community map - arena by Richard0820
skin tech: depolarization - gain +300 damage or -50% damage if a mobs has died in last 5 seconds
CPT triggers if you have above 90->85 energy
CPT skin graphically indicates when CPT is active
mass-energy defense reduction is 66->50%
new level load display animation draws the outline of the new map
only on reactor and final levels
choose MINIMAL HUD in settings to disable (or enter testing mode)
enthalpy spawns heals on mobs death with a 5% chance
this is roughly an 80% increase in spawn rate
mass production spawns a few ammo and heals when you first get it
paradigm shift 6->4 health removed
incendiary ammunition drone and shotgun explosions are 30% bigger
Zectron super balls do 75->90% more damage and drain 25->20 energy on hitting player
fixed bug with optical amplifier and cloaking field
plasma ball can pick up power ups when out of energy, like other fields
fixed bug with not hiding mouse
animated new level load graphics for reactor and final level
autoZoom code rewritten to work with pause better using the ephemera system
this might cause bugs, I already found a few
intro level renamed initial
extra ammo power ups on why difficulty for final and reactor levels
removed falling off the map damage on levels that still had falling off damage
mob: stinger - has speed that adjusts as it flaps it's wings and a short range laser
tech: strange loop - +9% damage, removing it gives null hypothesis and strange attractor
tech: martingale - +11% damage, removing this has a 50% chance to not remove and to double it's damage
paradigm shift removes 6 health when it ejects a tech, but now has a 85->97% chance to work
ammo, heal, research tech spawn extra power ups after each time you take them
tungsten carbide skin has a hexagon look and +222->300 max health
Bayesian statistics spawn 3->6 research
ansatz spawns 2->3 research if you have no research
Ψ(t) collapse 16->21 research
futures exchange 4.3->4.7% duplication
replication 9->10 duplication
stimulated emission 17->19% duplication
anthropic principle spawn 5->16 heals when you die
supply chain: no long gives JUNK instead triples the frequency of finding applied science
electronegativity 0.22->0.26% damage per energy
non-renewables 88->97% damage
anticorrelation 100->111% damage
decorrelation 70->77% defense
parasitism 83->93% damage
torpor 66->74% defense
bug fix:
recycling works with mass-energy (although it doesn't do much)
ternary wasn't working in many situations, but it should now
fixed bubble fusion exploit that triggers on mobs in factory endlessly
bot fabrication was making 1 extra bot and giving negative research sometimes
new community level cantilever
extended tech sorting to experiment
acetone peroxide does 40->33% more explosion harm to player
fleas can do up to 30% more damage before they despawn
pause menu can sort tech by keywords
tech: mechatronics - randomly add +(7 to 13)% damage
a few new images
bug fixes
cherenkov radiation damage bug fixed it does much more damage and matches the description
new community map!! underpass by Richard0820
duplicated power ups aren't circles
metastability makes power ups triangles instead of circles
3->4 seconds of half life before exploding
only metastability duplicated power ups have the lighting graphic
mob's that fall off the map now die instead of just being removed
so they can still spawn power ups
you can pick up power ups from slightly farther away (450)
but less far away when not facing the power up (100)
accretion has less lag at high amounts of heal power ups following you
several other bug fixes
setting - minimal HUD
remove: defense bar, damage bar, tech, in game console
improved text clarity on coupling
removed tech decoupling
added cloaking and sneak attack graphics
also, the 50% defense when cloaked is now clear from the defense bar
ternary 44->83% damage but requires current gun to have ammo/3 (was any gun)
wormhole invariant: uses much less energy to pause time
standing wave has less recoil when blocking
new images
bug fixes
community map downpour by DesBoot
community map buttonbutton by ||Destabilized E||
rounded borders on no-image mode selection cards
foam gun has some recoil
new superball gun image
bug fixes
mob damage difficulty setting is lower
recycling now flashes green when it heals
merged cancel and research bars for single column selection
added some dark grey borders for no images selection mode
new images with midJourney V5
spores, pilot wave, standing wave
bug fixes
community map clock by Cornbread 2100
health bar is now green
added a damage bar
(I'll probably add a setting to disable this next patch)
wave gun has -15% ammo
tech phonon has +25% ammo, and +10% damage
JUNK tech stubs can now wall climb
base wave gun rework
damage per hit 1.55 -> 0.33, -15% range, +20% ammo
no pause between wave packets
wave bullets can hit about once every 10 game cycles (1/6 of a second)
time between hits is reduced by fire rate
wave tech frequency has -25% damage no longer reduces fire rate
+10% phonon damage and ammo
JUNK tech: universal healthcare - your damage heals mobs
bug fixes
tech: aerostat - +88% damage off the ground, but -22% damage on the ground
negative mass field required
tetherBoss now has beetle babies, and immunity
skins have a unique orb for their description card
and some new images
cloaking field has a new graphic for sneak attack on the cross hairs
new community map yingYang by Richard0820
bug fixes
tech: elasticity - skin, does "crouch landings" a tiny bit more
jump and move faster, +15% defense
(replaces squirrel cage rotor)
tech: diaphragm - skin, defense cycles between -33% and +100%
requires aperture
tungsten carbide 150->200 maximum health
but now does "crouch landings" a more
Zectron damage 80->100% and it does a bit less harm to player
flip-flop, relay switch are no longer skins
pause brings up the most recent in game console message
in game console no longer fades out it just instantly goes on and off
bug fixes
tech: RPG - gains the rocket jumping effects from electric armor
eternalism no longer makes tech options have 50% opacity when choosing
some new images for cloaking tech
and some images were made brighter
bug fixes
safari media rules css fixed
tech: repeater - shotgun gets another shot, and a longer fire delay
shotgun cross hairs show when fire is on cooldown
keys 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,-,= switch to a gun in your inventory
Nerfed blinkBoss health and speed
sneaker mobs are immune to harm for one cycles after vanishing
experiment button new style
new images for energy, bots
bug fixes
tech: cordyceps - sporangium infect mobs, making them fight for you as zombies
tech: blast ball - mines fire super balls
tech: extended magazine - sentry fires 50% more shots
sentry works with foam, nails, or super balls
dark patterns - stacks to 9
38->15% damage, 53->15% JUNK
electronegativity - stacks to 9
0.12->0.1% damage per energy
bug fixes
card images and text scale based on browser width for smaller screens
tech Zectron - super ball can damage you, but they do more damage to mobs
superBall bullets are converted to run off generic b.superBall()
sneakers - after taking damage if sneakers are low on life they teleport to a random point from the player's history and they sneak attack again
sneakBoss - a large sneaker that can hide several times before it dies
bug fixes
card font is 10% smaller with a bit more padding on the edges
background is darker on power up selection
css border added to research and cancel buttons
JUNK images now timeout if you don't download the image in under 1 sec
and it will not even try to download an image above 500KB
and it will try a different random image if it's first attempt is too big
(gotta protect our friends with slow internet)
finalBoss
mine mode comes in waves
orbiters mode comes in waves, and they spawn at a radius that intersects the player
several on new level tech effects now also run on each new final Boss phase
gun stuff, many worlds, negative entropy heal spawns
perfect diamagnetism slow fall is much strong, but works better when angled like a parachute
added images to tech, field, gun cards (enable this in settings)
in progress - not all images are generated yet
images are generated by me using midJourney plus significant post processing
random research power ups are 20% more common per level
global difficulty balance: player takes a bit less damage
mutualism: 0.5->1 borrowed health for 250->300% more spore damage
harpoon can still fire when out of energy, but slower
harpoon fire cooldown no longer triggers when the harpoon returns
it's just a flat 2/3 of a second after you Fire
improved fire rate now allows you to fire many harpoons at once until you run out of energy
default harpoon rope is a bit longer
several bug fixes and undocumented changes I forgot to list
tech: junk DNA - +53% spore/worm/flea damage per JUNK tech you have, +50% JUNK added to tech pool
tech: pigeonhole principle - +31% damage for each gun you have, while a chosen gun is active
chosen gun cycles each level
syncs well with generalist
heuristics 30->25% fire rate, and now spawns a gun
arsenal gives 13->22% damage per gun, but no longer counts your current gun
active cooling gives 18->28% fire rate per gun, but no longer counts your current gun
supply chain adds 4% JUNK
dead reckoning 36->50% damage
alternator harpoon 60->80% energy cost reduction
quickly releasing the fire button retracts harpoon early
JUNK tech - circular symmetry - ship gets 200% damage, ship only faces forward but you can rotate the universe
several bug fixes
coupling for molecular assembler 5->8 energy per second
but also fixed a bug where coupling was giving 10x regen
when you die store a copy of all your tech
they will show up at your location in the future as a power up
this is probably buggy
CPT triggers at above 100 energy instead of above 68 energy
causality bots makes a few less bots
several tech with dynamic effects show the value of the effect in their description
mass-energy is compatible with more tech
defense works with mass-energy, but is exponentially reduced (~10%)
damage taken scales with difficulty based heal reduction
1.3x dmg level 5 hard, 2x dmg level 13 why
ergodicity: 91->66% damage, no heals -> 1/2 size heals
negative feedback 0.5% -> 1% damage per missing health
negative entropy spawn heals for 33% missing health not 33 flat missing health
this means it caps at 3 health per level
tech - iceIX freeze effect lasts 2 seconds longer, spawn 10 coupling
perfect diamagnetism, standing wave
research is less common
path integral comes with 5% JUNK
there are fewer starting power ups on why difficulty
bug fixes:
fixed the text overflow issue on small screens
decoherence: if you get a tech that is banished it stops being banished
you can now have negative research
tech: virtual particles - mobs have a chance to spawn coupling power ups
old tech virtual particles renamed vacuum fluctuation
tech: exciton - mobs have a chance to spawn a boost
boosts are a power up that increases your damage for 10 seconds
old tech exciton renamed non-renewables
laser tech: quasiparticles - replace all ammo with boosts
added +20px to grid elements to prevent text spillover
bug fixes
new setting: level ban list
bug fix: removed a command to preventDefault on space key, this might break something else
new boss added to level - Temple
snake tails have a lower mass and whip around a bit
auto targeting no longer works for stealth mobs
snipers, sneakers, ghosters
snipers fire more often at high difficulty, but bullets move slower at all difficulties
hoppers have move gravity, so it feels like they are hopping a bit faster
field tech: patch - after cloaking recover 75% of last health lost using that much energy
taking damage now forces decloaking
field tech: dynamic equilibrium - increase damage by 5% the value of your last health loss
foam has less velocity after a mob it's stuck to dies
snakeBoss becomes vulnerable if you remove any of the first 3 body segments
body segments have more health
bug fix: quantum eraser now removes mobs in a more random order
it used to have a too low chance to remove bosses
tech: quantum eraser - for each mob left alive after you exit a level
kill a spawning mob with 100% duplication
symbiosis: bosses spawn a tech and also an ammo, research, and heal
when mobs dies lose 0.45 -> 0.5 max health
boson composite - when you move through mobs they drain a little bit of energy
incendiary ammunition makes bullets explode on impact with map
polyurethane foam now works for harpoons
reactor level: timeBoss is much faster, mineBoss does 50% mine more damage
all bosses spawn fewer numbers
spawning all 4 bosses spawns much fewer numbers
bug fixes
loaded a patch to matter.js physics engine 0.18 to fix issues with time dilation
tech: freezer burn - if a mob is frozen while below 33% health, it dies
tech: flash freeze - if a mob is above 66% health it's health is set to 66%
snakeBoss 1st tail mob is larger and farther from boss
parthenogenesis your duplication effects extend to duplicate mobs and bosses
WIMPs do 33% less harm (because they are hard to deal with on reactor)
MACHO 66->60% defense
axion 75%-> 100% of defense added to damage
full tech wording rewrite (I probably made a few typos)
increase damage by 10% -> +10% damage
20% fire delay reduction -> +20% fire rate
taking harm -> losing health
50% harm reduction -> +50% defense
new defense text effect
extra long minus sign - -> –
bug fixes
you can scroll through the tech and gun menus while selecting power ups
added another classic n-gon option in settings
tech: options exchange - canceling tech,gun,field has a 90% chance for a reroll
stabber mobs now stab 15% shorter distance, but they can stab more often
weak interaction gives 5->10 max energy per unused power up
bug fixes
plasma ball is now live, but it's still in beta
still needs
new graphics
damage balancing
fast decay in mob shields
player angle rotation speed while firing adds to fire speed
tech upgrade to get electrical arcs that randomly damage nearby mobs
current tech synergy
capacitor bank,plasma jet(range?)
reservoir level is less crowded, so you can dodge mobs easier
horizontal flipped version is so reenabled
pure science renamed paradigm shift
difficulty scaling for heal and mob damage reduced 2%
some possible bug fixes, I don't know...
JUNK tech - 🐱
railgun buffs
600% -> 800% more ammo
more dense (more damage)
only targets mobs when pressing down
does a bit of damage to nearby mobs after you fire
extra damage to mob bullets
pneumatic hammer renamed caliber
also applies to super balls
5% less size increase per stack
pure science and unified field theory have a pause animation to show they are clickable
bug fixes
revolutionBoss is immune to damage at 1/4,1/2,3/4 health until it's laser spins around one revolution
thermocouple produces 1-9 -> 4-13 ice nine bullet
thermocouple is on by default until next patch
decoherence rewrite with flags instead of a banish array, to fix bugs
new community level "run" (by iSuggestedThatAlready / iNoobBoi)!!!!!!
try it out by enabling community levels in the settings
more training levels: "trainingNailGun", "trainingShotGun", "trainingSuperBall", "trainingMatterWave", "trainingMissile"
no power ups check box in experiment mode now disables all types of power ups, not just tech
simulation.isNoPowerUps
powerUps can no longer move through doors
this might lead to problems that I haven't thought about, but let's see
adiabatic healing now updates active heal power ups as well as future ones
fixed bug with undefined tech not showing up
more training levels: "trainingWalk", "trainingCrouch", "trainingJump", "trainingHold", "trainingThrow", "trainingHit", "trainingHeal", "trainingFire", "trainingDeflect"
tech: Bose Einstein condensate is removed until I can balance it
bug fixes
first 4 levels of the training maps are live
this is very much a work in progress, but I'm putting it up for feedback
stunned and frozen mobs do no harm by default
removed tech: osmoprotectant - stunned and frozen mobs do no harm
tech: annelids - randomly increase worm size and damage up to 100%
weak anthropic principle gives 45->50% duplication chance after almost dieing
complex spin-statistics immune to harm for 1.5->1.8 s every 7 s
exciton gives 60->66% damage
electronegativity gives 1% dmg for every 11->10 stored energy
arsenal gives 14->12% more damage per gun
pair production is now also a standing wave field tech
mass-energy takes 10% less damage
JUNK tech black hole cluster spawns mobs farther away, so you have a better chance to survive
undefinded tech no longer shows up on your first couple times playing, since it's a distraction for new players
mantisBoss: 3 punching mobs, eject your ammo when you get punched
invulnerable except for 1 second after moving
powerUpBossBaby: smaller, cuter, faster, can't move through walls
slashBoss renamed revolutionBoss
invulnerable every other revolution of it's blades
new mob state: invulnerable - immune to damage and status effects (stun, dots, freeze)
damage and harm circle graphic size have been made more consistent
bug fixes
several tech now have fewer requirements to unlock
some normal tech is now considered gun tech (mostly explosion stuff)
snakeBoss tails, stay attached to each other
"snakeBoss", "blockBoss", "powerupBoss" are now the only bosses for the random boss list
bug fixes
intro screen is more grey
experiment button is larger and darker
tech: nanowires - needles tunnel through blocks and map, +20% damage
Occam's razor gives 40->50% damage for each removed tech
determinism no longer removes the cancel button
superdeterminism now removes the cancel button and research, but doesn't remove gun and field power ups
railgun damage is doubled
regression does more damage per hit: 5->6% vs. mobs and 0.5->1% vs. bosses
bug fixes
after you die your canvas sticks around at 10% opacity
add a mouse over underline effect to hint that names are links
molecular assembler: all 3 manufacturing tech cost 3 -> 1 research
tech: toggling harpoon - after picking up a power up with the harpoon, your next harpoon is 7x more dense
this probably needs to be balanced in the next patch
tech: regularization - use 6 research to increase renormalization by 10%
(renormalization is 40% chance to get research when you use research)
tech: bot fabrication uses 2 research to build a bot (+1 cost every 5 bots)
tech: uncertainty principle now applies to wave beam in addition to foam
tech: integrated armament gives 19.95% damage (was 23%)
level: labs - platforming rooms have been simplified
start with 7/7 undefined tech if you choose an -experiment- and no other tech
all explosions do 33% more damage to mobs
and 75% more damage to player
boom bot explosions are 16% smaller
laser-bot does 15% more damage
missile bot fires 15% quicker
tech: phase velocity also adds 15% wave damage (because it disables phonon is was a bad choice)
many duplication tech add less duplication
Maxwell's demon now requires current energy above your max to unlock
power ups in the intro tube get pushed around a bit, this might stop them from sliding on the walls
mines when they are stuck to walls no longer collide with blocks (to not block elevator)
more bug fixes
blockBoss: new boss based on work by TheShwarma
(3x chance to randomly see blockBoss until next patch)
it's over powered, I'll probably nerf it next patch, but I want to get some feedback first on how to nerf it
hint: if you kill the boss all the mobBlocks turn back into blocks
very very small blocks are slightly limited in how fast they can be thrown
they were moving so fast they would miss their target sometimes
tech: energy conservation gives 5% energy back (was 6%)
tech: arsenal requires at least 3 guns in your inventory
tech: active cooling requires at least 2 guns in your inventory
several bug fixes
orbs replaces some power up text descriptions
player damage taken is increased by 1%
finalBoss ramps up the mob spawns more slowly, making lower damage high survival builds more effective on the finalBoss
5% laser damage increase
15% mine fire rate reduction
ctx.clip() is back for metamaterial cloaking field
it wasn't the source of the lag, firefox is just slow on my work computer
tech: buckling was disallowed, but I fixed it so you can get the tech again
tech: brushless motor - drones rush more often and do 44% more damage
requires torque bursts
tech: orthocyclic winding - irradiated drones are faster and do more damage
requires irradiated drones
automatic aiming systems (bots, drones, missiles) will ignore the pink seeking mob bullets
safari is super buggy, I'm guessing no one that reports bugs uses it.
fixed scroll bar covering up pause right side text on safari and firefox
fixed issue with ctx.setLineDash sometimes making the player dashed on safari
various other bug fixes
shotgun balance
ice-shot: less spread, higher damage, more crystals
needle-shot: more needles, higher damage, less spread
foam-shot: 1 more bubble
power up selection and pause menu elements scroll individually now
it looks great on my computer, but different operating systems and browsers are unpredictable
let me know if text is hidden or if it doesn't scroll for you and what OS and browser you're on
"gamma-ray laser" renamed "free-electron laser" to make more scientific sense
since gamma rays would go right through walls
laser diode now makes lasers blue
free-electron laser can no longer work with laser diode
pressure wave has a bit more damage
crouch mode works different (much higher fire rate, low arc)
integrated armament gives 35% dmg (was 22%)
but I fixed a bug where it gave an extra 33% ammo
mine gun gets 25% less ammo
all mines do 30% more damage
trying to make shotgun better at close range and worse at distance
shotgun slug is much slower, but does 60% more damage
nail shot has a 20% wider spread, and is 20% slower, but does 20% more damage
finalBoss has 15% less health
to balance all the buffs
ammo power ups give 15% less ammo
damage done by mobs now scales up a bit faster each level
damage done by you now scales down a bit faster each level
to prevent misclicks when you grab two power ups in a row there is a 1/2 second delay before power up selections can register
I also added in a 0.25 fade in effect on the power up selection menu. Can you tell?
tech: pseudoscience - adds 0-4 JUNK to the potential tech pool (was 1-5 JUNK)
tech quenching - now increases max health and does harm for over healing from heal power ups
(was for heals at max health)
foam tech necrophoresis now makes less foam spawns if the total number of bullets is high
to help with lag when killing packs of mobs
preparation for more lore chapters
reworked the lore conversation code to make it easier to write
also lore conversations should now have better timing between the text and voice
lore conversations can now recover from some speech errors and try again with safer settings
this seems to allow speech on my firefox browser
added a console command to make it easier to quickly unlock testing mode
lore.unlockTesting()
pressing "b" in testing mode now gives you 10000 research and the damage from research tech
