Signature Weapons, Capstones & Secret Rooms
- Fifteen signature weapons - seven swords, three bows, five staves - each with its own special, its own on-hit passive, and (staves) its own primary. Parry and riposte, blink between enemies inside a ring, mark a duel target, raise the dead, string monsters up as puppets, plant a turret, vanish into smoke, dump your whole mana pool into one nova.
- Specials are loot now. Tornado, Beam, Earthshaker, Sickles, Ice Ball, Fire Beam, Poison Slime, Holy Ground and Kaboom no longer appear at level-up - every ordinary weapon rolls one when it drops. Swap weapons, swap specials. Your upgrades park with the special and come back when you re-equip it.
- 27 capstones. Elite chests can offer a rare capstone that rewrites your current special: twin cyclones that merge, a beam that bounces off walls, a fissure along your aim, an ice ball that orbits you, slimes that keep splitting, meteors in a carpet line. One capstone per special per run.
- Secret rooms. Most floors hide a vault behind a cracked wall - break it to get in. Nothing on the minimap until you do.
- Traps. Pressure spikes in rows and bands, timed spike corridors, rockfall zones, and trap rooms that chain them. Chip damage early, lethal deep. Dodging through grants immunity.
- Mobs got real attacks. Bats orbit and dive through you; skeletons grab and hold until you dash out; Leha braces and charges wall to wall; zombies bite on the snap.
- Damage numbers no longer hide behind walls. Redrawn burn and poison, new burst effects, punch VFX when unarmed, UI hover and click sounds, new icons for every special and capstone.
- The camp gamble shrine is a free once-per-run loaner weapon dispenser at 10% durability.
- Fixes: no more double burn from fire staff + fire trait; broken weapons lose their special; swapping weapons releases stuck sickles and cancels a charging fire beam; minion packs no longer stutter the game; co-op tornadoes no longer double-hit.
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