Directive Nine News

Update 0.1.7

Update 0.1.7 Patch Notes:

3 New Space Vistas (One of wich you can see above)
Enemies now no longer appear to be looking into walls as you encounter them
Experimental support for Valve Index controllers (Knuckles)
Slight tweaks to the loot magnet, so every loot drop doesnt pick up at the exact same time.

Update 0.1.6

[h2]Update 0.1.6[/h2]

New shield model and impact VFX
Slight shield durability buff
End screen UI has had a slight rework. A bigger overhaul is currently being worked on (showing many more stats for your run, like item list and list of percentages)
Fixed Railer magazine so it doesnt flip 180º when inserting it.
New Item : Chance on taking damage : Unleash lightning storm around you.

Update 0.1.5

[h2]Update 0.1.5[/h2]

New Room
Weapon Mods : Mods are now tracked per weapon. Meaning Mods will no longer carry over to a newly purchased weapon. You can have 1 active mod per purchased weapon.
Comfort : Added option for linear move speed. If locomotion makes you queasy, try this mode.
UI : Added a new UI to show your currently equipped Weapon Mods during runs. Tilt your gun flat while out of combat to see.
Loot Magnet : When clearing a room, all active loot drops will now be auto-looted.
Balancing : Tweaked the balance curve to make intro levels easier
Environment : Tweaked the hitbox size of Oxygen Tanks nozzle to make them slightly easier to ignite
Tweaked Magazine hand position for Assault rifle magazines.
New and Improved Instructions in the start room with videos.

Bugfix : Gunshot audio from enemies would sometimes play when the player fired the pistol
Bugfix : Music Volume setting would not be saved properly.
Bugfix : Stun effects would not trigger on Turret enemy.
Bugfix : Loot drops from Turrets would spawn in mid-air

Various optimizations

Update 0.1.4

This is a minor update, and will likely reflect the update schedule going forward : 1 Major then 1 Minor and bugfixes out-of-schedule according to severity.

Gadgets

Plasma Charge : Aiming mechanics have been improved to be more along the lines of "point to where you want to go"

Difficulty

Enemy health now scales up as you progress through the game. More intiatives will come for this topic.

Enemies

Heavy Grunt has had his shot pattern reworked to be more bursty

Items

Punish The Weak received a buff, and will now apply 10% increase per stack.

Level:

1 NEW ROOM
Doors now will not close until the current room is cleared. This helps avoid "door-dancing". Enemies will now follow you previous rooms, so no escape for you!
Oxygen tanks explosion radius has been increased. Use them to your advantage

Pickups:

New audio for pickups, so it's easier to distinguish between credits, ammo and health, by ear alone.

UI:

Tweaked ItemStation UI to handle long names better. Some items would cause text to overflow.

Known Issues

Gunshot audio and other sounds sometimes play very loudly and very close to the player. We are still investigating the cause of this. We know this is a frustrating issue, and once it is resolved, you can expect a hotfix deployment outside of regular update schedule

Bugfixes:

Fixed shotgun shells reload animation. It was glitchy when player was in motion during reload.
Fixed shotgun being able to be reload "spammed" by breaking it open using motion controls.

Update 0.1.3

Weapons

NEW WEAPON : The Quad-pipe. Shotgun style weapon, that really turns anything close into goo.
You can no longer eject magazines that are full. This change is to help people who spam the reload button.
You can no longer spend all your magazines while having a magazine in your hand by spamming reload.

Quad Pipe in action

Gadgets

Plasma Charge : Charge distance corrected and tweaked, now works better. Now also impacts the environment around you in addition to enemies