Heliocide

2025 3, a lot of new tweaks and updates;

- still working on balancing, just a few more years!

- minibosses have more features now so i have removed the final boss entirely, as it was too heavy on the polygons anyway. these new ones have no more than a 1000 polies because it's just a big texture projected on top. and are much easier to make.

- turrets, big and small are improved, to prevent the player missing them, their ''heads'' are always lined-up with the projectiles ( height-wise )

- enemy hunters are new, they are fast and will target the player or their wingmen. movement is still being tweaked, now they buzz around like flies.

- missiles are fired periodically straight or targeted if any of the hunters or bosses are around, those too need to be a bit more direct,  now i'ts just fun to watch them fly around, much like the hunters. missiles are collected by pickups for now.

- small changes to the UI, added bullseye markers to minibosess minitargets : )) 

 omg and a huge change to the player stats, back to progress bars!

- the player's movement has been widened, still working on what happens if the player runs into any wall, right now it just clips thru.

- music is temp, had to put in Das Boot techno for fun but i'm considering using metasound for dynamic music but that's a long way down the road

the main ''plot'' is simple; you start in the hangar where the player might upgrade or change the ship and progress to a next mission. right now that part is completely temporary and the load/save system is missing.

the controls are also simple; i'm trying to make it mouse-only 

 to move the ship use the mouse left or right, shoot the laser by holding the LMB and use the RMB to activate the shield. Middle mouse to launch a megabomb. press ''P'' or ''Esc'' to abort the mission ( the ''Options'' menu is WIP ) 

gamepad is supported for the gameplay ( not UI yet ) now but it sucks for this genre..

some tips;  megabomb can be detonated by pressing the middle mouse again, otherwise it will explode when it times out.  the laser gate can be activated by getting close to it and then quickly going back, this gives  you more time to destroy it.  exploding floating  ''barrels'' detonate like a megabomb and always give you a health pickup.  killing a miniboss always gives you a megabomb to pick up.

feel free to try it out and shoot me back some feedback, it works fine on my gaming laptop but i haven't tried it on anything else so far. 

cheers!