Update 0.7.4 - Performance

Hello,

The main focus of this update is to improve the game’s performance and to fix some important crashes that would delete your save file.

I’m not going to go into too much details but know that you’ll now experience some loading at the following times:

• Launching the game
• Starting a run
• Ending a floor
• Finishing a run

Basically, we’re now preloading a lot of stuff at specific times to avoid frame drops in the middle of a run. That’ll be indicated by a little dancing potato in the bottom right of your screen.

I’ve reduced the texture page size from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048, which might impact you if you have an older computer and the game keeps crashing because of memory limitations.

I also got tons of suggestions and bug reports from y’all so I tried my best to implement them. Don’t worry if you don’t see yours here, I haven’t had the time to go through all of it.

Next couple of updates will be focused on adding items and new abilities before I start working on setting up the game for localization!

Special thanks to D3 (1), Woodlutins (2), Lyman (3), Ducky (4), Rogue Justice (5), Dreamless (6), Nublear (7), Jean (8), TheTurtleMelon (9), Fugu (10), Cimarus (11), EthanZ (12), Susucr (13), PentaHybrid (14), Blueish (15) and Natalie Swirvin (16) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Performance improvements.
• Loading at specific times (game start and beginning/end of zones) to reduce lag and stuttering mid-run.
• Automatic backups and save recovery system to avoid losing your save file and crashing on launch. (2)
• Family Heirloom - trait: Get a random ability with better stat modifiers, destroy the rest of starting gear (3)
• Animal Lover - trait: Get a random Pet, destroy the rest of starting gear (3)
• Grifter - trait: Get 1 free item in every shop, -100% Negotiation (3)
• DIY - trait: +5 Metal Scraping, can't wear Armors (3)
• Indecisive - trait: The price of rerolling shop items doesn't increase, -20% Negotiation

Balancing

• Voubi’s clones Green Energy Balls no longer heal you. (12)
• Voubi’s clones no longer trigger lava traps in the Refugee Camp. (6)
• The Greedy trait no longer makes you lose coins when a clone gets hit. (3)
• The Strong Bones perk no longer protects your clones. (10)
• Weapon altars now give items with better stat modifiers.
• The max number of enemies spawned by Genetic Containers in Challenge rooms in The Hole has been reduced and increases as you progress through zones. (9)
• Hot dog bats max speed has been lowered. (15)
• Final boss fight has been tweaked. (15)
• The thunder of the green robots in the Colosseum is now faster and can go through platforms.
• The number of enemies in the arenas of the Hole has been slightly reduced.
• Plasma Launcher: now costs 2 energy to use instead of 3 and its projectiles have a larger blast radius. (6)
• Drone: you can now only have 1 at a time. Its direction and starting position now depend on your direction when throwing it.
• Big Nose: -30% Negotiation => -50%, 100% to get an injection => 50%
• Axe: Damage reduced. Recover 1 HP if you hit atleast one enemy. (10)
• Plasma Axe: Recover 1 Energy if you hit atleast one enemy.

Fixes & small tweaks

• Improved Robbie’s basic attack hitbox.
• Butcher’s basic attack’s hitbox size has been slightly increased to better match the animation.
• Fixed some invisible platforms. (1)
• Fixed a bug where killing a boss with Robbie without having an active ability would crash the game. (2)
• The Flying Corpse enemy will no longer change direction (and run into the player) when getting hit from behind. (7)
• Fixed a crash that happened when picking up a Mushroom while having an Integrated Chipset in your inventory and while enemies were alive. (2) (6)
• Alien Eyes now go through platforms. (3)
• Fixed unreadable font before arenas in small resolutions. (4)
• Updated the attack animation and pattern of zombies with red balls. (taking inspiration from PleasantWhale’s amazing fanart) (9)
• Tweaked some rooms to avoid having enemies spawn too close to you and being hard to avoid. (5) (9)
• Voubi’s clones are now colorless to help differentiate them more from the real Voubi. (3) (6) (7)
• Fixed a bug where Babouk could lose more than 1 HP at a time if he had armor. (8)
• Fixed a bug where picking up an item while shielding would freeze the character. (8)
• Fixed a bug where throwing away the Fat Doll while having the Chef perk would remove the doubling effect of food. (8) (16)
• Having multiple Demonic Totems will now spawn even more souls. (7)
• Fixed some typos and descriptions. (6)
• Cocoons now explode instead of getting attracted by the Void Gun. (10)
• Spikes in arenas are now displayed in front of the enemies. (11)
• Fixed a bug where little gobblers health bar would still be displayed even if the option was toggled off. (9)
• The event room with a coin lever is now limited to 10 uses. (8)
• Fixed a bug where traps weren’t being removed at the end of second boss rooms. (6)
• The Shield Master trait now allows you to pickup other shields. (6)
• Added a small duration bar on top of the Drone to know when it’s going to disappear. (10)
• Prices now appear red if you can’t afford them. (13)
• The Enhanced Fruits perk no longer appears for Robbie. (14)
• Fixed a bug where Robbie could still find some fruits on the ground instead of tools. (14)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s projectiles were getting destroyed when hitting an invulnerable enemy. (10)
• Fixed a bug where throwing away the Spider Doll while having the Climber trait would remove the ability to stick to walls.
• Screenshake option is now set at 75% by default.
• The Marksman Hat now also affects the Lava Balls.
• Fixed a bug where ability particles were getting displayed on invulnerable enemies and friendlies.
• Fixed a bug where you would never take damage from the Blood Donation if you had 1 Max HP or less.
• The armor stat can no longer go below 0.
• Fixed some rooms.
• Some enemies have been updated.

Cheers!