December 24th Patch - The Progression Update

Just before Christmas I'm uploading a big patch that contains many changes.

UI

• Redone Card Selection Screen: Descriptions are back!

• Redone Statistics Screen: Statistics and Achievements can be viewed better

• Fixed/Optimized many menus

Audio

• Full Audio Pass (Still needs work but options are fully functioning)

• Two New Music Tracks

• Remixed All Music for cohesiveness

Gameplay

• Upon Stage completion, unpicked Time Essence Orbs are gathered at a penalty and Chrono Tokens are automatically picked (you know, like crates...)

• Rebalanced a lot of things. Stingrays have been nerfed

• Applied Unlockables and Progression: Now you need to complete Achievements to unlock PowerUps or PowerUp Tiers - I'll be adding more of those but feel comfortable with current state

• Changed Blue Laser logic

• Difficulty impacts more things now:

  • Appearance of Chrono Tokens

  • Value of Unpicked Time Essence Orbs

  • Some things I really don't want to spoil

Optimization

• Added an "Event-on-Vanquish" queue to minimize GPU/CPU spikes. It should declutter your screen a bit and allow your system to survive another Stage

As we're approaching January, development might slow down but I have a few things in the pipeline.

Roadmap!

• New Ships: One in the works. I aim for each ship to have its own "thing"

• New Enemies: One halfway there and a few more concepts in the works

• New Boss: Still figuring this one out

• More Music: I aim to make at least 20 tracks, depending on when inspiration hits

• More PowerUps:

  • Three related to existing PowerUps

  • A few more that will shake things up

• Some metamechanics I won't reveal for now

Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the new Time Avarice!

Nacho