Changelog 2024-06-24

Skills

• Add new passive skill "Cooldown Reduction"
  • Reduces the cooldown of all active skills
  • cooldown reduction also affects the main gun of the ship
• Change main gun to be a standard active skill
  • up until now main gun was treated differently than other active skills
  • for all purposes main gun is now treated like any other active skill

UI & Controls

• Improve touch controls
  • the touch joystick is now always invisible
  • it does not matter where you touch the screen, the joystick is everywhere
• Add continue game button in main menu
  • you can now continue a game the main menu
  • that means you can pause the game, go back to the main menu to change settings for example and pick up your game where you left it
  • closing the application (or the browser) will still mean that you lose all progress
• Add skill bar
  • a new HUD element at the bottom of the screen
  • it shows all skill that you acquired during the game
  • for every skill it displays the level of the skill and the cooldown
  • at the moment not every skill has a pictogram, so some passive skills will be indistinguishable in the skill bar
• Add encyclopedia of skill and enemies
  • from the main menu you can access new pages "Enemies" and "Skills"
  • they will show you all the different enemies and skills that there are in the game
• Improve map selection

Misc

• Refactoring of various classes to improve maintainability of the code base