Patch Notes - March 2023 - 0.42
⭐Changes inspired by our community!
[h2]Major Features[/h2]
- New Hero Spells: 37 new hero spells for a total of 20 per hero
[hr][/hr] - Auras upgrade: Some auras can now be upgraded to a rarer tier version of itself through a new special loot added to the game
[hr][/hr] - Zodiacs reward: Changed loots given on big chest from Zodiac reward. Now it spawns a pool of different auras to choose from
[hr][/hr] - New Effects added: We added several new effects to the game: Meteor(Poison), Toxic explosion(Poison), Ice sword(Ice), Thunder strike(Electric), Fireshield(Fire)
[hr][/hr] - Gambit Addition: We created several new gambits using the new effects
[hr][/hr] - Gambit Rework: We reworked the older gambits to have different triggers and % chances, overall all gambit have been buffed from their previous version
[hr][/hr] - Co-op Loots: Balanced the amount of loot given during single player and co-op mode in multiple places - 2 npc summons, 2 auras in yalee kingdom, 2 loots for exploration rooms/boss/minibosses, merchant cost less quartz in co-op too
[hr][/hr] - New auras: More than 240 new auras added to the game. This is accompanied by other major rework from auras system and it should enable players to experiment with a big amount of build varieties
[hr][/hr] - New unlock order: Reorganizing of unlocking new elements with XP points on death recap
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[h2]Small Features[/h2]
- Applying ignition to a enemy now refresh the effect duration instead of triggering the effect again
[hr][/hr] - Combustion, and Spark doesn't add burn and electrify effects when hitting enemies
[hr][/hr] - Fight and Exploration room have cooldown after picked a certain amount of times to prevent often picking the same room types
[hr][/hr] - Cetus gambits categories have changed and the rarities of spawned gambits now depends of current world
[hr][/hr] - Changed the order of unlock for some NPCs on hub
[hr][/hr] - Declining a Zodiac challenge on Challenge room doesn't make Zodiac leave the room anymore
[hr][/hr] - Changed Ayla's signature spell trigger for NPC summon effects (Summoning Kiran, Octave or Calie) so the summon happens after the teleports
[hr][/hr] - During co-op, players shouldn't be able to interact with Aura altars and other loots such as Gambit or Spell at the same time
[hr][/hr] - You can now see the spells & gambits icon before opening the loots
[hr][/hr] - If you have found all memory fragments in your run, a small chest appears with currencies instead of nothing
[hr][/hr] - Improved Barbecue UI to better fit the new quantity of Auras
[hr][/hr] - Ice Fragments now go through enemies by default
[hr][/hr] - Spirit Swords now work with number of hits instead of time and we have removed the Spirit Sword spell to keep it as a neutral effect
[hr][/hr] - The ability from Zim-Zim that can make spells spawn with higher levels doesn't work on itinerant merchant spells anymore. This is so it doesn't affect intended prices for spells sold there
[hr][/hr] - Spells & Gambits icons are now visible even when they are closed
[hr][/hr] - More death recap levels: Added new unlock levels to a max of 114 (previously 38)
[hr][/hr] - Some currencies are auto collected if players leave the room without picking them or before it spawn animation finishes - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
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[h2]Balancing[/h2]
- Loot scaling: Auras and gambits quality scale with world progression
[hr][/hr] - Mini-boss loot change: With the Echos isles change, the loot of mini-boss has been adjusted as follow: 1 slot unlocker and 1 gambit between 3 gambits
The quality of those gambits is improved compared to regular gambits loot
[hr][/hr] - Effects that deal damage over time (poison, ignition and frostbite) can't trigger critical hits or prevent enemies to finish their movements
[hr][/hr] - Increased the amount of destiny fragments needed to unlock a destiny level in NG+
[hr][/hr] - Zim-Zim healing summon now heals more
[hr][/hr] - Co-op revive now grants more HP to revived player
[hr][/hr] - Co-op revive time is smaller, its increase between death is smaller and the increase per death is reset at the start of each room
[hr][/hr] - Lot of changes on spells damage
[hr][/hr] - Various changes of HP on Zodiacs, Minibosses & enemies
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[h2]Level Design[/h2]
- Andromeda fusion with merchant: Andromeda room now welcomes a merchant at the end and merchant room has been removed from the regular room pool (Andromeda room will still appear 1 room before bosses)
[hr][/hr] - Echos isles join the regular pool: Echos isles will no longer only be accessible after defeating a mini-boss but instead will appear randomly like other special rooms
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[h2]Music & SFX[/h2]
- Saplings now do sound design only if enemies around
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[h2]Interface[/h2]
- Improved all Perks texts
[hr][/hr] - Improved all glossaries texts
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[h2]Visuals[/h2]
- Shockwave at the end of levels (portals spawning) are now looking better
[hr][/hr] - Visuals polish on most game effects - Combustion, Saplings, Freeze, etc
[hr][/hr] - Changed order of display of most effects in the game, now most visual FX are behind enemies/players for better lisibility
[hr][/hr] - Removed a visual particles on slimes that was never destroyed
[hr][/hr] - Improved visuals loots on gambits
[hr][/hr] - Sagittarius summon ultimate is now behind everything - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
[hr][/hr] - Kiran base spells and some other elements like Pavo's particles would be in front instead of behind - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
[hr][/hr] - Some replaced colors were not working like Leo's yellow hair when ultimate - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
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[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed some glitches that could make a move from Scorpio not work correctly during the boss fight
[hr][/hr] - Added a behavior that should make it harder to have player stuck in solids
[hr][/hr] - Leo jump attack could not show red feedback on ground if he was back to a side wall
[hr][/hr] - Spell preview for itinerant merchant altar would not be auto-disabled after releasing the previous input
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Max waits crash reported
[hr][/hr] - Minibosses HP were not impacted by NG+ and Co-op HP increases
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Wrong sign when using Aquarius spell & challenge room
[hr][/hr] - Quests could activate before the end of a dialog (during game tutorial)
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Aquarius challenge used to crash the game
[hr][/hr] - Aquarius summon would leave rocks particles on field
[hr][/hr] - Pufferfish would never look left
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Dev message layout was glitching on large width screens
[hr][/hr] - Trails following projectiles were sometimes too big
[hr][/hr] - Challenge room Zodiacs icons were too big compared to normal
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Octave and Calie were sliding on ground when picked in main Hub
[hr][/hr] - NPCs could have icons saying they have an important dialog while they did not
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Some weird events could appear very randomly like Andromeda challenge being completed
[hr][/hr] - It was possible for some skill unlocks to get skipped during death recap - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.1
[hr][/hr] - Calie basic spell could wrongly spawn as a new spell during runs - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.1
[hr][/hr] - Purchase value of spells could have wrong numbers on itinerant merchant
[hr][/hr] - Andromeda could wrongly repeat the ""refresh drinks"" animation if player go far away and then near her again
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Coop lifesteal going to player dying would make dead player stuck
[hr][/hr] - community inspired ⭐ Barbecue would always say something is new if you unlocked a specific Aura that was missing from Barbecue interface - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
[hr][/hr] - Aquarius challenge would not work properlly if triggered by player 2 during co-op mode - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
[hr][/hr] - Game camera would sometimes not unzoom to default value after spawning the big chest reward from Zodiacs fights - ☄️ hotfix 0.42.2
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- The Hibernian Workshop Team