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Links to all waves of Ashes of Equestria.

Wave 5.5

Ponyville map has gone through bug fixing and improvements, new grey-box/model assets used to populate the map.
Starting zone is now in Sweet Apple Acres and the old item platform was removed. Items and weaponry are now placed across the town, so you'll need to explore to find the good stuff.
A new achievement system to track your progress as well as fun little objectives to complete.
New weapon (Zebra Assault Rifle) added to the lineup, as well as new edible consumables like food and drinks. Magic has also been changed so that you have to find magic scrolls for new spells dotted across the map. Your Pipbuck will now also give you more stats and information in regards to these new items.
Male pony raiders have been added and old enemies like Radroaches and Bloatsprites return. In addition Raiders and Protectiponies have regained the ability to speak again.
Visual enhancements like improved pony eyes and horn magic effects.
New character customization options such as horns, body paint and height.
Console command access, allowing the usage of a few cheats we use internally for testing, and some shenanigans.
Fixes and improvements to music and audio.
And more

Significant performance improvements, including:
Amplify Texture, a virtual texturing solution that largely eliminates GPU memory limitations
NodeCanvas AI framework, which runs much faster than the old one, improving CPU usage.
Our custom Overworld system, which reduces the objects in-memory and being drawn, improving overall performance and memory requirements
A hugely reduced renderer count due to selectively combining meshes together. This eliminates the large CPU overhead which was causing the terrible performance in densely cluttered areas such as Ponyville
Grouping script events together to further reduce the API overhead
Further development of Ponyville, with new areas, models, clutter and architecture
New weapons and spells:
Grenades
Teleportation, including a sweet custom particle effect
An improved character creator, with war paint and an enhanced colour picker
Basic experience gain and level up functionality
Improved inventory management: a 'transfer' screen with a Fallout 4-inspired preview
A very cool magic glow effect for unicorn horns