Welcome back wretched. :]
All it takes is one bad boneraise...
I get comments all the time saying how the loveable Joker Jester skellies are your favourite minion ever. Well jester fans you're in luck for a new class has been added called the Courtier Clown! They are the most chaotic class to play having an aura that transforms nearby meanies and objects and get boosts for raising their fellow Jester chums. They have the unique ability to occasionally be offered to transform one of your own minions into a random other, though the cheeky little prankster also has a nasty habit of forcing you into an item choice you didn't choose (what a scamp!)
Jesters and transformations have had a few changes too. Level 3 Jesters and Deamonic Jesters now also halve the Health of any meanies they transform. All transformed objects now have a random cool down before they can be transformed again and meanies transformed will now retain their previous Blessing level.
New Game.. unforever?
Just a quick note that New Game Forever has now been renamed to New Game Plus. It's a much more recognised existing term and calling it Forever gave the wrong impression (since sadly nothing lasts forever).
Castle Conquest
This game mode now has the option of continuing a run into New Game Plus after you've pounded the Queen (respectfully). Since it's already a long game mode it cuts right to the chase so only has the 1 loop but in terms of enemy difficulty modifiers jumps straight to something more akin to NGP2. The Queen looks and plays out differently than in the regular mode too so overall it's all a more difficult challenge than Mausoleum Awakens (though is a bit experimental so the balance will probably need some tweaking).
The scene when travelling between stages is now different too after stage 11 and 12 and your minions are now shown following behind you.
Fresh Bone(r)s
You can now raise the Berry Bro's bigger brother, the Big Raspiberry Bro. He boosts both your Max Health and Occult Health by +66 and dishes out both Hearts and Occult Hearts when his head caplodes. Both of these Bros now also slightly heal you as they increase your Max Health and will also no longer be removed from your legion after they're finished boosting it so may still be useful as boneraise sacrifices (eg Destineous or Brozilla).
The Giantous Sinner now also has 2 new friendoes so there's now a Giantous for each attack type. The Giantous Gladiator is a straight upgrade to the Giantan Knight, while the Giantous Gianraiser can summon ghostly Barrow Behemoths and Miners (who can even rarely dig up Treasure Chests).
Crypt Hub
A new advanced bit of furniture has been added called the Magic Mirror (assuming you have the 'Hub Furnishings' meta at level 3). It allows you isolate certain features so each class can either use the default global pool or customise it specifically to the class. You can set this for the Architect Mode and the Giga Banishments, so for example you can have a particular Giga Banishment set up only for a specific class without it affecting the other classes.
Another new bit of furniture has been added too called the Memory Skull (assuming you have the 'Journal Gnoblin' meta at level 3). You can inspect it to have another look at the various run stats, minions, relics, etc, you had during your last run (it updates each Game Over).
A stranger has also been added who sits by the radio (assuming you have the 'Hub Buddies' meta at level 3) who buys and sells Clashful Cards (this is just a re-organisation of the old Card Shop).
The Goblusious's Lost Relic system has now been removed. I felt it's a pretty easily forgotten and uninteresting money pit, and was a shame the relic discovery grind didn't include the best and more interesting relics.
Can't wait to bury my face in that!
Giga Treasure Chests have been added (assuming you have the Bootiful Chest meta at level 3) which will occasionally show up in all game modes. They're much slower to unlock but the prize mega booty is well worth the wait!
Achievements
The usual 6 class related achievements have been added for the new Courtier Clown class. An achievement for raising a Diablos has also been added called 'Ultimate Deamonic Lifeform' since there was achievements for the other ultimate life forms (note this has replaced the existing 'Lost Relics Fulfilment' so you may already have this new achievement). And there's now an achievement for getting all other achievements called 'Boneraiser Minions 100%' in case you wanted to show off your boneraiser polishing expertise on your Steam profile.
New Gubbins
• Added 6 new Relics: Bakewell Tart, Flesh Cube, Blasphemous Trinket, Desecrated Rage, Desecrated Acuity, Desecrated Mysticism.
• Added 8 new Spells: Occult Pact, Blasphemous Prayers, Blood Moon Rise, Sacrificeous Brozillous, Summonous Wyrmous, Sanguine Pickaxes, Conjured Bounties, Day of the Dead.
• A new Visibility setting has been added called 'Minion Status Icons' which allows you turn off the status effect icons for minions (eg Haste).
Other misc stuff...
• If the last time you played was early-ish during Early Access then at game start it will now load in the old save file data and update it to the new save file format (assuming you don't already have a new save file).
• The "translation_reference.csv" file has been updated. Note many of the IDs related to the Spell Scrolls were mistakenly using a "Sl_" prefix instead of "SI_".
• Status Screen: The Run Stats screen now shows the current game mode and if it's New Game Plus.
• The Giantous Sinner and Magma Gargantuan colours have been adjusted so they're less confused with Deamon minions.
• Brodacious Brozilla minion: The chance of the Eggy form hatching Barrow Boners and Barrow Diggers has been increased.
• Deamonic Guard minion: Slightly increased the Damage his attack does.
• Eggy Bro minion: There's now a chance of it being a green egg, in which case it will always hatch into a Tamed Beast minion.
• Waxen Custodian: Increased the chance of them being offered for boneraise (most notably from a Soul boneraise). The level upgrades now require the sacrifice of a Peasant/Knight (instead of a Custodian so it's a bit less confusing).
• Jester's Delight spell: This can now also transforms Treasure Chests into another type.
• Drain Boner spell: This will now give a further random boost of Max Health (previously the amount was static based on the power level).
And some bug fixes...
• 'I Don't Even Know Who I Am' achievement: This wouldn't trigger as the Beast Whisperer class.
• Necrotic Skirmishes - Choose Map menu: Pressing Up when over the Accursed Cathedral would move you to to Fortuity Destiny.
• Boneraise Lore - Chi Chakra meta: The swirling sprite that shows below the player was affected was being affected by your Cloak colour.
• Boneraise Lore - Keepsake Key meta: This could start you with a Money Bag, and wasn't updating if you won a Mauseleum Awakens or Castle Conquest.
• Forbidden Elevator map: The Heavenly Vessels and Slime enemies weren't using their special spawning animation.
• Forbidden Elevator map: The Elven Wayfinder could still sometimes get stuck at the bottom of the level after attacking.
• Cadaver Coffin contraption: For the Doll Maker and Beast Whisperer classes it could give minions you haven't unlocked via the meta, and could give a Waxen Knight/Paladin.
• Boneraise - Seal: If you Sealed a Deamon minion but had reached the max Deamon cap then it may not Seal correctly (some classes have meta where some Deamons don't count towards the max cap).
• Boneraise - Bonebrobigly Destineous: The random minion it raises would ignore Banishes and if you hadn't discovered that minion.
• Deamonic Jester minion: He was only using his base transform attack once, which was also fully healing the transformed enemy and wasn't abiding by the transform cool down.
• Eggy Bro minion: There was a chance for it to give some of the ultra minions even if you have reached their normal max cap (eg it could give a Diablos even if you had reached the Deamon max cap).
• King Gigald: One of his attacks wasn't conforming with the 'Meanie Attack Outline' setting.
• Shade Mini-Boss: They weren't conforming with the 'Meanie Attack Outline' setting.
Enjoy! :]