Defend the Earth II Post Jam Launch

Major Changes

• Added Alternative movement system 
  • Dev Comment: Movement is constant, no matter the ships rotation e.g. If the ship is facing at a right-angle, holding the W key still propells the Player Ship Upwards

•  Added Auto-fire option
  • Dev comment: Weapons always fire, rather than needing [LMB] to be held down. Player still needs to aim Weapons

• Player Settings are now saved between games

• Moved Highscore Tag Input Field from Start Panel to Game Over Screen
  • Dev comment: Some players missed the Highscore Tag input field on the Start Menu

• Reworked Difficulty Scaling
  • Dev comment: Each mode was too easy/hard respectively. Alien Health/Damage now vary by a maxium of 33%

Balance Changes

Ship

• Increased damage of player Chain Gun Weapon
  
• Increased base damage dealt by Laserbeam Weapon
• Reduced range of player Laserbeam Weapon

Orbit

• Increased damage of Basic Satellites
  
• Increased damage dealt by Laserbeam Satellites
• Substantially increased damage dealt by Space Station Turrets

Aliens

• Reduced Health of the Smallest/Fastest Alien Ship Type
• Increased Damage dealt by Smallest/Fastest Alien Ship Type
• Reduced Damage dealt by Largest Alien Ship Type
• Reworked Final Mission Alien Spawning 
  • Dev comment: Small Ship type spawns less frequently and earlier, Largest Ship type spawns more frequently

Other

• Increased Population Growth Cap from Emergency Repopulation modifier
  
• Prototype Laser rotation speed increases at a constant rate (before multiplied each upgrade)
• Various small tweaks to the Earth's Population Growth Formula

QoL Improvements

• Added Full settings menu to Tech Panel Display (Opened by Button at Top Left of Panel) 
• Removed Unlock descriptions from Technology tooltips (now just displays Technology name and the perks it provides)
• Slightly increased the distance that Alien Ships spawn from the Earth (sometimes enemies could spawn on-screen)
• Added new Alien Death Animation to Biggest enemy type (now explodes)
• Added Game Difficulty to Leaderboard entries
• Changed Minimap Icons so that Icons more accurately reflect the size of the Alien ships they represent
• Added Alternative Movement System and Auto-fire checkboxes to How to Play Panel (under subheading "Controls")
• Added flashing effect to Laserbeams
• Added close settings panel by clicking anywhere outside settings panel window
• Reduced maximum character limit for Highscore Tags from 21 characters to 18

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where Alien Death animations did not play, and Alien Ships just disappeared upon being destroyed.
• Fixed formatting bug on Game Over Screen
• Fixed bug where Laserbeam damage drop-off was incorrectly calculated
• Fixed bug where Player Ship Rotation Speed Upgrades did not apply
• Fixed bug where Player could input Highsore Tag that overflowed Highscore display row