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All 49 turrets & 96 perks are now unlockable, which means that it's officially possible to achieve 100% completion in the CHECKLIST, and that all Turret Trials can be unlocked & completed.[/h3]
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TURRET Ramjet[/h2]
Propels itself by shooting! Ramjet offers immense power if you know how to use it. Consider trying the Magnet perk on it!
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TURRET Gauss[/h2]
Charges like the Helios turret! High-precision, high-speed, high accuracy - all in one package. Increase its Charge Max and you'll deal even more damage!
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PERK Generator[/h2]
You want auto-fire? Fine! Take 25% extra Firerate too! ...but you can't turn it off. Better not overheat!
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PERK Aloe[/h2]
Easily land hits with giant, speedy shots whenever they crit!
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PERK Sieve[/h2]
You'll have much more control over what items appear in the shop if you have a specific build in mind.
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PERK Nail[/h2]
Guarantee that every weapon on your turret has Pierce...for a price, of course.
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See how to unlock them in the CHECKLIST. If you already meet their conditions, you'll be granted them the moment you start the game up![/h3]
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🆓 DEMO[/h3]
Genome Guardian: Prologue has effectively been replaced by an official
Genome Guardian Demo. The content is the same, and progress is still shared between the demo and full version!
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🎮 STEAMDECK[/h3]
I've perfected the Steam Deck experience (just waiting for official verification now!)
- Various settings have been changed/hidden to suit the Steam Deck.
- Steam Deck-specific button icons are now shown instead of keyboard & generic gamepad icons.
- The crosshair will no longer appear (since it's not needed on Steam Deck).
- The cursor will no longer dissappear after being idle for 3 seconds. (this is why the cursor moves in circles slightly while you're not moving it... it sounds silly but this genuinely seems like the only solution right now)
- Minor Steam Deck-specific performance tweaks.
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🎵 NEW MUSIC[/h3]
- Wave 1-10:
- "Depth Strider" by Lutex (a Genome Guardian player!)
- "Collateral" by Punch Deck
- "Parallax" by Punch Deck
- "Turtle Cave" by Bebasmas
- Wave 11-20: "The Day We Fought Back" by Bebasmas
- Wave 21-30: "Elevator Madness (w/ Caturday)" by Bebasmas
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ːresearchcurrencyː NEW RESEARCH ITEMS[/h3]
- (cursor) Outline: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (cursor) Hollow: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (cursor) Pincer: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (crosshair) □: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (crosshair) #: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (crosshair) ◊: ːresearchcurrencyː 500.
- (heat style) Slotted: ːresearchcurrencyː 1000.
- (heat style) Helm: ːresearchcurrencyː 1000.
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⚖ BALANCE[/h3]
- (turret) Diesel: While below 50% Heat, Damage +50% → +70%.
- (turret) Scorch: Firerate increases up to 100% → 150%. 🔥
- (turret) Superstar: Damage -15% → -20%.
- (turret) Inferno: Now only has 1 weapon mount (4 letters slots + 4 weapon mod slots).
- (turret) Buckler: +50% Firerate while at 0 Shield.
- (turret) Bearclaw: Added -30% Size.
- (turret) Tank: Cooling Rate 12/s → 15/s.
- (turret) Dice: Instead of granting 15 rerolls, now grants 1 reroll after each wave.
- (turret) Fortress:
- Added an extra weapon mount (3 letters & 2 mod slots).
- Firerate -25% → -30%.
- Cooling Delay 1s → 1.5s.
- (turret) Viper:
- -8% Damage to each mount (it's practically unnoticeable, cool your jets)
- Health 4 → 8.
- Max Health reduction when hit 1 → 2. (you don't need a tank build to go ham with Viper)
- (turret) Deadeye:
- Added Range +100%.
- Firerate -40% → -50%.
- (turret) Tower:
- No longer loses Health upon overheat.
- Added -50% Size.
- Description includes more explanation of the "Mark" behaviour now.
- (turret) Shuriken:
- First mount weapon slots 3 → 4, last mount weapon slots 3 → 2.
- Bonus Firerate & Speed after exiting Stealth lasts 0.7s → 1s.
- Cooling Delay 1s → 0.75s.
- (turret) Guardian:buffed its unlockable stat bonus.
- (perk) Leaf: Speed +50% → +70%.
- (perk) Briefcase: Knockback +100% → +200%, Range -50% → -60%.
- (perk) Bandage: Cooldown when triggered 6s → 5s.
- (perk) Saline: Each time you lose Health, Heat -25% → -30%.
- (perk) Microscope: Turret Scale -50% → -60%.
- (perk) Eraser: Rerolls +10 → +15.
- (perk) Antifreeze: Firerate while overheated every 1s -20% → -15%.
- (perk) Blossom: Now takes 4s (instead of 2s) to reach max Accuracy bloom, but Accuracy tightens back up as fast as it used to. (buffed, in other words)
- (perk) Taser: Taser shots now have Size -50% applied to them (firing uncharged won't).
- (mutation) Microbe Weight -50%, Microbe Speed +50%: Microbe Weight -50% → -60%, Microbe Speed +50% → +40%.
- (mutation) Speed +50% to microbes with ːadnaː DNA: Microbe Speed +50% → +40%.
- (weapon mod) Firerate +30%, Speed +75%: ːbiomassː25 → ːbiomassː20.
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🆕 ADDITIONS[/h3]
- (perk) Radar: Now adds a green outline to microbes.
- (perk) Capacitor, Taser: There's now a visual indicator directly on a turret for when it's charged.
- (perk) Mirror, Smokebomb, Bandage: A green bubble will appear around your turret while in an "ignore hit" state (except for the invulnerable power-up).
- (menu) CHECKLIST: Added checklist items for Banishes, Turret Trials and Daily Dive (since it's not said anywhere else in-game how you unlock them).
- Hovering over the Banish button now lists all banished items in that run on the right 😀 (won't appear if you haven't banished any yet).
- Oversized microbes now have a thin purple membrane to make them stand out more. (this also makes them very easy to spot near the edges) (not overridden by Radar)
- Added more Daily Dive modifiers (which has resulted in the modifiers for the current Daily Dive changing).
- Added a few more SETUP menu tips.
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🔄 CHANGES[/h3]
- (mode) Brood: The "Abyssian Hunters join the fray" mutation will no longer appear.
- (mode) Gameshow: The green button on the TARGETS menu will say "Ready" instead of "Enter Shop" while you have "skip shop" enabled.
- (Turret Trial) Colossus: -50% Damage → +15 Rerolls.
- (Turret Trial) Tempest: +50% Critical Chance → +100% Critical Chance.
- (menu) CHECKLIST: Adjusted some formatting.
- (menu) RECORDS: Adjusted some formatting.
- (menu) ARSENAL: The button to reset filters won't show while none are applied.
- All cursors now have a slight grey edge and drop shadow, to increase visibility.
- Adjusted Research prices for some Intro Research.
- The hover-over perk description in the PERKS menu will now disappear after hovering over a perk in the perk bar and clicking to remove it.
- The projectile-deleting behaviour (when framerate is low) has been made much less aggressive.
- Slightly improved glow effects.
- The speed that power-ups move now scales with Depth (75% Speed at Surface to 100% Speed at Depth 5).
- "NEW HIGHEST WAVE!" will no longer display on the victory screen (there's lots of text on it already).
- Unlock pop-ups will be more attention-grabbing depending on total wins so that new players don't miss them (normal behaviour after 4 total wins).
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⚙ SETTINGS[/h3]
- Accessibility:
- "Recoil" has been merged with "Screenshake".
- Added a toggle for "Power-up Pulse", which makes the coloured power-up edge glows stop strobing/pulsing.
- Added a toggle for "Low Health Effect", which can disable the red edge glow.
- The hover-over explanation for "Damage Pop-ups" now mentions that it has a performance impact.
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🔨 FIXES[/h3]
- (mode) Shmup Mode:
- Weapon Speed stats on hover would display as being x1.875 higher than they are.
- Bounce + Proximity (or simply Bounce on a really large projectile) would sometimes result in projectiles getting stuck along the bottom.
- (mode) Abyss Mode:
- Defeating the Abyss after being destroyed (which is possible via Burn) will no longer display both the DEFEAT and VICTORY screens.
- The Abyss' health bar will be transparent while paused.
- (turret) Scorch: The Damage of projectile submunitions (child projectiles) was scaling with Heat.
- (turret) Helios:
- Burst Fire weapons would break if you had -100% (or less) Firerate.
- Burst Fire weapons weren't inheriting the stat changes of Helios' charge.
- (turret) Riptide: Can now refuel from shredding Abyssian Hunters.
- (turret) Saturn: Projectiles would sometimes turn invisible (they'd fall below the floor on the z-axis).
- (turret) Tower: I think I've finally fixed the bug that let marked microbes survive taking damage.
- (turret) Dragoon: ːcdnaːːgdnaːːtdnaː Splitzooka & ːcdnaːːcdnaːːgdnaːːtdnaː Rail Splitshot's initial projectile would deal no damage if it crit/ricochet.
- (turret) Tempest: Description now mentions that the Knockback behaviour applies to microbes and offspring.
- (perk) Radar: Description now also states that you can see projectiles beyond the edge as well.
- (perk) Piston: The DPS stat on weapons would incorrectly still factor in Critical Chance & Critical Damage while the Piston perk is equipped.
- (perk) Nitrate: Hitting a power-up will no longer clear offspring.
- (perk) Vice: Will no longer become opaque when destroyed.
- (weapon) ːadnaːːgdnaːːtdnaːːtdnaː Bubble Blaster: Last update made it display as having Knockback, but it shouldn't have any.
- (cosmetic) Expander: It now always faces the direction your turret is facing while in Shmup Mode.
- (mutation) Mucus Membrane:
- At certain (taller) aspect ratios, it would appear smaller than it should.
- If playing windowed, resizing the window would sometimes make it dissappear.
- Fixed effect scaling when Doubletime is active (ex. purple splats growing extra fast/large).
- Completing a Daily Dive with an unreleased turret could count towards Turret Mastery (same for perks)… This is fixed now that all turrets and perks are released.
- Playing a Daily Dive in a mode that you don't have Depth 5 of yet would cause… weird things to occur.
- Hover-over info for perks and weapons or weapon mods would sometimes overlap.
- My dynamic performance code that clears projectiles when framerate gets too low will no longer trigger from unfocusing and refocusing the game while not paused.
- Fixed softlock when starting a run with less than 0% Heat Max.
- Fixed various minor typos.
- (turret) Jester:
- Fixed everything that was broken.
- Broke everything that was fixed.
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🎨 FAN ART[/h3]
- "YOU'RE BOUT TO HAVE A MAD TIME" by @vr_the_great3546
- "Guardian of the Genome" by @rooted7
- "You are no better than me" by @true_boxed.in
