The focus of this version is a presentable demo for the Steam Autumn Festival.

Control

• Analog triggers can now be assigned as buttons in the Controller options.
• Show a warning in menus when button settings are currently not valid for your controller, meaning you would not be able to press those buttons in game.

Visual

• Short intro cinematic before first stage.
• Enemies show an additional sprite to warn when they are about to fire.

Gameplay

• New save file will have only the first stage and Inebriator minigame unlocked at the start.
• Added a very hard Demonic difficulty.
• Enemy and bullet adjustments to make normal and hard difficulties more distinct from each other.
• Increase player shot burst from 3 to 4.
• Focus fire is now a single stream with double the fire rate.
• Added score values to some enemies that had none.
• Swordsmen try to avoid obstacles and player attacks while rushing their target.
• Difficulty now affects scoring. On Normal blue hearts score half points. On Demonic blue hearts and rescues score 5x points. Extra life scores are adjusted to match.
• Fixed: When enemies had their backs to player, they could shoot out of their backs in some cases.
• Increased score values of all the bosses and health of some bosses.

Stages

• Tutorial
  • Enemies no longer fire, except for catapults in order to demonstrate that bomb destroys bullets. Readability of the instructions is more important than a chance to practice bullet dodging.
  • Change wording to indicate that wingmen unlock and use powerful maneuvers automatically.
  • Wingmen are not carried over into Stage 1 anymore as it could be seen as a bug.
• 1.Demon Realm
  • Spread out swordsmen spawns a bit.
• 2.Village
  • Wrote better boss dialogue.
• 4.Underground
  • Fixed: Failing to rescue prisoners from cages or chains could still give points.
  • Fixed: If not destroyed in time, demonsterizer machines did not produce zombies and still gave points.
• 7.Castle
  • Fixed: Stone guards didn’t path correctly.
  • Fixed: Some assassins weren’t affected by difficulty setting.

Interface

• Exit the Controller options if all controllers are unplugged.
• Show difficulty level in the horizontal HUD.
• Add choice of background in Picture options: black, gradient, or artwork. Default is artwork.