• Added toxic barrels to the Disposal Area! These are randomly scattered around and can be blown up.
  
• The grass and trail now blend seamlessly in the Rainforest.
  
• Added a lip texture around the trail edges in the Rainforest.
  
• Applied the trail blending to the Swiss Alps.
  
• Updated tutorial #2 so it's compatible with the new range system.
  
• Improved the selection of weapons that can be given in the first tutorial.
  
• The HUD is no longer visible during tutorial cutaways.

• Hooked up gimlet turrets! They're good to go now. Each level of turret ignores a particular aspect of enemy defense (shells, armor, etc.). Available in world 3.
  
• Weapons now fire an infinite distance.
  
• Range now affects only the effective range of the weapon - where it does the most damage possible.
  
• Made tweaks to the crosshair color to better show when you're at the maximum effective range, and the minimum effective range.
  
• Increased the base player movement speed from 2.0 to 2.5.
  
• New item: the Rune of Tucana! This common rune heals you when your kill streak reaches a multiple of 16 (16, 32, 48, 64, etc.).
  
• Renamed the "Unlock" shop to the "Crafting" shop.
  
• Changed the slowed effect (and text!) from gray to violet.
  
• The weapons, rune, and consumable shops now only show those types of existing items in your inventory at the lower left corner.
  
• Added to the kamikaze and doomwalker descriptions to indicate that they explode when overkilled.
  
• Fixed items being unlockable in The Lab.
  
• Fixed objects not appearing in the proper location on the tab screen map.
  
• Sales in the unlock shop are now displayed the same as they are in the items shop.

• Finished animation work on the rare rifle - the stinger! It's all good now!
  
• Split the items shop into
• four* shops! You can now buy up to four weapons, artifacts, runes, and consumables every time you return to the hub.
  
• Made the presentation of sale items more clear on the shop screens.
  
• Items found in the upgrade shop are no longer found on the item platform or gambling shop (with the exception of shield generators).
  
• Slight improvement to the health cost display in the upgrades shop (only affects one item ATM).
  
• Improved the HUD health icons for when you've given up half a heart's worth of max. health.
  
• Added an explanation display the first time you enter the upgrades shop.
  
• Player movement speed now scales at 5% (was 10%), and player reload speed now scales at 10% (was 5%).
  
• Removed the artificial speeding up of reload animations during combat phases. Now, only your speed stat impacts reload speed.
  
• Being in optimal range now displays the crosshair in green, instead of red. Green means go!
  
• Player bullets now pierce the Beacon's shield. This is consistent with your missiles piercing the shield.
  
• Reintroduced chips! These are pickups that give you a lot of bonus XP. They stop spawning once you reach the level cap.
  
• Upcoming enemies now show up on the portal mouseovers on the tab screen in boss arenas.
  
• Bosses and miniboss now show up on the portal mouseovers on the tab screen.
  
• Pushed the fog distance back in the hub portal so it's easier to tell where you'll be going.
  
• Reduced the base range on the magnetic fingertips.
  
• Magnetic fingertips are now affected by the player's range stat.
  
• Optimized and fixed the thrust of the magnetic fingertips.
  
• The magnetic fingertips will stop pulling items once you've tried to pick them up, but couldn't (such as hearts when at full health).
  
• Walk and sprint weapon animations now play slightly faster as your speed stat increases.
  
• The A and D keys can now be used to cycle between the different tab screens and unlock/sell shops. (This was actually in the previous update but not included in the notes!)
  
• Fixed a display issue on the tab screen stats mouseover that showed incorrect values (like a 4% increase instead of 5%).
  
• Consumable charges are now preserved whenever you pick up a new consumable and put your existing one down.
  
• More memory optimization with the game over sequence.

• Added a new and complete game over screen! It's much nicer than before, and fits the game's art style far better.
  
• Added a new speed lines effect that replaces the screen blurring when using the turbosphere. This applies to Starlyn's speed boost perk as well.
  
• Giggordo's totems now have VFX indicating their effect on Giggordo.
  
• New VFX for the Gravitar's rocket explosion.
  
• Improved the visuals of the store interiors.
  
• Removed redundancy and increased clarity on many of the tower tooltips.
  
• Turrets now properly attack monsters that have their stealth broken from taking damage or attacking.
  
• Turrets will now attack stealth enemies that are marked.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing headshots on shielded enemies when having a shield piercing item.
  
• Started hooking up the new stinger animations.
  
• Increased the damage towers do to marked targets.
  
• Increased the item despawn time on hard from 16 to 24 seconds.
  
• Reduced the marked status duration from 12 seconds to 10.
  
• Reduced the number of enemies marking fields affect slightly.
  
• Increased the combat reward for overkills and multikills on worlds 2 and 3.
  
• Tweaked Dark Matter - it now upgrades kills. Normal kills become overkills (like before), and overkills will become hyperkills.
  
• Began adding in hyperkills - overkills while possessing Dark Matter.
  

• New item: Dark Matter! This causes all kills by the player to result in overkills.
  
• New item: Chaos Compound! This item upgrades all of the player's explosions. Small explosions become normal explosions, and normal explosions become large explosions.
  
• New item: Energy Conduit! This causes all kills by towers to give the player power shot meter.
  
• Increased the minigun base damage.
  
• The minigun can now be reloaded when the barrel is at 50% speed (rather than once it's fully stopped spinning).
  
• New minigun power shot: Barrels o' Fun! It now does bonus damaged based on how fast the barrel is spinning prior to the attack.
  
• The minigun power shot now maintains the barrel speed. This means you can continue firing immediately afterwards without having to wind the barrel up.
  
• Added a proper zoom for the Thundergun.
  
• Overcharging the Thundergun now cancels its zoom.
  
• Weapon recoil is now properly factored into things like muzzle particles and start position of bullet tracers and other sorts of trails.
  
• Re-tweaked the position/angle lag on your weapon when moving/turning. Should feel really nice now!
  
• Added the new (and some missing) artifacts to the unlocks menu. Needs the ability to scroll now.
  
• Better organized the artifacts section of the unlocks menu.
  
• Reduced the health cost of the Mechanical Arm from 2 hearts to 1.5.
  
• Started on a more finalized game over display. Just have the first part of it in so far.
  
• Added new heart icons for when your max. health has been reduced by half a heart.
  
• More data is now sent to the leaderboard about each run (in addition to completed/not completed). This includes the character used, and the difficulty. This additional information isn't displayed yet, but can be in the future.
  
• Removed world 4 for the time being. It will be re-added when at least
• some* work has been done on it.

• Added Starlyn's arms! They're now hooked up for all weapons. Texturing coming soon.
  
• Changed the behavior of Starlyn's medium charge attack. Instead of doing bonus damage to shields and heavy stun, it now pierces flesh, and medium stun.
  
• Starlyn's Thundergun can now be zoomed. It's a placeholder zoom animation, but the real animation is coming soon.
  
• Hooked up Starlyn's "picking up relics gives speed boost" perk.
  
• Changed (and hooked up!) one of Vance's perks. Now, every third consecutive headshot stuns.
  
• Made several fixes to saves/continues. It should actually work now!
  
• Started adding new VFX for the kagorox yells.
  
• Fixed quicksaves not saving the health cost of items in the upgrades shop.
  
• Weapons now properly lag their position as you run around. This was always supposed to work, but... oops!
  
• Did a pass to the weapon position/angle lag from moving around. Will likely do another because ERGH!
  
• Added the duplicator/triplicator unlock conditions to the unlocks menu.
  
• Hooked up a placeholder Magnetar.
  
• Fixed the deadeye so he fires properly when time is slowed.
  
• Made some optimizations to fields and certain enemy abilities.
  
• Weapons no longer load all of the arm models for each weapon. This cuts down memory usage and loading times.
  

HOTFIX

• More data is now sent to the leaderboard about each run (in addition to completed/not completed). This includes the character used, and the difficulty. This additional information isn't displayed yet, but can be in the future.
  

• Added the alternate world 2 location, the Swiss Alps! Will be textured soon, but it's functional now.
  
• More texture work on the Disposal Area. It's almost there!
  
• Speed now affects reload speed in addition to movement speed! Getting items that boost your speed stat will allow you to reload your weapons more quickly.
  
• The Blueprint Folder (double tower slots) now works properly.
  
• Added the developer console! This can now be enabled through the custom difficulty menu. Press ~ to activate it once in the game.
  
• Added more NPC conversations with Exo.
  
• Greatly reduced the amount of memory used in the Nebula Omnis. Seems pretty reasonable now!
  
• Fixed a collision shape error with the shield charger.
  

• Finished animations on the minigun, and added sounds. Still some more tweaks coming, but it's in great shape now!
  
• Improved texturing on the Disposal Area. It's almost finished!
  
• Started on some unique character perks to differentiate and balance the characters.
  
• Completed the perk display on the character select menu. (Actual perks not yet implemented).
  
• Fixed an issue in the Rainforest allowing you to build mazes that block wide enemies.
  
• The stinger is now using the rifle animations as a placeholder. It should be slightly more tolerable now while it gets its real animations.
  
• Fixed Bullero having an inappropriate knockback value on his ram.
  
• Renamed "Magnetic Gloves" to "Magnetic Fingertips".
  
• Magnetic Fingertips now appear in the upgrades shop for half a heart.
  
• Smoothed out moving over rocky terrain a bit.
  
• Fixed issues with the Magnetic Fingertips pulling objects over rocky terrain.
  
• Fixed some visual issues with the red enemy health bar (for showing their health prior to taking damage).
  
• Slight collision optimization.
  

HOTFIX

• Fixed an issue preventing gemstones from spawning.
  
• Fixed some collision weirdness with enemies on Metroplex.
  
• Implemented Kain's "Recovers more health from food" perk.
  
• Implemented Fabian's "Repairs shield between levels" perk.
  
• Implemented Starlyn's "Platform always spawns an item" perk.
  
• Implemented Starlyn's "Access to items one world early" perk.
  
• Implemented Vance's "Marked kills earn bounty" perk.
  

HOTFIX #2

• Fixed some errors related to collision shapes.
  
• Implemented Kain's "Attacks faster at low health" perk.
  
• Implemented Kain's "Slows nearby enemies" perk.
  

• Added the minigun! It's not quite finished, but most of the work has been done on it.
  
• The Disposal Area/Swiss Alps are now locked until the Metroplex/Rainforest are beaten respectively.
  
• Added an unlock display after beating the boss to unlock those areas.
  
• The Metroplex now contains random turrets scattered throughout. Incorporate these into your maze designs!
  
• The Disposal Area now has hazardous vents that poison enemies that walk through them. Use these to your advantage!
  
• Added the "texture quality" setting. This reduces the quality of mesh textures, as well as memory usage.
  
• Added more custom difficulty features, like start money and start world.
  
• Re-added the easy difficulty setting.
  
• Smoothed out several issues with top-down mode. This includes moving over rough terrain, accidentally detonating mines, and being able to leave the map.
  
• Entering top-down mode now expands your FOV.
  
• Money gained from selling relics no longer counts towards your leaderboard score.
  
• Updated map icons.