Additional eye candy for your neverquenching eyes.

A wise man once said, "DUDE, I just spent 84 minutes on this GODFORSAKEN boss fight. Why did it just END? Why couldn't I see the boss SUFFER as it faded away into the ETERNAL abyss we all slowly march towards? I DESERVE that much, I GAVE you $4.99."

I'm not your therapist, in fact, I'm probably the opposite of one with what I offer you. Anyhoo - sure! All bosses now have some form of death animation. Now go feel accomplished, sport. Pop off. Slay. 💅🌟

A second wise man, no relation, once said, "DUDE, why do I have to fight The Beholder EVERY time I battle Art? What is WRONG with you? Seriously, I'm earnestly asking. How do you sleep at night?"

Still not your therapist, nor are you mine - keep that Gatlin-related trauma to yourself. Anyhoo - OK! Blot's childhood friend found eyedrops. If you can find him and collect the eyedrops, you can easily cast off The Beholder. The average monthly 0 players of Gatlin' PLEASE cry out in joy! 👏👏👏

I nerfed the Beholder. I nerfed Art. Do you still want a challenge? This level modifier, with an accompanying achievement, gives you the gift of playing through the entire main game with one life. If you die, you start over at the first level. How generous! How replayable!

Continuing my streak of philanthropy, have another challenge. In the "John Gatlin" level modifier, you only get standard ammo and must run the entire main game for achievement or self-loathing purposes. No blitz, no pogos, and no suction. As a silver lining, I've replaced all boulders with poppable balloons. How quaint! I am nothing if not benevolent.

Three new achievements. One for finding the eyedrops and two for beating the game with the new level modifiers. You want to earn 100% of Gatlin's achievements? Nah.

• Added eyedrops (oh, and I guess Blot's childhood friend) to a non-specified level
  
• Added two new level modifiers ("One Life" + "John Gatlin")
  
• Added three new achievements ("Dropped", "Get One", "John Gatlin' Is Real and He's You")
  
• Added death animations for David, The Protector, Apprencii, Art, Credits, and Damn
  
• Added various idle animations to David
  
• Art now has a unique allergy... to standard bullets (what a trope reversal!)
  
• Lowered the number of targets required for the "Target Practice" achievement from 1000 to 500
  
• Lowered the number of Knight kills required for the "Midknight Crisis" achievement from 250 to 50

• Actually fixed the lighting for Blot's corpse
  
• The Protector no longer sometimes shakes Scribbles from the wrong armpit
  
• The Protector no longer has a random floating torso piece during its tank attack
  
• Apprencii no longer hides Blot's corpse if you die in front of him
  
• Art no longer randomly waits for you to attack her before moving
  
• Optimized code logic for David, The Protector, The Beholder, Art, and Credits
  
• Optimized code logic for the "Note" and "Camera" enemies
  
• Remapped controller navigation for the pause menu to be more intuitive
  
• Upgraded to a newer engine version
  
• Upgraded lighting tech to a non-experimental version
  
• Removed unused libraries to improve performance

More content, more QoL, less throwing your keyboard against the wall. Guaranteed.

We get it, Gatlin' is a hard game - that's intended, not a bug. However, our Chief Balance Officer (me) and Head Intern (also me) have been bickering back and forth for nearly three years now about making the game easier.

Long story short, the Head Intern decked the CBO and stole his computer. We have Easy Mode now.

While Easy Mode is enabled:

• Blot can take two additional hits before dying horribly. That's right, his suffering is prolonged and even worse - you horrible, horrible, person.
  
• Boss achievements cannot be earned

It's goofy, it's silly - it's... actually quite difficult. Pair this with Easy Mode for a unique experience.

Continuing the streak of more achievements, here ya go - three new ones. Something about a vacuum, a boss-related redacted one, and... WHAT!? BLOT WITH A FACE!?! WHAT SORT OF HERESY IS THIS!? SOMEBODY CALL THE CBO - oh wait...

• Added "Easy Mode"
  
• Added three new achievements ("Suck It Up, Buttercup", "Why?", "But Why Though?")
  
• Added a new level modifier ("Tumbleweed")
  
• Hovering over a toggle in the settings menu now displays a tip about what it does
  
• Added death FX for Blot
  
• Added impact VFX for touching spikes
  
• Added splash VFX for falling into or shooting a liquid
  
• Added SFX to the pause/settings menu
  
• The screen now shakes whenever Blot dies or is hurt (only occurs when the "Screen Shake" setting is enabled)
  
• Added a new stat to the Lobby's leaderboard ("Easy Mode Hits Taken")
  
• Unhid the "Dumb Ways to Die" achievement on Steam
  
• Reworded the tutorial's hint about pausing to indicate that pressing "ESC/Start/Etc." also shows settings
  
• Adjusted Level 15 to match the changes brought to the "Intro" map in the 1.0.5 patch

• The "Timed" level modifier now displays the initial amount of time given instead of starting one second later
  
• The "Level Modifiers" button in the lobby now properly displays a modifier's name instead of the variable name
  
• Settings now additionally save when closing the pause menu instead of solely when the game is closed
  
• The "Dumb Ways to Die" achievement can no longer be earned by having an enemy walk over a landmine
  
• Landmines can no longer visually be defused
  
• Fixed the picture frame's hitbox in all boss fights
  
• Fixed the range of the lighting of the lava in Level 6
  
• Fixed the z-layer of Apprencii's easel's text in Level 18
  
• Splash SFX are now played locally instead of globally
  
• Explosion SFX are now played locally instead of globally
  
• Polished the collision hitboxes of Blot's corpse
  
• Moved bullethole décor to the proper z-layer to prevent weird clipping
  
• Optimized the code for level modifiers
  
• Optimized the code for the pause/settings menu