v2.5.0 Patch Notes

Hello,

DemonCrawl v2.5.0 is now available on the Windows stable branch.

This update introduces new content for the Summer seasonal event, the new Starving Plant boss, a handful of items, and various improvements for Arena.

Mac and Linux builds are expected to follow within 24 hours.

Please check our upcoming event announcement for more details.

Thank you.

New Features

• New Summer rewards: 8 avatars + 2 inventories
• Summer avatars from 2022 moved to Summer Prizeboxes
• Added 2 new avatars to Summer Prizeboxes
• New boss: Starving Plant - "Spawn Hungry Plants, feed them when you make a mistake, and take damage when the boss eats them."
• New mythic emblem: ???
• New passive item: Gold Nugget - "When you complete a stage, gain coins equal to the number of stages completed. When you lose this item, gain 5 times that many coins."
• New consumable item: Pina Colada - "You have a 90% chance to negate damage until you take damage."
• New omen: Demonic Beach Ball - "When you win a stage, cast Beach Ball on a random living object. Opponents are better at Beach Ball and you take 1 damage if you lose at it."
• New omen: Melted Ice Cream - "Negate the completion of non-omen status effects."
• New omen: Leaky Water Cooler - "Every 10 turns, your fully-charged magic items lose half their total mana."
• Added the new omens to list of Summer Afflictions
• The Summer Item Shop has a rare chance to offer Pina Colada
• Each boss now has a custom item drop table
• Implemented standardized trigger event for full damage negation, rewired existing items into it
• (Arena) New time-limited homeland: Summer - "When a stranger spawns, it gains Parched if there are fewer Parched strangers than the homeland tier. If a Parched stranger is killed, you take damage equal to the round counter."
• (Arena) New Arena stage mod: Purge - "Every 5 seconds, destroy a random visible loot, stranger, or landmark object."
• (Arena) Added 5 Summer emotes to unlock
• (Arena) Added new unlockable sign parts

Quality of Life

• New main menu graphics for Summer event
• Improved art of Summer stage
• New Summer stage music from PeriTune
• Remastered "Sand In My RNG" and repurposed it as Beyond final stage music
• (Arena) Added Beyond final stage music when a stage starts with only one opponent remaining
• (Arena) Added a Top 4 toast when entering Detour phase with 4 or fewer players remaining
• (Supporter Pack DLC) Added original Summer music file

Balance Changes

• Reduced frequency of Summer Lightning Bug spawns
• Lowered max cost of Priest from 30 to 25 coins
• Updated a few emblems to use Starving Plant as their likely boss
• (Arena) Mountain homeland nerfed: "Whenever you make a mistake, reduce the stage timer by 3 seconds times the homeland tier."

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare silent crash related to Blueberry
• Fixed boss icon missing in quests other than Endless Multiverse
• Rewired Shinobi Veil, Travelog, and Pipe Bomb into the standard "count stages complete" pipeline, which should improve consistency across gamemodes
• Fixed a visual bug related to some strangers firing normal greeting alert despite Parched state
• (Arena) Fixed stage timeout damage potentially ending a match before available revives could trigger
• (Arena) Fixed issue related to persistence of round-cumulative auras
• (Arena) Fixed issue with name shown in Shrine homeland toast
• (Arena) Fixed a rare server crash related to match end sequence
• (Arena) Fixed a few memory leaks specific to this gamemode
• (Arena) Fixed an issue where fake values could softlock the autosweeper
• (Arena) Fixed a rare crash related to using a Beach Ball just before the timer runs out