Roguefall news & patch notes

• Greatsword not grants +20% attack speed.

• Fixed a bug where boss would not react after reaching zero life.

Roguefall 1.0.0 is finally here!

After more than three years of development, we finally bring you the final version of Roguefall. It's been a rough, but rewarding journey bringing Roguefall to life and I hope you enjoy it as well! Here's a post to summarize what's been added to the full version.

Meta Progression

The hub now has an additional room, in which you can spend computer chips and keys to unlock permanent upgrades. Computer chips and keys are found during your run by defeating pesky drones before they can flee. However, you can also get computer chips by just playing the game regularly. There are a variety of different upgrades, but here is one example. Try the game to see all of them!

New Biome: Mossy Mines

A new biome including never before seen enemies can now be found during your journey. The Mossy Mines are particularly difficult so come well prepared. It also only spawns after you've already explored the layer quite a bit. Here's a small teaser of the player fighting in the Mossy Mines.

The Final Machine: 0VR5R

The boss has ascended to its final form. Can you defeat this new and improved foe?

More Treasures

There's a bunch of new treasures to be found on your journeys. This one converts all your physical damage to magic damage. I wonder what that could be useful for?

Infusions Reworked

We didn't like the old way infusions worked, so we reworked them. Treasures can now have elemental Ranks. The elemental rank, like in this example, Chill, determines how likely it is that you apply Chill. Higher ranks also increase the strength of the effect.

Larger Level

Given the new content added, like the Mossy Mines and other rewards, we decided to make the level significantly larger. Here's just a part of the whole map.

And More

We haven't documented every change here, so hop in the game and try it out yourself. Rumors say there's an adorable cat hiding in the hub.

Finally, we are grateful to everyone who's helped us out on our journey here. Thanks to all past and future players for checking out Roguefall!

Hello there!

It’s been a while since our last post. However today we're happy to bring you the next update to Roguefall. Possibly you've already seen the last update and even played a little and discovered some of the new things we added. Nevertheless, here's an overview of what‘s changed:

Treasures

In our previous update, we introduced a crafting system together with a single Treasure, the Chalice. In this update, we're expanding upon Treasures. We've introduced Simple and Unique Treasures.

Simple Treasures

Simple Treasures like the Chalice, can be used for crafting. Each Simple Treasure can now have up to 1 defensive and 1 offensive attribute. In contrast to most Unique Treasures, Simple Treasures have a implicit effect that cannot be changed, like the Chalice, which regenerates Life. There are 6 types of Simple Treasures in total.

Unique Treasures

Unique treasures are a way to enhance and change your build significantly throughout your run, beyond just simple stat changes. Overall their are currently over 30 Unique Treasures to discover!

Shops

Multiple Shop rooms have been scattered across the map. In these, you can spend your hard earned coins to buy some resources and Treasures. The Shop rooms are intended to let players have more control over their build. Additionally, in most Shop rooms you can reroll the current inventory to gamble on items that fit into your current playstyle. Of course you can also sell items you don't need.

Weapon Improvements

We have reworked each weapon to have a scaling effect unique to that weapon. Weapons are now treated as Special Treasures, that have their own slot in your inventory so they don't use up your usual Treasure slots. These can be changed in limited ways using the Fluxstar Essence, but cannot be unequipped during a run.

Scythe Overhaul

We decided to overhaul the Scythe, as its previous mechanic was clumsy, hard to understand, and quite restrictive. Now you can control which minions you summon via Skull Treasures. Skull Treasures are a type of Simple Treasure, but they also enable you to spawn different types of minions. The manual summoning has also been replaced with an automatic summon and resummon once an encounter starts.

Other Changes

In addition to the aforementioned changes, we have added many QoL improvements (like reloading on right mouse button press or being able to switch between menus without having to close them first), as well as smaller bug fixes. We have also adapted the tutorial, to be more streamlined and integrated into the overall gameplay loop. There was also a security vulnerability reported in the Unity Version we used (and many others). Therefore we also updated the used Unity Version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Overall, the game changed quite a lot (again), but we are quite happy with the state of it and where its heading. We feel that with the Treasure and crafting mechanic in place, we have a good system which we can expand upon. Unfortunately, we were still not able to implement a system for meta progression. Our goal was to first have a proper run progression that allows us to actually build upon with the upcoming meta progression.

You can check out all these changes and more in our free demo! We are happy to hear your feedback.

Upcoming Plans

With many systems already in place, we want to focus on meta progression for the next update. We already have the system planned out and have started the implementation. There will be two meta currencies you can earn during you runs. These are used to unlock and upgrade the meta progression. These may contain simple boosts, modify the rooms, or your inventory. There will also be progression through achievements by simply playing the game.

We will also continuously add new Unique Treasures to further increase build diversity and gameplay choices.

The current Infusion system (like Aftershock, Flame, Chill) will be removed and instead added as additional implicit effects on Treasures in the form of Effect levels, where the total level determines the strength of the effect. These additional effect levels will roll randomly on Treasures and will not be craftable. We decided to restrict the crafting on these effects, as we want to have players really think about which Treasure to slot in to their current build.

In the next update, you will also have the chance to face new enemies and explore a completely new biome, in addition to some changes to the final boss.

Stay tuned for future updates and in the meantime, we hope you enjoy the most recent changes and additions!

It's been sometime since our last post, but we're proud to finally bring you a major update to Roguefall.

We've overhauled quite a few things so lets get started:

• Gathering You can now find different resources to gather throughout the Grassy Grove. Here are some rocks: In boxes you can find these mysterious Essences: Here you can see a harmless chicken, surely you wouldn't kill it just for some feathers? But of course there are many more resources to gather!

• Crafting

  Using the previously mentioned resources you can modify the newly added item called Treasures. Treasures are found throughout your run and give boosts to different stats. You can change which stats are boosted using the Crafting Table. Here's a preview of the crafting:

  Hop in yourself to discover all materials and craft powerful Treasures!

• Antique Firearm

  We've added a new weapon, the Antique Firearm. It is a ranged weapon which deals a significant amount of damage, but has to be reloaded after four shots:

• Mysterious Scythe

  The Mysterious Scythe is a new weapon with which you can summon fallen foes to fight for you!

• Level System

  Maybe you've already noticed a few bars on the lower end of the previous screenshots. These indicate your XP which you can spend to boost your stats:

• Layer Layout As we announced in a previous post, rooms are now on a grid that you can explore using a minimap. The layout is randomly generated for each run. Here is an example:

  There are different rooms to discover on the map, each with different enemies and rewards.

• Echoes

  Echoes are passives that change a part of the game in a more significant way than simple stats will. Here are a few of them:

  However, in the future we will be moving these effects to Unique Treasures, as we think they fit better into that category. More on those in a future update.

• Meta Progression

  Unfortunately we couldn't overhaul the meta progression in time so we will be doing that in a future update. Stay tuned!

• We've also added another type of item which we mentioned in our last post. Hop in game to find it!

That's all for now and check back for more updates in the future!

• Layer Layout and Intermediate Goals We will be replacing the linear structure of the rooms with a grid of rooms where players can choose which room they want to explore next. The player starts in the center of this grid and is tasked with the goal of finding a way to repair the elevator they used to get to their current layer. The materials to repair the elevator are marked on a mini-map, giving players a goal when navigating the layer.
• Overhaul to Meta Progression The meta progression is very random and lackluster at the moment. We will be introducing a new system that uses a new meta resource called Chips which you can find randomly when exploring a layer. Meta resources are generally spent in the hub before starting a new run. Chips in particular can be used to spec into predictable and permanent upgrades for the player. Those include things like:
  • Unlocking the ability to re-roll the options given when choosing between different rewards during a run.
  • Revives
  • Revealing specific rooms on the mini-map when a new run starts. Rooms revealed contain shops, special rewards, treasures, and others,
  • Basic stats like Life and Damage
  • And more!
  If you want to change around those upgrades you will need another new meta resource called Golden Thread. Golden Thread will enable players to:
  • Re-spec permanent upgrades
  • Unlock new weapons
  • If you have enough Golden Thread you can even spend them during the run instead. During a run you are then able to spend them to re-roll the options given by a reward.
  • And more!
• Run Progression After tackling the Meta progression we will also be making changes to the progression that happens during a run:
  • Gold Coins will be replaced with Scrap, which will be the currency that is spent during a run and resets after you die. Scrap will be spent on shops that you can find during the run.
  • Echoes In order to create more depth when building a character we will be introducing new items that interact with the player and enemies in different ways. One of those are Echoes. A Echo is a upgrade that can be found when exploring rooms. Here are some examples: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45482090/815303964bffad1382f3a4bcdb8aa6dd877888eb.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45482090/ad1f9b10482e2620677a8f2dca7d0ed3a5d9dfd3.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45482090/719cb19e4e3dff5c83b74e801c6a31ef6d2737fe.png
  • Infusions Infusions are another new type of upgrade. Using an infusion a weapon can be infused with a effect which applies a specific debuff to a enemy when using that weapon. One of them is Flame, which simply adds a damage over time debuff to the enemy, but there are more to come!
• Character Level System At the moment players have little control over the stats they would like to spec into. In order to make those basic stats more predictable we will be introducing a level system for the character. The character collects experience points when killing monsters. Using those experience points you can choose one of a few basic stats like, maximum Life, damage reduction, evade chance, damage, critical chance, and others. If you're on low life you can instead opt to go for a heal giving up the opportunity to increase a stat for that level up.
• World and Setting In order to make the setting less generic we will slowly be making some changes to adjust the setting into a more unique theme. We will not be revealing the direction for now, but maybe you can pickup on some hints in this post.
• General Improvements Here are some other issues we are aware of and working on:
  • With all of the new systems being added we will also be adding a tutorial in order to get players properly accustomed to the different mechanics.
  • A character sheet that summarizes your stats.
  • Display of the cooldown after rolling.
  • Adjust some enemies to be less tanky.
  • Introduce a new fodder enemy.
  • Hold to attack instead of spamming