I genuinely believe this game has the potential to be one of the biggest games on Steam.

I genuinely believe I have the ability to get it there.

However, I am only one human being.

I can't remember a night in the past month and a half where I haven't gone to bed after 4 am. The night before Christmas Eve I worked on this thing from 7 pm to 9 am doing optimizations.

Please do not feel bad for me. I don't need you to. I don't even want you to buy the game if you don't think it's worth the price.

I need you to give me your perspective. I am completely numb to basically everything at the moment and I have no idea what this game even feels like to play anymore.

If you have a bug, tell me. It will be fixed by the end of the day if not in 15 minutes.

If you have a gameplay problem, tell me.

Arleas (who helps me playtest) has had plenty of problems with the game over the past few months. No matter how big or core to the game I always had something new for him to try the next week (if not the next day).

Do you think the game needs more enemies?

That's fine. Just tell me. You don't need to design any of them. You're even free to refund the game if you don't like it.

All I ask is that you take a few seconds to tell me what you'd like to see improved, even if you don't exactly know.

Thanks,
Cosmos

Added outlines to enemies and player

Added options to disabled outlines in settings

Changed enemy prediction algorithm to have a bit of a random variation so it feels less robotic

Changed enemy prediction algorithm to stop predicting movement when enemies are a bit further out as this looked strange

Enemy prediction algorithm performance optimizations

Timewarp special time slow from 50% to 25%

Timewarp special time slow no longer reduces fire rate

Fixed a bug with Octo hitboxes that caused them to deal too much damage

Removed OSIRIS guardian cubes from OSIRIS

Removed particle effect that played in the background when special events spawned

Performance optimizations when gold cubes are on screen

Gold cube size from .65 to .5

Gold cube damage from 3 to 1.5

Standard cube max speed from 400 to 600

Fixed defensive position visuals and audio effects.

Defensive position now starts after 0.1 seconds instead of 1 after not moving.

Enemy pathing now alternates between directly chasing the player and predicting the player's movement.

In-game pause menu now allows you to remap controls and choose song rotations. As well as skip the current song, adjust volume levels and set random song rotation.

Ghost now only enters phase-stat when on low hp (below half)

Tris and Diamonds now face their velocity vector instead of the player.

Improved hand cursor.

Adjusted default volume levels to prevent audio clipping with certain songs.

Adjusted SFX volumes.

Fixed a bug where the hand cursor wouldn't scale with rarities.

Added a new jukebox (in settings) with 33 songs, you can pick which songs you'd like to hear in battle.

Adjusted default music and sfx volume

Fixed bugs where survival values weren't properly getting reset when returning to the main menu after pausing

Added 10 new achievements.

Added a new horizontal Maroon Fog stage variation

Direct enemy critbox has been removed and direct now crits like other attacks

Added three new upgrades in the form of "crit chance" 1, 2, and 3

Added boomerang autofire upgrade (comes with its own multi-rang and pierce upgrades). That's seven new boomerang upgrades.

Altered mega diamond and blue goo ball spawn points in maroon variations

Survival gravity cube blackhole duration from 2 to 1 and health from 4 to 3

Defensive position damage buffed from 1 to 3

Kinetic energy cooldown reduction reduced from 7 to 3%

Increased standard upgrades get chance in the upgrade pool by 100%

Added new Driller mini-boss - Large, fast, and dashes at the player. Splits into two mini drillers when killed

Added new Mini Driller mini-boss - Mini version of the driller

Added new Penta miniboss - Summons massive rotating laserbeams whenever the player gets close

Standard Octos, Carbon Octos, and Obsidian Octos have been converted into minibosses.

All octos are now much larger (One octo is roughly the size of 20-30 small white cubes)

All Octos now deal damage over time to the player when you hit them (it is VERY HIGH DOT so it acts like an instakill to lower hp characters, be careful)

All octos have SIGNIFICANTLY (4-5x) more health and give less special when damaged

All octos are now immune to status effects and move away from nearby enemies

All octos are now immune to knockback effects

Minibosses have a 10% chance of dropping amulet chests

OSIRIS' chance of dropping amulet chests has gone from 25% to 10%

Amulet chests now only appear if the amulet is at least the same rarity as your current amulet

Fixed a bug where amulet stats wouldn't scale precisely

Increased zap bullet speed and hitbox size

Changed zap visuals and added new sound effects

Hand and gravity special now trigger when the special button is pressed instead of primary

Added 19 new achievements

Nerfed laser cube laser damage

Increased blue goo ball health

Increased upgraded cube max move speed and added an outline to make them more visible

Haze particles are now deep blue

Decreased bomb cursor special amount

Increased all special charge costs by roughly 200%

Increased the amount of special charge that special packs give by 100%

Increased special terminal cooldown from 6 to 8

Increased survival guardian cube health from 6 to 18

Increased survival OSIRIS guardian cube health from 20 to 35 and shield recharge time from 1.5 to 1.0

Fixed a bug where terminal typing sfx wouldn't properly play on every new letter typed

Blackhole cursor primary now fires a fast-moving, high-damage, and high-piercing bolt of energy that bounces to nearby enemies after connecting with its first victim.

It has a relatively slow fire rate compared to other abilities but deals good area and knockback if you can line up shots and bounces.

The Blackhole cursor's gravity well also has increased pull on enemies, allowing you to better group them up for your shots!