The Final Frontier Windows game

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Update 1.1 Change Notes

New Characters

• Fighter (starting character with blaster and 5 health)
• Bomber (shoots missiles and starts with 8 health)
• Summoner (cannot shoot at first, summons drones, and can have turrets)
• Healer (heals health but less deadly)
• Basher (fast and can run into enemies)

Upgrade Trees

• Each character has a different upgrade tree

New Upgrades

• Hull Upgrade (regenerates health)
• Missiles
• Dual Missiles
• Triple Missiles
• Plated Missiles (missiles cannot be destroyed)
• Missile Tracking (faster missile turning)
• Missile Reload (faster missile cooldown speed)
• Single Shot
• Quad Shot
• Missile Defense (missile destroying counterpart to flak)
• Bullet Speed (bullets base velocity is higher)
• Shield Strength (number of hits for shield to be destroyed)
• Shield Regen (speed that shield regens to full)
• Laser (slows turn speed and has warm up while in use)
• Ion Cannon (shoots ion shots that disable enemies for a time)
• Ion Recharge (faster ion cooldown)
• Cloaking Device (allows cloak to disable damage for a time)
• Cloak Length (increase length of cloak ability)
• Cloak Recharge (decrease time between cloaks)
• Rammer (disables damage from hitting enemy when charged)
• Drone Ship (spawns drones to fight for you)
• Drone Construction (decreases time for drones to be constructed)
• Done Equipment (increases drone stats)
• Gun Turret (creates an automated turret to shoot at the nearest enemy)
• Turret Cooldown (increases turret cooldown speed)
• Turret Turn Speed (allows the turret to turn faster)
• Missile Turret (creates an automated turret to shoot missiles)
• Missile Turret Cooldown (increases missile turret cooldown speed)
• Missile Turret Turn Speed (allows the turret to turn faster)
• Healer Nanites (heals any fractional health bar to full)

Asteroids

• Asteroids now spawn sporadically on the top and bottom of the map
• Asteroids may also spawn in large groups and is noted above the wave number

New Enemies

• Marauder (stays close to the player and shoots bullets)
• Rusher (enters rush state and is much faster and cannot die from collision)
• Ranger (stays far away from the player and leads fast, plated shots)
• Shotgunner (pushes the player with large flurries of bullets)
• Swarmer (a large group of drones that stay together)

Enemy Levels

• Each enemy has a chance to be a higher level (1, 2, or 3)
• Higher level enemies are faster, shoot more often, and are more likely to have shields
• Level 1 is red, level 2 is white, level 3 is dark gray

Enemy AI

• Enemy AI has been updated to path around asteroids (raycasting)
• Enemies can turn faster to move around asteroids more easily
• The Ranger has the unique ability to lead shots
• The rusher also leads the player
• Level 2 and 3 suicider lead the player

Threat Level

• Once wave 50 is beaten with a character, a new threat level is unlocked
• There are 15 threat levels per character where each level adds some difficulty
• Each threat level adds to the previous making later threat very difficult

Character Colors

• Each character can be five different colors (blue, green, orange, purple, yellow) which can be purchased
• Each color other than the default gives a buff

Cooldown Bars

• Each weapon has its own cooldown bar
• Drone construction has its own bar
• Health, hull upgrade, and shield display together making one cohesive bar

Level Bar

• Current level, score, and required score for the next level is displayed in a progress bar
• Currency
• There is now currency that is gained based on enemies killed and is used to purchase other characters and character colors

Menus

• All menus have been redesigned with selections
• The pause menu in game now has a quick restart button
• The main menu displays enemies that you have destroyed fighting drones
• A game over menu displays all enemies killed and coins gained from each

Settings

• Volume bar
• Fullscreen selection
• Control binding (hold tab to reset at any time)

Bestiary

• A bestiary shows all enemies with stats and will fill once you destroy them
• Color coded backgrounds based on total of that enemy type killed
• Character Selection Menu
• Once clicking start, the character selection menu will display with relevant information about each and threat level selector

Changes

• Enemy AI has been updated to path around asteroids
• Health is no longer integer based
• Shields no longer get destroyed and regenerate slowly
• Missiles now track 180 degrees to its front rather than 360 degrees
• Wave numbers now display in the middle of the screen once enemies arrive
• Waves will automatically begin after a certain time has passed to prevent running to regen
• Enemy points per wave and start wave for each enemy adjusted
• Plated missiles are more defining in color
• Reactors on boss ships now flash and are brighter
• Speed can now be upgraded five times instead of three

Fixes

• Enemies sometimes disappearing when moving horizontally
• The player and enemies no longer snap pixel to pixel

Later

• Achievements
• Boss Waves
• Space Stations
• Updated Sounds
• Neutral Faction
• Permanent Upgrades
• Enemy Drones