Critical Annihilation
Status update
Classic survival is a lot like the old tech demo with the addition that you can choose your weapons and abilities before you start a round.
The defense mode has you defeat waves of enemies with a chance to buy upgrades and build defense structures in between waves.
Our plans are to release a first version of these around the end of this month, if people like the game modes we'll also be adding more maps to them afterwards.
There'll also be a smaller update next week which implements some of the still missing perks in the current campaign mode.
Patch 0.8.1055 Live
Changes
- Fixed display bug of scores larger than 10.000.000
- Fixed ground colliders not updating anymore after playing a mission
- Fixed ammo/reload bars not updating correctly to 100%
- Slightly increased sizes of ability windows to fit text better
Hot fix for patch
Patch 0.8.1052 Live
Changes
- Added flamethrower turret powerup and activated item
- Added flamethrower (special weapon like the gatling)
- Added gatling turret powerup and activated item
- Added more models to the mars map
- Added option for mission based rewards only in campaign mode
- Added popup to restart button to ask if you really want to restart when you're still alive
- Added wave progress bar below score window
- Added score multiplier for faster killing
- Fixed description for yukon-1 to the plains (there are no planes there ;)
- Fixed floating text after kills to correctly display experience multipliers
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Improved reload time on plasma rifle
- Improved effect of shield stat
- Improved controller aiming
- Increased reload time for walker bot (the white robot on 4 legs)
- Lowered damage on enemy plasma rifles (blue bolts)
- Swapped around continue/restart buttons
Patch 0.8.1018 live
Changes
- Added monitor selection to graphics settings
- Added option to disable camera following mouse cursor
- Added option to disable running the game in the background
- Added option to lock cursor to game window
- Added "Extreme" option to maximum fragments setting (if you have a fast CPU/GPU, it's awesome ;)
- Disabled colliders for fragments so characters can't get stuck on debris anymore
- Fixed bug in fracturer not creating more fractures on higher settings
- Fixed popup windows for scoreboards on the mission select screen.
- Put the "disable controllers" checkbox back where it belongs
- Removed the ability to close the "level finished" screen with
Fix for moon mission
Patch 0.8.1005 live now
The new patch has just been uploaded to the live build, here's a list of all the changes since the previous live version 0.8.949
Bug fixes
- Fixed energy weapons not correctly updating physics
- Fixed engineer shotgun ammo
- Fixed forcefield colliders, shouldn't be able to run through it anymore on low framerates.
- Fixed just assigned stats resetting when choosing a reward.
- Fixed laser perk, now actually adds a laser again
- Fixed normal weapon firing at the same time as last projectile of special weapon.
- Fixed not being able to disable AA
- Fixed not being able to enable additive particles after turning them off
- Fixed not being able to hit units that are too close to you
- Fixed pathfinding not updating correctly on map destruction
- Fixed rewards, you will no longer get your class abilities as a reward (turret/shield for soldier)
- Fixed rounding error on stats screen
- Fixed shield/accuracy/speed stats
- Fixed stats available message not disappearing while mission text was up
- Fixed stats screen not refreshing when selecting perks that give extra stats.
- Fixed the graveyard map, spaced out the graves and added 3 entrances through the fence.
- Fixed units not attacking when they can't reach you
- Removed resolutions below 1280x720 from the fullscreen resolution list to prevent locking out the GUI
Changes
- Added a "disable controller input" option to the control settings screen
- Added boundry to graveyard map
- Added more holes in the yard fences to hep out the aliens a bit.
- Added slow time as defensive ability
- Added tooltips to stats
- Added tooltip to pointlight setting
- Added visible shield effect to invulnerability shield (graphics will be changed later)
- Adjusted reflections on mothership
- Changed name of "Strength" stat to "Accuracy"
- Decreased damage of humanoid enemy weapons
- Improved camera smoothing
- Improved effectiveness of squad members
- Lowered the amount of speed a point in the speed stat gives.
- Mars is no longer endless
- Removed MSAA options from AA settings since they don't work in deferred rendering.
- Some minor optimizations
- Improved pathfinding systems, units can no longer walk through walks (unless they get stuck for awhile)
- Spawns slightly re-adjusted, will be adjusted more over time.
- Unlocked engineer and scout (default stats/weapons/abilities will be changed in a later patch)
Patch 0.8.983 (on patchtest beta)
The patch has quite a few low level changes (mainly path finding related) that require some extensive testing, so it'll stay on the beta build for a few days before it goes live.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed energy weapons not correctly updating physics
- Fixed forcefield colliders, shouldn't be able to run through it anymore on low framerates.
- Fixed just assigned stats resetting when choosing a reward.
- Fixed laser perk, now actually adds a laser again
- Fixed normal weapon firing at the same time as last projectile of special weapon.
- Fixed not being able to hit units that are too close to you
- Fixed pathfinding not updating correctly on map destruction
- Fixed rewards, you will no longer get your class abilities as a reward (turret/shield for soldier)
- Fixed rounding error on stats screen
- Fixed shield/accuracy/speed stats
- Fixed stats available message not disappearing while mission text was up
- Fixed stats screen not refreshing when selecting perks that give extra stats.
- Removed resolutions below 1280x720 from the full-screen resolution list to prevent locking out the GUI
Changes
- Added a "disable controller input" option to the control settings screen
- Added more holes in the yard fences to hep out the aliens a bit.
- Added tooltips to stats
- Added tooltip to pointlight setting
- Added visible shield effect to invulnerability shield (graphics will be changed later)
- Changed name of "Strength" stat to "Accuracy"
- Decreased damage of humanoid enemy weapons
- Improved camera smoothing
- Improved effectiveness of squad members
- Lowered the amount of speed a point in the speed stat gives.
- Mars is no longer endless
- Removed MSAA options from AA settings since they don't work in deferred rendering.
- Replaced pathfinding system
- Spawns slightly re-adjusted, will be adjusted more next week
- Unlocked engineer and scout (default stats/weapons/abilities will be changed in a later patch)
How to enable the patch right now
- Go to Steam Library
- Right click on Critical Annihilation
- Click on Properties in the popup menu
- Click on the [Beta] tab in the screen that pops up
- It'll show a page with a dropdown to select a beta version, select "patchtest" (You can go back at any time by selecting "None" here)
- Close the window and it'll start applying the patch
Patch 0.8.949 live now
Patch 0.8.949 (on patchtest)
The following enables the 'patchtest' build:
- Go to Steam Library
- Right click on Critical Annihilation
- Click on Properties in the popup menu
- Click on the [Beta] tab in the screen that pops up
- It'll show a page with a dropdown to select a beta version, select "patchtest" (You can go back at any time by selecting "None" here)
- Close the window and it'll start applying the patch
Here are the patch notes:
- Fixed support units not firing on lower framerates
- Fixed stats not saving when pressing escape on the character screen
- Fixed game acting up when trying to enter screenshot mode while restarting the level
- Fixed continue button being enabled when dead
- Added controller support, might need to reset controls to default or rebind manually to get them to work. (Menu's still require mouse/keyboard)
- Changed default AA setting to SMAA
- Removed medium settings for Precision on the physics settings tab, it was causing massive slowdowns
- Changed screenshotmode from F12 to F11 so it no longer conflicts with steam
Secondary weapons currently fire at a set distance when using a controller. Looking into different options to see what feels best. If you have any ideas please feel free to share them on the steam forum.