Here is a smaller update with a new soul and gun, and some fixes. Additions - Added Arak Warbringer - Added Soul of the Brash Changes - The Are You Sure pop-up buttons are now colored Fixes - Fixed not being able to load into the game
Here is a smaller update with a new soul and gun, and some fixes.
Additions
- Added Arak Warbringer
- Added Soul of the Brash
Changes
- The Are You Sure pop-up buttons are now colored
Fixes
- Fixed not being able to load into the game
Changes - Removed non-standard boons Fixes - Fixed Controller Mappings not appearing in the settings - Fixed a variety of typos - Fixed various minor bugs
Changes
- Removed non-standard boons
Fixes
- Fixed Controller Mappings not appearing in the settings
- Fixed a variety of typos
- Fixed various minor bugs
Here is a smaller update, including a variety of fixes and changes. Runes have been removed; a system in the works will replace them for meta-progression. Changes Removed Runes Converted Shaman and Graviton Rune into Artifacts Improvements to main menu UI Fixes Fixed Trinkets not
Here is a smaller update, including a variety of fixes and changes. Runes have been removed; a system in the works will replace them for meta-progression.
Changes
Fixes
Here is a small QoL and visuals update. Next, we will be working on content. Additions Added Controller Deadzone Added fade transitions when switching menus Added an Are You Sure Popup Window Added the ability to delete your save The Exterminator's visual now follows the soul's c
Here is a small QoL and visuals update. Next, we will be working on content.
Additions
Added Controller Deadzone
Added fade transitions when switching menus
Added an Are You Sure Popup Window
Added the ability to delete your save
The Exterminator's visual now follows the soul's color
Changes
Trimmed tooltips dead space
Improved Setting Pages
Cleaned up the noisy textures
Improved End Round Screen
Fixes
Fixed Trinkets not working
Fixed some Controller bugs
Welcome, Wanderers!! Today is a juicy patch for you all! We have been cooking away, drawing out the essence of the vessel! Literally! You are no longer a floating gun, but an enraged Soul! With HANDS!!! No arms though, too far out of budget. That’s right, you have a character you
Welcome, Wanderers!!
Today is a juicy patch for you all! We have been cooking away, drawing out the essence of the vessel! Literally! You are no longer a floating gun, but an enraged Soul! With HANDS!!! No arms though, too far out of budget. That’s right, you have a character you can actually see that represents your hunger for slimy souls. We have a bit more work to do for the Exterminator, but we are happy with the manifestation as it stands now. Look forward to seeing some of the more dynamic updates to the character.
Alongside the character, we went back to where it all started to rework the Forest map! No longer are you trapped in a square, or endlessly marching across the infinite wastes with a simple tree or lamp standing around. We have made the map more of a maze that you have to navigate. There are dead ends and alcoves that you could find yourself trapped within if you aren’t careful.
Alongside these changes comes an updated UI, reworked weapons passives, souls, and artifacts! These changes have been made to better balance the game and bring the experience together for you. In these updates comes a new Armor stat that decreases taken damage, a new Stat Boon you can choose to pad out your builds, and some new Bounce and Coil artifacts.
A slew of balance changes, Shrine updates, and more await you! Be sure to check out the full patch notes below for more info. We appreciate each and every one of you, and welcome your feedback on this new patch. Let us know if you have any suggestions, or find any pesky bugs.
Additions
Added Armor, which decreases damage taken
Added a new type of Boon, a Stat boon, which replaces the Just Stats property
Added a variety of boons, and reworked every artifact, soul, rune, and gun passive
Added a new improved forest map
Added Exterminator character artwork
Shrine Changes
Shrines no longer disappear
Changes
Changed the buff icon color of poison
Reworked how magnets work, they now give a stack of the Magnetize buff
Improved the text of various tooltips
Increased the vertical view distance of the Forgotten Valley
Buff tooltips now say what they do rather than just their name
Removed Aura Size, pick up range is now used as aura range for most artifacts
Reworked enemy spawning to make it feel more dynamic
SFX
Added an SFX for when artifact cards are shown
Added an SFX for when trinkets are picked up
Added an SFX for when hitting an enemy
Lowered the volume of the level up sound
Performance
Improved the performance of Magnets
Improved loading speed of some maps
Improved the performance of projectiles
Improved performance of enemies
UI
Reworked many UI elements
VFX
Added a VFX for Frenzy, Precise, and Quicken
Added an animation to buff icons for their duration
Added a scene transition for when the game is loading, so it doesn’t look like the game froze
Improved the visuals of ichor flasks, souls, and trinkets
Improved the visuals of the player’s projectiles
Improved the animation for when the pickup radius changes
Improved animations transitioning in and out of the artifact selection
Fixes
Due to the number of reworked changes, we didn’t keep track of what bugs were fixed
Greetings Voidlings!! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? We are reaching out from the shadows of our keyboards to give you an update on the update! Our last major update introduced changes to the game's visuals, enhancing the user experience and aligning with the theme. We brought you
Greetings Voidlings!! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? We are reaching out from the shadows of our keyboards to give you an update on the update!
Our last major update introduced changes to the game's visuals, enhancing the user experience and aligning with the theme. We brought you two new maps, 4 guns, and 6 souls. Alongside these were a slew of new artifacts, stats, and general rebalances.
Since then, we have continued working on balance, maps, and making the game overall more fun. We have decided to move away from the flat map design of ye olde build. For example, you will find the classic Forest map has a layout that you are going to navigate to find the shrines and survive. The foul creatures of darkness will wander out from the trees as you fight your way through the sparse paths to gain more power. Enemy art tuning, menus, and a major change to the lore and your experience are here: The player is now represented by a character model!!!! This model will adjust based on your chosen Soul and Runes.
With the update to the player character, we didn’t want to leave the Vessels untouched. Each weapon now has a custom crosshair and recoil pattern, and updated passives for each weapon. The Soul system has received a rework to give more interesting effects on gameplay.
Previously, the different Artifacts, Boons, Runes, and Ichors all stepped on each other in terms of their applications during a run. We have moved to isolate each category to make them more unique based on what they are supposed to be. Runes are also easier to acquire now, no longer needing special conditions. This means you can find any Rune during a run. Shrines are all physicalized in the world, so you can learn their locations and better plan your routes between each one.
To make the game more approachable, we have unified the Stats system in some places, with multiple stats aligned under each category, enabling some crazier builds. Artifacts have been cleaned up with less chaff in the pool. Just Stats have been converted to the Boon category, clearing some space in the Artifacts, and giving you some additional bonuses for completing Shrines. Ichor flasks have a new model for pickup, and the artifacts you would be offered are removed or merged into the standard Artifacts. Now the Ichor flasks fill up a bar to grant you more rerolls and banish chances.
We are expecting to have this update in your (NEW!!) skeletal hands soon™. For now, our remaining tasks are the ongoing war against balance, content additions, and finalizing map updates. Thank you again for your time, and we hope you all have an amazing day!
Balance Witch Doctor: Poison now scales off tribulation rather than enemy damage Witch Doctor: Poison Stack Range 100 - 600 -> 50 - 150 (10 - 30 seconds of poison) Poison: Max Stacks 10,000 -> 1,200 (4 minutes of poison) Poison: Tick Rate 10 -> 5 ticks per second Poison:
Balance
VFX
Fixes
Some visual improvements, a variety of balance changes, and a fix to undetected input on a controller. VFX Improved the lighting effects Improved the look of ground drops Improved the collecting soul animation Improved the shoot particles Improved the animation of the gun firing
Some visual improvements, a variety of balance changes, and a fix to undetected input on a controller.
VFX
Changes
Runes
Artifacts
Fixes
Another balance pass to balance the difficulty of the game better. Armaments Grim’s Delight: Fire Rate 160 -> 180 Grim’s Delight: Range 40 -> 36 Artifacts Teklan’s Feast: Pickup Range 100% -> 50% Teklan’s Ichor: Pickup Range 2% -> 1% Zillu’s Tithe: Damage 5% -> 2%
Another balance pass to balance the difficulty of the game better.
Armaments
Artifacts
Boons
Enemies
Fixed
Some balance changes to critical chances, while playtesting, we found a build where the critical hit damage was in the millions! Changes Regenerate is no longer applied instantly, but rather quickly over time Increased the brightness of the Shrouded Cove Changed the name of the S
Some balance changes to critical chances, while playtesting, we found a build where the critical hit damage was in the millions!
Changes
Balance
Fixes
A variety of balance changes, performance improvements, and fixes. Changes When obtaining a harmony it now says what artifacts are combining Balance Harrath’s Piece: Min Damage -2 -> -4 Harrath’s Piece: Range 60 -> 40 Arcane now converts Velocity to Range at a rate of 50% G
A variety of balance changes, performance improvements, and fixes.
Changes
Balance
Fixes
An update with a variety of bug fixes and balance changes to prevent scaling so hard that the game’s difficulty gets trivialized. Changes Reworked Shrike’s passive Balance Teklan’s Deck: Soul Worth 12% -> 10% “Soul Worth!”: Soul Worth 2 -> 1 Helikul’s Flasks: Pickup Range 1
An update with a variety of bug fixes and balance changes to prevent scaling so hard that the game’s difficulty gets trivialized.
Changes
Balance
Fixes
Fair weather to thee, oh Gluttonous Ones! Today’s update is bringing more updates and changes to many visual elements of the UI, including the health and experience UI that guides your way, literally now! Now, shrines revealed on the map will have a small compass marker pointing
Fair weather to thee, oh Gluttonous Ones! Today’s update is bringing more updates and changes to many visual elements of the UI, including the health and experience UI that guides your way, literally now! Now, shrines revealed on the map will have a small compass marker pointing toward them. On the larger and more exciting side, there are also content updates! New maps, guns, and souls have been revealed in your world. As the fog clears, you will notice the dark and moody Shrouded Cove and Secluded Valley await you. These new maps have different layouts, requiring different strategies to avoid the hungry souls that crave the safety and power granted by your firearm housing.
Speaking of that, there are 4 new guns, with exciting properties and styles made to break the game even more! I don’t want to spoil them here, so hop in, figure out the unlock conditions, and wreak havoc! To pair with these, some new Souls have come in to add more options for customization, meaning the options are greater than ever!! Let us know what you think.
Major Changes
Additions
Balance
Enemy Balance
Changes
Fixes
Greetings, Exterminators! Today’s update is a special one! To start with, we have revamped all of the enemies currently in the game to match the upgraded art for our weapons. With a shiny new coat of paint, the starving souls of the fallen will march toward you with renewed beaut
Greetings, Exterminators!
Today’s update is a special one! To start with, we have revamped all of the enemies currently in the game to match the upgraded art for our weapons. With a shiny new coat of paint, the starving souls of the fallen will march toward you with renewed beauty, almost making you sad to destroy such artful renditions of the Old Ones’ will. But once you see the new Bosses barreling toward you, only then can you appreciate the power Their Will can grant upon a wayward soul.
Moving BEYOND the enemies, a new Tribulation has been revealed: BEYOND!! See what we did there? ;D This new Tribulation adds a new level of difficulty for our hungry Vessels. With steeper enemy scaling, we are introducing a new challenge, and are planning updates coming to add more depth to these brutal levels.
On another note, we have removed the Transmutations, as we felt their attainment relied too much on failing runs to improve them. As a result, we have rebalanced almost every stat in the game to reflect this change in mechanics. On top of this, we have streamlined collecting Runes to be attained as soon as they are unlocked. Oftentimes collecting runes seemed to discourage experimentation, and could even make players feel cheated if they didn’t get the “right” build to survive a Tribulation to unlock them. Now, as soon as you are notified of receiving the Rune, it is unlocked and added to your Armory for the next round.
An important update to the map and how we make them has occurred as well. Previously, we used infinite map tiles that looped around on each other via procedural generation. We have decided to aim for a better player experience with curated static maps with borders. This will enable us to better tune enemy abilities and movement abilities, as well as provide more unique and interesting map gameplay opportunities. You Exterminators will also have to adjust your strategy to account for a slightly more limited travel ability in any one direction so as not to get yourself boxed in.
These changes are a large part of an even larger update. There have been rebalancing, renaming, and performance fixes aplenty to help improve the overall experience. As always, we welcome feedback in our Discord, the Steam Discussion Forums, and through your reviews. You can find the finer details of our many updates below.
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Major Changes
Additions
Changes
Completely reworked Health and Healing, and healing artifacts
Gun Balance
Soul Balance
Artifact Balance
Enemy Balance
Performance
Fixes
Changes Reworked the Witch Doctor Rune Fixes Fixed the Witch Doctor Rune dropping when it has already been unlocked
Changes
Fixes
Greetings Flagellants! As we approach the haunting season see fit to browse our new armory for a fitting weapon to protect yourself! We present your new Vessels! We are aiming to unify our art style in preparation for the manufacturer variants system coming in! These shiny new to
Greetings Flagellants! As we approach the haunting season see fit to browse our new armory for a fitting weapon to protect yourself! We present your new Vessels! We are aiming to unify our art style in preparation for the manufacturer variants system coming in! These shiny new toys are gorgeous and ready to please the eye as easily as they slay slimes.
In addition, we have brought in 3 new Vessels:
Grant’s Partner, a hard-hitting coach gun, meant to hammer targets that venture too close to you.
The Judge, a shotgun pistol that packs a wallop and maintains a small profile and light step.
Virin’s Atomizer, our local mad scientist’s tool for rapid restructuring into palatable soul fragments.
We think you will like these 3 new tools of the trade and their associate souls, and are always open to feedback!
On top of this, we have added a flurry of new artifacts, trinkets, and ichors of various rarities, including some chaotic new unspeakables. >:)
Along with these awesome additions come many balance changes and bug fixes. We found an issue affecting controllers and the Steam Deck as well, so let us know if it works for you!
Additions
Gun Balance
Artifact Balance
Changes
Fixes
Fixes Fixed Bloodletter and Bombardier unlocking each other instead of themselves.
Fixes
Balance Reduced the speed scaling per Tribulation Slightly reduced the size of the Beach’s vertical size Fixes Fixed not being able to unlock gun-related Souls Fixed Unstable Portals missing the Ichor Tag Fixed Banishing an artifact not reverting the color back to normal Fixed an
Balance
Fixes
Salutations, fair friends! With today’s update you can officially build your deck on the Deck! We are officially Steam Deck Verified, meaning you can battle the forces of darkness on the go, never giving them a chance to rest. Further work has gone into polishing the UI, with cha
Salutations, fair friends! With today’s update you can officially build your deck on the Deck! We are officially Steam Deck Verified, meaning you can battle the forces of darkness on the go, never giving them a chance to rest.
Further work has gone into polishing the UI, with changes to the HUD, Artifact Cards, and Grimoire. Further QoL and balance work has been performed on the cursor, guns, and Artifacts, further developing the ability to be challenged and to challenge your foes with full force.
As always, thanks for reading. You can check out the full patch notes below!
Gameplay
UI
Artifact Additions
Gun Balance
Artifact Balance
Enemy Balance
Gameplay Balance
Changes
Fixes
This is Part 1 of our Grand Design Update. We decided not only did our game need improved visuals, but it needed lots of gameplay changes, the following patch notes are structured differently than our usual patch notes. We wanted to provide more insight into the decisions we made
This is Part 1 of our Grand Design Update. We decided not only did our game need improved visuals, but it needed lots of gameplay changes, the following patch notes are structured differently than our usual patch notes. We wanted to provide more insight into the decisions we made. There are a lot more changes than the ones listed.
This update went through a lot of iterations. Some highlights are that we reworked every artifact in the game, doubled enemy counts, cut their health in half, and reduced their speed.
Some insight on our short-term plans, we plan on working on build diversity, balancing, performance, UI Polish, and QoL.
You can always give feedback to us directly on the Steam forums or at our discord
Major Changes
Performance
Gun Balance
Soul Balance
Rune Balance
Dev Note: I used this Rune every single run, and I believe that runes should vary depending on what build you want to do, so having a Rune that is something that you always felt you had to grab is not something that I liked.
Artifact Balance
Gameplay Balance
Fixed