- Added the Bomb.bat enemy type, for levels 35+. Explodes and drops bombs!
- More level design progress on the Quarkus area - please check out the tower!
- The stars will now change color when you go to certain areas, like the Volcano or Forest
- Enemies will now dodge out of Zones/lava/etc when getting low HP
- Added hologram shaders to many corporate logos in-world
- Tweaked ground shader to more appropriately color some areas as Wall vs Floor
- All black temporary building shaders now have a bit of shine to them (which matches star colors)
- Added the new Samurai Punk company logo to the holo icon options (https://samuraipunk.com/)
- After 10 seconds of not being on the ground, teleporting now causes you to drop more
- Glide Jumps now show when they're actively gliding on the item icon
- New/Favorite items are no longer treated separately in the item sorting algorithm
- Improved framerate by not rendering many decorations at long range
- Anima chats now replay per session instead of per difficulty (in case you miss one)
- Fixed some Arcade and Volcano booster pads from not quite getting you where they needed to
- Fixed the Speedrun notification message accidentally triggering when you failed a unique hack
Black Ice
0.9.166 - 3/26/22 - Bomb.bat
0.9.165 - 3/15/22 - The Professor
- Added a new level 35 quest (triggered at hack level 30) with a unique item reward
- Added a new projectile type which explodes a short time after sticking to something (new projectile and particles)
- Added pulse, hand cannon, and super duper SMG versions using it (new icon)
- Increased Micromissile explosion radius from 1 to 1.5m
- Reimagined visuals for Zones with new shaders
- Aimbot Fab now always level 35
- The Sell All button now mentions that Favorited items don't get sold
- Optimized framerate for Zones greatly, and for all projectiles to some extent
- Fixed volcano ambush having incorrect spawn points
- Fixed Portcullis 1 nav issues
- Fixed the in-game hotbar being clickable in some menus
- Fixed the Finality rooftop hologram shader
- Fixed the Stuck achievement/bounties not working
- Fixed Sticky grenades taking way too long to explode
- Fixed certain missions showing up again in your inbox after completion
This is the third patch in four days! I've been spoiling y'all, so I'm going to take a few days off this week. See y'all later!
0.9.164 - 3/13/22 - Pizza Delivery Fixes
- Fixed an issue breaking missions at higher difficulty settings
- Temporarily disabled projectors (Zone center colors) until we can figure out what's going on (performance++)
- Scope tooltip fix
- Tutorial items will no longer be marked as New
- Inbox will always open to the inbox even if you close it in a weird way from an email
0.9.163 - 3/12/22 - Pizza Delivery
- Added a very special unique item reward to the Machiavelli's Pizza questline
- Added World Shortcut Tele-Porters - to/from the Arcade, find them in the world to unlock them
- Added (large) XP rewards to all Missions
- AI which are blocked by a player or AI while spawning will now try to spawn on another spawn point
- Mission rewarded credits now properly account for game difficulty level
- Mission inbox sorting now prioritizes Unread vs objectives
- Added a Total Unlocks progress bar in the unlock screen
- Improved framerate dramatically when Loot Find powerups are nearby
- Other minor framerate improvements (for ESD executables etc)
- Extra Charges on weapons which reload an entire clip now increase the reloaded amount too, so that you always reload the whole clip
- Fixed gambling shop color again
- Added a few new loading screen backgrounds, which now are chosen randomly
- Quests, Courier missions, and Ambushes now try to drop the reward directly in your inventory, then cache, then on the ground as a last resort
- Improved AI pathing in the crane area near Oshiro
- Fixed courier missions not showing the countdown timer properly
0.9.162 - 3/6/22 - Student Loans
- Added new Student Loans quest which unlocks when you hack a level 25+ server
- New Quarkus area - not open for hacking yet, but please let us know if you like how it looks!
- Inbox update - filtering by Inbox (important), Tracked, and Archive. Autosorting. Prettier, added tooltips to icons.
- Increased bitcred rewards for all early quests significantly
- The Gambling shop now drops a bunch of money instead of nothing
- Added a progress bar to each tab of the Unlocks page
- Spend bitcreds bounty amount reduced
- Multiplayer - +XP% per person increased to 15% from 10, share radius increased from 75 to 100m
- Added an Upgrade Rarity machine to the volcano secret room
- Raidseekers now have their own icon to differentiate that they spread vulnerabilities
- Glide jump now properly glides on first jump if the button is held down
- Accelerating Fire now increases RAM cost as the gun heats up
- Laugh Now, Cry Laser now decays over time, and does not count damage from hazards like Lava
- Doubled +Weapon Damage (flat) scaling with level to help it compete at higher level
- Forward-firing disc machineguns drop rate doubled
- Shotguns, Snipers, and Pulse weapons now have uncapped final Attack Speed (but still generate with the same base attack speed, to preserve their feel)
- Shotgun accuracy cap increased from 70 to 85
- Disco Deathballs and items with low cooldowns and no charges can no longer have the When Hit Cooldown affix
- Added a 1 second cooldown to the When Hit Cooldown affix
- Extra Projectiles affix now normalizes damage to +25% total dps per extra projectile (this is a nerf for low projectile count weapons, but a buff for high ones)
- Destroy Mines bounty now doesn't happen till higher level
- Sentries now say what they are when you mouseover them
- Fixed the gambling shop/secret arcade shop from having the wrong colors
- Fixed the cache in the volcano secret shop from being too big, added a cache to the cavern shop
- Fixed damage bounties overflow
- Fixed an issue where the Enemies Remaining text wouldn't show up after you'd done the volcano boss fight
- Optimized performance for aoe Zone abilities from Snails, players, etc. Fixed targeting issue.
- Fixed other player icons not showing up on the map in multiplayer depending on who joined when
- Fixed Ride the Glide achievement triggering too early
- Rezigen server now can be hacked from the very top
- Fixed the map clipping through the wall in the arcade
0.9.161 - 2/28/22 - QOL
- Improved Healbat healing amount
- Improved Chargebat charge speed and damage
- Fixed all flying AI from wobbling and not acting when too close
- Minor performance improvements
- Vortex grenade damage rebalanced downward
- Invalid items can no longer have their rarity upgraded in the arcade machine
- Removed chromatic keyboard support (the plugin was no longer being updated)
- Disabled sorting inventory during choice cube item choice, to prevent an exploit
- All items now come off cooldown when you die
- Players will respawn close to where they died more often (it only falls back to quest progress when you load in the first time)
- Epic items in the world now show properly orange instead of dark yellow
- Fixed chromatic aberration issue
- Fixed Email buttons opening the wrong email when filtered
- Missions which have a bitcred penalty will now take all your bitcreds if they try to take more than you have, instead of none
- Fixed the Cache Waypoint in the tutorial not going away if you skip the tutorial in that phase
- Fixed a systemic issue causing waypoints to not disappear
- Untracking a quest now untracks it in the in-game gui too
0.9.160 - 2/23/22 - Minor Fixes
- Fixed an issue which could cause jumps to not work well if the player wasn't moving
- Glide Jumps now glide while holding the button down for both jumps
- Damage numbers should display properly for very large numbers now
- Chromatic Aberration now properly shows only while sprinting instead of all the time
0.9.159 - 2/21/22 - Map
- Added a World Map, with zone levels, mission locations, player icons (including others in mp), and store icons for stores you've visited (among other niceties)
- Inbox filtering buttons now display which one you're currently using
- Fixed the arcade terrace cache not opening
- Fixed finality ramp being invisible in photosensitive mode
- Fixed inbox track button disappearing when disabled
- Fixed Lasbreakers dropping with useless weapon range
- Fixed non-arcade shops showing as the wrong color
0.9.158 - 2/15/22 - Yo!
- Overhauled Inbox UI to make it easier to filter and track Missions
- Added Chuy's Yo-yo unique item (with new yo-yo projectile motion affix)
- Added the Bitpuncher non-unique sniper, which does a ton of damage but reloads (kind of like a longer ranged hand cannon)
- Fixed TV teleporters getting you stuck
- Fixed slight momentum loss when mantling
- Fixed Rarity Upgrade menu Close button not working
- All visible timers in the game now properly round up so they show 1 second instead of 0 remaining
- Added instructions to the Avatar Customization Icon page to mention how you can mod in your own icons
- Added a Skip Tutorial button to the escape menu
- Minions which drop zones on the ground now scale with the minion item's (final) DPS instead of the minion's damage (nerf)
- Accepting a mission no longer closes the inbox completely, it just returns to the email screen
- Fixed typo in the sprint tooltip
0.9.157 - 1/31/22 - Gamble!
- Added a Gambling shop in the Arcade, which sells all Choice Cubes - some of which are specialized - all of which can have Super Duper items. It uses your Loot Find value, so switch gear first!
- Added the Seeking random enemy affix - enemies launch seekers at you (watch for the purple glow)
- Added the Chance to Seeker unlockable item affix, which fires a seeker (javelin style) when you use the item
- Added Circuit projectile movement (with an SD sentry and an SD micromissile SMG to use it)
- Added a small chance that items generate with up to +-30% base cooldown, same dps
- Added a new guard against players being launched too far by enemy clipping (this should get it this time)
- Dropped loot cubes in multiplayer can now be picked up instantly by other players
- Increased Heal.bat range
- Synced new projectile movement types in mp
- Improved Sine and Javelin projectile movement types
- Added a subicon for Discs
- Added an Advanced Tooltips option - turning this off hides item levels unless necessary
- Added particles to buying items in shops (in addition to the selling ones)
- Fixed a bug where shops were restocking on a 2 minute timer, now it's properly 3
- Fixed scrolling up/down to get chat history bug
- Fixed Zone scaling issues for certain locations (in particular in the volcano end fight)
- Removed accidental FOV bump when dashing/teleporting
- Tweaked momentum retention for dash/grapple/teleporting
- Random enemy affixes now have some limits based on level