- Added Map yellow quest markers, showing the farthest unexplored room in each branch
- Adjusted map player/spawn/end markers
- Added physical spawn purple cube object to match map spawn marker
- Added floor textures distinct from walls, improving player orientation clarity
- Items/Upgrades/Money state is preserved upon entering a level, and restored upon resetting/respawning in a level
- Added Jacquard quips when entering a level with a shop, entering the shop room, and breaking the shop crate
Unification
Quest Markers, Jacquard Quips, Block Textures
Energized! Airdashing, rocket boosting, and charge bombs!
New Techniques
- added charge bomb, by holding trigger and releasing upon charge
- added rocket boosting, by holding grasp and holding jump
- added air dashing, by jumping then holding grasp and pressing trigger
- added enemy pulling/grabbing, by holding grasp and holding trigger
- zero gravity climbing twist now allows total rotation control
Energy
- charge bomb uses 1/4 energy meter
- rocket boosting uses fuel meter and some energy
- air dashing uses 1/4 fuel meter and some energy
- added low HP red flashing at 1HP
- added low HP healing if energy recovers past 3/4 meter
- added built-in shock absorber for impacts using 1/2 meter if available
- energy now recovers over time
- energy now recovers when moving quickly
- added black/white gravity shift indicator to background of energy meter
Levels
- split gravity grotto into water bubble level and exploration/shop level
- split frozen laboratory into falling level and exploration/shop level
- split cursed tomb into minecart pit explosive puzzle level, exploration/shop level, boss level
- split event horizon into vertical gravity sled level, zero gravity block level, falling tower level
Upgrades
- added upgrade manager to in-game menu to toggle unlocked upgrades at will
- added gem magnet upgrade, pulling them close for easy collection
- added gem charger upgrade, more energy from gems
- added implosion catalyst upgrade, faster bomb charging with bigger blast radius
- added dream catcher upgrade, faster energy recovery when moving quickly
- added rocket reservoir upgrade, more rocket fuel and less energy usage
- added shifting gyroscope, repeated gravity shifts without landing
- added enemy yank, longer range enemy pulling with stun
- added gravity claws, more powerful airdash and less energy usage
Enemies
- fixed scorpion leaving stun before reaching ground when thrown
- fixed snail following player gravity erroneously
- added green gravity frog, which leaps using the player's gravity
- added orange/blue coloring to inversion frog based on current gravity
- added more enemies to capsules
- decreased max spike damage to 2, preventing full HP instakills
Visuals/Effects
- treasure crate is now purple/gold
- explosive crate is now red/silver
- cursed tomb room coloring algorithm adjusted for uniqueness and feel
- curled up avatar legs when climbing or zero gravity is active
- added black stripes to avatar tail
- added blue tail rocket flames to avatar
- added purple rocket boot flames
- minimap changes side based on first-person/avatar
Options
- improved compatibility of VR hand/input swapping
- simplified controls menu with cycling filter based on current scheme
- added option to hide stats
- added option to hide energy meter
- added universal "back" input to menu, allowing easier menu traversal
Climbing Rotation Overhaul and Cosmic Biome Redesigns
- implemented vertical climbing rotation in 0G
- added offsets and rotation to simulated hands when rotating while climbing to open up the arms more
- prevented accidental repeated hand reswapping while climbing
- added smoothing to hands after climbing release
- removed airborne requirement for climbing
Power Wheel Tutorial
- added power wheel gravity toggle section in tutorial, replacing the original automatic 0G tutorial
Event Horizon Tower Redesign
- added ladder rungs and cooling fans to event horizon tower
- added pull and trigger sound to event horizon tower plunger
- redesigned event horizon tower architecture
- updated model for control rod to twin-tipped spiral spear
Core Collapse Redesign
- aligned the control rod array to the player spawn position in core collapse
- updated event horizon debris model
- added core collapse trigger sound
- adjusted pitch, spatial blend, doppler level of black hole hum during collapse
- enlarged black hole after triggering collapse
- added special orange debris ring during collapse
Visual Clarity
- added HDR toggle to visuals menu
- added MSAA level to visuals menu
- removed 1080p limit to game rendering, now matches screen resolution
- removed framerate from visuals menu, always matches screen
Fixes
- fixed crush not activating on capsule
- fixed trap blocks not consistently being grappleable
- laser blast hit ring effect now follows the colliding body
- made crush trap more visually distinct color
- allowed map to use scroll wheel
- fixed incomplete swapping behavior when dropping an item while swapping to it
Laboratory Cooling Fans
- added RGB cooling fans to frozen laboratory
- cooling fans generate a propelling gust that lifts the player and objects
- cooling fans can be temporarily disabled by attacking
- added descriptions to the biomes
- improved slider padding, making it easier to set a slider to 0% or 100%
- fixed laser blast not hitting point-blank objects
- fixed inventory swap breaking when swapping a lone item a second time before finishing
- improved consistency of block destruction
- fixed some destruction greebles staying pinned on empty blocks, resulting in failed level generation
- improved category buttons hover behavior and visual contrast
- improved consistency of scrolling speed
- converted biome selection to standard button scroll view
- simplified game completion credits skip button
- fixed game completion not showing in death reason
- fixed audio sources becoming unpaused after backing out of the in-menu map
- fixed upgrades staying selected after completing a run with rebuild enabled
- fixed grip activating face button highlight in menu
Menu Map
- added map to menu during a run
- added vertical offset adjustment of the map with up/down on movement keys/joystick
- improved positioning of map for visibility
- decoupled time toggle power from timekeeper
- allowed time nullification to continue during stun
- fixed jackhammer hitbox initializing in an active state
- fixed laser blast tip rotation timescale
2023.10.13.2
- fixed regression in 2023.10.13.1 of broken swapping when picking up a 3rd item
Power Swap Wheel
- added power swap wheel, similar to the item swap wheel, replacing the gravity toggle button
- allowed powers to be bound to upgrades
- added description to upgrades when hovering
- added effect/power title to upgrade descriptions
- added energize power upgrade
- added time toggle power upgrade
- added gravity toggle power upgrade
- added visible sector divisions and instant chosen sector marker to selector wheels for improved sector selection responsiveness
- improved wall climbing upgrade by converting to "sharp claws", additionally increasing melee and enemy grab damage by 1
- adjusted keymap names from tool/gravitytoggle -> item/power
2023.10.11.1
- player gravity claw grasp float strength now decreases as velocity increases, allowing fall damage while preserving easy vaulting and edge grab reactions
- added 0.2s input buffer for gravity shifting
- improved alignment of item name in center of selection wheel
- added purple spokes marking the sections of the selection wheel when the item wheel upgrade is equipped
2023.10.10.1
- fixed LIV screen effect being visible when LIV is inactive
- fixed cursed tomb boss not destroying enemies and gem growths
- fixed cursed tomb boss framerate crash due to gem growth crush not checking if broken
- prevented item wheel as a reward upgrade, limited to pre-run selection
- replaced +1 HP with random item in shop
- scaled prices for items to gems
- converted blaster swap action to item drop
- automatically drop current inventory item if hand is full and auto storage is active
Explore and fight for new upgrades to expand your powers
- added pre-run upgrade management to toggle any/all upgrades, Modify -> Upgrade
- added multishift upgrade, allowing multiple gravity shifts in a single jump
- converted wall jump to an upgrade
- converted enemy dash to an upgrade
- converted gravity toggle to an upgrade
- converted completed item wheel to an upgrade
- added upgrade item to crate and shop
- added Continue button to upgrade screen during a run to allow skipping
- upgrades are now chosen after every level
- prevented upgrades from clearing during a rebuild run
- replaced gravity grotto reward with upgrade item
- added full repair fallback upgrade if all are equipped
- added 0 degree snap turn option to disable artificial rotation in VR, Options -> Controls -> Rotation -> Snap Turn
- added Storage behavior toggle to disable auto item swapping when picking up a secondary, Options -> Controls -> Storage
- removed wall jumping from the tutorial
- removed HP from tutorial crate to eliminate distractions
- prevented robot body from being stompable
- prevented floater stacked boosting