Simon and Friends 0.2.0

NEW CONTENT

• Added first iteration terrain generation as part of terrain options

• Added first iteration Computer player (bot) as opponent option

• New Melee weapon:

  • Hug - Grabs any unit in front. Grabbed unit can be carried a small distance and/or thrown

• New Placed weapon:

  • Power Milk - Offer to any unit to increase its next turn's damage by 100%. Breaks if no target is hit

• New Gun weapon:

  • Scattergun - Damages everything in a cone and applies Bleeding Modifier

• New Modifier:

  • Bleeding - Affected unit loses health on each turn

• Added Confused/Excited/Idle/LowTime/Aircraft unit responses

• Added various additional voice and sfx effects to equip/modifier activate/weapon 2nd effect events

• Added new "SaF logo" practice map

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• Placed weapon category rework:

  • All weapons in this category are now unconditionally placed in front of the firing unit (was previously thrown a small distance)

  • Objects will now always land on firing unit's feet even if standing near wall/other units

  • Consumable subtype weapons will automatically be consumed by eligible overlapping targets

• Switched sprite-based initial explosion radius sampling to deterministic radius for every explosive (previously smaller sized objects would not deliver full expected - damage despite perfect placement next to enemy)

• Increased Death Explosion radius and fling

• Guns no longer grant post-fire grace on final/single shots

• Slingshot now accepts pressing fire to arm and pressing fire again to release, in addition to holding fire

• Slingshot is now priority input when unit is attempting to use it with a weapon equipped

• Medkit ammo count increased to 2

• Pen default timer is now 5s

UI/VISUAL CHANGES

• Added first iteration of Local Match main menu entry with the following configurables:

  • Terrain Type

  • Player Count

  • Team Ownership

  • Matches To Win

  • Starts First

• Added first iteration of Options menu with the following configurables:

  • Resolution/Aspect Ratio/Window Mode

  • Master/Music/SFX/Voice sliders

  • Pause Game On Focus Loss button

• Weapon charging indicator is now curved and grows upward instead of to the sides

• Various main panel/popup elements now inherit extra accent coloring from the main screen background

• Reworked camera zoom to operate like a curve - more gentle on near zooms, more aggressive on far zooms

• Increased camera tracking margins by 5% (zoom out is now earlier to track action)

• Opening inventory now counts as a turn-starting action

• Active units' overhead label now stays in place while overlapping labels are offset, instead of previous even displacement

• Slingshot now displays a buff icon when eligible for use, instead of tiny world text

• Weapon inventory now displays category labels

• Improved the way objects are displayed at far zooms

• Majority of objects now have thicker outlines

BUG FIXES

• Fixed various unit on unit collision issues when units are different sizes (i.e. level 1 colliding with level 2 unit, etc.)

• Creature type weapons can no longer spawn by teleporting out when placed against a wall

• Crates can no longer get flattened while falling from terrain

• Fixed Fire Strike having infinite ammo (now 1)

• Placed weapon types can no longer get stuck on units' sides instead of hitting ground, direct placements from above still work as expected

• Land Mine:

  • Fixed Land Mine not having infinite ammo

  • Land Mine is no longer a crate spawn

  • Land Mine now properly sticks to terrain

• Fixed direct hits not delivering full expected damage

• Fixed Grenade weapon using icon art for sprite instead of object sprite

• Fixed main menu panel/popup backgrounds sometimes deriving wrong tint from the main screen background

MINOR CHANGES

• Terrains in practice mode are now properly named instead of being just numbers

• Music/Voice internal volume defaults are now 0.75 instead of 1 (in game options unaffected, meaning the 0.75 is 100% as in-game volume slider)

• Moved Sniper Rifle inventory position further back, as it is a level gated weapon

• Samson Hammer grew a mullet

• Improved throw/place/use audio effect to have less delay

• Correction from 0.1.1 - placed objects do not, in fact, have a timer (and are not supposed to)