Loop Hero News

Loop Hero, the big hit from Four Quarters and Devolver Digital that released back in March has a major 1.1 update out now with some really wonderful additions.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/loop-hero-adds-saving-during-a-run-and-more-speed-options-in-the-11-update

• Save On The Go: The new update features an option to save and exit the game in the middle of an expedition, preserving your progress.
  
• Perks Deck: A new option that locks boss perks so they don't drop in the expedition perk pool.
  
• Speed Up: The speed button now includes up to 4x expedition speed and 2.5x battle speed.
  
• Inventory Management: Items can now be locked in the inventory by right-clicking on them.
  
• Deck Switching: Decks can now be switched in the cards, supplies, and perks menus.
  
• New Tiles, New Enemies: Three new tiles and three new enemies have been added to the game, but it’s up to heroes to find them...
  

Loop Hero has sold 800k copies since its release back in March, which is pretty impressive given it's a strange, lo-fi mashup of roguelike and idle game. It's now received its first major update, and version 1.1 brings with it new tiles to build with and a bunch of quality-of-life improvements, including the ability to speed up the game.

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After being something of a mega indie hit when it launched Loop Hero quietened down quite a lot but it back with a fresh Beta upgrade and it's a big one.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/loop-hero-gets-a-big-11-beta-upgrade-and-a-mini-documentary

1. In-Expedition Saves: As many of you asked, now the game saves in the expeditions if you quit. To resolve possible issues we've added:
   
   • Escape during battles! - Now you can escape to the camp right before the eyes of your enemies. You'll still lose as much loot as you would have if you died, but it's flashier.
     
   • Debug retreat and backup loading! - Now if you hold "load"/"continue" button in the main menu, you'll get two new buttons - "debug retreat" and "load backup". First allows you to abandon the expedition on that save and return to camp. But you will lose all your resources from that expedition, so use it in emergency cases only. And backup loads the previous version of your camp.
2. Expedition and Fight Speed Sliders: Now the speed changing button is a little different. It's a slider going from 1x-4x instead of a 1x-2x switch. There is also an option to change the fight speed, which you can turn on in the options menu. Although the game fighting system is balanced around the default 1x speed and you might risk not understanding what happens on higher speeds.
   
3. Decks: Now you can switch the card, item and trait deck, and have up to 4 of them. Oh, and by the way:
   
4. Perk Deck: Now there is a possibility to "turn off" the trait you get from bosses, so they aren't a hindrance if you changed your mind.
   
5. New Tiles and New Enemies: It's more interesting if you find out about them yourselves. We'll just say there's 3 of each.
   
6. Camp Item Stacks: Some camp items have a limit on an amount of same items that can be equipped at once. After a few days reading your comments on a stacking system, we decided that just limiting certain items is a bad idea on its own. Reverted it back. Will think about it more.
7. Now items can be locked in the inventory by right-clicking them, so they aren't destroyed when you get new equipment.
   
8. A lot of traits/enemy skills/parameters reworded for clearer indication of the effect.
   
9. A bunch of changes to the English and Russian texts, a lot of typos fixed, as well as some translation issues.
   
10. Some Minor Bugfixes.
    
11. Speedrun Mode:
    • Activating this will turn on the chapter timer which will always show during gameplay.
      
    • If you start a new game with the speedrun mode on, there will also be an "any%" timer, which shows the time of the entire walkthrough.