Developer posts and news about this game.
New Rick Henderson Game is Coming! Hey everyone! Whether you've been here since the Early Access days back in 2020 or just discovered Rick Henderson recently, I wanted you to be among the first to know what's next for the franchise. I'm excited to officially reveal Rick Henderson
Performance and bug fixes: Smaller build Better loading time (especially for players without SSD) Gems, ranks and weapons no longer fail to despawn after picked up Small animation fixes Other: Homing enemy missiles now properly target and home on Rick's hologram if it's present
While doing some performance improvements in the previous patch i accidentally messed up the endless hard mode so only the pirates faction enemies were apperating. This patch fixes it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Faster loading Better in game performance Smaller memory footprint Smaller hard drive space requirement Sony Dualsense controller support Small bug fixes
I'm happy to announce that, thanks to the publisher EastAsiaSoft, Rick Henderson will hit consoles in early 2022. Meanwhile, work is being continued on Rick Henderson spinoff, we will have some more news soon!
Hello dear players, once again i'd like to thank everyone for supporting Rick Henderson, it means the world to me. I want to reward everyone that had faith in me and bought the game, so i'm working on a small spin-off that will be something like BitBlaster XL meets Rick Henderson
Thanks for the support during the Early Access, hope you enjoy it.
Small fail safe system improvement for warp malfunctions.
Proper display when picking up more than 5 perks of the same type (now 10 are visible in the pause menu) Proper hologram functioning, always Shabuk Paragon was not adding EXP Warp malfunctions are now shorter and bug free Shielder and Shielded Shielder now blink when hit with Des
Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of updates, i had COVID and it took me a while to get back on track. I've been really busy preparing everything for the full release, lots of new waves, better tutorial, UI, overall better performance and stability, localization to German, Japan
Adjustments Kamikaze perk is now "No shield, + 100% score", was "No shield, +20% score". Shield upgrade perks no longer appear if you have Kamikaze perk active. Ben changes weapons quicker by default. Quick Draw perk no longer appears when playing as Ben. Thoraxx changes weapons
Fixed Hologram not properly despawning when player is killed and game is restarted Fixed ranks picked up when ranks bar blinking not added to the rank bar Fixed drone perks sometimes not appearing on screen Fixed bullets not properly returning speed to their base value on restart
Added Bullet, Energy and Weapon drones They are not weapons, but are collectible through perks. They follow you around while shooting at enemies but DO NOT soak up bullets or draw enemy fire/homing enemies. You can have only one of each. Having all three is quite powerful. New Wa
Bug fixes and performance improvements Fixed Enforcer movement method (sometimes they moved rotated instead fixed). Fixed Blaster movement method (sometimes they move rotated instead fixed). Fixed Avenger following a proper horizontal value (so he now shoots straight at you). Fix
Raised Final Boss HP by 50% Fixed one wave that was causing the game to stop
New Boss Level 6 added along with FINAL BOSS . QOL Improvements Added score appearing above rank when you pick it up, i believe most of the players were oblivious that you also get 500 points for rank if it's already collected. Ranks bar now blink to notify you you collected all
Perks Short Fuse - Launch mini mines when hit. 10 mini mines are launched in random direction from the player ship when hit. Pretty cool, the mini mines are the same ones from the Bull Hammer weapon. Razor Rider - Increases Graze radius (default is 0.15, perk increases it to 0.20
Since i want a stronger feeling of importance of perk selection so you can actually make a categorized build, i improved some of the perks. Shield Overload now adds +100 damage to shield damage instead of 50 (default is 75 for Ben, 100 for Rick, 125 for Thoraxx) Shield Battery no
I believe some of you were annoyed with the speed the weapons change and would like perks to be something more substantial to the ships upgrades. I added Quick Draw perk under Support perks which enables you to switch your weapons in half the time, which is pretty much instantane
Enemies Provoker bullet speed lowered from 1.00 to 0.75 Provoker HP lowered from 40 to 35 Boshin HP lowered from 400 to 350 Randara HP lowered from 350 to 300 Single Randara HP lowered from 200 to 150 Weapons Desolator damage raised from 32 to 40 Turboblaster bullet damage raised