Bloodthief News

Patch 1.0.8 - new Overall Rank Leaderboard + Korean translation!

[p]Hey everyone! This patch contains a bunch of bug fixes and a new "Overall Rank" leaderboard that combines your ranks from each level and gives you an overall rank. Just a heads up, this leaderboard only updates once per day. Here are the patch notes!

New Stuff
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[p] Added "Overall Rank" leaderboard (accessible from main menu). It takes the average of all your ranks on all levels (Note: Only updates once per day) [/p]
[p] Added a button so you can see a level's leaderboard from the level select screen[/p]
[p] Added Korean translation [/p]
[p] Added badges for SNF competition [/p]
[p] Now Dawnblade has 2 starting Blood[/p]
[p] Now Silken Edge has increased air control
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Bug Fixes
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[p] Fix a whole bunch of broken level geometry, holes, and broken lavas (nothing that should impact any routing in this patch)[/p]
[p] Fix hitbox of bow pickup in Cloud Castle being too small[/p]
[p] Increase hitbox of all artifact pickups[/p]
[p] Fix bug where you could wall jump on lava waterfalls[/p]
[p] Fix bug where you could dash with Skrike after switching weapons sometimes[/p]
[p] Fix issue with the Toothpick that made it so you could jump insanely high off of a ground pound bounce[/p]
[p] Improved DirectX performance some more
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Post Launch Patch 1.0.7!

Hey everyone! New patch coming your way. I'm still focusing on bug fixes right now, but will soon get to balance issues then after that will get to features. Thank you for being patient!

Fix crash that could occur in in 3-9 when using DirectX launch option
(Hopefully) fix steam cloud sync error that could pop up sometimes
Fix Rage Mushroom description giving the wrong hint
Fix a few minor restart-related issues with the last level
Fix clip that could allow you to skip to the end in 1-3
Fixed issue where you missed end game message if you quit to main menu after beating the game
Fix a trigger that would sometimes not fire in 3-2

Post Launch Patch 1.0.6!

Another small patch coming your way - More to come throughout the week!

Major optimization: Fixed a bug that was putting a ton of load on the CPU. If you were experiencing consistent lag before, it may be much improved now
Fixed a bunch of bad geometry that lead to being able to see through walls in some levels
Fixed random walls that hurt you in some places
Fixed random lavas that didn't hurt you in some places
Improve geometry in 1-4 so you can't clip through to the end
Fixed issue where lb times in Sandbox weren't submitting
Fixed a few broken item descriptions
Fixed issue where beating the Sandbox level showed you the end credits
Fixed issue where sometimes you submitted a strange and large time into the leaderboards

Thanks,
Blargis

Post Launch Patch 1.0.5!

Hello! First patch of a few coming your way. This one is just a few fixes. Here is what is fixed:

Added a little message that will pop up if you have the bad AMD driver and need to update your driver
Fix some bad geometry in level 3-5
Block the way behind you in 3-8
Fix lava bug with the Stone Sword
Reduce stuttering in 3-4
Add the perk description to the "new weapon unlocked" modal in the end level screen
Fixed a bad trigger in 3-6 that would cause enemies to not spawn if you went around it on accident
Fixed a bad trigger in 2-1 that could be missed
Fix an Out of Bounds in 1-4
Fix broken description for Fire Slug
Fix key jail being squeeze-throughable in 1-9

Thank you all for the feedback and bug reports! I didn't get to everything in this patch but am working hard to get a few more fixes and optimizations in the game in the coming days so stay tuned.
- Blargis

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