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Asteroids ++ 1.3.3a

  • Transparent drop notifications and EXP bar added to show when you will receive a steam item drop
  • Drops can be stacked only under proper requirements, you may notice a (+1) or (+2) if you do not meet the requirements
  • The requirements are usually drops obtained throughout the month (30+ max month, and if the drop was recieved between an hour, it will not be received), however if the next month comes you will be able to receive all the drops all at once
  • Drop EXP can use the EXP multiplier, but
  • *it will not use up the EXP multiplier if the drop exp has been reached.**
  • Improved anticheat to prevent cheaters from obtaining drop items illegitimately
  • All achievements now properly require cheat mode to be off

Asteroids ++ 1.3.3

[h3]Features:[/h3][p][/p]
  • [p]Added 111 brand new droppable weapon items, you can now get and combine any sort of weapon and receive a discount in the skill tree![/p]
  • [p]All of these new items can be purchased or gathered from the drop, combining two of the same weapon items will result into a higher level item, making it so that you have a higher discount for that weapon.[/p]
  • [p]Reduced lag in main menu due to steam checking each item owned in the steam inventory.[/p]
[h3]Balance Changes:[/h3][p]Laser[/p][p]When I initially made the laser, it was supposed to be a weapon like the rifle, except you would get insta-hit response, but the laser has been a weapon which dominates in DPS alone, I tried to nerf it numerous times since it was simply way too powerful by it's own, but decreasing damage and increasing costs won't cut it. So instead, the laser will slow down in shooting speed if the recoil is increasing.[/p][p]This means that a laser will do much better on it's own rather than having weapons which 'fire' from the ship, however, having recruitments, shield, orbs and such in the loadout will not change how the laser fires, but having the machine gun, rifle, rockets will affect it.[/p][p]On the side note, you can improve the laser by increasing it's accuracy, and accuracy decreases the amount of recoil the player can get, so if you had level 12 accuracy, it would go back to normal DPS like it was in previous versions.[/p][p]I hope that this change makes sense, especially with newly introduced synergies possible.[/p]
  • [p]The laser will have slower firerate the higher recoil the player has.[/p]
  • [p]The laser can now shoot down enemy bullets (from orange asteroids, not UFOs)[/p]
[p]Extra Life[/p][p]Extra Life passive ability was broken ever since it was released, well now it works like so. Use it in your hardcore runs, It will save your ass![/p]
  • [p]Extra Lives passive ability now works (thanks Kingdud)[/p]
[p]Bouncy Orbs[/p][p]Bouncy orbs received a buff in 1.3.0 where each round, a bunch of them would spawn, turns out it spawns way too many of them. So I decreased the number of orbs which can spawn. Don't worry, it's still a very good side weapon![/p]
  • [p]Reduced orb spawning by half per wave (1 per level > 0.5 per level)[/p]
[p]Space Gifts[/p][p]Space Gifts are getting an interesting change this update, you can now collect them if you don't have the utility, which matters because the clone level 1 spawns them, along with the power star ability, but you will get the level 1 effect. Also the weight odds change depending on what upgrades you have. For instance, if you upgraded rockets, the chance to have rockets spawn from gifts increases, same goes for rockpods, bouncy orbs, recruitments, black hole and nuke.[/p]
  • [p]The player can collect gifts even if the utility is level 0[/p]
  • [p]The weight of rockets, rockpods, bouncy orbs, recruitments, black hole and nuke changes depending on the ownage and level of these items in the shop.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Bugfixes:[/h3]
  • [p]When strafing, the ability power would not decrease if the player was going right.[/p]

Windows 10 End of Life and my games

[p]Hi everyone, Infiland here, I'm writing this to let people know something.[/p][p]Asteroids ++ and The Colorful Creature will continue to support Windows 10, despite it’s deprecation today. I will announce when those games will be out of support, the major factor would be GameMaker suddenly abandoning this OS. [/p][p]Since The Colorful Creature is open source, you may still download old releases for their support, but note that online features won’t continue to be supported on old versions of the game and may not work [/p][p]As for Monophobia Echoes, the next game we are working on, it may ultimately depend on the release of the game, as it will likely take years to finish, but if Windows 10 by then is no longer a major windows version, then it may be deprecated. [/p][p]If you ask me, my recommendation is to jump ship to Linux if you don’t want to upgrade. Linux will always be supported by me as the Linux marketshare is increasing and is at all time high. This includes Steam Deck players.[/p][p]If you want to support indie development, consider purchasing a donation gift. Thanks.[/p][p]DONATE[/p]

Asteroids ++ 1.3.2a

  • Translated the new campaign to all languages
  • Hopefully fixed a crash to some people launching the campaign

Asteroids ++ 1.3.2 - The Company Update

[p][/p][h2]Features[/h2]
  • [p]Added a new 10 planet campaign, Lethal Business[/p]
  • [p]This campaign is a bit different than others, it has two ways of unlocking it, either by owning a certain game on steam, or by purchasing it with credits. Owning the game on steam for some campaigns will unlock the game without having to spend a dime![/p]
  • [p]In this case, this campaign requires Lethal Company on Steam, or 20000 credits to unlock. So no need for planet drops or DLC unlocks. Note that credits can be obtained for free after many hours of playing without 'RNG'[/p]
  • [p]I will do similar collaborations for other games as well, if you have any other suggestions, let me know.[/p]
[h3]Is this legal?[/h3]
  • [p]I don't know, lol, Balatro is doing the same but with cards, I guess?[/p]
[h3]Technical Babble[/h3]
  • [p]Fixed bug where selecting a larger selection size and beating/losing a sector would result in the position of the selection in the planet map be incorrect[/p]
  • [p]Update scribble text engine and steamworks extension SDK[/p]
[p]Have fun![/p]