balance

over all game difficulty scaling occurs faster
  your damage will feel lower, and you will take more harm,
  so you should probably play on a lower difficulty

tech: Higgs manism gives 50% reduced fire delay instead of harm reduction
tech: inertial frame is removed
tech: automatic is now a junk tech

balance:
  dead reckoning gives 36% damage when at rest (was 30%)
  overcharge gives 10 more energy, but adds 10 junk tech
  1st ionization energy gives 6 energy per heal (was 5)
  dormancy increases damage by 100% but lowers it by 33% if no recent kills (was +50%, -15%)
  torpor decreases harm by 66% increases harm by 15% if no recent kills (was -50%, +10%)
  Ψ(t) collapse spawns 3 more research, so it's at 15
  fragmentation gives 30% more nails for railgun
  ammonium nitrate +25% (was 20%)
  generalist gives 8 guns (was 6)
  arsenal gives 10% per gun (was 14%)
  rivet gun fires 25% faster, rivets are 15% larger
  shotgun slug is 33% bigger
  missile bot fires 10% more often
  tinsellated flagella gives 40% speed increase (was 50%), base spore speed is 10% faster
  beamSplitter has a 20% lower divergence
  nano manufacturing tech is all buffed 15%
  traversable geodesics gives 2 guns and ammo (was 1)
  mines have 25% more nails, laser mines use 20% less energy sentry mines last 33% seconds longer
  zoospore vector has an 11% chance to spawn (was 9%)
  negentropy spawns a heal for every 33 missing health (was 50 health)
  exciton-lattice gives 60% damage
  thermocouple spawns 1-8 ice-IX (was 1-5)
  WIMPs spawn 2-6 research (was 2-3)
  quantum immortality reduces harm by 33% (was 23%)
  commodities exchange gives 10 power ups (was 8)
  super balls are 17% bigger (this means they do about 25% more damage)
  exothermic process increases damage by (was 45%)
  heat engine increases damage by 50% (was 40%)
  replication gives 10% duplication chance (was 8%)
  stimulated emission gives 22% duplication chance
  futures exchange gives 4.7% duplication chance per cancel  (was 4.3%)
  needles are 10% slower and do 15% more damage

bug fixes:
  reduced tolerances text rewritten to clarify that it gives more ammo per ammo pack
  hazards on horizontal flipped levels now correctly do damage
  ship mode aims properly after you die
    although it still doesn't reset
  experiment mode selections are highlighted better

todo.txt

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+over all game difficulty scaling occurs faster
+  your damage will feel lower, and you will take more harm,
+  so you should probably play on a lower difficulty
+
+tech: Higgs manism gives 50% reduced fire delay instead of harm reduction
+tech: inertial frame is removed
+tech: automatic is now a junk tech
+
+balance:
+  dead reckoning gives 36% damage when at rest (was 30%)
+  overcharge gives 10 more energy, but adds 10 junk tech
+  1st ionization energy gives 6 energy per heal (was 5)
+  dormancy increases damage by 100% but lowers it by 33% if no recent kills (was +50%, -15%) 
+  torpor decreases harm by 66% increases harm by 15% if no recent kills (was -50%, +10%)
+  Ψ(t) collapse spawns 3 more research, so it's at 15
+  fragmentation gives 30% more nails for railgun
+  ammonium nitrate +25% (was 20%)
+  generalist gives 8 guns (was 6)
+  arsenal gives 10% per gun (was 14%)
+  rivet gun fires 25% faster, rivets are 15% larger
+  shotgun slug is 33% bigger
+  missile bot fires 10% more often
+  tinsellated flagella gives 40% speed increase (was 50%), base spore speed is 10% faster
+  beamSplitter has a 20% lower divergence
+  nano manufacturing tech is all buffed 15%
+  traversable geodesics gives 2 guns and ammo (was 1)
+  mines have 25% more nails, laser mines use 20% less energy sentry mines last 33% seconds longer
+  zoospore vector has an 11% chance to spawn (was 9%)
+  negentropy spawns a heal for every 33 missing health (was 50 health)
+  exciton-lattice gives 60% damage
+  thermocouple spawns 1-8 ice-IX (was 1-5)
+  WIMPs spawn 2-6 research (was 2-3)
+  quantum immortality reduces harm by 33% (was 23%)
+  commodities exchange gives 10 power ups (was 8)
+  super balls are 17% bigger (this means they do about 25% more damage)
+  exothermic process increases damage by (was 45%)
+  heat engine increases damage by 50% (was 40%)
+  replication gives 10% duplication chance (was 8%)
+  stimulated emission gives 22% duplication chance
+  futures exchange gives 4.7% duplication chance per cancel  (was 4.3%)
+  needles are 10% slower and do 15% more damage
+
+bug fixes:
+  reduced tolerances text rewritten to clarify that it gives more ammo per ammo pack
+  hazards on horizontal flipped levels now correctly do damage
+  ship mode aims properly after you die
+    although it still doesn't reset
+  experiment mode selections are highlighted better
+
 
 
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@@ -28,6 +77,12 @@ is there a way to check if the player is stuck inside the map or block
 
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+* inductive coupling - sucks without catabolism, too much delayed gratification. should probably be bundled with transceiver chip
+
+tech: cloaking field - decrease/increase cooldown on sneak attack?
+  decrease/increase damage bonus?
+  decrease/increase visual radius?
+
 have throw charge scale with fire delay
 
 in testing mode console log the body you click on