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All of the Powerups can be combined to great effect, with some specific twists:

• Bombs can fire Bounce and Laser ammunition in a devastating ring. This can be toggled in Gameplay Options.
• When you have both Shield and Anti-Gravity, your ship will transform into a Black Hole. With a Black Hole active, your ship is both completely invulnerable and will suck all enemies into itself, destroying them.
• While the default is for the game to automatically select Lasers and Bounce bullets when you have them, it is possible to enable manual weapon selection in Gameplay Options.

Gameplay Options

There are many Gameplay Options to choose from, resulting in 1024 permutations. How to play is up to you, and you can name and store your custom settings locally for easy access:

• Auto-Brake - Enabled by default, this will slow your ship to a halt when not accelerating.
• Explosion Impulses - Disabled by default, this will cause explosions to knock things around to a greater extent.
• Auto-select Weapon - Enabled by default, this will cause the game automatically select your must powerful ammunition for you (Laser, Bounce, Normal).
• Bombs use Lasers - Enabled by default, this causes Bombs to use Laser ammunition.
• Bombs use Bounces - Enabled by default, this causes Bombs to use Bounce ammunition.
• Weapon Recoil - Enabled by default, this causes weapons discharge to push your ship in the opposite direction.
• Explosive Asteroids - Enabled by default, this causes medium sized Explosive Asteroids to sometimes spawn. Destroying these will cause an explosion equivalent to a Bomb detonation with normal bullets.
• Explosive Bounce Asteroids - Enabled by default, this causes medium sized Explosive Bounce Asteroids to sometimes spawn. Destroying these will cause an explosion equivalent to a Bomb detonation with Bounce bullets.
• Random Powerups - Enabled by default, this will cause Powerups to spawn in random order. When disabled, Powerups will spawn sequentially by type.
• Shootable Powerups - Disabled by default, this will allow the player to pickup Powerups by shooting them with bullets or Lasers.

Soundtrack

The game features 7 custom composed tracks of electro/drone music by Johannes 'johno' Norneby.

Steam Leaderboards

Specific to the Steam release, the game now stores high scores in the Steam Leaderboards. It is thereby possible to prove that you are indeed the best UfoPilot : Astro-Creeps Elite player in the known universe.