Demo Refresh 3: Major Updates & Balance Changes

You spoke, I listened! This update includes made many changes, updates, and improvements to the demo. Please give it a shot and let me know what you think!

Game Updates/Additions:

• Enemies now show a short animation when they die rather than simply disappearing

• There is now an intro/tutorial screen that plays once - it can also be reviewed in the settings screen

• New sound effects for most game features

• New music track added for Stage 1

• Level up screen has been completely re-worked

• A notification appears when players unlock new specializations

• A notification appears after the first run to draw attention to the permanent upgrades

• The mouse cursor now gets out of the way when playing with keyboard or gamepad (click anywhere to bring it back)

Game Balance changes:

• Early wave enemies have had their speed reduced

• Starting damage values have been increased for sword, shuriken, and clones

• Starting damage values have been drastically increased for traps and dodging

• Clones were missing too often and now throw 3 shuriken instead of 1

• Damage upgrades have also been increased for all weapons

• Damage now has a small amount of randomness/variation (between 5% and 10%)

• All enemies have had their health rebalanced to account for increased player damage (but in general are easier to kill now)

• The healing level up now just heals rather than also providing increased maximum health

• Traps now last until triggered by an enemy, and new ones are also available every 5 seconds

• Trap Frenzy Powerup now adds 10 additional traps and automatically deploys them

• Clone Frenzy Powerup now adds 10 additional clones and automatically deploys them

• Default range for emerald collection has been reduced

Many bug fixes including:

• Powerups no longer expire during level up screen

• Enemies no longer occasionally move when the game is paused

• You only have to click the demo acknowledgement once ever now

• The healing level up no longer appears if you have full health

• You can now un-pause the game with gamepads (B on Xbox, O on PlayStation, etc)

• Level Select has been changed to "Stage Select" to reduce ambiguity