Another update so soon? Yes, but this is NOT the big update planned for before the end of the year, just a smaller in between update with some polish and fixes. The biggest thing is some changes for the game's 4th playable character, Beta!
Beta has some fun weapons, but his special abilities, like sliding and using buddy rafts were not as fun. We decided to buff the slide's power so sliding is actually worthwhile. We also fixed a few things with him, and gave him a few mini buffs.
Changes
Beta slide buffed (1 -> 5)
Beta hi-five buffed (2 -> 5)
Beta power slide buffed (2.25 -> 10)
Beta is not slippery when walking over frozen rafts
Beta is now immune to boom fish explosions
Tutorial is now playable in multiplayer
Tutorial now ends after first wave of enemies, instead of doing all of Clear Skies
Tutorial prompts show both keyboard and gamepad if both are being used
Made more things drop raft wood, each has a different % of if it'll drop raft wood (lightning, narwhals, geysers, rocks, soda bottles, super kraken tentacle slam, super kraken mega laser, god onion nuclear ball, cooler loop bottles)
Compass bird will now show a third biome option separately if it's possible
Raft grid border is now a dashed line
Raft grid border only shows up if a nearby player is in build mode
Lag light effect buffed (20% at base, 10% per stack)
Increased Magnet Raft's range
Super Kraken won't start biting for 25 seconds
Crocodile dashes slightly more now
Reduced money reward for beating swarms
Fixes
Screen shake had a bug where it compounded, there's also a hard max on the amount of screen shake
Players and rafts should not take damage after or during cutscenes
If you have a lot of Soaked Stopwatches as Beta, your slide will last the whole time if starting a new one before the old one was over
Player username goes along with player more directly (noticeable when in air or spawning in the hub)
Fixed breath sprite not being Helveti's during tutorial
Added Kraken swarms back to possible boss encounters post loop
Fixed Beta's slide aiming logic
Fixed battery rock shock explosion effect not showing up for client players
Attempt to fix boss health bar problems with clients
Attempt to fix players indexes getting desynced
Attempts to fix players connections from dropping or getting stuck after going back to Raftport
Attempt to fix mercenaries being in the wrong spot for clients
