Hello everyone.
With Update 1.16, Bouncer Shots will NO LONGER BE COUNTED AS AN "ACCURATE SHOT" and help you score an "accuracy bonus" on the Level Complete screen between levels. Even one Bouncer Shots power-up could spike what would have been a 15% accuracy way up close to 40% or even 50% giving you massive bonus points that you really didn't deserve just because you got lucky with a Bouncer Shots power-up pick up. The accuracy bonus was intended to reward careful shots, and Bouncer Shots helping spike your shot accuracy just didn't make sense.
Please note to anyone who played for the Accuracy Bonus before now that you no longer need to avoid the Bouncer Shots power-up because using it would penalize your shot accuracy. This has also been fixed with this update. Any shots fired while using the Bouncer Shots power-up simply don't count for accuracy and they also don't count against your accuracy. ONLY SHOTS FIRED WHILE NOT USING THE BOUNCER SHOTS POWER-UP COUNT TOWARDS YOUR SHOT ACCURACY at the end of each wave so that you'll always see a very fair actual accuracy on the shots your fired during the level and be fairly rewarded if your accuracy was at or above 25%
I also wanted to show players how many points their little A55 Kickers were helping them score on each level, so now in the stats after each level completed, you'll see how many of your points that wave were scored for you by your little friend. It will also tell you the percentage of your total points earned that you A55 Kicker scored for you.
Also on every Level Complete statistics screen, you'll now see how many bonus points you scored for hitting asteroids with you bullets while moving. Big points can be earned by simply moving and hitting asteroids. The faster you are moving while you hit an asteroid, the more bonus points you'll get. The smaller the asteroids are that you hit while moving, the more bonus points you'll get as well. These moving while hitting asteroids points are also magnified slightly by what level you have progressed to, so for example if you are moving at a speed of 75 and hit a small asteroid on level (wave) 1, it won't be worth as many bonus points moving at the same speed and hitting the same size asteroid on wave 7.
The points have also been increased about 8x for this movement while hitting asteroids over what they originally were in update 1.15. This may need tweaking and balance because it's a whole new game mechanic just added today. The idea here continues to be based on my whole "Risk VS Reward" idea that so much of my game revolves around. You "should" score more points by destroying asteroids while thrusting and dodging than if you are simply planted still in the middle of the screen firing away. Also, remember that I increased the base minimum rotation speed in update 1.15, so I want to make sure that moving while blasting and hitting asteroids is rewarded.
Remember that these movement bonus points are ONLY scored if you hit an asteroid with your BULLETS WHILE MOVING. Any smasher hit, Spi-roll hit, Cannonball hit etc with your ship WILL NOT give you these bonus points. The asteroids must be destroyed with your ships "bullets" for these points to be rewarded. Also note that even though these bonus points are shown on the Level Complete screen, it's just an information statistic. All movement bonus points are given to you immediately when you score the hits while moving, so you don't have to complete a level to get these specific bonus points like the Time-To-Beat Bonus and the Accuracy Bonus.
I think you'll like these two new statistics shown on each Level Complete screen to get a better idea of where your points are coming from when using the A55 Kicker and how many bonus points you're actually scoring with your wild and crazy movement and shooting each wave.
Helpful Hint: Remember to hold down your fire button while using the smasher and especially the Cannonball power-ups now as hitting any asteroids while moving at those high movement speeds can definitely help you rack up points!
As always, have fun and remember.. This isn't your daddy's Rock 'N Roll! Pump up the jam.. Pump up the thrust speeds, and Pump up those point totals.. Pump it up, ahhh Pump it up now! :-)