We're nearing release so version number has increased dramatically! We've been reading the forums and playtested some more (and more, and more). The result is Reign of Bullets version 0.9.0. First a short summary of what we changed, full patch notes can be read further down this post.
In short
Main focus of this version was adding more sound effects. A lot of sound effects have been added/changed/tweaked but there are still some sound effects that still have to be implemented.
The acid spitter has gotten a big makeover, visually and gameplay wise. It now has a very low firerate, but the damage is increased a lot. This makes the lobbing mechanic a bit more interesting since it is harder to hit an enemy, but if you hit, it will do a lot of damage.
The autogun damage has a big effect on the difficulty in the earlier levels. In the previous version it felt like the autogun would obliterate everything in the first few levels, even on the higher difficulties. That's why we lowered the standard damage of the autogun, but increased the effect of an upgrade. Hopefully this will balance out the difficulty in earlier levels.
We have also been working on a lot of visual changes, both ingame and in the UI. For example we have added special explosions to all the mini bosses.
Ofcourse we've also been working on a lot of bugfixes and performance issues that surfaced on the forums and during our own play sessions.
Full change list since 0.6.9
Changes
- Reworked the acid spitter, visually and gameplay wise.
- Added subtitles to the intro animation to give some clarfication about the background story.
- Added a lot of soundeffects, not all soundeffects are final.
- Added shadow to floating combat text for better readibility.
- Desert boss sand particles now have better visibility.
- Desert boss projectiles have a graphical update.
- Added hints to the level select screen (you can change area with controller bumper buttons).
- Level select screen has a small graphical rework.
- Added uncommon, rare and epic variations of the weapon icons.
- Added feedback to the grass area first miniboss before it fires its big cannon.
- Minibosses now have their own unique explosions when they are defeated.
- Decreased the size of the loot pickup floating combat text.
- Recreated mouse button hints in hangar (you can use shift to quick-sell!)
- Added an error message when you want to equip a weapon while you have no available weapon slots.
- Outro cinematic now has it's own music!
- Animated the mechstache enemies.
- Added smoke trails to a few more enemies.
- Enemy rifle projectiles have been graphically updated.
- Tweaked flak cannon visually and performance wise. Now your whole screen shouldn't be completely filled with smoke when you have a few upgraded flak cannons.
- Visually changed the icon for equipped weapons in the hangar.
- Changed the names of a few epic weapons.
- Locked upgrades have a new graphic.
- Added variations of the train flamethrowers and laser wall enemies.
- You can now see on which level certain upgrades can be unlocked in the hangar.
- You can also see the current level of the upgrades when unlocked.
- Rocket cycles now pass tanks instead of driving through them.
- Made the unlock confetti a bit nicer.
Balancing
- Acid spitters fire rate is waaay lower but its damage is much higher.
- Decreased the hp of the desert boss.
- Decreased the maximum chance to jam from the lightning gun from 90% to 50%.
- Decreased autogun starting damage, but increased the damage per upgrade.
- Increased the costs of all upgades.
- The industrial level now spawns a bit less energy pylons.
- Increased the hp of trains.
Bugfixes
- Rifle description now fits in unlock popup.
- Fixed desert boss z-depth issues and death animation.
- Corrected some typos in area unlock popups.
- Fixed laser z-depth sorting.
- Fixed a bug where a weapon would turn yellow ingame.
- Second miniboss in the grass area is now spawning correctly (as in, it actually spawns).
- Fixed some z-depth issues in the minibosses in the grass area.
- Dust from the grass area miniboss is now not visible until it actually enters the screen.
- Fixed a bug where quickly equipping 2 weapons shortly after eachother would cause errors.
- It is no longer possible to return to the hangar in level select screen while a level is chosen.
- Fixed an issue where some enemies would magically disappear when shooting at them.
- Fixed a bug where you could no longer press certain buttons after quickly salvaging some mods.
- Fixed a bug where the players ship was visible shortly after the outro animation ended.
- Fixed some visual bugs in spectacular deaths.
- Fixed some issues with the jam icon showing up when it isn't supposed to show.
- 'Press any key' on loading screen shows on top of twotter messages instead of under it.
- Fixed a bug with weapon selection and upgrade selection.
- Now shows an explosion for enemies that are attached to others (for example flamethrowers on the train explode when the train itself explodes).
