Assault Android Cactus - Early Access Update - Alpha

You may remember our hands on of Assault Android Cactus, an independently made multiplayer twin stick shooter of epic proportions, but the latest update from pre-Alpha to Alpha is an important one. The game is essentially complete, in terms of gameplay, and Witchbeam are now putting the final polish to the game before general release. Take a look at the updates below and expect some gameplay vids on our YouTube channel soon. 

This major update adds the last two stages of the game (including the final boss) bonus modes and content and many fixes and improvements. 

Features

• new Title music 
  
• new Credits music 
  
• Zone 4 boss Venom has intro and outro text dialogue. You may want to replay him to follow the story! 
  
• new level Collider (zone 5 - 4) introducing a mysterious sub-boss! 
  
• new whitebox Final Boss - Medulla 
  
• Rebalanced Control (zone 5 - 2) - as a result, its leaderboard have been reset 
  
• new game mechanic - credits. Earn them by playing to unlock bonus stuff 
  
• new feature Codex - as you progress through the game, unlock entries on characters, enemies and world that Cactus is set in 
  
• new feature EX Options - use credits to purchase cool and/or strange extra gameplay modes 
  
• new feature Jukebox 
  
• new feature Sound Test 
  
• audio cues added for full weapon cooldown and when you can't swap to your secondary weapon due to overheat 
  
• bosses blink their lights when they talk 
  
• Tutorial refinements

Fixes

• fixed an issue that was disabling HDR if you set graphics settings to Custom - has a noticeable impact on bloom 
  
• improved responsiveness of Daily Drive stage clear leaderboards and trimmed the opening timing 
  
• fixed interface issues related to Character Select and Unlock screens 
  
• handled a case where Steam Overlay could cause the game to stay paused 
  
• Starch's Micro-missiles take in account target size 
  
• Spectres (teleporting enemies) no longer leave thin vertical lines behind if you kill them during a teleport 
  
• Leaderboard joypad buttons no longer slightly squished (seriously, this was bugging me so much) 
  
• many smaller tweaks and fixes

What's next?

The next major milestone will be Beta. In the following updates they will be replacing placeholder art, adding missing animations and fleshing out story content and ex modes.