Astroloot news & patch notes

Bugfixes

• Fixed collision regression for Parasite projectiles on host enemies

• Fixed increased experience on Chips

Lost Amethyst Prophecy

A new prophecy has been added, where you can obtain the Lost Amethyst. Rumor has it, that it fits right into the Wheel of Fortune...

Item Improvements

• Items that do not meet the level requirement are now much better to recognize

• Possible slots for items with missing level requirement are highlighted red instead of green

• If a skill is granted by an item, this item is now shown in the tooltip

UI Improvements

• Created proper assets for check boxes

• Language selection now has radio buttons instead of check boxes

• Corrected slider vertical align in settings

• In-game dialog animations are much smoother now and no longer glitch

Bugfixes

• Nukie allocates Nuclear Storm when carried by a Minion

• Fixed damage preview for Damage taken from Minions while uploaded and having no other Minions

• Display of flat Dodge on items is uncapped

• Display overcapped Dodge value in preview, even if you cannot dodge

• Dodge is consistently formatted without %

• Improved formatting of Knockback Resistance Penetration

• Fixed completion of Web of Fate if prophecy loot box dropped very close to the player

• Fixed layout of stash when screen size changes

• Fixed layout of stats when screen size changes

• Fixed line breaks of long non-whitespace text (especially relevant for Japanese, Chinese, Korean)

• Consistent translation of Shock in Japanese

• Maintenance: All used libraries have been upgraded to their latest version.

Bugfixes

• Fixed exclusive drop interaction with Octron prophecies

• More Damage per Shock on you granted by Voltron's Prison does not scale with Minion Power

Improvements

• Black Market can be re-rolled by spending a forbidden egg up to three times

• Improved header UI of stash storage

• Only allow IME text input while a text field has focus on Windows

• Stash search also indexes skill effects, like skills granted by Nexus Shard or Soul Stones

Bugfixes

• Fixed Mass field double-dipping on Minions

• Fixed Energy field double-dipping on Minions

• Fixed AoE damage preview for Annihilator + Radiant Annihilation

• Fixed Colony Bond damage preview

• Fixed double-dipping of some item properties after Upload

• Infinity Dice preserve Prophecy Affixes

• Void Dice cannot remove Prophecy Affixes

• Fixed Unseen Strike occasionally dealing zero damage

• Fixed Shadow Drone preventing fields to spawn for the player's copy of the engine

Balancing

• Only active Damage Conversions count for Impurity (you have to actually have damage of the element to be converted to apply)

• Additional Damage Conversions count separately for Impurity (Example: Kinetic Damage to Explosive & Kinetic Damage as additional Explosive count each, previously those would have been merged into one Impurity multiplier)

• Random survive missions in Octrons Arena only last 15 seconds instead of 60 seconds

• Dash prefers player input direction over actual ship heading

Bugfixes & Improvements

• It is now possible to select text in text fields by mouse cursor

• Prevent scroll to top when removing an item from Stash while a search filter is active

• Fixed setting changes to deadzone / vibration settings be picked up reliably by the game for the initial controller

• Stacking projectiles performance optimization only kicks in if projectile count is high

• Various memory and performance improvements

• Fixed Gore stack preview with high amounts of Time

• Effect of Primal Pack is considered in preview

• Fixed network button texts in zh, ja, ko

• Attempt to fix a rare crash on MacOS

• Upload preview works when Upload is granted by a Soul Stone

• Attack and action speed apply correctly to transferred upload weapons

Graphics Compatibility & Recovery

• Run with OpenGL renderer as fallback if ANGLE renderer fails to load

• Renderer can now be changed in display settings (requires an app restart)

• Game settings have been changed from binary to text-based settings.ini format. This way it becomes more transparent what settings are active. Also serves as emergency recovery in the unlikely case a failed renderer change cannot be recovered from by the game itself.

Bugfixes

• Fixed BotC so that Armor Mass buff now correctly applies to the Bulwark Minion

• Effect of Time on Shock Cooldown is now capped

• Effect of Time on Retaliation Instinct Cooldown is now capped

• Prevent instant Gore Stack removal under VERY high Time

• Fixed Gore Stack on Goroboro to be hoverable in Chinese

• Fix performance of objective hints by not showing them for enemy corpses (on some builds feeding grounds was terribly slow because of it)

• Fixed Black Market to not be able to offer the Astroloot Sector

• Fixed Shock Preview for Demon Fire + Volt Shift + Aberration

• Fixed Knockback Preview performance and improved its correctness

• Fixed bug where Infinite Treasure reward spawned too far away from the player with Kiki Dialogs are skipped allocated

• Grouped Marble Machine Skill Tree buff aggregates by similar category so that they are always in a stable order

Astroloot joins Steam Bullet Fest!

Up to 20x Projectile Performance

Marble Machine Skill Tree QoL

Selling Eggs QoL

Bugfixes and Improvements

• Now shows the minimum and maximum of each Boost type in Misc stats
• Improved precision of projectile collisions for entities affected by strong time bubbles
• Fixed too short lifetime of projectiles affected by strong time bubbles
• Fixed a bug where there was a tiny chance for uncommon Chips to drop without affixes
• Fixed trade layout when exotic eggs are displayed
• Fixed Spikes dealing no damage with too much Time allocated

Bugfixes

• Fixed Modder missions sometimes failed to complete when "unique monsters appear in pairs" is active

• Fixed Relic Engine Reward to contain Annihilator and ensured we don't miss future new engines

• Fixed another bug where one Weaver could not be destroyed when "unique monsters appear in pairs" is active

• Improved stability of player heading vector

Bugfixes

• Fixed enemy death projectiles dealing no damage after last update

• Crafting Destiny Dice preserves implicit Sector modifiers

Bugfixes

• Spider legs can now be damaged by Radiation

• Fixed Necroblast damage conversion double dipping

• Fixed base of Glitch0x9 (it is an Engine, not a Shield)

• Fixed guaranteed prophecy affixes on additional sector drop chances

Major Balancing Changes

• Additive modifiers stay additive and no longer become multiplicative during Damage Conversion (more details in patch notes)
• Minion Power now only scales basic damage modifiers (more details in patch notes)
• Reworked Upload and added the ability to select an Upload Minion instead of your Ship for preview
• Boosts have been reworked and offer lots of new synergies with skills and items

Ailment Changes

• Each Shock now also grants -2% to Electric Resistance
• Vfx Effects for Blind, Shock and Radiation

Campaign Changes

• The Crafting Manual Reward now contains a small crafting Tutorial
• The Wheel of Fortune Reward now contains a small crafting Tutorial
• Adjusted a few campaign missions to reduce friction
• New Kiki and Koko character art made by Daniel
• New Carlo, Kiki and Koko space ship art made by Daniel

Spirit Animal: Baltimore

• Blast Pact reworked into Boost Pact: +9 to minimum Turbo Boost / +9 to minimum Shield Boost
• New skill Avalanche: +3% more Damage per Boost
• New skill Colony Bond: Boosts are shared with your allies
• New skill Deep Reserves: +10 Energy / 1% more Thermal Damage per 1 Energy
• New skill Thermal Layering: +40 Energy / +1% to Thermal Resistances per 1 Energy / +3% to maximum Thermal Resistances
• Charge Multiplier grants: 5% increased Damage per Mine you have on the field, up to 5000% (previously 500%)
• Fuse Stretch now grants: 50% increased Mine Duration (unchanged) / 24% more Mine Damage (previously 16%)
• Waddle Blast now grants: 80% increased Mine Trigger Radius (previously Mine Detonation Radius) / 24% more Mine Damage (previously 16%)

Spirit Animal: Balu

• New skill Feral Trance: Core Affixes count twice / You cannot Dodge
• New skill Primal Pack: +3 to maximum Shield and Forge Boost per Bulwark you control / Boosts are shared with your Bulwarks / Bulwarks cannot be cloned
• Thick Fur now grants: 20% more Armor (previously 8%) / +5% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (unchanged) / 40% Thermal Damage taken as Kinetic Damage (previously 30%)
• Pelt of Vengeance now grants: 400% increased reflected Damage (unchanged) / 4% chance to gain a random Boost when you reflect Damage (new)
• Weight of Resilience now grants: 40% more Mass (previously 40% increased) / 15% less Damage taken while you have at least 150 Mass (previously 10% at 100 Mass)
• Guardian's Fortitude now grants: +1 to maximum Bulwarks (unchanged) / 15% less Damage taken while a Bulwark is alive (previously 10%)

New Skills, Mods and Items

• New keystone Collimation: 40% less Damage / Deal 400% more Plasma Damage if you blinded an Enemy in the past 2 seconds
• Added lots of new Boost related skills to the tree
• New marble machine keystone Golden Silence grants: Kiki dialogs are skipped
• New marble machine keystone Egg Magnet grants: Turtle Eggs have 800% increased Pickup Range
• Added Shadow Drone, which follow your ship in a formation and will use a copy of your Engine, whenever you do.
• Added Impurity, which grants 10-20% more Damage per Damage Conversion
• Added Plasma Cutter, a new weapon base which fires a Plasma Nova in an arc.
• Added Annihilator, a new engine base which spends Boost to deal massive AoE damage
• Added Conduit, a unique weapon that becomes deadlier, the more Turbo Boost you have.
• Added Goroboro, a unique weapon that damages your ship with every attack and provides Gore Stacks in exchange.
• Added Dreamer, a unique weapon that spawns more auto-target projectiles, the more Focus Boost you have.
• Added The Chosen One, a Weaver of Fate exclusive unique chip (including special Wheel of Fortune craft mode)
• Added Nihalor's Eye, a new Prophecy exclusive unique chip
• Added Forbidden Broodfire, a new Prophecy exclusive unique weapon
• Added Goblin Fire, a new Prophecy exclusive unique engine
• Glitch#0x8 will manifest as Voltron's Prison, a unique Shield that reflects Shocks you inflict back to you and grants more Damage per Shock on you in exchange.
• Pelt of the Moon King additionally has "Trigger Rusty Spikes on Dodge" (existing items can be upgraded using an Infinity Dice)

Weaver of Fate

• Added The Web of Fate, a new Rank 7 endgame Sector with a multi-stage Pinnacle Boss fight
• The Weaver drops Prophecy Loot Boxes, which grant Sectors with a Prophecy Affix
• Prophecy Sectors have one sealed Prophecy Affix that grants guaranteed outcomes, like guaranteed drops or new mission encounters
• Added Destiny Dice, which rerolls a Prophecy Affix
• Added The Chosen One, a Weaver of Fate exclusive unique Chip
• Some Prophecies like Black Market or Infinite Treasure unlock exclusive rewards

Damage Conversion

• Increased Damage modifiers stay additive during Damage conversion
• Thermal Damage modifiers apply at 100% during conversion (previously 33%)
• More Thermal Damage applies only for the first Thermal Damage type of a conversion chain
• Increased Thermal Damage applies to every Thermal Damage type of a conversion chain

Minion Power

• Minion Power now determines what percentage of your ship's modifiers to increased/more Damage apply to your Minions. Minion Power has no longer an effect on other offensive stats like Multicrit or increased/more Ailment Damage (Debris, Aftershock, Burn, Radiation), those are inherited 1:1.
• Offensive stats inherited from your ship are now always up-to-date (previously this was a snapshot created at summoning time)
• All Minion Mods have been adjusted accordingly (see Mod section)
• Upload now transfers only Weapons and Engines to the Upload Minion that don't belong to another Minion (previously all items not belonging to other Minions have been transferred)
• Chips of an item are not applied a second time when an item is uploaded to a Minion
• Added a preview setting to simulate playing as an Upload Minion

Boost Rework

• Each Turbo Boost now grants 4% increased Action Speed (previously Attack Speed)
• Each Focus Boost now grants 12% increased Crit Chance and Damage (previously only Crit Chance)
• Each Forge Boost now grants 1% Armor repair per second (previously 0.8%)
• Each Venom Boost now grants 6% more Damage over Time (previously 3%)
• Added particle VFX for Boost

Ailment Changes

• Each Shock now also grants -2% to Electric Resistance
• Added Debuff Counters for Shock and Radiation stacks affecting your ship
• Vfx Effects for Blind, Shock and Radiation

Campaign Changes

• Improved the mission that unlocks Carlo
• Replaced two Big Egg Hunts around level 40 with Big Mod Hunts
• The Crafting Manual Reward now contains a small crafting Tutorial
• The Starter Dice Reward is now granted at later missions (Sapphire Path and Emerald Path)
• The Wheel of Fortune Reward now contains a small crafting Tutorial
• New Kiki and Koko character art made by Daniel
• Carlo, Kiki and Koko space ship art made by Daniel

Spirit Animal: Baltimore

• Blast Pact reworked into Boost Pact: +9 to minimum Turbo Boost / +9 to minimum Shield Boost
• New skill Avalanche: +3% more Damage per Boost
• New skill Colony Bond: Boosts are shared with your allies
• New skill Deep Reserves: +10 Energy / 1% more Thermal Damage per 1 Energy
• New skill Thermal Layering: +40 Energy / +1% to Thermal Resistances per 1 Energy / +3% to maximum Thermal Resistances
• Charge Multiplier grants: 5% increased Damage per Mine you have on the field, up to 5000% (previously 500%)
• Fuse Stretch now grants: 50% increased Mine Duration (unchanged) / 24% more Mine Damage (previously 16%)
• Waddle Blast now grants: 80% increased Mine Trigger Radius (previously Mine Detonation Radius) / 24% more Mine Damage (previously 16%)

Spirit Animal: Balu

• New skill Feral Trance: Core Affixes count twice / You cannot Dodge
• New skill Primal Pack: +3 to maximum Shield and Forge Boost per Bulwark you control / Boosts are shared with your Bulwarks / Bulwarks cannot be cloned
• Thick Fur now grants: 20% more Armor (previously 8%) / +5% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (unchanged) / 40% Thermal Damage taken as Kinetic Damage (previously 30%)
• Pelt of Vengeance now grants: 400% increased reflected Damage (unchanged) / 4% chance to gain a random Boost when you reflect Damage (new)
• Weight of Resilience now grants: 40% more Mass (previously 40% increased) / 15% less Damage taken while you have at least 150 Mass (previously 10% at 100 Mass)
• Guardian's Fortitude now grants: +1 to maximum Bulwarks (unchanged) / 15% less Damage taken while a Bulwark is alive (previously 10%)

Spirit Animal: Lin

• Ultimate Focus now grants: +6 to maximum Focus Boost (previously 5) / 20% chance to gain a Focus Boost on Critical Strike
• Focal Point now grants: +4% more Damage per Focus Boost (previously 5% increased) / 40% increased Focus Boost effect (previously 50%)

Skill Tree

• New keystone Collimation: 40% less Damage / Deal 400% more Plasma Damage if you blinded an Enemy in the past 2 seconds
• New major skill Venom Harvest: +1 to maximum Venom Boost / 1% chance to gain a Venom Boost on Enemy destroyed
• New major skill Turbo Fuel: +1 to maximum Turbo Boost / 1% chance to gain a Turbo Boost on Enemy destroyed
• New major skill Turbo Barrage: +2 to maximum Turbo Boost / 3% chance to perform an additional Attack per Turbo Boost
• New major skill Deadly Venom: +2 to maximum Venom Boost / 12% increased Damage per Venom Boost
• New major skill Critical Focus: +2 to maximum Focus Boost / 1% chance to gain a Focus Boost on Critical Strike
• New major skill Shield Accretion: +2 to maximum Shield Boost / 3% increased Mass per Shield Boost
• New major skill Tempering: +2 to maximum Forge Boost / 5% increased Armor per Forge Boost
• New major skill Crystal Focus: +2 to maximum Focus Boost / 5% increased Deflector Shield per Focus Boost
• New major skill Turbo Reflexes: +2 to maximum Turbo Boost / +1% to Dodge per Turbo Boost
• New major skill Shield Drinker: +1 to maximum Shield Boost / 2% chance to gain a Shield Boost on Damage taken
• New major skill Thermal Entropy: 16% Kinetic Damage taken as Thermal Damage / 16% Nuclear Damage taken as Thermal Damage
• New major skill Perfect Focus: +1 to maximum Focus Boost / +1 Multicrit at maximum Focus Boost
• Supersonic reworked: +1 to maximum Turbo Boost / +2 to minimum Turbo Boost / 40% increased Turbo Boost Effect
• Eternal Smelter reworked: +2 to maximum Forge Boost / +4 to minimum Forge Boost / 30% increased Forge Boost Effect
• Anvil's Blessing reworked: +3 to maximum Forge Boost / +5 to minimum Forge Boost
• Forgeborne Might reworked: +1 to maximum Forge Boost / 2% chance to gain a Forge Boost on Damage taken
• Riposte now grants: 30% increased reflected Damage per Shield Boost (previously 18%)
• Shield Breaker now grants: 24% increased Melee Damage pre Shield Boost (previously 12%)
• Turbo Charged now grants: 24% increased Projectile Damage pre Shield Boost (previously 12%)
• Volt Shift now grants: 100% (previously 50%) Explosive Damage converted to Electric Damage / 100% (previously 50%) Plasma Damage converted to Electric Damage
• Atomic Assault now grants: 100% (previously 50%) Kinetic Damage converted to Nuclear Damage / Deal 25% Kinetic Damage as additional Nuclear Damage
• Cyclotron now grants: 16% (previously 10%) more Plasma Damage / 16% (previously 10%) more Nuclear Damage / Deal 20% Plasma Damage as additional Nuclear Damage
• Ion Shred now grants: 30% Kinetic Damage converted to Plasma Damage (previously 24%) / Damage dealt has -15% to Enemy Plasma Resistances (previously -12%)
• Rupture Blast now grants: 30% Kinetic Damage converted to Explosive Damage (previously 24%) / Damage dealt has -15% to Enemy Explosive Resistances (previously -12%)
• Thunder Crush now grants: 30% Kinetic Damage converted to Electric Damage (previously 24%) / Damage dealt has -15% to Enemy Electric Resistances (previously -12%)
• Comet Shot now grants: Hits that pierce deal 30% more Explosive Damage (previously 60% increased)
• Beam Shot now grants: Hits that pierce deal 30% more Plasma Damage (previously 60% increased)
• Buzz Shot now grants: Hits that pierce deal 30% more Electric Damage (previously 60% increased)
• Deep Impact now grants: Hits that pierce deal 15% more Damage (previously 34% increased) / 12% increased Range (unchanged)
• Drill Shot now grants: Hits that pierce deal 10% more Damage (previously 24% increased) / Projectiles pierce 2 additional targets (unchanged)
• Rift Piercer now grants: Hits that pierce deal 20% more Damage (previously 24% increased) / 20% increased Projectile Speed (previously 16%)
• Grip of Destruction now grants: 150% increased Kinetic Damage / 150% increased Nuclear Damage (previously 50% each)
• Infinity Strike now grants: 80% increased Critical Strike Damage (unchanged) / 1% chance to gain a Focus Boost on Enemy destroyed
• Necroblast now deals damage in 500 radius (previously 400)
• Mine of Doom now grants: 66% increased Mine Damage (unchanged) / 6% more Mine Damage (new)
• Volatile Zone now grants: Mines have 60% increased Trigger Radius / 30% increased Area of Effect (previously 15%)

Marble Machine Skill Tree

• New keystone Golden Silence grants: Kiki dialogs are skipped
• New keystone Egg Magnet grants: Turtle Eggs have 800% increased Pickup Range
• New keystone Enraged Weaver grants: Web of Fate has +100 to Monster Level / The Weaver drops +2 Prophecy Loot Boxes
• Inevitable Loot grants: Prophecy Sectors contain 1 additional Kiki Mission
• Inevitable Eggs grants: Prophecy Sectors contain 1 additional Carlo Mission
• Twins of Fate grants: Shard Goblins in Prophecy Sectors always appear in pairs
• Prophetic Modifications grants: Prophecy Sectors contain 1 additional Modder Mission
• Fate Harvest grants: The Weaver drops 1 additional Prophecy Sector
• Fatewoven grants: Web of Fate always drops as Prophecy Sector
• Twisted Tides grants: Octron's Arena always drops as Prophecy Sector
• Omen Hunger grants: All Web of Fate Missions can drop Prophecy Sectors
• Prophecy Within grants: Loot Boxes from Prophecy Sectors can contain Prophecy Sectors
• Egg Witching Rod grants: Carlo Missions in Prophecy Sectors contain 68% more Eggs
• Renamed Black Market skill to Sunken Nests
• Abyss Mirror now grants: Each guaranteed Abyss drops as reflection of the completed Abyss / Prophecies do not appear in the Mirror (new)

Item Changes

• Added Plasma Cutter, a new weapon base which fires a Plasma Nova in an arc.
• Added Annihilator, a new engine base which spends Boost to deal massive AoE damage
• Added Conduit, a unique weapon that becomes deadlier, the more Turbo Boost you have.
• Added Goroboro, a unique weapon that damages your ship with every attack and provides Gore Stacks in exchange.
• Added Dreamer, a unique weapon that spawns more auto-target projectiles, the more Focus Boost you have.
• Added The Chosen One, a Weaver of Fate exclusive unique chip (including special Wheel of Fortune craft mode)
• Added Nihalor's Eye, a new Prophecy exclusive unique chip
• Added Forbidden Broodfire, a new Prophecy exclusive unique weapon
• Added Goblin Fire, a new Prophecy exclusive unique engine
• Glitch#0x8 will manifest as Voltron's Prison, a unique Shield that reflects Shocks you inflict back to you and grants more Damage per Shock on you in exchange.
• Pelt of the Moon King additionally has "Trigger Rusty Spikes on Dodge" (existing items can be upgraded using an Infinity Dice)
• Cannon has 10% Debris Chance
• Taser has 20% Shock Chance
• Zapper has 50% Shock Chance
• Lin's Modesty has 8-12% more Damage per uncommon Chip (previously 3-7%)
• Moonstone Nexus additionally has "Can be augmented with 1 additional Nexus Shard" (existing items can be upgraded using an Infinity Dice)
• RockCat has 142-170% increased Explosive Damage (previously 105-142%) / Aftershock can repeat up to -2 to -1 additional times (previously -3)
• Nukie has Reverse Knockback (previously Knockback) / Allocates Nuclear Storm

Mod Changes

• Added Shadow Drone, which follow your ship in a formation and will use a copy of your Engine, whenever you do.
• Added Impurity, which grants 10-20% more Damage per Damage Conversion
• Guardian Drone has 50% Minion Power (unchanged) / 20% more Damage (previously 20% less Damage) / 50% less Action Speed (previously 20% less Attack Speed) / 10% less Damage taken (unchanged)
• Hunter Drone has 50% Minion Power (unchanged) / 20% more Damage (previously 20% less Damage) / 50% less Action Speed (previously 20% less Attack Speed)
• Titan Bulwark, Grim Bulwark and Aurora Bulwark have 75% Minion Power (previously 60%)
• Parasite has 0-30% more Damage (previously 20% less - 20% more) / 25% less Action Speed
• Beta-Ray has 5-25% more Electric and Nuclear Damage (previously 5-25% increased)
• Pierce has Hits that pierce deal 20-40% more Damage (previously 20-40% increased)
• Shamrock has 10-20% more Luck (previously 10-30%)
• Twisted Mod Damage Affixes now grant 20% more Damage (previously 40% increased)

Balancing

• Loot in regular Sectors has been adjusted to be similar to Abyss Loot
• Increased Enemy Damage scaling after Monster Level 200
• Mine Detonation Radius is now Mine Trigger Radius instead, added glossary entry for explanation
• Virus limit is now per player
• Virus Effect does no longer apply a separate more multiplier to Corrode
• Virus Effect does no longer apply a separate more multiplier to Chronos
• Plasma Nova no longer deals Melee Damage
• Wings Power-Up grants Action Speed instead of Attack Speed
• Parasite Offense is now also live-updated and no longer a snapshot
• Parasites now prefer to spawn on enemies close to your ship
• Mine Buffs now also apply to Parasites
• Reduced effect of Time on Boss Exhaustion
• Reduced effect of Time on Boss Lightning Beams
• Death Threshold does not apply to self damage
• Improved randomness of Boss attacks
• Necroblast can now inherit Knockback from the destroyed Minion
• All Carlo Eggs rewards benefit from egg multiplier
• Charge multiplier works with Parasite Mines
• Buff probability of higher levels in Mod Loot Boxes
• Enemy Blast Mines deal more Damage
• Afterburner Flames now last 60% longer
• Range increases lifetime of Afterburner Flames
• Time does not reduce liftime of Flames

Improvements

• Astral Dice now work on Sector Chips
• Sector Astral Affixes can be store in the existing Astral Affix stash slot
• Astral Affix stash slot can hold 250 items (previously 100)
• Improved Unseen Strike performance
• Improved Boost performance
• Improved limiting of high-frequency sound effects
• Minion Resistances are now shown in stats panel
• Improved rendering of Loot button borders
• Mine Shield rotates differently, depending on weapon slot
• Turbine Blade rotate differently, depending on weapon slot
• Display Charge Multiplier Buff
• Projectiles now fade out at the end of their lifetime instead of disappearing instantly
• Npc followers no longer move directly onto the players location

Bugfixes

• Fixed in-game Multicrit calculation
• Fixed Critical Corrosion to work on Parasites
• Fixed Debris Damage preview
• Plasma Nova now reliably hits things
• Fixed Nova rendering at high attack rates
• Fixed Projectiles / Novas of destroyed entities deal the expected amount of damage
• Non-crit multipliers no longer double-dip with Radiation + Critical Corrosion
• Fixed Parasite Boost interactions
• Death Screen now shows Radiation as death cause, instead of Corrupted Area
• Split Range maps to Split glossary entry

Bugfixes

• Attempt to fix ANGLE loading crash, when Windows user name contained non-ASCII characters

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Fix sparks + boomerang interaction

• Fix lost quest item glitch, prevent opening missions while holding a quest item

• Always show Multicrit if Leprechaun is allocated

The Weaver of Fate Arrives June 5th

Deep within the Astroloot Sector, the Weaver of Fate spins threads that decide what will, and what will not, come to pass.

Survive, and you may fulfill prophecies… and shape your loot into something inevitable.

Main Features

• Defeat the Weaver of Fate Pinnacle Boss

• Reworked Spirit Animals: Baltimore and Balu

• Reworked Boosts, with 22 new Boost related skills added to the Skill Tree

• New weapon bases Plasma Cutter and Annihilator

• New unique weapons Conduit, Dreamer and Goroboro each with new build defining mechanics

• Glitch#0x8 will manifest as a powerful unique item

• New Minion Shadow Drone that mirrors your Engine

• Reworked Damage Conversion, additive stays additive during conversion

• New Mod Impurity that grants more Damage per Damage Conversion

• New Keystone Collimation that grants more Plasma Damage if you have blinded an Enemy recently

• Reworked Shock that now additionally lowers Electric Resistances significantly

• Reworked Minion Power now only scales increased/more Damage while other offensive stats are inherited unscaled

• Reworked Upload and added the ability to select an Upload Minion instead of your Ship for preview

• Added FX Visuals for Blind, Shock and Radiation:

• Added FX Visuals for Boosts:

Bugfixes and Improvements

• Change default audio lib to miniaudio

• Improve local network search by sending a multicast on each available network interface

• Etherstream is affected by Energy gained through Energy Field

• Giant is affected by Mass gained through Mass Field

• Target Dummy is immune to Black Holes

• Improve display of Resistances (floored instead of rounded)

• Better Simplified Chinese texts for "per minion level"

• Fixed "split range" in Simplified Chinese

Bugfixes

• Fixed broken screen state when pressing tab / shift-tab on marble machine skill tree

• Fixed Viral Nexus double-dipping on "increased Virus Effect" from Twisted Virus Mods

• FX Intensity applies to Plutonium Bar and Demon Fire

• Increased engine damage works on Minion Dash Mod

• Abysswalker Wheel of Fortune allows to select affixes that are currently present on the item

• All Sector Chip dice affixes are displayed as T1 (Sector Chips have been forgotten when this was implemented for Sectors a few releases ago)

Better Endgame Sector UX

The entire endgame sector flow has been redesigned. It now feels faster, more intuitive, and much more natural. What changed?

Necroblast QoL

• When the skill "Necroblast" is allocated, the Hit and AoE tag is added to all minion equipment slots

• When the skill "Necroblast" is allocated, you now have access to the "Necroblast" power report on the skill tree

Balancing

• Reduced amount of Spark projectiles spawned by monster level 62/64 Treasure Asteroids

• Treasure Asteroids now grant experience similar to other bosses

• Damage over Time per Time Affix on Doomcloud now rolls between 1-3% (previously 0.5-1.0%)

• Enemies now grant slightly more Experience to compensate for the removed missions from the main campaign path

Bugfixes

• Fixed Temporal Frenzy side effect and partial double-dipping Explanation: Temporal Frenzy had a side effect on spawn order of weapons, so that the amount of Time before item initialization was double-dipping with Temporal-Frenzy and attack speed of 2x the same weapon did result in different APS. Impact: For endgame builds relying on Temporal Frenzy this will result in about 10-15% Attack Speed loss.

• FX Intensity now applies to all projectiles types as well as mines

• Start of instant-missions (Dojo, Carlo's Memory) is now bound to shift + click instead of right-click, to resolve conflict with stash/sell actions

• Loot boxes picked up by Minions in Kiki's Lucky Loop now count towards the player who summoned the Minion

• Dojo cannot appear in Octron's Net

• Fixed damage preview for Waste Mine when there is a chance to miss (WM is not affected by miss chance)

• Quest items are checked before starting a mission that can be started instantly

• Fixed damage history compression on longer mission runs

• Fixed typo in "Aberration"

• Improved Japanese translation of "Range"

• Fixed "Boss Exhaustion" glossary search in Japanese

• Fixed Virus on Hit glossary highlight in Japanese and Russian

• Fixed swapped left/right shield diff texts in German

• Fixed "Armor / Deflector Shield per Dodge" in Simplified Chinese

• Fixed inconsistent translations for "Empowered Chips" in Simplified Chinese

Bugfixes

• When completing a mission that can be opened without the Marble Machine (Dojo, Carlo's Memory), another Sector in the Marble Machine Sector Slot is now NOT consumed.

• Fixed German translation of the Multicrit skill node

QoL

• Right-click can now be used as alternative to ctrl+click for trade and stash

• Right-click to Dash hint is now shown on tutorial layer

• Default key bindings are now localized in all supported languages

• Gameplay Notifications (Power-Ups, Boss Exhaustion, etc) now start further up, so that they do not overlap with hp bars

• Gameplay Notifications can now be disabled. The setting is located at Display -> Show Gameplay Notifications

Accessiblity: Skill Tree

Power Reports and item diffs currently use green / red color-coding. A new setting has been added that changes this to yellow / blue. The setting can be enabled under Display -> Accessibility -> Show Accessible Colors.

Regardless of this setting, power reports now always show edge highlights to distinguish between a positive (up) and a negative (down) effect:

Accessibility: Item Rarity

Item Rarity is currently only distinguished by color. A new setting has been added that adds stars to indicate Item Rarity (1 star: common, 2 stars: uncommon, 3 stars: rare, 4 stars: unique).

The setting can be enabled under Display -> Accessibility -> Show Rarity Indicators on Items.

Bugfixes

• Fixed potential item-loss in coop if both players pick up a share item simultaneously with network latency

• If Death Threshold reaches the limit of 90%, it is now shown correctly in the damage preview stat

• Added glossary hint to Death Threshold damage preview stat

• Added glossary hint to Knockback damage preview stat

• Fixed occasional damage inconsistency between identically rolled weapons

• Improved display of prices when buying or selling

• Fixed rare crash with uninitialized Dodge

• Fixed Simplified Chinese Prefix / Suffix headlines on Affix Selection

• Fixed Simplified Chinese texts on Death Screen

Bugfixes

• Added DoT tag to Contagion Mod

• Parasites properly inherit the Time of their owner (previously Time granted through Time Field did not apply)

• Increased size of initial flames a bit further, so that Parasite Flamethrower can damage even small hosts

• Fixed Abysswalker WoF Affix: increased damage per Dash Slot

Bugfixes

• Fixed remaining cases, where enemies could be knocked back too far into the corrupted area

Bugfixes and Improvements

• Asteroids cannot travel outside the corrupted area

• Enemies can't be knocked back too far into the corrupted area

• Fixed Parasite Flamethrower: damaging of small hosts is possible again

• Improved Carlos Memory: Players start with a Pierce Mod and a Split Mod

Bugfixes

• Fixed Twisted Minion support mods

• Fixed Minion Armor on Aurora Bulwark

• Dojo does not grant any loot on completion

• Full effect of Nuclear Deflection "block 100% nuclear damage" is inherited to Minions via Guardians

• Fixed thermal color highlighting on more thermal damage affix

• Fixed crash in side quest when Abyss sector is shared between ships and fast-forward to side quest start is possible

• Can not play already completed Abyss missions again with another ship through fast-forward

• Show "Reflected Damage" as destroyed by instead of "Corrupted Area" when ship is self destroyed

• Focus Boost on critical strike works for parasites

• Fix Novas not hitting enemies from time to time

To celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, Astroloot is now on sale!

The discount is live from today and runs until next Sunday, so if you’ve been waiting to jump in (or tell a friend), now is a great time.

Thank you all for your continued support. Enjoy the festivities!

Bugfixes

• Fixed potential stack overflow when equipping Abysswalker in right shield slot

• Fixed Abyss bonus mission completion

• Added further logging if native Steam library loading fails

Strange new entities known as Modders have appeared across the Astroloot Sector. When destroyed, they drop Boxes filled with powerful Mods, some altered in ways that defy all known rules.

And there is a lot more to discover! (full patch notes)

Aberration

A new Keystone that turns Damage over Time skills upside-down! Allocating this, DoT can cause On Hit Effects, while hits no longer can do this. On Hit Effects are Debris, Aftershock, Shock, Radiation, Knockback and Leech.

To make this work, the entire damage system has been rewritten. Damage preview for all On Hit Effects is working for both Hits and DoTs and lots of damage preview oddities have been fixed (burn, blind, radiation, debris, aftershock, shock ...).

Improved Campaign

Nine missions have been removed from the main path and turned into Modder side quests.

This is the perfect time to start a new build from scratch!

Deep Endgame Monster Level Progression

• Monster Levels now grant 1% Item Rarity per Monster Level above 70 for all sectors. Special handling for Abyss has been removed.

• Starting from monster level 200 onwards monster armor / damage increase at roughly 10x the current amount

• Your Abyss progression will be migrated to the new scaling, so that you are at the same power level as before

• Abyss Levels up to your maximum completed Monster Level so far can now be fast-forwarded.

Mission Stats & Dojo Sector

• Mission stats show the detailed graph of damage you dealt during your last mission.

• A new unique sector "Dojo" has been added. Face the target dummy boss to test the true DPS of your build!

Marble Machine Skill Tree Loadouts

You can now switch between three Marble Machine Skill Tree loadouts. If this feature receives positive feedback, we will add this feature in some form to the main Skill Tree as well in a future update!

Weapon Rebalancing

All hit-based weapons in the game have been rebalanced. Previously, most hit-based weapons roughly doubled their base attack speed from Scrap to Eternal quality.

Combined with the multiple sources of iAS the game offers this leads to sim-slowdowns during endgame and on-hit-effects being massively overpowered.

Now, base attack speed stays the same on all qualities for hit-based weapons. To compensate, base damage has been adjusted to match the previous DPS of these weapons. Some underperforming weapons have received a bit higher buffs to their base damage.

Laser base damage has been buffed by roughly 10% at all qualities

Waste Mine base damage has been buffed by roughly 120% at all qualities

Glitch#0x7 has manifested as new unique item

This new unique has been designed by Paul, the player that reached the technical Abyss limit in version 0.6! It can roll 420 (!) different variants, so Paul and I thought it would be a good idea to add a special Wheel of Fortune craft mode only for this item.

If you have already found Glitch#0x7 before, it will automatically migrate to the new unique and permanently show Originally found as Glitch#0x7 written on the item.

If you have not found Glitch#0x7 before, the new item is an exclusive boss drop! Hint: Should be close to Paul's favorite place in Astroloot!

Boss Exhaustion Buffs

• Boss Exhaustion now grants 4% more Damage taken per Stack (previously 3%)

• Tyrant Cruncher now grants Bosses take 3% more Damage per Exhaustion Stack and no longer grants 20 to maximum Boss Exhaustion

• Burden of Collapse now grants 40 to maximum Boss Exhaustion (previously 15) and grants Bosses exhaust 80% faster (previously 28%)

• Stressed Overlords now grants 28% more Damage against Bosses (previously 18%)

• Boss Exhaustion buffs in multiplayer are no longer additive, instead only best of all buffs are applied

Spirit Animal Rework: Shae

Shae has been reworked to make the Spirit Animal more accessible. Serpent Ghost got very powerful new ability and Charged Coil should be very interesting for Energy stackers!

Spirit Animal Rework: Lord Chicken

Lord Chicken's layout has been improved to access relevant skills more easily. A new skill Dash Lord has been added that grants:

• 20% Damage taken from Dash

• 60% increased Damage per Dash Slot

• 2% Dodge per Dash Slot

Spirit Animal Rework: Vorak

Vorak has received a very small layout improvement, that should allow a bit more flexibility when building around this Spirit Animal!

Soloist now deals 200% more Damage if only one Weapon is equipped (previously 180%)

Skill Tree

• New Skill Aberration grants "Damage over Time can trigger On Hit Effects / Hits cannot trigger On Hit Effects"

• Radiant Annihilation now has "Only Radiation can deal Nuclear Damage" instead of "Hits deal no Nuclear Damage"

• Eye Picker now also grants 10% more Blind Effect

• New Skill Core Stabilizer grants 50 Armor and 2% Armor Repair

• Shield Surge now also grants 8% chance for Damage to not interrupt Deflector Shield Recharge

• Flash Shield now grant 50% faster start of Deflector Shield Recharge (previously 30%)

• Shield Accelerator now grants 40% faster start of Deflector Shield Recharge (previously 25%)

• New Skill: Drone Supremacy grants 16% increased Minion Power and +1 to Maximum Drones

• New Skill: Reactive Plating grants 5 Armor per Dodge

• New Skill: Reactive Shielding grants 5 Deflector Shield per Dodge

• Minor Field Effect nodes now grant 4% increased Field Effect (previously 4% more)

Marble Machine

• Added 19 new Marble Machine Skills related to Twisted Mods

• Added 2 new Sector Affixes related to Twisted Mods

Unique Items

• Empowered Drone Master grants -2 to Maximum Drones and Drones deal 10-20% more Damage per Maximum Drones

• Demon Fire is a new unique Plutonium Bar, but built around explosive damage and burn

Twisted Mods

Twisted versions of all existing Mod items can be found in the endgame. You find the complete list of possible mods in the full patch notes.

Lunar New Year Event

Since Astroloot is especially popular in Asia, Carlo has prepared a special present for you to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

The Lunar New Year Event runs from February 13th to March 1st and will return for all future Lunar New Year celebrations.

农历新年活动

由于《Astroloot》在亚洲地区深受欢迎，卡洛为你准备了一份特别的礼物，一起庆祝农历新年。

农历新年活动将于 2 月 13 日至 3 月 1 日 期间开放，并将在今后的每一个农历新年期间再次回归。

Thanks everyone for playing Astroloot in Early Access.

I’ll crack open a beer tonight and start a new build.

Have fun playing!