Gameplay Updates:
COMMUNITY DEMAND: Added Player Character “Ravona”
- Ravona can be unlocked from the character selection in the loadout screen.
- Ravona’s Reaper SyCom
- A high risk, high reward SyCom that has high damage potential for both Rails and Blades and high mobility but low health and armor. Synergizes well with holobytes that increase invincibility frames on dashes like (Flicker Burst and Flicker Shadow) and damage.
- Perk: 25% higher crit chance on low-health enemies.
- Ravona’s Ranger SyCom
- For Breakers who want to shoot fast and shoot a lot with their Rails. This perk synergizes well with Rails with high fire rate and ammo capacity like the SR2 Radiant and the Magrex.
- Perk: Rails gain 5% fire rate for every 10 points of Battery.
- Community member Eska spent 133 days of requesting Crow Gameplay in our discord!
- Hunter’s Mark - Shooting an enemy with a Rail Marks it. Marked enemies take +20% Melee DMG.
- Spark Seeker - 25% chance to fire a heat-seeking bullet any time you shoot your Rail.
- Impact Implosion - Charged Attacks release an energy pulse around the player dealing 25 DMG and afflicts your Blade’s Status Effect on enemies.
- Necrotic Cutter
- Rare Blade Affix
- Increases DMG to Rot afflicted targets by 10%/15%/20%/25%/30%.
- Plasma Heater
- Rare Blade Affix
- Increases DMG to Burn afflicted targets by 5%/10%/15%/20%/25%.
- Anemic Edge
- Uncommon Blade Affix
- Increases Stagger DMG to targets afflicted with Bleed by 5%/10%/15%/20%/25%.
- Bullet Leaper variant.
- Croc Brute Elite.
- The Danger Meter now triggers less regularly but drops more powerful compositions with more waves.
- New VFX to make it clearer that the parry is omni-directional (it will parry attacks coming from all directions).
- Fixed wrong rotation on successful parry VFXs to match where the hit happened.
- Parrying an enemy will now flinch/interrupt the other nearby enemies.
- Perfect parries will flinch/interrupt nearby enemies harder.
- Adjusting parry timing windows and cancel-into-parry timing windows.
- Looting, using keys, and using your hoverboard are now disabled if you are in active combat.
- Golden Ration meter progress will now carry over to the next Cycle.
- Added diminishing returns to meter progress after earning the first three Rations in a Cycle.
- Reduced the chance for rare items in Outpost (Hub) vendors.
- Increased the chance for rare items in Overgrowth (Run) vendors.
- Increased the chance for rare items in Overgrowth chests and corpses.
- Added ability to unequip gear in loadout.
- Nerfed the Breaker Buster’s Blade Special.
- Buffed the Radiant SG2 Rail to have longer range and more damage.
- Buffed the Magrex Rail to have longer range.
- Increased the charge time for the Solar Bolter’s charge attack.
- Warrior SyCom perk changed to “Deal 25% more DMG when your HP is above 75%.”
- Warrior SyCom stats re-balanced.
- Note - if you had previously maxed out the Warrior SyCom, you will still have it maxed out, but you will not be refunded any “over-spend”.
- Nerfed Blitz Blade’s bonus damage to 150% from 200%.
- Critical Cuffs now are a chance to heal on crit, rather than always healing.
- Note - due to localization deadlines, the in-game text does not mention the 25% chance. This text will be updated in our March monthly update.
- Maximum armor capped at 150, from 200.
- Capped bonus damage for Materials Processor, Plasma Edge and Plasma Powered to 40%.
- Nerfed the Corundum Holobyte armor bonus.
- Nerfed the Crude Whetstone Affix’s crit chance bonus.
- Nerfed Barrel Vents Affix’s crit chance bonus.
- Nerfed Tracker Shot Affix’s chance to trigger.
- Reduced the cooldown on all shot triggers from 3 seconds to one second.
- Nerfed the Charged Ammo Affix’s crit chance bonus.
- Nerfed the Overvoltage Affix’s damage bonus.
- Rebalanced the Thrombosis Injector Affix.
- Buffed Executions for most Blades.
- Changed AI Choreographer to reduce enemy collaboration/coordination at the beginning of a Cycle.
- Melee Dirks taunt less.
- Wheel Snail dash attacks are shorter, no longer re-orient to the player midway through the dash, and have a longer cooldown between attacks.
- Albino Wolf projectiles move slower but now have modest homing ability.
- Reduced AI sensing range.
- Improved Croc Brute’s hitboxes.
- Wolves now have a taunt / alert animation and sound when aggro’d by the player.
- Improved Adept’s hitboxes.
- Leapers no longer attempt to intercept aerial players.
- Added an arming delay to the Rifle Dirk’s mines.
Bug Fixes:
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed several loot spawns in various POIs that were inaccessible.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed an issue where getting interrupted while hitting enemies with the Force Gauntlet Amp could cause you to continuously drag them along with the gauntlet.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed a Multiplayer sync issue that caused a variety of subsequent multiplayer issues.
- This bug had a large number of symptoms within runs, but in the Outpost, you would see a player count mismatch (i.e., votes would show only requiring 2 players when 3 players were in, etc.).
- Most community reports of abnormal gameplay in multiplayer are tied to this global fix.
- Enemies now always wait to attack the player until the enemy has fully spawned in.
- Fixed a bug where the player could shift through extraction walls when attacking enemies outside / nearby.
- Fixed some prism spawns that could be acquired without unlocking their door first.
- Fixed several issues with the Radiant SG2 Rail not displaying the correct animation or VFX for clients in multiplayer.
- Fixed an issue where swapping Holobytes with a full vault would cause them to be destroyed instead.
- Fixed an issue where the Leaper’s ground slam attack could damage players outside of the VFX indicator.
- Fixed an issue where switching characters using a combination of keyboard controls and mouse hover could cause weapons to become unequipped.
- Fixed an issue where the HUD wouldn’t fade out correctly when transitioning to the death screen.
- Fixed a number of crystal and tree clipping issues in the Jeweled Spire (purple/crystal) biome.
- Fixed explosion VFX not working on some projectiles for clients in multiplayer.
- Fixed the loading screen background for ultrawide resolutions.
- Other players are now hidden in the loadout menu to avoid blocking your view of your character.
- Minor updates to terrain generation to fix irregularities that could trap players.
- Fixed mouse controls being impacted by framerate.
- Fixed an issue where the Stun Recharger holobyte would not restore battery if you staggered an enemy in a single hit.
- Low health screen effects now play when spectating a player at low health.
- Improved Point of Interest detection for the Point of Interest highlight function.
- Disabled the resolution setting when running the game in fullscreen-windowed (your windows resolution overrides this setting).
- Fixed an issue with the background blur on the loadout screen.
- Fixed an issue where the map preview at the beginning of a Cycle would not show for subsequent cycles in the same session.
- Stat adjusting gear now properly displays adjusted stats in the Outpost.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes Elites could die in/over water and drop their Prisms into the water rather than spawning the prism at the nearest shore location.
- Fixed a potential item duplication exploit.
- Fixed an issue with Marathon Pin’s stacking buff that was causing it to not stack properly.
- Fixed an issue where radiation meteors could land on the extraction pad.
- Improved aim assist, particularly when aiming down towards enemies.
- Mouse Wheel now works in Shrine menus (previously only controller or keyboard could control this menu).
- Fixed an issue where sometimes locked POIs would not have any loot behind the locked door.
- Improved Elite Bat behavior when grounded (attacking flying enemies will ground them briefly).
- Improved a variety of music transitions for our dynamic music system.
- Fixed an issue where the Elite Ranged Dirk couldn’t hit players that were pressing up against it consistently.
- Fixed an issue where your hoverboard jump would not be counted against your number of jumps, allowing you to triple jump.
- Fixed an issue where dying would apply your Blade’s status effect to your character.
- Fixed an issue where Lapis’ Warrior SyCom Blast stat could not be maxed.
- Fixed an issue where Lapis’ Lightweaver SyCom Armor stat could not be maxed.
- Fixed an issue where resurrections would not always play the resurrection VFX or animation.
- Fixed an issue where resetting controls to default could cause you to lose mouse input.
- Fixed an issue where meteor warning audio would not play.
- Fixed an issue where swapping characters in the loadout would not refresh all panels correctly.
- Fixed an issue where Blood Battery was not providing the correct amount of Battery.
- Fixed an issue where the Chrome Golem would walk in place instead of idling.
- Updated collision across a large number of environmental assets.
- Fixed shell meshes not working properly on skeletal meshes with physics on them.
- Fixed an issue where Dro’s slam attack was placing the AoE VFXs wrongly (if spawned on debris placed around the map).
- Fixed status effect shells on Slimes. These have translucent material, and it caused sorting issue with translucent shell meshes.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed many crashes reported by our community members.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed the “Error: Line 729” Crash and added additional safeguards to save data protection and corrupt save data handling.
- Flash Step’s magnetism no longer locks onto Engineer mines.
- Flash Step’s magnetism no longer locks onto enemies that are actively teleporting.
- Player icons should now correctly show in the Overgrowth.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where multiple players using the same SyCom would be missing the Blade Special on their default Blade.
- Blade Specials no longer trigger their cool down if they’re interrupted during charge.
- Blade Specials no longer trigger their cooldown if the player attempts to use them in the air.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Elite Bat no longer gets stuck moving backwards if hit by a specific sequence (2 basic combo hits cancelled into Flash Step).
- When selling gear, ALL equipped gear, not just equipped gear for the current character, is marked as equipped.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where the first client’s health bar would stick around after they disconnected.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where in-run vendors would not be synced between players.
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where being revived would cause your SyCom to vanish.
- Fixed an issue with the Flaming Cascade Affix not functioning correctly.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes slimes would not appear on the minimap/radar.
Known Issues:
- In multiplayer, clients may see hosts A-posing when aiming a rail if the host has not equipped a new rail during that session. Hosts may see clients aiming an invisible rail until the client equips a new rail in that session. This is a visual issue only.
- In few random seeds, Drop Down Labs may be incorrectly scaled.
- In multiplayer, sometimes glider or hoverboard vfx will not display correctly for players.
- We expect to hotfix these later this week, but wanted to get this major update in front of players today to start collecting feedback on this update and the Experimental Beta mentioned below.
Performance Improvements:
- Capped the global number of enemy spawns.
- Fixed a number of camera and character hitches, pops, etc. that could feel like low framerate gameplay even when framerate was high.
- Fixed a major hitch when the Engineer would use its mine attack.
- Fixed a large number of hitches related to the spawning/streaming of assets.
- Improved LODs for a large number of environmental assets, to improve performance and reduce pop-in.
- COMMUNITY ASSIST: Fixed an issue where some players were experiencing extreme hitching when picking up Bright Blood.
- COMMUNITY CHAMPION: This bug could not be reproduced internally, even after receiving detailed information from our community. Thank you to everyone who provided detailed information, and special thanks to community member Starbos for working with one of our engineers and even testing a special build to confirm we fixed the issue.
Experimental Branch Instructions:
Read everything below carefully to receive the Steam beta branch password to our public experimental build. Please do not share the beta branch password with others - instead direct them to this page and have them read these instructions for themselves.
The Hyper Light Breaker team is looking for your feedback on an early potential change to the core game loop. This experimental build is extremely rough - it was forked from the live version of the game and does not contain any of the bug fixes, features, or content available in the February branch. It does not represent the full scope of changes we want to make - rather it is the very beginning of prototyping out that change.
Instructions for accessing this beta will also be available in our discord - https://discord.com/channels/900489750224466081/1340848981181206538 - and we ask that you keep all feedback related to the experimental branch in the #f33dback and #d15cu551on channels only.
Do not use other channels outside the 13R34K3R channel category to discuss or provide feedback!!! Please do not report bugs from this beta in any location in discord - we will not be addressing bugs in this one-time experimental build. We ask that you keep discussion isolated to this discord channel category so that we can avoid causing false bug reports or confusion, and appreciate your assistance.
This build is experimenting with changes to our core loop.
- Players have a single life. Death will result in failing a Cycle and having your loadout melted down into materials.
- Players have two medkits. These will automatically trigger on reaching 0 health. They can be refilled by extracting to the Outpost.
- You can extract from any Shrine on the map. Extraction points do not exist. Extraction at Shrines is immediate after confirmation - it does not require you to fight enemies.
- Gear cannot be vaulted - when picking up gear, you can either equip it or break it down into materials.
- Bright Blood is only usable in the Overgrowth. It is wiped upon returning to the Outpost.
- Materials are used to purchase items in the Outpost.
- After defeating all of the Crowns, a teleporter (extraction pad) to the Abyss King will become available.
- Use this to Win the Cycle.
To access the Experimental Beta, right click Hyper Light Breaker in your Steam Library, select “Properties…”, then choose the “Betas” tab, and enter the Experimental Beta password into the “Private Betas” text box, then press “Check Code.” Afterwards, select the “experimental” beta and wait for it to download. The Experimental Beta password is the first word of the first three paragraphs in these instructions, together in order, without spaces, so that it LooksLikeThis.
This experimental beta will save and load its own unique save file, it will not touch your regular save data. To switch back to the regular version of the game, simply select “none” from the betas tab in steam.