Skul: The Hero Slayer News

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7. Red Dead Redemption 2
8. Phasmophobia
9. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Broken Fang
10. Skul: The Hero Slayer

• Fixed an issue where the gauge meter for Alchemist skull, Bomber skull would not increase if the player skipped over the story cinematics.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would not receive the full amount of Bones when leaving the map right after salvaging Skulls.
  
• Fixed a bug where Grim Reaper skull’s [Death by Fire] skill would not properly hit boss enemies suspended in the air such as Yggdrasil and St. Joan II.
  
• Fixed an issue so that Sniper skull’s [Multi-Shot] skill used after concentration correctly deals Physical damage instead of Magic damage.
  
• Fixed an issue so that Warlord skull’s [Rising Slash] skill used after concentration correctly deals Physical damage instead of Magic damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where Pikeman Captain skull’s dash attacks would randomly be negated when the skull’s gauge is full.
  
• Fixed an issue where the animation for Skeleton-Shield, Shield Bearer, Guardian, Guardian Commander skulls’ [Shield Charge] skill would appear inverted. (left-right)
  
• Fixed a bug where some text in the story cutscene would appear repeatedly.
  
• Fixed a bug where the HUD would not appear if the player restart the game via options before the ending credit scene after finishing the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where the FX for Carleon Recruit skull’s [Comrade System - Recruit], [Comrade System - Archer], [Comrade System - Armored Soldier] would appear inverted (up-down)
  
• Fixed problem where the Chapter 3 Adventurers’ Attack Power was abnormally high.
  
• Fixed a bug where the focus would not move in the game’s UI.
  
• Fixed an issue where using the Unstable Quintessence would mark the player character with a Duel mark.
  
• Fixed a bug where the player would sink beneath the floor in the boss map of Chapter 3.
  
• Fixed the hitbox of the homing light tower attack of boss St. Joan II’s first phase.
  
• Fixed the hitbox of the dashing slash attack of boss First Hero’s first phase.
  
• Fixed a bug where the homing projectile attacks of boss First Hero’s first phase would hit the player more times than intended.
  
• Fixed the hitbox of the dashing slash attack of boss First Hero’s second phase.
  
• Fixed the hitbox of the giant light beam attack of boss First Hero’s second phase.
  
• Fixed the text for the debuffs in Chapter 4. (ex: Increases damage received by 110% → Increases damage received by 10%)
  
• Fixed a bug where players could not play the game if their save file data has been corrupted/damaged.
  
• Fixed the Adventurers Defeated count so that it now properly displays the actual number of adventurers the player defeated.
  

• Fixed problem where the Korean text explaining the Gambler’s swap effect wasn’t displayed correctly
  
• Fixed problem where the ‘Roll Type’ was mistakenly still appearing in the Korean text for the Skeleton Bomber and the Demolitions Expert.
  
• Fixed issue where some of the figures for Physical Attack, Magic Attack, Damage Taken, etc. were displaying the Early Access version’s numbers for German.
  
• Fixed bug where some of the key images for German text wasn’t displayed properly
  
• Fixed bug where ‘Tackle’ was mistakenly shown in the description for Skeleton-Shield for German
  
• Fixed problem where the ‘Roll Type’ was still mistakenly being displayed in some skull descriptions for German.
  
• Fixed problem where the ‘Roll Type’ was still mistakenly being displayed for the Outlaw for Portuguese and Spanish.
  
• Fixed problem where the damage type for the Aqua Skull and Poseidon was wrong for Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
  

• We’ve either removed or adjusted the location of the bounce pads from every map.
  

Originally posted by author

Developer’s Comment: A lot of people commented that there seemed to be too many bounce pads and that they weren’t very enjoyable to use, which is something that we felt ourselves. We’ll keep this in mind in order not to break up the flow of battles or when moving around the map.

• Removed ‘cutscene-like’ camera movement on certain maps
  
• Reduced difficulty of Chapter 3 maps with guillotines by adjusting the map layouts and guillotine movements
  
• Adjusted amount of damage that the breakable floors can take in some Chapter 4 maps.
  
• Removed a door from Chapter 5 that closed.
  

• Increased drop rate of health orbs when clearing enemies in Chapters 2, 3 and 4.
  
• Increased amount of gold that drops from piles of gold after clearing a map
  
• Reduced amount of gold it takes to get a blessing from the Magnifico Temple Priest NPC
  
• Reduced amount of gold it takes to request help from the Little Gust or Lion’s Sword NPCs
  
• Reduced the price of items being sold in the Black Market
  
• Reduced amount of gold it takes to request a restock of items
  
• Reduced chances of the Headless and Quintessence Seller appearing in the Black Market in Chapter 3
  

• Reduced amount of damage it takes to break every Adventurer’s concentration when attempting to use a special skill
  
• Increased Attack Power of basic enemies in Chapter 4
  
• Decreased the amount of stacks needed to activate the ‘incoming damage increase’ debuff in Chapter 4 from 5 → 3.
  
• Reduced HP of Yggdrasil
  
• Increased Attack Power of St. Joan II
  
• Increased HP of St. Joan II’s 1st Phase
  
• Decreased HP of St. Joan II’s 2nd Phase
  
• Decreased time between attack patterns for St. Joan II’s 2nd Phase
  
• Increased difficulty of First Hero battle
  
• - Increased HP for all 3 phases
  
• - Increased damage dealt by some attacks in the 1st and 2nd Phase
  
• - Reduced time between attacks in the 1st Phase
  
• - The First Hero is now invincible when using the attack in the 1st Phase that covers the whole screen
  
• - Added a bit of delay in between the First Hero’s teleports and slashes
  
• - Adjusted Attack Patterns in the 2nd Phase
  
• - Increased the amount of times the First Hero becomes vulnerable, but reduced the time he is in that state in the First Hero’s 2nd phase.
  
• - Changed the First Hero’s 2nd phase attack pattern so that his second consecutive slashes don’t track the player anymore.
  

Originally posted by author

Developer’s Comment: We definitely underestimated your gaming skills and think that the First Hero wasn’t quite strong enough to hold off little Skul.
So we’ve decided to increase the damage he deals and speed up the attack patterns a little to raise the difficulty and inject some more tension into the battle.

• Increased effectiveness of Physical Attack-related Items, Quintessence and Inscriptions
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Standard-issue Carleon Sword: 20% → 25%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Execution Axe: 35% → 40%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Thorny Boots: 20% → 25%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Brawler’s Knuckle: 20% → 25%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Emergency Bomb: 20% → 25%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by Giant’s Ax: 30% → 35%
  
• Increased amount of time Rear Blast lasts: 2 secs → 3 secs
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased while Rear Blast is in effect: 70% → 80%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased while Hero’s Holy Sword is in effect: 90% → 100%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by the Cobalt Quintessence: 20% → 25%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by the Centauros Quintessence: 30% → 40%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by the Orc Quintessence: 30% → 40%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by the Weapon Master Quintessence: 45% → 55%
  
• Increased amount Physical Attack is increased by the Shadow Knights Quintessence: 65% → 80%
  
• Increased the amount each stack of the March Inscription amplifies Physical Attacks: (3/5/10/25/35/75% → 3/6/15/25/45/90%)
  

Originally posted by author

Developer’s Comment: We also recognize that Physical Attacks aren’t as effective as Magic Attacks and your extensive feedback has helped us to more clearly understand the issue. We think that the changes listed above should alleviate the problem to a certain degree, but won’t fully correct the balancing of Physical and Magic Attacks.
Right now we think that there’s some room for balance related improvements when it comes to items that grant players Physical damage. We don’t want to make any rash, temporary decisions but to look into the root cause of the problem. This will require us to revisit all the different skulls, items and synergies. We ask and thank you in advance for your patience on this as we try to better balance the overall game experience.
That being said, we’ll do our best to improve the game and system so that you will have a ton of fun, no matter what damage type you go for.

• Changed the Warrior’s Pauldrons so that the shield is based on the point of attack, not the attacker
  
• Increased cooldown time of the Cyclops Quintessence: 20 secs → 30 secs
  

• Changed it so that you can interact with the fountain in Chapter 4 even if you haven’t stacked any Curses
  
• Increased the HP of all attack dummies.
  
• Changed it so that you can’t get the Skeleton-Bomber from the Headless if you only have one skull at the time.
  

Originally posted by author

Developer’s Comment: We were blown away by your creativity.
Being able to get the Skeleton-Bomber while only having one skull is something that shouldn’t be allowed by the system, so we’ve dealt with that in this hotfix. We’ll be making further adjustments that are a little more gamer-friendly though.

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9. Skul: The Hero Slayer
10. Raft

After being in Early Access since February 2020, SouthPAW Games have now released their head-swapping rogue-lite action platformer Skul: The Hero Slayer.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/skul-the-hero-slayer-is-a-delightful-repeatable-head-swapping-action-rogue-lite-out-now