CIU version 158

CIU development
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MAIN CHANGES

A lot of wave tweaks (again).

Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day. Note that your medal cannot be awarded if your in-game callsign doesn’t match your forum name (put it in your forum profile where it says “name” so I can find it).

COMPATIBILITY

You will lose:

  • any mid-mission progress
  • anything you’ve set in the Options menu

CHANGELOG

:new: New features – :bulb: Tweaks – :bug: Bug fixes – :gear: Internal changes

  • :gear: Deleted users who haven’t logged in during the past week and have less than 10 minutes of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the past 4 weeks and have less than an hour of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the last 12 months and haven’t set an e-mail. Note that users with any purchase are never
    deleted.

  • :gear: Improved display of high-priority messages (all messages in queue are now shown/previewed at once)

  • :bug: Fixed “No screen flashes” not affecting forced overheat (Phoenix fireball, overheat zones) (@MaxMinoCube :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :light_bulb: “Pop till they drop” wave: Added mirrored variation (@TheGoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :light_bulb: “Security Droid Patrol” and “Backup Droid Patrol” waves (CIU only, not Episodes): New enemies spawn in immediately after previous one is destroyed (@Rimuru :sports_medal: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Tower Defense” wave: Removed initial firing delay (@TheGoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bug: “Worms” wave: Distance between worm segments is now speed-independent (@TheGoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :bulb: “The Hen House” wave: Reduced initial firing delay (@TheGoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Bullet Rain” wave: Removed initial firing delay (@TheGoldenBoss128)

  • :bulb: “Panzer Strike” wave: Removed initial firing delay (@TheGoldenBoss128)

  • :bulb: “Chequerboard Strut/Promenade” wave: Distance between ‘squares’ is now speed-independent (@TheGoldenBoss128 :sports_medal: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Cluckwise-Anticluckwise” wave: Gear rotation rate now depends on difficulty (@TheGoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Swimming in Space” wave (CIU only, not Episodes): New enemies spawn in immediately after previous one is destroyed (@TheGoldenBoss128 :sports_medal: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Armored Division” wave (CIU only, not Episodes): Enemy speed now depends on difficulty (@TheGoldenBoss128 :sports_medal: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Tower Defense” wave: Enemy speed now depends on difficulty (@TheGoldenBoss128)

  • :bulb: “Shoot the Core” wave: Added damage/impact sound to boss (@Retro-Renegade :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :medal_sports: “Pa-chick-o Machine” wave: Widened horizontal spacing of barriers (@MaxMinoCube :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bug: “Volcanic Eruption” wave: Moved inactive enemies lower to hide key glow (@Pinanas :medal_sports: Bug )

  • :bulb: “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” wave: Added safe zone (@MaxMinoCube :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Sands of Time” wave: Prevented Balloon chickens from spawning (@four-leaf-clover :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Striptease boss (“Sweater Chicken”): Boss progressively becomes more blue in Christmas Edition or frozen environments (but not hot environments) (@Knightcap :light_bulb: Idea)

  • :bulb: Striptease boss (“Sweater Chicken”): Boss progressively becomes more red in hot environments (regardless of Edition) (@OrvilleTheOrca @MaxMinoCube :light_bulb: Idea)

  • :bulb: Added Galactic Party at 565+759

  • :gear: deleteUVEandGlobal: prepareForShutdown is now called on Global first, then UVE (was other way around).

  • :gear: Reduced duration of IP bans.

  • :bulb: iOS/Android: Added Christmas Edition content.

v.158.2

  • :bug: Galactic Party: Fixed sun being rendered too small (@Pinanas :sports_medal: Bug)

v.158.2.1 (Steam only)

  • :bulb: “Burgermeister 3000” boss: Themed boss for Christmas.

  • :gear: Reverted this change from v.158: deleteUVEandGlobal: prepareForShutdown is now called on Global first, then UVE (was other way around).

  • :light_bulb: “Mysterious Ship”: Now uses snow impact sounds in Christmas Edition (@OrvilleTheOrca :sports_medal: Idea)

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greeting

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The animation has almost zero impact. The slowdown is more likely caused by the large amount of spacecraft in view (although they’re really not that many)

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  • I remember that Galactic Party in version 141 was a Wormhole. It could change tint colors randomly, but it didn’t include fireworks effects. The Sun in the current version, however, does include fireworks effects.
  • “Mysterious Ship” boss in Christmas Edition needs the damage/impact sound effects of snowballs or snow clay, similar to those of the “Special Forces” and “It’s Party Time” in the Christmas edition.
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Changed in v.159 :medal_sports: Idea

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small idea for ‘spawner spinner’ wave: spinning speed will depend on difficulty. (it will be slower when the difficulty < 100% and faster when the diff > 100%)

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Ok I have changed my name in forum to match my callsign in game

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I’m just really hope iA developers add back the cape for chocolate infini-chick in easter edition with correct color.

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Anyone having their CIU frozen on the start up screen on version 158?
Launched with Windows 10 22H2 version 10.0.19045

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Try restarting the PC
(i dont have windows 10 sorry)

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I just did a Windows 10 update so not sure what’s the problem

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Some things you could try:

  • Restart the PC again (just in case the update needs a full restart).
  • Run CIU as Administrator.
  • Update or reinstall graphics drivers (Windows updates sometimes reset them).
  • Try launching CIU in windowed mode.
  • Check if any antivirus or Windows Defender is blocking CIU.
  • If possible, redownload CIU.
  • Try compatibility mode.
  • Check if other games start normally after the update.
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It is using CPU but not sure what’s it’s doing

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Hey, from what you’ve shared, it looks like CIU is stuck during startup — it’s using CPU but isn’t responding, which usually means it’s stuck in a loading or graphics initialization step.

This can happen after a Windows 10 update. You could try:

  • Running CIU as Administrator
  • Updating or reinstalling your graphics drivers
  • Verifying or reinstalling CIU

Hopefully one of these helps get it running again

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Im at school now but, when i get home ill check.

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Let me rollback the update and try again
This is the update

Update: I had figured out the actual problem
CIU fullscreen crash for some reason
I had to change this from 2 to 1 (2 is fullscreen and 1 is borderless)
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Windows 10 isn’t the problem

Not sure what’s the cause but when you exit the game while it’s graphics is in full screen you won’t be able to open the game again as it will do a fullscreen crash (black screen freeze) unless you edit your CIU.cfg file
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@InterAction_studios You have a critical bug to fix here

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In wave “Special Forces” can it be that in seasonal contents [ Depends ] the idk the name but you’ll see a green light at the centre of the enemy, can it be that the green light can be for example Christmas red or white or green, summer yellow, blue etc things like that

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And there is supposed to be fireworks in the sun, and there isn’t.

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There is fireworks but you can’t see it