Hi! Today we're releasing an update bringing a new Boss, the Grim Reaper, a fearsome entity with an unending hunger for living souls, and plenty of fixes and quality of life improvements.
New content:
- New boss: Grim Reaper
- Added new Chained Chest and Special Fight room layouts.
Improvements:
- Plenty of CPU/GPU performance improvements that should help improve FPS/stability on lower end computers.
- Added a temporary slowdown when defeating the boss.
- Changed UI look and duration of the goal in non-standard fights.
- Made it more clear that weapon mastery is rewarded with Insight in the Mission Complete screen.
- Streamlined a bit the transition from the Mission Complete screen to the Laboratory.
- Stopwatch is now moved to the left corner when the minimap is hidden.
- After clearing a Chained Chest challenge, doors won't be unlocked until you open the chest.
- Leveleable perks now show how values change when choosing the next level.
Gameplay changes:
- Capped Weapon Fire rate: Now it can't be slower than 0,25x, and can't be faster than 4x the original fire rate.
- Capped some camera offsets to prevent "going through walls" with strong recoil and high fire rate.
- When an enemy is damaged, its health bar won't be shown if the enemy isn't visible (Damage numbers will still be shown).
- Reorganized shops, now they will show 3 weapons, 3 perks, or wand+amulet+health.
- Increased a bit enemy variety on the first missions of the campaign.
- Timed spikes now move a bit faster, should reduce wait times and make them easier to be noticed.
- Changed the amount of required key pieces to be always 3.
- Bosses won't perform direct attacks (such as projectiles) while Kira is using Shroud. They will still perform melee and non-targeted attacks (such as bombs, spawns, circle shots...).
- Homing projectiles and predictive shots won't track Kira while she is using Shroud.
- Sitra: Decreased duration and damage of Scythes, increased chances of inflicting Curse; Increased totem health, but it will also drop much more mana when defeated; Increased respawn delay after defeating a corpse summoned by a totem.
- Fountains now show how much maximum health is increased when drinking from them.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug/exploit when using Sirius' skill just before the boss intro.
- Fixed locked characters not being properly hidden on the Classic modes list.
We're still wroking on a big content update that we'll hopefully release in a few weeks, so stay tuned!