NIMRODS News

• Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese localization added. This is still heavy work in progress and certain translations may be incorrectly translated
  
• The Drone now has a shadow
  

• Several improvements made to the Treant boss
  
• Several improvements made to the Dung Beetle enemy
  
• Several improvements made to the Tank Eye enemy
  
• Several improvements made to the Mini Map
  
• Several improvements made to the World Map. Adjusted POI, visual overlap improvements, Apple Bush tweaks
  
• Improvements made to the Gun Upgrade screen
  
• Significant performance improvements made to XP Orbs, Mission Tracking, and Projectiles
  
• Performance improvements made to Environment Effects
  
• Turrets now last longer on all Turret upgrades
  
• Locked upgrades now have a lock displayed in the 'More Info' preview
  
• 'Blood and Honor' has been renamed to 'Blood and Thunder'
  
• Reduced the amount of healing from Apples to 5 from 15
  
• Reduced the amount of healing from Medkits to 25 from 40
  
• Increased XP per time you get hit from 5% to 9% for Battering Grip
  
• Reduced XP per time you get hit from 50% to 13.8% for Electromagnet Grip
  
• Minisplitters attack cooldown has been increased from 0.2 to 0.4 giving you a fairer chance to deal with them
  
• Buff to hive-specific enemies by around 10% with corresponding boost to the XP they drop
  
• Adjusted Research Table build costs from 200 to 300, 1500 to 1250, and 2750 to 3500
  
• Adjusted the pick-up size of Adamantite Ore, Bottle O' Slime, Firestone Crystal, Honeycomb, and Monster Eye
  
• Rebalance of Breakables. They now drop a bit more resources
  
• Bottle O' Slime now drop more often. Seeker Slimes now drop them as well. Slime Mini Boss can drop up to 4. These can be affected by Resource Drop Chance
  
• Monster Eye are now a guaranteed drop from the Eye Monster Mini Boss
  
• Improved the upgrade description of Underbarrel Shocking Charges
  
• Small Adamantine Ores now have a 100% chance of dropping an ore and a lower chance of dropping higher
  
• Large Adamantine Rocks now have a 100% chance of dropping 2 ores and a lower chance of dropping higher
  
• Credit Drop Chance can now affect things that have a 100% Drop Rate
  
• Teleporter enemies now have a 100% chance to drop Eye resource
  
• Hitsplat Text will now appear once you pick up the Buff
  

• Fixed an issue where the Vision Range would sometimes zoom in or out when it's not supposed to
  
• Fixed an issue where the Treant would sometimes moonwalk, looking at the opposite direction of the player
  
• Fixed an issue where the Treant would have incorrect animation timings
  
• Fixed an issue where the Fame and Fortune boss drop was 16% instead of 0.16 flat XP Gain Rate
  
• Fixed an issue where the Research Lab wouldn't show if the player had insufficient currency
  
• Fixed an issue where player heals weren't using the new Hitsplat style
  
• Fixed an issue where certain 'Kill 'x' missions weren't using the correct icons
  
• Fixed an issue where Shrines was able to be activated more than once per run
  
• Fixed an issue where a selected upgrade tooltip in the Research Lab wouldn't disappear correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where breakables weren't getting affected by Resource Drop Chance
  
• Fixed an issue where Homing Sight wasn't showing its improved numbers in green
  
• Fixed an issue where the blue slimes AI wasn't behaving as intended
  
• Fixed an issue where certain frozen enemies weren't looking at the last position they were looking at
  
• Fixed an issue where the Dung Bettle wasn't always looking towards the player
  
• Fixed an issue where Stockmounted Evasion AI now correctly awards XP for dodging instead of getting hit
  
• Fixed an issue where an unintended amount of XP would be granted to the player from 100% AP
  
• Fixed an issue where Polish characters weren't being displayed correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where the Buff pick-up SFX wasn't working
  
• Fixed an issue where certain Statistics weren't being displayed in the Pause Menu
  
• Fixed an issue related to Giant's Harness, Terra Cannon Mount, and Berserker's Harness
  
• Fixed several crashes that could occur
  

• 2.5% Effect Size has been added to Geomass Enlarger
  
• New end-game flows
  - Final Boss drops will reward instantly upon defeating the boss
  - Hard-limit on run duration adjusted to 35 minutes
  - Enemy enrage effects are tweaked and set to occur at the 30 minute mark
  

• Fixed an issue where the Splash Screen was using an incorrect color
  
• Fixed an issue where Holo Sight didn't grant Vision Range
  
• Fixed an issue with the Dung Ball's hitbox
  

• Credit drops have been rebalanced
  
• Credit costs of items have been rebalanced
  
• Mysterious, rarely-appearing Quadrupedal enemies removed. Shh! You saw nothing...
  
• Improved spawn frequencies for waves to better balance HP worth of enemies spawned vs. XP dropped
  
• Mini Splitters are now slightly bigger so that they're easier to hit
  
• Outline glow has been removed from non-boss splitters
  
• XP particles now colored according to the color of the XP orb they're emitted from
  
• Greatly improved the performance of XP orbs
  
• Player's Health on the HUD will now display 1 decimal if the player is below Max HP
  
• Hitsplats have been reworked entirely. Unlimited Hitsplats, new font, better visuals, and 80% more performant! Let us know how this feels 🤗
  
• Fancy Heart Charm has been slightly nerfed. It now lasts for 1 second per 5 damage taken instead of 1 second per 4 damage
  
• Slight improvements to the Treant Boss. This is still Work in Progress and will be greatly improved!
  

• Fixed an issue where Relativistic Loader, Terra Cannon Mount, and Berserker's Harness didn't get their Tier 2 passives
  
• Fixed an issue where the Treant wouldn't have any projectiles
  
• Fixed an issue where all XP orb particles would sometimes change color simultaneously when killing a strong enemy
  
• Fixed an issue where the "More Info" button would appear on Minor Upgrades
  

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• New art for the Large Serpent enemy
  
• Augment crates can now be found spread across the map
  

• Boss Drop chests now has a unique animation
  
• UI improvements made to the "Character Select" screen
  
• UI improvements made to the "Credits" and "Language Select" screen
  
• UI improvements made to the Research Lab
  
• Improvements to the Gun Rack
  
• Several improvements made to the UI when a controller is used
  
• Several performance improvements in all areas of the game
  

• Fixed a crashes and errors that could occur during gameplay
  
• Fixed an issue where you can get stuck by Alt + Tabbing at the end of a run
  
• Fixed an issue where certain modifiers could stack on itself
  
• Fixed an issue related to navigation on the Main Menu with a controller
  
• Fixed an issue where the player could die in the Home Ship
  
• Fixed an issue where certain stats weren't being displayed in the Pause Menu statistics
  
• Fixed an issue with the collider for the Splitter Mini Boss
  
• Fixed an issue with the enemy Charger animation
  
• Fixed an issue where homing projectiles would not go towards the center of the enemy