Celestial Assault

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- fixed: crate dropper never spawns on asteroid sequence missions
- fixed: music jumps in volume when loading a mission
- reworked several space backgrounds
- increased default rate of fire and projectile speed of all cannons and turrets
- retuned audio of laser beams

- fixed: turrets sometimes do not fire at all until you pause and resume the game
- fixed: turret enhancers appear as an unresponsive weapon button tile when unequipped
- new enhancer: Turret Photon Cannon - increases turret damage by 60 points per unit and changes weapon projectile to a photon

- added compatibility with 64 bit devices
- increased clickable area of menu buttons to make menu interaction easier
- re-scaled menus to better fit device resolutions

- fixed: movement of some bosses and enemies was unintentionally slowed in version 2.9.6
- new save slots and profiles auto load when initially created
- re-scaled the menu screens to fit the device screen better

Reduced the scale of the player ship, weapons and enemies to increase the maneuverable area

- fixed: game crashes on start-up on devices with iOS 6 and higher

- added new enhancer to boost turret tracking speed
- added a link for data mgmt to the profiles screen
- changes to gold will animate when in inventory
- bug fixed: gold shield times out if activated when another shield type is already active
- bug fixed: player ship sometimes jolts across screen when pressing outside of single use item area
- bug fixed: scores on leader-board over 2.4 billion display as zero

- added option to disable red damage captions
- added turret damage and turret speed enhancers
- re-designed add-ins page
- fixed some minor background defects
- optimized asteroid meshes to improve performance

- fixed crash caused by in-app billing when not connected to internet
- added scrolling captions below gold to show gold lost when using gold shield
- fixed bug preventing gold shield from disabling when switching to other shields
- fixed bug that locks screen to mission while scrolling across map
- reworked or improved several backgrounds

- fixed performance bottleneck causing "equip" menu to open slowly and sometimes crash the app
- added new equipment slot for "Special" items
- added Special item "Gold Shield" which drains currency instead of health and armor when active
- gold will now spawn more often than other pickups on higher missions
- fixed performance bottle neck on missions with animated gradient background colors affecting devices with older graphics cards
- fixed inconsistent damage from reflected weapons

1. Added a new equipment slot called Boosters. Boosters allow you to extend some of your ship abilities beyond the limits of normal enhancers, weapons and stats.
The new Boosters are:
- Aptitude: Increases the experience and points earned per kill
- Damage: Increases the damage dealt of all player weapons
- Turret: Increases the duration value of each block for the Wing Turret
- Resistance: Absorbs a percentage of all damage taken from enemy ships
2. Substantial performance improvements
3. The store slider will now max out at either the total units the player can currently afford or the stack limit of the item (if any)
4. Upon resuming the game from the pause menu the player will be invincible for 2 seconds to prevent accidental collisions
5. Improved explosion effects
6. Fixed: bug where pulling all enhancers out of a binder resulted in slot still appearing occupied with 0 items
7. Fixed: bug where stack limits are ignored when equipping enhancers from one weapon set to another

- Increased the maximum Armor, Health, Shield and Turret attributes that can be allocated to the player ship.
- Fixed a bug causing Asteroids and Mines on sequence missions to have the same health across all difficulty levels.
- Capped the maximum movement speed for enemies at difficulty 4 to prevent unreasonably fast movement
- Fixed bug where single-use items are accidentally used upon pressing the "done" button during game-play
- Fixed issue with vertical positioning of the shield and turret meters in the player HUD
- a few other minor bug fixes

- Fixed bug where mission map scrolls to wrong mission upon trying to start mission 19
- Fixed a bug causing the Bosses in Deep Space 12 and 18 to get stuck outside the screen
- Added the ability to change the difficulty of a save slot at any time from the "Saved Games" screen. Changing the difficulty will reset the unlocked missions and stars but all other content such as gold, stats and weapons will remain intact.
- Added 3 new difficulty levels for a total of 6 levels. Levels 1, 2 and 3 correspond to the old Casual, Challenging and Impossible difficulties so you will see no change to your existing games. Levels 4, 5 and 6 are locked until you beat the game on the preceding difficulty level, for example, in order to access difficulty level 4 you must beat the game on level 3 and so on.
- Fixed a bug in the star requirements which made some of the missions have a lower requirement than intended.
- Fixed an issue causing some of the enemy homing weapons to detonate prematurely
- Fixed a bug preventing the Help button in the Mission Map screen from displaying the help dialog
- Fine tuned the mission time requirements allowing more time on some and less time on others
- Fixed some minor graphical flaws
- Slightly increased total possible points earned per enemy

- Fixed the bug preventing the 7th, 8th and 9th Plasma missiles from firing
- Fixed a bug with enemy homing weapons on Deep Space missions that was causing the weapons to detonate within a certain proximity of the player without actually hitting the player
- Added a homing enhancer for the Photon Cannon
- Added up/down arrows to the scroll-bars and increased the scroll-bar widths to make them easier to use
- Added a quantity slider for dropping multiple items at once in the ship config menu
- Made several improvements to Equip functionality to prevent accidental removal of stacked enhancers
- Improve mission load speeds and reduced RAM consumption
- The flashing "level up" caption on the pause button will only show initially when you receive an attribute point, rather than constantly until you use all points
- Randomized the spawn order of the enemies in each mission upon mission start for variety

- added the "Deep Space" mission pack to Add-ins, includes 18 new missions, 3 new Bosses and 20 new enemies.
- Completely overhauled space backgrounds on every mission.
- Increased total possible gold and crates dropped per player Fortune stat level.
- Saturn Missiles can now be fired at a rapid rate like Nukes
- Fixed a movement bug causing the player ship to jump backwards.
- other minor graphical improvements, performance improvements and bug fixes

- two new weapons: plasma missile and photon cannon
- added type filters to the Shop menu so single use items, weapons and enhancers can be viewed by category
- increased player ship movement speed
- fixed fuchsia square showing on impact with some boss weapons
- reflection shield now reflects laser beams back at enemies
- added promo code functionality for free add-ins
- fixed errors that occur when creating a save on slot 2 or 3
- added damage values to weapon details in store
- improved some of the effects
- added weapon crate enemy to sequence missions
- bosses move faster the lower their health gets
- various minor changes and improvements
(new mission pack will be available early November)

- new quintuple binder allowing a combination of 5 enhancers
- new gravity enhancer which pulls pickups to your ship
- new weapon type "Wave Cannon", plus 4 wave cannon enhancers
- added current and previous star requirement status to Mission menu screen
- added new vertical layout to the Options menu for single use item buttons
- fixed discrepancies in kill % of HUD and mission summary screen
- changed logic to prevent unreachable enemies cycling around the screen
- weapons and turrets will also target mines, asteroids and other non-ship objects
- several additional fixes and improvements
(NOTE: Next update will contain a mission pack of at least 15 more missions, new enemies and bosses, expected release is early October 2012)

- added a global Leaderboard
- added a data management screen to register device for safeguarding saves and addins
- scrollbars are easier to control
- boss health meter is no longer obstructed by single use items
- increased overall damage for lasers
- balanced audio volumes
- improved performance by reducing total number of textures loaded during gameplay
- an error message is displayed upon failure to connect to add-ins store
- compressed several uncompressed tetxures to reduce total download size
- fixed some defects on background images

- added a global Leaderboard
- added a data management screen to register device for safeguarding saves and addins
- scrollbars are easier to control
- boss health meter is no longer obstructed by single use items
- increased overall damage for lasers
- balanced audio volumes
- improved performance by reducing total number of textures loaded during gameplay
- an error message is displayed upon failure to connect to add-ins store
- compressed several uncompressed tetxures to reduce total download size
- fixed some defects on background images

- Performance optimized
- resized some textures to prevent stretching

- add-ins can now be purchased in the add-ins menu
- new player weapon "laser cannon"