v1.1 Summer Update available!

Hi there!

The v1.1 Summer Update is now live and available for play! Included are leaderboards/replays, the BREAK Guide, an experimental weapon mode, balance tweaks and more.

You can read more about the update here: http://bluerevolvergame.com/summer2017/

Summary of changes:

Leaderboards / Replays

• Replay functionality available. The game will prompt you to save a replay upon finishing a run.

• Leaderboard functionality available through Steam. You can upload your score to the leaderboards alongside saving a replay.

• Note that using the "Continue" function will disable replays and leaderboard upload for that run.

• Note: Due to technical reasons, replay and leaderboard functionality is Windows-only.

Weapon Changes

• Increased the unfocused damage for both Wide shot types.

• Increased damage across the board for Variable shot types.

• Improved the handling for Val Variable shot type.

• The unfocused player speed is now slightly modified according to the shot type selected. Power shot is unaffected. (Power > Variable > Wide)

• Val's Hyper Laser is now a powerful single-shot beam with splash damage. Versatile and powerful, but inefficient.

• Change to scoring mechanics for Defense weapons: Flourish mode activates as soon as the button is pushed, flourish drains slower while defense weapons are active.

• Cluster Missiles now deal damage more consistently over their area of effect.

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustments (Hyper Mode Only)

• Upon hitting Rank Level 5, the bar will drain instead of increase, until the player is back at Level 4.

• The drain rate is affected by the number of lives in stock - less lives, less time in Level 5.

• Dying at Level 4 or 5 will reduce rank to Level 3.

• Dying at Level 3 or under will reduce rank to Level 1.

Experimental Weapon Mode

• Experimental Weapon mode is available! You have no bombs and a weak main gun, but access to 3 new special weapons.

• Each special weapon can be purchased in the Unlocks menu.

• Scrap Option - The shotgun-like explosive options from "Experimental Weapon". Excellent screen coverage.

• Plasma Blade - Val's short-range, fast-firing variant of the Plasma Lancer. Great efficiency.

• Junk Cannon - Fires streams of sticky, damaging junk data. Massive damage.

• Ammo refills slowly on its own - collecting score items will also refill it.

• Game difficulty locked to Hyper mode.

• Score items are harder to collect.

Break Guide Break Guide is available in the Extras menu! You can now view a short clip of each break bonus being performed.

The Small Stuff

• Kiosk mode is now a command-line switch (-kiosk) instead of a gameplay option. ​

• Lowered the draw priority of special weapon projectiles. This should lower the number of cases where they are drawn over enemy bullets. ​

• Fixed a bug where the “bomber” enemy in stage 2 does something very strange when it leaves.

• Changed the way the main menu is drawn to make it more readable.

• Added “Stage Clear” text to intermission screen.

• Fixed a bug with the rank bar on Normal difficulty.

• Fixed a bug with progress achievements and the free play option.

Summer is for STGs! Enjoy!