Celtreos News

A gigantic update to Celtreos!


Enabling this new setting makes the game significantly more challenging! 

• “1UP” power-ups NEVER spawn
  
• Defensive items such as “Shield” are far less likely to spawn
  
• Achievements do not give invincibility (though the Achievement still counts)
  
• Small round bullets are invulnerable and must all be avoided!
  
• Most projectiles are stronger and harder to destroy
  
• Much longer cooldown after using a Charge (“Bomb”, “Lightning”, etc.)
  
• Negative items appear more frequently
  
• Several enemy attack patterns change, and many are also faster
  
• More enemies spawn, and some walls may also change
  

There have been significant soundtrack improvements, updating songs such as “Disposition”, “Assignment”, “Evasion”, “Excursion”, “Confrontation”, “Portension” and “Flow”.


There have been minor tweaks to a variety of effects, including explosions and shaking.  Some of the UI has improvements, like certain icon artwork and text sizes.  Background contrast has been tweaked in stages like “Alien Ocean”.  The “Predator” weapon has also improved.

The “Colony Evacuation” and “Last Stand” stages now have water lines that cause splash effects when the water is hit by things like bombs, certain bullets and debris.  This opens up a new line of evasion, as you can potentially avoid being hit by flying further down than the water impact point.


Wide-area-effect cooldowns have been removed when “Test…” is used, allowing more rapid experimentation with those abilities.

The next Celtreos patch is live!


A number of stages have been adjusted for smoother gameplay, and there are even some new sections!


Several songs have been tweaked, including “Decoration”, “Evacuation”, “Mystery”, “Navigation”, and “Perfection”.


Backgrounds have been significantly upgraded in certain stages, such as “Jungle Cave”, “Sharp Descent” and more.  Many enemies have improved artwork as well.  A few player ships are now more detailed too, such as “Mini” and “Beryl Blade”!  Minor updates to artwork have been made in other areas of the game.

A gigantic update to Celtreos!

It’s been a while since the last update but this one is worth the wait.


The “Plasma Series” now has a unique defensive ability, “Bumper”. This item makes it extremely unlikely that your ship will be destroyed by walls, and it will also push your ship out of the way of such obstacles (be careful though as it provides no protection against enemy attacks). Note that you can also select this item when defining one of your 5 custom weapon arrays.


Several stage backgrounds are more detailed, some significantly (such as “Orbital Defense” and “Refinery Raid”). There are improvements to explosion effects. Tweaks have been made to artwork and animation in a number of other places.

Also, when certain objects and enemies are impacted by your weapons, they react in more obvious ways (such as gently shaking).


Certain stages have been tweaked for better gameplay, such as “Dark Nebula” (where it is now a bit easier to see through clouds).

A few weapons have been modified to work better, such as beam-based attacks (Beam, Phaser, Ray Burst, Column, etc.), the Predator weapon, and the Magnet Mine weapon.

The in-game weapon display now shows the icons for every weapon currently available to you, not just the name of the active weapon. In addition, the selected weapon’s icon is slightly larger. When you have all weapons, these appear in the same ascending order as their key bindings (1-6).

The Achievement display now makes it more obvious that your ship is invincible while this award is on the screen.


Although you can still set preferred weapon mounts to start the game, there are now in-game items that let you switch to a different kind of mount (currently 5 types). These options sometimes spawn together at major transition points in a stage but they may also spawn in different ways, even randomly from one play to the next. The icons for these items are now also shown in the Ship Editor when selecting default mounts.


When you browse achievements (via the trophy button on the main options screen), a brand new song is now played!

Several tracks have been enhanced further, including “Disposition”, “Acquisition”, “Evacuation”, “Mystery”, “Portension”, “Fabrication” and “Flow”.


There are a few new sound effects, including additional explosions. Some weapons now have new sounds, such as “Tail Whip” and “Weaver”.


There are now more types of targets in the test stage, including some that are much larger (and take more hits to destroy) and more that move. The new weapon mount items now also periodically spawn here to make it easier to see how other mounts affect your weapons.

Major artwork and effect updates. New in-game weapon display shows the icons for all picked-up weapons.

A big update to Celtreos!


There’s a lot in this game, and you don’t want to miss anything.  Now you can be sure you haven’t, using a new mode that keeps track of the major things you have done!  Use the new “trophy” button on the main options screen to reach this mode.

In the top-left corner of this screen is a basic percentage of overall game progress (this is also displayed on the trophy button itself from the options screen, as a quick reference).

Although Achievements can be triggered any time you play the game, this mode will now keep track of the unique kinds of Achievements that you have ever been awarded.  The conditions for activating them are secret…can you find them all?

There is also a section on general stage-by-stage progress.  Most of these will be gradually awarded through normal gameplay but there are still some interesting ones to unveil!

Finally, there is a 3rd section to cover other aspects of the game.  Initially these are focused on abilities…try to explore all the weapons, defenses and other features of your ship!

If you are having trouble triggering some of these, turn on the “Hints” button to show extra information when selecting each goal, that may help you to understand how to get it.

Try your best to reach 100% but this mode will probably expand over time with even more new secret goals to achieve!!!


As usual, a few minor improvements to artwork, animation and stage design.

Now you won’t miss a thing, the game keeps track of all your major progress.

The next Celtreos patch is live!


The game now automatically spawns new enemies when there are few remaining on the screen.  The type of auto-spawn varies by stage, and depends on how well you “clear” an area.  This means you can potentially rack up even more score by quickly defeating enemies, since that will lead to more targets overall.


Certain stages have improved spawn patterns and layout, such as “Alien Ocean”.  A new plasma-ball projectile has been added, and it is now used by a number of enemies and bosses!


The Ship Editor now has a 5th type of weapon mount, “Crossover”.  This is essentially an X pattern but for single projectiles it travels in an animated way along alternate crossover paths, whereas for 2- and 3-multipliers it will cause each copy of a weapon to follow its own X path.


A new boss theme “Portension” has been added to the soundtrack, and plays during the “Dark Nebula” and “Refinery Raid” boss fights.


Certain user interface elements have improved.  Minor tweaks have been made to explosions and other effects.  Some enemy ships have updated artwork and animation.