So the general consensus from players seems to be that the difficulty is fine for vets, but too much for more casual players. With this update I've tried to meet somewhere in the middle, keeping difficulty high for level 40+ zones but making the difficultly curve between 30-40 far less steep.
Here is what I've done:
- The frequency of Scythed, Cystic and Spined enemies has been reduced in level 30-40 areas. 40+ should remain same.
- Scythed enemies have had their move and attack speeds reduced by 10%
- Scythe damage has been reduced by 20%
- Cyst explosion damage has been cut in half
- Optic enemies now open their eyes for 20% longer
- Multiplayer HP scaling has been temporarily removed again until I can make a better alternative (IE hp scaling only in boss rooms)
- SMG body damage has been lowered slightly
- Bosses that spawn indoors, and outside of a marked boss room will now be roughly 10 levels lower than expected to account for the possibility of smaller room sizes artificially increasing the difficulty. The loot will stay the same level as the building however.
And some bug fixes have also been made:
- Fixed a bug that stopped private trade items from stacking when cancelling their sale.
- A bug that caused the Stalker to have no limbs was fixed.
- A bug that caused the Stalker to walk around in circles was fixed.
- A serious bug was discovered that allowed people to roll large Incoming Damage and Movement Speed values on items that shouldn't really have those stats. I have now fixed this bug and those items will now reset to the stats you would have rolled, had the bug not existed. I understand that a few of you might feel upset by this, but unfortunately I can't allow overpowered items that were created in error to stay in the game. Hope you can understand.
NOTE: You will need to exit the game and reload in order to see all of these changes