Here is Alpha 5 of Blacktrace! I got some feedback on the user experience of the game, so I started working on that first. Hopefully this makes the game less frustrating for new players. After that I worked on improving performance. While the game runs smoothly on most hardware, there are still some hiccups when a lot of explosions and bullets are in the scene. To resolve this I made the dismemberment and bullet wound system work on one job at a time. This makes bullet wounds show up later then expected, but in all the chaos this is hardly noticeable. 

Changes :

• Intro can be skipped after it's been shown once by pressing spacebar.
• Enemies flee the scene when they see a dead ally instead of telepathically knowing something is wrong.
• Added controls explanation to the lock picking screen.
• The map now shows the enemy paths as well while playing.
• Enemies can be shot off their bike when they try to flee, and you will still win.
• Increased shotgun spread and bullet count from 10 to 15.
• Removed automatically go out of cover when aiming too far from the wall.
• Increased the damage of the punch and knife slash.
• Added questionmark to bulletinboard to show explanation again.
• Reworked the bullet and bullet tracer system for better performance.
• Reworked dismemberment and bullet wound system for better performance.
• A lot more smaller fixes.