Lots of big changes, including new play mode, better gun play, Steam Achievements and Leaderboards, menu improvement, new settings and a little economic balancing.
All New Game Mode
Along with the campaign play, have added a new modecalled called 'Infinity Mode', which pits you against infinite waves of progressively more difficult game play. You can track your progress on the leaderboards.
Exciting New Gun Play
We are testing updates that remove the cool down on your burst cannon. After this release, it will be ready to fire after the last round of the previous burst. We're also testing a new update to the FLAK cannon to make it destroy all enemy projectiles in its radius. We've also added a new crosshair that allows for better visibility while firing.
Menu Improvements
We've added a settings menu that allows you to set music volume and moved the reset button from the main screen into the new menu. We've added a confirmation dialog before resetting the game to the beginning,
Leaderboard
We've added a leaderboard for the summer infinity challenge.
Achievements & Stats
We've added 6 Steam achievements with more to come.
Economy Balancing
Since the new Infinity Challenges represent a mechanism for potentially generating large amounts of credits, we have reduced the rewards in
Upcoming Updates:
Massive Enemy Ship Animation Rework
In the first versions, enemy ship movement was done through animations. These looked okay most of the time, but were occasionally awkward and always time consuming. We are replacing these with spline based movement like those used in the infinity challenges, which gives the game and altogether smoother feeling. We will roll these out on a per-level mode.
More User Settings
We'll add sensitivity settings and other tweaks.