Upgrade Stats: Part 2! and Optimized!

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Upgrade Stats - Part 2! (of 3 or 4)

Included this week are the stats rewrite and visibility for the upgrade screen for:

• Bombs

• Shot mods

• Spikes

I wish there were more, but it's a lot of work in each one! Many things have been reworked completely, including 3 new upgrades!

• [Upgrade] Drop all bombs when touched

• [Upgrade] Bombs' proximity radius to explode way bigger (when you just want the blast to hit stuff)

• [Upgrade] Bombs' proximity radius to explode way smaller (when you want to embed your enemy with tons of fragments)

• [Rework] Removed bigger, blastier bombs. Replaced with 3 new variants:

• [Rework] Bigger bombs, Stronger bombs, and Bombs have more fragments

• [Rework] Bombs last longer has been made a 1-time upgrade

• [Rework] Spikes life standardized across all gun types

• [Rework] Spikes hit more has been brought back from the upgrade graveyard

• [Rework] Spikes rotation speed changed

• [Rework/Balance] Most stats within these three doors have been adjusted

OPTIMIZE!

This one might be so good it required a bigger header. Hopefully this solves most performance issues all the way up through and past endgame! (If not, let me know and I'll keep working on it)

• [Optimize] Tracking should be much better optimized

• [Optimize] Turning off particles completely will now help a lot

• [Optimize] Many calculations for stats happen once per upgrade instead of every frame

What else?

A new challenger approaches!

• [Character] New Diplomat character

• [Fix] Show XP option actually saves now

• [Fix] The tutorial - I mentioned this in an emergency update Monday when I realized how bad it was

• [Balance] Nerfed "Less damage to you" (now does 25% more damage!)

Any last words?

Good luck, and have fun! Our humble community is here: https://discord.gg/768waPBAAw Join us, share your cool builds, and tell me how to make this game!