0.9.2 Patch Notes

New stuff

• You can now purchase unlocks for your ship with crystals collected in the classic game mode. These include color variations and some model changes
• Sentinel enemy has a completely new alien visual instead of the robot model
• Chaser has new animations and more telegraphed shots
• Turtle has a new cleaner model with new animations
• Cloud Saves. Steam should now sync your save file.
• An “Are you sure?” popup shows up before abandoning a run
• Adjusted camera and physics to allow for smoother camera movement. Everything should feel a lot smoother and it could also help prevent motion sickness.

Balancing

Enemies

• Squids - Reduced damage 80->60
• Squids - Reduced projectile speed
• Squids - Reduced projectile range slightly
• Squids - Increased shot frequency
• Spitter - Before exploding it shows the affected area, similar to Space Mines
• Spitter - Explosion now damages enemies
• Spitter - Increased damage
• Scorpion - New fireball visuals
• Volcano planet - Reduced damage (100->80)
• Firestorm planet - Increased damage (20->80)
• Added more gas flowers in toxic world

Modules

• Homing launcher - Increased damage slightly
• Homing launcher - Increased range slightly
• Homing launcher - Increased rocket speed
• Artillery - Reduced price from 6->5
• Crossbow - Increased price from 4->5
• Boomerang - Reduced throw distance from 20->18
• Boomerang - Reduced speed
• Double Laser - Increased ammo usage
• Double Laser - Reduced range slightly
• Laser shotgun - Reduced Ammo usage
• Reflective Armor - now tries to aim reflected projectile towards the enemy attacker
• Mining Drone - Can now mine for crystals. Asteroids that contain crystals will drop an additional crystal nugget for every mining drone attached to your ship.
• Mining Drone - Removed from Swarm game mode
• Toxic launcher - New model and larger area of effect with more damage

Other

• The last few levels max size has been reduced
• Finding home now grants 5000 bonus score
• Moved planet clouds back a bit to stop them from covering the action too much

Bug fixes

• Boomerangs should no longer get stuck in the air
• Escape should once again be working to exit build mode
• Re-enabled build mode cushions that push ship away from walls and planets to prevent you from building into the wall
• Fixed how exploration would sometimes be inconsistent with larger ships.
• Boomerang - Boomerang speed should now be frame rate independent

Other

• Ship will no longer be on fire in the Victory screen
• When finishing the daily and the scoreboard shows up, the background will fade out to make the ship preview in the UI more readable.
• Removed the “Saved oxygen” score calculation when playing without oxygen limit.
• Main menu now has the same pretty skybox as the in-game World 1 levels.

Comments

I hope you enjoy this new update, it has lots of small quality of life improvements and I hope the new Skin system will add another dimension to the play.
Happy New Year!