New Features:

• Added the following Steam leaderboards:
  • Horde Mode Time Survived (higher = better).
  • Horde Mode Highscore (higher = better).
  • Boss Rush Clear Time (lower = better).
  • Boss Rush Highscore (higher = better).
• Leaderboards are currently only accessible through Steam.
• Added a button in the options menu to manually push leaderboard scores to Steam.
• Localized all achievements for all supported languages.
• Introduced more detailed shadows for players, elites, bosses, and enemies.
• Added an in-game settings menu, currently featuring only sound settings. Feel free to suggest additional options.
• Added synergy icons to the level-up screen to help players identify synergies between abilities more easily.
  
• Improved collision detection for items to make them easier to pick up.
• Added a short invincibility frame after the level-up screen to prevent unavoidable damage.
• Added a guaranteed weapon upgrade option on the first level-up to reduce the impact of bad RNG.
• Removed irritating graphics on volume sliders.
• Added [space] as an alternative to [enter] for one-handed gaming.
• Added an indicator to the main menu that shows when a new boss fight is available in the "Boss Modes" menu.
  
• Added a scroll indicator to the [TAB] menu on the world map.

Balance Changes:

• Increased damage for all weapons at max level.
• Reduced Evelyn's HP by 64% (Level 1 Boss).
• Reduced Ruffles' HP by 23% (Level 3 Boss).
• Increased enemy damage across the board.
• Increased elite enemies' HP from the second spawn onward (Level 1).
• Increased enemy speed and defense after a specific threshold is reached or manually triggered (Level 2).
• Increased pickup area of weapons in Stage 4, to prevent starting the boss with no weapons equipped.
• Changed damage modifier difficulty setting.
• Slightly reduced the difficulty of Evelyn's bullet patterns (Normal version only; this change does not affect the Alternative and Beta versions).
• Increased coin rewards on higher difficulties.
• Lowered maximum coin costs for all upgrades.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed sound levels in level 1.
• Fixed a bug where achievements (in-game and Steam), which should only trigger on completing a level, are triggered on the player's death.
• Fixed an issue where mouse and keyboard/controller controls could highlight multiple upgrades on level up, making it unclear which one was picked.
• Fixed an issue where enemies became untargetable after the number of enemies on screen exceeded 500.
• Fixed graphic issues on musical notes, musical tornado, and musical wave.
• Fixed an issue where the window was always on top.
• Fixed in-game live score display to properly include character-specific multipliers.
• Fixed overlapping text on the level-up screen caused by the introduction of the new "synergy" information.