The Big Number news & patch notes

1.7.0 Fortress Update

Fortress can be accessed by clicking in the icon above the pet icon

17 buildings to construct / upgrade using the new currency Hardware Components (HC)

7 new bosses inside the Fortress to defeat. 

Now the true win condition is earned after defeating OUROBOROS, defeating all the 17 firewalls will give a ‘Chapter 1 complete’

Some buildings / upgrades (Security Tower, Operators, program mastery) will give you Fortress DPS.

Some buildings will give you passive income, such as production bonuses, more breach credits, more entropy...

You will be able to trade Entropy / Breach credits -> HC

You will be able to level up operators and send them to expeditions

You’ll earn HC for first clear of bosses as well as an Exploit Package (randomized loot drops from bosses, with  modifiers that persist through prestige)

Combat programs now have a mastery level that grows with use, adding permanent stat bonuses.

Redesigned the Data Farm panel, including new crop slots, crops to plant!

Now when you buy upgrades from the Network Map related to the crops, it correctly shows the yield in data farm panel

Now in auto-plant instead of picking a single crop for all slots, you now assign how many slots each crop should occupy.

v1.6.0 Network Map - explore the nodes and spend entropy to get permanent upgrades

There’s 80 nodes in total. 

Upgrades for: Production, Click power, Entropy, Combat, Farming, and Pet

Statistics panel is redesigned, instead of a long list of all things, now you can filter

Buffed Brute force damage Entropy cap is now 50M

Thank you!

• v1.5.0 - Pet & More!

• Add Pets (you can set your production / sec to level up the pet, it will give you passive bonuses (production,click,entropy, agent hp, damage, defense) per level

• You can access the pet by clicking the pet icon on the bottom left part of the screen

• Pet have a maximum level that can be increased by spending some materials dropped from dungeons and entropy

• Pet skins

• Add 4 new dungeons to Network Intrusions, with new enemies, materials

• Agents max level now is 200

• Add dungeon tiers, after clearing the current +# dungeon 100 times, you’ll unlock the option to go to current dungeon tier +1, enemies will be a bit harder but will give more xp, breach credits etc

• 5 new breach keys to craft / 5 new firewalls to defeat

• Add more “quantity” to buy in the credits shop overall 

• New threat database milestones

• Balanced the breach credit shop costs and bonuses 

• 8 new achievements related to pets

• Add a new tab on Data farm to spent the unused Data points into game bonuses (prod/sec, click power, entropy)

• Crops now gives ~50% more data points

• Removed the entropy cost while converting materials in complier tab

• In RAM, increased max GB that can be allocated in Mining, Brute force, Click boost

• Changed max lvl for Infinite Amplifier from 50 to 100

It has been almost 20 days since The Big Number launched! Here are some numbers: Till the date of this post, we sold 642 copies!! we're at 250 wishlists (i released the game with only 11 wishlists..) So this is just a thank you for everything. I'm brainstorming about new ideas / expand the game, so in the near future, we should have more updates!

I'm always 'watching' the community hub of the game to see if everything is alright!

And if you manage to find the game enjoyable, please consider leaving a review, we are at only 8 by now, this helps me a lot!

Edit:

Just a small change, i've add new musics to the game, themed musics (you can still listen to the old ones going to the settings menu and clicking the "Legacy Music" toggle).

v1.4.0 - Combat update!

Network Intrusions (Combat System)

• Combat unlocks after defeating the 1st firewall

• 6 dungeons to breach

• 7 ICE enemy types: Tracer, Blocker, Encryptor, Sentinel, Guardian, Black ICE, Nexus Core

• Fully automatic combat: agents auto-attack

Party System (Agents)

• 3 agent classes: Firewall Agent (tank), Exploit Vector (DPS), Repair Daemon (healer)

• Agents level up from combat XP, gaining stats each level

Crafting (Program Compiler)

• 6 crafting resources: Raw Data, Encrypted Shard, Kernel Fragment, Zero-Day Core, Corrupted Log (Sentinel/Guardian), Neural Thread (Nexus)

• Crafted programs give combat stats and passive main-game bonuses; Refine programs up to +10

Inventory

• Categories by slot: Attack, Defense, Utility, and Breach Keys in separate sections

• Each program card shows combat stats (ATK/DEF) and passive bonus

• Rarity system with colored borders: Common (gray), Uncommon (green), Rare (blue), Epic (purple)

• Equip programs by dragging them onto equipment slots

5 New Firewalls (you have to craft Breach keys in the Compiler tab (Network Intrusions), the key will be available in inventory then you can use to spawn the firewall.

• Dimensional Rift, Neural Fortress, Chrono Shield, Void Barrier, The Architect

• Each locked behind a craftable Breach Key

Breach Credits (Combat Currency)

• New currency earned only from combat (per kill + dungeon completion)

• Spend in the Credits Shop on permanent upgrades: production, click power, entropy, firewall damage, offline earnings, and combat stats

Threat Database

• Track enemy kills, dungeon clears, items crafted, and agent levels

• Reach milestones for permanent combat stat bonuses (ATK, DEF, SPD, HP, crit, drop rate)

New Achievements

• 18 new achievements for dungeons, crafting, party, agents, breach credits, Threat Database, and the new firewalls

Balance & Systems

• Infinite Amplifier (Prestige Shop): repeatable upgrade

Quality of Life

• Faster load times — the game now loads faster

• Achievements panel category filters: Progress, Firewalls, Prestige, Combat, Farm, Events, Secret; click category again to clear; panel size increased

1.3.4 - Game balancing 

Organized the prestige upgrades costs / bonuses / order  (mid to late upgrades costs lowered ~30%)

Add a entropy % bonus for longer runs

Changed the calculation of entropy earn at late game

Buffed the Virtualization from 0,05% to 0,10% per GB allocated

Increased entropy /sec gain upgrades

Increased entropy /sec boost

Add hold to buy in list mode - upgrades panel(forgot to implement that sorry)

The upgrades Singularity Core - Void Engine - Omega Engine will help in the next content upgrade, so if now feels a bit “off”. Buying them. it’ll help in the near future!

Let me know if anything feels weird!

Thank you

Bug fixes

Multiple monitors – window position

• The game now remembers the last window position and size.

Overclock heat blur

• The heat blur effect now scales with your max heat (e.g. 195%).

• Blur starts at 50% of max heat and increases at 80% of max.

• With a higher heat cap, blur no longer appears too early.

Overclock Amplifier display

• The production multiplier reflects Overclock Amplifier upgrades - This was a visual bug

Balance changes

Entropy – longer run bonus

• Added a bonus for longer runs: +5% entropy per order of magnitude above 1B numbers

• Example: 1B → 0%, 10B → 5%, 100B → 10%, 1T → 15%, up to 50%

The Big Number version 1.3.2 - Thank you for playing!

• Auto buy is now available at 2 prestiges.

• Smarter auto buy (now it buys more quickly /  buys upgrades nodes that was not in the auto buy logic)

• Add option inside the upgrades panel to see the upgrades as list instead of a node map

• Now when you unlock auto buy / ram, you can select any loadout instead of doing more prestiging / milestones.

Reported by a user in community hub: 1. Fixed a possible bug in save/loading causing player to lose all progress.

2. Fixed an exploit related to entropy.

Hello!

Thanks everyone for playing my little game, hope you guys are having a good time!

This update fixes some bugs found by the player GreenStew (thanks a lot!!!!!) And some game balancing (mostly entropy)

Please let me know if anything feels broken, that way i can quickly identify and fix the bugs.

If you're enjoying the game, leave a review, it helps me a lot, seriously. thanks again.