First, I'd like to say I like that you guys have been addressing some small subtle things in this update. Sharper textures on some enemies (namely fire and ice wolvers being much more detailed), and a graphical 'seam' that was in the water in the fountain in haven is no longer there. Either it's been removed entirely or you guys hid it with two overlapping water textures. Either way, it looks nice as do some of the other subtle touch-ups. For example I'm not entirely sure but I think you redid the bubbles inside of slimes. And perhaps the dust particles in lamp lights?

So kudos to that!

However, I have noticed that there is a new small bug. Maybe its just on my end or maybe its something everyone is experiencing, I am not sure.

I took some screenshots to show what I mean because I don't think I can describe it very well.

Alright so, for starters I was at the Slimey Showdown arena. I realized I needed to switch from my piercing sword to an elemental one to combat the robots. Since theres more robots than slimes in a slime arena (for some reason) it's pretty much a must-have if you don't want to get killed horribly!
http://i.imgur.com/cvzYx.jpg

So you may notice that I have two swords equipped there. A flamberge and a nightblade.
I did not want the flamberge because it is piercing and piercing doesnt do much to slimes or robots.

HOWEVER here is where the problem occurs.
http://i.imgur.com/IHdP3.jpg
When I open my inventory it immediately highlights the top weapon. For no reason. I did not have the brandish equipped but it was highlighted as if I had equipped it. It had happened earlier with a calibur that I sold. I figured it was something I had done wrong. But it happens with whatever weapon is at the top of the inventory.

HOW I FIXED IT:

I scrolled down so the highlighted weapon went off-screen. Then scrolled back up. It was no longer highlighted, then I properly equipped it and I continued as normal.
- it only happens to whatever sword is at the top of the list
- it stops being highlighted once you scroll the highlighted sword off the inventory page
- it happens whether I am in a level or not. It happened in the bazaar as well.

Now obviously this isnt a huge problem. The sword APPEARS equipped but actually isn't. However I could see something like this being confusing and frustrating for newbies who are already struggling to figure out which sword they wish to bring with them to bonk enemies with. Simultaneously it COULD cause people to think they are geared properly for a challenge only to discover that the inventory bar has played a cruel trick on them!

Another small glitch was when I got disconnected from the game as the game was tallying up my heat:
http://i.imgur.com/EM7zx.jpg
Usually when I get disconnected I am brought straight to the login page. However the heat-tally came with me. As did the congratulatory music that plays when you go down an elevator. This played simultaneously with the log-in screen theme creating an amusing cacophony of sound. No buttons worked and I had to shut the game off with Task Manager in windows. After exiting the game, the music continued to play! And the only way to stop it from playing was to Control+ALT+Delete and shut down JAVA entirely! Not a game-breaking bug but certainly a very loud one.

As long as you devs are trying to fix little things like this for the full release of the mission system perhaps you could also fix this small problem:
http://i39.tinypic.com/25qabtd.png
(never got why slime and cyclops get to have poorly clipping accessories but the steam knight mask isn't allowed even though they look 20% cooler on it)
(pretty please?) ;_;

Anyway, that's all I have to report.

The glitch with the game continuing to play music after I have been disconnected or exited the game has happened to me before in the main non-test spiral knights client. However it happens to rarely (like once ever before), that I didn't think it was really important enough of an issue for anyone to worry about! Honestly it's probably a problem with Javascript and not the game itself. I say this because I notice that any Youtube ads that have direct-x or javascript in them tend to cause any youtube videos I close out of to continue playing sound even though the browser no longer is playing the video. Suppose its my fault for not using an ad-blocker!

Anyway

That's all I wanted to say.

- Nathan

p.s. i really like battlepods. they look cool. all the robot enemies in this game are cool.