Patch 1.3.b: Restart shard, balancing and bug fixes! ✨
Hi everyone!✨
The Haste team is hard at work on some really exciting things, and the first of those things is coming soon! Let's just say it will be a bit of a disaster! (Hm, that sounded a lot better in my head...) In the meantime, I'm here with a small update for you with some balance changes, bug fixes and quality of life improvements.
Restart Shard
Oh, there's now an option to restart a Shard Run directly without stopping by the Hub World! This should be a very welcome addition for a lot of players.
Simply choose "Abandon Shard" and you'll get the choice between restarting or going back to the Hub World. Be careful, though! You won't earn Antisparks if you do a quick restart.
Balance Changes
The team has tweaked the difficulty of the Shards quite a bit, to make the difficulty of each Shard more of a curve. Personally, I think they have really improved the pattern, so that most Shards are now a little easier when you start a run (and have no items), but are harder towards the end when you hopefully have a little more item support with you!
I have also seen a lot of comments about a "Snake" out there on runs. I've never seen it, so I don't really understand what people are complaining about. Meeting a snake sounds like it would be cute! Anyways, see if you like it better now!
Localization
There were how many lines missing in other languages than English??? Anyways, they should mostly be in now... 😄
Bug fixes,
timeline refactor... energy gain rate... save swapping...
I don't even know what half of these words mean!
Anyways, enjoy the full patch notes here:
Patch Notes,
QoL
- Added a Reset Shard option! When you choose "Abandon Shard" you can now choose between returning to the Hub World or restarting your current Shard with the same settings. To everyone who already completed "The Machine": we're deeply sorry.,
- Endless music now changes when the track ends, not immediately every 3 levels. Hope this better protects your sanity on those really long runs!,
- Added a setting to "Invert Look X-axis",
- Added a cool-looking opening screen to Shard Runs (This will make a lot of sense in the near future...........),
Balance
- Balance changes to a number of Shards. They were too hard at the start and too easy by the end!,
- Slightly reduced the damage from Black Hole Rocks and the Glow Thing in Void Fragments,,
- Reduced the damage of Snake's beam explosions by 20%,
Fixes
- Added a bunch of missing localization for other languages than English,
- Timeline Refactor now also rewinds the End boss final machine timer,
- Rest Area and Shop: Dying immediately and losing one or more lives, and also skipping other levels, should not happen anymore,
- Items affecting Energy Gain Rate no longer affect energy usage rate (Wait, they did what??),
- Brittle Breastplate now triggers health loss on Bad landings too, not just Ok landings, since it was obviously hugely overpowered and desperately needed a nerf...,
- Fixed an issue where you would keep your items when saving and quitting to the main menu, then immediately swapping to and starting another save slot, where that new save slot does not have a run active (i.e. it's a new save slot, or you're in the hub world),
Now that I'm done with what the team asked me to talk about, I thought I would share some of my favourite community art that's been posted on the Discord recently!
Here's a piece I was particularly fond of:
By Fonka
I was also really taken by the linework in this one:
By ish
Oh, and- What? When did this happen??
By ish
Hm... I'm being told that I should maybe show off "some of the other" community art, but I really don't understand what the problem is with these. But fine!
By Egyrm
By Shiromiso
By FiraKnight
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Don't forget about the Haste merch we just launched, you can find it at mightymerch.
I'll be back in a few weeks with a content update with a new game mode for those who want the game to be even harder, it will be disastrous in the best way!