Early Access V0.0.9.0 — Learn the Game with Power-up Prompts

New Features

  • Power-up prompts displayed on pickup. These include the icon, name, and description. Currently these are enabled in the English locale only.
  • Power-up prompts are displayed up to 10 times per game in campaign mode, and suppressed in Free Play mode.
  • Detonated mines will now also damage nearby enemies.
  • Enemies that detonate on destruction will now also damage other nearby enemies.
  • Turning speed power-ups are now visualized as lateral thrusters.
  • Upgraded main cannon (velocity and damage) now also applies to Primary Weapon power-ups in addition to the default weapon. You’ll also see a subtle increase in size of the bullets.
  • When a ship upgrade (turning, cannon velocity/damage) is maxed out you no longer can pick up additional upgrades leaving them for other players.
  • Ship upgrades (turning, cannon velocity/damage) persist until all lives are lost — that is they are reset at the start of the game and on each continue.

Gameplay Tweaks

  • Max turn speed increased by 10%.
  • Tweaks to previous/mini-boss spawning.
  • Terminator MK II now has a few extra surprises.
  • Mini-bosses are likely to grant a power-up, but not a 100% chance.

Previously Released Patches

  • Previous bosses during later levels were not deploying as they should, and this was corrected shortly after V1.0.8 was published.
  • Stability improvements.

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Early Access V0.0.8.0 — Snakes that Spit Bullets?!?

New Features

  • Infiltrator bosses now fight back.
  • Support OSX retina display.

Gameplay Tweaks

  • Reduced damage done by mines.
  • Adjust limits for mini-bosses.
  • Make mini-bosses vulnerable before destroying all turrets.
  • Improve enemy targeting systems during multiplayer.
  • Reintroduced previous bosses during levels.

Issues Addressed

  • Fix manual resizing of window in OSX/Linux.

Previously Released Patches

  • Fix failure to launch on certain retina enabled OSX devices.
  • Fix crash when language is set to some non-English languages (i.e. Russian).
  • Fix depth issue between bosses.
  • Several stability improvements.

Other

  • Update support libraries for OSX/Linux.

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