Hey Rampagers!
Today marks our biggest update by far. Not only are we releasing the beloved Ghost Samurai, but we are also unleashing darkness with the HD Dark Mage Skin!
Welcome back, The Ghost Samurai!
The Ghost Samurai wanders the earth seeking vengeance on his killer. An expert swordsman, few can withstand his phantom katana technique. Using katanas, swords and light throwing weapons, no one should underestimate him in the Dungeons.
He is the literal poster child of Dungeon Rampage, one of the most beloved heroes due to his high damage and good movement. After a lot of playtesting and bug fixes, we decided not to change anything around his kit versus the original game. He seems to be in a pretty balanced spot for now, and we will be monitoring him after release to ensure that he is at a good spot compared to the other characters.
So, we are very excited to be welcoming the Ghost Samurai back to the Dungeon Games!
Let’s talk a bit about the Dark Mage!
People have asked how they could support the game’s development. So we have decided to experiment with cosmetic skins with our first one being the Dark Mage! The Dark Mage has been overhauled from the original skin, we have made it HD and we have added custom VFX on all of his abilities!
With this change, we are also doing a small buff on the Sorcerer! Now his Nova Staff (the ones that does the AOE ability on hold) also Shocks all nearby enemies!
If you are interested in knowing more about why we came to the decision of a paid DLC Skin, take a look at our discord announcement explaining our thought process:
https://discord.com/channels/745682912913129573/1318690759678885969/1491851970019852398
What’s new with the update then?
We have focused a LOT on the most requested QoL features.
You can now experimentally localize 99% of the game through JSON files which can be shared with friends, by modifying the GameMasterLocale.override.json & Locale.override.json you can see the game in your language! (Note, this isn’t full internationalisation support by any means, some characters may not be supported by our font, and some words may be too big, however for latin based languages this should help a ton.)
Additionally, we have been working on Menu Navigation! You can now navigate with your keyboard (arrow keys) to different menus of the game! We have implemented what we call the “Golden Path” which essentially means that you can get in a dungeon, play, and get out and into the next one.
We hope that we will be finishing up Menu Navigation sooner rather than later, but we wanted people to have a slice of what it will look like so that we can ensure there’s no major bugs and that the user experience about navigating menus is fun!
Of course, we didn’t forget to improve the game’s performance. By default we re-construct your hud after every floor now (used to be a feature flag) and we have fixed some more memory leaks that aren’t HUD related, especially the problem with pets making your game laggy.
Minor Update Changes:
Removing Gems from Item Boxes (still available in Daily & Weapon boxes).
We have reduced visual artefacts from our props, which should make them look slightly better.
We have tinkered around and made the characters & enemies look a bit smoother on the edges of the sprites.
We fixed a bug where the Freeze Bomb also granted enemies 2x the speed in Ultimate Rampage.
Here's where we are at on our roadmap now!
The Dungeon Rampage Team
“Now that the original 6 characters of the first DR release are live, which one is your favourite to play as?”
”There are unfortunately no bug-based heroes…YET. With that being said, Vampire Hunter feels so smooth and powerful and also reminds me of garlic which is delicious.” - The Bug King
”I love the Vampire Hunter, but the Dark Mage with a mini mushroom makes him a magic mini-gunner” - Mako
”I look forward to working alongside my evil twin” - Séan the Dev Wizard
”I got to help write code on this patch! So it’s definitely going to be the best patch. 5/5 patch of the year.” - Stumpy
”Ghost Samurai. SO FAST” - Eve
”Vampire hunter is still my fav” - bIsOrakisan