New panels, reworked VOCs and balancing changes: 1.5 update just released!

What's up EndCycle players!

We're back with another fun new update for all of you! This one primarily focuses on new panel interactions, as well as balancing changes to make the game more fun for everyone!
Let's take a look at all the changes in this newest version:

• Rebalanced Noise Leaks and Mini-boss events in Adventure Mode! We heard you, the new events were too simply too tough, so we eased them up a lot. As a developer it is hard to balance the game so it's fair to new players as well!

Characters

• Increased movement speed of characters with Glide skill! Tankitty and Greed players rejoice!
• Reworked Bella passive: Powers up every 4th VOC! Stacks reset when using a non Lv1-3 VOC!

Panels

• Reworked Grass panels: Attacks activated while on top of a grass panel now regenerate health on hit! When hitting it with a fire attack, the entity now also only takes 25% extra damage instead of 50%!
  
• Reworked Metal panels: Now can only be removed by turning them into "Normal" panels first! We reduced damage bonus that electric attacks get on it to 25% from 50% as well!

VOCs

• Lv2 BioHeart: Heal 120 -> 140
• Lv2 ChronoRip: 75% Slowdown -> 60% Slowdown
• Lv3 Regen: Heal 50 -> 80, Regen duration 15 seconds -> 10 seconds
• Lv4 ElecShift, FireShift, WaterShift, NatureShift rebalanced to ElecDrive, FireDrive, WaterDrive, NatureDrive! These VOCs now speed you up additionally to their original effect of changing your element and buffing same-element VOCs!

May Tournament

That was it for the patch notes on 1.5! To test it out, we also just had another EndCycle VS tournament! The long-standing champion LDDestroier was dethroned by the new EndCycle VS champion: Disc-Oh!

You can watch the entire tournament VOD here: Watch on YouTube
The strategies shown in this newest tournament were unlike any we have seen so far! This tournament was dominated by strategies relying on the new "Counter-style", which players made use of by countering their own attacks!

Take a look at the tournament-deciding combo by Disc-Oh, where he used his own HotMagic to counter a ColdRush attack, which he could then combo into Freezing-Meteors to make the enemy stuck on the panel, unable to dodge them! The mastery shown in hitting every single of the three meteors just shows how much time Disc-Oh devoted to learning the ins and outs of his combos!

However, every king has his downfall: Will you be the one to beat Disc-Oh at the next tournament?
Join our Discord server so you can practice with others until the next tournament! https://discord.gg/zS33UCb

Thank you all so much for your continued support, and we hope you are looking forward to our next update!
The next one will focus on bringing you more Adventure mode content again, so get excited!

Love,
Daniel and Gal - 12B3 Games