Performance and bug fixes:

While doing some performance improvements in the previous patch i accidentally messed up the endless hard mode so only the pirates faction enemies were apperating. This patch fixes it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Faster loading Better in game performance Smaller memory footprint Smaller hard drive space requirement Sony Dualsense controller support Small bug fixes

I'm happy to announce that, thanks to the publisher EastAsiaSoft, Rick Henderson will hit consoles in early 2022. Meanwhile, work is being continued on Rick Henderson spinoff, we will have some more news soon!

Hello dear players, once again i'd like to thank everyone for supporting Rick Henderson, it means the world to me. I want to reward everyone that had faith in me and bought the game, so i'm working on a small spin-off that will be something like BitBlaster XL meets Rick Henderson, a top down bite-sized game that will be free for all Rick Henderson owners. Here's the video of the development version (it's still rough around the edges, some sprites need changing and a lot of juice needs to be added, but it's all going quite quickly). Core loop is there, adding some more pickups and special abilities. Like in Rick Henderson, goal is to last as long as possible in the progressively harder surroundings. Touching the screen edges is insta-death :) [previewyoutube=IT2ACQQemVU;full][/previewyoutube] Hope you like it, it will be available soon! Stay well :)

Thanks for the support during the Early Access, hope you enjoy it.

Small fail safe system improvement for warp malfunctions.

Proper display when picking up more than 5 perks of the same type (now 10 are visible in the pause menu) Proper hologram functioning, always Shabuk Paragon was not adding EXP Warp malfunctions are now shorter and bug free Shielder and Shielded Shielder now blink when hit with Desolator Helios Sundyne floating waves now properly float and move in certain waves Fixed final boss lasers and flames Failsafe system if the game soft locks Energy maniac subtext was not being translated in pause menu Miners and Double Miners now have muzzle flash when firing Tarida Paragon improvement Gems in Asteroid Field no longer add score when going offscreen Added bigger explosions to some enemies Credits (space on keyboard or Y on gamepad in main menu) Performance and loading speed improvements

Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of updates, i had COVID and it took me a while to get back on track. I've been really busy preparing everything for the full release, lots of new waves, better tutorial, UI, overall better performance and stability, localization to German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese and French. I've been working on the game for more than five years and time has come to wrap things up. There's a lot more that i'd like to add to the game, but at one point i have to release it. At the moment, i think it provides a lot of fun, especially for the price tag. If the game goes well in terms of sales i will be working on additional content which can be seen on the Roadmap in the Discussions part of the Steam page. I would like to thank to all the players participating in the early access, you helped made a better game, i hope all of you will enjoy it, both rookies and veterans in the genre. As always, if you have any bug reports, be sure to report them. New version is now online, be sure to update it and i hope you will enjoy it. See you on full release.

Adjustments

Fixes

Fixed Hologram not properly despawning when player is killed and game is restarted Fixed ranks picked up when ranks bar blinking not added to the rank bar Fixed drone perks sometimes not appearing on screen Fixed bullets not properly returning speed to their base value on restart

Added Bullet, Energy and Weapon drones

New Waves

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Adjustments and additions

Upcoming

Raised Final Boss HP by 50% Fixed one wave that was causing the game to stop

New Boss

• Level 6 added along with FINAL BOSS.

QOL Improvements

• Added score appearing above rank when you pick it up, i believe most of the players were oblivious that you also get 500 points for rank if it's already collected.
• Ranks bar now blink to notify you you collected all ranks needed to get the promotion at the end of the level.

Bug fixes

• I noticed sometimes ranks could not be picked up (or they're picked up but not despawned), i hope i fixed that.
• Fixed Bloodhound missiles not despawning when fired close to the enemy.
• Fixed Terran Boss Mk3 firing missiles non stop.
• Fixed Rippers not activating the homing system sometimes.
• Fixed some waves not working as intended.
• Fixed Hunter Seekers not targeting properly.
• Fixed Riftminers MK1 not spawning asteroids after the first batch.
• Fixed RiftMiners MK1 light getting stuck.
• Fixed Riftminers MK1 sudden long distance movements.
• Fixed the bug when Desolator would keep on firing when picking up a new energy weapon.
• Fixed some bosses appearing with collider on.
• Fixed some perks not disabling on restart.
• Added fail safe system to prevent damage system of the bosses sometimes glitching when destroyed with rapid firing weapons.

Perk changes

• Changed Recoilless perk from "Weapons have no recoil, - 10% score" to "Weapons have no recoil".

Weapon buffs

• Sprayer small bullet damage increased from 2 to 4.
• Sprayer medium bullet damage increased from 5 to 8.
• Sprayer big bullet damage increased from 10 to 15.
• Boomer bullet damage increased from 50 to 75.
• Oathbreaker bullet damage increased from 30 to 45.
• Desolator damage increased from 4 to 6 (it was already buffed, but seems not enough).
• Metal Storm damage increased from 5 to 7.5 (it was already buffed, but seems not enough).
• Bouncer cooldown decreased from 0.5 to 0.3 (fire rate buff).
• Triad cooldown decreased from 1.0 to 0.75 (fire rate buff).
• Triad bullet speed increased from 2 to 2.5 (bullet speed buff).

Weapon Nerfs

• Increased Flakk Recoil from 2 to 4.

Special abilities buffs

• Hologram now explodes when deactivated, dealing 100 missile damage in a 0.5 radius (damage boosts work on it too).
• Default Microwarp distance increased from 10 to 15 (not much as you would imagine, but seems fine).
• Microwarp now cuts through the enemies that you pass through while microwarping, dealing 100 normal damage (damage boosts work on it too).

Enemies

• Drillers now home in on Hologram if it is active during the lock phase.
• Hunter Seekers now home in on Hologram if it is active during the lock phase.
• Rift Miners boss MK1 now tracks Hologram with Dragon Jet from mouth.
• Paragons boss MK3 and the detachable ship now follow Hologram.
• Lowered firing rate for Doubler.
• Reworked Terran Boss MK1 with new patterns and adjustments to old patterns.
• Adjusted some Rift Miners Boss MK1 patterns.

Other

• Enemy shield health increased from 100 to 200 to make energy weapons more viable. There is more shielded enemies coming to make it worthwhile.
• You can now pick up ranks and gems while in marine mode. Weapons can't be collected.
• Removed report bug button from main menu because i started preparing for console porting. Please report bugs regularly via community page.

Audio

• Added bullet shell and sound for Flakk.
• Added ricochet sound to indicate you're hitting an armored enemy with energy weapon and dealing half damage besides blinking orange.
• Added sound activation sound to indicate you're hitting a shield with missile weapon and dealing half damage besides blinking orange.
• Added some missing bullet sounds for boss bullets.

Perks

Weapons

Since i want a stronger feeling of importance of perk selection so you can actually make a categorized build, i improved some of the perks. Shield Overload now adds +100 damage to shield damage instead of 50 (default is 75 for Ben, 100 for Rick, 125 for Thoraxx) Shield Battery now adds +2 seconds to shield duration instead of +1 second (default is 0.75 seconds for Ben, 1 second for Rick, 1,25 seconds for Thoraxx) Speed Freak now adds +0.2 speed to ship (default speeds are 1.1 for Ben, 1.0 for Rick, 0.9 for Thoraxx) I believe that previous values were too small to make a difference and I hope these changes will improve the importance of perk selection and enable some cool ship builds in longer games like boosting the shield to last 10 seconds, make the ship go very VERY fast or make the shield damage extremely devastating. Also, horizontal speed of ranks is lowered from a maximum of 1.5 to 1 so the player can catch up, sometimes they just move to fast and it feels unfair.

I believe some of you were annoyed with the speed the weapons change and would like perks to be something more substantial to the ships upgrades. I added Quick Draw perk under Support perks which enables you to switch your weapons in half the time, which is pretty much instantaneously.

Enemies

Weapons

Bosses

New feature

Fixes

Tweaks