# Scapewatch Patch Notes

v0.9.63 - June 2, 2026
- Combat rebalanced across every tier. New weapon, armor, and monster stats for smoother, more readable fights
- Hit chance now scales a little more smoothly as your levels and gear go up
- Early slimes hit softer, so the first slay tiers are a gentler start for new players
- Gear calculator and wiki updated to match the new combat stats

v0.9.62 - June 1, 2026
- New loadout system. You now get 18 gear loadouts, 6 each for Melee, Range, and Magic. Save a full gear set in each, switch between them instantly, and rename them
- Any weapon fits any loadout in its family. Range loadouts take any bow or crossbow, Magic loadouts take any staff or wand
- Set your everyday loadout from the Equipment panel. It is also your combat default
- Combat defaults let you pick from all your loadouts, and each monster is matched to the loadout it is weakest against
- Crossbows and wands now show the defense they hit. Crossbows attack with Range but hit Stab, wands attack with Magic but hit Slash
- Gear calculator updated for loadouts, crossbows, and wands
- Your old gear sets carry over automatically
- Combat attacks now fire a projectile at your target, with its own look for melee, ranged, and magic
- New animated hitsplats for hits, misses, and dodges, and crits show a bigger number
- You and monsters now lunge toward each other when attacking
- Cleaner combat health bars, and monster names now show their tier and corruption, like Plant [T1] and Plant [T1] [C1]
- Smoother combat performance
- Added chat badges. Open Customize and pick a badge to show next to your name in chat
- Earn badges from your pets, capes, tools, and unlocks, plus skill and special badges
- Skill badges have Novice, Adept, Expert, and Master titles that unlock at levels 20, 50, 80, and 99
- Added achievement badges: Maxed, Completionist, Quest Cape, Hiscore Top 5, Raider, and Collection Log
- Added a Supporter badge, plus Twitch and YouTube badges. Set your channel in Customize and people can click your badge to visit it
- Badges are grouped into categories you can expand and collapse, and you pick the title shown on hover
- Idle players now keep progressing through server restarts and updates
- Your status now shows the dungeon name while you are raiding
- Rebalanced XP rates for Forage, Farm, Barter, Bard, and Discover
- Escape now closes the leave-the-game popup
- Fixed raids giving Spirit XP from corrupted monsters
- Fixed slow weapons being ready to attack instantly between raid waves and respawns