Hello all,

I've just released a 2nd work-in-progress "beta" of an upcoming Resistance is Fruitile update, tentatively titled "Chocolate Fruitcake Wars".

This release mainly revolves around a sweeping rebalance of the power cards system to yield more diversity and coverage of abilities:

- I've increased the total number of cards to 32 (from 28)

- The backside of the cards have a new look that's less like poker playing cards and more like mystical power cards

- The "Power" bar is now called "Rage" and is colored orange, which is more in-line with the theme of the game and also gives it a different naming scheme from the "Power" cards.

- I've reworked / separated several powers into multiple powers and added new ones:

> Mineral Hoarder: minerals move towards you; the match-two makes enemies drop more minerals

> Vitamin C4: allows you to manually detonate the Juicr9000 by pressing the button again; the match-two makes the explosion MUCH bigger

> Tough Nuts: match-two now makes your Juicr9000's saw blade do much more damage (a tad glitchy right now and I might assign this to a different power)

> Rapid Fire: match-two now gives you the extra barrel.  I think moving this from Tough Nuts to Rapid Fire will give more options/variety to increase your damage.

> Minefulness: changed to only grant increased sawblade rate of fire.  The match-two still gives you two mines.

 > Selective Breeding: no longer makes base bullets bigger, but now makes the super attack bigger and stronger.  The match-two gives you increased super attack speed.  I felt like having big normal bullets all the time caused too much noise on screen.  I also felt that not having a power that buffs the super made the super feel too weak in the later parts of the game if you weren't lucky enough to get Bottomless Pit's match-two.  Speaking of Bottomless Pit...

> Bottomless Pit: the match-two has been toned down and now only gives you the base power card's ability and not the corresponding match-two bonus; Selective Breeding buffs the super to compensate for the nerf, which I think feels better since you can get it more easily.  It was just a bit tooooo crazy when you had the piercing split bullet along with bouncing, dash burst, and range extension.

If you get a chance to try this out, please let me know what you think!  I'm still tweaking the powers so feedback will be considered!

Thanks,

Kevin