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ADDED A new ending. New powers: Piggy Bank, Bubbola, Absolute Unit, Royal Flush and Bloomstick CHANGED INSANE now unlocks per location - beat that location's boss on HARD first. Locations you have already beaten on Hard or Insane keep it open. PROJECT POLTERGEIST now plays inside
ADDED THE CUSTOMIZE BOX: a new machine in the game room - step inside to customize your bubble, crosshair and pets, and to track every achievement. Default bubble skins: Orange, Pearl, Steel, Abyss and Marble - each with its own pop burst and pop sound, in every mode. Crosshair s
ADDED The boss you select on the Locations map now glows around its outline, in the colour of the difficulty you picked. FITTS PROTOCOL: Immunity, 2X Points and 2X Size now show on the board while they run - a gold edge, a blue grid and green corners - so you can see when each on
ADDED The Bubble Machine in the submarine is open: feed it 1 mystery globe, pick a weapon and a bubble you own, choose AUTO-CLICK or MANUAL, and pop with no score, no timer and nothing to lose. HELIX DISCOVERY: poison and bleed now show on bubbles and bosses, even under ice. HELI
CHANGED HELIX DISCOVERY: The Ball fights differently. It no longer sits in a corner - it circles the DNA core, fast. You still get 10 seconds with your full weapons; then it attacks with the same blackout wave as in the main game and your weapons drop to the basic shot. Hit it 18
ADDED Pocket Flame, a new Rare weapon, free from your first run. Every 6 seconds a wave of fire rises from the bottom of the board and burns every bubble it reaches. Upgrades make it climb higher and fire faster - the whole board every 4 seconds at max level. Red Pepper, a new Le
CHANGED PLAY button answers the press. While you hold it, it goes solid in the difficulty colour and reads GO! Catty's tutorial bubble needs click to pop instead of hover. A sleeping keepable's slot switches off: no fill and a dimmed rim beside the greyed icon. Fresh Meat pumps X
ADDED Four free weapons: Laser Pen, Electrotrail, Hand of Midas, The Plant. Each has its own intro ceremony. Five free keepables: Aim Bloom, Bubblife, Popvestment, Chill Pill, Cupcake. Extraction checkpoints now offer a choice: a bubble, a power pack, or a bigger board. Each clai
Changes Fitts Protocol: bubble points are round numbers now. A Default is worth 10, then 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 up the waves, and a Booster is worth 1000. Burger jackpots and skull charges scale with the new values, so runs score higher than before at the same skill. Helix Disc
Changes Fitts Protocol: accuracy counts the bubbles you let vanish. Accuracy is now hits out of every chance you had - every click you made plus every bubble that shrank away unclicked. Letting bubbles escape lowers it, just like a missed click. Fitts Protocol: you can tell when
NEW ARCADE GAME: FITTS PROTOCOL A new game on the bedroom arcade cabinet. No powers, no auto-pop - just you, your mouse, and bubbles that shrink away. Click the bubbles before they vanish. They appear full size and shrink to nothing. Click them yourself - the X Key works too. You
Changes Helix Discovery: Nuclear Power is now truly nuclear - the blast wave hits every bubble, boss and mine with double your damage and can crit, and it burns away enemy fire - drone lasers, golden coins and spine mines no longer sail through a detonation Helix Discovery: the m
Fixes HELIX DISCOVERY - fixed a freeze on death. Getting hit at the exact moment you picked a power (the Medkit especially) could leave the run stuck with the clock still running. The board now holds the instant you click for a power, so your heal is always instant, and a run tha
Changes The Spine and The Core were re-tuned on every difficulty - The Core asks for far less XP at every gate, The Spine's later gates rise to meet it, and the old x24 wall between them is now a gentle step. Blood Feast and Full Flood are Easy-only. The Vampire's empowered blood
Changes Bubbles popped now bank when you Extract. Your lifetime pop count - and the achievements and power unlocks tied to it - grows at the moment you extract, matching everything else the run banks. A run lost to a game over or surrender banks nothing. Arcade mini-games no long
Fixes Main game The run could freeze after alt-tabbing out and back - the board stopped responding while the menu, surrender and restart still worked. This is the soft-lock some of you hit more than once. Note the new behaviour: alt-tab no longer pauses the game at all - press ES
BALANCE Long runs now end. Previously enemy health and your damage grew at exactly the same rate forever, so nothing could ever kill you and a run could not finish. Enemies no longer die to a single bullet in the late game. An enemy now costs the same number of hits deep into a r
Balance The TV , The Vampire and The Ball ask for less XP and easier in Easy mode. Arcade games cost less at full price: the coin cap is back down to 44 mystery globes. HELIX - The Drone's missiles hit softer: 12 damage per beam (was 15), on every visit. HELIX - golden bubbles' c
New Content THE VAMPIRE BOSS & LOCATION. The board goes dark when it attacks. Pop bloody bubbles to feed it and get your sight back. This location has only ONE extraction checkpoint, at minute 10 - reach it with enough XP or lose the run. High risk, high reward. THE BALL BOSS
Changes THE INF RACE - the score cap is now a finish line. Reaching INF locks your place on the leaderboard by who got there first - the first player to hit INF holds their rank forever, shown as INF #1. Already at INF? Your spot is claimed the moment you next launch the game. Pl