Nederlandse indiegame Roche Fusion ontvangt update; nu in de aanbieding op Steam

Eerder dit jaar bracht de Nederlandse indie-ontwikkelaar Amulware de hectische ruimte-shooter Roche Fusion op de markt. Dit spel werd door zowel gamers als pers lovend ontvangen en ook wij waren in onze review zeer te spreken over Roche Fusion. Nu heeft Amulware de eerste update voor de game uitgebracht.

De update verhelpt niet alleen enkele bugs, spelers krijgen tevens een stortvloed aan nieuwe content. Zo worden twee schepen toegevoegd en ook mogen we een reeks upgrades verwelkomen.

Om de release van de update te vieren, organiseert Amulware een speciale competitie waarbij spelers samen met de ontwikkelaar content kunnen ontwerpen. Hierbij zijn tevens enkele toffe prijzen te winnen. Meer informatie over deze wedstrijd is te vinden op Steam.

Heb je Roche Fusion nog niet? Dan kun je de game tijdelijk aanschaffen met 35 procent korting. Roche Fusion kost daardoor nog maar 7,80 euro. Deze actie geldt alleen via Steam en loopt tot 25 mei.

Ships

[+] New ship: Lily, a ship with a strong close range attack, but has non-recharging armour instead of a shield

[+] New ship: Crab, a ship with a charging medium range attack and damage absorbtion when not firing

Upgrades

[+] New upgrade: Reactive Shield

[+] New upgrade: Hornet

[+] New upgrade: Aft Torpedoes

[+] New upgrade: Dimension Drive (courtesy of our friends at 2Awesome Studio)

[+] New upgrade: Battering Ram (designed by Saphire)

[+] New upgrade: Remote Bomb (designed by Meroka)

Enemies

[+] New mini-boss: the Fatboss

[+] New epic boss: the Epic Drone (or: Project Paul)

[+] Many new movement behaviours for the blue circular drones have been added

The Epic Spiky boss now also has healthbar for its three separate parts, to make its health mechanics more clear

All support enemies spawned by bosses now also scale and become more difficult to kill as the game progresses

The laser drones have been completely rebalanced: the smallest ones are smaller, have more health, provide less points, stay in ghost longer, and spawn in larger amounts; the medium ones are smaller, have more health, and provide less points

The hit circles of laser drones are now more accurate

The epic dragon has less health overall, but the remaining health is now more evenly split over the stages

Reduced the amount of enemies Captain Claw spawns in his meatshield

Events no longer spawn inside the remainder of circular drone swarms

The snake boss no longer causes a game crash if all damage was done by player drones

The snake boss now is equally likely to spawn as the rest of the mini-bosses

Metagame

[+] 16 new achievements: Patient; Cool guys don’t look at explosions; They’re swarming; Quartet; But our princess is in another castle; Instakill; When life gives you limes; It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.; Health++; I am fully charged!; Endgame; Superstar; Secret weapon; Not so secret weapon; Hive Five;

[+] In-game leaderboard have been added and can be found in the extras menu

[+] The total amount of times the player ship is upgraded is now tracked

Misc

[+] An in-game console has been added (open using tilde; open and focus using alt+tilde)

[+] New end-game statistics: amount healed and amount of fully charged shots

The boss music had its volume increased

Enemy homing missiles no longer suck up performance when no target is present

A rare audio crash when using Bullet Time has been resolved

End game statistics are now truncated if they no longer fit on the screen

A warning that was caused by one of the mod files has been resolved

Several bugs in the weapon cycle code have been fixed, resolving some unwarranted behaviour

Sound effects have been prevented to be played every frame, resolving some rare crashes at high framerates

Further changes have been made to enable Roche Fusion to run on multiple platforms