Astro Loop 1.5

Astro Loop 1.5.

The balance patch. Weapons and passives have been retuned, using numbers from Astro Loop Lab.

Weapons and passives, compared with 1.4:

• Scatter Shot: buff. More pellets, bigger and harder-hitting.
• Ion Orbiters: nerf. Each orb hits a target once per pass.
• Flak Cannon: buff. Bigger blast.
• Space Mines: buff. Much bigger blast.
• Energy Saw: nerf. Bigger blade, but no more shards, which used to double its damage.
• Solar Storm: buff. Hits harder.
• Cluster Bomb: buff. Faster bomb, one more bomblet, harder-hitting blast.
• Needle Gun: nerf. Two fewer needles at every level, and each needle hits a ship once.
• Railgun: buff. Hits harder, fires faster, wider slug from level 2.
• Nano Repair: nerf. Heals a little slower.
• Cryo Field: buff up close, nerf at the edge. The slow now grows the closer something gets to your ship.
• Momentum Drive: buff. More damage while moving.
• Vampiric Core: changed. It drains the same at every stack, less than a full core used to, and stacks add reach instead.
• Duplicator Core: changed for the Railgun. The second slug fires straight behind instead of beside the first.
• Combat Drone: buff. Its shots hit harder.

Enemy weapon rework. Most of them hit harder than before.

Android TV. Astro Loop now shows up on the TV home screen with its own banner.

Weapons fire on the beat better, tuned the timing system. They fire slightly faster than in 1.4 as a result.

Also:

• Asteroids aim near your ship instead of straight at it, and their fragments start inside the rock that broke.
• Shop and ship prices turn grey when you can't afford them yet.
• Range rings hold steady instead of pulsing.

Fixes.

• Leaving the app while paused no longer restarts the music under the pause screen or knocks weapons off the beat.
• Piercing shots hit each enemy once, as they always did with asteroids.
• A certain cutscene can no longer get stuck if you hang out south.
• Run stats are no longer counted twice in a few rare cases.

Want to try your own numbers? Astro Loop Lab, the tuning build, is a separate download under pre-releases, now updated to 1.5's numbers.

Install options:

• Obtainium users: add this repo for auto-updates.
• Direct install: download the APK below (enable "install from unknown sources").
• Also on F-Droid.

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