Time Wasters update for 17 March 2023

New Captain: Ram

• Ram uses his mechanical boxing gloves to smash enemy ships into one another, drawing on his past as a professional boxer in his mission to collect the Cubes

• Upgrades

  • Ram Boxing Gloves (3 Levels)
  • Ram Invincibility Knockback (3 Levels)
  • Ram Hull (3 Levels)
  • Super Boxing Gloves (3 Levels)

• Added Space Cube Upgrades & Unlock Missions

New Weapon: Boxing Gloves

• Close Range Boxing Gloves that punch enemies into each other causing chain collisions

• Increase number of Boxing Gloves through Upgrades (Max 4)

• Upgrades

  • Max Boxing Gloves (2 Levels)
  • Knockback Force (3 Levels)
  • Boxing Gloves Damage (6 Levels)
  • Boxing Gloves Chain Collisions (4 Levels)
  • Boxing Gloves Overclock

Hull Invincibility

• Trigger 0.5 Seconds of Invincibility if 40 Hull Damage occurs over the past 2 seconds

• A Light Green bar fills on top of the the green Hull bar to show how close to Invincibility

• The Light Green bar has a cooldown that matches upgradable duration of Invincibility

• A Light Green Hull icon appears on the Ship with a unique sound effect to indicate Invincibility is active

• Upgrades

  • Hull Invincibility (3 Levels)

Space Cube Upgrades

• Unlock tiers with Total Space Cubes instead of Space Level
• Ability to Sell Individual Upgrades
• Fixed pricing on Luna Booster level 3

Gold Planet

• Changed description to Gold Dropped While In Planet Range +0.05

Wolf Pack

• Added Blue Outline to Wolf Pack ships
• Wolf Pack Ships won't take damage from electrified hulls

Seeking Rockets

• Rockets now have a more visible blue trail
• Explosion changed from orange to blue
• Revised rocket sprite to be more visible

Card Selection

• First Card Slot in both the Time Cube Shop & in-game Upgrades will never be a Planet card

Time Cube Shop

• Each option will always include 5 upgrades

Boosting

• Fixed issue with some controllers having reduced Boost
• Keep applying Boost in ship direction when holding Boost but not holding any movement direction

Mine Enemies

• Gold drop increased from 1 to 25
• Damage now increases with wave progression

Enemy Explosions

• Moved enemy explosions below the enemies to improve visibility

Steam Achievements

• Added Steam Achievements
• You'll receive all the Steam Achievements you've already earned when the Main Menu loads

Victory Space Cubes

• After defeating Wave 120 you become invincible and have 3 seconds to collect the Space Cube

Elite Hell Bird

• Fixed race condition causing Elite Hell Bird to spin wildly
• Base bullet base damage increased from 1.5 to 3

Unlocks Screen

• Redesigned the Captain Mission icons so that the mission detail icon is in the bottom right corner

Elite Icon

• Redesigned the Elite icon which appears on the Radar, Warning Alerts & Unlocks

Controller Support

• Changed Steamworks Settings to use Steam input for non-Xbox controllers

Flying Asteroids

• Changed physics rotation to reduce collisions between objects sending them flying
• Reset velocity when re-entering screen after teleporting

Space Cube Chances

• Space Cube Chances maxed at 100%