0.9.2 Patch Notes

New stuff

• You can now purchase unlocks for your ship with crystals collected in the classic game mode. These include color variations and some model changes

• Sentinel enemy has a completely new alien visual instead of the robot model

• Chaser has new animations and more telegraphed shots

• Turtle has a new cleaner model with new animations

• Cloud Saves. Steam should now sync your save file.

• An “Are you sure?” popup shows up before abandoning a run

• Adjusted camera and physics to allow for smoother camera movement. Everything should feel a lot smoother and it could also help prevent motion sickness.

Balancing

Enemies

• Squids - Reduced damage 80->60

• Squids - Reduced projectile speed

• Squids - Reduced projectile range slightly

• Squids - Increased shot frequency

• Spitter - Before exploding it shows the affected area, similar to Space Mines

• Spitter - Explosion now damages enemies

• Spitter - Increased damage

• Scorpion - New fireball visuals

• Volcano planet - Reduced damage (100->80)

• Firestorm planet - Increased damage (20->80)

• Added more gas flowers in toxic world

Modules

• Homing launcher - Increased damage slightly

• Homing launcher - Increased range slightly

• Homing launcher - Increased rocket speed

• Artillery - Reduced price from 6->5

• Crossbow - Increased price from 4->5

• Boomerang - Reduced throw distance from 20->18

• Boomerang - Reduced speed

• Double Laser - Increased ammo usage

• Double Laser - Reduced range slightly

• Laser shotgun - Reduced Ammo usage

• Reflective Armor - now tries to aim reflected projectile towards the enemy attacker

• Mining Drone - Can now mine for crystals. Asteroids that contain crystals will drop an additional crystal nugget for every mining drone attached to your ship.

• Mining Drone - Removed from Swarm game mode

• Toxic launcher - New model and larger area of effect with more damage

Other

• The last few levels max size has been reduced

• Finding home now grants 5000 bonus score

• Moved planet clouds back a bit to stop them from covering the action too much

Bug fixes

• Boomerangs should no longer get stuck in the air

• Escape should once again be working to exit build mode

• Re-enabled build mode cushions that push ship away from walls and planets to prevent you from building into the wall

• Fixed how exploration would sometimes be inconsistent with larger ships.

• Boomerang - Boomerang speed should now be frame rate independent

Other

• Ship will no longer be on fire in the Victory screen

• When finishing the daily and the scoreboard shows up, the background will fade out to make the ship preview in the UI more readable.

• Removed the “Saved oxygen” score calculation when playing without oxygen limit.

• Main menu now has the same pretty skybox as the in-game World 1 levels.

Comments

I hope you enjoy this new update, it has lots of small quality of life improvements and I hope the new Skin system will add another dimension to the play. Happy New Year!