Time Wasters news & patch notes

Ultrawide & Super Ultrawide Support

• Naturally supports Ultrawide (21:9) & Super Ultrawide monitors (32:9), no settings changes required
• The UI is horizontally centered to 16:9 for comfortable viewing instead stretching to the edges
• Updated all Backgrounds to support the additional aspect ratios
• Ravebow's Pink & Blue Lasers fill the entire width of the screen
• Doc's Static Mines stay active for the entire width of the screen
• Added visual teleportation effect to all enemies & Elites when they appear, because they will spawn on screen at the left and right sides to maintain performance and game balance

• Blue Katana Speed replaces the Blue Katana Duration Upgrade
• Blue Katana Speed affects both the Attack Duration & Cooldown, removing the negative DPS
• Blue Katana Max Speed increased from 2x to 5x

• Visual change to Gold dropped while in the Gold Outpost vs regular Gold pickups
  • Smaller Orange Pieces = Regular Gold
  • Larger Brighter Yellow Pieces = Gold Dropped While in Gold Outpost

• Fix - Slow movement when punched by Boxing Gloves

• Potential Fix for getting stuck on Loading Profile screen

New Captain: The 1.0

• The hacker known as "The 1.0" can seize control of enemy vessels and turn them into allies, while her ship's cloaking technology allows her to vanish from enemy radar with unparalleled stealth.
• Unlock Captain The 1.0 by Winning A Champion Victory with 11 Captains
• Upgrades
  • The 1.0 Hacking Beam - Max Hacking Beams, Hacking Damage Multiplier & Hacking Hull Multiplier (3 Levels)
  • The 1.0 Cloaking - Seconds Of Not Moving To Cloak Ship (3 Levels)
  • The 1.0 Shields - Shield Recharge Per Second When Not Moving & Shield Recharge Delay (3 Levels)
  • Super Hacking Beams - Max Hacking Beams, Hacking Damage Multiplier & Hacking Hull Multiplier (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Hacking Beams target enemies within the Green Hacking Range Circle
• Hacking stops if the hacked enemy leaves the Hacking Range
• Hacks
  • Hacked Red Ship, White Ship, Bat Rocket, Squid, Shooter & Mini Elite Enemies turn into allies, attacking other enemies and can be manually aimed
  • Hacked Mine, Seeking Bomb, Planet Attack & Elite Enemies will apply damage against themselves
• Increase the number of Hacking Beams through Upgrades (Max 14)
• Manual Aiming causes hacked enemies to form a half circle shield in front of the player ship
• Upgrades
  • Max Hacking Beams (5 Levels)
  • Hacking Damage Multiplier (6 Levels)
  • Hacking Hull Multiplier (4 Levels)
  • Hacking Range (Optional) (4 Levels)
  • Hacking Beam Overclock - Hacking Damage Multiplier & Hacking Hull Multiplier

• Earn a Solo Victory with The 1.0 to unlock the Green City Challenge
• Location: Green City
• Enemy Speed Multiplier 1.5
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New 3D background
• New music track
• 1 New enemy type
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Green City Victory
• To play, select The 1.0 as the Captain then select Green City from the Select A Challenge screen

• Get a Green City Challenge Victory with The 1.0 to unlock
• Loyal Crew The 1.0 can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• The 1.0 must not be Banished to join your crew

• Captains have been split into two rows, featuring larger icons to highlight them & making it easier to navigate

• Need to collect 5 Super Magnets to unlock the outpost instead of 10

• Offset the starting range of Gold Magnet, Fire Balls and Hacking Beam so they don't overlap

• Added a visual effect to the Convert & Reroll Buttons to show they've been clicked
• Same effect added to to the Time Cube Shop Reroll button

• Increased Elite Time Destroyer's movement speed in Endless mode to match speed in other game modes

• Fix - Pressing either ESC or Back should save option selections

• Display Photosensitivity Warning when the game is loading
• Only Playstation and Switch controllers mute other gamepad input (Unity Double Input Bug Workaround)
• Optimized build size
• Added a black gradient to Captain profile pictures to ensure smooth transition of image to background
• Changed how music loading is handled to increase speed of Splash Screen loading
• Removed 'Pop' sound effect that was played when main menu loads
• Fix - Warp Gate animated effect not playing when main menu starts

• Fixes for inability to defeat The 1.0 Solo Challenge without hacked enemies:
  • Increased Hacking Beam Damage Multiplier on Final Boss Core from 0.1x to 0.25x
  • Changed Hacking Beam Damage to happen every 0.25 seconds instead of every 1 second (still the same DPS) - prevents Elite Final Boss Core shield from continually charging

• The hacker known as "The 1.0" can seize control of enemy vessels and turn them into allies, while her ship's cloaking technology allows her to vanish from enemy radar with unparalleled stealth.
• New Weapon: Hacking Beam

• Captains have been split into two rows, featuring larger icons to highlight them & making it easier to navigate

• Display Photosensitivity Warning when the game is loading
• Reduced number of Super Magnets required to unlock Super Magnet Outpost

New Luna Loyalty Challenge: Fleet Rescue

• Earn a Solo Victory with Luna to unlock the Fleet Rescue Challenge
• Location: Wolf Battle Fleet
• Rescue The Wolf Battle Fleet From a Surprise Attack
• Stay In Range of Wolf Battle Ship To Rescue
• Wolf Battle Ship Damage Multiplier 10
• Super Wolf Battle Ship Damage Multiplier 30
• Gold Per Pickup -0.5
• Seconds Per Wave -5
• 2 New backgrounds
• 2 New music tracks
• Added new Wolf Battle Ships stat to the End of Run Summary
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Fleet Rescue Victory
• To play, select Luna as the Captain then select Fleet Rescue from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement

• Get a Fleet Rescue Challenge Victory with Luna to unlock
• Loyal Crew Luna can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Luna must not be Banished to join your crew

• Fix - Super Wolf Pack Damage Multiplier not being applied

• Modified targeting code for better handling of selecting new targets and switching targets

• Fix - Super Nova Outpost Damage stat not displaying damage for all 4 Super Nova Outposts in Mini Elites Challenge

• Increased Body Sprite resolution

• Increased quality & resolution on Dr. Hiro's profile picture

• Time Wasters will release out of Early Access on Monday September 25

New Rosanova Loyalty Challenge: Mini Elites

• Earn a Solo Victory with Rosanova to unlock the Mini Elites Challenge
• Location: Music Concert
• Mostly Mini Elite Enemies
• Mini Elites Only Drop Gold Pieces
• Enemy Mass Multiplier 0.5
• Super Nova Outposts 4
• Super Plasma Outposts 0
• New 3D background
• New music track
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Mini Elites Victory
• To play, select Rosanova as the Captain then select Mini Elites from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Mini Elites Challenge Victory with Rosanova to unlock
• Loyal Crew Rosanova can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Rosanova must not be Banished to join your crew

• Adjusted spacing and sizing of challenge description text

• Fix - Warp gate not showing on main menu

New Vermillion Loyalty Challenge: Tower Defense

• Earn a Solo Victory with Vermillion to unlock the Tower Defense Challenge
• Location: Green Hills
• Stop The Enemies From Getting To The Tower
• Enemy Tower Damage 1
• Elite Tower Damage 100
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New 3D background
• New music track
• Added new Tower Health stat to the End of Run Summary
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Tower Defense Victory
• To play, select Vermillion as the Captain then select Tower Defense from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Tower Defense Challenge Victory with Vermillion to unlock
• Loyal Crew Vermillion can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Vermillion must not be Banished to join your crew

• Added Native controller support for both Playstation & Nintendo Switch (XBox already had native support)
• Generic controllers will continue to use Steam Input
• Playstation & Switch gamepads show correct button hints in-game
• Restart Steam to get latest Controller settings

• Boxing Gloves will now knock enemies off the set path causing them to target the highest priority (City Invaders & Tower Defense Challenges)
• Now targets the closest enemy

• Now targets the furthest enemy in range. This change takes full advantage of Fire Balls range, damaging all enemies between the player and the target (similar to Punch Through)

• Champion, Endless & Slime Planets backgrounds resolution increased from 1K to 4K

• Optimized physics performance on multiple weapons & enemies

• Damage Numbers turned off by default
• All text changed to white

• Fix - Damage Over Time physics accuracy and performance (Slime Trail, Static Field, etc)

• Fix - Some weapons & enemies not doing/taking damage
• Reminder - Slime Trail only slows enemies when the are in the slime trail, however they continue to take damage over time while green

New TeslAI Loyalty Challenge: City Invaders

• Earn a Solo Victory with TeslAI to unlock the City Invaders Challenge
• Location: City
• Enemy Speed Multiplier 1.5
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New 3D background
• New music track
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a City Invaders Victory
• To play, select TeslAI as the Captain then select City Invaders from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a City Invaders Challenge Victory with TeslAI to unlock
• Loyal Crew TeslAI can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• TeslAI must not be Banished to join your crew

• Increased Damage by 50%
• Added a 2x Elite Damage Multiplier

• Optimized Static & Super Static Mine Explosions

• Fix - Some planets overlapping

• Adjusted Elite Fire Ship attack pattern so it no longer stops inside the Fire Circle

• Increased teleport visual effect when appearing, most noticeable in the Caves & City Invaders Challenges

• Added a glowing ring that travels from the center of a portal outwards every 2 seconds to draw attention to the portal location

• Updated to the latest Unity LTS Version (2022)
• Made music a high priority sound to prevent it from cutting out

New Ram Loyalty Challenge: Pinball

• Earn a Solo Victory with Ram to unlock the Pinball Challenge
• Location: Pinball Machine
• Punch Enemies Into Bumpers To Build A Combo
• Bumpers Cause More Damage At Higher Combos
• Enemy Mass Multiplier 0.5
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 4
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New 3D background
• New music track
• 2 New Enemy Types
• Added Pinball Bumpers Total Damage Dealt & Highest Bumper Combo stats to End of Run Summary
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Pinball Victory
• To play, select Ram as the Captain then select Pinball from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Pinball Challenge Victory with Ram to unlock
• Loyal Crew Ram can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Ram must not be Banished to join your crew

• Added Knockback Force +250 to Boxing Gloves Overclock

• New Weapons display the associated Crew icon
  • Regular Icon with White Square = Selected As Crew
  • Regular Icon with Grey Square = Available As Crew
  • Red Icon = Banished Crew
  • Grey Icon with a Lock = Crew Locked, complete mission to unlock
• Crew cards display the associated Weapon icon
  • White Square = Weapon Equipped
  • Grey Square = Weapon Available
  • Red Icon = Weapon Banished

• Locked Crew displayed in Pause Menu Details Tab

• Lock on Captain Icons moved to the bottom right corner to match rank icons

• Elites no longer affected by Challenge Hull modifiers

• Unlocks Screen has been split into 2 Tabs: Page 1 & Page 2

• Fade into arena for Ram, Corrosia and Azurene Loyalty Challenges

• Added maximum distance Elites can travel outside of arena bounds before being teleported back into arena for Azurene & Ram Loyalty Challenges. Prevents occasions where physics collisions send Elites flying out of arena.

• Changed Seeking Bomb enemies so that they don't disappear when offscreen (Enemies appear in Azurene's The Caves & on Waves 10, 30, 50 etc in Ram's Pinball Challenge)

New Azurene Loyalty Challenge: The Caves

• Earn a Solo Victory with Azurene to unlock The Caves Challenge
• Location: The Caves
• Spiral Traps Will Appear
• Enemy Speed Multiplier 2
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New 3D background
• New music track
• 3 New Enemy Types
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning The Caves Victory
• To play, select Azurene as the Captain then select The Caves from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get The Caves Challenge Victory with Azurene to unlock
• Loyal Crew Azurene can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Azurene must not be Banished to join your crew

• Elite Time Destroyer speed increased by 25%
• Elite Time Destroyer needs to get closer to the player before firing weapons
• Battle Royal Circle Enemies max speed reduced by 12.5%, now reaches max speed at Wave 50 instead of 70 (will get closer to the player due to the friction change)

• Player ship optimized for colliding with multiple enemies at the same time
• Reduced friction to 0 on all enemies

• More accurately synced to music track beat
• Reduced Mine Explosion volume by 50%

• Optimized how Steam is loaded at startup which may possibly fix issues with gamepad not being detected, achievements not activating and the overlay not appearing
• Investigating switching non-XBox Gamepads from Steam Input to Native Input, may be included in a future update

• Planets have been renamed to Outposts

• Fix - Captains Luna & Rosanova Not Unlocking caused by renaming Planets to Outposts

• Adjusted Spiral Trap White Enemy Spawn rate to reduce number of enemies spawning on high frame rates (waves 70, 90 & 110)

New Ravebow Loyalty Challenge: Only Up

• Earn a Solo Victory with Ravebow to unlock the Only Up Challenge
• Enemies Spawn From Above
• An Elite Fire Circle Moves Up
• Enemy Speed Multiplier 2
• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
• Gold Per Pickup -0.5
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning an Only Up Victory
• To play, select Ravebow as the Captain then select Only Up from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get an Only Up Challenge Victory with Ravebow to unlock
• Loyal Crew Ravebow can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Ravebow must not be Banished to join your crew

• Captain Icons display if Captain Is Banished or Available As Crew
  • Regular Icon = Available As Crew or Waiting to Unlock Crew
  • Red Icon = Banished Crew
  • Grey Icon with a Lock = Captain Locked, complete mission to unlock
• Crew can now be Banished or Unbanished from the Select Captain Screen
• Pressing Tab, RMB or the Y button will toggle Banish Crew / Unbanish Crew
• The Banish Crew / Unbanish Crew tooltip is displayed in the Captain Info panel

• Available As Crew is now Banish Crew
  • X in Banish Crew row = Banished Crew and will have red icons
  • Empty Box in Banish Crew row = Available As Crew and will have regular icons
  • Lock in Banish Crew row = Captain Locked, complete mission to unlock
• Upgrades can be bought and sold anytime, even if a captain is banished
• Pressing Space, LMB or the A button will toggle Banish Crew and Unbanish Crew
• Loyal Crew can now be turned on/off from the Space Cube Upgrades Screen
• When in the Banish Crew row, press Tab, RMB or the Y button to toggle Loyal Crew
  • Purple Loyalty Icon = Loyal Crew On and Captain can immediately join crew at start of a run
  • Grey Loyalty Icon = Loyal Crew Off, crew must be selected through in-game upgrades
• When starting a run Loyal Crew is selected from left to right of the Captain list (ie if all Loyal Crew turned on it will select Corrosia, Raven and Ravebow, possibly Kat depending on the selected Captain)

• Pink lasers fire after the Blue lasers instead of at the same time to spread out the DPS coverage

• If destroyed by the player weapons it will have a blue explosion damaging nearby enemies
• If destroyed by the player colliding with it there will be a red explosion and it will cause damage to the player
• Fix - Mine damage not scaling correctly

New Corrosia Loyalty Challenge: Slime Planets

• Earn a Solo Victory with Corrosia to unlock the Slime Planets Challenge
• Location: Corrosia's Home Planet
• Escort The Colony Transport Ships To Establish New Planets
• An Impossible Horde Will Appear After Wave 120
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• New music track
• Added a Total Planets Colonized stat to the End of Run Summary
• Endless mode disabled for this challenge
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Slime Planets Victory
• To play, select Corrosia as the Captain then select Slime Planets from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Slime Planets Challenge Victory with Corrosia to unlock
• Loyal Crew Corrosia can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Corrosia must be selected as Available As Crew in Space Cube Upgrades to join your crew

• Details Tab - Added Crew section to show Selected Crew, Available As Crew & Banished Crew

• New music track

• Enemies & Elites will only fire destructible bullets when on-screen
• Elite bullets will despawn faster when they are off-screen
• Elite Snake Ship collider and movement optimizations

New Raven Loyalty Challenge: Infested Planets

• Earn a Solo Victory with Raven to unlock the Infested Planets Challenge
• New Planets That Can Become Infested
• Infested Planets Spawn Enemies
• Destroyed Infested Planets Drop A Gold Vault
• Mini-Elites only Drop Gold Pieces
• Gold Per Pickup -0.85
• Added a Total Planets Defeated stat to the End of Run Summary
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Infested Planets Victory
• To play, select Raven as the Captain then select Infested Planets from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get an Infested Planets Challenge Victory with Raven to unlock
• Loyal Crew Raven can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Raven must be selected as Available As Crew in Space Cube Upgrades to join your crew

• Optimized dropped Gold Pieces

• Loyal Crew display the Loyalty icon

New Kat Loyalty Challenge: Boss Rush

• Earn a Solo Victory with Kat to unlock the Boss Rush Challenge
• Only Elites Spawn
• Elites Only Drop Gold Vaults
• Elites Drop 90% Fewer Gold Pieces
• Custom Colliders on all Elites so they don't collide with each other
• No Elite Fire Circle except on the Elite Final Boss
• Added a Total Elites Defeated stat to the End of Run Summary
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Boss Rush Victory
• To play, select Kat as the Captain then select Boss Rush from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Boss Rush Challenge Victory with Kat to unlock
• Loyal Crew Kat can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Kat must be selected as Available As Crew in Space Cube Upgrades to join your crew

• Increased Laser duration by approx 1 sec
• Removed Elite Damage Multiplier

• Added Elite Asteroid radar indicators

• Doubled speed when not firing
• Only fires when within range of the player

• Reduced Body Hull by 25% (now only 50% more hull than other Elites instead of 100%

• Reduced Destroyed Head Hull by 50% to be consistent with other Elites

• Elite Turret Ship turrets
• Electrified Hulls

New Doc Loyalty Challenge: Don't Move

• Earn a Solo Victory with Doc to unlock the Don't Move Challenge
• Engines Shut Off after 10 seconds
• When Engines are off player ship will be unable to move
• Booster Upgrades are Banished
• Elite Fire Circle centers on the player ship
• Custom attack patterns for the Elite Fire Ship & Elite Final Boss
• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Don't Move Victory
• To play, select Doc as the Captain then select Don't Move from the Select A Challenge screen
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

• Get a Don't Move Challenge Victory with Doc to unlock
• Loyal Crew Doc can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
• Doc must be selected as Available As Crew in Space Cube Upgrades to join your crew

• Added a 2x Elite Damage Multiplier to the following weapons:
  • Slime Trail
  • Boxing Gloves
  • Laser Strike
• Elite Damage Multiplier will only be applied when fighting Elites

• Added a Total Hull Repair From/To stat to the Gold Upgrades screen

Additional Solo Challenges

• Added Solo Challenges for:
  • Corrosia
  • Ram
  • Kat
  • Rosanova
  • Doc
• All Captains now have Solo Challenges
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements
• As a reminder:
  • Earn a Champion Victory with a Captain to unlock their Solo Challenge
  • Only the selected Captain and their weapon are available
  • All other weapons and captains are banished
  • Super Plasma and Super Nova planets are banished
  • New Solo icon will replace Champion after earning a Solo Challenge Victory
  • If Solo Challenge is unlocked, a new Select A Challenge screen appears after selecting the Captain

• Slime Trail can now be manually aimed
• When manually aiming the slime weapon shoots out in the aimed direction, returning to the ship when manual aim is stopped
• The end of the Slime Trail glows to visually show when manual aiming
• Super Slime Trail Damage Multiplier increased from 2 to 2.5
• Planet pickups now show on top of slime instead of under it

• Fix - Boxing Gloves not damaging Elite Snake Ship

• Chain Lightning now aims at closest Enemy instead of first detected Enemy
• When no target is in range the lightning strikes spread out around the ship

• Fix - Elite Hell Bird disappearing from Elite Circle during fight

• Narrowed laser colliders to prevent ship damage in areas that seemed safe

• Fix - Static Field Mines & Seeking Rockets not damaging Elite Snake Ship
• Fix - Chain Lightning not chaining on Elite Snake Ship

New Challenge: Solo

• Earn a Champion Victory with a Captain to unlock their Solo Challenge
• Only the selected Captain and their weapon are available
• All other weapons and captains are banished
• Super Plasma and Super Nova planets are banished
• New Solo icon will replace Champion after earning a Solo Challenge Victory
• If Solo Challenge is unlocked, a new Select A Challenge screen appears after selecting the Captain
• Captains with Solo Challenges
  • Azurene
  • Vermillion
  • Luna
  • Raven
  • TeslAI
  • Ravebow
• More Captain Solo Challenges may be added in a future update
• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Added the highest rank icon to the bottom right corner of the Captain icons

• New Lowest Hull Remaining stat on Victory screen
• Fix - Map visible behind summary area

• Banished planets now say Banished when flying over them

• Chain Lightning - Decreased Damage by 33%
• Super Chain Lightning - Reduced Chance Lightning Branches % by 10%
• Super Chain Lightning - Reduced Attack Cooldown by 0.25. This doubles the Rate of Fire when fully upgraded
• These balance changes help with keeping enemy Shields down, and handling large hordes
• Laser Strike - Increased Laser duration by approx 1 sec
• Laser Strike - Damage Over Time lasts the entire Laser duration, including the animation where the lasers appear and disappear
• Wolf Pack - Increased Wolf Ship Hull (including Upgrades) by 25%

New Captain: Doc

• Doc commands the power of static electricity and magnetic fields, devising ingenious weapons that cripple enemy spaceships and innovative magnetic upgrades that collect power-ups.
• Unlock Captain Doc by Upgrading the Gold Refinery to Level 6
• Upgrades
  • Static Mines - Max Static Mines (3 Levels)
  • Doc Shields - Max Shields & Defeat Enemies To Recharge 1 Shield (3 Levels)
  • Doc Power Up Magnet - Gold Magnet Range & Collect Gold Vaults, Time And Space Cubes, Hull Repair & Super Magnets (3 Levels)
  • Super Static Field (3 Levels)
  Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Static Mines are fired around the ship, when touched by an enemy they detonate causing an explosion that damages & slows
• Static Mines can be manually aimed
• Increased Damage by 100%
• New golden Super Static Field
• Rebalanced Upgrades to be consistent with other weapons

• Can now select 4 Crew members during a run

• Hull Repair will only be collected if hull needs repair

• Capped the max speed of all Elites

• Slow effects now cause Blue Outline

• Fixed a bug where Doc caused Super weapons to stop working for Ravebow, Rosanova, Raven & Azurene

• 360 Nova: Can be manually aimed
• Quantum Probabilities: If there are 5 Hull Repairs and/or 3 Super Magnets waiting to be collected it won't spawn more of those pickups

Convert Upgrades to Time Cubes

• Spend 5 Upgrades for 5 Time Cubes
• Allows for quick upgrading at the Time Cube Shop instead of spending each upgrade point individually, especially useful in Endless
• Convert button appears in Gold Upgrades
• Unlock by defeating Endless 1 Rank with any Captain

• Blue Katanas now evenly spaced when there are 3 Katanas

• Decreased Damage upgrades by 25%

• Stage 1: Added more room around the front of Elite Final Boss to prevent getting stuck below the ship

• Elite Circle is no longer escapable

• Shield Progress Bar now flashes on recharge

New Elite: Elite Final Boss

• Appears on Wave 120
• Has 6 Stages
  • Stage 1 - Destroy the destructible bullet firing turrets on top of the front of the ship
  • Stage 2 - Destroy the dome on top of the ship that fires invincible bullets
  • Stage 3 - Destroy the flame thrower engines on the back of the ship
  • Stage 4 - Destroy the launcher on the bottom of the ship that fires destructible bullet ships
  • Stage 5 - Destroy the destructible bullet firing turrets to get entry into the ship
  • Stage 6 - Destroy the Core
• The Core is invincible until the first 5 Stages are completed
• No electrified hull, the Core has a shield
• Mostly immune to Slow

• Increased Damage upgrades by 50%
• Fix - Quick Buy now shows just - instead of +- for Blue Katana Duration upgrade

• If Hull Invincibility triggers taking all hull, leave 1 hull remaining instead of destroying the ship
• Prevents 1 hit deaths in Endless

• Reduced base hull from 1200 to 900

• Changed bullet collider from square to circle for more accurate collisions

• Fix - Super Nova Planet Cooldown upgrades in Time Cube Shop & Gold Upgrades were causing Planet cooldown timer to decrease without selecting upgrade

New Captain: Rosanova

• Rosanova dazzles both on stage and in battle, utilizing her celestial voice and harnessing the power of Nova waves to push back opponents.
• Unlock Captain Rosanova by upgrading the Super Nova Planet to Level 6
• Upgrades
  • Rosanova Pink Nova - Shots To Charge Pink Nova (3 Levels)
  • Rosanova Boost Nova - Boosts To Fire Extra Nova (3 Levels)
  • Rosanova Hull - Max Hull & Block Damage While Boosting (3 Levels)
  • Super Nova (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Pink Nova fires in a spiral around the ship
• Blue Nova fires in a circle around the ship (same as current Nova)
• Added Knockback Per Player Level upgrade that increases Nova Knockback from 2 to 10 (3 Levels)
• Rebalanced Upgrades to be consistent with other weapons

• Added Boosts to Fire Extra Rockets which goes from 4 Boosts to 2 (3 Levels)

• Captains not selected as Available As Crew appear as disabled in Space Cube Upgrades
• Can still Sell Upgrades when disabled

• As mentioned in the Early Access notes, the price will be increasing slightly on May 26 to reflect the content that has been added in Early Access.

• Fix - Available as Crew toggle clickable when locked

• Available As Crew Toggle - Removed lock icon from unselected Captains to differentiate from locked upgrades

• Translation - Total Gold Collected stats on the End of Run Summary screen

New Elite: Elite Fire Ship

• Appears on Wave 100
• 2 front facing flamethrowers, when destroyed they fire invincible bullets
• Rear armored pieces leave flame trails when destroyed
• Shield & electrified hull on the front of the ship

• Added an Available As Crew toggle to the Space Cube Upgrades - Captains Tab
• Captains with a check mark will be available to be selected as Crew in-game
• It's like a pre-banish for Crew that you don't want to show up in the cards during the run. This solves the problem of RNG punishment for unlocking more captains.

• Redesigned the Captain Missions area, making it easier to see how each Captain is unlocked. It now displays the Next Unlock, Mission & progress.

• Fix - Elite Hell Bird invincible bullet damage not scaling with progression
• Reduced Elite Hell Bird base bullet damage from 3 to 1 for consistency

• Smoothed out Enemy Damage per Rank progression curve (From: 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.3/1.3 To: 1/1.05/1.1/1.15/1.2/1.3)

New Captain: Kat

• Captain Kat is a nimble ninja with lightning-fast reflexes, who expertly wields her lethal katanas to take down any foe foolish enough to cross her path.
• Unlock Captain Kat by upgrading Fire Balls to Level 10
• Upgrades
  • Kat Red Katana - Max Red Katanas & Red Katana Cooldown (3 Levels)
  • Kat Phase Boosters - Phase Through Enemies (3 Levels)
  • Kat Shields - Max Shields & Block Damage While Boosting (3 Levels)
  • Super Katanas (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• High Damage Close Range spinning Katanas that slow enemies
• Increase the number of Blue Katanas through Upgrades (Max 4)
• Red Katana does a 90 degree swipe and can be manually aimed (Max 1)
• Upgrades
  • Max Blue Katanas (3 Levels)
  • Blue Katana Cooldown (3 Levels)
  • Katana Slow (3 Levels)
  • Katana Damage (6 Levels)

• Reduced Boost Recharge On Invincibility from 5/5/10 to 2.5/2.5/5

• Blue Katana Duration - New Optional Upgrade that increases the Blue Katana rotation speed. Note: DPS decreases since the time spent attacking will be less than the cooldown relatively. Super has no cooldown so DPS does not decrease.
• Planets now trigger when Phased

New Elite: Elite Snake Ship

• Appears on Wave 80
• Invincible until head armor is destroyed
• Circles around the player ship, fires weapons when stops moving
• Armored pieces fire destructible bullets, destroyed pieces fire red lasers
• Electrified Hull, no shield
• Mostly immune to Slow
• Deal damage to his head to destroy

• SS Gold Bug Vault Pickup Multiplier changed from 6 upgrades to 3, still max of +1.0
• Added SS Gold Bug Hull (3 levels), each level doubles his Hull

• Added Big Cursor toggle

• Fix - Laser Damage not scaling with progression
• Removed damage sound effect

New Captain: Ravebow

• Ravebow is a high-energy space ship captain who electrifies space raves with her stunning laser shows, and when the heat of battle arrives, she channels her love for parties into a show of force, using her skills to protect her crew and fight for the greater good.
• Upgrades
  • Ravebow Lasers - Pink Laser Per Shot (3 Levels)
  • Ravebow Boosters - Boost Recharge on Invincibility (3 Levels)
  • Ravebow Hull - Hull Invincibility & Hull Damage in 2 Seconds to Trigger Invincibility (3 Levels)
  • Super Lasers (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Pink lasers are centered on the player's ship (max 3 lasers)
• Blue lasers randomly spawn around the ship (just like current lasers) (max 3 lasers)
• Manual aim positions Ravebow's pink lasers
• New golden Super Lasers (max 4x damage)
• Lasers now move with the player ship so you can no longer fly past the end of them
• Laser Strike fire rate increase now takes effect immediately instead of on next attack
• Laser collider optimized for better performance
• Reduced Laser Damage Upgrades from 6 to 4 levels to be consistent with other weapons

• Added a 0.15 second delay between clicking on gold upgrades to prevent accidental double clicks

• Fix - Quick Upgrades not handling less than 3 options

• Fix - Number format when there was a large number of upgrades

• Optimization - Optimization of the Sprite Flashes (Damage, Health Bars, Slime Trail, Blue Outline, etc)

Endless Mode

• Endless button appears on the End of Run Summary screen after a Champion Victory
• Endless Rank increases every 20 Waves (ie Endless 1 is Waves 121 - 140, Endless 2 is Waves 141 - 160, etc)
• Captain Cards will display the highest Endless Rank you've achieved with that Captain
• Endless has a new sky & deep ocean blue space background
• New Endless Music
  • Regular Waves
  • Boss Battles
  • End of Run Summary
• Enemies
  • +1 Mini Elite for each Endless Rank
  • Hull, Mass & Speed increase for each Endless Rank
• Bonus Space Cube Chances +25% for all Endless Waves (same as Champion Rank)

• Added 1 sec Cooldown
• Red bar appears on the Shield UI and decreases as it cools down

• Once Fully Upgraded, card will display Total Number of Upgrades including Equip, Optional & Super Upgrades (ie switches from 18/21 to 27)

• Gold Vault Overclock reduced from 0.25 to 0.1

• Reduced volume on Raven Knockback Booster sound effect

• Exit confirmation added to Home button after Champion Victory

• Removed low pass filter from End of Run Summary screen music

• In-game Upgrades has the ability to display less than 3 options

• Removed check for Steam Errors, now only check for valid SteamID for correct save file location

New Captain: TeslAI

• TeslAI is a mysterious and powerful AI entity, drawing on the brilliant legacy of Nikola Tesla and piloting an enigmatic spacecraft with a chain lightning weapon, rumored to have been designed by the inventor himself and waiting for the perfect time to emerge.
• Upgrades
  • TeslAI Chain Lightning (3 Levels)
  • TeslAI Shield Knockback (3 Levels)
  • TeslAI Shields (3 Levels)
  • Super Chain Lightning (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Long Range Lightning Strike that chains through enemies
• Increase the number of Lightning Strikes through Upgrades (Max 4)
• Upgrades
  • Lightning Strikes (2 Levels)
  • Lightning Branch (3 Levels)
  • Max Chain (4 Levels)
  • Lightning Damage (6 Levels)
  • Lightning Range (Optional) (6 Levels)
  • Chain Lightning Overclock

• Fully Upgraded Fire Ball Damage increased from 27.5 to 45 (63.6% increase)
• Fully Upgraded Fire Ball Range decreased from 13 to 9.5 (-27%)
• Vermillion Max Fire Ball Range decreased from 17 to 11.5 (-32%)

• Fix - Super Boxing Gloves Damage Multiplier not calculating correctly

• Slow Motion for 2 seconds after exiting the In-game Upgrades, Time Cube Shop or Pause Menu

• Captains Tab split into 2 Sub Tabs allowing for multiple pages of captains without needing to scroll
• Gamepad Bumpers or QE scroll through the sub-tabs
• Clickable buttons appear for mouse to scroll sub-tabs (when the tab is selected)
• Added sound effect when Selling Upgrade
• Sell - Mouse tooltip changed to say RMB instead of Tab

• Win/Loss calculated after the spin instead of before, incase the chances increase while spinning multiple portals

• Absorb all damage for the final hit that takes down shields
• Increased Base Shield Recharge Delay from 3 to 3.1 seconds
• Balanced Shield Recharge Delay Upgrades to have a maximum of -2 instead of -3.5
• Fix - Shields progress bar always showing red when recharging if Recharge Delay is zero

• Remember selected Captain after going back from Main Menu or Confirm and Launch screen

• Fix - Explosions on Elites & SS Goldbug destruction no longer just at the center

• Optimization - Removed physics from Gold pieces
• Optimization - Eliminated lag spike when buying upgrades
• Optimization - Optimization of the Sprite Flashes (Damage, Health Bars, Slime Trail, Blue Outline, etc)

Steam Deck

• Time Wasters is now Steam Deck Verified
• Redesigned all UI Panels for comfortable viewing on Steam Deck - specific details below
• Fullscreen saves its own value for Steam Deck
• Updated to the latest Steamworks SDK for Steam Deck support

• Added Banish button to In-game Upgrades screen
• Banished upgrades will show up in Red on the Pause Menu Details tab
• If you Banish a Required upgrade you will not be able to get Super or Overclock
• Banished Upgrades will prevent that entire upgrade category from appearing in the Time Cube Shop (ie Banishing Shield Recharge Rate will prevent any Shield upgrades from appearing in the Time Cube Shop)
• Time Cube Shop now has the ability to display 0 or more options

• Manual Aim causes the Wolf Pack to fall back into a V formation around the player ship

• Hover over a Weapon on the Pause Screen Overview tab to access the Can Manually Aim Toggle
• When deselected weapon will only auto-aim

• Ravens Knockback Boost now fires in the direction of movement instead of ship forward direction

• Fix for Gold Magnet Orbit collecting Gold at the wrong time

• HUD Radar Icons 16% Bigger, Radar Icon Text 50% Bigger
• Radar numbers changed from dark to light blue for better visibility
• Fixed Space Cube Portal icon transparency

• Enlarged all UI Panels by 20% (Space Cube Upgrades, Unlocks, Select Captain, Time Cube Shop, etc)
• Tabs accessible by pressing Q & E or using the Right & Left Bumpers on Gamepad
• Upgrade Card Progress Labels font size increased (example "2/18")

• Pause Screen has been split into 2 Tabs: Overview & Details
• Overview
  • Equipped Weapons, Crew, Support & Planets
  • Larger Radar
  • Added Space Background to the Radar window
  • Captain information
• Details
  • Detailed Upgrade info
  • In Progress & Completed Missions

• Options Menu has been Split into 3 Tabs: Video & Audio, Keyboard, Gamepad
• New Show Damage Numbers toggle shows/hides the white enemy damage numbers

• Space Cubes Invested

• Planets, Planet Attack Enemies, Elite & SS Gold Bug destruction animation now all use the background fog color instead of solid blue

• Space Cube Upgrades flashing green ring only appears on tabs not available upgrades
• Fix - Asteroid pickup now spawns centered instead off to the side
• Fix - Pressing Boost while in Upgrade or Pause Screen no longer boosts on exit
• Fix - Pressing Tab when in Pause Menu going to live game

New Captain: Raven

• From Top Model to Top Gun, Captain Raven strikes fear in the hearts of her enemies, as her seeking rockets shoot out like a pair of deadly wings, a symbol of the destruction that's about to follow.
• Upgrades
  • Raven Seeking Rockets (3 Levels)
  • Raven Knockback Boosters - Knockback Force On Boost (3 Levels)
  • Raven Shields (3 Levels)
  • Super Rockets (3 Levels)
• Added Space Cube Upgrades, Unlock Missions & Steam Achievements

• Manual aim directs the rockets to seek in the direction you're aiming
• Rockets trails changed to have a gradient from blue to pink
• Explosion changed to blend between blue and pink
• New Super Rocket sprite, golden trail & golden explosion
• Balanced Upgrades
  • Rockets Per Shot (6 Levels)
  • Explosion Range (3 Levels)
  • Rockets Per Second (3 Levels)
  • Rocket Damage (3 Levels)

• Fast moving but keeps distance from player ship
• Shoots invincible bullets
• Appears on Silver Rank and above (Waves 32, 37, 52, 57, 72, 77, 92, 97, 112 & 117)

• Base Hull reduced to 2x the hull of the other Elites (previously 4x)
• Base Shields now match the other Elites (previously 2x max with 2x recharge rate)
• New attack state where it comes in close to the player for 10 seconds for better close range combat

• Speed multiplier capped at 2x instead of unlimited for better close range combat

• Time Cubes Collected
• Total Gold Collected
  • Gold Magnet
  • Gold Vaults
  • Super Gold Vaults
  • SS Gold Bug Vault

• Optimized Slime Trail polygons as potential fix for Slime Trail disappearing

• First Card Slot in the in-game Upgrades will never be a Crew Card

• Duration increased to 1 second instead 0.5 seconds.

• Fixed bug that was preventing Battle Royale Circle Enemies from closing in