Rogue Effect v0.5 Released (Happy New Year's Eve)

It's time for a release again. It's long overdue and the next one will probably take just as long. So don't hold your breath. I do plan to get Rogue Effect to 1.0 during the next year, though. And I sure do hope I succeed 'cause I'd really like to work on something else for a change.

The highlights of this release are the three Human classes: Sentinel, Infiltrator, and Vanguard. There's a cool death/victory screen to recap your run now as well. I also made the game easier by removing enemy damage scaling with player level. And thanks to that, I managed to actually beat the game for the first time! I might reintroduce the scaling later on as hard (impossible) mode or something.

The main things I will add in future versions are 12 new player classes (3 per release) and a small achievement/challenge system for the final 1.0.

A word of warning: While testing this release on my netbook just minutes ago, I noticed that spawning Engineer's Combat Drone might crash the game. I tried to fix a bug yesterday and apparently made it worse. Unfortunately I also made it the default power for the class earlier. I will probably do a stealth release (v0.5.1) soon, but in the mean time I'd suggest avoiding the Human Engineer.

Download: Rogue Effect v0.5.1 (Windows)

v0.5 - 2014-12-31

 New features:
 * Three new player classes: Human Sentinel, Infiltrator, and Vanguard
 * A death/victory screen

 Changes and minor additions:
 * Added many stats to the character screen
 * Enemy damage no longer scales with player level
 * Most attacks have now a force value that may cause enemies/the player to stagger
 * Being flung back by powers now damages enemies
 * Melee attacks no longer ignore shield gate
 * Enemy melee attacks now generate a message
 * Human Engineer now starts with one point in Combat Drone instead of Overload
 * Non-consumable items and stairs to the next level are now shown on the radar when the current level is clear from enemies
 * Changed the color of weapon benches to red
 * Doubled the durability of weapon benches and counters
 * Tweaked the appearance of the main menu a bit

 Fixes:
 * Finally fixed all remaining display errors in the objective info (I hope)
 * Turn counter wasn't working properly (which caused all kinds of silliness)
 * Some of Frag Grenade's evolutions weren't applying their bonuses correctly
 * Combat Drone can no longer be spawned outside the player's field of vision
 * Many powers were displaying their recharge speed incorrectly if power recharge bonus was negative