- Using chat now only hides the crosshair and not the entire HUD
- Adjusted Ancient Warship rooms
- Fixed some generation issues that could cause invalid room connections
Desecrators
0.9.4b changelist
0.9.4a changelist
- Improved level geometry
- Improved texture mapping for all rooms
- Added new room types
- Added more options for large room connections
- Added new mesh extrusions to various rooms
- Improved mesh extrusions for cylindrical rooms
- Fixed extrusion geometry sometimes having smaller than intended segments - Rivals are now better at reacting to Beehive and Cluster Bomb fragments
- Rivals now use boost less frequently
- Adjusted enemy Photon Mines:
- Increased fragment move speed
- Reduced fragment turn speed - Cartographer now reveals positions of all objectives
- Reduced Trigun muzzle flash intensity
- Fixed Bubblebomb damage amp FX being rendered one frame behind affected ship position
Desecrators 0.9.4 - Repulsion
- Adjusted ship collisions:
- Player ship is now considered heavier vs. AI ships (enemies are easier to push around)
- Ships using boost will cause stronger collision forces
- Friendly mines are easier to push around - Mines are now repulsed by forcefields
- Pickups are now repulsed by forcefields
- Anomaly encounter changes:
- Reworked enemy spawning to favour a higher number of weaker enemies
- Ice Comet arena can no longer contain water
- Removed Banshee
- Removed Skullpod
- Added Gun Husk
- Added Star Husk - Adjusted Banshee:
- Reduced move speed
- Increased max hull
- Increased collision radius - Adjusted Trigun:
- Reduced spread
- Increased projectile speed - Adjusted Bubblebomb
- Increased projectile speed
- Increased gravity well damage amplification - Adjusted Phantasm
- Increased projectile speed - Cartographer now reveals secret buttons and destructables
- Secret rooms revealed by Cartographer are now shown using a unique color
- Fuel is now refilled when visiting the mothership
- Increased weapon exchange range and movement tolerance
- Improved rival spawning to be more consistent and distant relative to the player
- Improved player respawn point selection (players are less likely to spawn near enemies)
- Improved player and rival death explosions
Effects
- Added additional pickup feedback for weapon upgrades
- Added additional pickup feedback for Cartographer
- Added player death camera
- Added distortion FX to teleporters
- Improved computer screen FX
UI
- Added Anomaly health bar
- Controller axes can now be individually bound
- Weapon exchange HUD now shows ammo count for secondaries
Fixes
- Fixed HUD scale overlap problems with cloak and invulnerability timers
- Fixed a bug where weaponry picked up in the lobby could disappear
- Fixed enemy generators being able to spawn on undersized surfaces
- Fixed mission number sometimes being wrong on the level map
- Fixed weapon pickup particle animation not stopping while game is paused
- Fixed weapon pickup particle FX not rendering correctly when a distant camera is active
- Fixed a rare math overflow issue that could cause level generation to fail
0.9.3d changelist
- Fixed gravity wells causing rendering issues for turret enemies on clients
- Fixed new weapons not being correctly selected after being picked up
0.9.3c changelist
- Level map adjustments:
- Camera position no longer affected by ship bob
- Command added for cycling through unexplored portals and points of interest
- Added HUD feedback for certain actions
- Added controls reference
- Added level number
- Added mission size - Added weapon sorting (not yet customizable)
- Fixed mine camera desync issue
- Fixed overlapping menu sounds causing popping artefacts
- Fixed players being pillaged sometimes dropping duplicate pickups
- Fixed level map HUD sometimes being rendered on top of menus
- Fixed incorrectly scale enemy generator models (for real this time)
- Fixed show controls gamepad layout issue
- Fixed missing level map reset rebinding option
0.9.3b changelist
- Reduced mine physics friction (mines can be thrown farther)
- Increase Thermo blast damage
- Crosshair graphic for the active weapon barrel is now more subtle
- Added windowed mode to graphic settings
- New database entries are now highlighted
- Improved orientation selection for player respawns
- Map shows level modifiers for the current level
- Default hud scale now considers the current resolution
- Fixed level map sometimes rendering other players markers
- Fixed enemy generator models sometimes being incorrectly sized when attached to slanted walls
- Fixed player ship pickup attraction creating an excessive amount of HUD pickup messages
- Fixed Stinger enemies being more rare than intended
- Fixed Sentry Mine physics behaving weirdly when enemies were nearby
- Fixed resolution selection causing screen mode to switch from Fullscreen Window to Exclusive Fullscreen
0.9.3a changelist
- Player ship will now not attract pickups when 33% or more of the bonus would be wasted
- Increased player ship pickup attraction force and radius
- Reduced physics friction for mines (mines will float further when launched or pushed)
- Added effect for enemies affected by gravity wells (reveals cloaked enemies!)
- Post level stats will now display the number of bosses and rivals in the level
- Increased database item list scroll rate
- Fixed map markers not being removed when in close proximity to client ships
- Fixed artifacts dropped from rivals not being accounted for in post level stats
- Fixed glow for primary and power pickups not rendering correctly
- Fixed a bug that could cause enemy generator to spawn enemies inside level geometry
- Fixed player and enemy mines not detonating when hitting each other
- Fixed gravity well damage amplification sometimes not being applied
- Fixed player ship sometimes attracting pickups through walls
Desecrators 0.9.3 - Flow
- Players now respawn near allies or close to the last place they died
- Unlocking room entrances can now trigger enemy encounters
- Player ship now attracts nearby pickups (disabled in multiplayer)
- Level events can now cause groups of patrolling enemies to spawn
- Active mines no longer spawn from breakables
- Player mines are now launched in front of the ship instead of behind
- Increased mine launch velocity
- Mines launch velocity is now affected by ship velocity (similar to Thermo secondary)
- Rivals now drop artifacts on death
- Increased sound radius for underwater sounds
Effects
- Increased ambient light intensity for room entrances
- Added additional glow effect to primary and power pickups
- Added shockwave effect to enemy explosions
- Improved weapon explosions
- Improved level object explosions
- Improved underwater explosions
- Improved bubble particles
- Added underwater sound variants for various effects
- Water zones now influence shield impact colours
- Replaced enemy generator decal with 3D model
UI
- Added HUD feedback for rival deaths
- Added dynamic glow for hull, shield and power bars
- Added primary and secondary ammo count to crosshair
- Added additional pickup feedback for power and shield pickups
- Increased rebind menu scroll rate
- Added confirmation dialog for quitting while in lobby level
Fixes
- Fixed mines having jittery movement
- Fixed a rare case where level generation could fail for tiny levels
- Fixed enemy generator light sometimes shining through walls of nearby rooms
- Fixed meltdown explosion particles not adjusting to underwater rooms
0.9.2d changelist
- Fixed spawn point generation issue which could cause the level generation to fail
- Fixed dropship lighting issue
0.9.2c changelist
- Reworked secret pickup spawning:
- Secrets contain less pickups on average
- High value pickups, like weapons, are more likely to spawn
- Secrets are more likely to contain multiple pickups of the same type - Adjusted water physics:
- Reduced turn rate
- Reduced projectile speed - Added new explosion variants for vehicle deaths
- Added quick controls reference. Can be shown by holding down "Y" (default binding)
- Adjusted font rendering for better background contrast
- Improved Hive move animations
- Hives can no longer launch 2 Beehives in a single burst
- Targets affected by Gravity Wells now take 50% more damage
- Updated Hydro Reactor skybox
- Fixed death markers fading further away than intended
- Fixed map marker pathing sometimes not working
- Fixed target reticles not scaling correctly with HUD scale setting
- Fixed explosion flares for underwater grates not having correct colours
- Fixed pickups being able to collide with map markers