Starward Rogue:Post-1.5 Release Notes

Version 2.502

(We're still working on this)

• Fixes for a couple of misnamed shots with the wrong letter case, which was causing those not to be seen on Linux.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Set Solar Spear to not do friendly fire
  • Thanks to Whistler and Fluffiest for reporting.

• Set Paragon to not seed until the second floor, since the miniboss is a bit too difficult for the first floor.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for reporting.

• Fixed interaction problem between Condemned rooms and Risky Assassin that could be run ending.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Fixed problem with a rogue testing version of the Zombot seeding which was causing some rooms to be unintentionally locked.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Fixed a weird interaction between Risky Assassin and Conductive Hull that could end a run unexpectedly.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Fixed an issue with Deleter and re-added to the weapon pool.

• Fixed Terminus losing his shield before all his Core Razors are destroyed.

• Standardized the regular main weapons to have a frequency seeding of 100, the regular secondary weapons to have a frequency seeding of 80 and the boss-themed weapons to have a frequency of 40. This should help improve the balance between main and secondary weapons, since there is a much larger quantity of secondary weapons in the game.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for the feedback.

• Adjusted the firerate and energy cost of the boss-themed weapons.

• Removed the Bombardier walking SFX for the moment since it could be annoying.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for reporting.

• Did an accuracy pass on the range stats for Main and Secondary weapons.
  • Thanks to Dark Twinge for highlighting the inaccuracies.

• Increased the Disruptor range slightly.

• Slightly increased the range of the Point Blank perk effect.

• Greatly increased the damage dealt to all enemies by the Supernova Circuit.

• Improved the rate of the Credit to Energy Converter from 10 to 25.

• Changed the Overloading Circuit to consume health instead of energy.

• Improved the wording of the damage bonuses to help clarify the difference between additive and multiplicative bonuses or penalties.

• Clarified the descriptions of Code: DEFEND!, Carnage Circuit, Grenade Launcher, Cluster Launcher, Boarine Artifact (Au), Acutian Artifact (Au), Andorian Artifact (Au), Blade Module and the Masochism probation.

• Fix for being able to heal via caltrops while you have defense orbitals active. Simplified how the damage reduction/armor is implemented.

• Shortened the standard shot clearing duration. This affects the duration of the shot clearing for using teleporters and during boss phase changes. This should mostly eliminate the possibility of wasting resources when using the teleporters. Both the player and bosses can now start firing shots slightly earlier after a phase change, but practically this doesn't make much of a difference to boss fights overall.

• Fixed an issue with the X1_D18_QuadPuzzle room which was making it auto clear half of the time.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for reporting.

• Moved the Win Switch in the X1_D18_Minefield room to prevent winning in 2 seconds if you entered by the "wrong" door.

• Improved the performance of the Sludge Dump item.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Improved the balance of the Plague Pistol. Also made the weapons' plague cloud 50% transparent to improve visibility.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest and Whistler for inspiring these changes.

• Fixed a longstanding bug which was causing the on hit particle location to be centred on an enemy rather than at the shot location.

• Tweaked a few main gun attack values and stats.

• Removed problematic effects on the Risky Assassin incredibility that could potentially break some weapons and the redundant Health Gains (since the item sets your health to 1 anyway).

• Moved the Green Zoomer enemy from the Pursuer to the Attacker category for spawning.

• Added more safe zones and a few more enemies to the Dwarf Gambit (Au) Challenge room.

• Added Buddies to the King (Au) minibosses.

• Added environmental hazards to the Harrier (Au) miniboss room.

• Added post-win telepad shortcuts to many rooms.

• Tweaked several more rooms.

• Added more visibility and sharpness to Caltrops tiles.

• Increased the intensity of Energy Drain (Au) tiles.

• Changed the Energy Regen (Au) and Damage Bonus (Au) tiles to stay active even after a room is cleared.

• Buffed the duration of the Blood Artifact health leeching effect to 3 seconds. (Note, not the duration of the artifact itself)

• Fixed an interaction bug with the Hardening Module and Penumbra's trap immunity.

• Buffed Bloodlust and Necromech life leech significantly. Also clarified the Bloodlust description.

• Removed the Immolated Minibot flame trail particle to improve performance and visibility. Also slightly buffed the trail fire rate and duration.
  • Thanks to Batman for reporting.

• Fixed stacking issues with Mystery Missile Crate and Used Battery.

• Re-adjusted the acceleration effect of the Temporal Turbo to be in the player's favor and made it more powerful, but harder to control. 70% acceleration for player, 20% for enemies.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for inspiring this change.

• Changed Fragile Generator to seed only once per run.

• Reduced frequency and seeding of Back To Basics.

• Set Shield Tech and Medical Emergency to not seed on the last floor of a run.

• Adjusted the seeding rules for Economic Tinkering (Missile), Wormhole Journey and 4th Dimension consumables to prevent them from dropping during the tutorial.
  • Thanks to Arcade Buster for reporting.

• Added 5% chance to get a missile on kill to the Green Envy mech.

• Clarified the Alpha mech description.
  • Thanks to MaxBedlam for inspiring this change.

• Increased the speed of low level Faceripper enemies.

• Removed some of the attack restrictions from the Golden Warden on Hard mode. Have fun with that!

• Added 3 new lategame main weapons: The Eradicator, Salvo Minigun and Horizon Sniper Rifle.

• Added 6 new consumable drones for the base game.
  • Missile, Casket, LaserTwin, Overload, Riot and Biotech Drone.

• Added 35 new rooms for AuGMENTED.
  • The Grid, Locked From Inside, Aqueduct, Middle Tower, Feel The Burn, Power Relay, Don't Shoot, Tread Lightly, Sound Wave, Duel and more.

• Added 14 new communications from Rodney to the mech selection screen, based on victories.

• Fixed a comm entry where Rodney was still referring to the old 10 Wardens requirement for unlocks, which was changed later to 3.

• Added the Galactic Arena test chamber where you have to survive against infinitely spawning enemies with random items and weapons spawning around the arena. (Par time: 5mins)

Version 2.501 Hotfix

(Released October 15th, 2018)

• Reverted to Unity version 2017.1p4 since the newer version seemed to be causing issues for some players.
  • Thanks to D€mïgød§, efseykho and ThePCGamer for reporting.

Version 2.500 (Unlock Overhaul)

(Released October 15th, 2018)

• Changed the Beamer Buddy 2.0 and 3.0 to be player targeted. This also fixes a glitch that would allow those familiars to damage enemies through walls.
  • Thanks to pwsmnc for reporting.

• Improved the balance of a lot of the secondary weapons. Some were a bit off based on damage calculations.

• Improved the accuracy of the secondary weapon stats. Also removed the ENR_USE stat. Attack power for secondary weapons now more consistently represents overall strength of the weapon so it's easier to compare weapons at a glance. Energy use is still displayed in the text description box, though.

• Tweaked the Deleter weapon.

• Converted the helpful mysterious circuits to regular consumables, and removed the harmful ones.

• Optimized the particle dictionaries to reduce RAM usage. This freed up space is mostly taken up by particles for the new Unlock Overhaul items, although RAM usage is still down overall even when including the new stuff.

• Fixed Trap Master not working for the Red Shift mech.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for reporting.

• Fixed Crystal Mother Green arrow being so performance intensive that it doesn't appear on certain hardware setups.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest and others for reporting.

• Tweaked the spawning rules of the Mini-swarm and Gemini enemies so the tougher versions appear at a more appropriate level.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for the feedback.

• Fixed a possible seeding issue with the Nanite Squids.

• Changed the description of the Incinerator and Beaming Probe consumables to mention the limited durability of the probes.
  • Thanks to Fluffiest for reporting.

• Tweaked SphereMonger and ChezEyelet rooms to prevent them from becoming death traps with certain enemy combinations.

• Toned down Slalom room.

• Increased Centrifuge and Opticon (Au) HP slightly.

• Increased the conversion rate of the Credit to Energy Converter from x5 to x10.

• Increased the energy cost of the Energy to Missile Converter from 5 to 10.

• Updated the Misery mode description.

• Fixed a problem with missile launcher muzzle flash animations showing twice.

• Tweaked the tutorial to reduce likeliness of cutting off some of the voice lines and make it possible to level up once.

• Reduced Decimating Power white flash duration to improve visibility.

• Halved the knockback resistance of the mobile Core Blades.

• Buffed the damage of the 2-Way Missile Module (Au).

• Increased the reward for completing the Puzzlemaster probation.

• Fixed some typos.

• Upgraded the engine from Unity 2017.1p4 to 2017.3.

Unlock Overhaul

• • Added 87 new items to the game: 62 new unlockable items for the base game, a further 16 unlockable items for the AuGMENTED expansion, and 9 new items going straight into the base game.
  • Added tiered enemy seeding for the base game and the AuGMENTED expansion, based on victories.

Version 2.004 (Refiiiinement)

(Released June 5th, 2018)

• Fixed a problem causing achievements to be checked for awarding, but not actually awarded.

• Replaced Sunder small sun-like projectiles with an animated version. (Including Hard difficulty projectiles)

• Animated the swirly projectiles of Golden and Blue Fragment enemies.

• New Perfect Boss Clear achievement art added for The Humbled, Metal Legion, Periphery, Sunder and Valor.

• Extended the descriptions of Necro Mech (Au), Rogue Bomber Communicator (Au), StinkBot (Au), Revenge Rams, Ram Launcher, Mapmaster, Map of the stars and Code:Annihilate.
  • Thanks to Rogue Justice, Shin and Tails_155 for the feedback.

• Changed the secret room message on free items to "Other items will disappear if you grab this" since "if you buy this" didn't really make sense with free items.

• Miniature Blackhole was made more reliable and less prone to canceling. Also reduced the duration of magnetic protection for the player from 10 to 5 seconds.

• Removed steering disabling effect of Blue Crystal Beamer, which was making certain bosses behave weirdly.

• Shifted the attack style of Orbiting Battlestation to slow firerate with powerful shots while keeping the same DPS to reduce the visual chaos.

• Changed the damage type of Blade Module from Ballistic to Melee.

• Adjusted the seeding of Kunai from floor 2-5 to 3-6.

• Increased the energy cost reduction and regen of Energy Orbital, to be on par with other orbitals.

• Removed the bullet clearing effect when Labyrinth is destroyed to stop the lasers in the center from fake turning off when the boss buddies are still alive.

• Adjusted the hitbox of Tiny Transports, SideShot and FlakLauncher.

• Added a death timer to Zombots as a spawning limiter.

• Added corner turrets to DiscoInferno room as timing indicators for flames.
  • Thanks to Esty for the feedback.

• Added more middle paths to SameFaced room to avoid problems with the bottleneck.

• Made the countdown for the Maze Bomb condemned room shorter, adding urgency and reducing the length of the easy dodges.

• Removed Warhog Lv5 shield regen perk.

• Removed Zephyr Lv11 +1 shield perk.

• New Corrupting Power art added.

• Reduced Parasite Armor (Au) health cost.

• The Humble mech stats in the selection screen now reflect his actual max energy available.

• Adjusted the seeding of a few bosses.

• Tweaked several more rooms.

• Eliminated several cases of duplicates in the listing of the Statistics menu.

• "New" Content. Beamer Buddy Ver2 and Beamer Buddy Ver3.
  • These Deep Blue mech special perks were created a long time ago, but we've only just realized that they're not appearing in game due to a typo! So, that's now been fixed and they should now appear.

• Improved visibility on starfield backgrounds of the later floors.

• Fixed Plasma Shotgun stats.

• Fixed interaction between Holy Fire and Magnetic Offense.

• Added knockback resistance to blue blockades and slightly reduced the number of flying shrapnels released when destroyed.

• Increased the duration of the Carnage Circuit.

• Converted the Pinpoint Accuracy and Sensor Jamming Circuits to bulletspeed effects and renamed them to Velocity and Deceleration Circuits. Also re-enabled their standard seeding method.
  • Thanks to Shin and Tails_155 for inspiring the change.

• Fixed some typos.

• Fixed the kamikaze attack of some enemies not working correctly.

• Updated the descriptions of the difficulty levels with the latest changes.

• Fixed a few misnamed enemies.

• Gave unique names to some enemy variants that shared the same name.

• Increased the XP value of popcorn style enemies. Was previously 0.

• Decreased the XP value of boss buddies (like the Warden's turrets).

• Added 9 achievements to the game.

• Added 9 new rooms.

• Added a new golden variant of the Zombot enemy.

• Fixed a bug with the probation condition for healing being triggered by taking a sacrifice item.
  • Thanks to Tsukiyomaru Zero for reporting.

• Changed environmental immunity (like Trapmaster and Penumbra) to include the blue blockade's flying shrapnels.

• Added colored prefix text to slot based items so that you can more easily tell which slot an item goes into.
  • Thanks to Esty and Muhkeamursu for the feedback.

• Added outlines for all enemies so that they stand out better against the background.
  • Thanks to Esty for the feedback.

• Improved the visuals of the player location and the warp pad destination on the minimap.
  • Thanks to Esty, Shin, Tails_155 and others for the feedback.

• Buffed Twin Machineguns and Triggerking Revolver.

• Golden Missile Launcher and Lucky Golden Minigun (from the base game) now only spawn on regular floors.

• Explosive mines on golden floors now actually do explosive damage.

• Greatly increased the damage of repeater turrets (blue shots) on enemies.

Version 2.003 Hotfix

(Released February 19th, 2018)

• Fixed an issue that two users ran into where it would no longer load their savegames after a nullref exception during play.

• Also added some protection against the original error, or rather the side effects of the original error. Apparently somehow they reached a state where CurrentRoom was != null but CurrentRoom.CurrentCombat == null, which is pretty bonkers. I don't know where that was happening or how to prevent it, so if that happens it will still kill their run. But it won't kill their save anymore.

Version 2.002 Hotfixes

(Released February 15th, 2018)

• Fixed missing tags for some probation-style items (Masochism, Harmony).
  • Thanks to Soupinator for reporting.

• Fix for the Kill Final Boss with All Mechs and Kill Super-Final Boss with All Mechs achievement which was only working if you killed the bosses with all the mechs in one session.
  • Thanks to rusty-double-oh-seven, Mordosskul, and Soupinator for reporting.

• Reduced the kickback on the Leviathan Autocannon. The kickback was so strong that it may have been causing rare issues with getting stuck behind glass blocks.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

Version 2.001 (Die A Fiery Death, Audio Crash)

(Released February 7th, 2018)

• Removed the stats window for a few (Au) Sacrifice Items.

• Actually set the Parasite Armor (Au) sacrifice item to seed...doh!

• Nerfed Chromatic Array slightly (Au)
  • Thanks to Kinix for reporting.

• Updated the credits.

• Stopped the Flux Capacitor (Au) from seeding multiple times since the effect of the item doesn't stack.

• Stopped the Kunai from seeding on Gold Floors.

• Put in a variety of extra checks that should help to guard against the intermittent unity CTDs that people are experiencing.
  • Thanks in particular to Rusker for a report that at least would solve one of them (that admittedly we've only seen once, but still).
• Tweaks to the Safari achievement
  • Tweaks to make this achievement easier and perhaps actually possible (it might not have been before). Now it excludes all bosses, minibosses, condemned enemies and shopkeepers.

• Fix for Artillery Fire room.
  • Thanks to Kinix for reporting.

• FINALLY fixed the longstanding super-infrequent crashing that was happening for some-but-not-all players. This has been a thorn in our side for two years now, but we finally got some excellent help from Unity's engine developers themselves, and it turns out that we were triggering a crash bug somewhere deep in the engine via calls to WWW.audio.GetAudioClip().
  • That's now on their list to investigate and fix, but in our case now that we know what the problem actually is, we've switched approaches to no longer use that method at all, instead baking the music and voice tracks into the game itself. This is also why it would happen sometimes specifically during tutorials.
  • We do still have to use this method for the SoundsFromMods optional folder, but that's just for modders who want to add sounds, and it should limit any crashes to on-startup only, not during gameplay. And in those instances it would only be if you're playing with some mods on, and even then only rarely if ever. For everyone currently playing the game that we are aware of, you won't have a crash from this piece. If you have a crash, that would be something else instead.
  • Incidentally, the reason that the game was crashing after killing enemies or during room switches is... drumroll... because those are times when music tracks change. We were looking for so many other pieces of code that might be a problem during that time that we never thought to look at music. This is the same music code we've used since 2010 in every other title of ours prior to this one, so whatever the problem is with the underlying engine is must have been introduced in Unity 5 or thereabouts.
  • Thanks to everyone for their massive patience with this, and thanks to everyone who submitted crash dumps. We're definitely missing some names off this list, but some of the folks are: Soupinator, Turambar, Palewing, kassemmel, Monkooky, Antiarc, ShaggyMoose, Stx11, -{A★T}- blazingrager33, Jack Forsythe, Windless Zephyr, r1024768, Rusker, tombik, zulmetefza, Neikius, Esty, mg979, Kinix, and _c0balT.

• Logorouge and Draco's Probation Overhaul
  • Updated and improved rewards for existing probations
  • No Pain No Gain changed to only require 2 Sacrifice Items.
  • Two new probations. Bounty Hunter and Rabid Consumer.
  • New SFX on successfully completing a probation
  • Notification to the console when you succeed or fail a probation.
  • Each probation no longer seeds more than once.
  • Fixed it so that only achievable probations will seed on final floors.

Version 2.000 (Expansion 1: AuGMENTED Launches!)

(Released January 23rd, 2018)

• Minor bugfixes for the expansion.

• 3 more enemies and rooms for the expansion.

Version 1.990

(Released January 22nd, 2018)

• Renamed and changed the description on Extra Energy Shard Refiner to be clearer on what it does. It's now called Healing Shard Refiner.
  • Thanks to a_triangle for the feedback.

• Fixed sprint effect cosmetic bug.

• Fixed a couple of case typos that were affecting Linux users.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Fixed a typo with Trap Master.
  • Thanks to crazyroosterman for reporting.

Version 1.800

(Released January 8th, 2018)

• Fixed a couple more case sensitive typos that were affecting Linux users.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Made Regeneration Walls immune to knockback.

• Fixed longstanding bug with the starting position of the player in miniboss rooms of large or medium size.

Version 1.751

(Released December 19th, 2017)

• Adjusted the description for Spire Knowledge.

• Disabled Graphics Jobs, which may have been causing some crash-related issues.

• Made the default on windows DirectX9 rather than OpenGLCore, so that the "fullscreen windowed" intended default now works properly on windows (already it was fine on OSX and linux, supposedly).

Version 1.750 (Cumulative Update Since 1.501)

(Released December 18th, 2017)

• Reverted back to Unity 2017.1.0p4, which apparently solves the crashing issue that is in the Unity 5.5 branches. Or at the very least makes it far less frequent. The super-legacy versions of OpenGL, which apply only to 8+ year old Linux machines (windows machines can use DirectX9) unfortunately get left behind, but it should be far less of an impact on very few customers. We really had to weigh pros and cons, and it was a tough call.

BETA Version 1.704

(Released December 17th, 2017)

• Fixed it so that Recovery Module gives a few seconds of Invincibility when it kicks in, this helps the new Penumbra mech not get killed straight away after reviving.

• Fixed a problem with Trap Master that meant it wasn't working correctly if you were to get fire rate reductions.

• Set Kunai to seed a bit later on and tweaked the damage.

• Added the final achievement art for the new mechs.

• Set Spire Knowledge to last for a whole run rather than just a floor.

• Reduced Kunai damage.

• Downgraded the version of unity to Patch 5.5.5p2, which is still new as of November 28th, 2017.
  • This is two major versions back, though (back from 2017.1 and 5.6 before that), which means that the system requirements increases from the newer versions (OpenGL 2.1 being dropped) no longer apply.
  • Nonetheless, this has a heck of a lot more patches on the 5.5 unity branch compared to the older 5.5.2p2 version that the game was previously running on in the last non-beta version.
  • Hopefully this works out to be the best middle-ground for everyone.

BETA Version 1.703

(Released December 15th, 2017)

• Fixed a few wrong letter case typos that were affecting Linux users.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Set OutToLunch perk to only be able to appear once, since getting that perk more than once -- which is possible in the case of the Roulette Alpha mech -- makes no sense since it can't stack.

• Added new Warp Pad art.

• More improvements to weapon particles and muzzle flashes.

• Fixed a bug with Holy Fire that meant it wasn't firing correctly.

• Added an tutorial failsafe for a rare occurrence.

• Fixed a Valor bug which meant it was being listed twice in the stats.

BETA Version 1.702

(Released December 10th, 2017)

• Sounds were incorrectly being normalized in the last two beta versions. Fixed.

• Added a new way to adjust the volume of various sounds via xml rather than by editing the sound file itself.
  • These are floating point numbers where 0 is silent, 0.5 is half volume, 1 is full volume, 2 is double volume, etc.
  • On bullet patterns: sound_volume_to_use_when_action_starts
  • On systems: sounds_on_shot_fired_volume, sounds_on_system_activated_volume, sounds_on_shot_detonate_volume, sounds_on_shot_does_damage_volume.

BETA Version 1.701

(Released December 8th, 2017)

• Fixed a bunch of problems with certain code being missing from the base game if there is no expansion installed.

• Fixed a problem with the new expansion achievements causing errors in the base game when no expansion is present.

• Visual polish. Added new visual effects for Decimating Power, adjusted Deflector Field emitter and added an extra SFX, updated the Blunderbuss to the new shotgun visual style, added a few extra particle effects to player weapons, mostly muzzle flashes and bullet death particles. Flipped some system images that were not orientated correctly.

BETA Version 1.700

(Released December 6th, 2017)

Note that in order to play this particular beta, you need to go into the Steam properties for the game, under the Betas tab, and choose "Beta" as the branch to play on. This will arrive on non-Steam versions once it exits beta, in January or so.

• DUE TO WEBSITE ISSUES THE WIKI WAS ROLLED BACK, SO SOME CHANGES HAVE TO BE RE-ADDED TO THE LOG AND SOME MAY HAVE BEEN MISSED.

• This version is also the first one on Steam to support the upcoming expansion AuGMENTED, although the beta for that is somewhat separate. If you're part of that beta, though, be sure to be in the beta branch on Steam so that it will work!

New Content

• Two new mechs created in collaboration with community member Logorouge. The Penumbra and Alpha mechs. Both have completely new weapons.
  • Thanks for creating these Logo!

• New tutorial added. Thanks to Draco for completing most of the work on this.

• Re-added a slightly improved Overkill perk. Out To Lunch also re-added with a 100% skip chance.

• Re-enabled Magnetic Personality as an Incredibility.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for suggesting.

• New Perk Extra Health Refiner

• Improved particle work for weapons (smoke effects, muzzle flashes, shot death particles)

• One new Condemned room, and one Condemned that wasn't seeding correctly now is

Balance

• Changed the way that the Disruptor works so that it can't completely freeze enemies for long periods anymore.
  • Thanks to MLG_Cynical-Norfeder for reporting.

• Tweaked Sniper Protocol, which was a bit too strong.

• Removed ability to destroy bombables from AllInTheWrist, which was too OP.

• Nerfed Contrishooter a bit.
  • Thanks to Whistler and others for suggesting.

• Added missing knockback resistance to one of Terminus' Core Blades.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting...again! :)

• Made Viper Strike not do friendly damage.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Upped the Autocannon Minibot range.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Reduced Lorentz Factor duration.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Made Harmony only last for a floor.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Increased Missile Salvager effect from 5% to 10%.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Reduced Paragon speed.

• Fixed Vigilant Hull and Medical Emergency Interaction.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Tweaked Autocannon Drone a bit.
  • Thanks to Zharmad for the feedback.

• Contrishooter nerfed a bit.
  • Thanks to Whistler for reporting.

• Altered CMP_GlassZoo(6) to help with certain enemy combinations.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Tweaks to Blade Module description and Signal Triangulator Icon.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Buffed Immolated Minibot, Relentlesss Interceptor Crossbow, and shop discount sacrifice items
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Made Miniboss reward a minimum of 4 missiles rather than 2.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for suggesting.

• Now when Condemned rooms are completed, any caltrops in the room are destroyed. Now that bug when you step on any caltrops after failing the room should not be possible. Plus, it's a good nicety to not have to avoid any caltrops on your way out.
  • Thanks to SCarterE and others for reporting.

• Torpedo Cannon tweaks.

Minor Fixes

• Fixed a couple of typos.
  • Thanks to InkEyes' Let's Play for highlighting these.

• Reduced the Tactical EMP screen flash duration.
  • Thanks to InkEyes' Let's Play for highlighting this.

• Fixed a few typos.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Fixed a bug with AllInTheWrist that was making it disappear from the icons list.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Made the Rocket Man description clearer.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Fixed a problem with the damage numbers of Holy Fire.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Added some visual feedback when Recovery Module kicks in.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Fixed a bug with an interaction between Trap Master, Hardening Module and Defense Orbital.
  • Thanks to Chillblain and Eruanion for reporting.

• Reduced Cryofreeze module SFX volume. Reduced Frozen Orb SFX volume.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Fixed the last couple of remaining achievement bugs. Specifically the one for finishing the game with all mechs and the one for unlocking all Condemned room.
  • Thanks to B0rg, Logorouge, onehalfatsquared and others for reporting.

• Put in further protections against the rare after-secret-room crash.

Unity Engine Upgrades and Loading Speed Upgrades

• Improved the loading speed of the graphics process at the start of the game.

• Upgraded the game to use unity 5.5.2.p2 rather than 5.5.0p3 of Unity.

• The version of the unity engine the game runs on has been upgraded from 5.5.2p2 to 5.6.0p2.
  • We discovered that the reason the game was loading so much more slowly lately now also was causing an exception to be thrown in Unity 5.6.
  • This was a ton of sound files being preloaded from the disk in a too-slow format. These are now being stored in the internal Resources folder of the game project, which makes it so that they are loaded in bulk way faster, and without causing any underlying FMOD issues. Modded sound effects can still be placed in the Sounds folder, though, so that modding capabilities are not affected.

• The way that sound effects are loaded has been altered, and the way that they are stored has also been improved. They're now far less likely to bog down your system during gameplay, and are included in the resource asset bundle instead. They also load on background threads, and only come in as mono now (the sound itself really really doesn't need to be stereo, since it's already a stereo environmental and music setup and sounds on different panned bits to the speakers helps avoid overloading them.

• The unity version has been upgraded AGAIN, this time from 5.6.0p2 to 2017.1.0p4.
  • There are a variety of bugfixes in this upgrade relating to linux, osx, and just general performance and whatnot.

• Maaassive scrubbing out of old networking-related code that was never used in this game but which was brought forward from the Valley titles and was slowing this one down a bit.

• Used some of the new profiling and performance-tuning techniques that we've learned from AI War 2 in order to eliminate some performance hotspots that have cropped up, some of which were new during the development of this expansion and the free base game content that goes along with it (new features that added a substantial performance hit to drawing all shots, for instance).

• The initial loading screens actually properly block you now until all the images it needs to load are loaded, rather than letting you get past them too fast and then being really laggy.

Version 1.507 (Difficulty Smoothing)

(Released January 10th, 2017)

• Increased the amount you get from damage boosting power ups. These were nerfed a little too hard during the last patch, so have now been pushed back up somewhat.
  • Thanks to Kinix and others for reporting.

• Overall enemy HP has been reduced by 25%.

• Increased the the health pickup frequency as well as adding two more variations of health pickup that provide 2 and 3 health each. These can also appear in the cheap shop.

• Changed Harmony to give you its bonus once every floor, but also moved it to the Secret Room. Secret room items are allowed to be a little extra crazy, bordering on OP, and due to some of the powerful interactions this item can give you, it seems like the more appropriate place.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for suggesting making the bonus work every floor.

• Fixed a typo on the Deep Blue mech
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Made Time Machine only seed in secret room.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Made the Plasma Punisher shot transparent, so it doesn't block your visibility as much when it goes off.
  • Thanks to Frumple for reporting.

• Tweaked the timing of Fight or Flight so that the movement speed boost wears off a fair bit before the invincibility does.
  • Thanks to Frumple for reporting.

• Alterted the CondemenedHunter pattern to make it less pathetically easy on Normal.
  • Thanks to Frumple for reporting.

• A bunch of individual enemy HPs have been nerfed, and a lot of rooms have had their enemy density decreased.

• Improved the functioning of the Telekinetic Repulsor Module so that less craziness happens when it interacts with certain enemy bullets. It will now clear most of the shots it pushes.

• • Thanks to Frumple for reporting.

Version 1.506

(Released January 5th, 2017)

• The three achievement-related bugs all seem to be fixed now.

BETA 1.505

(Released January 3rd, 2017)

This is temporarily only available in a steam beta branch, since it may break things.

• Fixed a bug where it was possible in some cases to have more than 100% health, which led to visual health bar glitches as well as you actually having more health than you were supposed to.
  • Thanks to eruanion for reporting.

• Put in recovery code for cases in which previously the player hull could be set to null by you clicking around a lot during world generation; it now chooses a random hull when it hits such a case, rather than just dying. Actually fixing the root issue is of course next on the list, but there may be multiple ways to trigger this.

• Added tooltips to the icons on the bottom right of the file select screen.

• Fixed a longstanding but little-seen issue where mouse or key presses during the creation of a new run would corrupt the run in many cases.

• Fixed ConductiveHull stats.

• Reduced Cryofreeze Module volume a bit.

• Fixed a null reference exception that apparently could happen sometimes when either starting the tutorial for the first time or possibly related to exiting or entering certain rooms.

• Fixed yet another nullref exception that could happen, this time in minimap rendering right when changing states.

BETA 1.504

(Released January 2nd, 2017)

This is temporarily only available in a steam beta branch, since it may break things.

• Updating to Unity 5.5.0p3, which seems to fix the errors we were having in 5.5.0f1 when resizing or maximizing the screen.

BETA 1.503

(Released December 21st, 2016)

This is temporarily only available in a steam beta branch, since it may break things.

• Updating to Unity 5.5.0f1.

• Reduced Gravity Cannon player defense to 2 seconds from 4.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Reduced Arcoris x4 to 3 minions instead of 4, which was a mistake. So now there are actually 4 in total not 5.
  • Thanks to the person who reported this, sorry I forgot who it was (maybe Monkooky in Discord!).

• Made Spire Knowledge description more specific.
  • Thanks to Monkooky for reporting.

• Fixed Conductive Hull energy amount.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Removed the fire rate boost from Jack of All Trades. This needed a bit of a nerf.
  • Thanks to Z99-_ for the feedback.

• Adjusted the Interceptor drone description to be clearer.
  • Thanks to Z99-_ for the feedback.

• Reduced Loco HP a little.
  • Thanks to eruanion for the feedback.

• Adjusted the Cryofreeze module damage which was way too high.
  • Thanks to Z99-_ for reporting.

• Reduced the drop frequency of modules by half. They now also seed in weapon and defense shops.
  • Thanks to Monkooky and others for the feedback.

• Adjusted the Deep Blue mech energy multiplier to 1.5 from 2.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for the feedback.

• Removed some the floor revealing perks, but added new perks Resupply and Rally.

• All new/improved perk art added.

• Changed the SFX on the Mini-Swarm enemy.
  • Thanks to carldong for reporting.

BETA 1.502

(Released November 11th, 2016)

This is temporarily only available in a steam beta branch, since it may break things.

• TinyDamageBoost and TinyEnergyBoost now appear as powerups on the status screen
  • Thanks to Motai

• Interaction of range extension modifiers and Incineration and Cryofreeze modules is now more reasonable, but less awesome
  • Thanks to Logorouge

• Fixed reversal of DoorEvil and DoorBoss
  • Thanks to SJD

• Rocket Man now only last for a floor.
  • Thanks to Logorouge and others for reporting.

• Cluster Launcher no longer does friendly fire.
  • Thanks to DarkTwinge's stream for highlighting this.

• Revenge Module replaced with Plasma Punisher Module. Whenever you get hit, fires a burst of plasma that stuns enemies.

• Main minigun SFX beefed up a little, and particle trail added to the Torpedo Cannon shots.
  • Thanks to Goldenwolf for these changes.

• Simplified and nerfed Destruction module. It just does the damage boost now, and doesn't give extra shots(this is part of a general module refinement process).

• added suppress_aoe_destruction_of_shots flag to system

• Grenade Launcher and Cluster Launcher no longer destroy enemy shots (which was super OP).
  • Thanks to Monkooky and others for reporting.

• Boomerang Needler aesthetics have been made a bit more boomerang-y. It now uses an animated shot.
  • Thanks to Goldenwolf for these changes.

• Removed the friendly fire on Detonating Rose.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Clarified the Looter probation description.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Increased the size of Paragon's hitbox, which was way too small.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Added the Telekinetic Repulsor Module to replace the Reactive Shock Module.

• Tweaked the Combat Shield look and function. You can now push enemies back with it, too.

• Changed the Kunai SFX a bit, and the shot type.
  • Thanks to Goldenwolf for these changes.

• Kunai is now also in the energy weapon position. Before it was in the main gun position.

• Added SFX for Fragment enemy, Combat Shield, Battering Ram, and new Boss Intro SFX. New Javelineer thrust particle.
  • Thanks to Goldenwolf for these changes.

• Vastly improved the efficiency of the Zombot.
  • Thanks to WindlessZephyr's stream for highlighting this problem. Also thanks to eruanion for reporting.

• Made it so that you can't waste Alternate Deality when outside of a shop room.

• Gave the Green Envy innate revealing of Item and Secret rooms. Also buffed the passive bonuses a bit. Edit: changed this to innate ability to find higher tier loot earlier than the other mechs.

• Changed the Revenge Rams to be bigger and do more damage and greater AOE.

• Improved the GravityCannon and MiniatureBlackHole a bit. These are much less likely to cause you to take damage now.

• Improved TacticalEMP.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Cleared up the Serrated Spine Launcher description.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Reduced Conductive Hull to 60 energy gain.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• All the Condemned Room aesthetics overhauled. Shots, SFX, and particles. Plus some tweaks.
  • Thanks to Goldenwolf for these changes.

• Fixed a buggy interaction between Photoelectric and Big Leaky Battery.
  • Thanks to eruanion for reporting.

• The Perk Overhaul and Balance Update (plus other stuff)
  • For Misery's breakdown of the changes go here: https://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,19218.0.html
  • Lots of new general perks added such as Savings Interest, An Eye For an Eye, Bloody Rage, Big Game Hunter, and many more.
  • At least one unique perk for each mech such as Flame Master.
  • Many existing perks revamped such as Heavyweight, Resistance (was Deftness)
  • The perk level placements have been adjusted a lot, so that options need to be thought about a lot more. No more massive DPS no brainers.
  • Adjustments so that attrition is more of a thing, the main one being that health items now only restore 1HP. Gearing up and combatting attrition is now more of a challenge.
  • Enemy damage scaling has been removed. No longer do early floor enemies just get buffed on later floors, so you have to think a bit more strategically about what enemies in the current rooms are threats or not. Certain dangerous looking enemies will hit hard and need to be taken down quickly.
  • Floor size has been reduced significantly so that run length is reduced overall.
  • Upgrade damage boosts have been reduced a lot. The maximum single upgrades now are +40% and x33%, with most giving between +10% and +20% instead of numbers like +50% and +75%.
  • More XP bonus resources. There are now 3 versions of XP resource pickup. Sometimes you can find rare ones that will give you a big boost.
  • New enemies from Misery such as Disservers, Ramparts, and more.
  • A lot of small tweaks that we've probably forgotten about.
• Fixed AOE not waking enemies bug.
• Fixed Needler Probe respawn when buying new familiars bug.
  • Thanks to Windless Zephyr for highlighting this.
• Reduced Stomper volume.
  • Thanks to Logorouge for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where the "unlocked all items" achievement was erroneously given to players previously.

Version 1.501

(Released August 6th, 2016)

• Fixed a bug that was breaking some older savegames.

• Increased difficulty of Twin Suns.

• Tiny Energy Boost now grants 10 energy for 5 credits
• Dilithium Power Cell now grants 20 energy for 15 credits

• SurvivalPack readded

• Fixed Credit10 frequency in pools rate

• Adjusted the missile systems a bit.

• Acid Maw damage multiplier increased from 1.2 to 1.4
  • Thanks to logorouge for inspiring the change

Previous Release Notes

Starward Rogue:Post-1.0 Release Notes