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Fixed auto-card selection being stuck when autobaning
Reactive Trigger and Trigger Amulet firing weapon that are disabled
Massive performance improvement when auto-level a lot of levels at once
Very minor performance improvement with projectile creation/removal/update
Added some debug log when setting option so bug report about card selection option not working can be used to pinpoint why some user is having this issue
Sorry for the inconvenience
For curious players, the reason I didn't catch such a major bug before releasing in public branch,
is that this bug only happen on the public branch, and simply did not happen during development/play testing.
From version 2022.3
Run Difficulty You can now choose between different run difficulty, those modify the game to become harder, but grant better soul-coin reward. There is some ideas to make higher difficulty more rewarding to players that could come in the future like special version of equipment, or other unique interesting mechanics. There is 4 Different Run Difficulty available:
Normal Mode - The default difficulty of the game, nothing change from how the game were used to be
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 99
Expert Mode - An noticeable increase in Difficulty, Unlocked after you start completing challenges, This can serve to give a bit more of difficulty to player that find the vanilla game too easy from E-rank to A-rank
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 25%
Increase Post Pick-up radius by 2
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Enable Overkill Mechanic
Enemies now has Health regen, scale with corruption
Enemies projectile are 50% faster
Enemies are 50% Faster
Enemies health is doubled
Enemies Damage is multiplied by 4
Experience gain exponent is 0.85
Double Soulcoin Gain
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 499
Mythic Mode - Serious increase in Difficulty, Only recommended after you really master most of the game mechanics and have good gears, and only really usefull when you start to seriously grind ultra-high equipment quality
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 30%
Increase Post Corruption by 50
Player's Health Exponent is ^0.85
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Reduce Overkill mechanic Threshold
Enable Ultra-Overkill Mechanic
Enemies projectile are 75% faster, speed also scale with corruption
Enemies are 75% Faster
Enemies health is multiplied by 5
Enemies Damage is multiplied by 10
Enemies Defense is multiplied by 20
Damages received by enemies exponent is ^0.85
Experience gain exponent is ^0.85
Effective equipment tier exponent is ^0.9 Each tier has a tier (F = 1, A = 6, Infinity+1 = 15) This value is exponented by ^0.9 and then ceiled This mean that is only start affected gear at S-tier, and the effect slightly increase as you get higher tier, Infinity +499 gear would become about Infinity ~+250 for the duration of the run
Soulcoin gain is multiplied by 10
Soulcoin gain is further multiplied by 1.25 per loop
Found equipment quality is multiplied by 1.02 per loop
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 999
Ascended Mode - Good luck...
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 35%
Increase Post Corruption by 500
Player's Health Exponent is ^0.85
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Player's Damage receive Exponent is ^1.5
Further Reduce Overkill mechanic Threshold
Reduce Ultra-Overkill Mechanic Threshold
Enemies projectile are 100% faster, (still scale with corruption)
Enemies are 100% Faster
Enemies health Exponent is ^1.5
Enemies Defense Exponent is ^1.5
Enemies Damage mitigation scale with Corruption
Damages received by enemies exponent is ^0.75
Experience gain exponent is ^0.75
Effective equipment tier exponent is ^0.75
Soulcoin gain is multiplied by 1.5 per loop
Soulcoin gain Exponent is ^1.25
Found equipment quality is multiplied by 1.05 per loop
Maximum Gear tier: No limits
End of Stage Event Stage now has a 10% chance to have an event on completion. This will allow an increase of importance to players choices The last stage before boss have 20% chance to be a bonfire event (but cannot have other event) To compensate this, event have a 30% less common as a stage type
S-Rank World Provide a completely different level of difficulty, with a much more aggressive scaling of enemies health and damage over the run as well as a few minor change to some bosses I know it going to be completely destroyed by veteran, but it should still prove a huge increase in difficulty to most player that finished with A-rank Require the completion of 20 challenges
Zone Modifier Zone have a chance to have modifiers (both positive and negative) First loop always have one zone choice that won't have any modifiers (except in S-rank) The higher you are in loops, the more modifiers (both positive and negative) can appear
Change to camera perspective This is a change I made to gain quality on Volumetric like without having to increase it's performance cost
This technically doesn't change angle or how much thing is display on screen, but it definitely make the game look different I know some player won't like the new camera, so there is a game option to revert back to the old camera perspective (Game Option > Visual > Camera)
Reworked Infinite Material progression Infinite material tier is now set-up in 4 tier, each fitting to a range of equipment tiers:
Tier 1 is used for equipment from infinite +1 to infinite +99
Tier 2 is used for equipment from infinite +100 to +499 (can only be obtained in Expert mode)
Tier 3 is used for equipment from infinite +500 to +999 (can only be obtained in Mythic mode)
Last tier is used for equipment above Infinite +1000 (can only be obtained in Ascended mode)
Added a new mechanics of "Over-Killing" to player (only enabled in Expert Mode and above) When you receive damage (after defence and damage mitigation and all damage reduction effect) multiple order of magnitude above your max health, you are instantly killed, ignoring all damage dodging mechanics (and evasion damage capping) In Mythic and Ascended, you can get "Ultra-Overkilled", which also completely ignore all death dodging mechanics, but OoM requirement is significantly higher
Duelist rework
Increase base health from 60 to 100
Reduced Defense cap of Duelist from 75% to 50%
Duelist no longer start with -10 defense, but -2 base defense and x0.5 defense multiplier
Duelist now gain 5% damage scaling from power every time her Death door ability is used until the end of the run
Death door ability disable anachronistic during the debuff duration
Black Market
Black market is a very rare variant of shop, that allow player to obtain card that they shouldn't be able to obtain at the moment
It can range from banished card, to card that you are still missing the requirement, or ever card exclusive to other avatars !
There is also a rare chance of the shop offering you an evolution for cards that you don't even own yet !
However, price in the black-market scale with the gold you already own !
Unlocked by Investing 10 million gold coin to the shop keeper Once unlocked, normal shop have 1% chance to be replaced by a blackmarket (+0.2% * log1e7( Investment))
(Black-market has an additional discount equal to log10x(Investment/1e7)x0.01 up to 1e32 gold invested)
Above that, the formula is 0.25 + log10x(Investment/1e32)x0.0025 The discount is multiplicative to the discount of normal shop; Black Market also have much lower chance to appear at lower world rank)
Huge refactoring of statistics Game now support any number of calculation step, called Layers
There is still the default steps: "Base/Multiplier/Post", but also Late Multiplier (inserted after Multiplier and before Post), and Conversion (Added after Post) that allow conversion card to use effect of non-conversion post cards
Ability to pin card in the encyclopedia during a run with Right click Pinned card will be put forward in card selection, as well as the required card to obtain it
Added Talent loadout Similarly to equipment loadout, you can now swap between multiple custom loadout for talents
Some challenge now add rain in game
Added search field for modifiers crafting
Custom Game Setting You can now modify many setting related to your game (unlocked after completing A-rank) Some setting disable rewards (like starting gold, challenge Game rules or custom stat value) Settings are ordering in category,
First is simple On/off toggle you can find in some challenge
Second are number value you can find in some challenges
Third are challenges modifier that level can be set (yes you can stack any leveled challenges as you wish)
Last category allow you to edit your default stats
Recursive tooltip (finally) Hovering for long enough or clicking a keyword now lock the tooltip menu, allowing to over keyword in the same tooltip.
Timing can be modified in options
Forge Menu improvement The forge now display the player's equipment on the left side, with a button allowing to switch with the inventory The loadout dropdown only affect the forge equipment and is not applied. Depending on feedback I can easily change this behaviours
Many improvement to visual and diversity of Dawn Forest
Added Flowers patch, that have a chance to contain a random crate
Added Wheat patch that often contain a random crate
Added Large tree that have a chance to have crate and shrine nearby
Added large Wheat field that contain numerous crate hidden all over
Slight Bestiary rework Made the kill milestone easier to understand on how they work Slightly moved stuff to have more information and better separate them reworded bestiary completion to milestones completion
Added a slider for maximum enemy count in option
Equipment system can now also be unlocked by completing any challenge for the first time
Equipment button is no longer hidden on new profiles (but greyed out)
Equipment tooltip now add a small warning alongside level requirement if the item is not equippable on the current avatar
Added custom Damage number for infinite damage
Added some additional visual change on stage selection based on which challenge you are playing
Added chain Visuals to item that are locked (cannot be removed/replaced during the run)
Added a Key bind to swap auto-leveling up mode
Unique items that you already obtained are highlighted in yellow in challenge tooltip (instead of being white; this only apply if you currently have them in your inventory or equipped)
Key binds can now be unbinded
Equipping item action now try to find a free slot before replacing the first slot available (notably for accessories)
Card boosted by Pouch of greed are now displayed as a message at the bottom of screen
All infinity +X equipment now has proper coloring variation
All Material now has their own name up to ZZZ-tier
Material at Infinity +X tier now have a related name
Challenge button now specify the current gamemode, this should make it more obvious for new player that survivors and rog mode have different challenges
Added animation to button/slider and textfield when hovering/selecting them The intensity can be changed in games options (visual > UI)
Added animation to soulcards when hovering them (animation speed can be modified in options
Added sound when hovering cards
You can now search for specific weapon name when crafting Knight Pendant modifier
Many new icons for equipement
Added missing icons for talents
Greatly improved colors for Infinity tier items making tier of an item easier to recognize from a glance
Added an option to ignore recycling confirmation windows in reward screen
Equipment tooltip now display comparison with currently equipped item in the same slot
Added a small FX when enemies would spawn
Highest and lowest ever reached value of stats are now stored for achievements check (this mean that reaching a stats value and then losing it before an achievements check no longer prevent you from unlocking said achievement)
New Experimental option - Progressive Equipment level requirement When enabled, Equipment are instantly Active even when you don't have the level requirement, but their efficiency slowly increase to 100% as you reach their level requirement (I am not sure how much of a change it would bring into equipment balancing, so I keep it disabled by default)
Gilded - Positive Increase gold gain by 25%
Treasure Trove - Positive Chest are much more likely to be generated
Crafty - Positive Equipment efficiency is increased by 10% Increase equipment quality by 2
Holy - Positive Increase Base Purification by 10
Monster Civilization - Neutral Increase monster level by 50%
Swarmed - Neutral Increase Enemies Count and Stage requirements by 30%
Noblility - Negative All normal stage are replaced with Elite stage
Dangerous - Negative Increased chance for elite stage to appear
Evil - Negative Purification is capped at 0.25
Defense Cap Increase the maximum amount of damage that can be blocked by your defense (default at 75% like before)
Talent Power Improve effects of Active talents in various ways Usualy, talent damages are increase by square root of it value, and some other effect scale based on it log10
Player Size Change size of player (and hitbox) Also slightly affect camera zoom
DoT Damage Multiplier to all Damage over Time Damages (like fire spirit)
DoT Duration Multiplier to all Damage over Time Duration
Circle of Protection + 25% Defense Multiplier + 25% Damage mitigation + 25% Health Regen + 25% Pick-up Distance
Enchantment Barrier Increase your base defence based on your total item ranking
Evergrowth Armor Each elite killed increase your defence
Heavy shelter Greatly increase your defense and Damage migitation Reduce your attack speed and movement speed
Leathery skin Reduce your defense and maximum health Increase your defense based on your maxium health
Lunar Blessing Total card level with moon tag increase your defense cap
Midas Plate Increase your defense multiplier based on your current gold
Patchwork blockade Increase defense and defense piercing for each level in a weapon or card with metal tag
VIP Card Increase defense based on how much gold you have spent in shop during the run
Fidelity Cuppon Increase defense by 12.5% for each shop your visited, and 25% for each Blacksmith you have visited
Spellbound shield Increase your Final defense based on your item ranking
Tethered Bulwark Gain defense for each defense in a stage Greatly reduce your health regen
God Statuette Obtainable from the Young Sculptor event, it now provide a much greater boost to tag (x2) The permanent boost to one tag (from event) is now reduced from x2 to x1.5
5 "song" artifact They can be obtained from the bard event, they have various effect, and they strength depend how how great of a tales you shared with the bard in previous runs
Kill Them Up - C-rank Survivors Challenge The game will auto-scroll to the right, the scroll will slowly speed up as time goes on
Infinite Descent - A-rank Survivors Challenge Disable Anachronistic Increase timer speed Increase monster speed Final damage applied to enemies exponent is ^0.9 Final damage applied to player exponent is ^1.1 Experience gain is reduced by ^0.75 Equipment efficiency of tier above infinity is reduced by ^0.75
Proving Ground - B-rank Hardmode Challenge Cannot Swap Equipment Enemies are faster Enemies health and damage scale with your total item ranking Challenge soulcoin gain is greatly reduced, but scale with corruption and looping Banished cards: Blade skin, Evasion, Eyes of truth, Spike boots & Vine of time Removed Artifact: Sage's leaf, Luna's cross, Phoenix totem & Ouroboros Necklace
Level Scaling - S-rank Challenge Enemies level scale with player's card level Enemies exp drop no longer scale with their level Boss Health, damage and Defense scale by 10% per level
Amnesia - S-rank Challenge Exp gain exponent is reduce to ^0.5 You lose 10% of your experience to next level per seconds (scale with timescale) Exp cannot be negative No shop appears
Tabula Rasa - S-rank Hardmode Challenge You lose 10% of your experience to next level per seconds, You lose level if it become negative Upon losing level, you lose a level in a random-soulcard (weapon are excluded) If you are at level 0, you stay at level 0, but will still lose a random card.
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Revolver Increase reload speed
Passive talent for Gunslinger - SMG Upon using active talent, increase timescale for a short duration
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Shotgun Projectiles size increase defense piercing to enemies based on how close they are
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Bolt-Action Overkill increase your critical damage
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Rifle Gain bonus ammo
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Auto-Shotgun Projectiles speed increase defense piercing
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Sniper Greatly increase critical hit to enemies that are far from you
Passive talent for Gunslinger - HMG Increase your weapon base damage based on your ammo
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Scattergun Projectiles count increase defense shredding to enemies based
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Railgun Upon using active talent, you are unable to move for a certain duration, at the end of this duration, you gain a huge buff to power, crit chance, defense piercing and damage shredding
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Dual Gatling Your attack speed above your cap increase your defence piercing scaling multiplier
Passive talent for Gunslinger - Flamethrower Your attack increase Fire DoT of enemies by a small duration
Rare Negative Modifier - Reduced Food drop chance For gloves and accessories
Legendary Negative modifier - Reduce Food healing For gloves and accessories
Hands of the Guilty - dropped from Blood-Handed Reduce Corruption and Purification Gain Corruption for every elite killed
Wanderstriders - dropped from Pacifist Ending a challenge with this item equiped will be registered in the item Starting a run with this item will activate the challenge registered in it Once a challenge has been registered in the item, you can only increase its level.
Roots of Endless Growth - dropped from Rooted Overkilling elites increase your players levels (used for card/equipment effect formula), Doesn't grant bonus cards
Hypercube Manifold - dropped from Rooted level 100+ Increase/decrease effective Tier of equipment in different slots
Cloak of Worship - dropped from Soul-less Champion Increase a Tag drop multiplier Increase soulcoin gain based on your related tag multiplier
Sights of the Specialist - dropped from Vanilla Weapon specialist talent is active while this item is equiped
Blood Seal - dropped from Blood Bath Corruption increase drop chance of Unique item
Wraps of the Humble - dropped from Purist Empty passive talent slot increase your global stats
The Tesseract - dropped from Rooted-Cubed Increase/decrease equipment minimum efficiency of differents slots
Recursive Polychoron - dropped from Rooted-Cubed Level 100+ Increase/decrease maximum level of random cards
Monk Robe - dropped from everywhere Increase your damage if you have only one weapon
Monocle of Revelation - dropped from Amnesia
Reduce Quality of equipment
You now have an option to invest 10% of your actual gold to the shop-keeper if your gold is greater than 1e8 gold Option is disabled if you did the Wander Trick
Equipment that cannot be equipped on the current avatar are 90% less likely to be dropped
All equipment modifier of Common rarity are learned by default So modifier crafting can be used much earlier
Removed "\ Enemies scaling" option This caused more issues that anything, and couldn't be balanced into having it's expected result.
Reaching a certain time in survivors also validate all lower difficulty
The game now differenciate between Manually banned card, and card banned by other card Manually tainted banned card will no longer be unbanned if no card are available anymore
Picking a Manually banished card in Blackmarket will unbanish said card
Added a third accessory slot to Summoner
Removed Legging and Boots slot to Summoner
Added a second glove slot to Summoner and Duelist
Immortality Shard now greatly increase player Size but also Instantly kill all normal and Elite enemies that touch you
Bright crystal now require Heavy pickaxe to drop
Ice Spirit is now a Boreal forest exclusive card
Heavy SoulCard now increase Base Damage by 0.75 instead of 0.5, but also increase player size by 7%
Light Weight SoulCard - now also Reduce Player Size by 5%
Quick SoulCard - now also Reduce Player Size by 2%
Gigantification - now also Increase Player Size by 3%
Colossal Strength - now also Increase Player Size by 2%
Ash now increase DoTs Damage instead of Power
Volcanic Fury now also increase DoTs Damages
Protective field now reduce Talent charge rate by 99% (instead of 50%)
Evasion now increase Dash charge delay by 5%
Enabling cheatmode now prevent item from droping
Reduced Timer objectives for non-elite stage This should help the "Survive" object to not feel as long as before and slightly reduce run length. Formula reduced from: 60 + 3x\ + 10x\ to 45 + 2x\ + 5x\ seconds
Blood transmutation Nerf Health Conversion is now capped by Power value (before transmutation) This can be reverted by obtaining Blood Synthesis card
Adventurer Licence now greatly increase chance for card that belong to other avatar to appear (x3) in black market
Tweaked many card from Ember Dune to orient them more toward a Power build (in opposition to Behemoth graveyard that is more oriented toward defense):
Ancient Clothe Changed tag from Moon to Fire Now increase Power Multiplier by 5% instead of Defense by 3.5%
Mummy Curse Now reduce base defense by 5 (instead of adding 5) Also increase Power Multiplier by 10% No longer has the Moon Tag
Scented Jar No longer Increase Base defense by 3 Now Increase Base Power by 4 instead of 1 No longer has the Moon Tag
Reworked Ashes Now provide Increased Fire tag drop-rate by 5%, No longer reduce defense No longer increase base Power Increase DoT damage by 10% Exclusive to Scorched Plateau
Sand Armor is now a Behemoth Graveyard exclusive card (instead of Ember Dune)
Unlocking A-rank now require completion of 15 challenges (instead of 20)
Notice board event can now happen once every loop (only once per run before)
Increased number of statuette choice offered by the young sculptor (they can also be rerolled for money)
Reworked "Cursed" challenges Removed all previous effect An Unkillable, unstoppable ghost always spawn at the start of a stage, slowly moving toward you, you quickly lose a lot of health on contact For every level-up, you gain a random cursed card, Each cursed card increase the ghost movement speed Bonfire event now has an option to transform cursed card into tainted card
Boiling blood and Blood transmutation are now mutually exclusive
Death aura talent now also slighty increase Damage when active (15% per level)
Most active talents now slightly increase the damage of the projectile spawned by the talent
Eyes of truth reworked: Required to unlock the "Break Mirror" option in Magic mirror event Increase max level of all soulcard by 1 per loop now only disable banishment from card and won't affect card that player did manually banish itself
Gluttony rework Gluttony no longer provide temporary bonus Instead, each food consumed provide a 0.75% (+0.25% per card level) bonus max health The higher the bonus from food consumed, the lower the drop-rate of food will be
Training gloves Now properly apply to weapon you choose Apply to ALL starting weapon (you can stack the effect on Talent and Knight Pendant weapon) When activated, the equipment is now force-locked and cannot be removed/swapped until the end of the run Slightly improve the formula for minimum Efficiency increase formula to allow a very small improvement from low level challenges
Cursed Sigil - Weapon modifier - Cursed Require to have one level of each Curse and more than 9999 Corruption Increase the weapon damage based on cumulated level of cursed cards Can only be obtained from event when obtaining cursed card Unlocked by completing the Cursed Challenge
Combustion - Tainted Increase DoT Damages
Immolation - Tainted Increase DoT Duration
Eternal Fire - Tainted GREATLY increase DoT Duration Require both Immolation and Combustion to be max level +2 Only appear in loop 1+
Fulfilment - Tainted Increase most of your stats based on how few artifact you own Only appear in loop 1+
Hoarder - Tainted Increase your Post Power based on your current help coin Only appear in loop 1+
Minimalism - Tainted Increase your soul-coin gain based on how few card you own Only appear in loop 1+
Pocket Sand - Common Increase Power Exclusive to Ember Dunes
Hemalith - Common Increase Base power by 1.5 Decrease Base Health regen by 0.1 Exclusive to Manor of Evelasting memories
Etherealium - Common Increase Base Power by 2.0 Decrease Base Pickup range by 0.15 Exclusive to Void Planes
Cinerite - Common Increase Base Power by 1.0 Decrease Base Defense by 1.0 Exclusive to Scorched Plateau
Blood Crystal - Uncommon Increase Max Health Exclusive to Crystal Depth
Devil Crystal - Uncommon Increase Corruption Exclusive to Crystal Depth
Mana Crystal - Uncommon Slightly increase Power, Defense and XP-Gain Exclusive to Crystal Depth
Reverse Blade - Uncommon Increase Base Defense piercing by 10
Double Tip - Rare Increase Defense Piercing Multiplier by 15% Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by 10% Increase Base Piercing Scaling by 1%
Ancient Cloth - Uncommon Increase Defense Multiplier Exclusive to Ember Dunes
Treasure Jar - Uncommon Increase Gold Gain Exclusive to Ember Dunes
Power Charge - Uncommon Increase Talent Charge cost by 25% Increaser Talent Power by 20% (Compound)
Iron Spirit - Rare Increase Max Talent charge by 25% Increase Defense by 5% Only found in Behemot Graveyard
Convergence - Rare - Only appear in Void Increase Base Power by 4.0 Increase Power Multiplier by 5% Increase Critical Damage by 2% Decrease projectile size by 5% Decrease area size by 5%
Brittle - Weapon Modifier - Epic Projectiles is destroy on the first hit Increase projectiles damage by 5% for each piercing of the projectiles
Power Pressure - Epic Decrease Talent Charge cost by 25% Increase Talent Power by 100% Decrease Max Talent Charge by 50% Decrease Talent Charge Rate by 50% Increase Power by 4% (compound) Only found in Ember Dunes
Wide Strike - Epic Increase Defense shredding Multiplier by 100% Decrease Defense piercing Multiplier by 40%
Super Charge - Heroic Increase Talent Charge cost by 900% Multiply Talent Power by 10 Reduce Talent Charge Rate by 25%
Blood Charge - Heroic Upong killing an enemies, Gain equivalent to 0.1 seconds of talent charging.
Defensive Tactics - Heroic Reduce your Power multiplier by 90% Your final Defense is multiplied by your Base Power
Blood Burst - Heroic Increase Talent Charge rate by 5% Increase Health Regen by 10% Increase Talent Charge cost by 10% Increase Talent Power by 25%
Fire Cloth - Heroic Increase your Power Multiplier based on total Fire card level Exclusive to Ember Dunes
Outer forces - Heroic Increase Power Multiplier by 50% Increase Base Corruption by 20 Decrease Max Health by 10% Exclusive to Void Planes
Mummy's Cruse - Synergy Synergy of Ankh, Ancient Cloth, Scented Jar and Treasure Jar Increase Base Power, Base Defense and Movespeed, but also Corruption and player size Exclusive to Ember Dunes
Prismatic Crystal - Synergy Synergy of Blood, Bright, Devil and Mana Crystal Increase their maximum level and effects. Drop rate of this card is reduced as it level up Exclusive to Crystal Depth
Fairy Blood - Synergy Synergy of Fairy in a bottle, boiling blood and Blood transmutation Increase effect of blood transmutation based on how much of your max health you regenerate each seconds Exclusive to Dawn Forest
Blood sigil - Synergy Synergy of Dash Delay and Love&Hate If your health is greater than 50%, consuming a dash charge remove 15% of your Max Health instead
Hemotempora - Synergy Synergy of Boiling blood and Temporal Lens Each % of health lost, increase your timescale
Hemostasis - Synergy Synergy of Hemotempora and Wormhole Remove Wormhole on pick-up In addition to Wormhole effect, activate anachronistic and provide invinicibility for 2 seconds
Armor Breaker - Weapon Modifier - Ascended On hit, Increase current enemy defence loss by 1/2/3/4% Effect is capped to x50/200/800/3200
Acidic Blood - Ascended On Take Damage, Increase current enemy defence loss by 35/40/45/50%
Death door mastery - Ascended Death door no longer prevent anachronistic from being used Increase cost of anachronistic Exclusive to Duelist
Carbyne Skin - Ascended Disable active talent Defense is multiplied by your Current Talent Charge Reduce Talent charge rate by 99% Lose 10% of your talent charge when taking damage Banish (and remove) "Divine Blood" and "Spirit Ascension"
Divine Blood - Ascended Disable active talent Power is multiplied by your Current Talent Charge Reduce Talent charge rate by 99% Lose 1% of your talent charge each seconds Banish (and remove) "Adamantium Mind" and "Spirit Ascension"
Spirit Ascension - Ascended Final Talent Power is squared Multiply Max Talent Charge by 10 Multiply Talent Charge Rate by 10 Banish (and remove) "Adamantium Mind" and "Divine Blood"
Dual Mind - Ascended Automatically cast your active talent when you talent charge is greater than 3 time your talent casting cost (this effect is disabled if all weapon are disabled) has a 1s cooldown between casting
Blood Synthesis - Ascended Uncap Blood transmutation Exclusive to Scorched Plateau
Waste - Ascended Increase max level of "Average" by 1 for every 5 level in card with the "hunt" tag
Inate Talent - Ascended Increase Attackspeed by 11% Increase Power Multiplier by 25%
Improving your talent - Reach 2 or more Talent Power Unlock Power Pressure
Talent Overload - Reach 10 or more Talent Power Unlock Super-Charge
Limitless talents - Reach 100 or more Talent Power Unlock Spirit Ascension
Changing priorities - Reach 25K Defense Unlock Defensive Tactics
Intensifying Fire - Get Fire Spirit to level 1 Unlock Combustion
Melted Flesh - Kill 500 elites Unlock Flesh Candle
Anti-Armor - Have 50% or more Defense Shredding Unlock Wide Strike
Blacksmith's headache - have 10K or more Defense Piercing Unlock Armor Breaker
Recycling is important - Reach Level 250 Unlock Waste
Level can get really high - Reach Level 500 Unlock Blood Charge
+44 Other achievements... I won't spoil them all :)
Cursed Village Has a chance to replace normal villager event if you have 100 corruption or more, chance increased based on your purified corruption You have 3 choice, either Escaping the cursed village, obtaining 1 cursed card, stopping to get heroic tier card, but obtaining 2 cursed card, or search for a random artifact and obtaining 3 cursed cards Can only appear after killing villagers at least once in your save file
Magic Ore mine Can appear in Crystal Depth Can mine magic ore to obtain gold, Gold collected scale with the level of Heavy Pickaxe Can also mine Cursed Ore if you have 10 or more corruption, allow more gold than magic ore, and also scale with Necrotic Bone If you don't own, or have Crystal Sword level lower than 7, Craft Crystal Sword at level 7, this i the new way to obtain crystal sword (instead of killing golem enemies)
Elemental Shrine Similar than Shrine of Order, but applied to card tag instead of the card rarity If a card has multiple tags, a random one is selected, weapon are not affected
Priest You can Give money to the priest for a permanent increase to soul-coin gain (After completing descent into hell) randomly give out one of your artifact, permanently increase your starting purification Cleanse your cursed card - Cleanse up to 5 cursed card into tainted card in echange for gold, consecutive cleanse cost more and more
Training Ground You can pay the trainer to increase your xp gain permanently You can train one of you stats, also making innate talent gain a permanent bonus to this specifics stats Buy a training set from the trainer, Which increase Practice maximum level to 99, but also make it double any level it gain when picking it up
Banker Allow to deposit or withdraw gold to the vault Gold put in the vault don't reset between run, however, you can only deposit/withdraw up to 5000 Gold (+5000 per zone completed)
Wandering Caravan You can interact with them to open a shop menu You can decide to steal a completely random artifact (even boss one) and a bit of gold. you receive one cursed card. In certain situation, they will offer you to open a black market (require to have invested enough gold to the shop-keeper and having Black market unlocked)
Bard You can tell about your adventure, each stats allowing to affect a different song. You can then in future run (or later during the run) listen about your adventure and gain buff based on different stats. The buff only last for the current run, but the score is permanent and can benefit future runs
Rogue Goblin Upon meeting them ,you can choose to subjugate them, or if the requirement are fulfilled, hire them, giving you an artifact that summon 2 goblin and 1 goblin mage at the start of each stage, with stats scaling from the player's stats
God Stelle You find a Stelle from one of the god, allowing you to either pray, give an offering, or destroy it, having effect on the related card tag drop-rate, and various other effects
Soul-Forge Allow to melt down any weapon for "Ember Shards" Then, Ember shards can be used to level-up any weapon (once per weapon per event)
Cursed Village Rare variant of the Save villager event (that has some specifics requirement to appear) Grant crused card Possibility to obtain heroic card or a Boss pool artifact
S-rank - Closest Shrine tracker Point toward the closest active shrine
S-rank Inventory page upgrades
Can add up to 10 page at max level, it should be enough for most of your weird shenanigans with equipments
Ascended Evolution Weapon - Reality Rifter Charge and fire a powerful ray splitting reality in half, Any non-boss enemies to side of the rift are pulled at high speed, Damage GREATLY increase during prolonged exposure to the rift
Damage number scaling issues (and a few other issues related to damage numbers)
Hero mode no longer prevent equipped item from being hovered
Rooted damage modifier not being reflected on DPS stats of weapon (they would display unscaled damages)
Interdimensional Rose and Rift being applied on the player in case of self damages
"Continue" button not being selectable with gamepad in reward screen without picking up every reward
Escaping from the modifier crafting menu (with B-button or escape) no longer return you to the main menu, but to the equipment menu as it should
Material colour not fitting the equivalent Equipment tier colour after S tier
Purification description being inaccurate at value lower than 1
Roots of endless growth working for normal enemies
Hemo-Tempora scaling based on flat health and not normalised health
Silkskin wing not applying its stat properly
Holy Conversion not applying its stats properly
Silk Edge wasn't properly update its value when power value is modified
Challenge being directly available at super high level when unlocking them
Fog quality being different when set via the general setting or with Custom quality set on
Depth of field inconsistency between different camera mode/Zoom level, now the blur always start the same height of the screen whatever the zoom or camera perspective is
Shopkeeper avatar level-up remaining UI not displayed
Weapon modifier not being properly removed from weapons when card is removed
Item Name in rewards when artifact pool is empty
Tooltip sometime not disappearing during profile creation
Rare bug where duplicated artifact could spawn as reward
Damage mitigation value being wrong in equipment tooltip
Gunslinger having weapon cap in challenges
Reward scroll being at the bottom of selection
Material list in Modifier crafting missing the last material
Item tooltip overlapping each other for item comparison on reward screen (also made them behave in a more intuitive way when reaching the screen border)
Ankh and Volcanic fury not properly displaying value for level above 1
Some boss related enemies counting as boss kill for Blood bath and Blood handed
Bow talent damage not properly scaling as said
Crystal sword talent not properly applying the bonus from talent on the slash
"Worm gland" and "Fire Ring" Active talent description not working
Secondary modifier not gaining bonus drop chance when not learned yet
Loading run with a lot of card/artifact now take very low amount of time (from 5seconds to about 1)
Touching a shrine while having a lot of card should no longer freeze the game (at least not nearly as much)
Reduced enemies count in Manor by 60% (also reduced objectives kill requirement) to improve performance
Reduced enemies count in Void Plane by 30% (also reduced objectives kill requirement) to improve performance
Custom card now should properly support empty card requirement without causing errors
Stat Breakdown {StatName} Display in depth everything that affect a stat value, should greatly help with bug reporting
Run Difficulty You can now choose between different run difficulty, those modify the game to become harder, but grant better soul-coin reward. There is some ideas to make higher difficulty more rewarding to players that could come in the future like special version of equipment, or other unique interesting mechanics. There is 4 Different Run Difficulty available:
Normal Mode - The default difficulty of the game, nothing change from how the game were used to be
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 99
Expert Mode - An noticeable increase in Difficulty, Unlocked after you start completing challenges, This can serve to give a bit more of difficulty to player that find the vanilla game too easy from E-rank to A-rank
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 25%
Increase Post Pick-up radius by 2
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Enable Overkill Mechanic
Enemies now has Health regen, scale with corruption
Enemies projectile are 50% faster
Enemies are 50% Faster
Enemies health is doubled
Enemies Damage is multiplied by 4
Experience gain exponent is 0.85
Double Soul-coin Gain
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 499
Mythic Mode - Serious increase in Difficulty, Only recommended after you really master most of the game mechanics and have good gears, and only really useful when you start to seriously grind ultra-high equipment quality
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 30%
Increase Post Corruption by 50
Player's Health Exponent is ^0.85
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Reduce Overkill mechanic Threshold
Enable Ultra-Overkill Mechanic
Enemies projectile are 75% faster, speed also scale with corruption
Enemies are 75% Faster
Enemies health is multiplied by 5
Enemies Damage is multiplied by 10
Enemies Defense is multiplied by 20
Damages received by enemies exponent is ^0.85
Experience gain exponent is ^0.85
Effective equipment tier exponent is ^0.9 Each tier has a tier (F = 1, A = 6, Infinity+1 = 15) This value is exponented by ^0.9 and then ceiled This mean that is only start affected gear at S-tier, and the effect slightly increase as you get higher tier, Infinity +499 gear would become about Infinity ~+250 for the duration of the run
Soulcoin gain is multiplied by 10
Soulcoin gain is further multiplied by 1.25 per loop
Found equipment quality is multiplied by 1.02 per loop
Maximum Gear tier: Infinity + 999
Ascended Mode - Good luck...
Increase player's move speed Multiplier by 35%
Increase Post Corruption by 500
Player's Health Exponent is ^0.85
The Damage receive increased with corruption
Player's Damage receive Exponent is ^1.5
Further Reduce Overkill mechanic Threshold
Reduce Ultra-Overkill Mechanic Threshold
Enemies projectile are 100% faster, (still scale with corruption)
Enemies are 100% Faster
Enemies health Exponent is ^1.5
Enemies Defense Exponent is ^1.5
Enemies Damage mitigation scale with Corruption
Damages received by enemies exponent is ^0.75
Experience gain exponent is ^0.75
Effective equipment tier exponent is ^0.75
Soulcoin gain is multiplied by 1.5 per loop
Soulcoin gain Exponent is ^1.25
Found equipment quality is multiplied by 1.05 per loop
Maximum Gear tier: No limits
End of Stage Event Stage now has a 10% chance to have an event on completion. This will allow an increase of importance to players choices The last stage before boss have 20% chance to be a bonfire event (but cannot have other event) To compensate this, event have a 30% less common as a stage type
S-Rank World Provide a completely different level of difficulty, with a much more aggressive scaling of enemies health and damage over the run as well as a few minor change to some bosses I know it going to be completely destroyed by veteran, but it should still prove a huge increase in difficulty to most player that finished with A-rank Require the completion of 20 challenges
Zone Modifier Zone have a chance to have modifiers (both positive and negative) First loop always have one zone choice that won't have any modifiers (except in S-rank) The higher you are in loops, the more modifiers (both positive and negative) can appear
Change to camera perspective This is a change I made to gain quality on Volumetric like without having to increase it's performance cost
This technically doesn't change angle or how much thing is display on screen, but it definitely make the game look different I know some player won't like the new camera, so there is a game option to revert back to the old camera perspective (Game Option > Visual > Camera)
Reworked Infinite Material progression Infinite material tier is now set-up in 4 tier, each fitting to a range of equipment tiers:
Tier 1 is used for equipment from infinite +1 to infinite +99
Tier 2 is used for equipment from infinite +100 to +499 (can only be obtained in Expert mode)
Tier 3 is used for equipment from infinite +500 to +999 (can only be obtained in Mythic mode)
Last tier is used for equipment above Infinite +1000 (can only be obtained in Ascended mode)
Added a new mechanics of "Over-Killing" to player (only enabled in Expert Mode and above) When you receive damage (after defence and damage mitigation and all damage reduction effect) multiple order of magnitude above your max health, you are instantly killed, ignoring all damage dodging mechanics (and evasion damage capping) In Mythic and Ascended, you can get "Ultra-Overkilled", which also completely ignore all death dodging mechanics, but OoM requirement is significantly higher
Duelist rework
Increase base health from 60 to 100
Reduced Defense cap of Duelist from 75% to 50%
Duelist no longer start with -10 defense, but -2 base defense and x0.5 defense multiplier
Duelist now gain 5% damage scaling from power every time her Death door ability is used until the end of the run
Death door ability disable anachronistic during the debuff duration
Black Market
Black market is a very rare variant of shop, that allow player to obtain card that they shouldn't be able to obtain at the moment
It can range from banished card, to card that you are still missing the requirement, or ever card exclusive to other avatars !
There is also a rare chance of the shop offering you an evolution for cards that you don't even own yet !
However, price in the black-market scale with the gold you already own !
Unlocked by Investing 10 million gold coin to the shop keeper Once unlocked, normal shop have 1% chance to be replaced by a blackmarket (+0.2% * log1e7( Investment))
(Black-market has an additional discount equal to log10x(Investment/1e7)x0.01 up to 1e32 gold invested)
Above that, the formula is 0.25 + log10x(Investment/1e32)x0.0025 The discount is multiplicative to the discount of normal shop; Black Market also have much lower chance to appear at lower world rank)
Huge refactoring of statistics Game now support any number of calculation step, called Layers
There is still the default steps: "Base/Multiplier/Post", but also Late Multiplier (inserted after Multiplier and before Post), and Conversion (Added after Post) that allow conversion card to use effect of non-conversion post cards
Ability to pin card in the encyclopedia during a run with Right click Pinned card will be put forward in card selection, as well as the required card to obtain it
Added Talent loadout Similarly to equipment loadout, you can now swap between multiple custom loadout for talents
Some challenge now add rain in game
Added search field for modifiers crafting
Custom Game Setting You can now modify many setting related to your game (unlocked after completing A-rank) Some setting disable rewards (like starting gold, challenge Game rules or custom stat value) Settings are ordering in category,
First is simple On/off toggle you can find in some challenge
Second are number value you can find in some challenges
Third are challenges modifier that level can be set (yes you can stack any leveled challenges as you wish)
Last category allow you to edit your default stats
Recursive tooltip (finally) Hovering for long enough or clicking a keyword now lock the tooltip menu, allowing to over keyword in the same tooltip.
Timing can be modified in options
Forge Menu improvement The forge now display the player's equipment on the left side, with a button allowing to switch with the inventory The loadout dropdown only affect the forge equipment and is not applied. Depending on feedback I can easily change this behaviours
Many improvement to visual and diversity of Dawn Forest
Added Flowers patch, that have a chance to contain a random crate
Added Wheat patch that often contain a random crate
Added Large tree that have a chance to have crate and shrine nearby
Added large Wheat field that contain numerous crate hidden all over
Slight Bestiary rework Made the kill milestone easier to understand on how they work Slightly moved stuff to have more information and better separate them reworded bestiary completion to milestones completion
Added a slider for maximum enemy count in option
Equipment system can now also be unlocked by completing any challenge for the first time
Equipment button is no longer hidden on new profiles (but greyed out)
Equipment tooltip now add a small warning alongside level requirement if the item is not equippable on the current avatar
Added custom Damage number for infinite damage
Added some additional visual change on stage selection based on which challenge you are playing
Added chain Visuals to item that are locked (cannot be removed/replaced during the run)
Added a Key bind to swap auto-leveling up mode
Unique items that you already obtained are highlighted in yellow in challenge tooltip (instead of being white; this only apply if you currently have them in your inventory or equipped)
Key binds can now be unbinded
Equipping item action now try to find a free slot before replacing the first slot available (notably for accessories)
Card boosted by Pouch of greed are now displayed as a message at the bottom of screen
All infinity +X equipment now has proper coloring variation
All Material now has their own name up to ZZZ-tier
Material at Infinity +X tier now have a related name
Challenge button now specify the current gamemode, this should make it more obvious for new player that survivors and rog mode have different challenges
Added animation to button/slider and text-field when hovering/selecting them The intensity can be changed in games options (visual > UI)
Added animation to soulcards when hovering them (animation speed can be modified in options
Added sound when hovering cards
You can now search for specific weapon name when crafting Knight Pendant modifier
Many new icons for equipment
Added missing icons for talents
Greatly improved colors for Infinity tier items making tier of an item easier to recognize from a glance
Added an option to ignore recycling confirmation windows in reward screen
Equipment tooltip now display comparison with currently equipped item in the same slot
Added a small FX when enemies would spawn
Highest and lowest ever reached value of stats are now stored for achievements check (this mean that reaching a stats value and then losing it before an achievements check no longer prevent you from unlocking said achievement)
New Experimental option - Progressive Equipment level requirement When enabled, Equipment are instantly Active even when you don't have the level requirement, but their efficiency slowly increase to 100% as you reach their level requirement (I am not sure how much of a change it would bring into equipment balancing, so I keep it disabled by default)
That about one third of the patchnote, but should give you a preview of what's coming
Dear players , After a year, we're back with the Version 1.1 major update, along with an 41% discount!
Update Overview:
Improved graphics (especially for the first zone)
S-rank World
3 New difficulty mode that allow player to play the game with modified rule that will net them greater reward
Huge rebalancing to the End-game content
Custom game setting
Zone modifier - add some new rule that is only active in a specifics zone
A new weapon
30+ new soul-card that help to make every build more viable
Many new events
Chance for event to appear at the end of a stage
New shop type - Black Market
Improvement to UI in many places
Thank you for your continued support! New content is just around the corner—can't wait to share it with you!
Let's go into the dev blogs
(no new zone added)
I hesitated a long time before adding S-rank world, the main reason being that runs of the game are already considered really long for many, and I didn't want S-rank to add YET another zone, especially since the current final zone (Void Plane) has a very "finale" zone atmosphere. However, S-rank world does provide a seriously new level of difficulty for veteran players that steamroll over A-rank world. The scaling of enemies is now very slightly more exponential (to give you a rough idea, default health and damage values of Vampire Queen at A-rank are 30K damage and 500T HP, in S-rank, those values are 1B damage and 500Sx (yeah, that one trillion times more HP). S-rank also comes with new challenges
(Unlocked after completing A-rank)
Once you have completed A-rank world, instead of having a small "seed" field to enter the seed of your run, you now have a "Custom Game Setting" button
Inside of it, you can still modify the seed as you could before, however there are a lot of additional options, allowing you to enable any of the challenges of your choice, modify your statistics, or even your starting gold.
Modifying most of the settings will disable any achievements and meta-progression rewards (there is a red message that warns you of that), so it's mostly there for the beauty of sport
(I know this is far from ideal and that some players would have preferred it to keep rewards, but some challenge modifiers can seriously break the game when combined)
A bit of work has been put into improving the visuals for Dawn Forest,
This is the biome that is the most visited by players, but also the oldest that was made, and it definitely needed a bit of rework and improvement. You'll now find fields of wheat protected with barriers, flower fields (that often contain a crate), as well as some very large trees that cast shade beneath them
Evolution of Evolution, yup, there is finally one in game, and good luck building this weapon, it requires SOO many components that you'll have to really plan out your route and reroll to obtain it, but it is a very powerful weapon.
It basically slashes the very fabric of reality, pulling enemies into it. Enemies inside the weapon beam will have the damage inflicted scale multiplicatively over time
I'll delve into a bit of technical stuff to explain how we've come to this. To the surprise of some players, the game has always been a 3D game, and never a 2D game to start with. The game even has a bit of perspective in its camera (with a very low FoV of 3.5° angle), and the camera is very far from the player, about 200 meters away. At first I wanted to have a camera without perspective, but for some effects that are dependent on the depth map (like Depth of Field or Volumetric Lighting) I had to put a bit of perspective. The problem is that many effects I am using from the engine are very effective at close distance, but become more blurry at long distance (I'm speaking here of Volumetric Lighting, but also Cascaded Shadows). This is due to the game having a space of 200m being unused, but where sampling of volumetric lighting has to be wasted. This leads to the volumetric lighting having 50% or even 75% of its quality wasted. Annoyed by this, I tried a... surprisingly simple solution: get the camera twice closer, and double the Field of View. It instantly greatly improved the quality of volumetric lighting (like seriously), similarly for shadows, they are sharper (for the same performance cost). The "issue" is that it changes the aspect of the game. (I put "issue" between quotes because I personally prefer the game like this, getting much closer to my initial visual inspiration). Since I know some players are definitely going to outrage at the change (and I would be the first to do so), OF COURSE, there is a slider to change these parameters in the options, setting it to 0 resets the camera to how it was, 1 sets it to the new perspective, and values in between... well, stay in between for players who want this very personal touch.
(as well as some card rebalances)
Of course, this update comes with a lot of new soul cards. I was focused on adding soul cards that make more builds viable in late game. There are also some existing cards that now have very different roles (Ember Dune's cards are now more specialized toward pure Power builds, for example)
Here are a few of these new cards
(some of these card sprites are still placeholders/unfinished)
The 2 biggest changes are Gluttony, which got a complete rework, as it was known to cause issues with Blood Transmutation and leave the player at 1 HP, as well as Blood Transmutation itself, which is now separated into two cards: the initial card that is now limited by your existing Power stats (so it's no longer an instant x10 damage card), and another card that is found later that removes this limitation. This allows Blood Transmutation builds to still be very viable, without overshadowing other builds (of course, other builds got cards and artifacts added so they are much stronger than before)
In addition to all that, the update also brings a couple of extra defense-oriented artifacts (which were seriously missing for builds)
The forge menu now directly displays your equipment window, allowing you to more easily upgrade items that are currently equipped to your character
This is another big change to the equipment system. Materials used for Infinite items have now got a major rework to be used over multiple tiers.
Infinite material tiers are now set up in 4 tiers, Tier 1 is used for equipment from Infinite +1 to Infinite +99 Tier 2 is used for equipment from Infinite +100 to +499 (these can only be obtained in Expert mode) Tier 3 is used for equipment from Infinite +500 to +999 (only obtained in Mythic mode) Finally, the last tier is used for equipment above Infinite +1000 (only obtained in Ascended mode)
The reason for this change is that to upgrade a piece of equipment to a high Infinite tier, you needed EVERY tier of material before, and it led to some weird situations where you had Infinite +150 material, but couldn't upgrade your item because you were missing Infinite +32, +37, and +75 materials. This doesn't mean you can easily upgrade your equipment from +1 to +99. While it costs the same resources, the cost doubles for each tier (the amount of material you get from disassembling equipment also doubles for each tier), so while you can maybe push a tier by +1/+2/+3, it'll become more efficient to simply farm higher-tier items.
This also pushes end-game players toward harder difficulty modes that will reward them for doing so.
Already owned materials would be converted similarly to the scaling of cost (so players who had one +80 material and +105 material would now have about 10^24 Infinite +1 materials, and 16 Infinite +2 materials)
There has also been a rework to Infinite equipment colors, so they are easily identifiable from each other (using a gradient system)
Speaking of additional run difficulties, in addition to Expert Mode that was talked about in the previous dev blog, Mythic and Ascended modes have now been added into the game.
Mythic Mode is the third level of difficulty, unlocked by completing an A-rank challenge in Expert mode. This mode introduces the concept of "Death Prevention Overkill", in the sense that taking damage that is SOO high above your max health simply skips all cards that would prevent death. This type of overkill only happens when damage you receive is 10^30 times higher than your max health, so it forces players to start investing a bit into increasing their maximum health. It is a serious step-up from Expert mode and I don't expect even 1% of players to be able to seriously look into it
For curious players, here are all the changes introduced by Ascended mode
Ascended Mode is yet another serious step-up in difficulty, it takes everything Mythic Mode does, and cranks it up. It also borrows some of the changes from the Rooted Cubed challenge.
To unlock it, you're going to need to complete a few achievements:
Complete all Hardmode A-rank challenges
Have all of your equipment at Infinite Tier
Have Mythic Mode unlocked
I know it's a small thing to most players, but it's something I have wanted to implement for a VERY long time, the ability to get multiple layers of tooltips on top of each other. Nothing much, nothing less. There have also been a few tweaks to make it possible (that can be adjusted in the options)
This update also introduces a few additional stats
DoT Damage
Increases the damage of all DoT effects applied to enemies
DoT Duration
Increases the duration of all DoT effects applied to enemies
Talent Power
This one increases the effect of your active talents. It first of all multiplies the damage of your active talent by the square root of your Talent Power, but beyond that, other effects scale off its log value, it is very talent-dependent
Player Scale
This one got requested a lot, and it was always in the backlog of things to do, it is now part of the game. Player Scale affects the size of the player and its hitbox (so it's easier to dodge enemies' attacks). There has also been a BIG change to the pick-up that makes you invincible. It now increases your scale a lot, and any non-elite enemies will get stomped and insta-killed
Hello everyone, time for the (not) monthly dev blog of August!
(sorry to making an announcement about it soo late, I was busy finishing the event for beta update, and then this dev blog took me a bit of time)
Well, let's get on the devblog, and start directly with more advancement for
A new major addition with Update 1.1 is the addition of Run difficulty,
an (entirely optional) way to increase the difficulty of runs that can be enabled quite early for players that find the early/mid progression of the game too easy.
(Yeah there are a lot of typos left in it, no need to report that in the comments, it's going to be updated)
As of now there is only Expert Mode added in the game, but there are plans to add 2 new additional ones (and to add some additional effects that will play a bit with Zone Modifier)
Another major addition of update 1.1 is modifiers that are applied to an entire zone. They can provide both positive and negative effects to a zone, affect the map generation, or affect rewards you can obtain
During the first loop, you are guaranteed to have a path with no modifier.
The number of modifiers generated on a zone depends on the number of loops.
Since update 1.1 adds in a lot of additional events (more than 10 new events) it could become quite frustrating to not encounter the event you are looking for. With Update 1.1 you'll be able to encounter events after the end of any stage, which will overall lead to a lot of additional opportunities,
(note that "Event: Shrine of Reconstruction" can be viewed as a reward of this stage)
Events you'll encounter in an event stage are now generated during the stage generation phases (and no longer when entering the event)
This means it is now possible to view what event you are going to encounter before selecting a stage. As of now, event stages only have a 20% chance to not be hidden, but soul-shop upgrades to improve that will soon follow.
(Due to technical reasons, the game won't allow previewing events from stages not selectable since some events' chances to appear can vary based on many variables and change between two stage selections)
As said earlier, this update adds more than 10 new events (so far), which will about triple the current amount of events you can encounter (ignoring the Shrine event and the one-time equipment-related ones)
Here are a few ones:
Duelist is one of the least played characters, which is understandable, it doesn't really change most of the game, and can be a bit harder to play due to her very low HP pool and fragility in early game, especially as it is usually the first avatar unlocked. The current main usage of this avatar at the current time is if the player wants to go with a faith-oriented build (due to her lower natural Defense) and is very inefficient when used in another way. So the Duelist got a bit of rework to try to expand which builds are possible with her,
Increase base health from 60 to 100 The reason for that is to make the avatar on par with rog when doing Health Transmutation builds as well as making her more viable in very early game.
Duelist no longer starts with -10 defense, but -2 base defense and x0.5 defense multiplier
This change makes the avatar scale way better with Faith in mid and late game, while still making her take much less damage in early game.
However, this clearly makes her non-optimal for Metal transmutation builds (but why would you do a metal transmutation build with Duelist?)
Duelist now gains 5% damage scaling from power every time her Death Door ability is used until the end of the run,
Death Door ability disables anachronistic during the debuff duration
Those are likely the 2 biggest changes to the avatar, the first one makes the player more rewarded when playing in high risk, while the second change makes sure the player is indeed taking risks. However, the player could just take heavy damage until Death Door is activated, and wait in anachronistic until their HP is higher than 1 again.
Reduced Defense cap of Duelist from 75% to 50%, Defense cap is a new stat, that basically affects how much damage flat defense can stop at most, this change is another indicator to tell players not to try to make a defense-heavy build on her
There have also been a lot of minor additions, new artifacts (mostly related to events), new cards and equipment. In addition, Eyes of Truth has been reworked, now required to unlock looping for the first time, and providing increased max level to cards for each loop completed, giving a really powerful (and unique) effect that's worth the drawback.
For now, the beta only has one additional Run difficulty (Expert mode) and two additional ones will come in the following patch, as well as tweaking Expert mode.
While a few soulcards have been added in, there are still a lot of soul-cards that are planned to be added in the upcoming patches
The logic for custom run is there, but there is still no UI to allow players to run it, so it is not properly implemented in the game, I'll have to spend time to properly allow players to start custom runs.
Of course, due to the many in-depth changes and version changes (explained in the previous), the patch currently has a lot of bugs that will take a bit of time to properly iron out.
Beta for 1.1 has already started, access is behind the usual code "BackUpYourDamnSaves". You have to know this beta is particularly buggy compared to others, a patch fixing a lot of bugs is coming in the next few days (specifically related to the new events)
It is also important to know that saves from 1.1 cannot be read from version 1.0 (due to Talents layouts), so if you want to keep the progress after going on the beta, either make sure you know how to load back saves, or you'll have to wait for update 1.1 to be released
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