We would like to announce a new era of Sipho updates - 0.6.x. This update contains changes to structure zooids which play a major role in balance of the game. After updating you will be greeted with rebalanced structures:

• Advena structure now costs 3 (instead of 2) nutrition and increases attached zooid damage by 1 and healing efficiency by 1 - zooids with higher healing efficiency will get more health points from healing effects.
• Saenus Beefuorus structure will now automatically cover neighboring zooids with protective shell.
• Buginis structure now adds 1 point of energy regeneration to neighboring zooids.
• Each Cra'than structure now heals 2 health points (instead of 1) and skill cost is lower, but increases with each zooid.
• Vagorian structure gives 10% movement speed bonus to attached zooids.

We hope these changes will make structures a lot more useful and fun to play. Let us know what you think!

You can find changelist below:

Version 0.6.0

• Move several test structure prefabs to disabled folder
• Make Flail weapon damage based more on impact velocity rather than time
• Increase Muck effectiveness against projectiles
• Fix Muck animation becoming off-sync when continuously using launch skill
• Increase Nervefiber healing amount from 1 to 2
• Chitin Shell buff sprites should not be affected by Greaser effects
• Despawn environment objects when they sink
• New buffers use new sprites
• Buffer zooid sprite metas
• Tweak Chitin Shell visuals and don't despawn them on level change
• Buffer zooid sprites
• Where does the sniper piercing keep disappearing?
• Try to make flail more fun by reducing its drag and boosting its launch force 20 times. Now you can sort of chase people around with it
• Set Greaser sac layer to Outline to make it ignored by Renderer cloner effect
• Hide the weird "zarnokas" sprite in the soul eater projectile
• Buff soul eater force per range from 150 to 220
• I suck at making particle effects, but I'm trying to improve the Grinder particle effect
• Projectile size scales from bonus damage
• An attempt to make a Grinder effect of some sort
• Serialize phaser
• Rename spike skill to "Impale" so it's not confused with pierce stat
• Slightly robustify shell code from weird states
• Shells don't expire and sea structures regrow shells every 7 seconds instead of 6
• Fix a bug (feature?) where dead zooids grew shells.
• Increased shell lifetime from 16 to 18 seconds and decreased spawn frequency from 4 to 6 seconds to make fighting sea boys less annoying
• Alien structure costs 3 instead of 2, but retains the 12 health so it's more robust for the price
• Add a regeneration efficiency stat description
• Update descriptions for a few structure zooids
• Vagorian structure buffs nearby movers with 10% extra movement force
• Reserialize the rest of the zooids
• Reserialize the two zooids that feel like it
• Heal skill uses less energy up-front but uses 5 more energy per-zooid
• Fix nothing healing anymore since the regenerationEfficiency got reset to 0 everywhere
• Skills can have an extra energy cost per-zooid
• Advena structures add a health regen efficiency bonus - heal more with less!
• Advena structure buff naming came back to its senses
• Shell lifetime extended from 15 to 16 seconds
• Saenus Beefuorus structure passively grows a shell over a single zooid every 4 seconds
• Fix exceptions when loading a save with a player skill that no longer exists
• Advena structure buffs nearby zooid damage by 1
• Update Buginis structure description
• Make Buginis structure give +1 energy regeneration to neighboring zooids. Decrease their max energy bonus from 10 to 5