GRUEL news & patch notes

General Warstarter won the G.A.P. Now the undead are unionized.

This update expands GRUEL’s undead frontlines with tighter encounters, new combat pressure, and an army that refuses to stay down. Coffins are comfortable. Barracks are bigger. Bones are cleared of webbing. I hope you don't like living... THE FRONTLINES UPDATE launches on January 15th. We hope that’s early enough for some of you boneheads. If not, please file your complaints with the nearest pile of remains.

If you were more of a fan of the magical Student Billy, don’t worry! We didn’t forget about you. As a consolation prize, you’re getting a brand-new weapon. It actually casts spells. Please use responsibly, or don’t.

Until January 15th, keep your bones intact (or at least nearby), stay out of the open, and as always.... Stay grueling.

Among the factions of the dungeons, word has spread that leaders from three two particular parties are campaigning to see who gets to present their Gruel Appreciation Parade (G.A.P.) this year to gain favor of the great Bastard.

All Both leaders however find themselves at a neck and neck race, tied at 524 votes each. Since no new people are entering the dungeon at this time, it's up to you to make a difference! Bellow you'll find snippets from the leader's speeches to their people. Pick the one that speaks to you, makes you cry, connects to your inner psyche or pick randomly!

The Leaders

First is the mystical student Billy. Leader of the student association.

"Students of the magical school of Gruel Study, G.A.P is upon us once again as our final project, and we WILL get top scores this year! Remember to write those essays and vote for me, as fresh books and mystical orbs are on the line! And a note to the dart club, please make sure you learn the art of direction before throwing any darts towards your targets, thank you."

- Student Billy

Then we have General Warstarter. Avid weapon enjoyer and twice divorced.

"Alright soldiers and maggots, I've dedicated my eternal life to close on G.A.P this year, and I'm sure of it. If we win, I promise comfortable coffins, a bigger army barracks to include a higher variety in fighting styles and brooms to clear webbing from those hard to reach bones. Go Bone Rattlers!"

- General Warstarter

And finally, we have the Steam King, ruler of all things Steam Powered.

"My legion, it is a great day today, for it is the G.A.P parade's section of the calendar. As last years winners, I beg, please do not carry yourselves higher than you are. You are apart of the Mechanist Kingdom, a fact to be proud of. already We shall try our best, and if fortune favors the bold, we shall win once more. Go on, my Mechanist Legion, and prove that we are the best faction trapped between these cavernous walls!"

- Steam King

Steam King was later found in an alley blown up and has since been disqualified from the vote.

So, finish drying those tears? These speeches really hit close to home, at least for me. Whoever you vote for today, I'm sure the content of their parade will really show their appreciation for your vote.

GO AND VOTE!

Hello Gruelers!

Today is a very special day! It is the birthday of half of the GRUEL OG development team, Mick! Mick works tirelessly each day to release and upload awesome Gruel builds for all of us to play. To celebrate, the game will be having a small event, similar in size to April Fish, if you remember when we did that. Please everyone wish Mick a happy birthday, and to many more years of him slaving away at the wonderful code base he's given us for GRUEL! The event will be active for September 11th local time. Enable Special Events in the settings to activate the event.

Hey Gruelers!

Welcome to Sloptember, a month packed with a couple of fun events coming your way! This patch is our “Clean-Up Day” update, aimed at smoothing out rough edges, fixing a few pesky issues, and adding some neat new features. We hope these changes make Gruel even more enjoyable while we cook up the upcoming event later this month.

Now, on to the patch notes:

• Added two new shield items to the shop.

• Added popup messages to notify you of new journal entries and certain events.

• Added a new room.

• Skeletons now have a new idle sound, making them easier to recognize.

• Battle music has been adjusted so that only 2 songs play at once instead of 4. This should help players with music issues and improve performance.

• Fixed a framerate-related issue with the Leadhound.

• The Vampirism seal effect has been increased by 2.5x.

• The "Almost a Billionaire" achievement now requires 100,000 gold instead of 1,000,000 gold.

• A weight icon is now shown for heavy guns in the second slot.

• The game now remembers if you have disabled the supporter pack.

• The journal now shows exclamation marks for entries you haven’t seen yet.

Gruel away!

Hello Gruelers!

We have been slowly starting up again after taking a little break of GRUEL. This patch includes a few fixes, a new weapon, and my own pain and suffering!

• Added a new weapon: the Junker

• The Eel now feels more slippery, like it should be.

• Tried to fix a weird crash multiple people had.

• Made the Waste seal not able to drop melee weapons.

• Set up some internal files for a future update. Nothing to see here... yet.

It's been too long since the last update. Technically? That's a crime. Let’s break some rules!

This was supposed to be a small update. Just a little patch. A quick crime. But then we started adding things. Fixing things. Suddenly we were deep in seal rituals, animation tweaks, ammo math, and moral compromises.

What you’re getting now is a chunkier, nastier, more complete version of GRUEL. A more whole package, if you will.

Also, there are now more ways to spend your hard-earned (and questionably acquired) currency. We’re very proud of that.

Note: With all these changes, the scoreboards have been reset for version 1.1.0. Your old scores are now part of the historical record, or evidence, depending on who’s asking.

Changelog

New Stuff

• Added 3 new enemies. Suspicious characters. Highly questionable behavior.

• Added 6 new seals. What do they do? Illegal things.

• Added 10 new weapons. Too many? That’s none of your business.

• Added the journal?

• Added REDACTED location

• New Damage Numbers setting.

• Breaking a weapon now triggers a tiny hand animation. Because crime should have style.

Balance Adjustments

• Heavy weapons now slow you down when carried. Seems fair. It's not.

• Howitzer max ammo increased to 38 (was 20). It’s also heavy now. You’ve been warned.

• Prismbow ammo increased to 14 (was 10). Load up.

• Ghost of Greed now spawns with less gold. Greed isn't what it used to be.

• Rage effect now lasts twice as long. We're not calming down.

• Chilli sauce actually makes sure a cursed enemy spawns every level.

• Tar sauce slowness now takes half a second instead of a quarter second.

• Rocketlauncher now actually reloads. Revolutionary concept.

• Brick now deals 30 damage (was 20). It’s just a brick. That hits very hard.

• Cursed enemies now show up from Level 3 (was 6) with Chilli sauce. Early terror.

• Skeletons shoot with 2 more animation frames now. Easier to dodge. Maybe.

• Hotblood seal damage bonus lowered to +20% per level (was 40%). You guys were too powerful.

• Waste seal now checks enemy value before dropping weapons. Amo drops less for example. That's life.

• Biters now pause briefly before attacking. One-third of a second of mercy.

• Added a sidekick limit of 2 on each room. Making it so only two types of sidekick enemies (Jellyfish, Ghoul, etc) can spawn in a single room. After clearing a room, pickups now suck themselves into your criminal pockets faster.

Fixes

• Fixed Rattler stuttering when out of ammo. Rattle restored.

• Knockback now scales smoothly with framerate. No more jank physics justice.

• Dynamite is now framerate-independent. It’s always dynamite time.

• Handheld turret can now be thrown mid-fire. Sounds dangerous. It is.

• Turrets thrown into another plane now behave properly and don’t vanish. They know where they belong.

• There's probably more but I forgot.

That’s it for now. We’ll be watching to see what kind of illegal nonsense you get up to with all this new stuff.

Go break the rules. Break your weapons. Break the economy.

We’ll see you in the next one (unless this update gets us shut down).

Hello Gruelers!

• Added a new seal.
• Changed sounds for Enchanted Lamia's.
• Changed critical hit sound for Leadhound.
• Changed the way weapons get randomly spawned.
• Changed how bullets behave touching enemies that cannot take damage.
• Added a setting to toggle special events.
• Added April Fish!

Hello Gruelers!

Changelog!

• The game can now be ran on a higher framerate in the settings.
• Reworked attacks of Amoeba, Spidercrabs and Enchanted Lamia's.
• When doing a run with sauces, it now shows what sauces you've used.
• Entering a new level will now show the location name aswell as what level you are at.
• Pressing the kick button on the gameover screen now skips the score counting completely.
• And some other small bugfixes.

Hello Gruelers!

Hello Gruelers!

Changelog:

• Big pickups now don't dissapear
• Increased likelihood of Flea markets spawning
• Gruel room now has an entering sound
• Deflecting a bullet with the mighty legs seal now aims the bullet towards where you look
• Shadewalkers now shoot multiple shade-bullets
• Leadhounds now slightly show when you do more damage to them
• Controllers now have analog movement support
• A confirmation now pops up when quitting the game

Hello Gruelers!

Changelog:

• Added two new seals
• Added four new rooms
• A special icon now appears on the main menu when you reach the Gruel Room
• Killing an enemy with a kick now doubles the chance of pickups
• Improved turret mechanics and collision detection
• Turrets now have additional sound effects
• Fixed a bug that could cause turrets to randomly crash the game
• Reduced damage from homing bullets
• Made Amoebs easier to hit
• Coffinboy's skeleton wave no longer passes through walls
• Enhanced bullet casing sprites
• The game now pauses when a controller disconnects
• Fixed issues with the tutorial settings menu
• Added an option to invert Y-axis camera movement