Hi everyone,
We have more great news! Not only do we have a big patch coming to the main branch (more on this in a second), we can finally reveal our collab with one of our favorite deckbuilders: Wildfrost.
Fitting perfectly into the theme of this update, we add the Snowcake as an Unique item and a craftable Snow Stick.
There is also a Ranger skin based on Yuki, and just as in Wildfrost, her snowball grows over time! And of course, the other classes get a skin as well, check out Doom Cap Reaper, Shaman Beserker and Dark Pyromancer!
We also have a bundle available, where you can purchase both games with an additional 10% discount!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46297
New Items!
But wait, there is more. We are adding 10 more skills, so the game now features 30 skills in total.
Only one of the new skills is class-specific - Heart of the Cards requires you to have a Deck of Cards. This is for testing the "Requires" keyword.
The new skills Just Stats and More Stats will be available in the same slot every run, and offer an alternative to rolling away the skills in case none of them fit your current build.
Of course, picking a fitting skill should still be the better option.
The Wonky Snowman is a new shop item that breaks up into two Snowballs. Snowball is the new crafting ingredient for Ice items instead of the Spell Scroll: Frostbolt, which makes them accessible earlier and for all classes. This will of course come with adjustments to the Cryomancer subclass.
We reworked the Ripsaw Blade with a completely new mechanic: It removes temporary damage from opponent weapons. It also got its first crafting successor, the Katana!
The other new items are the Amulet of Darkness, a new variant of the Unidentified Amulet, and two recipes: You can now craft Stone Shoes and the Shepherd's Crook.
New Tooltips & Icons
We gave item types an overhaul: Elemental types like Ice, Holy, etc. are now represented as icons.
We also added icons for different types of damage, you can find them on weapons and other damage-dealing items. The current damage types are Melee, Ranged, and Effect damage - with Effect damage collecting more indirect damage sources. We added several items to buff or counter Effect damage in this update.
We also revised all item texts and made some changes to improve tooltip readability! Please give yourself a moment to get used to the new tooltips.
You can now also filter for these types in the item library.
Build History
The big quality-of-life feature for this patch is the Build History.
It keeps the full progression of your builds throughout your runs. And as a little bonus, you can start additional fights to find out how the build would have performed against different opponents.
This also means that you can send your round 18 backpack out to fight as often as you want, which was a commonly requested feature!
And there's more! You can now press Alt while hovering over an item to show all the recipes it can build into! This was requested a bunch of times, and we found a way to display the recipes nicely. As always, we do our best to make features as useful as possible - the tooltips also show which items you already own and which ones can be bought from the current shop.
More Languages
With this update, the game now supports Latin American Spanish, French, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese! You can change the language in the options if Steam doesn't apply it automatically.
We hope this makes the game accessible to more players around the world!
Magicraft Crossover
In case you missed it, we just added Pop and Cthulhu from Magicraft as Unique items last week! They just had their 1.0 release - and don't forget you can get it with a discount if you already own Backpack Battles:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46693
By the way, our publisher is also holding an annual publisher sale.✨ Go take a look and grab some amazing games: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/indiearkpublishersale2024/
Full Changelog for 0.9.24
- NEW ITEM: Wonky Snowman / Snowball
- NEW SKILL: Heavy Drinking
- NEW SKILL: Buy the Holy Light
- NEW SKILL: Girl Power
- NEW SKILL: Blood Manipulation
- NEW SKILL: Bagtacular
- NEW SKILL: Uniquely Unique
- NEW SKILL: Thornburst
- NEW SKILL: Just Stats
- NEW SKILL: More Stats
- NEW SKILL (Reaper): Heart of the Cards
- NEW RECIPE: Katana
- NEW RECIPE: Stone Shoes
- NEW RECIPE: Shepherd’s Crook
- NEW RECIPE: Snow Stick
- NEW ITEM: Amulet of Darkness
- NEW UNIQUE: Snow Cake
- NEW FEATURE: Build History
- NEW FEATURE: You can now press alt when hovering an item to see what it builds into!
Balancing
Neutral
- All Weapon pets now deal “effect” damage, while still keeping their original damage type.
- Stone Armor: Removed on-hit effect, now removes Spikes and Empower every 4s
- Ripsaw Blade: Now removes gained damage from items and gains damage. No longer removes buffs.
- Piggy Piñata: * items now gain 5% crit chance, slightly reduced explosion gold value
- Manathirst: Mana gained 1 -> 2. Mana needed to steal life 20 -> 30.
- It’s Slime Time!: Cooldown 3.5s -> 3.0s
- Investment Opportunity: Max health gained 1.5 -> 2
- Shielded: Block Bonus 20% -> 25%
- Amulet of Alchemy: Added more * slots
- Burning Coal (Armor): Cold resist 4 -> 5
- Steel Goobert: Block 13 -> 16
- Potion Belt Cleanse: 7 -> 8
- Protective Purse: Block 13 -> 15
- Emerald (Weapon): Increased Poison amount of high rarities
- Amethyst (Inventory): Drastically reduced cooldown
- Oil Lamp: Cooldown 3.2s -> 3.4s
- Frozen Buckler: Damage prevention 6 -> 7
- Cubert: Empower chance 25% -> 30%
- Heart Container: Maximum health gain: 90 -> 100
- Heart of Darkness: Maximum health gain: 90 -> 100
- Magic Torch: Stamina cost 1 -> 0.7
- Artifact Stone: Death: Damage +5
Pyromancer
- Ice Dragon: Now also reduces effect damage
- Dark Lantern: Invulnerability 1.8s -> 1.5s
- Frozen Flame: 12 Block -> 8, Crit chance 2% -> 1.5% (to compensate for Ice items being easier to obtain now)
Berserker
- Cheese Goobert: Maximum Health: 15 -> 18
Ranger
- Critwood Staff: Mana cost 4 -> 3
Reaper
- The Lovers: Damage 11 -> 10. Now also gains 10% heal increase
- Ace of Spades: Spikes 2 -> 3
- Reverse! : Reflected debuffs 3 -> 4
- White-Eyes Blue Dragon: Now also reduces incoming effect damage
- Holo Fire Lizard: Now adds effect damage bonus
- Jimbo: Four-of-a-kind bonus now activates 2 cards
- Doom Cap: Cooldown 3.2s -> 3.0s
- Ruby Chonk: Damage -3