New Features
- Added selection effects for Tributes, making the Tribute selection process more polished and responsive.
- Added presentation animations for newly unlocked content. Special presentation effects now play when Zhong Kui transforms, making a wish with the Divine Dragon, encountering a Fairy Spirit, or opening a treasure chest.
- Added a "New!" indicator for newly unlocked Tributes.
- Added a new compensation rumor to the Carrot NPC dialogue, leading players to the new redemption passphrase: "Five Flowers".
Improvements & Balance Changes
- Fixed an issue where tutorial treasure chests could not be properly Sealed, and added replacement rewards after all available chest rewards have been Sealed.
- Adjusted the unlock flow of the Seal feature to prevent it from being unlocked before the Book of Life and Death, avoiding building-related issues.
- Further reduced the Soul Crystal cost required for Sealing.
- Improved the default sorting order of Tributes and Soulstones in the Book of Life and Death by grouping items of the same rarity and Soulstone type together.
- Improved the default sorting logic for Soulstones in the inventory so Soulstones of the same type are grouped together.
- Enhanced the visual effects of the Advanced Treasure Basin event, improving the animation of gold and silver mountains shattering into the basin.
- Improved the display of damage numbers.
- Updated the icon colors of General, Projectile, and Duration Soulstones to improve readability.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where long key names such as Space and Ctrl could overlap UI text in the key binding menu.
- Fixed an issue where the confirmation dialog for selling Paper Effigies could be blocked by a floating UI window.
- Fixed an issue where movement speed could become abnormally high after continuing a game in the Chinese Chess area.
- Fixed an issue where dialogue text during the first Yin Law upgrade in the tutorial could be covered by a floating window when using a controller.
- Fixed an issue where, after continuing a game and switching input devices, the controller could not move the cursor in the Equipment and Tribute selection interfaces.