Cobalt Core News

CONTENT:

New event! (It’s a very fun one.) ⚽
Duncan, the pilot of the Mining Drill, overcame his shyness and can now talk
5 new artifacts:


Tiderunner’s starting artifact has been split into 2 artifacts, to be easier to parse
Tiderunner now has a boss artifact, meaning all 5 ships have boss artifacts :)
new Dizzy artifact
new Max artifact
new Isaac boss artifact

BALANCE SHIFTS:

Made Caffeine Rush cap at 2 triggers per turn
Heavily reworked Jupiter’s boss artifact
Instead of “your Jupiter Drone card now costs 0”, it is now:
If there are no Jupiter Drones currently in the midrow: when you launch a Jupiter Drone, gain 1 energy
Gemini now starts with one new extra card, Basic Swap
If a bubbled drone is launched into a midrow object, the bubble takes the hit first. This means Brac is more dangerous! Watch out!

INTERNAL CHANGES:

Reworked how a few artifacts worked internally
Reworked how a lot of enemy code works
Essentially, did a bunch of work under the hood, so we can do more cool stuff in the future

BUG FIXES:

From Hell’s Heart B can no longer kill you if you play it twice through Max + Zero Doubler shenanigans
Fixed a rare case where Sticky Note and Safety Lock could be wasted buffing temporary cards
Fixed that
• *Heal Booster** would also boost enemy healing (only relevant once, but still: whoops!!)
  Various other smaller bugfixes
  

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GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• Some Max cards got some cool new art!
  
• “Autopilot” icon art change
  
• “Clean Exhaust” icon art change
  

BALANCE CHANGES:

• swapped the rarity of two Riggs cards:
  
• “Selective Memory” is now Uncommon
  
• “Second Opinions” is now Rare
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bug that allowed cards to be played while they were still animating into your hand
  
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Perpetual Motion Device to not draw a card
  
• Fixed a niche case where you could click the on-screen left/right arrows to move when you weren’t supposed to be able to
  
• A few mid-combat shouts require slightly more specific scenarios to trigger
  
• Fixed a rare bug that was causing players’ saves to break right as they beat the zone 3 boss
  
• ESC no longer steps through run summary screens
  

MISC:

• “DEFEAT” and “VICTORY” screens now display those words in red/gold (fancy!)
  
• When you flip a card, it now stays flipped for the rest of combat
  
• Zone three’s “???” name is now replaced once you see a cutscene where its name is mentioned
  
• Made some headway on some new content 😎
  

GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• Made “Reduced Background Motion” setting reduce more backgrounds’ motion
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bad interaction between Mitosis and Prototype 22 that was created last patch (oops)! Mitosis now correctly triggers BEFORE Prototype 22, not after.
  
• Fixed a case where RNG was not seeded correctly
  
• the status “Cheap Fix” correctly adds “Affected by timestop!” to its description while you have timestop
  
• On controller, the map screen’s “BACK” button correctly displays the button icon for how to go back
  

MISC:

• Fracture Detection’s random brittle point will no longer target cockpits if you have Cockpit Targeting
  
• The shop’s “Repair X hull” text now factors in Heal Booster into the text value. (It was always healing correctly, this is just a clarification thing)
  
• You can no longer be offered Safety Lock if the only exhaust cards in your deck are trash
  
• Table Flip no longer grants Flippable to cards whose only left/right actions are random (no point!)
  

GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• The logbook now marks each character combo with the hardest difficulty you’ve beat it at
  
• Selective Memory and Second Opinions both have unique background art
  
• Fixed a rare graphical error that would make Gemini’s artifact show the wrong color (this was purely visual)
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a weird interaction between Mitosis and the zone 1 Needler elite fight
  
• Made a few shouts trigger less often
  
• A certain optional superboss now interacts more fairly with Missile Malfunction. (The old way wasn’t even technically a bug, but it didn’t feel fair!)
  
• Saving the game while you have 0 hard drive space available can no longer corrupt your save