Slower Enemy Projectiles

This version tests a new take on enemy projectiles. All enemy projectiles have been adjusted to usually not move faster than the player, so that it is possible to see projectiles coming and to have a chance to avoid them. It brings the game back to the chilled, relaxed vision I started with. Especially mid-campaign missions become a lot more relaxed to play. Also Abyss feels a lot less stressful, because there should be no more totally unexpected one-shots. I did a lot of testing with this change, and I really like it. But I am very excited to hear what you think about it!

Bramble and Ash Path polishing

With DPS on the lower end, Bramble and Ash Path have been quite a nightmare to play. When I introduced them, I tested with a high level build with huge DPS and did not feel the pain. I did now and adjusted those missions to make them more enjoyable.

• Add limit to enemies that spawn other enemies, at some point they run out of enemies to spawn
• Reduce spawn rate of enemies that spawn other enemies
• Enemies that spawn other enemies do not spawn enemies that shoot projectiles
• Reduce armor of Ash Queen and Bramble Queen
• Ash Queen has no Flame Slinger weapon
• Bramble Queen has no Blastgun weapon
• Reduce armor of Motherships

Performance Improvements

With heavy investment, some mine builds have been pretty much unplayable in endgame. Especially with additional mine trigger chance, high luck and projectile mines, there have been a lot of problems. This patch brings improvements for those builds:

• Swapped collision detection broad phase to a faster algorithm (this should benefit performance for all builds)
• Extra mine triggers add to the triggered mine's damage multiplier and do not spawn extra mine effects
• Storm Mine and Shrapnel Mine spawn 3 projectiles at all item qualities (was up to 6 at Eternal quality)
• To compensate, Storm Mine and Shrapnel mine's damage was increased (up to doubled at Eternal quality)
• Limit amount of animated lightning projectiles rendered in parallel on screen (they are still simulated, but do not shred the GPU and Renderer)

Bugfixes

• Reworked Shock preview calculation. It now estimates enemy resistances before calculating each weapon's hit damage. This means, when you apply shock with a support weapon, the DPS preview for your other weapon will properly take into account the applied Shock of the support weapon.
• Increase max packet size when playing via Steam network, to fix mission starts with builds that use more memory than expected (this still needs to be fixed for local network games)
• Ensure only one instance of Astroloot runs in parallel

[ 2025-04-14 19:56:50 CET ] [ Original post ]