Cryptark Update 5 - v0.8 - Balancing / Graphics

We decided to get another update out with a large amount of balancing changes and new weapons. After this our focus will be on the 'end game' finale mission before release!

Updated Ship Types: We updated all ship types, combining some and adding some new ones:

• Cloaker: Always Jammer, ranged enemies
• Duplex: Two cores. Balanced enemies
• Factory: Multiple factories that build up enemies over time. Balanced enemies and hazards.
• Dreadnought: Low number of powerful/shielded enemies
• Miner: Hazard focused
• Nuke: Nuke tank and self destruct system focused. Kaboom
• ScienceVessel: Lots of tech. Defensive focused enemies
• Scrapyard: Melee focused enemies and lots of destructible debris
• Sentry: Turret focus
• Swarm (colony ship): large number of light/weak enemies
• Warship: balanced ship with a bit of everything

New Weapons/Items:

• Barricade shield: Fire in a direction to stop projectiles/enemies from coming
• Taser: Melee weapon to stun enemies
• Prism Laser: Shotgun rail cannon type blast
• Slug shotgun: fires slug that bursts into shrapnel
• Zap shotgun: fires sticky electric balls that do damage over time
• Repulsor Shield: Shield that can push projectiles away at a large distance
• Hostage Shield: grab enemies and use them as a shield. Slows player on use.
• Subminution Rocket: Remote rocket that bursts into a swarm of seeking cluster munitions

Enemy/System changes:

• Repair system now repairs last destroyed system - so it's possible to stay ahead of the repair process
• Took out self repair functionality from repair system - was too hard to take out in combination with the attacking bees
• Goal time now slightly less
• Alarm/sentry/core now dont attack cloaked player. Mines also dont go after cloaked player
• Friendly turret item now has laser weapon to make it more powerful than drone item (but less mobile)
• Juggernaut increased density to stop gunfire from pushing it into walls
• Picket shielded added rapidfire blaster weapon
• Viper lowered attack range and lowered movement speed
• Lowered Ironclad health, and lowered amount of time shield is up
• Decreased MrFixIt heal speed, and now no longer letting multiple heal the same enemy/system
• Increased Sentry system laser damage
• Faster advanced factory spawning, from 100 to 60
• EMP stun now works on shield systems, stops their rotation
• Tattletale enemy now faces player rather than trying to run away
• Now displays 'max drones' in sidebar, to show the total possible drones that can be created on the ship
• Slimer enemy can now take slime damage

Weapon/Item Changes:

• Large balancing pass to ammo counts / prices
• Drunk rockets: proper explosion and projectile sizes. increased initial projectile speed (now more accurate. you can spit them into a room before they boost)
• Increased Rail Cannon charge speed
• Alarm lure: added 3 uses to alarm lure
• Nuke charge: added 3 uses to nuke charges
• Speed loader: increased rate of fire from 10% to 20%
• Speed booster: increased speed from +40% to +80%, and increased recharge time to 60 seconds

Character Changes:

• Now shows starting health in character select screen for rogue mode
• Enforcer: Starts with 12 health - max 15. Now has a single large health pack. Starts with shotgun zapper.
• Jennet: Starts with 11 health - max 13. Starts with two remote nukes
• Salamander: Starts with 9 health - max 10. Now has mine rack instead of slime mortar.
• Intruder: Starts with 6 health - max 6. Now has Guantlet melee weapon
• Wevil: Starts with 6 health - max 6. Replaced melee spike with taser

Graphics:

• Lighting pass on all levels, giving more contrast / individual lights on enemies and game objects
• Better background starfield maps
• Enemy ship images in the ship selection campaign screen now better sized
• Added star map to background of enemy ship selection screen
• Fully lip sync for all new dialog / artifacts
• New frag and small rocket particles
• Fixed problem where minimap wasn't accurate with a lot of crushers/wall saws in the level

Fixes:

• Fixed Weevil character going into space mode when inside enemy ship after teleporting
• Now stops enemies from exiting ship doors (except for advanced factory enemies, who will chase player into space)
• Fixed issues with systems being spawned in bad wall positions in early levels
• Physics optimizations
• Fixed some sounds playing over each other - or left on when outside ship

Let us know if you have any issues on our forums! Or any feedback at all, thanks,

• Lee & Jesse