Alpha 6

This week updates reworks the Health Bonus/Drops mechanic by making it the game’s 5th Artifact. It also brings some balance changes (leaderboard wasn’t reset as they’re not big enough) and some polishing.

Changelog

New Artifact - Health Drops

• Health Drops were moved to an Artifact.
• Icon for the Artifact & Upgrades was changed to better fit the mechanic.
• Health Regen Upgrades have been renamed Health Drop.
• Upgrades stay the same but they’re now only unlocked if you have the artifact.
• Health doesn’t drop anymore between Waves without the Artifact.

Balance

• Increased Base Player Speed from 8.5 to 9.
• Increased Base Shield from 1 to 3.
• Lowered Bricks per Line Increment per Wave to 0.15 from 0.175.
• Changed Bricks’ Life to 0.35+0.4xWave from 0.45+0.35xWave.
• Increased the speed of Health Drops from 8 to 10.

UI

• Added a small animation to the Score.
• Limit Line is now Blue when Shield is active.

Other

• Increased “Wave Cleared” text’s duration from 1.5s to 1.75s.
• Added an extra 0.25s time between the Wave Cleared & Wave Start texts.
• Wave Start, Wave Clear & Perfect Wave texts are now localized.
• The Localization System now handles texts with variables.
• The Localization System now displays the English text as a fallback when a translation is missing. It’d show an empty text before.
• Upgrades’ titles and descriptions are now handled by the Localization System. Translations for languages other than English aren’t written yet, so it’ll fall back to the english.
• Some minor changes in Upgrades’ descriptions.
• Fixed Health Drops’ Amount not being reset properly between runs.