Beta v0.1.0-3.0

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Welcome to a very nice beta! :)

Additions

• Replaced healing rays with more visually appealing healing orbs
  • 3-6 orbs might pop out when a cache is broken and you're missing health
  • When entering the spawn building, enough orbs to heal you to full (plus some extra for fun) will pop out if you're missing health.
  • Orbs move toward you if you get close, moving faster as they get closer
  • When the orb touches you, you will be healed for 5% of your base health
  • Orbs despawn after 20 seconds. They will begin emitting particles after 17 seconds as a warning.
• Completely revamped the bomb bullet
  • The bullet now explodes at a set position, and the bullet itself does not do damage.
  • A telegraph at the location indicates how many bullets the bomb will split into and what direction they will travel in.
• Added a new enemy that makes use of the bombs
  • It spawns rarely >100 tiles out (this is a placeholder)
• Added guiding light tiles
  • They start dim, but activate when approached, lighting up and emitting an aura of light.
  • They are intended to lead players to certain important locations.
  • Two trails of lights will now generate, each leading you to a starting trader and the trader miniboss beyond it.

Changes

• Improved the spawning of the miniboss' trader
• Anchors no longer generate in the peaceful biome, but one will always generate next to the miniboss arena in the direction of spawn.
• Reworked the miniboss (again)
  • It no longer does anything on reaching certain health thresholds
  • It now always uses its special attacks in the same order
  • Timing of attacks has been generally balanced
  • Special attacks (in the order they are used):
    • A laser is aimed at the player and fired after a short delay (shorter if on the rematch).
      • If below 50% health, 5 lasers will be aimed in a spread.
    • 5 homing bullets will be fired in a wide spread.
    • Four bombs are fired onto the player in quick succession. Each splits into 4 bullets (6 if on the rematch).
      • If below 50% health, instead 4 bombs are fired in the cardinal directions with a random spin and higher velocity. (they are fired faster if on the rematch)

Fixes

• Upgrades are now consistently named ("Reckless" is now "Recklessness")
• Lasers can no longer pass through gate tiles
• The miniboss now correctly uses special attacks more often in the rematch instead of less

Commit List: v0.1.0-2.0...v0.1.0-3.0

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This discussion was created from the release Beta v0.1.0-3.0.