March Update

New Sprites for Marv & Nils!

Color has been enabled for Marv's animations, and several finished quality full color animations have been added. He's a very complicated character to animate so he's maybe 60% finished now. We hope to have him finished, or mostly finished, by the next regular content update.
A few of Marv's animations have been tweaked & retooled slighty. For instance, Jayne now vanishes briefly into smoke on a ground hit, and Marv will react more to Jayne doing different attacks.
In parallel, work has been started on getting Nils some finished full-color animations. Nils, being much simpler in design, is maybe 30 or 40 percent finished now. (Nils is a new character currently under test. Information on how to access Nils is on the official Discord.)
Nils' color palettes have been overhauled. Previously he mostly had copies of Paul's palettes, now he has 10 of his own.

Performance Improvements

The game will now preload several textures and other assets when it launches. This should mitigate longer-than-usual load times when you enter a match for the first time that session.
Fixed an issue where the combat log would use too much memory late in the match, leading to possible performance impacts.
Several assets now have "crunch" compression, significantly reducing their size on disk and load times. For most textures this should not lead to a noticeable loss in quality. Hard disk footprint is down roughly 15% compared to the last patch (950mb->810mb).
A few scripts have been cleaned up to reduce their performance impact.