A-Star Theft: Overhauls and Refinements

A-Star Theft is getting improvements on many fronts, including revamped spritework and audio, a new tutorial, improved usability and tons of jank has been fixed!

Audio and Visual Upgrades

• Improved furniture graphics
  
• Improved floor graphics and shading
  
• Remastered ‘Escaping Snake’ music track in Action and Intimidation variants
  
• Added a large variety of footstep sound effects, which vary depending on the ground material
  
• Added sound effects for shooting paper
  
• Added bullet air sound effect
  
• Added more miscellaneous dialog lines
  
• Improved some fire effects
  
• Improved vault opening animation
  

Ease Of Use

• Improved many aspects of Stealth gameplay to make the strategy more approachable
  
• Improved settings menu interface and clarity
  
• Improved settings menu gamepad navigation
  
• Added different images for locked and unlocked doors
  
• Added animation to markers when entering a restricted area
  
• Changed frequency of dodge leaping
  
• Improved walking collisions with angled objects
  
• Improved Item Wheel graphics and usability
  
• Improved informational graphics
  
• Improved various other User Interface aspects
  
• Improved usability for interactions with civilians
  
• Improved graphics for several interactive objects
  
• Improved ease-of-use with many interactive objects
  
• Improved clarity of fire damage
  
• Slight improvements to melee combat
  

Miscellaneous Changes

• Updated credits to include a new developer: Tobias Johansson
  
• Redesigned the tutorial mission
  
• Added loot: Golden Toilets!
  
• Added a keycard to Museum
  
• Changed cursor to always start hovering on the getaway van, to remind players of the weapons store
  
• Updated main menu credits to reflect current sound effect usage
  
• Cleaned up and removed some unused game assets
  
• Miscellaneous Improvements
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed starting the game windowed causing improper UI scaling
  
• Fixed settings scaling improperly when changing aspect ratio while in the settings menu
  
• Fixed some UI elements improperly drawing in the pause menu
  
• Fixed UI objective drawing offset when showing a headshot indicator
  
• Fixed common issues with dodge leaping into walls and furniture
  
• Fixed killing enemies instantly cancelling their bullet sounds
  
• Fixed improper enemy vehicle paths in Cocaine Collection
  
• Fixed exiting a minigame with the Escape key also pausing the game
  
• Fixed Justice Fox getting stuck in his car before Prison Raid
  
• Fixed Terrence Koeller sometimes staying after the dialog in Protection
  
• Fixed civilian intimidation symbol overlapping with interaction text
  
• Fixed action music not playing when starting another heist without restarting the game
  
• Fixed C4 explosive timer not pausing when game is paused
  
• Fixed cameras detecting player stealing loot from a wider angle than their vision cone
  
• Fixed NPC vision range with lower lighting quality settings
  
• Fixed noise indicator not showing on some missions
  
• Fixed cars moving through objects in The Port
  
• Fixed possibility to remain in Overview in the main menu
  
• Fixed a few animation errors
  
• Fixed a bunch of other jank
  

I hope you all enjoy these improvements!

For questions or feedback, you can join the A-Star Theft discord server, or mail me at: contact@kehlercreations.com