Greetings, Captain!
Another small update with new goodies. Thank you for your feedback! This update is for you.
Release Notes
Here's the full release notes:
v0.9.3 : July 19, 2024
Local Co-op:
- Did a lot of behind the scenes work for local co-op
Gameplay:
- Fixed enemies accidentally being invincible while frozen (this was meant only for players)
- Created a bullet-hell attack for Sindraphon
- Made Boots ability damage things surrounding you whenever you are holding the button, rather than only once you reach top speed
- Made Boots do a bigger skid stop that does damage along the vector, with a new animation and also skidding is mentioned in the description on the Abilities menu
- Made Boots ability do a damaging skid stop whenever you use it rather than only if you reached top speed
- Allowed running with Boots through jars & rocks
- Made the Mystic encounter drop the Scroll of Pauldrons so players see they can upgrade the first time they use the Mystic at home
- Ensured that small chests will appear in a safe place at the end of speed / disappearing floors
- Ensured that the speed / disappearing floors have an exciting pace where the erosion always happens right behind you
- Ensured that the speed / disappearing floors have the relic in the last, big chest
- Removed a 16ms delay before any weapon is created, player or enemy, for fairness and accuracy in canceling warnings
- Fixed runner chests not restoring properly after speed / disappearing wave consumes them
- Made some of the easy creeps able to have their attacks canceled if you damage them while their warning box is active
- Made it so if an enemy's attack cannot be canceled then their warning box will remain even if you damage them
- Remembered the Skybot building selection across floors
- Created a failsafe for Guardians if their target disappears or becomes inactive
- Created a failsafe for raising bridges on connector floors if there is accidentally no story element to be played
- Made it so ranged attacks like Mage missiles start farther from the enemy's body so they don't accidentally fizzle if the enemy is standing near something
- Created the big metal trade item, offered at the Trader, to exchange 500 gold for 50 metal
- Fixed acid sometimes not spreading correctly
Balance:
- Decreased the overall enemy difficulty escalation for higher level characters from 0.618 to 0.1
- Decreased the mana cost of Whirlwind from 25 to 16
- Increase the range of Ouriel's stop from 86 to 106
- Increased the cooldown of Grenades from 1.0 to 1.5 seconds
- Slightly decreased the chance of finding an epic item at the Blacksmith
- Increase the arrow attack range of Guardians from 160 to 240
- Changed the maximum number of the Trader's currency exchanges from 5 to 4
- Randomly choose some trades at trader
- Fixed being able to cheese bosses by throwing grenades during the boss intro camera rotation
UI:
- Made the armor detail popups able to show many more lines of attributes, description and price
- Got creep attack swooshes to last on screen the entire time the attack is active
- Made enemy health bars stay visible indefinitely after they've been damaged
- Made all health bars always red for clarity's sake
- Made ability icons on the UI turn gray and fade in whenever there is an active cooldown
- Show an item detail popup when you have a choice of armor to pick up
- Tried using the game's normal font instead of the clean font for dialogue to feel more consistent
- Made long announcements line break in the middle so they are more symmetrical
- Split ability descriptions into mutliple lines if they are too long (German, Russian)
Effects & Animations:
- Fixed enemy acid pools not being outlined in red
- Made Ouriel's stomp do a crunchy landing sound effect
- Once you have one NPC at home, a symbol is placed on the ground where the others will go to hint that there are more
- Made skid & blink animations use the correct lower body animation frames
- Fixed the shield being at the wrong offset when a player or boss rotates
- Fixed walking while holding shield or Whirlwind using the wrong lower-body animations
- Fixed Sindraphon's axe swooshes being too far from his body
- Fixed Sindraphon's shield being too close to his body
- Fixed Sindraphon sometimes shooting a fountain of sparks
- Fixed BladeSecret being a different color after Save & Quit then new run
- Fixed your acid pools being accidentally outlined in red instead of blue
- Made acid pools always spawn on the ground
- Added a slight outline to the menu font for clarity
Misc.:
- Allowed binding keyboard actions even while Steam is open
- Fixed if two or more controllers are used without Steam open, the character cannot walk
- Fixed the borderless game window not resizing properly when moved to a different monitor
- Fixed Trader able to offer a big and small light trade
- Fixed two controllers and one analog stick doesn't work until a button is pressed
Thanks for playing Wraithbinder!
Nat (the dev)