Boomerang X Patch 1.01

Thanks to everybody who played Boomerang X in our first week! Thanks as well to everyone who provided feedback and bug reports. This is our first Boomerang X patch. It is a quick one, and we have more coming soon that will take a little longer to be finalized. In this update, we focused on three major categories: bugs, quality of life improvements, and a tiny bit of balance.

Bugs

• Fixed a stuttering issue that was mostly visible on high refresh rate monitors
  • Special thanks for Jinglebuns and hologram_sam for their footage and help

• Fixed issue that sometimes prevented the door after the Composers Garden from opening
• Made portals consistently face you towards the next area when exiting, even if you jump in backwards
• Fixed floating lumberer spawn points in Resonance Engine
• Reset abilities upon death in tutorial arenas (Cartography Room, Composer’s Garden)

Quality of Life

• Pausing the game no longer pauses the speedrun timer
• Added a dot to the speedrun timer that changes color depending on the current difficulty setting
• Made some accessibility options change the color of the speedrun timer
• Breaking the level start crystal now heals all shields
  • Entering the arena already did this, but sometimes people would take environmental damage before starting the level.

• Made the exit at top of the stairs in the Resonance Engine more visible
• Support for dualsense gyroscope (PS5 Controller)

Balance

• Made the gem on the frog’s belly easier to hit
• The giant moth’s babies that protect it are now slightly faster
  • This will actually make it easier, because they will be closer to it instead of getting so spread out.

• The giant moths now wait slightly longer before dropping their first bomb
• Made eagles turn more slowly when hovering
• Made eagles breathe fire in a more consistently forward direction when hovering
• Lowered fly spawn points in tutorial arenas (Cartography Room, Composer’s Garden)
• Goo floors now activate Blaze without damaging you
• Moved gems in Needle tutorial to make it harder to complete without using Needle
  • We saw too many people walk through without doing the tutorial.

• Retimed recall tutorial slightly
  • Made it a little more strict, and require you to actually recall the boomerang to get through this tutorial