Ziggurat 2 News

Hi! Today we're releasing a small update, addressing a few issues introduced in the last update, and doing a few balancing changes to the recently added enemies.



Gameplay changes:

• Perks with random effects (such as Golden Weapon) will now use the perk RNG seed, so a similar course of choices in the daily will lead to the same results for those.
  
• Improved Mob perk effect.
  
• Improved Reassembly perk effect.
  
• Magic Missile: Now they don't use player's vertical orientation when shot.
  
• Increased pick distance of the Master key.
  
• Campaign loadout: Default item is now weighted so it's more common to have underleveled items, but not forced to be the one with the lowest upgrade level.
  
• Weapon balance: Slightly adjusted damage/mana usage/fire rate of most weapons.
  
• Baby Slimes: Decreased poison chance
  
• Green Slimes: Decreased health and number of projectiles shot.
  
• Decreased Kassia's turrets health
  
• Decreased +Armor passive effect of some weapons from +10% to +5%.
  

Improvements:

• Timed (purple) spikes: Made easier to be spotted.
  
• Perks are now sorted by name on the Library
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed being able to have two artifacts active at the same time.
  
• Should have fixed a crash related with a division by zero.
  
• Fixed a boss having a standard health bar
  
• Fixed frozen slimes reacting to hits.
  
• Fixed UI bug with Purity perk.
  
• Fixed Mob not working.
  
• Fixed character perks not showing the proper data on the mission result.
  

Hi! We've just submitted a second hotfix that should make the newly added equipment show up as rewards for Threat 3+ missions.

Hi! Today we're releasing a small patch fixing many issues introduced in yesterday's update.

Gameplay changes:

• Decreased Eris penalties a bit. Decreased her maximum Wand mana a bit.
  
• Slightly buffed Eris skeletons health.
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed used shops preventing interaction with dropped items.
  
• Fixed perk previews showing wrong values in the shop.
  
• Fixed upgrade text tags.
  
• Fixed cave lanterns being affected by nearby doors.
  

Welcome back, young apprentices!



Today we're releasing a big content update featuring plenty of interesting improvements and additions, such as new enemies, a new playable character, or new equipment and perks. Check the changelog for the full list!



New features:

• New Miniboss: Raziel
  
• New Miniboss: Knorgh the Savage
  
• New Minion: Blue Slime
  
• New Minion: Green Slime + Baby Slime
  
• New Campaign Mission and Lore.
  
• New playable character: Eris the Necromancer
  
• 4 New weapons, 2 New amulets, and 10+ New Perks.
  
• Hero Perks: Now every wizard has a set of exclusive perks that can be unlocked by mastering the character.
  
• Reworked equipment upgrades: Now many of them grant small global improvements (such as +2% health for all characters).
  

Improvements:

• Improved Milkstone logo intro
  
• Added a custom mouse cursor
  
• Added a setting to show a game timer
  
• Minor buffs from perks won't show a fullscreen effect.
  
• Reduced a bit the amount of screen covered by special effects
  
• Now most timed buffs/debuffs from perks, etc will be shown on the left of the screen.
  
• Added a specific icon for every amulet on the HUD
  
• Character passives are unlocked by mastery, no need to spend money on the upgrade.
  

Gameplay changes:

• Limited aim assist level in daily challenges to "Low"
  
• Thunderspark: Increased projectile speed.
  
• Shock effect now halves fire rate instead of preventing shooting.
  
• Reduced duration of category-specific amulets.
  
• Increased a bit health of enemies on higher threat missions.
  
• Poison effect damage is now increased on higher threat missions (by the same amount as other kinds of enemy damage)
  
• Some enemies and themes are now only shown once you reach a specific chapter in the campaign.
  
• Items with fewer upgrades have now priority to be pre-selected on the Loadout screen
  
• Campaign unlocks are now tiered a bit more, every mission adds new content available to be unlocked (previously it was every 2 missions).
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Fountain Oath not working properly
  
• Fixed some Oaths not working properly on Daily Challenge
  
• Fixed some scores showing 0 time on the daily challenge leaderboard
  
• Fixed numeric values of perks in the Mission Rewards screen.
  
• Fixed Kassia's turrets collision issue.
  
• Fixed minor visual problem with amulet cooldown when using the last charge.
  
• Fixed enemies getting stuck with the Chained Chest in Combat Challenge rooms.
  
• Fixed Glyndor losing mana on the Loading screen.
  
• Fixed bullets hitting the wall when close to it on high FOV values.
  
• Orcs should now be able to turn around stairs without getting stuck.
  
• Should have fixed collision issues with fences on the cathedral theme.
  
• Fixed washed out cutscenes when Volumetric lighting is disabled.
  

Hi! In today's update we're giving the dungeons a bit more personality with themed room layouts, specific to each dungeon type. We're also fixing a number of bugs and doing a small balance pass to most game elements.

Improvements:

• Changed "Extra Fire Rate" visual boost effect so it's not mistaken with taking damage.
  
• Added more variations to the menu loading screen background.
  
• Connector, starting and platforming rooms are now theme specific.
  

Gameplay changes:

• Breakable decorations can now drop mana crystals when destroyed. Limited to specific rooms (connectors and combat rooms), and limited to a small amount (1 on connector rooms, 2-6 on combat rooms, depending on room size).
  
• Special effects that provide additional drops won't be applied to summoned missions to prevent farming.
  
• Capped the strength of knockback the player can receive, so they can't be sent too far when hit by a few of them at the same time.
  
• Daily Challenge: Enemy damage increases on every floor, on top of the other difficulty modifiers. Decreased speed boost in higher levels.
  
• Scavenge rooms: Decreased number of items required.
  
• Enemy balancing:
  
  • Igneous Nightmare: Reduced amount spawned
    
  • Burning Soul: Reduced amount spawned
    
  • Ironclad: Slightly reduced walking speed
    
  • Carrots: Slightly increased health
    
  • Hollow Warrior and Frozen Warrior: Slighlty increased damage and health
    
  • Bronze Warrior: Increased health
    
  • Reanimated Soldier: Increased health
    
• Weapon balancing: Small changes to damage/mana usage of primary and secondary attacks of most weapons.
  
• Character balancing:
  • Carina: Increased push damage
    
  • Glyndor: Increased Syphon duration
    
  • Jacob: Small speed penalty while using Sacrifice
    
• Perk balancing:
  • Black Market: Increased amount of shields earned
    
  • Arcane Summoning: On top of getting an amulet, you get an additional perk if you already had one.
    
  • Channeling: Stronger effect.
    

Bugfixes:

• Fixed job perks showing up on the shop in Daily Challenge.
  
• Fixed Status effect sound not sounding on higher framerates.
  
• Fixed issues with freezing jumping enemies.
  
• Increased range at which enemies start jumping up/down a ledge. Should help with big crowds getting stuck.