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Increased the spawn rate of the 3 socket craft
Fixed 3 potential memory leaks
Improved the performance of Meteor burning ground
Reworked a modifier on Glass Eater (you'll have to find a new one, sorry!)
Fixed a potential level generation failure
Fixed a bug where Foreseen Ruin would not always apply
Reworked Foreseen Ruin and Prophesied Doom to apply a multiplicative increased damage taken effect on monsters
Improved the spawn behavior of allied medusa heads
Fixed a bug where allied medusa heads would sometimes fail to deal damage
Improved reliability of the News Feed on long play sessions
Fixed a bug where certain Uber Memory Crystals did not roll properly in the Descent Corruption craft
Ultimate Uniques always drop with 3 sockets
Welcome to Don't Die, Collect Loot's next major update!
This patch focuses on adding more to the endgame experience, giving players more of a reason to grind out all of that ridiculous loot. This includes a new "uber" boss, a revamp to the crafting system, a new tier of uniques, and more!
As always, this game is in early access and I'm still (and always will be) the solo developer on it. If these systems don't resonate or if there are any issues, hop onto the Discord (https://discord.gg/35dEhnMQzk) or into the discussion forums and let me know! I'll continue to improve things based on all of your feedback
Once certain conditions are met, you'll be able to use a new portal in the Nexus to access the Uber Boss arena. Once inside, you'll find that you need two keys, a Key of Growth and a Key of Progress, in order to access the fight against Aletheia. It'll be up to you to figure out how to get your hands on those!
Once in the fight, you'll be up against an immortal boss. Each time you deplete her life bar, she comes back stronger with more complex attacks! When you finally succumb to her assault, you'll be rewarded based on how many life bars you depleted. In addition to the usual piles of loot, you might find a special unique exclusive to this boss! Here's two examples:
You may notice something special about that second unique, but more on that later!
Another Uber boss is coming relatively soon, too. This will be a more traditional boss with a fixed health bar, but you'll just have to wait and see!
Don't Die, Collect Loot is, at the end of the day, all about loot! There are uniques of many tiers available, and up until today the rarest tier was the coveted "Tier 0" unique. However, over time, players have become very adept at finding these. In order to add a bit more of a chase, I've added Ultimate Uniques to the game.
Ultimate Uniques are much rarer than regular unique items, and they can't be sacrificed as materials to craft other uniques either. As a result, they tend to be either build defining or absurdly powerful. Let's take a look at a few now:
These items often have special effects you won't find anywhere else, and tend to stand on their own without crafting. There may be ways to modify them a bit, but you'll have to explore and find out...
There are currently 13 new Ultimate Uniques, and more will be added in minor patches over the coming weeks, so don't despair if your favorite archetype is missing one! If you have any cool ideas, let me know as well. The community has supplied a number of fun unique ideas for the game, and that tradition isn't ending any time soon.
In addition to the Ultimate Uniques, 12 new "standard" uniques have been added to the game as well. Most are Memory Crystals, as these were severely lacking. A few uniques, most notably Dennis' Bauble, have been reworked too. Good luck finding that one!
Crafting items is a ton of fun, but sometimes an unlucky streak could really put a damper on that. To help mitigate this issue, I've implemented the "energy" system. Once you've reached a certain level of progression, you'll encounter a special event while playing the game. Once this event concludes, you'll have access to the Forge of Stars in the Nexus. At the same time, Energy tokens will start dropping whenever you encounter the Crafter or special types of treasure chests in a run.
Inside the Forge of Stars, you'll be able to select from most of the crafts available in the game. The catch? They all cost energy!
Energy scales with Chaos, so choose your crafts carefully!
It wouldn't be an update to Don't Die, Collect Loot without another skill tree! I've often felt that there's no real point in choosing which type of area you go to, and I'd like to fix that. As a start, I've added a 5th tab to the Research panel. This focuses on the Forest, Aqueduct, and Volcano (coming later!) areas. These nodes are only active when you're adventuring in the specified Biome, so choose carefully!
The Forest nodes tend to specialize in character growth:
Whereas Aqueduct nodes tend to focus on item and wealth progress:
(Yes, this might be a hint for something, if you've been reading this far!)
The capstone nodes in the trees often result in notable gameplay changes, too:
I'm always looking for other ways to make the game feel more dynamic, so shoot me some feedback if you have any ideas!
A bunch more are on the way, but for now here's a few buffs:
Disc Golfer: Bounces per point 2 → 3; New effect +15% Shield Toss crit damage per point.
Persistent Toss: Shield Toss damage multiplier 15 → 25 per point.
Concussive Trauma: Flat phys per bounce 2 → 15 per point; New effect +10% Shield Toss damage per item level of equipped Shield.
Shield Fan: New effect +7 Physical to Shield Toss per 5 Spirit per point (keeps +2 projectiles).
Shield Toss (base): New effect +3 Physical to Shield Toss per point.
Chaos Theory (Avatar of Vengeance): Extra Butterfly projectiles 1 → 2.
Riftwing Surge: Extra Shock applications by Butterflies 3 → 4.
Rite of Aggression & Rite of Despair: Max Poison Resistance 1 → 2 each.
The Crushed effect now ignores mitigation
The Crushed effect now deals less damage
When getting Crushed, you now get a stacking "Memory Distortion" buff that indicates how much damage the next crush will do. Completing an event will remove one stack. Note that this was always how it worked, but the game hid the functionality from you
Fixed a bug where it was possible to get Crushed multiple times in one frame, causing some strange behavior
The Descent is now a Secret Area instead of a portal. The conditions for spawning it remain the same. There's a reason for this, you'll find out later!
Fixed a bug where you could sometimes find multiple items of different bases with the same rolls
Xul'Phantoq, The Endless Pursuit has broken through the veil
Added one new Anomaly event
Fixed a bug where Beastmasters could sometimes lose count of their pets, making bad things happen. One monster still remains though, and it's probably you
Fixed a bug where Socketable item mods were displaying weirdly in the Codex
Fixed a bug where caching behavior was messing with the stat display in a number of situations
Fixed a number of bugs with stat display calculations
Fixed a number of text color highlighting issues
Fixed a bug where some color highlights would disable when viewing an item's details
Added a Codex entry for Coherence
Fixed mod tags for a few uniques
Fixed a bug where Xbox360 controllers had their X/Y icons swapped
Fixed a bunch of Skill Tree text display bugs
There are now 20 chests in the Glintwood Grove instead of 19
Congratulations on making it this far and reading through all of this! Looking forward to seeing you all check this out, and as always, I'm listening closely feedback and bug reports
-Dan
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2052160/Welcome to the next major content update in Early Access! This one focuses on the weakest class, the Beastmaster. Additionally, I added some new features and QoL improvements based on community requests. Note that there is no ladder reset for this patch, and there won't be for 0.5 either.
This patch took about 2 weeks longer than I'd like. Apologies for the delay! The Beastmaster relied on some very old code. It took longer than planned for me to work through all of the bugs and other issues. Major thanks to the community on Discord for helping test all of this! The good news is that this patch also fixed a number of underlying issues with the game, and should make future content easier to develop
The next update, 0.5, will feature Uber Bosses and a new type of unique item! Please look forward to it.
While fun and a niche favorite, the Beastmaster lacks the scaling power to really engage with some of Don't Die, Collect Loot's endgame systems. This patch focuses on fixing this through the following changes:
Lord of the Wilds (Beastmaster Passive): This passive, frankly, stunk. It's been entirely replaced by the Wilds meter. This meter scales as you summon or tame minions, and decays at one point per 3 seconds. It scales the damage you and your minions deal by default, but the passive tree is full of additional scaling options. This serves as your late game multiplicative scaling vector, so pay close attention to it!
Taming Tree: The Taming Tree has undergone an extensive rework. Many of Taming Swipe's nodes have been retuned to add more scaling and damage instead of just utility. Call of Erebus has been reworked to take significant advantage of Lord of the Wilds, and the later nodes in the tree offer a variety of scaling functions they did not used to. Some nodes, like the ones that only granted Minion Block/Evade penetration, have been retooled to provide more useful stats. The Cavalry Ultimate has also been buffed!
Hunting Tree: This tree has been almost entirely overhauled. Hunting Shuriken has been revamped to become an ailment scaling machine, inflicting Shock, Freeze, and Ignite aggressively. It also unlocks Bleed, a new special Physical ailment! Hunting Spear has received similar treatment, really leaning into its critical hit theming, along with scaling Shock in order to multiply the damage enemies take. The rest of the nodes have been reworked to focus on critical hits and Lord of the Wilds scaling, and some new nodes have been added as well
Avatars Tree: Most notably, Avatar of the Night has had almost every node reworked. More than half the nodes only provided utility instead of power, and this was not acceptable. The Lunar Cry path on the Avatar of the Hunt skill has also been reworked to actually be useful. Avatar of Vengeance did not scale enough, and has had a number of massive scaling improvements as well. Avatar of Inevitability has also been reworked. It no longer sacrifices your minions, but instead provides strong scaling bonuses to your Avatar skills
Minion Scaling: Minions were not scaling well enough. Some of this was caused by bugs, some of it by poor design decisions on my part. Additionally, the Stats panel was not showing minion damage properly, which has been fixed! Here are the notable fixes:
Minions now inherit all damage stats from the player. They still have their own unique stats (usually prefixed with Minion as well
Things like ailment effect now also apply to the ailments inflicted by your minions
Minion baseline stats and monster level scaling are generally much higher now
Minion Taming: In order for minion taming to perform more consistently, killing a monster with the "Tamed" buff now causes either a Tamed Slime or a Tamed Bee to spawn. This prevents cases where players would get stuck with less-than-ideal tamed pets, like the Crabs.
Nobody likes re-running the "campaign", however short it may be. As a result, I've made it so gold and area unlocks (excluding NM levels) are now seasonally shared. You'll need to log into a character to "claim" their progression and gold for your seasonal account.
Save Loss Protection: This is always the most heartbreaking bug for me to see. It's always a risk in video games, that local disk corruption etc can cause save file loss. However, I've taken a number of steps to protect your saves in the event of a power outage mid-write etc. Hopefully you won't see any difference with this system in place under normal circumstances, but it should help prevent those .001% chance data loss scenarios
Beastmaster Performance: A number of systems have been substantially improved in order to make Beastmaster more playable in deep Nightmare scenarios. If you see any issues, smash that Bug Report button so I can take a look!
General Performance: The game should use significantly less CPU and memory now. In some cases, CPU performance has increased between 10,000 and 50,000%. This is particularly impactful lategame and with abilities like Poison Proliferation
New Boss "Punishment" Upgrades: The old upgrades offered for killing a boss were boring. These have been entirely revamped
New Uniques: Some new uniques have been added, and some old useless ones revamped. I'm avoiding adding too many new uniques right now, and there's a reason for that. Yes, this is a teaser randomly embedded deep in a patch note preview
New Enchants: You asked, and I'm delivering! Enjoy a bunch of new enchants!
New Memory Crystal Mods: New mods have been added focusing on Spirit, Lord of the Wilds, and Minions, along with a few other surprises
New Limit Break Skills: Two new Limit Break skills have been added. One enables Cursed Shrines to be automatically picked up, and the other fills a percentage of your class meter at the start of your run
New Boss Item Base: It's a rare one, good luck...
Unique Item Filtering: Unique items are tough to filter properly. Instead of tier-based filtering, you can enter the Codex and Right Click/Press Y on a Unique to toggle whether or not it will auto-sell. The tier filter feature has been removed in order to prevent confusion here
Faster Nightmare Unlocking: Cursed Shrines and the Boss Upgrade event both have the opportunity to provide NM unlock boosts. If you haven't died yet, check out the new options and see if you can handle the risk...
Stat Display Changes: Large numbers now switch over to exponential notation when in the billions. Additionally, a lot of missing stat information is now correctly presented on the stats display
Ancient Damage Bugs Fixed: Some old bugs that impacted skills like Meteor and Hunting Shuriken, preventing them from consistently dealing damage, have been fixed!
Ailment Damage Tracking: The post-run screen now shows how much your ailments did! The base skill value is the hit damage, and the ailment values show the ailment damage
Fixed a bug where high damage (10E39+) was occasionally getting squished into a float, causing a sudden infinite damage spike
Fixed a bug where controllers could not reset their bindings
Fixed a few controller nav issues on options menus
When binding to an in-use key in the control binding menu, you will now swap with that key instead of getting annoying binding errors. This is particularly useful on controllers with limited available buttons
Added exponential notation to the dummy
Fixed a bug where end of run displays would display Infinity. They now display some broken-ass way too long strings, this will be fixed later
Reduced Ethical Trap's duration
Fixed a potential memory explosion with Ethical Trap
Welcome to Don't Die, Collect Loot's first major content update. I'm Dan, the solo dev working on the game, and I'm really excited to share this with all of you! To celebrate, you can grab the game for 30% off until March 3rd!
As always, because this is a solo endeavor in Early Access, there probably will be bugs and other issues. Please let me know in Discord or via the in-game Bug Report feature and I'll get right on it! Reviews and forum posts also help me track how things are going.
Lastly, this update includes a leaderboard reset! You can continue to play your old characters without losing any progress, but if you wish to compete on the leaderboards you'll want to create a new one! Don't Die, Collect Loot will not lock content behind seasonal barriers, this is exclusively just for people who prefer to compete on a fresh character.
🏹The Huntress is now playable!
🎲Gambler rework
✨50+ new Nightmare Items and 20+ new Unique items
👾Astral Incursions Update
🎮Controller, QoL, and Inventory Improvements
The Huntress is the most complex, over-the-top character in Don't Die, Collect Loot so far. She specializes in projectiles, critical hits, and dealing massive amounts of poison damage to enemies. Her passive allows her to deal even more damage based on the number of enemies she's poisoned recently.
The Huntress also uses two new item types: Quivers and Bows. You aren't required to use these to use her abilities, but you may find they offer significant synergy!
There's lots I want you to discover on your own ingame, but here's a quick summary of the 3 trees:
Archer - Deal massive amounts of critical damage to enemies via well-placed arrows. Rain death from above, construct turrets, or just shoot enemies straight up with your bow!
Naturalist - Leverage deadly poisons found in nature to inflict horrendous ailments on your foes, or generate an immunity to them and buff yourself
Conservationist - The Huntress has given up on conserving nature, but she's more than happy to conserve herself. Use Verdant Ward to resist damage, Unethical Trap to deal massive damage, or summon swarms of angry bees with Raging Swarm!
In previous builds, the Gambler was always a disappointment to see in your runs. Sure, everyone loves to shop, but the items she provided simply did not make it worth your while to visit her. With the Huntress Update, I'm happy to introduce the True Gambler, which may help alleviate some of this disappointment.
The Gambler's basic shop functionality will remain in the Nexus and in the pre-Nightmare runs, but once you encounter her in the Endless Nightmare her true form will unlock when playing on endgame difficulty modes. There are two variants of the True Gambler that you'll encounter, and this can be manipulated with the Exploration tree:
This variant of the True Gambler provides four expensive, but potent, risky crafts that will help you develop your items. Each craft is designed to really push the limits of what you can create, enabling new endgame frontiers! Just beware, the cost multipliers in Gold are very high. You'll want to stock up on plenty of gold now!
The Anomalous True Gambler is not for the faint of heart. She offers three unique crafts that can be used to "finish" your items, but the outcomes vary greatly. Once you pick one, the item can never be modified again, so choose wisely!
In addition to Quivers and Bows being added as bases, I've added more than 50 new Nightmare base types. This greatly expands your options for endgame players. Additionally, a ton of new Uniques have been added! I don't want to spoil the fun of discovering them, but some are designed to help early game players with more fun options, while some really push the boundaries of what can happen in Don't Die, Collect Loot!
After the initial inevitable round of bug fixes and improvements, I'll be enabling some more items as well! Please look forward to it
Astral Incursions have been in Don't Die, Collect Loot since the early alpha builds as a method of breaking up the monotony of a run with a more dangerous encounter. As the game evolved, they've fell behind in terms of being interesting content. I hope the Huntress Update will bring them back into an interesting place!
I've added two new bosses, themed after the Aqueduct enemies. Most existing encounters and the new ones also have special unique items added!
Most importantly, though, are the endgame updates. The tree for this mechanic has been redone, and it's designed for players who really want crazy encounters. Check out a few of the nodes below:
I've been working behind the scenes to address a lot of the feedback about the game and its interface. Here's some of the key changes I've made in the Huntress Update:
The underlying inventory system has been re-written! While this shouldn't matter much in moment-to-moment gameplay, it does unlock UI improvements and uses about 90% less memory
Major performance updates, especially when dealing with high-intensity lategame combat situations
Improvements to the scrolling smoothness on various hardware configurations
Controller directional behavior has often been a sticking point. The title screen has been remapped, and the inventory is much easier to use with a controller now. The new inventory system allows a lot of cursor memory improvements, especially when equipping or selling items
The underlying control remapping system has been revamped to be considerably less buggy!
A number of improvements to level select and Nightmare select
I don't like to nerf the power fantasy in Don't Die, Collect Loot, but this one got a bit out of control. Mana Shield effects now burn 3 mana per point of life, instead of 1 mana per point of life. This should preserve the general use of the ability, but hopefully curb some lategame invincibility scenarios
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