Enemy damage bonus when looping has been removed. There was previously a whopping +100% damage multiplier to all enemy attacks when looping from island 33 onwards which created very unfair situations where enemies would melt your entire health bar in a second, especially with fire. Enemy damage should feel much more fair and consistent when looping while still being a challenge- looping is meant to be quite difficult
Enemy spawn bonus when looping decreased from +33% to +20%
Islands 1 and 2 of a biome no longer can spawn two waves of ranged enemies back to back These changes should make looping feel far less unfair / punishing while maintaining the challenge
Scorpion mega nerf + rebalance
Scorpion projectile damage reduced by 60%, projectile radius reduced by 33%, projectile speed reduced by 15% and removed projectile bounces. Also reworked their attack patterns to be more dodgeable and less spammy
Increased scorpion walk speed slightly: it should now feel like more of a close / medium range threat and less of a run ender
Other changes
Flamethrower buff- now starts with level 2 Fire Shot (up from level 1)
Rebalanced enhancements: pattern enhancements like Chaotic or Spiraling have less intense motion to make them less likely to miss their target. Enhancement damage increases are +50% damage other than Sticky and Damaging which are +100% (previously Damaging was at +400% which was very broken)
Splitting / Scattering bonus projectiles decreased from 3 to 2 (as it was extremely broken with some combos)
Fixed issue that would cause projectiles created by the Splitting and Scattering enhancement to apply ALL weapon mods to those enhanced projectiles, resulting in extreme damage spikes that weren’t intended
Demolition nests now scale health more with the island count as they became far too easy to destroy past the first biome
Scorpions can now spawn from red challenge crystals