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The Joust Patch Notes & News

Random Character Selection Fixed

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11h ago

Dear all, There was a bug in the previous implementation of this feature and ALL characters, including the player's were randomized. We also added these controls to the "HEROES" screen. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Random Character Selection Fixed

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11h ago

Helmets. Helmets. Helmets.

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1d ago

Dear all, We added helmets.

Protect them noggins.

Helmets add weight to the character.

Helmets can break.

Helmets are available in Heromaster Mode as rewards.

Please post your feedback to Discord: https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

NPC Brain Improvements + Heromaster Balancing Updates

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2d ago

Dear all, This should make the game feel more playable generally and should make Heromaster a bit more challenging at waves past 150. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

NPC Swings Less Twitchy + More Heromaster Updates

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2d ago

NPC Swings Updated

They won't swing as erratically anymore... despite still swinging somewhat erratically sometimes.

Weaker Difficulty NPCs should be even weaker

Hopefully this makes onboarding more friendly.

Heromaster Balancing Updates:

- To help with difficulty scaling and making the game appropriately difficult... NPCs now spawn in a radius around the player instead of , up to 360 degrees at Wave 100+ Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Version of Previous Heromaster Map

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2d ago

Dear all, Instead of using the old arena... we'll use a larger version of the default arena. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Balancing Changes

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2d ago

Dear all, Lots of little updates to Heromaster to make the game more stable and challenging at higher wave counts. We've had a number of players finding strategies that completely break the game too. We're fixing these things as they come in!

Jousting Lance and Mega Jousting Lance:

These have been temporarily removed from Heromaster. They're physically absurd and very challenging to balance. They're only really usable through bug abuse

Enemy Size Scaling Removed:

Enemies will get faster, not larger. They became too big for their own good and the largeness does not make them too much more difficult to battle against due to the prevalance of ranged weapons

Arena Update:

The arena is larger now.

More ranged foes:

As Heromaster waves advance, you will now see more ranged foes

Hammerboss buffed:

The boss now has a ranged attack and gets knocked back less. The boss also spends less time kneeling down in cooldown phase. Please report anything else you find here: https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

More patches!

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3d ago

Dear all, We're working on ensuring that everything is in good working order for the ongoing Heromaster contest! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Improvements to Cosmetic Particle Effects + Multiplayer Fixes

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3d ago

Dear all, The Particle Effect cosmetics should be much nicer, especially in HD. Please see https://the-joust.com/contest for information about our ongoing Global Heromaster highscore contest. You can win! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Multiplayer Registry Fix

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3d ago

The Internet Multiplayer Servers had an issue after the recent Itch.io multiplayer demo was deployed. This patch intends to make the client more resilient to those issues. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Enemy Scaling Fixed

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3d ago

Dear all, Heromaster Enemy Scaling has been capped at 10x. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Quality of Life Improvements

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3d ago

Dear all, We've watched a number of players playing the game and have made some notes on how we'd like to improve the Heromaster experience. This patch delivers some of these changes! 1. NPC Difficulty Scaling Slowed Down... the game will be much more forgiving in its progression 2. NPC Difficulty Level 1-3 made to be much slower in their swing speed 3. NPC Power Scaling removed in Heromaster. Speed / Size scaling still exists Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Classes + OSC Improvements

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4d ago

Dear all, Kodachi Warrior Kodachi Hero Centurion Spearturion have all been added to the game! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

More NPC Class Specific Behaviors + Behavior Profiles

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6d ago

Dear all, We've added more than a score of behavior profiles to classes that were behaving generically. Some of them will even Jump Kick you now! Custom class should be selectable again in the Favorites tab too. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

QoL Update - NPC Brains

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6d ago

Dear all, Low-level NPCs will be easier to battle and High-level NPCs should be less jerky. A few other small changes snuck in here too. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Stance Improvements + Ability Improvements + Arm Improvements

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6d ago

Dear all, We've got plenty of fun updates to share...

Stances:

These should feel much better now.

Many stances did not have particularly flavorful guards... we believe to have made meanginful progress toward addressing that now. As one switches their stance, they should notice more profound changes to their character's posture, generally speaking. This should help with class / weapon identity and give players more dynamic attack options.

Axeman is really loving this one.

Abilities:

A work in progress

Many abilities didn't work quite how we hoped they would as we updated the game. Moves called spin that do not spin, for example. We've gone through and made many updates to push these abilities toward doing what their name implies them to do. There's still work in this area, but this should feel better, especially for heromaster players.

Arms:

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrmssss!

Lunging and thrusting would easily allow for a player's arms to get longer than we ever intended them to. For a while, this felt fun and cartoony, but as we've seen more competitive Heromaster play, it is time to head toward a slightly more grounded-in-reason approach to arm length. Thrust and Lunge will not cause player arms to get as long as they did before

Thrust & Lunge Damage:

Physics driven, like it should be

Thrust and Lunge damage is now driven by velocity-based calculations instead of previous logic that applied a fixed amount of damage. Right now, this likely won't feel too differently unless an enemy is backpedaling, but this change will allow for much more dynamic thrust attacks in the future!

New Class: Gangster & Super Gangster

New guns too...

The Gangster and their sunglasses (new eye cosmetic) have both arrived! Like all classes, the Gangster is totally free to play. We're not too sure what the future looks like for these classes... but their underlying mechanics and game systems lay the foundation for a shooter campaign that we've been thinking of for a while

Community + Joust Code:

Main Menu -> Profile & Cosmetics -> Enter Joust Code

Joust Code: DAISYBEAN

(CASE SENTSITIVE)

Please consider joining Discord: Join The Joust Community Discord Server Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Difficulty System Updates + Heromaster Rebalancing + Slide Tackle Improvements

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7d ago

Dear all, We'd like to celebrate the recent 500 Solo Heromaster Score that was achieved by B For Bingus for a moment... Okay. Now that we're done celebrating... it's time to rebalance the game a bit so that it's not so easy for that to happen. Starting off with...

Difficulty:

Difficulty 1-8 should feel considerably easier now. NPCs should not be able to swing their weapons as quickly (outside of using abilities). Difficulty 1-5 now features lowered reaction time on the NPCs too.

Heromaster

Wave 1-4 is now easier with lower difficulty NPCs. Wave 100+ will feature NPCs that get faster From Wave 100 on... Star Sentinels will begin to accompany the boss

Slide Tackle

Slide tackle (Monk Ability) should look more like a slide tackle now. Please consider joining our growing Discord Community: https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Bugfixes + Monk Slide Tackle + More Steam Highscores

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8d ago

Dear all, Great Flood and other class-specific should now work in Heromaster Mode. The previous attempt to fix this only addressed some of the problems. Steam Highscores are now available for all of the game modes that track highscores. Oh, and the Monk has a slide tackle move now too Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Jousty Zombies Improved

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8d ago

Dear all, Jousty Zombies should be a bit more challenging and immersive now! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Highscores Improvements - Class Updates - Menu Improvements

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9d ago

Dear all, Please enjoy: + Guild Highscores for Heromaster CoOp Guild Runs + Guild Stats Screen + Class Select Button on GvG Panel + Monk Skill Updates + Templar Updates + Fire Samurai Updates + Librarian Updates + Giant Updates + Main Menu Text Updates + Profile + Cosmetics Screen Bugfixes + Deluxe Edition Convenience Button + Options Menu "Selector"-style components for Resolution and Render Mode + New "Eye" Cosmetics Please consider joining Discord at https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Guild vs. Guild

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9d ago

Dear all, Yesterday, the Guild system landed in The Joust. Today, we released Guild vs. Guild PvP servers. We may need to issue more patches for this as real guilds get to playing on them... but we'll cross those bridges as we come to them. We also added more cosmetic rewards for Deluxe Edition. See "Eyes" Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Server Repairs

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9d ago

Dear all, The Heromaster server had a few problems when Duo / Trio / Quad mode was selected. We've repaired that and have redeployed a build of the client that should be more stable against that particular problem. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Heromaster Hotfix

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10d ago

Dear all, Heromaster's new boss enemy is a bit better now. Quadruped hitboxes have been updated to better align with visible geometry. Please consider joining the Community Discord server at https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Heromaster Bosses On Waves 20, 40, 60, 80..

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10d ago

Dear all, We've been working on improving Heromaster Mode and Quadruped Characters.

Quadruped

Quadruped death pose is now discernable from quadruped knocked-down pose.

Data-driven ability descriptions:

A work-in-progress, but this is the start of finally explaining to players what abilities do at the time they enter the game. This needs work, but we hope it might be better than nothing.

New Bosses

Hammerboss and Plasma Hammerbosses have joined the battle! They appear on waves 20.. 40.. 60.. and so on. They are also currently available to be picked in many game modes. We don't promise this will stay true, however! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Achievements and Cosmetics

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11d ago

Dear all, Please enjoy a wide variety of new achievements and cosmetic items. Many of these cosmetic items are exclusive to achievements or The Joust - Deluxe Edition.

New Cosmetic Slots / Types:

Cosmetic Type: Particle Effect - Head

New particle effect for player heads!

Cosmetic Type: Particle Effect - Body

New particle effect for player bodies!

Flavors

Fire
Gloomshade
Ice
Bluefire
Poison
Illum
Smoke
Water
and more!

Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Jousty Zombies Playability Update!!! + Heromaster Stat Caps Removed

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11d ago

Dear all, Please enjoy the updates to Jousty Zombies and Heromaster Mode. Please also enjoy the Joust Code at the bottom of this update that can be used to unlock free ingame swag!

Jousty Zombies

: - Players now start with a dual-wielding loadout - Players now receive stronger weapons from the first chest - Zombies in wave 1-10 are considerably weaker than before

Heromaster

- Stat caps removed for player

Joust Code:

Main Menu -> Profile -> Enter Joust Code (case sensitive) GREENFIRE this code unlocks the Explosion (Green) Headshot Fatality Effect Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

Main Menu Simplified + Deluxe Edition Entitlement Improvements

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11d ago

Dear all, The main menu should be a bit simpler now; we have also completely removed the Continue button. We've fixed an issue where certain Deluxe Edition testers would have a stale cache entry preventing their unlock of the Deluxe Edition cosmetic items! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

More new Rendering Modes

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12d ago

Dear all, See Options -> Graphics -> Rendering Mode Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Cosmetic: Fatal Headshot Effects

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12d ago

Dear all, See "Profile" screen for these :) Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

New Rendering Modes

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12d ago

Dear all,

We're happy to announce that:

New Rendering Modes Have Arrived!

What they look like:

Noir + Vignette (Graphics -> HD Rendering -> Effects -> Vignette -> Noir)

Psychedelic

Comic Book

Sepia:

Filmic Black and White:

How to use them:

Options -> Graphics -> Main (first tab) -> Render Mode

Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

The Joust news & patch notes

The Joust news & patch notes

Dear all, We added helmets.

Please post your feedback to Discord: https://the-joust.com/discord Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team

NPC Swings Updated

Weaker Difficulty NPCs should be even weaker

Heromaster Balancing Updates:

Jousting Lance and Mega Jousting Lance:

Enemy Size Scaling Removed:

Arena Update:

More ranged foes:

Hammerboss buffed:

Stances:

These should feel much better now.

Abilities:

A work in progress

Arms:

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrmssss!

Thrust & Lunge Damage:

Physics driven, like it should be

New Class: Gangster & Super Gangster

New guns too...

Community + Joust Code:

Main Menu -> Profile & Cosmetics -> Enter Joust Code

Difficulty:

Heromaster

Slide Tackle

Quadruped

Data-driven ability descriptions:

New Bosses

New Cosmetic Slots / Types:

Cosmetic Type: Particle Effect - Head

Cosmetic Type: Particle Effect - Body

Flavors

Jousty Zombies

Heromaster

Joust Code:

New Rendering Modes Have Arrived!

What they look like:

Noir + Vignette (Graphics -> HD Rendering -> Effects -> Vignette -> Noir)

Psychedelic

Comic Book

Sepia:

Filmic Black and White:

How to use them:

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