Dev Log: 01/07/22

• Fixed issue with controller "B" button not working on profile menu.
• Added a better warp effect when transitioning to the next level.
• Changed/Updated current business logos
• Some sound effects were reworked because of clicking noises.
• Took off transcoding for videos to appear at best quality.

Log - 4/13/21

Game Patch Notes:

• Steam cloud didn't work, which is now working.
• Ship camera on game start randomly stuck at zero coordinates.
• Survival stats max multiplier from resetting back to 0 on death.
• Fixed Issues with game saves with the new profile manager.
• Music in survival mode resetting to level 1 after pausing.
• Issue with retro mode not unlocking, wrong object was activated.
• Adjusted and changed some UI elements and adjusted screen transitioning.

• New Game Profile System: individuals can now login into their own respective accounts (up to 10), delete or create new ones. which is stored in a database locally in game.
• Keyboard P and Backspace are no longer mapped to pause or Back.
• Keyboard return now pauses the game.
• Added an Anti-achievement/Cheat system for profiles and cheat codes.
• Turbo mode no longer activated with Gamepad A and replaced with L3.
• Profile system now processes old local game save into a profile.
• Game Profiles are assigned to their Steam ID.
• Default Option settings are now set to low quality.
• Main menu ship model, cursor and options icon now represents color of profile slot.

• In game achievements are separated by their own profiles, but all profiles contribute to the main Steam achievements.
• Multiplier sometimes doesn't change to RGB when over 300.
• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close. [Seems to lock up only when broadcasting is active.]
• Megabyte's saber beam state glitches randomly, plays beam sound every frame, will not fire beam and will continue to charge forever. (unable to replicate it)
• Giga blaster takes a bit of performance due to the manipulating the material color to RGB with over 400 active bullets.
• Look rotation is extreme with v-sync off on high performance PC's. Menu transitions are very fast with v-sync off.

Log - 3/21/21

• Compatibility with V-Sync off, high end systems with high frame rate caused pieces of the game to not smooth out properly. Look sensitivity with v-sync off & smoothing off will cause a very fast look rotation, turning on smoothing fixes this issue.
• Fixed while in upgrade menu, accessing options sub menus and backing out caused the button event selector to choose the upgrade menu "Continue" button leaving options open and no selection to it.
• Fixed plasma cannon weapon selection when enigma cannon was equipped. This caused the plasma cannon weapon model to select the "machine gun" and enigma cannon remained active, after the plasma weapon was unequipped the enigma cannon remained as the only weapon you could use.
• Fixed when player released the trigger the enigma cannon overclock bar would not drain, resulting in the player to over heat and take damage.
• Fixed issue with enigma cannon overclock UI bar remaining active when plasma cannon obtained.
• Fixed issue with fusion cannon discharge sound when letting go of the trigger if another weapon other than fusion was selected.
• Fixed issue with final MonoIcose boss. When EMP stunned while in beam state, the saber blazer beams remained active until next beam state, after the boss was no longer stunned.
• Made bosses appear quicker when entering battle scene. Bosses took at least 2/3 seconds longer to spawn in a bare space.
• Enlarged ammo and energy bars in game UI. energy & ammo bars were thin and barely noticeable which both play an important visual in game play.
• Added an infinity symbol to ammo amount when cyber, hyper or absorb abilities are active. Player can now know they have infinite missiles in an active ability.
• Fixed issue with rail upgrade 4 purchase price was set as rail upgrade 3.
• Fixed rotator attachment icon, was set as the wrong icon on game screen.
• Fixed issue with homing missile and terminus missile purchase sound not activating when buying either.
• Widened Level 5's design. Enemies spawned into the side walls.
• Added the "warp in effect" when reaching the portal after beating a boss.
• Smoothed the "warp out effect" when entering a level.
• Reduced camera shaking by half. Camera shaking caused an unstable jitter to player ship view.
• Changed the warp portal material image.
• Removed scrolling textures in level's 7 & 8 to reduce frame rate reduction. A large amount of objects had scrolling textures.

• Multiplier sometimes doesn't change to RGB when over 300.
• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close. [Seems to lock up only when broadcasting is active.]
• Megabyte's saber beam state glitches randomly, plays beam sound every frame, will not fire beam and will continue to charge forever. (unable to replicate it)
• Giga blaster takes a bit of performance due to the manipulating the material color to RGB with over 400 active bullets.
• Look rotation is extreme with v-sync off on high performance PC's.
• Menu transitions are very fast with v-sync off.

Log - 2/5/21 Build Version 78.4 [Bug Fixes]

• Fixed [living in the past] achievement, this unlocks but then returns to false, resulting in the achievement menu as "locked".
• Fixed retro music not active when unlocking [living in the past] achievement.
• Fixed issue with turbo mode breaking on second playthrough.
• Tuned down the amount of energy that the rail carbine uses.
• Total number of kills for machine, spread, and rail weapons now saves, restarting the game, the player doesn't start back at 0.

• Multiplier sometimes doesn't change to RGB when over 300.
• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close. [Seems to lock up only when broadcasting is active.]
• Megabyte's saber beam state glitches randomly, plays beam sound every frame, will not fire beam and will continue to charge forever. (unable to replicate it)
• Performance slow down on level 7, due to all the texture scrolling in the level.
• Giga blaster takes a bit of performance due to the manipulating the material color to RGB with over 400 active bullets.

Log - 1/31/21 Build Version 78.3 [Bug Fixes] Major Gameplay Update - Added UI Elements for Core Absorb ability and Enigma cannon Overheat meter. Now the player can keep track of damage taken during absorb mode and be able to obtain the achievement correctly. Enigma Cannon Overclock meter allows better visual on keeping the heat down. [Bug Fixes]

• Enigma Cannon doesn't kill you instantly it just takes 1 shield or core respectively when reaching 100%.
• Enigma timer was removed and added into the primary weapon UI bar.
• Fixed issue with crosshair not setting to the original rotation or parented object.
• Fixed warning icon for overlock over 60%.
• Fixed issue with enigma cannon projectile explosions over playing sounds to cut audio off.
• Enlarged projectile explosions for both devastator and enigma cannons.
• Fusion cannon now does more damage.
• Tuned down the damage of the Terminus Missile.

• Changed the enigma project tile explosions to be larger and materials that are assigned.
• Added sound FX when player power/ability is powered off or run out.
• Changed the sound FX for fusion cannon shot.

• Multiplier sometimes doesn't change to RGB when over 300.
• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close. [Seems to lock up only when broadcasting is active.]
• Megabyte's saber beam state glitches randomly, plays beam sound every frame, will not fire beam and will continue to charge forever. (unable to replicate it)

Log - 1/29/21 Build Version 78.2 [Bug Fixes] Major Gameplay Update - Added Continue Function, Depending on difficulty, when a player has lost all lives, an option to continue will appear allowing the player to restart the current level instead of restarting the entire game. Trainee Difficulty = 3 continues Mayhem Difficulty = 2 continues Chaos Difficulty = 1 continues Nightmare Difficulty = 0 continues

• Issue on game continue on final boss, would still be active in coroutine and firing but "invisible".
• Changed the enemy position closer to the player so they are not so far way.
• Added a range cap on enemies that move towards player on level 12, enemies will stop when they are close enough instead of running into the player.
• Enemies chase the player down more quickly in level 12.
• Increased the look sensitivity values by 0.5 and expanded the max range from 5 to 10.
• Re-transcoded all videos, some where missing settings, Changed to Deinterlaced mode to "Even" this insures game videos are NTSC 1080P.
• Fixed issue where missiles would fail to set lock on reticle and lock notification.

• Added an adjustment value to the scroll bars in the options menu, controller sensitivity shows current values instead of 0-100 as well as master, music, sound, UI and announcer bars.
• Added different Shield and Core colors when using enigma cannon, cyber realm, core absorb, plasma cannon instead of just invincibility. The shows how the ship impact reacts differently to enemy bullets.
• Added Explosions to the devastator and Enigma Cannons projectiles. (induces heavier damage and radius damage).
• Added sparks to the ship when enemy projectile hits it.

• Multiplier sometimes doesn't change to RGB when over 300.
• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close. [Seems to lock up only when broadcasting is active.]
• Megabyte's saber beam state glitches randomly, plays beam sound every frame, will not fire beam and will continue to charge forever. (unable to replicate it)

• Fixed Issue with Level 12 background not resetting when continuing.
• Changed position of continue panel and updated some UI elements.
• Fixed issue with continuing on survival mode.

Log - 1/21/21 Build Version 77 [Bug Fixes] [olist]

Log - 1/18/21 Build Version 76 [Bug Fixes]

• Fixed issue where damage critical sprite is still absorb sprite.
• Fixed issue with mouse selection ray cast with options menu.
• Title video wasn't looping.
• Player was still starting with full shields even after being damaged previously.
• Title animation missing wave effect.
• Issue with logged in user not displaying.
• Updated [Score belongs to us] achievement to 50,000,000.
• Updated Color Concept unlocks via: beating a developer score per level.

• Added alt title for people who beat on nightmare.
• Added feature to see "super score" when player reaches a great score on a level.
• Added feature to see "super multiplier" when player reaches a multiplier of over 300.
• Added shield and core change yellow when player is invincible.
• Added ping sound to getting hit with invincibility active.

• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close [Seems to lock up only when developer broadcasting is active.]

Log - 1/17/21 [Bug Fixes]

• Issue with scores showing 0 values in the leaderboards
• Final Boss 2- MonoIcosebyte saber beams were unassigned to damage player.
• Final Boss 1- Icosebyte saber beams were unassigned to damage player.
• Added rotation to both Icosebyte and monoicosebytes saber beams.
• Added when monoicosebyte gets damaged spawns a small amount of enemies.
• Fixed issues when beating the game and going right to survival mode the Upgrade menu would still be active causing survival mode to be unplayable.
• Plasma cannon projectile only chases after bosses.
• Made enemies chase the player on level 12 a bit faster.

• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close [Seems to lock up only when developer broadcasting is active.]
• Issue with Logged in user not displaying. Issue fixed in newer build, name is still saved in memory and doesn't affect saving scores.

Log - 1/16/21 [Bug Fixes]

• Weapons Depot Achievement unattainable due to "devastatorObtained" boolean in wrong place.
• Devastator Weapon UI in Primary Weapons section will not activate due to "devastatorObtained" boolean.
• Looped all music smoothly.
• Boss 9 - Hellabyte muzzle didn't rotate on charging/firing.
• Boss 9 - Hellabyte wouldn't begin firing until after saber beam.
• Boss 9 - Hellabyte Saber beam model was enlarged.
• Enemy 13 - MegaByte Saber beam model was enlarged.
• Updated About Video in Tutorial 36.

Log - 1/14/21 [Bug Fixes]

• Adjusted ship hud [larger enigma timer, shield & core font values]
• Fixed bug - unable to purchase nuclear warhead due to missiles being full.
• Fixed bug - nuclear warhead button still would open purchase menu even if it was locked.
• Slightly adjusted enemy to ship distance closer.
• Adjusted size of enemy missile & collider.
• Fixed - issue where bullet would not touch the ship but still do damage [too large of a collider]
• Fixed - issue where videos would remain in texture before next video was played.
• Fixed - issue where enemy missile would disappear before it reached player on trainee difficulty.

• Steam Overlay can sometimes cause a possible game lockup which causes the application to close.