Homing missiles & more - new Early Access build (V0.62) for Flight of the Athena
One of the main appeals of building a shmup + roguelite hybrid is the ability to add new content, be it weapons, craft, events etc, and "feed" it into the procedural generation engine, where it can be incorporated into the main game campaign - it has benefits for the developer, as well as the player!
The Screamer Missile has been added, a primary weapon which has semi-homing capabilities, and can be found / bought / traded like other weapons in the game. A couple of new enemies have been added which are also equipped with these, so watch out whenever they are on screen. A few other tweaks and quality of life updates have gone in, see below for further info.
Flight of the Athena V0.62EA changelog:
-:New weapon: Screamer Missile, player - these semi-locking missiles are available as a player primary weapon to find / trade / buy within the main campaign.
-Screamer Missile, enemies - these missiles accelerate towards a player with semi-locking capabilities, be prepared to get out of the way fast! Enemies wielding include the Batteron Corvette with 1x Screamer hardpoint, and the Dreadnought Capital with 2x Screamer hardpoints.
-Objective descriptions - these have been added to display the objective during active key events (e.g. Intercept, Minefield etc). They usually involve destroying things, but good to have some context!
-Key Event scaling work - this ramps the difficulty of key events the further into the game they are encountered. Later convoys will have deadlier ships, later minelayers can throw out mines quicker.
-Mine on mine collisions - updated to have a "spacing" collision sound and graphics between mines.
-PCore pickup text - this pops out a brief onscreen text of the value of the salvage that has just been recovered.
-Score popup text - this pops out a brief onscreen text of the score from destroying an enemy (if non zero).
-Score, game version info - the game version info of an obtained high score has been added, displayed on the high scores screen.
The demo has also been updated to V0.62 also. Onwards to the next update!
The Screamer Missile has been added, a primary weapon which has semi-homing capabilities, and can be found / bought / traded like other weapons in the game. A couple of new enemies have been added which are also equipped with these, so watch out whenever they are on screen. A few other tweaks and quality of life updates have gone in, see below for further info.
Flight of the Athena V0.62EA changelog:
-:New weapon: Screamer Missile, player - these semi-locking missiles are available as a player primary weapon to find / trade / buy within the main campaign.
-Screamer Missile, enemies - these missiles accelerate towards a player with semi-locking capabilities, be prepared to get out of the way fast! Enemies wielding include the Batteron Corvette with 1x Screamer hardpoint, and the Dreadnought Capital with 2x Screamer hardpoints.
-Objective descriptions - these have been added to display the objective during active key events (e.g. Intercept, Minefield etc). They usually involve destroying things, but good to have some context!
-Key Event scaling work - this ramps the difficulty of key events the further into the game they are encountered. Later convoys will have deadlier ships, later minelayers can throw out mines quicker.
-Mine on mine collisions - updated to have a "spacing" collision sound and graphics between mines.
-PCore pickup text - this pops out a brief onscreen text of the value of the salvage that has just been recovered.
-Score popup text - this pops out a brief onscreen text of the score from destroying an enemy (if non zero).
-Score, game version info - the game version info of an obtained high score has been added, displayed on the high scores screen.
The demo has also been updated to V0.62 also. Onwards to the next update!