Fixed a few bugs including Insect Queen and Mega Ship indestructibility.

Here's the second post-release update for the game dealing with some of the recently reported issues.

• Fixed a bug that prevented the inventory from scrolling when using keyboard or gamepad.
  
• Fixed some English and typos in the texts thanks to the kind contribution of our fans.
  
• The game handles music correctly now, if the gamepad disconnects and the options menu pops up.

• Fixed infinite bullet time when swapping loadouts with Time Compressor.
  
• Loadout swapping no longer cancels overheat.
  
• A hit to the shield or armor now plays sounds to better indicate that the ship was taking some damage.
  
• Player no longer gets Pacifist after the destruction of the final boss.
  
• Minor fix of levitating wrecked buildings in Water World level.

• Fixed a problem with spamming the respawn button after one of the players dies.
  
• For players with Jet Pack Rescue: when both the ship and the jetpack pilot are killed at the same time, the respawn no longer brings back a glitched ship.
  
• Players in a co-op game now spawn correctly when one of them dies in the test range in the shop.
  
• Improved final credits for co-op play. Player ships now have some offset and do not cover each other.

• We still can not reproduce the problem with the immortal insectoid worm.
  
• Counter of secrets dropping down is also a mystery so far.

We are trying to address some of the issues reported after the release, so here is the first update with some quick fixes. Please understand that some of the issues (like buggy autotracking with bosses) are a little harder to fix, so it will take more time.

Also some of you reported that the game will not start after the latest update. This seems to be an issue with an overzealous antivirus program, namely Avast. Please make sure your antivirus isn't falsely detecting the game as a threat.

Here's a list of the latest changes:

• Fixed damage from items: Panic attack, Hellfire generator, Shell grenadier.
  
• 2nd Class Conqueror medal is given on normal or higher difficulty, not just normal.
  
• Several minor fixes on the final battleship. (Autotracking problems are still present, unfortunately.)
  
• Hitchhiker in the Cloning lab should be counted properly.
  
• Fixed "Ball of Steel" achievement.

We also opened a possibility for custom user translations. There's a new command "lang" in the console that can switch between different languages. If you are interested to change the language or add a translation you can check a page on our website for details: http://www.rakeingrass.com/localization_jng2.php

We'll add more polished language option in the in-game menu, if people show interest in this feature.

Hi friends!

Our game Jets'n'Guns 2 has been unleashed on Steam! Thanks for the support and enjoy the destruction!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/830820/JetsnGuns_2/

New update is here! Apart from great many minor bug fixes and tweak that we are constantly adding as the final release is getting near, we added two big chunks of new content this time:

Quite a challenging addition. While the enemies are reused from previous levels and therefore a freebie, the pseudo 3D background needed some extra effort. Also balancing level this wide turned out to be a little bit of nightmare - especially for different difficulty levels. We still probably got it wrong, so your feedback on this one will be crucial. There's a new type of boss-like structure at the end to smash to pieces - not really a boss, but behaves a bit like a one.

We've added a fight with a GIGANTIC enemy battleship with multiple phases and a tons of things to destroy. Synchronizing and scripting everything on an object this big and complex was quite a challenge. We were even forced to add a checkpoint in the middle of the fight for the first time. :D

As always the update is on "upcoming" beta branch right now. If there is no catastrophic bug, we will change it to a main stable version shortly.

Here we come with another major overhaul of the difficulty related parts of the game. There are also some new rewards and items available.

As always the new version will be in beta for a while - it's a major change and we could broke a lot of things. If you want to try it immediately click on the game's "properties" in the Steam browser, select "BETAS" tab, and switch version to "upcoming".

• Changed difficulty progression. The enemies are slightly easier in the beginning but they are getting tougher quicker.
  
• Score/money is adjusted. You should get more in the beginning. Later in the game it's not growing as fast.
  
• In game of 2 players the score is higher by 20% to make a gear for two ships more affordable.
  
• Damage from enemy shots to hero grows faster.
  
• Burn and acid DPS is relative to difficulty level, so that these effect do not become useless.

• Achievements should work now.
  
• Medals should work now.
  
• New limits for player's rank. Top rank achieved at a score equal to 10 million .

• Powers and prices of bombs have been adjusted (boosted in many cases).
  
• Helix missile - fixed trajectory in fast levels.
  
• Equalizer - removed multiplication bug in combo with GEM connector.
  
• New high end missiles: Banjo, Hailstorm.
  
• New high end bombs: General P.I.G., Mine Deployer, Acid Storm.

• In the Race level you can no longer miss the finish line.
  
• Fixed number of secrets in the Asteroid field level.
  
• Cloning colony secret level can be found on all difficulties.
  
• Hardcore mode skips tutorial.
  
• Beer Core's pretzel does much less damage.
  
• Fixed unkillable Queen Larva.
  
• Insectoid Queen telegraphs rotating beam attack better.

This is the first update with truly functional medals and achievements. We see this as a test, not a final product. For obvious reasons we intend to reset achievements, scores, ranks and leaderboards during the final release of the full game. Be aware of this before you sink too much time into coming for every achievement in the game at this moment.

Hey everyone! Sorry for the loooong pause. We bumped into an unexpected struggle with new bosses and some of the new adjustments we have added to the game. But here we are now, with brand new update and a bunch of new things! Let's start with the biggest changes.

We've added Beer Core machine in Beer level and Insectoid Queen. The plan was to have 3 bosses actually, but the last of the batch is still very much work in progress, so it has to wait for the next update.

Apart from standard set of rubber duckies we've added also two new secret guns - Duck Gun and stinky Excrementor :D. Hold your noses! There's also a lot more cargo crates now in the game, although their reward haven't been updated yet.

If you want to increase your funds by masacring troops for carnage TV, you can now. We also added a new secret bonus level packed which is packed with enemy troops. Ideal battle ground to farm those Carnage TV bonuses.

The ultimate device of destruction is back. Nuff said.

A new end game gem. It matches power of its weapon to the strongest weapon on the ship. Do you want your Daisycutter to kick as hard as Tesla gun? Now you can make it happen.

A new end game equipment. It turns on set effects even if you have only one item of the set on board. To get this item you must win race level on difficulty 5 (insane) or higher

We have new leaderboards separated for single and co-op play and for normal and hardcore game mode.

Other changes include:

• New ship parts and camouflages to customize player's ship.
  
• Hero's profile now displays latest stage, not just difficulty.
  
• Much steeper pricing of devices.
  
• New weapons: Manic Miner, X-ray, Boomerang, Krakator, Scorpio, SunRay, Smart Gun, Cyberia, T-Bone Splitgun, Ringball, Cosine Moral, Fireball
  
• New gems: Criterion, Acidator and Muon Time Ring
  
• New missiles: Red Mamba, Phoenix, Barracuda and Helix
  
• New equipment Zogon's Insurance which gives HP bonus every minute.
  
• Fixed bug with erasing user defined controls.
  
• Explosion of the hero in co-op is less flashy.
  
• Weakened flamethrower (about 20%).
  
• Nanomachines now workwhen you do not shoot instead of when you have no heat.
  
• Autotrack + Missile Buster now makes weapons aim at missiles as well.
  
• Zeldor no longer gives 1 HP for every Vampirion heal, to prevent immortality combo.
  
• A lot of text corrections based on feedback from BrewBreuw (Slurr). Thanks mate!
  
• A ton of other minor adjustments and bug fixes.

Here we come with out-of-schedule update solely focused on difficulty! If there ever was a moment to start a new game profile from scratch, it is now.

This update is a big experiment. We've added several new features to enemies and levels on higher difficulties, to add challenge beyond just higher toughness. Enemies shoot more, launch extra rockets, they have new appendages to block your shots or shoot beams at you, etc.

It needs extensive testing. We made a ton of small additions everywhere because of this (it is a major global change to the game), so bugs are very likely. It might make some sections even unplayable, if we went overboard with it. There's no chance for us to test it all in a reasonable time. So please let us know, what have ve broken.

Here's more detailed list of changes:

• New high difficulty features on all enemies: barriers, beamers, mine deployers, turrets, missile launchers, death bombs, retaliation fire.
  
• HARDCORE MODE should work now.
  
• Significantly reduced score/money.
  
• First few levels and bosses on Normal difficulty should be slightly easier to defeat.
  
• Vampirion's healing power is halved.
  
• Energy Barrier and Rammer have slightly smaller collision to avoid complete blocking of all incoming threads.
  
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements, including "NEW" tag for new items in the shop.

November update has arrived! We've added a new level - an obligatory "spooky evil lava planet" level for the baddies ;).

Also, due to popular demand (ha-ha), everyone's favorite space race is now in the game! Don't worry, it's just a bonus secret level. I'm sorry, but we couldn't resist to troll you a little ;). The level's access is hidden in the last big pyramid in the Giganteria level.

Another big change is an addition of game modes. Previously you were choosing starting difficulty between Casual and Normal. Casual was a self-contained game without progress on difficulty 0 and Normal had the progress to infinity (difficulty 1,2,3,...).

Now you choose game mode instead. All game modes progress in difficulty to infinity, they just differ in rules of play. In casual the enemies are still weaker, you have more stuff from the start and you keep all score as money when replaying levels, just like before. We also made some preparation for third game mode - Hardcore - for real maniacs. But it's not working yet. If you choose this one, it's like playing Standard at the moment.

List of new things:

• New levels: lava planet, secret race level.
  
• New section in tutorial to introduce devices.
  
• New device Energy Barrier that is part of the ship's loadout from start.
  
• More new devices: Hull Boost, Kaboom, Double Dragon (Hard), Arcaball (Nightmare)
  
• New equipment: Scavenger, Quazitron Module (Hard), Fridge, Central Heat Sink, Device Connector (Nightmare), Demolisher (Hard)
  
• New bombs: Vandal, Black Friday, Hell's Bells (Hard)
  
• UI: Mission Failed screen. New Hero faces. Font size option.
  
• Reworked game modes. Casual now progresses in difficulty, just like Standard.
  
• Preparation for Hardcore mode. (Not working yet.)
  
• Various tweaks and fixes as always.

This update is a sort of intermediate one. We plan to add big change to a difficulty in the next one, where we add new features to the enemies on higher difficulty levels. This should make play more interesting, because the challenge will no longer be just about toughness and number of the enemies. But this is a major addition that it will take some more time to create. So it has to wait for the next update.

Also missing bosses will now be the top priority for the next upcoming updates.

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As always the update will be on beta branch for about a day. We'll make it the main version ("last stable"), if no reports of things being horribly broken arrive. You can try beta version immediately - just right click on the game in Steam, go to properties and tab "BETAS" and select "upcoming" version.