This time I tried to focus a bit more on balance and content rather than optimizations. Of course, I've optimized the two greater issues that I've found within the game during that time, but most of my time these last two weeks was spent on new stuff.

Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community.

Additions

New Planet: Kokatune

A fiery planet with nasty foes
Difficulty level from 65-128




New Biome: Ash Basin

Full of dunes, the most peaceful biome of Kokatune




New Biome: Basalt Delta

Has several magma lakes which can come to life to hurt your base.




New Biome: Sulfuric Wasteland

Hosts several sulfuric geysers which often erupt, damaging nearby structures




New Biome: Lava Ocean

A regular ocean, but made out of a different liquid




New Enemy: King Lurker

The first boss of the game has multiple attack patterns and can be found everywhere.
Bosses will now spawn every 20 minutes on every mission.
Regular enemy spawns halt while there is a boss alive




New Enemies

Every biome from Kokatune features at least one new enemy for you to play with.




New Objectives

Added 3 new objectives: Defend, Colonize, and Eliminate.
Some missions on some planets can only be of certain types.




New player towers

2 blueprints for new towers added
They can be found on missions with difficulty ranging from 101 to 128




New Specializations

Added 2 new specializations for the two new player-buildable towers

Balance Changes

Clone Factory

Reduced Rarity factor from 5 to 1
This means that the rarity of the upgrade selected is similar to level 1 rather than level 5




Frenzy

Stacks no longer increase duration, duration is now fixed at 2 seconds
Stacks now increase the attack speed multiplier, which starts at 1.2 and grows by 0.2 for every stack




Frenzy Surge

Now only drops if the player has at least one stack of Frenzy




Frostbite

Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple
Base damage increased from 5 to [cannon damage]/2
Its damage instances can now proc on-damage effects, such as Cryotech




King of the hill

Now actually stacks
Values reduced from 25% to 10%




Airborne Static

Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple
Radius increased from (2.0 + 0.2*stack) to (2.0 + 0.5*stack)
The barrier to damage multiplier increased from (0.3+0.2*stack) to (0.5*stack)




Overclock

Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple
Cooldown reduction increased from 25% to 33%




Bigger Explosives

Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple
Now scales linearly
Damage scaling increased from 30% to 100%

Quality of Life changes

Changed Lag Reports

Now contains the current version
Now contains the current building counts
Now contains the current upgrades counts




Pause changes

⬡ You can now press spacebar to toggle pause
Pause can now be toggled within the upgrade selection menu




Building Recycling Rework

When you press "F" to recycle a building, it is now scheduled for recycling.
You can undo the scheduling by pressing "ctrl+F".
It will recycle in the first tick where it is able to.
You can schedule for recycling unclaimed buildings.
You can schedule for recycling non-default targets, like trees.
When a Tree or a Termite Nest is scheduled for recycling, it will become a target for your turrets and will display a proper icon for that.




Building Changes

Building pathfinding algorithm now considers ruins as a buildable tile, instead of building around it




Auto-level and auto-upgrade

When changing auto-upgrade priorities, auto-upgrade turns on.
Auto-upgrade and Auto-level can now be toggled within the upgrade selection menu.
Auto-upgrade priorities can be changed within the upgrade selection menu.
Auto-level is no longer a configurable value, instead, it defaults to on when the game begins.




Level up bar

⬡ Risks on the level-up bar now reflect the rarities of held upgrades




Specializations

Turret-related specializations now always use the icon of the corresponding turret.

Technical Changes

New Noise algorithm

It should be not only faster but also have fewer weird straight lines
This should affect coastlines and biome borders, as well as several other small things like sand dune direction

Fixes

• Timeout victories no longer extend the objective target
  
• Towers should now start working within 0.5s of an enemy entering their range
  
• Frenzy no longer lasts longer than it should when the tower had no targets
  
• Bullet Buffer should no longer take 10x as much to charge up
  
• King of the Hill effect now properly stacks
  
• Undergeared Achievement is now acquirable
  

Optimizations

• Heavily optimized Seismic Weapons
  
• Optimized some core functions that were called way too often
  
• Smoke particles no longer spawn outside your vision range
  
• Pathfinding algorithm for building heavily optimized