Hotkey
Auto attack now remains active after upgrade or levelup Window pop up
Performance
Less stutter the first time effects appear: shaders now warm up during the level fade-in.
Bug Fixes
Arctic Slam can no longer be cancelled by attacking or go on cooldown without casting.
Auto attack no longer turns off after an ability evolves.
Fixed movement keys not responding after closing the passive tree.
Fixed the Inventory and Character screens not opening after several level-ups in a row.
The Blacksmith now restocks on schedule instead of keeping the same stock across runs.
Boss achievements now unlock on the first kill, including kills from damage over time and Blazing Smash fissures.
Blazing Smash fissures now apply your debuff upgrades, such as Burn Damage.
Blazing Smash projectiles now benefit from +Chain and +Split on items.
Malakar no longer stands still when you're right next to him.
Malakar: running away during his intro no longer breaks the fight.
Malakar: the portal and loot always spawn inside the arena, and the arena can only be left through the portal.
Enemies that lose track of you no longer walk beside you or reappear across the screen.
Leaps and dashes can no longer land on top of raised terrain.
Fixed leaderboard runs being rejected after buying or refunding World tree nodes.
New
Some upgrade stats now explain what they do in the level-up description window, the passive tree tooltips and the codex.
Balance
Carrion Rotworm: Max Health 100 -> 75.
Carrion Blightspitter: Max Health 200 -> 140.
Audio
New sounds for crystal harvesting, spawning and pickup.
New Deposit All and Withdraw All storage sounds. Fixed the storage item placement sound.
New player spawn sound when entering the Death Realm.
Music and effects now quiet down during voice lines, and boss encounter lines can no longer be interrupted.
The animated logo at startup is quieter.
UI & Leaderboard
The end-screen leaderboard refreshes once your run is uploaded and shows your run's score.
The leaderboard shows "You" instead of your computer's user name when no Steam name is available.
Hint text now wraps inside its panel.
Split Count now shows in the Codex.
Codex requirement texts and various other texts are now translated correctly.
World Tree
More of the Pilgrim Road is now open, including The Second Seal and The Final Seal.
The Second Seal unlocks Tier 2 item drops. The Final Seal now unlocks Tier 3 item drops (it said Tier 1 before).
Every item drop now rolls its tier from the Seals you've unlocked. Rare enemies and bosses have better odds.
Malakar is the only source of Tier 3 items, and stops dropping Tier 1 items once The Final Seal is unlocked.
Fixed enemy modifier names (e.g. "Lightning 1" now reads "Extra Damage as Lightning").
Legendary Items
Legendary items now roll a 5th stat only Legendaries can have: skill upgrades, a chance to cast a skill on hit, bonuses below 35% or at full Health, and extra elemental damage.
Legendary stats match your class and can't be removed or sealed. Recast rerolls their value.
Fusing two Legendaries keeps one of their Legendary stats at random.
Extra elemental damage from Legendaries shows in the Character Stats window.
Legacy Items
Legendaries found before this update become Legacy items. They keep their stats but have no Legendary stat.
Reforge a Legacy item to give it a Legendary stat and remove the Legacy tag.
Legacy items can't be fused, and crafting one shows a warning first.
Runs with a Legacy item equipped go on a separate Legacy leaderboard, and the HUD shows "Legacy Run".
Crafting
Crafting costs raised: 20-100 Forge Scrap per action plus more gold and glass. Forge Endurance cost per action rebalanced.
Infuse costs 10 fragments, and each item can only be infused once.
Anneal is now a once-per-item gamble: 50% chance to fully restore Forge Endurance, otherwise the item is destroyed. You're warned first.
Confirmation popups now grow to fit their text.
Fixed the missing item placement sound in Fuse.
Pickups
Gold and crafting materials now fly to you like XP orbs. Pickup Radius increases the range.
The Magnet pickup now also pulls in every crafting material on the ground.
Seismic Rupture
Rupture Count is now Aftershocks: once the rupture ends, it strikes again along the same line for 40% damage (Cascading Rupture).
Rupture Rate is now Rupture Speed: the rupture travels faster and aftershocks follow sooner (Rolling Quake, Worldsplitter Fault, passive nodes).
The ability card now shows Rupture Segments. Rupture Length is renamed Segment Length.
Updated the Seismic Rupture and passive node descriptions.
Firebolt
Firebolt's first level-up now offers four variants: Firebolt of Splitting, Chaining, Exploding and Piercing.
Splitting breaks into two smaller bolts on hit (50% damage each), Chaining jumps to one extra enemy, Exploding bursts for 60% damage around the target, Piercing passes through one enemy.
Each variant evolves at level 3: Splitting into Ice Lance, Chaining into Chain Lightning, Exploding into Fireball, Piercing into Wind Slash.
The achievements that unlock these evolutions now require the matching variant at level 2.
Variant descriptions name the skill they evolve into. The Codex keeps a single Firebolt page.