Log - 4/13/21

Build Version 80.1

Game Patch Notes:

Players can now create their own profiles. The game no longer relies on one save file and one name at a time saved to the leaderboards. You can now login, logout, create or delete profiles. This allows for players to pick and choose names that are already listed, Each profile can be affected by cheats, although cheats activated will disable any achievements that are obtainable. The profile with used cheats will be flagged as "Cheats Active" other profiles can gain a completion percentage which is viewable by mouse hovering or selecting a profile in the manager. Each player will have their own respective settings and unlocks. The leaderboards and survival stats are now game based and not profile based, so each profile will contribute to them. [Bug Fixes]

• 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.

[Changes]

• 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.

[Known Bugs]

• 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.

[ 2021-04-13 17:57:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Devastation 2 – Repatriation is a revolutionized 3D “Blast them to hell!” shoot ‘em up bullet hell arcade style game.

Devastation is back! And jacked with intense ACTION! Literally! The alien horde has returned, but how? To take over the intergalactic web? With alien malware technology called the Byterrians? Time to bust out the back up software and eradicate these suckers once and for all!

Absolutely obliterate everything! Take things to the next level with 6 different missiles and bombs, 11 different weapon types but wait there’s more! What did you say? Weapon mods and customizable boosters too? Just awesome! And just to top it off you can now customize your ship with 10 different color schemes!

Upgrade and repair your ships defenses, battle through in a new 3D revolutionized futuristic environments with 12 different dynamic levels. Annihilate over 20 different Byterrian types with Hyper Speed, blow apart large waves of enemies with single massive explosion and decimate over 10 different heavy bosses.

Devastate like never before! Kill your enemies as fast as possible, unlock in game achievements, earn a god-like multiplier and build an insane score!

Devastation 2 is unlike any other shoot'em Up!

4 Different difficulties [Trainee, Mayhem, Chaos, Nightmare]

4 Different game styles [Normal, Hardcore, Survival, One life]


-Story Line-
Year 2020, 32 years later. We received a corrupted broadcast on our devices from an unknown entity which appeared from our collected data base on the aliens that we had annihilated to extinction years ago. The broadcast consisted of a garbled language we had to shift signal to understand. The message became clear: “You are one but we are many, We are not outside but we are inside. Your data now belongs to us!”.

Upon exiting the broad cast, our computers became infected with a worm virus, jumping from server to sever. There was no doubt the aliens now have full access to the worlds data base and infecting the intergalactic web.

A security program interface was built around the Horus. It was only accessible through the backup drives but the software needed a constant energy supply. The best way was to extract the power cores from the enemy structural data nucleus by destroying them. Enhancing the “new” digital Horus to be equipped with new weaponry, armor and enhancements by spending these cores revenant energy.

We sent the Horus into the intergalactic web and scouted through damaged back doors the virus had travelled into, encountering the byterrian species that was expelled from the virus burrowing themselves into structural firewalls with ease. The aliens hard coded the byterrians to be extremely volatile. The only way to get to the leader was the complete annihilation of these digitized species.

The Horus vaporizes byterrians and grows more stronger but the byterrians are just as formidable. As long as power cores were gathered, their immense plan to inject a cybernetic virus on highest security data structure on the globe will be negated and the world is saved once again.

The plan? Send the entire species back into oblivion. Its time for repatriation!