The Black Pool

Released: Jun 19, 2024
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 02:47 GMT

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04 Oct 2025Developer post
PATCH 1.5 - SHARPER HORIZONS
NEW ARENA: JAGGED PEAKS Prepare to face off in a brand new arena with combat progressing over six varied zones. PERFORMANCE AND FIDELITY This patch delivers a massive leap in visual fidelity, featuring clearer rendering, improved framerates, and reduced noise. DLSS has been upgra
NEW ARENA: JAGGED PEAKS
Prepare to face off in a brand new arena with combat progressing over six varied zones.
PERFORMANCE AND FIDELITY
This patch delivers a massive leap in visual fidelity, featuring clearer rendering, improved framerates, and reduced noise.

DLSS has been upgraded to version 4, providing substantially higher quality upscaling.
TSR has also been upgraded for those without NVIDIA cards.
Upgrades and tweaks to Lumen Global Illumination.
FSR4 frame generation has been implemented, giving those without NVIDIA 4000+ series cards an option for higher frame rates.
Implemented NVidia Reflex and AMD Antilag to ensure input is processed as quickly as possible.
Implemented new techniques for reducing the blur created by Temporal Anti Aliasing (TAA).
Added micro details to many of the biomes.
Many other small tweaks based on extensive profiling.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Arena Survivors maps can now be individually selected when starting or retrying a game.
The Black Pool Soundtrack: All music tracks have been updated to the finalized album versions.
BALANCE UPDATES

Colossus: Reduced bombardment detonation radius by 30%, damage by 20%.
Tesla Coils: Increased damage by 14%, and increased the max distance a rod can be placed.
Focused Light: Reduced the potency of the ‘Increase charge damage and effect’ upgrade by 20%
BUG FIXES

Fixed issue where Steam could fail to register an achievement being unlocked. Implemented a correction process on the main menu that will unlock achievements that previously failed to register with Steam. Open the game to unlock your missed achievements!
Fixed bugs with Molten Pillars Arena that could result in too few flux being rewarded.
Fixed various audio bugs.
Fixed visual artifact where some of the spell would remain for Tesla Coils and Void Crystal.
And many more smaller fixes, tweaks.
Shout out to Wrusty, SherpaPimps, Darth, Chlo, and BeardedInk for their help in playtesting this patch!
1.5.1 HOTFIX
Corrected issue that could cause square artifacts to sometimes display on the terrain in a few biomes.
1.5.2 HOTFIX

Corrected a few issues relating to the controller inputs
Jagged Peak arena: A few fixes to respawn zones, enemy kill zones, etc.
1.5.3 HOTFIX
Corrected issue that affected AMD graphics cards where some attack visuals would glitch and cause a massive drop in performance. Shoutout to Mandragorn with helping diagnose this issue!
1.5.4 HOTFIX

Fixed issue where music could fade in louder than set in the settings.
Fixed issue where some landscapes could go invisible on AMD GPUs (6000 series).
Fixed very rare Unreal 5 crash.
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04 Apr 2025Developer post
The Black Pool Soundtrack Releases May 21st!
UPDATE: The Black Pool Soundtrack by Angles and Under Sanction is now available on Spotify , Apple Music , and all other major streaming services. LISTEN TO SUIT UP AND STARECASE Stream the singles Suit Up and Starecase:
04 Feb 2025Developer post
PATCH 1.4 - THE SLASHER
NEW ENEMY: SLASHER A new enemy is on the prowl. Beware, they like to get up close and personal. ADDITIONAL FLUX EVENTS Additional common flux events have been added, increasing variety. ELEMENT GUIDE One of the top requests from new players has been to add a way to reference the
NEW ENEMY: SLASHER
A new enemy is on the prowl. Beware, they like to get up close and personal.
ADDITIONAL FLUX EVENTS
Additional common flux events have been added, increasing variety.
ELEMENT GUIDE
One of the top requests from new players has been to add a way to reference the element descriptions outside of skill selection. An elemental guide has now been added to the in-game menu.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Reduced the brightness of lens flares. While shiny metal and flare are part of the overall aesthetic, some flares were too bright and distracting.
Reworked Ascend (light jump) to be a charged secondary jump instead of replacing the base jump. The charged jump can now be triggered while in the air.
Music: Updated and elaborated the random world track Making Contact.
Updated Javelin to be easier to see in dark areas.
Improved Torcher AI.
Added wind power % to enemy health bars.
BALANCE UPDATES

The Journey Home: Per player feedback, adjusted the random distribution of flux events. Enough flux events to allow an augment before the 2nd world boss is now guaranteed.
Colossus: Updated barrage attack to be more dangerous.
Ice Platform: Updated jump to be 20% higher. Instant cooldown upgrade now procs up to 3 times in a row, allowing a chain of 4 jumps.
Tesla Coils: Increased base duration by 25%. Increased max rod range by 50%.
Enveloping Mist: Increased decay amount by 40%.
Sealed Fate: Increased base damage to match the base skill, and the detonation now also hits for the same amount.
Empowered Reach: Increased base range by 20%.
Tornado: Updated cooldown upgrade to proc up to 3 times in a row, and up to 9 times for the Depth Charge augment.
Wind Blast: Doubled the max range of wind quick and its augments.
Light Rail: Reduced charge up damage and effect multipliers by 18%, and base damage by 4%.
Focused Light: Reduced strong light base damage from 180-450 to 160-400.
Noxious Plume: Reduced decay amount applied by 25%. Invulnerable time reduced from .4 seconds to .25 seconds.
Fireball: Reduced base fire effect by 10%.
Nether Pull: Updated void jump to only allow only one active damaging void orb at a time. No more spam casting!
BUG FIXES

Lightning Strike: Fixed issue which was preventing Lightning Strike damage after channeling for the required time.
Frozen Cloud: Fixed the attack rate upgrade not applying correctly.
Multiplayer: Fixed bug which could cause client players to see themselves standing upright after falling to their death.
Ability Summary: Fixed flux damage and effect upgrades which were displaying half-transparent.
And many more smaller fixes, tweaks, and performance enhancements.
1.4.0B HOTFIX

Fix for some of the new text not translating.
Calling all Challenge Mode players! Please consider enabling sending game stats under Game Settings. This helps us make informed balance decisions for players pushing The Black Pool to its limits.
Shout out to ThatPlatypus and Volcris for their world-first successful completion of a level 12 challenge run!
If you would like to be part of the community, join The Black Pool Discord.
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29 Nov 2024Developer post
PATCH 1.3 - SPEED AND PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS The Black Pool patch 1.3 brings many performance improvements. Following the last big content patch, we devoted substantial time to evaluate and tune both CPU and GPU performance. A large focus of this effort was to ensure that biomes which were less perf
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
The Black Pool patch 1.3 brings many performance improvements. Following the last big content patch, we devoted substantial time to evaluate and tune both CPU and GPU performance. A large focus of this effort was to ensure that biomes which were less performant were brought into parity with the rest of the game. Most notably, the forest environment has been optimized and greatly improved, and now has a low-end tree replacement system for players on low foliage settings.
QUICK WIND REVAMPED
Wind Blast has been reworked to be more fun and useful from the start. The wind projectile now moves at a constant blistering speed, a 225% increase. The projectile speed upgrade has been replaced with an upgrade to increase the blast splash radius—a more rewarding option. Some additional adjustments were made to reduce accidental self knockbacks when hitting targets in close proximity. The attack rate upgrade and other attack rate modifiers now also reduce the time to maximum charge for the Gale Force augment.
NEW LOOK FOR THE DEVICE
The Device has been updated to help visually differentiate each of the device powers.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Player movement speed is now 20% faster, improving agility and feel while reducing run time in large levels.
Reworked the light overcharge upgrade mechanic to now increase the charged damage and light effect without increasing overall charge time. Rebalanced the quick and strong attacks that make use of this upgrade.
Updated fire and ice clones to not collide with players. No more deflecting off your friend’s clone when they cast it after hitting a jump pad!
Some of the longer levels have been tightened up to reduce excessive running.
Added first-time shader compiling notification to the main menu to inform players when additional resources are being spent on compiling shaders.
Additional refinement of movement animations.
BALANCE UPDATES

Magnus Underlord bosses: Replaced the penetrating laser with a bolt attack. Now all Underlord attacks can be blocked by the side pillars, fixing the issue of being hit through walls.
Phantom Leap: Updated to have slightly more upward momentum and 20% more base height. Reduced decay jump height upgrade by 20%. Reduced invulnerability time upgrade by 50%.
Decreased the move speed drop bonus from 50% to 40% to account for the new increased player movement speed.
Adjustments to the Time Trial challenge mode timings.
Boulder Toss: Increased base damage by 20%.
BUG FIXES

Event Bars: Fixed the boss name listing twice in event bars while playing The Journey Home.
Rallies: Fixed issues that could delay applying the effects of rallies, most impactful with Holy Light where it could be possible to cast and die without getting revived.
Time Trial: Fixed display bug that could cause the time trial bar to erroneously show an extra minute in the countdown, giving the appearance of skipping time when it self-corrected.
Stomper Boss: Fixed lag spike that could occur upon boss death.
Note: Recent NVIDIA drivers introduced a bug with DLSS which causes severe graphical glitching. If you experience this issue, updating your drivers or switching to TSR resolution scaling should fix the issue.
A huge shout out to BeardedInk and itsAlexxGaming for their extensive testing and feedback on performance for their setups! If you would like to be part of the community and share your opinion on what should be developed next, join The Black Pool Discord!
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23 Oct 2024Developer post
PATCH 1.2 - ARENA SURVIVORS
NEW GAME MODE: ARENA SURVIVORS The Black Pool patch 1.2 introduces an entirely new game mode: Arena Survivors— a fast and intense battle arena featuring rapid progression and randomized waves of increasingly more difficult enemies. It delivers a fun and highly replayable “survivo
NEW GAME MODE: ARENA SURVIVORS
The Black Pool patch 1.2 introduces an entirely new game mode: Arena Survivors— a fast and intense battle arena featuring rapid progression and randomized waves of increasingly more difficult enemies. It delivers a fun and highly replayable “survivors-like” spin on The Black Pool gameplay, and also provides a quick way to experiment with abilities and builds without the time commitment of a full playthrough. A successful Arena Survivors attempt will take around 30 minutes, compared to 90 minutes for the full game mode (now called The Journey Home).
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Four unique arenas have been developed for Arena Survivors, each presenting varied and evolving layouts, hazards, and challenges.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Endless Mode: Upon clearing level 30 in Arena Survivors, players can choose to keep playing endlessly. Attempt to set new records, go crazy with augments, and push the game beyond its design constraints. Caps on the number of upgrades are increased. Things can get nuts. You have been warned!
New dynamic music track: Making Contact. The musical score now consists of 7 dynamic tracks which seamlessly progress with the playthrough sequence, and 10 Temple tracks.
Players can now reallocate their geodes in The Device, enabling more experimentation and strategy.
Improved Widescreen Support: Dynamic FOV is now applied based on resolution aspect ratio, providing better support for ultra widescreen formats.
When a player reconnects, the player will now respawn using a friend’s location rather than the level start.
BALANCE UPDATES

Added Rank 7 Enemies: Introduced an additional level of difficulty with a new top rank, Rank 7 (red). Rank 6 enemies, which were previously red, are now orange. Rank 7 enemies can appear in challenge modes, endless mode, and when playing in large parties.
Detonating enemies now take 4 seconds to arm after spawning. If they are destroyed prior to arming, they will not explode for AOE damage. This greatly improves the experience of kamikazes and seamines spawning in close proximity to players.
Stomper: Reduced the rate that player damage is applied when touching a Stomper laser plane.
Infected Enemies: The orange area attack from flux infected enemies now fires less frequently.
Ice effect on Bosses: Frozen status duration on bosses reduced to 50% compared to regular enemies (previously was 33%), but the boss now gains a half second immunity to freezing afterwards.
Lightning effect on Bosses: Stun duration reduced to 50% on bosses compared to regular enemies.
Ice Mine: Increased base damage by 20%.
BUG FIXES

Improved AI: Enemies now have improved pathing when there are obstacles between them and players.
Performance: Fixed a few memory leaks which caused longer levels to degrade in performance over time.
Multiplayer: More robust channeled ability management, improving situations where ability duration is shorter than ping, which previously could leave a cast stuck channeling or prematurely end it.
Fixed an issue that could cause event bars to stop being displayed.
Seeker: Fixed multiplayer bug that could result in client players gaining infinite instant cooldown quick void attacks.
Boulder Toss: Fixed issue where the boulder was not always colliding with enemies once redirected by an ability.
Focused Light: Fixed "way too bright" visual bug.
Fixed auto targeting point on wall turrets (for stone turrets and auto targeting spells).
Fixed an issue when defeating the final boss which failed to trigger the end music queue and halt passive enemy spawns.
Heals applied to shielded players will no longer trigger an “armor blocked” sound, causing players to wonder if the heal was reduced.
Plus many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
1.2.0C HOTFIX

Fix for Dynamic FOV.
1.2.0D HOTFIX

Fix for issue with endless mode not being enabled on subsequent successes in a single session.
1.2.0E HOTFIX

Fixed Stomper Boss from having no cooldown at wave 60+ on the cluster bombardment. Also updated cluster bombardment to deactivate when it's source is killed, preventing taking damage way after killing the enemy.
Tweaked arenas to eliminate "safe spots" out side the arena that some of the more entrepreneurial players have been exploiting.
Prevent the endless mode from ending if players manage to get all possible upgrades.
Shoutout to Volcris, ThatPlatypus, RedSpekkio, Skelly, Wrusty, DoomSayer, Sh4ft, and Morris230 for their help in testing this patch.
Creating a full new game mode was a huge undertaking. Let us know your thoughts and experiences on Arena Survivors!
Endless mode was one of the top requested new features in our latest Discord player survey. If you would like to be part of the community and share your opinion on what should be developed next, join The Black Pool Discord!
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22 Oct 2024Developer post
PATCH 1.2 DROPPING SOON!
Get ready—The Black Pool 1.2 is dropping soon. Patch 1.2 launches an entirely new Arena Survivors game mode, a brand new music track, and numerous new features, balance adjustments, and bug fixes!
19 Jul 2024Developer post
PATCH 1.1.0 - CHAOS
The Black Pool patch 1.1 delivers the top requested post-launch features from our Discord community, including a brand new element, multiplayer nametags, and player pings! NEW ELEMENT: CHAOS A new element has been discovered: Chaos. Adding 6 base abilities, 4 augments, 11 upgrade
The Black Pool patch 1.1 delivers the top requested post-launch features from our Discord community, including a brand new element, multiplayer nametags, and player pings!
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NEW ELEMENT: CHAOS
A new element has been discovered: Chaos. Adding 6 base abilities, 4 augments, 11 upgrades, and a new ring drop, the addition of Chaos brings the total number of unique abilities and augments in the game to 90!
NAMETAGS
Friends now have a nametag UI overlay to make them easier to locate. This can be disabled in Settings.
VISUAL PING ALERTS
Player ping functionality has been added to better coordinate attacks and quickly communicate with other players. Ping shares the Revive input binding.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Multiplayer: Added the option to password protect games when hosting.
Added a new photosensitive mode in Settings that reduces flashes and suppresses HDR bloom and lens flares.
Numerous audio improvements, balance adjustments, and additional sounds.
Added Ultra Performance scaler setting for those who value framerate above all else.
Multiplayer: Improved spawn agro to better account for player distances.
Various performance improvements.
BALANCE UPDATES

Light Blast: Reduced base charged damage from 600 to 500.
Vipers now have a more aggressive attack pattern, and targeting laser visuals and sounds have been updated to better communicate the surface to air missile attack.
Badder Bosses: Reduced torcher spawn rate, which aside from becoming overwhelming, could negatively impact performance.
BUG FIXES

Multiplayer: Removed 30 minute time limit on the Reconnect prompt, allowing sessions to be resumed at a later date. Note: Clients must use the Reconnect button in order to resume prior sessions. Hosting a new game or playing single player clears the ability to resume hosting or reconnect to the prior session.
Molten Pillars Boss: Dead player bodies are now pushed by the moving platforms, fixing issues where revived players could spawn underneath or inside a moving platform.
Rain of Fire: Fixed issue with the second and third fireballs applying extra damage.
Fire Clone: Fixed issue with the clone applying damage twice.
Incinerate: Fixed issue preventing redirecting Terra boulders.
Reworked Magnus Underlord pool exit animation that was glitching for client players.
Fixed issue preventing Entity statues from receiving continual ticks of damage from area spells.
Plus many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
1.1.0E HOTFIX

Tangled Reach: Fixed issue that would reapply chaos global upgrades with each tick, resulting in insane chaos link damage. Also, updated Tangled Reach to not apply chaos to invulnerable enemies. (Thanks FR0STB1T)
Temple: Fixed a possible way to get stuck while jumping into the vortex if you are trying your best not to fall in. (Thanks FR0STB1T)
Molten Pillars, Upsilon Sector: Fixed a respawn point that could trap the player inside of rocks. (Thanks Chi_GGPB)
1.1.0F HOTFIX

Fix for Chaos quick attack upgrades that could cause bounce damage reduction % bonus to be much larger than intended. Also fixed issue that could cause sprouts to excessively reduce their damage.
The majority of features introduced in this patch were suggested by players in The Black Pool Discord channel. If you would like to be part of the community and share your opinion on what should be developed next, join our Discord!
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19 Jun 2024Developer post
PATCH 1.0 - THE BLACK POOL GOES GOLD!
This patch we focused primarily on polish and smaller bug fixes in preparation for officially launching The Black Pool on Steam! It has been a long road to get here. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game to help us reach this huge milestone! FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS F
This patch we focused primarily on polish and smaller bug fixes in preparation for officially launching The Black Pool on Steam!
It has been a long road to get here. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game to help us reach this huge milestone!
FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Following completion of World 4, the new music track Suit Up now plays while players select their kill bonus. New lighting effects in the Temple have also been added.
Numerous Temple updates have been made to improve overall polish, including the addition of twelve new murals.
The Device: When hovering over a Tier Up button, the new stat values for the next tier are now previewed and highlighted.
BALANCE UPDATES

Flux that falls into a respawn zone is now awarded automatically instead of being lost into the abyss.
Increased responsiveness of quick attacks. Quick attacks are now effectively fired on the very next frame following player input.
Player input is now locked out while the level is fading in to prevent accidental inputs.
When taking flux jump pads, air control is now locked out for a few seconds, preventing the player from accidentally holding a direction and failing to land on the flux event platform.
Updated high rank bonus attacks to not trigger while the enemy is stunned.
Icelands: Updated some keepers to spawn closer.
BUG FIXES

Some video cards were getting a stutter the very first time a spell was loaded. This patch adds a shader pre-caching process that fires in the background when starting the game. This is a very manual process, so if you still find something that causes a stutter the first time it loads in combat, please let us know.
Adventurous players have found ways to bypass spawns, which could prevent upgrades from appearing unless they ran back to trigger what they missed. This patch, a new system has been added to prevent these scenarios. If for some reason you ever get stuck, please report it.
Fixed issue where DLSS frame generation could toggle on and off, causing unnecessary frame dips.
Fixed issue where a non-valid resolution could be chosen when starting the game for the very first time.
Gloom: Adjustments to low and medium quality settings to improve visibility and more closely match high quality settings.
Fixed issue where server and client could desync when power ups drop to the ground.
Multiplayer: Fixed spawn laser from beaming the incorrect direction on clients.
Boulder Toss Multiplayer: Fixed client still seeing a boulder over their head for a few seconds if they abort a boulder toss by casting another attack.
Fixed issue where the chat window could fail to scroll to the most recent message.
Achievements: Addressed issue with Steam not accepting some unlocked achievements. Now on startup, the game will check Steam, and reattempt any achievements that are out of sync.
Plus many more smaller polish items and bug fixes.
Special thanks to Pandize, Bayden, Daze Draco, itsAlex, BeardedInk, and Morgodin for their suggestions and bug reports for this patch.
1.0.1 HOTFIXES

Underlord Hive Boss: Fix to prevent rare scenario where the last two underlords could get stuck in a loop casting invulnerability on eachother. (Thanks GIT-R-DONE-PAPA)
Stone Turret: Updated collisions, preventing player from potentially getting stuck in the turret. (Thanks BeardedInk)
Multiplayer: Fixed Lightning Strike having 2 visible bolts strike down on clients.
PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE GAME!
We are just a two person team, so even small mentions can really make a difference.
Sharing our launch trailer on social media would help immensely!
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04 Jun 2024Developer post
The Black Pool is launching out of early access!
We are thrilled to announce The Black Pool will be launching out of Early Access— version 1.0 of the game releases on June 19th ! We entered Open Beta and Early Access a year ago. Through valuable community feedback, we have added a host of new content and features to the game, w
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We are thrilled to announce The Black Pool will be launching out of Early Access— version 1.0 of the game releases on June 19th!
We entered Open Beta and Early Access a year ago. Through valuable community feedback, we have added a host of new content and features to the game, while addressing pain points, and optimizing performance.
Some notable content added throughout our Early Access period:

Addition of in-playthrough Flux collectible system and redeemable upgrades, with 6 unique Flux events.
14 new enemy types and 3 new boss sequences.
Increased the number of player abilities in the game from 42 to 80.
Created the augment system that allows radically modifying abilities in a fundamental way that the existing upgrade system could not.
An additional elemental school of Void, consisting of 10 abilities.
Two additional Biomes and dozens of new maps for existing biomes.
Greatly improved UI, addition of event bars, and enemy health bars.
Countless bug fixes and performance enhancements.
We are grateful for all the support and feedback we have received. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and participated in Early Access. It has been a work of passion for over two and a half years to get us to this point.
We are already working on the next content patch and are dedicated to making The Black Pool the best game it can be. Please keep sharing your thoughts and feedback!
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02 Jun 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.9.3 - UBER PERFORMANCE
This patch, we focused on increasing graphics quality, performance, and overall polish. The Black Pool is also now available in 7 languages. FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS Added DLSS 3.7 super resolution support. Those with NVIDIA cards that support it can now take advantage of DLSS u
This patch, we focused on increasing graphics quality, performance, and overall polish. The Black Pool is also now available in 7 languages.
FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Added DLSS 3.7 super resolution support. Those with NVIDIA cards that support it can now take advantage of DLSS upscaling!
Added DLSS Frame generation. Those with 40-series NVIDIA cards can also enable Frame Generation, which will grant a substantial framerate increase as well.
Added a red vignette visual effect to better inform players when damage is taken. We would love to hear your feedback on this new feature.
Added support for German, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. If you would like to help with the game being available in your native language, please reach out on our Discord!
Improvements to many sounds and visual effects.
BALANCE UPDATES

Grapple: Reduced base range by 12.5%.
Magnus - Beta Sector: Some balance updates.
Fixed Rift Slide orbs from erroneously redirecting boulders.
Cross The Streams: Made it easier for players to overlap lightning spells.
Ice Mine: Sped up the cast animation.
BUG FIXES

Multiplayer: Updated the server authorization system to adapt better with player latency, preventing erroneously rejecting client ability casts.
Fixed issue where the chat / notification log would not fade out after starting a new attempt.
Multiplayer: Fixed an issue where player damage sounds could be backlogged and heard much later.
Mantis Boss: Fixed issue where the event and health bars did not show progress in Stage 2.
Plus many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
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24 May 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.9.2 - BADDER BOSSES
BADDER BOSSES This patch introduces a new challenge mode: Badder Bosses, which adds new and unique challenge content to each boss, such as additional stages, new enemies, and different attack patterns. NEW FINAL TEMPLE OFFERING After selecting your six abilities, the final temple
BADDER BOSSES
This patch introduces a new challenge mode: Badder Bosses, which adds new and unique challenge content to each boss, such as additional stages, new enemies, and different attack patterns.
NEW FINAL TEMPLE OFFERING
After selecting your six abilities, the final temple offering now presents three random drop bonus choices. These drop bonuses are reduced in strength compared to normal drops, but are automatically applied on every kill and assist. These kill bonuses add another aspect of strategy and improvisation to each playthrough.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

New level (Gloom - Upsilon Sector)
Gloom levels now have random weather variation.
New details added in the final Forest level.
Mechs have gained a new teleport ability which they may use strategically.
Various audio improvements.
BALANCE UPDATES

Fireball: Reduced self amplified damage amount by 20%. Updated size growth to reflect how much extra damage will be done (grows larger with damage from friends).
Updraft: Reduced based wind jump shaft uplift power by 16%.
Blink: Reduced base lightning blink dash distance by 20%.
Dual Sentries: Increased base damage by 20%.
Gale Force: Increased base damage by 50% and increased max charge damage multiplier by 25%.
Next Attack drop: Updated to be green to avoid confusion with flux drops.
BUG FIXES

Fixed issue where the top event bar could stop displaying for the rest of a session.
Multiplayer: Fixed a rare issue where a client could not see their upgrade offerings, forcing them to have to select them blindly. This has been a difficult and tricky issue to address, but we are 98% sure we have eliminated it. Please let us know if you encounter this issue after the patch!
Stone Fury: Fixed failure to redirect boulders. Fixed issue with hitting enemies at point blank distances.
Magnus: Substantial performance improvements to moving platforms.
Keepers: Substantial performance improvements following keeper death.
Icelands: Adjusted some lighting conditions to not be as bright.
Time Trial: Fixed a bug when flux was picked up that was multiplying the time added for each player. It is now a set 15 seconds per flux, regardless of player count.
Plus many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
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13 May 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.9.1 - A MORE POWERFUL DEVICE
NEW MAGNUS LEVEL This patch introduces Magnus - Beta Sector, which holds some fun surprises and unique challenges. NEW DEVICE CHOICES Two new unlockable slots have been added to The Device. In addition, the STEEL OR GLASS and STRATEGIC DAMAGE slots were each given a 3rd option. E
NEW MAGNUS LEVEL
This patch introduces Magnus - Beta Sector, which holds some fun surprises and unique challenges.
NEW DEVICE CHOICES
Two new unlockable slots have been added to The Device. In addition, the STEEL OR GLASS and STRATEGIC DAMAGE slots were each given a 3rd option.
ELEMENT UNLOCKING
New players and new player slots now unlock 5 of the 8 known elements in a randomized order. This introduces elements and new abilities gradually, and provides an improved sense of progression and discovery for new players.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Quitting the game: There is now, officially, the option to quit and save progress from the start of the current level. Alternatively, you can abandon the run.
Magnus - Alpha Sector: Fixed large lag spikes that could occur during platform raising and lowering.
Updated visuals for player effect cards, making them easier to read. Added visual effect cards for all drop effects. Even instant effects display cards for a few seconds, providing clarity to what each drop does.
Added visual effect to hands when the cast rate is temporarily boosted.
Various audio improvements.
Improved random music track selection to ensure that the tracks played at the end of the prior run are not immediately selected for a new run.
Resuming runs now keeps the same music track selection for the resumed world.
Some revisions to the Hammerhead and Overlord boss sequences.
Added additional challenge mode achievements.
Added support for resolution ratios narrower than 16:9.
The Black Pool is now available in Spanish! If you would like to help with the game being available in your native language, please reach out on our discord!
BALANCE UPDATES

Updated instant cooldown effects to also refresh channeling pools.
Shocking Current: Increased base channel time from 4 to 6 seconds, increased the full regen time from 12 to 14 seconds.
Cross The Streams: Increased the time it takes to full charge up from 2 to 3 seconds.
Updated to the “Friends dash on team kill” device option to give an instant cooldown on the NEXT dash, rather than only giving an instant cooldown on dash if it was currently on cooldown.
Icelands Boss (The Spire): Added divider walls to make hopping between buttons more challenging.
Updated so multiple “one time use damage increase” drops stack together to amplify the next spell, rather than being used 1 at time with subsequent attacks.
BUG FIXES

Updated player turrets to not be targeted by player auto targeting abilities.
Tornado: Disconnected the tornado’s rotational pitch from the player's aim.
Islands: Improved visibility within clouds and brightness at night.
Fixed the in-game menu ping display a client sees for the host.
Fixed issue that would cause an Underlord to freeze up when being released from the Overlord.
Blink: Fixed issue with having a different upward trajectory based on the direction the player is facing. Also, reduced its cast lockout time for other abilities, allowing quicker combos.
Multiplayer: Fixed possibility of Rock Shot spawning below the desired hand location on client. We never were able to reproduce this. Please let us know if you see this happen again.
Fixed issue where Shield Gen would try and shield a recently killed enemy.
Multiplayer: Fixed Cross The Streams visual display glitching that could happen for clients.
Intro Sequence: Fixed display issue on low settings where the camera which is seen sitting on a log would instead be seen floating in the air. Also fixed camera focus issues.
Fixed issue with master volume slider where the audio level would not properly reset after setting to 0.
Fixed issue where volume was being double applied when starting up the game.
Many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
Special thanks to aeamek for finding many of these bugs!
Post-patch fix: Corrected an issue with the new abandoning of a run that could result in not returning to the main menu.
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18 Apr 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.9.0 - NOW FEATURING 80 ABILITIES
STRONG AND AREA ATTACK AUGMENTS The Entity now offers augments for strong and area attacks! In total, this patch introduces 16 new augments, and 2 new base abilities. There are now 80 unique abilities and augments in the game, ensuring endless build combinations! NEW HEAVY MECH:
STRONG AND AREA ATTACK AUGMENTS
The Entity now offers augments for strong and area attacks! In total, this patch introduces 16 new augments, and 2 new base abilities. There are now 80 unique abilities and augments in the game, ensuring endless build combinations!
NEW HEAVY MECH: BEETLE
NEW CHARACTER ANIMATIONS
Improved character animations for Levitate, Grapple, Fire Thrust, and Nether Pull.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

The introductory text at the start of the game has been replaced with a short cinematic sequence.
New Legendary Flux Event — It happens rarely, but it is very exciting when it does!
Added a pair of destructible statues to the Temple that can be used for trying out abilities, and target practice. The hitpoints of the two statues are constant, acting as a baseline of comparison within and across playthroughs.
Two new levels (Maroon Fields and Obsidian).
Improved the look of targeting decals.
Added a target indicator for vulnerable projectiles and weapons, such as pulse disks, and the Shattered Crater boss missiles.
Improved level selection to be more varied (while still randomized) across playthroughs.
Various Temple visual improvements. Puddles now form below The Device when it rains.
Player models are now automatically updated upon joining a multiplayer game with the same player model, preventing duplicates.
Reworked element descriptions to be more concise, and easier to understand.
BALANCE UPDATES

Replaced Stone Wall (Terra Area) with a new ability: Stone Turret. Stone Wall was just too limited in its usefulness.
Replaced Boulder Toss (Terra Strong) with a new, easier to use ability: Rock Strikes. Boulder Toss, being a more advanced ability to execute, has had its damage increased, and is now offered as an augment to Rock Strikes. Boulder redirects have also been made more predictable in certain situations.
Reworked Hover (Terra Jump), and it has been renamed to: Levitate. Overall feeling and maneuverability has been improved, and a bug has been fixed which sometimes sent the player in a vertical trajectory.
Removed the velocity requirement for dashing. If a standing player dashes, they will dash forward.
Implemented diminishing returns to the effects for Fire, Decay and Void. Newly applied Fire will be reduced as the total damage per second reaches 300. Likewise, applied Decay and Void will diminish as they approach 300% amplification.
Flash, now renamed to Focused Light: Added a preview of the focused light beam while charging. Updated starting cone angle from 30 to 45, replaced max charge range upgrade with overcharge upgrade, added a 2X max range extension when fully charged, reduced max charge multiplier from 4 to 3.
Lightning Effect: Rather than creating 0.1 second micro stuns, it now stuns for 0.4 seconds, making stuns more noticeable for non-strong lightning abilities.
Lightning: Global upgrade changed from increasing stun time, to increasing lightning applied, resulting in more frequent stuns.
Shocking Current: Replaced "Increase rate of fire" upgrade with "Increase channeling time".
Arc Lightning: Replaced "Increase damage and effect" upgrade to “Increase damage”.
Ice Shield: Reduced cooldown from 12 to 10 seconds, but cooldown now begins upon shield destruction.
Ice Mine: Now detonates when arming if proximity was breached prior to arming.
Crystallize: Max range increased by 66%.
Incinerate: Reduced base fire amount from 17 to 15 dps.
Radiate: Replaced upgrade that increased effect to instead increase damage.
Tornado: Replaced upgrade that increased projectile speed to instead increase the tornado size.
Mantis (Obsidian Boss): Scaled down boss attacks based on the world and number of players. Made the creeping energy ring slightly lower, resulting in it being easier to jump over.
Pulse Disk Launcher: Slightly lowered pulse disk damage rings, making them a bit easier to jump over.
Ball Drop Flux Event: Updated to scale less dramatically with player count.
Defend Flux Event: Increased defend tower hit points against triwings.
Elemental Rings: Increased attack range by 25%, increased damage by 200%. Updated attacks to not redirect boulders.
Time Trial: Rebalanced target times for each level based on playthrough data. Special thanks to those who have enabled sending game stats in the options menu!
BUG FIXES

Shattered Crater, Gamma Sector: Fixed a rare condition which could prevent upgrades from spawning, killing a run. (Sorry if you encountered this one!)
Fixed issue where glitchy spikes could form in the black pool.
Player collision meshes are also now vaporized in the portal, and will no longer block friends.
Shattered Crater: Fixed a performance issue, resulting in a significant performance increase for some CPUs.
Enemy Rank Challenge mode: Fixed issue with Skylands boss in where Spider spawns would continually get promoted to a higher and higher rank.
Ice Platform Jump: Fixed a performance issue, resulting in a significant performance increase for some CPUs.
Rallies: Updated to not land on enemies, which could cause the rally to be floating in the air when the enemy moved away. Fixed issue where aiming down while casting a rally on a flat surface could have it penetrate through the ground.
Drops: Fixed display of stacking drop effects. For example, two movement speed buffs will now show +100% movement speed for the period when they overlap.
Fire Thrust: Fixed issue where upward momentum would be lost when activated at certain times, such as when using a jump pad.
Jagged Peaks: Fixed rare placement issues with Pyramid Missile launchers.
Multiplayer: Fixed issue where clients could not see other players charging dashes or jumps.
Multiplayer: Fixed issue where if a player entered the temple dead, they would not receive heals when revived.
Multiplayer: Fixed issue where high rank hex blockers were double spawning for clients.
Magnus boss: Fixed issue where all Underlords in the first stage could all focus fire at the same time.
Skylands, Beta sector: Added an intermediate step where players could get caught, forcing them to backtrack.
Moten Pillars: Fixed collision issue where it was possible for players to fall behind rock walls and get stuck.
Moten Pillars, Gamma Sector: Fixed issue where Flux Ball Drop event could spawn partially outside the level boundary.
Moten Pillars Boss: Updated top rotating platform to be easier to jump onto.
Many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
This is a huge patch. Check it out and let us know what you think of all the new updates!
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25 Feb 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.8.2 - THREE ABILITIES TO START
THREE ABILITIES TO START Players now start with three abilities, choosing from each of the offered starting elements. Previously, combat in the first world could feel limited with only two abilities. This makes the first levels feel more engaging from the start, and also requires
THREE ABILITIES TO START
Players now start with three abilities, choosing from each of the offered starting elements. Previously, combat in the first world could feel limited with only two abilities. This makes the first levels feel more engaging from the start, and also requires players to improvise with their builds a little bit more.
PATCHWORK
A point of frustration for players has been falling into crevices while in combat. We have painstakingly gone through all of the biomes and smoothed out many of these problem areas. While we want there to be environmental obstacles to contend with, the worst offenders have been greatly improved. If you run across an area that feels “bad”, let us know!
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Player starting jump hang time has been reduced to feel a bit less “floaty”.
Levels now have enemies spawned at the start, helping the worlds feel more populated.
Improved out of combat spawns to be biased in the direction of progress and to not interrupt guide arrow display.
Further revisions to the new player tutorial biome sequence.
Respawn button: Added a visual effect to indicate that a respawn is in progress.
Icelands Boss: Platforming revised to be a bit easier.
Additional new and tweaked sound effects.
Added informational popups for the more complicated abilities. If you feel a skill could use more explanation, please let us know.
World and level numbers now display in the in-game menu.
BALANCE UPDATES

Single player revives on the Proficient difficulty now heal 100%.
Kamikaze Mechs now have a distinctive footstep sound, making it easier to hear them coming.
Jagged Peaks Pyramid missile barrages now scale based on player count and playthrough progress.
Rift Storm: Improved to hit more frequently, hit enemies above, and have a larger radius.
Stone Wall: Tripled reflected damage, doubled the reflected terra effect.
Fire Thrust: Made stronger when the player has a downward velocity, making it more consistent if used while starting versus in the middle of a jump.
BUG FIXES

Fixed issue that would prevent guiding arrows from showing on Jagged Peaks boss.
Numerous fixes to guiding arrows on Temple, Icelands and Molten Pillars bosses.
Performance tweaks for shield generators.
Fixed Fire/Decay/Void amounts on the health bars to continue to grow when the logarithmic bar fills up.
Fixed flux not extending challenge time on pickup.
Many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
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17 Feb 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.8.1 - HEALTH BARS AND DROPS
ENEMY HEALTH BARS This patch, we have delivered one of our most requested features: enemy health bars. In addition to displaying the rank and hit points for medium and heavy enemies, all currently applied elemental effects are now visualized as colored bars. These bars provide gr
ENEMY HEALTH BARS
This patch, we have delivered one of our most requested features: enemy health bars. In addition to displaying the rank and hit points for medium and heavy enemies, all currently applied elemental effects are now visualized as colored bars. These bars provide greater clarity to elemental effects— how long they last, how much effect has been applied, and crucially, when the thresholds are about to be reached for time-limited effects such as frozen, blind, and brittle. Relevant numbers are also displayed, such as total damage amplification from decay, or the current damage over time amount from fire.
EVENT BARS
Bosses, flux events, and hold points now display event progress bars.
ENEMY DROPS
Enemies now have a chance to drop short term power-ups on death. These power-ups include: increased movement speed, next attack does double damage, a shield that absorbs 50% damage, increased attack speed, instant cooldown for all abilities (except rally), and a close-range attack ring for every element.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Two new levels (Skylands and Icelands, Upsilon Sectors)
Damage numbers have been enlarged, and health bars and other UI elements have been updated to improve legibility.
Updated visual effects for attacks from Jellyfish, Starfish, and flux parasites to be less visually dominating.
Wyld Stallyns music sequence: reworked and expanded the 1st and 3rd levels.
Added new challenge modes: Enemy Rank
Temple shortcut now orients players towards the map room vortex and avoids stacking players. Apologies if you loved this feature. We did too.
Molten Pillars Boss: Numerous updates and fixes to improve this boss encounter. Upper platforms are now easier to land on. Guidepoints have been added. Respawn points added to the top section, preventing players from having to re-do the platforming if they fall off. Lower platforms have been updated to prevent snagging, and they won’t shut down when the boss is defeated, avoiding a rare situation that can strand a player in multiplayer.
Numerous performance enhancements.
BALANCE UPDATES

Added a short invulnerability window to players when respawning from a fall.
Updated all elemental effects to last 5 → 6 seconds before falling off if not renewed.
Fire Abilities have been adjusted to account for the increase in effect duration from 5 to 6 seconds. Fire Effect damage number ticks now display in orange instead of gray.
Quick Fire and its augments now do 4X damage when hitting an enemy not already affected by fire. This improves fire versus light enemies, without breaking its already strong late game power.
Several small tweaks to player movement to reduce the frequency of snags on the environment.
Fireball: Greatly increased damage radius expansion when exploding, preventing situations where enemies may move out of range before being hit. Updated the visual effect to fizzle rather than explode when exceeding spell max range.
Frenzy: Reduced base augment attack rate penalty from 25% to 15%.
Implode: Reduced base damage by 15%.
Shocking Current: Tripled damage.
Lightning Strike: Reduced base damage penalty from 50% to 25%. Increased AOE radius of Lightning bolt strike.
Radiate: Reduced base damage by 25%.
Reburn: Updated to have its range extended before triggering a bounce back when increasing the projectile speed.
Light Cleave: Reduced base damage by 10%.
Underlord Boss: Increased hit points by 25%.
Icelands Boss: Added invulnerability window after all generators are destroyed to shed all elemental effect stacks.
Healing Challenge Modes: Increased heal reduction from 33% and 66% to 50% and 75%.
Jagged Peaks Boss: Updated leg laser walls to now block “hitscan” spells like lightning and Incinerate.
BUG FIXES

Obsidian Boss: Plasma wave attack now damages players again!
Fixed issue where guiding arrows could break and stop displaying.
Fixed a very rare issue that could cause a fatal error game crash.
Magnus Underlord boss: Fixed AI possibly breaking when an Underlord is killed in the first stage.
Fixed issue where Air Spawners could agro enemies and end up in a stuck AI state.
Molten Pillars Omega Sector: Fixed potential issues with spawns / triggers / enemies preventing level completion. (Thanks to Timothy for the heads up.)
Arc Lightning: Fixed issue where the attack was not visually arcing to hit targets.
Fixed multiplayer issue where a rally cast could drop 2 rally banners.
Many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
Try out the patch and let us know what you think of the new enemy health bars and power ups!
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26 Jan 2024Developer post
SMALL FIX PATCH 0.8.0.1 - SOME UPDATES
Fix for a rare multiplayer issue where a client could not see the offered elemental upgrade. This was a rather rare issue which was problematic to reproduce, so we could not 100% verify it has been fixed. Please let us know if you run into this issue after this patch! Light Fissu
Fix for a rare multiplayer issue where a client could not see the offered elemental upgrade. This was a rather rare issue which was problematic to reproduce, so we could not 100% verify it has been fixed. Please let us know if you run into this issue after this patch!
Light Fissure: Fix for not damaging stationary targets.
Lingering Death: Reduced the damage/effect over time by 50%. Also fixed clouds redirecting Boulder Toss.
Triple Shot: Reduced spread from 10 degrees to 7.5 degrees.
Phantom Leap: Fix to prevent teleporting through walls above the player.
Updated some stationary enemies to not slowly creep away when hit by wind force on clients in multiplayer.
Audio will now remain active when the game window loses focus.
Molten Pillars Boss: Plugged hole by the upgrades where players could fall through.
Shattered Crater Boss: Fixed issue where some of the boss attacks would fire backwards instead of at players. Also fixed issue in stage 2 and 3 where Void crystals could attach to a point floating outside the boss mesh.
Flux Defend Events: Increased scaling of difficulty with more players.
Special thanks to aeamek, Writesout, and xCheekyLemonx for their help in identifying some of these issues!
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22 Jan 2024Developer post
PATCH 0.8.0 - INTRODUCING AUGMENTS
QUICK ATTACK AUGMENTS The Entity now offers augments for quick attacks. Unlike upgrades, augments completely alter abilities with new mechanics and effects. Each quick attack has 2 unique augments. Augments remain compatible with any upgrades you have selected. In total, this pat
QUICK ATTACK AUGMENTS
The Entity now offers augments for quick attacks. Unlike upgrades, augments completely alter abilities with new mechanics and effects. Each quick attack has 2 unique augments. Augments remain compatible with any upgrades you have selected. In total, this patch introduces 16 new abilities, bringing the number of quick attacks in the game from 8 to 24!
HIGH RANK ENEMY ABILITIES
Rank 4 and 5 enemies are now randomly granted one of three additional abilities: hex shield, barrage, or laser blocker.
TEMPLE DEVELOPMENT
The Temple courtyard has been further developed with new structures, details, and lore elements— with more to come. Additionally, a new Temple music track “Onset” has been added.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Improved Mobility: By popular demand, the base dash, and all other dashes can now be activated in the air. This change improves early game mobility and dodging, and establishes consistent movement mechanics regardless of your build. Additionally, players now have 50% more directional control in the air.
New random flux event: Defend. Defend the tower from destruction by the attacking swarm of enemies.
With the addition of augments and multiple quick attacks per element, all abilities in the game have been uniquely named.
Improved enemy agro management. Enemies are now more reactionary in changing targets based on damage and crowd control being applied. They will now even react to friendly fire and attack their fellow mechs if they are aggravated enough.
Key bindings are now displayed next to abilities when in the in-game menu. There is a gameplay option to always display these keybinds.
A revive prompt and key binding is now displayed when in range of a fallen friend.
Ability Summary now includes flux elemental upgrades.
Added graphics option to enable V-sync.
In-game music tracks are now synchronized for all players. (Temple music is still random for each player.)
BALANCE UPDATES

Breeze (Wind Dash): Added additional force when changing directions.
Blink (Lightning Dash) and Phantom Leap (Decay Jump): Improved camera behavior with blink abilities to provide a better sense of direction, movement, and distance traveled.
Blink (Lightning Dash): Added a 10% upward direction and updated logic so small rocks and obstacles do not obstruct the dash. Added a bit of directional momentum after the blink.
Updraft (Wind Jump): Wind shafts now summon in front of the player movement direction, making them more effective when moving laterally.
Stomper Boss: Added invulnerability periods on stage changes to shed accumulated elemental stacks. Increased stage 2 and 3 health by 10%.
Rift Slide (Void Dash): Orb now explodes in a blast area on collision.
Engulf (Area Fire): Attack now lobs a projectile that explodes on impact, rather than projecting downward to create the fire area. Decreased fire effect by 15%.
Radiate (Decay Area): Increased damage by 50%, common quality upgrades to effect increased 10% → 20%, updated orbs to start closer and rotate 25% faster.
Increased Keeper HP by 12.5%.
Updated The Entity to always offer an additional upgrade, and in single player, Revive. (If the player has already used their revive.)
Decreased Rhino hitpoints by 20%.
BUG FIXES

Fixed a memory/GPU leak related to ice spells that would substantially degrade performance over time.
Fixed an extremely rare issue that may prevent a client player spawning on level transition, having to reconnect to the hosted game.
Fixed issue where players were unable to chat at the end of an attempt.
Fixed issue where the saved controller type of Playstation or Switch controller selection did not apply when launching the game.
Final Overlord Boss: Made fixes where feet could penetrate deep into the ground. Made several performance enhancements, which should lead to a better framerate for this encounter.
Fixed issue with Flash (Strong Light) that was allowing the charged attack to do 4X damage.
Fixed issue issue with Light Blast (Area Light) that was causing it to increase damage when charged, in addition to AOE range.
Fixed rare multiplayer issue where clients may not see a shield gen’s invulnerability laser targeting the correct enemy.
Forest: Removed player collisions with fallen trees. Previously, players with low foliage settings would still collide with fallen trees that were invisible to them.
Countless more smaller tweaks and bug fixes.
SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK
This has been a massive patch to develop and release. With such a large amount of new skills being added, there will undoubtedly be additional skill balancing. Community feedback is our primary method for deciding what developments are to be worked on next. If there is something specific you are hoping for in future updates, please reach out and let us know!
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22 Dec 2023Developer post
PATCH 0.7.2 - PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES
While we have been working hard on a large content patch for January with some very exciting new features, we have addressed several performance issues and fixed some outstanding bugs. We decided to gather those up to push in a patch now, rather than waiting a few more weeks for
While we have been working hard on a large content patch for January with some very exciting new features, we have addressed several performance issues and fixed some outstanding bugs. We decided to gather those up to push in a patch now, rather than waiting a few more weeks for the big content patch.
BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Skylands & The Forest performance improvements. Reworked the foliage system to be more performant and to better scale on medium and low settings. Some cards were really struggling with foliage (such as the 1660). This update should dramatically improve frame rates for these biomes. We don’t have access to all video cards to test on, so please, share if there are any areas that are performing poorly for you!
Molten Pillars: Previously, at night, certain lighting conditions and combinations of shadow quality settings could be very dark. These conditions have been made brighter.
Fix for rare client player issue where the upgrade pads would not be visible. This was extremely rare and we could not reproduce it to confirm that this is 100% fixed, but the correction made *should* address the error. Please let us know if after this patch you cannot see the upgrade pads!
Fixed issue where you could fail to cast while landing from a large fall.
Previously, it was possible for strong and area light to get “locked out” on client players if they did a ‘no channel’ cast during a large latency shift. This is now fixed.
Fixed issue where you couldn't charge/channel spells until going to the next level after being AFK for 10 minutes.
Fixed issue where Jagged Peaks pyramid launcher could project its leg to a flux platform.
Added missing guiding arrows on Jagged Peaks Omega Sector.
Skylands: Updated grass to not grow through primary jumppads, upgrade pads, and portals. Fixed floating grass in some areas. Rearranged the upgrade pads on Omega Sector to be in-line like all others.
Gloom Alpha Sector: Eliminated possibility of accidentally missing a spawn, thus not triggering the upgrades until going back and finding the spawn
A few other smaller fixes.
If you run into any issues, please let us know. It’s the best way to ensure that the issue will be fixed so it doesn’t happen to you again!
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13 Dec 2023Developer post
HOTFIX 0.7.1F - DECAY JUMP HOTFIX
Hotfix to resolve an issue where a player could get locked out of casting abilities between the point of doing a decay jump and the decay double jump.
09 Dec 2023Developer post
PATCH 0.7.1 - STOMPER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
NEW BOSS: JAGGED PEAKS A massive new boss has come to the Jagged Peaks. Every world now has its own unique boss, totaling 10 unique boss encounters in the game! NEW ABILITY SUMMARY SCREEN By popular demand, we have added an ability summary screen. Now at any time during the game,
NEW BOSS: JAGGED PEAKS
A massive new boss has come to the Jagged Peaks. Every world now has its own unique boss, totaling 10 unique boss encounters in the game!
NEW ABILITY SUMMARY SCREEN
By popular demand, we have added an ability summary screen. Now at any time during the game, you can review the details of the abilities and upgrades you have selected.
DAMAGE NUMBERS REWORKED
The damage number display system has been completely reworked. Our goal was to increase legibility, while minimizing the visual impact and over stimulation of information. Higher damage numbers are now displayed larger and for a longer duration, making them much easier to read while in combat.
BALANCE UPDATES

Shortened light’s blind effect versus bosses, lasting ⅓ as long. Previously a fully upgraded blind effect could essentially blind-lock bosses.
Strong light now scales up in damage when charged, in addition to the narrowing and lengthening of its beam.
In time crunch mode, picking up flux now rewards an additional 15 seconds of time. Now if you complete flux events successfully, they will be worth the time spent.
BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Icelands boss rework: Previously, the boss could be cheated using penetrating skills and large AOEs. It has now been updated to make use of triggered floor buttons to trigger deactivating invulnerability pylons. In addition, it was difficult to tell what parts of the boss spire were to be targeted. Cosmetic updates were made to make it clear what is vulnerable and what is to be targeted.
Sound improvements: Numerous sounds have been added and updated in this patch. This includes more audio impact for players hitting the ground, all new sounds for lightning attacks, an audio cue for all light abilities when max charge has been reached, sound for the activation of jump pads, and many others.
Improved animation system: Players are able to jump and dash while channeling or charging abilities. This mechanic resulted in these casts persisting after the ability animations completed, appearing odd at times. A new animation persistence system has been developed to properly return to the ability casting/charging state after performing a maneuver.
Fixed issue where Steam may not award an achievement when earned. Added new achievements for completing the relatively new Molten Pillars and Jagged Peaks biomes.
Added a few more one time popup messages to explain essential game mechanics based on feedback and players streaming the game. If there is anything you found confusing that needs a better initial explanation, let us know!
Updated a few screens that were not working well with controller input.
Player characters now animate appropriately when falling from great heights. (No falling damage was added)
Fixed a client only issue where ability elements would not visually refresh when selecting an upgrade and having an additional upgrade from the flux entity.
Magnus - Alpha Sector: Adjusted stage 3 platform movement so that if you are standing on the jump pad when it is activated, it will not send you into the gaseous abyss.
Fixed a few enemies that would not have a “flash when hit” effect for client players.
Many more minor bug fixes and improvements.
SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK
If there is something specific you are hoping for in future updates, please reach out and let us know!
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Updates & announcements

NEW ARENA: JAGGED PEAKS

PERFORMANCE AND FIDELITY

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

1.5.1 HOTFIX

1.5.2 HOTFIX

1.5.3 HOTFIX

1.5.4 HOTFIX

LISTEN TO SUIT UP AND STARECASE

NEW ENEMY: SLASHER

ADDITIONAL FLUX EVENTS

ELEMENT GUIDE

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

1.4.0B HOTFIX

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

QUICK WIND REVAMPED

NEW LOOK FOR THE DEVICE

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

NEW GAME MODE: ARENA SURVIVORS

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

1.2.0C HOTFIX

1.2.0D HOTFIX

1.2.0E HOTFIX

NEW ELEMENT: CHAOS

NAMETAGS

VISUAL PING ALERTS

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

1.1.0E HOTFIX

1.1.0F HOTFIX

FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

1.0.1 HOTFIXES

PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE GAME!

FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

BADDER BOSSES

NEW FINAL TEMPLE OFFERING

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

NEW MAGNUS LEVEL

NEW DEVICE CHOICES

ELEMENT UNLOCKING

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

STRONG AND AREA ATTACK AUGMENTS

NEW HEAVY MECH: BEETLE

NEW CHARACTER ANIMATIONS

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

THREE ABILITIES TO START

PATCHWORK

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

ENEMY HEALTH BARS

EVENT BARS

ENEMY DROPS

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES

BUG FIXES

QUICK ATTACK AUGMENTS

HIGH RANK ENEMY ABILITIES

TEMPLE DEVELOPMENT

ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCE UPDATES