Space Scavenger News

[h3]New stuff[/h3]

• Module - Nail Gun
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Lotus Flower now revives you with 25 health instead of 50
  
• Hull needs to be attached to the ship in order to give its bonuses. It can’t be used to heal by attaching it temporarily.
  
• The Observatory scans three segments of a planet at a time
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Fixed bug where more than one unique module would spawn on the same level
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• Added a UI category for Unique Modules in build mode
  
• New Sound effect for Saw
  

Please enjoy!
Jonas and Jacob
Red Cabin Games

Hello Scavengers, here's another update with some new modules! We hope you like it!

[h3]New stuff
[/h3]
Added a new category of Unique Modules of which there will spawn a maximum of 1 per run.
Unique Modules

• Lotus Flower
  
• Hull
  
• Soul Stealer
  
• Fusion Reactor
  
• Observatory
  
• (Radar now belongs to this category)
  

Other Modules

• Added a few extended solar panels
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Reflective Armor - Reduced price and sell value
  
• Zoomed out slightly in World 1
  
• Shield Drone now has a spherical shield
  
• Minor visibility adjustments to Scorpion
  
• Reduced energy regeneration on Large and Gold Solar panels
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Fixed bug with the mining drone that could cause the next level to not load properly
  
• Enemy hp bars now disappear instantly when enemies die
  
• Incorrect colors on color overlays for skins Toxic Waste and Night Sky
  
• Fixed incorrect sell price text alignment in build mode
  
• Fixed incorrect text in Swarm mode game over screen
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• Enemy Health bars are now easier to see when covered by other things such as ice blocks.
  
• Edit: v0.9.5.2 Intro video volume is controlled by music volume setting
  

Please enjoy!
Jonas and Jacob
Red Cabin Games

[h3]New stuff[/h3]

• In the death/victory screen you can now save your ships to the Hangar
  
• View saved ships in the hangar!
  
• Module - Angel Wings
  
• Module - Booster / Armored Booster
  
• New health bars that animate recently lost hp
  
• New model skin - Teeth
  
• Scoreboard has pages so you can view scores past the top 8
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Reduced machine gun ammo usage. (We overdid it a bit in the last patch)
  
• Rifle - Increased range
  
• Green Laser - Increased range
  
• Laser Shotgun - Reduced the number of projectiles by 1
  
• Sword - Reflects projectiles back at enemies instead of just destroying them
  
• Bomber - Now show its damage area before exploding
  
• Homing Launcher - Reduced turn rate of missiles
  
• Camera has less focus on the planet during exploration
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Fixed strange Drone rotation resets in certain situations
  
• Another attempt at fixing boomerangs that would sometimes get stuck mid-air
  
• Fixed bug where the scoreboard preview ship would not load
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• Skin Select screen clean up. Is now more consistent with the rest of the menus
  
• Some new sounds in the menu
  
• The skin blueprint is no longer visible in the ship skin preview
  

Please enjoy!
Jonas and Jacob
Red Cabin Games

[h3]New stuff[/h3]

• 2 new model skins available, Diamond and Flower
  
• 3 new paints. I heard you like dark skins so here are 3 new ones
  
• When using a controller it will now rumble when taking damage
  Drones
• They now have a small energy bar that shows how long they can continue
  
• Drones teleport back to the ship when they run out of energy instead of chasing your ship
  
• Shield Drones now communicate a little bit so they don’t cover the same enemy at the same time, making multiple shield drones a lot more effective
  
• Mining drones can now mine twice instead of once before having to recharge
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Bodies recycle crystal gain reduced from 5->3
  
• Crystals for buying skins can no longer be earned in Swarm mode.
  
• Increased Swarm mode difficulty curve
  
• Now has reduced crystal gain per loop
  
• Increased ammo usage of machine gun
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• After the last update’s camera changes the screenshake was behaving a bit strange. It has been fixed
  
• Shield Drones would sometimes be rotated strangely where the drone would not be positioned over the shield as expected.
  
• Fixed Gas flowers jerky movement
  
• Adjusted how the camera follows planet exploration to solve a bug where it would sometimes not stop focusing the planet
  
• Fixed Laser shotgun size issue where it was treated like a half module in certain positions.
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• The rotate instruction in build mode will no longer show up for modules where rotation does not matter, like bodies, thrusters etc.
  
• Minor color adjustments to Tubes and Bubble model skins
  

Please enjoy!
Jonas and Jacob
Red Cabin Games

[h3]New stuff[/h3]

• You can now purchase unlocks for your ship with crystals collected in the classic game mode. These include color variations and some model changes
  
• Sentinel enemy has a completely new alien visual instead of the robot model
  
• Chaser has new animations and more telegraphed shots
  
• Turtle has a new cleaner model with new animations
  
• Cloud Saves. Steam should now sync your save file.
  
• An “Are you sure?” popup shows up before abandoning a run
  
• Adjusted camera and physics to allow for smoother camera movement. Everything should feel a lot smoother and it could also help prevent motion sickness.
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]
Enemies

• Squids - Reduced damage 80->60
  
• Squids - Reduced projectile speed
  
• Squids - Reduced projectile range slightly
  
• Squids - Increased shot frequency
  
• Spitter - Before exploding it shows the affected area, similar to Space Mines
  
• Spitter - Explosion now damages enemies
  
• Spitter - Increased damage
  
• Scorpion - New fireball visuals
  
• Volcano planet - Reduced damage (100->80)
  
• Firestorm planet - Increased damage (20->80)
  
• Added more gas flowers in toxic world
  

Modules

• Homing launcher - Increased damage slightly
  
• Homing launcher - Increased range slightly
  
• Homing launcher - Increased rocket speed
  
• Artillery - Reduced price from 6->5
  
• Crossbow - Increased price from 4->5
  
• Boomerang - Reduced throw distance from 20->18
  
• Boomerang - Reduced speed
  
• Double Laser - Increased ammo usage
  
• Double Laser - Reduced range slightly
  
• Laser shotgun - Reduced Ammo usage
  
• Reflective Armor - now tries to aim reflected projectile towards the enemy attacker
  
• Mining Drone - Can now mine for crystals. Asteroids that contain crystals will drop an additional crystal nugget for every mining drone attached to your ship.
  
• Mining Drone - Removed from Swarm game mode
  
• Toxic launcher - New model and larger area of effect with more damage
  

Other

• The last few levels max size has been reduced
  
• Finding home now grants 5000 bonus score
  
• Moved planet clouds back a bit to stop them from covering the action too much
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Boomerangs should no longer get stuck in the air
  
• Escape should once again be working to exit build mode
  
• Re-enabled build mode cushions that push ship away from walls and planets to prevent you from building into the wall
  
• Fixed how exploration would sometimes be inconsistent with larger ships.
  
• Boomerang - Boomerang speed should now be frame rate independent
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• Ship will no longer be on fire in the Victory screen
  
• When finishing the daily and the scoreboard shows up, the background will fade out to make the ship preview in the UI more readable.
  
• Removed the “Saved oxygen” score calculation when playing without oxygen limit.
  
• Main menu now has the same pretty skybox as the in-game World 1 levels.
  

[h3]Comments[/h3]
I hope you enjoy this new update, it has lots of small quality of life improvements and I hope the new Skin system will add another dimension to the play.
Happy New Year!