tl;dr

• Significantly improved performance
• Two new classes
• Reworked Zone attacks and cards
• A new character sprite
• Handful of new cards
• All medals is a little bit easier

v1.5.0

• Adds a 20% random spread on enemy speeds (enemies will be more clumped early on the track and more spread near the end)
• Adds Threaded Rendering Option for multi-threading projectile rendering
• Adds a visible Energy Regen section to the unit energy bar
• Adds Pause For Rewards Option to automatically pause when a reward is offered
• Adds a Spatial Hash Grid to reduce unnecessary projectile collision tests
• Adds a new character sprite
• Adds Zone Range Visibility Option
• Adds a bunch of new Zone related cards
• Adds a handful of general usage cards
• Adds two new classes
• Changes Energy Regen so it happens only once a second
• Changes Options Menu Checkboxes to Toggle Buttons
• Changes Turbo Factor Option range from 1x-4x to 1x-16x
• Changes Air Render and Cross Slash FX
• Changes the fallback Area FX
• Changes the UI Theme (mainly buttons)
• Changes Zone mechanics (now has no lifetime, seeks targets, hits two times per second, 50% damage)
• Changes some card rarities (rarity is visual only, does not affect gameplay)
• Changes Damage Numbers to always update at the same rate regardless of game speed
• Changes Card FX logic (only use the FX of the leftmost card that has custom FX)
• Fixes enemies dying immediately after being spawned
• Fixes a few cases of vfx not being deferred which was causing slowdown
• Fixes card-given Auras retaining stats of cards that were equipped before equipping the Aura even after they are removed
• Fixes Auras not updating dynamically when stacks change their radius
• Fixes card selection visually resetting the level bar
• Fixes unit level properly not capping at 10
• Fixes some outdated descriptions across the game
• Fixes incorrectly aligned arrow heads at specific angles
• Fixes bug where Warp stacks were not removed unless Teleports also caused Impacts
• Fixes bullet graphics disappearing under certain stances
• Fixes being unable to select enemies while the game is paused
• Fixes Hyper Pressure requirements (Water Piller -> Aqua Jet)
• Optimizes all object pooling a lot
• Optimizes area logic by ~43%
• Optimizes enemy logic by ~10%
• Optimizes Expression type stat tracker operations by ~750%
• Optimizes idle game performance
• Optimizes projectile logic by ~9%
• Optimizes projectile pooling by ~524%
• Optimizes range updates by ~244%
• Optimizes stat system to avoid pointless recalculations
• Rebalances (Buff) The Perfect Storm to include all the radius of the cards used to make it
• Rebalances (Buff) The Perfect Storm by replacing freezing stacks with wet stacks to reduce stack conflict
• Rebalances (Buff) Warp to include the teleport duration reduction from Jump
• Rebalances (Buff) Area damage and stack falloff (10% per target -> 8% per target)
• Rebalances (Buff) Magical Foci range (32 -> 60)
• Rebalances (Buff) Temper damage and stack multipliers (1.25x -> 1.40x)
• Rebalances (Buff) Air Render energy cost (2 -> 1)
• Rebalances (Buff) a handful of Smite cards to cost less energy
• Rebalances (Buff) enemy acceleration (250 -> 75) so slowing effects are more impactful
• Rebalances (Buff) Snail max health (10% less)
• Rebalances (Change) Zone related cards
• Rebalances (Change) a handful of Aura cards to now also affect Zones
• Rebalances (Change) the card weighting making it easier to lower the weighting of unwanted cards
• Rebalances (Change) Star Fall to be a basic Zone card
• Rebalances (Nerf) Overclock and similar cards scope (All Attacks -> Targeted Attacks)
• Rebalances (Nerf) Witches per level bonus (10% damage -> 6% damage)
• Rebalances (Nerf) unit base energy (100 -> 60)
• Removes a handful of Zone cards (thematically inconsistent with my current concept of Zones)