MAJOR FEATURES:

• Added 2 new weapons: flame bomb and shrapnel
• Added a new upgrade: big magnet

• Added 15 new enemy wave types, which feature multiple enemy types mixed together

• Title will change color to reflect your highest score (can change in settings)

GAMEPLAY FEATURES:

• Enemies which were previously locked to the player’s space can now fly offscreen
• Enemies will flash white when below 50% hp

• Enemy waves and squads now spawn with their locations randomly mirrored, effectively quadrupling the number of unique encounters
• Added 5 new enemy squad types

• Jumbo rounds upgrade removed

BALANCE CHANGES:

• HP regeneration is a bit faster
• Boosting into the sides of the screen will move scrap in the other direction much more strongly

• All forge costs decreased
• Shortcuts will not appear the first time you reach a new planet and are more expensive

• Puncher: dash fires more bullets
• Fireball: gun range slightly decreased
• Laser: damage slightly increased
• Rifle: gun fire rate slightly increased, and boost/dash range increased
• Machinegun: fire rate while boosting slightly increased

• Enemy waves can no longer spawn with a squad
• Final set of waves in each sector no longer contain a bonus scrap wave
• Waves of many enemies will spawn more spread out
• Less enemies need to be killed to spawn new squads

• Explosions deal +1 damage to enemies
• Enemy HP in sector 1 lowered back from the previous update
• Some enemies are easier in some sectors
• Radius enemies are a bit smaller
• Many other small enemy tweaks

COSMETIC FEATURES:

• Dash indicator lights have been replaced with larger meters that are easier to see

• Upgrades now appear in the order you attained them in

• Enemy wave icons now display 2 enemies

• New teal core color, black and white cores temporarily removed

COSMETIC CHANGES:

• Most enemies are a bit darker
• Star ring design changed slightly
• Star bullet color changed
• Alien bullets are closer to normal enemy bullets in color
• Shooter firing indicator is larger and more obvious
• Death effect when killing spawns is smaller

• Background scroll speed adjusted when boosting into sides of screen
• Planet approaching text appears sooner

• Some weapon icons improved
• Some ship skins tweaked

• Less stars on the title screen background
• Aliens on the title screen now reflect the current sector

• Scrap multiplier simplified (functionally identical)
• Many text changes

MISC:

• More work on the final boss
• Fixed the bug where weapons would sometimes take longer to reload when switching to them from the machinegun
• Many other small tweaks, additions, and improvements