Deathstate Update 1.20

Lessons of the Grand Grimoire

Deathstate 1.20 is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone who assisted with the beta testing.

Major Features:

• Magic system revamped.
• Redesigned many Relics to be more interesting and effective.
• Greatly improved Laser and Mortar weapons.
• Overall balance tweaks with the goal of increasing the number of viable builds at higher difficulty levels.
• Added 2 new unique enemies and several new items.
• Added a new beneficial potion.
• Magic Globe pickups will now drop from enemies.

Minor Features:

• Fixed text blurriness caused by filters. Text should always be crisp now.
• Corners should be a bit less sticky when moving your character.
• Standing over an organ or item now displays its name.
• Reduced the intensity of some screen overlay effects.
• Added Large health globes that drop rarely.
• Merchants appear more frequently.
• Several inhabitants of the final world have new Desecration abilities. Watch out!
• Insanity Emissaries are now more... interesting.
• Added new possible map layouts to most worlds.

Tweaks and Bug Fixes:

• Nerfed Reverse Damage effects. They now stop healing after X heals, and only heal 1 tick per impact instead of being full damage mirror.
• Most "Slow Fire" effects (including the Aggravating Brain) now cause your bullets to pierce 3 enemies.
• Lasers have better stacking with many organs and weapons.
• Fixed various rendering bugs with lasers.
• All weapons now benefit The Eye character, even lasers.
• Reduced the Eye's base damage stat because lasers are much more powerful now (the Eye's actual damage output was not reduced).
• The Embalmer can make good use of mortar weapons now.
• The Eye and The Embalmer have new activated abilities.
• Ice weapon slow and freeze effects occur more often.
• Bubble damage is now improved by Ice Boost stat.
• Forges and Altars now continue to appear even after their unlocks are earned. They will drop random weapons and organs respectively.
• Fixed circumstances that could cause Forges or Altars to not appear or become exceptionally rare.
• Improved the damage scaling on Entropy DoTs.
• Made confusion heart particles on the player more apparent.
• Gambling Merchants now have a cap on how much they can charge.
• Nerfed Otylosh the Fleshbeast and Amon Morax the Demon on Desecration 2+
• Slightly increased the world time limit on Maze of Ix, Carcassus and Grave of Time.
• Slightly increased the world time limit on Desecration 1 and above.
• Slightly REDUCED the world time limit on the final world.
• Slightly nerfed several enemies in the Temple of Qit on Desecration 0 to make the difficulty more in-line with the Fortress of Torment for new players.
• Yellowed Eel Guts have new stats.
• You can now dismiss messages more quickly (such as item stat popups).
• You must now press a specific key to skip cutscenes, instead of Any Key. Maybe you won’t accidentally skip half of the cutscenes anymore!
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes dodge right instead of the intended dodge direction.
• Fixed a bug that caused the confusion debuff to apply even if you dodge through a succubus heart bullet.
• Fixed a bug where Insanity progress unlocks did not always unlock. This should work retroactively.
• Fixed a bug where Prince Ziggur would not unlock in the bestiary. This is not retroactive.
• Fixed a display bug that caused the player to flicker between poses sometimes when firing.
• Fixed some issues with music sometimes stopping/starting/changing unpredictably after bosses die.
• Fixed the level music volume increasing after desecrating.
• Fixed an issue where lazy Grimoires would take too long to pick new targets when the player has a slowed fire rate.
• Fixed "best win speed" stat sometimes resetting.
• Once you’ve played insanity or desecrated a few times, the “warning” messages will cease to appear. You know what you’ve done!
• You can no longer pick up items while dying. Because you're dying.
• Added Zeralith to the credits for seriously exceptional Community QA work.
• Tentatively fixed Xbox One controller issues.
• Many other bug fixes based on Community bug reports. Thank you!

Magic Revamp Details:

• MP no longer regenerates passively, it only regenerates when you deal damage. The regeneration rate scales with damage dealt. 
  * Cooldowns on most abilities and relics greatly reduced. As long as you have the MP, you can usually use them again within seconds. This makes high-MP builds much more interesting.
• The MP Regen stat is much more effective.
• All organs granting Max MP and MP Regen stats were improved.
• Organs that previously reduced Max MP now reduce MP Regen instead. It's no longer possible for your abilities to become unusable.