Squirrelmageddon!
v1401 - Shop & Weapons
- item sell price now less than buy price
- lighting & map tweaks
- Squirrel Berries! (new pickup / inventory item)
- re-forested Summer Squirrel Zone
v1392 - Summer Forests
- reforested Summer Squirrels mission zone
- experimenting with weapon skins
v1377 - Hotfixes
- FIXED: proximity mines and grenades falling under landscape (enabled constant collision detection [CCD] )
- UPDATE: grenades 20% larger and brighter
- UPDATE: grenade and proximity spawn point
v1373 - Maps & Multiplayer
- MULTIPLAYER FIX: double quad pickup issue fixed
- SOUND: Mag rifle sound tweak
- SOUND: Ultra Squirrel sound (lowered pitch and speed)
- MULTIPLAYER FIX: Ultra Squirrel will correctly target other players after current target felled
- MULTIPLAYER GAMEPLAY: if all squirrels dead, target meter shows player squirrel distance
- TEXTURES: Storage Crate, Generator & Plastics updated
- MAP TWEAKS: Deadlands mission zone less foliage (should improve FPS)
- MAP TWEAKS: all maps more habitat furniture (filling in houses with stuff. Should not affect FPS / CPU overhead too much)
- NEW FEATURE: 'Backspace' toggles HUD for photo mode in game and game over screens
- NEW FEATURE: Camera control on Game Over screen (a little buggy atmo)
v1355 - Multiplayer Hotfix + Tweaks
- MULTIPLAYER SQUIRREL BRAIN: squirrels will choose a random player to hunt
- MISSION MAP UPDATE: Squirrel Town now has less foliage
- SQUIRREL BALANCE: Ultra squirrels are now have a lower top speed
v1345 - Squirrel Town Trim Down
- GAMEPLAY: added caps to character and weapon level at 11
- MULTIPLAYER: UI and server name limit characters
v1350 - Hotfixes & UI
- BALANCE: Larry's MG (lower rate of fire at level 1)
- UI: merchant, skill and mods
- DIFFICULTY: more points at higher difficulty
COMING SOON:
- weapon level up increases clip size and ammo stock carried
v1345 - They're all Dead... even Jim!
THE ROLLUP
I have been putting in as much time as I can to keep improving Squirrelmageddon! in so many way at the moment including:
- FIXED: weapon level up UI (was not updating after level up after the last patch)
- ADDED: unit recovery wait 1 day pop up
- ADDED: all dead game over pop up
- NAVIGATION: character select and prep navigation buttons now show or hide based on if the character is still alive... can't really train or mod your suit if you're dead yeah?
- UI UPDATES: lobby, character select, logo sizes, lobby map, weapon level up (nothing major, but any improvement makes me happy :)
- MAP UPDATE: Summer Squirrels mission zone flora updated with ferns... this has added difficulty, as well as requiring more user focus. This has also resulted in some additional unpredictability to the gameplay as squirrels dart in and out of the ferns.
- GAMEPLAY CHANGES: wave start sound and wave counter HUD removed...
Why? Basically, there is no real "need" for these... after thinking about it, the wave counter and sound was just 'alerting the player when to expect more and bigger squirrels'.
I don't want the player to know... :P The premise is that dead squirrels simply piss off and attract larger squirrels... Because squirrels never ever kill each other, the smell of a dead squirrel alerts the other squirrels that there are people treats in the area...
In testing, the game just had more immersion, flow and surprise as to when the Ultra will arrive. Please do comment and let me know what you think?
- MAP UPDATE: general odds and end fixes and work on maps
QUALITY OF LIFE GAMEPLAY CHANGE
"Find weapon" objectives no longer require the player to pickup found weapons. The pickup trigger proximity now completes the objective. The weapon starts with a red light marker, which turns green when tagged for collection. You can still pickup the weapon. The HUD messaging needs work ASAP - but there is an audio cue when the objective is triggered.
REMOVED UNTIL FIXED:
Back button on Select & Prep screen (causing issue with multiplayer lobbies under specific circumstances)
COMING SOON:
More moveable objects! While I don't have a rotate object function yet, I have confirmed I can take any mesh and make it moveable on the map. I need to optimize the system more as yes, the more objects the more triggers need to be watched, increasing demand on the CPU.
Thanks for your continued interest and support for Squirrelmageddon! - it's going to get even squirrelier as time goes by!
See you all top-side!
v1310 - Minor Updates
CHANGES
- UI: character select row background graphic
- UI: character select screen back button
- SOUND: shop coin drop volume reduced 50%
- FIXES: player squirrel hud and respawn (multiplayer / single player)