Alpha v0.22 release notes

Helixteus 3 Alpha v0.22 (25 Dec 2021)

- Added achievements and statistics

- Battle music! (finally) Only plays when the enemies are considerably more powerful than you

- New enemy types (both in battles and in caves)

- 5 new buildings: proton, neutron and electron collector, neutron and electron storage facility

- 2 new cave consumables: portable wormholes and drills. They do exactly what their name suggests.

- Heavily nerfed the weapon damage bonuses from universe properties

- Solar panel nerf: auroras only multiply SP output by aurora intensity without the exponent

- Stunning enemies is less OP, you won't be able to infinitely stun an enemy anymore

- No more quests for 2nd, 3rd and 4th ship, you'll automatically get them at level 20, 40 and 60. The quests will return though some time later in development

- Improved lighting in caves. This also uses a lot more CPU (and GPU?), so if the game lags, turn off shaders in settings

- The game now prevents you from sending ships to a high pressure planet if your energy output isn't high enough and you haven't researched space elevators

- Small icons appear near the cursor when ctrl and/or shift and/or alt is pressed

- Lowered atmosphere and gravity exit costs a bit

- You can now bridge holes (for free) by shift clicking

- Little animations (that can be disabled in settings) when collecting things and selling minerals, maybe this will help new players understand the game better

- Base wormhole investigation time reduced from 20 -> 15 minutes

- Revamped the rover/enemy defense mechanic in caves to match that of planet battles

- Fixed bugs and implemented some suggestions made in the itch.io comments (press J again to show help, resourced mined in a session, more cave info etc.)

v0.21 saves might be compatible with this update (I tried), but no guarantees!