Hail you Vikings, hail you Bosses!
Here we are, sharpening our blades and cleaning our wounds after a mighty battle with 2019. As yesteryear’s songs quiet down, we look full of anticipation towards the 20th year of the 2nd millennium and since it’s customary for humans to utter the phrase “new year, new me” during this time of year, we shall begin with a bit of renewing of our own…
...by smashing some nasty bugs from 2019!
Several of the issues covered in the update have been previously pointed out by some of our users, hopefully their game experience and yours will be much better as of yesterday.
Fixed Issues:
Keyboard Mapping
Users reported that sometimes they would be unable to remap certain actions in the game, especially those tied to Movement. Mapping should work correctly now.
Steam Invites
A high number of players reported that they were unable to invite their friends to their lobby via the Steam Friend Invite system, especially in cross-region play. You should now be able to invite like a Boss. Figure of speech, it works for Vikings as well…
“OMG NERF BHAAR-BOOT”
Bhaar-Boot has been under heavy fire from our users for being overpowered and although our game stats indicate that Bhaar-Boot’s win/lose ratio isn’t worrisome, we have been testing what people say and yes, there are a few ways you can cheese your enemies using Bhaar-Boot. To that extent we have nerfed Bhaar-Boot, we have reduced his rage gain per hit, so fights against him should feel a lot more balanced.
For those of you interested in numbers, here’s a breakdown:
- Melee Rage gain has been dropped from 10 to 5 units (-50%)
- His Upgraded Melee Rage gain has been dropped from 25 to 15 (-60%)
- Tongue Rage gain has been dropped from 20 to 10 (-50%)
- Stage 2 Tongue Rage gain has been increased from 10 to 15 (+33.33%)
- Projectile (Stage 2 Shockwave Trails) Rage gain has been dropped from 10 to 8 (-20%)
As reference, Bhaar-Boot’s full Rage bar holds 1400 Rage points. Bhaar-Boot’s Rage costs 1000 Rage points.
Well this has been it, thank you for all the feedback, keep on reporting, killing bugs. Your weapons have been fixed, get back into the fray!
-The Sand Sailors
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