Black Ice v0.4.5 is live!

The TL;DR is that I changed a ton of numbers, fixed a bunch of bugs, and added a new item: The Lasbreaker. You should be able to carry over your old saves, but it would be best to start a new character to stay balanced.

Additions:

• Added the Lasbreaker, a new icebreaker type that damages all enemies touching the hack link

• Added a bunch of new achievements, including Humble Beginnings

• You can teleport to another player in multiplayer by holding tab and clicking their name

• XP is now shared evenly among all players within 50 meters in multiplayer

• Added Sprint Toggle option so you don't have to hold the button down

• All text in the game has a new font, which should help Linux players who don't have Arial. It also looks really cool

• :D added to multiplayer (you'll know it when you see it)

Changes:

• The SHARK now scales with difficulty... strongly

• Damage Returned now scales much more with ilevel

• Changed item rarity colors

• The color red should now only be used in text for bad things. Magenta is used for Weapon stats now

• Set Items have been renamed to Epic items, to properly correspond to their function, since sets aren't implemented

• Weapon Range talent nerfed to 5

• RAM Regen talent changed to 5%

• RAM talent changed to 5%

• Health talent changed to 5%

• Movement speed talent removed (but items now have more)

• Weapon recoil is lower

• Machineguns have been tweaked to be more competitive with snipers and shotguns

• Reason (the Unique machinegun) has been buffed

• Railguns fire faster and cost less RAM, but do less damage

• Most modular weapons fire faster

• Icebreakers hack faster and scale better with ilevel, but cost more RAM

• Item level to Required Level scaling has changed

• Item affixes overall are more variable

• The homing affix now has a maximum amount that can drop on an item

• You now only lose 10% of your credits on death, but the maximum amount you can lose is now 250k (from 50k)

• Enemy HP scaling has changed (more at high level)

• Enemy Damage scaling has changed (less at high level)

• You now get most of your XP from hacking instead of killing enemies

• XP required to level has been lowered, since enemies give less XP now

• Lasgun damage has been lowered a bit, RAM cost has increased a bit. Still pretty OP

• Mines no longer shake your screen as much

• Only 30 enemies can spawn from a server at one time (60 from all servers), but servers will spawn the same total number of enemies before being hacked

• Jetpack is now quieter

• The store near the spawn zone has lower level loot now

• Knockback to players shouldn't ever be too ridiculous

• Player HP and RAM Regen per level has been buffed

• Only unique items have a minimum level requirement of 5 now

• Items now cost more from stores compared to how much they sell for, encouraging players to hack for items instead of shop

• Players can no longer spawn more than 6 mines per mine item - spawning more causes the oldest one to explode

• Jetpacks now use a percentage of your RAM that increases as they heat up. This is so that players can no longer fly forever, so they actually have to give the enemies a fighting chance.

• The hack timer is now a progress bar counting up (It's at 80%! I need more time!)

• When you create a character, the default is a blank bar, which should lead to some more interesting names in multiplayer. Random names are still available

• Players can no longer choose to not spawn buildings (which people thought was a bug)

• Enemies fall to the ground faster

• All player projectiles fly faster, so you don't need to put as much of a lead on enemies

• Players can select the closest multiplayer webserver to them manually. All games are visible from all servers. I'm talking about the real, physical, out-of-the-game cloud server that hosts multiplayer games, not in-game servers.

• Servers drop 3 loot less often (1-3 is still what you get)

• Damage taken redness is now a LOT more noticeable, especially after taking multiple hits

• Healing items (Instant and Over Time) heal for a lot more

• The SHARK's death explosion is a lot more spectacular now

• Sprinting now looks cool as it changes your view a bit

• Mines do less damage and use more RAM, but are still super strong

• You can no longer unequip an icebreaker or mine while they're in use, or a jetpack while it's heated up

• Maximum movement speed is now +150% (down from +200%)

• Additional hack range on items is a little lower

• Missiles don't knock enemies back as far

• Other servers spawn further away from Finality

• Finality spawns further away from the spawn zone

Bug Fixes:

• Dying now causes the game to save, so going back to the main menu won't make you lose progress

• Updated the achievement system to work even if you exit the game prematurely

• Mines and Health Powerups now can fall through enemy shields

• Achievement: Pay, Pal now works even if you drag and drop the item

• Enemies can no longer fly at you when you're jetpacking about. They can still jump

• Piercing weapons no longer go through the floor

• Firing two lasguns at once no longer causes crit problems

• Crit and Crit Multiplier are no longer global affixes

• Shops now drop the appropriate item level loot when hacked

• Swarm Server info terminals now display text appropriately

• Enemies no longer seem to stick to you when they're close

• Jumping off mines to effectively walk on air has been disabled

• Pressing enter after you die no longer causes issues

• Skipping the intro video should be faster and not cause issues

• Enemy Shields and Mines should no longer cause lag

• More enemies can be on screen at once now

• Player mines shouldn't blow up on other players in multiplayer

• The modding menu buttons for payloads and unique payloads have been fixed

• Zombie Derezzed enemies should no longer appear

• Joining games with passwords now works properly

• Swarm buildings now change colors properly in multiplayer

• Jump buildings no longer drop the item on top of them when they're hacked

• XP can no longer overflow into negative numbers

• Aimbots and the SHARK are now much better at chasing you down

• You can no longer hear icebreakers from across the map in multiplayer

• Camera shake can be turned down properly now

• The Flatline talent now properly checks for you to be below 5% HP

• Enemies no longer keep being knocked back after teleporting to respawn

• Frostbiter, one of the unique lasguns, spawns less particles and therefore causes less lag

• Music doesn't change way too often anymore

• Really high RAM regen no longer causes items to not reserve RAM

• You can now see damage numbers in multiplayer (crits don't show as red, though)

• You can no longer see the original pre-bloom/1990/CRT textures on items in close range peripheral vision

• Jump puzzle buildings now always have the correct level displayed in multiplayer

Thanks for reading all this! I hope you like the patch <3

• Super Duper Garrett Cooper