Dev log

Changelog

• Added Bot Team option to hosting menu. Use this if you want to play against bots with your buds.
  
• Added visual effect for flare cooldowns
  
• Added beep for when your module is ready
  
• Bots are now enabled for Tunnel Servers. Yay!
  
• Increased the Pulsar projectile's speed (it goes farther now)
  
• Improved security for cloud saving
  
• Improved hit registration for attacking projectiles
  
• Removed friendly forcefields from mission 10
  
• Fixed The Master’s placeholder subtitle
  
• Fixed the evac event not starting in mission 8
  
• Fixed being able to restart missions too soon when it ends
  

Dev Log

• Helps the FPS. I should probably be looking out for my audience with lower end computers, and shadow meshing probably wasn't helping their frames
  
  
• Compatibility. When I run the game in Linux or on a Mac, the meshes don't even work. If I ever plan on releasing the game on these operating systems, I might as well keep the lighting consistent across all versions. Meshes also broke when I tried to import the game into Game Maker Studio 2, which I might do eventually.
  
  
• Doesn't it.. look nicer? I don't know, you can actually see the walls and the Pitch Black setting for the map editor doesn't look like total crap anymore. Maybe I'm just bad at cinematic lighting.
  

Change log

• Added 10 more campaign missions (mamma mia)
  
• Added new logic event: Evac Refresh. Restarts the timer for evacuate events when activated by a logic gate. Can only be triggered once.
  
• Added new logic events: Explosion and Big Explosion. When these are activated by a logic gate, they will detonate into their respective explosions. Can only be triggered once.
  
• Added new logic event: Destroy Super CPU. When activated, this will instantly destroy ALL activated supercomputers. Can only be triggered once.
  
• Added new trigger area: Crate. When a crate enters this trigger area, it will activate all logic gates attached to it, then deactivating them if no crates are detected.
  
• Added new decor object: Large Jets
  
• Added new selection to the Modules option in level editor. This will let you disable cooldowns for modules
  
• Added new config option in the level editor, Infinite Ammo. Self-explanatory.
  
• Added new config option in the level editor, Afterburner. This will let you disable the afterburner in your level, or make it last infinitely.
  
• Added new config option in the level editor, Evacuate Timer. This will let you set how much time the player has to escape an evacuation event.
  

• Increased Laser Rifle damage
  -- The laser rifle should have increased damage to match its slow projectile speed, it should also be pretty decent as a starter weapon
  
  
• Increased EMP missile count
  
• Increased EMP fire rate
  -- I was nervous of EMP missile spam, but that doesn't really seem to be a problem. These buffs should allow it to be used more often.
  
  
• Increased Grenade Rifle’s damage
  -- Again, a slow fire rate should be matched with a decent amount of damage.
  
  
• Increased Tri Shot Cannon’s fire rate
  -- The Tri-Shot has wildly fluctuating damage, but this should help it do more damage then not.
  
  
• Increased Spike Cannon’s damage
  -- This should make the Spike Cannon more forgiving if you don't get the double damage every shot.
  
  
• Increased Spread Blaster’s projectile count
  
• Decreased Spread Blaser’s spread
  -- This should increase the spread blaster's range and overall damage as it was spread too thin with a wide cone.
  
  
• Increased Flak Rifle’s fire rate
  -- The Flak Rifle still needs work, so this won't be the last buff you see from it. This should let you output more shield damage.
  
  
• Increased Dumb Missile’s damage
  -- Dumb Missiles didn't justify use over homing weapons, so a large damage boost should make it more enticing to use.
  
  
• Increased Gatling Gun’s damage
  -- The Gatling Gun felt a little weak despite being a hitscan weapon, so this should allow you stand a chance in long range encounters, especially against the magnetic cannon.
  
  
• Reworked the Scanner module to be more useful
  -- Possibly the most useless module up until this point. These changes will allow the player to see all enemies, cloaked or off screen. This should be useful in single player, and multiplayer.
  
  
• The Prairie Dog’s passive now supports infinite flares
  
• The Prairie Dog’s passive no longer carries “super flares”
  -- The Prairie Dog will need a lot of work to justify using such a fragile ship. This will be the first buff, of possibly many. This will also make the ship a good counter against homing weapon spam.
  
  
• Flares now have a cooldown
  -- A cooldown has been introduced to flares so the Prairie Dog isn't ridiculously spamming with them.
  
  
• Increased the Rhino’s hull integrity
  -- Somebody mentioned how the hull of the Rhino was the same as the Dragon, so it has been increased to accurately reflect what kind of ship its suppose to be.
  
  
• Increased the Sting Rays hull integrity
  
• Decreased the Sting Rays shields
  -- This isn't a change in total health, but a change that will allow the Sting Ray to pop its EMP passive more often.
  

• Fixed needing to enter the server password again on a map change
  
• Fixed screamers not exploding after a certain amount of time (on dedicated servers)
  
• Fixed hitscan weapons not keeping the damage buff when they bounce
  
• Waves 25 and 50 will now increase the total amount of allowed enemies on the level at once
  
• Fixed after-projectiles not getting damage buffs from their originals
  
• Fixed the Gauntlet shieldless mutator not working
  
• Fixed shadows appearing on secret walls while shadow detailing was turned off
  
• Fixed enemies with explosive weapons blowing themselves up against walls
  
• Enemy AI will now begin their attacks at any distance when alerted
  
• Setting a levels light level to “Bright” will now essentially turn off the lighting engine for optimization
  
• Activated conveyor belts will now take depth-priority over deactivated ones (IE they will appear on top)
  
• Made improvements to the auto-map camera
  
• Disabled lighting shadow meshes
  
• Disabled voice chat… for now?
  

Dev Log

Added features

Balance Changes

General Changes + Fixes

Voice Chat

New Gamemode: Tunnel Ball

New Gamemode: Gauntlet

New Weapon: The Javelin

New Weapon: Concussion Rockets

New Weapon: Flak Rifle

New Module: Sentry

Two new campaign missions

Two new campaign enemies: Trapper + Destroyer

Conveyors and crates, oh my

Added

• Added voice chat. Yes, as in with a microphone. This might be unstable so don’t get mad if I have to remove it.
  
• Added Push-to-Talk key binding (Default: B)
  
• Added Voice Volume setting and Test Microphone feature
  
• Added new gamemode, Tunnel Ball. Get the tunnel ball into the enemy team’s goal to score a point.
  
• Added new map for Tunnel Ball, “Tunnel Ball Arena”
  
• Added new gamemode, Gauntlet. Survive each wave and see how long you can last, with special mutators randomly activating to change things up. Collect scrap metal to build defenses.
  
• Added Gauntlet option to the Solo menu, you can play it on your own for achievements and money. Gauntlet progress is saved over the cloud.
  
• Added new map for Gauntlet, “Abandoned Outpost”
  
• Added 2 new campaign missions: Mysterious Hyuund Tunnels + Praxias Wreckage
  
• Added a new weapon, Flak Rifle, which focuses on doing ship shield damage
  
• Added a new weapon, Javelin. The Javelin can fire explosive spears that can be detonated by the player by pressing the fire button again.
  
• Added a new missile, Concussion Rocket. This missile is non-lethal, with its purpose to push yourself and enemies with its blast.
  
• Added a new module, Sentry. You can now deploy a small sentry turret that will fight for you. Sentries friendly to you flash green before they attack (you can also tell when they are alerted to your presence)
  
• Added 2 new enemies to the game, the Trapper and the Destroyer
  
• Added Test Area option to the Solo menu, use this when you want to test a loadout quickly.
  
• Added Gamemode filtering to the Steam Workshop menu.
  
• Added animations and visuals to the weapon HUD
  
• Added the mission name to the ending performance sheet screen
  

Added (Map Editor)

• Added new map editor object, Construction Tile. These are used to build defenses in Gauntlet mode by players
  
• Added new map editor option for Gauntlet mode: Starting Scrap. Sets the starting scrap when the Gauntlet map begins.
  
• Added new map editor option for Gauntlet mode: Winning Wave. This indicates if the players should win if they reach the inputted wave number for your map.
  
• Added 2 new decor objects, Team Tiles and Goal Tiles. These tiles choose a color depending on what team they’re apart of.
  
• Added new asset, crate spawner. This will spawn a crate at a time. You can place a conveyor belt under it to move it away from the spawner.
  
• Added new asset, crate destroyer. Any crates that touch this object will "fall" into the hole, or something.
  
• Added new asset, Tunnel Ball Spawn. This will spawn a Tunnel Ball if there isn’t one detected.
  
• Added new trigger area, Tunnel Ball. This area will activate logic gates attached to it if a Tunnel Ball touches it.
  
• Added 2 new logic gates: Score Goal 1 and Score Goal 2. When activated, these logic gates will score a goal in Tunnel Ball mode, for whatever team they’re apart of.
  
• Added a new music track to select in the map editor. This track has special usage in the campaign, so it’s not selected when you pick the random soundtrack option. Another track remained unplayed due to a bug, so it’s like you’re getting 2 new tracks!
  

Balance Changes

• You can no longer switch weapons/missiles while your current weapon/missile is in between shots
  
• The Wildcat passive can no longer “store” its ability refresh
  
• The Prairie Dog’s passive now makes it immune to it’s own explosion damage
  
• Increased the cool down of the Auto-Target module
  
• Increased Pulse Rocket’s fire rate
  
• Increased shield damage of the Laser Rifle
  
• Increased the Charge Cannon’s base damage
  
• Increased the Grenade Rifle’s fire rate
  
• Increased the Magnetic Cannon’s ammo count
  

General Changes

• Wreckage decor objects no longer have collision
  
• Changed the menu background
  
• You can now see little yellow lights on each ship’s missile bays which indicate which bay the next missile will come out of.
  
• Crates and conveyor belts are now under the “ASSET” tab in the map editor
  
• Crates and barrels can now be moved with a conveyor belt object
  
• Conveyor belts can now be toggled on and off with logic gates
  
• Crates can now press buttons
  

Fixed

• Fixed nanobots module not healing the user on Dogfight mode
  
• Fixed the Barrier module’s shield taking hull damage instead of shield damage
  
• Fixed enemies not being properly destroyed for client players in some instances
  
• Fixed shadow detailing for walls
  
• Optimized lighting engine for lava
  
• Optimized logic gates and logic-related objects
  
• Fixed Screamer enemy not self-destructing correctly
  
• Fixed enemies not dealing damage after they’ve been destroyed
  
• Fixed some lights not fading in or out properly
  
• Fixed Flyswatter turrets being pushed around
  
• Adjusted the movement physics, so it might feel different to move around.
  
• Fixed Mission maps not applying the Mission tag when updating the workshop. Please update your Mission maps to make sure they’re appearing properly.
  
• Fixed Track D not having a chance to be played when a map would randomly select a track