Star of Providence news & patch notes

• Runic Bullets now draw below enemy bullets
• Made some adjustments to the behaviors of Razors:
• Their melee range has been increased
• Their melee damage has been reduced (technically a bug fix)
• Their melee ammo has been substantially improved
• Their movement when returning to the player has been improved to better respond to player movement and generally return to the player more smoothly.
• Ringshot Razors no longer deal way less damage than they should

• Holy lasers fixed
• Weird behavior fixed with certain uniques if you rapidly pressed then held fire
• Fixed skip command for a certain end sequence on controllers
• Fixed Strafing OFF not working when Aim Assist was enabled while playing on controller.
• Sacred arms will apply on-kill effects as Skully (Void, infested, clean up crew, etc)
• Nerfed triple sword damage.
• Bloodlust adjusted: Each individual sword slash gains reduced bloodlust per bullet it destroys, to hopefully mitigate the interaction with loops
• Buffed triple pulsar
• The bullets from pulsewaves lasers now have damage that scales based on the total length of the laser. May adjust further.
• Sacred arms' staff has been adjusted for better ergonomics

• Pulsars (except shotgun, but including erupt) deal about 5% more damage

• Upped the delay before Crushers become active by 50%

• Reworked Colonel's Hard Mode opening attack on high loops.

• Exploit removed where player could infinitely farm charges in certain rooms with permanently active ghost lanterns.

• Reworked Colonel's fire bomb attack

• Overlord(Boss)'s first attack pattern no longer fires extra bullets at the end.

• Overlord(Trial Boss)'s last attack is slightly easier.

• Most things that used the sound of player taking heavy damage now use a different sound.

• Score over 99999 is indicated in a more ergonomic way now.

• A number of small text changes and localization tweaks and fixes.

• Relics now activate simultaneously when there are multiple in a room

• Electromancy AB item should no longer crash

• Black Hole (Unique Thunderhead) now deals 40% less damage, and its bonus damage against unpushable enemies has been reduced from 100% to 50%. It fires slightly faster as well because I felt sorry for it.

• A few tweaks to Chaosgod's first intermission across the loops.

• Crash when using German language in the garage has been fixed

• Killed the brighter frames Fire bullets should now be easier on the eyes

• Tweaked integer overflow graphics.

• Destroying a weapon on map screen takes longer.

• Several Firewall telegraphs are more noticeable.

• Bane Engine Gauntlet room challenge is more clearly defined.

• Daemonhead Gauntlet room received a number of improvements.

• Funnels will immediately self-destruct if not attached to any wall.

• Dominions have meatier explosions.

• Armsmaster EX less visually flat, uses a different pulsar attack.

• Fixed some strange behavior in Gauntlet's reward code.

• Database now visually indicates the edges of player area.

• Fixed up a small imprecision with which some Trial IV elements are drawn.

• Fixed a rare case in which screen shake displacement would become semi-permanent.

• Fixed an issue that caused warnings to not align with moving enemies.

• Fixed an issue that caused strange ship behavior after playing as Overlord.

• Fixed some sounds in mirror practice menu coming from the left speaker.

• Fixed ranks using the incorrect requirements on Loop 13

• Fixed ripple bullets being destructible by certain weapon types

• Added failsafes for a few achievements and unlocks that could be missed in exceedingly rare circumstances

• Fixed a bug that allowed Drillbots to teleport when they pop out of blocks

• Fixed Interceptor incorrectly being treated as a Construct instead of a Mech

• Adjusted a room that could rarely allow the player to softlock themselves

• Altered some more room layouts

• Added Loop selector to the Mirror

• Added the option to fight individual Database subbosses to the Mirror

• Fixed some bugs that occurred when fighting certain bosses in the Mirror that no-one ever noticed anyway. Probably.

• The map screen timer now runs in the Mirror

• Fixed jp/zhs text not drawing the second part of module drops

• Fixed a small memory leak when leaving shops

• A certain boss' speed-afterimages have been fixed. Again.

• Swords have a new swinging animation and swing slower by default, but reload faster when hitting in melee. The ranged attack has been buffed such that ranged DPS is higher than before and melee is comparable to before.

• Discount will now affect crates in shops

• Fixed a rare situation in which a cursed laser would stop firing one frame after starting in the last room before it breaks

• Ace of Swords does its thing harder.

• Ace of Wands is cooler/stronger.

• Ace of Coins buffed into existence from non-existence.

• Swords should much more consistently deal damage to Reactor and other similar edge cases

• Wider Spray Shotgun Pulsars no longer deal 2x the intended damage

• Fixed Monolith wobbliness

• Experimental tweak to controller aim assist. The direction you're facing (including the direction of Laser Aim) is now unaffected by aim assist, so you'll no longer "snap" towards enemies. This is a purely visual change that should hopefully make aiming feel more natural.

• Additional tweaks to new sword visuals and sfx

• The Japanese Localization has been heavily adjusted, and now supports both 8x8 and 16x16 resolution for font.

• Fixed the runic crash(es)
• Fixed an issue with the Warden's staff + clones attack.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching weapons as Armsmaster while firing a ringshot razor
• Razor shouldn't crash when you run out of ammo as Chaos Ship, either
• Prototype Genocide AB active buffed from 6 charges required to 2.
• Nerfed some attacks on Warden, especially on loops
• Razors now deal increased damage at a lower firing rate - they were very overtuned after their QOL improvements in last week's patch.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in Microcore's boss title not appearing at the start of the fight.
• Fixed a bug where you could teleport out of the boss room after using the Handheld game.
• The Glowing Rune cartridge now instantly reveals bosses and minibosses when picked up.
• Scrambler AB active can no longer destroy off-screen weapons in shops.
• Voltaic Thruster works in boss rooms
• The plate cart can appear on SD now.
• Fixed skully's base fire rate appearing to be 89%
• Fixed blink's description on English/German to no longer lie, other languages pending
• Fixed a few enemies that were unaffected by Stealth
• Reworded the controller menu description for strafing in Spanish
• Firepipes won't fire without a foundation
• Fixed an issue with runics targeting wallbound enemies (particularly Pollyp)
• Fixed some situations where the needle cart did not function
• Ascended one is now properly added to Bestiary when killed

• Fixed certain destructible bullet spreads not properly marking bullets as destructible and vice-versa.
• Electromancer's hardmode behaviour no longer scales on loops.
• Electromancers fire significantly fewer bullets on loops.
• Stormlashes fire similarly fewer bullets on loops.
• Bumpers fire less bullets on loops when colliding/dying/as a result of being in Hardmode.
• Bane Engines fire a reduced number of revenge bullets on loops.
• Swarm Hosts extrude fewer bullets on loops.
• Drones project a lower volume bullets on loops in a wider spread.
• Drastically reduced the quantity of revenge bullets produced by Red Halos/Malice Engines on loops.
• Shufflers fire a smaller number of bullets at a wider spread on loops.
• Adjusted the balance of several Floor 1 and 2 Strange Rooms.
• Fixed a couple crashes relating to Sokobash.
• Fixes to Banshee pathfinding behavior.
• Fixed an issue where Armor Tac never actually used any loop behavior. Also just made the boss cooler in general.
• Fixed an issue where one of Myriad's attacks didn't function on loop 0.
• Turret's Hard Mode behaviour has been adjusted.
• Charge effects on player corrected.
• Special Offer now has better feedback when "damaged".
• Also fixed Special Offer's misplaced lasers.
• Fixed an issue where max loop was not properly saved when you continued looping.
• Arcades will no longer repeatedly upgrade two cartridges into each other.
• Added more floor-specific shortcut layouts.
• Items in some shortcuts are no longer destroyed when leaving the room.
• Fixed a crash involving splitting swarmers in the database fight.
• One of the new bosses will no longer draw its attack indicators behind the boss.
• Nautilus properly destroys fire bullets.
• You can no longer escape money.

• focus now works properly in all cases
• removed invisible podium from bloke's fight
• choosing no when looping displays correct loop in report
• charges wont draw if player is invisible
• grasp of entropy won't crash as skully anymore
• fixed an issue where warden permanently turns the lights out
• fixed an issue involving cartridges appearing when they're supposed to stop appearing from being useless
• care package's price in the shop now has commas

• Skully now has 300 base ammo, up from 225 (33% increase). However, Skully's reload time is only reduced by 10% instead of 20% while he has ammo.
• Fixed a crash involving quitting to menu while having Contract.
• Gorynich's chain lightning works again, additionally the thunderhead should be fully sized again
• Fixed an issue with razor firing under niche conditions
• Gun with no name can now target the same destructible block multiple times. Additionally, it will only target an enemy or block exactly enough times to kill it.
• Salvage's tooltip no longer incorrectly scales the damage up bonus from salvaging unique weapons
• The Daemon that appears in gauntlets has a better telegraph
• Fixed an issue where skipping the credits would fail to award one of the ending achievements
• Pipeipedes should definitely no longer crash for sure definitely
• Cartridges now cost less in shops.
• The mini bane-engines in Gauntlet now take longer to spawn in so you should be able to get out of the way now.
• Shopkeepers display hack window again
• Cardboard Bloke's stand is correctly unstable again.
• Tweaks to the behavior of the Iron Fist unique weapon
• Nerfs to Grasp of Entropy while playing as Skully
• Fixed an issue where you'd get the World Record achievement early
• Fixed the ability to fire deployment array into walls.
• Adjusted a couple of rooms on floor 6.

• Fixed lasers visually lagging behind player
• Storm blessing can no longer spawn two of the same pickup
• Frost blessing triggers its counter attack on both layers of shield
• Homing lasers should no longer freeze the game
• Removed an issue where armsmaster could fire with an ammoless weapon with packrat and frame perfect swapping
• Skully no longer uses twice as much ammo when he has runes
• Reduced the rate at which the player damage softcap scales from one per 10% damage to once per 20% damage (you will continue to get 4% damage until 140% total damage instead of 130%, and 3% until 160%, at which point you will start getting 2% damage up.
• You can no longer sometimes end up with a basic sword if you're not overlord
• Fixed a bug where getting a certain secret weapon would crash the game the next time a weapon dropped
• fixed an issue where breaches and vault doors broke on a later game floor
• Gun with no name should be able to open things more reliably
• Fixed all the issues with phasing weapons and blocks hopefully
• Fixed an issue where blocks displaced by Sokobash could result in floating water.
• More stuff I missed probably

• 2 new upgrades.
• 1 new playable character.
• 5 new normal enemies.
• More new bosses than enemies for some reason.
• 13 new unique weapons.
• 20 new cartridges.
• 43 new keywords (including those exclusive to Skully and Unique weapons).
• A nearly complete rework of the loop mechanic, including capping it to a maximum loop of 13.
• A nearly complete rework of the Skully playable "ship".
• Face the Gauntlet, a new sub-branch which appears on late-game floors and offers valuable rewards in exchange for defeating esoteric challenges.
• "Boss" "Rushes".
• Hundreds of new room layouts, featuring a variety of new hazards and gimmicks.
• Massive balance changes, visual improvements, and performance optimizations across the whole game.
• The unknown diminishes, ever so slightly.

• 2 new upgrades.
• 1 new playable character.
• 5 new normal enemies.
• More new bosses than enemies for some reason.
• 13 new unique weapons.
• 20 new cartridges.
• 43 new keywords (including those exclusive to Skully and Unique weapons).
• A nearly complete rework of the loop mechanic, including capping it to a maximum loop of 13.
• A nearly complete rework of the Skully playable "ship".
• Face the Gauntlet, a new sub-branch which appears on late-game floors and offers valuable rewards in exchange for defeating esoteric challenges.
• "Boss" "Rushes".
• Hundreds of new room layouts, featuring a variety of new hazards and gimmicks.
• Massive balance changes, visual improvements, and performance optimizations across the whole game.
• The unknown diminishes, ever so slightly.
• And more...?

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• Temple no longer progresses seeds
• Drill hopefully actually never bugs out anymore
• Genesis properly has a race now (of Construct)
• Fixed a single errant block on floor 4