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[0.5.0] Release Notes - The Badass Update

BADASS UPDATE [0.5.0]

  • Added 2 new floors; the dungeon now has a total of 8 levels
  • Added the Drakken environment at the level 7 and 8
  • Added 2 new heroes, both equipped with Machine Guns:
    • Rakya Pulmoni “Smokestack”and her module skills
    • Ken Massoqui “Sado-Maso Militarist” and his risky skills

  • Added 1 new minor offensive module: the Machine Gun (caution: may overheat!)
  • Added 2 new mobs: the Kamikazes

    • Special behaviours: targets the most populated (heroes and module) rooms; stop it before it reaches your most precious rooms
      • Chimera Kamikaze: slow and usually on its own, will cause a huge explosion.
      • Necrophage Kamikaze: weak but a hive of them. They're fast!


  • Added 3 elite mobs, from the level 6, you can encounter stronger forms of:

    • Necrophage Trash
    • Necrophage Hunter
    • Silics Bulldozer

  • Added Steam Cloud support

MISC

  • Improved the fog of war (visual effect and logic)
  • Improved bump map: better lighting on mobs, heroes, merchant and modules
  • Fonts:
    • Added Portuguese/Brazilian characters
    • Added Ukrainian and anti-aliased Cyrillic characters

  • Added new sound effects
  • Reduced the loading time during level generation

BALANCE

  • Improved mobs repartition: there are now less different mobs in each floor and new mobs to discover in each floor. Some mobs now spawn only after a certain amount of doors opened. This repartition will evolve at each update according to the new mobs and floors
  • Improved items repartition: some items are available sooner but rare items are more scarce, particularly in the first levels
  • Slightly increased the amount of module slots
  • Tweaked events probabilities
  • Increased Food reward quantity of Cryo Capsule
  • Slightly increased Dust loot in rooms
  • Slightly increased global mobs difficulties
  • Increased Silics mobs power
  • Added area of damage on Silics Bulldozer (“Golem”) and Necrophage Red Flying mobs
  • Slightly increased Food cost to level up a hero
  • Increased skill effect duration (+1sec)
  • Increased effect power of skills on:
    • Warface
    • Red Plume
    • Kneecapped
    • Duelist

  • Reduced effect power of “Engage Turtle Mode” skill
  • Added damage over time on hero, with “Sacrifice” skill effect (instead of direct damage)

BUG FIX

  • Fixed a bug where the destroyed module slots aren’t saved
  • Fixed a bug where Gork remains black in the hero selection screen when discovered
  • Fixed a bug where the hero gets stuck when the user tries to interact with the "Endless Artefact" while opening a door

Enjoy!

~Amplitude Studios.