Simon and Friends 0.1.1

GAMEPLAY

• Thrown/Placed explosives now have adjustable timer

• Units that are dealt lethal damage before or during flings will still be eligible to pick up another units while flinging

• Unit is no longer allowed to move early out of the kickback slide (actively holding input will still put unit up faster than just letting it expire naturally)

• Now available through Main Menu: TUTORIAL/TRAINING GROUNDS:

  • Choose from 5 rudimentary maps to hop into for practice

  • Learn controls, practice mechanics, or just explore all unlocked weapons

• Any and all actions that close the turn now have a minimum linger timer to prevent turns with no action from switching to new unit immediately

• Bzzichy now has improved pathfinding and will find its target more often on simpler routes

• Triple missile buffed:

  • Explosion/damage radius from 0.3 to 0.4

  • Damage per missile from 5-15 to 5-20 (60 total on perfect shots)

• Disabled unit-below-unit-pushout feature (was used to escape crevice bodyblocks) until a better solution is implemented

UI AND AUDIO

• Loading into the match now displays "Team X starts first!" title card and awaits player input

• Added indicator over turn's active unit until player takes action

• Opening inventory now counts as turn-starting action

• Tapping instead of holding the aiming reticle now allows more precise step-aiming

• Reduced speed at which manual zoom is performed

• Performing Level Up now zooms into the character for the duration

• Performing Level Up is now a rumble event for compatible controllers

• Air Grenade now has a VFX effect

• Units receiving lethal damage will now correctly play Damaged -> Dead audio, instead of one or the other

• Units still performing their lines on Turn End event will be given extra time to finish those

• Turn timer changes:

  • Timer is painted yellow for <= 15s seconds left on the main turn, and <= post-fire grace

  • Timer is painted red for <= 5s of main turn seconds left

  • Timer now has audio cues on low time events

• Added EXIT TO MAIN MENU menu option

• Added various popup disclaimers to work in progress Main Menu elements

• Control Scheme image changes:

  • Redrawn with a bit more quality

  • Added the new explosive timer bind display\\

  • Control Scheme is now a singular image element switching display depending on active input, instead of two images

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Laser Aim Modifier not working from v0.1.0

• Fixed various obscure cases where unit's animation can get stuck in a squish state

• Fixed Land Mine sprite sometimes landing upside down

• Fixed various spin animations not resetting on Grappling Hook latch/relatch

• Fixed cases where player manually zooming during multitrack events would prevent camera from tracking them properly