ABJ69 /v/3 Demo Patch Notes

Things that are new in the /v/3 November 4th 2023 build:
->Picking up a gunbuddy powerup with a full suite of gunbuddies will upgrade a "temporary" gunbuddy to a "permanent" one, if possible.
->Fixed a bug where a player taking damage at the end of a mission could cause the ship to remain blinking until level exit.
->When taking damage, temporary gunbuddies are prioritized for destruction.
->The player now begins with one gunbuddy launch bay and can purchase additional launch bays to increase their capacity.
->Erasing your saved game now resets your gunbuddy count to 1.
->Added shop items for gunbuddy launch bays.
->Added understructure clutter.
->Clutter sprites now have configurable overlap rules to prevent certain categories of decorations from crowding each other too much.
->Better terrain-clip handling for most clutter items.
->Hanging mine clutter items no longer clip terrain in tight areas.
->Fixed some miscellaneous other bugs involving clutter and terrain clip settings.
->Procedurally generated cavern segments optimize their terrain forms at runtime now. This was not a performance issue before but it is still a performance improvement.
->Added "Populated" tileset for use in the Understructure biome.
->Fixed a physics bug involving raycasts and inclusive vs exclusive pixel range checking that was allowing bunyips and gunbuddies to acquire targets through corner tile gaps.
->Implemented laser firing mode, which is unlocked by using either the Bunyip Cruiser or Cinnyip.
->Added some more sound effects.
->Bunyip attack changed from test attack to laser.
->Shop UI supports a larger inventory now.
->Shop UI supports mousewheel scroll now.
->Chrin's hair is now more red and less pink.
->Fixed issue with crawler enemies' legs wanting to all move at the same time.
->Fixed a handful of signed/unsigned integer bounds checks that were doing stupid stuff with values of -1.
->Dump world map visual updates.
->System tiles added to all tilesets.
->Tiled map format now supports cave connector designators.
->More character upgrade items added to the shop.
->Added 80+ crystal cavern biome prefabs to cover all connector type permutations.
->Hundreds of miscellaneous fixes and adjustments to existing prefabs for better navigability and tiling consistency.
->Fixed a bunch of rare edge cases in the map tiler that would show up when ramps were touching each other.
->Players in observer mode can boost infinitely now.
->Loading text now correctly displays the name of the asset it is currently loading instead of the asset it just finished loading.
->Certain enemies can now be deflected using the player's energy shield.
->SDL window default render color changed to black from white to prevent snowblind during window initialization.
->Fixed a bug with the developer menu infinite boost cheat, automatic shielding, and enemy deflection.
->The Stealth Hauler can cloak now.
->Added WIP Beans the Sheep to the character roster.
->Several characters have had their stats and descriptions adjusted.
->Added Mineshaft tileset for additional detailing in the Crystal Caverns biome.
->Minor art adjustments for certain tileset sprites.
->Fixed a bug involving loading animation files when their host sprite is invalid or was renamed etc.
->Adjusted SFX volume for flame jets.
->Add enemy sandbox test map.
->Manually-spawned bunyips now correctly snap to the nearest valid ground terrain.
->Crew selections are now saved and loaded, allowing you to keep your crew after closing and reopening the game.
->Situations where TMX file local paths don't resolve correctly should now be gracefully handled in the error log instead of crashing the game.
->Added support for hot reload of prefab cave segments from Tiled.
->Added a lot of runtime sanity checks for various types of assets.
->Title screen now displays version info.
->Tutorial maps have been updated.
->Certain art assets marked as WIP just in case it's not obvious.
->Cave segment prefabs now have adjustable island density.
->"Developer" crew members have been assigned canonical roles.
->Changes to Sixy's boss music.
->Fixed dangling pointer issue in map tiler that was causing rare crashes.
->Fixed a bug where anti-clutter zones in prefabs were being parsed as anti-spawn zones instead.
->Added demo FAQ button to title screen.
->Boundary box system enemies no longer visible during Garbage Worm boss fight.
->Fixed a crash when pasting non-text data into the dev console.
->Procedurally placed floating islands will now try to avoid placing the same island near itself.
->Gunbuddies no longer collide with terrain where enemies would not normally be able to spawn.
->Fixed a bug where islands could spawn outside the map in sufficiently large gaps.
->Added heat shimmer effect that can be enabled in maps.
->Cave segment optimization is now threaded on startup, resulting in a drastic reduction in load time.
->Tiled editor support for placing powerups in prefab cave segments.
->Crystal cavern tileset is a lot redder now.
->Setting a generation requirement for including a particular prefab can now be done through the ingame dev console.
->Several hybrid extraction map pieces from the dump have been brought into parity with Tiled editor.
->Gem magnet, laser fire mode, and most other miscellaneous character- or ship-specific attributes have been moved from hardcoded values to adjustable character properties in their respective .crew or .ship files.
->The crew select menu has more intuitive behavior involving the left and right arrow keys, the mouse wheel, and the enter/return button.
->Fixed a bug where using the cheats menu to spend all of your money wouldn't clear contractors you could no longer afford from your active crew.
->Added test mission for upcoming Thicket biome.
->If a cave fails to construct, it will now kick the player back to the world map instead of just exploding.
->Implemented some engine changes that will allow cave segments without special background graphics to utilize a single transparent asset instead of requiring each piece to have a unique empty transparent image. Still need to apply these changes to the Dump and Crystal Cavern biomes.
->Added support for loading procedural terrain generation components from Tiled.
->Cave segments that haven't finished their threaded optimization pass won't spawn in newly generated caves.
->Added support for "decoration" layers in Tiled which place non-colliding sprite tiles.
->Fixed a bug where cave segments expected procedurally generated terrain points to always be in a specific order.
->Fixed issue where gunbuddies would occasionally get stuck a very large distance away from the player during level transitions.
->Procedurally-placed terrain islands can now be loaded from Tiled- feature parity with prefab cave segment Tiled loader features.
->Ships now have support for cannon positions along their hulls, which means bullets now come from the gun(s) and not the center of the ship.
-> Tutorial updates. Still WIP but is a lot nicer to look at now.
-> And more stuff. Ping us on Discord if you run into bugs etc.