This one is under the hood. v2.2 made the game fairer to play; v2.3 makes it behave. FIXED - Nanoshield was making you weaker. Picking it dropped your shield capacity instead of raising it. It now adds capacity, the way it always said it did. - Clearing a God Tier rush no longer throws away the run. Winning it awarded nothing while dying in it banked everything — the XP and tokens you earned are now credited either way. - Continuing a saved run is crash-safe again. If the game was killed between resuming and reaching the next stage, the restored run could be lost entirely. It is now saved the moment you continue. - A resumed run flies the ship it was saved with. Changing ship in the Hangar mid-campaign no longer swaps your in-progress run onto a different hull with mismatched health. - Retrying after a campaign clear restores your retry budget. - Double-tapping RETRY, LEADERBOARD or HOME can no longer leave a run in a confused state. - Weapon mod slots from your previous run no longer linger on screen at the start of a new one. FAIRER LEADERBOARDS iPad players had up to 63% more room to dodge than iPhone players, on the same leaderboard. The play area is now identical on every device. ALSO - A new animated title sequence on launch. - The leaderboard now tells you when it can't reach Game Center, instead of pretending nobody has played. - Tap the "?" on the main menu to replay the how-to-play tour.

EASIER EARLY STAGES You told us the opening was brutal, and you were right. Stages 1-15 have been rebalanced from the ground up: enemies have less health and hit softer, and the stage 10 boss has been pulled back hard. Stage 6 — the wall most pilots were hitting — is around 25% easier on both counts. Stages 16 and beyond are untouched. The climb still gets steep. CHEAPER FIRST UPGRADES The first four levels of every permanent upgrade now cost about half what they used to. Hull Plating starts at 100 instead of 200, Damage Core at 250 instead of 500, and the Revive Beacon has come down from 15,000 to 7,500. Your first real upgrade shouldn't take a dozen runs. BANK YOUR WEAPON MODS Tap an active weapon mod again to switch it off and keep whatever time it has left. Its timer freezes until you switch it back on, so you can save a mod for a boss instead of burning it on a corridor of grunts. Banked mods show exactly how much time they are holding, and they will not be thrown away when you pick up something new. LEARN THE SHIP New pilots now get a guided tour of the HUD on their first run — what your hull is, what shields do, where your weapon mods live. Tap the "?" on the main menu any time to run it again. FIXES - Weapon mod slots from your last run no longer linger on the HUD at the start of a new one - Tutorial cards now dim the background properly instead of sitting on top of live play - The ship reveal no longer stops appearing for the rest of the session after you skip the tutorial

100 STAGES. 10 BOSSES. The campaign now runs 100 stages across five sectors, with a boss every tenth stage. Five new ones join the ladder — Aurora Warden, Frost Leviathan, Crimson Juggernaut, Singularity and Quasar Siren — each transforming through three forms as you wear them down. DEATH ISN'T THE END OF THE RUN Reaching stage 88 and starting from scratch was never the idea. You now get two retries per sector: restart the stage you died on with a head start of upgrade picks scaled to how deep you'd gone. Spend both and you restart the sector — never the whole campaign. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Your run is saved at every stage. Close the app mid-fight, come back tomorrow, and CONTINUE puts you back with your level, your build and your hull exactly as you left them. KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BUILT The Armory now awards a pilot rank — Pro Pilot, Veteran Defender, Elite Gunner, Legend — earned from the upgrades you actually buy. Those purchases now show on every ship's spec in the Hangar, so you can see what you're taking into the fight before you launch. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Asteroid fields drift through every sector — the bigger ones split when broken • Real pilot names and colours on the leaderboards, plus a weekly board • Ship and boss introductions • Boss health bars now show the fight's phase at a glance • Armory rebalanced from top to bottom

Apex Drift 2.0 — our biggest update yet. • NEW MODE — RUSH: a relentless, ever-accelerating survival gauntlet with its own leaderboard. How long can you last? • EVERY WEAPON MATTERS: a full combat overhaul. Offensive upgrades are now tactical, timed picks you actively manage — no more autopilot. Read the fight, choose your edge. • SHIP IDENTITIES: every ship now plays differently — faster fire, tougher shields, quicker dodges, wider pickup range, and more. Find the one that fits your style. • NEW ENEMIES: dive-bombers that scream in from above, sweeping bouncers that dodge your fire, and enemies that shoot back. The galaxy fights harder. • GAME CENTER: 10 new achievements to chase, plus the new Rush leaderboard. • A SHARPER LOOK: redesigned heads-up display, all-new upgrade art, per-screen music, and a proper victory celebration. • Plus dozens of balance tweaks, boss fixes, and stability & cloud-save improvements. Thanks for flying with us. Drift on.

Bug fixes and polish: - Fixed a leaderboard submission issue: scores from campaign clears now register correctly on Game Center. - Reduced the difficulty of intro stages 1-5 for a smoother first-run experience. - Improved small-enemy hit detection — projectiles now register hits across the full sprite rather than only the center. - Zeus Cannon damage rebalanced for a more satisfying boss fight on Apex Nemesis. Thanks for playing Apex Drift.

Fixes a bug where the game would not properly complete after defeating the final boss at Stage 75. Players who clear Apex Nemesis now see a victory screen and earn their final run XP. Also enables the Run Score leaderboard on Game Center.