Noobs Are Coming News

• [p]NEW ATTACK: Goldenator: a long range, piercing sniper that can spawn golden souls on hit (this way Dexterity build can now also have an economy attack)[/p]
• [p]New Achievement: Win a run with Polyfocus on Difficulty 5: unlocks Goldenator (note: new achievements aren’t retroactively unlocked by design, this way players who already D5 all characters in early version can still enjoy unlocking content as it’s added in the game, especially since the balancing differs between version)[/p]

• [p]Options Menu Rework[/p]
• [p]New Co-op Option: Shared XP [/p]
• [p]New Co-op Option: Shared Chest[/p]
• [p]3 New Accessibility Sliders for adjusting Enemy HP/Damage/Speed[/p]
• [p]New Audio Option: Mute if app is in background[/p]

• [p]UI Enhancement: Added a subtle arrow at the beginning of each effect for playable character tooltips, as a single playable character can have many different effects[/p]
• [p]Steamdeck: the Tooltip in the Startup menu now have bigger font size (so it’s easier to read Playable Character effects)[/p]
• [p]Improved the rendering of Noob Text Bubbles[/p]
• [p]Improved SFX when player is hit[/p]
• [p]Improved SFX for Chest Pickup[/p]
• [p]In Singleplayer: you can now play with any gamepad connected to your computer (before it was only the first gamepad, now it automatically detects the gamepad you’re using)[/p]
• [p]Steamdeck/Linux: the gamepad support now works great in all configuration (Steam Deck on its Dock Station, to play on TV, external controller support etc…)[/p]
• [p]Linux: now uses the same build as Windows for perfect feature parity (Twitch Streamer Mode is now also available on Linux)[/p]
• [p]Dash Attack: Rework, you now dash in your current movement direction[/p]
• [p]Watercan and Liquidator Attacks: now always prioritize targeting plant sprouts that can be grown even if there is enemies at closer range[/p]
• [p]Pickaxe: now always prioritize targeting ores[/p]
• [p]Enhancement: if you buy all items in shop AND you already had a free reroll, the free reroll provided because you bought everything doesn’t consume your other free reroll anymore[/p]
• [p]Endless Mode: the max limit of 8 times the same item is now increasing little by little to 9, 10, 11 etc…as you progress through the waves[/p]
• [p]Endless Mode: some enemy attack and ability didn’t scale with endless difficulity (Damage/Speed)[/p]
• [p]Highroller Character: it is now clear in the description that buying an item reroll only the 3 other items in the shop[/p]
• [p]Tweaked the text size of tooltips in different context[/p]

• [p]Chained Ball: at purple tier, you now have 2 chained ball instead of 1[/p]
• [p]Death Shield: Damage 20/40/60/90 => 20/30/40/60[/p]
• [p]Shotgun: Damage 3/6/9/9 => 5/7/8/9[/p]
• [p]Shotgun: Bullet Count 3 => 3/4/5/6[/p]
• [p]Shotgun: Range 100 => 110, also shotgun now has 1 wall bounce by default[/p]
• [p]Crossbow: Base Bullet Count: 1 => 2/2/3/4[/p]
• [p]Crossbow: Amount Scaling => ¼ => ⅛ [/p]
• [p]Crossbow: Damage 10/13/16/20 => 9/12/15/18 [/p]
• [p]Tons of other minor balancing (example: enemy damage, how some formula work)[/p]

• [p]Bugfix: Steamdeck/Linux: the gamepad support now works great in all configuration (Steam Deck on its Dock Station, to play on TV, external controller support etc…)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: \[Mom + Mimime + Pickaxe]: after each wave, the number of ore that spawned was increasing by 1 per pickaxe (unwanted exponential behavior)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: if 2+ Rocks were available in the shop at the same time, buying one could create an issue with the price of the other ones[/p]

• [p]Bugfix: Removed a WIP "ChooChoo" Attack that was just a broken test on my dev build introduced by mistake in the full Game[/p]

• [p]NEW MAJOR FEATURE: Mid-run Autosave and Resume Run (so you can go back to Title Screen or even close the app and still resume your run, note that you can only resume a run from the same game version)[/p]
• [p]SHOP RNG for Attacks: Big rework and enhancements, there was already tons of systems under the hood to favorize similar Attacks to appear (while still allowing discoverability to be able to go very creative and create unique builds), but I improved them even more, and the shop should provide you related Attacks (same tags/synergies or same Damage Scaling more often)[/p]
• [p]NEW ITEM: Kickception: your Kickables can kick other kickables[/p]
• [p]NEW ITEM: Discord: 1% chance to charm a Noob when it spawns (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Chained Ball Attack: can now kick other kickables by default
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• [p]New Achievement: Win a run with Mom in Difficulty 5: unlocks Kickception (note: new achievements aren’t retroactively unlocked by design, this way players who already D5 all characters in early version can still enjoy unlocking content as it’s added in the game, especially since the balancing differs between version)[/p]
• [p]New Achievement: Win a run with Wormator in Difficulty 5: unlocks Discord Item (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Endless Mode is now only available in Difficulty 4+ (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Enhancement: In Singleplayer, the Level Upgrade/Chest Found phase now displays the next wave number (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Enhancement: Multiplayer Shop now displays the next wave number (5.3)[/p]
• [p]New QOL/Accessibility option: toggle for the Animated Vortex Background (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Improved Chest Pickup SFX (5.3)[/p]
• [p]There is now a maximum limit to 120 soul pickups in the Arena (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Added reward previews for most of the community quests (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Massively improved the shadows of all Spiders in the Game (Playable Characters and Minions) [/p]
• [p]Spider Minion: rework its pattern so it’s easier to control, and less disturbing even with tons of spider[/p]
• [p]Spider Minion: smaller by default[/p]
• [p]Spider Minion: don’t do knockback anymore[/p]
• [p]Bonecrusher Minion: Higher speed when charging towards the player[/p]
• [p]Medusa Minion: is now also affected by size[/p]
• [p]Medusa Minion: don’t do knockback anymore[/p]
• [p]Shaman Wand Attack: Cooldown 0.4s =>0.6s[/p]
• [p]Shaman Wand Attack: Arcane Damage scaling 100/120/140/160 => 80/90/100/110[/p]
• [p]Removed the subtle screenshake that happened each time a noob was killed[/p]
• [p]Spikeballs Attack: the feedback when it hits a wall is more subtle[/p]
• [p]Laser Eye Attack: now pink/purple color effect instead of red as Red is the color of enemies attack[/p]
• [p]Laser Eye Attack: now keeps it color even in “Transparent Attacks” Mode[/p]
• [p]Shurikens Attack: now a unique/upgradable attack: I didn’t want to nerf the item itself as I love it being able to bounce everywhere, being kicked and scaling with amount very well, but stacking 3+ shurikens with maxing all those stats in singleplayer and coop was too overpowered (almost god mode) and visually way to messy[/p]
• [p]Amputation Item: now costs 1 soul[/p]
• [p]Locked Camera Mode: zoomed out a little more so HUD doesn’t hide the corners[/p]
• [p]Wraithshot Item: chance for the effect to trigger doesn’t scale with Luck anymore (it was too powerful)[/p]
• [p]Goblin Minion: 6/10/14/18 Damage => 8/12/16/20[/p]
• [p]Water Orbit Attack: Watering Power: 20/25/30/40 => 35/45/55/65[/p]
• [p]Water Orbit Attack: Base Damage: 1/2/3/4 => 2/3/4/5[/p]
• [p]Room Size is now displayed in Secondary Stats[/p]
• [p]Vampiric Hit: blue item => purple item[/p]
• [p]Summoner Character: only equip Minions Damage/Melee Damage Attack => only equip Minions Damage/Kickable[/p]
• [p]Summoner Character: +5 HP Max[/p]
• [p]Landmines Attack: now scale with Amount (⅕)[/p]
• [p]Amputation Item: now only costs 1 soul and gives 500 souls instead of 300[/p]
• [p]Retry Fail Waves now better handle super specific edgecases[/p]
• [p]Improved translations and fixed some issues in some languages[/p]

• [p]Bugfix: Yokai Character now correctly restores its attack when using the “Retry Fail Waves” option[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: with Yokai or Monoculus Character, if the wave ended while doing a Skill (Impact/Wrecking Ball), the Attack was destroyed before canceling the Skill, creating issues[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: sometimes after buying a locked attack, the shop could fail to find other attacks (it was especially annoying with Yokai)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: transparent attacks removed legs display of Playable Spider Character (unintentional) while it should just remove leg display of Minion Spider (intentional)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Multiplayer Shop (2 Players): the tooltip of Attacks could sometimes be stretched and very hard to read in Full Screen[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: on very specific devices the line spacing of the UI was too big (it was an extremely rare bug)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: when the room was super big, laser eyes could have visual issues[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: in super extreme cases where the player someone equipped almost all items in the game at max stack, shop could fail to find new items, it now find a special “Rock item” in those scenario
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• [p]Bugfix: rerolling Level Upgrades created an issue[/p]

• [p]NEW ITEM: Discord: 1% chance to charm a Noob when it spawns[/p]
• [p]New Achievement: Win a run with Wormator in Difficulty 5: unlocks Discord Item (5.3)[/p]
• [p]Endless Mode is now only available in Difficulty 4+[/p]
• [p]Enhancement: In Singleplayer, the Level Upgrade/Chest Found phase now displays the next wave number[/p]
• [p]Enhancement: Multiplayer Shop now displays the next wave number[/p]
• [p]New QOL/Accessibility option: toggle for the Animated Vortex Background[/p]
• [p]Improved Chest Pickup SFX[/p]
• [p]There is now a maximum limit to 120 soul pickups in the Arena[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Charmed Frog Noob projectile stayed red instead of being blue[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Resume Run/Retry Wave: didn’t restore locked items[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Resume Run: didn’t restore the Room Size[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Saving/Resume a run many times in a row while staying in shop made synergies bonus stack several times[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Cat: Retry failed waves/Resume run didn’t work due to its special rule with HP not getting restore (regressive bug that was introduced in update 0.5 a few hours ago)[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Resume Run/Retry Wave: sometimes there was a visual issue with the XP Bar when reloading the game state[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Resume Run/Retry Wave: could sometimes change the mapSkin[/p]
• [p]Tons of fixes and improvements to the new Resume Run feature[/p]

• [p]Fixed an issue with save/load run feature (sometimes, the shop of a new run could be the same as the previous run)[/p]

• [p]Bugfix: Resume Run could fail to work with Necromancer Wand due to a very specific edgecase[/p]

• [p]There are less Frog Noobs and their pattern is now different[/p]
• [p]Fixed the "Freeze" issue some very specific users/devices seemed to face sometimes[/p]

• [p]NEW ATTACK: Water Orbit (Upgradable/Wizard/Water), this attack scales well with Size, Cooldown, Duration and Knockback. It also allows to water Plant Minions and it scales also well with the Attack Orbit Speed stat[/p]
• [p]Difficulties 2/3/4/5 are now a bit harder[/p]
• [p]Difficulty 5: 2 Heroic Noob Bossfights spawn at wave 20/25/30[/p]
• [p]Endless Mode: difficulty now immediately increases from the first wave when switching to endless mode (in addition to the exponential difficulty raising waves after waves)[/p]
• [p]Yokai Character: additional effect: guaranteed to find at least 1 Attack in Shop[/p]
• [p]Vilethorn Character: Can now only find and equip Plant and Water Attacks[/p]
• [p]Bigfoot Character: Can now only find and equip attacks scaling with Melee or Kickable Attacks[/p]
• [p]Carrot Attack Rework: now quickly redirects towards the player directly after hitting a wall (way more powerful)[/p]
• [p]Plant Attacks: now watering a grown plant makes it recover its duration 2x faster[/p]
• [p]Disc Synergy nerf: remove the +1 Bounce that was given at (4)[/p]
• [p]Soul Harvest Stat: now capped at 50%[/p]
• [p]Soul Harvest Stat: now can only provide 100x the current wave value in souls[/p]
• [p]Claustrophobia Item: -10% Room Size/-5% Enemy Speed =>  -8% Room Size/-4% Enemy Speed[/p]
• [p]Claustrophobia Item: green/Limited to 2 => blue/unique[/p]
• [p]Room Size Stat: now minimum value at -25%[/p]
• [p]Defaut Room Size is now bigger when playing with 3 or 4 players (+10% for 3 Players, +15% for 4 Players)[/p]
• [p]Frog Noobs: tweaked the bullet pattern on jump landing[/p]
• [p]Frog Noobs: changed projectile visual[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: Enemies could be pushed outside the arena with getting hit repeatedly by extremely high knockback values very quickly[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: The Achievement “Final Boss 1” did trigger the in-game achievement and its reward but not the Steam Achievement (should retroactively work for the player that already completed the challenge)[/p]

• [p]NEW ITEM: Team Play: Minions kick Kickables towards the player (super powerful for Minion + Kickable soccer build)[/p]
• [p]NEW ITEM: Claustrophobia: -10% Room Size, -5% Enemy Speed[/p]
• [p]NEW QOL Feature (visibility): Transparent Attacks Mode (projectiles, minions and many attacks now transparent)[/p]
• [p]NEW QOL Feature (visibility): Toggle on/off the Ground Texture[/p]
• [p]NEW QOL Feature (visibility): Locked Camera Mode even when there is only 1 player in singleplayer or co-op[/p]
• [p]NEW QOL Feature (visibility): Option to disable Noob Text Bubbles[/p]
• [p]Spider Minion: spiders don’t shake anymore when they change direction, it was too visually distracting[/p]
• [p]Polished the Ground Textures so they’re less distracting[/p]
• [p]Merge Character Item: indicated it can only be found with Character that already won in Difficulty 5[/p]
• [p]Difficulty 2 is now unlocked after winning 1 Difficulty run instead of 2[/p]
• [p]Kickable Synergy: (3) => +10% Damage[/p]
• [p]Adept Character: +40 Range in its Circle (should make the character more powerful and fun to play)[/p]
• [p]Summoner Character: now always starts with a Skullball in addition to its starter attack choice[/p]
• [p]Crowd Item: (nerf) now also add +10% Enemy HP[/p]
• [p]Plant Attacks: Tweak the water fill bars so it’s less distracting[/p]
• [p]Bonecrusher/Minion Attacks: added an advice in the tooltip: the player should position so those minions destroy rows of enemies by targeting the player[/p]
• [p]Bugfix: some issues could happen when new settings were added in game updates[/p]
• [p]Improved russian translations[/p][p][/p]

• [p]A mistake introduced in update 3.0 made new players start with Difficulty 2 unlocked[/p]

Noobs Are Coming is a new release that takes the skin of Brotato and puts you in the shoes of a final boss, complete with really weird abilities.

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