Changed in 0.9.6:

OPTIMIZATIONS:

The FPS will still lag if there are a lot of things happening on screen, but hopefully the experience feels a bit smoother now in general.

• Optimized game object pools to work with the objects a little faster
• Optimized how health bars are updated
• Optimized so that each explosion doesn't have an individual sound object, but the explosions are played "globally"
• Optimized fire arrow audio cpu usage
• Optimized fire arrows by limiting the number of visible arrows and fire particle effects on the screen
• Start removing visible idle Telephone Poles after a threshold is reached to save the amount of work GPU needs to do
• Optimized the trees exploding to be less heavy on the CPU
• Optimized bullets by more aggressively disabling them when not needed
• Optimize various effects like explosions to use fixed-size game object pools, instead of using dynamic size pools. This helps to keep stuff like particle effects at somewhat sane levels.

OTHER CHANGES:

• Small refactoring on how enemies are spawned
• Visually deactivate the boss ring once the boss fight is successfully completed
• Hide the congratulations text after a short interval, once the boss fight is finished
• [Community Feedback] Always show the "continue run" button on the main menu, so it's clearer that there is the feature, but make it deactivated if it cannot be used
• [Community Feedback] Show the "continue run" button on the main menu, even if the run was exited on level 1, so it's more clear that there is the "save & continue" feature.
• [Community Feedback] As a quick fix, soft-cap the unit speed to 250 (starting value is 30) to prevent uncontrollable units and units escaping the play area.