Build 25402851

Version 2.0 is out! This is the biggest update Bulletail has had. A lot of it is under the hood, but you'll feel it the moment the first sniper lines up a shot.

New

• Enemies shoot back. Snipers now fire aimed shots, with a red aim line just before each one so you can dodge. Every boss has its own attack: the Swarm King fires rings of bullets, the Tank Destroyer fires aimed spreads, and the Speed Demon fires quick single shots.

• Short grace after a hit. After a bullet hits you, other bullets pass through for a moment, so one volley can't take your whole tail.

• Your Steam account on the main menu. Your avatar and name show in the top corner, or a warning if Steam isn't connected.

• Proper buttons on the death screen: Play Again and Main Menu.

• Compatibility mode. If the game crashes or glitches on your graphics card, pick the "no GPU" launch option to render without it.

• The version number now shows on the main menu.

Changes

• Saves work offline. Progress is always saved on your PC and synced through Steam Cloud when it's available, so you can play anywhere and pick up where you left off.

• Better performance, especially with lots of glowing enemies and bullets on screen.

• Fonts and icons are built in, so the game looks the same on every PC and text displays properly in all 17 languages.

• More of the interface is translated.

• Updated Steamworks integration.

• Bosses now take a moment after arriving before they attack or use their special ability.

• Multishot now fires a three-bullet spread.

• Boss rewards are now the same in both modes and scale with the wave.

• Weapon switching is gone. The game only ever gave you the pistol, so the number keys, D-pad switching and the weapon slot in the HUD have been removed.

• Upgrade cards can be picked with a controller.

Fixes

• Ammo Regen, Rapid Fire, Multishot and Lucky Snake did nothing. They all work now.

• Boss Rush always sent the Swarm King. Bosses now rotate properly.

• Boss Rush didn't count boss kills, so your bosses defeated stat and the boss no-hit achievement never updated.

• The Boss Rush timer kept running while paused.

• Boss Rush saved your shortest run as your best time instead of your longest.

• The Speed Demon's dash attack never actually moved it.

• Having every upgrade maxed out (around wave 41) left you stuck on the upgrade screen.

• Quitting on a boss wave and continuing skipped the boss.

• Pressing Escape on the upgrade screen could break it.

• Releasing the mouse over a menu could leave you firing nonstop.

• Powerup timers in the corner didn't count down.

• The Shield powerup stopped bosses from using their special abilities.

• Pressing Escape in Settings (opened from the pause menu) left Settings on screen while the game kept going.

• Taking two hits at the same moment could trigger game over twice.

• The HUD showed faintly through the main menu, and the pause text appeared twice.

• A low hum kept playing while the game was minimized.

Thanks for playing! If you run into anything, let us know in the discussions!