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Boons & Burdens is a single player action-roguelike set in the depths of a hellish dimension. Battle hordes of demons through 9 levels, collect gems to purchase powerful boons, and choose from deadly burdens that alter the game's difficulty. Will you be the paragon of power or the architect of your own defeat?



I'm excited to announce the spiritual successor to Gunlocked! Building off of everything I learned during Early Access for Gunlocked, and adding numerous feature requests that I just couldn't get in for it, Boons & Burdens is everything I could ever hope for in an action rpg.

Coming to Early Access very early next year, I hope you'll join me on my next adventure.

Wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2646120/Boons__Burdens/


With fluid twin-stick controls, richly detailed pixel art, and over the top action, I think you're going to love it!

Sorry for the delay on getting out these bug fixes. I had a medical emergency a couple weeks back that took me out of commission for a while, and put me behind on other life deadlines that I had to prioritize first.

Speaking of other life deadlines, I'm deep in production on my next game, so while I know people have lots of features and new content they'd love for Gunlocked, i'll be moving on at this point. As a mostly solo dev, there aren't teams to maintain projects and develop new ones.

I've had a blast making this game and its expansion, and feedback has been 97.3% wonderful throughout. Thank you all! I look forward to sharing my next project with you. And hopefully some of you will come along for the next ride!

• Fixed an issue that could cause Drone Cloner to get stuck on Thunder Drone
  
• Add Blitz Blast compatibility to Static Surge and Spark Reactor
  
• Buzz Saw is now properly disabled when your ship is EMP'd
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause all Big Shot projectiles to be destroyed if any had damaged its maximum amount of targets (based on current charge)
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause Ace's Corkscrew augment to reset without triggering if you collided with non-asteroid enemies. Also fixed a bug that prevented the corkscrew visual from showing up on his ship.
  
• Dronerang will now reset when you level it up. This should prevent a bug that could cause the weapon to get stuck, unable to fire again if you level it up at just the right (wrong?) moment.
  
• The icons for Accelerant and Pressure Cooker have been swapped to the correct positions in the codex
  

Some final cleanup, and one elusive bug. I don't expect too many patches in the near future unless something utterly game breaking turns up. With everyone's feedback, screenshots, video, I've been able to locate and squash remaining bugs relatively quickly. Honestly, certain comments and media here and on discord have helped me solve problems faster than I might have alone.

Notes

• Small changes to loot generation have been implemented for owners of the DLC. While not a major overhaul, expect to find fewer utilities in general, and fewer random upgrades (the highest randomization still occurs at level 1).
  
• Beta Backup should now always properly update to the most recently collected powerup
  
• Gravity Wave/Rupture Wave should FINALLY stop disappearing in the inventory menu
  
• The Arc Tech utility will now be more apt to show up in electric builds
  
• Tyrantulord Boss should no longer be sometimes destroyed during a dash attack
  
• The achievement High Voltage should now properly count the new electric weapons (it was counting the utilities already).
  

Few more fixes, mostly text/info related, but a couple of achievement issues for some players should also be cleared up.

IMPORTANT: Achievement related fixes usually require you to play a new game to trigger an achievement check and update your achievement data.

• The achievement "Tech Wiz" should (hopefully) no longer get stuck locked. This didn't affect all players (or me) so let me know if you're still having issues.
  
• The achievement Bombs Away will now properly unlock in the in-game achievement viewer. It was already correctly unlocking on Steam.
  
• Numerous visuals from new upgrades should no longer get stuck on screen during a victory
  
• Electroline's level 2 and 3 texts are no longer reversed
  
• Corrupted Data 1 and 2 now have inventory Icons and text (silly text) to go with them
  
• Corrected or added various synergies to inventory listings for a number of new augments
  

Just a couple small things

• Fixed an issue that would cause victories on individual pilots to not be tracked. This won't fix the missing trophies, but will allow them to be unlocked.
  
  For those curious, this was a peculiar issue where once the Flying Aces achievement had been unlocked, the game would stop tracking more victories. Tracking worked for all pilots, but stopped once you had a victory on any 7 unique pilots. Because I regularly reset my own progress during testing, I was able to pick any pilot and unlock a trophy, so I couldn't replicate the problem many of you faced.
  
  
• Fixed a typo with the level 2 upgrade of Fireside
  
• Thunder Drone and Imploder should now trigger Blitz Blast properly.