Desecrators 1.0.9 - Crossfire

Highlights

Looping raid layouts Major improvements to raid generation Player stats and leaderboards New secondary upgrades

Changelist

Raids

• Added loops to all raids - Previously only one path could exist between two groups. Now multiple paths may exist.
• Expanded room entrance generation - Added new entrance types - Added many new room combinations - Added new tunnel types - Improved joins between large room entrances and tunnels
• Updated Abandoned Tomb and Drifting Orbital - Added new room types - Updated existing room types
• Added new cave room types
• Greatly reduced memory usage in large raids
• Improved generation time for complex raids
• Improved raid size consistency
• Major improvements to lighting - Improved indirect lighting - Improved lamp light sources - Lighting is overall softer and more precise - Softer ambient occlusion
• Reduced chance of teleports spawning in dropship rooms
• Phantom walls can now contain enemy generators
• Secret rooms can now contain phantom walls
• Fixed inaccurate gap detection for Ice Comet cave columns
• Fixed rare Galactic Treasury generation failures
• Fixed rare texture issues at hidden room entrances
• Fixed stretched, impassable entrances and other rare room entrance issues

Gameplay

General

• Equipped weapons now appear on player and rival ship models
• Flares now consume ammo of the equipped primary weapon
• Forcefields now reflect beam weapons
• Headlight no longer drains energy ammo
• Hazard level now multiplies run score
• Increased relic bonus for Gauntlet mode
• Resnic Analyzer now only appears among the first six upgrades
• Slightly reduced player ship speed
• Fixed Next Area Path ignoring teleporters in the dropship room
• Fixed inconsistent boss kill attribution
• Fixed projectile trap firing patterns desyncing at large entrances

Weapons

• Added new upgrades for: - Huntress - Multipine - Cycler - Cluster Bomb - Kraken
• Reworked weapon slots - Slot slots can now be purchased with credits - Slot price increases with each purchase - Slot pickups no longer appear in raids
• Reworked Ion Ray - Beam power now follows charge level - Decreased beam lifetime - Increased damage, including max charge damage - Increased fire rate and ammo cost - Increased cost from 60000 to 70000 - Improved FX and firing sound
• Armor penetration no longer benefits from player count scaling in coop
• Pillager hits can now trigger power core drops - Also fixes a rare issue where a raid would be missing a power pickup

Enemies

• Added Clustercraft enemy
• Adjusted Star Turret visuals
• Adjusted rival spawning
• Enemy mega mines now have a distinct detonation flare color
• Improved rival aiming and dodging
• Improved how enemy hearing is simulated across rooms
• Increased Manta weapon projectile speed
• Fixed inconsistent spawning for large crawler enemies
• Fixed enemies wandering into objective and teleport rooms
• Fixed rival wandering behaviour
• Fixed enemy escape behaviour using teleports incorrectly
• Fixed air enemies breaking formation prematurely
• Fixed inconsistent rival shield regeneration when far from players
• Fixed ground enemies missing room changes when snapping to ground

Graphics

• Improved debris FX
• Improved Autopulser projectile FX
• Improved muzzle flash lighting
• Improved performance for level lighting, debris and bubble FX
• Fixed view weapon barrels not receiving ambient light
• Fixed missing player engine flare on external cameras

Audio

• Improved melee enemy engine sound audibility
• Greatly reduced chance of important enemy sounds being cut off
• Improved sound culling for distant and occluded sounds
• Improved sound convolution and occlusion
• Improved room ambience propagation

Networking

• Improved ship movement network interpolation
• Improved pickup physics network interpolation
• Improved client disconnect handling
• Improved network packet performance
• Fixed shop purchases desyncing in coop at high ping
• Fixed incorrect coop respawn order
• Fixed a Steam networking memory leak
• Fixed Steam clients disconnecting during loading
• Fixed a rare error from enemy spawn FX during client disconnect

UI

• Added online leaderboard and player stats - Tracks detailed gameplay stats per player - Leaderboards for normal and gauntlet runs - Can viewed from in game or here: https://desecrators.woodhound.dk
• Added changelog viewer to main menu
• Coop post-raid screen now always shows shared scores
• Database now groups enemies by faction and weapons with upgrades
• Exopod pickups now appear on the raid map
• Player death messages now highlight killer and weapon
• Ship messages no longer fade out while the game is paused
• Stats button now opens the online player stats page
• Fixed homing and warning indicators behaving incorrectly
• Fixed map marker errors when player has no ship

Other

• Updated Unity version