Welcome, Wanderers!!
Today is a juicy patch for you all! We have been cooking away, drawing out the essence of the vessel! Literally! You are no longer a floating gun, but an enraged Soul! With HANDS!!! No arms though, too far out of budget. That’s right, you have a character you can actually see that represents your hunger for slimy souls. We have a bit more work to do for the Exterminator, but we are happy with the manifestation as it stands now. Look forward to seeing some of the more dynamic updates to the character.
Alongside the character, we went back to where it all started to rework the Forest map! No longer are you trapped in a square, or endlessly marching across the infinite wastes with a simple tree or lamp standing around. We have made the map more of a maze that you have to navigate. There are dead ends and alcoves that you could find yourself trapped within if you aren’t careful.
Alongside these changes comes an updated UI, reworked weapons passives, souls, and artifacts! These changes have been made to better balance the game and bring the experience together for you. In these updates comes a new Armor stat that decreases taken damage, a new Stat Boon you can choose to pad out your builds, and some new Bounce and Coil artifacts.
A slew of balance changes, Shrine updates, and more await you! Be sure to check out the full patch notes below for more info. We appreciate each and every one of you, and welcome your feedback on this new patch. Let us know if you have any suggestions, or find any pesky bugs.
Additions
Added Armor, which decreases damage taken
Added a new type of Boon, a Stat boon, which replaces the Just Stats property
Added a variety of boons, and reworked every artifact, soul, rune, and gun passive
Added a new improved forest map
Added Exterminator character artwork
Shrine Changes
Shrines no longer disappear
Changes
Changed the buff icon color of poison
Reworked how magnets work, they now give a stack of the Magnetize buff
Improved the text of various tooltips
Increased the vertical view distance of the Forgotten Valley
Buff tooltips now say what they do rather than just their name
Removed Aura Size, pick up range is now used as aura range for most artifacts
Reworked enemy spawning to make it feel more dynamic
SFX
Added an SFX for when artifact cards are shown
Added an SFX for when trinkets are picked up
Added an SFX for when hitting an enemy
Lowered the volume of the level up sound
Performance
Improved the performance of Magnets
Improved loading speed of some maps
Improved the performance of projectiles
Improved performance of enemies
UI
Reworked many UI elements
VFX
Added a VFX for Frenzy, Precise, and Quicken
Added an animation to buff icons for their duration
Added a scene transition for when the game is loading, so it doesn’t look like the game froze
Improved the visuals of ichor flasks, souls, and trinkets
Improved the visuals of the player’s projectiles
Improved the animation for when the pickup radius changes
Improved animations transitioning in and out of the artifact selection
Fixes
Due to the number of reworked changes, we didn’t keep track of what bugs were fixed