Update Notes - v0.9.9 released 2017/09/21!

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v0.9.9 released 2017/09/21:

• Last Stand
  
• Enemy Bullet tweaks: lowered sticky duration and movement debuff
  
• UI Improvements when no upgrades for Core Power-ups
  
• Performance improvements for BIG explosions
  
• Graphics and Sound optimizations
  
• Shadow Rendering fix for Windows 10
  
• Rendering improvements
  
• Many Bug fixes and improvements

Trading Cards are live and game is at final launch price of $14.99 (Soon)

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v0.7.0 released 2016/05/09:

• First Steam Early Access build

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v0.7.1 released 2016/05/10:

• Camera smoothing for keyboard/mouse controls
  
• New Static Camera Zoom option under Settings

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v0.7.2 released 2016/05/12:

• Added Steam Achievements

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v0.7.3 released 2016/05/17:

• New save game format (and migrator from v0.7.2)
  
• Now supports multiple save games
  
• increased base acceleration, slightly reduced increase per rank (same as old at rank 4)
  
• M1:L1-4 now has resistance spawners at exit
  
• M1:L5-9 reduced activation time on resistance spawners
  
• Increased activation range on Mission 1 Feedbot Boss

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v0.7.4 released 2016/05/21:

• Permadeath Mode (5 missions with 4 levels each)
  
• Secondary weapons are now drops in Permadeath mode.
  
• New game selection screen: Story, Action, Permadeath, Boss Rush
  
• Load game screen now allows for deleting saves
  
• Increased base defense and slightly decreased per rank value (still has same max)
  
• Increased damage done by Melee Deflector weapon
  
• Reworked Force Deflector weapon (may now be OP)
  
• Player icon now flashing yellow on mini map
  
• Darkened animal shadows for improved contrast
  
• Power-ups now strobe
  
• Boss Rush mode now starts with Force Deflector unlocked
  
• Bug fix to Enemy Rammer so once again starts charge with tracking bullets
  
• Improvements to procedural generation (including fix to rare boss room generation crash)
  
• Less animals spawning in fountains
  
• Enemy bullets visual distinction vs player bullets
  
• Joystick menu navigation fixes
  
• Added a drop to the final boss

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v0.7.5 released 2016/05/31:

• Added achievements for completing each game mode
  
• New games now use a different randomized seed
  
• Weapon selection fixes for permadeath mode
  
• Joystick navigation improvements
  
• Tutorial popup is now only in Story Mode:M1:L1
  
• Now collecting Steam leaderboard scores

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v0.7.6 released 2016/06/04:

• Added temporary damage reduction and pickup range effects to player
  
• Added temporary weapon damage and firing rate visual effects on beam and bullets
  
• Improved boss rush difficulty scaling
  
• Improved joystick UI navigation
  
• Fixed mission and level unlock bug

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v0.7.7 released 2016/06/12:

• View Steam Leaderboards in game
  
• UI Improvements

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v0.7.8 released 2016/06/17:

• Added Boss Fight Meters
  
• Added off-screen enemy indicators
  
• Story mode: removed Mission 1 hand made levels, now all procgen levels, streamlined Mission 1 story text, tuned easy difficulty to be slightly easier
  
• Leaderboards: submitting combined scores for co-op play
  
• Enemies: slightly increased activation range, updated milk bullet's look to be consistent with other enemy bullets
  
• Procgen: improved boss room generation and reduced max size, tuned level size progression, fixed animals spawning in fountains (for real
• stay out of the fountains you filthy animals)
  
• Daily: fixed so can only do daily once
  
• Barriers: removed duplicate overlapping barriers
  
• Save Files: minor updates in prep for Steam Cloud, fix for incorrectly set last selected mission
  
• UI improvements

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v0.7.9 released 2016/07/12:

• Added quick tutorial game mode
  
• Increased HP return for broken connections for Sub-AI and Boss AI
  
• Increased minimum animals from 2 to 3 per animal spawner
  
• Smoother enemy swarmer movement
  
• Feedbot boss debris fix
  
• Added support for rectangular procgen levels
  
• Slightly increased base time in procgen levels
  
• Slightly decreased screenshake intensity/duration for smaller enemies/animals
  
• Bullet, debris, and goo pooling improvements
  
• Bullet trail improvements
  
• Barrier improvements
  
• Space debris improvements
  
• Object Activation improvements
  
• Shadow/Lighting improvements
  
• Performance improvements

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v0.7.10 released 2016/07/21:

• Boss room procedural generation fixes/improvements
  
• Slightly reduced difficulty for easy/story mode
  
• Faster planet generation (1.8x faster)
  
• Joystick navigation improvements
  
• Save game bug fixes

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v0.8.0 released 2016/07/31:

• Added bullet hit sparks
  
• Enabled Steam Cloud Saves
  
• Bug fixes

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v0.8.1 released 2016/08/23:

• New Weapon Upgrade System:
  
  • Collect weapon upgrades to improve the laser and bullet weapons
    
  • Properties: Bullets/Photons, Damage, Haste, Homing, Spread, Drunken, Duration, Velocity
    
  • 3 slots for each weapon
    
  • Upgrades drop from enemies and bosses
    
  • Boss upgrades have improved stats over normal enemy upgrades
    
  • Upgrades improve each mission
    
  • Upgraded weapons are currently way overpowered and will be tuned in following updates
    
  • Slightly reduced temporary power-ups bonus for weapon damage and firing rate
    
  • Bullet firing locations now better aligned with ship's guns
    
  • Removed old base weapons: homing, shotgun, circle homing, drunken
    
• Core Upgrades:
  
  • New tooltips added for core upgrades
    
  • General improvements to upgrade hud
    
  • Unified core stat upgrade ranges
    
  • Improvements to damage reduction
    
• Bosses now drop weapon upgrades, health, and acceleration power-ups
  
• Daily:
  
  • Daily is now its own game mode
    
  • Removed daily from other game modes
    
  • Everyone now starts the daily with the same core power-ups and weapon upgrades
    
  • Tracking successful daily attempts for future achievement
    
  • Lighting fix for daily
    
• Boss Rush: new games start with 6 random weapon upgrades and 6 pending upgrades
  
• Permadeath Mode: removed weapon drops from permadeath, now using new weapon upgrade system
  
• Drillbot mini/boss no longer kill animals with the drill
  
• Added hit sparks when ramming enemies
  
• Improvements to Laser's hit casting
  
• Improvements to procedural planet rings
  
• Improvements to Joystick navigation
  
• Settings: Added more granular options for Screenshake / Optical Boom Blaster (were previously a single on/off option)
  
• UI Improvements (hover labels are better sized and more intelligent on placement, more tooltips in upgrade hud)

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v0.8.1a released 2016/08/24:

• Xbox One controller should now work on Win 10
  
• Improved boss loot randomization

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v0.8.2 released 2016/09/07:

• New player ship art and thrust particles
  
• New enemy art for sentry, rammer, ranger, and swarmer
  
• Smoothed movement in enemy sentry, rammer, ranger, and swarmer
  
• Smoothed difficulty on story mode and action mode
  
• Difficulty now scale enemy health, damage, and firing rate
  
• Tuned down difficulty on Mission 2 boss fight and lessened starting rocks
  
• Slightly reduced player per rank and power-up bonus for Acceleration
  
• Mini-map now properly displays large mission 4 and 5 levels
  
• Improved weapon upgrade UI (joystick default selects first available upgrade)
  
• Improved weapon upgrade stat rolling
  
• Reduced power-up activation force to keep power-ups closer to player
  
• Fixed boss room barrier activation bug (should not longer trap player)
  
• Fixed Class 5 Daily Challenge not allocating core power-ups
  
• Animals are now less clumpy when spawned
  
• Meow
  
• Dynamic and static camera improvements
  
• Added selectable links to About screen
  
• Linux game launch bug fix for Steam
  
• Fix for Xbox One controller dpad navigation on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition