The game now has WASD movement in addition to teleporting.

While moving you transfer into a phantom shadow realm where nothing can hurt you, you also can't hurt anything.

It should also be noted that the game progress timer is paused while in this shadow realm, and some powerful enemies (like OSIRIS and some enemies found in higher kernel levels) can still follow you into this realm.

Gravity cubes have also reduced their movement speed, and the black holes that they spawn on death now affect other enemies and the player. (This is a revert of a previous change)

Enemies have been scaled down by 25%.

This solves a lot of problems with enemies preventing each other from moving and makes them more fun to try and hit!

The OSIRIS boss fight now has frenzy bullets, and he evolves each time you fight him.

OSIRIS felt a bit too easy and stagnant these changes are designed to fix that.

Arena spawning and difficulty have been improved.

Arena spawning and OSIRIS enemy spawning have been changed to scale better with each difficulty level and with the current OSIRIS boss level. This makes the game progression better match the player progression.

3 New Skill Trees

Teleport
Damage
Terminal

Teleport Skill Tree -

Special delivery - leave behind a blackhole when teleporting
Flash - Spawn a pulse of energy at your teleport position
Autocannon - Automatically fires piercing cannonballs at nearby enemies

Damage Skill Tree -

Double whammy - Firing your primary damages enemies in a radius around you.
Laser ball - Periodically creates a slow-moving laser ball that damages over time, pierces enemies, and bounces off walls
Basic arithmetic - Points multiplier now increases your damage.

Terminal Skill Tree -

Picking favorites - Using the suggested terminal command reduces terminal cooldown by 15%.
Kinetic Energy - Dealing damage reduces terminal cooldown time.
Potential Energy - Deal more damage the more health and special packs you have.

Autofire

There is now an automatic attack that is with the player by default. It shoots low-damage bullets at the nearest enemy.

It has two upgrades.

Pierce - Bullets deal less damage but pierce through enemies
Double Auto - Now attacks two enemies at a time

Version 1.7.0

What's the breakdown?

New skill tree abilities, the game has better conveyance, is easier to understand and use, audio improvements via slight pitch and volume variations to add a "natural" feel to everything, redesigned special events, balanced changes and bugfixes!

- 8 new modifier abilities (modifiers are unlockable once certain loadout requirements are met). Ex: Gravity Bombs for the Goo Bomb Secondary (If used with gravity cursor), Piercing Shots for the Trishot (if used with sword cursor), Double Shot for projectile primaries, etc.

- 6 new skill tree upgrades (that's 2 skill tree paths). With 3 more skill tree paths to come! Skill tree abilities are powerful abilities that support a certain playstyle and can only be unlocked after beating the boss. Ex: Spawn a homing rocket after killing an enemy.

- New "Eyeball" terminal ability that summons a creepy eye. The eye circles your mouse cursor and autotargets nearby enemies with a beam!

- New rising bubbles background effect during special events and OSIRIS (red eyes) now spawns out of a portal. Neat!

- Significant thought has been put into the way the game presents its controls when a match starts up so that new players always end up with the basics. Without going through a boring tutorial, of course!

- Improved the color coding and visual communication of the game to make enemy types easier to understand.

- Improved performance (not really needed, but still a plus)

- Improved enemy ai, abilities, and balance

- Improved audio effects. All SFX in the game now have slight pitch and volume variation which isn't consciously noticeable, but prevents audio from sounding "unnatural".

Fun fact: This audio pitch variation runs on a global level to prevent unwanted chorusing and flanging effects!

- Bug fixes, control remapping improvements

- A ton of redesigned special events

- Balance changes

Modifiers

Modifiers are a brand new type of upgrade that change how you play the game. They can only be unlocked when certain conditions are met, though.

The "Dual Shot" modifier can only be found when using a projectile weapon. It allows you to fire a bullet behind you.
The "Explosive Fracture" modifier can only be found when using a melee weapon. It makes enemy crit explosions damage nearby enemies.

"Gravity Bombs" - Only found with a certain combo of "goo bombs" and cursor (I'll let you figure out which one). Goo bombs will pull enemies in.
"Double Beam" - Only found with a combo of "Beam" and a specific cursor. Spawns an additional beam behind you.
"Bullet Time" - Only found with a combo of "Bolt" and a certain cursor. Charging the bolt slows down time.
"Piercing Shots" - Only found with "Trishot" and a certain cursor. Trishot bullets pierce enemies.
"Malfunctioning Systems" - Only found with the "Rocket Launcher" and a certain cursor. Rocket launcher warheads no longer home in, but deal a lot more damage.
"Larger Clip" - Only found with the "Mini Gun" and a certain cursor. Minigun has a larger clip.

Changed the enemy soft collision algorithm to only move enemies sideways around each other instead of influencing forward and backward movement.