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Final stage of shark hunt is still very difficult to beat (especially under 1 minute) due to all the toxic waste reducing size, and squids being everywhere, stopping you from getting more useful power-ups that actually help you eat/grow faster.

Buoyancy is a bit punishing atm. Getting to max belly size = guaranteed game over pretty much.

She's unavoidable seemingly at random, tracking my vertical movement faster than I can ascend/descend. I've been eaten with no way to escape in the first 20 seconds of Light over a dozen times. The lowest I've gotten the timer is 1:03. Sometimes she goes for squid ability decoys, sometimes she ignores them and goes straight for me. I don't mind difficulty but atm there's no predictable pattern or room for maneuver. You can't even reliably use the squid ability because there's so many eels and spicy fish around that you are too big to avoid while also avoiding the shark/mines/toxic waste/getting bounced around by sponges. I've played the level probably 50+ times now and I don't see how anyone can beat it without insane luck.

Also, are bigger bellies actually working? i got over 100,000 points in cruise and was so big sharks had completely stopped spawning, but the mermaid's belly seems to cap out at the same size it always did in previous versions.

'Given enough time' maybe, but I should be able to beat it by skill, not waiting for RNGesus to stop dicking me lol

Awesome update, but that Shark Hunt level 'Light' is... Insane. The screen is so crowded and the shark is enormous, it's frequently impossible to avoid her as obstacles bounce you into her path and she seems to track your movements while in motion rather than just swimming in straight lines. last time I got about 30seconds into the level and it crashed. Maybe tone down the amount of stuff on-screen and make the shark slightly smaller/reduce obstacles?

EDIT: And the crash reverted my progress on Shark Hunt back to the previous stage so now I have to complete Promise again.

Seem to have discovered a couple bugs in this latest version, they may be related:

- Sharks significantly smaller than the mermaid can eat her.

- The mermaid now grows EXTREMELY quickly. Since installing the update, I can get the mermaid to fill a good sixth of the screen without score going much higher than 1000.

Or is this intended?

You can swim left, right and up currently with w, a and d keys

This would also be great

Nice job on updating so fast, I do quite like the game! The warning signs still appear for sharks even if they are too small to eat you though. They don't appear for the 'first attack' phase but for every subsequent pass they do.

Also, would it be possible to have a version of controls that doesn't use the mouse? I understand removing the additional 'down' input methods is a way to get rid of the 'faster descent' exploit, but I preferred being able to play entirely with four keys and not using the mouse.

Finally, a question: How many golden fish can you eat before belly size reaches its cap? When I manage to get more than 2 golden fish in a single run, it doesn't seem like the belly gets any bigger than it was after eating the 2nd golden fish.