Let Him Cook · published
Get ready to experience one of the biggest updates and overhauls of the year. Prepare to encounter the Year Of The Dragonfruit!!!
NEW FEATURES:
- NEW Boss! Dragonfruit has arrived and is awaiting for you to challenge it on the culinary battlefield!
- NEW Difficulty Overhaul! You can now customize your difficulty to specific modifiers (Applies after you beat Scorch). All previous difficulties completed have been converted spice levels. Additionally, a new extreme difficulty has been added called Hellfire for those that want to push their skills to the limit.
- NEW Weapon Set Bonuses! Weapons now have complimentary sets that trigger additional bonuses when matching their categories.
- NEW Weapons! A Cake 47, Clemington 870, Yuzuzi, Santoku, and Blender.
- NEW Assistants! Barbarian Assistant, Fencer Assistant, Retro Assistant, Raiser Assistant, Hex Assistant, and Breeze Assistant.
- NEW Boss Perks! We Are Toast, Own Worst Critic, Piece of Cake, Food Stamp.
OVERHAULED/IMPROVED FEATURES
- Inventory management has been improved by tenfold, allowing you to swap, combine, and refund quicker.
- Upcoming waves now show upcoming bosses and elites.
- Swing and Lunge weapons are more accurate and their animations have been improved.
- Halal Guy, Busser, Party Host, Ice Cream Man and Calm assistant reworked.
- You can change the way some assistants move: you have the option to make them follow you, attack enemies, and stay in place
- Separated save files from game files (such as unlocks), ensuring that game save files won’t be corrupted if the game crashes during a run.
- Medkits now have a chance to spawn from enemies (increases with medkit passive).
- Couch Potato and Tee Vee have been slightly overhauled. Couch Potato has a new moveset.
- Assistants and Character UIs now show tracked abilities, if applicable (i.e. Food critic tracks how much bonus crit chance he has when hovering over his UI).
VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS
- Added settings options to disable black and white effects, crit bubbles, and slow motion effects.
- All attack indicators have been completely redone and improved.
- Enemies and their outlines are now shown in the dark.
- Enemies, projectiles, and the player are no longer affected by black and white effects.
- Added flicker upon taking character damage.
- New visuals for combining, swapping, and refunding.
BUG FIXES AND OTHER PATCH NOTES
- Major fix: Assistants pick up 2 disabled weapons, causing them to be hired multiple times.
- Minor fix: Mimic does not replace your higher tier weapon.
- Minor fix: Upon defeating Couch Potato, the Tee Vee cannot be damage.
- Minor fix: All cook book entries were unlocked.
- Minor fix: Once you reach the blacklist limit and resume a run, the game will not run properly.
- Minor fix: Mystery waves weren’t saved properly on resuming run.
- Minor fix: Rerolls costs were reset upon resuming run.
- Minor fix: Party host couldn’t do damage during bossfights.
- Minor fix: Some unlocks were not properly unlocking (i.e. Waiter).
- Minor fix: Fixed localization error in settings.
- Mimic now refunds the weapons that it replaces.
- Changed mimic’s resume from utility to economy.
- Couch potato death animation lines up more properly.
- Changed peashooter to 3-round burst.
- Unlock achievement for “live with 1 health for 30 seconds” reduced from 30 to 10.
- Changed weapon selections for some characters in main menu (i.e. food critic can select level 3 - weapons).
- Corkscrew pierces enemies before it attaches.
- Explosive weapon projectiles pierce enemies.
- Created 3 new steam achievements: Fieri, Bourdain, and Ramsay
- You can view the stats of weapons and check how weapons and characters were unlocked.
Buffs
- Slight buff to dessert eagle (lower rarity end) damage.
- Reduced italian sub’s CDR by -0.25s.
- Dodgy assistant has an addition 10% speed boost.
Nerfs
- Nerfed food damage assistants from +5 to +3.
- Nerfed regeneration cap from 5 to 3.
===The Let Him Cook Roadmap===
The Let Him Cook Roadmap is outlined on our Discord channel. If you would like to take a look, please visit our Discord for more Details.
As stated in the Early Access outline, Let Him Cook will continue to be under the development cycle for at least another year. Progress has been amazing so far with the help and support of you all! Enjoy the new update!
- Manny Feliciano, Head Chef