GRIME News

Hey! Yarden GRIME director here,

This is a MASSIVE patch adding some highly requested features such as stats and modifiers on Outfits, adding further customization of your playstyle.

You can now also reliably heal during the later boss fights using either the reworked "Piercer" trait or the reworked "Lurker" trait.

In addition, this patch brings with it some highly requested quality of life changes such as; being able to use Mass and Crimson Ichors consumables from Inventory! (whoooo) As well as better sorting for the inventory (Sets will now be placed next to each other rather than in order of pick up).


Gameplay:

- Outfits now grant attribute modifiers and, upon equipping a complete set, grant additional unique modifiers, usually to an existing trait.
* The first 10 levels of stats have been slightly nerfed (by 0.5) to compensate for the newly added armor stats letting players get that much closer to OP numbers.

- Each equipment slot has a smaller slot which you can equip with a chosen outfit, changing its visual by keeping the stats granted equipped in the main, larger slot.
1. Visual only slot
2. Main slot
3. Modified Attributes


- Reworked traits:
* Piercer - Pulling an enemy now draws some Breath in addition to dealing Absorb damage on vulnerable Health Bars. Ranks lowered to 3 from 4 and each rank increase the Breath gained and damage dealt to protected Health Bars.

* Lurker - After repelling an attack you gain a life-steal buff on your attacks for a short duration, in addition to healing for a max health percentage from Absorbs.


- Added automatic inventory sorting.
- Can now use Certain consumables (Mass and Crimson Ichor) from the inventory screen.
- Added a Mass display text in the inventory.
- Slightly accelerated the camera when looking up or down.
- Slightly buffed player Force regen.

Major Bugs:
- Fixed an issue that might be causing infinite loading screens.
- Fixed an issue letting sometimes the player run into/through walls.
- Added a safety net below The Final Performance elevator in case the ground forgets its job.

Minor Bugs:
- Rebinding the Inventory hotkey now works properly.
- Post Process settings now properly affect the Absorb effects as well.
- The Gardeneye now plays a sound when casting the beam.
- Smoothed the transition from attacking to running animations.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the player to get stuck when reflecting projectiles.
- Fixed a specific spot in Cavity that sometimes caused the player to get stuck.
- Fixed a Lithic crumbling platform artifact.
- Extended some colliders in Lair to properly cover some walls.
- Corrected a few ladder and trap colliders in Carven Palace.
- Moved a lever in Carven Palace up as it was too far down into the floor.
- Fixed an issue causing the player character to get stuck on a ladder in Feaster's Lair.
- Corrected a missing collider near Worldpillar.
- Added a missing ambient track to Garden.
- Added missing sounds to rockheads near Feaster's Lair.
- Rockgiant will now properly flash red when falling after being absorbed, as the fall is unparriable.
- Centipede Whip special attack won't hit as high upwards as before.
- Fixed an issue with the Kin's text location and localization.
- Fixed a small bug causing price text in vendors to appear in the wrong color.
- Dying while climbing will no longer drop the player through the world.
- Camera look height will now properly reset on opening a menu mid-action.
- Nervepasses can be interacted again straight after leaving them.
- Fixed an issue causing enemies movement to sometimes bug on passthrough ground.
- Fixed an issue bugging movement on ladders when using a controller.
- Added a failsafe to achievements related to absorbing enemies.
- Spear special air attacks will no longer bounce the player when used on walls.
- Improved movement caused by weapon attack on sloped grounds.
- Added an option to rebind the Scroll Up/Down functions when interacting with an NPC dialog.
- Upgrade and Trade windows controller legend is now properly localized.

Plans for the future:
- This is our final major patch before beginning work on a more substantial story content for you to look out for, so please be patient!
- As for NG - we decided to make it something more fleshed out and interesting than just a straightforward linear artificial ramping up of the game's difficulty (increasing enemy damage/HP per NG). As a result, we are pushing it further back. I'll keep you informed when there is more to share!
- Notable technical issues we have not forgotten about hope to address in the next major/MASSIVE patch:
* Allow rebinding of all mouse keys (including gaming mice). For now, though, you may be able to rebind using a program called - X-Mouse.
* Stuttering/FPS issues some players have been experiencing. There is a thread on the topic in the forums that may offer some potential solutions, but for the rest, we will try a more significant change that should hopefully fix the issue.

As always, a huge thanks to our Discord members (https://discord.gg/GRIME) for their help in testing the patches before they go live!
The Credits have been updated with new community contributors.

Yarden Weissbrot, GRIME Director

- Fixes an issue that could potentially cause some players to be unable to load their save.
* This issue is related to the newly added function of allowing the demo save to be used in the full game. Sorry to all those afflicted by the issue!

Thank you to user Dr. Leh for reporting the issue and providing us with a save, helping us resolving it!

Hey! Yarden GRIME director here,

This patch brings the demo up to date, making it so saves from demo version 1.1.2 will automatically transfer into the full game!

Outside of that, this is more of a straightforward bug fixing & polish patch, including a potential fix for players who experienced issues with the controller key-binding, with some minor gameplay tweaks and additions, such as a respawning Spinesnake for those who missed the chance to get the trait.


Gameplay:

- Added a respawning Spinesnake to Feaster's Lair.

- Some additional tweaks to the Carven Palace encounters and mandatory early platforming.

- Palace elevator has been tweaked again to be both fast but also allow you to jump on and off if (we had multiple issues with the elevator since the fps fix and we went from slow elevator to fast elevator but you cant jump, to now this)

- Performer's slam attack has reduced AOE to better match the actual attack's visual.


Quality of Life:

- Enabled transferring Demo characters created in version 1.1.2 or later to the full version of the game.

- New Help Menu lets the player re-watch tutorial messages

- Prey tab will no longer show empty boxes.


Major Bugs:

- Potential fix for players who had problems with control key-rebinding.
- Fixed an issue letting players skip the intro crawling part while using a controller. Sorry speed-runners, but this was able to cause soft locks to unassuming players.
- Fixed another issue causing Pale Sky portals to not work properly.
- A change to the Carven Palace elevators movement to make them snappier.
- Fixed an issue causing crumbling platforms to never respawn.
- Entering the Crab arena from the left side will now start the battle properly.
- The player shouldn't reform on moving elevators anymore.

Minor Bugs:

- Fixed a bug blocking the descend of the Bloodmetal Scythe special air attack.
- Some Nervepass puppets should no longer block the player's movement.
- Absorbing Shidra unlocks the PoC Surrogate Warping. A fail-safe measure in case something happens in between defeating shidra and finishing the game, or if the player needs to destroy Vessel.
- Jaw Axe will not pull the player forward if there is a wall in front of him.
- Fixed an issue causing a certain Fly Spitter in Lair to stop working properly.
- Characters should now slip less through from ledges when retreating (Especially the Fledgling Yr).
- Weakness ending should now properly reset the player Hit Points.
- Added a missing VFX to a breakable wall in Beyond the Barrier.



Next Patche/s:

- We've started work on the armor stats. The plan is this:
1. You will have 2 slots for each armor piece. 1 Will represent the visual element and the 2nd slot will be for the stat element.
2. If nothing is equipped in the 2nd (stats) slot, you will get the stats of the armor equipped in the 1st (visual) slot by default.
3. Completing an entire set will trigger its bonus stat, which will typically modify a single trait.
4. Outside of the completion bonus, armor stats will only modify the base 5 attributes.
5. At the moment, only Otherwhere is planned to have a different type of gameplay effect from the other armors, and this is planned to be explored more once NG+ comes out, as new armors are currently intended as rewards for NG+ run completions.

Lastly, there seems to be only one more major, relatively uncommon technical issue we are aware of after this patch and are aiming to fix: stuttering on some high-end machines during area streaming.
If you are experiencing this, please join the discussion on Steam here and follow the instructions in the thread so we can solve this issue together.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1123050/discussions/0/3047234112553725618/


Unless no urgent technical issue pops up, we will be spacing out the next patches to no longer be weekly, so we can have the time to work on new content instead.

Yarden Weissbrot, GRIME Director

Fixed an issue causing the Amalgam boss to not behave properly.

- Fixes clipping through the performance elevator.
- Fixes Drained shell hands missing from their location.
- Fixes invisible pickups.
- Fixes Endless spawn of pickups in the City.
- Misbegotten platform bug.
- Prey tab will no longer show empty boxes so people won't mistakenly think there is like double the bosses/minibosses!