Galactic Glitch v2.1 - Balance and rounding off 2.0

Hey everyone!

We've got a nice and big update for you today! This one adds a ton of balancing and improvements, as well as new music, new story beats, and unlocks the last areas of Infinity's Edge mode, including the final-final boss. We also took many Run Challenges down a notch, to make them shorter and more accessible to everyone. You'll also be able to select whichever of the menus you liked best, from all our previous updates, or even go back to vanilla 1.0 version if that's what you prefer!

Besides those main points, it includes a ton of fixes, improvements and balancing based off our community's feedback. Thanks you guys, you are awesome! <3

Let's get into it!

New Content and Improvements

• New final-final boss for Infinity's Edge mode
• New Menu Theme selection for main menu
• More story beats and new dialogue sequences
• Helper and Prototype rooms now spawn in Run Challenges
• More variety in reward room contents
• Updated IE boss encounters and gauntlet configurations
• Random mob mix spawning for more encounter variety
• Glitched Challenge Rooms now use boss music

Balance

• Buffed Flamethrower special attack
• Fixed and buffed Prismatic Beam special attack
• Buffed Dash Slash damage
• Buffed Lightning Charge power
• Buffed Juggernaut Junior and Bullet Storm minions' attack ranges
• Reduced boss armor on mini-bosses
• Increased boss armor on final bosses
• Golden UPs in IE mode are cheaper
• Golden UPs in IE mode are no longer discounted like shop discounts
• Backstab and critical hits now properly respect boss armor
• Line of Mines power startup times increased
• Increased duration of several corruptions
• Nerfed System Shock power damage
• Improved Shield powers spawn rates
• Fixed and reduced Lightning Railgun fire rate
• Reduced requirements for some Run Challenges
• Made some Run Challenges shorter
• Power popups now show bonus values dynamically
• Corrupted UP and Bond effects now show text when they activate
• Improved save backup system with conflict resolution
• Memory leak fixes for better performance
• Added Quick Restart for Run Challenges

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Golden UP prices displaying incorrectly
• Fixed various IE upgrade tree issues
• Fixed IE Mode Completed achievement not triggering
• Fixed Power Upgrade menu freeze
• Fixed shop teleport softlock
• Fixed jumpgate softlock
• Fixed in-progress runs not loading correctly
• Hurt Me Plenty and Battle Scars now trigger correctly
• Fixed game options not being saved
• Fixed dodge state getting stuck in boost mode
• Fixed infinite dodge out of bounds exploit
• Fixed Hub Upgrade Room Tree
• Fixed Shop strikethrough prices
• Fixed Supply Sabotage corruption not working
• Fixed Overcharged Systems triggering self-damage too often
• Fixed MissileFactory breaking Minion wrecks
• Fixed Static Field executing during pause
• Fixed Run Challenge powers duplicating on save/load
• Fixed issues with adding Power Slots during BO runs
• Improved compatibility between Juggernaut Junior and Friendly Firing
• Fixed Bargaining power not applying discount when swapped
• Fixed Dark Bargain logic, save/load, and effect display
• Fixed Helping Hand minion not always spawning
• Fixed Stunning Entrance not always triggering
• Fixed enemy issues (Insect Queen, Beamer, Glitched Conductor, and more)
• Fixed looping SFX during loading screens
• Fixed menu music playing during gameplay
• Fixed some Boss Achievements
• Added achievement recovery system
• And many more smaller fixes!

Thank You!

As always, your feedback and bug reports are super helpful to us. Keep them coming, we read everything!

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Happy glitching!
- Max and the Crunchy Leaf team

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