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Update 0.5.7

[h3]⚖ BALANCE[/h3]
  • [p]Armour, Shield, Health: Now have an upper limit of 999[/p]
    • [p]there was basically only one way to achieve this (and that's just for Health) and it trivializes Endless[/p]
    • [p]yes, your saved Maw or Superstar dive on Endless wave 73935836 is probably going to die in a few seconds[/p]
    • [p]Just a reminder that this game is in Early Access and has been live for less than a week - changes like this are fair game & to be expected[/p]
[p][/p][h3]🔄 CHANGES[/h3]
  • [p]Tweaks to collision handling (~20% framerate increase in high-projectile-count situations).[/p]
  • [p]Mutations: Fixed some names.[/p]
  • [p]Music & Sound Volume: can be now be increased/decreased in 5% increments. (for the players claiming the game is too loud that insist on having PC system volume at 100% 😅)[/p]
  • [p]"Minelayer" Barrel: Added warning popup before creating a Hitscan weapon (0% Range on Hitscan means it may as well not exist)[/p]
  • [p]"SHMUP" Mode: Minor tweaks to make it feel more shmup-y.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]💖 SAVE DATA LOSS PREVENTION[/h3][p]The save system is already as resilient as possible to corruption & loss - the only way for saves to be lost now is if Steam Cloud itself makes a mistake (which I can't control).[/p][p]There's only been one report of this occuring so far, but I know how crushing it is to lose ~80 hours of progress, so here's what I can do: If you have at least 1 win, an exact copy of your save file will also be saved, named "replace-genome-guardian-2.txt-with-this-to-restore-save.txt".[/p][p]It won't get overwritten upon starting the game in a "fresh" state, so if you start the game up and it appears that your data is lost:[/p]
  1. [p]Go to C:\\Users\\ your username \\AppData\\LocalLow\\Alpherior\\Genome Guardian 2[/p]
  2. [p]Delete "genome-guardian-2.txt"[/p]
  3. [p]Rename "replace-genome-guardian-2.txt-with-this-to-restore-save.txt" to "genome-guardian-2.txt"[/p]
[p][/p][h3]🔨 FIXES[/h3]
  • [p]"Deadzone" Mutation + "Falloff" Endless Mutation: Nothing can "slip through the cracks" of these anymore.[/p]
  • [p]Rare bug where you'd get hit with the "WEAPON DISCOVERED" view immediately upon loading a saved run.[/p]
  • [p]"Mole" Guardian: Could unlock when it shouldn't unlock yet.[/p]
  • [p]"Orbit" Bracket: Was experiencing unusually low Knockback.[/p]
  • [p]"Roulette" Endless Mutation: Now actually does the thing it says it does.[/p]
  • [p]Bugs Specific To Narrow Aspect Ratios: (yes, it sounds silly but that's a thing)[/p]
    • [p]Offspring would spawn offset from the Microbe spawning them.[/p]
    • [p]Sideways-moving microbes escaping view in SHMUP Mode.[/p]
    • [p]"Reverser" Barrel + Hitscan + Flak: The flaks now appear at the tip of the shot.[/p]