After another successful round of first-time playtester feedback, I have a wave of changes aimed at fixing a few problems, refining gameplay, and continuing to cook with the item pool.

I'm nearing the point where I crawl into my cave and grind out the remaining content for the game. The Steam page will go up next week with a new trailer and possibly a "Request Playtest" button.

For now, if you have feedback, feel free to leave it in the edit's games Discord!

GLHF

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Gameplay

• Reworked the pass-through-from-below feature to apply universally to props. From below, the player phases through ledges, torches, and all other props, while enemies collide with them normally

• Base jump height (and therefore also stomp bounce height) raised slightly

• You can now hold R to restart while gameplay is paused, like on the pause menu or during the 3-item draft

• Tips now have a defined order and are unlockable. Each death permanently unlocks the next tip, and you can review all the tips you've unlocked from the game over tombstone

Stages

• Pots now spawn on some ledges in The Depths and Tomb

• The ring of torches between stages now have cages on each torch, preventing them from dealing fire damage

• Torch walls no longer spawn in The Depths

• Enemy formations are less likely to spawn stacked with 1 type of enemy

• The treasure room bars no longer let you stand on top of the lock

• Added some pots to treasure rooms

Items

New

• Overcharge

• Masonry

• Coup de Grace

• Trampoline

Removed

• Anchor

• Paper Jam

Changed

• Items that used to require landing to recharge now have purely time-based cooldowns

• Broken Jetpack now adds to your speed if you're traveling upwards (it used to slow you down in certain cases)

• Passive buff items no longer pulse their icons in the HUD

• Shuffled around a bunch of items' tiers, impacting where they can be collected

• Edited some of item descriptions to make them as clear and concise as possible

Enemies

• Tweaks to the Pokey fight

• Overseer's summon waves now guarantee a mix of enemy types

• Exploding a Spikeball while it is charging now causes it to attack in the direction it was blasted in

• Spikeball's attack trajectory can now be altered by an explosion mid-charge

Sound

• Mix pass across the music tracks

• Re-ordered which tracks play on which stage

• Removed the upward launch musical stab from tracks where it was present

UI & feedback

• The crosshair now visualizes the cooldown of your rocket launcher

• The treasure unlock animation is faster, and the lock, key and bars now disappear seamlessly

• Reduced the font size on the stage name reveal text

• Moved the "Go to game" button on the analytics consent screen up, since I noticed the Steam overlay popup can cover it

• Moved the prompt to hold R to restart off of the tutorial plaque and into the top-right of the pause menu

Art & VFX

• New asset: pots

• Gave a proper texture to the tombstone

• Replaced the placeholder capsule with a glowing silhouette of the boss you're about to fight

• Added some sway to the rocket launcher based on your camera motion and velocity

• Added shaking to the rocket launcher when falling at terminal velocity

• Speed lines and wind require slightly more speed to trigger now

• Speed lines and wind now cut out more suddenly when slamming the ground

• Added a fun visual effect to Overcharge

Under the hood

• Switched the build to use IL2CPP

Bugs

Fixed

• Fixed (I hope!) a case where the player could glitch into a locked treasure room and get stuck

• Trigger volumes like the boss fight trigger and the new stage trigger no longer block rockets

• Rear View Mirror no longer has post-processing applied twice, so the view isn't unintentionally dark

• Boss fight music loops properly now

• Fixed invisible HUD element blocking some hover effects

• Explosions no longer deal duplicate damage when an entity has more than one collider attached. This was causing Die() to run twice on torches, rolling their drop pool TWICE! whoops

• Ambient sounds like lava, torches, and wind no longer break for the session after you open the pause menu

• Fixed a case where a Spikeball could be aggro on you as soon as the grate for a new stage opens - apparently the fix didn't fully work

Known

• Spikeball can be aggro on you as soon as the grate for a new stage opens

• Weird hitch between runs

• Lack of i-frames makes Spikeball susceptible to glitchy spam damage

• Lack of i-frames makes player stomps capable of glitchy spam damage

• You can get stuck in ledges spawned via Masonry

• Pickups spawned inside of a treasure room spawn outside of it