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Maku 0.9.7a - BIG Update 2Powered Up!

This is the biggest patch since 0.9.4a. There's new characters, a new dodge system, powerups, lots of new items, and improvements on many features both mechanically and visually.

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Additions

-Petra joins the roster

-Petra is the new starting character, and she fights with AetherEdge:

a greatsword that swings in a 3-hit combo

-Petra's ultimate is Eclipse Horizon:

the greatsword sweeps around her in a circle, damage it deals comes back to you as health.

-NEW dodge system:

Dashing acts as a real dash now with visible invincibility frames, and integrated as a stat so that it can be modified.

4 new pieces of equipment work around dodge:

-Quickstep Anklet: your dodge recharges faster

-Slipstream Cloak: Your dodge travels farther

-Twinstep Rig: hold an extra dodge charge

-Razor Wake: your dodge cuts enemies you pass through

2 new upgrades in the shop for dodge:

-Reflexes: recharge speed

-Footwork: extra charges

-Powerups have been added:

9 powerups now drop from breakables and elites, each with its own effect:

Bomb · Invincible · Double Damage · Rapid Fire · Haste ·

Magnet · Freeze · Blink · Storm

Powerup crates are a rare spawn tuned per world, so finding them changes per level.

-Status effects and enemy variety:

Your hits can now do more than damage, through four new items:

-Emberbrand: your hits can set enemies burning

-Frostbite Charm: your hits can chill enemies, slowing them

-Stormcore: your hits can arc to nearby enemies

(these three are part of the new elemental effect system)

-Cursed Helm: Slows enemies down, but you as well
(different than the cursed statue, good for tank builds, can stack)

-Enemies now have affixes:

Elites can spawn swift, volatile or warded
(they stack with the world's own modifiers)

-Off-screen threat arrows point at bosses

-Off-screen indicator arrows show missed gems and chests

-Stage hazards:

Worlds now have hazardous effects: vents, pools, and gas.

-New Awakening System:

Awakenings now change a main weapon's properties. Big rework here. Awakening used to be a stat bump.

Go find out how each weapon evolves!

-Unlocks have been reorganized:

You now start with three characters: Petra, Seong and Archaeus.

Unlock more between world clears and the shop.

-New widescreen play HUD, with side panes for your items and weapons accessible in the pause menu.

-Health bars rebuilt as chip bars that flash on hit and drain smoothly.

-Boss intro cards and ultimate cutscenes.

-Tooltips on items and upgrades

-Control hints

-New scene transitions between menus and runs.

-Better pause menu, and widescreen support.

-Improved results screen animations

-Auto-fire and auto-aim are merged into a single Auto Mode. Toggleable, with instructions in control hints

-Hit-stop, screen shake and rumble, all tunable in game options

-New effect system for performance

-New death effects and death screen

-New world visual effects

-Damage numbers system reworked. Scaled for damage curve and crit animations.

-Updated Magic Orbs: Start with 3, gain 1 per level up to 7, orbiting a little wider.

Audio

-Pitch variation on hits, pickups, orbs and UI

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Fixes

-Fixed a bug where music fades used scaled time

-Using an ultimate on a boss could leave you in slow motion.

-Levelling up while a cutscene played let the time continue during level-up.

-New runs sometimes started in Auto Mode

-Whip scale fix

-Errors at the end of a run which enemies spawned indefinitely

-Various shop errors

-Equipment effects from Emberbrand and Frostbite Charm anchoring issue

-Object pooling for enemies, projectiles and effects improved

-Upgraded save migration and character unlocks

------------------Discord Support

-now supports Discord rich presence

You can join the discord from the store page.a few notes for next update:
-updating art for Xiang
-updating art for Nite's Ultimate
-Arabic font will be updated for missing glyphs

Thanks for playing!