Hello everyone — Egg Code here. This one is mostly about boss encounters, and it started with your feedback: the full-screen WARNING banner was doing more interrupting than warning, especially now that a late sector can send several bosses at you.
The boss WARNING banner is gone. The audio alert stays — you will still hear a boss coming, you just will not lose the screen to a banner while you are dodging. This was the single most common note we got about the gauntlet sectors.
The boss health bar now shows the whole encounter. In a multi-boss fight it tracks the encounter as a whole rather than whichever boss happens to be on screen, with a row of small pips underneath showing how many have arrived so far. (Pips only appear when an encounter actually has more than one boss — a single-boss fight shows just the bar.)
Splitter bosses were paying out four times too much. A Splitter that broke into fragments paid a full boss reward for every fragment instead of one reward for the whole lineage. That is fixed, so expect noticeably less scrap from Splitter encounters than you have been getting — the old number was the bug, not the fix.
Respawning no longer resets the wave difficulty. Using a checkpoint sent the wave escalation back to game-start values, which quietly made the rest of the run easier than it should have been.
The respawn indicator tells the truth. It used to advertise a life that sector 1 would refuse to give you. It now only appears when you actually have a checkpoint to return to.
Your shots are easier to pick out. Player fire now renders as an elongated streak while enemy fire stays square, so friend-or-foe reads by shape and not by colour alone. (Useful for everyone, and specifically for players using the colour-blind modes.)
Under the hood: Windows and macOS builds now report the correct version number in file properties and Get Info — the last few releases identified themselves as "2.0.0" there while the in-game version was right. Enemy spawn variety also moved onto the simulation's own random stream, so a given seed plays out identically every time.
Found something? Bug Reports & Tech Support has a template that goes straight to the people who wrote the code — the banner change in this patch started as exactly that kind of report. 💙
— Egg Code · Solid Fill Games