Hi! The update for Echo Storm is ready! The update includes a new planet with its own Leviathan, a few new enemies, new weapon, and done some work on the game balance. I hope you enjoy it!

Changelog:
- Added new planet Kratea! It is a dangerous world with very aggressive enemies.
- Added new Leviathan for the new planet Kratea!
- Added two new enemies, one of them have attack fire debuff, so be careful on Kratea.
- Enemies spawn was reworked. Now enemies do not spawn infinite time on each area - now, you can fully clear area before going to bossfight. Spawn on different areas now has different enemies.
- Added some new music!
- Added new Machinegun weapon with rapid attack speed.
- Added distortion effect to the explosions.
- Increased damage for abilities with Return Damage buff.
- Changed some balance to make game faster a bit.
- More screen shake effect impact on grenades explosions.
- Fixed bug with teleport at the second Leviathan arena.
- Fixed lightning on fourth planet.
- Some work was done on supporting NPC modifications (for players mods). It still in progress, but mod base was partially completed for future updates.

Working on this update took longer than I expected, and I'm finally ready to release it. Not as much content has been added as I would have liked, but I've been able to work on the game inner systems to make them more flexible - it will simplify the development process.

Thank you for patiently waiting for this update!

Hi. It's been quiet around here lately in terms of updates, but I'm still working on new content, and I'm planning a new update in the near future.

I'm currently working on changing the enemy spawning system. The plan is to have enemies more separated into different types of planets than they are now.

Also, another planet with its own enemies is planned to the next update. And... Some other things is coming. :)

I'm still working on content, and in the meantime a small patch has been made with fixes and improvements. Improved controls when playing with gamepad.

Changelog:

• Fixed: Some abilities texts were not shown with stats numbers.
  
• Gamepad aim was improved a lot. Hope it will now feels better.
  
• Added Gamepad Sensivity parameter to the Settings menu.
  
• Other minor changes.

The update is aimed at fixing the problems in version 1.3.0, but was also added new content in the form of new weapons and enemies, as well as made small improvements in general.

Look at the new weapon in slow-motion :)

Changelog:

• Fixed: player characteristics numbers in Pause Screen sometimes were wrong (For example, Reload Speedup text was fixed and now it is Reload Time).
  
• Added the new weapon - Rocket gun. It shoots rockets with a small radius damage. Rockets affected by gravity and falling down with time.
  
• Added the new flying melee enemy. It have poison attack, so be careful!
  
• Wave Gun now shoots better, previously attack pattern was hitting floor periodically.
  
• Refinery now limited day resources extraction.
  
• Loadout shop prices were balanced and reduced a bit.
  
• Enemies spawn balance were changed a bit for game time before 5 minutes.
  
• Added buffs and debuffs info on the user interface.
  
• Modding now supports several sprites for Projectiles to use it as animation, and soon same thing will be supported for a weapons.
  
• Other code fixes and improvements.

In this update, I tried to do some work on improving the sense of progression for the player and add more game content. New Base Build mode allows you to improve your character's stats, and they will apply to all subsequent game matches.

Changelog:

• Fixed: Sometimes ally drones and other NPCs does not attacked enemies.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes ally turrets stopped attack enemies (when looking down).
  
• Fixed: If you're find teleport after its activation, Objective text was shown with the wrong info.
  
• Added Base Build mode! It allows you to create and upgrade buildings, which will permanently improve your characteristics, earn extra resources and more!
  
• Added a new planet for Base Build mode. It is safe, no one will attack you there (for now... :)).
  
• Added a character stats in the pause menu. Now you can get more info about your "build" effectivity.
  
• Added the new weapon "Wave Gun"!
  
• Map Editor fixes and improvements. Map Editor is still not available for public use, development in progress.
  
• Settings screen in the Pause menu now have better contrast with other interface.
  
• Other fixes and improvements.

Enjoy!

With updates, we aim to increase the depth of gameplay and increase the amount of content available. This update focuses on these things. A new planet with its own Leviathan, new mechanics, and more are in this update.

- Added Critical Damage Chance mechanic. Character critical chance can be modified by abilities and character’s characteristics itself.
- Added Knowledge Totem mechanic. Now you can find a new abilities, which will drop in random in future «runs».
- Added some new abilities, which can be unlocked with Knowledge Totem.
- Added new planet with a sand environment and new enemies waves.
- Added new Leviathan for the new planet.
- Added death effect on character die, it allows player better understand when him was eliminated, when there a lot of enemies, it can be helpful to understand, what happened.
- Added a new NPC type, you can meet it closer to a late game.
- Grapple Hook was balanced a bit.
- Better projectile effect for enemies on a first location.
- Better Leviathans healthbar.
- Some music effects were added to make playing more comfy.
- Some game optimizations were made.
- Minor code improvements.

Update mainly aimed to improve gamepad controllers support and fixes. Also keyboard layout change support was added.

Please note, that Dualshock controller can be used in game now, but it still have some problems due to technical limitations. Connect it before you run the game to get it work correctly.

Changelog:

• Fixed bug: Jump platform can not work sometimes when you have Level points.
  
• Dualshock gamepad controller support improved a lot.
  
• Overall controllers support improved a bit.
  
• Into the Settings was added possibility to change Abilities keys layout. So, now you can select abilities controls keys, which you like more (qwert, 12345, zsxcv - available variants).
  
• Aim cursor is now hidden in pause menus.
  
• On pause now can not be used any abilities by such button press.
  
• When playing with mouse and keyboard, there is Hardware Aim cursor now, which reduces input lag.
  
• Segmented Worm NPCs now don't attack from below the ground in the first time. It makes easier to evade/attack them.
  
• Added some new visual decorations on the maps.
  
• Inner changes and improvements.

This update is mainly aimed at improving and fixing version 1.1.0. Also the abilities of the Freeze technology have been expanded and improved, now it is very good branch to control enemies.

Changelog:

• Fixed bug: Summon Plague Monsters ability can not be dropped in random sometimes.
  
• Fixed bug: New flying melee enemy previously can fly through walls sometimes.
  
• Fixed a lot of other minor bugs.
  
• Added new abilities and mechanics for them. Some actual abilities were changed a bit.
  
• Balance improvements: game start now easier, but with time it gets more hard, than before.
  
• In settings was added parameter, which enables corpse effect cleaning, it makes levels more clean and easier to play, if you don't like a lot of corpse effects.
  
• Added the new achievement.
  
• Added the new freeze effect for enemies.
  
• New visual environment details were added.
  
• Reroll mechanic was balanced a bit.
  
• Nanomachines and Advanced Nanomachines abilities were balanced a bit.
  
• Improved Video settings screen, fixed bugs and added new parameters.
  
• Plasma moon weapon was balanced. Again. :)
  
• Minor user interface edits.
  
• Some modding improvements - support of loading custom map was added, etc. Actually it can not be used to make user maps, but in future updates it will be more useful.
  
• Inner code improvements and a lot of other undocumented changes.

This update is not very big, but it is released under the number 1.1.0 - so we draw a line under all the updates released in the last month, which greatly transformed the game. Let's go over the key changes of all these updates.

Many new abilities have been added, and many of the old ones have been redesigned and balanced. Abilities are now distributed into branches and can unlock new abilities.

Also ability selection screen was reworked to be more informative.

Weapons, enemies, and abilities have been better balanced.
Spawn of enemies and their balance has been completely redesigned and should now feel better than it did before.

New types of enemies with their own gameplay features have been added. The AI of both allied NPCs and enemy NPCs has been improved.

Maps have been redesigned, expanded and improved. Bonus item boxes have been added to the maps.

We continue to work on improving the game and new content. We plan to focus on variety and replayability of the gameplay.

Especially for 1.1.0, for previous versions check previous posts.

• Fixed bug: Previously, on Gamepad controller claim button on the Bonus Take screen can be unactive. Now should work fine.
  
• Fixed bug: Previously, sometimes ability effect applied to the character forever and this was able to cause some bugs.
  
• Fixed bug: Max Health Addition abilities not restore full health on select anymore.
  
• Level up mechanism was changed a bit, now it not pauses game process when you level up, instead, you can open this menu by key in time, when it better for you.
  
• Font on the level bar was improved, should be more "readable".
  
• Player healthbar size increased and added damage receive effect, to allow player better understand when he was hitted by an enemy.
  
• New abilities were added.
  
• Two new enemy types were added.
  
• Leviathans now drop card with a Bonus skill.
  
• Ally drones AI was reworked to follow player character.
  
• Some enemies spawn balance, new enemies were added into the spawn.
  
• Better abilities descriptions, more numbers info was added. Some skills icons were improved.
  
• Summon abilities were rebalanced to be more powerful.
  
• Now "reroll" button on Ability Select Screen is more fair and gives you always new skills, not just randomed again.
  
• New achievements were added.
  
• Save files moved to the better directory.