Update v0.2.539 Demo Prerelease

New Stuff:

We'll be de-activating the playtest branch on the 1st of June. The demo is now live, though we're still working on getting a dedicated page up so you can leave a review of our demo. It's been a busy month and we've made a ton of progress.

Swords:

• Three moveset variants of two handed swords.
• Slashing/Piercing and Hybrid movesets.
• One handed variants are still cooking.

Slash Damage:

• Added dedicated slash attack power stat.
• Derived equally from torque and dex.
• Does not scale as well without specific item perks.

Magic Weapon:

• Called the "Broken Sickle-Root Staff"
• One handed weapon designed to use with off hands.
• Heavy attack uses charge.
• Short ranged projectile on light attack.
• Provides a way to harvest charge from enemies.

Other new stuff:

• Spruced up The Inheritor's moveset, particles, and behavior.
• Instead of dealing extra poise damage, most sources of radiation damage now silence you.
• This includes explosions, empowered melee attacks, and The Inheritor's projectiles.
• Turned on EQS for ranged enemies.
• They will now attempt to find cover before reloading.
• Will continue to explore these types of behaviors for all enemy types.
• Buffed inventory space.
• Buffed scrapped backpack space.
• We are planning to add a bank system but this isn't working yet.
• Reworked the tutorial flow again again.
• You now start without the ability to gain charge and unlock this ability later.
• Removed the ability to self-kill when you are inside of a boss encounter.
• This prevents leapfrogging as an exploit tactic.
• Enabled world save for doors and other door-adjacent world actors.
• Improved the in-game connect to friends UI to work with controllers.

Fixes:

If you still encounter any of these issues hit us up on Discord or our Steam forum.

• Fixed multiple item duplication bugs.
• Issue where abilities would be deleted on clients who joined late.
• Potential fix for issue where players could not see the level up screen in multiplayer.
• Getting downed by a trap will now teleport you out of the trap.
• Moldmetal dropped on death should also follow this rule.
• Relic bloom bubbles now heal you on enter and leave, regardless if all players are present.
• Relic bloom will no longer broadcast that all players need to enter it if it has been activated.
• Fixed issue where enemies would fall of ledges more often than intended.
• Boosted the number of enemies that could be navigating at one time, significantly improving responsiveness in multiplayer encounters.