Balancing

We made some changes to various parts of the game to improve balance and make it more Fun to play.

Items

Edeema (Intercranial Growths)

• Renamed to Edeema
• Increased health additive from 1 to 2
• Increased spread multiplier from 105% to 110%

Neuroplasticity

• Changed bullet increase from +1 to *2
• Changed spread multiplier from 105% to 210%  + 25% * bullets
• Added damage multiplier: 55%
• Added knockback multiplier: 75%
• Knockback is added per bullet so knockback to player from shooting still increases by 50%

Meditation

• Increased damage multiplier from 102.5% to 115%
• Increased fire period multiplier from 102.5% to 125%
• Decreased spread multiplier from 97.5% to 92.5%
• Added magazine size multiplier: 110%

Adderall

• Taking Adderall at 1 or less health will now kill the player
• Decreased reload time multiplier from 95% to 80%
• Decreased fire period multiplier from 97.5% to 92.5%
• Increased recoil multiplier from 105% to 125%
• Decreased spread multiplier from 97.5% to 85%
• Increased mining speed multiplier from 102.5% to 120%
• Increased speed multiplier from 102.5% to 120%

Lethal Brooding

• Increased damage multiplier from 105% to 120%
• Increased recoil multiplier from 105% to 120%
• Decreased spread multiplier from 95% to 90%
• Added magazine size multiplier: 120%

Concussive Blast

• Increased knockback multiplier from 102.5% to 120%

Forceful Interjection

• Increased knockback multiplier from 105% to 110%
• Increased damage multiplier from 102.5% to 110%
• Added movement speed multiplier: 110%

Enemies

• Max amount of enemies increased from 25 to 35
• Max enemies in an area before spawning is prevented increased from 3 to 4
• Min spawn radius decreased from 20 to 18

World Generation

• Increased chests per generation from 70 to 100
• Decreased ammo boxes per generation from 140 to 100

Bug Fixes/Quality of Life

• Fixed bug where key had a chance of existing in the normal item pool.
• Changed the chances of getting a key from being relative to the max amount of chests in the game to being relative to 35. This makes the key much more common.
• Fixed bug where bullets would collide with each other and prevent some bullets from colliding with a wall or enemy and breaking. 
• Enemy bullets and player bullets now destroy each other on collision
• Beating the boss results in a win screen instead of a death screen
• Fixed bug where enemies would clip over each other due to being in the same layer. (This bug is not fixed for the individuals).
• Minor changes to the blood and goop particles.(More particles, faster decay, less bounciness)
• Fixed a bug where player bullets could phase through the individuals.
• Different particle effects will no longer clip over each other
• Fixed bug where bullets would knock enemies back relative to their rigidbody2D mass and velocity and the collision knockback that is programmed.
• Reduced knockback on the y axis to characters hit by bullets to be 1/35 of the x knockback.
• Increased starting knockback slightly
• Increased the players clip size from 20 to 30