Note: ⭐️ indicates changes inspired by community feedback!
New Content & Systems
⭐️ Meta Economy Overhaul: Completely reworked progression with clearer objectives, rebalanced costs, better exploration incentives for each Biome, and dedicated loot pools for every difficulty level.
⭐️ 5 New Trinkets: Introduces new Pet companions and versatile combat mechanics: 1. BRRR-T4L: Spawns a pet turret that grants Brutality to nearby leapers for 10s. 2. B-BR0: A pet that deals localized AoE damage. Successive hits ramp up its damage, while missing decays it. Activate to briefly boost its Attack Speed. 3. L-S1S: A pet that fires whenever you strike with weapons. Activate to temporarily double its projectile count. 4. Cursed Armor: Negates one instance of damage within a 5s window. Explodes and inflicts Final Curse upon breaking or expiring. 5. Corrosive Wake: Rush forward, leaving a Corrosive trail in your wake.
⭐️ 30 new Gifts: Pet and Ethereal Blade upgrades, Dash trails and, again, more! 1. SL4SH: Companion Pet that attacks during combat. Every 4th strike Overwhelms; Attack Speed scales with your own. 2. Powerful Pets: Increases Pets' total damages by +100%. 3. Fast Pets: Increases Pet Attack Speed by +50% and refills them 25% faster (if applicable). 4. Large Pets: Increases Pet attack radius by +50% and refills them 25% faster (if applicable). 5. Dash Blade: The first weapon hit immediately following a Dash launches an Ethereal Blade (35 autoscaling damage). 6. Multiple Blades: Ethereal Blades now fire 2 additional projectiles. 7. Enhanced Blades: Increases Ethereal Blade total damage by +100% and size by +75%. 8. Returning Blades: Ethereal Blades boomerang back to you, dealing +25% total damage. 9. Swiftness: Grants +30% movement speed and increases solid-ground Dash distance by +50%. 10. Tanking: Reduces incoming damage by -20% and increases your aggro priority in multiplayer. 11. Powerful Afflictions: Grants +15% total damage against targets suffering from Burn or Bleed. 12. Exhausting Freeze: When Freeze expires, it applies a 3s Slow and 10 stacks of Curse (5% autoscaling each). 13. Robust Freeze: Freeze is no longer removed when you shatter it. 14. Exhilarating Mark: Triggering a Mark grants +25% movement speed and Brutality for 4s (+50% autoscaling). 15. Energised Trinkets: Trinkets can be used 1 more time. 16. Crystallization Threshold: Allows enemies to be Crystallized at +10% remaining HP (halved for Bosses). 17. Sticky Pools: Corrosive Pools now latch directly onto the first enemy they contact. 18. Alterattack Mastery: Getting hit no longer resets your Alterattack progression; increases Ultra Alterattack bonus by x1.4. 19. Amplifier Stock: Elite and Boss arenas now drop an Amplifier upon completion. 20. Damage Pool: Every 300 Base Damage you deal, spawns a Corrosive Pool for 3s (25 damage autoscaling). 21. Large Pools: Increases Corrosive Pool damage by +50% and size by +50%. 22. Overwhelming Echo: Grants Echo a 30% chance to Overwhelm targets. 23. Solid Base: Effects scaling with Base Damage behave as if your Base Damage were +50% higher. 24. Bull: Dashes deal 50% of your Max HP as damage (1s Cooldown) and Dodges reflect +100% damage. 25. Bleeding Trail: Dashes leave an area behind you that applies Bleed (1 bonus damage autoscaling). 26. Burning Trail: Dashes leave an area behind you that applies Burn (2 damage autoscaling). 27. Cursed Trail: Dashes leave an area behind you that applies Curse (3% autoscaling). 28. Frozen Trail: Dashes leave an area behind you that builds up 8% of Freeze per tick, freezing targets for 3s at 100% build-up. 29. Fortress: Grants permanent immunity to Stuns and increases all HP bonuses by +25%. 30. Backfire: Burn damage ticks have a 1% chance per stack to trigger a massive explosion (100 autoscaling damage) on all burning targets.
⭐️ Yua's Support: Added a new togglable accessibility feature for solo play. Reduces damage taken (strengthens with deaths, weakens with wins). Disabled in Co-op.
⭐️ Loyalty Program: Added a new step to allow for multiple rare affixes on items.
Enemies: Face new Obsidian variants in higher difficulty modes. All Obsidian enemies now feature a quick transformation animation and visual effects (don't interrupt them while they're powering up, that's just good etiquette).
Backpack: Apples can now be safely stored inside the Backpack!
⭐️ Steam Cloud: Full Steam Cloud save synchronization is now supported.
⭐️ Localization: The game is now also localized in LATAM Spanish!
New Title Screen and loading screens!
Upgrades: Secret radar: New upgrade unlocked at Eperin's. This new radar is attached to the minimap and helps players locate secret areas. It automatically activates near a secret and beeps more frequently as you get closer.
Meta Economy Overhaul
Encrypted Memories: - They are now significantly easier to find and are used as small objectives. - Enemies no longer have dedicated drops. Instead, every Biome has its pool. During each generation, one random enemy will be selected to drop an Encrypted Memory from the Biome's pool. - Biome runs can now yield up to 2 Encrypted Memories per visit (one from a random enemy, one from the Boss) until the Biome's pool is depleted. - You no longer need to send these to the Ark: once you get an Encrypted Memory, you keep it forever. - Higher difficulty settings now feature exclusive Encrypted Memory reward pools.
Memonites: - Legacy Dusts, Shards, and Fragments have been fully deprecated and automatically converted into the new system. - If you have a run in progress, you may lose some currencies from this run (and only this run) that you have not yet sent to the Ark. The recap screen at the end of the run will also show incomplete information about your loots. - Memonites are now divided into 4 categories: Biome (found globally in Biomes), Boss (found on Bosses), Secret (found in Secret Areas), and Specific (found on specific enemies or enemy groups). - Rebalanced costs across all Encrypted Memories. - Crystallizing an enemy still greatly increases the chance that it drops a Memonite. - Memonites now always need to be picked up in multiplayer.
Ark: - FREND: Reworked the interface. Species unlocks have been migrated here from Macaba's station. - Resource Converter: Reworked the interface and enabled Cog conversions for all Memonite types. - Progression & Bestiary: Added a tracking menu to Sigourney's Codex detailing missing Biome memories, localized monster lists, and their exact Memonite drops. - Memonite Hunt: New upgrade unlocked at Eperin's. Allows players to mark specific blueprints in FREND's menu, spawning dynamic helpers during expeditions to speed up the harvest. - Koi-Koi: Now resides permanently in the Ark to consult your Memonite inventory.
Carving Variants: - Expanded the Carving mechanic. Unlocking it allows players to carve enemy Variants for rare Memonites. - Enemy Variants spawn rarely at first but scale in frequency on higher difficulties.
Misc: - Being a Profane in Sanctuary now prevents you from getting Memonites (instead of preventing you from getting Memories)
Balancing
⭐️ Upgrades: Removed Start Source and Gift Slots II from the game. They are now unlocked by default to encourage more interesting builds from the start of the game.
Challenges: Added Amplifiers as potential rewards.
⭐️ Enemies: Pirate Capitain Boss: More recovery after the Mortar attack, all burn zones stay less time, Shout attack zone smaller and clearer VFX.
⭐️ Biomes: Fungal Swamp: Now less difficult. Increased small enemy density, lowered Boss damage output, and simplified the associated Codex questline.
Weapons: Goo Brush: Upgraded the weapon's Alterattack to deal Corrosive damage; its AoE explosion radius now scales with Alterattack levels.
⭐️ Gifts: - Dash Mark: Increased base damage to 75 + 30 autoscaling (up from 50 + 20). - Fireball: Doubled fire rate. - Enraged Dodge: Is now unlocked by default. - Corrosive Alterattack: Now triggers Corrosive Pools under all nearby targets. - Random Chrysalis Hex: Bonus gift slots now capped to +6.
⭐️ Backstab: Widened the effective rear angle to make positioning for backstabs much more forgiving.
Blasts: Blasts no longer shatter Freeze.
Rarity: Now starts with a 5% chance to roll Uncommon items.
Difficulty modes: Slightly increased the amount of enemies on higher difficulties.
QoL
⭐️ Ark: Codex: The Codex will now track the total amount of Endless loops you've completed.
⭐️ Goo: Added an active duration countdown wheel directly above affected enemies.
⭐️ UI: - Dialogues: They are now skippable. - HUD: Run Timer: Can now display hours played instead of solely minutes. - HUD: Scythes Counter: Added a dedicated HUD counter next to your health bar tracking your active Scythe count. - Tooltips: Back to 2 states (On/Off).
⭐️ Payment Gates: Spending Cogs directly from your Ark will no longer cancel or interrupt the channeling interaction. The interface now clearly displays exactly how many Cogs will be deducted from the Ark.
⭐️ Amplifiers: You can now amplify Gifts and Hexes in your Backpack.
Inputs: Tooltips are now always toggled using Left Stick Pressed / L3 when using controllers.
⭐️ Co-op: Improved several feedbacks, menus and logic for launching multiplayer games and inviting friends.
Account Management: Removed mandatory Windblown account creation for online play.
Bugfixes
⭐️ Combat: Fixed an issue with enemies evolving in their more difficult variant, breaking the in combat detection and preventing looting or interacting with some elements.
⭐️ Audio: Fixed the killstreak completion SFX playing when opening the pause menu.
⭐️ Elites Clone Trait: Fixed material issue cloned Elites.
⭐️ Carving: - Fixed enemies' corpses to carve being duplicated. - Fixed not being able to carve enemies if they die by falling. - Fixed having some enemies being visually revived when they should be laying for carving.
⭐️ Level Generation: Fixed a rare case of failed generation in the Rat Village.
⭐️ Visuals: - Fixed next biome rewards icon showing up at the wrong spots. - Fixed markers on items being wrong after being revived, they would still show the markers of the player you were spectating and not your own.
⭐️ Co-op: Visuals: Fixed a bug where allies' visual effects would persist indefinitely on your screen after expiring.
⭐️ Co-op: UI: Fixed the backpack slot in the bottom left showing what other players have in their backpack.
Optimization
⭐️ Vistas: prevent far and small objects from being displayed.
⭐️ Stutters: play visual effects during loading screens to remove stutters the first time they are actually trigerred in game.
Misc
Trinkets: Renamed the Ethereal Blades trinket to Ethereal Barrage to welcome the new Gift family.
Ark: - Main Area: You can now see the biomes from there. - Memorial: The UI displayed on unlocked memories now contains lore texts.
Biomes: - Factory: Integrated new islands chunks into generation. - Sanctuary: Reworked the layout questline to integrate Yua.
Onboarding: Made minor narrative polishes to the game's introductory sequence.