Black Ice News

0.9.168 - 4/10/22 - Dome Living

Added Dome Barriers, which are unlockable spherical Barriers, with special shaders, icons, and four different Super Duper variants:
Einar's Feeble Response - Weakens enemies in the dome
Thunderdome - damages (and potentially stuns!) enemies inside the barrier
Bubble Dome - Heals and Cleanses friendlies in the dome
Chrome Dome - When hit with projectiles, fires a Seeker back at the enemy
Buy Item bounties are now more rare
Increased the Ouros cap to 14 or 21 when you beat Finality 50 and 100, respectively
Increased Latency projectile type radius, and damage slightly
Added more support for extremely high numbers (bitcreds, test your might, DPS, minion HP, etc)
Time now continues after you are dead so you can see your death particles
Barrier tooltip updates to make comparison easier
Fixed multi-Barrel explosion delay timer
Fixed the Ruins hacker cache being unopenable
Fixed enemies getting stuck inside tree structures
Fixed an issue where the star colors would not update properly when leaving sectors

0.9.167 - 4/3/22 - Slow Projectiles

Added Slow Projectiles server security, where both your an enemy projectiles move very slowly!
New Achievement: Upgrade Item Rarity
New Achievement: Find the Arcade Secret Shop
Buffed Charge Jump height by 25% (to compensate for the recent physics change)
Homing projectiles now acquire targets better (let me know if you notice any performance difference)
Enemy HP now uses more bits to allow higher difficulty scaling
Exploits now all have more homing, Ricochet, and no Dizzy, to make them easier to use
Added more UI particles to the special arcade machines
Advanced Tooltips now defaults to On
Limited projectile hit particles/sounds at the very high end
Latency projectile weapons now properly count as Explosive for affix generation purposes
Fixed waypoints being left over in UI for some quests
Fixed an infinite XP exploit in RE: Incoming Raid quest
Fixed arcade secret shop being too easy to find
Fixed enemies dying from explosives not causing death particles
Fixed outline highlighting for .bat enemies
Worked on the Act 2 end boss, for a later patch ;)

Added the Bomb.bat enemy type, for levels 35+. Explodes and drops bombs!
More level design progress on the Quarkus area - please check out the tower!
The stars will now change color when you go to certain areas, like the Volcano or Forest
Enemies will now dodge out of Zones/lava/etc when getting low HP
Added hologram shaders to many corporate logos in-world
Tweaked ground shader to more appropriately color some areas as Wall vs Floor
All black temporary building shaders now have a bit of shine to them (which matches star colors)
Added the new Samurai Punk company logo to the holo icon options (https://samuraipunk.com/)
After 10 seconds of not being on the ground, teleporting now causes you to drop more
Glide Jumps now show when they're actively gliding on the item icon
New/Favorite items are no longer treated separately in the item sorting algorithm
Improved framerate by not rendering many decorations at long range
Anima chats now replay per session instead of per difficulty (in case you miss one)
Fixed some Arcade and Volcano booster pads from not quite getting you where they needed to
Fixed the Speedrun notification message accidentally triggering when you failed a unique hack

A new quest, a new projectile type, several fixes, and more framerate!

Added a new level 35 quest (triggered at hack level 30) with a unique item reward
Added a new projectile type which explodes a short time after sticking to something (new projectile and particles)
Added pulse, hand cannon, and super duper SMG versions using it (new icon)
Increased Micromissile explosion radius from 1 to 1.5m
Reimagined visuals for Zones with new shaders
Aimbot Fab now always level 35
The Sell All button now mentions that Favorited items don't get sold
Optimized framerate for Zones greatly, and for all projectiles to some extent
Fixed volcano ambush having incorrect spawn points
Fixed Portcullis 1 nav issues
Fixed the in-game hotbar being clickable in some menus
Fixed the Finality rooftop hologram shader
Fixed the Stuck achievement/bounties not working
Fixed Sticky grenades taking way too long to explode
Fixed certain missions showing up again in your inbox after completion

This is the third patch in four days! I've been spoiling y'all, so I'm going to take a few days off this week. See y'all later!

Just some quick fixes, please enjoy the pizza

Fixed an issue breaking missions at higher difficulty settings
Temporarily disabled projectors (Zone center colors) until we can figure out what's going on (performance++)
Scope tooltip fix
Tutorial items will no longer be marked as New
Inbox will always open to the inbox even if you close it in a weird way from an email