Demon Hunt news & patch notes

Hello everyone new patch is here!

Trying to push updates regularly while also working on the next biome.

-Starting weapon progress now uses tiered thresholds. Tier 1 requires 30 waves, Tier 2 requires 40, and Tier 3 requires 50.

-Added a brief invincibility window after taking damage to prevent multiple hits registering in the same instant.

-Hunt earnings now appear one by one on a dedicated screen before the game over page, showing each unlock with its name, type, and icon.

-Updated the game's fonts for a better visual fit with the game's overall aesthetic.

-Fixed Artifact Entropy not applying health regeneration multiplier properly.

-Fixed fourth artifact slot in the armory bug.

-Fixed Banish button placements when weapon info toggle is off.

-Fixed controller getting stuck if the post-banish offer contains an equipped weapon.

-Fixed Delete Save Button not being interactable with controller in gameplay.

-Fixed Warden Drone appearing as DPS bar even though selected mecha is not Warden.

-Fixed some Artifacts being enabled even though they are not equipped.

-Artifact Combustion Chance 1%/1.5%/2%/2.5%/3% => 1.5%/2%/2.5%/3%/3.5%

-Artifact Void Rift Attack Rate 2 => 4

-Artifact Erosion Damage 8/10/12/14/16 => 4/5/6/7/8

-Artifact Erosion Decay 2 seconds => 1 second

-Artifact Forest Soul Regeneration 1%/1.2%/1.4%/1.6%/1.8% => 1%/1.5%/2%/2.5%/3%

-Artifact Great Attractor 20%/40%/60%/80%/100% => 60%/70%/80%/90%/100%

-Artifact Midnight Meteor Damage 60/70/80/90/100 => 40/50/60/70/80

-Weapon Arc Base Damage 20 => 26

-Weapon Disc Nucleus Count 10 => 16

-Weapon Minigun Base Damage 10 => 12

-Weapon Minigun Launcher Base Damage 4x => 6x

-Weapon Minigun Launcher Rarity Damage 0/0.5/1/1.5/2 => 0/1/2/3/4

-Weapon Field Base Damage 6 => 8

-Weapon Disc Base Damage 36 => 42

Hello everyone new patch is here!

Armory Artifact Slots

-The Armory now features dedicated Artifact Slots. Unlock them by discovering new artifacts, then drag and drop your favorites into the slots to carry their effects into every run. Each slot type provides a different passive bonus:

Frequency Slots (1 & 3): Artifacts placed here are significantly more likely to appear as options on the level-up screen.

Rarity Slots (2 & 4): Artifacts placed here will appear at a higher rarity when offered during a run.

Artifact Dps Bars

-Damage-dealing artifacts and Warden's Drone now have dedicated DPS Bars in gameplay and gameover screen.

-Fixed saved runs not loading up

-Fixed infinite Attraction Core and Unique Token drops from enemies

-Fixed Starting weapon rarity (Rare/Epic upgrade) not applying correctly

-Fixed Tendril not damaging small enemies in Willowmire (first biome)

-Fixed Tendril not applying caustic dammage properly

-Orb of Aid - Health Packs heal more - 2%/4%/6% => 3%/6%/9%

-Orb of Cause - Gain damage if you complete a wave with full health - 1%/2%/3% => 0.8%/1.6%/2.4%

-Orb of Cause - Gain damage if you complete a wave under 40% hp => 50% hp - 2%/4%/6% => 2.4%/4.8%/7.2%

-Orb of Salvage - Reduces Offering cost - 20%/40%/60% => 30%/60%/90%

-Orb of Vigor - Kills some of the demons alive when a boss fight starts - 15%/30%/45% => 30%/60%/90%

-Orb of Willing - Gain damage bonus while in Soulstone range - 10%/20%/30% => 25%/50%/75%

Hey everyone!

The second boss of the new biome is still a wall for most players, so I've made some nerfs to its moves. Let's see if it helps!

-Reduced intensity of some of Yuun's attacks (Second boss).

-Added a Delete Save File button to the Settings menu, available only from the Main Menu.

-Reduced the HP multiplier of enemies during the Endless phase.

-Fixed a bug where pressing the Endless Mode button input (LB) on the defeat screen would resume the game and make the player invincible for the remainder of the session.

-Fixed a bug where right-clicking after closing the inventory menu would equip/unequip an item.

-Fixed a bug where Spectre's full shield evasion bonus would stop working mid-run and not come back.

-Fixed Orb of Relief orange side description to correctly display the bonus as a percentage of max HP.

-Fixed enemies near the map border dropping items outside the border — they now always drop inside.

-Fixed a UI issue in biome selection screen in base for widescreen monitors.

-Made some fixes about the controller navigation on settings page.

-Dualsaber - Damage by rarity \ => \

-Dualsaber - Base Area 10 => 12

-Dualsaber - Area Main \ => \

-Dualsaber - Flame Damage 0.6 => 0.8

-Dualsaber - Flame Life 0.6 => 0.8

-Artifact Entroy - Regeneration Multiplier by rarity \ => \

-Artifact Hardened Plates - Armor by rarity \ => \

-Artifact Thorns - \ => \

-Artifact Bloodlust - \ => \

Hey everyone!

Thank you for your kind words to the previous post, means a lot.

Here is a quick new patch, mostly for the balance issues about the first bosses of new biome.

Coldbreak Plains

-Decreased enemies health by 20%

-Decreased the intensity of all Mordis' attacks (First boss).

-Decreased intensity of some of Yuun's attacks (Second boss).

-Decreased projectile speed of second elite.

-Decreased burrow duration of worm type enemies from 1 second to 0.6 second

-Sentinel's invincible area now shrinks as the Sentinel takes damage. Decreased move speed by %20

-Added new pop up banner design for point of interests on the map. (Altars, shrines etc..)

-Fixed the banish bug which showing equipped weapons as new after a banish.

-Minigun - Launcher projectile deals 4x more damage now.

-Arc - Base Attack Speed 16 => 20, Base Damage 16 => 20

-Disc - Base Attack Speed 4 => 5, Base Damage 32 => 36

-Mortar - Barrage Count by rarity \ => \

Hey everyone,

It's been a long time of silence, and I owe you an honest explanation.

Developing this game was a long, isolated process and by the time it launched, I had burned out really hard.

I needed to step away and spend some time with family and friends. It was something I genuinely needed to keep going.

I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Since the new year I've been back at it. Heads down, focused on finishing this update.

I didn't want to come back empty handed or make promises I couldn't keep, so I stayed quiet and kept building until I had something real to show.

The update is out today. Thank you for waiting. It means more than I can say.

And to those who stuck around through the silence, I'm truly sorry.

You deserved better communication, and I'll do better from here.

Here's what's included in the update:

-NEW BIOME

Coldbreak Plains, a whole new biome with a complete new mob set, bosses and elites.

2 New Final bosses with their unique threat modifiers, 4 Mid Bosses, 5 Elites and 17 new mobs.

I've also split the first biome Willowmire, into two separate biomes, the second half is now its own region called Barren Fields for more variety.

Barren Fields' environment is built out and its dedicated enemies are on the way.

-NEW MECHA

Warden, a new mecha with an offensive helper drone and dash ability with its talent tree.

Your drone follows you around during the hunt and shoots projectiles at closest enemies.

Dash ability lets you cover longer distances in short bursts as an alternative to the previous sprint-like abilities.

-NEW WEAPONS

Burst - Fires rapid volleys of Void projectiles that pierce through enemies

Tendril - Extends Caustic beams that latch onto nearby enemies and branch out to reach additional targets

-NEW ARTIFACTS

Elemental Booster - Increases each elemental type damage

Ultra Instinct - Every x seconds a random weapon temporarily behaves like an Ultra

Gilded Arsenal - Increases Damage for every rarity tier of your equipped weapons

Resonant Field - Reduces enemy projectile speed

Wave Memory - Increase Damage for every Elite enemy killed

Refinement Protocol - Increases Critical Power

Iron Stance - While standing still, increases Damage and Armor

Killing Blow - Each kill grants a stack of Damage Bonus

Convergence - Increases Damage for every elemental spawn on screen \

Overclock - Every x Seconds gain a burst of Attack Speed for a duration

-NEW ITEMS

6 new Unique items for new weapons and 6 new set items for new final bosses.

-ENDLESS MODE

A new way to challenge yourself, after you kill the final boss you can continue your hunt and push your build as far as it can go.

You take more damage and more enemies spawn as the waves progress. You don't gain any meta progress during the Endless phase of the run.

-GLYPHS

A new way to spend your skill points in the later stages of your hunt.

Once you've collected all available weapons and artifacts, Glyphs will appear in their place instead of blank panels.

Each Glyph offers a small stat bonus and unlike weapons or artifacts, you can pick the same Glyph multiple times and stack them as much as you want.

-BANISH

Permanently remove a weapon or artifact from your level-up pool so it never appears again.

You start each hunt with a limited number of free banishes. Once those run out, you can spend skill points to banish instead.

The same applies to rerolls, if you're out of reroll charges, you can spend skill points to reroll as well.

-REAGENT CONVERT AND AUTORECYCLE

You can convert your reagents from one to another now in the base.

And you can auto-recycle your loot to reagents directly during the hunt. You can see the option in the inventory panel.

-MOUSE MOVEMENT

You can now control your mech with the mouse You can enable it in the settings.

-AUTOSAVE

Your run autosaves between each wave, you can continue where you left off after exiting the game.

I've also made improvements to reduce freezes. There's still more work to do here, but it should be better.

-STORAGE

2 new storage tabs \ in the base.

-UI

Condition Bars - Shows active effects like shrines and artifact procs in the UI as bars

Location arrow - Points to high rarity items that dropped on the ground.

HP Bar above the elite enemies.

-MISC

Particle count setting

New achievements

New models for some of the Elites in Willowmire

New sound effects for Force Shield, Halo, Surge, Arc, Disc

BALANCE

-ARTIFACT Hunt Rush, Damage : \ => \ Punishment : \ => \

-ARTIFACT Extreme Protocol, Attack Speed : \ => \

-ARTIFACT Phase Shifter, Evasion : \ => \

-ARTIFACT Reflex Driver, Critical Chance : \ => \

-ARTIFACT Entropy, Max Health is decreased by %50 => %25

-ARTIFACT Erosion Sigil, Apply Chance : \ => \ Damage : \ => \

-ARTIFACT Determination, Increase Leech while below %25 => %50

-MECHA Spectre shield recharge 2 seconds => 3 seconds

-MECHA Strider Starting HP 60 => 50

-MECHA Brute Starting HP 50 => 60

-MECHA Spectre Starting HP 50 => 40

-WEAPON Arc Emitter, lowered the amount emitted

-WEAPON Halo, decreased the second and third halo radius to %60

-WEAPON Dualsaber, Flame Damage %40 => %60

-WEAPON Grenade, Rain Attack Speed 8 => 10, Grenade Movement is Faster

-WEAPON Blaster, Shatter Damage %60 => %70, Explosion Damage %60 => %50

-WEAPON Surge, Attack Speed 1.4 => 1.2, Base Damage 20 => 18

-WEAPON Minigun, Volatile Radius 0.8 => 1 , Base Damage 12 => 10

-WEAPON Mortar, Base Damage 120 => 100, Carpet Damage 32 => 28

-Evasion and Armor Cap %80 => %60

-More enemies spawned with high threat

BUG FIXES

-You could upgrade set items with insufficient reagents before, this should be fixed.

-Mecha movement animation should be smoother now.

-Key rebinding should work without reloading the scene. Your bindings may reset to default once with this patch.

-And many more small fixes

Hope you enjoy the new features, and many apologies again.

Thank you so much everyone.

-Cem

Hello everyone, the time is almost here! Demon Hunt Early Access launches on July 30.

You've been very supportive and patient, so thank you.

Here is what to expect from Early Access.

Weapons & Artifacts

I've added 4 new weapons to unlock, each with 3 evolutions as always.

I've removed the Physical and Energy weapon types and introduced 4 new types: Ember, Ion, Void, and Caustic.

These new weapon types can be further enhanced with new artifacts that unlock unique abilities to experiment with.

I've added 33 new artifacts, bringing the total to 60. Some of them unlock new combos based on your weapon’s damage type.

Bosses & Threat Levels

There are 3 new final bosses, each with their own threat modifiers and a new enemy type.

As you progress through each boss's threat levels, you'll unlock new rewards.

Items

I've reworked the Unique and Set Item abilities. Now there are 42 Unique Items and 12 Set Items.

Unique Items modify a specific evolution of a specific weapon. So every weapon evolution gets some new abilities through these Unique Items.

Set Items grant powers tailored to the End Boss you're hunting, each boss has a set that counters their abilities.

I also reorganized the Workbench screen to make it clearer and more flexible.

Mechas & Talent Trees

2 new mechas have been added, each with a modified sprint ability and its own talent tree.

These mechas also feature new health mechanics, like Barrier and Shield, to give you an edge.

I've redesigned the Talent Tree screen with updated visuals and reworked the mecha models.

Orbs

7 new orbs have been added, bringing the total to 20.

And you can unlock all of the Orb Slots, which is 16 in total.

I've upgraded design of Base, enemy shaders and added bunch of sound effects, visual effects, QoL and much more!

Check the new trailer on the store page if you didn't!

And also sorry for delaying the release of the game from Q2 and for the late announcement. I just needed a bit more time and wanted to be certain about what would be included in the release before making it official. I also removed the demo from the store page, as it had become quite outdated and I didn’t want it to mislead newcomers. Additionally, progress from the demo will be reset in the Early Access release.

I hope you like these new changes! Can't wait to share them with you finally.

Much love.