Crupt's Four-Year Anniversary

It's been a long time, a little over 3 years in fact. I have been working on this update off-and-on in the meantime and now its finally done! Although there will likely be another update in the coming weeks to add and fix some stuff I wasn't able to finish in time.

So what's in this update? The big takeaways are controller support, revamped UI, a new Item Selection menu, quality of life, and visual polish. I also gave the game's store page a facelift in case you didn't notice.

That list isn't specific enough for you? Enjoy this wall of text then!

Changelog

Totally reworked how menus function:

• Can navigate through menus using a keyboard/controller

• Buttons stay highlighted during screen transitions

• Buttons unhighlight when backing out of screens

• Sound for hovering over UI elements with the mouse is now used for all UI selection

• Added some pitch variance to UI selection sound

• Can now (finally) properly click and drag scrollbars

• All selectable UI elements now indicate that they are highlighted (most notable with items for sale in shops)

• Can no longer move while some menus are open (this is kind of a necessary consequence of adding navigation to menus)

• Changed how controls are displayed in all contexts (tutorial, shop UI, dialogue, rebinding buttons)

• Removed "Exit Closes Building UI" game option; the pause button now only pauses when other "exitable" menus are already closed

• Changed how skipping text crawl for dialogue is checked (text should now display instantly rather than having a short delay)

Added new Item Selection menu:

• Fades in when holding the Item Selection button (Tab by default)

• Fades out when letting go of the Item Selection button

• Can switch items by hovering over slots with the cursor and clicking or navigating using the new UI controls

• Slots will appear/disappear depending on what items the Player currently has

Controller Support and Button Bindings:

• Added controller support

• Changed how rebindings are saved to account for gamepad (NOTE: this means any rebindings set prior to this update will need to be set again, sorry!)

• Changed the default binding for Quick Switching to G

Ranged Weapons:

• Added an indicator that displays the weapon's charge and the direction being aimed towards (especially important for gamepad)

• Ranged Weapons now reset their charge when switching to another Ranged Weapon or cancel the charge if switching to an Empty Ranged Weapon

• Fixed new charges not properly starting in situations where the Ranged Weapon action was already being held (switching from an Empty Ranged Weapon to a non-Empty one)

Saving/Loading:

• Achievements no longer save whether they are a Colosseum Achievement to file

• Achievement goal values are no longer saved/loaded

• Fixed some NPC data being loaded from saves twice

• Greatly reduced the amount of loading done to display save slots on the main menu

• Fixed the Player facing the wrong way at the start of the game under some circumstances

Achievements:

• Made movements of Achievement Toasts smoother

• Achievement Toasts now maintain a queue of Achievements to display if additional achievements are unlocked while the toast is already being displayed (also works for unlocking multiple achievements at the same time)

• Achievement Toasts now render over most other UI (like dialogue boxes)

• Adjusted the positioning of Achievement Toasts slightly

• Changed the name and description of the "What Did You Expect?" achievement

• Made the "What Did You Expect?" achievement discoverable

Dashing:

• Player now has a colored outline while dashing

• Resprited dash particles and added animations

• Removed post dash invulnerability (was never actually implemented correctly in the first place)

• Cooldown between dashing is now a minimum of 0.5 seconds if an attack was successfully resisted (makes spamming dash much less effective)

Status Effects:

• Effect indicators now begin stacking upwards when a Creature has more than 5 visible effects (somehow)

• Tweaked how the height to place effect indicators above creatures is calculated

• Optimizations and fixes for effect indicators (no longer rebuilt every time a creature changes direction and instantiating them is less resource-intensive)

• Fixed Effect indicators flashing along with their source Creature

• Status Effects now keep track of the type of their source Creature

• Fixed deaths from Burning not incrementing the "Killed By" statistic in the Bestiary

• Tweaked how/where hit and burning particles spawn on all Creatures to better center them (also specifically tweaked the positioning on some enemies like Spuks and Blurts)

Blindness:

• Text displaying the controls for items now becomes gray when given Blindness to ensure it remains visible

• Made Blindness overlay animation smoother and adjusted the fading in/out timings

• Fixed the Blindness overlay not functioning right when loading in with Blindness (this also fixes the animation/sound playing when loading in)

Video Settings

• Changed default for Exclusive Full Screen setting to "false" (this means the game will now launch in borderless windowed by default)

• Removed the "Toggle Nonessential UI" button (this partially broke due to other changes and it was only really useful for taking screenshots; it's possible this feature will return in the future)

• Rearranged the buttons on the Video Settings menu and removed the "Other" label

• Fixed the Fullscreen option button switching between "On/Off" multiple times when the "Toggle Fullscreen" button is pressed

Minions:

• Refactored Minion target detection logic

• Minions now only jump to reach targets when closer horizontally

• Minions now only jump when necessary when targeting the Player

• Minions now have different max follow distances depending on whether they are targetting the Player or an Enemy

• Greatly decreased the max follow distance for Minions when targetting enemies

• Significantly decreased the lifetime of Pop bullets (to 1.25 sec from 5 sec)

• Decreased the damage of Pop bullets (to 1 from 2)

• Minions no longer target enemies while "hidden" (like invisible thrues)

• Minions are now affected by Blindness (currently unused)

• Fixed Minions' health not saving correctly

Cutscenes:

• Can now skip cutscenes that have been already been seen

• Indicated by text telling the player that they can skip by holding the "Cancel" button

• Can now pause during cutscenes (however the "Exit" button is restricted)

Bosses:

• Resprited 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th boss and other sprites associated with them (there are still mixels but there are proportionally fewer!)

• Made unique sprites for corresponding boss achievements by tweaking some of the boss's old sprites

• Refined hitboxes associated with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th bosses (in some cases significantly)

• Changed the Bestiary descriptions for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd bosses

• Changed logic of how 1st boss picks attacks so that a min of 1 and max of 3 other attacks are performed before flipping (prevents excessive waiting)

• Adjusted height thresholds for 2nd boss following downward/upward

• Removed unnecessary components on 2nd boss's telegraph particles

• Removed unnecessary component on 3rd boss

• Removed unused sprites for 3rd boss

• Adjusted 3rd boss's eye spawning and shooting positions

• Fixed centering of gibs associated with the 3rd boss

• Fixed 3rd boss's eyes using random scaling

• Tweaked animation of 3rd boss's heal eye to be more consistent with other eyes

• Fixed animation inconsistency with 3rd boss's shoot eye

• Changed layering of 3rd boss's bullets to render above the 3rd boss's eyes

• Fixed 3rd boss's eyes getting stuck on ledges/not becoming grounded when they should

• Fixed 3rd boss's heal eye moving too far out of bounds in some circumstances

• Added additional animations to 4th boss

• Tweaked the intro for the 4th boss (now hides UI and other timing differences)

• Removed unused sounds and audio components from 4th bosss

• Removed some redundant sprites used by the 4th boss

• Fixed a sprite for the 4th boss's explosion animation not being used

• Adjusted bullet spawn positions for the 4th boss

• Major performance improvements for the 4th boss's bullet attacks

Explosions:

• No longer delay and trigger hits in one instance

• Now have collision that lingers for the duration of the animation and smoothly expands/contracts

• Adjusted colliders to be more accurate to animations and compensate for staying active longer

• Fixed explosions disappearing slightly earlier than intended

• Explosions now properly keep track of their source Creature

• Fixed explosions not applying damage from their source Creature (likely affected Killed/Killed By stats among other things)

• Fixed Bullet Bomb bullets not applying relevant status effects from their source Creature

Dialogue/NPCs:

• Tweaked wandering behavior of NPCs to prevent them from moving too quickly

• NPCs now have their wandering distance capped to their max wandering distance (rather than having the distance to travel halved when attempting to wander above the max distance)

• Made Lirn and Firsin wander further from their respective buildings during Lumberjack/Farm waves to mitigate accidental interactions when trying to talk

• Tweaked Glab's Wave 7, 11, and 12 lines

• Changed Frit's Wave 12 line

• Changed Hili's Wave 15 lines

• Resprited Linirt to tweak shading

• Tweaked Siles Wave 12 and 17 lines

• Fixed various typos

• Fixed a Glab "Help" line not appearing

Added "Hide Unimportant Empty Items" Game Option:

• Is on by default

• Toggles whether "unimportant" empty items can be switched to

• Slots that are considered to have "important" empty items are Melee Weapons, Armor, and Accessories

• When on, cycling to an empty item in an "unimportant" slot skips over the empty item

• When on, if an item breaks in an "unimportant" slot the previous item in the slot will be cycled to (if a non-empty one exists)

• When on, if an "unimportant" slot contains only 1 non-empty item, it will be excluded from the new Item Selection menu

Added "In-Game Item Slots Are Clickable" Game Option:

• Is on by default

• When off, item slots outside of the new Item Selection are unclickable (prevents accidentally clicking a slot while attacking)

Lubs:

• Increased launch strength by about 33%

• Added a short cooldown before Lubs attempt to move or launch again after launching

• Lubs now must be grounded before launching or attempting to move

• Adjusted values related to when/where Lubs decide to start launching

• Slightly increased Lubs' slower speed when trying to position themselves for a launch

• Fixed launching attack not working (not sure when this broke)

• Fixed launching attack not being treated as a normal attack (this caused a bunch of bugs/inconsistencies; most notably it would often result in the attack ignoring invulnerability frames and it would not trigger relevant Colosseum Modifier effects)

• Fixed hitboxes not changing properly when launching (also contributed to being hit multiple times)

Squzzes:

• Cooldown for Squzzes' beam attack now decreases even if the Squz is very close to the Player

• Fixed cooldown for Squzzes' beam attack being frame-dependent

• Refined hitboxes

• Fixed getting stuck on ledges

• No longer collides with platforms (done to fix Squzzes' "pods" getting stuck, will likely change this to be less of a compromise in the future)

• Fixed beam becoming desynced

• Minor Optimizations

Huxes:

• Resprited shields

• Refined hitboxes

• Fixed shield becoming desynced

Misc. Visuals:

• Added particle effects when jumping

• Added particles for when Slingshot projectiles are destroyed on collision

• Improved Player's "petting" animation sprites

• Changed the size of item crack particles and the way they move upon spawning

• Made the progress bar bigger and slightly changed its appearance and positioning

• Slightly changed the positioning of the Wave Compass

• Wave Compass is now hidden when entering Glab's cave

• Added a brief fade in when the game first opens

• Made the animation of Glab's entrance sign slightly smoother

• Fixed Glab's entrance sign animation playing unnecessarily in some instances

• Fixed background not updating for a frame after dying under some circumstances

• Fixed idle animation playing during the Player's death animation in some circumstances

• Fixed Warp Borders appearing broken upon completing a Wave in some circumstances

Items / Item Slots:

• The "Bullet" of items in hand now immediately disappears upon the item breaking (rather than lingering for the normal duration of the use animation; this is most relevant for melee weapons)

• Added new Tintificator UI sprites and adjusted the sizing/positioning of tint labels and durability bars

• Fixed missing pixel on sprites associated with the Pants slot

• Fixed incorrect pixels on sprites associated with the Ranged Weapon slot

• Fixed incorrect pixels on sprites associated with the Consumable slot

• Adjusted sprites associated with the Ammo slot

• Adjusted sprites associated with the Melee Weapon slot

• Slightly moved Boots slot UI to be properly aligned with other Armor slots

• Slightly moved Pants slot UI to be properly centered between the Chestplate and Boots slots

• Changed how item slot flashing looks

• Fixed timing for item slot flashes (like when buying items) not being reset if slot was already flashing

• Fixed item slot flash not being reset properly if slot was disabled while flashing

• Fixed durability bars for slots increasing regardless of what item is currently equipped

• Fixed Buy Maximum Can Waste Durability game setting being on by default

• Fixed incorrect pixel in Lottery UI

• Removed code/sprites/game objects pertaining to an unused dedicated "Food" slot

First Time Volume Menu:

• Replaced "Back" button with a "Done" button that goes to the main menu

• Added a screen fade in (and out, might have already existed though?)

Screen Fades:

• Generalized how screen fades are handled

• Made screen fades smoother

Tutorial:

• Added a new section to the tutorial uses bullets to teach dashing/dodging

• Fixed Player facing right before scene transition when first exiting Tutorial

• Fixed brief loss of grounded state that could happen while walking in Glab's room

• Changed some lines and timings in the Bundle tutorial

• Fixed an incorrect tile in the Tutorial

Clipping:

• Changed player colliders to reduce chance of clipping (clipping is still possible in rare circumstances)

• Added failsafe for clipping that will readjust the player if clipping is detected (hopefully this kills any lingering clipping issues for good)

Save Slot Menu:

• Adjusted the spacing of the confirmation text when deleting a slot

• Fixed a typo and adjusted the confirmation text when restarting a run

• Added sounds when deleting a slot and restarting a run

• Fixed slave slot's sprite not properly updating when deleting the associated save under some circumstances

Misc Creature Changes / Fixes:

• Refactored logic relating to Creatures dealing/taking damage

• Attacks that deal damage and cause flashing now always produce at least 1 hit particle (previously attacks that dealt <1 damage produced no particles)

• Moved some Creature calculations from FixedUpdate into Update (namely for Flashing and Status Effects; this also fixes some Status Effects calculating their timings incorrectly)

• Fixed creatures' knockback multipliers being ignored in some situations

• Fixed enemies not being destroyed when exiting to the title screen under some circumstances

• Refined Blurts' hitboxes

• Fixed inconsistencies with how and when Creatures take knockback when resisting damage

• Fixed/refined logic determining when Spuks take damage (should make dealing contact damage from behind much more reliable)

• Fixed Rupts getting stuck on ledges

• Tweaked the logic of how most enemies decide to jump

• Removed unncessary "destroyOnSetup" tag from enemies

• Minor optimization when clearing leftover enemies after failing a Wave

• Fixed logic issues with how some enemies chose random actions

Misc Optimizations:

• Changed mesh type of sprites to tight rather than full rect (should result in some performance improvements? probably?)

• Camera now uses occlusion culling (might make rendering a bit less resource intensive)

• Removed some unused offscreen decorations on the main menu

• Removed some unnecessary wrapper objects

• Minor performance improvements from disabling "Use Player Logs"

• Removed a bunch of unused assets from the files (sounds, sprites, old prefabs)

• Removed/disabled a number of unused packages/modules

Miscellaneous:

• Removed Unity splash screen

• Fixed Player uncrouching delay using Time.fixedDeltaTime rather than Time.deltaTime

• Removed buttons for rebinding "Toggle Full Screen" and "Quick Switch" (will likely return in a future update along with a rework of the Controls screen)

• Adjusted timings and fixed a typo in the Wave 20 cutscene

• Fixed Steam achievements not being given/updated consistently

• Added a minimum delay to volume sliders' test sounds to prevent sound stacking/peaking

• Fixed the text for shop item displays having being targettable by raycasts

• Adjusted the hitboxes for the Lumberjack and Farm

• Fixed Interaction Indicator flashing when Player is attacked or heals

• Made music fades and scene transitions smoother

• Adjusted positions and offset ranges of crops

• Changed Auto-Pause toggle label from "Auto-Pause" to "Auto-Pause on Lost Focus"

• Many post-game content changes and fixes

Colosseum:

General:

• Reworked the flow of the Colosseum with both Modifiers and Prizes being chosen every Round (rather than alternating)

• Changed the Bestiary descriptions for all of the Minibosses

• The Buy Prize, Reroll, and Commit buttons are now disabled when unusable (such as when you have insufficient points)

• Streamlined interactions with Ini (less confirmations needed, reordered dialogue choices offered, this is still something that needs improving)

• Edited some dialogues to make them flow better

• Colosseum Assets are no longer unloaded and reloaded every time the game returns to the Title Screen

• Can now properly exit to title screen to interrupt first time intro sequence

Tinting:

• Selecting an item to tint no longer requires a confirmation

• Can now press Cancel to exit out of the Tinting selection menu before selecting an item to Tint

Modifiers:

• Fixed Enemies not checking if their attacker was the Player for Adherence (could allow Minions to deal damage)

• Changed Conflicted to only activate on every other dash

• Fixed Conflicted not being removed properly

• Damage from Consequences now ignores invulnerability

• Tweaked description of Critical and reduced uncrouch cooldown to 0.5 seconds (down from 1.5)

• Adjusted how Downfall checks to start charging and made it work indepedent of actually crouching (now works with Rigidity)

• Fixed Downfall not giving effects to enemies properly

• Tweaked description of Drained

• Fixed long Duplicitous Modifier combinations having their names cut off

• Fixed Duplicitous occasionally offering Modifier combinations that are mutually exclusive

• Exlcuded Duplicitous from appearing when less than 2 Rounds from the final Round

• Teleporter Entrances now produce particles when removed by Escape

• Changed how *Excessive* interacts with Modified

• Reworded the description of Gluttony slightly

• Removed the 2x dash delay from Guarded and reworded the description slightly

• Fixed Guarded visual not being properly removed if Modifier was removed while it was active

• Fixed Incendiary not affecting Minions

• Incendiary should now work properly with all sources of explosions/bullets (for both enemies and the player)

• Fixed Instinctual visual not being properly removed if Modifier was removed while it was active

• Excluded Investment from appearing when less than 4 Rounds from the final Round

• Fixed Effect indicators being rotated when dashing with Lofty

• Fixed logic for rerolling Modifiers with Modified

• Fixed Nostalgic bullets not giving effects to enemies properly

• Adjusted hitbox of Nostalgic bullets

• Adjusted positioning of Nostalgic bullets when crouched with Detached so that they do not collide with the ground

• Made Overflowing and Sacrifice mutually exclusive

• Fixed Outburst bullets not giving effects to enemies properly

• Fixed Outburst bullets not synergizing with Detached (also gave them unique spacing to help increase their range)

• Fixed Z-fighting on Outburst bullets

• Made Perfectionism and Nostalgic mutually exclusive

• Perspective now affects Minions (as a result of Minion aggro detection changes)

• Reworded the description of Redo slightly

• Fixed Reduction not counting damage taken from bullets

• Some bools pertaining to Repetition are no longer saved

• Repetition now gives +20 points but now also subtracts 2 from the current Round (up from 1)

• Excluded Repetition from appearing when current Round would be lowered below 1

• Fixed Restlestness not spawning particles when the Player is damaged

• Fixed Rigidity and Weak Spot not actually being mutually exclusive

• Fixed Unknown not working properly with Modified

• Reworded the description of Unsnippable for consistency

• Vacant now also removes all items (done to prevent it from being a consistently safe/boring option)

• Fixed incorrect point calculations for Vacant in some situations (especially with Modified)

• Fixed Vacant being activated when loading back into a run

• Reworded the description of Vapid

Pobs:

• Fixed Pob shoot sounds not playing and being stored incorrectly

• Decreased the lifetime of Pob bullets (to 2 sec from 3 sec)

Miscellaneous:

• Split up the logic for free Prize and Modifier rerolls

• Affecting the number of free Prize/Modifier rerolls given per Round now properly affects the free rerolls remaining for the current Round

• Fixed it being possible to get Modifiers randomly that were meant to be restricted (notable for modifiers like *Unknown*)

• Fixed some Modifers not being in proper alphabetical order on the Modifiers screen

• Minor optimizations when loading into the Colosseum

• Slightly adjusted positioning of Prize/Modifier buttons to be more flush with other UI elements

• Changed the sprite used for an unlock screen

• Fixed the text flash on the Modifier display using the wrong timings

• Fixed the scrollbar on the Modifiers screen and adjusted its appearance slightly

• hasChosenModifierThisRound and totalModifiersApplied are no longer stored/saved

• Fixed potential issue removing modifiers with a quantity greater than 1

• Current Modifiers UI no longer flashes when loading back into a run

• Changed how Stucks spawn and how Committing works

• Increased the point value of Stucks to 3 (from 1)

• Fixed being able to see out of bounds in some instances

• Cleaned up the transition after beating the final Round

• Fixed Befriended enemies hurting other Befriended enemies