- Difficulty changes:
- Increased damage of all enemies
- Lowered health of all enemies
- Reduced enemy speed on Hazard 4 and 5
- Increased reaction time of max difficulty AI - Enemies will now always react to damage (even when the damage source is outside their sensor range)
- Reworked enemy spawning
- Reworked enemy generator placement
- Weapon splash damage now affects static objects
- Reduced damage impact forces
- Increased window skybox intensity
- Various FX improvements
- Reduced screenshake radius of enemy explosions
- Added Steam Cloud support for save games
- Fixed incorrect eye height for Heavy Turret enemy
- Fixed missing AI sound event for Exopod projectiles
- Fixed misaligned firing points for Tank enemy
- Fixed remote event camera orientation for horizontal surfaces
- Fixed inconsistent chat input behaviour for players with long usernames
- Fixed clients being disconnected when the server starts a new game
- Fixed a bug that could cause death explosion sounds to be skipped
- Fixed enemy spawning interrupting player HUD sounds
Desecrators
0.5.8b changelist
0.5.8a changelist
- Adjusted secret generation for cave rooms
- Improved underwater FX
- Improved remote camera placement for triggered events (e.g. doors opening or unlocking)
- Improved ice cave textures
- Improved level texture patterns
- Added vertex occlusion maps for all vehicles and pickups
- Added vertex animation for Syntapod view model
- Optimized material batching for all static objects
- Fixed missing kill flash FX on clients
- Fixed a rendering issue that could cause flickering room textures
- Fixed inconsistent ambient lighting for dropship klaxon
- Fixed secondary projectile sometimes being fired with an incorrect Z-rotation
- Fixed a bug where projectiles would behave incorrectly when impacting immediately after interacting with a water surface
Desecrators 0.5.8 - Procedural Void
Also adds a new texture pattern system and various content and balance changes.
Changelist:
- Arclight:
- Area damage radius now increases with charge level
- Increased damage - Trigun:
- Increased power level 1 firerate
- Increased range
- Increased damage - Pyro:
- Increased projectile speed
- Reduced range
- Increased damage for power level 1 and 2 - Added Syntapod primary
- Added Cruiser secondary
- Added Heavy Turret enemy
- Added new Ice Comet level music
- Added procedural skyboxes to all levels
- Improved window placement
- Added window generation for most levels
- Added level texture patterns
- Added headlight flare FX
- Improved level intro cinematic
- Improved ship explosion FX
- Improved various weapon FX
- Improved turbo engine FX
- Improved teleport enter/exit FX
- Engine FX are now tinted when underwater
- Increased Moonport max size
- Fixed an issue where level objects would not be placed correctly in cylindrical rooms with slanted walls
- Fixed air enemies attempting to move through doorways blocked by destructable walls
- Fixed a minor navmesh memory leak
0.5.7a changelist
- Improved Moonport level textures
- Improved static light generation for large rooms
- Increased minimum spawn clearance for large enemies
- Increased underwater turbo speed
- Improved engine trail FX
- Fixed a level generation issue in Ice Comet which could lead to impossible maps being generated.
- Fixed static light damage spark FX only being partially visible
- Fixed a client network issue that caused remote ships to sometimes have incorrect velocities
- Fixed wall objects being able to overlap windows
- Fixed weird physics behaviour when hitting an enemy directly with a fragment weapon (e.g. Beehive or Cluster Bomb)
- Fixed fragment weapon homing ignoring target visibility level (e.g. being able to track Chamo enemies)
- Fixed wrong level number in game loaded message
- Fixed an AI bug that could invalid pathfinding for patrolling enemies
Desecrators 0.5.7 - Moonport
Note: Host saves from version 0.5.6 can be used with the caveat that some progress on the star map may have been lost.
Changelist:
- Added Moonport level
- Piranha and Beehive projectiles now have simple collision avoidance (this makes them easier to use in small rooms)
- Added error messages if loading a game save fails
- Fixed saves not storing star map data correctly
- Fixed a loading bug causing Ice Comet to be available too often
- Fixed too many keys being spawned on Ice Comet
- Fixed a rare bug where returning to the mothership would cause a black screen.
Desecrators 0.5.6 - Netcode and persistence
Host saving has been introduced where the host saves the game host when completing a level. On startup the host will load the last save if one exists.
Changelist:
- Reworked networking:
- Accurate projectile replication
- Improved ship and turret physics
- Reduced latency
- Improved weapon switching and ammo handling
- Improved teleport handling - Host will now save game progress after a level is completed
- Added music during meltdown sequence
- Added additional info to map UI
- Added power, shield and hull bars to HUD
- Increased underwater bubble FX density
- Improved ground vehicle collision detection
- Improved dynamic reverb
- Flare and headlight color is now affected by water color when submerged
- Increased minimum room size to prevent cases where small rooms have overlapping teleport exits and entrances
- Fixed an issue where repeated client disconnects would leave the server in an invalid state
- Fixed missing projectile trails
- Fixed localization causing incorrect settings slider values in some regions
- Fixed HUD ammo count not updating when picking up a weapon with an ammo value of 1
- Fixed join server menu not having a default button
- Fixed Bladder Mine fragment display name
- Fixed underwater reverb modifier sometimes not being triggered
- Fixed a minor memory leak related to pathfinding
- Fixed a minor memory leak related to audio
- Fixed incorrect Resurrector pickup message in multiplayer
- Fixed pickup full messages not being displayed for clients
- Fixed portals sometimes being generated incorrectly
- Fixed trigger spawning on ice cave surfaces
- Fixed air enemy AI not correctly estimating the width of doorways
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause cave levels to fail generating
0.5.5a changelist
- Added additional underwater areas
- Improved underwater physics for enemy death movement and ground vehicles
- Improved various underwater FX
- Player ship hull and shield is now replenished between levels
- Fixed a bug where pickups could spawn inside cave geometry
- Fixed underwater bubbles being able to pass into non-water rooms
- Fixed droplets not colliding with liquid surfaces
- Fixed missing view submerge / emerge sounds for spectators
- Fixed homing weapons not prioritising mines over other targets
- Fixed teleport activation not being replicated on clients
- Fixed Napalm ammo pickup message
- Fixed star map destination message position not scaling properly with aspect ratio