LORED News & Patch Notes

Note: Joypad temporarily disabled due to Godot Engine update Changes

Achievements have been added into the game, but they are disabled until Stage 3 releases
Removed Crit Chance, Crit Multiplier, and Crit Rolls Difficulty options, as well as attribute lerping
Will no longer create daily or weekly backups, that was a lil overkill. You may safely delete those
Fixed the Crit Rolls Upgrade for Thingies having no effect at all
Fixed inaccurate Topaz and Will rates

Lucky crit redesigned

Lucky crits now work exactly the same as normal crits, except they're stronger. They roll alongside crits and they can stack with normal crits. Lucky Multiplier is 7.5 to 12.5, Lucky Rolls is 1, and these two attributes may never change
Lucky Chance granted from Upgrades has been reduced
Stage 2 Achievements increase Lucky Chance

Note: Joypad temporarily disabled due to Godot Engine update Changes

Achievements have been added into the game, but they are disabled until Stage 3 releases
Removed Crit Chance, Crit Multiplier, and Crit Rolls Difficulty options, as well as attribute lerping
Will no longer create daily or weekly backups, that was a lil overkill. You may safely delete those
Fixed the Crit Rolls Upgrade for Thingies having no effect at all
Fixed inaccurate Topaz and Will rates

Lucky crit redesigned

Lucky crits now work exactly the same as normal crits, except they're stronger. They roll alongside crits and they can stack with normal crits. Lucky Multiplier is 7.5 to 12.5, Lucky Rolls is 1, and these two attributes may never change
Lucky Chance granted from Upgrades has been reduced
Stage 2 Achievements increase Lucky Chance

0.2.45

Crit Chance, Multiplier, and Rolls for Thingies will be boosted if they are below a certain threshold (just like they are for LOREDs) Added daily and weekly backup saves Can load backup saves from the Save Management window Fixed backup saves not being created Fixed the incorrect attribute being displayed for Crit Multiplier in the LORED widget

0.2.46

Fixed settings.cfg not saving

Fixed Arcade Runs being un-unlockable

Integrated Godot Mod Loader! - Mods made with the previous system are incompatible - The LORED Workshop has its first mods and will be publicly launched with Stage 3! - The in-game mod manager works flawlessly with zero bugs. Any reported bugs shall result in a ban - A LORED Modding Kit will be available on Steam for developing mods. More on that later u sick freaks Crit Multiplier will lerp from 1.1 to 1.5 (if it is less than 1.5) Nerfz - Juiced Crit Chance is now affected by Difficulty - Fate Upgrade Digit is now affected by Difficulty Fixed rates not updating when loading a different save (maybe)

Fixed the Upgrade which unlocks the Upgrades button not being visible 0.2.44 Removed the old Mod Manager window

In preparation for Workshop support, Mod support has been gutted in this version! New save structure! When the game boots, your saves will be automatically migrated into organized folders within: .../godot/app_userdata/LORED/saves Nerfed Coursing and Jonesin Fixed the bug where LOREDs will start working even if you have fewer resources than they will consume for that job Removed the 1% minimum for Crit Chance Crit Chance greater than 0% and less than 3% will be lerped from 1% to 3% Crit Rolls less than 1 will be lerped from 0.5 to 1

Added ugly tooltips for all settings! Changes

Safety Wheels only update when a LORED begins a Job and when exiting the working state
LOREDs can only be autobought once per Job
Buffed the dickens out of every Parasitic Upgrade
Offline earnings enabled for Many Masks
If Crit Chance is greater than 0%, then when rolling for crits, 1% is the minimum chance LOREDs will roll with

Jonesin Upgrade

Before: Haste x2 based on Juice deficit
After: Haste multiplier equal to Juice deficit

Fixes

Fixed LOREDs referring to each other by their titles instead of their names
Fixed rates breaking when loading a save
Fixed Juice amount not loading properly
Fixed Many Masks HUD not appearing when launching the game in the middle of Many Masks
Fixed Settings sliders not reflecting your saved changes when booting the game

Removed the option to consolidate labels because the minimum LORED duration was recently changed to 1 sec There's a bug where LOREDs can determine that they can work a job, but then take more resources than you have, resulting in 0 of something. Fixing that is really annoying, so I might just leave it 🥺

0.2.37 - Fixed offline earnings 0.2.38 - Added LORED Widget Panel options for disallowing the drinking of Juice and Rage Juice per LORED - Brought back the 10 purchase limit of autobuyers. Sometimes they buy too many levels at once, resulting in a softlockish situation. Oopsie poopsie lemon scoopsie. - Juice and Rage Juice minimum target amounts reduced from 60 to 10

NOTE: Offline earnings are broken. It'll be fixed in 0.2.37 (hopefully coming today) Currency rates

Rates will now be displayed based on the LOREDs' 10-30 previous Jobs' worth of production and consumption. ETA labels are now much more accurate. Inaccuracies are still possible, but there's no escaping that. It's much better than before.
Rates during Many Masks will now be displayed. (Offline earnings are still disabled)
Thingies still log their rates using the old method. They have very low randomness, so the old method suffices for them.

Changes

The soft cap on Endojuicosis is applied harder
Escape key closes the LORED Widget panel
Crits affect drinking and brewing Juice and Rage Juice
Base Enraged duration increased from 6 to 12 sec
Juice Pot Upgrade autobuyer price reduced from e35 Malignancy to e30
Price reduced by 10x and 100x for the final two Malignant Upgrades
For the Windows build, now using D3D12 instead of Vulkan
New icon for Ad Bonus
Increased price increase of Crush (Thingy Garden)
Increased price increase and level cap of Vats (Juice Pot)

Fixes

Parasitic Upgrades which boosted Stage 1 LOREDs based on Cells weren't doing anything, idk when they broke
Enraged buff was permanent once applied
Holding Ctrl to bulk-purchase finally works as expected
The remaining Parasitic Upgrades were locked (broken in 0.2.31)
Commune's max Juice bonus wasn't increasing
Every card in the hand flickered as new cards were drawn

Removals

Removed Contingency (Juice Pot) (this made it so crits don't consume Juice)
Removed the autobuyer purchase limit of 10 (it was already removed when Many Masks was completed, but that wasn't displayed anywhere)
Removed juice_drink_amount. Juice LOREDs will always consume 1 Juice from their tummies to become Juiced, and 1 Juice from the pool to add to their tummies

Also: The LORED "brain" has been refactored. There is no difference in gameplay, but the code is cleaner. The way that LOREDs move from inert to asleep to searching for jobs to working jobs has all been cleaned up. This makes debugging easier.

LOREDs can no longer drink Rage Juice immediately after producing it. Fixed an issue with the Malignant Upgrades autobuyer purchasing aw <3, resulting in 8 Malignancy. The autobuyer will wait until Malignancy is above 25 or 100, i forget, whatever. it's something like that. u think i could be bothered to check? not with this economy

Fixes

An inaccessible Stage 3 mechanic crashing the game for 1 (or 2) users (but probably more)
The setting to hide ETA labels not loading
Upgrade tooltips not displaying when they were maxed out but still pending prestige

Additions

Setting to hide ETA labels (doesn't save yet teehee oops)

Changes

Stage 1 or 2 Upgrades which applied crit rolls to *all LOREDs* were restricted to Stage 1 or 2

Fixes

Locked Upgrades not showing the "Unknown Upgrade" tooltips
Thingies being unable to produce any Will on Hard difficulty
LORED crit stats in the widget sometimes reading "nan%"
Chips collected and Coin collected statistics not being saved
Coin and Chip labels on LORED hud being white before scoring crits
An ETA label displaying anything when one of the Currencies has a zero or negative net rate

Fixes
- Fix "Begin with LORED autobuyers" not working (maybe)
- Fix the Job viewer's visibility not being tied to the **Wat da hell going on** Upgrade
- Fix LORED Output seeming to randomly increase by huge margins
- Fix the x0 bug (hopefully!)
  - If you have LOREDs producing 0 resources, please lemme know!
  - If this happens, it will add some print statements to your logs folder. If you could pass those along to me somehow, that would be sick
  - I'm thinking this stemmed from trying to calculate the logarithm of a negative number. That was fixed, so hopefully this bug is destroyed
  - Just kiddin about it having "gone wrong". The concept of patch notes having clickbait is pretty funny
- Fix Scoot calling Carl "Coal". how rude

0.2.31

A lot changed under the hood! I'm expecting this update to introduce bugs.

Note! There seems to be a bug late in Stage 2 which results in LOREDs having x0 Output. If you notice this, please help fix it! It's very difficult to pinpoint and to replicate. Thanks for your patience

Additions
- Add official support for the worst difficulty mode
Fixes
- Fix LORED nodes remaining visible when starting Arcade Runs
- Fix clicks outside of the Upgrade window not closing it even when the pin toggle is off
- Fix Thingies not being affected by difficulty settings
Changes
- A "Folder" prefab has been created and implemented in most places in the game where a folder-like drop-down situation exists
- Can no longer purchase out of order and be unable to afford LOREDs post-Metastasis
- Negative rates are red, or yellow if parent safety wheels are full. Wow. Incredible.
- Start of the game changed slightly to reflect the new way that LORED-unlocking Upgrades are displayed
- Aw ❤️ grants free level 1 Coal *and* Stone, and is now a required Upgrade
- Split the Jobs and Safety tooltips. (You can now see Carl's jobs.)
Removals
- Remove Echo Arcade Run
Many Masks Arcade Run (spoilers!)
- The job to produce Joules is no longer locked behind the Joules LORED. (Growth may be produced indefinitely as soon as the Growth LORED is unlocked.)
- LOREDs will now take into account the time required to produce resources (while the goals are not randomized). The system for determining this uses the base durations of LOREDs' Jobs. Producing Malignancy naturally takes the longest, and Coal takes the shortest.
- The cheapest purchase based on the time required to buy is displayed in the HUD

- Add better validation for mod list

- Fix Moneymaker and similar Upgrades for the 100th time, for all time

- Fix Thingy offline XP gain being based on a random roll within their duration range

- Fix mod window refresh button creating duplicate mod nodes

- (For modders) A handful of crap

0.2.27 wouldn't launch

0.2.28 had debug mode still enabled

Thingies now gain XP while offline! Fix Limit Break Arcade Run being extremely slow Fix LORED autobuyers being unlocked immediately after getting the LORED Autobuyer Upgrade - This will only affect new saves Fix Upgrades saving & loading their visibility (it don't ought to have been done doon dat)

(For modders) Fix both new data fields from 0.2.24

(For modders) Add "Never Hide Prestige Button" field for UpgradeTree (For modders) Upgrade data: `Not Revealed When Locked` added. - Use this to make Upgrades invisible when their requirements are not met (For modders) Upgrade data: `Hide When Locked` -> `Hide Details When Locked` - Update your Upgrade JSONs! Fix some number text displaying every digit after 10 quadrillion (For modders) Fix Required Upgrade not working

(For modders) Add better support for custom Upgrades

Entering Windowed will no longer reset UI Scale Fix accidental deletion of helpful information in the Prestige Dialog Fix Parasitic Upgrades not being reset when entering Arcade Runs - This will solve the bug of not being able to ever afford `How is this an RPG anyway?` in Many Masks When purchasing Upgrades while holding Ctrl, fix spending resources up to as much as you can afford even if you only gained 1 level Removed Joy & Grief - Again

Add option to disable the save toast Add mod reordering Standard Notation expanded to e330 - At very high numbers, Standard Notation takes up too much space. Standard Notation will not be supported beyond e330. Axman13 - Crit Chance gained from Adantages now has diminishing effect after 100% Once Many Masks is complete, LORED autobuyers can purchase more than 10 levels at once Improved performance of Limit Break level up Watched Currencies are reset and restored when entering and exiting Arcade Runs Fix saves which advanced too far due to prolonged play by deleting them - Nah just kiddin Fix Upgrade Window opening when loading a save Fix `Display Help button` not saving Fix `UI Scale` not loading Fix clicking background not closing Upgrade Window During Many Masks, fix LOREDs trying to afford already-pending Upgrades Fix Moneymaker and other "small combos" never registering Fix backing up corrupted saves Removed Joy & Grief - There was never a plan for these. They were just going to exist - The reason they were removed is to not force players to hunt for them, because that would be insanely boring

Loading saves with conflicting mod lists is now handled appropriately

Add Help Window

- The Help Window will act as an optional tutorial and as a hub for information about the mechanics in LORED. - This will be filled with additional information over time. - New players may find this useful. It is opt-in and can be hidden and ignored.

`lored.cfg`

- Most settings are no longer tied to save files. Instead, when exiting the game, your settings will be saved to lored.cfg. This means that the values in this file are device-specific. - Because of this, your preferences will appear to have been reset. You'll need to set them up one more time, and then never again for that device. - The settings in the Save tab remain save-specific. It's my hope that this strategy will make changing settings and loading other saves a seamless and predictable experience.

Failed overhaul - I was going to overhaul the dialogue completely, changing every character and allowing them to respond to more situations. This would result in LOREDs who feel more alive and responsive to your actual actions in the game. - I remembered that this game has been in development for 7 years and that if I don't quit overhauling mechanics, I will be dead and Stage 3 will still not be out. Joyce (Wire) and Eugene (Copper Ore) had their disturbing, out-of-place, or unusual dialogue nerfed. This should result in an objectively better experience for every single player for the rest of time. You're welcome!

Fix screen being positioned above the top bounds of the monitor on boot Fix saves prior to this version having insufficient Hardwood to be able to purchase Alaxea Remove dialogue - I've heard your feedback on the dialogue. Combined with concerns about how often this system is actually used and how much still needs to be written, I've decided to remove it from the game for now. Dialogue may return in the future, but who freakin knows?

.............................. once again! Fixed the issue with Cells! (For real!)

Players who have Something Wicked This Way Comes but still didn't have enough Cells to purchase Siphon will be granted free Cells.

Add giant UI element indicating that an Upgrade Tree is disabled due to the player being in the Demo or to them being in an Arcade Run Improve Mod Management UX Change method of Cell production! - Instead of gaining Cells when undergoing Chemotherapy, added new Parasitic Upgrade: Siphon - Siphon grants Cells based on Tenant's level each second - This will also grant Cells while offline - The Cell costs of Parasitic Upgrades have been adjusted to reflect this Fix lingering tooltips Fix Enrage timer persisting across saves Fix Moneymaker not even being checked at all

Actually nerfed I ain't no biology major this time :) Buffed Limit Break so that level ups are more frequent Restored the power of the Limit Break Arcade Run's version of Limit Break

Added backup saving - Every 30 minutes, a backup save will be placed in the `backup saves` folder - These will not be uploaded to the Steam Cloud The Metastasize button will glow until it is clicked for the first time Fixed the Load Menu loading files inefficiently Fixed the potential effects tooltip not being cleared out Fixed LORED Autobuyer progress missync when exiting Arcade Runs Fixed UI Scale not saving Removed Scale UI button--this will be automatically detected based on UI Scale (if it's equal to 1.0, it will be false, otherwise it will be true)

Stage 2 Spoilers below!

Below are various nerfs to prevent uncontrolled upward spiraling. Mitochondria - Stage 1 Output x ((1.0 + currency_amount) * 2) ** 1.1 1.01 Myelin - Stage 1 Haste x log(6.0 + currency_amount) ** 2.0 1.5 Limit Break - Stage Output x (1.1 1.01 ^ (level-1)) + (level-1) I'm still relevant!!! - S2 Crit Multiplier + malignancy_amount.to_log() * 0.1 0.025 I ain't no biology major - Enraged Output x420 x42 Cell Gain - 1.0 + (0.02 0.008 * (((level - 100) ** 1.5))) Endojuicosis - Maximum Juiced Crit Chance + cell_amount with a soft cap of 100%

Nothin to see here, move along!

Added backup saving! - Every 30 minutes, a backup save will be placed in the `backup saves` folder - These will not be uploaded to the Steam Cloud Changed mod structure for better loading Increased the amount of Stage 2 resources provided on Chemotherapy When playing with LORED autobuyers enabled from the start, the LORED Widget panel will be unlocked as well Fixed: Your window position will not be saved if it is outside of your window's bounds Fixed progress bars remaining hidden while animations were disabled

Changes in relation to mods!

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`lored.cfg`

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