Final Frontier v0.04 Patch Notes

Additions

• Added new starter weapon: Orbit Slicer
  • Added upgrade ‘Damage Up’
  • Added upgrade ‘Shoot Speed Up’
  • Added upgrade ‘Distance Up’
• Reworked ship select
  • When first beginning the game, you have no ship select choices, and must start with the Particle Cannon weapon
  • ‘Starter Weapon Choices’ upgrade unlocks all other weapons as possible starter weapons in ship select. Also increases the number of random ship choices to 3.
  • ‘Enhanced Starting Modifiers’ upgrade unlocks the chance of your starter ships having positive (boons) or negative (curses) modifiers.This upgrade is unlocked after upgrading ‘Starter Weapon Choices’.
• Added ‘boons’ and ‘curses’ system
  • Boons are positive run modifiers, curses are negative run modifiers
  • Boons and curses come in 3 rarity tiers
  • Starter ships can have up to 1 boon and 1 curse
  • Coming next patch: defeating a boss gives you a choice of boons/curses
  • Added minor boons:
    • Stardust Magnet
    • Sonic Airbags
    • RepairBots
    • Personal Moon
  • Added minor curses:
    • Scattered stardust
    • Malfunctioning Sensors
    • Dirty Windscreen
    • Alien Invasion
  • Added significant boons:
    • Shades of Neo
    • Ionizer
• Added transition between levels that acts as a bonus stardust-collecting stage
• Added second level: Industrial Sector
  • Added new enemy ‘Space Barrel’
  • Added new enemy ‘Space Dumpster’
  • Added new enemy ‘Shipping Container (Space)’
  • Added new enemy 'Hazard Goon'
  • Added new enemy 'Stoplife'
  • Added new obstacle 'Toxic Cloud'
  • Added new boss ‘Smokestack Jack’
• Added settings option to skip transmissions
• Added missions:
  • Orbit Slicer Kills
  • Perfect Asteroid Belt
  • Perfect Industrial Sector
  • Destroy Space Junk
• Added new player ship model

Changes

• Base ship health increased from 3 to 4
• Increased base ship maneuverability by 10%
• The price and effectiveness of most upgrades have been adjusted
• The appearance of stardust has been changed to separate it visually from enemy projectiles
• Enemy projectiles no longer flash white, but instead have an outline that flashes white
• Crit Chance and Crit Damage upgrades are now only unlocked after beating the first boss
• Asterpede Centeroid’s targeted mouth attack has been made much easier to avoid
• Level 1 has a new song. The previous level 1 song is now used in level 2
• All new visuals for asteroids and Asterpede Centiroid
• Launch experience has been enhanced

Weapon Changes

• Missile Launcher
  • ‘Projectile Damage Up’ upgrade replaced with ‘Triple Missile Chance’
• Laser
  • Laser now does more damage to enemies the further away they are. Damage is 50% at point blank range and 150% at max range.
  • ‘Damage Rate Up’ upgrade replaced with ‘Size Up’
• Arc Generator
  • ‘Jump Distance Up’ upgrade replaced with ‘Generator Speed Up’
  • Damage no longer falls off with each jump
  • Base jumps reduced to 1
  • Charge no longer grows indefinitely, but now expires at a certain size
• Scatter Shot
  • Fixed bug where projectile spread was increased instead of decreased with each “Range Up’ upgrade
• Many other weapon balance tweaks

Known issues / bugs

• Level 1 boss can sometimes shoot a projectile towards the player while off screen
• Level 1 boss sometimes does not telegraph his shots

Priorities for Next Update

1. Level 3
2. Beam Sword Rework
3. Tutorial
4. Pause Menu
5. More Boons/Curses
6. Boons/Curses From Boss Kills
7. Weapon Evolutions
8. More Sound Effects
9. More Story/Transmissions