This patch fixes up an assortment of issues reported over few past months, while overhauling Little Man ally, buffing endgame enemies (including Ballos himself) and making Resonant difficulty more impactful.

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Edit: Revision 1.45.1.2 has been uploaded, fixing few minor bugs and buffing Duckman's ducks to be more reliable.

Highlights:

• Reworked Little Man's AI:
  • now uses Remote Controller's targeting code
  • changed the movement pattern: instead of weaseling around, now chases enemies, jumps up walls and pogoes targets
  • now gets distracted by less objects
  • changed the base damage from 1 to 6
  • removed mechanic with player interact state
• Reworked/nerfed empowered dashes:
  • now has a cooldown, during which player can no longer dodge damage during dashing
  • added a new visual and sound for empowered dash
  • this also affects some other dash abilities, like Sacred Aegis
• Increased the difficulty/variety of Ballos fight:
  • Phase 1:
    • increased HP from 1000/1400 to 1600/2100
    • increased his movement speed by 12.5%
    • changed red projectile blast to be present in all difficulties
    • added semi-homing projectile trail to Reinforced fight
    • reworked lightning attack to instead summon giant plasma orbs, that are influenced by your movement
  • Phase 2:
    • increased HP from 800/900 to 1200/1000
    • now does fire burst attacks, that can come from one of walls, instead of bone shockwaves after each jump
    • now spawns very slow energy balls from ceiling after jumping in Reinforced
    • reduced jump height and removed instant jumps in Reinforced
    • increased horizontal velocity by 50%
    • increased stomping damage from 16 to 24
    • changed devil spawning rate from 0-40/0-140 to 0-50/0-100
  • Phase 3:
    • the amount of red blasts now scales with difficulty and switches between wide spread and big bursts depending on eye position
    • now spawns plasma balls instead of lightnings in Reinforced, like phase 1
    • increased eye health from 100/150/200 to 100/175
  • Phase 4: 
    • increased HP from 1600/2300 to 1800/2750
    • reduced amount of butes by 25% in Reinforced
    • increased spike damage from 2 to 5

Balance changes:

• Buffed Snake:
  • increased the lifespan by 3 frames on all levels
  • increased damage from 4/5/6/6 to 4/6/8/8
• Buffed the damage of various endgame entities:
  • teleporting frog: 5 -> 7
  • gaudi shurikens: 4 -> 6
  • dragon spheres: 10 -> 15
  • semi-homing projectiles: 5 -> 8
• Changed item equip limit from 10(Hardened)/7(Reinforced)/5(Resonant) to 12(Hardened)/8(Reinforced/Resonant).
• Second bosses in first campaign now have 33% more health.

Misc:

• Boosterama and Little Man no longer attempt to reach targets, that are behind walls.
• Laser Gaudi no longer shoots, if the path is obstructed by walls.
• Updated readme's info on seeds (satisfies #140).
• Resonant now makes darkness effect even darker.
• Grass no longer heals in Resonant.
• Added chest mimics into Resonant:
  • 50% of chests are mimics
  • they appear as chests at first, but transform into critters and wake up when player comes close
  • their stats scale with progression, gaining 1/2 damage and 8 health per depth
  • defeating them grants normal chest loot
• Removed ability to jump from spikes for Alien Medal and its upgrades.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed cooldown deplete rendering being in reverse this whole time.
• Fixed Doctor and second campaign bosses not having increased health in Resonant.
• Added Remote Controller to legacy spritesheet (fixes #142).
• Fixed certain flag unset callbacks not applying properly (fixes #143).
• Fallback door space cleanup process now properly cleans up space for it and adds a platform for door to sit on (fixes #144, #163 and #164).
• Removed Sandy Chamber's leftover entities (fixes #145).
• Battery Pack is now properly configured as passive item (fixes #146).
• Fixed Energy Crystal multiplying the building ammo count further, than intended (fixes #147).
• Pseudo-solid NPCs no longer push you beyond top of the stage (fixes #148).
• Fixed damage multiplier trait not being present in the game due to typo in files (fixes #149).
• Made fragile gimmick only seek solid blocks to prevent some infinite recursion (fixes #151).
• Booster 2.0 gameplay now takes priority over Booster 0.8 (fixes #154).
• Fixed inventory manipulations causing equip data corruption (fixes #156).
• Fixed UNDERWATER_DASH trait not being able to dodge spikes, when dashing (fixes #161).
• Tweaked some niche interactions with acidic water effect and water gun (fixes #162).
• Time stop ability can no longer be activated when player is not in control (fixes #165).