Celtreos News

[p]A big update to Celtreos!

[/p][p]“Celtreos” now supports multiple text sizes: in the option screens, in story pages, and in the score display during the game. This can also affect layout, e.g. story pages can be arranged differently to suit the new text size or some UI text labels may wrap to multiple lines.[/p][p]By default, this will mirror your system-wide Accessibility settings.  Note that system settings are more granular; although you can adjust a slider to a variety of text sizes, Celtreos will only adapt to small, medium or large depending on where the slider is.[/p][p]Since the Mac does not yet provide Accessibility settings on a per-app basis (except for Apple apps), “Celtreos” has a new View menu with items to override text size for Celtreos itself.  You can choose to keep mirroring the system-wide setting, or override with Small, Normal or Large.[/p][p]When the setting is changed, the UI will update immediately.[/p][p][/p][p]On supported Macs and displays, the game can now run at 120 FPS.  This will only happen if the Best setting is used in Graphics Quality (or if the Automatic setting determines that Best should be used).[/p][p]Minor tweaks have been made to improve game performance, especially on mobile.[/p][p][/p][p]The game icon has been updated to a format compatible with macOS “Tahoe” (though it also changes on older Macs).  Due to the way Steam patches games, the OS may not recognize the new icon immediately and it may even appear blank; it may require a restart or other update from the system to correct the icon.[/p][p][/p][p]Several minor bugs have been fixed:[/p]

• [p]The overlay for the “Time Warp” ability no longer interferes with the UI, e.g. preventing button taps.[/p]
• [p]Unplugging a game controller will no longer leave behind certain icon overlays.[/p]
• [p]Added some missing French translations.[/p]
• [p]Various corrections to UI layout and spacing to accommodate text better, especially when larger font sizes or localized text are present.[/p]

[p]The next Celtreos patch is live!

[/p][p]Certain animated backgrounds are disabled on the lowest graphics setting.  Minor changes to rotation effects for better performance during two boss fights.  On mobile versions of the game, fixed a couple of over-rendered UI elements that were dragging game performance.[/p][p][/p][p]This setting prevents items from spawning that could swap out the current weapon mount, meaning that your initial mount setting persists for the entire game.  Enabling this option means you can no longer strategically choose different mounts for different scenarios but it may also reduce frustration if you happened to swap to a less-helpful mount at some point in the game.[/p][p][/p][p]Certain enemy projectiles have slightly changed.  The “Orbital Defense” boss has slightly more armor.  The “Lightning” effect now looks a bit better and it also covers a larger area.  The player exhaust smoke and death explosion effects have been updated.  Some game controller button icons have been improved.[/p][p]Also, background 3D effects have been slightly enhanced in most stages (except on the lowest graphics setting).[/p][p][/p][p]Fixed a couple of issues with French localization.  Fixed a background “drift” that could occur when first pausing the game.[/p]

[p]A big update to Celtreos!

[/p][p]Many songs have been tweaked, including: Evasion, Mystery, Portension, Opposition, Trepidation, Diminution and Establishment.[/p][p][/p][p]There is a new weapon mount type, “Reverse V”!  Similar to “Crossover” but focused on the reverse angle with a wider expanse, this moves your weapons fire along a rotated V path to cover primarily the area behind your ship.[/p][p]Minor tweaks to certain stage content, such as “Jungle Cave” and “Shipyard Attack”.[/p][p][/p][p]General improvements to game responsiveness in certain situations.[/p]

[p]The next Celtreos patch is live!

[/p][p]Fixed a case where the frame rate could struggle significantly if the system was rapidly refreshing the screen while many sound effects were playing.[/p][p][/p][p]More artwork tweaks have been made to certain ships and background elements.[/p]

The next Celtreos patch is live!


This new setting prevents all negative items from spawning in the game, which tends to make the game significantly easier to play.  (This includes all red-orb items like slow-down, destroy-weapon, reduce-range, reduce-power, zero-score, etc.)


More artwork tweaks have been made, mostly noticeable on the title screen and in the first stage, “Colony Evacuation”.


A stage-related trophy was accidentally awarded by starting any game.  While this trophy will not be deleted as part of the fix, for new owners of the game it will now trigger under the correct conditions.

Also, while not strictly a bug, it could be confusing if external audio (such as Apple Music) was preventing music selections during the game so new explanatory text appears when game music is disabled.