Ghoul Smash News

[h2]Hub[/h2]
[h3]Aetherflux[/h3]

• Added the Aetherflux to the Hub
  
• Aetherflux allows for allocating Skillpoints into your respective class.
  
• Changes color depending on which class you currently are.
  

[h3]The Urwood[/h3]

• Added an upgrade that doubles the drop rate of Atlas Fragments.
  
• Added an upgrade that allows you to buy Skillpoints with Salvage.
  
• Removed the Max Level Upgrade
  

[h3]It That Bargains[/h3]

• The items offered by It That Bargains now have a low chance of becoming Charms.
  

[h3]Essence Forge[/h3]

• Essence Forge can now be upgraded to Tier 3.
  
• Tier 3 Upgrade costs 120,000 Salvage
  

[h2]Classes[/h2]
The Warrior, Wizard, and Ranger have skill trees that have been added to the game. Currently each skill tree has 2 keystones you can select. You can find the skill trees at the Aetherflux in the hub. You can change class at The Urwood.
[h2]Equipment[/h2]

• 9x New Armor Sets
  
• 6x New Necklaces
  
• 2x New Rings
  
• 4x New Trinkets
  
• 8x New Off-hands
  
• 16x New Weapons
  

[h2]Materials[/h2]

• 6x New Atlas Fragments
  
• 1x New Crafting Material
  
• 1x New Boss Emblem
  

[h2]Statuses[/h2]
[h3]Frail[/h3]

• An enemy inflicted with frail takes 20% (x1.2) more damage after reductions until the start of the next round.
  

[h3]Wound[/h3]

• Wound is a stacking debuff that can be applied to enemies. Wound deals B Scaling damage multiplied by the amount of Wound stacks.
  
• An enemy loses 30% of their Wound stacks each round.
  

[h3]Root[/h3]

• Root prevents the next instance of movement from an enemy. Can prevent melee attacks.
  

[h2]Graphics[/h2]

• Particle Effects have been added for Bone and Mechanical Enemies.
  

[h2]The Eternal Battleground[/h2]

• Enemy Dodge Scaling per Atlas Tier is now 0.25% (Previously 0.5%)
  
• Salvage gained per encounter is now multiplied by the number of waves.
  
• Confluence Orbs can drop up to 3 on a material drop.
  
• Essence drop amount is now doubled.
  
• Atlas Fragment Drop Rate has decreased to 5%. (Previously 12%)
  
• The maximum Atlas Tier is now 1,000. (Previously 50)
  

[h2]The Urwood[/h2]

• The Atlas Crucible Upgrade now costs 100,000 Salvage.
  

[h2]Essence Forge[/h2]

• Adjusted the Pricing of Tier 2 Rewards
  

[h2]It That Bargains[/h2]

• Removed the Deity Fruit from the shop table.
  
• Deity Fruit will become an achievement reward later.
  

[h2]Skills[/h2]
[h3]Stab[/h3]

• Now has a 25% chance to inflict a Wound.
  
• Dagger on kill now has a 100% chance to inflict a Wound.
  
• Speedboost on kill is now 0.5 (Previously 0.25)
  

[h3]Parry[/h3]

• Parry now has a visual effect when active around the Player.
  
• Parry now lowers Damage Reduction by 50% (Previously 80%)
  

[h3]Lionspine[/h3]

• Now is an 8% chance to poison. (Previously 12)
  
• Now costs 2 Spirit (Previously 1).
  

[h2]Combat[/h2]

• Bumpers are now bouncier even when disabled.
  
• Opening a chest now gives a Speedboost.
  
• Chests are now bouncier.
  

[h2]Items & Equipment[/h2]
All existing affected Items and Equipment will require a Confluence Orb to update them to the new values.

• Defense Ring now has Barrier (12)
  
• Vitality Ring now has 80 Constitution (Previously 60)
  
• Royal Rat Ring Adjusted
  
• Occult Armor now has more Barrier.
  

[h2]Attributes[/h2]

• Strength no longer gives Damage Reduction.
  
• Dexterity no longer gives Dodge.
  
• Intelligence no longer gives % Barrier.
  
• Dexterity now gives 1 Speed per 5 Dexterity. (Previously 3)
  
• Intelligence now gives 1 Spirit per 5 Intelligence. (Previously 3)
  
• Strength now gives 2 Constitution per 1 Strength (Previously 1)
  

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

• Barrels now scale with the area's tier instead of the player's Level.
  
• Poison now deals 2-5% of total Constitution damage to Enemies at the start of their turn. (Previously 5-10%).
  
• Stun now has a visual indicator.
  
• The Rare Drop Table chance on kill is now 1 in 2,000. (Previously 1 in 500)
  
• Save Data is now backed up on each launch. (A new launch will overwrite the current backup)
  

[h2]User Interface[/h2]

• Adjusted the Fullscreen Toggle button. The Button now properly restores the correct windowed resolution when deselected and centers the game accordingly.
  
• Ghoul Smash will now automatically start in Fullscreen if Steam's Big Picture Mode is enabled.
  
• Fixed a small bug with the Atlas Crucible Button.
  
• Added and fixed a lot of existing and new tooltips.
  

[h2]Combat[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where Skills hitting barrels wouldn't give items.
  
• Fixed a bug where Skills couldn’t hit more than one time.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Hit Cooldown wouldn’t trigger properly.
  

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where Pierce couldn’t roll on equipment.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Ethereal Garb wouldn’t drop off the Rare Drop Table.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Idol of Undying wouldn’t trigger properly.
  

• Tier 6 Upgrade Materials
  
• Endgame Achievements and Rewards
  
• Hardcore Achievements
  
• 2 Additional Endgame Encounters
  
• Optimization
  
• Bug-fixing
  
• Additional Controller Support
  
• Steam Early Access
  

Note: There are likely a ton of bugs and changes not listed in this changelog.

• Skills will now save their toggled status upon closing the game.
  

• Changed Royal Boots Speed value to be 12. (Previously 120). Using a Confluence Orb on an existing pair of Royal Boots will update them to the intended value.
  

• Added a Steam Button to the Main Menu and Options Menu that takes you to the Ghoul Smash Store Page.
  
• Added Tips to the Interslice Hub. You can toggle them off inside the Options Menu.
  
• Hitting Spacebar while in most menus will now close the menu. This functionality has been added for future controller support.
  
• Early Controller Support, you can test it out by booting Ghoul Smash in Big Picture mode and using default controller support through steam.
  

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• The Amount of Speedboosts you can gain outside of Boost Pads per turn is now limited to 10. (Some items such as the Spear allow 20 Speedboosts.)
  
• Changed the text color of skill damage.
  
  Normal Hit = White
  2x Critical Hit = Yellow
  3x Critical Hit = Orange
  4x Critical Hit = Red
  

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where Burning Men would keep burning the player on collision. (The burn is supposed to only trigger once per round).
  

[h2]Skills[/h2]
[h3]Thrust[/h3]

• Speedboost on attack has been reduced to 0.15 (Previously 0.25)
  

[h3]Bash[/h3]

• Bash has been reworked to make it all about the Bash Projectile Target. Its' new mechanics are as follows:
  Turns the first enemy you collide with into a Bash Target and yourself into a bounce pad. The bash target gains damage each time it collides with another object. Damage is dealt to the Bash Target at the end of your turn.
  

[h3]Flail[/h3]

• Speedboost on kill is now 0.25 (Previously 0.15)
  

• Whetstones now properly increase maximum damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where attempting to loop Atlas Fragment encounters wouldn't spawn the Hub.
  
• Fixed a bug where Burning Men would keep burning the player on collision. (The burn is supposed to only trigger once per round).
  

• Adjusted the prices of Urwood Upgrades.
  
• Altered the scaling of enemies in the Eternal Battleground; they now deal less damage but have increased constitution.
  
• Atlas Maps are now slightly more rare.
  
• Changed the sprite for Atlas Fragments
  
• Barrier gained from Barrier Shards, Sparks, and Stars has been doubled.
  
• Barrier gained from Affixes has been doubled.
  
• Barrier on Equipment has been increased.
  
• Base droprate of Eternal Battleground Enemies has been increased.
  
• Base Salvage reward of Eternal Battleground encounters has been increased significantly.
  
• Salvage reward from Eternal Battleground encounters now scales with Atlas Tier.
  

• The Flintlock Pistol now scales with Finesse.
  

[h3]Cleave[/h3]

• Reduced the speed boost on kill to 0.25 (previously 0.75).
  

[h3]Chain Ball[/h3]

• Decreased the scaling to B (previously A).
  
• Reduced the speed boost on kill to 0.15 (previously 0.25).
  

[h3]Arrow[/h3]

• Increased the scaling for all bow skills to A (previously B).
  

[h3]Lion Spine[/h3]

• Now accurately matches its tooltip.
  

• Tier 3 Crafting Materials now drop from Tier 5 enemies.
  
• Added 3 new Trinkets.
  
• The maximum Eternal Battleground Tier is now 50 (Tier 6 begins at 50+ and will continue endlessly).
  
• The Bone Gauntlet has been introduced as an Atlas Fragment Drop.
  
• The Bone Gauntlet is a challenging 8-wave encounter that can challenge highly geared players. Beware in Hardcore mode.
  
• The Bone Gauntlet features 2 new items and skills.
  

• Fixed some Strings and typos with items, equipment, tooltips, and descriptions.
  
• You can now transfer things with Right Click into and out of the Atlas Crucible.
  

• You can now change equipment during combat. (Surely this won't have any bugs....)
  
• Trinket Skills now function properly.
  
• Mimic Rare Drop is now significantly less rare (1% -> 25%)
  
• Fixed a bug where Skill Damage would appear where the skill is currently located and not where the target is located.
  
• The Rat King's animation speed is now fixed.
  

[h2]Cleave[/h2]

• Scaling is now A (Previously S)
  
• Cleave now summons a swirling vortex that deals damage to enemies inside, launching them if they survive. Enemies killed by the vortex give a Speedboost.
  

[h2]Thrust[/h2]

• Gives a Speedboost every time the spear stabs.
  
• The Speedboost amount has been increased (+40%)
  
• Spears attack faster (+20%)
  
• Spears have more range (+30%)
  

[h2]Bash[/h2]

• Reverted the Knockback effect to the old method to make it not go straight horizontal and vertical so often.
  

• Deity Fruit now costs more in the shop.
  
• Jury now has more damage.
  
• Styx now has more damage.
  
• Confluence Orbs now work on Rings and Necklaces.
  
• A new item called the Catalyst has been added to the drop pool at Tier 5. The Catalyst will upgrade an item's Tier to 5.