Echoes of Red news & patch notes

💪 Balancing 💪

• Increased the Critical Chance granted by the first "Vulnerability" upgrade to +5% (was +1%).

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• The red bullet trail effect is now unlocked by the "Blood Sacrifice" upgrade instead of "Higher Caliber" (the previous upgrade in the right branch of the Damage upgrade card).

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug that caused the transition covers in the main menu to leave a half-pixel gap on each side.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug that didn't properly optimize the colliders for the Icon of Tyranny's attacks.

• Fixed a bug that, in rare cases, displayed the wrong artifact after its intro animation ended.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug that could cause the player to "teleport" outside the map bounds during the Icon of Tyranny boss fight.

💪 Balancing 💪

• The temporary invulnerability now also triggers when the "Still Standing" upgrade is active, but its duration is halved, so you can still take damage, just not every single frame.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed the size of the transition overlays in the main menu on monitors with aspect ratios other than 16:9.

• Fixed the transition from the in-game music to the boss fight music on the "Surface" map.

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Echoes of Red's new VISCERA Update has just come out, and at the same time, the Steam SUMMER SALE has begun!

To celebrate both events, Echoes of Red will be available at 30% off.

If you saw the game in the past and told yourself something like, "I'll grab it when it goes on sale",

this is the time to get it at its lowest price ever.

Thank you for the support you've given Echoes of Red so far, and I hope you'll have fun with the new VISCERA Update!

-TERMAX

🩸 VISCERA UPDATE 🩸

The Viscera Update is finnaly out!

New MAP, New BOSS FIGHT, New ELITE, New CARD RARITY, plenty of optimizations, and much more, FINALLY AVAILABLE!

✨ Major Additions / Updates ✨

• An entirely new map has been added: Viscera. This new map expands horizontally, features its own themed enemies and sprites, and prevents blockers from spawning during Elite encounters.

• A brand-new boss and boss fight against the Icon Of Tyranny.

• A new Elite exclusive to Viscera has been added: the Biomass.

• A new song has been added: "Viscera" (composed by ZYLENXX).

• A new card rarity has been added: UNSTABLE.

• Added 2 new achievements: "GUTS, HUGE GUTS!" and "'Scuse Me".

• Added a new setting: Bullet Opacity.

• Added a new cinematic.

💪 Balancing 💪

• Limited the maximum Health bosses can have on "Beginner" difficulty to 80,000 and on "Challenge" difficulty to 250,000.

• Reduced the Devour's speed debuff on higher difficulties (-25%, was -50%).

• Normal projectiles now despawn after 10–15 seconds.

• While temporarily invulnerable, the player can now push enemies back by moving through them.

• Reduced the number of Souls required for the first level on each difficulty (15, 20, 19, 18, 17, 15, 15, 15, 15; was 15, 30, 24, 21, 18, 15, 15, 15, 15, 30).

• Increased the Health restored by the "Vigor" Upgrade (+100 HP, was +35 HP).

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Restored the old animation for Vulnerability Spirits.

• Updated the main menu background.

• Slightly adjusted the button "spring" effect.

• Cards are now grouped by rarity and unlock status.

• Slightly adjusted the vertical positioning of card rows.

• Added a "Buy:" label below each equipment item.

• The weapon "Buy" text now changes color depending on whether you can afford it.

• Camera zoom is now locked during boss fights.

• Added shadow pixels beneath certain warning effects.

• Weapons dropped upon death now disappear when you revive.

• Reworked the "To Unlock" text, making it easier to read.

• Added impact frames.

• The leaderboard menu can no longer be hovered when Survival difficulty is not selected.

• Made the "Low Health Vignette" effect more opaque.

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Greatly improved overall performance by disabling HUD elements outside the screen.

• Greatly optimized how Vulnerability Spirits are handled.

• Greatly optimized Mushroom spawning and processing.

• Optimized how shield damage indicators are displayed.

• Increased the Fixed Time Step (0.05s).

• Greatly optimized how enemies flip their sprites when changing direction.

• Removed stuttering from the main menu.

• Greatly optimized bullet handling (movement and on-screen checks).

• Greatly optimized enemy projectile spawning.

🕹️ QoL / Gameplay 🕹️

• Reduced the time before the "Weapon Upgrade" animation can be skipped (0.5s, was 1s).

🔊 Audio 🔊

• Reworked the music system, allowing tracks to be swapped during gameplay in future updates.

• Added subtle ambient background sounds that play during gameplay.

• Added a "whoosh" sound when entering or leaving the Map menu.

• Reduced some of the higher frequencies in the "White Beam Spawn" sound.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• The leaderboard now correctly loads when Survival mode is already selected.

• Fixed compatibility issues with old saves (including missing equipment textures and improperly initialized lists).

• Fixed a bug that allowed interaction with the "Banish", "Reroll", and other buttons in the Upgrades Menu before its intro animation had finished.

• Fixed shadow pixel issues in certain Upgrade icons.

• Fixed music fade transitions between the main menu and gameplay.

• The weapon selection hover sound can no longer be heard while in the main menu.

• Fixed the initial alpha value of the Photosensitivity screen.

• Fixed chains sometimes appearing disconnected between gun icons.

• Fixed a bug where the Mineral Pet could occasionally break the same mineral/grave twice.

• Fixed a bug that caused post-revive invulnerability (while having Buried Blades) to last 0 frames.

• Fixed a bug that broke scrolling in the Statistics menu.

• Fixed a bug that caused invisible enemies to start following the player again after their Health had been restored.

Others

• Reworked how out-of-bounds checks are performed.

• Removed manual sorting from non-selected cards.

I've poured my heart and soul into this update, and I truly hope there won't be any bugs and that you'll all enjoy it!

Feel free to join the Discord if you'd like to report a bug, suggest something, or simply hang out with the community.

Have fun!

-TERMAX

Tomorrow you'll be able to fuse Explosive Bullets with Piercing or Bouncing Bullets

thanks to a new card coming in the Viscera Update:

"Convergence"

Description:

Icon:

The Viscera Update will be released tomorrow, and alongside a new map, a new boss, a new elite, and much more, it will introduce a brand-new card rarity: UNSTABLES.

These are extremely powerful cards, and the first one you'll get to play with is "Convergence".

Just a small sneak peek at what you'll be able to play for free in tomorrow's update!

TERMAX out :)

Hi everyone, TERMAX here,

The new update now has a name:

the "VISCERA Update".

(The thumbnail is temporary, and I'm open to feedback!)

It's the biggest update I've ever made, featuring:

• a brand-new map (Viscera)

• a new custom boss fight (against the Icon of Tyranny)

• a new elite enemy (the Biomass)

• optimizations

• balance changes

• and more!

If you want to see more about it, you can check out the devlog I posted yesterday:

• (Devlog) New VISCERA Update

Keep in mind that this won't be the last update the game receives, as I'm constantly coming up with new ideas. I just wanted to release it before Summer Fest, and since I'm a solo developer, it's hard to push frequent updates.

If you want more spoilers, or if you'd just like to hang out with the Echoes of Red community, you can join the Discord!

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Thank you all so much for the support you've given Echoes of Red so far, and get ready for the new update! (25th of June, at 10 am Pacific time)

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• Optimizations
• Balancing
• Visual improvements

It's the 3rd of the month, and that means the Survival Leaderboard has been reset!

Congratulations to everyone, especially the top 10 players! 🎉

Good luck, everyone! We'll see who gets first place this month!

✨ Major Additions ✨

• Added the possibility to MANUALLY AIM. By pressing RMB (rebindable), you can now toggle this mode and point each weapon in a specific direction of YOUR CHOICE.

• When receiving damage from an enemy, the player now gets 0.35s of invulnerability.

• Every menu now grants 0.5s of invulnerability when closed, so the player can't take damage or get grabbed instantly.

• Added the "Map Selection Menu", ready for the NEXT BIG UPDATE.

💪 Balancing 💪

• Player inputs are now twice as responsive.

• Sub-Elites can no longer spawn with more than 4x the health of the last Elite.

• The "Devour" Elite now gets half of its "difficulty speed multiplier" boost.

• Decreased the "big wave spawn multipliers" for each difficulty (1.5x-10x-8x-6x-4x-2x-2x-2x-2x, previously 3x-10x-9x-8x-7x-5x-5x-5x-5x).

• Removed the 5-15% chance for an Elite to spawn at the start of a run on higher difficulties.

• Reworked the auto-aim system. It's now snappier than ever.

• Decreased the base Snake's Max Health (1200, previously 1500).

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Reworked how props such as graves, minerals, mushrooms, and more are handled by the game, making them ~10x faster in terms of performance.

  • Every prop is now pooled instead of being generated from scratch every time.

  • Completely reworked how props are enabled/disabled near the camera margins.

  • Changed the mineral collider from a box to a circle.

  • Reworked how mushrooms are generated and how their animations are handled.

• Greatly optimized how the game checks if a zone is covered in dark sludge.

• The game now preloads 9 chunks (previously 3) to prevent any form of stutter in the early game.

• Reworked how chunks are generated/unloaded. No more stutters while moving around the map.

• Optimized how each damage number handles its initial calculations when spawning.

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Added some "shadow pixels" under the invulnerability indicators on enemies.

• Increased the size of damage numbers (3, previously 2.5).

• Changed how card descriptions appear. The game no longer displays the rarity text for each card, leaving more space for descriptions while also centering the unlock requirements.

• Added warning triangles to the sides of the "Madness", "One Hit", "Endless Elites", and "Survival" difficulties.

• Decreased the minimum shake factor (0.3, previously 0.4).

• Added camera shake when eliminating an Elite, defeating a final boss, obtaining a new weapon level, or acquiring another weapon.

• Slightly changed the "Madness" and "One Hit" difficulty icons.

• Added spacing between the earnings icon and its value when destroying a grave.

• Changed the "Brightness" and "Screen Shake" text colors in the pause menu from red to yellow.

🔊 Audio 🔊

• Added a scrolling sound to the language slider.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed some language misalignments in the main menu pause menu.

• Going back with the "Back" key from the language menu no longer plays no sound.

• Fixed a misspelling in the Italian translation of the "Star Pet" card.

• Some HUD elements in the main menu that weren't supposed to be visible were still showing while playing on Steam Deck.

• The "Locked Content" text in the demo had no custom font.

• The "Devour" Elite no longer follows the player when the "Stealthy Dodge" equipment is active.

• Fixed a bug that left the "Beginner" difficulty title in Italian if it was the last selected difficulty before loading the main menu.

Others

• The transition screen now remains visible until the game loads the first chunks.

• You now have to be inside the relevant menu to scroll its content with the mouse wheel.

• To trigger the final boss fight, the boss must enter a 16:9 zone, regardless of the monitor aspect ratio.

Removed Herobrine

Hi everyone, here's TERMAX.

Thank you all so much for the support and kind words on the game and the last update-teaser post!

Given that the game is currently in a very deep development phase (I’m breaking a lot of eggs to cook a huge omelette), I don’t think I’ll be able to post many small updates anytime soon. Instead, you’ll get all the new features in one massive update!

Huge progress has been made on:

• The new boss (lemme cook)

• The new map (lemme cook)

• Added a manual aim mode

• No more stuttering when generating new map chunks + lots of optimizations

• QoL improvements and balancing

Also, those personal things I mentioned in the last update-teaser post have gotten a little better, and that made it possible for me to focus more on the creative side of this new update.

Thank you everyone for the support you’ve given me so far.

Truly, it means a lot! <3

The Survival leaderboard has been reset as announced in the last post.

It is now monthly, and Survival has shifted from Challenge difficulty multipliers to Madness multipliers.

So try to get first place in the newly revamped Survival mode!

Good luck everyone!

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✨ Major Additions / Updates ✨

• The Survival leaderboard has been converted to a monthly one and will reset on the 3rd of each month.

• Survival now uses the difficulty multipliers from Madness difficulty.

💪 Balancing 💪

• Changed how the "Veteran" Upgrade works:

Hi everyone, I'm TERMAX, the solo developer behind Echoes of Red.

I'm currently working on a huge update: a whole new map with new mechanics, enemies, interactables, cards, and an entirely new boss fight.

Since there’s a lot I need to handle in the meantime on top of that (making videos for the game, new music, marketing, etc.), and considering that this update is not only huge but also aims for a much higher quality standard especially in terms of animations (particularly for the new boss) I'm getting buried in work from every direction. Although I’ve already been in a burnout state for the past ~2 months, I’m still pushing forward, trying not to fall into an even deeper burnout.

On top of that, I haven't been going through a great time recently due to some personal issues, which I’m trying to resolve or at least improve.

All of this is to say: don’t worry.

Even if you’re not seeing as many updates as before, I’M STILL HERE,

and so is, and will be, Echoes of Red. I’m sorry if the game won’t receive updates for a while; I hope you understand.

Thank you so much for all the support you’ve given me until now. You can stay up to date with all the behind-the-scenes development updates on the official Echoes of Red Discord.

And prepare yourselves for the arrival of the

ICON OF TYRANNY

I'm working on a much, much bigger update that will include a new map, new enemies, new interactables, and an entirely new boss fight.

If you’ve been wondering why the update schedule has slowed down, that’s why.

Thank you for your understanding!

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• The cinematic bars are now correctly animated when the game is paused

• Added a short explanation of what Artifacts are in the "Proficiency" upgrade

• The Archon of Red's lasers are now rendered above everything else (but below the player)

• The Chalice of Patience's small icon that follows the player turns red when its buff is negative

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• The cloud of "stupid littles" and the blockers no longer flash when taking damage, reducing resource usage and preventing lag spikes

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed missing characters in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean that previously appeared as empty squares

• Raised the "outside screen position" for the weapon title upgrade animation, which was slightly visible in certain languages

Others

• Reduced the game file size from 210 MB to 152 MB

✨ Major Additions ✨

• Added four new perk bonuses to the level IV weapon of each class:

• Pistols (Hand Cannon): Reloading creates a Reload-Token. Every 100 Reload-Tokens reduces the Reload Speed to 0s for 5s

• Machine Guns (Minigun): Spirits summoned by the 'Nature Spirits' Equipment deal 0.01% of the enemy's Maximum Health per hit

• Shotguns (Quad Barrel): Each Dash grants a Dash-Token. Every 10 Dash-Token releases a fused bone explosion that damages and ignites enemies

• Plasma Weapons (E-Machine Gun): Each activation the 'Obliteration' equipment gains +1 activations after 5s

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug where the background wouldn’t load when returning to the main menu

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✨ Major Additions ✨

• Added a new Card: House Wins: Most Upgrade values are randomly multiplied by ×2 to ×-1. (To unlock: Complete at least one branch in all 16 Upgrade Cards)

• Added a PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING screen at the beginning.

💪 Balancing 💪

• Reduced the "Big Wave" chance per second (0.003, was 0.0036).

• Increased the chance for sub-elites to drop an artifact in the "Greed" Upgrade (20%, was 10%).

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Greatly optimized the method of reading/writing save files, mostly noticeable on low-end systems.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug where every critical damage number ignored the current "Damage Numbers Opacity" setting if it wasn’t 100% or 0%.

• The "DODGED" text is now correctly displayed in Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

• Fixed a bug requiring the player to restart the game if more than one Card was unlocked during a run to register each one.

• Fixed a bug that broke Card descriptions in multiple languages.

• Fixed the color of the "shadow pixels" under the "Be Sure" and "Spring Hands" icons.

• Fixed a bug where the "Active Cards" statistic title updated too early after changing the language, causing it to display the previous language translation.

• The 'PLACEHOLDER' in the "Be Sure" card is now replaced with the Endless Elites difficulty title in the French and German translations.

Others

• Changed "shuffles" to "rerolls" in the English translation.

• The exclamation mark in the Cards menu now disappears if the player opens the Equipment menu while already in the Cards section.

✨ Major Additions ✨

• New Upgrade: Artifacts Upgrades:

  Prodiciency: Artifacts Damage: +20%

  left branch:

  New Rules: Common enemies have a 0.0001% chance to drop an Artifact

  Blessed Path: Artifacts Damage: +50% per Weapon Level beyond the first

  GREED: Sub-Elite enemies have a 10% chance to drop an Artifact

  right branch:

  Twisted Blessing: Remove negative effects from Artifacts. Weapon Damage: -10% per Artifact owned

  Path of Symmetry: Choosing an Artifact you already own restores 100% Health

  MIRROR: The next Artifacts will always be a copy of the last Artifact you chose

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💪 Balancing 💪

• Prevented the Devour elite from spawning in Beginner and Challenge difficulties

• Reduced Devour speed (2.2, was 2.5)

• The "Mother Pet" card max health bonus is now capped at +100%

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Added new statistics: Gun Damage, Owned Artifacts, and Artifact Damage

🔊 Audio 🔊

• Reduced bass by 4 dB in boss and main menu music

• "Upgrade Available" sounds are now in stereo

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Bullets now deal 100% damage when the target is very close (previously ~90%)

• Health is now capped at the current Max Health

✨ Major Additions ✨

• Added 2 new Cards:
• Hydrophobic: Sludge no longer slows you, damages you, and blinds you (to unlock: Eliminate the Archon of Red while standing in sludge)"
• Be Sure: Get infinite shuffles on your first Artifact (to unlock: Win a run on 'Endless Elites' difficulty
• Added an "High Contrast (Projectiles)" option in the Camera Menu

💪 Balancing 💪

• Substantially buffed the "Star Pet" Card: it now blocks every enemy around you in a wide area and makes them unable to damage you for 1s
• Made every projectile instantly disappear when dying
• Invulnerability Totems now self-destruct after 60s (was 30s)

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Gave a thin border under every card to show immediately their rarity
• Made every non-selected card autosort by rarity
• Made every non-selected, unlocked card autosort by rarity

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Made the logic that searches for the next enemies to bounce towards lighter
• Rearranging cards in the "Available Cards" section no longer causes lag
• Centralized the pool logic for the projectiles
• Optimized how the speed of the player animation is set

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug that made the dark overlay of the Equipments menu not disappear completely after closing it
• Made the statistics update their scroll size correctly after changing the language
• Removed the weird slight rotation the "Cards Menu Tip" had
• Fixed a bug that made enemies disappear after a while in Survival

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💪 Balancing 💪

• Invulnerability Totems now self-destruct after 30s
• Enemies now check almost every frame whether they are on sludge or not

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• The Archon of Red lasers are now rendered on top of bullets

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed a bug where enemies spawned thinking they had an Invulnerability Totem next to them
• "Obliteration" equipment can now eliminate enemies with more than 1'000'000'000 HP
• Prevented a feature that automatically eliminated enemies with health above 1'000'000'000 when the run gets long enough for all of them to spawn with that much health (like in Survival after ~46 minutes)

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Reworked the check for how many enemies are alive to prevent the game from going above the max cap (After 30 minutes, it would fail and the game would spawn tens of thousands of enemies all at once, resulting in an instant crash)

• The targeting logic is no longer being handled for the "Sentient Guns"

• Centralized the movement logic of the "Nature Spirits"

• Removed the "Critical" visual effect to greatly improve performance and visual clarity

• Centralized the OnDisable functions for both enemies and bullets

• Removed the +1 indicator on the bottom-left magazine icon whenever a shot is restored

💪 Balancing 💪

• After the Archon of Red, the game will no longer spawn any "Snakes-wave", "Littles Cloud", or "Stupid Littles Cloud"

• There can now be a maximum of 30 snakes alive at the same time

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• The "Sentient Gun" artifact is now rendered on top of the weapons

• Added some "shadow pixels" to the plus and arrow icons on the dropped guns

• Made the vulnerability effect smaller to cover less of the enemy

• The guillotine visual effect is now rendered below enemies

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Enemies that shouldn't take any form of knockback now correctly stay in place instead of being pushed by bullets

• Fixed a bug that made the Survival difficulty require multiple presses if the "Challenge" difficulty wasn't already completed

• Weapons no longer target inactive enemies if there are other active enemies available

• Fixed a bug that disabled the Archon of Red's animations

Others 🔧

• If the "select key" was already pressed when the Upgrade or Artifact menus opened, the player will need to release it before being able to press buttons, in order to prevent accidental inputs

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✨ Major Additions / Updates ✨

• Ability Points: You now gain 1 ability point at each elite/boss spawn, on fail/win, plus a win bonus that varies by difficulty
• Devour & Snakes: Their movement logic has been completely reworked, making it 2x lighter than the previous version

💪 Balancing 💪

• "Extended Touch" upgrade: Damage Taken debuff removed
• "Boosted Harm" upgrade: Damage Taken by Burning Enemies removed
• "Longer Weakness" upgrade: Damage Taken +10% (was +15%)
• "Final Harm" upgrade: Damage Taken by Burning Enemies +15% (was +30%)

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Guns are now rendered below enemies to prevent them from obstructing enemies

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Limited the max number of lowest-priority snakes to 25 (can exceed this if forced)
• Centralized enemy pool logic

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed changes in the alpha values of damage numbers

• Reworked how damage numbers are displayed: removed the dashes for critical hits (to reduce their overlap on enemies) and instead made critical hits red. The highest damage is now shown in red, with two "*" on its sides.
• The highest damage now occurs only when the damage is greater than the base weapon damage.
• Player health damage numbers now keep moving during the "freeze frame" when the player gets hit.
• DEMO: the "Get the Full Game" button animation has been updated.

• DEMO: the demo now shows the top 10 in the leaderboard, although it can't be updated automatically.
• DEMO: fixed a bug where certain unlockable cards didn’t register their progress.

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✨ Major Additions ✨

• Added 2 new enemies:

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✨ Major Additions

• Added 2 new enemies:

• Totem: makes every enemy in its range invulnerable to all damage sources. Runs away from the player. Only spawns on Master difficulty and above

• Unstable Tank: a tank that explodes into 3–4 enemy projectiles when eliminated. Only spawns on Expert difficulty and above

• You can now enable "High Contrast" mode for the player, which turns it green

UI and Visuals

• Player visibility has been greatly improved: it is now rendered on top of everything (except for a few selected effects), along with the weapons, which have been placed slightly further away from it

• Added some "shadow pixels" to the "invisibility ready ring" above the player

• Lightnings have been redrawn to be less obstructive. The impact "spark" is now hidden, except when triggered by the boss or the Discharge upgrade

• The reroll icon in the upgrades and artifacts menus is now animated

• Muzzle flash sprites are now rendered in front of the weapons

• The "Magnetism" upgrade now makes everything move smoothly

• Added a "+1" indicator on the bottom-left magazine whenever a shot is restored

• Sub-elites are now always rendered on top of common enemies

• The "blood splat" effect triggered when damaging the player is now rendered below enemies

Optimizations

• Centralized the movement logic for all enemy projectiles

• Reworked how eliminations are handled to improve performance

• Reworked bullet bounce logic to make it much lighter

• If "Numbers Opacity" is set to 0, damage numbers will not be generated

• Centralized the logic for damage number movement

• The intro section of songs is now disabled once the loop starts

Balancing

• "Fortress" upgrade: Damage taken +5% (was +15%)

• "Bone Scythes" artifact: Max health -22% (was -33%)

Audio

• Boss fight and main menu music are now stereo and better mixed

• Reduced the volume of the "Machine Guns" class shots

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused "frozen" bullets

• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to obtain more weapons than the maximum limit

• The "Signed Pact" artifact now correctly doubles only the damage enemies receive from the player

• Fixed a bug where enemies sometimes didn’t take the second hit from the "Personal Affair" upgrade

• Fixed a bug that caused the "Sentient Gun" to fire in incorrect directions

• Fixed a bug that made Snakes unhittable by bullets

• Fixed a bug where tutorial texts overlapped with previous languages when rapidly changing language

Others

• Dashing is now only possible when timescale is equal to 1

• Best damage is now saved only if dealt by the player

• The game now enters the "Automatic Optimization State" if it drops below 56 FPS (was 60 FPS)

• Improved the souls and scraps pooling system

• The bullets now self-destruct after 2.5s of being active
• The targeting system of the nearest enemies has been completely reworked to improve performance in the late game
• Removed the "glowing effect" around the souls that tanked the performance when there were many of them

• Fixed a bug that kept the camera zoomed in when reviving after the Archon of Red if the player died in the sludge
• Fixed a bug that made the Chalice of Patience bonus go down if a Sentient Weapon was equipped
• Fixed a bug that hid the "locked"/"unlocked" state of the cards when there weren't any skill points left
• Fixed a bug that made the "x2" texts on the soulbar disappear after a while

• The enemies required for unlocking the "Shaman" card increased (2000, was 500)

• Made the first name of the leaderboard slightly bigger
• Increased the available characters per name on the leaderboard (9, was 8)
• Removed the last character if the 9-character limit was exceeded to write the "..."
• Changed the texture of the second lateral button on the equipment menu
• The right branch of the lightnings upgrade card no longer makes the lightnings thicker to improve visual clarity
• Added some "shadow pixels" under the souls, scraps, magnets, and the target indicator on enemies
• Made the vulnerability effect smaller to cover less of the enemy
• Changed the distance of each weapon from the player to prevent them from covering it
• Locked the cursor inside the game window for multiple monitor users
• All the lateral buttons have been lowered by a pixel
• The "confirm" buttons on the upgrades menu now change in available/non-available also when hovering on the upgrade icon (before you had to select it to see it change)

• The Archon of Red no longer attacks if the player is dead or invisible
• Increased the temp_pooled time of bullets (1s, was 0.5)

Added a public Survival leaderboard displaying the top 100 best times

✨ Added 3 new artifacts:

• Sentient Gun: "A weapon with a mind of its own. Empowered by all statistics and does not reload. Counted among the weapons you own. Damage taken: +1% per weapon you own."

• Chalice of Patience: "Not shooting charges a Direct Damage bonus up to +100% in 5s. Shooting decreases the bonus down to -50% in 10s."

• Signed Pact: "All damage is doubled. Both damage dealt and damage received."

✨ Added 4 new cards:

• That's Cheating: "Maximum cards: +2 (Max: +2)"

• Shaman: "+0.1% Elemental Damage for each living enemy"

• Rule Breaker: "30% chance to not consume shuffles"

• Abundance: "Doubles the maximum number of souls that can be active simultaneously"

Balancing

• You can now reroll artifacts up to 3 times

• Decreased the maximum life factor a sub-elite can have compared to the previous sub-elite (x1.75, was x2.25)

• Decreased the max "big wave factor" in Madness, One Hit, and Endless Elites (x5, was x6)

• Tanks are now more reactive to player movement

• Added a +1% Critical Change to the first Vulnerability upgrade

UI & Visual

• Added particles to the sludge puddles

• Translated the keybinds title into all 15 languages

• Added a slow-time effect when grabbing a new gun

• Added class, weapons owned, and weapon levels to the statistics menu

• All artifacts are now rendered on top of guns

• You can no longer save the order of non-selected cards. They will now be auto-sorted by rarity when launching the game

Optimizations

• Reworked how lightning is animated

• Greatly optimized the spawn logic of blockers during elite encounters

• The game now waits 20s (was 10s) before exiting the "automatic optimizations" state, and now also resets this timer if the game drops below 60 FPS again

• Added a buffer for saving how many x2-worth souls you have collected

Fixes

• Fixed the animation when a shield breaks

• Fixed a bug that kept the reroll button "pressed" after finishing the available rerolls