For anyone who wants a simpler beat 'em up experience similar to Castle Crashers and other side-scrolling brawler games, I created a new game mode. In Easy Mode you only have weapons and permanent buff items. There are no bombs, keys, scrolls nor potions and no need to handle the inventory as you only have one weapon slot. The levels are linear, with random room layouts and enemies. Runestones upgrade hero stats instead of weapons.
The new version also has other improvements as well:
- more info is shown on the character selection screen
- knights start with armor (50% damage protection for the first 5 hits)
- poison from the traps is no longer permanent
- removed possibility to endlessly duplicate the Replicate scroll and get infinite points in daily challenges
- reduced pickup priority for common weapons
- simplified network game menus. The UDP port setting which should rarely be changed is moved to Settings
- fixed bug with some pets not chasing the enemies properly