Another Great Patch

🛠️ Patch Notes

🎮 Steam Deck Verified!

Kiborg is now officially Steam Deck Verified!
To achieve this milestone, we’ve significantly improved the Steam Deck interface and enhanced text readability throughout the game.

🐞 Major Bug Fix

Fixed a critical bug that caused the game to crash when pressing "Play Game." Enjoy a smoother experience!

⚡ Balance Changes

Blur

• Secondary stats now provide more speed: 5% → 10%
• Fire damage bonus from attack chain increased: 0.1% → 0.3%
• Slow motion from Blur Spine reduced: 40/50/60/70% → 20/25/30/40%
• Attack chain duration bonus from major synergy increased: +1s → +3s

Fenrir

• Altars now count all deaths in the zone.

Gunslinger

• Knives from the left hand now travel farther, no longer getting stuck mid-air, and reliably fly toward walls.

Source

• Source implants now grant stronger bonuses when combined with other implants.
• Increased ally damage.
• Implant base bonus to ally level increased: 1 → 2.

Thundergod

• Thunderstorm Attractor augmentation now summons lightning instead of just buffing it.
• Free Spark now has a new effect: Restores 10% of battery after killing an enemy.

Remedium

• Removed health bonus from Remedium secondary stats.
• Right Hand poison buildup from attacks increased: 10 → 40
• Left Hand poison buildup from blocking increased: 20 → 40

Dev Comment: Remedium was too tanky without meaningful early-game damage options. These changes provide more offensive tools earlier in the game.

Guardian

• Removed the outdated part of the minor synergy:
  “You receive positive status effects of your allies, while allies receive yours.”
• New major synergy effect:
  Each shield increases melee damage by 1%. This bonus increases by 1% per shield.

Dev Comment: These changes remove outdated effects and introduce much-needed late-game damage scaling for the set.

Sovereign

• Swapped the effects of the minor and major synergies.

⚔️ Combat

Dash attack damage reduced.
Combo attack damage increased for:

• Ankhil
• Balmung
• Gáe Bolg
• Gan Jiang
• Mjölnir
• Kusanagi

Dev Comment: We want to keep dash attacks primarily as movement tools while rewarding players for engaging in close combat and executing combos.

👾 Enemies

• Disabled Loader’s gravity pull attack to prevent softlocks.
• Chemist explosion now has a trigger chance; radius and timing adjusted.
• Incubator projectile now travels faster, but is less magnetic to targets.

🛠️ Weapon Mods

Death Bonus effect reduced: 3% → 1%
Fortune Matrix nerfed: 0.25/0.5/0.75/1% per token → 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4%
Disabled the following melee mods:

• Awaken Rage
• Awaken Defense
• Awaken Blood
• Awaken Life
• Awaken Symbiosis
• Transcend Rage
• Transcend Defense
• Transcend Blood
• Transcend Life
• Transcend Symbiosis

Dev Comment: These mods cluttered loot drops and had minimal impact. Disabling them improves the overall quality of high-rarity weapons.

⚠️ Traps

• Laser: lasts longer, moves slower, deals more damage.
• Flamethrower: duration increased.
• Hand trap: more accurate, hits for longer.

Dev Comment: These changes improve clarity and fairness when dealing with traps.

🔧 Other Changes

• Implant primary stats (such as shields from Guardian or energy from Thundergod) are now unlocked from the beginning of the game.
• Ammo Drops perk is nerfed: 15 ammo → 10 ammo
• Enemy level increased in stages 2 and 3 on difficulties 6 and 7
• Smoothed difficulty curve between floor 1 end and floor 2 middle
• The Second Wind super attack is now locked until the beginning of the first fight
• Russian Roulette can no longer kill the player and now leaves them at 1 health instead
• Safe rewards adjusted:
  - Tokens: 150 → 120
  - Ammo: 150 → 100
• Player now repels allies when moving
• Increased max FOV for ultra-wide screens
• New UI for the start and end of combat animations
• Soldiers now have an alternative model

🎬 Animations

• Updated block-break animations for several enemies
• Tweaked knife attack animations
• New dismemberment death animations
• Updated animation for Agent Fenrir
• Improved asteroid visuals and animation
• Polished heavy sword animations
• Updated Lancer visual effects

🧰 Fixes

• Fixed damage types for Generator Protocol, Golden Rod, and Thunderdome augmentations
• Fixed Thunderdome math calculations
• Fixed critical hits on heavy hitters
• Fixed Prevention Wearout weapon mod
• Fixed several localization bugs
• Fixed spike dodge behavior
• Whisper Arena intro lighting now only plays once
• Prevented players from getting stuck on traps
• Fixed secondary explosions from Ki Explosion harming allies
• Trap decals now properly appear beneath traps
• Ammo on Demand perk no longer drops duplicate boxes
• Fixed an issue where the suicide bot loader could use gravity pull
• Fixed Mine Launcher spawning all mines in one place
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Long-Term Investment mutation from appearing at the beginning of the run.