Boomerang X News

Hello all! This is our second update. This one is mostly focused on adding some quality-of-life features that folks have been asking for.

• Added an option to the Gameplay menu that skips the cutscene at the beginning of the game
  
• Added an option to the speedrun timer to display both the “continuous” and “single arena” timers at the same time
  
  • This is a new entry option for “Both”
• Added new keybindings to allow Scattershot & Thread to be activated on separate buttons
  
• Added an accessibility option to continue from the last reached wave after dying
  
• Added a button to delete New Game Plus progress
  

Cheers everyone! Thanks for playing.

Thanks to everybody who played Boomerang X in our first week! Thanks as well to everyone who provided feedback and bug reports. This is our first Boomerang X patch. It is a quick one, and we have more coming soon that will take a little longer to be finalized. In this update, we focused on three major categories: bugs, quality of life improvements, and a tiny bit of balance.

Bugs

• Fixed a stuttering issue that was mostly visible on high refresh rate monitors
  
  • Special thanks for Jinglebuns and hologram_sam for their footage and help
• Fixed issue that sometimes prevented the door after the Composers Garden from opening
  
• Made portals consistently face you towards the next area when exiting, even if you jump in backwards
  
• Fixed floating lumberer spawn points in Resonance Engine
  
• Reset abilities upon death in tutorial arenas (Cartography Room, Composer’s Garden)
  

Quality of Life

• Pausing the game no longer pauses the speedrun timer
  
• Added a dot to the speedrun timer that changes color depending on the current difficulty setting
  
• Made some accessibility options change the color of the speedrun timer
  
• Breaking the level start crystal now heals all shields
  
  • Entering the arena already did this, but sometimes people would take environmental damage before starting the level.
• Made the exit at top of the stairs in the Resonance Engine more visible
  
• Support for dualsense gyroscope (PS5 Controller)
  

Balance

• Made the gem on the frog’s belly easier to hit
  
• The giant moth’s babies that protect it are now slightly faster
  
  • This will actually make it easier, because they will be closer to it instead of getting so spread out.
• The giant moths now wait slightly longer before dropping their first bomb
  
• Made eagles turn more slowly when hovering
  
• Made eagles breathe fire in a more consistently forward direction when hovering
  
• Lowered fly spawn points in tutorial arenas (Cartography Room, Composer’s Garden)
  
• Goo floors now activate Blaze without damaging you
  
• Moved gems in Needle tutorial to make it harder to complete without using Needle
  
  • We saw too many people walk through without doing the tutorial.
• Retimed recall tutorial slightly
  
  • Made it a little more strict, and require you to actually recall the boomerang to get through this tutorial

Enjoy!

It's out. We made it. This is the spot which the X marks.

For two years, we have been stuffing so much attention, effort, and weird trash into this game that it's a little disorienting to be out of trash to give. Boomerang X is the first commercial game coming out of our studio, and we're incredibly excited for everyone to finally see what we've been up to for so long.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170060/Boomerang_X/

As always, we'll be on the lookout for feedback and bug reports, so let us know if you see anything suspicious. Give Tepan 100 simultaneous high-fives for us!

Thank you all so much,
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