Beat Hazard 3
V0.304 - Added leaderboard to galaxy screen
I've added a leaderboard to the galaxy screen. This shows the players who have conquered the most systems.
Points are awarded as follows:
Own Planet = 1pt
Own Album = 3pts
Own Artist = 5pts
Capturing tracks from other players not only increases your score, but decreases theirs.
I intend to make this system more involved during the next development phase. I just wanted to add something simple for the time being.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Steve.
Galaxy save fix
I also made the install about 300mb smaller. (Yeah, I found the compress packaged files checkbox in unreal!)
Galaxy stress test is going well, thanks for the help!
V0.302 - Add online test galaxy
Give it a try. It will be interesting to see if it holds up to a good stress test.
Cheers,
Steve.
Phase 3: Ancient Aliens Update!
Welcome to the Phase 3: Ancient Aliens update!
New additions include:
- Alien Blueprints: A new currency used to unlock new tech and weapons
- Galaxy Scan System: Used for finding new tech and resources in a galaxy
- New Dracarys Weapon: An intense wall of fire used to destroy ships, photons & shields.
- Crusader Auto Turret II: A new version of the auto turret weapon
- New Ship Tuning: Replaces the BH2 Modules system. Includes a number of new attributes.
Here is a YouTube video where I fully explain all the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAU4tJx4_Zw
I hope you enjoy the new update!
As always, any feedback is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve.
Phase 3: Ancinet Aliens Update!
Welcome to the Phase 3: Ancient Aliens update!
New additions include:
- Alien Blueprints: A new currency used to unlock new tech and weapons
- Galaxy Scan System: Used for finding new tech and resources in a galaxy
- New Dracarys Weapon: An intense wall of fire used to destroy ships, photons & shields.
- Crusader Auto Turret II: A new version of the auto turret weapon
- New Ship Tuning: Replaces the BH2 Modules system. Includes a number of new attributes.
Here is a YouTube video where I fully explain all the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAU4tJx4_Zw
I hope you enjoy the new update!
As always, any feedback is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve.
BH - Audio Deep Dive Video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gXOZDCGIiq8
Cheers,
Steve,
Dracarys - A new weapon for Phase 3.
Dracarys - A new weapon for Phase 3.
Unleash an intense wave of fire that incinerates your enemies, destroys shields, and obliterates photons to leave nothing but ashes.
Available to try on the test branch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OceTGBvYw
Cheers,
Steve.
New 'Ship Tuning' system added to Test build.
I've just updated the 'test' build to include the brand new 'Ship Tuning' feature. (This replaces the BH2 ship modules system)
In addition to the usual stats, I've added:
- Bullet Penetration: A % chance that any give bullet will cause damage and bounce off the enemy to go on and cause more damage.
- Scale. You can now change the base size of your ship!
- Dark Beam Strength & Dark Beam Duration
- Resource Pickup Force: Making Scrap, Uranium & Crystals to be attracted to your ship.
- Beam Sweep Size: Alter the sweep size of your beams, making it more focused, or more scattered.
- Beam Sweep Angle: Alter the base angle offsets for the beams.
There are still some bits to finished off and tidy up. Interested on feedback.
Hop on to the 'testing' branch in Betas to try it out.
I hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
Steve.
Phase 3 Test Build
I have an early phase 3 build: Ancient Aliens. If you want to try it out, hop on the Steam 'testing' branch. (Choose using Right click on BH3->Properties->Betas, and select 'Testing')
This version is all about galaxies:
- Galaxies now contain different 'Artefacts'
- These can be found by visiting a system or
- By using the new 'Galactic Scan' feature. You will need to add up to 4 Galactic Scan modules to your mother ship.
- You can see in the screen shot I have made a number of scans to reveal where artefacts are.
- To get the artefact, you need to fly to the Planet and beat the track.
Artefacts are as follows:
1: Scrap cache. Get a big pile of scrap for your stores
2: Uranium fuel
3: Fold Crystals. Making it a lot easier to hop around the galaxy
4: Nano Tech Cache. Used to quickly upgrade weapons, or make a long range scan
5: Alien Blueprint. Used to unlock new weapons. (Not currently implemented)
6: Wraith Empire Elite Ship. Cool and powerful ships seemingly discarded by an ancient race of aliens.
Start a new galaxy, or join me in the one above. ID: 17309151
Email Notifications!
V0.154 Update
- Email Notifications now work. Add your email in the 'Game Over' screen to receive emails when your high score is beaten.
Note: Emails are encrypted and not used for any other purpose.
- Fixed crash bug when receiving challenge ship (Finally!)
Cheers,
Steve.