🐾 Astro Burn EA Update v1.9: Speed Zones, Weapon Upgrades & Co-op Fixes

Hello, cosmic co-pilots! We are back with another packed update based straight on your feedback. The cute-’em-up chaos just got faster, slicker, and much more satisfying.

Here is what’s new in v1.9:

🏎️ Introducing: Speed Zones!

The speedrunners asked for it… and we delivered! We have divided the screen into 3 distinct movement zones to give you ultimate control over your pacing and strategies:

• Left Zone = Normal Speed 🟢

• Middle Zone = Slight Speed Boost 🟡

• Far Right Zone = TURBO SPEED 🔴

Perfect for those who want to blast through levels at high velocity - but beware! Those incoming cute projectiles become much harder to dodge when you're flying at turbo pace.

🏆 Scoring Tweak

We made a little quality-of-life update to the scoring system. We’ve added a "+" next to the numbers to clearly communicate that No Death and Low Collision achievements are actually sweet bonus points added to your score!

⚔️ Weapons Overhaul

We’ve upgraded two of your weapons to make them feel far more slick, impactful, and satisfying to use:

• Green Projectile Upgrade: This bad boy now fires both forwards AND backwards! No more pesky critters sneaking up behind Astro’s tail. 🟢

• Electricity Bolt Replacement: Let’s be honest… the old electric bolt wasn’t pulling its weight and was causing a bit of a memory drain. So, we scrapped it! Say hello to the brand-new 6-degree spread shot, perfect for wiping out adorable chaos all around you at once. ⚡

🛠️ Technical Fixes & QOL Improvements

We’ve done some deep cleaning under the hood to make the gameplay experience smoother, especially for co-op mode:

🎮 Co-Op & Missiles

• Fixed screen padding checks for Player 2 in co-op mode.

• Fixed screen padding for auto-locking missiles (for both P1 and P2). Missiles will now only lock onto enemies if they are actually visible on your screen!

⚙️ Balance & Collision Adjustments

• Special Abilities: Balanced all special ability damage. Specials now inflict damage when colliding with Astro, operating on a cooldown to prevent unfair repeating triggers.

• Safe Zone Addition: Added a safe-zone collision area to prevent objects and enemies from being killed off-screen accidentally.

• Cleaned up the Base scene and Stage 3 Vertical.

📺 Menu & Intro QOL

• Intros: Increased the time to skip intros to 1.5 seconds so the skip button actually has time to show up.

• Credits: Added a handy "Speed Up" button to the credits sequence.

• Game Over: The intro now correctly goes back to the front screen to allow all global settings to reset properly.

• Note: We have locked the Language Screen for now as it is still incomplete.🐾 Thank you for all your support, praise, and criticism! Keep the feedback coming, and let us know what you think of the new Turbo Speed Zones!

  Ready? Steady? MEOW! 🚀🐈‍⬛