Shrapnel Sentinel news & patch notes

Shrapnel Sentinel - out July 10th

0.8.7.1

Enhancements (gameplay)

• Changed Sequence 2.

• Changed Zniper behavior.

  • Their general accuracy has been reduced.

  • They now fire three times in a row.

  • Each shot has slightly increased accuracy.

Enhancements (visual)

• Improved game over image rendering.

• Added lobby dust particles.

• Added pillar hit particles.

• Added Zniper lasers.

• Added textured score rendering.

Enhancements (other)

• Added graphs to replay overlay.

• Improved UI.

• Increased the amount of points given by bosses.

• Training progression now waits for the player to pick up weapons or shield.

• Conflicting control bindings are now highlighted instead of being cleared automatically.

• Changing the UI scale now asks you to keep or revert the change, reverting automatically after a few seconds.

• Implemented new run statistics UI.

Performance Improvements

• Improved performance for world collisions.

• Improved performance for pillar hitbox rebuilds.

• Added "Record performance data" checkbox under Settings → Graphics to help track down performance issues.

  • Enabling it will record metrics until you disable it or the game exits.

  • The result is written to a file in the game directory inside the `profiler-output` folder.

• Fixed wasting GPU resources when rendering UI.

• Improved post-processing render performance.

• Improved shadow rendering performance.

• Improved startup time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed borderless fullscreen not covering the entire screen when launching the game.

• Fixed HUD flash bugs.

• Fixed replays not switching to a newly grabbed weapon.

• Fixed excessive RAM usage.

• Fixed replay audio bugs.

• Fixed player sometimes getting stuck on internal edges of wall geometry.

0.8.3.0

Performance improvements

• Render engine performance improvements.

  • Massive performance improvements when rendering particles.

  • Significant performance improvements when rendering shadows, gibs, and dynamic meshes.

• Improved physics performance for walls breaking.

Enhancements (gameplay)

• Changed Sequence 2.

• Horks now only damage the pillar when actively charging at it, instead of on every collision.

Enhancements (visual)

• Added enemy highlight effect when multiplier is about to run out.

• Enemies now have a decaying death effect.

• Added effects to score and multiplier HUD.

• Improved pillar hit effect.

Enhancements (audio)

• Added unique lobby ambient tracks for each sequence.

• Improved Zniper charge sound.

• Reduced amount of audio sources for Zipper.

Enhancements (other)

• Improved UI.

• New settings

  • Replaced separate Fullscreen / Borderless / Always on top settings with a single Window mode setting (windowed / borderless fullscreen / exclusive fullscreen). Borderless fullscreen is the recommended mode for fast alt-tabbing.

  • Added secondary input bindings.

  • Added UI scale setting.

• Settings UI

  • Settings are now separated into tabs.

  • Added button to reset input bindings.

  • Improved input binding UI.

• Replays

  • Implemented replay seeking.

  • Added timeline to replay overlay UI.

  • Added replay speed slider.

• Cloud ring no longer spawns in training mode.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed many replay bugs.

• Fixed not saving final stats value to run stats (graphs).

• Fixed spam-clicking replay buttons leading to multiple downloads and replay restarts.

• Fixed training sequence showing up in sequence browser.

• Fixed many other UI bugs.

0.8.0.2

Enhancements (gameplay)

• Changed both sequences.

• Shield now depletes much faster when equipped.

• Decreased HP for Hork.

• Zippers now shoot the pillar when the player is behind the pillar or behind their shields.

Enhancements (visual)

• Improved Zniper charge and shoot particles.

• Zippers are now more visible.

• Player death type is now shown during respawn.

• Improved cloud visuals.

• Improved Zipper aggro textures.

• Improved Slicer emission.

Enhancements (audio)

• Completely changed the audio engine. There is still no proper mixing support, but issues with distortion should be fixed.

• Changed many sounds to improve overall audio clarity.

Enhancements (other)

• Improved UI (still not finalized).

• Improved graph UI.

• Training button has been moved to the main menu.

• Improved credits screen.

• Game over UI now appears faster.

• Default main volume is now 40%.

• Added new settings:

  • Crosshair type (default, none, dot).

  • Borderless window.

  • Always on top window.

• Added player death types to run statistics graphs.

• Improved training.

  • Added shield and Bok enemies.

  • Added text explaining weapon jumping and shielding.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Shackled not de-aggroing after player heal.

• Fixed ZipperBeam being able to launch the player on game over.

• Fixed pillar hitbox not closing soon enough after the player respawning.

• Fixed some CPU performance issues.

• Fixed rare crash related to rigid-body physics.

• Fixed crash when a powerup despawns.

• Fixed graph background not resetting after losing multiplier from player death.

Leaderboards have been removed from the demo again. They will be available in the full game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed NEW HIGH SCORE displaying after having watched a replay.

• Fixed Dreaded spawn locations not being randomized.

• Fixed Zipper beam damage launching the player too high.

• Fixed Exploders sometimes teleporting above the walls.

• Increased particle buffer for small fire.

• Fixed pillar heal not activating when HP is exactly 35.

Enhancements (gameplay)

• Changed both sequences.

• Improved Dreaded movement and increased their speed.

• Changed Training mode.

• Increased amount of shrapnel for Venti and Revo.

• Decreased player knockback for various enemies.

• Changed Horks.

  • Increased HP, size, and speed.

  • They can now be aggro'ed.

  • They now move further away from the pillar.

  • The pillar attack timer now gets reset after an attack on the player.

Enhancements (visual)

• Improved in-game HUD.

• Improved Bok texture.

• Improved pillar death effect.

• Removed replay effects.

• Tweaked pillar emission.

• Tweaked ambient lighting.

• Improved lighting visibility on oil.

• Improved shield breaking effect.

• Despawned powerups now break into pieces.

• Improved powerup despawning effect.

• Added pulse rings for when powerups spawn.

• Improved Hork death effect.

Enhancements (audio)

• Added highscore music.

• Improved player burn sound.

• Added sound for keeping multiplier.

Enhancements (other)

• Increased the amount of points given by Shackled and Zipper.

• Wall column fire now damages the player.

• Improved UI and icons.

• Improved pillar hitboxes.

• Leaderboards are now temporarily enabled in the demo. Note that they will be removed from the demo again when the full game launches.

• Added "switch to last used weapon" control (default key is Q).

• Hork sounds are now louder and more apparent.

• Horks now have a light source.

• Added weapon and pillar codex.

• Configured Steam cloud saves for player progression.

• Venti and Venti+ rate of fire have been increased.

• Venti++ ammo has been increased.

• Venti now has a tiny bit of spread.

• Revo shot sounds now have a click sound indicating when you can shoot again.

• Dreaded scream sound now loops.

• Added ring around multiplier indicating how many enemies need to be killed to progress.

• New unlocks are now shown in the game over screen.

• Added additional walls to Training map.

• Fixed performance issues during game over screen.

• Other small performance improvements.