But now it does!
Prior to this update, your build never mattered much beyond wave 14 or so. You bought one of everything, the pantry ran out of ideas, and every run started looking like the last one. Fixed.
The Pantry stocks a limited shelf now. You can carry 8 different perks in a run — once they're spoken for, the pantry stops offering new ones and starts selling you more of what you already run.
Depth is untouched. Extra Prong still stacks to 24. What changed is that saying yes to Searing Trail on wave 5 now costs you something, because that's a shelf you don't get back.
Two runs on the same cut will not look the same any more.
Every card shows 0/10 where 0 is owned and 10 is available, and so does the pause screen.
Some perks cap at 3. Some cap at 24. When your shelf space is finite, that's the difference between a keystone and a footnote.
Endless used to run in whichever city you walked in through, which meant the leaderboard was mostly a record of who'd found the softest one.
Now it's one place, the same for everybody, and you get there straight from the menu. Any food, any cut, same arena. If your name's on that board, it's for how you played — not where.
While fixing a few things in endless I had a thought... Why do we call it endless in the genre? Nothing is ever truly endless! The waves are endless, your survival never is.
Health pickups start thinning out around wave 13 and stop entirely at 28. Bosses stop being a formality and start scaling with you. From there your HP is a resource that only goes down, and how far you get is how long you make it last.
Bring a build that can carry you.
Potluck no longer takes your crust and hands you nothing when the pantry's tapped out
Free Re-roll no longer offers to reroll a board with nothing left to deal
Mise en Place no longer sells you an extra card slot when there's no card to put in it
Music now starts at full volume on a fresh install — it was quietly sitting at 30%