Tom vs. The Armies of Hell

Released: Jul 27, 2016
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Last updated: 03 Sep 2026, 23:05 GMT

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20 posts

12 Jun 2019Developer post
Bug Fix Update
Hey everyone, Just a heads up, there were a few recent updates to address some weird bugs that seemed to show up despite the game being unchanged for quite a long time. As far as I can tell things should be working now. The mini map is still a little weird (making it "good" is pr
20 Mar 2017Developer post
Difficulty Adjustment Live
Hey Everyone, Been a while since my last update, but I heard some more feedback that easy mode wasn't yet easy enough. So, I decided to crank everything down another notch, including Normal and Hard modes. Items now drop a little bit more frequently in all modes, enemies do less
Hey Everyone,
Been a while since my last update, but I heard some more feedback that easy mode wasn't yet easy enough. So, I decided to crank everything down another notch, including Normal and Hard modes. Items now drop a little bit more frequently in all modes, enemies do less damage overall (a little bit at least), and Easy mode gives you a bunch more ammo per soul. Hopefully that gets easy mode into a more enjoyable territory. If not, let me know, and I'll keep hammering at it.
Changes:

Enemies do slightly less damage overall
More frequent health/energy drops
More ammo per soul in easy mode
-Sean
Original post
20 Mar 2017Developer post
Difficulty Adjustment Live
Hey Everyone, Been a while since my last update, but I heard some more feedback that easy mode wasn't yet easy enough. So, I decided to crank everything down another notch, including Normal and Hard modes. Items now drop a little bit more frequently in all modes, enemies do less
Hey Everyone,
Been a while since my last update, but I heard some more feedback that easy mode wasn't yet easy enough. So, I decided to crank everything down another notch, including Normal and Hard modes. Items now drop a little bit more frequently in all modes, enemies do less damage overall (a little bit at least), and Easy mode gives you a bunch more ammo per soul. Hopefully that gets easy mode into a more enjoyable territory. If not, let me know, and I'll keep hammering at it.
Changes:

Enemies do slightly less damage overall
More frequent health/energy drops
More ammo per soul in easy mode
-Sean
Original post
10 Oct 2016Developer post
Easy Mode now Noticably Easier
The balance update I had on the experimental branch is now live on the default branch. In easy mode, you should notice enemies do a little less damage, and they require less damage to kill. There were also some changes to the first boss's attack timing (he should be easier to dod
10 Oct 2016Developer post
Easy Mode now Noticably Easier
The balance update I had on the experimental branch is now live on the default branch. In easy mode, you should notice enemies do a little less damage, and they require less damage to kill. There were also some changes to the first boss's attack timing (he should be easier to dod
30 Sep 2016Developer post
Difficulty update on Experimental Branch
Hey Everyone, I just pushed out a new update to the experimental branch. It should make easy mode quite a bit easier (drastically reduced damage taken, and slightly reduced enemy speed), and should make the first boss easier overall (made some slight adjustments to his attack spe
30 Sep 2016Developer post
Difficulty update on Experimental Branch
Hey Everyone, I just pushed out a new update to the experimental branch. It should make easy mode quite a bit easier (drastically reduced damage taken, and slightly reduced enemy speed), and should make the first boss easier overall (made some slight adjustments to his attack spe
15 Aug 2016Developer post
New Fix Released for Bad Saves
Hey everyone, Bad news is, there was a bug out there that would appear to corrupt your saves after you beat the game. Good news is, it wasn't really corrupting anything, it was just being dumb. Just pushed a fix to address the issue. The only weird thing remaining is, any save-ga
15 Aug 2016Developer post
New Fix Released for Bad Saves
Hey everyone, Bad news is, there was a bug out there that would appear to corrupt your saves after you beat the game. Good news is, it wasn't really corrupting anything, it was just being dumb. Just pushed a fix to address the issue. The only weird thing remaining is, any save-ga
12 Aug 2016Developer post
Changes moved to Default Branch
Minor announcement, but I moved the previously mentioned experimental changes over to the default branch, along with a quick fix to a missing wall section in Level 5. -Sena
12 Aug 2016Developer post
Changes moved to Default Branch
Minor announcement, but I moved the previously mentioned experimental changes over to the default branch, along with a quick fix to a missing wall section in Level 5. -Sena
11 Aug 2016Developer post
More Fixes on Experimental
Fixed a few more player-reported issues on the experimental branch (will push to default once it sits for a day with no issues). Here's the quick list: gluttony would sometimes just get stuck after breath attack what items explanations/tutorials you had seen already wasn't saving
Fixed a few more player-reported issues on the experimental branch (will push to default once it sits for a day with no issues). Here's the quick list:

gluttony would sometimes just get stuck after breath attack
what items explanations/tutorials you had seen already wasn't saving correctly and so they would pop up again if you reloaded. super lame/annoying.
items you had equiped when you loaded a game were cosmetically there, but didn't provide any benefit.
very obscure bug related to starting a boss cutscene during respawn (you could move/fight during the cutscene). this one should be fixed now, but is hard for me to repro, so let me know if you still see it.
Original post
11 Aug 2016Developer post
More Fixes on Experimental
Fixed a few more player-reported issues on the experimental branch (will push to default once it sits for a day with no issues). Here's the quick list: gluttony would sometimes just get stuck after breath attack what items explanations/tutorials you had seen already wasn't saving
Fixed a few more player-reported issues on the experimental branch (will push to default once it sits for a day with no issues). Here's the quick list:

gluttony would sometimes just get stuck after breath attack
what items explanations/tutorials you had seen already wasn't saving correctly and so they would pop up again if you reloaded. super lame/annoying.
items you had equiped when you loaded a game were cosmetically there, but didn't provide any benefit.
very obscure bug related to starting a boss cutscene during respawn (you could move/fight during the cutscene). this one should be fixed now, but is hard for me to repro, so let me know if you still see it.
Original post
07 Aug 2016Developer post
Changes on Experimental Branch
Just pushed a few more changes onto the experimental branch. One was just a dialog/cinematic change to make a scene in level 3 make slightly more sense. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, you either aren't there yet or didn't notice, which is just fine. The
Just pushed a few more changes onto the experimental branch. One was just a dialog/cinematic change to make a scene in level 3 make slightly more sense. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, you either aren't there yet or didn't notice, which is just fine.
The other change is to make Agony, the boss of level 5, more difficult. From the sounds of it it was a bit of a push-over as is. The changes made to him are as follows:

faster turn radius (but no longer snaps to face you as often)
faster, longer linear spike waves (less warning as well)
much faster radial spike waves
longer stun and more damage on traps
slightly faster movement speed
I'm still not necessarily happy with where he is yet, but I need to think more about what I can do overall. Still, this should at least ensure he has some level of challenge to his encounter (which definitley wasn't the case before)
Original post
07 Aug 2016Developer post
Changes on Experimental Branch
Just pushed a few more changes onto the experimental branch. One was just a dialog/cinematic change to make a scene in level 3 make slightly more sense. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, you either aren't there yet or didn't notice, which is just fine. The
Just pushed a few more changes onto the experimental branch. One was just a dialog/cinematic change to make a scene in level 3 make slightly more sense. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, you either aren't there yet or didn't notice, which is just fine.
The other change is to make Agony, the boss of level 5, more difficult. From the sounds of it it was a bit of a push-over as is. The changes made to him are as follows:

faster turn radius (but no longer snaps to face you as often)
faster, longer linear spike waves (less warning as well)
much faster radial spike waves
longer stun and more damage on traps
slightly faster movement speed
I'm still not necessarily happy with where he is yet, but I need to think more about what I can do overall. Still, this should at least ensure he has some level of challenge to his encounter (which definitley wasn't the case before)
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05 Aug 2016Developer post
Update: Various Tweaks and Last Boss Glitch Fix!
I fail at QA. Probably because I have no QA team... or team. Anyway, thanks, again, to some reports from very understanding users, I have a batch of fixes here. This update includes the ones previously pushed to the experimental branch (and detailed in the previous announcement),
I fail at QA. Probably because I have no QA team... or team. Anyway, thanks, again, to some reports from very understanding users, I have a batch of fixes here. This update includes the ones previously pushed to the experimental branch (and detailed in the previous announcement), as well as the following new fixes:
level 4

gluttony feed bite does less damage and heals less
gluttony must now be at leat somewhat facing you before attacking with his charge/beam, and should no longer snap to facing you
fixed a bug causing gluttony to spawn feeder ghouls in invalid locations (such as behind him)
slightly increased gluttony's hitpoints to account for what should be an easier fight overall
level 6

fixed glitch where final boss would just start wandering away and get stuck on a wall... seriously... who is running this QA department? oh yeah... me... Thanks to those who reported the issues, and sorry for them existing in the first place. There are a bunch more general issues I plan on working on over time (overall balance, fun type issues), but for now when something is actually broken i want to get a fix out right away (hopefully without breaking anything else). -Sean
Original post
05 Aug 2016Developer post
Update: Various Tweaks and Last Boss Glitch Fix!
I fail at QA. Probably because I have no QA team... or team. Anyway, thanks, again, to some reports from very understanding users, I have a batch of fixes here. This update includes the ones previously pushed to the experimental branch (and detailed in the previous announcement),
I fail at QA. Probably because I have no QA team... or team. Anyway, thanks, again, to some reports from very understanding users, I have a batch of fixes here. This update includes the ones previously pushed to the experimental branch (and detailed in the previous announcement), as well as the following new fixes:
level 4

gluttony feed bite does less damage and heals less
gluttony must now be at leat somewhat facing you before attacking with his charge/beam, and should no longer snap to facing you
fixed a bug causing gluttony to spawn feeder ghouls in invalid locations (such as behind him)
slightly increased gluttony's hitpoints to account for what should be an easier fight overall
level 6

fixed glitch where final boss would just start wandering away and get stuck on a wall... seriously... who is running this QA department? oh yeah... me... Thanks to those who reported the issues, and sorry for them existing in the first place. There are a bunch more general issues I plan on working on over time (overall balance, fun type issues), but for now when something is actually broken i want to get a fix out right away (hopefully without breaking anything else). -Sean
Original post
04 Aug 2016Developer post
Update on Experimental Branch 8-4-2016
Hey all, Thanks to some great feedback from a few users, I've made a few tweaks that will hopefully make things slightly less frustrating difficulty wise on the first two bosses (as well as some bug fixes). Here's a list of the things that have changed: Void Beast attack tells ar
Hey all,
Thanks to some great feedback from a few users, I've made a few tweaks that will hopefully make things slightly less frustrating difficulty wise on the first two bosses (as well as some bug fixes). Here's a list of the things that have changed:

Void Beast attack tells are slightly longer
Unpaid Intern difficulty has slightly reduced enemy damage
Junkyard Hopper no longer instantly turns for his melee attacks, he has to turn at his intended turn-rate
Junkyard Hopper attack tells increased slightly
Junkyard Hopper fire damage reduced
Pre boss waves slightly reduced on level 2
Dive rolling now puts out the fire Dot if you are burning
fixed a weird music bug that was causing music intro clips to play twice
slightly decreased music compression to give better audio quality
fixed an issue causing no health drops in level 6 (isn't supposed to be THAT hard)
I think that's it. Since its a largeish set of changes, and I rushed them out in one evening after work, I'm going to leave it on the experimental branch over night until I do some more testing, then move it to default. Also, if anyone else has any difficulty feedback, I'm all ears. My goal is that normal mode is challenging, hard-mode is nearly impossible, but easy mode should be reaosnablly playable, so if I'm missing that for anyone please let me know, and let me know specifically what areas seem to difficult.
Thanks again for playing, and thanks for the great feedback!
-Sean
Original post
04 Aug 2016Developer post
Update on Experimental Branch 8-4-2016
Hey all, Thanks to some great feedback from a few users, I've made a few tweaks that will hopefully make things slightly less frustrating difficulty wise on the first two bosses (as well as some bug fixes). Here's a list of the things that have changed: Void Beast attack tells ar
Hey all,
Thanks to some great feedback from a few users, I've made a few tweaks that will hopefully make things slightly less frustrating difficulty wise on the first two bosses (as well as some bug fixes). Here's a list of the things that have changed:

Void Beast attack tells are slightly longer
Unpaid Intern difficulty has slightly reduced enemy damage
Junkyard Hopper no longer instantly turns for his melee attacks, he has to turn at his intended turn-rate
Junkyard Hopper attack tells increased slightly
Junkyard Hopper fire damage reduced
Pre boss waves slightly reduced on level 2
Dive rolling now puts out the fire Dot if you are burning
fixed a weird music bug that was causing music intro clips to play twice
slightly decreased music compression to give better audio quality
fixed an issue causing no health drops in level 6 (isn't supposed to be THAT hard)
I think that's it. Since its a largeish set of changes, and I rushed them out in one evening after work, I'm going to leave it on the experimental branch over night until I do some more testing, then move it to default. Also, if anyone else has any difficulty feedback, I'm all ears. My goal is that normal mode is challenging, hard-mode is nearly impossible, but easy mode should be reaosnablly playable, so if I'm missing that for anyone please let me know, and let me know specifically what areas seem to difficult.
Thanks again for playing, and thanks for the great feedback!
-Sean
Original post
02 Aug 2016Developer post
New Text Scaling Option
Hey Everyone, I added, in response to a user request, the ability to change your text scaling (for dialog/speech bubble text) and increased the default size. The setting is in the Graphics Settings menu. Let me know if there are any issues. In addition, I fixed a few minor bugs,

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