Patch Notes (Improved Enemies, Hints, Tons of tweaks, Bug fixes, etc.)

After watching countless vids, I saw that for many players, the behaviour of the Blessed Deadman was the furthest thing from my desired gameplay experience. Instead of being a perfect enemy for experimentation, they turned out to be a bottleneck for your creativity. And that is NOT what Shady is about!

The following changes don't affect high-level play, as you still need to use as many moves and abilities as you can for a stylish play, and the enemies aren't weaker, but I hope they will make the game more enjoyable for all players, and help new players get to the true shady experience I indented to make since the day one of this project!

Enemy Improvements

Blessed Deadmen

• They won't block EVERY frontal attack! Combo your moves and show them your wrath: Slash then Kick, Throw-a-Sword then Grapple. The old weaknesses are in power i.e. throwing a barrel or striking from behind are always reliable options!
• They won't launch a projectile from behind.

Blessed Spiders

• Increased delay before explosion,
• Slightly better visuals for differentiation. There will be a better readability improvement for all blessed enemies in one of the future updates.

Regular Lancers

• Regular Lancers won't use the Skyfall Strike anymore, they're already an intense enemy and you should have a chance to learn their base moves first,
• There's a hint on how to deal with the Skyfall Strike on Carcass before you meet the first Blessed Lancer.

Other Improvements

• Taking damage won't stop you from finishing a level with S RANK, a good game is a good game! Only SS and SSS RANKS need no damage!
• Thicker collider for ZipChains, as most of the time you land on them with a high fall momentum,
• Slightly thicker collider for the Climb Chains,
• Kicking a barrel/object now stuns an enemy, to make this move a bit more special compared to the easier-to-perfom object throw!
• Fixed consistency of the boat launch. The arc when entering a level for the first time (the boat cutscene) was slightly different from subsequent runs.
• Slide Slam has increased distance and angle to make slide slamming more doable/fun mid fight.

Fixed Bugs

• infinite Chained Dropkick (when an enemy dies during the dropkicking)
• inconsistent boat launch. The arc when you first time enter a level was slightly different from the next ones due to boat arrival cutscene.
• Fixed bug when combo x99 and higher would break the Arena

Improved levels

• Added more necessary gameplay hints for the last two hubs.
• Slightly improved Nexus layout with a clear indication of which hub portal is the next one.
• Once you've completed a hub, you'll see a warp point next to its entrance portal, allowing you to warp to the exit in the blink of an eye!
• The last parkour challenge Living Stairs was impossible! SORRY if you tried to complete it, I know you were flawless! The level layout was improved. The shadow has a correct target time.

There are many question regarding adding a complete move-set list to the game, a sandbox arena, etc. so I think my next post will be a roadmap / my plan for the first content update.

I need some time to recharge and play some amazing demos now.

As always thank you for playing and for all your amazing reviews!

Yours,
cptnsigh