Warden's Will Demo Update #1 - Patch Notes

Hello Wardens!

We've just put out an update for the Warden's Will Demo for Next Fest! Here is a video below explaining what we have changed in short, or you can read the whole thing below. Go now and destroy some evil robots!

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Heroes

General

• Faster ground movement
• Fixed consistency of reactors trails
• Added low health indicator
• Added visual effects to better represents effective bonuses and augments
• Changed Damage Taken SFX

Dasher

• Complete rework of the hero movement
• Faster and shorter dashes
• Dashes are now directional
• Energy regen is much faster
• Trailstring is faster and has 4 dashes
• Bladestorm can now be chained/re-triggered if not all 10 attacks are used

Hover

• Closer camera when hovering to emphasize shooting
• Lower energy consumption
• Ion Cannon damage is higher and duration is shorter
• Orbital Strike triggers faster
• Orbital Strike camera zooms out while targeting

Flyer

• Now gains speed going downwards while losing speed going upwards
• This results in longer range with proper use
• Faster energy regen
• Camera tweaks

Weapons

• New weapon : Cryoflare ! Is it cold ? Is it hot ? Who knows !
• Minor sound effect changes - Some are still placeholders

Enemies

General

• Improved performances in some specific areas of the level 1
• Improved visual feedback whenever an enemy spawns
• Fixed attack animation of the Howitzer
• Added visual cues when a Driller attacks
• SFX improvements for attack telegraphs

Breaches

• Changed visuals of the enemy breaches

Level Changes

• Necrogod influence has spread following failed wardens attempt to save Sentient installation.
• Fixed multiple collision issues

Interactables

General

• Added white outline whenever player can use the interaction key with an interactable
• Collecting Bits and Data is now “a bit” easier
• Improved visibility of price display when approaching Augments dispensers

Transmitter

• Revamped all visuals
• When fully uploaded, a transmitter now hint locations leading toward other transmitters
• Exposed the list of transmitters to find under the objective tracker in the user interface

Crystals

• Added an effect to better represent the area of effect triggered upon crystal destruction
• Red crystal now grants a temporary damage boost

Accessibility

• Removed tutorial level section
• Fixed stutter and/or flickering that could appear when launching the game
• Added more contextual tutorial hints when playing
• Added hints during loading screens
• Better gamepad support overall
• You can now tweak 3 different and cumulative aim assist settings from Options menu
• Aim Assist can be set for mouse-keyboard and gamepad separately
• Graphic settings now fully works as intended - except Shading Quality that has no effect at the moment
• Audio settings now fully works as intended
• Added missing icons for mouse-keyboard in case of remapping
• Remapping a key when playing will now properly be updated on the user interface without requiring the game to be relaunched