playtest-v0.0.17

Stash Grabber Playtest · build 24152933 · published

On SteamNotes only · this build shipped before we watched the app

New — Boss Finales: 16 hand-crafted movement gauntlets

Every act's last two heists are now hand-built movement setpieces — no more generated finales. The reception is gone, the exit portal has moved, and the only way out is through a pure skill run. Each act teaches a technique in its penultimate level, then examines you on it in the finale — longer, tighter, and meaner as the campaign goes on.

  • Act 1 — Running Start / The Long Stride: first speed jumps; kill-floored chasms, then gaps that grow.

  • Act 2 — No Brakes / The Stretch: run-ups shrink; ends on a 4m gap that only goes if you never broke stride.

  • Act 3 — Between Walls / Laser Alley: wall-jump corridors over the void, lasers forcing high catches and low kicks mid-chain.

  • Act 4 — Breathing Room / The Compactor: the corridors come alive — walls slide and breathe as you pass between them.

  • Act 5 — Dead Weight / Double Time: momentum while carrying the HEAVY stash; then six chasms with tiny run-ups.

  • Act 6 — Thin Air / Flight Path: no ground — launch chains with stashes falling past the rims to snatch mid-air.

  • Act 7 — The Long Drop / Freefall: steer a 24m, then 36m fall through drifting laser bars.

  • Act 8 — The Gauntlet / One Last Job: a 29m living-corridor marathon, then one continuous no-checkpoint run ending on an 8m jump that demands preserved bunny-hop speed.

A miss is a clean instant retry, never a softlock. We know they're completable — tell us where they stop being fair.

New Options

  • Portal colour (cosmetic + colourblind aid).

  • Speedometer position — 5 screen slots.

Replay & Leaderboards

  • Highscores browser restyled to match heist-select.

  • View the current heist's leaderboard from the pause menu.

  • Own entry shows replay upload status + manual re-upload if it didn't reach Steam.

  • Failed ghost submissions now tell you instead of failing silently; PB-clobber bug fixed; custom-map ghosts auto-reattach.

Heads-up for returning playtesters

  • Leaderboards reset on the 16 finales (by design) and L40–L43 (sticky-goo moved to stay in act 5). All other boards carry over.

Also

Debug HUD-hide for clean capture, richer moving-hazard choreography, a docs pass. Every level is machine-verified to load, complete, and replay deterministically before it ships.

playtest-v0.0.17 · Stash Grabber Playtest build 24152933 · SteamPeaks