New features and Improvements

Features & Improvements:

• Improved Front Light Positioning: Fixed the positioning of front lights for a better visual experience.
• Fixed Overlapping Brightness of Front Lights: Resolved the issue where front lights would overlap, leading to unrealistic brightness effects.
• Shield Visibility Toggle: Added an option to hide shields, making the construction of your ship more visible during building and designing.
• UI Life Bar Animation: Added smooth animations to the UI life bars for a more polished and dynamic experience.
• Redesigned Login UI: Completely revamped the login screen to offer a more modern and user-friendly interface.
• Text Font Autosize: Introduced automatic font scaling for many UI elements, ensuring better readability across different screen sizes.
• Redesigned Leaderboard UI: A refreshed leaderboard UI with enhanced visual clarity and functionality.
• Leaderboard Rank Frames: Added frames that correspond to ranks in the leaderboard, helping players to easily identify their standing.
• Updated Rank Thresholds: Adjusted the rank thresholds for a more balanced progression system.
• Rank Bug Fixes: Addressed and removed several bugs related to rank calculation, providing a smoother experience.
• Balanced Upgrade System: Upgrades from combined blocks and weapons now provide a 50% increase per rank, up from 25%. The old system was unbalanced, requiring 3 of the same block type for a single upgrade, resulting in 300% cost for only a 25% increase. The new 50% increase is a more reasonable approach.
• Improved Object Pooling: Optimized object pooling to enhance performance. While there may be a brief delay at the start of battle due to preloading, objects are now kept in memory for reuse, and the memory usage is more efficient.
• Laser & Weapon Performance Improvements: Optimized laser performance and improved the efficiency of many other weapons for smoother gameplay.
• Optimized Polygon Collider Calculations: Simplified and optimized the way encompassing polygon colliders are calculated for each entity, resulting in better performance and collision detection.

These changes should significantly enhance both the gameplay experience and the user interface, ensuring smoother performance and more engaging visuals. Stay tuned for more updates and improvements!

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