Keeper's Toll News

Just a couple fixes/improvements added:

- Updated the failsafe for submitting specific achievements to Steam
- Sporelord Rotwood - Healing shroom spawn timer has been increased, thus he now spawns healing shrooms much less than before

-Stingbot

Here's a small patch build with a handful of bug fixes and minor changes. Thank you to everyone who reported these!

We note everything people bring to our attention, so if a change you requested is not in, or has not yet been fixed, just bear with us. Sometimes it takes a day, sometimes weeks, sometimes months before we get to things. We have a huge backlog and we are doing our best to address issues/requests, while we maintain priority on developing future content.

[h2]Patch Notes (0.7.10)[/h2]

- Restructured the UI popup display systems to prevent notifications from remaining on screen for long, unwanted durations

- Bug Fix: fixed a rare bug where merchant menu might not open. was related to multiple panels opening and frame timing issues not resetting logic properly

- Bug Fix: Ranger's kiting stance will no longer be swapped when inside the Merchant trigger area

- Sporelord Rotwood: Boss Soul now spawns offset to the right of where the boss dies, so it doesn't get hidden behind his body

- Added a backup check for earned achievements. Each the time game boots up it will check for specific achievements in case they were somehow earned in the past, but not submitted to the steam servers

- Luck starting values have all been set to 0 for each character. Luck is a completely optional stat that can be added via the Knowledge Menu or merchant items

Thank you again, and I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Stingbot Games

Build 0.7.9 brings some new systems, balancing and fixes to the game.

- NEW: Luck system.



A new stat exists for each character class called Luck. This stat can be upgraded using the Knowledge System and Merchant items. The more luck you have, previously upgraded abilities are more likely to reappear on level up. For players that want more control over their destiny and less RNG, putting points into Luck might be the right move. Luck replaces the Knowledge Skill: Doom Surge.

- Merchant Item: Lucky Rabbit's Foot - now boosts Luck by 5% in addition to boosting gold drop value

- Chancellor Autlaic: New animations for crawling and breathing black fire



- Chancellor Autlaic: His arms/hands will no longer inflict damage on the player while the boss is moving. Damage will only be inflicted while he is idle or smashing/attacking

- Chancellor Autlaic: Created a new windup + VFX when breathing black fire to warn the player of the incoming attack

- Chancellor Autlaic: Created a new visual effect particle sprite for the black flames that he breathes during the attack

- Chancellor Autlaic: Restructured the entire collision system, making it more accurate and forgiving

- By default, all character classes now have a very low amount of critical attack chance

- Boss Souls now require the player to be touching them in order to be collected. They are no longer affected by Soul Range

- Soulus now has a custom shader applied when the sword becomes enraged

- Curse: Death Caps - reduced the amount of death caps spawned by half, and increased distance between caps, making the minefield more manageable for traversal

- Skeletons and Shadow Minions will now properly target Soulus

- Altars, Challenge Events, and NPCs will no longer be enabled unless condition checks are met to ensure UI does not overlap with other menus

- UI: when talents are available, the coins icon will no longer display next to the Talents button on the main menu. This icon has been replaced with an upwards-oriented pulsing arrow

- The current run will now automatically end if the final curse is survived during curse mode

- UI: Total Souls collected will now be displayed on the home screen of the game as opposed to the options menu

- Slightly boosted performance from damage text

- Toast notifications describing direction are now written as East/West instead of Left/Right

- Options Menu: Resolutions display list has been cleaned up and improved offering more clarity. Resolutions are now sorted and displayed according to the Hz of that resolution and duplicates have been removed. Due to the complexity of overhauling this system, we had to reset the saved resolution, if one exists. So you will need to reset your preferred resolution, unless you simply use whatever the game defaults for you.

- Bug Fix: When the player dies, healing state is now properly deactivated

- Bug Fix: Ranger Burst Shot will no longer trigger the wrong SFX to play while quick shot is being fired off

- Bug Fix: When closing the pause menu and within the merchant trigger zone, the merchant menu will not automatically open. a delay has been added to prevent the UI from opening during the same frame.

- Bug Fix: When purchasing boots or chest armor pieces from the merchant, other items will no longer randomliy be marked as purchased and disabled. We had to update the index count based on the addition of new merchant items, so this was not working properly in some cases.

- Bug Fix: Added checks to Ebon King to properly end and prevent movement when the boss dies

[h2]COMING SOON[/h2]

Since we launched version 0.7 of KT, our primary focus has been on creating the Pyromancer character class, and we are inching closer to completion. We hope to have him live in the game by the end of March. Except for any possible patch builds to fix any discovered bugs, it's unlikely we will release another build until the Pyromancer goes live, at which point we will transition to version 0.8 of KT. We are also planning to release a new trailer showcasing the new character. He's a very chaotic character class with high crit and some really cool abilities and synergies. We can't wait for everyone to play him.

As always, we welcome and appreciate feedback. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, additions, or bug fixes, please don't hesitate to share with us.

Thank you for your support and following along as we continue development. Lots to come!

Stingbot Games

Hi Everyone,

This update brings some highly requested improvements to the game, as well as some new features. Lots of new items have also been added to the Merchant Pool.

[h2]WHAT'S NEW[/h2]

- NEW Curse Mode setup. When defeating the end boss of any level you now have the option to begin curse mode for greater rewards, or end the run and keep your current rewards. Seek out a new NPC named Hitch. She resides at a bonfire once the final stage boss is defeated.


- NEW Merchant Rerolls. Now you have 1 free re-roll per merchant instance. Any purchased item slot is not eligible for a reroll.



- NEW Merchant Item (Uncommon): Shadow Essence Vial - Critical strikes have a 10% chance to summon a shadow minion that temporarily fights alongside you.



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Thunderstruck Gauntlets - Critical strikes have a 10% chance to burst lightning, chain attacking nearby enemies.



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Ring of Serpents - Any attack has a 1% chance to spawn an AOE poison cloud



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Celerity Veil - Receive a temporary 30% movement speed boost when collecting a healing shard or using a healing flask



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Dreadroot Tonic - poison abilities inflict 20% more damage and last 20% longer



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Voidshroud Scroll - Renders character immune to slow and stun. Boosts slow and stun ability duration by 30%



- Merchant menu will now be opened manually by pressing the action input when the player is in close vicinity to the merchant. This helps avoid unwanted activation of the menu. Input will be shown to the player when the merchant can be activated.

- Adjusted text descriptions for character classes on the character select menu. Descriptions have been simplified to help clarify the style/attributes of each class

- Ghosts of Behelit can no longer be feared or slowed and their materials will not change based on status effects

- Necromancer: Skeletons now target Soulus

- Necromancer: Auto Flail spawn in visual has been improved to account for proper rotation

- Bogatyr: Shieldwarden - shield will no longer be lost when accepting a blood sacrifice

- Bogatyr: Stunning Blow: added a slight delay to the stun/KB to match the animation frames

- Ranger: Fixed some collision issues with Burst Shot being affected by colliders it should not have been affected by

- Nightmare Cloak is now exempt from mystique vial rewarded items

- Sporelord Rotwood: healing shrooms will now be disabled on death

- Soulus: if Soulus is left alive for longer than 3 minutes, it will now enrage and seek to destroy the player

- Bug Fix: Fixed some disabling of environment assets on spawn checks

- Bug Fix: Toast notifications should now properly disable at all times. Modified the class structure to prevent unwanted disabling of logic during a notification

- Bug Fix: healing animation should not play while dead. added additional checks to prevent animation from playing

- Bug Fix: Shadow monk can no longer teleport to the left of Chancellor Autlaic's hand position in the boss fight

- Bug Fix: Shadow monk teleport will no longer get stuck if time scale changes during the sequence

- Bug Fix: ghosts of behelit were not disabling properly due to incorrect animation reference. fixed

- Bug Fix: Usvit Castle props/destructible collision issues with some props such as tables/chairs not properly destroying

- Bug Fix: Rain Particle Droplet FX is now properly disabled when loading back to Castle Usvit halls from the Ebon King's arena

- Bug Fix: Sporelord Rotwood will no longer get stuck in his summon animation

- Nibbler: the rat's deactivation timer will no longer count down while he's stunned, and he will only disable when running off screen

- Disabled treasure chest icon when loading into a boss arena if the treasure hunt is active

- Mystique Vial no longer rewarded from Challenge Event. It's now only available to purchase via the shop

- Level End Screen: Bonus Gold only displayed if a bonus has been earned from entering Curse Mode

- Boosted gold rewards for surviving curses

- Updated Game HUD and menus for displaying gold count

- Updated Game Engine


[h2]COMING SOON[/h2]

We are working on a new event for Linden Forest, as well as some secrets. These will likely be going live in the next update.

Our primary focus is building the Pyromancer class. We are planning to launch him in the game next month, which will transition KT to version 0.8.

As always, we welcome and appreciate feedback. If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, additions, or bug fixes, please don't hesitate to share with us.

Thank you for your support and following along as we continue development. Lots more to come!

Stingbot Games

We have some new items added to version 0.7.3 of KT, as well as some balancing/bug fixes. We're working on building up the merchant pool so we can add a merchant reroll system within the next month. The pool of items is too small to add that feature in, but it's coming as soon as Likho stocks up his wares!

[h2]Patch Notes (0.7.3)[/h2]

- NEW Merchant Item (Uncommon): Behelit: When health drops below 0, recover 20% HP but become cursed until the revive effect wears off. A swarm of ghosts will haunt you and attempt to fully kill you, forcing you to run from them until the effect wears off.



- NEW Merchant Item (Uncommon): Mystique Vial: Want to take a risk? Purchase this item from Likho, the Merchant and be rewarded 1 common item and 1 uncommon item at random.



- NEW Merchant Item (Common): Barbed Helmet: Shoot a circular burst of spiked barbs every few seconds



- Merchant Item: Nimble Boots - added a 10% stamina regeneration effect

- Merchant Item: Shield of Thorns - modified to only affect enemies while evading, allowing you to use the "Evasive Maneuvers" as a way to deal additional damage. Also, boosted damage by 50%

- Bogatyr: Defense talent has been replaced by a new talent called "Shieldwarden." Collect shields as rare drops from Destructibles and Elite mobs. Use the shields to boost the Bogatyr's defense by +1 per rank. Taking damage will remove a shield



- Bogatyr: Recklessness Talent - modified the defense reduction value and removed the additive value, thus reducing the penalty on defense when taking the skill upgrade

- Necromancer: Restless Bones Passive has been boosted to summon 1 exploding corpse (meatbomb) per rank instead of 1 total

- Necromancer: Bonecaster - reduced cooldown by 20%

- Ranger: Reduced Homing Shot, Arrow Volley, Fleeting Quiver and Nature's Snare cooldowns by 30%

- Character Select Menu: Set Necromancer's default control scheme to be Auto instead of Physics/Manual

- Updated the Bogatyr's Rage FX to be more visible

- Added a toast notification when collecting a missing page in Castle Usvit

- When reloading the scene from the pause menu or after a round is complete, "Loading" will now be localized if English is not the active language

- Sporelord Rotwood: added a movement pause and healing FX when he summons healing shrooms

- Soulus: adjusted the swipe motion to be a little more fluid

- Soulus: spawns more swords the longer he is left alive

- Options Menu: added a toggle for Screen Shake

- Bug Fix: Ranger's skill Poison Blast skill type is now properly registered as an AOE, not a sword attack

- Bug Fix: When exiting merchant menu with full flask charges and using a flask and coming back it should not say "sold" unless you bought it. It will now be available and display the appropriate response to the player

- Pumpking Merchant Item will no longer be summoned during the Ebon King fight

- Updated/Fixed various chinese localization

- Key bindings have been reset to prepare for additional bindings

[h2]Future Content Updates[/h2]

Moving forward, we are planning to release a content update about once very 2-3 weeks. These updates will most likely include new items, new systems and features while we build the next character class: the Pyromancer, as well as improve existing content. We'll keep everyone updated as we continue development. Of course, small patch builds will be pushed out as needed.

Some of what you can expect in the next build:

1. New Events/Points of Interest (working on a new event for Linden Forest, but we have plans for the other scenes as well)

2. Merchant Item Reroll System

3. A new system that makes curse mode optional, but offers rewards for entering the mode.

Our goal is to finish version 0.8 and 0.9 of KT as soon as possible, which will add the final 2 classes of the game: the Pyromancer and the Blood Maiden. Then we will likely remain in version 0.9 for some time to focus on strengthening each character class, balancing the game more, and adding new abilities for each character. When we reach 0.9 we would like to spend some time working on character builds, synergies and all sorts of things while we develop the final scene of the game.

Thank you for following along, and if anyone has any feedback, bugs to report, or anything to share with us, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Stingbot Games