Gun to the Zone Version 1.1

Welcome back! After a lot of work, the latest update is finally released. What's in it? Quite a bit of stuff:

With a Little Help From My (Drone-) Friends

You have a little floating friend around, who will automatically fire at enemies. However, you will not be able to rely on this little friend 100% of the time. It can use all the weapons that are in your inventory. Some weapons are more accurate than others, of course.

Every buff you collect will also buff your little drone-friend. If you focus on fewer weapons, the drone will be more effective, but won't fire as often.

You can turn the drone off, but accessing the settings for the individual arenas in the main menu (right click or Y on the controller). In certain bonus rooms, the drone is deactivated by default.

A Forest

Some of the trees in the game have changed. They appeared pixelated before, now they're a lot more cohesive and fit in with the rest of the graphics.

Easy Now

The game will be easier and more accessible, especially as you first start it. For example, your guns will be a little easier to aim, your special attack will charge faster and you have an additional heart from the start.

You are also able to collect more hearts right from the start. The campaign will also be shorter on lower difficulties.

However, if you want to beat the final boss, you might have to replay levels at higher difficulties. As soon as you've completed one of the levels in the main menu, its default difficulty will automatically go up.

Intergalactic

There is a new gametype in the main menu: In this one, you will be constantly attacked by zombies. There will be no time to relax in this mode. It is pretty fun, especially with a helper drone!

Somewhere Only We Know

There are some new places to explore! Two new levels are accessible in the campaign. The first arena level has also changed. As mentioned before, the new level in the main menu also has a different theme. The old "dark forest" arena is now found in the bonus menu.

There are some new bonus-maps as well. Check em out!

The Long and Winding Road

There are a lot of other changes in this update, check it out for yourself. Or read the changelog below.

For example, there are some new weapon-variants and skins, some polish to menus and other things, as well as A LOT of bugfixes.

The game will get more updates. Contact me if you have suggestions or problems!

Anyway, I'm very grateful that I was able to launch a game on Steam this year! I could not have imagined this a couple of years ago when I started to make games in my spare time. Who knows what the future holds, probably more games though.

The List Goes On

The full changelog for V 1.1.0.0 & V 1.1.0.1 - Added an optional helper drone that shoots the same projectiles you can shoot - Adjusted the time it takes to aim down sights to be snappier - Added one additional hp, giving players 5 hearts at the start - Added "always auto reload" mutator to certain hats - Adjusted scoring across the board, you now score less in certain modes, or when using a helper drone - Added two additional levels to the campaign. They are accessible at higher difficulties - Replaced one of the four standard arena maps and updated the first arena map to a different tileset - The fourth arena map will now be a different gametype, called onslaught - The new gametype has no breaks in between waves, making it a bit more challenging - Added additional arenas to the bonus maps, replacing some of the more redundant maps - Rework of the Onslaught gametype to be a bit more manageable - Added four weapon-skins to the pool of weapons - Adjusted weapon balance regarding charge-type weapons - It should now be easier to hit stuff with these charging guns, provided you're not moving too much - Added a level-up indicator in the main menu - Changed the way menus look and the way the blur filter is applied. - Certain fixes and changes to tilesets. The big trees should be less pixelated now. - Fixed a long standing bug where the reload-bar would freeze in certain conditions - Fixed a rare crash involving exploding barrels and fire - Slightly changed the way gamepad controls work

• Changed the way HP is displayed - The player (P1) will now cast light cone to increase visibility. - Slightly rebalanced the gunner and mortar enemies - Made the standard zombie's blood a little less distracting - Fixed a bug where a boss could have negative health and still be alive - Fixed some bugs with the final boss - You should now always start a new zone with max ammo - Changed the way the "accuracy" buff works - it should now be a bit stronger - All the passive buffs now add up to buff the drone - If you pick up a boost-card, the level of your drone goes up (it does a little more damage) - Your drone (and also other players) can no longer blow up health-pickups - Changed the way the drone fires - Changed progression in campaign / story mode - it will now be shorter on lower difficulties - The underground arena is now displayed as the -hardest- arena - The underground arena has also recieved a nerf and is now only 10 rounds - The underground area bosses give -some- hp back - The second wave-based arena was slightly changed - more boss encounters, more chances for hp - Slightly lowered the challenge of the onslaught level - Lowered a lot of the level-requirements in the store - You can now pick up HP, even if you're at max hp - up to an absolute maximum of 14 hearts - The info-box that shows up when you first pick up a gun now stays on screen a bit longer - Your active hat will again be saved in between sessions - Some menu items should be a little easier to see now - The main menu now always fades up from black - the game only fades to white once, on first start - Various little changes to UI / font and item / enemy placement

• Additional minor bug fixes and adjustments

Thank you all so much for playing!

Matt