Permanent Progression Overhaul - Update 0.69

New items, sound effects, rewards for earlier players and an entirely new set of unlockable goods.

New weapons / abilities

Hammers, Chakrams, Temporal field...

New XP system

• NOTE: This is done in a way that does not compromise on challenge; but allows you to access strategic options and bonuses. 
  
  
• Earlier players will also be rewarded a large starting bonus; based on what's been achieved so far. What you've unlocked stays unlocked in the future.
• Levelling up grants tokens which can be spent on various unlockable items/world shotcuts etc.

Unlockables include

• 7 relating to weapons and abilities.
• Rerolling starter equipment.
• Two world shortcuts will be free if you unlocked them earlier (otherwise they cost 5 tokens each) 

Menu Stuff

• Multiple menus reprogrammed to work much better with widescreen and higher resolutions.
• Added Progression Menu.
• New graphics for all purchase/equipment related menus.
• Added Unlockables Menu.
  
  NOTE: costs may be discounted slightly for this update.

Tweaks to player physics

• Reach maximum speed faster; but max sprint speed is marginally lower (<10%) for better control.
• Made grapple swinging more instantaneous.

Animation refinements

• Several new animations including: 
  
• Spear slashes now have a weapon trail.
• Fixes to the frames of humanoid entities holding weapons when landing.
  
  

Bug fixes and optimizations

• Light colors of melee weapons now reflect their materials more closely (with crystal yielding more light).
• Code optimisations to collision checking.
• Fixed Credits menu cropped at higher resolutions.
• Fixed Choose equipment menu breaking when reopening after changing resolutions.
• Considerably reduced time writing to output files (e.g. saving progression and logging).
• Several others.

Looking forward to hearing what you think :)