Development Update – v0.116.0

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Highlights

• Several new arenas added to full game and demo.

• Arenas can now be individually toggled on or off.

• Added Ram Damage stat and upgrades.

• Overhauled the shield system, including new visuals and improved behaviour.

Full Changes

Arenas

• Several new arenas added to full game and demo.

• Arenas can now be individually toggled on or off to control whether they appear in the arena rotation

• Increased scale of background materials to improve clarity.

• Updated map generation so terrain outlines are bolder and more consistent

• Improved terrain colliders to:

  • Reduce tanks getting stuck on collider seams.

  • Lower the chance of bullets and bombs clipping through walls.

• Arena name and author are now shown before each round during gameplay.

Tanks

• Tanks now bounce off other tanks when boosting into them.

• Tanks can now deal damage to other tanks or destructible terrain by boosting into them.

• Improved collision handling to resolve edge-case quirks and make ram damage more consistent.

• Reworked shields, removing physics issues caused by shields spawning in.

• Overhauled shield visuals.

Stats

• Renamed Impact Damage stat to Shell DMG.

• Renamed Explosion Damage stat to Bomb DMG.

• Added Ram DMG stat.

Upgrades

• Added Reinforced Bumper upgrade.

• Added Kinetic Conversion upgrade.

• Added The Goat upgrade.

• Updated Boost Overclock upgrade.

• Added conditions to turret and shell related upgrades so they are excluded when a tank has no barrels.

Visuals

• Reduced scan line intensity for improved clarity.

Settings

• Added a Screen Shake Intensity setting, allowing players to reduce or disable screen shake.

UI

• Changes to UI rendering have made its colors appear more vibrant.

• Several minor improvements to feedback for mouse and gamepad input.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue which resulted in the game crashing when a tank had too many bomb upgrades.

• Fixed an issue where audio could stop playing when too many bombs or projectiles were active at once.

• Fixed an issue where UI sounds would sometimes play multiple times.

• Fixed an issue where the camera would sometimes not zoom out far enough to fit the entire arena.

• Fixed an issue where laser sight sometimes started visable before it had been used.

• Fixed an issue where the pause menu could be opened before the upgrade UI, breaking game flow.

• Fixed an issue where map info would stop appearing at the start of rounds after a game was extended.

• Fixed an issue where tanks would not despawn immediately when restarting a round.

• Fixed auto-steering causing tanks to steer away from destructible environment objects when attempting to ram them.