A-Star Theft News

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• Added new strategies for several story missions
  
• Added more furniture and variations
  
• Added an occasional animation to objective markers to help newer players
  
• Added a button to exit a wall if stuck (happens sometimes when dodge leaping, still working on a fix for the core issue)
  
• Added a slight vignette when sneaking, to minimize confusion for some players
  
• Remastered Sunrise Trail music track in Action and Intimidation versions
  
• Greatly improved blood splatter effects
• Improved music volume balance between tracks
  
• Improved Restricted Area markers
  
• Improved Small Safe design
  
• Improved wall design and other assets, including healing stations
  
• Improved weapon ammo display
  
• Subtle improvements to the tutorial
  
• Rebalanced damage taken and healing speed
  
• Rebalanced Pump-Action Shotgun weapon
  
• Fixed dodge leaping through doors with low frame rate
  
• Fixed dodge leaping through windows not alerting nearby NPCs
  
• Fixed entering Key Rebind menu always changing button prompts to gamepad prompts, regardless if user is playing with a gamepad
  
• Fixed a rare soft lock issue when destroying a circuit box
  
• Fixed end credits not playing music
  
• Fixed blood and decal rendering above civilians lying down
  
• Fixed the objective marker drawing below lighting in a segment of the prologue
  
• Fixed a crash in the mission 'Convoy’
  
• Fixed ability to immediately untie civilians after tying them, causing confusion
  
• Miscellaneous Improvements
  

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: [email protected]

• Improved comfort for different monitor aspect ratios
  
• Fixed a spelling error in the settings menu
  

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: [email protected]

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Finally time for another update! It's been a while, mainly due to University priorities, but I have bigger plans for this game yet.

If you encounter any issues with this update, contact me and I will resolve them after I get home from christmas celebrations!

• Added Extrication heist
• Added dodge rolling mechanic (still needs improvements)
  
• Added lower case letters to the primary font
  
• Added wheels to police cars
  
• Added ability to untie hostages
  
• Improved some story dialog
  
• Improved some story events
  
• Improved some equipment description and help menu formatting
  
• Changed the Intimidated Civilian symbol
  
• Changed Toxic Gas equipment to cost 2 credits
  
• Fixed several issues in Protection, including a crash
  
• Fixed a crash occurring when placing toxic gas on certain missions
  
• Fixed several spelling errors
  
• Fixed wrong color in the interaction timer for planting explosives
  
• Fixed a police car driving through walls in Jewelry Store
  
• Fixed Justice Fox getting stuck in his car when visiting
  
• Fixed military turrets not attacking tanks
  
• Fixed guards spawning inside of the game view when spotted by a camera
  
• Fixed music not syncing with the intro animation
  
• Fixed police cars clipping through walls at low framerates
  
• Fixed clothing not changing properly after equipping a bullet-proof vest or guard outfit
  
• Fixed improper references to Logan Huntborn in Freeplay dialog
  
• The game now uses x64 Windows Runtime
  
• Miscellaneous Improvements
  

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: [email protected]

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• Added Kimpes Studio heist
• Added vision cones for NPCs
  
• Added objectives to Conspiracy
  
• Added name tags to companions
  
• Added new dialog lines
  
• Added more particle effects
  
• Added heist music tracks to the main menu, to play after the intro song
  
• Remasted an older music track - Featured in the new heist!
• Civilians can now crawl away from the player during gunfire
  
• Changed loot highlights to show outside of Overview Mode
  
• Improved movement to automatically move a few pixels to prevent annoying collisions
  
• Improved how police spawn rate is affected by police aggression
  
• Improved tutorial quality for the first visit to the safe house
  
• Improved safe cracking mini game aesthetics
  
• Improved explosion visual effects
  
• Subtly tweaked the main menu logo
  
• Fixed an issue where SWAT and police officers would not shoot the player
  
• Fixed the User Interface staying invisible when exiting a mini game using a mouse click
  
• Fixed an exploit with using cameras to lure guards
  
• Fixed an issue where civilians would sometimes instantly call the police when frightened by crew members
  
• Fixed circuit box not disabling power when destroyed by C4
  
• Fixed Museum of the Artifact police vehicle clipping into another
  
• Fixed UI objectives showing above mini games
  
• Fixed a minor oversight with restricted area in Freeplay Apartments
  

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: [email protected]

You can finally find key rebinding in the Settings menu, and there are four new achievements to be had!

• Added key rebinding
• Added world-space visual grain
  
• Added indicator for when player has insufficient credits to equip an item
  
• Added indicator for intimidated civilians
  
• Added achievement: Hidden Dough
  
• Added achievement: Quickest Way In
  
• Added achievement: Hands Off The Crowd
  
• Added achievement: I See Only Red
  
• Improved large explosion sound
  
• Fixed extreme frame drops for some players when in the equipment store
• Fixed toxic gas emitting when power is disabled
  

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: [email protected]