Warmfix Update — Meta Upgrades Renamed to Ranks (May 2, 2026)

The naming change that stuck

The line this wiki quotes most often, verbatim from the changelog:

Meta upgrades are now considered “Ranks” instead of “Levels” to reduce confusion with player levels.

Every mention of Ranks on this site — including the BeanZ and meta upgrades guide — traces back to this post. Before it, official material called them Levels.

What else the Warmfix changed

The changelog is a long quality-of-life list for the demo. The highlights:

• Animation Speed option in the settings menu, plus hold Click to speed up BigWave and Plugin Installer processing — “just like the boot sequence”.
• Skips in the Plugin Installers now refund the Key — relevant to key management.
• Luck now affects the success rate of zip and ram files — the first official statement tying a player stat to file type outcomes.
• Fixed: leveling up while opening a Safe Folder could break a run; end-of-game weapon stat displays; tooltips flipping orientation; RTL system languages flipping the whole UI.
• Added: Keygen music, PlayStation controller light that reflects current health, rarity colours for upgrades in BigWave, plugin tooltips in the Plugin Installer.
• The damage_level_scaling plugin was adjusted to Legendary rarity (from Epic) — the first time an official post named an individual plugin.

38,000 wishlists and the creator wave

The post also marked the game passing 38,000 wishlists — well beyond the developer’s 30k pre-release goal — and credited: the Indie Game Hub trailer feature (“nearly 250,000 Views”), Favij, Vinny from Vinesauce, KYRSP33DY and Chiblee.

Timeline

Playtest (Feb 2) → demo launch (Feb 13) → Next Fest (Feb 24) → Warmfix (May 2) → Demo Update 1.2 (Jul 14) → release date announcement (Sep 10) → Steam Deck Verified (Sep 17).