Hey Leapers!
✨Sanctuary is OUT NOW✨
Check out our brand new Community Trailer for (almost) all of the info!
What's New?
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a new spooky Biome, filled with plenty of mysteries and enemies to face. To access it though requires a bit of ground work - Start a new run and find Carlos at the end of the Factory Biome. He'll have a task for you. Once complete you'll have a new option when you defeat Headbanger, to either jump into Rat Village or take on Sanctuary.
Carlos isn't just a means to getting into Sanctuary though, he has some interesting information about the Ark and it's inhabitants. This is the first of many quests that will be added to the game which will help dive into the lore and story of Windblown - so stay tuned for more to come!
New Enemies
Any new biome wouldn't be complete without some new challenges. So we've added a bunch of new enemies for you to face, with some stronger versions littered about too. You'll have to tackle lasers, bombs, electricity, sweeping attacks, oh, and a healing unit... To break it down, you'll find: 5 new Sentinel enemies: the Drone, Head, Paladin, Priest and Caster. Along with 3 variant Sentinel enemies: the Alpha Drone, Feral Drone and Alpha Paladin.
Plus... A BRAND NEW BOSS!
Weapons & Trinket
We've added 4 new weapons! That's right, 4!!
- Sharp Sisters - A pair of dual blades that brave Leapers may find familiar. Their Alterattack leaves a deadly flurry of blades behind as you dash forward!
- Elder Blade - Split the earth, like... 7 times. Knocking enemies back, and even off the map!
- Sentinel Wings - Sentinel Wings go bbbbbbrrrrrr. Or more accurately they fire huge lasers, perfect for eradicating anything that might stand in your way.
- Fishing Rod - To go fishing with... Nah, it's great for wide sweeping attacks and yeeting enemies into the abyss!
Plus a brand new Trinket called the Chrono Catcher! - This thing drops a zone on the ground which slows enemies inside. It'll also put the brakes on any projectiles that might end up flying through!
Sharp Sisters
Elder Sword
Sentinel Wings
Fishing Rod
Chrono Catch
Extras
We're also adding:
- 2 new enemy variants (Fungal Swamp and Rat Village)
- 1 new skin - Obsidian Axolotl
- New Accessibility Options - See allies VFX and tweak stick dead zones on gamepads
- Hide UI - You can now press F3 to hide your HUD (another community request!)
- 5 new upgrades at Eperin - all of which were inspired by the community!
- 2 that increase the amount of items in the main shops
- 1 that adds small new specific Boosts to the shops and gates pool
- 2 that add new training racks to test Gifts and Trinkets/Magifishes in the Ark
Plus...
Magifish Recharge Rework
We've changed how these helpful fish recharge! You no longer have to wait for a timer, but instead can recharge them by dealing damage to enemies. This is an important improvement that will encourage you to commit more during fights.
NEW: Retrieve Your Remains
We know it can be tough when you die on a run and lose what you're carrying. So we've added a new system that allows you to retrieve your Cogs, Memonites and Encrypted Memories by starting a new run and reaching where you died. You'll see an indicator appear at the edge of your screen when you get close to your remains. If you don't make it back to that point however, they're gone for good (or until they drop again)!
Revenge Mode Update
We're making some changes to Revenge Mode as well, to bring it more in line with what we envisioned. When an ally is downed, you'll still go into the familiar fit of rage, but now you'll have an energy gauge that will slowly deplete over time - if it hits zero, you're dead. Dealing damage and killing enemies will increase the gauge, and if you fill it to the top, you'll revive your allies!
NEW: Encrypted Memories Bad Luck Protection
We've added a type of 'bad luck protection' to the game to help make farming for Memories easier. This means that if you're looking for something specific like a weapon or skin, you won't potentially be grinding forever (we will start counting from this version, we don't have records of previous drops).
You can catch the full patch notes below 👇
But for now, we want to thank you for checking Sanctuary out! It's been an absolute blast getting to bring a brand new biome to Windblown. We hope you have a great time diving in and uncovering its mysteries!
Catch you all real soon!
-MT
Current Deals
BTW! If you want to pick up the Windblown Original Soundtrack or discover Dead Cells, our previous game: both have their own bundles with Windblown, and are currently 20% off!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46045/Windblown__OST/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46406/Windblown__Dead_Cells/
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Patch Notes
:star:️ = community inspired!
New
- New Biome: Sanctuary which is unlocked with a quest featuring Carlos a new character
- 1 new Boss!
- 5 new Sentinel enemies: the Drone, Head, Paladin, Priest and Caster.
- And 3 variant Sentinel enemies: the Alpha Drone, Feral Drone and Alpha Paladin.
- 1 new Variant mob in the Fungal Swamp: Mushroom Warrior Alpha
- 1 new Variant mob in the Rat Village: Pirate Sword Alpha
- 4 new Weapons: Fishing Rod, Sharp Sisters, Elder Sword & Sentinel Wings!
- New Trinket: Chronos Catch which slows down enemies and projectiles in its surroundings.
- New Skin: Obsidian ???
- New Remains system: now you can retrieve the Cogs, Memonites and Encrypted Memories you lost in your previous Expedition (if you don’t find them, they will be lost forever).
- Added 3 new Steam achievements
- :star:️ 5 new Eperin’s upgrades: 2 to increase the amount of items in the main shops, 1 to add small new specific Boosts to the shops and gates pool, 2 to add new training racks to test Gifts and Trinkets/Magifishes in the Ark
- New chunks in Factory and Golem Gardens biomes
- :star:️ Accessibility: added an option to always show allies VFXs in multiplayer
- :star:️ Options: new gamepad option to tweak the sticks dead zones
- :star:️ Options: added a new F3 keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the hud
Co-op: Revenge Changes
- Added a gauge that slowly decrease with time and increase with damage done or mob kills.
- Game Over if gauge is depleted, Revive if gauge is refilled.
- Gauge decrease is paused for a moment when finishing a fight and in UI choice
- Player is no more interrupted when Revenge Start
- All mobs are pushed away when Revenge Start
Balancing
- :star:️ Magifishes: are now refilled by dealing damage to the enemies
- :star:️ Encrypted Memories Drops: the algorithm now ensures that they will drop and not let you being unlucky forever (before the draw was just rerolling the dices fully randomly each time, making it potentially impossible to drop something if you had really bad luck) - note: we will start counting from this version, we don’t have record of previous drops.
- Encrypted Memories Drops: moved some to other enemies / places and updated their prices.
- Gifts: Deadly Expansion: now works in the same way on all bosses
- Weapons: Anchor Boom: the damage of the second part of the Alterattack is now done in 1 instance
- :star:️ Enemies: the ones who are not insta-killed by falling outside of the platforms (or who won’t fall at all) will still get damaged
- Enemies: Mother Ant cannot spit eggs more than 5 times during fight
- Enemies: Golem Brawler: whip foot attack is more deadly
- Enemies: Mushroom Warrior: now has a ranged attack (an explosive mushroom that pop at player position and growth until explosion)
QoL
- Gifts: renamed “Shield” to “Barrier” to avoid confusions with the weapon of the same name
- Affixes: UI: added an icon to the message that feedbacks when a weapon’s damage is permanently increased
- HUB: UI: new UI for training racks
- UI: Challenges: new interface
- :star:️ UI: All bosses now display displaying their names in the HUD
- :star:️ UI: Thrift Shop: added a counter showing the amount of upgrades still possible
- :star:️ UI: improved the feedback for Boosted Boosts
- :star:️ Graphics options: made it clearer that you need to have no frame rate limiter to use the V-Sync
- :star:️ Options: the “No Vomit” option will now also prevent the puke SFX to be played when commit back to the Ark
- Title Screen: “patch notes” text can now be localized
- Application: quitting game now fades out properly without flickering or stuttering
- :star:️ Co-op: Server disconnected popup: added a 2 seconds delay before allowing to confirm the exit button (avoids unwanted disconnections)
- Co-op: Teleport to Team now prevents teleporting to a player that is too close (thus allowing to loop between 2 distant players)
- Co-op: Text chat: pressing enter while typing will now solely send the message and won’t close the text chat directly (use ESC / B on gamepads to exit)
- Co-op: every player has his own banking fish and you need to hold to interact
- Bug Reporter: screenshot now includes player’s HUD
- Localization: “???” texts now uses proper localized font (e.g. in Japanese)
- Steam Deck: now shows a Steam Deck schematics instead of an Xbox controller in the Options’ Controls section
- Steam Deck: removed “controller recommended” text on the title screen
Bugfixes
- :star:️ Crash: fix candidate for an error occuring in the GPU frustrum culling
- :star:️ GPU Crashes: fix candidate for GPU crashes when V-RAM is equal or lower to 2GB
- :star:️ Softlock: fixed having some teleporters not working if you also dashed at the same frame (was mostly happening case in the hidden shops)
- :star:️ Softlock: fixed issue with end of expedition doors when a player would leave
- :star:️ Weapons: Ravenblade: fixed extra jump opportunity affix not having enough i-frames
- :star:️ Weapons: fixed Alterattacks being bugged after you entered an RTC while performing a Crystallize movement (rare, kuddos for finding that one!)
- Weapons: Anchor Boom: fixed some little quirks and rehauled the under the hood tech of this weapon for the future
- :star:️ Trinkets: L-BR0: fixed not being usable against the dummy at the Ark
- :star:️ Gear: fixed impossible to equip while in combat and you had only one (one weapon OR one trinket)
- :star:️ Gifts: fixed Curse video preview
- :star:️ Boosts: fixed application of health when restarting from the beginning of the biome with version changes
- :star:️ Bodies: fixed Snake’s Onsen suit having VFXs placed in the ground and a flipped pulsor
- Bodies: fixed Toad having its VFXs placed in the ground
- Dodge: fixed not applying damage when the enemy is not interupted
- Inventory: fixed showing counters for currencies with a zero count
- :star:️ Loot: fixed a rare bug where enemies would not be unregistered properly when killed by a projectile while flying outside of an island, thus leading to loot packages not opening as the combat was still running
- :star:️ Loots: fixed chest not spawning the Shells and Cogs they contained leading to a feel of “empty chests” (was only a visual bug)
- :star:️ Loot: gixed Chicken Golem’s Jar dropping loot before the actual enemy was killed
- Loots: fixed having some loots dropped below the playable area and thus being unreachable
- :star:️ Boss: removed uneeded invisible collider in the naveless brothers fight which could block projectiles
- :star:️ Elites: fixed cases where the laser trait could be destroyed
- :star:️ Enemies: Mushroom Shielder: fixed charge vfx always staying visible
- :star:️ Enemies: fixed Worker Saw and Fenwick enemies being drawn behind AOEs
- :star:️ Enemies: prevented the Ant Mother enemy from spawning unlimited Small Ants enemies
- :star:️ Enemy: fixed rare occurence where an unaggroed enemy would still be considered in combat and block interactions like picking up a weapon
- :star:️ Onsen: fixed issue when going out of onsen with no weapon
- :star:️ Onsen: fixed swim animations not looping properly
- :star:️ UI: Inventory: fixed not being able to navigate properly when you have 3 or more rows of Gifts displayed
- UI: Givers: fixed not showing the right item’s description for a few frames
- UI: Saves Manager: fixed save slots’ background not being masked properly when scrolling horizontally
- UI: fixed compression of some atlased sprites
- :star:️ Rebindings: fixed Inventory that could not be closed with the newly assign binding
- :star:️ Rebindings: fixed action not being removed from the default binding
- SFX: fixed several unworking sound effects
- :star:️ Weather difficulty: Onsen: Switched visual of heal pickup to something other than an apple when onsen is dried up to avoid confusion on why it can’t be burnt
- :star:️ Localization: fixed co-op text chat being sometimes unreadible in Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
- Localization: Achievements: fixed achievements not being localized in German and Russian
Optimization
- Factory Biome: reduced the amount of bricks and bushes spawned
- Now unloads unused resources from the memory more often while loading biomes (should reduce impact on RAM and V-RAM)
- Optimizing some player skins’ dynamic bones (impacts lower configs, especially in co-op)
Misc
- Enemies: Golem Brawler: now has scarves attached to his shoulders and a hat
- Enemies: Mushroom Warrior: fart attack has a new VFX
- New rumbles on the “Touch” interactives