Huge content update with 12 new modules, a new enemy, performance increases, better gamepad support, other improvements and a little holiday cheer.
New Modules
Weapons
- Slingshot
- Double Laser
- Laser Shotgun
- Homing Launcher
- Boomerang
- Furnace
- Snow Cannon
Passive
- Reflective Armor
- Battle Drone
- Shield Drone
- Mining Drone
- Radar
New Enemy
- Spitter (Fire world enemy)
Holiday cheer
- The grass planet is covered in snow. Forecasts say it will stay like that until January
- All enemies have put on their santa hats
Huge performance increase
- We have been doing a lot of optimization and the game should run a lot smoother
Better controller support
- Most controller types like the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller are now supported
Balancing and improvements
- Crossbow reduced speed and range
- Space Mines in world 3 now explode in a larger area
- You can reroll the items in the shop up to three times for a fee.
- New repair station model
- Modules now align and rotate better in the build mode list
- New, but familiar looking models for most modules
- New Larva model to increase their visibility
- Goo Launcher -> Toxic Launcher now creates a toxic area that deals damage.
- New Ammo pickup model
- Play cards in menu better reflect if the tutorial or the normal game mode will start
- Death screen now supports “Killed by” from all damage types and not just enemies
Bug fixes
- Dying in swarm mode just as timer runs out will no longer warp your wreckage to the next level
- You should no longer lose focus when navigating the menu with a gamepad
- The pause menu and other sliding UI elements will always end up in the correct place on all frame rates
And countless other tweaks to damage values, visual effects, models, physics and more.
Comments
It’s been a while but we’ve been hard at work adding all this new cool stuff. We have tried catching any bugs in our playtests but if there are any left, please let us know in this community or on our Discord server in the #bug-reports channel.
The changes we’ve made to the module alignments and directions will break the old ship save files on the scoreboard so we have changed the starting date to today.
Please enjoy!
Jonas and Jacob
Red Cabin Games
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