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Demo Patch 1: The 'We Are Now Watching You' Update
Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who has jumped into the demo so far. We’re pushing a small update tonight to fix some under-the-hood plumbing, overhaul the sounds, and hook up our analytics so we can actually see how badly the game is beating you up.
What we changed and fixed:
We hooked up our backend analytics. We now meticulously record the exact enemy tag that ends your run. If the Pulsar beam is killing 90% of you, we will see it, and we might even nerf it. (Don't worry, the data is completely anonymous).
Our internal data charts were calling player upgrades 'waves' even though there are no distinct waves in this game. We fixed our own math so we stop confusing ourselves.
We realized almost every button in the menus used the exact same generic click placeholder, so we went in and gave them all distinct, actual sound effects. The main menu is also no longer awkwardly silent.
Stellar Ejection and Tidal Disruption actually make noise now instead of just looking pretty. We also finalized the explosion sounds for Supernova and Shockwave.
The background music no longer fights the game to the death for your attention. We lowered the default volume, and the music will now dynamically dip down when you fire a Supernova. (We didn't do this for Perfect Pulse, because you spam it too much and it made the soundtrack stutter).
You can now audibly tell the difference between you hitting an enemy, and an enemy hitting you. Important distinction.
The Wishlist and Feedback buttons on the death screen are finally wired up properly. They were trapped inside a weird UI wrapper that made them invisible to our click-tracker, and we had to dig through 8 different files to fix it. Please click them so we feel better.
I found a pause menu sound file that I completely forgot to actually save into version control. It's in the game now. My bad.
If the game breaks, please yell at us in the new Bug Reports or Feedback forums on the Community Hub. Keep dying, keep clicking feedback, and have fun!