Greetings, Yotunz!
A holiday update is here and it introduces a new event NPC - Frosty. Frosty offers special gifts in exchange for Candies. Candies can be obtained by defeating enemies with Snowballs - Event Usable Items that drop from the Snowmen of Durnar. A Snowball's damage is quite low, so a player will need to weaken an Enemy before trying to finish it off with a Snowball. Additionally Frosty offers the player a special Trait, Holiday Spirit.This trait doubles the amount of Snowballs dropped by Snowmen and increases their damage by 33% making it much easier to defeat enemies with Snowballs and collect their Candies.
Another big feature of the Frosty Update is Father Tree Modifiers. They offer a set of different Run Modifiers that make Arboria much harder. For example, they can increase an enemy’s health and damage, increase the damage of Traps, reduce the Yotun’s health, disable healing in the Lock Room, disable Mutagens, and much more. Using Run Modifiers adds a Veri Multiplier for any collected Veri. This allows experienced players to make their Run harder but gather much more Veri in exchange. By gathering Veri with Modifiers, the player increases the Father Tree’s level, which in turn unlocks new Modifiers.
We’ve also added a completely new Intro to the game which explains the story of the Yotun’s Tribe and explains the cause of Gobbok’s journey into Durnar which you experienced through the Tutorial.
Additionally another set of 18 new Mutagens was added to the batch, increasing the total to 90 different Mutagens. Examples of the new Mutagens are as follows: Place Totems after using Bongo, Mutation Power will be added to Symbiont Damage, Rolling will increase Damage of both Mutation and Symbiont, and Mutation attacks while the Player has over 90% of Max Mana will deal additional Damage. We hope that new crazy builds will emerge thanks to these.
Some aspects of gameplay will also be better explained through a new set of Loading Screen Tips. One of the prime examples is Perfect Dash, which is often referenced by some of the Mutagens.
Finally, in this Update we have added Voice Lines for Rata - your fairy companion. Rata will warn you about traps, enemies, notify you when your health gets low, and cheer you on during Events. We hope you will enjoy her new, more talkative version.
Roadmap
Another Arboria update is now available! The Frosty Update is the seventh update and there are more to come in the future. Follow Arboria on Steam and stay up to date with our monthly improvements.
Check the full development roadmap to find out what’s planned for the future: Arboria - Roadmap of Updates.
Feedback
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