Ahoy, space-huntsman! After a little over a year of development, we've finally made it! From game jam to Early Access, we've come a long ways and we're thankful for everyone that's supported us along the way. We added several new items and features, but spent most of this past week really polishing the build by fixing a ton of bugs and balancing several AI, items, and mechanics. Thanks to all of our early beta testers for helping us make this Early Access build a fun and stable one. :)
Blacksea Odyssey v0.5.0
Features Added
- Added new spear runes: 180 Shot I, II, III, and IV
- Added new epic consumable item: Manis Watch
- Added new epic consumable item: Athena's Whisper
- Added options menu to bounty select screen
- Added Game Over screen for win and lose scenarios
- Added new consumable item: Manis Watch
- Added blood effect overlay for when receive damage
- Added sfx for Charybdis
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed chests not appearing on sonar after being discovered
- Fixed inability to exit from bounty select screen
- Fixed bug where changing left/right item button froze mouse
- Fixed a bug where structures would grow off of the map
- Fixed a bug where the potion was unequipable during the tutorial
- Fixed a bug where invisible structures were created
- Fixed bug where previously unlocked achievements got relocked
- Fixed contestant scores and bounty history not being saved
- Fixed Leviathan blood beam firing when eyeball is retracted
- Fixed selected spear not being saved
- Fixed rare bug where one of the belt slots would stop accepting items
- Fixed bug where boosters would work occasionally
- Increased the collision accuracy of the spear and harpoon
Balancing
- Reduced Nom Nom Nom's chase speed by 15% and increased the time between his attacks
- Reduced harpoon's return speed by 20% (still up 10% from it's original speed)
- Optimized boost functionality
- Increased power of boost cooldown reduction runes by 10%
- Increased harpoon charge level 2 damage from 30 to 35
- Increased harpoon charge level 3 damage from 40 to 50
- Reduced blood spear chance of heal chance from 5% to 3%
- Increased chance of finding better items in the shop at later levels
- Increased chance of finding higher level repair kits
- Increased number of credits dropped from golden spear by 30%
- Slightly increased golden spear attack speed
- Prevent Kingfish bounty spawns during earlier rounds
- Made the tropical biome AI roughly 30% easier
- Made the crystle biome AI roughly 30% more challenging
Don't forget to post bug reports and feedback to the Steam forums! By the way, we're going to start posting weekly discussion threads on various topics, so be prepared to start sharing your thoughts more in the forums. :)
Thanks and enjoy the latest update!
- Team Blacksea Odyssey