Hi All,

Development of Flashes of Chaos is slowly progressing, today I pushed a big update to the Demo.

Changed the setting to:

You are sent into a fallen weapon research complex, where you must use its own technology to build guns and survive long enough to extract it.

Main things changed regarding setting:

• More epic opening when starting a run

• Shop is now rebranded to Lab

• Game progress is displayed in a terminal

This major update is a aggregation of multiple smaller updates in the Beta channel. Full list of updates below, in short:

• Lots of Quality of Life improvements

• Some performance improvements

• Some bug fixes.

• Game balancing

Next up in development are testing new level designs and testing the addition of perks.

Full update log

v 0.03.001

• Changed mod reflect all to be only a native mod

• Defend circle now freezes once room is done

• You can now go back from select guns to select difficulty with ESC (no longer opens the in-game pause menu)

• Save files are now overwritten once you enter the computer screen

• Upcoming boss is now shown in inventory

• Rearranged the options menu

v 0.02.028

• Added limitations on amount of particles

• Changed default of showing shot cards in game to false

• Made trigger mods more visible in shot cards on screen

• Added activated difficulty scales to inventory

• Fixed camera twitching / jumping at level start

• Base HP increases via glitch now work percentage-based (stackable)

• Added toggle to turn off showing the time

• Added visual preset for a de-saturated grunge look

v 0.02.027

• Fixed light occluder walls and greatly reduced occluder count (performance improvement)

• Reload times now show in seconds instead of frames

• Changed shop card packs to Manila folders

• Fixed boss levels sometimes giving the starting room

• Menu select box is now larger with better spacing

• Fixed vertical alignment issues in menus

• Added lab/shop state to save file (no more shop save scumming)

HF v0.02.026

• Fixed spelling errors

• Removed sprite artifacts in docs

• Removed mouse debugging dot in bottom-left corner

• Fixed boss levels sometimes giving the starting room

v0.02.026

• Redesigned shop

• Lowered chance to get extra mods on cards

• Fixed melee throwing bullets animation

• Fixed melee throwing bullets spawn point

• Fixed mouse speed in inventory when a player character exists

• Fixed player being unable to die in the research area

• Fixed game saving when leaving research area via menu → stop

• Fixed text issues in game docs

• Fixed mouse hover bug in unlock screen

• Fixed arrows in tutorial

• Fixed double trigger from bullets with trigger-on-impact mod

• Added slider to adjust camera smoothing

• Changed portal text in hub area (less resource intensive)

• Fixed ringing sound at 11x multiplier and increased max multiplier

• Tweaked power curve further

HF v0.02.025

• Fixed crash with empty guns

• Tweaked difficulty curve (gets harder later in runs)

• Possible slight level load speed improvements

v0.02.025:

• added auto re-spawn of statues

• increased hp statues, also HP increases more every time they re-spawn

• updated input library

• fixed lingering gun ghost after swapping guns

• gun muzzle flash tweaks

• added toggle to not show event result screen

• fixed bullet lifetime fourtyfive bullet

• fix tutorial exit / next text

• reloading text now replaces your crosshair

• cursor now always shows when using keyboard and mouse (first it disappeared when using arrow keys)

• removed level select screen and added info to terminal

• Earnings report now shows in terminal

• Added a more epic opening shot, when starting a new run

• adjusted muzzle lights from gun a bit

• if clicking game window when was out of focus, no more menu actions

• added text for extinguisher

• added a start run sub menu

• make god go less big, as in check for if already god before increase size

• added dithering to game-world, can be toggled off in menu

• turned off scan-lines in game world

• clip large damage numbers on cards

• updated visuals of the menus