• Fixed a bug that prevented extras in the shop (lives, special ammo) from being bought.

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• Updated the UI buttons to look more consistently and fixed scaling issues.

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• Updated electric gun visuals and added long overdue sound effect.

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• Slightly enlarged the player model to make it more visible on smaller screens.

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• The starting portal in stage 1 now drops a random weapon before disappearing.

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- Fixed gamepad text input prompt.

- Electric gun and rockets can now target balls and locks.

1.5.6

• The door indicators were broken, so now there are new ones which are easier to read. \n[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40975371/4afdada1aa002a84ad6a3cef43ca526b710e8260.png\"][/img]

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1.5.7

• Visually glitching doors have been fixed.

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• Decreased the intensity of projectile trails.

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- updated appearance of ship health bar in shop menu

- updated the game logo in main menu to match the new name

- maze seed and max level options are disabled in the demo now

- larger buy-back icon

- adjusted dynamic music intensity of enemy proximity

General

• Googly eyes have been repaired and improved.

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• Eye lid has been added. Sleeping enemies are closing their eyes now.

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• Enemy spawn positions have been adjusted to the new maze algorithm.

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• New enemy spawn formations have been added.

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Shop

• Items in the shop are now persistent (per level) and do not randomize with every opening of the shop menu.

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• Shop items level and rarity are randomized and scale with the maze level now.

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• It\'s now possible to buy back sold items (for the sell price).\n[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40975371/c0780c7bbee90d6868d01df15c246fa48acc931f.png\"][/img]

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• Shops have been added to the end of all levels as well (apart from level 1).

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• Fixed placing of the level end for hexagonal maze generation (again). I hope all levels can be played from start to finish and the level ends are always reachable. If you still encounter any problems with the new level generation, please let me know and tell me the maze level and seed.

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• Fixed an issue with the level end overlapping with other rooms, making it impossible to finish the level\n(Let me know maze level and map seed if you\'re still encountering a problem with the mazes!) [strike]*[/strike]

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• Fixed a problem with the enemy weapon fire rate, when the enemy starts firing

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• Improved dynamic music intensity

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• Enemies with multiple weapons are now firing in succession or bursts

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• Zoomed out on mini map

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• Added wall bounce sound

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Known bugs

• menu music can play in game, if the game is re-started too fast.

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[strike]* there\'s still an issue with placing the exit the level generation, it\'s going to be fixed soon[/strike] (fixed in 1.5.3)

Level generation

[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40975371/9d6a63ea7a582a026d32cd9551bddf328c280627.png\"][/img][img src=\"https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images//40975371/5f755280e33a82247435168e4770826d119e3a7f.png\"][/img]

• The generated levels have completely random, irregular shapes now and are no longer limited to rectangles only.

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• Equipped weapons now have a glow effect in the rarity color.

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• Crackling of sound effects and music was fixed.

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• Fixed the \"pacifist\" achievement.

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- Added photosensitive warning and Unreal Engine EULA.

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• fixed clicking the right-most weapon slot of weapon set 3\n
• language combo box focus visibility improved\n

• Added Spanish, Portuguese and Italian localizations.

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• Chasing duration of enemies now scales with enemy level.

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• In coop, a bug was fixed that caused swapping of the save slots when the game was saved, when the controllers were assigned in the wrong order.

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• Added localizations for ship color and trail color selection

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• Fixed gamepad navigation for player selection screen

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• Navigation focus is restored on the shop element after an extra was bought

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• added ability to buy special weapon charges in the shop menu

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• added display for total DPS amount in weapon set menu

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• added ship and trail color configuration in player select menu[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40975371/393c66bda7f2a182f427edd5d2a6426f6a304224.png\"][/img]\n

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• Improved mixing of music and sound effects

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• Improved ship thrust texture

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• added UI sound effects and a corresponding slider in the audio settings

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• added a dynamic filter for the music to make it less static (maybe it\'s a little too much now, this will be further improved in future updates)

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• Experience points are now accompanied by an animation from the source to the player\'s ship.

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• The maze ball lock animation is now smoother, as the ball maintains its momentum while being sucked into the lock.

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- Added a minimap to the in-game interface.

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- Updated UI style, added a glow effect for hovering or focused elements.

- Fixed gender issues in localizations; weapon names should now be grammatically correct (German and French localization)

• A critical bug since 1.2.9 that could corrupt save files has been fixed. I hope no one played 1.2.9 today. Your save files may be corrupted.

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Two new languages were added

• French

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• Dutch

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• fixed scaling of weapon rarity

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• enemy formations with strong enemies do no longer spawn in early levels

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• slot description for save slots changed to show both player level and the maze level ("stage")

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- Fixed a regression from the last update where, the selected item doesn't get unselected after moving items in the inventory.

- Fixed focussing of the wrong element after dragging and dropping items in the inventory.
- Fixed an issue where cloud save games were shared between accounts, when logging into another Steam user.
- Fixed weapon icon mirrored for weapon slot #6.

- Adjusted enemy damage scaling. Damage is now increasing at a slower rate.

• In coop, the distance when split screen is activated has been increased.
• Adjusted enemy health scaling slightly.
• Reduced push back force of enemy attacks.
• Fixed stage number text overlapping in higher levels.
  

• Fixed a bug in coop where the other player lost focus in menus when the shop menu was closed.
  

- Fixed overlapping item info for player 2

• Improved gamepad & keyboard tab navigation in the ship menu. The currently active tab button is selected first instead of instantly switching to another tab.
• Increased scrolling margin upon focus navigation in the workshop upgrade menu.
• Minor text corrections for the tutorial.
  

• Two more weapon slots have been added to the game. Now up to 7 weapons can be equipped.
• The 2nd and 3rd weapon slots are locked now from the start. Unlocking them costs 10 gold each now. For existing save games the weapon slots stay unlocked.
• Unlocking the new 6th and 7th weapon slot costs 100 gold each.
• Some things in the tutorial are explained a bit better and also contains unlocking of weapon slots.
  

• Fixed Escape, menu and back button behaviour in menus. Buttons should now behave more intuitively.
• Weapon sell list now always gets filled up the same size as the inventory. That way scrolling down with gamepad works as expected.
• Adjusted enemy health scaling, in higher levels the value increases slower now.
  

• 'max level size' can now be configured on game start. Mazes don't get larger than this setting - valid values are 5-20). This also limits the amount of doors.
• Weapons can now be equipped also by activating the item in the inventory first and then selecting a weapon slot in the weapons menu.
  

Improvements:

• weapon muzzle flash particles and projectile spawn locations have been improved
• 'right stick fire' is now disabled by default and can be enabled in the weapon set configuration (gamepad only)
• the enemy melee fighters now bounce back after an attack to give the player more space to evade
• balancing changes: received exp, health and damage scaling of enemies have been adjusted
  

• lost enemy trails should no longer occur.
  

• Fixed homing of cruise missiles. Missiles now correctly steer towards enemies again.
• Fixed a bug with Steam Cloud. Deleted save games now still remain deleted after game restart.
  

Fixed bugs:

• Enemies spawning from portals were not firing correctly in some cases.
• Gamepad focus was lost after redrawing cards in the level up screen.
• Gamepad focus was lost after deleting a save file.
• Tweaked Gained Exp scaling
  

• Fixed a bug that prevented special attacks from doing proper damage
• Fixed jumping UI in level up dialog
• UI update for the ship stats menu (in progress)
  

• It's now possible on level-up to redraw the cards for a cost of 50 gold.
  
• The rank of a skill is now visible in the ship stats and on the level-up cards:
• The level up cards are now non-interactive until the reveal animation is finished. This should reduce unintended selection of a level-up.
  
• Fixed enemy ship trails.
  

• Added a new weapon: grenade launcher
• Rocket launcher (and grenade launcher) cause area damage now
• More experience points from high level enemies
• Limited maze size to level 10 (this should become a setting in the create maze dialog, but is currently always set to 10)
• Projectiles now leave a trail
  

Happy 2025!
Things are going forwards strongly. The new ball-locks mechanism fit the game nicely and add some variety in door opening.

• New door opening mechanics. Move the ball into the locks to unlock doors.
• Some more variation for the maze background walls. The elements now spawn randomly rotated.
• Occasional shooting stars appear in the space background.
  

The developer shows local coop gameplay of the current beta version.

• Newly introduced map type: mazes with hexagonal grid-cells are now playable in the demo version as well.
• Generally improved maze generation to add even more variation.
  

Weapons can now be upgraded for gold at the work shop at the start of each level.

• shop is open! You can now buy and sell weapons. Safety checks for buying and selling have been added.
• updated skill system: when leveling-up time freezes and a skill is being selected.
• adapted colors of the enemies for easier reading
• new door open mechanism:
  instead of just destroying the locks, now the correct order has to be found
• fixed a bug where the resolutions of the split-screen cameras in coop did not match up
• many smaller and larger improvements
  

The background of the stars was changed to be a bit lighter on the hardware and now scale with the quality settings.
Bugs with collision and behaviour of enemies were fixed.

Weapons now come with different rarity and special effects. Items can be sold at the ingame workshops!
(You still cannot buy anything apart from ship repairment yet, but this will change soon.)
Also many other smaller and larger improvements have been made particulary with UI and controller support.
The extensive demo version has close to no restrictions! So check it out right now!