Windblown | Sanctuary Update Out Now!

Hey Leapers!

✨Sanctuary is OUT NOW✨

Check out our brand new Community Trailer for (almost) all of the info!

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[h2]What's New?[/h2]

[h3]Sanctuary[/h3]
Sanctuary is a new spooky Biome, filled with plenty of mysteries and enemies to face. To access it though requires a bit of ground work - Start a new run and find Carlos at the end of the Factory Biome. He'll have a task for you. Once complete you'll have a new option when you defeat Headbanger, to either jump into Rat Village or take on Sanctuary.

Carlos isn't just a means to getting into Sanctuary though, he has some interesting information about the Ark and it's inhabitants. This is the first of many quests that will be added to the game which will help dive into the lore and story of Windblown - so stay tuned for more to come!

[h3]New Enemies[/h3]
Any new biome wouldn't be complete without some new challenges. So we've added a bunch of new enemies for you to face, with some stronger versions littered about too. You'll have to tackle lasers, bombs, electricity, sweeping attacks, oh, and a healing unit... To break it down, you'll find: 5 new Sentinel enemies: the Drone, Head, Paladin, Priest and Caster. Along with 3 variant Sentinel enemies: the Alpha Drone, Feral Drone and Alpha Paladin.

[h3]Plus... A BRAND NEW BOSS![/h3]

[h3]Weapons & Trinket[/h3]

We've added 4 new weapons! That's right, 4!!

Sharp Sisters - A pair of dual blades that brave Leapers may find familiar. Their Alterattack leaves a deadly flurry of blades behind as you dash forward!
Elder Blade - Split the earth, like... 7 times. Knocking enemies back, and even off the map!
Sentinel Wings - Sentinel Wings go bbbbbbrrrrrr. Or more accurately they fire huge lasers, perfect for eradicating anything that might stand in your way.
Fishing Rod - To go fishing with... Nah, it's great for wide sweeping attacks and yeeting enemies into the abyss!

Plus a brand new Trinket called the Chrono Catcher! - This thing drops a zone on the ground which slows enemies inside. It'll also put the brakes on any projectiles that might end up flying through!

[h3]Sharp Sisters[/h3]

[h3]Elder Sword[/h3]

[h3]Sentinel Wings[/h3]

[h3]Fishing Rod[/h3]

[h3]Chrono Catch[/h3]

[h2]Extras[/h2]
We're also adding:

2 new enemy variants (Fungal Swamp and Rat Village)
1 new skin - Obsidian Axolotl
New Accessibility Options - See allies VFX and tweak stick dead zones on gamepads
Hide UI - You can now press F3 to hide your HUD (another community request!)
5 new upgrades at Eperin - all of which were inspired by the community!
- 2 that increase the amount of items in the main shops
- 1 that adds small new specific Boosts to the shops and gates pool
- 2 that add new training racks to test Gifts and Trinkets/Magifishes in the Ark

[h2]Plus...[/h2]

[h3]Magifish Recharge Rework[/h3]
We've changed how these helpful fish recharge! You no longer have to wait for a timer, but instead can recharge them by dealing damage to enemies. This is an important improvement that will encourage you to commit more during fights.

[h3]NEW: Retrieve Your Remains[/h3]
We know it can be tough when you die on a run and lose what you're carrying. So we've added a new system that allows you to retrieve your Cogs, Memonites and Encrypted Memories by starting a new run and reaching where you died. You'll see an indicator appear at the edge of your screen when you get close to your remains. If you don't make it back to that point however, they're gone for good (or until they drop again)!

[h3]Revenge Mode Update[/h3]
We're making some changes to Revenge Mode as well, to bring it more in line with what we envisioned. When an ally is downed, you'll still go into the familiar fit of rage, but now you'll have an energy gauge that will slowly deplete over time - if it hits zero, you're dead. Dealing damage and killing enemies will increase the gauge, and if you fill it to the top, you'll revive your allies!

[h3]NEW: Encrypted Memories Bad Luck Protection[/h3]
We've added a type of 'bad luck protection' to the game to help make farming for Memories easier. This means that if you're looking for something specific like a weapon or skin, you won't potentially be grinding forever (we will start counting from this version, we don't have records of previous drops).

[h2]You can catch the full patch notes below 👇[/h2]

But for now, we want to thank you for checking Sanctuary out! It's been an absolute blast getting to bring a brand new biome to Windblown. We hope you have a great time diving in and uncovering its mysteries!

Catch you all real soon!

-MT

Current Deals

BTW! If you want to pick up the Windblown Original Soundtrack or discover Dead Cells, our previous game: both have their own bundles with Windblown, and are currently 20% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46045/Windblown__OST/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46406/Windblown__Dead_Cells/

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Patch Notes

:star:️ = community inspired!
[h2]New[/h2]

New Biome: Sanctuary which is unlocked with a quest featuring Carlos a new character
1 new Boss!
5 new Sentinel enemies: the Drone, Head, Paladin, Priest and Caster.
And 3 variant Sentinel enemies: the Alpha Drone, Feral Drone and Alpha Paladin.
1 new Variant mob in the Fungal Swamp: Mushroom Warrior Alpha
1 new Variant mob in the Rat Village: Pirate Sword Alpha
4 new Weapons: Fishing Rod, Sharp Sisters, Elder Sword & Sentinel Wings!
New Trinket: Chronos Catch which slows down enemies and projectiles in its surroundings.
New Skin: Obsidian ???
New Remains system: now you can retrieve the Cogs, Memonites and Encrypted Memories you lost in your previous Expedition (if you don’t find them, they will be lost forever).
Added 3 new Steam achievements
:star:️ 5 new Eperin’s upgrades: 2 to increase the amount of items in the main shops, 1 to add small new specific Boosts to the shops and gates pool, 2 to add new training racks to test Gifts and Trinkets/Magifishes in the Ark
New chunks in Factory and Golem Gardens biomes
:star:️ Accessibility: added an option to always show allies VFXs in multiplayer
:star:️ Options: new gamepad option to tweak the sticks dead zones
:star:️ Options: added a new F3 keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the hud

[h2]Co-op: Revenge Changes[/h2]

Added a gauge that slowly decrease with time and increase with damage done or mob kills.
Game Over if gauge is depleted, Revive if gauge is refilled.
Gauge decrease is paused for a moment when finishing a fight and in UI choice
Player is no more interrupted when Revenge Start
All mobs are pushed away when Revenge Start

[h2]Balancing[/h2]

:star:️ Magifishes: are now refilled by dealing damage to the enemies
:star:️ Encrypted Memories Drops: the algorithm now ensures that they will drop and not let you being unlucky forever (before the draw was just rerolling the dices fully randomly each time, making it potentially impossible to drop something if you had really bad luck) - note: we will start counting from this version, we don’t have record of previous drops.
Encrypted Memories Drops: moved some to other enemies / places and updated their prices.
Gifts: Deadly Expansion: now works in the same way on all bosses
Weapons: Anchor Boom: the damage of the second part of the Alterattack is now done in 1 instance
:star:️ Enemies: the ones who are not insta-killed by falling outside of the platforms (or who won’t fall at all) will still get damaged
Enemies: Mother Ant cannot spit eggs more than 5 times during fight
Enemies: Golem Brawler: whip foot attack is more deadly
Enemies: Mushroom Warrior: now has a ranged attack (an explosive mushroom that pop at player position and growth until explosion)

[h2]QoL[/h2]

Gifts: renamed “Shield” to “Barrier” to avoid confusions with the weapon of the same name
Affixes: UI: added an icon to the message that feedbacks when a weapon’s damage is permanently increased
HUB: UI: new UI for training racks
UI: Challenges: new interface
:star:️ UI: All bosses now display displaying their names in the HUD
:star:️ UI: Thrift Shop: added a counter showing the amount of upgrades still possible
:star:️ UI: improved the feedback for Boosted Boosts
:star:️ Graphics options: made it clearer that you need to have no frame rate limiter to use the V-Sync
:star:️ Options: the “No Vomit” option will now also prevent the puke SFX to be played when commit back to the Ark
Title Screen: “patch notes” text can now be localized
Application: quitting game now fades out properly without flickering or stuttering
:star:️ Co-op: Server disconnected popup: added a 2 seconds delay before allowing to confirm the exit button (avoids unwanted disconnections)
Co-op: Teleport to Team now prevents teleporting to a player that is too close (thus allowing to loop between 2 distant players)
Co-op: Text chat: pressing enter while typing will now solely send the message and won’t close the text chat directly (use ESC / B on gamepads to exit)
Co-op: every player has his own banking fish and you need to hold to interact
Bug Reporter: screenshot now includes player’s HUD
Localization: “???” texts now uses proper localized font (e.g. in Japanese)
Steam Deck: now shows a Steam Deck schematics instead of an Xbox controller in the Options’ Controls section
Steam Deck: removed “controller recommended” text on the title screen

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

:star:️ Crash: fix candidate for an error occuring in the GPU frustrum culling
:star:️ GPU Crashes: fix candidate for GPU crashes when V-RAM is equal or lower to 2GB
:star:️ Softlock: fixed having some teleporters not working if you also dashed at the same frame (was mostly happening case in the hidden shops)
:star:️ Softlock: fixed issue with end of expedition doors when a player would leave
:star:️ Weapons: Ravenblade: fixed extra jump opportunity affix not having enough i-frames
:star:️ Weapons: fixed Alterattacks being bugged after you entered an RTC while performing a Crystallize movement (rare, kuddos for finding that one!)
Weapons: Anchor Boom: fixed some little quirks and rehauled the under the hood tech of this weapon for the future
:star:️ Trinkets: L-BR0: fixed not being usable against the dummy at the Ark
:star:️ Gear: fixed impossible to equip while in combat and you had only one (one weapon OR one trinket)
:star:️ Gifts: fixed Curse video preview
:star:️ Boosts: fixed application of health when restarting from the beginning of the biome with version changes
:star:️ Bodies: fixed Snake’s Onsen suit having VFXs placed in the ground and a flipped pulsor
Bodies: fixed Toad having its VFXs placed in the ground
Dodge: fixed not applying damage when the enemy is not interupted
Inventory: fixed showing counters for currencies with a zero count
:star:️ Loot: fixed a rare bug where enemies would not be unregistered properly when killed by a projectile while flying outside of an island, thus leading to loot packages not opening as the combat was still running
:star:️ Loots: fixed chest not spawning the Shells and Cogs they contained leading to a feel of “empty chests” (was only a visual bug)
:star:️ Loot: gixed Chicken Golem’s Jar dropping loot before the actual enemy was killed
Loots: fixed having some loots dropped below the playable area and thus being unreachable
:star:️ Boss: removed uneeded invisible collider in the naveless brothers fight which could block projectiles
:star:️ Elites: fixed cases where the laser trait could be destroyed
:star:️ Enemies: Mushroom Shielder: fixed charge vfx always staying visible
:star:️ Enemies: fixed Worker Saw and Fenwick enemies being drawn behind AOEs
:star:️ Enemies: prevented the Ant Mother enemy from spawning unlimited Small Ants enemies
:star:️ Enemy: fixed rare occurence where an unaggroed enemy would still be considered in combat and block interactions like picking up a weapon
:star:️ Onsen: fixed issue when going out of onsen with no weapon
:star:️ Onsen: fixed swim animations not looping properly
:star:️ UI: Inventory: fixed not being able to navigate properly when you have 3 or more rows of Gifts displayed
UI: Givers: fixed not showing the right item’s description for a few frames
UI: Saves Manager: fixed save slots’ background not being masked properly when scrolling horizontally
UI: fixed compression of some atlased sprites
:star:️ Rebindings: fixed Inventory that could not be closed with the newly assign binding
:star:️ Rebindings: fixed action not being removed from the default binding
SFX: fixed several unworking sound effects
:star:️ Weather difficulty: Onsen: Switched visual of heal pickup to something other than an apple when onsen is dried up to avoid confusion on why it can’t be burnt
:star:️ Localization: fixed co-op text chat being sometimes unreadible in Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Localization: Achievements: fixed achievements not being localized in German and Russian

[h2]Optimization[/h2]

Factory Biome: reduced the amount of bricks and bushes spawned
Now unloads unused resources from the memory more often while loading biomes (should reduce impact on RAM and V-RAM)
Optimizing some player skins’ dynamic bones (impacts lower configs, especially in co-op)

[h2]Misc[/h2]

Enemies: Golem Brawler: now has scarves attached to his shoulders and a hat
Enemies: Mushroom Warrior: fart attack has a new VFX
New rumbles on the “Touch” interactives