KARASU MELTDOWN has been updated to version v2.00!

This update contains numerous changes across the board, including:

• Adding a separate focused shot for the player
• Adding voice lines by ChairGTables to the player
• Changing leaderboard systems, increasing the number of scores saved and adding web build support
• Countless visual tweaks
• Rebalances for the player and enemies
• Replacing the old bitrate-destroying 2D background with a new 3D background by plunch
• Tweaked enemy spawn timing, especially in regards to bosses
• Various parts of the game now operate on a fixed timestep, improving consistency
• Various scoring system tweaks, namely allowing more hits to be gained mid-chain

Due to the nature of some of these changes, both local and online high scores have been reset!

• Added tighter focused shot while focused
• Added voiceovers to the player
• Added warning on HUD when on last life
• Adjusted certain enemy spawn timings to be faster
• Bombs now explode as soon as their center touches the edge of the screen instead of slightly farther than the edge
• Bosses no longer wait for the current wave of non-cat enemies to die or leave before spawning
• Bullets now run on a fixed timestep
• Chain counter and timer no longer changes color while frozen by a boss
• Enabled texture filtering for various sprites
• Enemy attack patterns now run on a fixed timestep
• Fixed enemies taking damage after a game over
• Fixed intro/outro messages not staying vertically centered
• Fixed jittery bomb, camera, and player movement at high framerates
• Green and gold items are now slightly transparent
• Increased bomb impact and splash damage radius
• Increased player unfocused move speed
• Increased size of small and medium crow and fly enemies
• Max level bombs now last until they touch the edge of the screen
• Nerfed medium crow and fly enemy patterns
• Recolored crow and fly enemies
• Recolored explosion sprites
• Redrew certain visual effects
• Reduced amount of time crow and fly enemies wait before spawning
• Reduced amount of time large enemies idle before leaving
• Reduced crow enemy (wave variant) move speed
• Reduced lifetime of non-max level bombs
• Reduced music volume
• Reduced player shot limit to 3
• Reduced screen shake
• Replaced the 2D stage background with a 3D stage background
• Reworked leaderboard:
  • Added highlighting of own score
  • Increased capacity to top 1000
  • Web build can now post scores
• Reworked scoring system:
  • Active bombs now directly award energy while cancelling bullets and damaging enemies
  • Adjusted amount of items dropped by enemies
  • Base gold value is now capped to 100,000 regardless of hit count
  • Bullets cancelled by an active bomb (not the explosion) no longer spawn green items
  • Chain timer now runs on a fixed timestep
  • Increased chain time gained from small crow and fly enemies
  • Increased extend threshold to every 100,000,000 points
  • Kills from shots during a chain now adds hits
  • Reduced chain timer duration to 2.5 seconds
  • Reduced energy gain from items and shots
  • Score gained from gold is now multiplied by the size of gold picked up (x1, x3, x5)
• Stage timer now runs on a fixed timestep
• Taking damage now shakes the HUD instead of the entire screen
• Tweaked appearance of gold value at max value
• Tweaked appearance of hit count at max hits
• Tweaked appearance of life counter above 10 lives
• Tweaked appearance of score counter when on personal best or world record pace

Thank you for playing!