Haste news & patch notes

Whoa, thank you all for your patience as the dev team has been fixing the game across all platforms!

It’s a lot of technical work to fix different issues across several different machines, and while I’m sure Gan and Dalil would have relished that challenge, they were not available for this, what with being busy with the end of the universe and everything.

Even without their help, the most troublesome issues - including those nasty crashes - have been fixed. 

Long-time players will also be delighted to know that the team has finally, finally, FINALLY fixed the issue where closing the game after finishing a boss fight no longer gets you stuck on the map screen! Real Haste-heads know.

Patch Notes:

• Closing the game/crashing after completing a boss fight, but before you complete the completed-shard-UI, no longer causes you to re-enter the map screen with the boss node unselectable

• Fix achievements like The Machine not triggering if you have a non-perfect landing after entering a portal

• Jumper 3 now uses the correct music for Jumper 3 instead of accidentally reusing Jumper 2 music

That’s it for now! Have fun with these stability improvements!

It’s also been a while but we can’t do patch notes without showing some more fanart from the Discord!

First off, this picture of MEE! By HypnoSpec

This one year anniversary art and drawing from Ishva!

And another drawing from them!

And this cool comic by radmirahmarov

If you’re having more issues with the game, please reach out to [email protected] so that the devs can help you out!

See you out there in the worlds!

/RIZA

I know I just brought you news of the console versions of Haste, but now I have something that's possibly even bigger!!!

That's right... it's a plushie! A Zoe plushie!!! Makeship has a petition campaign to bring a plushie of Zoe to life, and I need your help to make sure they make one if you are interested, you can pledge here:

https://www.makeship.com/petitions/zoe-the-courier-plush

The prototype hasn't been made yet, but it's not hard to imagine that wobbly hat, that fluffy hair, and those wide pants in plush form.

Suffice to say, I am very excited about the possibility of having my very own squeezable Zoe, and I hope you are too!

I neeeeeed it if I don't get it I will \ Ahem, we are all professionals here.

Simply follow the link and sign up, and we will all walk away from this unharmed and happy. See you out there in the worlds!

/Riza

You can now run with your friends in other worlds! Uh… I mean, on other platforms!

Although the team has said they won’t be updating the game much more, here’s a small update anyway.

Because today Haste is finally coming out on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox One and Series S|X! 

Not only is the game releasing on those platforms, it’s also open for multiplayer with all of them using friend codes! So if a friend gets the game on console, you can still play Haste’s multiplayer with them. No boundaries between different worlds!

Patch Notes 1.11.a

• Added “Host Crossplay Game” to the multiplayer menu

Also, before I forget!

There are a few more hours left of the Haste anniversary sale on Mighty Merch, so if you want a sticker of ME… or Ava!! Or maybe a Zoe pin, T-shirt or a poster. This might be a good time to get it!

See you out there in the worlds!

/Riza

Hello everyone! It's been almost a year since Haste got released, and our friends over at Mighty Merch are celebrating with a merch sale.

All Haste merch is 20% off for the next week! So run over there!

The 20% off is applied at check out.

We also have some other Haste news coming soon so stay tuned 👀

Hi again!

Seems like a weeboh got into the code and caused the Collapse Speed to use the Obstacles difficulty setting instead.

That could make it very very fast!

We have also made it so that weebohs following you will be slightly less likely to get stuck staring down into the ground.

That's all!

Patch notes:

• Fixed Collapse Speed using the Obstacles difficulty setting instead of its own

• Weebohs are slightly more balanced (but not very)

It's weeboh update time, everyone!

All right, all right, I'll talk about the Time Trials as well. But the weebohs- Okay! So, it's now possible to revisit previously played shards and do Time Trial runs through them. They are a little shorter than regular runs, but track your time.

There are two different modes, one where you run a predetermined seed for that Shard and try to get the best possible time, and one where you can enter any seed in an attempt to find the best possible seed.

Since the levels need to be the same, all Time Trial runs are set to Sprint difficulty.

Hopefully, this will lead to some interesting new ways to challenge yourself!

Now, over to the real headline feature of the update!

"Oh Riza, why are the weebohs just walking around? Riza, why can't we feed the weebohs??"

WELL GUESS WHAT!!! I don't want to say too much, but weebohs will now react to your presence. If you have a hard time getting close, try bringing them a nut!

Full patch notes 1.10.a:

Content:

• Added Time Trials to every Shard with separate Set Seed and Custom Seed modes

• Added more dynamic weeboh behaviour

Balance:

• Slightly reduced the wave height and wave damage for Jumper 3

• Increased Jumper 3's "time before jumping" by 3%

Fixes:

• Some fixes to the way the Marathon and Megamarathon achievements are tracked

As a final note before the community art, after almost a year of updates, this is the last content update the devs have planned for the game at this time. There will most likely be more patches with fixes as they're working on console ports, but after that, it's time for them to run off to other worlds - at least for now ❤️

Community art:

Let's not pretend that Court Mandated Riza on the Discord doesn't know exactly how to get my attention. I would have made the team make an update just to post about this:

Today's theme is going to be different mediums, as Haste art continues its foray into the physical world with this piece from Semi:

But it's mixed media in the digital world, too! Here's a poster made of... blocks?? Some crossover into a different digital world by Alliumchocolate.

And here comes a handful of very differently styled but very characterful Zoes:

By ejayfreekay

It's a real joy to see the different ways people interpret her:

By ShanicMCA

By Julidoodle

But in all of them, she has that twinkle in her eye, even when things get serious!

Thank you to all the artists out there giving us such beautiful interpretations of the worlds and characters!

See you out there in the worlds! /Riza

Hi everyone!

As all things must, the year is soon coming to an end. However, that does not mean it has to be a time of dourness and darkness! Especially since another Haste update is here!

The team is working on a slightly bigger update, but they wanted to get this out the door while they finish what they're cooking up.

In addition to the usual bug fixes, this update has a special focus on tweaks to the various User Interfaces in the game, which is what makes this the Wrapping Paper update!

However, first there is one gameplay change I need to address. All Cooldown Reduction items now reduce a percentage of Cooldowns (-X%), rather than absolute values (-X seconds).

Now, before you get your pitchforks out because we've ruined Atomic Timepiece synergies, this doesn't actually change much for how these items interact with items with short Cooldowns. However, it makes a huge difference for how they interact with items with long Cooldowns! It results in Cooldown Reduction items being a lot more useful than before, when they were reliant on getting one of a handful of extremely powerful synergies.

For the UI updates, we have worked hard to make them more accommodating to the variety of screen sizes and resolutions out there, as well as to make them overall nicer to look at. If we're being honest, some of them were put together in quite a slapdash fashion, and gradually built up as the game has kept evolving since release. This was a chance to improve the feel of the game in a lot of little, subtle ways.

Personally, I think it has resulted in a more pleasant experience, even if I don't spend much time thinking about it!

The Shard Settings view has received a significant overhaul, with a top-to-bottom look that makes it easier to parse:

The Fragment Descriptions and Disruption notifications now look more coherent with the rest of the game's aesthetics:

A lot of other views have been adjusted, so play through and see if you notice a difference!

Patch Notes 1.9.a:

Balance:

• Cooldown Reduction Items now reduce a percentage of other items' total Cooldown, rather than absolute values.

Fixes:

• Sparks now stay where they are supposed to in Boss Fragments again

• The game no longer soft locks when completing a Shard without the UI enabled (oooops)

• Having too many items will no longer make the pause screen inventory go off-screen

• Item Tooltip cards can no longer go off-screen (a common problem on lower resolutions)

• The version number on the main menu now stays anchored to the logo no matter the aspect ratio

UI:

• Improved Steam Deck (and other small screen) UI sizing overall

• Updated the Shard Settings view

• Updated the Antisparks Upgrade view

• Updated the All-Time Stats view

• Updated the Unlocked Items view

• Updated the Hungry Weeboh view

• Updated the Multiplayer Invite window

• Updated the multiplayer Player List

• Updated the PostGameScreen view

• Updated the Fragment Description view

• Updated several notifications, including the Fragment Disruption notification

• Of course as usual we have a selection of very cool Community Art to show off, too!

Time for some more Community Art!

Banane42 with this awesome Zoe Pixel art animation

Starboydave made me !!! And this beautiful Zoe hat !!! SO COOL !!

And of course, we can't finish the year without more Ishtheva art!

That's it for now! Have a good rest here at the end of the year, and then I'll see you out there in the worlds!

/Riza

• Changing the order of items in your Inventory now persists between levels
• Fixed a memory leak in the settings menu

Hi everyone, it's Haste update time again!

It's been a little while since the last one, but a lot of stuff has been going on.

Patch Notes:

Features:

• Items in your Inventory can now be reorganised while you run!

Story:

• Added a new side story for the Wraith
• Added new lore dialogue for Riza and the Abbey

Visuals:

• Item Icons in the inventory now have more visual feedback (including a new setting to disable this)
• Improvements to the Hourglass Arm VFX
• Added a setting to disable the Hourglass Arm VFX
• Clamped the max FoV gained when repeatedly adding Speed from items

UI:

• Improved the layout of the Shard Result screen
• Fixed the Interaction UI (the dialogue window) so boxes behave the same at different aspect ratios
• Fixed the Interaction UI so boxes no longer get so big they go off screen with a high UI scale setting

Accessibility:

• Added a setting to disable low contrast biome variants (Do let us know if thre's any biome variants still causing trouble with this!)

Modding

• Updated MonoMod to a version that supports ARM (Yes, that includes your machine (you know who you are))
• Updated Unity version (yes, we know) to 6000.0.62f1

Fixes:

• Fixed the formatting of the credits (finally!)
• You can no longer accidentally trigger items or abilities from the Item Inventory pause screen
• Added missing localization to the Hungry Weeboh's dialogue for languages other than English

Community Art

That's all for this time. See you out there in the worlds!

/Riza

The Real 1.7.e

As most of you will have noticed, Sparks disappeared from levels with the latest update! This is the culmination of a long and painful journey, and we have now taken some fairly radical steps to make sure that players get everything they need:

• No security vulnerability

• No crashes

• Yes Sparks

Here's the patch notes:

• Sparks now appear in levels again

Modding notes:

We have *downgraded* the engine version to 6000.0.46f1, which was the last version where we are confident the engine was sufficiently stable. (This is from before the Unity security vulnerability was fixed, but we have applied patches as necessary for all platforms.)

Now, rumours of a 1.7.f have been greatly exaggerated!

Isn't that technically what this version should be? Yes.

Did the person who currently has to manually build and patch every version of the game forget about it? Yes.

Is it a big enough issue that we're going to go through the entire process again? No.

Community Art:

Artist's rendition of a Haste developer right now

The Weebohverse slowly expands (and it's always nice with hand drawn stuff!)

We were going to save this beautiful piece for a special occasion, and you know what? This is a special occasion

Hopefully this is the last fix for a good long while!

1.7.e Ability Tweaks and - once again - CRASH FIXES!

We're already on "1.7.e", huh? Well, the good news is that the team has finally figured out the main sources of problems causing crashes for people! (For real this time, hah!)

Note from the team:

"A number of different memory issues have been resolved in this update, including some that could potentially cause (rare) crashes that have been in the game since release. We have also identified and dealt with the main reason for the recent increase in crashes, which could only be correctly identified after every other memory issue had been resolved. This has been a very long and difficult journey, which is why it has taken a while, but the upside is that the game should now be more stable for everyone, even if you weren't suffering from the new crashes!"

While a crash fix has been the top priority, a little balance pass on the different Abilities has also snuck into the update!

The goal for the Abilities is that different people should have different favourites, and that every Ability should have someone insisting that it's "the best one". That means that the team doesn't want to make an Ability worse for the sake of balance, but rather to make Abilities that are lagging behind better. Try it out and see which one has been the most improved this time! ;D

Patch notes:

Ability Balance:

• Reduced the cost of the Javelin ability from 33 Energy to 24 Energy

• Reduced the cost of the Board's ability from 30 Energy/second to 24 Energy/second

• Increased the jump force from using the Board in the air by 40% (this has less of an impact than it sounds like) - Increased the cost of the Cowl ability from 16,66 Energy to 20 Energy

• The Board now gives 33% damage reduction and 50% resistance to speed loss from collisions. The Hourglass ability now reaches its target "increased turn speed" value twice as fast

• The Hourglass now has some additional VFX... It doesn't technically make it better at its job, but it might still make it "better"!

Other balance:

• The Small World, Big Rings challenge now only requires you to pass through 3 rings instead of 5. The time limits have been reduced by between 30-40%. This makes the challenge marginally easier, and if you struggle to complete it you will also fail faster. Fixes:

• Fixed a frequent crash caused by memory issues in particle effects - Numerous memory fixes in the Level Generation process contributing to crashes

• Controllers can no longer get stuck rumbling when switching to mouse & keyboard in the middle of a rumble - Twisted Flopsy now correctly has Boost lights on both feet

• Fragment Distortion notifications now show the correct header text - Gamepad camera sensitivity now remains normal while time is slowed down (for whatever reason), matching the behaviour of mouse look

Modding notes:

• Updated engine version to 6000.0.59.2f in order to resolve the crashes in the particle system. Apart from versioning, nothing significant should have changed.

Community Art:

It's been a while since we've showcased some of these, but that doesn't mean the community hasn't been making them!

Let's start with a stunning take on the tragic shadow looming over Zoe by NightCreeper4

Here's another take where it's hard not to feel sorry for what she has gone through. You know there's a lot of emotion in there, despite her cold exterior by Ishtheva

I'm showcasing this one because it's so much fun to see such creative physical pieces and no other reason! By No_Name

Next up, here's an absolutely gorgeous take on yours truly. It is so beautiful it's enough to make a girl blush. By redwolfnoboxing

And then of course, everyone's favourite... wait, what?????

Ahem, here is the correct image. A rendering of everyone's favourite item, BOOSTR POG! By Ace.MP4

See you out there!

-RIZA

Crash fixes!

Phew, this has been an intense week for Haste!

While crashes are still uncommon for most players, the latest update definitely caused them to become way more frequent for some people. This update hopefully goes some way to fixing that!

We have fixed the issue where some Linux platforms would crash in the tutorial, and we hope we have also fixed another irregular crash that was affecting Windows players.

However, if you still experience crashes, please let us know and send us your player.log files!

They are located in the following folders:

Windows: %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Landfall\\Haste\\Player.log

(To open the AppData folder quickly, simply open the Run function (press the Windows button and type "Run", enter "appdata" in the little window that opens and click ok)

Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Landfall/Haste/Player.log

Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Landfall/Haste/Player.log

The easiest way to get in touch is on our Discord, but you can also contact [email protected] with your issues.

Patch notes:

• Fix: Native Linux builds no longer crash in the tutorial

• Fix: Fixed a couple of issues that could cause orphaned "rumble instances" - this is a little hard to explain without a technical chart, but we think this is one of the sources of crashes!

• Fix: There is no longer a disembodied weeboh mask floating in space in some levels (???)

• Fix: Fixed a rare edge case where prices in the Research Outpost could be displayed as unaffordable even if you had the exact right amount of Sparks

See you out there in the worlds!

-RIZA

Hi again!

I'm here with the tiniest update we've ever released, and a message from the team:

"We're aware of a Linux issue where the game crashes in the tutorial for a number of players.

The current workaround for this is to play through the tutorial with Proton. After that the game should be fully playable natively.

While we have isolated the problem, we wanted to make sure that players on Steam Deck and other Linux platforms will be able to play the game with less hassle over the weekend. We have therefore added a "Skip Tutorial" button in the pause menu during the tutorial. Using this to skip the first section of the tutorial will let you play the rest of the game as usual.

We're working on a fix for the crash in general, so this is just a stopgap measure to make life a little easier until then.

Thank you all for your patience.

The Haste Team"

Well, there you have it! I couldn't have said it better myself. Well, maybe a little better. A little snappier. But be kind to them, they are doing their best!

Patch notes:

- Added a "Skip Tutorial" option to the pause menu during the Tutorial

Proton instructions for Steam Deck:

- In the Steam Deck interface, select Haste and press the Menu Button (the tiny hamburger button above the right stick) to open the game-specific menu

- Select "Properties..." to open the Properties menu

- Go to "Compatibility" and check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"

- In the dropdown that appears, select the latest version of Proton

- Navigate back out to the game menu, and launch Haste as normal

See you out there in the worlds!

I'm back! Already!

This is a really quick little patch that solves a handful issues from Monday, primarily some item changes that got overlooked.

These very early results are promising, though. It does not seem like we need to press the big "UNDO EVERYTHING!!!" button.

The team is keeping an eye on everyone and taking note of how things are going. (Almost like watching people in other worlds...)

Keep up talking about what you like and which changes you're less pleased with. The team needs feedback!

Patch notes:

UI:

• Added a setting to allow or disallow rumble when the game window does not have focus

• Balance:

• Increased the chance of getting higher-Rarity items by a few percent, in order to make them more common in lower difficulty Shards

• The Hungry Weeboh is now only available in Shard 3 onwards (for onboarding reasons)

Fixes:

• Item - Karma now shows the correct amount of Luck

• Item - Tight Schedule now gives a -0.5s Cooldown, as intended

• The Disaster selection for Endless no longer goes up to 5 if you have completed 4 (It was broken and there's no Disaster 5!)

• Fixed an edge case where losing focus of the game window while charging up to run could result in continuous controller rumble

• Minor improvements to transitions when entering a Shard

That's it for now, but I'll of course be asking the team for another update if any serious issues pop up!

ALSO DON'T MISS OUT ON THE HASTE MERCH WE RELEASED WITH MIGHTY MERCH - THERE'S EVEN A STICKER OF MY FACE

You can find it here https://mightymerch.store/collections/haste

See you out there in the worlds!

-RIZA

Phew!

It's been a little while.

The plan was always for this to be a quiet month, with slow but steady work on the next update for Haste.

Well, someone should have told the dev team!

To summarise the headline features:

• Major item overhaul!

• Rumble!

• Disaster in Endless!

We better get started.

First of all this update brings a much-requested new feature for controller players - RUMBLE!

For a game like Haste it makes a lot of sense to feel as connected to the action as possible, and a little vibration in your controller goes a long way.

The most notable addition is probably the Running Rumble, a constant stream of intense little footsteps. It sounds like a joke, but give it a try!

There's of course settings to adjust the strength of the various different types of rumble in the game, and many different kinds of controllers, so experiment to find which style you prefer.

There's also a special setup for controllers that use "haptics", so if you're using one of those (SteamDeck and PS5 DualSense) you can look forward to some extra precise vibrations.

Then there are two more little things before we get to the big one:

Disaster Mode is now playable in Endless!

Once you've unlocked a Disaster Mode, you can choose to equip it in your Endless run as well. You will get the effects and obstacle spawns caused by the Disaster Crowns, but the difficulty of the levels will still be decided by the Endless difficulty setting you use.

I'm not sure how many of you want to play Peaceful with Disaster Level 4, but the option now exists!

Increased Obstacle Difficulty setting!

The slider for the Obstacle difficulty setting has been adjusted so it now goes up to 500%, even without mods! The actual difficulty presets remain at their old values, but this is a fun way to increase the challenge beyond the game's normal limits.

And finally we get to what is probably the most important change - the long-awaited item overhaul!

Here's a prepared statement the team has asked me to include:

"We have long been aware that the item economy has been very lopsided, with little rhyme or reason to item frequency or power. Some of the best items in the game were in the 'Common' rarity category, which under certain circumstances would be just as rare as 'Legendary' items, the highest rarity category. Our goal with this update is to adjust the rarity categories so the lower rarities are more useful, while the highest rarities feel exciting and powerful to come across. While thios change is going to make some extreme builds less common, it will hopefully create a much broader range of viable builds during runs, leading to much greater variety. The way we have gone about all this is by-"

Wow, this goes on for a while. Let me just skim it...

Okay, so veeery long story short, low-rarity items are now more frequent, high rarity less so, but a bunch of items have been given new (lower) rarities, and many items have been given improved effects.

Big changes like this are always scary, but it really makes the game more interesting and fun!

There's also a promise in here that this will not be the last set of item balance changes, so if you have feedback about the new system or about specific items, please let the team know, preferably through the Discord.

Oh before we get to the very long patch notes here's a video of INK creating the Hungry Weeboh!

Have a look at the full balance changes below.

Exciting times, huh?

Patch Notes

Features:

• RUMBLE! (Including a bunch of settings)

• Disaster Mode is now playable in the Endless Shard

• Increased maximum Obstacle difficulty setting

• "Chance Items" with a percentage chance for something to happen now show the final Luck-modified value instead of just the base value (along with a tooltip with a breakdown of the calculation)

• You now start with full Energy in the Hub World

• New difficulty setting for Item Rarity, which multiplies the chance of getting higher-rarity items. (Defaults to 100% on all difficulty levels)

• The post-run stat screen now shows your item loadout

Fixes:

• Abilities can no longer be triggered while not running, which fixes a number of edge cases (mostly related to spending all your Energy while Zoe is off-screen)

• Improved the way Boost Rings spawn from Items

• Item effects that stack every time they are triggered (like Well Earned Confidence) now carry over between Fragments

• Stacking triggered item effects now correctly get removed if you remove the item

• You can no longer exploit the Reroll button in Endless multiplayer to get near infinite items (sorry!)

• The UI for equipping skins now correctly opens with your currently equipped skins selected

• Eliminated a momentary freeze when closing the Shard Setting menu

• The Fragment Disruption tooltip for Research Outpost discounts is now correct

• A number of Luck items were incorrectly multiplying each others effects

• Added a message about why you cannot send items to another player if you are in an empty multiplayer session

• Item Tooltips now shift to the left side of the Item description if there's no more space to the right on the screen

Balance:

• Hard and Very Hard Endless now start at slightly higher difficulty

• Items granting +% of Max Health no longer multiply themselves (this is a much more intuitive behaviour in addition to being easier to balance)

ITEM OVERHAUL:

• Lower-rarity items are now more common, higher-rarity items less common

• Shard difficulty and progress now has a bigger impact on the rarity of items you find, so higher-rarity items become more frequent the further you get in a Shard

• Lots of items have had their Rarity adjusted

• Some items now have an Item Cost Multiplier for their own price. This has been sparingly used and is not surfaced in-game, but is another lever for balance in the long run.

ITEM CHANGE LIST:

Golden Necklace:

10% Boost -> 8% Boost

Overclocked Medical Drone:

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Growth Potential

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Big Spark Magnet

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Steady Investment

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Bitter Herbs

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Recyclable Rocket

Rarity: Rare -> Common

35s Cooldown -> 20s Cooldown

+50 Speed -> +40 Speed

No longer removes Speed after duration ends

Reheated Soup

Rarity: Rare -> Common

400-leaf Clover

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Heart Shaped Mirror

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Interest

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Performance Based Health Insurance

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Protective Medallion

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Spark Plug

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Vitamins

10% more expensive than items of the same Rarity

Spark Powered Propeller

Rarity: Rare -> Common

10% more expensive than items of the same Rarity

Grunt's Helmet

Rarity: Rare -> Common

1s Invulnerability -> 0.5s Invulnerability

Clown Shoes

Rarity: Rare -> Common

30% Chance to save a non-perfect Landing -> 25% Chance to save a non-perfect Landing

Mysterious Spring

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Delayed Emergency Device

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Velocity Powered Syringe

Rarity: Rare -> Common

Big Pumpkin

Rarity: Rare -> Common

+60 Max Health -> +50 Max Health

Personal Gravity Enhancer

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

35s Cooldown -> 15s Cooldown

35% Boost -> 50% Boost

5s Duration -> 6s Duration

Quick Taco

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Instant Compensation Machine

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

25 Sparks on taking damage -> 40 Sparks on taking damage

1s Cooldown -> 6s Cooldown

Boost Remote

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Energy Lash

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

40s Cooldown -> 20s Cooldown

Low Grade Timeline Swapper

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Brittle Breastplate

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

1s Cooldown -> 6s Cooldown

Karma

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

2% Luck per missing Health -> 5% Luck per missing Health

Leadership Pipe

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Time Dilation Thing

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Risk and Reward

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

Timeline Shifter

Rarity: Epic -> Rare

40s Cooldown -> 20s Cooldown

N-Dimensional Leaf Clover

25% Luck -> 100% Luck

Emergency Shoes

35s Cooldown -> 25s Cooldown

<80m/s to trigger -> <85m/s to trigger

Jackpot

100 Sparks -> 250 Sparks

Big Squash

+50% Health -> +60% Health

Perpetual Motion Machine

Rarity: Common -> Epic

Well-Earned Confidence

Rarity: Rare -> Epic

5% Boost per Perfect Landing -> 3% Boost per Perfect Landing

Atomic Timepiece

1s Cooldown Reduction -> 2s Cooldown Reduction

Tight Schedule

0.25s Cooldown Reduction -> 0.5s Cooldown Reduction

Plutonium Coin

Rarity: Rare -> Epic

Painful Coil

0.3% Boost per missing Health -> 0.6% Boost per missing Health

Timeline Attractor

Rarity: Epic -> Legendary

General Relativity

Rarity: Epic -> Legendary

Portable Harvester

45s Cooldown -> 30s Cooldown

Now also gives 60 Sparks

Otherworldly Contact

35s Cooldown -> 30s Cooldown

Now also gives 50 Health

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Okay, seems like that was everything! I'm exhausted.

If you have any feedback, be sure to let the team know on the Discord.

Until next time, see you out there in the worlds!

/RIZA

Hi! I'm back with a tiny little update from the team for you.

Patch notes:

Balance:

• The Fragment Disruptions giving discounts to all items in a Resource Outpost now give a discount to the first two items you buy instead

• The Flotation Device now has a more accurate tooltip, and its effect triggers for every 5 seconds spent in the air instead of every 3 seconds.

Fixes:

• Made various fixes to the Player list menu (for managing players and giving lives in multiplayer), and in particular made it work well on a controller again!

• Discounted prices and discount labels in the Research Outpost weren't updating correctly after manifesting an item, but now they do!

• We also fixed an issue where discounts that applied to X number of items didn't update properly. But now they do!

Settings and interface:

• The tutorial now defaults to showing the trigger rather than a face button as the default Dive button on a controller. The old setup inadvertently told new players that you don't need to bother with the camera while you're diving - which you often do!

• Increased default gamepad camera sensitivity to make it feel a little more snappy and responsive without having to dive into the settings menu.

About the change to the Fragment Disruptions: The old version was pretty strong to begin with, and got stronger and stronger the more Sparks you have... so we made them strong in a different way instead! They no longer allow you to manifest a ton of items at very low cost just because you have a lot of Sparks, but on the other hand it's usable beyond the first Research Outpost you visit, if you choose not to use it - or if it's early in a run and you don't have enough Sparks to make use of it. Let us know whether this feels like an improvement! 

There's also been some fun stuff happening on the Discord lately! There has been a popularity poll, and the winner- Wait, this can't be right? 

Hello! It's your favourite - everyone's favourite - Captain! 

The public has spoken about who they want to hear from, and while I am of course humbled by this honor no one should be surprised by this. 

To reward my faithful crew I'm going to add some patch notes. You like items, so now all items are free! However, you cannot aspire to greatness without challenge, so the speed of the Collapse is now 300% faster! 

Anyone who starts a Fragment by saying "I need help, Captain!" gets 100% Boost. Sometimes guidance from others is the only way- 

No no no! That isn't how this works! Changes don't happen just because I say so. Trust me, if it worked that way, I would have forced the devs to add romanceable characters long ago… 

Besides, you barely edged out Zoe! And there were lots of other fan favourites in there who deserved to win just as much as you! Ahem. 

I should cool off a little. 

Here's some community art to calm down with! 

Zoe by Ln(1).rar

Art by Gottem

Art by Noname

See you out there in the worlds!

/Riza

Hi, I'm predictably back with a little hotfix for you!

The team has been breathing a sigh of relief that nothing seems to have caught fire despite the size of the update! However, there were still some small issues to iron out. The team is also going to keep an eye out for issues that crop up and for feedback on the new items and balance changes over the weekend, so please keep sharing your thoughts on the new update, both if your feedback is positive and if it is... constructive!

Features:

• Fragment Disruptions now have a setting allowing you to adjust their frequency between 0%-200% (defaults to 100% on all difficulties)

Balance changes:

• Minor equalising of Fragment Disruptions to make some negative and positive versions of the same effect equally likely to appear (we're talking probability changes of 1-2% here, nothing to worry about)

Fixes:

• Fixed the visuals for the new item Risk and Reward

• Notifications now animate correctly even if you have the Item View screen open

• Fixed controller navigation for the Unlocked Items screen that Gan is in charge of

• Endless now has its own Fragment Disruption set, which does not contain Research Outpost Discounts or the permanent boost bonus. We also temporarily removed the Disruptions giving items until they can be properly fixed

• Corrected the map and notification icons for the temporary and permanent Boost increase Fragment Disruptions (they were inverted)

Enjoy!

/Riza

Hi everyone!

We've got a huge update for you today, with new features, new items, and multiplayer improvements. It also brings us one particularly wonderful new face that I'm sure you're going to- Well, I've been told that there's something else I absolutely need to talk about first, so let's get it over with:

Fragment Disruptions: 

Fragments in shard runs now have various modifiers and effects, such as gaining or losing Sparks, gaining Boost or Items, increased difficulty and obstacles, and more! It should make choosing a path on the map much more interesting and give you greater control over what kind of run you have!

You'll now have to think a little bit more about what kind of path you take, depending on what kind of effects you would like or not like, or if you want to pick the prettiest path available to you!

Fragment Disruptions gradually increase over the course of the game, with none in Shard 1, and reach their full potential in Shard 10.

There, done! I can finally talk about the best new addition:

The Hungry Weeboh!!!

Isn't he just adorable?? I could sit and listen to him play all day long, if not for the fact that I need to be out there looking for items to bring him.

Ahem. Here's how it works:

Rest stops now have a new character who will happily accept any item you might offer for donation. This gives you ways of getting rid of unwanted items, and possibly get something more useful in return!

Make sure to pay him a visit! Tell him Riza says hi!

New Items

There are now various new items utilising Boost Rings in various ways, allowing for new kinds of builds. There are also a few new Luck-based items to make Luck-based builds more interesting and impactful.

I'm going to let you discover what they are for yourself, but take my word for it - they're a lot of fun!

Item Effect tooltips

The Item View now has tooltips explaining what the different item effects actually do in the game! The dev team has decided to include this despite the fact that it will deprive many users on our Discord of their main livelihoods, when people no longer come online to ask what Luck does.

There's a setting to disable it if you don't like the way it looks, or if you already know what everything does. Or if you'd prefer to come and ask on our Discord.

I know how much fun it is to run with friends, so I made sure that the dev team paid some attention to all the suggestions you have been offering!

Multiplayer Improvements

You can now give another player one of your Lives - as long as you have one to spare! You can do it at any time by using the new interaction in the Player List.

In the Research Outpost you can now also send one of your items to another player, which we're sure you're only going to use to help and support each other. Talk to Dalil to figure it out!

Finally there's also now a setting to have players spawn Boost Rings in their wake, which makes it more beneficial to follow in your friends' footsteps.

It really makes it feel like a cooperative experience now! If it's the end of the world it's better if we're in it together, right?

Spark Rebalance

We have rebalanced the rate at which you get Sparks and the amount of Sparks items cost, so that actually collecting Sparks in levels becomes more impactful. Some of the new items lean into this as well!

I'm not sure how I feel about the dev team meddling with my hard-earned Sparks, but they promise that this is going to make for a more fun game...

Oh, and here's another thing that many many many of you have requested:

Use Sparks in Endless!

Whenever you're offered an item in Endless you can now spend Sparks to reroll your selection. This adds a little more strategy to long-distance Endless runs.

The team has also added a setting for using the new Fragment Disruptions in Endless Mode! Since you don't choose the path yourself, they'll be chosen randomly, but this is for those that want a little extra spice with their snack of Endless.

This one is going to be very important for some of you, so I'll highlight it as well:

New Setting for Visual Distortions

There's a new setting in the options to disable some visual distortion filters, which was apparently causing headaches for some players. If that's you, go and switch it off right away!

If all of this seems like a lot, that's because it is! Our testers have helped immensely here and deserve a special shoutout for bringing this leviathan of an update to life. Haste wouldn't be what it is without you!

That brings us to the end of the feature list, but the team has also included a small collection of item changes, a bunch of bug fixes and a few QoL improvements. Check the full list below!

Patch Notes:

Features

• Fragment Disruptions: A new system that makes different Fragments in a Shard have different effects. Choose your path carefully!

• The Hungry Weeboh: A new character at Rest Stops that lets you get rid of an unwanted item - and who might offer you something in exchange!

• Multiplayer Improvements: Increased cooperation and interactivity.

• Reroll Endless items!

• Item Effect tooltips: We actually explain most of the core features of the game now!

• New items: 9 new items for you to discover, including passing through Boost Rings as a new way of triggering item effects!

Balance Changes

• Reduced base Spark gain from Fragments by 50%

• Decreased Research Outpost item costs by 25%

• Slightly reduced the starting Collapse Speed for Shards 8-10, and slightly increased their ending Collapse Speed, meaning that it should be slightly easier to get started and slightly harder to finish.

Item balance

Item balance is an ongoing concern, so please keep giving us feedback on items that aren't quite living up to expectations, or if you've found fun ways of combining them!

• Wingspan now has an increased Cooldown. It's still dangerous, but offers a little bit of grace. Reduced the Cooldown of Steel Hat Lining, hopefully making it more viable as a very intentional protective measure

• Increased the Cooldown for Experimental Thrusters

• Brittle Breastplate now only does 25 damage instead of 50. Does that make it TOO GOOD? Absolutely not, but now you might actually use it.

• Shortcut has increased its duration from 2 to 5 seconds

• Boost from Well Earned Confidence increased from 2.5% to 5%

• Heir's Determination now also gives +5 Speed (making up for some of the speed usually lost when taking damage)

• Blood Engine now gives 8 damage instead of 5, but has its Boost increased to 15% for 6 seconds

Quality of Life

• Made various improvements to navigating menus with a controller, particularly to the Shard Settings screen

• Items in the Research Outpost now show a discount label if their price is reduced

• Items from your current run are now displayed on the "Run End" screen

Fixes

• Fixed the description for Experimental Autopilot (yes, we actually did it this time)

• The Wobbler Skin now unlocks immediately when the conditions are met so it'll be easier for you to figure out what you got it for

• The extra buttons on the main menu (for Credits, Discord and Multiplayer) now disappear correctly when you open the Settings menu

• Fixed an issue where the first time you opened the Item View with a controller it would not let you actually inspect the Items you had

• It's no longer possible to bring up the Item View while in Interactions or on the Shard Complete screen

• Added some missing tags for Items (for random item selection in Encounters)

• The Outfit Selection UI can no longer be scrolled horizontally. There wasn't anything to be found there, but that didn't stop some of you from checking.

• Fixed getting the Disaster Completed message before actually finishing Disaster Mode. Some of you might get this message for a second time the first time you open this update, but after that it should be fixed!

• Fixed Ascension Crowns sometimes not appearing correctly in multiplayer

• Fixed some Ascension effects not starting properly in multiplayer for late joiners

• Fixed unlocking the next ascension level sometimes not functioning correctly for multiplayer late-joiners

Modding

• SkinDatabase.GetSkin() now returns the Default skin by... default

Phew, that was a lot! I hope you all enjoy this huge update!

Ahaha, you didn't really think I was going to let you go without looking at our community art, did you?

Let me present:

This Zoe art by Aviarasart

This amazing pixel art animation by thehiyacinth

This Wraith art from RocketPotatoL62

Gan art by Elliot!

This Zoe pixel art by Peri

Enjoy the new update and join the discord to see more art!

/Riza

Hey everyone! It's finally happening! As we speak, the team has put out an update that will let you dress up Zoe in the outfit of none other than Flopsy the Lovable Clown!!!

New Content:

Fixes:

See you out there in the worlds! /Riza

Hi again, everyone! You seem to have stayed busy in the one day I've been away. The team has also been busy, so they already have a small patch for you!

Most importantly, it fixes the problem where mouse users weren't able to buy Abilities from the rest of the crew. Or to back out of the dialogue, either, leaving games locked until you shut it down. Woooops! Anyways, it's all better now, so you can spend your Antisparks to your heart's content!

We also fixed the problem where you would sometimes take damage from passing through the large Agency structure with a... scary burny thing in the middle. Turns out it was some misplaced invisible colliders, and not a clever Agency trap the way I thought... Here's the full list of fixes:

• The Ability buying screen buttons now work with mouse input again!,

• Fixed incorrect colliders on the large "Stronghold" obstacles with the lava orb,

• Skins are now previewed when you consider whether to buy them or not, which should make the choice easier!,

• Zoe's Weeboh Outfit illustration now correctly displays her hair. Now you get to see those delicious cinnamon buns even when she's wearing the Weeboh hoodie!,

• Changed steam invite button text from "Open Steam" to "Invite" for clarity,

• Added some more description texts to the Invite Screen, also for clarity,

• Fixed dialouges sometimes appearing in the wrong interactions,

• Fixed a handful of typose,

• Fixed Weeboh skin boost level and grappling hook visuals (Oh no, the best outfit was broken???),

• Emote Wheel selection will now close when in a Dialogue or when receiving an item. Emote freely without worrying about freezing the game!,

• Removed the wonderful but deeply troubled Weeboh Rescue challenge from the encounter pool (at least for now, might come back later).,

Lastly, I know that you've all been looking forward to meeting Flopsy the Lovable Clown, but you'll have to wait just a liiittle bit longer for that. It'll be worth it!

See you out there in the worlds! /Riza

Hello runners! I’m thrilled to present you with a new Haste update - this time we’re bringing you ONLINE MULTIPLAYER CO-OP! 

That’s right! For a while now, the devs have said that multiplayer would be unlikely, but in secret, they’ve spent the last couple of months after release making it possible! (You have no idea how hard it’s been to keep this from you all!) ((Some of you would also say we’ve done a terrible job keeping it secret.))

You can now play through the entire game with other Zoes! It's cooperative in that you work together to progress, but we also keep track of player times in levels, which allows for some friendly and pleasant competition.

You can join friends through Steam's invite system or by using specific join links if you set your room privacy to public. There's no separate mode or anything, you just jump smoothly straight into their game at any point, with every shard and every part of the game playable together! Multiplayer has been designed for up to 4 players. No one will stop you from playing with a whole swarm, but you might need a fast computer and fast internet!

The team has also added skins for Zoe, so it will now be possible to change her outfit and her hat! Skins can be bought with Antisparks from the Fashionable Weeboh, and can be shown off in multiplayer. (I’m thinking of asking for a makeover myself!) There are also special skins that can be unlocked by doing special actions, such as completing the story mode or the first level of Disaster Mode.

Other changes:

• Some obstacles have had their art updated, making the Agency more intimidating (and visually and technically consistent).

• We've added a chunk of new character interactions, revealing more of their backgrounds and keeping rest stops and coffee breaks fresher for longer! This means you can get to know me and the crew even better!

Fixes:

• Added Disaster Mode localisation for Swedish.

• Once again increased the chance of getting Coffee Interactions in the research outpost. Hopefully it sticks this time!

• Hitting the pillars of one of the big Agency Platform obstacles no longer turns the main platform into an intangible death trap.

• Flat Item stat bonuses no longer scale with your metaprogression level for that stat.

• Added a missing homage to Flopsy the Lovable Clown

Also don't forget to check out our new Haste merch here!

See you out there!

- Riza

Hi everyone!

Disaster Mode!

• There are 4 distinct levels of difficulty, applied to the Final Shard.
• The mode adds new dynamic obstacles, such as burning Lava Flowers and more!
• Various new effects are added to increase difficulty.

Patch Notes

• Improved Ultrawide support

I hope your next Haste run is disastrously fun!

- Riza

Hi again, everyone!

PATCH NOTES

• Another fix to Endless music, so that it avoids looping the same song.
• This one's a bit technical, but Endless music now also uses the Seed Random instead of... some other Random. (I'm sure these are words that make sense to game developers...)
• Item costs are now correctly reduced for the tutorial so there's no chance of being locked out of progressing!
• Fixed an issue where choosing Save & Quit from the Fragment Map and then loading could prevent you from continuing your run.
• The Endless Shard now restores your Health and Lives again based on your setting, the way it's supposed to!

Hi everyone!✨

The Haste team is hard at work on some really exciting things, and the first of those things is coming soon! Let's just say it will be a bit of a disaster! (Hm, that sounded a lot better in my head...) In the meantime, I'm here with a small update for you with some balance changes, bug fixes and quality of life improvements.

Restart Shard

Balance Changes

Localization

Bug fixes,

Patch Notes,

• Added a Reset Shard option! When you choose "Abandon Shard" you can now choose between returning to the Hub World or restarting your current Shard with the same settings. To everyone who already completed "The Machine": we're deeply sorry.,
• Endless music now changes when the track ends, not immediately every 3 levels. Hope this better protects your sanity on those really long runs!,
• Added a setting to "Invert Look X-axis",
• Added a cool-looking opening screen to Shard Runs (This will make a lot of sense in the near future...........),

• Balance changes to a number of Shards. They were too hard at the start and too easy by the end!,
• Slightly reduced the damage from Black Hole Rocks and the Glow Thing in Void Fragments,,
• Reduced the damage of Snake's beam explosions by 20%,

• Added a bunch of missing localization for other languages than English,
• Timeline Refactor now also rewinds the End boss final machine timer,
• Rest Area and Shop: Dying immediately and losing one or more lives, and also skipping other levels, should not happen anymore,
• Items affecting Energy Gain Rate no longer affect energy usage rate (Wait, they did what??),
• Brittle Breastplate now triggers health loss on Bad landings too, not just Ok landings, since it was obviously hugely overpowered and desperately needed a nerf...,
• Fixed an issue where you would keep your items when saving and quitting to the main menu, then immediately swapping to and starting another save slot, where that new save slot does not have a run active (i.e. it's a new save slot, or you're in the hub world),

Now that I'm done with what the team asked me to talk about, I thought I would share some of my favourite community art that's been posted on the Discord recently!

I'll see you out there in the worlds! /Riza

Hello everyone! It’s been about a month since the game's release, and it’s been amazing to see the response from all of you!

We’re happy to announce that we’re working on two updates for the game!

Merch

Official Discord

Hello runners!

PATCH NOTES

• Endless Mode can now be saved and resumed later
• Difficulty settings are now shown when entering the Endless Shard
• Added a UI icon for the Endless Shard
• The Captain's Upgrade Menu now makes it clearer that you have bought all the levels of a category
• Interactions no longer play immediately after starting the game from the Main Menu
• It's now possible to meet characters having coffee in the Shop
• Added a third Weeboh illustration variant to some interactions
• Added more fallbacks for making sure specific character interactions happen
• Gamepad look sensitivity is no longer framerate dependent - (you may need to adjust your gamepad look sensitivity settings)
• Added end scene ultrawide support
• Added option to mute audio when the window isn't focused
• Endless Mode no longer looks at you disappointingly when you eventually fail

• Various localization fixes in all non-English languages
• Fixed Item UI in the shop overlapping with the currently owned item UI
• Big Pumpkin item now correctly gives you health only when you obtain it, instead of every level

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We added a bunch of difficulty settings so everyone can play with the level of challenge they want.
• We adjusted the Snake Boss fights to make them less frustrating.
• We added a display showing your rank estimate while running, and rebalanced some items/challenges.
• We implemented 3 save slots, accessible in the settings menu.
• And we fixed lots of other issues and bugs!

Please make sure to restart Steam and verify the integrity of the game files to get this update!

Hey everyone! We've had a couple of patches in the past few days, so here are all the changes.

PATCH NOTES

1.2.g

• Fixed Convoy boss issue introduced in patch 1.2.e

• Implemented 3 save slots (accessed in settings)

• ISettingsSaveLoad now takes string instead of Type

1.2.h

• Fixed the ranking UI so it showed up after patch 1.2.g
• Fixed many tutorial pop ups not appearing
• Some fixes to the Close Call vfx

• Added more tutorial popups
• Added smoke to the desert boss
• Changed the visuals of the Portable Harvester and Otherworldly Contact to be more clear

Hey everyone! We've got another small patch for Haste with some item/challenge balance changes, minor additions and fixes.

PATCH NOTES

• Buffed the Time Dilation item
• The Big Spark Magnet item now also gives +100 Sparks in each fragment
• Reworked the Growth Potential item
• Added a display showing current estimated rank while running (and an option to turn it off)
• Slightly rebalanced some challenges
• Added Dalil to the character camp in the Hub world
• Added some more Close Call effects to mark when they occur
• Item list shown when talking to the Researcher is now sorted by rarity

• Fixed encounter/"?" fragments not fully using the random seed
• More fixes for some items not displaying their effects in all languages
• Fixed some obstacles not being grappleable
• Fixed "Landing Precision" difficulty not working correctly on low settings
• Fixed convoy bug that didn't let you win!

Hello everyone! Thank you once more for all the feedback that lets us improve the game, here is a new patch with fixes - if you missed it we also made several patches last week, including one patch adding a difficulty slider for those who want to go back to the original difficulty (hard) or have more forgiving runs. PATCH NOTES:

• Reduced the T2 and T3 snake speed to make reaching the head less frustrating. Removed the T3 snake homing missiles because they never really ended up being fun to play against.
• Added two large smoke plumes that can be seen far from away to make the snake easier to track.
• Changed the VFX that appears when breaking end boss machine parts to make them not block player vision as much
• Added a slight burst of speed to the player when breaking a machine part to make the fight flow better
• Reduced the number of void spikes in the end boss fight
• Removed bad landings from colliding with an obstacle
• Improved some generations' situations where it would not generate slopes for the player to jump off from
• Made the rifts that can occur in some level generation have better slopes to jump off from
• Improved UI of the Encounters to support more languages and resolutions
• Made the time bombs in Ethereal/spike levels more visible
• Rebalanced some Agency Structures
• Increased the amount of items given during an endless run
• Increased the amount of anti-sparks given after an endless run

• Fixed vram memory leak when using DLSS
• Fixed "The Archivist" and "Shopocalypse" achievements
• Fixed a frame pacing issue that caused the snake to have a slight stutter when moving. It should appear perfectly smooth now.
• Fixed an issue that caused the void spikes in the end boss to spawn too close to the machine parts.
• Fixed issue that caused end boss void spikes to not trigger close calls
• Fixed the generation of jumps before the most Agency structures

• Generated mmhook bindings are now generated for private methods as well
• Settings menu now has scrollable tabs if there are a lot of tabs from mods
• Fixed *.hasteitem.json items not actually persisting past a scene load (sorry!)

• Livesplit Autosplitter now has an option to split on winning the end boss