Changelog - Update 1.1

ships

• [+] new ship: Lily, a ship with a strong close range attack, but has non-recharging armour instead of a shield

• [+] new ship: Crab, a ship with a charging medium range attack and damage absorbtion when not firing

upgrades

• [+] new upgrade: Reactive Shield

• [+] new upgrade: Hornet

• [+] new upgrade: Aft Torpedoes

• [+] new upgrade: Dimension Drive (courtesy of our friends at 2Awesome Studio)

• [+] new upgrade: Battering Ram (designed by Saphire)

• [+] new upgrade: Remote Bomb (designed by Meroka)

enemies

• [+] new mini-boss: the Fatboss

• [+] new epic boss: the Epic Drone (or: Project Paul)

• [+] many new movement behaviours for the blue circular drones have been added

• the Epic Spiky boss now also has healthbar for its three separate parts, to make its health mechanics more clear

• all support enemies spawned by bosses now also scale and become more difficult to kill as the game progresses

• the laser drones have been completely rebalanced: the smallest ones are smaller, have more health, provide less points, stay in ghost longer, and spawn in larger amounts; the medium ones are smaller, have more health, and provide less points

• the hit circles of laser drones are now more accurate

• the epic dragon has less health overall, but the remaining health is now more evenly split over the stages

• reduced the amount of enemies Captain Claw spawns in his meatshield

• events no longer spawn inside the remainder of circular drone swarms

• the snake boss no longer causes a game crash if all damage was done by player drones

• the snake boss now is equally likely to spawn as the rest of the mini-bosses

metagame

• [+] 16 new achievements: Patient; Cool guys don't look at explosions; They're swarming; Quartet; But our princess is in another castle; Instakill; When life gives you limes; It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.; Health++; I am fully charged!; Endgame; Superstar; Secret weapon; Not so secret weapon; Hive Five; Division by zero

• [+] in-game leaderboard have been added and can be found in the extras menu

• [+] the total amount of times the player ship is upgraded is now tracked

misc

• [+] an in-game console has been added (open using tilde; open and focus using alt+tilde)

• [+] new end-game statistics: amount healed and amount of fully charged shots

• the boss music had its volume increased

• enemy homing missiles no longer suck up performance when no target is present

• a rare audio crash when using Bullet Time has been resolved

• end game statistics are now truncated if they no longer fit on the screen

• a warning that was caused by one of the mod files has been resolved

• several bugs in the weapon cycle code have been fixed, resolving some unwarranted behaviour

• sound effects have been prevented to be played every frame, resolving some rare crashes at high framerates

• further changes have been made to enable Roche Fusion to run on multiple platforms