This beta patch includes a host of changes, including changes to dash mechanics, dodge mechanics, enemy knockback, attack mechanics, healing mechanics and more!
Because we've heard a lot of complaints about combat and movement, we wanted to start working towards improving some of the sticking points and making the game feel more fun to play. There's a lot of experimental changes in the patch, so let us know what you like and don't like. This patch is for the beta branch only. Expect more changes / fixes / and adjustments with at least one or two more beta patches before these changes go live for everyone on the default branch later in the month.
Because these new changes haven't been thoroughly tested yet, expect some potential bugs and balance funkiness until it gets polished a bit more. How to access the beta branch to try this patch:
Right click the game in your Steam Library and select "Properties"
Go to the "Betas" tab
Where it says "Beta Participation" Click and select "public-beta"
Edit / Note: The save file format was updated for this patch. What this means is that save files for this particular beta branch patch will NOT work in the default branch yet (if you revert back after saving in beta branch). They will work again once we update the default branch later this month. If anyone needs to revert back to default, let me know and I'll make a hotfix for the default branch to load the new save file format.
v1.0.8 Beta Patch Notes:
New Content / Features:
Movement: You can move fully diagonal while dashing
Movement / Inputs: Dodge now has it's own button. You'll need to remap your controls now if you weren't using the default controls
Movement: Dodge was completely revamped and should now be more useful
Combat: Reviving your ally now works differently. You no longer need to talk to them, you only need to stand near them to fill the bar. Moving away causes the revive bar to decrease quickly. To balance this new mechanic giving you more movement during revival, it now takes longer than before to revive. The character will still revive rapidly if there are no enemies nearby
Combat / Magic: Light and Water Magic are reworked. They now heal you once immediately when cast and no longer steal life on hit. This is to make them a bit less overpowered when spamming attack. Their elemental properties still work on your weapon for damage, though! The amount healed still scales with your magic stat, too. And now they last less time overall, but don't lose tons of time when you hit something anymore. And you can gain MP even while the effects are active now
Bug Fixes / Adjustments:
Water Magic: Now gives your weapon a more bluish tint compared to light's pure white tint
Localizations / Portuguese: Added in some missing text
Mapping Fixes:
Yuril Overworld: Fixes / improvements to a few rooms
Marize Overworld: Fixes / improvements to a few rooms
Galadine Overworld: Fixes / improvements to several rooms
Omdale Overworld: Fixes / improvements to several rooms
Marsh Overworld: Fixes / improvements to a couple rooms
Fellinore Overworld: Fixes / improvements to several rooms
Pyragord Overworld: Fixes / improvements to several rooms
Balancing:
Combat: Enemies basic contact damage is now disabled for longer after hitting them depending on the type of attack you used. Dash attack lasts the longest
Combat: Increased enemy hitstun time slightly when hit by dash attacks and charge attacks
Combat: Enemies now take less knockback on average from player hits
Combat: Basic attacks now have less endlag by default. Accelerator Topaz now makes you attack even faster.
Combat: You can now cancel your attack into itself without having to turn
Combat: Dodge mechanics were buffed significantly
Combat: Dodge now has some i-frames, but can no longer be cancelled early into other attacks
Combat: Knockback on Rio's charge attack was buffed to counteract the knockback adjustments and remain strong in knockback
Combat: Rio and Reima move forward slightly more while attacking now (if you are holding a direction)
Enemy AI: Slime Archer now attacks more frequently
Enemy Balance: Slimes now take much less knockback so you have to be more careful about positioning
v1.0.8b Beta Hotfix Changes:
This is included with this patch, just a quick hotfix to fix a few bugs with the immediate release.
Bug Fixes / Adjustments:
Crash: Fixed a newly introduced crash when cancelling your attack with a magic cast within a very specific window of time
Minor: Fixed a newly introduced text bug where the gamepad style text would display the wrong controller type