Gnomancer News

[p]It was brought to my attention last week that there's a set of circumstances under which starting a new character would end up with you entering the level and immediately being kicked out to the results screen. I've done a minor patch, ahead of a forthcoming major patch with a huge amount of QoL fixes and improvements early next year, which fixes this.[/p][p][/p][p]If you have any other issues at all, please don't hesitate to come and bend my ear on our Discord!

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V1.02a

This patch has focused on Performance (as I've been playing it loads on my Steamdeck), Polish and Progression.

Having played the game a bunch, I've decided to soup up a bunch of XP rewards; difficulty multipliers now apply to more XP sources, and the XP rewards for completing a level are now significantly higher!

• - Mana Gen bonus now shown on Character UI
  
• - Bonus Collected Dust now shown
  
• - Improved performance of skin select on SteamDeck
  
• - Poison cloud tweaked down
  
• - Improve shiny mob reflection probe performance
  
• - Collectables now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
  
• - Massively optimised shadows of gnomes
  
• - Cleared up a ton of unused models in the game to improve performance
  
• - Reduced thickness of some smoke, so you can see where you're going a bit better!
  
• - Bonus Mana Gen now shown under stats
  
• - Pets now target your last-hit location, as opposed to firing straight past it
  
• - Toned down a number of impact effects, so it's easier to see what's goin gon when you have a massive army
  
• - Gnomes now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
  
• - Mobs now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
  
• - Knight pet no longer fires Dog Barks
  
• - Walking pets no longer fire under the ground
  
• - Bonus XP at level end from remaining Gnome Army is now scaled by the quality of the Gnomes you had (upto 600% for Special Gnomes)
  
• - End of level Bonus XP now correctly shows and obeys boosts from gear
  
• - XP Drops now obey extra XP from gear and display it
  
• - Player Mana Regen now gets a boost every 20 levels spent on it
  
• - Gnome Resurrection Skill now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
  
• - Gnome Speed now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
  
• - Gnome Damage now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
  
• - Gnome Health now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
  
• - Remaining Cash and Dust bonus XP now correctly respects difficulty
  
• - Fixed a long-standing issue with AutoGnomes and StoryGnomes
  
• - Improved some readability of stat upgrading UI
  
• - Improved readout of Mana Regen and Gnome Damage boost from gear
  
• - Implemented browsing of currently equipped gear. It's not
• perfect*, but it's a vast improvement over 'not being able to do this at all'
  
• - Rare, Epic and Legendary chests are now shown at level end if you missed them
  
• - Reworked Player Health calculations to take into account level + gear better
  
• - Massively improved Gnome Health and Player Health stats on Gear
  
• - Healers will overheal much less now
  
• - Mages will over-rejuv much less now
  
• - UI Readout now shows a more accurate average Gnome Health
  
• - Fixed issue where Mages would waste their mana over-juving you, due to a lack of clamp
  
• - Fixed issue where Healers would waste their mana over-healing you, due to a lack of clamp
  
• - Capped stat upload rate to Steam.
  
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Having gone back and played the game some more on my SteamDeck, I decided to put a couple of days hard work into some bits of polish and improvements.

V1.01

-Fixed D-Pad navigation on menus
-Increased the size of a number of pieces of UI to work better on the SteamDeck
-Moved from FXAA to TAA for the menu
-Improved a number of readouts to guide the player through the UI
-Mana Regen is now listed in Per Second, not Per Minute!
-Tidied up a number of impact particles to help the player see what's going on better
-Fixed a bunch of gibberish flavour text entries.
-Fixed a large number of textures that weren't correctly streaming or at 4k resolution.
-Fixed an issue where dropped pieces of gnomes could leak
-Fixed issue where freshly-raised gnomes would cause an issue with the display of the army eLC32G55TQWRXXU,nergy.
-Fixed randomly fast-spinning clouds
-Fixed incorrect SHOPDUST, SHOPHEALTH and SHOPENERGY text
-Fixed the name of the village. Welcome to Gnomertown.
-Fixed a number of leaks over long play sessions
-Fixed Bonus XP readout on results screen
-Added numerical readout for health + mana
-Optimised Map parsing
-Player will now be told if they missed a chest on a level.
-XP Bonus for spare Dust now correctly applied at level end
-Fixed Golem Health Bars appearing inside the Golem
-Fixed auto-Upgrade message
-Player is no longer returned to Character Select after every level
-Fixed some overly aggressive collision
-Characters should no longer talk over the Narrator

• Fixed achievement for killing Voldarr
  
• Fixed issue where too many points in Gnome Speed made things go... odd.
  
• Fixed issue where dead players continued to stand.
  
• Fixed issue where multiple players in shared screen would have odd-facing damage and healing text
  
• Quitting the game will no longer show -2147483647 damage
  

We're *hoping* to leave Early Access this week - next week at the latest!