Early Access Build #1000

New Vermillion Loyalty Challenge: Tower Defense

• Earn a Solo Victory with Vermillion to unlock the Tower Defense Challenge

• Location: Green Hills

• Stop The Enemies From Getting To The Tower

• Enemy Tower Damage 1

• Elite Tower Damage 100

• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2

• Gold Per Pickup -0.85

• New 3D background

• New music track

• Added new Tower Health stat to the End of Run Summary

• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning a Tower Defense Victory

• To play, select Vermillion as the Captain then select Tower Defense from the Select A Challenge screen

• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement

• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

Loyal Crew Vermillion

• Get a Tower Defense Challenge Victory with Vermillion to unlock

• Loyal Crew Vermillion can immediately join the crew at the start of a run

• Vermillion must not be Banished to join your crew

Gamepad Support

• Added Native controller support for both Playstation & Nintendo Switch (XBox already had native support)

• Generic controllers will continue to use Steam Input

• Playstation & Switch gamepads show correct button hints in-game

• Restart Steam to get latest Controller settings

Boxing Gloves

• Boxing Gloves will now knock enemies off the set path causing them to target the highest priority (City Invaders & Tower Defense Challenges)

• Now targets the closest enemy

Fire Balls

• Now targets the furthest enemy in range. This change takes full advantage of Fire Balls range, damaging all enemies between the player and the target (similar to Punch Through)

Backgrounds

• Champion, Endless & Slime Planets backgrounds resolution increased from 1K to 4K

Performance Optimizations

• Optimized physics performance on multiple weapons & enemies

Options

• Damage Numbers turned off by default

• All text changed to white

Early Access Build #1004

• Fix - Damage Over Time physics accuracy and performance (Slime Trail, Static Field, etc)

Early Access Build #1005

• Fix - Some weapons & enemies not doing/taking damage

• Reminder - Slime Trail only slows enemies when the are in the slime trail, however they continue to take damage over time while green