He is Coming News

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He is Coming is a roguelike RPG autobattler where every decision matters. Every three days, a new boss arrives — whether you’re ready or not. Players must gather weapons, stack item effects, and plan ahead to survive the escalating challenge.

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Hello!

This is a small balance patch and a fix to a challenge that was broken.

We're about ready to start playtests on the next area of the game. If you're interested in giving feedback and participating, we will share the details on our discord in the near future.

Fixed:
Challenge "Beggars CAN be choosers" fixed

Items:
Redwood Cloak restore 1 health -> restore 2 health
Armor Regrowth, regain 2x armor -> regain 1x armor

Bosses:
Ironshell beetle, 8 atk -> 7 atk
Blazing Hothead 1 base atk -> 2 base atk
swiftstrike stag 2 base atk -> 3 base atk

Holiday Greetings!

This patch introduces miniboss encounters, some new rare events, clearer biome separations and many new items. It's a big patch so apologies if we missed to list anything.

While working on the next area we have made some pretty major changes to the itempool of Woodland. Mainly moving all Stun items to the next area along with some other items that fit other areas better, flavor wise. To compensate for the items moved out of Woodland we've added some more bomb synergies and a new status keyword, "Powder" among other things.

These changes are in line with our full vision for the game beyond the demo. If you have any feedback on items, bosses or gameplay in general we'd love to hear it.

[h3]General changes:[/h3]
Initiative -> Battle Start
Stun status effect moved to the next area
Powder status effect added
Minibosses added
Mythic tier items added
Wishing well event added
Fairy queen event added
Challenge and Compendium screens combined

[h3]Boss changes:[/h3]
Granite Griffin: Moved to the next area
Stormcloud Druid: Moved to the next area
Swiftstrike stag added
Goldwing monarch added
Bearserker: Tier 2 -> Tier 1
Hothead: Tier 1 -> Tier 2
Hothead: Effect changed
Razortusk Hog: Tier 2 -> Tier 1
Razortusk Hog: Effect changed (old hothead effect)
Lifeblood Count miniboss added
Silkweaver Queen miniboss added
Ironshell Beetle miniboss added

[h3]Changed items:[/h3]
Horned helmet: 2 thorn -> 1 thorn
Saffron feather: restore 1 health -> restore 2 health
Lifeblood armor: "Battle Start: Convert 5 health to 10 armor" -> "Battle Start: Convert 50% of your current health to armor"
Thorn ring: "Battle start: Gain 6 thorns" -> Battle Start: Take 1 damage and gain thorns equal to missing health
Heart drinker: 2 base attack -> 1 base attack
Explosive sword: deal 3 damage -> deal 2 damage
Cherry Bomb: Battle Start: deal 2 damage -> Battle Start: Deal 1 damage and give 1 powder
Firecracker belt: common -> rare
Ruby ring: gain 1 attack and take 1 damage -> gain 2 attack and take 3 damage
Tempest blade: Heroic -> Mythic
Granite Thorns: Rare -> Mythic
Razor Scales: Rare -> Mythic
Emergency shield: 4 armor -> 5 armor

[h3]Added Items:[/h3]
Smoking Edge
Lifeblood Helmet
Loose Change
Powder Plate
Spiky Chestnut
Powder Keg
Twinfuse knot
Bloodmoon armor
Armor regrowth
Featherweight Armor
Featherweight Helmet
Granite Crown
Grimblade Curse
Iron Shrapnel
Lifeblood Gauntlet
Burning Match
Royal Helmet
Smoke Bomb
Swiftstrike Crown
Mountain Cleaver
Spiky Club
Featherweight greaves
Royal Crownblade
Quickgrowth spear
Granite Lance
Spiky Chestnut
Swiftstrike belt
Razorthorn spear
Boom stick
5 Cauldron items
2 new itemsets

[h3]Moved items to coming areas:[/h3]
Bonespine Whip
Melting iceblade
Shadow cloak
Duelist gauntlet
Warding charm
Marble mirror
Stormcloud spear
Lightning edge
Titans edge
Impressive Physique

[h3]Removed items:[/h3]
Sticky Web
Energy Crystal
Rabbit doll
Bloodmoon thorns
Black powder
Boss contract
Bloodmoon armor set

Greetings! We are hard at work on the next area of the game so this patch is a bit light on demo content.

1. The settings menu has been revamped to include settings for borderless and windowed mode.
   
2. There's a few bugfixes and item renamings.
   

This update adds some further improvements to the overworld map, a new waypoint event for quick travel, the ability to hover over enemies and events on the map to get more information as well as some overworld biomes that affect where some events are more likely to spawn.

It also introduces an item compendium listing all unlocked items.

Going forward we will continue to iterate on the overworld map as well as start development of the next area of the game. Thanks for playing!

[h3]Added:[/h3]

• Added item - Energy drain
  
• Added item - Stone thorns
  
• Added 2 itemsets
  
• Added event: Waypoint
  
• Added Merchant sales
  
• Overworld biomes
  
• Item compendium
  
• Itemset list
  
• Hover enemies and events to see info
  
• CRT filter setting
  

[h3]Changed:[/h3]

• Spearshield Lance: 4->6 armor
  
• Razortusk hog: 4->5 speed
  
• Granite griffin: Gain 20->30 armor
  
• Gentle giant: 40->50 health
  
• Brittlebark beast: 50->40 health
  
• Ore heart: Gain 2->3 armor
  
• Blood bond: Epic->Rare
  
• Brittlebark buckler: Epic->Rare
  
• Stormcloud spear: Stun for 2->3 turns
  
• Swiftstrike cloak: Rare->Epic
  
• Battle medic challenge: Overheal 80->30 health
  
• Removed item - Petrifying flask
  
• Removed item - Hook blade
  
• Removed itemset - Nova strike