I said I'll bring this update out in march. I got sick, my pc broke... so here we are a month late.
This is the final update for Saikyo Robots. With it comes a brand new level that is packed with new content. This level is more challenging than any other level. It has more upgrades, more abilities to unlock, new enemy and lots of new stuff!
Let's break it down.
More days
Each day that you survive, you are rewarded with stronger ugprades becoming available. In this level you can survive for up to 16 days. That's five more days than earlier levels which means you will see a lot of new upgrades that will make your army stronger than ever before.
There also are passive abilities hidden in the level that give your swordbots shields and your gunbots can do some devastating damage but I'll not spoiler more. You'll see. All these powers will be needed to survive though, as the enemies are growing stronger every night!
Titan
The enemies so far have been either good at dealing damage or good at taking a lot of hits. The new enemy "Titan" is good at both. It is tanky, deals lots of damage aaaaaand is very slow. Weirdly that wasn't enough to make it strong. With the right upgrades your gunbots will deal max health percentage damage and easily destroy it.
Therefore I gave the Titan the ability to heal. Like a lot! And to make it feel more like a miniboss, I gave it another ability. Once it's health falls below about 30%, it heals a percentage of missing health every second, for five seconds. Good luck beating it!
What took me so long
The final level took quite some time to make but it's not because of all the new content. All that content was already created quite some time ago. The actual reason was that the game was having some heavy fps issues. There was quite a lot of things I was able to change so that the game can run faster. But changing code and how things work leads to bugs and so I ended up having to fix new bugs. The cycle every developer loves.
What now?
For almost three years I've worked on Saikyo Robots but I also was working on my wrist injury. The injury is a lot better now yet not fully healed. It's a long and difficult process but I can work a lot more now than in the last three years! I am very optimistic about the future.
Right now I am working on a brand new game. I hopefully can announce it later this year. But who knows how long it will take me to finish it in the end. What's that game about?
Saikyo Robots is the story about Kohi and his mass produced robot army overthrowing the. He saved everyone from the power hungry king but he is not a good person. In the next game you will fight Kohi as a samurai! Well, he will let his army do the fighting. Physical labour is obviously beneath him.
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