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Patch Notes - January 2022 - 0.23.1



Changes inspired by our community!

[h2]Major Features[/h2]

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  • Stone altar rework: Mana stone has been replaced for brand new ""Attack speed stone"". Values for ""Life stone"" and ""Damage stone"" has been balanced

[h2]Small Features[/h2]

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  • More Narration: Added narration and extended french translation
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  • Added better feedback on ""side screen tip"" for the multiplayer revive input
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  • Carnivorous plant from W1 is easier to dodge now
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  • Enemies and some other objects can be spawned facing diferent directions
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  • Some drops (crystal, life/mana orbs) are now able to be collected faster
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  • Keys spawned from little chest are placed higher
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  • Achievements pop-up now display progression
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  • Enemies affected by ""Electrify"" effect can also get ministunned
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  • ""Freeze"" effect last longer on enemies
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  • Little chest found on exploration runs doesn't contain heal and mana anymore. Instead it can have different type of currencies.
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  • Life tree: A new ""Life tree"" object can be found during exploration rooms. This is the new source of small amount of heals during runs.
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  • During runs, there will always be a ""Quiet room"" option to pick between portals before a ""Boss room"".
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  • Zodiacs can now be frozen when reaching 10 freeze stacks, but they break out of it instantly
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  • Text of damage dealt on enemies are displayed differently. No more multiple text object spawned in short period of times, damage count is stacked in one singe text object instead
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  • New visual asset for Zodiac challenges chests
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  • Elites modificators: 4 new elites modificators have been added + improved all the existing ones
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  • Increased lisibility by making a lot of visual FX much faster and added opacity on some of them
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  • We could not reset merchant options if every options were bought already.
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  • Spells Behavior: Improved gamefeel of a lot of spells
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  • Hub NPCs: Improved navigation for most of NPCs interfaces
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  • Taurus: Attacks are a bit faster & improvement of one attack
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  • Capricorn: Polish of existing attacks and feedbacks
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  • Virgo: Start of polishing, still patterns to be improved
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  • Increased players base movement speed

[h2]Balancing[/h2]

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  • Keys reward for Fight rooms are capped at minimum 2 keys and maximum 4 keys
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  • Buffed damage on Ayla signatures spells:
    - Explosive clone
    - Moon arch
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  • Buffed damage on Kiran signatures spells:
    - Angry fist
    - Heartbreaking uppercut
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  • Nerfed damage on Kiran and Ayla basic spells
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  • Adjusted cooldown values for several of the new auras:
    -Orbitting shields (1 spawn every 5 seconds instead of 7)
    -Frost daggers (1 spawn every 1.5 seconds instead of 3)
    -Fiery dash (1 spawn every 1.5 seconds instead of 3)
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  • Zodiacs: Zodiacs are now attacking more often and have less idle phases.

[h2]Level Design[/h2]

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  • New placement for flame geysers in world 2

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

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  • Polish on Slot Saving UI
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  • Added fade in and reduced volume of music in first layouts (data gathering and devs message)
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  • When arriving on Main Menu while playing with controller, cursor would not be on ""Play"" requiring an extra move to get where the cursor is
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  • Constellation selection polish
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  • Patch note display on Main Menu is better feedbacked

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

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  • Relic altar could bug after opening player inventory, equiping unwanted relics
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  • Fixed dialog in bar room where lines didn't display correct character that was speaking
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  • Players had no animation while collecting Zodiac summon chest
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  • Relic NPC appearing animation is displayed before triggering dialog, during first meet event
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  • Some sounds were not being triggered correctly
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  • Relic that spawned ice projectiles was spawning wrong projectiles amount
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  • Fix Saggitarius Arrow / Missiles and Yalee projectiles behaviour. They won't be targetting Capricorn books anymore
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  • It was possible for some dialogs to not trigger correctly
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  • Challenge music added in Capricorn and Sagittarius challenge room
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  • New character unlock display is now preloaded - ☄️ hotfix 0.23.1


- The Hibernian Workshop Team