Hello Survival Typists!
This update does bring long term improvements and additions to the game that improve the experience for both old and new players alike. Statistics and Leaderboards were one of our roadmap promises, and they are the focus of our update this time!
Stat Tracking
We know that a lot of you like keeping track of your stats in the game and seeing how you are improving over time. For each main weapon, if you do an endless run, we will track your latest 10 playthroughs and track your WPM and accuracy. This is our first iteration of statistics in the game. So if you guys have more things that you would like to track, please do let us know in the comments!
Friend Leaderboards
While the game is not built for competitive play, we know that a lot of you wanted to see how you stack up against your friends. In the leaderboard we take different stats like the time survived and difficulty level to give you a score, which is then used to rank you.
Each leaderboard is unique to a main weapon, which gives you a chance to beat your friends depending on which weapon is your main. In future updates we plan to add global leaderboards as well.
Run Information
Previously during a run we only showed you weapon information. Due to popular demand, we have added more information for you to better strategize your present and future runs.
You can now select between different tabs in the Run Information screen to show which loot you’ve picked up and which augments you have selected for this Run. If there is any other information you want here, please let us know and we’ll work on adding them!
Performance Improvements
We've improved the UI updating loop to be much more efficient, which yielded overall performance gains throughout the game. Now that has been fixed and we’re expecting you to have a much smoother game experience overall!
Loot Rework
Our loot has been neglected for a long time and we did a major rebalancing of the items pickups to better fit the current game meta. Some loot has been nerfed, and some have had more gradations added to them to fill in some gaps.
Options Menu Organization
Another relatively small but meaningful update is a reorganizing of our options menu into different tabs. Why is this meaningful? Because it’s an important and necessary step for adding things like custom color themes and fonts into the game!
Wiki Localization
We added an official wiki in one of our recent updates, and have now updated it with more localized content!
Future Plans
And that’s all for Update 3. We hope you enjoy these updates! In the meantime, we’ll get back to work and bring you another update at the end of next month.
CHANGELOG
BUGFIXES
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- Fixed rarity icon not scaling based on resolution.
- Fixed Barrage explosion radius not scaling based on resolution.
- Fixed French Poet passage that gets stuck at last character (there was a rogue newline that was removed)
- Filter Cypher scrambled words against a blacklist.
- Added "ss" as a fallback for "ß"
- Stop spawning enemies behind Poet UI.
- Made Meteor pickups spawn at more reasonable positions.
- Fixed garbled screen for Steam Deck during bootup.
- Fixed sometimes letters are detected as mistypes even if they are not.
- Fixed overflowing modifiers text / blank pages in Weapon Details screen.
- Fixed mistype crash fix from previous patch crashing the game.
- Fixed crash due to looking for non-existent weapon in modifiers.
- Fixed leaderboard saving localized name of weapon instead of class name (leaderboard wiped due to fix)
- Fixed augment select button in omen screen not clearing outline when changing augment category.
- Fixed word complete effect crashing game when bad position data is passed to it.
- Fixed current augments display crashing game when a negative range is passed to it (didn't fix the cause, just the symptom).
- Fixed erroneous detection of a newly added weapon in DPS calculations.
- Localized difficulty text on Leaderboards.
- Removed untypable newline character from Spanish and Indonesian Poet passages.
- Fixed Augment description box not full width in Weapon Details.
- Fixed onWordComplete trigger triggering on removing box on Double Words.
- Make accented variants of character also trigger weapons (e.g. 'á' counts as 'a' for triggering Spectre)
- Fixed missing percentage on Juryrigged loot item description.
- Fixed triple damage showing wrong effect string on pickup.
- Fixed Devotion Augment not triggered on game start.
- Changed "Current Weapons" to "Run Information"
- Fixed current weapons header not localized in run information.
- Fixed having coins exactly equal to main weapon cost does not allow player to unlock it.
BALANCING
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- Main turret are now bought with coins. Turrets will remain unlocked for players who have unlocked them before.
- Endless record changed to score-based. Score is time in milliseconds multiplied by additional 20% for each omen level.
- Fixed keyboard (Q/W) and controller (LB/RB) navigation of leaderboard tabs.
- Added localized font for leaderboard headers.
- Added localized font for "insufficient_funds" effect when trying to buy a main turret with not enough coins.
- Fixed overlap of button hotspots allowed buttons to be activated at the same time when clicking between them.
- Made enemy health bars respect resolution and standardized spacing between health bars among enemies.
- Juryrigged loot item has downside removed and now gives 35% chance for additional drone whenever a drone is spawned.
- Gambler loot item now adds a reroll on top of increasing max reroll.
- Protector loot item now adds a shield on top of increasing max shields.
- Last Stand loot item now gives a 100% chance of triggering Double Damage on Shield destroyed.
- Initiation loot item changed to Harmonizer, which gives 1 evolution level to all existing weapons.
- Enlightenment loot item now gives +1 kills to ALL existing weapons on destroying enemy with crit.
- Triple Damage loot item now triggers Triple Damage instead whenever Double Damage would be triggered.
- Affliction loot item renamed to Erosion due to similarities with Afflictor Augment.
- Regeneration loot item has downside removed and now heals 5% of max health whenever you activate relevant pickups.
- Afflictor loot item now gives +4% D.O.T. damage instead of +3%.
- Cryotechnics loot item now gives +2% chance to drop Freeze pickup instead of +3%.
- Warlike loot item now gives +4% chance to drop Double Damage pickup instead of +3%.
- Pinata loot item now gives +4% chance to drop Loot pickup instead of +2%.
- Common Loot Items targeting a single weapon type: Effectiveness reduced from 20% to 15%
- Common Loot Items targeting all weapon types: Effectiveness reduced from 10% to 5%
- Common Loot Items increasing drop rates of double damage and freeze: Effectiveness reduced from 2% to 1%
- For each reduced effectiveness of the above Common Loot Item, there was added a corresponding Uncommon Loot Item:
-- For singular weapon type the bonus is 25%
-- For all weapon types the bonus is 12.5%
-- For freeze and double damage drop rate it is 2%
- 4 new Uncommon Loot Items that increase the chance for status effects for Kinetic, Heat, Cold and Electric weapons by 4%
FEATURES
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- Added Leaderboard categorized by Main Weapon.
- Added Current Loot and Current Augments tabs to Weapon Details screen.
- WPM History graph.
- Major optimizations to UI updating script, which yielded better overall gameplay performance.
- Added 36 uncommon loot items that are +25% versions of common ones.
- Added categorized options screen.
- Added graph legend to WPM history graph.
- Added localization for content added in this update.