Birth Rank, Performance Optimizations, and Ritual Improvements

Check out all the new features, performance improvements, adjustments, and fixes included in this update!

WHAT’S NEW

The Wiki now includes a new section explaining the Birth Rank, represented by the ranks E, D, C, B, A, and S.

We significantly optimized how the game loads textures.
Graphics memory usage during startup has been reduced by approximately 70%, from around 1.7 GB to 519 MB.
Arena memory usage was reduced from approximately 755 MB to 22 MB before loading the current world.
The game now loads only the environment for the world currently being played instead of keeping all five biomes loaded simultaneously.
This improvement should reduce freezes and excessive RAM usage, especially on computers with integrated graphics or GPUs with limited memory.
Visual quality, texture filtering, and image smoothing have been preserved.

Items and heroes created through Ritual fusion no longer inherit the Soulbound status of the five materials used.
Fusion results are now created as unbound and may be sent to Steam when they meet the remaining rarity and Market access requirements.
This means that rewarded items and heroes may become tradable after going through the fusion process.
This change only affects item and hero fusion.
Heroes obtained by opening Soulbound Cages will remain Soulbound.
The Star Ritual continues to work as before because it upgrades an existing hero instead of creating a new one.

Fixed an issue in the Star Ritual where clicking the confirmation button could cancel the selection instead of performing the upgrade.
This was caused by the hero’s clickable area overlapping the confirmation button.
The clickable areas in the fusion and result panels have also been adjusted to prevent incorrect selections.
The hero now correctly receives the star, the three Gems are consumed, and Gold is deducted after the confirmation succeeds.

The Wiki now explains how a hero’s Birth Rank is calculated.
Each of the hero’s natural attributes is evaluated within the range allowed for that rarity. The average of these evaluations determines the final rank.
E: 0%–20% — 20% frequency
D: 20%–40% — 20% frequency
C: 40%–60% — 20% frequency
B: 60%–80% — 20% frequency
A: 80%–90% — 10% frequency
S: 90%–100% — 10% frequency
A hero’s Birth Rank is permanent and does not change through levels, stars, equipment, Forge upgrades, or allocated points.
The rank only evaluates the quality of the hero’s natural attributes within that hero’s rarity.
A Common Rank S hero is not necessarily stronger than a Mythic Rank E hero because each rarity has different attribute ranges.
The chance of receiving each rank is the same across all rarities.

Thank you for playing and continuing to support the development of Bomb Farm!