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Dark Samurai
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🏯Demo patch 1491
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🏯Demo patch 1491
Dark Samurai
· published
23 May 2024, 09:11 UTC
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Fixed non-interactive vendors.
Added 60 new vendor upgrades.
Vendors now cost money and have prerequisites.
Fixed applying permanent upgrades at the start of a run.
Unlocked additional shop upgrades for shuriken and grenades
Implemented diminishing damage reduction from armor.
Level-up chests spawn closer nearby.
Increased hit points of all bosses.
Increased monster ring radius from 18m to 25m.
Increased hit points of ring monsters.
Increased amor of ring and gong enemies.
Increased gong boss HP.
Increased gong ring HP.
Added gong mobs.
Limited lifetime of gong monsters.
Fixed swarm shape to be more circular.
Decreased swarm wiggling.
Fixed monster melee range to scale with monster size.
Increased monster attack speed.
Added katana slash attack range upgrade.
Reduced katana slash attack range.
Reduced loot magnet radius.
Increased upgrade message pop-up duration.
Fixed clone spawning sound.
Fixed tracking character based upgrades.
Fixed Katana Slash achievement.
Fixed Yumi Shot achievement.
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