Peglin News

Hi everyone! We ran a little poll in Discord to see if our community was interested in nominating Peglin for any of the awards (and if so, which one), and the clear winner was the "Best Game You Suck At" award 😅

We're not really under any illusions that we'll win any of the awards given how many incredible games have come out in the last year, but it's still a fun thing to participate in! So if you've had a good time with Peglin we'd appreciate a nomination for that (or any of the other) awards!

As a small aside we'll also have a small update coming out later today to clean up some of the biggest complaints with the Shop Update! Thanks so much for everyone that has played and provided feedback, and we'll take all of that and keep working to make the game as good as we can

Hi everyone! It’s been way too long since we’ve had some patch notes to write up but I hope you’ll agree after trying the new update that it’s been worth the wait! In some ways Peglin feels like an entirely new game! We still have a lot of new content to add to engage with the new mechanics and to create some synergies to help battle through the new Cruciball levels (currently the Cruciball levels are extremely difficult) but that’s something that we can add in more frequent updates now that the main systems are in place and have had a first balance pass on them.

As always we’re more than happy to hear your feedback, it has been instrumental in getting Peglin to this point, please keep it coming both on the new changes and on older content!

[h2]Big Systemic Changes[/h2]

• Coins can now be obtained in battles, and Peglin’s post-battle additions and upgrades now cost coins, enabling you to add and/or upgrade orbs multiple times after each battle! Only offered orbs that don't fit your build? Save that gold up for another battle or for Haglin’s Shop.
• Haglin has finally set up their shop! (Though you might still catch them for a free sample). Save up some coins for a wider selection of orbs and relics, and the ability to remove orbs!
• Map Generation is now guaranteed to at least have a few Chests, Elites, and Shops instead of being completely random.
• Orbs have been split into rarity. This will help us roll out things that are a little bit more broken, and give us other ways to balance content other than tacking on downsides or reducing their strengths, which we know has been a source of frustration in the past!
• Class relics - This will be more exciting when we release classes in the next couple of months, but for now Peglin’s Peglintuition starting relic will help reduce the inherent randomness of having access to all orbs & relics!

[h2]UI Improvements[/h2]
We’ve tweaked and improved the UI in a lot of different places! (If you check the credits you might notice a new addition under “Additional Art & Design”, and the UI work that she’s been doing has been amazing so far!)

• New tooltip art for orbs and relics
• Custom Start menu has had a big overhaul for feedback and readability 
• Many text-only buttons have received additional visual feedback
• Roman Numeral level overlays have been stylized in Inventory view
• Roman Numeral level overlays in-battle have been replaced with stylized frames
• Status Effect icons have been tweaked and made more readable (but we’ll be making further improvements here)
• Nicer Cruciball indicator pip

[h2]Content Changes[/h2]

• [NEW] Event: helpful spirits!
• [NEW] (Custom-Only) Seraphic Shield: Immunity from (almost) all damage
• [NEW] End-of-run Unlock screen (more stats and visual improvements to come soon!)
• Refresh pegs can no longer be shielded, and when a shield moves onto a refresh peg it will break the existing shield
• Echorb Echo buffed to 30/60/100
• Necorbmancer now buffs pegs that it “revives” (+1/+2/+3)
• Sliming Crit(!) pegs now retains them as Crit until they’re popped
• Bullyball should now update its damage display when self-damaging from Rigged Bombs
  • Next update will have it also update from in-flight damage
• Concentrication Attack Animation Speed increased
• Gamblin now has an idle animation

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Single path navigation no longer has broken slot highlight visuals
• Axe Me Anything now properly causes bombs to deal full damage to the Super Sapper boss
• Electorbmagnet should no longer hone towards already popped orbs
• Broken Shields on Disappearing/Reappearing pegs no longer play their animation every reappearance
• The new (as of last update) moving bomb in the Shield/Archer/Cleric encounter will no longer disappear halfway across the screen
• Main menu correctly drops all orbs again, not just Matryorbshkas
• Several fixes to the “Click to Aim” button’s functionality (still some visual issues to fix though)
• Refreshield now properly triggers the Cookie and Refresher Course
• (unverified) Brick Slimes should no longer get stuck in mid-air (but we’ve never been able to reproduce this one so we’re shooting in the dark a little bit)
  

We're happy to announce that Peglin is part of the WePlay Online Games Week, We'll also bring it to the later WePlay Expo right this weekend in Shanghai.

Further more, Peglin has been nominated for IndiePlay's best Overseas Games Award, alongside with other fellow indie titles. The winner will be announced at the expo at November 13th (finger crossed!)



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Hey all! It's been a little too long since we've done a big balance pass (since we've been pretty heads down working on the big Shop Update), but we definitely understand that the game has been growing increasingly frustrating as we throw more content at the wall without solid ways to mitigate the increased RNG that comes with it (ie not being able to get the pieces needed for a particular build because the content pool has grown so much).

We do have solid plans for how Haglin's Shop and classes will help solve that issue in the future, but we also have to be cognizant of keeping the game fun while we get to that point, and that's something we've been slipping on a little bit lately.

So: this update is purely to sand off some of the difficulty that has been creeping up higher than we've intended (especially outside of the Cruciball). We're a tiny team working our absolute butts off to make the best game we possibly can, so we deeply appreciate you all sticking with us through the growing pains and for all of the feedback and encouragement you provide as we perform the balancing act of building the game for tomorrow vs keeping it entertaining and fresh today (even when we have a few missteps or start to stray a bit from what makes the game a fun experience).

[h2]v0.7.56 Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]New Content[/h3]

• [Rare Relic] Critikris - Whenever a Crit is activated, deal damage to all enemies equal to your orb's current Crit damage.
  
• [New Orb] Restorb - A low damage orb with a small amount of healing when fired that can be used once per battle. At lvl 3 the Restorb also increases your Max HP by a small amount.
  
• Ukrainian support has been re-added to the game! (Thank you to the team at IndieArk for helping us out with a non-CJK language and adding the missing elements to our pixel fonts, and a huge thank you to our localizers!)
  

[h3]Balance Changes[/h3]

• Every map is now guaranteed to have at least 2 minibosses and 2 additional treasure chests
  
• Super Sapper Pegboard has been made denser
  
• Rigged Bomb self-damage has been reduced to 3
  
• Qaballistic Ruins HP reduced in non-Cruciball runs
  
• Bouldorb's Overflow has been converted back to Pierce at all levels
  
• Orboros damage has been increased
  
• Orblation self-damage reduced (and its orb and (absolutely gorgeous) attack art has been added)
  
• Constricting Chains Crit damage boost increased
  
• Salt Shaker and Gardener's Glove relics removed from random relic pool
  
• Two archers removed from Castle Knight Miniboss encounter
  
• Number of brick slimes reduced in both encounters
  
• Plant Trio Miniboss HP reduced for Cruciball 3+
  
• Additional bombs added to Shield/Archer/Cleric Castle battle
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Bullyball now correctly gets boosted by Orboros Discard self-damage.
  
• Refreshorb should now always correctly have its level 3 upgrade available
  
• Sapper Boss Grid cells no longer incorrectly stick around when they should be cleared
  
• Matryorbshka multiballs no longer get stuck on the Main Menu
  

This build went out on Sept. 15th (apologies for the delayed patch notes) and fixed many of the issues introduced in v0.7.52 (and one older issue):

• Minotaur melee attack could soft-lock the game
  
• Music did not always resume after playing the new win jingle
  
• Critiball guaranteed crit was not always activating
  
• Custom loadout page for orbs was only displaying as half-full before moving to a second page
  
• Slenderlin attack projectile better matches its animation.