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Genre: Shooter, Indie, Arcade

Assault Android Cactus

Early Access Update 4

Features



  • New whitebox level - Transit
  • Three new enemy types
  • New level dressing - Checkpoint and Revolution
  • Rebalanced level - Heat (formally Furnace) and Revolution


Tuning



  • Coral's plasma ball travels with moving geometry
  • Flying enemies do not travel with moving geometry!
  • Enemy Red Bomber attack rebalanced
  • Adjustments to weapon orb drop rates
  • leaderboard resets - Heat (formerly Furnace) and Revolution
  • Numerous small tweaks and fixes


Known Issues



  • "Music Walls" don't display anything when Music volume is set to zero.
  • There is a difficult-to-reproduce game freeze. We've confirmed it's affected a number of people, but we haven't been able to figure out the pattern or narrow down the cause. We're doing our best to track it down and sincerely apologise if you're affected in the meantime. If you experience it repeatedly, please get in touch!


Merry Christmas!

vote for your favourite Australian game of 2013

Kotaku are doing a poll to find out what peoples favourite Australian game is this year, and Assault Android Cactus is on the list!

If you've been enjoying our Early Access why not head over and give us a nod! We'd really appreciate it!

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/12/kotaku-award-2013-vote-for-your-favourite-australian-game-of-the-year/

Early Access Update 3.1

This is a small update that's mostly about fixing up and improving what's already there, although there's a few neat additions

Tuning and Improvements



  • more animations and effects on Helo (Aubergine's companion / weapon)
  • new music for World 4
  • lockdown enemies can now be dragged by Aubergine's singularity weapon
  • Helo's attack is more consistent
  • enemies dim when destroyed
  • DualShock 4 controller supported on OSX and Linux
  • numerous small bug fixes


Known Issues



  • 64 bit Linux version doesn't support leaderboards (32 bit version does though)
  • DualShock 4 does not work correctly in Windows if a Xbox 360 pad is plugged in
  • mines can get stuck in odd places in Centrifuge