Some major bugs caught our attention. This resulted in fixes for said bugs.
Now available to you.

Changes since 1.0.4

• Fixed game crashes while playing without (a stable) Internet connection.
  
• Fixed survival mode milestone overwriting when playing on a higher difficulty.
  
• Fixed ‘No more mr. nice guy’ achievement. It is now correctly unlocked upon saving the game while you have 10 epic weapons equipped.
  
• Fixed the unlocking of the ‘Completionist’ achievement. To unlock this retroactively you have to complete a level on S-rank.

The wait for milestones is over. We added a milestone after each boss or mini-boss in the survival mode. The milestones are unique to each difficulty.
Besides this, in the survival mode your rank is now determined by the health lost in that level.

Changes since 1.0.3

• Added milestones to the survival mode; Players are now able to start the survival-mode from any of their reached milestones.
  
• Changed the way your health percentage is calculated in the survival mode; This allows for S-rank assignments even when you did take damage in an earlier level.

Since more and more people reached the survival mode we finally found the ‘survival mode start bug’. Of course it is possible this was just one of several, so if you still encounter this or any other bug, please report back to us through the game support forum/discussion.
Along with the bug we fixed some issues that made it hard to see everything.

Changes since 1.0.2

• Fixed some visual bugs in the hangar.
  
• Fixed a bug with the survival mode that made it impossible to start after dying in a previous round.
  
• Decreased the amount of splitting on the flak cannon.
  
• Increased the visibility of enemies and loot on top of the outrageous amount of projectiles originating from your ship.

Quite a lot has changed since patch 1.0.1. Thank you all for your reports and feedback. We do our best to read everything, while we keep improving the game. Here is the list. Enjoy!

Changes since 1.0.1

• Improved performance of a lot of weapons, projectiles and other game elements.
  
• Optimized and balanced a lot of weapons, for more info, see the ‘Balancing’ section. In short: Generally, the max amount of projectiles on screen have been reduced. So properties like the maximum number of projectiles, splitting and fire rate have been nerfed. To compensate for these changes, damage has been buffed on these weapons.
  
• When you play on the three highest difficulty levels, the level of the items you find will also increase. (based on kill-percentage)
  
• The Luck-upgrade increases the chance a weapon has a higher level than the level you found it in (i.e. level 50 normally drops level 45-52 weapons, with maximized luck this is increased this to 50-57).
  
• You can now change the scale of the combat text in the options menu under gameplay.
  
• Added area specific loading-screens with a little more background story about the bosses.

Balancing:
• Drone swarmer
  
  • The drones no longer shoot at all targets that are in range. Instead it gets a target and will only attack this target, until it is either killed or out of reach.
    
  • Decreased max amount of drones
    
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased drone max range
    
  • Decreased drone max lifetime
    
  • Decreased drone max splitting chance
    
  • Increased drone starting damage and scaling
• Blaster
  
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased max projectiles
    
  • Decreased max splitting
• Energy blades
  
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Increased damage scaling
    
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
    
  • Decreased max ticks/second
• Rifle
  
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased max splitting
    
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
    
  • Decreased damage scaling
• Missile launcher
  
  • Increased damage scaling
    
  • Increased targeting scaling
    
  • Increased max explosion radius (special)
    
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased max range
    
  • Decreased max splitting
    
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
• Flak cannon
  
  • Decreased projectiles scaling
    
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased reload speed scaling
    
  • Increased damage scaling
• Acid spitter
  
  • Decreased max fire rate
    
  • Decreased special scaling
    
  • Decreased max splitting
• Flamethrower
  
  • Decreased max splitting
    
  • Increased damage scaling slightly
• Lightning weapon
  
  • Decreased max splitting

Improvements:
• Daisy (desert boss) projectiles now have their own impact graphical effect.
  
• Improved the looks of the flamethrower DoT.
  
• Improved object pooling; increasing performance.
  
• Changed the name of the industrial area to ‘Titan Corporation’.
  
• Reduced the amount of log outputs, saves disc space.
  
• Tweaked speed of weapon placement when using the controller.
  
• Tweaked deadzone of weapon rotation when using the controller.
  
• Implemented d-pad hint in hangar.
  
• Improved graphics of the survival area in level select.
  
• Small graphical improvements to the intro and outro scene.
  
• Help system dismiss button is now always displayed.
  
• Text on generic buttons is now centered.
  
• When you’re placing a weapon, the weapons on your ship become slightly transparent.
  
• Improved desert miniboss death animation.
  
• Minor changes to water area background (for Thomas).
  
• Ending cutscene credits now ends earlier (after the credits have rolled out).

Bugs:
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to change area when a level was already starting.
  
• Fixed a bug where play session data wouldn't get reset properly when quitting the game, resulting in possible lockups on a lower level profile.
  
• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t get 100% kill percentage, even if you killed all enemies.
  
• Fixed a bug where mineplanters in the water area couldn’t be hit by rifles.
  
• Fixed a bug causing a performance drop during the mini-boss deaths.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the selection to go off screen, while selling weapons from a long list of weapons or mods.

First of all, thanks for playing Reign of Bullets! We've seen a lot of positive feedback on our game and that makes us both proud and happy. But ofcourse, the game isn't perfect and we've also seen that there's still things to work on. Since the next patch is coming out a little later then expected, here's a few words on our plans on improving the game.

Coming patch:

• Performance! Especially on the survival mode and with a few very performance heavy weapons, the game can slow down to an unplayable state. It is our main focus to fix this.
  
• Balancing: There are a few weapons (looking at you drone swarmer) that just deal too much damage with the right stats. Besides nerfing some overpowered weapons, most balancing boils down to less projectiles that deal more damage. This also to improve performance and visibility on the screen.
  
• Bugfixing: There are still some serious bugs that we are fixing, next to a few smaller bugs.

Next patch
Next thing after performance is working on the survival mode and making it a bit more player friendly. Changes we have planned here:

• No more restarting from level 41! We're implementing milestones each 'x' levels.
  
• Balancing hp increase per level and scrap gained per level.
  
• Better rewards from playing at a higher difficulty level: Besided having a higher chance on rare/epic loot, playing on a higher difficulty also increases the level of items that you find in a level. This is already adressed in v1.0.2 for the top 3 difficulty levels.

We hope you like the planned changes, please let us know what else you would like to see on the discussion board!

Thank you for the feedback. The fixes are listed below.
As always, enjoy!

Changes since 1.0.0

• Fixed the S-Rank achievements. If you encountered this issue, you will have to replay one of the levels on any difficulty and acquire an S-Rank. You will properly unlock the achievement.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to unlock ship upgrades at lower levels.
  
• Fixed texts with exotic symbols (like the °-sign) that didn't render on Mac/Linux.
  
• Changed the Desktop-icon (thank you POOTERMAN)

The wait is over, you can finally take to the skies with Reign of Bullets! It's been a great journey and we're happy to have finally reached this point. But it's not the end! The coming days we'll be ready to read, hear and see what you think of the game, and where needed we will improve the game to create a blasting experience for everyone!

So start playing, shoot stuff, upgrade stuff, upgrade even more and tell us what you think! Post your screenshots, videos, discussions and we'll be around to listen to what you have to say.

Godspeed pilots!

Just a few hours now. Here are the change notes for the final version:

Changes since 0.9.2

• Updated graphics in the Hangar.
  
• Made it more obvious that weapons can be upgraded.
  
• Added and changed a couple of Twotter messages.
  
• Added and changed some sound effects.
  
• Tweaked volumes of sounds.
  
• You now no longer encounter as many laserwall enemies in the Industrial area as before.
  
• There are slightly more enemies in the water area.
  
• The water area boss phase 2 has been improved by showing warnings before artillery fire.
  
• Guido is back!
  
• Weapon icons have a spiffy new look.
  
• Changed the droneswarmer graphics to be less obtrusive.
  
• Decreased the health scaling per level of enemies.
  
• Lowered the default volume of the music.
  
• Gave more people credit.
  
• Several graphical tweaks and bug fixes.

We're nearing release and fixing the last things before we go live. Here are the changes for this patch:

Changes since 0.9.1

• Changed the graphics of all missiles so that they are better visible (especially the smaller swarmer missiles).
  
• Increased acid spitter performance.
  
• Implemented and updated some more sound effects.
  
• Added music to the intro cinematic.
  
• Changed drone swarmer drone's explosion graphics.