Update 0.1.1

Thank you all for playing Highway Hijinks! For our first update, we have introduced a couple new items, and made a number of tweaks to the game. Several issues have been fixed as well.

• Mechanics

• Fix turrets being able to fire at player during race countdown

• Prevent turrets from firing at player for longer when entering or leaving Pit Stop

• Reduce radius of damage given by turret

• Slow pad combos are now possible

  Items

• Rewrite many item descriptions to make them easier to understand and provide more useful information, include energy usage

• Replace some item sprites

  Abilities

• Reduce energy cost of Boost from 40 e/s to 30 e/s

• Reduce energy cost of Jump 50 e/u to 15 e/u

• Increase shield generation of Protective Coating by 50% , reduce its energy cost from 60 e/s to 50 e/s

• Increase slowness of Slow Motion from 50% slow to 60%, reduce its energy cost 60 e/s to 50 e/s

  Consumables

• Add Overtime, a Consumable that triples the remaining time of all active Statuses

• Increase cost of Dentures from $100 to $350, increase the given Hungry status from 10s to 15s

• Increase duration of Flatten's effect from 10s to 20s

• Increase the gained scrap from Golden Explosion from 2x to 3x, increased its duration from 15s to 20s and its cost from $200 to $350

• Make Nuke Rare

• Prevent Speedifier from hanging the game if it is activated multiple times in a short period by Efficient Eater and/or Consumerism

  Modules

• Add Frenzied Fallback, a Module that gives a hefty temporary fire rate and damage buff when your shield is broken

• Nerf Combo Killer from 1.5% fire rate increase per kill to 1%

• Make the effect of Damage Boost decay over time with a Status, Damage Boost also gives damage relative to speed pad combo, +-20% damage * combo

• Buff Deal Finder from 5% to 12.5%

• Make Destructive Force Rare, increase its cost $800 to $1200, reduce its effect from 0.25% to 0.2%

• Buff Efficient Eater from 4% chance to preserve consumable to 5%

• Make Emergency Repairs Uncommon, reduce its cost from $1600 to $1250, make it give temporary invulnerability when activated

• Buff Enduring Shield from 15% reduced shield decay to 20%

• Buff Energy Converter from (0.5% max energy * speed)/s to (1% max energy * speed)/s

• Nerf Energy Harvester from 7 energy per kill to 4, reduce its cost from $1000 to $900

• Buff Extra Gear from +25 km/h to +100km/h, increase its cost from $400 to $500

• Buff Firearm from 10% chance to ignite enemy to 25%

• Nerf Item Thief from 15% chance of a stolen item being a module to 10%

• Buff More Gold from 1% chance of thing being gold to 2.5%, improve its probability calculations

• Buff Piercing Projectiles from 10% chance of piercing to 33%

• Fix Shaped Metal being worse than useless (Weapon power multiplier is no longer 0)

• Buff Shield Generator from +20 minimum shield to +25

• Buff Soul Harvester from 0.05% damage increase per kill to 0.075%

• Buff Vehicular Sabotage from 0.5% chance of sabotaged enemy to 2%(and spell its name correctly)

• Make Saw Orbital Rare, increase its cost from $800 to $900, fix the saw being kept if the module is sold

  Weapons

• Make all guns fire when holding the fire button

• Make Ram consume energy at start of parry instead of end, but refund 50% of the energy if the parry is successful. Prevent obstacles from being parried if parry is being extended

  Other Changes

• Add Steam Cloud support

• Add setting for camera shake intensity

• Hide mouse cursor during game if the mouse is not moved

• Clearly display result of race when player finishes race

• Increase font size of item descriptions

• HIghlight Vouchers in Pit Stop

• Improve user interface navigation in Pit Stop

• Change controller button for using secondary ability to D-pad right so both primary and secondary ability can be used at the same time

• Fix scrollbar in scroll views not being draggable

• Fix scroll views sometimes breaking when scrolling with controller analog stick

• Improve appearance of pause screen, game over screen, and Voucher item selection screen

• Improve the HUD a bit

• Improve appearance of speed lines effect

• Adjust appearance of low health/damage/shield gain screen color effects

• Add health pickups to end of tutorial

• Fix an issue where game is too slow after dying in tutorial

• Fix a bunch of things potentially breaking due to exceptions being thrown

• Increase intensity of high quality lighting

• Add button linking to our Discord server on main menu

• Update the credits

This is just the beginning — there are still plenty of improvements we want to make! Here are some of the things we are working on now:

• Achievements

• Global leaderboard

• Run history and statistics screen

• Unlocked item showcase screen

• Controls customization

• PlayStation and Nintendo controller support

• Mac support

• User interface improvements

• More balance changes

• More bug fixes

• Stability and performance improvements

Discuss the game, tell us your thoughts about this update, and suggest future changes on our Discord server!