v0.4.2 - Tag system, Relics & Weapons

The update rate will slow down a lot until july 2025 because I'm starting my bachelor (which will be a game like Noita, combining spells to create exclusive behaviors).
Next update, I will test to add a new power that will make the game more unique and strategic for each colors.

v0.4.2 - Tag system, Relics & Weapons

Major changes

• Add the tag system, that makes some relics only available if the player has something usable with. Eg: the player need to do aoe for a relic that boost aoe to appear
• Enlarge the corridor to the backroom and bring closer the things in these rooms
• Change the hub, more space and a river

Added 45 New Relics

• 6 commons
• 14 rares
• 11 epics
• 6 legendaries
• 8 boss

Added 5 New Weapons

• 1 rare
• 2 epics
• 2 exclusives

Piercing and Bouncing shots refactor

Now piercing and bouncing are not longer illimited, weapons and relics have changed according to this change

Homing change

Now homing will seek a new target within a range and will not target the same one so it can pass from each ones easily

Stats

• Added dodge chance and summon dodge chance: have a chance to dodge a hit, cooldown of 3s

Balancing

• Nerf Star Dance relic, speed bonus is decreased from 0.5% to 0.3% and star damage from 2% to 1% per star fragments
• Increase chance to get legendary relics from 3% to 4% and decrease rare relics from 30% to 29%
• Decrease APS of Volcano Scepter weapon from 0.8 to 0.5
• Thunder mage elite was supposed to have a passive, it's now correctly applied
• Mini refactor of Soul Forger relic: 16 -> 5 max soul swords but increase by 1 for every elite killed and 2 for boss with no limit
• Decrease max lifetime of Prismatic Light Tome weapon from 2s to 1s
• Reduce bonus from Chakram Scepter weapon from 200% to 100%
• Reduce max damage from Dragonic Scepter weapon from 300 to 230 and aoe from it divided by 2
• Nerf Energy Attacker relic, reducing attacks from 2/2/3/3/4-5/7/9/11/13 to 1/1/2/2/3-3/5/7/9/11
• Nerf Snowball Effect relic, reducing bonus from 200/225/250/275/350% to 100/120/140/160/200%
• Nerf Blizzard ability, reduce number of shoots, damage and chance to apply frost burn
• Nerf Thunder Dash boss relic, instead of thundering 3 enemies, thunder 1 to 3 enemies
• Shell Scepter weapon now gain angular speed each levels and really have homing
• Remove chance to spawn stars from aoe in Star Dance relic of the Astromancer
• Reduce star damage per fortress from 15 to 10 for **Starry Trail** relic and from 12 to 5 for **Star Dance** relic of the Astromancer
• Nerf late meter to travel of Starry Trail relic but improve early from 10/9/8/7/5m to 8.5/8/7.5/7/6m

Quality of life

• Add to the description of Energy Attacker relic that the number of shoot depends on the attack speed
• Stop time when changing weapon
• Improve event system
• Added slash animation for every hit down with Shadow Sneak active ability of the Samuraï
• Thunder Incarnation boss now stop their thunder while dying
• Reduce particles when shooting by 50%
• Reduce A LOT the lags due to lights

Fixs

• The color hearts (thundering and thorny) were disabling their immunity upon any damage for the room
• Rubber relic was still given shields
• Growing Projectile only gave bonus to the first projectile hit per unique enemies instead of all projectile, added a limit of 10 times
• Projectiles that have bouncing and pass through walls will now not bounce
• Pink Blossom Katana was creating too much petals
• Final damages were very wrongly calculated, making absurd amount of damage with only some bonus