Updated Dialogs:

Cheetah and Bear Unlocks

Boss Ultras

• Ultras: Bounces / Reflections, Deflector, Force Deflector, Melee Deflector, Melee Damager, Vortex, Force Vortex, Health Booster, Health Regeneration
  
• Story Mode (Easy difficulty): farm bosses for upgrades without the bosses getting tougher
  
• Action Mode: Each time a boss is defeated it will gain health, attack faster, and gain an Ultra (Max 4) making Weapon Upgrade farming more challenging
  
• Boss rush: Each boss starts with two Ultras and will increase in difficulty when farmed
  
• Boss meters now show their enabled Ultras
  

Improved art for AI Boss and Mini-boss

Total Leaderboard

Performance Improvements

Reminder: Dr. Spaczoo is going to increase to the final price of $14.99 USD at any moment now! This is the last chance to get it at $9.99 USD for a while.

Full Patch Notes for v0.8.7 to v0.9.0:

• Cheetah Unlock: Less defense, more firing rate, more acceleration, 4 laser slots, and 4 bullet slots
  
• Bear Unlock: More defense, Less acceleration, More weapon damage, 4 laser slots, and 4 bullet slots
  
• Added a total leaderboard for each game mode: Story, Action, Boss Rush, Permadeath
  
• Added single and dual mouse button mode option
  
• Updated weapon tutorial page
  
• Bug fixes
  

• Fix for boss room pillar placement
  
• Lighting improvements
  

• Story mode difficulty adjusted down for all missions and levels
  
• Level size and room sizes now scale down with difficulty (easy mode is easier)
  
• Lowered laser damage for all enemies
  
• Story mode now shows animals to save for each new mission
  
• Procedural level generation tweaks and improvements (and improved M5:L4 boss room generation)
  
• Mouse/Twin-stick control instructions are now shown for first game and all tutorial games
  
• Fixed title star so every player should get a unique star instead of the default green star (game prefs now seeds itself)
  
• Joystick improvements:
  
  
  
  • Now auto-selecting 1st weapon upgrade slot if no core upgrades
    
  • Improved joystick disconnect/reconnect code
    
  • Co-op navigation bug fixes
    
  • General bug fixes and improvements
    
  
  
• Animals now have 2x HP than before, which will make them more insta-gib resilient at low levels
  
• Scoring Improvements: Points are now shared to everyone that damages an enemy or animal. Previously all points went to the player that dealt the death blow.
  
• Shadow system bug fix. Also, should no longer see the shadow map texture on level zoom in/out.
  
• Fixed Daily Challenge leaderboard crash
  

• Added New Player Ships: Cheetah (unlocks after completing Story mode) and Bear (unlocks after completing Action mode)
  
  
  
  • Currently unlocked until full Cheetah/Bear functionality is added
    
  • Recolors for each in co-op
    
  • Sped up player ship animation rate
    
  
  
• Player Ship Chooser: select player ship (Interceptor, Cheetah, Bear) when starting a new game
  
  
  
  • Existing saves will use the Interceptor
    
  • Daily Challenge automatically chooses ship based on date seed
    
  
  
• Drillbot boss difficulty tuning: now spawns less mini drillbots
  
• AI boss and mini-boss difficulty tuning: slightly more hp now
  
• AI boss, mini, node: new animations/art
  
• Penultimate Boss: lowered homing bullet velocity for each phase
  
• Final Boss: improvements to damage decals
  
• Mini bosses now spawn closer to room edges to prevent being trapped in fountains
  
• Animal Vat: new art for vat and animated goo
  
• Co-Op: Players can only pickup max of 6 weapon upgrades now to prevent one player from collecting them all
  
• Dialog UI: complete rewrite of Dialog UI used to interface with the good Dr. Spacezoo and Winston. Meow!
  
• Score UI: complete rewrite of score UI for single and co-op games
  
• UI: new glitch effect and background blur is now used for all in game UI screens (uses OBB settings)
  
• Health UI: no longer shows +0 hp proc heals
  
• Animals: locked facing direction to left or right to improve readability
  
• Story: Mission 1 story improvements
  
• Level Select:
  
  
  
  • Improved level icon placement for small planets (e.g. Ceres)
    
  • Procedural planet fixes for all gray planets
    
  • Reduced ring particles on Saturn and Uranus to improve performance
    
  
  
• Performance improvements to physics, bullet homing, path finding
  
• Save file improvements
  
• Settings: added text speed option
  
• Joystick navigation improvements
  
• Windows: bug fix for changing screen resolution / fullscreen in game
  
• Bug fix to Pause Menu - Full Reset
  

• Bosses can now use Ultras weapons for all attacks:
  
  
  
  • Ultras: Bounces / Reflections, Deflector, Force Deflector, Melee Deflector, Melee Damager, Vortex, Force Vortex, Health Booster, Health Regeneration
    
  • Story Mode (Easy difficulty): farm bosses for upgrades without the bosses getting tougher
    
  • Action Mode: Each time a boss is defeated it will gain health, attack faster, and gain an Ultra (Max 4) making Weapon Upgrade farming more challenging
    
  • Boss rush: Each boss starts with two Ultras and will increase in difficulty when farmed
    
  • Boss meters now show configured Ultras
    
  
  
• Enemy firing code improvements
  
• Difficulty scaling improvements (health and firing rates)
  
• Health Regeneration Ultra improvements
  
• Drunken bullets without homing now have trails
  
• Melee Deflector/Damager Ultra improvements
  
• Weapon Description updates
  
• Weapon Upgrades screen now warns if closing with unspent core points or unassigned weapon upgrades
  
• Joystick UI navigation improvements
  
• Drillbot boss fight tuning: made fight slightly less punishing, and suppression pattern no longer turns with Drillbot
  
• Fixed date bug in Steam Daily Leaderboard selection
  
• OS X/Linux: migrated from OpenGL2.1 to OpenGL4.1 (still using DX9 on Windows)
  
• Windows 10: Bug fix for black screen after changing resolution or fullscreen in Settings
  

Bullets:

New Ultra Weapon Upgrades:

Co-op Animations:

Weapon Upgrade Help:

Screen Transitions:

Reminder: Price is going to increase as the game becomes more complete!

Full Patch Notes for v0.8.5 to v0.8.6:

• New Weapon Upgrade Ultras:
  
  
  
  • Health Booster (Ultra): A passive effect that boosts base health per rank.
    
  • Health Regeneration (Ultra): A proc effect that restores a small amount of health per rank.
    
  • Melee Deflector (Ultra): A rotating shield that increases in speed each rank and gently bumps away anything it touches. Stops a lot of bullets.
    
  • Melee Damager (Ultra): A rotating weapon that increases in speed each rank and does damage to anything it touches. Does NOT stop any bullets.
    
  • Vortex (Ultra): A proc effect that harmlessly pulls in enemies, animals, and bullets.
    
  • Force Vortex (Ultra): A proc effect that forcefully pulls in and damages enemies, animals, bullets, and destructibles.
    
  
  
• Photon Density/Bullet and Damage weapon upgrade icons now indicate increased rarity level.
  
• Improvements to weapon upgrade help information
  
• Slightly reduced animal heal effect from +5hp to +4hp
  
• Floating Combat Text now shows heals
  
• Improvements to the screen transition effect
  
• Performance improvements in how forces are applied in the Enemy Swarmer's goo explosion
  
• Fix for core and weapon upgrades not being saved after closing upgrade dialog and hard quitting game
  

• Added new bullets and firing sounds based on configured bullet weapon properties
  
• Improvements to Drunken property on bullets
  
• Slightly decreased enemy slowing bullet duration
  
• Slightly increased bullet trail width and length
  
• Bullets now longer increase in size when temporary firing rate power-up is active
  
• Fixed incorrect bullet facing immediately after bouncing
  
• Added animated player ships and bullets for co-op players 1-4
  
• Using animated player ships in UI
  
• Improvements to Weapon Upgrade dialog UI
  
• Pending Weapon Upgrades are now cleared when starting a new level instead of when the Weapon Upgrade dialog is closed
  
• Added a help dialog with weapon property descriptions to Weapon Upgrade dialog
  
• Added a song for Xieri (Space Zebra)
  
• Added a sound for Nali Puki (Space Whale)
  
• Updated help text in initial how to play dialog
  
• Improvements to player joystick handling and joystick menu navigation
  

Unique Ultra Weapon Upgrades:

Bounces Ultra

Reflections Ultra

Force Deflector Ultra

Fountain Weapon Upgrades:

Updated Enemy Art:

Screen Transitions:

Screen Resolutions and Aspect Ratios:

Reminder: Price is going to increase as the game becomes more complete!

Full Patch Notes for v0.8.4 to v0.8.2:

• Laser works with the reflection ultra upgrade and has improved beam particles
  
• Each subsequent laser reflection/bullet bounce reduces damage dealt
  
• Lasers and bullets only reflect/bounce off of walls
  
• Reduced force deflector range to better match particle ring
  
• Unique ultra upgrades stat range will improve each mission
  
• New sounds for Nali Puki (Space Whale) and Xieri (Space Zebra)
  
• Debris created during large explosions is throttled to maintain framerate (see Throttle Debris Creation in Settings to limit further)
  
• Explosion sound is reduced for very large explosions
  
• Fixed Defense upgrade tool-tip in Power-up HUD
  
• Fountains have a very small chance to drop a weapon upgrade when destroyed
  
• Power-up objects properly deactivate after they are collected
  
• Added a confirmation to the Full Reset menu option
  
• Reduced bullet homing force for phase 1 of the last Mission 5 boss
  
• Increased boss activation alert range to activate outside of player weapon range
  
• Enemy converter: reduced beam's particle usage and improved performance when no animals are in range
  
• Added AZERTY mapping for keyboard controls
  
• Added new transition effect UI screen changes
  
• Tutorial returns to main menu from level menu since only one mission
  
• Fixed minor UI issues with non-1280x720 resolutions
  
• Fixed joystick hint icons display issue
  
• Many bug fixes
  

• Added Ultra Weapon Upgrades: Force Deflector, Deflector, and Bouncing Bullets (more to come!)
  
• Bosses drop additional weapon upgrades in co-op
  
• Additional weapon upgrade rolling bonus based on player's level
  
• Boss weapon upgrade rolling bonus is applied once per player (destroyed players can refight boss to get rolling bonus)
  
• Improvements to player's power-up tracker, and added icon indicating weapon upgrades collected
  
• New ambient animal sounds: Giraffe, Elephant, Rhino, Chicken, Bear, Goat
  
• New in game resolution selector which supports non-1280x720 resolutions and non-16:9 aspect ratios (min resolution is 1280x720)
  
• Menus and game are now resolution/aspect ratio independent
  
• Improved mission selection and level selection icon layouts for non 16:9 aspect ratios
  
• Added Screen Resolution Based Zoom option to show more of the game levels at higher resolutions (uses more CPU/GPU)
  
• Improvements to in game camera size and options
  
• Added Ceres to Story Mode Mission 1 level selection
  
• Updated player ship art
  
• Slightly reduced acceleration per rank and power-up, and haste per rank and power-up
  
• Improvements to Mission 3 tileset's emission map
  
• Improvements to homing bullets retargeting
  
• Sticky bullets now have a fixed/shorter duration
  
• Improvements to debris generation during LARGE explosions to try to maintain framerate (more coming)
  
• Added even more particles
  
• Improvements to procedural generation including fix to boss room pillars potentially obscuring animal rooms
  
• Additional fix for offscreen indicators not appearing for spawned enemies
  
• More fixes for Xbox One controller on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
  

• Fix for offscreen indicators not appearing for spawned enemies
  
• Fix for Xbox One controller dpad navigation on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
  

• New player ship art and thrust particles
  
• New enemy art for sentry, rammer, ranger, and swarmer
  
• Smoothed movement in enemy sentry, rammer, ranger, and swarmer
  
• Smoothed difficulty on story mode and action mode
  
• Difficulty now scale enemy health, damage, and firing rate
  
• Tuned down difficulty on Mission 2 boss fight and lessened starting rocks
  
• Slightly reduced player per rank and power-up bonus for Acceleration
  
• Mini-map now properly displays large mission 4 and 5 levels
  
• Improved weapon upgrade UI (joystick default selects first available upgrade)
  
• Improved weapon upgrade stat rolling
  
• Reduced power-up activation force to keep power-ups closer to player
  
• Fixed boss room barrier activation bug (should not longer trap player)
  
• Fixed Class 5 Daily Challenge not allocating core power-ups
  
• Animals are now less clumpy when spawned
  
• Meow
  
• Dynamic and static camera improvements
  
• Added selectable links to About screen
  
• Linux game launch bug fix for Steam
  
• Fix for Xbox One controller dpad navigation on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
  

Weapon Upgrades:

Daily:

Hit Sparks:

Boss fight meters:

Offscreen enemy indicators:

Settings:

In Game Steam Leaderboards:

Reminder: Price is going to increase as the game becomes more complete!

Full Patch Notes for v0.8.1 to v0.7.5:

• New Weapon Upgrade System:
  
  
  
  • Collect weapon upgrades to improve the laser and bullet weapons
    
  • Properties: Bullets/Photons, Damage, Haste, Homing, Spread, Drunken, Duration, Velocity
    
  • 3 slots for each weapon
    
  • Upgrades drop from enemies and bosses
    
  • Boss upgrades have improved stats over normal enemy upgrades
    
  • Upgrades improve each mission
    
  • Upgraded weapons are currently way overpowered and will be tuned in following updates
    
  • Slightly reduced temporary power-ups bonus for weapon damage and firing rate
    
  • Bullet firing locations now better aligned with ship's guns
    
  • Removed old base weapons: homing, shotgun, circle homing, drunken
    
  
  
• Core Upgrades:
  
  
  
  • New tooltips added for core upgrades
    
  • General improvements to upgrade hud
    
  • Unified core stat upgrade ranges
    
  • Improvements to damage reduction
    
  
  
• Bosses now drop weapon upgrades, health, and acceleration power-ups
  
• Daily:
  
  
  
  • Daily is now its own game mode
    
  • Removed daily from other game modes
    
  • Everyone now starts the daily with the same core power-ups and weapon upgrades
    
  • Tracking successful daily attempts for future achievement
    
  • Lighting fix for daily
    
  
  
• Boss Rush: new games start with 6 random weapon upgrades and 6 pending upgrades
  
• Permadeath Mode: removed weapon drops from permadeath, now using new weapon upgrade system
  
• Drillbot mini/boss no longer kill animals with the drill
  
• Added hit sparks when ramming enemies
  
• Improvements to Laser's hit casting
  
• Improvements to procedural planet rings
  
• Improvements to Joystick navigation
  
• Settings: Added more granular options for Screenshake / Optical Boom Blaster (were previously a single on/off option)
  
• UI Improvements (hover labels are better sized and more intelligent on placement, more tooltips in upgrade hud)
  

• Added bullet hit sparks
  
• Enabled Steam Cloud Saves
  
• Bug fixes
  

• Boss room procedural generation fixes/improvements
  
• Slightly reduced difficulty for easy/story mode
  
• Faster planet generation (1.8x faster)
  
• Joystick navigation improvements
  
• Save game bug fixes
  

• Added quick tutorial game mode
  
• Increased HP return for broken connections for Sub-AI and Boss AI
  
• Increased minimum animals from 2 to 3 per animal spawner
  
• Smoother enemy swarmer movement
  
• Feedbot boss debris fix
  
• Added support for rectangular procgen levels
  
• Slightly increased base time in procgen levels
  
• Slightly decreased screenshake intensity/duration for smaller enemies/animals
  
• Bullet, debris, and goo pooling improvements
  
• Bullet trail improvements
  
• Barrier improvements
  
• Space debris improvements
  
• Object Activation improvements
  
• Shadow/Lighting improvements
  
• Performance improvements
  

• Added Boss Fight Meters
  
• Added off-screen enemy indicators
  
• Story mode: removed Mission 1 hand made levels, now all procgen levels, streamlined Mission 1 story text, tuned easy difficulty to be slightly easier
  
• Leaderboards: submitting combined scores for co-op play
  
• Enemies: slightly increased activation range, updated milk bullet's look to be consistent with other enemy bullets
  
• Procgen: improved boss room generation and reduced max size, tuned level size progression, fixed animals spawning in fountains (for real
• stay out of the fountains you filthy animals)
  
• Daily: fixed so can only do daily once
  
• Barriers: removed duplicate overlapping barriers
  
• Save Files: minor updates in prep for Steam Cloud, fix for incorrectly set last selected mission
  
• UI improvements
  

• View Steam Leaderboards in game
  
• UI Improvements
  

• Added temporary damage reduction and pickup range effects to player
  
• Added temporary weapon damage and firing rate visual effects on beam and bullets
  
• Improved boss rush difficulty scaling
  
• Improved joystick UI navigation
  
• Fixed mission and level unlock bug
  

• Added achievements for completing each game mode
  
• New games now use a different randomized seed
  
• Weapon selection fixes for permadeath mode
  
• Joystick navigation improvements
  
• Tutorial popup is now only in Story Mode:M1:L1
  
• Now collecting Steam leaderboard scores
  

Weapons:

Reminder: Price is going to increase as the game becomes more complete!

Patch Notes:

v0.7.4 released 2016/05/21:

v0.7.3 released 2016/05/17:

v0.7.2 released 2016/05/12:

v0.7.1 released 2016/05/10:

v0.7.0 released 2016/05/09: