Null Root news & patch notes

• New skill combo system (skills interact with others to create new effects)

• Random run bonus quests that grant extra bitshards

• Random waves of enemies events happen in different configurations

• New visual effects in the background and at the end of run

• Bosses now have a health bar

• Updated visuals of most active skills

• New cosmetic type -  6 Cursor skins

• 2 new Daemon skins

• Added 4 different bonus events that happen after boss kill that grant bitshards/root key 

• Added random zones that appear, some positive effects and some negative effects.

• Added new active skill "Blinding arc" that hits multiple enemies and stuns (upgrade to also do dmg).

• added lock-on line for auto attacks

• Improved bitshard collection animation

• Added new passive - increases auto attack dmg as you gain overload meter

• Finishing tutorial now awards 30 bitshards and 1 cache

• Major Performance optimization

Cosmetics.

There are 9 animated skins for the daemon with colored trails, they can be obtained from achievements (telemetry) , trust store and from opening caches.

You can select your active skin from the new cosmetics button above the start run button.

• RFC lab changed to "Research" and is now a incremental style mini-game 

• Added power based requirements to unlock to all tabs

• Added root key based encrypted cache enhancements 

• Added tutorial introducing protocol overrides when session extension hits max

• Small optimizations to "normal" render quality.

• Optimization to enemy and projectile rendering

• Fixed boss background not being reset after run

• Set the session extension upgrade to be default selected and more obvious

Added more options(scanlines, bloom, screenshake) to the main menu options and improved clarity of the foreground.

• Added new reactive background grid (can be toggled off)

• Updated background colors to make it easier to see the foreground

• Added visual indicator around the player to show how much overload meter you have

• Added background effects and new visuals to the boss

• Reduced contrast of scanlines (can now be toggled off) for clarity

NULL ROOT demo will be in the Steam next fest June 15-22!

• Caches now can give you bitshards back.

• Based on feedback I've made enemy projectiles more visible and brighter.

• Based on feedback increased size of dropped bitshards on screen.

• Based on feedback made cache UI grey out when you dont have any caches to open.

• Based on feedback hovering over skills in the node tree shows cost and level.