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13 Dec, 2021

Hey everyone! We want to thank you all for the love and attention you’ve shown Beat Blast. It’s been an amazing journey for the team releasing our first game on Steam. A big part of that is the support we’ve gotten from our awesome community that’s been with us for nearly two years of public builds, QA and testing. For those of you that haven’t picked up the game since launch, we encourage you to come give it another try. You might be surprised just how much it’s changed from feedback from players like you!

Today, we are providing Beat Blast’s final feature update. If critical bugs appear, we will of course provide hotfixes and we will still be around on our discord to chat with players. After nearly two and a half years of updates, our team is really happy with the state of the game and excited about the next project we’ll be working on. We’re a ways away from an announcement, but keep an eye out for us!
Without any further ado, let’s get to the update!

The MIDIverse has begun coming apart at the seams. Those of you who have found a certain golden portal may be familiar these sorts of rare occurrences. Keep your eyes peeled for anything unusual. You might just be able to use it to your advantage!

Aside from the glitches mentioned above, we are also introducing two new room types, a large collection of bug fixes and a visual update in level 1 to prevent it getting too stale. Chest rooms offer you a bunch of chests to choose from. One has amazing loot and one will explode...are you feeling lucky? The second room type is a Slot Machine room, which lets you spend your hard earned blops for some extra loot in your current run. Those of you that have already unlocked everything can finally put your extra blops to good use! Neither of these new rooms will appear in choice rooms, you will simply stumble on them from time to time.

There will now be a 10% chance upon entering an enemy room that you’ll get different variations of the original level 1 enemies. These newer versions behave in exactly the same way; they just provide some visual variety to the most commonly seen enemies.

Lastly, we want to let you know there will be a big 60% off winter holiday sale on Beat Blast, so if you are waiting on buying the game or you know a friend waiting, the holidays would be the best time to get Beat Blast. Happy holidays and new years!
Patch notes below:

Visuals

Level 1 is getting some visual variety! Every now and then level 1 enemies will get a fresh new look

Features

The MIDIverse has begun coming apart at the seams. Those of you who have found a certain golden portal may be familiar these sorts of rare occurances. Keep a sharp eye out for anything unusual
Two new rooms types are in the game, Chest and Slot Machine!
Chest rooms will offer you a bunch of chests, but you can only choose one and not all have the same awesome loot hiding within
Slot Machine rooms allow you to spend excess blops for extra equipment, passive and power notes
Shrine room walls can no longer hurt you with the Operation modifier
Confirmation is now required before exiting to main menu or restarting a run

Balance

Loot rooms are slightly more common to stumble across (outside of choice rooms)

Bug Fixes

Fix for rare bug that could cause some enemies to be invulnerable
Security upgrade to prevent potential cheaters from utilizing dev commands
Heat Seeking Missiles now included in Wizzup, as intended
In rare cases, game text could disappear until a run was restarted
Repeater can no longer allow you to apply/remove purple notes in colourblind modes
Fixed rare bug where players could survive with 0 health

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Balance, Bugs & Chips?

13 Sep, 2021

Thank you to everyone that supported us during 1.0 launch and Early Access! Seeing so many Beat Blast streams and videos come out has been amazing these last few weeks, but it also highlighted a few pesky bugs and difficulty valleys we wanted to address.

Most notably, we felt level 3 was a bit easy compared to level 2 and we've amped up the difficulty with one new enemy and tweaks to several existing enemies.

We've also made some minor tweaks to level 4, specifically the Seed, which was far less challenging than we had hoped. It is much sturdier now and will take more than a few hits from a legendary power note to take down.

Lastly we've made Meg a bit more predictable in her second phase and amped up the difficulty on the Giant Snake and Sentinel when enraged.

We've also already begun work on our next update! We don't want to say too much yet, but we're aiming to add some more rare events to the game to spice up your runs. Those of you that have found a certain golden portal will have a good idea of what we're talking about...

Enjoy the full patch notes below!

Art

Sniper laser visuals refined to make it more clear when they're aiming vs shooting

Features

Chippers have been reworked. They are also sturdier and less common

Balance

Blasters' second set of shots are faster
Snipers shoot one beat sooner after finishing aiming
Level 3 and 4 background colours tweaked to make enemies more readable
Basic enemies will drop fewer bits than before
Machine Gunners fire a completely new attack
Mine explosion projectiles fly faster
Weaklings can no longer spawn above level 1
Snakes can no longer spawn above level 1 (Hive Worms still can)
Yellow elite bombs are more red so they don't look collectible
Meg's mines bounce off walls instead of exploding
Meg's second phase bullet ring attack fires slower and spaces out its gaps more
The seed health boosted 100%
The seed is more resistant to direct attacks and now takes more damage from its 'petals' being destroyed
The seed shoots out far more bouncing bullets than before
Enraged Sentinel fires more homing missile shots
Enraged Sentinel's bullets spread out after they travel, meaning the typical strategy of sitting back is less viable
Enraged Giant Snake now fires homing missiles from certain nodes
Enraged Giant Snake is now much longer
Ball and Chain speed malus reduced by 50%
Poison bomb explosion radius increased by 50%
Black Hole waits a half second before pulling in enemies
Accelerating shot max damage lowered
Shrines are much more common
Plagued modifier will no longer swap curses if you have every curse

Bug Fixes

Don't Touch the Sides should unlock as intended now
Sacred Geometry can only be unlocked by killing the seed, as intended
Plagued modifier will no longer swap curses after traveling through a portal
Fixed a rare bug that could break screen transitions between floors with certain antivirus software
Stack chests can no longer offer two of the same passive ability
Fix for some gamepads that were experiencing input loss after restarting/replaying a run
Hive Beetles could have stun graphics on them despite having 'unstunnable' abilities

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Beat Blast 1.0 IS HERE!!!

25 Aug, 2021

1.0 is out now!

It's been a pleasure growing our fan base and listening to all your great suggestions and bug reports. We couldn't have made Beat Blast without you all. Shout out to our Discord, and thank you to all our players! The game has grown so much over our year in early access. With how crazy the world has been in the last year it was a dream come true to release our first Steam game.

We are pretty happy with where the game is now and are excited for you all to play it. This does not mean we’re done updating the game, but it does mean that we feel it has reached the level of quality we’re proud to present as a completed, fully-fledged game title.

If you like the game and want to help us succeed, please join our discord, tell your friends and favorite content creators about Beat Blast. Word of mouth really helps.

Here is a quick list of the major things added since early access last year.

Level 4 arena, boss and mini boss
Modifiers that completely change the game
Equipment, curses, passives and powernotes
Level 1 Giant Snake Boss
End game and score screen
Achievements
Mac version
Inventory system
More room types
Loot chests
New music tracks
Shrines

Modifiers

Mini Boss 4

Story

Enraged Mini Bosses

Translations

Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional translations have all been added to the game.

Achievements

Here is the full list of updates and changes to 1.0.

Audio

New blue, green, purple and yellow sound set!
New backing loops for boss fights
Smart bomb pickup volume lowered
New audio cues tied to menu navigation and interaction
New backing tracks for boss encounters

Visual

Yellow elite projectiles more red
Meg's mines have had their visuals adjusted to show when their hitboxes are active
Equipment now has a distinct colour to make it clear it's a separate category of item
New impact FX for Bazooka
VFX on pickups adjusted for icon clarity
Stinger projectiles come from their mouths
Barrier animation adjusted when gaining/losing a shield
Queen bee swarmling projectiles have more noticeable impact FX
Slight tweaks to pickup tooltip world anchoring
Binding Apply & Reset buttons coloured to draw attention
Screen fades adjusted to always center Spot
UI menu animations tweaked
Tutorial prompt for new players replaced with a graphic change on the Play menu
Coming soon panel replaced with a new welcome splash image
Remove notes icon was not updating for rebound gamepad controls
Cleaned up the highlight state on menus when using a gamepad
UI selection boxes visuals fixed during UI transitions

Features

First official Mac release!
Chill and Challenge modes replaced with single player challenge modifiers
9 new challenge modifiers, 6 of which are now available in Compete
50 Steam achievements added to the game
Added intro and game completion comic segments
Can now [successfully] end a game after the Seed boss if you choose
New yellow, green and blue track!
Reworked the death and restart cycle
Single player scores and high score
Each miniboss now has an enraged form when encountered in level 5 or later!
Options menu dropdowns can be 'clicked off'
Double note pickups will be grabbed automatically if they're free (just like single notes)

Balance

New players will start with 100 blops
Heat seeking missiles passive rarity changed from Rare to Legendary
Queen bee health increased by 30%
Meg's second phase mines are shot out much slower
Meg's mines take longer to detonate in both phases
Byte's second phase has had a minor rework to present more of a challenge
Power note drop rarities adjusted in boss rooms
Bit and blop chest rewards have been made larger
Bazooka now has a large impact radius by default and increases more with yellow notes
Laser now deals less damage to each opponent it hits
Fortify only blocks shots after a dodge is completed, as originally intended
Speed shrine duration increased from 30 to 90 seconds
Loot shrine duration increased from 30 to 90 seconds
Damage shrine buff lowered from 1000% to 200%
Damage shrine duration increased from 20 to 90 seconds
Shrines are more common to randomly come across but don't show up in choice rooms
Kilo has had the max range reduced on its projectile attack
Small O shaped room removed from the game
"Remove all notes" input only needs to be held down for 1 second instead of 2
The Plagued challenge modifier will now grant a curse at the start of a run
Sprinkler damage per 'sprinkle' reduced by roughly 80%
Mine damage reduced by 17%
Circle burst damage increased by 25%
Echo now reduces projectile damage with each bounce instead of increasing bullet durations
Echo is now limited to a single stack
Green projectile duration pickups max stack lowered from 30 to 15
Blue elite health bonus dropped by 50%
Purple elite minions are invulnerable for one beat after spawning
Curse drop rates lowered in boss loot rooms
Treasure rooms will no longer offer sound pickups

Bug Fixes

Mouse hover effects disabled in menus when using a gamepad
A gamepad disconnecting during a run will now trigger the pause menu
Cannot open the pause menu or inventory screen too soon after starting or restarting a run
Various optimizations to improve late game frame rates
"Remove all notes" input no longer allows you to reshuffle notes with the Automelodic challenge modifier
Power saw behaved unexpectedly with only a yellow note assigned in the column
In some cases, Meg's mines could damage players while flying through the air
Backing out of a confirmation modal via hotkey should work more predictably
Equipment and challenge modifiers are no longer listed as "common" rarity in the Inventory screen
Challenge modifiers are now tinted their standard colours in the Inventory screen
Curses removed through the Plagued modifier will no longer show up in the Inventory screen
Inventory screen stability and visual improvements
Chest lighting fades away with the chest visuals
Challenge modifiers can no longer affect the tutorial
Shrine buffs were showing the wrong tooltips if equipment was picked up while a shrine buff was active
Laser was frequently applying double damage
The Giant Snake head will flash when taking direct damage in phase 2
"Change Your Tune" tooltip will no longer pop up once a gamepad has used the track cycling feature
Track changing tooltip now shows rebound gamepad controls
Fixed gamepad navigation for new audio controls
Backing out of a dropdown menu on gamepad returns the UI selection to where it was before the dropdown was opened
Binding options in the menu reset when the menu is closed and reopened if bindings weren't applied
Gamepad binding visuals could occasionally be tinted incorrectly
Pausing or accessing the inventory during the first second of a started run could cause a soft lock
Submitting a compete score will show the correct arrow depending on whether the score is better or worse than your best previous score
Flocks and snakes have a lower detailed death effect particle to ease late game performance with lots of explosions onscreen
Max FPS should display the correct amount when the menu is opened
Rare late game soft lock fixed
The level 1 miniboss no longer rotates its eye (or eye laser when enraged) while stunned
Instant kill bonuses on power mods were higher than intended
Comet visuals were not visible through some chained dodges
Smartbombs clear when combat rooms are cleared
Credits no longer have the clickable mouse icon when hovered over
Stack and passive chests were not dropping the correct selections of passives
Boss loot rooms will now offer stack chests consistently if you don't have 3 unacquired passives to choose from
Enemy shield attacks can no longer push Spot while dodging
Enemy shield attacks can no longer push black holes
Beat Blast on Windows can now utilize 64 bit hardware

Thank you. We hope you enjoy the game!

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Translations & Story

20 Aug, 2021

Beat Blast 1.0 is less than a week away! After nearly two years as a web demo and one year in Early Access on Steam, it's quite surreal to see the release date approaching so quickly.

Today we want to tease a little bit of the Beat Blast lore. While this isn't a central focus of the game, 1.0 will feature two new cinematics to give the game a bit of context: one at the start and one at the end of your journey. Enjoy the intro comic below!

Comic

Translations

We are also very excited to announce Russian, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) translations for Beat Blast! We hope to have the full translations in and available on August 25th with the rest of 1.0.

More Modifiers

Here is another peek at the Modifiers coming to 1.0
We are extremely excited about these modifiers and believe they add a ton of re-playability to the game.

Big 1.0 Balance Changes

New players start with 100 blops
We revisited Meg & Byte to make the two options feel more equal
Shrines last longer across the board but are less effective
Took a look at all the most effective strategies and nerfed some abilities that were far ahead of the pack: Fortify, Laser, Sprinkler
Some of the weaker power notes got buffs. To make more builds viable.

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Score Screen & level 4 Mini Boss

11 Aug, 2021

1.0 is 2 weeks away!
Today we are showing off the new level 4 miniboss and the new death loop and high score system.

Level 4 Mini Boss

We tried several designs for this miniboss before settling on something a little different. Most of our minibosses act as a sort of moving room obstacle that you take care of after you've cleared all the smaller enemies. Microbe (level 4 miniboss) presents a different sort of challenge; the longer they're left unchecked, the more dangerous the whole room becomes.

While it's still completely viable to take out the minions first, you may find yourself drowning in lasers and bouncing bullets before too long. Experienced players may find it more effective to hunt down Microbe as soon as they realize they're in the room. Strafing won't save you here!

One More Run

One particular point of focus in the 1.0 update has been the end of run experience. While we liked our quick defeat and restart loop, we felt it was a bit too quick, to the point of being a bit jarring. This transition has been smoothed out to make it more clear what hit you and just how (un)impressive the run was. This is shown by a final score, which is assigned based on the level and room you reached and the challenge modifiers you had active. There's a local high score available too for those of you that like to compete against yourselves and track your best runs. From here, you can access the old unlock screen or start a new run again, as normal.

New Tracks Coming in 1.0!

Lastly, we're pleased to announce one new track of each colour being added in 1.0. The Accordion Drumb, Green Synthesizer, Chirp and Drum Shake tracks should spice up your songs and add some more variety for those of you that have been playing a while.

We have also added several more backing tracks to high intensity moments like boss and miniboss fights. Be sure to keep your ears open for them!

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Achievements & Modifiers

4 Aug, 2021

Achievements and Modifiers are coming to the full release of Beat Blast on Aug 25th.

Modifiers Menu

The biggest new addition to Beat Blast 1.0 is the new Play menu! Before you start a new run, you can toggle challenge modifiers on or off. Most of the Compete mode's modifiers are available (with some exceptions). This is replacing the 'Chill' and 'Challenge' modes from Early Access, but we believe this gives you way more options to tailor the game to the way you want to play.
There are 9 new modifiers available in this update that have never been seen before. 6 of them will also be available in Compete. Below is a sneak peak of some of these new modifiers:

• Operation: The walls damage will damage you if you touch them!

• Super Spot: Spot grows bigger or smaller based off how many hearts he has. The more hearts, the bigger a target you become!

• Hot-Headed: All bosses and minibosses start off enraged. This one is not for the faint of heart!

50 Achievements

The Modifiers will not all be available from the get-go though. Aside from two new modifiers, all of the others will unlock alongside one of our 50 new steam achievements.

The modifiers you play with directly affect your endgame score. The harder you make the game, the higher your score multiplier will be when it ends! We'll have more information on the end game score in our next week's post.

This will give you full control over how difficult you want the game to be. Do you want to cruise through the game and groove to the beat? Or would you rather take on the hardest mode you can manage in pursuit of the highest score?

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Full Release Aug 25!

28 Jul, 2021

After 12 months and 15 updates in Early Access, we are pleased to announce Beat Blast’s 1.0 update and full release will be coming on August 25th, 2021! This does not mean we’re done updating the game, but it does mean that we feel it has reached the level of quality we’re proud to present as a completed, fully-fledged game title.

The Early Access process was a blast for us here on the team. Engaging with you, the players and getting regular feedback on each update has been a pleasure and the game is much better for it. To everybody that contributed from players to streamers and even their audiences, we want to thank you. Beat Blast has been a passion project for our team and it means the world to us to share it with all of you.

In the month leading up to the full release, we plan on sharing a new preview of what’s to come each week. Our 1.0 update is about five times larger than our typical Early Access updates, so there’s a lot to talk about! Time to build up the hype train!

Enraged Mini Bosses

Today we’ll start by revealing a feature we’ve been talking about for a while: Enraged Minibosses! Just like the main bosses, each miniboss now has an ‘enraged’ version after level 4 to make those victory laps more deadly than ever. This also means the long awaited fourth floor miniboss will be entering the game with both regular and enraged forms!

Mac Version Coming Aug 25!

Stay tuned to our weekly updates to get more previews of what’s coming. We’re really excited about this update and can’t wait to share it with you all. Join us on August 25th for Beat Blast’s official 1.0 launch!

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Music Control Update

8 Jul, 2021

This update we're focusing more on letting players personalize their song. We've received a lot of feedback in this area and definitely agreed that there was room for improvement! We've focused on giving more control and clarifying the existing control that players had so first time players can jump right in to sound mixing.

Firstly, we've changed the look of the buttons that let you switch sound sets and added track names to help you better find the ones you like. Secondly, we've added volume sliders in the options menu for each row of the song and for power notes. This gives full control of sound mixing to you, the players!

Finally, we've added one of the most requested features on our discord: A "Remove All Notes" button! This is rebindable, but will default to X on keyboard and A/X for Xbox/PlayStation controllers.

An awesome new green sound set has also been added to the game. Below is the full change log.

Audio

Subtle audio FX changes now occur in hallways and after accessing a new level
Several tracks have had their default volume adjusted

Visuals

Changed the look of the audio change buttons to make it more clear what they're doing
Tracks are now named to more easily find the ones you like

Features

A new green sound set has been added ("Space Funk") It's one of our favorites!
Power Notes and Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple rows have individual music volume sliders in options
Remove all notes option added as a rebindable action for both mouse + keyboard and gamepad
New options toggle for whether row audio should change automatically when collecting a new sound

Bug Fixes

The Giant Snake's armored pieces will no longer be killable in the boss' second phase

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New Snake Boss!

28 Jun, 2021

New snake boss is here!
We wanted to do another level one boss to add variety and to hopefully make it easier for new players. Two bosses means new users may find one easier than the other and have an easier time breaking through the first boss wall. Having multiple boss options for a single level adds some unpredictability that we think is exciting and prevents a single strategy from feeling strong for the entire floor. As an example, those fighting the Snake may find purple notes to be far more effective than they have been against the Sentinel.

The Snake will spawn level 1 and enraged in level 5, just like the Sentinel. Which one shows up is completely up to chance! Unlike the Sentinel, which reinforces the use of the dodge, the Snake will test user's ability to simultaneously control movement and aim. Keep moving!

Let us know what you think on the discord[discord.gg]. Is he too hard or easy. Maybe you found a bug?

Full list of updates and bug fixes below.

Features

- A new foe is slithering through the first level of the game. Proceed with caution

Balance

- Revenge stack cap lowered from 17 to 8
- Revenge now does a burst of bullets on beat instead of the constant spray
- Speed Demon stack cap lowered from 20 to 7
- Dextrous stack cap lowered from 20 to 15
- The Sentinel and Queen Bee cannot take more than one phase's worth of damage in a single shot

Bug Fixes

- Minor optimizations throughout the game
- Fixed rare bug that could occur when a snake enemy was killed as soon as the player entered a room
- Fixed a bug that could cause pickup tooltips to not display in certain rooms

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Bug fixes, Tweaks and Peeks

17 May, 2021

Hey everyone, we have a small balance and bug squashing update for you! We've taken a few weeks to tackle some of the reported FPS issues later in the game and have tweaked boss loot rewards and enemy health scaling.

At the same time, we have also been working on our next feature update, which will include a new level 1 boss. For those of you that love the Sentinel, never fear! They aren't going anywhere and will simply share the level 1 spotlight with our new sinister shape monster. We hope you're as excited as we are to spice up repeated plays of level 1 and hope you enjoy this early look at your newest nemesis (special thanks to discord user SlavaCat for the boss inspiration)

Visuals

UI transitions look more appealing
Control pop up at the start of a run fades in to match the rest of the UI

Features

Camera shake can now be disabled in the visual options

Balance

Adjusted player damage scaling and enemy health scaling to make longer runs more challenging
Increased the drop rate of legendary passives from boss rooms
Added cursed passive abilities as possible loot from boss rooms before level 5
Lunger health lowered by 20%

Bug Fixes

Fixed a rare soft lock that could occur later in the game
Performance improvements for longer runs and in between combat encounters
The Goliath challenge modifier now gives a regular stack of Barrier, as originally intended
Seed backing track should no longer stick around after insta-killing its first phase
Fortify no longer repositions if a barrier explodes near it
UI elements resize more consistently when adapting to dynamic elements, like key binding text
Power note inventory backdrop is now tinted to match the rarity of the currently equipped power note
Switching between mouse and gamepad midway through the tutorial can no longer show the d-pad graphic unnecessarily
Colour modes now correctly recolour the backing of the power note on the song UI instead of the icon
Max FPS was not greyed out when first opening the options menu with vsync on
Certain gamepad UI elements could be hidden until switching control schemes again

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