Neonflipper -> Cathode Arcade

Neon flipper Playtest · published · build 26355986

New

  • New name: The game is now called Cathode Arcade,
  • Endgame Cutscene „Insert Last Coin“: Once all seven skill trees are fully upgraded, one final node appears in every tree. It costs 10M of every currency and starts its own closing sequence with credits. After that you can replay it any time for free.
  • Bounty: A new global node puts a bounty on a machine you haven't played in a while. Play it and earn +15 / +30 / +50 % income.
  • Jeton Stakes: Every jeton can now be upgraded on its own, up to 1 % share per chip and at most 5 % in total.
  • Learn the controls while playing: The picture tutorials are gone. When an action becomes available for the first time, the game slows down and shows you the key to press. Time only speeds back up once you do it. All save files go through the guide once more.
  • Skill tree progress: From 90 % on, the tree tabs fill up and show a percentage. A finished tree switches on like an old TV, sparks included.
  • Afterburn in the header: While a machine's Afterburn is running, its currency glows up top as a small CRT screen.
  • Photosensitivity warning shown once on first launch.

Menus & Visuals

  • More resolutions: 14 window sizes from 16:9 up to 32:9, fullscreen at native resolution. Menu and hub use the full width, the machines stay at 16:9.
  • Sharper graphics at high resolutions.
  • New number abbreviations: Large numbers now use B, T and beyond.
  • Skill trees reorganized: The Global tree now has a new star layout, and the Jeton branch and the Asteroid tree were rearranged as well.

Bug Fixes

  • Your balance is never shown higher than it actually is.
  • Prism Break: Poison damage had no effect at all and now works. Small Sticky Net multipliers no longer get lost. The end screen with a tutorial hint no longer grows endlessly long.
  • Plasma Swarm: Emergency Laser, thermal orbs and poison counted their Plasma Cells twice. The thermal orb now deals its damage independent of frame rate.
  • Neon Maze: The chain pellet no longer shortens the pellet duration. Elite Pellet bounties only appear with the matching node. Risk crystals now give 30 ◈ directly.
  • Asteroid: HP values are rounded instead of cut off.
  • Bounty: The end screen now correctly scales the other income contributions by the bounty.