After additional testing i have discovered that the boss could get too hard at high levels. I have tried out a few changes and settled for higher direct hit damage from the balls and a more effective self destruction. The player will now get a greater reward for killing the boss (+1 skillpoint and +1 life, if not the boss part is the last brick on the level). I have also added icons displaying what bonus the players recently have picked up and what action the boss is doing. The bonus icon is mainly to help new players to discover what bonus actually killed them or made half the level explode.

New features

• Boss action icon.
• Player bonus icon.
• Boss reward (Skillpoint and +1 life).

Changes

• Boss parts max life 40.
• Ball damage to Boss increased from 1+ball hit power upgrade to 7+ball hit power upgrade.
• Boss self destruct damage increased from 1 to 2+completed levels.
• The player will gain one extra skillpoint from killing the a boss.
• Boss kill fadeout (The remaining bricks will fade out and die instead of just disappearing).

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue were SpaceWipe and its defender could get transperant as if you would have been hit by a stun weapon when it actually didnt happened (This bug was rare and i have seen it before but this time i figured out what was wrong).

Patch 3.0 Boss update

Boss propteries

Boss brick types

• Glowing (3 variations)
• Spike (Can destroy the balls.)
• Blue eye (Stun weapon.)
• Red eye (homing stun weapon.)
• Speedy (Balls hitting this brick will gain speed.)
• Ghost (Creating robots if hit by a ball.)
• Energy (Boosting energy regeneration of close by Boss bricks.)
• Healer (Healing one close by Boss brick.)
• Activator (Will activate att Boss weapons when hit by a ball.)
• Self Destruct (Hit with a ball to active.)
• Robot Chest
• Robot feet
• Protected top (High Armor)

A few new bricks have been added including the stun turret and charging bricks. Diamond levels have been updated and i have moved some code behind functions to make the game use less resurces.

New features

• Stun turret brick. (Low life, Stun weapon.)
• Charging brick. (Low life. Charging and destroying other bricks.)
• Glass brick. (Low life but high armor. Almost invisible at max life.)
• Mud brick. (Medium life and high armor against plasma guns.)
• Sand stone brick. (High life and high armor against fire.)
• Active brick slave. (Low life, immune to AOE.)
• Active brick master. (Low life, immune to AOE and activation destroyes all slaves.)

Other

• More of the level code is only processed when the objects are present. (The CPU will only need to run the code when its needed.)
• Demo update to current patch.

Patch 2.8 contains a few ball upgrades including Hit Power and slow down near the city. I have also looked into how to reduce the loading time of the levels and added some glow to the balls and the City. The game levels will load faster and high end graphical settings demand more of the GPU (shaders).

New features

• Ball Hit Power upgrade.
• Ball slow down near the City upgrade.
• Ball max speed upgrade.
• Ball minimum speed upgrade.
• City glow (- or + life).
• Ball glow/tail update.

Other

This is a major patch of MadCowBalls2 that makes the game easier for beginners and adds a choice of levels at the start of the game session. As i have been working on it for a while i may have forgotten all the bugs that was identified and solved a long the way.

New features

• Diamond levels.
• Ball speed reduction near the city.
• Additional language support.
• The thank you screeen is also displayed when the user restart the game from the high score screen.

Bug fixes

• Undertext is now displayed when language "English" is selected or identified (none, us and uk).
• Random level generator could in rare cases get stuck.
• Unkown solved minor bugs (i dont remember them anymore).

This is a major patch of MadCowBalls2 that makes the game easier for beginners and adds a choice of levels at the start of the game session. As i have been working on it for a while i may have forgotten all the bugs that was identified and solved a long the way.

New features

• Diamond levels.
• Ball speed reduction near the city.
• Additional language support.
• The thank you screeen is also displayed when the user restart the game from the high score screen.

Bug fixes

• Undertext is now displayed when language "English" is selected or identified (none, us and uk).
• Random level generator could in rare cases get stuck.
• Unkown solved minor bugs (i dont remember them anymore).

MadCowBalls2 now have support for other languages than English! First out is Svenska, Dansk, Norsk, Italiano and Franais. A few things needed to change in order to make this possible and i have also updated some animations in the game.

New Content

Changes

Patching the Game launcher to prevent an issue with unresponsive application.

Updating the Robot Player AI.

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Im about the reuse the testing mode and stream the game as showcase 24/7 on Steam. The new game mode Cow Robot is unlocked after completing the Fire Cow achievement. The power up bonuses have been slightly changed to make it eaier for a new player with less bad power ups drops at lower difficulties. There is also an update on the particle system.

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Changes

Bug fixes

Patch 2.3 adds the ability to continue the last game instead of always starting a new one. I have also fixed an issue with the game launcher were it could get unresponsive. [h1New Content]
Continue the last game

Bug fixes

I have added a selfplaying screeensaver. Start Screensaver installer to configure the application. At the end of the installer the Windows Screensaver option menu should launch (Tested in windows 10). The Screensaver is a build of 2.2.5 and it loads settings from the launcher including Music and Graphical Theme, Graphics settings, Graphical Interface settngs. It is using the setting "Cheat" and therefore High Score is disabled.

Adding 6 New Achievements to the game.

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Adding Steam Leaderboard and more Acievements to the game.

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This is update number 10 since the release in November last year. Patch 2.0 add Steam Achievements and players who have tried the Demo or played an old version of the game may already have completed some of them (Check Cow Progress in the Launcher). As this is a major update and many things have changed since the release of the game we have also made a new Game Trailer. [previewyoutube=2hJN4qH2dXQ;full][/previewyoutube]

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I have given the city skyline, health meter and Cow effects some love. The level generator is also new and with it some bugs are gone. I have also lowered the speed of the balls further to make the games easier.

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Adding support for Gamepad in launcher, tweaked the difficulty settings (ball speed) and added random helpfull tip on the loading screen.

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Gamepad support is finaly ready. It is built to handle xbox, playstation and generic controllers but the menu and launcher is not complete. If you start the game in Arcade mode there is no need for keyboard or mouse. If you open the file MadCowBalls2.ini you can edit the keybindings, Autodetect(on/off), Sensitivity and Movement Acceleration level. I will add these options in the launcher later on.

New Content

The levels generated randomly now also include a secondary layer with bricks. This layer can active as a random bonus. There is also a possabilty of new secondary layers as a random bonus making it possible for a endless level (very unlikely but still possible).

New Content

I have been working on several content updates for the game. This patch includes two more Cow Progress Achievements, two more soundtracks and the Soundtrack Player. It may take a while but bosses will be added to the game later on. The soundtrack is free to downloaded as MP3 files at Itch.io. You can also watch the Soundtrack Player in action on Youtube.

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