Nearing Cyberpulse's two month anniversary, I have implemented a number of improvements and bugfixes from player feedback and critical reviews. I've also made a few tweaks to the visual balance to help gameplay read better when the action gets hectic!

Bugfixes

• Fixed a freeze if you triggered two tooltips at once.
• Game settings now appropriately save between sessions.
• Fixed certain option selectors populating duplicate choices.
• Mouse sensitivity options now work on all machines.
• Fixed uneven arrow spacing in the pause menu.
• Fixed an errant white pixel in the splash image.

QoL

• Slow time effect now has improved audio modulation!
• Keyboard is now re-assigned to player 1 if you unplug all controllers.
• Behind player circle option in versus now places circle twice as far back.
• 5% less camera padding to reduce zoom frequency in co-op.

Visual Balancing

• Sector background circuit brightness reduced 10%.
• Firewall circuit brightness reduced 15%.
• Player circle flash and size gain on hit both reduced 5%.
• Player circle reticle brightness reduced 3%.
• Stationary photon brightness reduced 5%.
• Moving photon brightness reduced 5%.
• Byte trail brightness reduced 5%.

Fixed issue with game text not displaying on Spanish language systems.

This patch is dedicated to the first player who has hit 100% completion!

Sectors

• Shockwave: Better ending waves.
• Fallout: Better ending waves and pacing.
• Pipeline: Slight enemy set tweak.
• Binary: Slight enemy set tweak.
• Penultimate: Easier score targets for second and third goals.

Bugfixes

• Clones can no longer be thrown (or killed with invincible) before they finish spawning.
• Fixed issue where Spiral Cache could temporarily disappear from certain camera angles.

QoL

• Better ordering in the statistics page.
• Improved formula for calculating completion percentage.
• Renaming of the Precision sector set.

It has now been a week since Cyberpulse's release and I've implemented significant performance improvements and sector tweaks. Here is a list of the key changes:

Performance

• All platforms now run in compiled C++, which should generally improve smoothness and FPS.
• Better shader preloading for enemy and boss shaders to reduce hitches on initial spawns.
• Better performance when rendering large autosizing text (eg. mode directions).
• Save state caching to avoid hitches during gameplay or menu navigation.

Sectors

• Hello, World: More delay to opening waves.
• Apogee II: Quicker timer on final switch.
• Clash II: Raised camera slightly.
• Binary: Improvement to level pacing.
• Haywire: Slightly higher camera, lowered spark score boundary.
• Rebound: Spawning overlap fix.
• Riposte: Firewall spacing fix.
• Exaction: Late waves enemy improvements.
• Ricochet: Removed invincibility from late waves.
• Rejection: Removed invincibility from late waves.
• Titanomachy: Improved spawning on final waves.
• Quickdraw: Improved spawning on final waves.
• Penultimate: Spark score boundary fix.
• Fallout: Later wave improvements.
• Apothem: Fixed issue with performance when still needing to pop photon tutorial.
• Fixes to a few misguided boss guns.

Gameplay

• Cubic Firewalls now score for pulsing player correctly.
• Titan enemies activate after being pulsed if you dont eliminate them while stunned.
• You can no longer pick up power-ups if you are dead.
• General improvement to potential invincibility jankiness.

QoL

• Improved font support to be able to display diverse Steam usernames in the leaderboards.
• The game now autosaves after every four level plays.
• Fixed a few typos here and there.
• Fixed the Survival Master Steam achievement not popping, and improved some achievement pictures.

• Fixed issue where Logs would be empty upon open.
• Fixed Force Titan not killing player trapped in gravity well.
• Fixed Invincibility killing enemies too early, and related bugs.
• All levels now have appropriate object pooling for more performant wave spawning.

All executables now run in compiled C++. Depending on the target machine, this should improve general smoothness of gameplay overall, along with better FPS in CPU-bound situations!

The first of three performance patches for Cyberpulse.

• Most levels now use better obstacle pooling for smoother waves.
• Significant optimization to spawning code for enemies, bullets, players, and bosses.
• Improved efficiency of lens flares.
• A handful of small spawning fixes and tweaks to early game levels.

The first of a number of patches aiming at improving game performance.

• Better performance in boss scenes when tutorials need to be shown.
• Better performance on world map open.
• Better performance on level restart.

• Auto saving after five level plays to avoid too much data loss on crash.
• Better performance around Bit Spring grid.
• Options menu fixes.
• Minor tweaks to enemy and player move speeds.

UI QoL improvements and bugfixes. Minor balance tweaks.

Hopefully this makes the game a little more accessible to those new to the genre, and still equally fun for experienced players!

• -5% to enemy and bullet hitbox size.
• -4% to all enemy move speeds.
• -2.5% to all projectile speeds.
• 7.5s more on Ricochet.

Fixed a number of performance issues caused by the saving system.

Minor UI bugfixes.