Asteroids ++ News

• Added the ability to shoot with left click, right click to activate ability, and zoom out and zoom in with mouse scroll WITHOUT 'mouse controls' enabled (thanks Zaxtor99® TTV)
  
• Improved loading times when starting the game
  
• Skill tree discounts will apply the moment you start the game
  
• Removed the 'language tool' from the game's folder to reduce file size
  
• Improved weapon items in the steam inventory to include weapon levels
  

(still needs a bit of work, but you don't have to click on items to see their level anymore)

You can now exchange weapon inventory items


You can now upgrade weapons from the steam inventory in the main menu. Go to Steam Inventory > Craft Inventory Items > Craft Shop Items > Upgrade Weapons



Then the weapons would be upgraded to a higher level (up to 12)



What do weapon items do?
For now, they will bring discounts to the skill tree
So for each level of a weapon you own in your steam inventory, it is 1% discount for each level. So if you own level 12 of a weapon in the inventory, that's 12% off for EACH TIER in the skill tree

You can get weapon items from drops or by buying them here.

[h2]Linux support[/h2]
Rererererereadded linux support (maybe)



[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Space gifts can now give more money when collecting a gift, but the money is spawned across the level
  
• Space gifts can now spawn rifle bullets, machine gun bullets and spawn mines randomly
  
• A nuke has a chance to drop on the screen randomly, but that chance decreases for every space gift level
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]
Fixed bug where every utility is unlocked for new players

I wanna thank everyone for trying out Asteroids ++! It was very humble to see so many players play the game, and I hope you enjoyed the heck out of it! Now with the recent changes.

• Updated engine to 2024.11
  
• Updated Steam SDK to 1.61, improving timeline sdk
  
• Now you can see weekly/daily planet leaderboards without having to beat it, so it won't say 'error loading leaderboards' anymore (default timer set to 24h per user)
  
• Fixed bug where ability levels would increase over level 12 because of space gifts
  
• Fixed abilities almost always activating the dash ability
  
• Balanced space gifts so that they are not as overpowered, but level 12 makes them good once more:
  

Rockets spawns reduced by 5X
Minipods spawns reduced by 10X
Money gain decreased from 1-10 * utility level to 1-3 * utility level
Golden asteroid chance on level 12 reduced from 100% to 10%
Ability power reduced from 100-200 * utility level to 100-150 * utility level
Health boost reduced from 10 * utility level to 5 * utility level
Nuke can now destroy gifts
Recruitment spawns reduced from 4 to 2, however they will have according levels (ONLY IF RECRUITMENTS ARE UPGRADED IN THE SHOP, NOT BASED ON UTILITY LEVEL)
Bouncy orb reduced from 2 to 1, however they will have according levels (ONLY IF BOUNCY ORBS ARE UPGRADED IN THE SHOP, NOT BASED ON UTILITY LEVEL)
More gifts appearing reduced from 3 to 2

• Update scribble engine to fix memory leak
  
• Using 'remove unused assets' option in engine to reduce file size (roughly 7mb, -2.42% decrease)
  

I know that 'nerfing' is not a great look for gifts but gifts were literally too overpowered, even right now they still are, but I think I'll leave them as is :)

Happy New Year everyone!

From today to 31st December, I invite you all to sing along with the song I've written for Asteroids for Christmas! The best singer would receive 100000 credits from me. The following lyrics are in this blog post:



Alright, the submissions should be either an audio/video file, and can be submitting on my discord server: https://discord.gg/6np9CmuEyv

HAVE FUN!