Hi folks,
DemonCrawl's tropical Summer Event is now live! Check out the announcement post for more details.
In addition to a ton of new seasonal content, this patch marks the debut of Arena, our online multiplayer gamemode! Arena is officially in Open Beta - we plan to monitor server performance carefully in the coming days and deploy any fixes as needed. We're keeping our fingers crossed for a smooth launch, but please bear with us should we encounter any technical issues. Thank you!
Full patch notes are available below. Have fun!
Summer Event
- Complete the holiday questline to earn 4 new avatars and a new inventory skin
- 11 additional avatars are available through Prizeboxes
- Participate in summer tournaments to earn a ton of Tokens
- Each run, you will encounter one of three summer afflictions
- The Shopkeeper has stocked up on summer items
- The Shopkeeper's handing out free water, what a cool guy
- Added unique holiday stage
- Reskinned menu graphics
- Added Summer Special Chest
- New holiday Mythic Emblem
- New seasonal boss: Trixie - "Play Beach Ball like your life depends on it, because it does."
Arena
- DemonCrawl's new online multiplayer mode is now in Open Beta
- Choose between Manual and Autosweeper division depending on your playstyle
- Added Season 1 avatar rewards
- Implemented Arena Plus DLC for extra online perks
New Features
- New magic item: Beach Ball - "[20 Mana] Throw at a stranger and be prepared to have a radical time, dude!"
- New consumable item: Water - "Gain 50 mana."
- New consumable item: Sunscreen - "For 100 turns, you are immune to burns."
- New consumable item: Shark - "Cook by removing Burning from a random visible cell, then gain the ability to powerchord any cell until the end of the stage. Or sell raw at an Item Shop for 40 coins."
- New omen: Sun Burn - "Every 100 turns, remove all Frozen auras and get burnt."
- New omen: Dry Spell - "At the end of each stage, lose half of your mana."
- New omen: Hurricane - "Each stage has an additional Wishpool. You cannot activate Wishpools. Whenever a Wishpool gains a charge, drop your other items on the ground and destroy any objects in the same quadrant as the Wishpool."
- Added blueprint for Wishing Coin
Quality of Life
- Updated visual effects for Fishing Pole
- Updated color of Discord button to match their new branding guidelines
- Adjusted appearance of main menu labels
- Changing the difficulty on the quest selection screen no longer restarts the music
Balance Changes
- War Paint nerf: "Whenever a living object dies, solve 3 cells."
- Updated several item recipes to utilize the new Starfish artifact
- Lowered the chance to encounter a seasonal boss from 50% to 33%
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the price of treasure chest Nomad not increasing with use
- Holiday bosses can no longer override special encounters like Ego
- Magic Dice can no longer target the Metagate
- Fixed a couple bugs related to Ectoplasm
- Fixed an issue related to the sigil that procs on death
- Fixed a rare crash related to Novice Doll
- Fixed Ghost not being able to interact with the Dimensional Portal while dead
- Fixed expiration of Plum status effect