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Sorry for the late reply (time zones and school). I believe it might have been the dark background thing (I have seen the yellow flashes occasionally) so I went through different coloured backgrounds and tried it out. Only a few times did I catch the a black flash instead of nothing (this was on brighter backgrounds) so I think you are mostly right. However (this may be just me or my copy of the demo), I am very sure I did catch a few times the core disappearing entirely when it was on two different backgrounds e.g. edge of a tree (if that makes any sense, hopefully that was helpful).

As a suggestion I recommend changing the black flash to a different dark colour as I found it quite jarring when I first saw it and I need to look closely to occasionally see the black flash.

Is this something other people also encounter or is this just me?

Thanks SolarLune for the clarification. It makes sense now as I can even see the a platform hanging in the wind. By the way, the game is really fun and the hub is engaging and really made me invested and excited for the next part.

I was using the voltline core while using the shears legs and I noticed that when I switched direction the core would disappear for a split second before showing back up. I figured this may have been due to the mechanic of recharging energy when you move back and forth, so I starting shooting my gun (shepherd arm) and when I started to recharge by moving back and forth, the core would disappear sometimes again. I don't know if this is intentional but I figured you should know as sometimes it can be jarring.

TL;DR sometimes the core image will disappear when recharging energy.

I probably sound stupid for not figuring this out but I don't know how I'm supposed to reach the first relay dish. After talking to twent you go up to the long vertical room but there's a platform I can't jump onto so I'm stumped. I tried to see if there was an upgrade that solves this (e.g. double jump) but all I found was the Rovoxx core.

I'm just wondering if this is a puzzle I need to solve (if it is I'd appreciate some help) or if it's for the demo.