Cash_Out News

A major patch has been released after a year. Sorry for the huge wait, a lot of things slowed me down this time. The game should be smoother after this patch.
One huge takeaway with this update is that it should be much smoother. The lighting system was extremely unoptimized, based on testing it was the leading cause for framerate dips (on one computer, simply determining how light the area was was contributing to half the processing power in a frame). Along with that, graphical settings were tweaked so that brightness/saturation isn't disabled on the lowest setting, that wasn't really impacting framerate at all.)

Along with that, one major problem people were having was with the multiplayer. Some time in the last year, Valve changed the way the networking functioned. Previously they weren't capping incoming/outgoing bandwith, but they are now. The current system is extremely unoptimized and thus was getting throttled. I added a bandage patch to fix this for now, it may not work with 3 or more players but should be good enough for now. I will be changing this next patch.

I did a lot with modding too, it should run considerably smoother as a result. I'll be pushing a patch for the mod tools in a couple of days, there are some things that have to be cleaned up first.

Here are the patch notes for this patch.

Indexed asset names on compile, when calling assets, the game no longer compares strings on runtime. (Calling and comparing strings was around 8x slower than comparing indexes, overall this is a large boost to more complicated level packs.)
Note: Due to the way that assets are loaded, the order in which the ModSystem file is loaded will likely be wrong for previous mods, the Authoring Tools has been updated to fix this.

Added the following commands.

• then(createlist,index) - Creates a list data system that can be interacted with.
  
• then(addlist,index,value) - Adds a value to the list.
  
• then(setlist,index,position,value) - Changes a value to the list.
  
• then(deletelist,index,value) - Deletes the value in the list at that position.
  
• then(sortlist,index,"ascending ,descending ,shuffle") - Sorts the list.
  
• then(creategrid,index,width,height) - Creates a grid data system that can be interacted with.
  
• then(setgrid,index,position x,position y, value) - Changes a value in the grid.
  
• then(functiontarget) - Performs the next function for every entity on the target list. To be used with the "target" subcommand.
  
• then(createhitsplat,x,y,type, amount) - Creates a hitsplat at the position.
  
• then(createtext,x,y,text) - Creates a text popup similar to when you pick up an item.

Added the following subcommands

• list(index, position) - Returns the value in the list at that position.
  
• grid(index,x position, y position) - Returns the value in the grid at that position.
  
• targetvar(variable) - To be used with the "functiontarget" function in place of variables.
  
• damage() - Returns the amount of health lost between frames.

Added the following options for the playervar/targetvar subcommand.

• xrel - X position relative to the block.
  
• yrel - Y position relative to the block.
  
• speed - Speed value.

Rooms now have a value to determine how common the room is. The higher the value, the more common.
Setting particle life to 0 will now make them live infinetly.
Fixed an issue with ELSE blocks.
Fixed comments in code breaking everything.


You can now copy and delete career mode files. Copied files will be automatically made hardcore.
Added a buffer for switching weapons and picking up weapons. Trying to switch or pick up a weapon when firing will now buffer it to pick it up after the weapon is fired. (To make picking weapons up smoother.)
Added a new weapon modifier - bullet velocity (V).
Added a simple pseudo-in raid progression system with weapon drops. Having a better weapon will result in better weapons dropping. This is to both gate off extremely powerful weapons early on and to make weapon progression more noticable.
Added some more clothing particle effects. They now only spawn on hats as well. (Having two pieces of clothing with the same particle effect was very unlikely.)
Added the currently equipped clothing to the inventory screen.
New Hat - Graduation Cap - When equipped, the level of your hat and pants equipped will be increased by 2. (Similar to a max upgraded piece of clothing in career mode.)
New Hat - Paper Bag - When equipped, the range for picking up enemies and dropped items is doubled.
Changed the Mushroom Cap. Now is a Plague Mask that sounds an acid rain cloud that circles around the player.

Reduced the turning speed suffered when frozen.
Made rotating lock puzzles harder to solve.
Enemy weapon will no longer determine how far they can see.
Items in co-op are now valued based on their rarity.
Clothing generated at the start of a career is now levelled appropriately.
Reduced the amount of health gained from tiny healthkits.
Tweaked enemy aim speed.
Tweaked weapon kickback formula.
Tweaked enemy damage.
"Golden" now increases all weapon stats by 5% instead of 2%.
Changed the functionality of the cash lockboxes. Bronze lockboxes now give health and ammo. Silver lockboxes now give items and weapons. All 3 lockboxes will now drop clothing and loot on a seperate roll.
Improved turret tracking.
Killing guards now allows overdose/overheat to drain.
The amount of shots you get from precision skills is now based on the weapon speed rather than the weapon damage.
Tweaked the price of clothing in career mode.
Enemy leaders will now alert squad mates when they start to panic.
Tweaked enemy HP again. (Enemies will have more health at lower levels, but MUCH less health at higher levels.)
Uncommon hats are now less common.
Altered the way that levels are generated slightly, to give larger control on how big levels can be.
Leader enemies now have less health. (From a 40% health bonus to a 25% health bonus.)

Perk Balance

• Sabateour - Now reduces the rate in which enemies drain your stealth points by 80%.
  
• Spy - Increased the amount of stealth point % you get from dealing damage.
  
• Assassin - Stealth killing now resets all stealth skill cooldowns.
  
• Marksman - Now prevents combo points from naturally dropping past 8.
  
• Doctor - Reduced the amount of overdose removed on damage dealt.
  
• Strongman - Reduced the healing on hit.

Weapon Balance

• Plasma Cannon - Increased ammo count from 30 to 60 and reduced firing speed.
  
• Marauder - Reduced speed, increased damage.
  
• The Dissolver - Increased damage dealt.
  
• Triple Cross - Greatly reduced bolt damage. Bolt spread is now consistent with other weapons.
  
• Electric Prod/Salazar - Increased damage.
  
• The Slugger - Player grenades now turn into baseballs as well.
  
• Baseball Bat/Slugger - Grenades hit now turn into player grenades. Firing speed increased, damage reduced.
  
• Overkill - New mechanic. Now deals less damage, but is faster. Enemies who are hit by the bullet are pushed back along with it and frozen.
  
• AWP/Overkill - Increased firing speed.
  
• Haymaker - Changed charge mechanics.
  
• Hockey Stick/The Goon - Changed charge mechanics.
  
• Icicle/Brainfreeze - Increased damage.
  
• Boxing Gloves/Haymaker - Increased damage.
  
• Stake/The Vampire - New mechanic. Now does increased damage, but damages you for some of the damage done on hit. (The Vampire still has the same mechanic as well.)

Clothing Balance

• Neutron - Reduced range.
  
• Headwound - Reduced normal healing penalty.
  
• Mechanic's Shirt - Reduced damage bonus.
  
• Sombrero - Increased speed and damage.
  
• Flower Headband - Changed bonus, now increases turret distance.
  
• Tye Dye Set - Tweaked the healing scale.
  
• Fire Pants - Tweaked the healing scale.
  
• Dress Pants/Baseball Pants/Leather Pants - Tweaked the scale.
  
• Tracksuit - Increased bonus from levels.

Skill Balance

• Reinforcements - Now can be used 3 times before box doesn't spawn anything, reducing the amount of items in the box by 1 each time.
  
• Bullet Time - Now reduces bullet speed too.
  
• Project Voice - No longer stuns if enemies were targetting you beforehand.
  
• Stance of Rock - Increased rate in which rocks spawn.
  
• Stance of Decay - Halved the amount of healing you recieve.
  
• Stance of Fire - Explosions now spawn slower, but burn.
  
• Stance of Toxin - Reduced the size of boils.
  
• Stance of Boost - Now gives beta blockers during the offensive boost, and caffiene pills during the defensive boost.
  
• Stance of Wind - Now properly increases movement speed.
  
• Grappling Hook - Increased speed.
  
• Chain Link - Increased speed, should get stuck on walls less.
  
• Voodoo - Changed the way in which shots are oriented.
  
• Shadow Agent - Increased duration.
  
• Smokescreen - New mechanic. When active, enemies cannot be woken up, even when enemies have spotted you.
  
• Laser Turret - Increased damage. Reduced overheat.
  
• Shield Turret - Increased overheat per damage reduced.
  
• Rocket Turret - Reduced overheat.
  
• Sniper Turret - Now more accurate. Increased damage. Slowed down. Damage now scales up properly.
  
• Flame Turret - Increased overheat.
  
• Buff Turret - Reduced range, reduced overheat.
  
• Railgun Turret - Reduced overheat.
  
• Cryo Turret - Increased damage.
  
• Ramming Turret - Increased fire speed.
  
• Juggernaut - Added a shockwave impact after you collide.
  
• Energy Explusion - Reduced time, increased damage reduction.
  
• Healing Shot - Reduced healing.
  
• Ghostly Shot - Works with projectiles now.
  
• Critical Shot - Works with melee weapons now.
  
• Shadow Shot - Shots are now actually silent.
  
• Bad Medicine - Increased cooldown.
  
• Outbreak - Changed mechanics up slightly.
  
• Vaccination - Now protects against freeze.
  
• Self Sacrifice - Self damage is now based on the number of cooldowns.
  
• Eagle Eye - Now reduces kickback as well.
  
• Iron Skin - Now prevents kickback from damage taken.
  
• Braced - Changed mechanics up slightly.
  
• Backup - Reduced time until helpers disappear.

Disabled the Discord RPC. It was causing crashes. I don't even know if it worked properly.
Fixed an unavoidable (and frankly common) crash related to the new blood system.
Fixed a crash with the grenade launcher. (And probably the rocket launcher too.)
Fixed a crash caused by entering the getaway car with a prosthetic hook launched.
Fixed some localization related issues.
Fixed an issue with the "mastermind" puzzle.
Fixed an issue where enemies would try and walk through tables to get to a player.
Fixed a crash caused by the Mind Bender.
Opening a lockbox now uses up the keycard.
Fixed an issue where frozen players with items didnt appear frozen.
Fixed a large amount of problems related to dropping clothing in quickplay and career mode.
Fixed an issue causing the new blood system to not even save on performance.
Fixed a bug allowing you to upgrade weapons past maximum level in career mode.
Scopes can no longer damage "brainfreeze" statues. Brainfreeze no longer creates ice blood as well.
When moving up a floor, the game will no longer run very poorly while selecting a perk.
Fixed a glitch related to the juggernaut charge where you could clip through walls. (This has been in the game for a while honestly.)
Changed the way files are read. This is all backend stuff, but there was a (probably rare as I only encountered it once) issue where certain configs could not start the game due to an issue with the old system.
Hats can no longer spawn with a glitched effect when spawned from a chest.
Fixed a crash with the flare gun and tesla gun.
Fixed a crash caused by completing a raid with the knight helmet on.
Fixed a problem causing precision skills to not work right.
Fixed a crash with C4.
Fixed a crash with the executioner's hood.
Hats can no longer appear in clothing store boxes that aren't gold.
You can no longer break square shark tanks.
Fixed a potential error causing the leather chaps and overalls to function incorrectly.
Fixed many hats not showing up ever in the career store.
Fixed a bug where swing weapons could spawn with the bullet velocity bonus.
Fixed a bug where enemies in arcade mode at very easy would be unkillable.
Leaving a room with backup helpers now makes them disappear.

Co-Op Related

• While this isn't verified, steamworks now throttles bandwith coming in and out. As a result, playing in steamworks was nearly impossible. A makeshift system was put in place to make 2 player coop with steamworks at least POSSIBLE. The network at the moment is EXTREMELY unoptimized and will be improved in a coming patch.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by dropping a weapon.
  
• Clients now properly drop weapons.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by leaving the server in steamworks.
  
• Fixed client names/avatar not loading properly.

Changed the way the "shader detail" option handles optimization. It now disables the dropshadow instead of the shaders at the lowest setting. The shader really wasn't making a gigantic impact to the framerate in the long run and disabling it disabled other important options. For consistency, this should be better in the long run.
Bitmaps can no longer be used for the mod image.
Optimized the lighting backend when it comes to detection of how bright the area in which you were standing was. This was (potentially) causing major framerate issues (in one instance around 50% of the work the engine was doing was dedicated solely to this) on less powerful computers, hopefully this should help.
Altered the physics of the flaregun.
You can no longer spam pause, this was causing some issues.
Clicking off the inventory/puzzle/continue screen will no longer cause you to fire.

Enjoy!
The next patch should have improved multiplayer networking, and MAYBE if everything goes perfectly, boss battles for the end of raids. I've designed a way to make them playable with a stealth build, but I don't know how well they'll work.

Localization support is here finally! If you want to (and are masochistic) you can now edit the text in the game using the locale_english.ini file, or make your own file and change the localization in the options menu. Sorry, due to unfortunate complications, only latin letters can be used.
Another unfortunate complication is that I won't be supporting (officially) other languages at launch. At the moment, the full localization has around 22000 words, it'd cost around $5000 to $6000 per language to translate. The support is there if the community wants to do it though.
Anyways, along with this patch is (likely) the last new content to be added to the game, from now on it'll mainly be polish and bugtesting, The game is nearing completion. Here are the patch notes.

• Localization is here! You can edit the locale_en.ini file to change your language preferences. NOTE: Only english is supported at the moment. Localization is... VERY expensive, I simply don't have the funds to support multiple languages at launch.
  
• A new puzzlebox puzzle has been added!

• Fixed issues related to throwing items and applied bonuses from weapons.
  
• Kamikaze guards will no longer zip across the ground on death.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Vampire.
  
• Fixed the horrible framerate dips caused by the visuals for the balance class.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the first time visual setup.
  
• Optimized the main menu, it was running way worse than it should have.
  
• Fixed a problem (that was likely never happening to anyone) related to unlocking the golden items.
  
• Enemies now fire in the direction they're aiming, not directly at the player.
  
• Fixed a bug where AI would rapidly spin around.
  
• Enemies should ACTUALLY no longer get stuck in blocks, for real this time I promise.
  
• Store purchased health is no longer effected by the blood healing bonus.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by starting a game with a gamepad.
  
• Fixed some issues with the executioner mask.
  
• Fixed shop spawning non-online.
  
• Made unlocking skills slightly harder, you'll no longer get a skill automatically just for attempting a raid.
  
• You can no longer break shark tanks in the lab room.
  
• Fixed damage caused by thrown knives in coop.
  
• Enemies that WOULD spawn in blocks in coop no longer leave their spawn indicators behind.
  
• Enemies in coop who die carrying weapons now drop the items.
  
• Fixed another issue with stores in coop.
  
• Fixed an issue with 3x3 puzzles in coop.
  
• Fixed a very uncommon glitch caused by restarting the game an incredible amount of times.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the flamethrower in coop.
  
• Fixed an issue with picking up weapons in coop.
  
• Fixed some oddities with binding keys.
  
• Fixed a large ammount of issue with enemy bullets in coop.
  
• Fixed a crash with the buzzsaw.
  
• Fixed a potential issue with medic enemies reviving enemies and spawing them out of bounds.
  
• Thrown greatswords no longer stun.

• NOTE: Any weapons generated before this will have incorrect stats, sorry.
  
  
• Altered Gun Stats
  
  
  • Shotgun - Increased spread, reduced amount of bullets from 6 to 5.
    
  • Revolver - Reduced noise, reduced kickback.
    
  • SMG - Reduced speed.
    
  • Pistol - increased kickback.
    
  • Sniper - Increased damage.
• Altered Knife Stats
  
  
  • Kunai - Reduced damage.
    
  • Box Cutter - Increased throw speed.
    
  • Switchknife - Reduced damage.
    
  • Shank - Increased charge speed.
    
  • Paring Knife - Reduced throw speed.
    
  • All Knives - Increased throw damage.
• Altered Swing Stats
  
  
  • Metal Pipe - Reduced speed.
    
  • All Swing Weapons - Increased throw damage.
  
  
  
• Changed the Bouncer. Bullets fired now split off into 2 other bullets. (Was causing issues with the new system.)
  
• Changed the Tornado. Now fires off a stream of poison that confuses enemies. (Was causing issues with the new system.)
  
• Changed the Overkill. Now homes in on nearby enemies. (Was causing issues with the new system.)
  
• Changed the Minigun, it must now be revved up before it can fire. (Wanted it to be more unique)
  
• Changed the Cleaver. Now has the bonus of The Face Buster. (Felt the name fit this weapon better.)
  
• Changed the Face Buster. Now is stronger, but deals damage over time. (The Cleaver's old bonus wasn't very interesting.)
  
• Changed the Celebration. Now turns into a tesla coil that damages nearby enemies. (Sorry, giving a free ultimited projectile was a bad idea.)
  
• Changed the Brainfreeze. Enemies who die will now be turned into a block of ice that blocks bullets. (While unique, the blood ice wasn't functioning as intended.)
  
• Changed the Torcher. Now can target enemies very far away, it's much weaker of course though.
  
• Changed the Assault Rifle. Now applies a "debuff" that causes enemy kickback to be significantly higher. (Due to an odd glitch, any weapons created before this won't function like this, sorry!)
  
• Fixed how fast enemies spot you, and how fast they turn.
  
• Tweaked enemy AI interactions when idle.
  
• Reduced enemy sightlines. This actually makes enemies smarter, previously they wouldn't follow the player behind cover as they wouldn't lose sight of the player behind a box.
  
• Strengthened the autoaim when using a gamepad.
  
• Hitting enemies will now cause them to suffer kickback like the player does.
  
• Reduced the damage buff caused by the Sniper enemy. (from max 50% to max 20%).
  
• The dartgun will now knock enemies out a couple of seconds after they're hit.
  
• Diffiulty level now impacts the time it takes for enemies to wake up way more.
  
• Changed the Spitball. Now causes enemies to attack eachoter instead of getting knocked out.
  
• Increased cooldown time of Bad Medicine from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
  
• Reduced the base health of the normal guard to 140.
  
• Thrown knife/plank damage is now based on the speed the knife/plank is going.
  
• Traps are now less common on outside walls.
  
  
• Skills
  
  
  • Rifle Turret - Reduced overheat penatly.
    
  • Laser Turret - Now only fires when targetting an enemy.
  
  
  
• You can now only have one aim skill active on your gun at once.
  
• All knife thrown damage has been lowered, it was much higher than it should have been.
  
• Enemy damage has been increased across the board.
  
• Enemy aim speed has been increased across the board as well.

• Bullets are now physics based, not fully hitscan.
  
• Changed the way visual setup determines your settings, is now based on frame time as well.
  
• You can now rebind the pause menu key when playing with a gamepad.
  
• Visually changed the combolock spinner and higher/lower puzzle.
  
• Blood now has WAY less of an impact on framerate and will actually last forever in the room.
  
• Added enemy death visuals to coop.
  
• Changed some of the puzzlebox gamepad controls.
  
• Memory is flushed significantly more efficiently now.
  
• Enemies now drop weapons in coop like in single player.

Next patch is going to focus on optimization surrounding coop and level pack modding.

Enjoy!

Probably picked a bad day to update after so long, but no, development isn't dead. As Cash_Out is in the final polishing stages of developing, this is a major QoL update. (That's part of the reason why this update took so long,)

• Enemies can now carry dry ice bombs.
  
• Added the ability to determine the rate in which the client and server send info to eachother with the /rate command.
  
• Smoke grenades can now spawn in Co-Op.
  
• You can now unlock golden items without steam, they'll be fairly expensive though...
  
  
  • -$25000 stolen overall - Golden Shirt
    
  • -$35000 stolen overall - Golden Pants
    
  • -$50000 stolen overall - Golden Hat
    
  • -$60000 stolen overall - Golden Guns
    
  • -$75000 stolen overall - Gold Rush
  
  
  
• The Proximity Trap can now spawn again.

• Ice no longer damages enemies when they break out of it. (This has always been odd and not really well implemented.)
  
• Increased the speed of the Hockey Stick.
  
• Reduced the damage caused by the stun effect against players in Co-Op.

• Fixed a crash related to the skeletons that spawn with the jack-o-lantern hat.
  
• Fixed an issue where killed enemies would never drop clothing items.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Candy Cane item was not working as intended.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with weapon sprites.
  
• Fixed an enemy reload visual related issue.
  
• Fixed a glitch where The Goon weapon wasn't properly reducing damage taken.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the Hockey Stick.
  
• Fixed the surgical gown not working properly.
  
• Fixed hacker clothing not working offline.
  
• Fixed some minor lighting issues.
  
• You can no longer switch weapons when swinging a blunt object.
  
• Smoothened enemy movement in Co-Op.
  
• Fixed a crash with glass walls in Co-Op.
  
• Fixed a crash in Co-Op when pausing.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with flashbangs in Co-Op.
  
• The Spiked Plank now functions properly online.
  
• Fixed several Co-Op visuals.
  
• Fixed a glitch with career mode files with modded options.
  
• Fixed the sniper damage bonus.
  
• The surgical mask now works with regular ammokits.
  
• Fixed a problem where the compact HUD was giving less "auto-aim" then the detailed hud.
  
• Fixed a visual problem with the visual setup.
  
• Fixed an issue where stores in coop were not spawning the same always.
  
• Fixed an issue with shock damage in coop.
  
• Fixed an issue caused by trying to make two IP servers on the same port.
  
• Fixed multiple issues related to players leaving during the character creation screen in co-op.
  
• Fixed a bug where buying clothing in co-op was impossible even though your inventory was not full.
  
• Fixed a potential crash when starting co-op. (This only recently started popping up in testing, but for all intents and purposes it SHOULD have been happening before as well.)
  
• Fixed a problem where Organ Transplant wasn't working properly.
  
• Fixed a problem where Voodoo melee damage wasn't working properly.
  
• Fixed the statistics.

• Changed the distribution of weapon rarity.
  
• All weapons can now be generated with 4 stats minimum, the rarity will determine the amount of stats you get even more now.
  
• Reduced the amount of health heavy guards have, and increased the amount of health light guards have.
  
• Changed how much enemy aim and movement speed scales.
  
• Enemies will now drop the proper amount of ammokits and healthkits in coop.
  
• Enemy EMP grenades now only deal 3 stacks of shock damage instead of 6.
  
  
• Changed the scaling for ammokits
  
  
  • Normal - 1/4 of weapon ammo. (unchanged)
    
  • Tiny - 1/5 of weapon ammo. (up from 1/10 of weapon ammo)
    
  • Big - 1/3 of weapon ammo. (down from 1/2 of weapon ammo)
    
  • Huge - 1/2 of weapon ammo. (down from 3/4 of weapon ammo)
  
  
  
• Enemies will now have more health and deal more damage in career mode. (This was supposed to be a thing, but it was never applied.)
  
  
  • Easy - 10% more health and damage dealt.
    
  • Normal - 20% more health and damage dealt.
    
  • Hard - 30% more health and damage dealt.
  
  
  
• Changed the way ammo generation works.

• Players can no longer enter the car if everyone isn't nearby in Co-Op. (Was causing some issues where a player died and everyone else was in the car.)
  
• Enemies can now carry items in co-op, which means the bomber can now spawn too.
  
• You can now see where enemies are going to spawn in Co-Op.
  
• Settings are now saved across matches in Co-Op.
  
• You can now inspect enemy weapons and items in Co-Op.
  
• Updated several menu visuals to be more consistent.
  
• You'll now start with some items in career mode.

Development still isn't done of course, next update SHOULD be the localization update. I'll be adding full support to change localization. I don't know how long this'll take, there's quite a lot to add in this case.

Enjoy!

Another QoL update! Cash_Out is nearing completion, and the focus of this update was polish. In that regard, I didn't touch co-op or modding, as I'd like to focus on that next update, for now I mainly focused on single player.

Here are the patch notes.

• Added tech to the manual section.

• Players should no longer get stuck while walking into corners.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused enemies to bounce around when first spotting you.
  
• Fixed a memory leak caused by random items.
  
• Fixed a crash related to dartguns (unknown the exact cause, likely related to moving offscreen.)
  
• Fixed a visual issue with unique weapons.
  
• Fixed an issue where the "shaders" option wasn't saving if changed ingame.
  
• Fixed an issue where enemies would get stuck on blocks (again).
  
• Fixed a glitch where the Infection skill was not giving health in the proper manner, not factoring in bleeding and surpassing 100% health.
  
• Fixed a crash with sniper turrets.
  
• Fixed a visual glitch with weapon sprites.
  
• Medics will no longer revive enemies from outside of their squad.
  
• Large sharktanks will no longer turn into small ones when broken.
  
• Fixed a crash with the update notes.
  
• Fixed a crash with beartraps.
  
• Fixed the tutorials menu.
  
• The Tracksuit bonus now works with gamepad.

• Greatly reduced the healing effect of the firefighter pants.
  
• Capped the amount of health recieved from the Smuggler's Trillby to 50 health.
  
• Increased the overheat penalty for the cryoturret.
  
• Reduced the overheat penalty for the buff and sniper turret.
  
• Changed the damage scale for the sniper turret.
  
• Reduced the healing done by the plague skill.
  
• Reduced the amount of time the Life Support skill is active on use.
  
• Increased the amount of damage dealt by the shadow leap skill.
  
• Reduced the damage dealt by shadow shurikens.
  
• Increased the cooldown from the the Fire Burst skill to 2 seconds.
  
• Reduced stungun AOE damage.
  
• Teslagun now also shares the stungun's AOE damage.
  
• Reduced boomerang thrown damage.
  
• Reduced lil slugger stun time.
  
• Reduced greatsword damage.
  
• Reduced electric prod damage.
  
• Reduced Triple Cross speed.
  
• Reduced blowtorch damage.
  
• Reduced heat seeker ammo to 3.
  
• Greatly reduced flare gun explosion size.
  
• Increased The Tipper damage.
  
• Increased icicle damage.
  
• Increased Pulse Cannon damage.
  
• Heat Seeker rockets now home in more accurately.
  
• You can no longer pick up ammo while holding the pulse cannon.
  
• Haymaker charge distance on hit reduced.
  
• Reduced healing during the berserk mode when using the Slice n Dice, but damage taken is greatly reduced too.
  
• Enemies under the effect of the Vampire curse can no longer be controlled for a while, and will reload now.

Enjoy!

Sorry about the large time between updates, I've been pretty busy lately with some stuff, so development has slowed down. This patch is mainly a content patch, as I'm getting very close to finishing the game. With this patch I don't plan on adding any more items or clothing.
I'm not finished adding content, but most of the content added from this point on will be rather minor.

Here are the patch notes.

• New Unique Enemy - Berserker -> High health and speed, but is always confused.
  
• New Item - Barricade -> Places a wall on the ground that blocks enemy bullets.
  
• New Item - Escape Powder -> Teleports you to your last safe spot when used in a room without enemies.
  
• New Item - Firecracker -> Thrown item, explodes after some time, alerting enemies.
  
• New Hat - Mushroom Cap -> Spawns a mushroom spore that revolves around the player spewing poison.
  
• New Hat - Executioner Mask -> Spawns a floating turret that spins around and damages enemies.
  
• New Hat - Sleeping Cap -> Knocked out enemies don't wake up faster if another enemy has spotted you.
  
  Added two new tutorials
  
  
  • - Action Tutorial
    
  • - Stealth Tutorial

• Fixed the Chief enemy having significantly less health than intended.
  
• Items that could previously not spawn in career mode stores now can.

• Neutron -> Reduced damage dealt, now applies a stack of shock as well.
  
• Flower Headband -> Now applies blindness instead of poison.
  
• Skull Mask -> Redesigned. Now all damage taken is converted to blood instead of 75%.

Next patch will be another QoL patch, focusing on polish and balance, and hopefully making the game fully feature complete.

Enjoy!