Tiny Rogues news & patch notes

Hello fellow Tiny Rogues!

Unfortunately I don't have a cool dev blog for you this month.

Good News

Were have been working hard and progress is great. Last month I reported that we will be working on reimplementing the entire "player side" of the game now.

All equipment items are in the game again, weapons and traits are almost done too. So it's really going great!

Unfortunately weapons are just not quite polished enough to show off.

Bad News

I had a bit of a health scare over the past few days. I woke up on Thursday morning with severe abdominal pain and ended up calling an ambulance to go to the hospital, where doctors discovered gallstones. It's not anything life-threatening, but I'll likely need some follow-up treatment and possibly surgery to remove my gallbladder, which would probably eat another 4-5 days of productivity. We'll have to see how things develop over the next few weeks.

So yeah, nothing crazy but it still dents the schedule, as losing like ~10 days of development is roughly 1/3 of a month.

Thorce is also on a well-deserved Summer holiday right now, so nobody is in "the office" to make up for me slacking.

I'll talk to you again sometime around the middle of the month with a post about all the cool new weapon stuff. If you don't hear from me by the 15th, I'll reserve the topic for the next post at the end of June.

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

~ RubyDev

Hello fellow Tiny Rogues!

It's me. I'm back—back again—with a short dev blog.

April has been a fruitful month. As I alluded to in the last post, we have indeed transitioned into content production by now.

In my mind, I split the workload of content production into 2 blocks.

Block A: All player stuff, traits, equipment, weapons, companions, ...

Block B: All enemy stuff, floors, enemy behaviors, attacks, ...

In April we started to seriously dent Block A. I am currently in the process of finishing up the last few scripts needed to set up all equipment items.

I also have an overview right now of what the new version entails in terms of Block A.

Category

Current count according to Tiny Rogues Wiki

New count according to project files

Weapons

400

439

Equipment

649

783

Traits

137

158

Companion Summon Items

60

75

Classes

34

33 (have not worked on new class designs yet, and Santa is taking a short break)

I did hope to show off ALL the new cool weapon attacks, but we are still finishing up some stuff on that front. I do want to make an all-encompassing post that explains all changes coming to weapons and shows off all new and old attack types.

For now though:

Random Tidbits

The following pictures are just random and work-in-progress stuff from our dev discord channel. I just had these lying around and they were not specifically created or curated for a marketing post.

Either way, Thorce is really cooking when it comes to the new laser shaders. He has a much better eye for animation curves and all that stuff compared to myself. Hope you are ready for the improved game feel!

Another random tidbit that I recently showed off on the community Discord: every offhand now has a miniature version that will be displayed on your in-world character while wearing it.

This picture also includes some spoilers for upcoming offhand item changes, for example:

• Scepters are now going to be offhand items that grant you companions. This is much more fitting for the regal theme of scepters in my opinion. Yes, the Fishing Net is now a scepter, which proves your status as the lord and ruler over all jellyfish.

• There is a new type of offhand called Censers. These grant you an Aura.

You might wonder now, if scepters are going to be offhand items, what will shoot the big lazor beam? Well, a new magic weapon type called Sorceries.

As sorcery is often depicted and described in fiction, it's channeled through your innate magical abilities and not through a wooden stick in your hand.

Sorceries are special in that way because they have a dynamic handling type: when you wear an offhand, they are treated as one-handed weapons; when you don't, they are treated as two-handed weapons.

Timeline

I am also happy to report that a clearer timeline is slowly forming inside my head.

If we can finish up Block A in the next 2 to 3 weeks, then we can tackle Block B in the month after that. After that, the game is technically fully playable again and the update can go into a sort of "closed alpha". From there it's only like 1-2 weeks away from an open beta.

So we are looking at the start of open beta for the update maybe in the first week of July? (this is a rough estimation, not a fixed announcement)

From there everything will go super quick but I do want to spend more time in beta this time than we did for the Between Heaven & Hell update.

End of August seems like a feasible estimation for the real update release, but maybe I am completely cooked for even saying that out loud right now. It would be really nice though because it would leave plenty of time to make smaller follow-up updates throughout the rest of the year.

As said in the last blog, I eventually want to start to deep dive the update more in these blog posts but right now we are so locked in that I really don't have the time and energy to write some big elaborate blog post. I am also still wondering in which order I want to even tackle all of it.

One of the first manifesto posts will probably be about "the goal of the update", explaining all my feelings on the current state of the game and what and why I wanted to change things. From there we can move into more detail on concrete new and changed features.

Cheers,

RubyDev

Hello!

In the last Tiny Rogues News post I promised another blog post at the end of March, and here we are... in March. (Time passes too quickly!)

Once more, we made some great progress. Overall though, I must report that March was quite a bit slower than expected. This is because I unexpectedly started working on some dev-tooling to make content creation easier. Originally we thought we would be able to skip this step for a while and just rely on IDE auto-complete and IntelliSense, but I deemed those to be not good, easy and quick enough.

It's a bit of a bummer that not as much as I hoped for happened in March but in the long term it will pay off.

I really hoped that March would mark the beginning of content (re-)production. Only once we start to actually reimplement the games content (items, enemies, ...) I will be able to accurately gauge when the update will actually be ready.

The good news is, we are ramping up in speed. I'd say 97% of base components are (re-)implemented and we are on the precipice of moving into the content creation period. (The last year was basically all R&D and systems implementation.) The game is now nearly completely rewritten and we even have cool new in-game editor tools which will eventually smooth the transition into modding from in-game, which is going to be very cool.

It might look a bit confusing to an outsider and in all honesty wasn't even worth making a GIF for. It's an editor for the game files. It runs in-game and it uses our own serialization and deserialization. (How data is read and written into files.) The really neat part about having started to develop our own editor tooling is that this lays the groundwork for possibly (and hopefully) not using Unity anymore in future projects.

As we are transitioning into this content production era, it's finally time to be more vocal about the update! I am so excited that the update is becoming less and less elusive every day.

That's why I decided to do monthly dev blogs from now on to keep you in the loop. With every month that passes, there will be less ambiguity in my posts.

I expect to be able to give concrete dates for e.g.: update beta, update release in 1-2 months from now. (Déjà vu?) I hope this suffices as a blog post for this month. Eventually I want to go into more detail on the design changes that are coming. I'm going to write a bunch of development manifestos, which go into detail on the underlying game design choices behind every change.

Let me know what you are most excited for, so I have a clearer picture of what to show off and talk about first:

• Traits and Equipment (New stats, new effects, new possibilities that came with the rewrite.)

• Weapons (New, old and removed weapon types, changes to weapons, weapon teasers, ...)

• Consumables (Potion, Booze, and Infusion reworks, plus new cool and unique consumables.)

• Enemies, Bosses and Floors (New world structure, new "Afterlife" Floors like the Abyss and their structure, changes to Elite Enemies, ...)

• Character Classes (Reworks, new Classes, the entire skills revamp which will now include little skill trees for every character, ...)

• Game Difficulty (Changes to Cinder, plans on leaderboards and Singleplayer ELO/Rank systems, ...)

• Foundational System Changes (New souls EXP system, pickups, the Rogue Hideout, NPCs, Meta-Systems, ...)

Cheers,

RubyDev

We are still hard at work every day.

Most of December was spent on finalizing the scope for the update, making a huge 67 page long design document. Now that we are finally working with a concrete plan, the development velocity in January has been amazing.

I also cut back on some leisure activities and have been no-lifing development more again. It's been fun so far and after last year, which was more of a recovery year, I feel empowered and productive.

I plan to release a more extensive blog post at the end of March, hopefully including a lot of screenshots, gifs and general teasers. Maybe even a good estimation for the update (beta) launch.

If you aren't 100% in the loop, basically, what was planned to just be a big content update, has slowly mutated into a complete rewrite of the entire game, including foundational technical changes and preparations for localization, mid run saving, better performance, better visual clarity, new indicators, new cool items and even data driven modding capabilities.

(Shoutouts to Hytale, seeing their modding system reinforced that my new data driven approach of development is going to be the correct way forward. It's funny to see that I've been working on a not quite as extensive but similar structure as they have.)

I feel like this is a very very rare occasion in this industry. No publisher would ever go through with an "update" like this. Especially because it's going to be free.

I never expected for my skill level to grow so much that I will have to do a complete rewrite to achieve everything I want with the game. In the end, I stand with my decision to go down this path.

I deem Tiny Rogues a project worthy to receive this love and dedication.

Tiny Rogues won't fall victim to the "forever early access" curse.

A giant update will 100% happen this year.

Please excuse the long wait. I thank you for your patience.

Cheers,

RubyDev

• Updated the project's unity version and re-built the game because of Unity Security Vulnerability.

• Alignment required to enter endgame floors is now 2 by default, down from 4. (Alignment is being removed in the next major update so might as well make this less annoying in the meantime.)

• Removed the console log when the "Legacy Stamina" Game Rule is ON. (Not needed, it can be seen in the stamina bar.)

• Removed lengthy console log which explained that game rules don't affect your ability to earn achievements or game progress. (Behavior is still the same.)

• Added new splash line: "Now without massive Unity security exploit!".

Had to push out this hotfix because the Unity security issue, Tiny Rogues was not affected by half of them due to being built in IL2CPP.

More news and teasers on the big next update coming soon. Still working hard on it every day! Progress has been great!

- RubyDev

Hello fellow Tiny Rogues!

Just to reassure everyone—the next big update is still in development, thanks for your patience!

News

I must contradict myself from the last FAQ. I am glad to announce that: by now Tiny Rogues now has been a 2-man operation for over 1 month. I have finally hired another programmer!

Welcome Peter aka Thorce to the Tiny Rogues Developer Team!

He is an amazingly creative individual and smart programmer who I have worked with multiple times before. (We've been together at university!)

It's been an absolute pleasure having him by my side and ever since him joining, progress on the update has been two-fold!

Especially a lot of new visual polish and eye candy will be thanks to his work - make sure to keep an eye open for it. An early example of that are new shaders for visualizing melee attacks, which I had intended to make for years now and never got around to doing so. Previously this was all done via sprite animation, meaning frame by frame. This opens up new possibilities for scaling melee weapon area of effect and more!

When is the Update coming out?

As of this point I still do not have a release date for the update.

While I'd really love to release earlier, I got a subtle feeling this will be yet another ginormous December Update, similar to Between Heaven & Hell. (Some insiders are starting to call this update "Basically Tiny Rogues 2".)

Also, here are some (in-engine, work in progress) teasers:

Could this new room be integral to new update? Who knows!

Are those ... PILLARS? In MY SQUARE EMPTY ROOM GAME?

Rooms can now spawn with 3 (or more) Doors!? BLASPHEMY!

Doors now preview how many enemies will be awaiting you in the next room. This will also give information on stronger and enchanted foes. (Don't mind the missing tooltips. Due to me working on localization, tooltips are currently missing.)

Either way, Thorce and me will keep chugging along.

TTYS, I'll keep you posted.

- RubyDev

PS: The character is red because the skin color was set to red. It means nothing special. I have some vague ideas to use this feature for new characters like a Devil or an Orc class. ( Yes, I know those are usually species in games but Tiny Rogues is funky like that with new characters. )

What's planned for 2025?

Fixes

• Fixed that the effects of Bombardment Tome and Knife Summon Tome didn't actually work. Bombardment Tome can now be upgraded with Illegal Gun Parts and the Knife Summon Tome with Blacksmith Whetstone.
• Samurai's Dashing Strike skill now aborts when the player is teleported. E.g.: when going through a door.

General Changes

• These camera shakes are not forced upon you anymore (they are now affected by the option): Centurion Hunter Indicator, Centurion Hunter Appearance, Super Flight Skill, Infestation Explosions
• Added 2 new Options to the Video Options tab. "Camera Update Method" and "Interpolate Player Rigidbody". I highly recommend that you turn on Player Rigidbody Interpolation in case you switch to Camera Late Update. Some players report choppy gameplay on highframerates and ask me to change the Camera Update from Fixed Update to Late Update. You can now accomplish this in the option menu. In my experience Fixed Update without Interpolation (so the default) looks smoother at low and mid FPS.

• Added a new tab to the Options Menu: Game Rules. Currently there are 4 Game Rules in the game. You can toggle Equip Load Penalties. You can toggle the Enemy Health and Armor bonus from the 0.2.8.4 Update. You can unlock all classes (only on Beta) and you can go back to old Stamina Recovery. To be more specific, the legacy Stamina Recovery Option halves your Stamina Recovery Time but instead makes it so you only generate 1 Stamina Point any time the bar fills. When you spawn into a run with Game Rules enabled there will be a message in the Console displaying that those Game Rules are indeed enabled. The message is visible for 10 seconds. (This nuisance is the only downside of Game Rules.)

Other Balance Changes

• Ethereal Dice are slightly more common.
• Forethought: Now recovers 2 Hearts upon entering a new Floor, previously 1.
• Lich Companion (Necromancer Skill): Damage reduced from 105-120 to 90-100.
• Skeleton Warrior Companion: Damage reduced from 30-70 to 40-55.
• Skeleton Archer Companion: Damage reduced from 35-75 to 45-60.
• Skeleton Mage Companion: Damage reduced from 60-70 to 60-65.
• Dashing Strike (Samurai Skill): Damage increased from 120-165 to 150-205.
• Viper Loop (Ring): Now grants +2% Poison Duration per 1% Critical Hit Chance, previously +1% per.
• Flare Mantle: Now grants +30% Burn Tick Speed, previously +25%.
• Hazmat Suit: Now grants +250% Damage Over Time, previously +100%. Now also makes you deal x0.50 Attack Damage.
• Inquisitor Robe: Now grants +100% Aura Damage, previously +35%.
• Dark Moon Hood: Now grants +45% Dark Damage, previously +30%.
• Demolition Helmet: Now grants +25% Explosion Damage, previously +20%.
• Inquisitor Mask: Now grants +35% Aura Radius, previously +30%.
• Shaman Mask: Now grants +25% Nature Damage, previously +20%.
• Thunder Mask: Now grants +25% Lightning Damage, previously +20%.
• Voodoo Mask: Now grants +35% Poison Damage, previously +25%.
• Warlock Hood: Now grants +45% Necrotic Damage, previously +30%.
• Bone Talisman: Now grants +75% Bleed Damage, previously +50%.
• Chem-Tech Lantern: Now grants +25% Critical Hit Chance to Damage Over Time effects, previously +20%.
• Mojo Talisman: Now grants +50% Poison Duration, previously +35%.
• Inquisitor Set Bonus: Now also grants x2.00 Aura Radius. Now also makes you deal x0.50 Attack Damage.
• Horseshoe Pendant: Now grants +30% Lucky Hit Chance, previously +20%.
• Baseball Cap: Now grants +30% Lucky Hit Chance with Melee Weapons, previously +20%.
• Circlet: Now grants +30% Lucky Hit Chance with Magic Weapons, previously +20%.
• Cowboy Hat: Now grants +30% Lucky Hit Chance with Ranged Weapons, previously +20%.
• Talisman: Now grants +20% Lucky Hit Chance, previously +10%.

Fixes

• Fixed that Ice Dragon, Arcane Golem, Jousting Champion and Scholar Mages would still be wearing Santa hats sometimes.
• Fixed that Chaos would be able to roll Santa's loadout.
• Fixed the outdated information provided when you got Cursed for the first time.
• Fixed that Spinners from Flails and Bibles would not count towards Orbital Count for e.g.: Esper's "Mama's Stuff" trait.
• Fixed that the Puppeteer Set Bonus and Esper's "Mental Link" trait would not work at the same time. If both are active, Companion Damage now applies at 125% value to you.
• Fixed a game freeze that could happen when spawning into a run.
• Fixed a game freeze that could happen when somehow starting a run without having a class selected.
• Put in additional safeguards to prevent game freezes from happening when Boss Pedestals run out of rewards to give. (E.g.: because too many dice were used.) The game should now also show Error Messages if it happens so that this can be further improved in the future.
• Fixed that Flame Wall from Pyromancer could be placed significantly further away than the indicator would show.

General Changes

• Damage and Area increase gained from Power now falls off harder. (I don't understand my own formular so I can't tell you by how much.)
• The Kuo-Tao Merchant (both in the Reef and in Black Market) no longer sells the Jellyfish Companion anymore.
• The following Companions can now be acquired by fishing: Snail, Eel, Jellyfish and Pistol Shrimp.

Status Effect Changes

• Bleed: Damage reduced from 105-150 to 70-105.
• Burn: Damage reduced from 90-125 to 55-75.
• Disintegration: Damage reduced from 10-30 to 10-25.
• Echo: Damage reduced from 15-30 to 15-25.
• Frostburn: Damage reduced from 90-105 to 70-85.
• Necrosis: Damage reduced from 150-225 to 115-170.
• Poison: Damage reduced from 10-20 to 10-15.
• Shadow Fangs: Damage increased from 5-15 to 10-20.
• All scalings of: Bleed, Burn, Disintegration, Echo, Frostburn, Necrosis, Poison, Shadow Fangs, Glimmer and Nettles are now S/S/S, previously A/A/A.
• Secondary ailments, namely: Corruption, Diffusion, Frostbite, Judgement, Roots, Rupture, Scorch, Toxic and Zap now apply a x1.30 multiplier to their Damage Type, previously x1.25.
• Fragility: Now applies a x1.40 multiplier to Damage Over Time taken, previously x1.30.

Weapon Changes

• Ivy Scroll: Damage reduced from 110-135 to 80-100.
• Fireball Wand: Attack speed reduced from 1.5 to 1.25. Damage reduced from 115-170 to 80-120.
• Toad Plague Scroll & Spider Summon Tome: Fixed that multiplicative Companion Damage increases would not apply correctly to these Weapons. They still aren't calculated 100% correctly due to technical limitations in this quick fix. For the purpose of these Weapons, multiplicative bonuses will work but as additive bonuses.
• Ocarina of Time: Damage reduced from 350-425 to 315-385.
• Aurora Scroll: Damage reduced from 520-775 to 425-635. Aurora Damage reduced from 210-315 to 170-255. Scaling changed from C/C/S to -/S/S.
• Nimbus Scroll: Damage reduced from 65-195 to 60-180.
• Staff of Unlimited Power: Damage reduced from 35-105 to 35-95.
• Balrog Wand: Damage reduced from 205-310 to 190-280.
• Blight Wand: Damage reduced from 115-125 to 105-115.
• Obliteration Wand: Damage reduced from 90-135 to 85-125.
• Sun Vortex: Damage reduced from 425-575 to 385-520. Trigger Damage reduced from 605-905 to 545-820.
• Excalibur: Trigger Damage reduced from 60-125 to 75-100.
• True Excalibur: Trigger Damage reduced from 80-155 to 90-125.
• Death Sickles: Damage reduced from 100-130 to 90-120.
• Titan Sickle: Damage reduced from 85-110 to 75-105.
• Gungnir: Damage reduced from 240-320 to 215-290.
• Necrosword: Damage reduced from 190-285 to 175-260.
• Zenith: Damage reduced from 185-250 to 170-230.
• Boneforce: Damage reduced from 120-165 to 110-150.
• Kraken: Damage reduced from 100-130 to 90-120.
• Michelangebow: Damage reduced from 125-190 to 115-175.
• Phantasm: Damage reduced from 140-190 to 130-175.
• Seraphim: Damage reduced from 100-140 to 95-125. Trigger Damage reduced from 220-330 to 200-300.
• Farmageddon: Damage reduced from 125-155 to 115-140.
• V.B.F.G: Damage reduced from 215-360 to 165-270.
• Mega Machine Gun: Damage reduced from 100-130 to 90-120.
• Destructo Glaive: Damage increased from 25-45 to 40-55.
• Lightning Javelins: Damage reduced from 85-250 to 70-210.

Companion Changes

• Spirit Bear: Damage reduced from 125-250 to 135-180.
• Spirit Eagle: Damage reduced from 90-180 to 95-130.
• Spirit Wolf: Damage reduced from 55-95 to 55-75.
• Jellyfish: Now have an Attack Speed of 0.5, previously 1.0. (They were too good at applying Shock for you. I originally wanted to increase their weight so you can only have 1 Jellyfish but I decided against it last minute because it's an iconic staple companion at this point.)

Equipment Changes

• Vampire Cloak: Doesn't make you Hearts count as Soul Hearts anymore. Now grants +10% Damage per missing Heart Container. Now weights 20 Equip Load, previously 30. Now recovers 2 Hearts on defeating a Boss, previously 1.
• Cloak of Mystra: Now grants +25% Damage per Mana Container you have, previously x1.10 Magic Damage per Mana Container.
• Archwizard Hat: Now grants +100 Power when you have at least 30 Intelligence, previously would grant +100% Skill Effect.
• Pyromancy Gloves: Now grant +20% Burn Damage, previously +4 seconds to Burn Duration.
• Bishop Hat: Now inflicts Judgement to all Enemies in the Room, previously would make Weapons at Upgrade Level 4 and higher inflict Judgement.
• Kabuto: Now grants +125% Critical Hit Damage while wielding a Weapon at Upgrade Level 4 and higher. Previously it would grant +125% Critical Hit Damage TO Weapons at Upgrade Level 4 and higher. (This means the Critical Hit Damage bonus is now applied to you, instead of the Weapon and thus also works on other sources of Damage than your Weapon now.)
• Meteor Set: The Set Bonus now grants +20% Melee Damage per Mana Container you have and +20% Magic Damage per Armor Container you have. Previously, +20% Mana Recovery per Mana Container.

Trait Changes

• Forethought: Has a completely new effect, instead of granting 10% Attack Speed per missing Mana it now grants "Your Hearts count as Soul Hearts." and "Recover 1 Heart upon entering a Floor.".
• Spellblade: Now grants Attack Speed based on missing Mana, previously based on Mana Containers.
• Pushing Through: Now grants +0.3% Damage, Stamina Recovery Speed and Movement Speed per Equip Load on you, previously +0.5% each.
• Grenadier: Damage increased from 295-365 to 365-445. Now triggers a Grenade every 4 seconds, previously every 3 seconds.
• Cull the Weak: Now also applies Fatigue, which is now purely a x0.80 Movement Speed Debuff, every 4 seconds to the Enemy with the lowest Health.
• Exit Strategy: This trait now, in addition to refreshing the Damage Over Time effects, now also ticks all Damage Over Time effects once per Stamina Container you have.
• Opportunistic: Has a completely new effect, instead of making Damage from Skills apply Fatigue Debuff, it now grants x1.20 Damage at Far Range while there are fewer than 4 Enemies in the Room and x1.30 Damage at Close Range while there are more than 2 Enemies in the Room.
• Bramble Growth: In addition to making Nature Damage inflict Bleed this trait now also grants x2.00 effect of Nettles.
• Fire and Blood: Now only applies a x0.35 Damage multiplier on Bleed and Burn, previously x0.25.
• Rage: The Rage Buff now stacks up to 40 times, granting 1% Attack Speed per stack. Previously 10 stacks with 4% each. Rage now decays one stack after another instead of at the same time. Melee Attacks now grant 5 Stacks of Rage, previously 2.
• Savage Wounds: Has a completely new effect, instead of making Bleed ticks apply Vulnerability it now makes it so that Attacks from you and your Companions tick Damage Over Time effects on the target.
• Unforgiving: This trait additionally makes Damage from your Skills apply Vulnerability now. The Vulnerability applied is also affected by the "+100% Effect of Ailments and Debuffs inflicted by Skills" that this trait grants. A lot of edge cases of this trait not actually working at all have been fixed. E.g.: Arrest from Soldier, Jinx from Deprived, Consecrate from Cleric and Holy Shield from Paladin.
• Steady Strikes: This trait halves all Attack Speed modifiers but makes them also apply to Damage at 200% value. Previously this would only affect "Attack Damage" but now it's all Damage. While being a huge buff to the trait, this makes the trait a lot more interesting to scale e.g.: Damage Over Time effects or Skills with it.
• Lightning Conductor: Damage increased from 130-380 to 145-425.

Skill Changes

• Consecrate (Cleric): Damage increased from 125-185 to 140-205.
• Dark Arts (Ninja): Damage increased from 445-679 to 545-820.
• Dashing Strike (Samurai): Damage increased from 95-130 to 120-165.
• Flame Wall (Pyromancer): Damage increased from 30-45 to 35-50.
• Frost Nova (Sorcerer): Damage increased from 220-265 to 300-365.
• High Noon (Gunslinger): Damage increased from 225-305 to 280-375.
• Jump (Dragoon): Damage increased from 210-285 to 260-350.
• Missile Storm (Cyborg): Damage increased from 135-165 to 150-185.
• Parry (Mystic): Damage increased from 160-220 to 180-245.
• Piercing Volley (Ranger): Damage increased from 275-370 to 305-410.
• Rend (Warrior): Damage increased from 70-90 to 85-115.
• Shield Bash (Knight): Damage increased from 160-220 to 200-270.
• Smoke Grenade (Bandit): Damage increased from 270-330 to 300-365.
• Super Flight (Super Hero): Damage increased from 635-855 to 770-1045.
• Telekinetic Barrier (Esper): Damage increased from 50-70 to 60-80.
• Twirl (Dancer): Damage increased from 455-615 to 505-680.
• Vengeance (Demon Hunter): Damage increased from 95-125 to 105-140.
• Arrest (Soldier): Now also deals 105-140 Physical Damage.
• Holy Shield (Paladin): Now also ticks for 10-15 Radiant Damage 3 times per second.
• Flex (Barbarian): Now also deals 85-110 Physical Damage to all Enemies in the Room.
• Deceive (Jester): The decoy now also attacks Enemies, dealing 130-175 Slashing Damage. The decoy has the Attack Speed of your Weapon.
• Wild Shape (Druid): Bear Form now grants Attack Speed instead of Stamina Recovery Speed. Transforming into a Bear recovers all Hearts now. Transforming into a Monkey grants Stamina Surge (the buff that Green Blessings grant) now. Transforming into an Owl grants a Soul Heart if you don't already have one now. Mana Recovery reduced from 0.25 to 0.1 per Room.

Enemy Changes

• Enchanted Enemies now have a base health and armor multiplier of x1.25% on them, scaling up to a x3.00 multiplier at Floor 10. Previously this would start at x1.00 and scale to x2.50 at Floor 10.
• Each Cinder modifier now only increases Enemy Health and Armor by +0.25% per Floor, previously by +0.5% per Floor.
• All Enemies now gain +5% Health and Armor per Floor. This stacks additively with the bonus from Cinder. Basically this means, Enemies on Cinder 0 are significantly harder to kill (+50% Health and Armor at Floor 10). The more Cinder modifiers you play at or are used to, the less effect this change has on you. The base game without Cinder modifiers has been too easy for a long time. A lot of power creep has happened over the past year. Many players have been asking for a beefier base game as not everybody enjoys the mayhem that Cinder modifiers bring to the table. This was a well needed shift in difficulty distribution. Read my yapping below if you are interested in more of my thought process.

Mastery Tree Changes

• The nodes "Repercussions" and "Superstitions" swapped places as "Throne Quest", being gated behind "Superstitions" could be an unfavorable things when trying to go for specific class unlocks.

• Removed ad for the Tiny Rogues Death Plushie.
• Fixed a bug that could freeze the game when toggling the inventory while a popup text, e.g.: explaining Poison would be on screen.
• Sleeping at the tavern doesn't reset fishing at the aquarium anymore. Instead you can now catch 2 fish, previously 1 per tavern.

V1 Patch Notes

• Super Hero trait Super Friendly: Now grants +3 Companion Capacity, previously 4. Now also grants +100% Companion Damage.
• Esper trait Spontaneous Combustion: Description has been shortened to fit the box.
• Esper trait Mastering Randomness: Fixed that the Lucky Hit Chance granted was a %-increase not a flat value.
• Jellyfish Companion: Average Damage reduced by 10%. Damage range updated to reflect modern Lightning Damage range.
• Zenith Weapon: Damage range increased from 150-205 to 185-250.
• Fixed that during Game Over a weird box would appear on character.
• Wit Meta Perk → Sleight: Now grants -0.5 seconds Bomb Explosion delay, previously +2.5% Critical Hit Chance.
• Speed Meta Perk: Now grants +0.5 Movement Speed, previously +1. (Forgot to change this one last patch, sorry it was meant to be lower.)
• Added an ingame notification when your Mastery Tree was reset.

V2 Patch Notes

• Super Hero trait Super Devoted: Fixed that the Curse protection didn't work.

0.2.8.3 Patch Notes

Major Changes

• The Christmas Edition has been deactivated.
• Christmas can now be toggled via the cheat console. This enables Santa, enables the Christmas Tavern including the Christmas NPCs and Music and makes some enemies have their unique Christmas appearance.
• From now on, in this version of the game, Christmas is now also automatically active during December.
• The Christmas themed achievements have been changed to Super Hero themed achievements. The Steam IDs for the achievements are the same, so if you have unlocked them already you don't have to unlock them again.
• Added a new option to the gameplay tab: Visualize Player Hitbox Off by default.
• The Arcade now has a 1% chance to land a Jackpot.
• Added a total of 10 new traits to Super Hero and Esper. Check out trait changes below.

Minor Changes

• The Plushie Ad is now significantly smaller.
• The Fishing Minigame has been made slightly easier.
• You can now only stay overnight at the tavern 5 times per tavern.

Stamina Changes

• Base Stamina Recovery Time has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4.
• A new meta perk has been added to the mastery skill tree which makes it so that draining Stamina only halves the current Stamina recovery progress instead of emptying it. I recommend players that miss the old Stamina system to try this perk.
• An existing meta perk has been changed to make it more attractive. Stamina Scout now only works for the first 3 floors. This way you can boost the chance of acquiring Stamina related items in the early game but it won't affect your RNG in the mid and late game. The perk now also makes items more common that grant Stamina Recovery Speed, not just items that grant Stamina Containers. It now also makes those items x2.00 more common, previously only x1.25 more common.

Mastery Perk Changes

• In addition to the Stamina related perk changes some other perks have been changed, this includes: Heart Seeker, Playtime, Prodigy, Reflexes → Vigor, Stamina → Wit, Throne Quest
• Added 6 new perks: Faith, Fishing Club, Repercussions, Skirmisher, Wrangler, Superstitions

Class Changes

• Santa's Bag now grants an Uncommon or Rare Weapon, previously always a Rare Weapon.
• Santa's Skill now costs 2 Mana, previously 1.
• Santa now starts with 2 Mana, previously 1.
• Fixed ability and room reward descriptions for Cyborg.
• The Hero now gains +1 Luck at level 1, 3 and 5, previously at 2, 4 and 6.

Companion Changes

• Reindeer: Accidentally had 100% chance to drop Gift Box due to a debug value that made it into the patch. It now has a 5% chance. The Mistletoe Branch is now a Rare item, previously Legendary.
• The Archangel and Archdemon Companions now specify to grant Damage to Weapons.

Weapon Changes

• Zenith: This weapon got a new effect because it's old effect tended to lead to performance issues. In a future patch the code for this effect will be updated but in the meanwhile it got a new effect.
• Cross Glaive: Now has a damage effectiveness of 75%, previously 50%. Now gains 15 to 30 Radiant Damage per Upgrade Level, previously 10 to 20.
• Stormhammer: Now has a damage effectiveness of 200%, previously 150%.
• Made some minor attempts at improving performance of weapons with effects like Cross Glaive or Grass Blade. These now check to update stat calculations less often.

Equipment Changes

• Puzzle Cube: Now Uncommon, previously Rare. Re-phrased the description slightly.
• Golden Puzzle Cube: Now Rare, previously Epic. Re-phrased the description and changed the effect slightly. Previously this would make it so you are considered as having 6 Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence traits but now it makes it so you are considered as having +6 Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence traits.

Trait Changes

• Dominance: Now makes each point of Intelligence grant +1.25% Buff Effect and Aura Radius, previously 1%.
• Added 6 new Super Power traits for Super Hero.
• Added 4 new Psychic Power traits for Esper.
• The following Super Power traits have received changes: Super Armor → Super Durability, Super Regeneration → Super Health, Super Reflexes, Super Speed, Super Stamina, Super Strength, Super Smarts. Some of these traits have been slightly nerfed to make new and other traits more competitive choices.
• Made some numerical changes and added additional minor effects to these existing Esper traits: Disintegration Aura → Energy Aura, Lightning Force, Mama's Stuff, Mental Link, Papa's Stuff, Psionic Blasts → Psionic Bombardment, Spontaneous Combustion. In general I don't like overloading traits with minor effects but I want to try out how getting additional effects and stats feels on this class.

The Tiny Rogues: Death Plushie!

• Fixed that when re-rolling the tavern by staying overnight it could lead to an error that froze the game when having the Dryad meta perk allocated.
• Fixed that Krampus and the Christkind could appear both at the same time.
• Base stamina recovery time is now 5 seconds, previously 6 seconds.

The Tiny Rogues Death Plushie

The next Early Access Expansion

Near Future of Tiny Rogues

TLDR / Summary

• No update will accompany the Tiny Rogues Death plushie merch drop on January 27th.
• One more Steam post will follow and announce the plushie and give a link to the store page.
• Makeship will be giving away 2 plushies on X between January 22nd and January 25th.
• I am working on a Visual Clarity update at the moment. This update will possibly release before or alongside the next expansion.
• An early access expansion is the next step in the Tiny Rogues update pipeline. I am done with smaller patches for now. (other than maybe the Visual Clarity update, we will see)
• I cannot give any estimated date of release of any future update as of yet. The scope of the updates isn't even clear yet. As soon as I know more I will let you know here on Steam with another post.
• After next expansion I will look into mid-run-saving and localization but for the sake of releasing some actual playable content (floors, bosses, ...) those features will wait on the sidelines for now.
• Christmas Event will last until the end of January. The Santa specific achievements will probably get an additional non-seasonal unlock addition added to it. If you have the achievements already you won't have to unlock them again. (I can just change the achievement description on Steam.)

0.2.8 Patch Notes

Highlights

• The Tavern is Christmas themed once more. Playing Jingle Bells and this year, there is even a Christmas tree.{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/efc93712ad24b2e1587310d8ca644ebb5f22d2a1.png
• Added 3 NEW Christmas themed NPCs. (AUSTRIAN EDITION, ... to balance the American-Christmas themed additions like Santa.) You can meet Krampus, Saint Nicholas and the Christkind itself in the tavern.
• Some enemies dressed up for Christmas and are wearing Santa Hats. This includes old favorites and newcomers.
• ADDED A NEW CLASS: Santa (I have no idea if or how this guy will stay and in which roster. I just added him for fun. There are 3 new achievements related to Santa, so he probably will stay somehow.) Santa is automatically unlocked for this event. After this event, there might be an unlock condition added.
• Santa starts with a NEW companion, the Reindeer.
• Santa starts with a NEW smuggler-pouch-esque item that always grants a random rare weapon.
• Added 3 NEW achievements related to making you play Santa.

Gameplay Changes

• Stamina Recovery has been halved but when the stamina recovery bar fills, you now regenerate all stamina points.
• When you drain stamina, your stamina recovery progress resets now.
• Mana Recovery now fills up all mana points. Mana recovery rates have been adjusted accordingly. (See below.) I also added a new particle effect and sound when your mana refills.
• Base aura radius has been increased from 6.5 tiles to 7 tiles.
• Arcade: The slot machine now gains +5% chance to break every time it's used after being used 3 times. Previously it would gain +10% every time after being used 10 times. It also only drops 3 dice now when exploded, previously 5. (I think this is the only nerf in this entire patch.)

Minor Changes

• The character panel now shows companion damage percentage in the offense tab.
• Added 6 new splash texts.

Meta Perk Changes

• Odyssey: (lower right) Now makes legendary items x1.20 more common while you are not using any, up from x1.10.
• All In: (upper left) Now grants 50% chance of attribute pickup rewards matching your highest attribute, previously 30%.
• Explosive Delivery: (center right) Now grants 3 bombs but only after floor 5.
• Rainy Day Fund: (center right) Now grants 10 gold but only after floor 5.
• The Key to Success: (center right) Now grants 2 keys but only after floor 5.
• Playtime: (center, slightly down and right) Now makes event rooms with minigames in them x3.00 more common, up from x2.00.
• Smuggler Nook: (bottom very-left) Now adds +25% chance for taverns to have a black market, previously +15%.
• Suit Up: (center, slightly up and right) Now adds +20% chance for treasure chests to contain an additional reward, previously +15%.
• Weave the Arcane: (very bottom left): Now grants 30% chance for enchanting weapons to result in a legendary modifier, previously 25%.

Gift Changes

• Scroll of Escape: The hero hideout now always spawns a random (locked) treasure chest inside it.
• Golden Spatula: Now adds a +15% chance to upgrade food rewards, up from +10%.
• Replenishing Repair Powder: Now replenishes 11%-16% every room, up from 7%-14%.
• Mana Elixir: Now grants +25% mana recovery, previously +20%.

Enemy Enchantment Changes

• Totem Enchanted: Nerfed health and armor of totems by roughly 30%. They also spawn 50% less frequently.
• Possessed Weapon Enchanted: Nerfed health and armor of weapons by roughly 50%. They also spawn about 20% less frequently. The maximum number of weapons has also been reduced.
• Resistance Enchantments: All resistance enchantments now only reduce damage taken by x0.75, previously x0.70.
• Super Health and Super Armor Enchanted: Both enchantments have been nerfed by roughly 20%-25%.
• Shielding Enchanted: Is now up for 4 seconds and then down for 4 seconds. Previously was up for 4 seconds and then down for 2 seconds.
• Airstrike Enchanted: Reduced explosion radius by 0.5 tiles and increased delay between airplanes by 1 second.
• Arcane Enchanted: Now spawns an indicator before spawning. Additionally the length of arcane beams has been reduced by 1 tile.
• Black Hole Enchanted: The indicator for the black hole now appears earlier and is bigger. Added a particle effect and sound when the Black Hole spawns. Increased the gravitational force a little bit.

Cinder Changes

• Centurion Hunters: Now spawn every 8 to 20 rooms, previously every 6 to 14 rooms. The final sound and screen-shake before the robot spawns are now played at the start of the room it will appear.
• Reaper spawn chance and spawn rate has been slightly lowered, both for the base-line Cinder value and for the natural value from Curse.
• Defensive Measures: Now a 20% chance to add a defensive enchantment, down from 25%.
• Twice Enchanted: Now a 50% chance to add an additional enchantment, down from 75%.

Class Changes

• NEW class: Santa
• Deprived, Thief, Wanderer, Barbarian, Demon Hunter and Pirate now only start with 1 mana container.
• Skill descriptions now state mana recovery in this way "recovers every X rooms" instead of "x.x per room". This lets you identify breakpoints in mana recovery. While holding for details, you can also see the mana recovery like before.
• Almost all skills had their mana recovery rate halved.
• The exceptions are:
• Flame Wall from Pyromancer: Now 0.1 mana recovery per enemy, previously 0.1 per second.
• Frost Nova from Sorcerer: Now 0.1 mana recovery per enemy, previously 0.1 per second.
• Parry from Mystic: Now 0.25 mana recovery per room, previously 0.125 per enemy.
• Jump from Dragoon: Now 0.2 mana recovery per enemy, down from 0.5.
• High Noon from Gunslinger: Now 0.25 mana recovery per room, previously 0.2 per enemy.
• Cyborg NEW passive ability. Eventually I'd like to revisit Cyborg's unique traits. I was not happy with the last iteration of them and there was no way of buffing them in a way of feeling satisfying. So I just slapped a new ability on the class for now.
• Cyborg's drone companion now grants +20% companion damage per full weapon upgrade level you have.
• A lot of Esper's traits have been buffed. Overall I feel like, because Esper sacrifices a trait, the unique traits should be very strong.
• Papa's Stuff: Assault Rifle companions now grant +100% critical hit damage, previously +75%. They also now deal 135-255 damage, previously 110-210.
• Lightning Force: Now deals 165-485 damage, previously 135-405.
• Psionic Blasts: Now triggers 5 blasts, previously only 3.
• Spontaneous Combustion: Now has a 25% chance to trigger, up from 15%. Now deals about 25% less damage.
• Mama's Stuff: Orbitals now deal 255-435 damage, up from 185-315.
• Disintegration Aura: Increased base damage by 25%.
• Druid's Bear Form: Now grants +100% stamina recovery speed, up from +50%. Now deals 280-380 damage, previously 235-315.
• Druid's Monkey Form: Now grants +0.25 seconds of invincibility after dash, previously +0.1. Now deals 180-240 damage, previously 150-200.
• Druid's Owl Form: Now grants +30% movement speed, previously +20%. Now deals 175-260 damage, previously 145-215.
• Pirate: Bounty thresholds have been lowered by roughly 1000.

Item Changes

• Items that internally were classified as "Insanely Heavy", "Giga Heavy" and "Impossibly Heavy" had their equip load values reduced. This affects e.g.: items like Balrog Heart, making it weigh 80 equip load, previously 100.
• Balrog Heart: Now grants +25% burn damage per heart container, previously +20%.
• Meteor Helmet: Now weighs 20 equip load, previously 25.
• Meteor Armor: Now weighs 50 equip load, previously 60.

Strength Trait Changes

• Titan Grip: Now works with all two-handed weapons, not just melee weapons.
• Battle Rush: Breakpoints of movement speed are now 10%, 20% and 30%, previously 25%, 50% and 100%. Now only grants up to 75 Power, previously up to 100.
• Brawn Over Brain: Now grants +25% mana recovery per strength trait you have, previously +20%.
• Fire and Blood: Now only reduces burn and bleed damage by x0.25, previously x0.20.
• Momentum: Now grants +50% stamina recovery speed, previously 30%.
• Pushing Through: Now grants +0.5% stamina recovery speed, movement speed and damage per point of equip load on you, previously +0.25% for all 3 values.
• Steady Strikes: Now makes modifiers to attack speed also apply to damage dealt at 200%, up from 150%.
• Testudo: Now grants x1.20 melee damage per block you have, previously x1.10.
• Berserk: Reduced duration from 10 to 8 seconds. Reduced attack and movement speed bonus from x1.30 to x1.25.
• Burning Passion: The buff now grants 45-95 fire damage, previously 35-85.
• Arrogance: Now grants x1.40 damage with non-crits, previously x1.30.

Dexterity Trait Changes

• Pet the Dog: The puppy is back to granting +50% buff effect, previously +35%.
• Blood Infection: Now makes every bleed tick apply 5 stacks of poison, previously 3.
• Dynamo: Now makes modifiers to movement speed apply to stamina recovery and mana recovery at 200% of value, previously 100%.
• Spellblade: Now affects all weapons, not just melee.
• Step of the Wind: Tailwind has been nerfed to not be multiplicative. Instead it's bonuses are now additive but it can stack to 5, up from 4.
• Influence: Now grants +30% attack speed to you and your companions per aura you have, up from +20%.
• Chill Aura: Doubled the base damage.
• Opportunistic: Fatigue now increases damage taken by x1.25, previously x1.20.

Intelligence Trait Changes

• Anatomical Knowledge: Now grants +200% critical hit damage against bleeding enemies, previously +150%.
• Astromancy: Now powers up the multiplier of lucky hits to x4.00, previously x3.00.
• Vision Quest: Tally threshold is now 30 attacks, previously 50.
• Burn Aura: Increased base damage by 50%.
• Shock Aura: Increased base damage by 50%.
• Elemental Focus: Now also makes auras inflict these ailments, not just only skills.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where if you clicked dice bag and then quickly closed inventory, the dice bag could not be opened again by clicking until the end of the run.
• Fixed that when a character started with no weapon, the HUD element in the bottom right showed the Zweihander icon. Now shows fist icon.

Afterword

• I am not sure yet if there will be any more updates in 2024.
• There might be an update, there might be only a beta update, there might be no updates at all.
• Tiny Rogues project (as in, my development project) is going through some big changes at the moment, and thus it's not possible to pump out a quick update.

What's up?

0.2.8 when?

I am too hyped!

0.2.7 Patch Notes

TLDR TO-DO LIST TO JUMP INTO THIS UPDATE:

• Once more, your input bindings have been reset. (Both for gamepad and keyboard.) There are also new input actions, so please adjust them to your needs.
• Check out all the new options and adjust them to your needs:
  • Show Controls in HUD (by default ON)
  • Input Icons (by default Auto)
  • Mouse Aim Assist (by default OFF)
  • Auto Attack (Always Attack) (by default OFF)
  • Aim Stick Deadzone (by default 0%)
  • Movement Stick Deadzone (by default 0%)
  • 360° Movement (by default ON)
  • Always Show Cursor (by default OFF)
• If you play on Steam Deck, read the Steam Deck Changes section below. It's short and important for you.

Major New Features and Changes

• Completely revamped controls for Gamepad and Keyboard-Only.
• Added a new input action that shows a radial menu, allowing quick-accessing items in the inventory.{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/ab623471c7a5847361365099c91f43804a164b6b.gif
• The game now displays icons for input actions. The game can auto-detect what control scheme and gamepad you are using but you can also manually set it in the options menu.
• The options menu has been overhauled.
• Aim assist can now be used when playing with Mouse. By default OFF, you have to enable this in the options menu.{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/a3a9c559c9861251a15e2e8aba3e09a002731a1f.gif
• Some input bindings can now purposefully overlap and have the same binding. The game can now distinguish between active input contexts. This way you e.g.: can now use the A button to Heal, Interact, Use Item and Confirm Choices all at once.
• The game now pauses when you open the inventory during combat.

Other New Features and Changes

• Added an option to enable 360° movement for gamepad controls. By default ON.
• Added 2 new options to configure stick dead-zones.
• Added a new option to Auto Attack (Always Attack) while in combat.
• Added a new input action that toggles aim-assist. By default on Right Stick Press on gamepad and Z on keyboard.
• The controls of the meta skill tree have been revamped and simplified.
• The random button has changed slightly, it will now randomly select within the currently selected roster.
• I've paid attention to the game being more consistent with selecting buttons when menus close and open. E.g.: when going from the character selection to title, when opening character panel or pause menu, and so on.
• The controls of the dice bag have been improved. It can now be also be opened during combat.
• On gamepad, the character panel can now be scrolled with the aim-stick.
• The controls of the trait selection screen have been revamped. You now need to hold to confirm your choice, preventing miss-clicks. To re-roll traits you now use a hotkey, by default Button West on gamepad and R on keyboard. Additionally, inconsistencies such as items being shown as "usable" while in the trait selection have been fixed.
• Dropdown menus in the option menu can now be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
• Dropdown menus in the option menu now auto scroll when selecting an option with gamepad or keyboard.
• The option Seamlessly Switch between Mouse and Controller has been removed. This feature is now ON by default. Additionally, keyboard and controller work at the same time now.
• Added a new option to Always Show Cursor. This option turns on the behavior of never hiding the mouse cursor, which previously was attached to the removed Seamlessly Switch between Mouse and Controller option.
• The controls of the class selection have been revamped and simplified. Opening sub-menus now works with hot-keys. To start game you now have to hold the key or button.

Minor Features and Changes

• The players aim graphics (e.g.: the arrow pointing in your aim-direction, the indicator which enemy is targeted by aim assist, ...) are now blue, in the same style as the skill indicators.
• The Aim Assist option now shows the angle (in degrees, from 0° to 360°) instead of the percentage.
• Removed the ability to click the status effects bar in the HUD to open the character panel. The status effects bar also doesn't block your mouse anymore.
• Interactables (such as NPCs, Doors, Pickups, ...) now show their name and then below their name the interaction prompt with the input icon. Previously, these would display a textbox saying e.g.: "E to open".
• The option Camera Aim Strength now has a default value of 0%, previously 25%.
• The option Camera Dampening now has a default value of 25%, previously 50%.
• The option Camera Shake now has a default value of 25%, previously 100%.
• Added a new indicator element to the player character which displays the angle of aim assist.

More Specific Features and Changes

Dialogue Message System Changes

• Dialogue choices are now consistently showing the Confirm Choice on the left and the Cancel/Decline Choice on the right.
• Added a new input action to decline dialogue choices, by default Button East on gamepad and X on keyboard.
• The new decline input action can also progress dialogue. That way, if you e.g.: talk to an NPC by accident, you can quickly mash through it.
• Dialogue messages don't show the continue prompt anymore.

HUD Changes

• By default, the HUD now shows input icons on screen.
• Added a new option to hide the input icons in the HUD.
• Resources and stats shown in the HUD have a new structure and more of the HUD hides during combat.
• Reduced thickness of the EXP bar by 2 pixels.
• Added a new HUD element to the bottom right of the screen, showing your current weapon and skill.

Steam Deck Changes

• These options now have a Steam Deck specific default value.
• CRT Strength
• Font
• Aim Assist
• Auto Attack (Always Attack)
• Resolution
• HUD Inventory Opacity
• Input Icon Set
• These options have reset for your device, you need to reconfigure them.
• Added the Steam Deck's 1280x800 resolution. This resolution is now selected by default on Steam Deck.

Options Menu Changes

• The controls of the options menu have been revamped and simplified.
• Scrolling the options menu has been fixed for both gamepad and mouse. Previously this was buggy in one way or another for both control schemes.
• Added new tabs to the options menu: UI and Controls. UI encapsulates all user interface options and controls encapsulates all general controls options so that the Keyboard and Gamepad tabs can focus solely on the rebinding of inputs.
• You can now hold down buttons in the options menu to scroll through the options.
• The options menu remembers the tab and option you were on when re-opened.
• When rebinding an input action would result in multi-binding that is not allowed, a modal dialogue now pops up that explains the problem at hand and asks you if you want to swap the bindings. Previously it would just play a buzzer sound.

Skill Controls Changes

• All skills, when used with gamepad or keyboard-only, have some sort of auto-aim now.
• All skills auto-aim can be bypassed to manually control them by using the aim stick or arrow keys. E.g.: to manually place where to throw your Smoke Grenade.
• Targeted skills can now swap target by tapping the stick or using arrow keys.
• Skills like Shield Bash and Parry now also respect the aim assist option. E.g.: if you play at 30° aim assist, Shield Bash will auto parry in that 30° angle.
• All charged skills can now be cancelled with the new input action "Cancel Skill", by default on Button East on gamepad and X on keyboard.
• Targeted skills cannot target invincible enemies anymore.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed invisible popup screens that paused the game, making it seem like the game froze.
• Fixed that cancelling e.g.: obsidian dice wasn't possible after pressing confirm once and then declining the modal dialog.
• Fixed that you had to escape some traits names with '\\' when trying to acquire them through the cheat console.
• Fixed that the trait Hex Touch was giving a multiplicative bonus instead of an additive one.
• Fixed that the screen transition canvas e.g.: after entering a floor, could block the options of the pause menu.
• Fixed a bug with dialogue boxes flickering or rebuilding for 1 frame before showing in the correct size.
• Attempted to fix a camera bug that usually happened during some boss monologues.

Game Changes:

• Shock and Nettles have been fixed and actually work as intended now.
• The trait Ascetic's Discipline was flagged to not appear at all, it can now appear.
• The status effects Retribution, Bola and Paperbomb now also explode after the delay after having reached full stacks.
• The status effects Retribution, Bola and Paperbomb now also trigger when the target dies.
• Fishing is now faster and you are more likely to get a fish. The chance of nothing biting at all has been reduced drastically. Because fish are more common trash and treasure are way less common.
• Companion summon items now show the count of how many of that companion are summoned at the moment.
• Mana recovery now spills over into the recovery of the next point.
• Reward selections from bosses now can't contain multiple items of the same set bonus anymore. As this basically made it impossible to complete that set from that point onwards.
• If you now dismiss a set item after having found it in a run, (e.g.: you leave it behind or sell it,...) the other parts of that set will have a weight of 0. (Which means they won't appear, unless the game runs out of things to give you, at which point all 0 weight items become available in the pool.) While wearing the Ring of Royal Grandeur this rule doesn't apply.
• Floor 10 and beyond doesn't offer Infusion or Gold rewards anymore.
• Floor 10 and beyond can't contain Black Markets anymore.
• Items in your inventory now have less influence on your discoveries.
• Added a new RNG manipulation layer to some traits, making them more likely to appear early, mid or late game.
• This RNG manipulation layer has mainly been added to make the traits Mageblood, Transcendence and Boozer more likely to appear early game and not appear at all in the very late game anymore.
• Reduced the charge times for these skills:
  • Arrest
  • Charisma
  • Consecrate
  • Flame Wall
  • High Noon
  • Jinx
  • Magic Circle
  • Pickpocket
  • Polymorph

Finishing Words

• Dialogue choices in the game are now consistent: confirm on the left, cancel on the right. Also, the game now knows which is the decline option, so if you press (for example on an Xbox Gamepad) B, it will decline.
• There is now an option to toggle auto attacking, which makes it so you will always attack when an enemy is in the room, even without pressing the button.
• Aim assist can now be toggled mid-combat by pressing a button (By default, Right Stick Press).
• The game now features 360° movement when moving with the stick. (Option to toggle included.)

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Patch Notes

Major Changes

• Added a new option that makes it so weapon enchantments are shown as a prefix in front of weapon names.
• Every active Cinder modifier now also adds +0.5% health and armor per floor to normal enemies, not just bosses. This does not apply to Automatons and Reapers.
• Removed status effect immunities from all enemies. (E.g.: Troll was Poison Immune)
• Poison on player now slows flask drink speed by x0.75 instead of applying x0.50 heart recovery rate.
• The Tavern NPC spread has changed. Less cosmetic NPCs (with no purpose) will appear. There is now 3 main clusters of NPCs, down from 4.
• The Tax Collector has been moved to the Black Market and shares a cluster with the Fair Lady NPC.
• Cigarettes have been reworked, they now refresh the duration of Potion, Infusion and Booze effects.
• The Tax Collector now sells Soul Hearts for Souls.
• These NPCs only sell once now: Tax Collector, Demolitionist and Dwarf Soldier
• The meta perk that made the Tax Collector appear now makes the Dryad appear instead.
• Potions from the Potion Seller NPC are cheaper, costing only 10 Gold, down from 20.
• Fairy Tale branches from the Princess are cheaper, costing 30 Gold now, down from 45.
• The deal for Illegal Gun Parts at the tavern favors being Evil a bit less but is also less punishing for being Good.
• Set item parts CANNOT be found more than once per run anymore. If you drop a set item you are super unlikely to find it again. (Basically, the game will only hand it to you if it runs out of choices.)
• Base aura radius increased to 6.5, previously 6.
• Added a new HUD element which displays Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Luck, Curse, Good, Evil, Lawful and Chaotic. (This HUD element currently auto-hides in combat but I might add an option in the future to make it always show.)

Minor Changes

• Removed the tooltips that said e.g.: "Not Encumbered -> Slightly Encumbered" because they didn't really provide any useful information.
• Items that put you over equip load capacity now show which penalties you will face in a tooltip.
• Cast Time for Skills is now called Charge Time.
• Fragility, Vulnerability and Instability now last 8 seconds, previously 4 seconds.
• Added a new splash text.
• General tab in the character panel now shows total Skill Effect.
• Defense tab in the character panel now shows total Stamina Recovery Speed.
• Added new tooltips to Eden's Touch and Amon's Grasp items which show the current alignment value.
• Added new tooltips to the hoodie items which explain what the mentioned pickups do. E.g.: Explains that a Meat Shank grants +3 Strength.
• Added new tooltips explaining what boss crowns are to e.g.: Demon King Blade, Champion Armor, ...
• Added new tooltips to Bibles, Flails and Scepters explaining that these weapons cannot repeat attacks.
• Misc. tab in the character panel now shows total boss crowns.
• Reworked the Dragon Head event. Camera now moves so the dialogue can be read and it offers new powerful enchantments for your weapon. Can now also enchant rare weapons and only chars Common and Uncommon weapons.
• Infusion consumables now also show the ailment you will apply as a tooltip. (Doesn't solve the problem that you don't have access to this tooltip as soon as you consume the infusion, but it's a step into the right direction.)
• Added new tooltips to infusion consumables that explain basic game mechanics such as "All Cold Damage inflicts Chill."
• Damage type colors now apply to the full string of e.g.: "Fire Damage" instead of previously just coloring "Fire".
• The Status Effect and Revive display in HUD now have 0 height while empty.
• Added a small animation to dropping bombs.
• Fixed the order of choices of the Old Hag event which knits a hoodie for you.
• Floor 10 and the Rat shop can now sell Soul Hearts.
• Chance to repeat attacks is not affected by luck anymore.
• Added new option to Limit Bonfire Chatter. This option prevents random messages from the bonfire in the character selection.
• In many instances, the description of tally effects have been shortened even further.
• Added new visualization for close and far range thresholds that happens while a tooltip regarding close and far range is shown.

Skill Changes

• Added new metrics for the game to recognize if effects associated with skills are useful to your skill. E.g.: If your skill doesn't scale with Skill Effect, these effects won't show up anymore. Overall skill related traits and items should now show a lot more when useful and a lot less often or even not at all, when not useful.
• Mana Recovery Per Room now actually happens when entering a room. Previously it used the legacy event trigger of On Combat Started which could lead to weird behavior. You also gain mana when entering a new floor.
• 📈Barbarian / Flex: Now 1 second duration, up from 0.5 seconds.
• 📉Soldier / Arrest: Now 0.05 mana per room, down from 0.1.
• 📈Ninja / Dark Arts: Now 0.5 mana per room, up from 0.25. Increased Strength and Intelligence scaling. Increased base damage by 25%.
• 📈Gunslinger / High Noon: Now 0.2 mana per enemy, up from 0.1.
• 📈Dragoon / Jump: Now 0.5 mana per enemy, up from 0.2. Increased base damage by 25%.
• 📉Mystic / Parry: Now 0.125 mana per enemy, down from 0.5. Increased base damage by 75%.
• 📉Thief / Pickpocket: Now 0.25 mana per room, previously 0.05 per enemy. Now gets 4 to 6 gold from stealing from normal enemies and NPCs, previously 10.
• 📉Ranger / Piercing Volley: Now 0.25 mana per enemy, down from 0.35. Increased base damage by 10%.
• 📈Warrior / Rend: Now 0.25 mana per enemy, up from 0.2. Increased base damage by 10%.
• 📉Monk / Serenity: Now 0.2 mana per room, down from 0.1 per enemy.
• 📈 Bandit / Smoke Grenade: Now 0.25 mana per enemy, up from 0.2. Increased base radius by 1. Increase duration to 8 seconds, up from 4. Increase damage by 65%.
• 📈 Super Hero / Super Flight: Now 0.1 mana per room, up from 0.05. Increased base damage by 65%.
• 📈Esper / Telekinetic Barrier: Now 0.25 mana per room, previously 0.1 per enemy. Increased base damage by 100%.
• 📈 Dancer / Twirl: Now 0.25 mana per enemy, up from 0.15. Increased Strength and Intelligence scaling. Increased base damage by 25%.
• 📉Demon Hunter / Vengeance: Now 0.1 mana per room, previously 0.05 per enemy.
• 📈Druid / Wild Shape: Now 0.5 mana per room, previously 0.05 per enemy. Increased scalings of all forms. Increased Bear base damage by 40%. Increased Monkey base damage by 25%. Increased Owl base damage by 25%.
• 📈Pirate / Rally Riffraff: Increased base damage by 20%.
• 📈Samurai / Dashing Strike: Increased base damage by 15%.
• 📈Cleric / Consecrate: Now 0.2 mana per room, up from 0.05. Doesn't deal true damage to undead and fiends anymore but now always deals radiant damage.

Enemy Changes

• Dragonfly enemies in the swamp now only shoot 3 projectiles but now shoot more frequently. They also move 25% faster.
• Reapers spawn less often.
• Both Reapers and Centurion Hunters have a larger spawn range to hopefully overlap less often.

Class Changes

• Ranger: Ability has been simplified. Now Ranger deals x1.30 damage at Far Range and faces no penalty for being at far range anymore.
• Sorcerer: Ability now scales of Soul Hearts, previously Mana Containers.
• Cyborg: Lucky Core trait has a new effect, it now grants +100% lucky hit chance for 8 seconds on using a skill.
• Druid: Druid shrines now appear in spawn rooms, previously they appeared as random rooms.

Companion Changes

• Gnome: Now grants +5 Luck, previously +1.
• Donkey: Now grants +25 Equip Load Capacity, previously +30.
• Spirit Bear: Now grants +10 Equip Load Capacity, previously +25.

Weapon Changes

• Colossus Machete: Increased base damage by 30%.
• Eldritch Bible: The tentacle now inflicts Grapple, previously Despair. It now also states to do so in the description.
• V.B.F.G: The projectile explosion deals x2.00 damage, previously x3.00. Additionally the base damage has been reduced by 50%.
• Plasma Cannon: Reduced base damage by 25%.
• Mjolnir: Reduced base damage by 25%.
• Ragnarok: Now has a tally requirement of 50, previously 100. Reduced base damage by 40%. Increased attack range to 6 tiles, previously 5. Now has an attack speed of 5, previously 4.
• Poison Sickles: Now mention that they inflict Poison and show the tooltip for Poison.

Equipment Changes

• Angelic and Devil Set bonuses: Now also grant +4 to maximum Good and Evil. Both sets don't have attunement anymore.
• Power Upgrade: Now grants +10 Power, previously +20 Power.
• Onyx Ring: Now grants +30 Equip Load Capacity, previously +50.
• Hercules Boots: Now grant +75 Equip Load Capacity, previously +125.
• Muscle Charm: Now grants +10 Equip Load Capacity, previously +25. All these items were an oversight and very overpowered after the Strength nerf in last patch.
• Sophisticated Headgear: Is now a legendary item and grants +30% damage per legendary equipment item you are wearing. Previously granted trigger damage per weapon upgrade level which was the same effect as the Trigger Maniac trait.
• All Lantern items now weigh 5 equip load and grant generic effects that are not related to Skills.
• Chem-Tech Lantern: Now grants +20% critical hit chance with damage over time, previously x1.10 damage over time per mana container.
• Cultist Lantern: Now +20% damage per missing heart, previously x1.10 skill damage per missing heart.
• Lantern: Now +10% critical hit chance, previously x1.20 skill damage.
• Papercraft Lantern: Now +10% damage per heart container, previously x1.10 skill damage per heart container.
• Soul Lantern: Now +10% damage per soul heart, previously x1.10 skill damage per soul heart.
• Star Lantern: Now +10% mana recovery per mana container, previously x1.10 skill damage per mana container.
• Wisp Lantern: Now +1% damage per soul you have, previously x1.01 skill damage per soul you have.
• Champion Armor: Now 10 points lighter.
• Rhythm Anklets and Rhythm Bracelets: Both now grant +20% skill damage, previously +10%.
• Kitsune Mask: Doesn't trigger of skills anymore.
• Top Hat: Now grants +10% damage at close range per weapon upgrade level, previously +10% close range threshold per weapon upgrade level.
• Wedding Veil: Now grants +10% damage at far range per weapon upgrade level, previously -10% far range threshold per weapon upgrade level.
• Tuxedo: Now only grants +20% damage at close range per weapon upgrade level, previously +25%.
• Wedding Dress: Now only grants +20% at far range per weapon upgrade level, previously +25%.
• Mega Bombs from the Bomber Set now have same explosion delay as normal bombs.
• Bomber Garb: Now grants +100% Bomb damage, previously -50% bomb explosion delay.
• Zealot Gloves: Now have tally threshold of 50, previously 100.
• War Belt: Now grants +25% damage at close range, previously +30%.
• War Boots: Now grant +25% close range threshold, previously +50%.
• Sniper Quiver: Now a rare item and grants +100% damage at far range. Previously was epic and granted x1.25 damage at far range but x0.75 damage at close range.
• Wolf Pelt Hood: Now grants +20% companion damage per aura you have, previously x1.10 damage and companion damage per aura you have. Is now a rare item, previously epic. Now 5 points lighter.
• Cerebro: Now rare, previously epic. Now 10 points lighter. Now grants +20% aura radius per intelligence trait you have, previously x1.10 companion damage per intelligence trait you have.
• Old Hunter Cap: Now grants +25% critical hit damage per dexterity trait you have, previously +20% damage over time per dexterity trait you have.
• Horn Helmet: Now 10 points lighter.
• Parsec Boots: Now 10 points lighter. Now grants +10% stamina recovery speed per intelligence trait you have, previously +5% movement speed.
• Magi-Tech Boots: Now uncommon, previously rare. Now 5 points lighter.
• Sprinting Shoes: Now rare, previously uncommon. Now 5 points lighter.
• Apprentice Boots: Now 5 points lighter.
• Leather Boots: Now 5 points lighter.
• Mage Treads: Now 5 points lighter.
• Peg Leg: Now 5 points lighter.
• Wildling Boots: Now 5 points lighter.
• Gunpowder Ring: Now has a limit of +50 power.
• Turban: Now 10 points lighter.

Trait Changes

• Lightning Conductor: Doesn't trigger of skills anymore. (Wasn't useful and shortens the description.) Now 25% chance, down from 35% chance.
• Ice Conjuration: Doesn't trigger of skills anymore. Description now mentions that it triggers 3 icicles.
• Spontaneous Combustion: (from Esper) Doesn't trigger of skills anymore.
• Blessed Hammer: Doesn't trigger of skills anymore.
• Explosive Force: Doesn't trigger of skills anymore. Now 40% chance, up from 25%.
• Opportunistic: The inflicted Fatigue debuff is now permanent but weaker, from x1.25 damage taken and x0.75 movement speed to x1.20 damage taken and x0.80 movement speed.
• Vision Quest: Now has tally threshold of 50, previously 100.
• Hearts in Hand: Now grants +15% lucky hit chance per heart container you have, previously +10%.
• Insight: Now grants +25% skill effect per intelligence trait you have, up from 20%.
• Forethought: Now grants +10% attack speed per missing mana, previously +30% while missing mana.
• Apocalypse: Description now mentions that it triggers 3 meteors.
• Ascetic's Discipline: Now +25% skill effect per stamina, up from 20%.
• Prodigy: Has a new effect because previous implementation was flawed.

Controls

• Increase how far you can zoom out in the Mastery Tree.
• Increase how far you can pan the Mastery Tree.
• After selling an item at the Pawn Shop, the inventory now re-opens automatically.
• The button you have to hold to consume an item from the ground now is consistently the Show Details button. Binding now displays correctly on gamepad.
• The bumper and trigger actions have been swapped for the default gamepad controls.
• You can now hover your fists with gamepad.
• Target cursors such as e.g.: Jump skill use now reset their position to your character before using them next time.
• Trait selection now only confirms when using the Interact button. (other than Mouse Click)
• Sped up the virtual cursor in menus. Sometimes it's even instant now.
• The sidebar inventory now doesn't show numbers anymore when playing with gamepad.
• You can now use weapon swap while in inventory when playing with gamepad.
• When hovering an item in inventory interaction with the world is disabled and using the item takes priority. This fixes problems such as dropping items at Alchemy Stations.
• REMOVED aim reticule aiming for some weapons like Two-Handed Swords, Scythes and Scrolls. Now these weapons aim at the nearest enemy into the direction you are pointing.

Controls Fixes

• Fixed that when the trait selection opened, no trait got default selected when playing without mouse.
• Fixed that interactables would always show keyboard binding instead of gamepad binding when playing with gamepad.
• Fixed that you could bomb a shrine and still interact with it, receiving both rewards. You now cannot interact with interactables while a bomb is on the ground.
• Fixed that when picking up a weapon from ground, it wouldn't be picked up into the weapon swap slot.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would lead to heavy game stutters when spamming the Show Details or Compare button, even when no text was on screen that could show details.
• Doppelganger's mirror is now moved aside 1 tile when the room only has 1 door.
• Fixed that the temporary boss crowns granted by Champion Armor would persist after unequipping it.
• Fixed that the Festive Dress would apply +0.3 Stamina Recovery Speed instead of +30%.
• Fixed that the Tent would spawn heart pickups outside of the room.
• Fixed that missing hearts were 1 pixel higher than other hearts in HUD.
• Fixed that the attacks of Poleaxe and Bardiche were classified as Skill instead of Attack.
• Fixed that Ice Scimitar had the wrong trigger configured.
• Fixed that trigger tooltips would show Added Damage Effectiveness even when the option was turned off.
• Fixed that Floor 11 and 12 shops would not show the tooltip that they influence your alignment.
• Fixed that the "Repair Armor" option at the bonfire wasn't highlighted correctly when selected.
• Added missing dialogue text to library fossil event room.
• Added missing dialogue text to the potion seller NPC at the tavern.
• Reworked the tooltips for Close Range and Far Range.
• Fixed outdated usage of the heart icon instead of the flask icon at flask charges sold at shops.
• Slightly changed description of Fists and added an explanation that they count as Two-Handed while not wearing an offhand.
• Fixed that the Two-Handed and One-Handed tags in weapon descriptions would not show up when the weapon was modified to be either by an outside effect.
• Fixed multiple instances of the word "Damage" missing in descriptions. E.g.: Quasar Pendant, Nun Robe, ...
• Fixed instances of wrong number formatting on the Mastery Tree. E.g.: The Glass Is Half Empty, ...
• Polished instances of the game using the word "Key", now capitalizing it and displaying the key icon next to it.
• Polished instances of the game using the word "Companion", now capitalizing it and displaying the companion icon next to it.
• Polished description of the Throne door before final boss room.
• Polished description of the Abyss Key.
• Polished description of Zenith weapon.
• Polished the tooltip for Suppression.
• Polished name colors of all companions.
• Capitalize instances of the word "Threshold" in e.g.: "Close Range Threshold".
• Fixed description of the Meteor Set bonus.
• Fixed description of the Conqueror's Will Cinder mod.
• Fixed that Mana Potion said Mana Regeneration instead of Mana Recovery.
• Fixed that the character panel said Critical Hit Multiplier instead of Critical Hit Damage.
• Fixed formatting issue with rich presence (Steam and Discord) using color tags even though these tags are obviously not supported by these platforms.
• Rich presence doesn't show version number anymore.
• Fixed that the Mana points in HUD were missing a pixel.
• Fixed that the Divine Axe effect would be based of "per 10 Strength" and not "per Strength Trait".
• Fixed spelling mistake in Mana Catalyst description.
• Fixed that cancelling the Soul Orb would now make the HUD reappear.
• Fixed that the Fortune Potion was called Treasure Potion.
• Fixed that looping sounds e.g.: Sphinx's laser would not stop.
• Fixed many instances of double-spaces in descriptions. E.g.: Aura descriptions
• Fixed that Hydra Tome's attacks were classified as Companion and not an Attack.
• Fixed that Ancestral Spirit companions didn't have an attack animation.
• Fixed that when multiple instances of invulnerability ran side by side, one could disable invincibility while another still was active.
• Fixed error that happened when immediately using skills in the spawn room.

Binding Problems:

• Trigger and Shoulder buttons feel swapped. Triggers are more comfortable than Shoulders. So actions like Health Flask (which are needed less often) should be on the Shoulder, not Trigger. And buttons like Attack on Trigger not Shoulder.
• Weapon swapping should be a button on the right side of the gamepad so it's easier to move and weapon swap at the same time. Probably even a face button.
• Dash and Confirm have the same binding for no good reason. Should be split.
• Make it possible that an action is not bound to a button at all, even if just for smoother rebind process.
• The default Dash binding should be a face button.

Context Problems:

• When navigating menus, the Weapon also aims.
• Action Button has no context, sometimes you try to do something in inventory and pick up an item, buy an item or speak to an NPC. Also, this flaw makes Alchemist not usable.
• Scrolling is probably more synonymous with aiming and probably should be handled with the Right Stick in addition to the D-Pad. In the Character Panel it should also be able to be scrolled with DPAD.
• Dashing, Attacking, using Skill should not work at all while Menus are open.

Menu Problems:

• When any menu is opened, some sort of button should always be default selected. Also, sometimes it does select something but the tooltips don't show.
• Cursors in Menus feel slow and delayed and should at least be sped up to move faster and feel snappier.
• Character Selection is janky. Rework it with quick access buttons in mind.
  • Start run with START.
  • Select Bonfire with SELECT.
  • Selecting a character can be difficult. Change it so classes are selected with Stick.
  • Access sub menus and random with direct button presses e.g.: D-Pad buttons and face buttons.
• Inventory controls are janky. Controlling inventory with right-stick is unintuitive. Should be controlled with D-Pad.
• You have to open and navigate through the Inventory to consume something. Solution: Implement a radial / ring menu to quick-access items.
• Trait selection menu is very janky and confusing, especially since last patch. Should be controlled with D-Pad. It's also bugged currently as the D-Pad seems to sometimes confirm selection. Confirmation should only happen when pressing A.
• Pause Menu should be controlled with D-Pad. As it pauses game, it should be controllable with D-Pad, Left Stick and Right Stick.
• Shoulder Buttons should navigate Option Menu Tabs.
• Campfire in spawn rooms feels slow to navigate.
• Use controller icons and glyphs instead of text. Make sure different controllers are supported and can be selected in the options menu to avoid the case where Unity fails to know what controller you use. X-Box and PS4 glyph-sets will be supported.
• When rebinding a button (both for keyboard and gamepad) and the button is already bound the game just plays an error sound and does not give any further information. This can be confusing and the player should be informed what exactly went wrong.
• Meta Perk Tree cursor is slow and Allocate and Deallocate should be the same button. Then Cancel can be added as a way to exit the menu.
• Remove how dialogue prompts you to advance dialogue. (They are kind of useless, we all know how to press Space or A button.)

Bugs:

• The shown binding for Consume From Floor is wrong.
• D-Pad Left (Weapon Swap) key is also used for Confirm in some cases.
• to enter next floor doesn't show the gamepad binding but keyboard binding.
• Shrines also show instead of the gamepad binding.
• Controller skips options in the Gameplay Tab and when moving all the way down it selects non-existent buttons.
• Cannot reach end of masteries screen when zoomed out completely. Also, allow zooming out even further.
• The side-inventory bar shows when playing with gamepad, including the numbers. This entire bar doesn't mean anything for gamepad players anymore and should be hidden.
• Weapon Swapping doesn't work while Inventory is open.
• Weapons aren't auto equipped into the Weapon Swap Slot when the main slot is already filled.
• When navigating Menus you often cannot hold the button but have to spam it.
• Comparing items doesn't always work. Sometimes it shows comparison sometimes details. This is possibly a bug with accidental multi-bindings.
• When playing as Cyborg the lasers from the gloves will not shoot into the same direction that fists go. This also happens for some other weapons. (Might be intended.)

Gameplay:

• Weapons that use a Cursor or Reticule to aim feel janky. Make these weapons instead aim into a direction at the nearest enemy in that direction. Spellbook should also summon totems more intuitively.
• Some auto-aim of skills move very slow. E.g.: Smoke Grenade
• Flame Wall doesn't have distance controls.
• Aim assist should either explain how it works and get an indicator in-game how big the aim assist angle is or be reworked to just be a toggle.

Features:

• Re-open the inventory after dropping items at Pawn Shops. (Already implemented in internal version.)
• Show more information in HUD, so you have to open the Character Panel less often. E.g.: Stats, Alignment, Curse, ...
• 360° Movement
• Dead-Zone Option for Sticks
• Allow Aim Assist to work for mouse.
• Option to toggle Character Panel and Inventory at the same time.
• Possibly add a binding to toggle aim assist. E.g.: Right Stick 3.
• Make it possible to turn the Attack Button into a toggle. (Attack while Enemies exist.)
• Option for Gamepad Buttons and Keyboard Buttons to work at the same time.
• Option to pause game while opening inventory or character panel.

Clarity on Steam Deck:

• Steam Deck should by default use the Renogare Font.
• Steam Deck should by default tune back CRT modifier.
• Steam Deck Auto Aim by default should be ON.
• When Option is added: Game should auto pause when in menus on Steam Deck.

Problems I don't know how to solve (both design-wise and technically):

• Game is very small on Steam Deck. Zoom won't really work due to pixel-consistency and screen space being needed. Also, game is designed with a certain view range in mind.
• Controllers disconnecting randomly or pressing buttons randomly. Might be hardware issue on your side or Unity issue.

Planned Default Control Scheme:

• Attack = RIGHT BUMPER
• Dash = LEFT TRIGGER
• Bomb = X
• Flask = A
• Skill = RIGHT TRIGGER
• Inventory = B
• Weapon Swap = Y
• Open Ring Menu = LEFT BUMPER
• Select Item in Ring Menu = RIGHT STICK and LEFT STICK
• Move = LEFT STICK
• Aim = RIGHT STICK
• Toggle Aim Assist = RIGHT STICK PRESS

• Interact = A
• Details = RIGHT BUMPER
• Compare = LEFT BUMPER
• Scroll = DPAD/AIM

• Select = DPAD/AIM
• Use/Equip = A
• Details = RIGHT BUMPER
• Compare = LEFT BUMPER
• Close Inventory = B
• Scroll = DPAD/AIM

• Confirm = A
• Cancel = B

• Do you like the plan of all menus being controlled with D-Pad? (Aim-Stick will still be able to also be used.)
• Do you like the plan of the default Dash and Weapon Swap buttons being face buttons?
• Do you like the idea of the ring/radial menu? You will hold the button to open it and then use the stick to select an item and use it. The game will pause while the menu is opened.

Achievements

0.2.5 Update

Plushie

Content Questions

Meta Progression

Expansions

Modding

Can you add? Would you add?

Game Mechanics

Endless Mode / NG+ / Looping

Multiplayer

Difficulty

Controls

Localization

Copyright Questions

Music

Very Important Questions

Development

• Is it the janky button rebinding?
• Is it the inventory controls?
• Is it the awful character selection?
• Is it the recently removed quick access to inventory slot 1 and 2?
• The lack of 360° movement?
• or anything else...

What's next?

Ask Me Anything

• I think it's best to do this on Steam because the game is on Steam and everybody can ask anything here, not just people with a Reddit, Discord or X account.
• Duplicate questions will be answered once.
• You can edit your posts, I will lock the thread and review it next Monday. Then I'll prepare a news post with all answers.

Equipment

Weapons

Traits:

Other:

0.2.5 PATCH NOTES

First and foremost:

Now, let's get into some more concrete changes:

Descriptions (Cleaning Up):

• The game uses a new way of conveying math for stats. Any multiplicative effect will be e.g.: "x2.00", any effect additive with other effects will be e.g.: "+10%". Previously this was communicated with the usage of the words "increased" and "more". To shorten and streamline descriptions a lot of them are not full sentences anymore and thus these words were dropped.
• I implemented new formatting tools for myself such as bullet points and arrows. Descriptions now use these icons extensively, making everything more digestible.
• Tooltips are now mostly hidden, with a few exceptions. You have to hold a button to show them. This change was made to prevent you from getting overwhelmed when looking at an item. If you prefer tooltips always showing, there is a new option at the bottom of gameplay tab in options menu to always show tooltips.
• A lot of stats have been given new and easier to understand handles that align more with player conditioning, for example, Critical Hit Multiplier is now consistently called Critical Hit Damage.
• I think every tooltip has changed and some new ones have been added too.

Weapon Changes:

• All weapon damage ranges and scalings have changed. There were multiple overhauls of all weapons in the game. Attack patterns have not been touched though, so it should all feel very familiar.
• Weapons no longer use the classifications Primary Attack and Secondary Attack. Primary Attacks are now just Attacks and all Secondary Attacks have been turned into Triggers.
• Previously all Weapons used the same phrasing of "Primary Attack deals ...", these were full sentences and have been reduced to a list of properties. This did not necessarily shorten weapon descriptions, but it should make the information easier to grasp at a glance.
• When holding for details, weapons now also show their tags. This way you can, for example, find out if a weapon is considered a Lightning Weapon. Triggers and Enchantment Modifiers will now also add the correct tags to the weapon. So a weapon like Mjolnir is now also considered a Lightning Weapon. (If tags are missing, it's a bug.)
• Shotgunning has been generally removed from Tiny Rogues. There are very few instances of shotgunning and area overlapping in the game. Descriptions are phrased slightly differently in those cases.
• To compensate for the loss of shotgunning, there is now an inherent x1.20 damage bonus for being at close range and a x0.90 damage penalty for being at far range.
• All damage now has a hidden associated stat called "Effectiveness of Added Damage". For the average player, this stat doesn't mean anything and frankly, is quite useless. It is a balancing mechanism that adjusts rates of gaining "added damage". So for example the Gatling Gun with it's 8 APS will have less damage effectiveness than the Bazooka that has an APS of 1. For wiki editors and math enjoyers I added an option to reveal this stat to the gameplay tab of the options menu.
• Scepters now deal Damage Over Time.
• You cannot equip weapons from your inventory during combat anymore. A lock icon will appear on all weapons in your inventory during combat. Only weapon swapping via weapon swap slot is allowed now.
• Some weapons have been ... deleted. I was overly zealous and thought I'd convert these into skills, but I ran out of time. This includes: Inferno Orb Wand, Frozen Orb Wand, Comet Scroll, Meteor Scroll, Judgement Scroll, Explosion Scroll, Deck of Cards, and possibly others I might have forgotten. I will either reintroduce them as weapons again or turn them into new skills in a future patch.
• I have improved the code for weapon animations, there should be less jank like holding crossbows sidewards.

Weapon Enchantment Changes

• Added 6 new modifiers: Clever, Charged, Glacial, Incinerating, Sly and Brutal
• Some bad ones have been removed, some others might have changed. Like everything else, they got updated.
• Currently, weapons don't show their enchantment as a prefix in front of their name anymore. I will add this back as an option because a lot of players voiced that they want that. I feel like it is better without it but you all convinced me to add it as an option.
• Negative modifiers have a dark purple color now, previously gray.
• Modifiers have a unique animated icon in descriptions.
• Modifiers can now add tags to weapons, e.g.: an "Icy" modifier will make your weapon officially a Cold Weapon now.

Unarmed Changes:

• You can now inspect your "Unarmed" weapon and it has effects that additionally scale with your level. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/9f17cc7933603075e0be0e55caff90b8c128ce3c.png
• Your fists count as Two-Handed when not using an offhand.

Damage Scaling Changes

• Everything has a scaling now, Companions, Damage Over Time effects, Triggers, Auras, ...
• Each point of scaling now grants +5% damage up to a soft cap, after which each point grants only +0.5% damage.
• The scaling grade now decides the soft cap.
  • S = 50
  • A = 40
  • B = 30
  • C = 20
  • D = 10
• For example, if your weapon has an S in Dexterity and you have 60 Dexterity, you will get +255% damage from scaling, not +300%, as the 10 points above 50 only count as +0.5% each.

Effects and Mechanics

New Mechanics

• Sneaky Hits: Sneaky Hits have x2.00 Critical Hit Damage. Sneaky Hits (for Intelligence) complete the trifecta of special hits along with Ruthless Hits (for Strength) and Lethal Hits (now for Dexterity). This is the final special hit type and I have no intentions of adding any additional ones. This also provides the 7th and final special hit type for Lilith's Legacy, which has been updated to not be useless on Sundays and generally favor weekend gamers. Enjoy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/bbf8fdbaf83f8b6075c7135758c3018dc329a337.png
• Treasure Find: Is the third and final RNG manipulation stat, completing the trifecta with Magic Find and Luck. Treasure Find grants a chance for getting +1 Boss Reward, +1 Item in Chests and rolling the Maximum Reward Amount.
• Some effects now work on the metric of trait types (colors) you have.

Removed Mechanics

• Mana Rework
• Mana does not grant a damage bonus anymore. Mana is now solely used to fuel skills.
• Mana Star Pickups have been removed. (But will probably return in some way in the future.)
• Together with the pickups, the Mana Flux buff doesn't exist anymore. Well, it kind of does, it's now unique to the Vision Quest trait.
• As previously mentioned all weapons have gone through intensive rebalancing. Magic weapons previously were balanced around the player getting a damage bonus from mana but now that this damage bonus has been removed, their base damage is now similar to ranged and melee weapons. Some players voiced concern over the identity of magic weapons. I will have a close eye on caster archetypes in the coming patches.
• Mana now uses a pip system.
• All these triggers have been removed: On Kill, On Combat Start, On Taking Damage, On Drained Mana and On Pick Up Mana Star. All of these have been deemed mostly not desirable by the community. Effects that used any of these triggers have been reworked.
• Marks have been removed from the game. The traits have been reworked.

Changed Mechanics

• Stamina Recovery works a little different now. Previously there was Stamina Recovery Speed and Stamina Recovery Rate. One decided the "cooldown" before Stamina started regenerating, the other decided how long it would take for you to recover 1 Stamina once regeneration has started. Now there is only 1 stat, Stamina Recovery Speed. Each point of Stamina will recover sequentially at your Stamina Recovery Speed.
• All effects that previously were phrased this way "On Non-Triggered Lucky Hit, trigger ..." are now phrased to grant "a chance to trigger". E.g.: "Your Attacks gain a 30% chance to trigger a Chain Lightning that deals ...". This makes these effects more approachable, easier to understand, easier to read and easier to use in a build. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/19fc43f9d438871c158bf179bebc0f04c09c37be.png
• Lucky Hits and Cursed Hits: Previously, Lucky Hits made your damage roll one additional time, taking the higher outcome, while Cursed Hits did the opposite, rolling an additional time and taking the lower outcome. Instead of that, Lucky Hits now x2.00 the chance of on Hit effects to happen. Cursed Hits now x0.50 the chance of on Hit effects to happen. This affects the aforementioned "30% chance to trigger, ..." effects, but also affects things like Critical Hit Chance. So a Lucky Hit with 30% Critical Hit Chance will actually have 60% Critical Hit Chance. A Cursed Hit that has a 30% chance to trigger a Chain Lightning will have a 15% chance to trigger that Chain Lightning instead.
• Lethal Hits: Instead of doubling the damage they now make you deal more damage the lower the health of the target is, up to x2.00 at 0% health. (Yes this is a nerf, but Lethal Hits are pretty easy to acquire, so it's warranted.)
• Periodical effects have been merged with Ticking effects. So "Periodically ... every 2 seconds." does not exist anymore. The Periodical Rate stat also doesn't exist anymore, as pretty much everybody and their grandma asked me what "Periodical Rate" does. I hope Tick Speed is more understood. It all now works with the Tick Speed stat. Tick Speed also affects things like Damage Over Time effects and Auras. Everything that scales with Tick Speed now shows the tag. This is also explained ingame. This is a massive buff and makes it easier for builds to combo ticking effects.
• Magic Find is not a percentage anymore but flat points, similar to Luck. This is intentionally a bit more obscure.
• Damage rolls cannot exceed 100% anymore. E.g.: by powering up the Fear Debuff.
• Auras changed. They don't apply a debuff anymore that makes the target take additional damage. They are now ticking effects, dealing Damage Over Time and inflicting their corresponding ailment. E.g.: Burn Aura now deals Fire Damage Over Time and inflicts Burn.
• Alignment is not on a scale anymore. You can now be Good and Evil at the same time. This was done because it was increasingly frustrating to accidentally engage with a mechanic such as the Black Market and suddenly not be Good enough anymore to enter Heaven. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/cc3a78c9836401e407de8b8c7f97774f61a3c9ff.png
• Cursed Doors now apply +1 Curse immediately after entering room instead of when you complete it.
• Curse now seals traits upon having made your choice.
• Damage ranges of certain damage types have been adjusted. For example, Lightning Damage has less of a range now. Lightning still has the biggest damage range but it's not as crazy anymore as before.

Status Effect Changes

• Doom, Judgement, Frostbite have been reworked. Doom now deals a base amount of damage, and Judgement and Frostbite have been reworked into pseudo-debuffs similar to Scorch and Toxic. Some players voiced that they find the previous implementation of these effects more interesting. In my mind, I changed these because they obfuscated a simple damage increase. If Judgement deals 100% of damage of the 2 hits that inflicted it, that is basically just a 100% damage increase. So at that point I am pretty much just adding extra words (I like your funny words magic man.) instead of just writing "You deal more damage!", which some of these now do. Doom retains the quality of being a "count up" effect and I plan to polish it and other effects further in the future. (Adding cool particle effects, sounds and so on.)
• In fact, all secondary ailments have been streamlined. Previously these all did a semi-unique thing, now they all do the same thing but for their specific damage type.
  • Judgement: x1.25 Radiant Damage taken
  • Frostbite: x1.25 Cold Damage taken
  • Corruption: x1.25 Dark Damage taken
  • Scorch: x1.25 Fire Damage taken
  • ... and so on for Diffusion, Frostbite, Roots, Rupture, Toxic and Zap.
• This was done to make room for a more builds focusing on a single damage type. I think it's a cool fantasy to go for the "Cold Damage Build" or the "Fire Guy Build". Hopefully these ailments provide an avenue to invest more into that route.
• Similar to the change to Doom, all damage dealt by Status Effects now has a base damage and a scaling. Previously status effects used this frankly weird "infliction damage" mechanic that confused a lot of people. E.g.: Burn would deal 50% of infliction fire damage. Now Burn, Poison, Bleed, Echo, Retribution, Paper Bombs and all the other damaging status effects have their own base damage. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/eaf867d507165c512b617f143427e889d0b36988.png
• Poison and Disintegration now stack infinitely.
• All Status Effects (be it Ailment, Buff, Debuff or anything else.) are now always considered to be inflicted by the player. This fixes a weird edge case problem where e.g.: the Snowpal Companion would grant Chill Effect, but the Chill that the companion would inflict wasn't actually affected by that.
• Damage Over Time can now deal special hits, such as Critical Hits, Lucky Hits, Cursed Hits and so on.

Trait Changes:

• I dare to repeat myself but lot of traits have changed. Not even close to all though. A lot of them are still the same. Some have had their names slightly changed, e.g., One Step Ahead is now called Two Steps Ahead.
• Removed 13 Traits: Bloody Knuckles, Focused Might, Goat Force, Natural Burden, Shield Bash, Tempest Kick, War Cry, Hunters Patience, Manaforged Bolts, Near Death Experience, Discharge, Glass Cannon, Wildfire. Some of these are planned to return as Skills. Don't be sad Goat Force, you will be back soon! Same goes for War Cry and Discharge.
• Added 21 new Traits:
  • Strength (+9): An Honest Day of Work, Brawn Over Brain, Explosive Force, Hand Of Hearts, Momentum, No Pain No Gain, Pushing Through, Shrouded In Shadows, Threat Reckoning
  • Dexterity (+5): Chill Aura, Electric City, Illusion Of Control, Pet The Dog, Repeat Offender
  • Intelligence (+7): Astromancy, Chrono Shift, Entropy, Normal Distribution, Prodigy, Trickery, Zoo Utopia
• For a long time a lot of the new traits had placeholder icons and the community graciously stepped in and helped me out. They created icons for all the new traits. Special thanks go to: Copi, Junk Knight, NDSi, CraftingcCat_IX, Endrai, Ferlo, Spyz, maybeonyx_, Colt, Evan and Novellum. These names also have been added to the Credits Panel. Thank you. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/98ba67dc48b5ef5799f39e9f012fd8d7ef3b9653.png

Enemy Changes:

• A lot of enemy health and armor values have changed. There was a focus on increasing survivability of large enemies. E.g.: Gargantuars, Yetis, Shield Guardians and Purple Worms. I want these enemies to feel more powerful and not fall over as easily, acting as a central threat in a room.
• Increased the health and armor scaling of many monsters, including: Mimics, Basilisk Cockatrices, Centurion Hunters, Automaton Guardians, Tainted Enemies and Reapers.
• Reduced health, armor hitbox sizes and attack frequency of Jousting Champion. (He will still be the bane of your existence. :))
• Revisited attack patterns of some Mimics so they aren't as unreasonable when paired up with another Mimic and possibly enchanted too. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/fdb81d604f4765953d847641ea22b60e1f3f458b.png

Cinder Changes:

• Centurion Hunter: As mentioned, health and armor values and scaling of these values into later floors has increased. The rooms before the Hunter invades will now rumble to announce their upcoming appearance.
• Double-Edged Sword: Now only applies a negative enchantment modifier to your starting weapon. Does not increase frequency of negative modifiers anymore.
• Pestilence: Has been completely reworked. Goodbye maggots! Infested enemies explode on death, emitting a nova of poisonous projectiles after a short delay. If an enemy touches one of these projectiles, they will become Infested too. This is a modifier favoring single target and precise damage as it can get very out of hand when you accidentally infest the entire room.
• Conqueror's Will: Instead of applying a x0.50 damage reduction for 8 seconds, it now applies a x0.50 damage reduction for 20 seconds but the damage reduction decays over those 20 seconds.
• Defensive Measures: Is now a 25% chance, down from a 30% chance to add a defensive enchantment.
• Resistance Enchantments now grant a 30% damage reduction, previously 50%.
• Cascading Pain: Has been removed and replaced with: Afterlife Express
• Afterlife Express: Reapers can now spawn regardless of how Cursed you are. Reapers gain Armor and an additional attack.
• Ill Equipped: Has been removed and replaced with: Monster Jam
• Monster Jam: You sometimes encounter Rooms filled to the brink with Enemies.
• Automaton Guardians: Have less health and armor in the early game. They also don't repair themselves anymore.
• IMPORTANT CHANGE: Bosses enchanted by the Archnemesis Cinder don't receive a health and armor bonus from being enchanted anymore. INSTEAD: Every active Cinder modifier now adds +0.5% Boss Health per Floor. It is intended for the game to feel more difficult on Cinder 12 onwards.

Class Changes

• Every class has an active skill now. Let me preface this with: I am not a fan managing too many buttons. I don't want Tiny Rogues to become a button heavy game, but I think there was room in the gameplay for one more button to press. So finally Dragoon can jump and Druid can shapeshift. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/eb39b373e4429e689f2157de0469b3f15461ec0c.gif

  List of all Skills:

  • The Hero: Heroic Flag
  • Sorcerer: Frost Nova
  • Soldier: Arrest
  • Ranger: Piercing Volley
  • Pyromancer: Flame Wall
  • Mystic: Parry
  • Knight: Guard Bash
  • Gunslinger: High Noon
  • Doppelganger: Mimic
  • Deprived: Jinx
  • Cleric: Consecrate
  • Bard: Charisma
  • Bandit: Smoke Grenade
  • Wizard: Magic Circle
  • Warrior: Rend
  • Wanderer: Town Portal
  • Thief: Pickpocket
  • Barbarian: Flex
  • Alchemist: Polymorph
  • Super Hero: Super Flight
  • Samurai: Dashing Strike
  • Pirate: Rally Riffraff
  • Paladin: Holy Shield
  • Ninja: Dark Arts
  • Necromancer: Summon Lich
  • Monk: Serenity
  • Jester: Deceive
  • Esper: Telekinetic Barrier
  • Druid: Wild Shape
  • Dragoon: Jump
  • Demon Hunter: Vengeance
  • Dancer: Twirl
  • Cyborg: Missile Storm
  • Chaos: Gets a random skill from another class.
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• The character selection contains a shortened description. This menu has been simplified and is getting a more sophisticated implementation in the future.{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/efc93712ad24b2e1587310d8ca644ebb5f22d2a1.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/d8e05d080b6db384f64a8a4fe32f1c439a14280e.png
• In the character panel you can find a detailed description of your skill. Skill descriptions can be quite long but you hopefully only have to read them once. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/5cc2a29b45006fb468b62f496e68593edf194fec.png
• Added a new stat called Skill Effect. Which affects values that shows a little green wrench next to it.
• Every class now starts with 75 Equip Load Capacity, up from 50, but Strength now only grants +2.5 Equip Load Capacity per point.
• Equip Load Penalties have changed. E.g.: there is now a Dash Length penalty but there is no more Critical Hit Chance and damage penalty.
• Every class starts with 7 movement speed now. Previously some classes like Ranger had 7.25 or 7.5.

Specific Class Changes:

• Pyromancer: Has a new ability and new equipment.
• Cleric: Has a new ability.
• Bard: Has a new ability.
• Bandit: Has a new ability, a new item and a new sprite and theme.
• Thief: Has a new ability.
• The Hero: Now starts with the Amethyst Ring.
• Sorcerer: Has a new ability.
• Soldier: Has a new ability and the Town Guard Armor changed.
• Ranger: Has a new ability.
• Knight: Has a new ability, similar to the one before the 0.2.0 update.
• Doppelganger: Some of the forms have new effects.
• Pirate: Gained new ranks now and the bounty rewards are different.
• Necromancer: Ability now only affects Companions.
• Monk: Has a completely new ability.
• Jester: Has a new ability.
• Esper: Now gets 1 "Psychic Ability Trait" at Level 1.
• Druid: Druid Shrines don't grant +1 EXP anymore.
• Demon Hunter: Increased the health and armor scaling of the tainted enemies.
• Dancer: Has a new ability that builds a synergy with their skill.
• Cyborg: Now gets 1" Cybernetic Core Trait" at Level 1.

Gift Changes

• Amethyst Ring: Has been replaced with Sacramental Bread.
• Sacramental Bread: Consumable that absolves all Curse once.
• Mana Elixir: Now grants +20% Mana Recovery.
• Soul Scarf: Has been replaced with Scroll Of Escape. Soul Scarf can now be found in the game.
• Scroll Of Escape: Teleports you to the Hero Hideout.
• Storm in a Bottle: Has been replaced with Golden Spatula.
• Golden Spatula: Charm that grants +10% chance for Food Reward to upgrade.
• Dice Case: Contains only 1 Ethereal Dice now, previously 2.
• Radio: Has been replaced with Ethereal Orb.
• Ethereal Orb: Allows you to pick a Trait to remove and then get offered a selection of new ones.
• Mana Catalyst: Has been replaced with Smuggler Pouch.
• Smuggler Pouch: Contains a random Weapon. (Yes, there is even a 1% chance for a Legendary.)
• Many of these Gift changes were made at the last minute to make them presentable for this patch. It is likely I will change Gifts more in the future.

Mastery Perk Changes

• All Mastery Perks have been rephrased.
• Some Mastery Perks have changed, including: Secret Service, Supply and Demand, Demand and Supply, Mixed Bag, Suit Up, Inflation, Deflation, In the Eleventh Hour, Red Roulette, Ethereal Roulette, Adaptability, Dedication, Pandora's Boxes, Odyssey, Precognition, Prosperity, The Glass is Half Full, The Glass is Half Empty, Lazy Stroll, Quick Recovery, Left to Fate, Personal Agency, High Stakes and Slow and Steady.

Equipment Changes:

• A lot of equipment items were often skipped because they were too weak or not reliable enough. These items got new effects. For example, the Gold Mask previously made a Gold Reward Room appear; now it gives you Gold when you defeat a boss.
• New Items: Elite Quiver, Tiroler Hut, Top Hat, Wedding Veil, Soccer Orb, Pyromancy Gloves, A New Set of 10 Special Charms, Skill Charm, Tattered Skill Charm, Goblin Charm, Gazer Charm and the Bounty Hunter License.
• A lot of complex or niche equipment items have been turned into something simple and easy to understand that slots in directly into builds.
• Quivers now only work when wearing a Bow or Crossbow.

Companion Changes:

• Companion descriptions now show the limit of that companion instead of its weight, making it (hopefully) easier to understand that you can summon multiple.
• In the character panel you can now see the total weight and count of companions you have.
• Some companions grant new effects.
• Added 3 new companions: a Gazer, a Goblin and a Sorrowsworn.

Consumable Changes:

• Consumables now embed the effect they grant into their description now and don't show it as a tooltip anymore.
• Fish: Many now grant permanent stats instead of temporary buffs.
• Vitamins: Now grant less attributes but grant them immediately on consumption. (While this is a nerf, the previous implementations of Protein, Zinc and Calcium were needlessly complex.)

Room Changes:

• The Bonfire now lets you repair your armor before the final bosses in Floor 12.
• Shops have been buffed all around, selling better items for cheaper, and some shops now sell new cool items.
• You now get information on which shop the door leads to.
• Lockpicking at Tavern now gets harder and harder with each time you do it.
• Items bought in Shops now cannot be pawned for more than they were bought for.
• Sell prices of items in general have been slightly nerfed.
• The Soul Shops have been removed from the Black Market. The Black Market is now also smaller. (This was done because I have seen players spend 10 minutes or longer in there.)
• Items aren't worth more at the Black Market Pawnshop anymore.

Music

• As always, thank you @MiguelAngell960!
• Added a new theme for when dying after winning a run. (A custom game over animation will follow! I can't believe I still didn't find time to implement this.)
• Added a new theme for the Hero Hideout.
• Added a new theme for Monster Jam rooms.

Other Quality of Life:

• Added Mana and Stamina Recovery Bars to the HUD.
• The Character Panel has been cleaned up.
• Weapons now display hard and soft upgrade levels separately when holding for details
• Added a new bar to the bottom left of the screen that shows counters for Tally and Guarantee effects.
• Added new tutorial tooltips to some classes. For example, Sorcerer's ability now relates to Ailments, and there is now a tooltip explaining how to spot what an ailment is.
• Added a new Near Death screen effect.
• Added new Near Death and Flask Reminder Alarm sounds. (You can toggle these in Audio Options.)
• Added a new invincibility indicator below the player. (You can toggle this one in the Gameplay Options.)
• "Compare" and "Show Detail" are now split key binds.
• On keyboard you can now define a key to toggle items to "Show Base Values". (This will turn off the auto calculation of green values. The binding for this is not shown because it bloats the control hints and is usually only useful for wiki editors and math enjoyers.)

Other Changes:

• Added an additional tutorial room that explains Skills.
• Some achievement requirements have changed.
• Added new cheat console commands:
  • toggle_infinite_mana
  • spawn alchemy_station
  • go_to_all weapons_room
  • go_to_all equipment_room
  • go_to_all consumables_room

New Options:

• Keyboard Option: "Blink Into Move Direction", this option is specifically for Jester's Skill. As Jester blinks away from the current location. By default, this works like the Dash into your movement direction. Personally I prefer it to blink into direction of my mouse cursor, so I added this option.
• Audio Option: "Play Near Death Alarm"
• Audio Option: "Play Flask Reminder Alarm"
• I have re-bound the default gamepad controls and this reset your bindings. (I can't believe I once again didn't manage to overhaul gamepad controls this patch. Trust me, I have some fancy plans.)
• Gameplay Option: "Show Damage Effectiveness" (This needlessly bloats descriptions for the average player, so it's turned off by default.)
• Gameplay Option: "Always Show Tooltips"

Bug Fixes:

• The game has no more bugs, everything has been fixed. Totally, yep. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/fdb81d604f4765953d847641ea22b60e1f3f458b.png
• Jokes aside, I fixed a lot of (your favorite) bugs.

The Clean Update - Tiny Rogues 0.2.5

Tiny Teams Festival

MakeShip Plushie Pledge Goal

2024 Roadmap

• A Monster Bestiary
• Cinder 20 (has already been announced twice so far)
• A Unique Endgame Game Mode
• New Special Rooms
• The Secret Secrets Update (has also been announced at least twice so far)
• Uber Bosses
• Mini Bosses
• Run History
• Collection Menu
• Reworked Options Menu
• In-Game Guide
• Run Summary at the end of a Run
• Subclasses for some Classes
• More Skills
• Revamping the meta tree and adding big impactful keystone modifiers
• A rework of the Knights in the Tavern
• Unique Items to buy in the Alignment Shops
• Treasure Goblins
• And so much more...

TLDR

• The Clean Update, Tiny Rogues 0.2.5 comes out on Wednesday around 17:00 CET.
• Tiny Rogues gets a huge sale during the upcoming Tiny Teams Festival on the 8th, and there will be a bundle with Backpack Battles.
• On the 7th of August, I am starting to collect pledges on MakeShip for the Death Plushie.
• Into the Abyss will not come out in 2024, instead, there will be smaller, but still amazing and content-rich updates.

Notes

• Skills are not implemented yet; you have access to 1 fixed skill with Right-Click. The skill is called Power Shot and requires you to use a Bow or Crossbow, so I recommend jumping in with Ranger. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/d821e251d0b8a92c6d250b1a0fe5e5bfc6b6c149.gif
• I have a lot of plans regarding skills and Power Shot is the most basic skill I could think of to implement first and try out the attack indicators that I made for skills. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42901319/ca2553bc3f86b0b037a132007ae84efdfb5328d6.gif
• This is especially important when judging the magic archetype in it's current iteration. Lacking access to a lot of powerful magic skills makes the archetype considerably weaker than intended.
• I think Gamepad Controls are partially broken in this version. This will obviously be fixed in the coming weeks. In fact, I also have plans for HUGE Gamepad and Steam Deck improvements. Stay tuned!

Beta Season?

So what's in this?

• Updated item effects and descriptions.
• Updated trait effects and descriptions. (A few were also removed and new ones added.)
• Updated weapon effects and descriptions.

How do I participate?

I am on Beta and didn't get the patch!

In Conclusion

• Beta can be played!
• Patch is not done yet!
• Patch will be done soon™️!