v0.36.0

v0.36.0

Experimental mechanic: Shield powerups

• Overseers now have another health resource: shields
• Shields absorb damage before health. Damage to shields does not interrupt health regeneration.
• Shields can only be obtained from collecting shield powerups. Shields do not regenerate or decay.
• There are now two areas along the midline of the map that regularly spawn shield powerups
  • This is intended to nerf turtling during flag stalemates
• Overseers now drop a small shield powerup on death
  • This is intended to (1) reward kills and (2) introduce some asymmetry to combat
• Known issues
  • The bot logic for shield powerups is currently very rudimentary

Visuals

• Add an indicator for drone respawn cooldowns
• Change world boundary to a gradient

Psi-storms

• Make psi-storm damage timing consistent
  • Previously, psi-storm damage ticks were activated by a shared global timer. Now each psi-storm has its own timer that starts when it is cast.
• Simplify psi-storm damage stacking
  • Previously, the damage of N stacked psi-storms was proportional to sqrt(N). Now it is directly proportional to N.

UI

• Change the score tally so that it counts up instead of down