A final boss with full lore, a cinematic cutscene, and a fight far greater than anything seen before in this game. The final level will also be physically twice the size of a normal level
Other Small Changes Include
Official Act Names
Polished level selection menu
A variety of bug fixes and performance improvements
Act 5 Act 5 is still being worked on, and will likely release in the summer of 2023 I want to take my time to make it as best as it can possibly be, find more ways to make unique levels, and create a final boss that is extremely challenging but incredibly fair and satisfying.
Thank you all so much for playing, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
Most enemies and bosses now have Santa Hats during December!
The texture of the selected level's boss is now displayed in the level menu
Changed Act numbers from roman numerals to regular numbers
Added Loading Screen
Changed texture of the second Titan King boss
Holding down buttons in the menu now automatically cycles through
When killed, instead of disappearing, the player now spins out and crashes
The flame of the player ship is now animated
Polished Mucus boss and changed the color of bombs to gray in error level
Bug Fixes
Fixed MAJOR rendering bug that occurred on smaller monitors
Fixed centering of the settings menus
Fixed Controller Joystick not working in the pause menu
Fixed Controller Drift
Minor balancing of Typhon boss
Fixed rendering issue with boss bars
Fixed a bug that caused controller input not to go through until a button was pressed
Happy Holidays Everyone! Sincerely, Caden
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.6
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.6
Infinity
All-new infinite game mode
Saves high score
Average score indicator
Random enemies
Boss every 10 waves
New secret boss that can randomly spawn above wave 30
Menu Changes
Added the ability to switch between one of three saves
More fluid menu movement
All options are now capitalized
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.5
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.5
Checkpoints Checkpoints will now appear before bosses, allowing you to respawn at the boss after death! Quitting the level will reset the checkpoint. A new challenge has been added that disables checkpoints! In addition, the pause menu now allows you to return to the checkpoint or restart the level with one click!
Boss Bars Bosses with two boss bars now have a visual indicator that there will be two main stages. Currently, this only applies to the Hellish Nightmare and the Sun Prison.
Small Changes/Bug Fixes Fixed a rendering bug that showed the contents of previous levels for one frame. The screen now fades in from black when starting the game or returning to the main menu. Changed bomb texture.
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.4
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.4
Moving Background Textures Similar to the star background, the backgrounds of planets and moons will now slowly slide down the screen. There is a new setting to turn this feature off for all backgrounds.
Small Changes/Bug Fixes Fixed bug that unlocked acts before completing the previous ones. Small performance improvements and code cleanup
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.3
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.3
Challenges When completing a level with no damage taken, you will no longer be rewarded with gold text and gold coloring for the level. That now happens when you complete a level with every challenge activated.
Bug Fixes Fixed a bug that made The Rift level unplayable
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.2
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.2
Improved Bosses Many bosses have been significantly improved, removing the randomness and improving overall fairness.
Pause Menu A pause menu has been added. Press escape while in-game to use.
Small Changes White Hole boss health has been halved, to make it less of a boss, and more of a transition into Act II. Small technical changes, performance improvements and code cleanup
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.2.1
CHANGES IN PATCH 1.2.1
Discord Rich Presence The level you are playing, its description, and the boss you are fighting will now show up on your Discord profile!
Fullscreen The long-awaited feature has finally been added! You can now switch to full-screen mode in the options menu!
Small Fixes
The attack speed of enemies that shoot red tracking bullets has been nerfed significantly
Many performance enhancements, including an optimized settings menu.
Code cleanup
Galactic Explorers Update 1.2
1.2 PATCH NOTES
ACT III
Added Levels:
Death
Mucus
Error
Cilicia
Heaven
Added Bosses
Soul of Ares II
Hideous Glob
Glitch
Typhon
Gabriel
UPGRADES Upgrades are a fun new way of adding progression to the game! You can unlock upgrades by progressing and completing levels. You can view your unlocked upgrades in the options menu.
Added Upgrades
Gravity Device
Tracker Bullets
Laser Beam
Fireballs
CHALLENGES Challenges are a fun new way of adding difficulty to the game! You can toggle different challenges in the options menu, that will affect the difficulty of the game in different ways. (All challenges are off by default)
Added Challenges
One HP Challenge
No Upgrades Challenge
More challenges coming soon!
PARTICLES Added particle effects that display when an entity is killed. The size of the enemy affects the amount displayed, and the type of enemy affects the color of the particles! There is also an option in settings to disable particles for performance purposes.
LEVEL UPDATES A few waves of unique quad shooting enemies have been added to the Sludge level in Act II, to make the level more interesting.
CREDITS DISPLAY The credits which display when you beat the game's final level have been updated to look and feel more polished and cinematic. Credits fade in one at a time instead of rolling. Credit music has also been changed.
SMALL CHANGES/BUG FIXES Fixed a bug that made gameplay speed much slower on some computers. The Hellish Nightmare boss now shoots bombs that look like mini skulls. Embers (orange projectiles) are now rectangular and will rotate. The Space Worm boss now shoots more colorful projectiles to make the fight more interesting. Many more small changes have been made, but it's hard to keep track of all of them. I'm surprised you read this far down the patch notes.
Galactic Explorers - Patch 1.0.2
In the final patch before release, a tutorial level has been added, and many bosses have been reworked so that the difficulty consistently increases throughout levels.
