v0.4.4: Critical Hits, More Sounds

New Feature: Critical Hits

Your weapon can now fire critical hits. Whenever you fire a bullet, you have a chance for that bullet to be a critical hit. If the roll succeeds, the bullet deals double damage and you will hear a special sound effect.

The starting values for critical-hit chance are as follows:

• Auto Cannon: 10%
• Rail Gun: 25%
• Heat Ray: 0%

There are now upgrades in the store to increase your critical-hit chance, too. These mirror lifesteal:

• Common: 30g, +2%
• Rare: 50g, +4%
• Epic: 75g, +6%
• Legendary: 100g, +10%

There is currently nothing stopping you from going above 100%, though there is no difference in gameplay between 100% and 101%.

I am considering making the Heat Ray incapable of critical hits (and excluding those upgrades from its store) but I would like to test this feature out first.

I Have Been Adding More Sounds

I started adding sound effects to the game in the previous patch, and this has some new ones as well. These events currently have sound effects:

1. A menu item is chosen
2. Player gets a shield
3. Player's shield is broken
4. Player is hit by a projectile or enemy ship
5. Enemy is hit by a projectile
6. The Heat Ray has overheated
7. Player has fired a Critical Hit
8. Player has fired the Auto Cannon
9. Player has fired the Rail Gun

Just off the top of my head, I would like to add sound effects to the following events:

1. Menu navigation (up, down, left, right on a joypad)
2. Player picks up a coin
3. Player purchases an upgrade
4. Player rerolls the shop
5. Player Dashes
6. Player activates Burst ability
7. Player activates Turbo ability
8. Enemy is destroyed
9. Player is destroyed

There are others too, I'm sure, but those are the big ones. The Heat Ray does not currently make a sound when it shoots, but you'll hear a sound when its projectile connects with an enemy.

I start my new job after Labor Day but I will not stop making this game, I WILL tirelessly work on this thing until it kills me.