Update 6: Tutorial rework, Infinite mode balancing, and some fresh Leaderboards!
Hey folks!
It's your friendly neighborhood indie dev, Dante! I just wanted to touch base real quick and provide some information around the changes/fixes that have gone out in our most recent update this week.
We've been listening carefully to our community members and actioning upon their feedback where ever possible. This has lead to a re-design of the tutorial for shooter gameplay to help streamline things and clarify a few things better.
We also have had some fixes and balancing work in this update which have forced us to make a tough decision as we have closed our leaderboards that have existed in the game thus far. These leaderboards are now locked to maintain the integrity of the work people put in to achieve these scores. They will remain viewable in game as well as in the Steam Community interface.
BUT FEAR NOT! We have rolled out a new batch of "phase 2" leaderboards that function a little differently from the previous set. These leaderboards have a hardcore and casual versions depending on whether you have the Auto-Barrel Roll option off or on (respectively).
Other notable changes/fixes:
- Exit button added to main menu
- Pause menu updated in gameplay to show active gameplay
- Pause menu in gameplay now also includes an option to restart your round of Infinite Mode
- Rework/balancing for Dipper, Hyper Rush and Deftkruiser
- Ship Invincibility VFX have been updated to be more apparent
- Fixes around the spiral attack while Super G
- Leaderboards added to front end menu for easy access
- Round Start menu added to Infinite Mode to allow players to select a weapon system skin and view leaderboards before starting gameplay
- Carousel Mode - With this new mode activated, your weapon skin will randomly shift to another skin you have unlocked after each use of your Super G Ultimate attack to help keep rounds interesting and fresh
- Windowed Mode - ALRIGHT FINE. I did the thing. I didn't want to but I did anyways 😂😂 Never say I don't do anything for the community ❤️ (Jokes aside, you can now select fullscreen or windowed mode in options in the front end or in options in the Round End Screen of Infinite Mode
- Tutorial Pop-up - I have things set up now so that the tutorial option that appears while loading into Infinite Mode will stop appearing once you have passed a minimum score threshold. The tutorial can always be accessed from the Options Menu in the front end if you need a refresher
- Additional Boss audio assets added to gameplay
I'm not sure if I am missing anything on this list but please know that we intend on doing another update soon to get our Simplified Chinese localization caught back up ASAP. Please let us know if you hit any new issues in this update so we can get things squared away for you!
Take care!
Dante Campana
It's your friendly neighborhood indie dev, Dante! I just wanted to touch base real quick and provide some information around the changes/fixes that have gone out in our most recent update this week.
We've been listening carefully to our community members and actioning upon their feedback where ever possible. This has lead to a re-design of the tutorial for shooter gameplay to help streamline things and clarify a few things better.
We also have had some fixes and balancing work in this update which have forced us to make a tough decision as we have closed our leaderboards that have existed in the game thus far. These leaderboards are now locked to maintain the integrity of the work people put in to achieve these scores. They will remain viewable in game as well as in the Steam Community interface.
BUT FEAR NOT! We have rolled out a new batch of "phase 2" leaderboards that function a little differently from the previous set. These leaderboards have a hardcore and casual versions depending on whether you have the Auto-Barrel Roll option off or on (respectively).
Other notable changes/fixes:
- Exit button added to main menu
- Pause menu updated in gameplay to show active gameplay
- Pause menu in gameplay now also includes an option to restart your round of Infinite Mode
- Rework/balancing for Dipper, Hyper Rush and Deftkruiser
- Ship Invincibility VFX have been updated to be more apparent
- Fixes around the spiral attack while Super G
- Leaderboards added to front end menu for easy access
- Round Start menu added to Infinite Mode to allow players to select a weapon system skin and view leaderboards before starting gameplay
- Carousel Mode - With this new mode activated, your weapon skin will randomly shift to another skin you have unlocked after each use of your Super G Ultimate attack to help keep rounds interesting and fresh
- Windowed Mode - ALRIGHT FINE. I did the thing. I didn't want to but I did anyways 😂😂 Never say I don't do anything for the community ❤️ (Jokes aside, you can now select fullscreen or windowed mode in options in the front end or in options in the Round End Screen of Infinite Mode
- Tutorial Pop-up - I have things set up now so that the tutorial option that appears while loading into Infinite Mode will stop appearing once you have passed a minimum score threshold. The tutorial can always be accessed from the Options Menu in the front end if you need a refresher
- Additional Boss audio assets added to gameplay
I'm not sure if I am missing anything on this list but please know that we intend on doing another update soon to get our Simplified Chinese localization caught back up ASAP. Please let us know if you hit any new issues in this update so we can get things squared away for you!
Take care!
Dante Campana