impulse 254 is the money cheat, for those of you who don't want to play long enough to afford the weapons you want to test.
Some changes worthy of notice:
Check out the Horror monster that currently replaces Wizards. They're way over-powered right now (they'll replace wizards later in the game, when the player needs a challenge), so be sure to take them on with lots of armor and firepower.
New weapons for the player: changed pulse rifle (bullets look different), The Li'l Ripper and the Razor blades, two Sniper Rifles, Beam Turrets and Flamer Turrets, Flak Cannon, zooming for the sniper rifle and a host of other weapons, quick rockets and incendiary rockets.
Added new attacks for the grunts & ogres. Other monsters will get more soon. It's still in the testing stage so the monsters aren't very well defined, they're just randomly picking a weapon to attack with. That will change.
Monsters have always been easy to exploit in coop by having two players attack them so they can't decide on a new target. The same trick worked in starting monster in-fighting. Now monsters will become less likely to get angry with each time they switch targets, so after a few attacks it won't respond much anymore (making the monster harder to fool). Monsters will still fight each other, but they'll become more desensitized with each incident.
Gave the shop main menu a major re-working. It now lists Weapons, Shields, and Misc and opens into sub-menus when one is selected. You can also access the weapon mods menu from main (instead of pressing 9 from the buy weapons menu).
Reduced the health gained from health boxes from 15, 25 and 100 to 5, 15, and 50. Go buy some decent shielding!
Some questions:
1. Earlier FrikaC mentioned that there wasn't enough variety in the weapons to create many player classes, like Sniper, Pyro, etc. I agreed with him at the time, and I've since tried to cover a little more ground. So, how about now?
2. Is anything too cheap? Too expensive?
3. The poll question at the top of this thread.
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