VISCERA UPDATE - Huge Update AVAILABLE NOW!

🩸 VISCERA UPDATE 🩸

The Viscera Update is finnaly out!

New MAP, New BOSS FIGHT, New ELITE, New CARD RARITY, plenty of optimizations, and much more, FINALLY AVAILABLE!

✨ Major Additions / Updates ✨

• An entirely new map has been added: Viscera. This new map expands horizontally, features its own themed enemies and sprites, and prevents blockers from spawning during Elite encounters.

• A brand-new boss and boss fight against the Icon Of Tyranny.

• A new Elite exclusive to Viscera has been added: the Biomass.

• A new song has been added: "Viscera" (composed by ZYLENXX).

• A new card rarity has been added: UNSTABLE.

• Added 2 new achievements: "GUTS, HUGE GUTS!" and "'Scuse Me".

• Added a new setting: Bullet Opacity.

• Added a new cinematic.

💪 Balancing 💪

• Limited the maximum Health bosses can have on "Beginner" difficulty to 80,000 and on "Challenge" difficulty to 250,000.

• Reduced the Devour's speed debuff on higher difficulties (-25%, was -50%).

• Normal projectiles now despawn after 10–15 seconds.

• While temporarily invulnerable, the player can now push enemies back by moving through them.

• Reduced the number of Souls required for the first level on each difficulty (15, 20, 19, 18, 17, 15, 15, 15, 15; was 15, 30, 24, 21, 18, 15, 15, 15, 15, 30).

• Increased the Health restored by the "Vigor" Upgrade (+100 HP, was +35 HP).

👀 UI and Visuals 👀

• Restored the old animation for Vulnerability Spirits.

• Updated the main menu background.

• Slightly adjusted the button "spring" effect.

• Cards are now grouped by rarity and unlock status.

• Slightly adjusted the vertical positioning of card rows.

• Added a "Buy:" label below each equipment item.

• The weapon "Buy" text now changes color depending on whether you can afford it.

• Camera zoom is now locked during boss fights.

• Added shadow pixels beneath certain warning effects.

• Weapons dropped upon death now disappear when you revive.

• Reworked the "To Unlock" text, making it easier to read.

• Added impact frames.

• The leaderboard menu can no longer be hovered when Survival difficulty is not selected.

• Made the "Low Health Vignette" effect more opaque.

🚀 Optimizations 🚀

• Greatly improved overall performance by disabling HUD elements outside the screen.

• Greatly optimized how Vulnerability Spirits are handled.

• Greatly optimized Mushroom spawning and processing.

• Optimized how shield damage indicators are displayed.

• Increased the Fixed Time Step (0.05s).

• Greatly optimized how enemies flip their sprites when changing direction.

• Removed stuttering from the main menu.

• Greatly optimized bullet handling (movement and on-screen checks).

• Greatly optimized enemy projectile spawning.

🕹️ QoL / Gameplay 🕹️

• Reduced the time before the "Weapon Upgrade" animation can be skipped (0.5s, was 1s).

🔊 Audio 🔊

• Reworked the music system, allowing tracks to be swapped during gameplay in future updates.

• Added subtle ambient background sounds that play during gameplay.

• Added a "whoosh" sound when entering or leaving the Map menu.

• Reduced some of the higher frequencies in the "White Beam Spawn" sound.

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• The leaderboard now correctly loads when Survival mode is already selected.

• Fixed compatibility issues with old saves (including missing equipment textures and improperly initialized lists).

• Fixed a bug that allowed interaction with the "Banish", "Reroll", and other buttons in the Upgrades Menu before its intro animation had finished.

• Fixed shadow pixel issues in certain Upgrade icons.

• Fixed music fade transitions between the main menu and gameplay.

• The weapon selection hover sound can no longer be heard while in the main menu.

• Fixed the initial alpha value of the Photosensitivity screen.

• Fixed chains sometimes appearing disconnected between gun icons.

• Fixed a bug where the Mineral Pet could occasionally break the same mineral/grave twice.

• Fixed a bug that caused post-revive invulnerability (while having Buried Blades) to last 0 frames.

• Fixed a bug that broke scrolling in the Statistics menu.

• Fixed a bug that caused invisible enemies to start following the player again after their Health had been restored.

Others

• Reworked how out-of-bounds checks are performed.

• Removed manual sorting from non-selected cards.

I've poured my heart and soul into this update, and I truly hope there won't be any bugs and that you'll all enjoy it!

Feel free to join the Discord if you'd like to report a bug, suggest something, or simply hang out with the community.

Have fun!

-TERMAX