This is the largest update to Octbuster yet.
Thank you to everyone that has participated in the playtest so far and joined the Discord. The community over there is getting bigger everyday, and it's filling up with some pretty amazing, creative people.
If you are not in the Discord already and you are a playtester, please be sure to join!
Buckle up, cause here come the patch notes:
New stuff
4 NEW UPGRADES!
Tame the Grump upgrade: new upgrade that stops Grumpy from knocking your tapes off the shelves.
Googly Eyes upgrade: giant googly eyes on the cart with real physics on the pupils!
Shelf Sense upgrade: will help highlight which shelf cabinet the tape you are holding belongs in.
Juggler's Hands: After pulling tapes from the cart, you will automatically juggle the tapes into alphabetical order.
Comic-book words pop out of sounds at the source of the sound. (Settings > Gameplay toggle to turn off.)
New tutorial design and fixes for a bug that would falsely flag a tutorial sequence as already completed.
Hero wall Equalizer layout is a real EQ visualizer whenever music plays.
Store PA play order: every enabled song plays once per loop, never the same song twice in a row, a newly found cassette plays next.
Reworked upgrade gating, upgrades now always have a max of one prerequisite.
The advanced audio menu is now functional and has been redesigned.
It now defaults to a view that shows sounds that were recently played, which makes it much easier to track down the sound you would like to alter or disable.
Redesigns
Tutorial text moved from the corner to a centered line above the crosshair and acts more like a notification.
Unspent point reminder now sits mid-screen and the control to open the Terminal pulses.
Terminal opens on UPGRADES whenever you have a point to spend.
Every tutorial arrival now has a sound: prompt, step complete, lesson open, etc etc.
Reduce Motion: juggle cascade slides instead of flies; shelf aura stops pulsing; googly eye pupils calmer.
Map: tapes lying close to the store's walls are no longer painted over by the outline.
Advanced audio menu: opens on Recently played (what just made noise, newest first), Show all toggle, modified sounds tinted and marked, and Reset all button.
Prop placement snap is now 0.2 m (was 0.1).
Fixes
Fixed issue where settings lists could show every row as "Action" after a language change.
Custom music file that fails to decode is benched until the next rescan instead of retried.
Grump re-enabled mid-stare no longer keeps stale perch state.
Have fun!
-Alex