Major Update - 1.1

New Characters

• Fighter (starting character with blaster and 5 health)

• Bomber (shoots missiles and starts with 8 health)

• Summoner (cannot shoot at first, summons drones, and can have turrets)

• Healer (heals health but less deadly)

• Basher (fast and can run into enemies)

Upgrade Trees

• Each character has a different upgrade tree

New Upgrades

• Hull Upgrade (regenerates health)

• Missiles

• Dual Missiles

• Triple Missiles

• Plated Missiles (missiles cannot be destroyed)

• Missile Tracking (faster missile turning)

• Missile Reload (faster missile cooldown speed)

• Single Shot

• Quad Shot

• Missile Defense (missile destroying counterpart to flak)

• Bullet Speed (bullets base velocity is higher)

• Shield Strength (number of hits for shield to be destroyed)

• Shield Regen (speed that shield regens to full)

• Laser (slows turn speed and has warm up while in use)

• Ion Cannon (shoots ion shots that disable enemies for a time)

• Ion Recharge (faster ion cooldown)

• Cloaking Device (allows cloak to disable damage for a time)

• Cloak Length (increase length of cloak ability)

• Cloak Recharge (decrease time between cloaks)

• Rammer (disables damage from hitting enemy when charged)

• Drone Ship (spawns drones to fight for you)

• Drone Construction (decreases time for drones to be constructed)

• Done Equipment (increases drone stats)

• Gun Turret (creates an automated turret to shoot at the nearest enemy)

• Turret Cooldown (increases turret cooldown speed)

• Turret Turn Speed (allows the turret to turn faster)

• Missile Turret (creates an automated turret to shoot missiles)

• Missile Turret Cooldown (increases missile turret cooldown speed)

• Missile Turret Turn Speed (allows the turret to turn faster)

• Healer Nanites (heals any fractional health bar to full)

Asteroids

• Asteroids now spawn sporadically on the top and bottom of the map

• Asteroids may also spawn in large groups and is noted above the wave number

New Enemies

• Marauder (stays close to the player and shoots bullets)

• Rusher (enters rush state and is much faster and cannot die from collision)

• Ranger (stays far away from the player and leads fast, plated shots)

• Shotgunner (pushes the player with large flurries of bullets)

• Swarmer (a large group of drones that stay together)

Enemy Levels

• Each enemy has a chance to be a higher level (1, 2, or 3)

• Higher level enemies are faster, shoot more often, and are more likely to have shields

• Level 1 is red, level 2 is white, level 3 is dark gray

Enemy AI

• Enemy AI has been updated to path around asteroids (raycasting)

• Enemies can turn faster to move around asteroids more easily

• The Ranger has the unique ability to lead shots

• The rusher also leads the player

• Level 2 and 3 suicider lead the player

Threat Level

• Once wave 50 is beaten with a character, a new threat level is unlocked

• There are 15 threat levels per character where each level adds some difficulty

• Each threat level adds to the previous making later threat very difficult

Character Colors

• Each character can be five different colors (blue, green, orange, purple, yellow) which can be purchased

• Each color other than the default gives a buff

Cooldown Bars

• Each weapon has its own cooldown bar

• Drone construction has its own bar

• Health, hull upgrade, and shield display together making one cohesive bar

Level Bar

• Current level, score, and required score for the next level is displayed in a progress bar

• Currency

• There is now currency that is gained based on enemies killed and is used to purchase other characters and character colors

Menus

• All menus have been redesigned with selections

• The pause menu in game now has a quick restart button

• The main menu displays enemies that you have destroyed fighting drones

• A game over menu displays all enemies killed and coins gained from each

Settings

• Volume bar

• Fullscreen selection

• Control binding (hold tab to reset at any time)

Bestiary

• A bestiary shows all enemies with stats and will fill once you destroy them

• Color coded backgrounds based on total of that enemy type killed

• Character Selection Menu

• Once clicking start, the character selection menu will display with relevant information about each and threat level selector

Changes

• Enemy AI has been updated to path around asteroids

• Health is no longer integer based

• Shields no longer get destroyed and regenerate slowly

• Missiles now track 180 degrees to its front rather than 360 degrees

• Wave numbers now display in the middle of the screen once enemies arrive

• Waves will automatically begin after a certain time has passed to prevent running to regen

• Enemy points per wave and start wave for each enemy adjusted

• Plated missiles are more defining in color

• Reactors on boss ships now flash and are brighter

• Speed can now be upgraded five times instead of three

Fixes

• Enemies sometimes disappearing when moving horizontally

• The player and enemies no longer snap pixel to pixel

Later

• Achievements

• Boss Waves

• Space Stations

• Updated Sounds

• Neutral Faction

• Permanent Upgrades

• Enemy Drones