Lots of new stuff in this update, let me know what you think!

NEW FEATURES:

• Sector 4 is now accessible

• Added two new enemies, one of which is exclusive to sector 4
• A new enemy wave type and squad types which include the new spinning star enemy

• Added two new upgrades

• Added customizable ship skins (14 total) and customizable core colors (9 total) which can be changed from the settings menu
• Various new settings added and reorganized the settings menu a bit

• Shortcuts to sectors are now purchased with scrap on the planet of the respective shortcut

COSMETIC:

• Background overhaul, now has a parallax scrolling effect with 3 layers of stars
• Backgrounds are more distinct for each area with unique stars and more vibrant colors

• On planets you now use your scrap to ‘forge’ weapons and upgrades instead of purchasing them. Only changes are to text and sfx, no gameplay difference.

• Visual changes to some enemies, such as longer shield enemies
• Visual and audio tweaks to player bullets
• Visual effect added when bullets hit enemies if you have the electrifier

• High scores now have different colors depending on how high your score is

GAMEPLAY CHANGES/BALANCE:

• Sector 1 is full length
• Enemies are stronger in sector 1 and weaker in later sectors
• Swapped the ‘asteroid belt’ and ‘fly’s nest’ sectors, so asteroids now appear in sector 2 and flies now appear in sector 3
• Removed the fly and asteroid waves which appeared in sectors 2 and 3
• Some enemy waves cannot appear in some sectors to make each sector feel more unique

• A base piece of scrap now rewards 2 instead of 1, and everything which consumes scrap costs twice as much. This has no effect on gameplay and is only done to make the multiplier between sectors more clear.
• Scrap costs when forging are more varied and are cheaper overall. Sector 1 is more expensive to account for it now being full length.
• Repairing damage costs 1 less scrap per hit taken but takes twice as long

• Flies heavily rebalanced, more difficult in most aspects
• All enemies rebalanced and sector specific enemy balancing
• More enemies spawn overall
• Buffed many upgrades
• Many other balance tweaks

MISC:

• Various optimizations across the game
• Tutorial improvements and tweaks

• Various text changes
• Volume adjustments and sfx changes

• Lots of work done on the final boss.
• Many other small tweaks

PLANNED REMAINING FEATURES:

• The final sector will feature the final boss and is already mostly complete, so the next update shouldn't take as long as this one did.
• More music
• Still playing around with new weapons. The final game may feature 1-2 additional weapons.
• A few other small miscellaneous features
• Testing and polish