the FogTop and FogBottom values relative to the Biodome
• Added support for editing more types while multiple objects are selected.
• Addable components that can't currently be added will be colored red in the dropdown
• Added Empire Tower with new collision mesh
• Added Virus blocker revamp
• When saving a level in the level editor it will automatically go through all of the objects in the level and delete any duplicates (objects that are in the same position with the same rotation and scale)

• Your machine's best graphics API is now selected by default, which is now DirectX 11 for many Windows PCs (may improve performance for some)
• Disabled lighting on glass (improves performance for glass roads)
• Optimized how Phantom sound components are managed
• Lights can now be 0 for brightness, which disables them
• Added mesh combining system which attempts to combine similar meshes into one object if they are both static

• Fixed bug where some objects would have a flickering outline on them, caused by fog (DX9)
• Made it so the ScaleTool won't allow scaling down to 0 anymore fixing potential bugs
• Fixed bug where motion blur made bloom dimmer
• Fixed bug with directional lights shutting off on restart in older levels
• Fixed bug where the text in the Game Lobby level field would pop up and down when a long name was in the field
• Fixed bug where player outlines in multiplayer were dim
• Fixed shader so ancient Battery Building doesn't have draw order issues
• Fixed car reflection bug on restart in Linux and OS X

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