Desecrators

Weapons

• Maximum weapon slots reduced 4 -> 3
  
• Removed Mine Ammo pickup
  
• Secondary Ammo pickup reworked
  - Renamed to Munition Ammo
  - Adds equal ammo for both secondaries and mines
  
• Increased mine launch invulnerability time 0.375s -> 0.425s
  
• Added Kraken secondary
  
• Adjusted Hoplite
  - Damage increased 64 -> 72
  - Max ammo increased 12 -> 16
  - Ammo rate increased 3 -> 4
  
• Adjusted Cycler
  - Damage per shot increased 12/8/8.5 -> 12/9/9.5
  
• Adjusted Piranha
  - Ammo rate reduced 15 -> 10
  
• Adjusted Thermo
  - Ammo rate reduced 0.5 -> 0.375
  
• Adjusted Ion Ray
  - Ammo cost increased 12/15/18 -> 16/20/24
  
• Adjusted Foamphase
  - Ammo cost increased 32/48/64 -> 32/64/80
  
• Adjusted Ack-Am
  - Ammo cost increased 36/52/72 -> 40/80/96
  
• Adjusted Bladder Mine
  - Increased fragment turn rate 136 -> 154
  - Reworked movement pattern
  

Artifacts

• Ammo Modules reworked:
  - No longer increases all ammo gained from pickups
  - Now increases primary ammo gained from pickups by 50%
  
• Sensor Fuser now improves weapon tracking vs. cloaked enemies
  
• Increased Superpod hull 96 -> 128
  

Pickups

• Added dynamic pickup spawn/drop rates:
  - Affects shield, fuel and ammo pickups
  - Now partially selects pickups based on player state and other nearby pickups
  - Will avoid duplicates or pickups the player cannot use
  - Enemies will drop more pickups when player is low on resources
  - Breakables (e.g. crates and barrels) will now always drop at least 1 pickup
  
• Reworked weapon pickup spawning
  - Now takes current player loadout into account
  - Now takes all previously dropped weapons of the run into account
  - Now selects a roughly equal distribution of primaries, secondaries and mines
  - Reduced overall weapon drop/spawn rate
  
• Reworked exopod droprate to be more consistent
  
• Removed bonus lives earned from credits
  
• Reworked Resurrector spawning
  - No longer limited to secrets
  - Now more likely to spawn when players are out of lives
  
• Added Mega Shield pickup
  - Adds 128 shield
  - Bonus can exceed ship max shield
  
• Ammo pickups have higher bonuses on Hazard 1 and 2
  
• Reduced max enemy density on Hazard 1 and 2
  
• Pickups that can be collected will now always be attracted (bonus overflow is ignored)
  
• Artifacts will now sometimes spawn as secrets
  
• Adjusted level pickup spawning to be more consistent
  
• Improved secret pickup selection
  
• Added more multi-tile entrances for secret rooms
  

UI

• Added binding for navigating to nearest unexplored group (default keyboard binding is "x")
  
• Added weapon wheel for exchanging weapons
  
• Weapons without ammo can no longer be selected
  
• Added additional HUD feedback for selecting and exchanging weapons
  
• Added HUD indicators for incoming homing missiles
  
• Homing alert sound is now directional
  
• Added additional HUD feedback for Mega Shield and ammo packs
  
• Removed primary bank full HUD messages
  

Visuals

• Added dynamic scaling for weapon impact FX (bigger enemies = bigger explosions)
  
• Improved Cruiser laser sight FX
  
• Improved various weapon and damage FX
  
• Multipine view model now spins when firing
  
• Adjusted Multipine impact FX for better visibility
  
• Updated Bubblebomb model
  
• Updated Cycler and Repeater models
  
• Adjusted level fog and lighting
  

Enemies

• Reworked enemy spawning:
  - Enemy compositions are now more varied
  - Smoother difficulty progression across a level
  - Will now occassionaly create swarms of weaker enemies
  
• Damage from melee enemies now penetrates shield
  
• Ionites can now spawn in underwater areas
  
• Improved spawn point selection for ground enemies
  
• Increased Killjet size
  
• Shade adjusted:
  - Reduced turn rate
  - Increased ethereal duration
  

Fixes

• Fixed meltdown music not being timed correctly
  
• Fixed HUD damage flash not being reset on ship respawn
  
• Fixed a phantom wall bug that could cause enemies to spawn outside the level
  
• Fixed mine camera rotation in some cases not aligning with room gravity
  
• Fixed mine projectile physics being reset when colliding with water surfaces
  
• Fixed weird physics interaction when Thermo hit a water surface
  

• Ammo Modules reworked:
  - No longer increases all ammo gained from pickups
  - Now increases primary ammo gained from pickups by 50%
  
• Increased droprate of primary ammo pickups
  
• Reduced droprate of fuel pickups
  
• Sensor Fuser now improves weapon tracking vs. cloaked enemies
  
• Piranha ammo rate reduced 12 -> 10
  
• Artifacts will now sometimes spawn as secrets
  
• Improved Cruiser laser sight FX
  
• Improved various weapon and damage FX
  
• Updated Cycler and Repeater models
  
• Multipine view model now spins when firing
  
• Added HUD indicators for incoming homing missiles
  
• Homing alert sound is now directional
  
• Fixed level relic count not including relics in hidden breakables
  
• Fixed mine projectile physics being reset when colliding with water surfaces
  
• Fixed weird physics interaction when Thermo hit a water surface
  
• Fixed weapon ammo bars sometimes being visible for empty weapon slots
  

• Reworked Kraken:
  - Reduced fragment spread angle 30 -> 10
  - Increased fragment move speed 67.5 -> 128
  - Reduced fragment turn rate 100 -> 72
  - Increased fragment splash radius 7.5m -> 10m
  - Increased ammo rate 0.25 -> 0.375
  - Reduced max ammo 3 -> 2
  - Improved fragment FX
  - Added HUD icon
  
• Reduced Thermo ammo rate 0.5 -> 0.375
  
• Reworked exopod droprate to be more consistent
  
• Improved secret pickup selection
  
• Improved weapon exchange wheel graphics
  
• Increased mine launch invulnerability time 0.375s -> 0.425s
  
• Added additional HUD feedback for Mega Shield and ammo packs
  
• Removed primary bank full HUD messages
  
• Improved spawn point selection for ground enemies
  
• Fixed meltdown music not being timed correctly
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause an excessive amount of Munition Ammo pickups to spawn
  
• Fixed a bug related to enemy spawning that could cause a game crash
  

• Reworked enemy type distribution:
  - Enemy compositions are now more varied
  - Smoother difficulty progression across a level
  - Rooms will now occasionally contain swarms of weaker enemies
  
• All level pickups now use dynamic pickup selection introduced in 0.9.9d2
  
• Adjusted shield/ammo pickup spawning to be more consistent
  
• Adjusted level fog and lighting
  
• Increased Bladder Mine fragment turn rate
  
• Increased Killjet size
  
• Ionites can now spawn underwater
  
• Increased enemy weapon drop rate
  
• Increased secret room weapon spawn rate
  
• Fixed mine camera rotation in some cases not aligning with room gravity
  

• Added dynamic pickup spawn/drop rates:
  - Affects shield, fuel and ammo pickups
  - Now partially selects pickups based on player state and other nearby pickups
  - Will avoid duplicates or pickups the player cannot use
  - Enemies will drop more pickups when player is low on resources
  - Breakables (e.g. crates and barrels) will now always drop at least 1 pickup
  
• Pickups dropped by enemies no longer expire
  
• Reduced relic spawn rate
  
• Pickups that can be collected will now always be attracted (bonus overflow is ignored)
  
• Ammo pickups have higher bonuses on Hazard 1 and 2
  
• Adjusted Kraken
  
• Adjusted Bladder Mine
  
• Reduced Piranha ammo rate 15 -> 12
  
• Added dynamic scaling for weapon impact FX (bigger enemies = bigger explosions)
  
• Adjusted Multipine impact FX for better visibility
  
• Reduced max enemy density on Hazard 1 and 2
  
• Improved level lighting
  
• Added more multi-tile entrances for secret rooms
  
• Fixed HUD damage flash not being reset on ship respawn
  
• Fixed a phantom wall bug that could cause enemies to spawn outside the level
  

• Added weapon wheel for exchanging weapons
  
• Weapons without ammo can no longer be selected
  
• Added additional HUD feedback for selecting and exchanging weapons
  
• Added binding for navigating to nearest unexplored group (default keyboard binding is "x")
  
• Maximum weapon slots reduced 4 -> 3
  
• Shield and ammo pickups dropped by enemies will now despawn after a moderate delay
  
• Removed Mine Ammo pickup
  
• Secondary Ammo pickup reworked
  - Renamed to Munition Ammo
  - Adds equal ammo for both secondaries and mines
  
• Removed bonus lives earned from credits
  
• Reworked Resurrector spawning
  - No longer limited to secrets
  - Now more likely to spawn when players are out of lives
  
• Reworked weapon pickup spawning
  - Now takes current player loadout into account
  - Now takes all previously dropped weapons of the run into account
  - Now selects a roughly equal distribution of primaries, secondaries and mines
  - Reduced overall weapon drop/spawn rate
  
• Increased exopod drop/spawn rate
  
• Added Kraken secondary
  
• Added Mega Shield pickup
  - Adds 128 shield
  - Bonus can exceed ship max shield
  
• Increased Ion Ray ammo cost 12/15/18 -> 16/20/24
  
• Increased Foamphase ammo cost 32/48/64 -> 32/64/80
  
• Increased Ack-Am ammo cost 36/52/72 -> 40/80/96
  
• Increased Superpod hull 96 -> 128
  
• Shade adjusted:
  - Increased turn rate
  - Increased ethereal duration
  
• Damage from melee enemies now penetrates shield
  
• Fixed ammo bonus from Ammo Pack and Munition Pack being reset by normal ammo pickups
  

• Adjusted Thermo:
  - Increased launch velocity 84 -> 96
  - Reduced detonation delay 1.3s -> 0.8s
  
• Ammo bonus from Ammo Pack or Munition Pack is now uncapped (ship will always receive the full ammo bonus)
  
• Improved HUD feedback when taking damage
  
• Increased secondary and mine ammo drop rate
  
• Increased Smartbomb shockwave radius
  
• Player exopods now also receive shield damage
  
• Player ship will now drop all collected ammo on death as a single pickup
  
• Players start with 2 primary slots unlocked
  
• Weapon HUD symbols will now flash when ammo becomes available
  
• Fixed incorrect Pillager drops for rivals
  
• Fixed power pickups creating chat messages when shared with other players
  
• Fixed weapon exchange text not showing upgraded weapons correctly
  

• Primary ammo bonus increased 250 -> 300
  
• Primary ammo pickups now an additional 100 ammo bonus for all other ammo types
  
• Secondary ammo now provides a 0.33x mine ammo bonus
  
• Mine ammo now provides a 0.33x secondary ammo bonus
  
• Increased Pillager ammo rate 0.15 -> 0.25
  
• Weapon banks can now be upgraded to 4 slots
  
• 1st weapon slot price reduced 20000 -> 15000