Hello everyone! After the Winter Sale, we received a ton of feedback related to the game, so we spent two weeks hard at work in making our biggest patch so far!
But first, to adress one thing: we planned Mac & Linux versions back in december, but due to hardware difficulties, those ports are going to take a bit more time than we initially anticipated. Those versions are probably coming in our next patch, v1.1.
Onto the notes:
Performance Issues
-we received several complaints about slowdown in specific stages and also while playing the game though several sessions; we adressed those specific points by removing visual effects that caused the framerate to drop, but are still fixing the cumulative slowdown; there should be significant performance improvements in this version, though.
Gameplay
-fixed a problem that caused the bonus score won by finishing Drive without being hit to be awarded even if the player was hit
-reduced life on "Primordia" maze turrets, "Danse Macabre" dark predators,"Nostalgia of the Infinite" spinning tops and "Under the Water" fish foes; slightly increased life for Comedy & Tragedy and Venus In Furs second form
-fixed bullets not disappearing when concluding Retrobot and Voluptas Mors battles
-in "Under the Water, the giant monster death animation no longer kills the player
-fixed Retrobot's flames hitbox and eyeshots
-fixed a bug that caused some bullets in the Voluptas Mors battle to become static
-added a multiplier lock when collding with the big bodies in "Of Lurid Daydreams"; decreased nipple enemies bullet speed; and increased the contrast for the warning of coming phallic enemies (no pun intended).
-slightly increased lightspots area on "Danse Macabre"
-reduced speed for Red Right Hands in Mater Tenebrarum boss battle
-made some changes to reduce the overall difficulty and intensity of "A Cycle of Blood"; fixed overlapping and distortion on the landmines self-destruction sound effect
-retooled the light tunnel section before the true last boss
-reduced the life of the Other to make the battle easier
Aspects
-changed depth for Familiar Friend
-reduced damage output for Hunting Horn and Aura of Fury Drive
-tweaked the workings of Hunting Horn, and added more effects for further communicating impact
Effects and Visuals
-enhanced visibility for letter bullets on the ASCII stage in "011001100110000101110100" and on the toy robot bullets at "Nostalgia of the Infinite"
-fixed some bosses lifebars no displaying correctly
-added screenshake to boss individual pieces destruction effects
-corrected the effect on Superinformation Avatar assistants death effects
-fixed Voluptas Mors right eye uncontrollable blinking colors
-fixed effects in "The Silver City"
-Show FPS option now displaying properly
-fixed display of time played in the Stats screen
-changed the sound effects for the violin enemies on "The Great Stage" to make them sound less annoying