Overhauls and Refinements | Update 1.3 is live!

A-Star Theft: Overhauls and Refinements

A-Star Theft is getting improvements on many fronts, including revamped spritework and audio, a new tutorial, improved usability and tons of jank has been fixed!

Audio and Visual Upgrades

• Improved furniture graphics

• Improved floor graphics and shading

• Remastered ‘Escaping Snake’ music track in Action and Intimidation variants

• Added a large variety of footstep sound effects, which vary depending on the ground material

• Added sound effects for shooting paper

• Added bullet air sound effect

• Added more miscellaneous dialog lines

• Improved some fire effects

• Improved vault opening animation

Ease Of Use

• Improved many aspects of Stealth gameplay to make the strategy more approachable

• Improved settings menu interface and clarity

• Improved settings menu gamepad navigation

• Added different images for locked and unlocked doors

• Added animation to markers when entering a restricted area

• Changed frequency of dodge leaping

• Improved walking collisions with angled objects

• Improved Item Wheel graphics and usability

• Improved informational graphics

• Improved various other User Interface aspects

• Improved usability for interactions with civilians

• Improved graphics for several interactive objects

• Improved ease-of-use with many interactive objects

• Improved clarity of fire damage

• Slight improvements to melee combat

Miscellaneous Changes

• Updated credits to include a new developer: Tobias Johansson

• Redesigned the tutorial mission

• Added loot: Golden Toilets!

• Added a keycard to Museum

• Changed cursor to always start hovering on the getaway van, to remind players of the weapons store

• Updated main menu credits to reflect current sound effect usage

• Cleaned up and removed some unused game assets

• Miscellaneous Improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fixed starting the game windowed causing improper UI scaling

• Fixed settings scaling improperly when changing aspect ratio while in the settings menu

• Fixed some UI elements improperly drawing in the pause menu

• Fixed UI objective drawing offset when showing a headshot indicator

• Fixed common issues with dodge leaping into walls and furniture

• Fixed killing enemies instantly cancelling their bullet sounds

• Fixed improper enemy vehicle paths in Cocaine Collection

• Fixed exiting a minigame with the Escape key also pausing the game

• Fixed Justice Fox getting stuck in his car before Prison Raid

• Fixed Terrence Koeller sometimes staying after the dialog in Protection

• Fixed civilian intimidation symbol overlapping with interaction text

• Fixed action music not playing when starting another heist without restarting the game

• Fixed C4 explosive timer not pausing when game is paused

• Fixed cameras detecting player stealing loot from a wider angle than their vision cone

• Fixed NPC vision range with lower lighting quality settings

• Fixed noise indicator not showing on some missions

• Fixed cars moving through objects in The Port

• Fixed possibility to remain in Overview in the main menu

• Fixed a few animation errors

• Fixed a bunch of other jank

I hope you all enjoy these improvements!

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: contact@kehlercreations.com