KILL THE MUSIC DEMO UPDATE: v0.35: Bug Fixes, Combat Polish and New Enemies

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! We’ve been hard at work on this first update, focusing on general polish to the combat and balance.

Main Changes:

• General Bug Fixes
• Improved Beat Sync stability
• New Enemy varieties (Exploding Enemy and Slow Projectile Enemy)
• Common Enemies now move to the beat of the music!
• Solo’s now increase the size of your instrument and hitbox.
• Changed balance to be slightly harder for earlier rounds and slightly easier for later rounds.

Our next update will focus on expanding our rhythm gameplay, new movement options and buffing builds that use multiple instruments. Stay Tune!

Change Log for Kill The Music Early Alpha v0.35

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where some upgrade options had problems correctly displaying in Current Upgrades in Pause Menu.
• Fixed issue where description text for Reroll and Deal where mixed up (Deal now says -5 Max HP and Reroll says -5 HP)
• Improved Beat Sync stability
• Fixed issue where Beat UI would shake on player movement
• Fixed issue where upgrade “Keyboard Spin Up x2” had no functionality
• Fixed issue where upgrade “Keyboard Projectile Block” had both it’s correct functionality and the “Keyboard Spin Up x2” functionality
• Fixed issue where upgrade rarity was sometimes not correctly displaying in Current Upgrades in Pause Menu.
• Fixed issue where some Curses had no functionality
• Fixed issue where Damage Up and Beat Damage Up round reward did not increase damage enough.
• Set “No Heal” to apply to the guitar’s starting character condition heal effect.
• Set Damage Up and Beat Damage Up round start rewards to appear more often for round conditions that contain Curses.
• Fixed Beat Sync on certain lower BPM songs.
• Drum Enemy “outline” set to a darker grey for better visibility.

Balance

• Increase eye spawn and actual enemy spawn delay (to give player a better chance of avoiding getting hurt on enemy spawn)
• Increased spawn rates for earlier rounds
• Reduced Kill Quota in later rounds
• Set Enemies to attack more frequently
• Buffed upgrade “Projectile Reflect” to now reflect a larger slower moving projectile to make it more likely to hit enemies. ss
• Buffed Guitar as a starting character by removing the negative condition of -50% DEF.
• Reduced player knockback and stun on player hurt.
• Added additional invincibility on player hurt and added “blinking” fx for indication.
• Lowered enemy projectile damage to player.
• Added additional “afterimage” effect to Dashing Enemy and Move on Beat Enemy.
• Changed “COPY MAXUP” upgrade to just “COPY UP +1” to make it more incremental
• Set Drum default projectile speed to be slower.
• Increase Guitar default damage to x2 to compensate for its limited area of effect.
• Increase Guitar Beam upgrade damage
• Increase Bass Vortex upgrade damage

General Change and Polish

• SOLO: The active soloing instrument increases x2 in size
• TUTORIAL: Set beat tutorial highlight to only go away if player hits four beats
• TUTORIAL: Set players to “repeat” tutorial if they die mid-tutorial, except for final tutorial step.
• TUTORIAL: set solo tutorial highlight pause to only progress if player activates solo
• TUTORIAL: Adjusted Round Start options
• NEW UPGRADE: Def Up on Solo
• NEW UPGRADE: Atk Up on Solo
• NEW UPGRADE: Modified functionality of upgrade “Drop: Shockwave” to “Drop: Projectile” to launch several large projectiles on pick up.
• NEW ENEMY: Set Common Enemies to “move on beat” to our more emphasis on rhythm.
• NEW ENEMY: Added new enemy that fired a slow moving large projectile
• NEW ENEMY: Added new enemy that explodes into projectiles on kill or if near the player for enough time.
• UI: Added Round Start Kill Quota and Timer estimate previews in Round Start Menu.
• Add afterimage effect to Drum and Keyboard attacks on solo and when speed altering upgrades are present.
• Added a slight “tint” to the background on beat to emphasize rhythm more.
• Adjusted room borders to prevent players from walking into areas covered by the environment.
• Set song order on run start to prevent repeats.
• Set Solo Added tracks to fade out on solo end.
• Set Enemies to same grey tint on Round End when Solo is activated to clarify that the enemies are frozen.
• Set Items to despawn after a set amount of time. Indicated by a blink effect.
• Tinted “chain shockwave” fx white for better visibility in forest area.

Known Issues

• Curse: Enemy Speed x2 effect is too subtle to detect
• Round Start Estimate Time formatting issue persists, got a 2:8 when the actual time was 2:08 (kill quota + timer room)
• For some songs (sometimes triggered by pausing mid-song) certain beats will be skipped by the beat UI.
• UI Message on Defense Up! On solo has incorrect messaging (can say meter up! Or take on property of other Solo Stat Up! messages)
• Overall SFX for Songs 10 to 15 are too loud
• Solo Defence Up or Defence Up in general seems to give inaccurate damage numbers (ie. red text on player would say 22 but the actual damage removed from health bar is 12)