Enter the Chronosphere - Version 0.137.13

Here is detailed changelog for our EA release.

You can see our entire changelog here.

😈 Bosses

• Rexogenus is gone, the Heart of the Chronosphere is beating...
• Reworked Fated Assassin.
• Reworked Mizza, Mud Maverick.
• New miniboss: Bellusect Queen.
• Rustler now has increased beef throughput.

🚪Doors

• Allow opening a door's gate when its barrier is active.
• Allow destroying a door's gate when its barrier is active.

🐲 Enemies

• Made enemy Larva slightly less aggressive when they hatch.
• Added spawn delay for certain secret enemies when ambushing you.

⚔️ Weapons

• Removed The Highwayman from the rare weapon pool.

💊 Mods

• Added 24 new unique mods for weapons.
• Added a new Piercing weapon mod.
• Updated the description of Double Pistols' unique mod "Gun Kata" to better reflect it's function.
• Fixed an issue causing Siege Microwave's unique mod to fire a laser beam on quickdraw.
• Fixed issues with Crumbler, Rapier, Starshard and Splitter's unique mods that caused them to not fire correctly on quickdraw.
• Reduced the range of Solar Sword's unique mod from 24m to 2.4m as intended.
• Improved the Homing mod, now continually searches for targets to prevent unintuitive projectile curving.
• The "Homing" mod can now appear on Mr Blitz.

👜 Gear and gadgets

• Fixed case where enemies could walk back and forth instead of reaching their intended destination.
• Fixed Lucky Coin causing Saucy Mule to rebound against walls, repeatedly firing. (Reported by @hvarf)
• Reworked Deathclock. It now has a more powerful active effect, and no passive effect (explosive barrel huggers, rejoice).

⚠️ Statuses

• Ailments have been reworked. They no longer have weak and strong effects; instead, they are strong immediately. Gas mask has been adjusted to reflect this.
• Poison ailment duration clarified in description.
• Removed Strong condition from ailments.

🦋 Progression

• Created 8 new tactics as rewards for beating irregular spheres. All of them now reward a tactic upon first completion.
• Fixed an issue causing kills with certain weapons to not correctly be detected for weapon mastery progression.
• Weapon mastery now enabled! Completing objectives with weapons can unlock new unique mods.
• Updated objectives for several missions which required completing chronospheres as specific characters.
• Updated the "Tools of The Trade" mission objective to require 5 unique Mole Mines weapons.
• Back Pain mission now requires taking much less damage as Urtar to complete.
• Weird Weapon mission now requires more unique weapons to complete.

🤖 Tech

• Updated to Unity 6.3.14f1.
• VSync and FPS limit have been removed from cloud-synced save data.
• Persist sphere options between runs to disincentivise restarting the game to get better options.
• Improvements to the game loop that should reduce jumps between turns.
• Fully unload levels on exit, reducing memory usage at runtime.

✅ UI

• Many status effects now display underneath the thing that they affect.
• Ailment overloads now indicated by a text effect.
• Provided more detail on how Powerful and Fast statuses work.
• Added missing flavour to all tactics. (Reported by @catastrophy427)
• Hide Steam button in title screen.
• Improve version number display on title screen and in-game.
• Hide move indicator when holding quickdraw with no holstered weapon.
• Non-standard Issue potent weapons show the unique mod as equipped.
• Added "New!" indicator to previously unused equipment in stations.
• The "add mod" slot is hidden when replacing a unique mod.
• Duplicated attacks are collapsed to fix some cases where weapons like Junkgun didn't fit within the station UI. (Reported by @silentj28)
• Added drop shadow to tooltips to increase visual separation.
• Added buttons under chest options to indicate focused choice and the action performed. (Reported by @tera_enemy, @ryanm6440)
• Add bug report button to pause menu. (Reported by @catastrophy427)
• Added mission callouts to unlockable equipment in stations.
• Tweak text popup feedback animation and font.
• Show aim indicator on Demiqueen's drone attack.
• Improve(?) Absolute Unit icon.
• Improved styling of missions in the rewards popup.
• Improved visibility of hover state for instability increase buttons.
• Added phase indicators to the boss health UI.
• Added infinity ammo icon for empty attacks.
• Reorganised Empty attacks to be under primary Attack.
• Weapons with empty attacks no longer flash red when out of ammo.
• Improved styling of Killed By UI with long actor names.
• Add confirm to quit.
• Show "skip tutorial" in pause menu during run.
• Reworked splash screen, decreasing mandatory startup time.
• Clarified Disposable Dolls description.
• Clarified Under New Management rules.
• Clarified Humbling.
• Updated mission reward text.
• Extend duration of "window spurs" feedback text.
• Fixed tooltips appearing multiple times when nested twice.
• Added UI pointers for some enemies which cause rooms/stations to become locked.
• Corrected ammo icons for several weapons.
• Re-enabled the health bar for the Toxic Waste hazard.

🖼️ Art

• Restore missing Hovertank weapon models.
• Blind status from pocket sand now has actor VFX
• Angler weapon appearance
• Add Lightcarver weapon appearance
• Add lights and VFX to door pylons to better indicate where they are.
• Ricochet VFX is now more subtle.
• Add a flash to projectile power effect and increased size.
• Powerful status VFX ends faster when turned off
• Projectile clear VFX now lasts longer onscreen and is more apparent
• Add glint VFX for active abilities coming off cooldown
• Visuals for locked weapon/item stations
• Animate pipes faster during action phase
• Fixed a bug where some poison explosions were erroneously pink.
• New chronoshaft appearance
• Add death animation to "building" type enemies.
• Animate throw on Grenade Gadget.
• Simplify tunnelguard bomb mesh
• Add "dissolve" effect on death and victory.
• Add camera zoom on death and victory.
• Added death animation for buildings.
• Added a new appearance for some reward rooms in dark maps that didn't have one already.
• Disabled muzzle flash on Rollerstakes.
• Hid Rexogenus' actor shadow.
• Minor floor shader visual fixes

🌏 Localization

• Update all localization.
• Fixed French using the Arabic percent sign.
• Fixed floor callout not including index in simplified chinese.
• Localize "Enter the Chronosphere" logo for Chinese and Japanese.
• Replaced stylized "Ƶ" character with a regular "Z" to reduce confusion in Polish language.
• Replace Discord links with QQ links when playing in China.
• Hide bug reporter in China, because its endpoint is currently inaccessible from Chinese internet.

🗺️ Level Generation

• Change the way you reach the core.
• Moved the entrance to several miniboss floors further away from the arena room.
• Added rare + starting weapons to the Adaptive Arsenal irregular sphere.
• Reduced how frequently long dead end areas generate between major gameplay areas.
• Added a new miniboss to the second half of each run.
• Fixed an issue causing some sphere modifiers to override enemies/hazards much more than expected.
• Weapons, gear and gadgets will no longer appear in stations if their associated biome is not unlocked yet.
• Sphere modifiers (eg. Larva Outbreak) will no longer be applied if their associated biome is not unlocked yet.
• Fixed an issue causing some distortions to generate as a hollow ring instead of the expected appearance.
• New landmark rooms appear.
• Reduced how often encounter modifiers (eg. Larva Outbreak) effect enemy spawns.
• The strong enemy on the last floor of each chronosphere will now spawn within the Idealizer room.
• Added significantly more variance in standard combat room sizes across all spheres.
• Interactables should now generate further from doors.
• Improved the appearance/generation speed of most grid warping effects.
• Breakable walls no longer generate special texturing around where they meet the floor like other walls.
• Broke up the transition line between different floor textures a bit.
• Reduced how noisy the edges of some large blocks / holes in the maps tend to be.

📖 Story

• Add intro cinematic.
• Add special first run.
• Added more conversations to the Starseer.
• Edited down some conversations.
• Fixed typos in knitting skit. (Reported by @reinerevans)

🔊 Audio

• Barrelman Enemy SFX
• SFX for Enemy Sand Sniper
• SFX for Enemy Dune Dervish
• Obsidius Mini-Boss SFX
• Magma Diver Enemy SFX
• Clutch Enemy SFX
• Caged Hate Enemy SFX
• Mad Doctor SFX
• Stim Cultist SFX
• Rifleman SFX
• Shock Trooper SFX
• Bushwhacker SFX
• Pub Crawler SFX
• Gunfighter SFX
• Roughneck SFX
• Heart of The Chronosphere SFX
• Pyrocrystal SFX
• Tick SFX
• Wheelie Big SFX
• Dire Clock Worker SFX
• Secret Station SFX
• Scrub + Ghillie SFX.
• Larva's chittering is now subtle. (Reported by @Kniites)
• Lilly Pilly SFX.
• Changes to spatialization for small sounds (no longer hear them in only one ear).

🐛 Bugs

• Fixed an issue causing the Clockwork Slugger/Thunder weapons to crash the game if used with the Torching mod.
• Fixed an issue causing the War Crimes gear to apply ailments to the player if they hit themselves.
• Fixed an issue causing some larva spawned by the Eggs Inside ailment to stand in place and not follow the player.
• Fixed an issue causing the Adaptive Arsenal irregular sphere to randomly give the player weapons from locked biomes.
• Fixed an issue where gunfighter poncho was lasting twice as long as it should.
• Fixed an issue where the Chaining mod would cause Explosive Penetration to activate.
• Fixed an issue where the Chaining mod would not work correctly on projectiles with multi-hit, eg. Ricochet Rifle.
• Fix bug where using kinetic surge and other abilities could increment heat attack on your equipped weapon. (Reported by @ilovelizards)
• Fixed bug where enraged Bellusect Workers were sometimes non-hostile.
• Fixed issue where certain bombs would instantly explode on contact with hazards.
• Porbs and other sticky projectiles now correctly stick to hazards.
• Fixed issue where Laser Drills mod fired an infinite length laser, instead of the correct length.
• Fixed a bug where Flamelobber Turret bombs could be destroyed by explosions. (Reported by @hvarf)
• Fix issue where sphere options would change after getting any unlock, even if that unlock did not introduce new run content.
• Fix random jitter in expiring projectile animation (flames, flamelobber grenades).
• Fixed dpad navigation crashing the game when you have no items. (Reported by @piepop101)
• Fix possible error on importing invalid save files.
• Fixed an issue causing the tutorial to get stuck when loading in.
• Fixed issues where certain high-speed actions could appear to penetrate walls when hitstop occurred.
• Fix issue where analytics toggle would always appear disabled in options window. (Reported by @.swoopie)
• Fixed weapon UI disappearing momentarily when Non-standard Issue changed weapons.
• Fixed being able to equip multiple unique mods.
• Fixed a word in the Start Somewhere mission popup breaking over multiple lines.
• Fixed invalid tooltips on the character select screen (Reported by @catastrophy427)
• Fix issues where move indicator was predicting a move through doors.
• Fix direction of explosion damage number movement.
• Fix issue where Chronosphere exteriors would not be regenerated in title menu after completing a mission.
• Fixed narrow paragraph width during dialogue for some languages.
• Fix bug where actor animations were sometimes not playing.
• Fixed an issue causing enemy ambushes to occur on the final floor.
• Fixed an issue causing small patches of separated floor to generate adjacent to rooms, creating useless doors.
• Fixed an issue causing the shaft on the final floor to generate with multiple openings.
• Fixed an issue causing the shaft to occasionally be inaccessible from the final floor.
• Fixed an issue causing the shaft to occasionally be inaccessible from the final floor.
• Fixed a rare issue causing rare weapon stations to appear multiple times on a single floor.
• Fixed a rare issue causing large centrepiece rooms to appear multiple times on a single floor.