🚀 New version deployed 0.9.0 (ab246634)
Note: ⭐️ indicates changes inspired by community feedback!
Important Changes
NEW Exploration: Biomes are now larger with more complex layouts to encourage exploration and variety. Systems like enemy placement and economy have been re-tuned to support this scale.
⭐️ NEW Map which allows you to see your surroundings, know the location of important entities and objects and teleport to your teammates. Press G(keyboard) or SELECT(gamepad) to open it.
⭐️ NEW Minimap: Stay oriented with a view of your immediate surroundings and find secret hints.
NEW Volumetric clouds: We've replaced the flat sea of clouds under the levels for better immersion This can be disabled via the "Clouds" setting in the Graphics panel.
⭐️ NEW Gift & Hex Scaling: - Level System: Just like Gears, Gifts and Hexes now have stronger leveled versions found during Expeditions. - Amplifiers: A new utility item that lets you boost the level of your existing Gifts/Hexes on the fly. - With those you can now scale your build's power further than ever before.
NEW Item Rarity: - Items now feature a scaling rarity system: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Mythic. Each tier provides significantly increased stats. - Frend's Loyalty Program: New reward added! Progress through the program to unlock a new Altar in the Ark. - Cogs for Quality: Deposit Cogs into the Altar to increase the probability of high-tier item drops. - Completion Bonus: Maxing out the Altar unlocks a Unique Skin Variant.
NEW Enemy Variants: - Face new challenges in Cloudy and higher difficulty modes across Golem Gardens, Factory, Fungal Swamp, and Rat Village. - This includes a new Golem Gardens Boss exclusive to these higher difficulties!
NEW Islands & Caverns: Expanded discovery awaits in the Lost Archipelago.
Alterattack Tutorials Reworked: We've overhauled the training grounds. Entry gates are now blocked by Forcefields; the color of the field tells you which level of Alterattack is required to break through.
Onboarding Narrative: Updated dialogue for the Little Girl in the early game, along with a brand-new character model.
The Inventory is now merged into the Main Menu.
QoL
NEW Quick Gear Swap & Drop: You can now swap (by pressing) or drop (by holding) your gear: - Weapons with 5(keyboard) / D-PAD LEFT(controller) - and Trinkets with 6(keyboard) / D-PAD DOWN(controller)
⭐️ NEW Mouse Cursor Option: You can now change the cursor size in the Accessibility panel of the Options menu.
⭐️ NEW Accessibility Options: - Transparency of Size+ weapons - Chromatic aberration intensity - Player silouhette behind objects toggle - Low life intensity - Received hit VFXs intensity
⭐️ NEW Graphics Options: Brightness & Contrast sliders. An improved user experience with immediate feedback is planned.
⭐️ Trinkets: Fury: Improved the stats displayed in the UI
UI: Confirmation popups now select "Cancel" by default to avoid triggering unwanted things when mashing the button.
UI / Pickups: Tooltips can now be toggled
⭐️ Send Feedback Button: Is now placed in the main pause menu list to be easier to find
⭐️ Single player / UI: Codex and Codex pages menu now pauses the game in solo mode.
Co-op: Teleport to team: default binding changed to CTRL(keyboard) and SELECT(controller).
Co-op: Voice Chat: - Voice Chat is using the "Push-to-talk" mode by default (not applied on previous saves) - "Mute when Joining" and "Push-to-talk" default bindings changed to 4(keyboard) and RIGHT STICK PRESSED(controller).
Balancing
Pulsor: - Default Pulsor is now way faster when held - Banger Pulsor is now faster when held and its dashes' length are increased when out of combat
⭐️ Difficulty Balance Pass: First pass focused on the new Rarity system. More incoming! - Cloudy: Enemy Health: +40%(was +25%) | Cogs: +25%(was +15%) - Stormy: Enemy Health: +80%(was +75%) | Cogs: +50%(was +30%) | Item Bonus Level Removed - Tempestuous: Enemy Health: +120%(was +100%) | Cogs: +75%(was +50%) | Item Bonus Level Removed - Cataclysmic: Enemy Health: +250%(was +200%) | Item Bonus Level Removed
Ark: Memory stones are now placed in new islands.
Memory Link: When you die in front of a boss, we'll ensure that the Memory Link will be placed in a boss room during your next Expedition.
⭐️ Gifts: Full Blast: Added a 50% Blast damage bonus.
⭐️ Hexes: The increased dash cooldown negative effect is now only applied in combat.
⭐️ Payment Gates: You can now pay their fee by spending Cogs you previously banked.
Biome Reward: Magifish will be only proposed when all players have already unlocked one and none of them has one equipped.
⭐️ Cuprik's Iron Ore is now dropped by an advanced 'Worker Nailgun'.
Bugfixes
Weapons: Telepike: Fixed held attack being locked for too long after the teleportation
⭐️ Gifts: Scythe: Fixed an interaction between the Merge scythe and Bonus scythe duration gifts causing to have irregular scythe durations
⭐️ Hexes: Fixed loosing Gifts in extra slots granted by an Hex when updating the game
⭐️ Enemies: Fixed enemies being able to keep their I-frames while being frozen
⭐️ Killstreak Trial Chest: Fixed cases where the amount of kills would be higher than the number of enemies in the biome
Secrets: Fixed having some certain islands layout never having secrets generated
⭐️ Payment Gate: Fixed having some payement gates displaying a 0 shells cost and not be interactable
⭐️ LD: - Fixed safe zone exploit in front of the Lost Archipelago Boss - Fixed enemies not being able to dash on some small islands - Fixed unreachable floating chest in one of the Lost Archipelago islands - Fixed some situations where flying elements would prevent you from seeing what you are doing - Fixed several other layout quirks
⭐️ Softlocks: - Fixed boss kills failing to reopen room gates - Fixed a softlock where arenas wouldn't open because our loot algorithm thought a mob on a neighboring island was part of your fight—turns out, "close enough" wasn't smart enough.
⭐️ Crashes: - Fixed a crash when dropping stuff - Fixed rare crash that occured when spending shells while your computer had a nervous breakdown.
⭐️ Visuals: - Fixed shadow popping - Fixed "pixelated" light artifacts (most noticeable at the Rat Village entrance).
⭐️ UI: - Fixed pause menu layout when screen ratio is 16/10 - Fixed missing confirmation SFX in the currency exchange menu - Fixed displaying 'Damage Increase: 0%' - Fixed UI inconcistencies in the Thrift Shop and in all item-related UIs
⭐️ Sound: - Fixed music being turned off when backtracking in front of bosses - Fixed music being turned off after killing a boss - Fixed having some ambient sound effect being prioritized over gameplay ones
⭐️ Texts: - Fixed displaying weird code-like text when confirming a screen resolution change - Fixed Russian text going nuts when loosing resources and/or encrypted memories
⭐️ Co-op / Softlock: Fixed softlock where you could teleport to an area not available to you yet
⭐️ Co-op: Crashes: - Fixed crash when a player was dead upon loading another biome - Fixed crash when players where teleporting… surely confusing the game's logic somehow ¯\\_(ツ)/¯
Misc
Co-op: Hints: Fixed first multiplayer game emoji hint not triggered
⭐️ Co-op: VFXs: Fixed players' footsteps VFXs sometimes showing up in the air and not on the ground
Various fixes under the hood
Optimization
Upgraded game and rendering engines to the latest versions to improve stability and performance
Optimized shadows: - "High quality" is optimized, so more configurations should be able to use this setting. - "Medium quality" is downgraded, so one can have shadows at a lower cost. - "Low quality" completely disables shadows, significantly reducing CPU and GPU usage.
UI: Biome Rewards: Added a '+' symbol on the reward icon