I hope you're all doing well! Over the last several months we've been working on a major overhaul of the game based on your feedback. Today however, we're announcing the experimental where those of you who are willing to give us feedback can come try it out.
Cid's Skill Tree has been completely redesigned.With your first skill point you now select one of four specializations, unlocking all of the core skills and features for that build. This locks you into that build's quadrant of the skill tree until you ascend, so the nodes available to you each ascension will depend on which specialization you chose for that ascension.
Ethereal Items have been replaced with Artifacts, which grant much larger damage bonuses and are crafted from Forge Cores dropped by bosses. You can think of them like your normal items in terms of how important they will be for you to make progress, but unlike normal items they survive between worlds.
Major performance improvements everywhere, but especially for certain Cid builds during offline progress and for players with slow RAM. Some of these might cause new errors in calculations that previously worked correctly, so please let me know if any of the math seems to be off in game.
Known issues currently
Do not purchase Ethereal Items from the ruby shop, it could mess up your save.
Keep confirmation pop-ups enabled on the skill tree or you might have trouble purchasing nodes sometimes.
How to participate in the experimental
Restart Steam. Go to Library -> Right click on "Clicker Heroes 2" -> Properties -> Betas. Type "ibackedupmysave" into the beta access code field, click "Check Code". It should unlock "experimental" in the dropdown menu. Choose "experimental" and wait for the update to download