Starship Troopers: Extermination Hotfix 2 Will Target Server Performance and Hopper Bugs

The November 9 patch is scheduled for 10 AM PT and also addresses mid-session logouts, party invites, and an ore-canister issue in S.O.G Mission 11.

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A large winged Hopper flies toward a firing Trooper as other bugs cross a smoky battlefield.

Starship Troopers: Extermination Update 13 Hotfix 2 is scheduled to become available at 10 AM PT on November 9. Alongside server-side performance work, the patch addresses weapon mods failing to apply on spawn, ore-canister pickups in S.O.G Mission 11, mid-session logouts, party invites, and Hopper movement. Offworld Industries confirmed the timing in its Steam announcement.

The server changes cover BugMesh physics and hit detection, AI targeting and target caching, and the replication graph for Bug movement and physics. The notes cite an improvement of about 0.2 ms in per-bug server cost at maximum load, along with a 22ms improvement in fixed cost. Those are server-side figures, not a direct frame-rate measurement.

Hopper behavior gets another pass after Update 13 Hotfix 1 addressed movement jitter and wing weak points. Hotfix 2 adds avoidance intended to reduce clipping with other Bugs and improves Hoppers getting stuck while navigating.

Starship Troopers: Extermination Update 13 Hotfix 2 Patch Notes

Server Performance Improvements

Optimizations to BugMesh physics and hit detection on the server; we saw an improvement of ~0.2 ms per-bug cost on the server on maximum load, overall improvement of 22ms of fixed cost.
Optimizations to AI Targeting and caching of targets.
Optimizations to replication graph for bug movement and physics.

Highlights

Fixed weapon mods not getting applied on spawn.
Fixed S.O.G Mission 11 where troopers are not able to pick up ore canisters.

Gameplay & General Fixes

Fixed an issue causing players to get logged out mid-session around the 1 hour mark.
Fixed players being unable to invite players to party while in-game.
Improvements for clipping through the world when dying from fire or explosion.
Added avoidance to Hopper bugs, This should reduce clipping with other Bugs.
Improvements to Hoppers getting stuck when navigating.

Which Hotfix 2 change do you expect to matter most in your missions? Follow the continuing story of the server and Hopper fixes on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.

Starship Troopers: Extermination drops up to 16 players right into the fight against the Bug menace in this co-op first person shooter. Suit up and ship out to a far-off front as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry. It’s up to squads like yours to battle against hundreds of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens and take back fallen colonies for the Federation. The only good Bug is a dead Bug!