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More moves and more things? Crazy...

- Claws - Toxicity - No longer multiplies the velocity from other attacks, thus reducing the awkwardness in mid-air combos caused by claws.
- Claws - Toxicity - Also fixed an issue that caused the gamepad shaking to be overriden into not playing when toxic element was applied to enemies.
- General - Easy Mode's missions are now always synchronized with whatever last mission you had completed.
(This is not a retroactive change. So you may want to complete a level again in order for this to work. For example, you can beat level 11 on Normal in order to unlock Mission 12 on both Easy and Normal. And so on.)
- General - Fixed Huntress's TOB accidentally re-loading into Shamir's TOB when clicking "Restart from checkpoint" after dying.
- General - Fixed a rare case where the wrong shooting animation would play out.
- General - Fixed an issue where the gravity multiplier would stick after landing on rail with it and not manually getting off the rail, that caused the character to get insanely fast until an animation reset is performed.
- General - Fixed an issue where the music wouldn't be properly set up in Divergence Mode.
- General - Fixed missing translations for the Shotgun moves in the upgrades menu.
- General - Previously undocumented as I forgot about it, Fixed the gamepad cursor not properly selecting a difficulty in the menu when returning to the menu from any of the missions.
- Recovery Mechanic - Added a slow motion sound, since it was missing.
- Reduced the animation delay for the jumping animation by a tiny bit.
- Shamir - Quee - Acid Breath - Updated visual effects
- Shamir - Quee - Boomerang - Change the input in order to be pulled off easier than before, you now just have to hold the attack button when not locked on in order for it to work. This makes it easier to use in combat, and overall just nicer to pull off mid-combos.
- Shamir - Quee - Boomerang - Now can also be used mid-air.
- Shamir - Quee - Drillthrough - Added additional text to mention that this move is affected by CT, and provided a video demonstration in the upgrades menu for that.
- Shamir - Shotgun - 2 new moves have been added (Combo A and Gun-Fu). You can unlock them in the Upgrades menu.

Combination of moves in question:


Note:
- Uhh... More work on playable Enerith/Knight. Just... a bit different this time. No dataminerinoz.
- This update disables some* Boss voice lines until further notice. There's many reasons behind this, but it's also because I do want to give Enerith a proper voice actor that isn't my own modified voice, with him becoming playable especially, he could use some more voice work. I am investigating possibilities right now.

Known issues -
See trello.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail, or on the stinky discord.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

If no one is using an important mechanic of your game, that means that mechanic sucks.

So here's a new one, so you don't have to switch to dodge to get out of the damaged animation no more.

- General - Added a new recovery mechanic. Now whenever you are damaged, you can just press Jump to get out of the damaged animation. This will also show up on the screen and tell you when to press it.
This feature is available for all characters, and for the upcoming playable knight.



- Huntress updated a few animations.
- Jump cancel now also resets the gun cooldowns (except for the shotgun, as that would be too overpowered.)
- Character Reset/Cancels now also reset the double taps, this should make it a bit more consistent, and reduce accidental double tap moves.
- Can't press the attack while paused anymore.
- Fiery Uppercut - Reduced the lockout time as it felt a bit too long.
- Minor Adjustments to the animation system for the ranged weapons.

Known issues -
See trello.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail, or on the stinky discord.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

In case you don't follow twitter/x or discord, just shoving a small preview.
Playable knight is the main focus right now, so please bear with those smaller changes before I'll be taking care of whatever is in the trello list.

- General - Added the B button function to the rest of the main menu.
- General - Moved the social media buttons so the gamepad cursor doesn't cut off.
- General - Rebaked the lighting for a few levels due to the extra rock lods from the previous patch.
- General - Increased the jump cancel trigger on enemies in order to improve jump cancel consistency.
- Quee - Increased Quee's hitbox sizes to match a bit closer to the visual effects. That should make some moves feel a bit more reliable.
- Dodge Mode - Teleportation towards enemy now takes the enemy's current gravity, to ensure the player doesn't fall off below the enemy too early during air combat.
- Fixed a Linux build bricking. (Not sure as I have no way to test it, but the build went fine this time.)
- Jump pads now force the floatiness on, unless the mechanic is disabled in the gameplay menu.
- Jump pads now have a grounded protection, in order to ensure the player won't get stuck on it once or twice.
- Quee - Fixed an issue where the proper animation wouldn't play out if you tried to do a turbo launch right after doing another attack mid air and then holding the attack button and the backwards input right as you landed. How specific.
- Reduced the attack input lag by a tiny bit.


Known issues -
See trello.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail, or on the stinky discord.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

Wow. The B button now functions like in many other games... Crazy.

- General - Added another small change to improve how hits feel. You may notice it. You may not. It's camera FOV related, it's very subtle, too.
- General - Default FOV is now 90
- General - Added some LODs to some rocks to improve performance in some areas. This was actually done due to prototyping of another mission, but I guess that retroactively applies here too.
- Fixed some enemies in the training mode not getting their sounds or aggression disabled, even if the toggle for either was enabled.
- Some moves now have a velocity multiplier, making the player move faster as if affected by the gravity. (Airflow, Comet are the biggest examples.)
- Pressing B on the gamepad in menu options in-game/settings will now count as pressing "back", this should make the navigation with the gamepad a bit nicer. (The same will be supported for the main menu/where you load levels in the next patch.)

Known issues -
See trello.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail, or on the stinky discord.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

The work on the playable Knight continues.

- Fixed Jump Particles not showing on extra playable characters. (Huntress, WIP Enerith...)
- Updated the description of the boost mode's concentration to be more up to date.
- Removed Boost Mode's Concentration recharge when the invisible lock on is active.
- Fixed a rare situation where a launcher hitbox would show up only for a frame or two.
- Added a few invincibility frames to jumping, meaning you now can sort of use jumping as a way to dodge.
- Another small change to the ground detection to prevent the character from gliding slightly above the floor.
- Increased the size of claws hitboxes to be more consistent with the effects.
- Shamir - Updated running animations.
- Claws - Added the same hit effect as from other weapons on top of the claws effect. That makes the hits feel nicer.

Known issues -
No bugs, but features are in progress.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail, or on the stinky discord.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE