Bootleg Soldier Azure: ASTRAL RAVE has been updated to v1.2.0!

This update features numerous changes across the board, including:

• Scoring system changes, namely faster multiplier gain, bigger combo bonuses, and a rework to gold
• Keyboard and gamepad support for navigating menus
• Bomb and death explosion adjustments
• Enemy attack pattern and health adjustments
• Countless fixes and other minor adjustments

The nature of this update’s changes means that local scores have been reset and online scores are on a new leaderboard!

Full Changelog:

• Added bomb level up text popup
• Added continue limit to story mode
• Added full keyboard and partial gamepad menu navigation
• Added highlighting of own score on the leaderboard
• Added option to toggle bullet trails
• Added pre-boss warning animation
• Added resurrection extend text popup separate from the normal extend text popup
• Adjusted bomb gauge appearance
• Adjusted boss attack patterns
• Adjusted boss health phase transition thresholds
• Adjusted combo gauge appearance
• Adjusted gamepad bindings to increase compatibility with arcade stick layouts
  • Shot is now bound to A and Y
  • Bomb is now bound to X and B
  • Focus is now bound to both bumpers and triggers
• Adjusted HUD fade amounts
• Adjusted life counter appearance when dead while out of lives
• Adjusted medium helicopter enemy attack patterns
• Adjusted results screen formatting
• Adjusted scoring system:
  • Adjusted enemy score values, most notably:
    • Blimps enemies in caravan mode are worth much less to account for being chainable
    • Bosses in both game modes and blimp enemies in story mode are worth more to account for not being chainable
    • Car enemies are worth less
  • Certain enemies now cause screen-wide bullet cancels that turn bullets into gold
  • Combo bonuses are now affected by the multiplier
  • Decreased amount of chain timer awarded from kills
  • Gold value is now based on the new gold counter and is no longer affected by the multiplier
  • Increased duration of combo timer
  • Multiplier gain from x3.2 to x6.4 is now as fast as the gain from 1.0x to 3.2x
  • Replaced the kill counter with a gold counter that is now used in all modes instead of just caravan mode
• Adjusted sound effect volume levels
• Adjusted spawn timing of bosses in story mode
• Decreased amount of bomb energy gained from bullet cancel items
• Decreased duration of player’s death animation
• Decreased duration of player’s i-frames
• Decreased health of blimp enemies in caravan mode
• Decreased range of bullet-cancelling effects
• Fixed bad menu sidebars in ultrawide aspect ratios
• Fixed being able to advance dialogue while game over’d
• Fixed being able to resurrect out of a game over after the game over message appears
• Fixed bombs sometimes causing either no or multiple combo bonuses to be awarded
• Fixed boss music playing instead of stage music when continuing during a midboss
• Fixed caravan stage timer running during a game over
• Fixed combo bonuses being able not register fast enough before the results screen appears
• Fixed combo sometimes not dropping when saving a nearly broken combo with a bomb
• Fixed diagonal movement on gamepad being slower and normalized instead of faster and unnormalized like on keyboard
  • The nature of this fix causes the analog stick to now behave like a digital input rather than an analog input (ie: you will move at full speed regardless of how much the stick is tilted and can only move 8 ways)
• Fixed dialogue boxes being less responsive at high framerates
• Fixed duplicate air enemy waves spawning after the caravan stage midboss
• Fixed leaderboard briefly displaying the wrong leaderboard when switching to a different one
• Fixed pausing immediately after starting a game causing the music to not play
• Fixed quick restart not working on gamepad
• Fixed score counter gradient not resetting when continuing
• Fixed stage 1 and caravan stage part 1 ground enemy clipping issues
• Fixed stage 1 music playing when continuing during stage 2
• Fixed stage 2 duplicate overlapping ground enemies
• Fixed stage intro/outro text scaling badly with non-16:9 aspect ratios
• Fixed “you died” game over message being able to appear during “time up” game over message
• Increased damage of bomb direct hits
• Increased damage of death explosions
• Increased health of blimp enemies in story mode
• Increased health of bosses
• Increased time gained from the midboss in caravan mode
• Made air enemies able to spawn while player is dead
• Made air enemies after the caravan stage midboss start spawning sooner
• Made air enemies at the beginning of the caravan stage start spawning sooner
• Made blimp enemies drop large gold
• Made blimp enemies in caravan mode able to leave if left alive for too long
• Made blimp enemies in caravan mode no longer drop extra lives
• Made bosses drop bomb energy items on phase transition
• Made caravan stage bosses spawn regardless of if there are other air enemies onscreen
• Made caravan stage bosses use all of their attacks instead of their first attack
• Made caravan stage timer freeze during time extensions
• Made ground enemies on easy mode not attack
• Made mouse cursor invisible and unlocked at all times
• Made player movement normalized when focused
  • Only when actually pressing the focus button; being slowed down by charging a bomb will not do this but holding focus while doing so will
• Removed mouse menu navigation

Thank you for playing!