Escape Industries has been hard at work to bring you new content, as we’ve shown for the past few weeks. One new feature we haven’t shown yet is a new shop, updated for the coming changes to Fingeance. This new shop should look fairly familiar to veterans of more recent builds, but there are some neat features we’ve added to help players easily buy the part they’re looking for.

The blueprints of each shop item have been simplified, resulting in a far cleaner appearance. The new shop also features small descriptions of each part, so players can take in and analyze their options quickly. The small and poorly-explained icons that once plagued the screen have been removed. Players new and old should find the new shop far more user-friendly.

Keen-eyed readers might note that there aren’t any cannons or gadgets in the new shop. Rightly so: we’ve drastically changed our approach to buyable items. No cannons. No gadgets. You can upgrade what you start with, but at the end of the game Gil will still have a laser turret, and Spike will still be able to get huge.

Why the change? On the positive side, we want to cut through the confusing, fiddly parts of Fingeance. Ever since we introduced Augments — passive upgrades to existing gear — these parts have been more attractive than top-shelf bait. With them in the shop, people felt it wasn’t worth the scrap to buy new Cannons or Gadgets (replacing and obsoleting their previous part). We decided to go with the flow and make as many clever, strategic Augments as we can. More practically, these enhancements are easier to understand, letting people get to the action quickly, if they desire.

Now, players will be able to buy augments that enhance your chosen character’s abilities in some way, possibly giving players new possibilities when bought. Each character has been rebuilt to support this change as well. We’ll be going over each character’s new loadouts in the upcoming weeks.

How do you feel about the new shop? We’d love to hear your feedback! You can comment here on our blog, or on our Facebook page or our Twitter.