Beef Cat Ultra News

Dropping in for some visual enhancements and Volleyball improvements today!

v1.0.7

• Drop shadow applied to most on-screen objects to separate them from the environment
  
• Chromatic Aberration added to the corners of the screen area
  
• Subtle Dithering applied to the screen space
  
• Color processing reduced slightly to capture retro palette more accurately
  
• Volleyball spawn visual glitch fix
  
• Volleyballs make a sfx when spawning
  
• Volleyballs have a visual effect when spawning
  
• Volleyballs spawn area improved to avoid them spawning too close to walls
  

This is a very tiny subtle one to make recent changes gel even better~

v1.0.6

• Added a tasteful music fade-in to accommodate the starting countdown
  

[h2]Beef Cat Ultra: Remix Update[/h2]

Launch week is behind us, and I've been able to clean up the dust in the code. The goal has always been to grow Beef Cat Ultra over time with new ideas, content, and *stuff. I love Survivors games and I like playing my own game. So as long as I have new ideas, they will flow into the game.

The Remix Update

Let's start with a bullet point list:

• 1 New post-game focused World with 4 New Stages
  
• 1 New Mode: Remix
  
• 6 New Pickups exclusively found in the new world
  
• 1 New Shop for difficulty junkies
  

Let's break it down!

Remix Island will become available after beating Some Big Guy! Head to the docks in Stinky Coast and set sail for a brand new mini-world featuring 4 massive sized stages using the new mode: Remix! Sharing maps with their respective Endless stages, Remix tasks you will mowing down astronomical hordes and fighting against the RNG. Everything is randomized. Pickup placement, Player Starting Point, Enemy Spawners, Jars, Chests, Mushrooms, even your level-up options. The idea is to create an endlessly replayable post-game experience for people looking for one more stage!

6 New Pickups join the loot pool on Remix Island - including Mouse Mace: Swing your mouse through the horde like never before, Uppercut: a vertically oriented melee attack, Parry Pants: drop a grenade when you successfully dodge an attack.

1 New Shop - The Anti-Shop. Pay a small fee and reset all of your permanent stat bonuses to ZERO. No refunds. An option for those that have grown in skill beyond the need for little upgrades.

The Remix Update is being prepped for a November release!

See you then!
Kyle

This is a partner patch to earlier. Focused on more visualization mostly. All in all, nearly 30 tweaks today focused on making things look/read/and feel better.

v1.0.5

• Countdown added to stage start to communicate control lockout
  
• Boss Healthbars centered better
  
• Volleyball UI centered better
  
• Bad Cat is locked out at start of Volleyball and Deathmatch to ensure fair play
  
• Endless stage difficulty curve made slightly more difficult
  
• Poison no longer drains health while paused
  
• Added Chests and Mushrooms to Stinky Endless
  
• Performance Improvements when handling 250+ coins idling in the environment
  
• Relocated a problematic Mushroom in Gauntlet Legacy
  

The focus of this patch was Readability, which took several contexts. Whether it was making notifications easier to read, making power-ups easier to discern, or processing load reduction for when the game has 1000s of objects on screen at once. It's a good patch.

v1.0.4

• Froggie's level up options display in the correct order: Weapon - Survival - Bonus
  
• Enemies pop like fireworks after stage completion
  
• Horde Kill Count no longer continues to count after stage completion
  
• Pickup Notification font change
  
• Pickup Notifications stay on screen 1sec longer
  
• Pickup Notification window takes up less space on screen
  
• Pickup Notification end animation
  
• World Names stay on screen 0.5sec longer
  
• Stronger visualization for Eggs hatching
  
• Lowered base volume for Player Hit SFX (affectionately called "the quack")
  
• Lowered default starting volume to 60% for new players on initial boot-up
  
• Pickup Notifications no longer draw when a menu is opened
  
• Pickup Notifications no longer draw when quitting a stage while one is active
  
• Cherries coin-pull effect has a new visualization
  
• Improved enemy processing which should reduce load on game engine in late Endless stages
  
• Control/Menu lockout on the World Map extended to match fade of World Name pop up
  
• Control/Menu lockout on stages extended to match fade of stage objective
  
• Corpse Bomb visualization update
  
• New Corpse Bomb SFX to set it apart from other explosions