LORT News

[p]LORTers,[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for everyone who has already jumped into the v0.7 update and reported bugs for us to fix. This is a small update to fix issues we have found since yesterday. [/p][p]Special shoutout to TyDragon on Discord.gg/LORT and TheDemi420 + Whymsical on Steam Discussions for reporting these issues. [/p][p][/p]

• [p]Fixed camp Attribute shards sometimes having very delayed spawning under poor network conditions with high player counts. [/p]
• [p]Fixed the Chapel of the Broken Oath snapping poorly into the terrain making the doorway unusable. [/p]

[p][/p][p]A LORT a day keeps the Doctor away.[/p]

[p]LORTers,[/p][p][/p][p]Today, we released the v0.7 update focused on Difficulties. Let’s dive in.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Upon starting a run, you now have the option between three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. This is our first version of difficulties in LORT and we hope that adding these will appeal to both new and veteran players. Check out the deep dive on difficulties shared earlier in the month here.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]New rewards await those brave and skilled enough to take on the Hard difficulty. Can you cop the new drip?[/p][p][/p][p]A new structure has been spotted on Hilly Billy Countryside. The locals call it the Chapel of the Broken Oath. Is it memorialized as a holy site or the scene of a blasphemous crime?[/p][p][/p][p]Are you or your friends waiting for a sale to buy LORT? You're in luck! LORT will take part in the Steam Spring Sale and extend it for an additional two weeks. You can get LORT for 35% off starting March 19 until April 8. [/p][p][/p][h2]Highlights [/h2]

• [p]Added Difficulties - Easy, Normal, and Hard[/p]
  • [p]Hard is locked by default. Unlock it by beating the game on Normal.[/p]
  • [p]If you have already beaten the game prior to this update, you should have Hard already unlocked.[/p]
• [p]New Magma Skins - Unlock them by defeating the game on Hard with each Adventurer.[/p]
• [p]New Unlocks and Steam Achievements. [/p]
• [p]Added Chapel of the Broken Oath to Hilly Billy Countryside.[/p]
• [p]Added Giga Glug-Glugger Rune Juice upgrade to increase Healing Flask chugging speed.[/p]
• [p]Enemy scaling now takes into consideration players leaving mid-level. [/p]
• [p]Goblin Appetizer - Increased camps required for quest from 4 -> 8.[/p]
  • [p]This should set players up for success to take on the boss. We recommend you always strive to gain the most power you can![/p]
• [p]Fix for Rune Juice upgrades missing in multiplayer games for players with large amounts of upgrades.[/p]
• [p]Fix for Blinkblades’ Blink-Jutsu sometimes teleporting you under the map or outside the boss arena.[/p]
  • [p]In case this still happens, there is now a fall back that teleports you onto the map instead of falling to your death.[/p]

[h2]Powerups[/h2]

• [p]Powerup Shops - reworked the layout of shops. Now there is one side dedicated to purchases for gold and the other side dedicated to trades. Also comes with extra visual indicators of current stock count. [/p]
• [p]Reworked powerup pickup VFX and optimized performance.[/p]
• [p]Cloak And Dagger - changed VFX color.[/p]
• [p]Boomers Blessing - adjusted VFX for better visibility. [/p]

[h2]Enemies[/h2]

• [p]Increased size of Wandering Slime weak point hitbox (the eye). [/p]
• [p]Goblin Trapper - New Stab VFX. [/p]
• [p]Goblin Brawler[/p]
  • [p]Now uses melee attack damage for charge attack. [/p]
  • [p]Removed slow when a player is hit.[/p]
• [p]Goblin Thief  -  Updated VFX.[/p]
• [p]Goblin Slimecaller - Enemy now has to take damage before they summon slimes. [/p]
• [p]Fire Slimes - If you stand in multiple Fire Slime fire zones, you will only take damage from one of them, not multiple. [/p]
• [p]Big Chill Billy[/p]
  • [p]Tornados - Made damage zone match visuals.[/p]
  • [p]Snowball Throw - Made the throw wind up more readable. [/p]
  • [p]Whirlwind - Reduced Damage.[/p]
• [p]Davey Bonez - Increased Homing Orb damage.[/p]
• [p]Final Boss [/p]
  • [p]Increased Homing Orb damage.[/p]
  • [p]Adjusted black hole to have new timing and bigger VFX.[/p]

[h2]Maps[/h2]

• [p]Added an in-world icon of the Van location during the Escape.[/p]
• [p]Wizard Tower - Cursed skulls no longer can be destroyed and will not trigger when an invisible player with Cloak and Dagger runs by. [/p]
• [p]Set POI powerup shards to use the white spirit icon.[/p]
• [p]Added more road signs.[/p]
• [p]Adjusted wood and barrel colors.[/p]
• [p]Hilly Billy Countryside[/p]
  • [p]John Goblin’s Grave POI - Changed tree color to make it easier to find.[/p]
  • [p]Sunflower Field POI[/p]
    • [p]Improved walkability over earth mounds.  [/p]
    • [p]Players can now rotate around mounds while digging.[/p]
  • [p]Gym - Fixed a floating chest.[/p]
• [p]Funkwood Hollow[/p]
  • [p]Adjusted collision and layout of Canopy Cache tree to be more player friendly.[/p]
  • [p]Croaks Camp POI - Increased visibility of POI by adding VFX.  [/p]
  • [p]Changed VFX on speed boost zones.[/p]

[h2]Audio[/h2]

• [p]Added voice lines on Adventurer selection.[/p]
• [p]Added event cone angle mixing for some ranged enemies & enemy projectiles. This should make it easier to hear incoming attacks.[/p]
• [p]Overhauled menu UI audio. [/p]
• [p]Player damage taken efforts now play every time they take damage + Player Hit SFX mixed to be more intelligible.[/p]
• [p]Improvements to safe opening sounds.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Pistol not playing firing sound during the last few bullets.[/p]
• [p]Fixed and better mixed enemy telegraphs overall, including Goblin Brawler punch, Slimes, Goblin Lobber attacks & fire zones, Goblin Smusher & Goblin Thief.[/p]
• [p]Fixed tooter sound cutting off when swapping weapons.[/p]

[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

• [p]Added setting to disable the chat window.[/p]
• [p]Added setting to disable screen shake.[/p]
• [p]Updated some Rune Juice shop upgrade icons.[/p]
• [p]Re-ordered skins to follow progression flow.[/p]
• [p]Disabled pausing during cutscenes to prevent issues.[/p]
• [p]Improved environmental landscape performance.[/p]
• [p]Improved boss arena VFX performance.[/p]
• [p]Improved grass performance on Hilly Billy Countryside.[/p]

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

• [p]Fixed training dummies in Campsite at Land’s Edge counting towards damage stats.[/p]
• [p]Fixed imbued powerup names going outside the bounds of the tooltip box.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Lawrence Fishbird’s pupils not dilating during flight. [/p]
• [p]Fixed Pathetic Shivs being misspelled.[/p]
• [p]Fixed typo in Mace of Windoo description text.[/p]
• [p]Fixed navigation issue when using a controller and selecting a skin + switching tabs.[/p]
• [p]Fixed rare issues that caused powerup tooltips to appear broken.[/p]
• [p]Fixed clients not seeing their pickup animation play when they picked up a powerup.[/p]
• [p]Fixed crash when closing via Alt+F4 or hitting the X from Windows Task Bar.[/p]
• [p]Fixed camera clipping through terrain.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Rune Juice and gold boxes taking damage after being opened. [/p]
• [p]Fixed Wolff's Law not scaling properly.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Boss’ spawning immunity totems outside the boss arena.[/p]
• [p]Fixed final boss saying overlapping dialogue lines. [/p]
• [p]Fixed crossbow reload time not being impacted by super high attack speed.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Strongbow hits not working correctly when point blank aiming down at a Slime while at low FPS.[/p]

[p][/p][p]If your LORT lasts longer than 12 hours a day, see a doctor for a high five. [/p]

[p]LORTers,[/p][p][/p][p]It's time for a little preview of what is coming in next week's update. After releasing The Stabbening last month, the team has been working quickly to bring to you Difficulties. We knew when we released LORT that the one sized fits all approach to difficulty was not a long term solution. Since launch, we heard a lot of player feedback regarding difficulty so we made it a priority to release a first version as quickly as we could. Here is what you will see when you start a run in LORT once the update is out on March 16:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Unlocked by default, Easy is a more relaxed LORT experience. Easy is meant to be more welcoming to new players while also being a chiller LORT experience for you to learn different biomes, enemies, and build combos without being too stressed. Some details on Easy:[/p]

• [p]Weaker and fewer enemies[/p]
• [p]More gold and item drops[/p]
• [p]More Attribute availability[/p]
• [p]Increased health regeneration[/p]
• [p]More shops[/p]
• [p]Less Rune Juice rewards[/p]

[p][/p][p]Unlocked by default, Normal is the standard LORT experience. Normal is the LORT you know and love, with slightly lower Attribute availability than the current live version. Other than that, nothing much has changed so if you love Normal, we think you'll still love the new Normal. Normies rise up![/p][p][/p][p]For those wanting to sweat a bit more and earn some extra Rune Juice, Hard is for you. Hard is locked by default and you will have to beat the game on Normal to unlock it (those of you who have already beaten LORT prior to this update will have Hard unlocked already). This is our first stab at a harder difficulty and there is a good chance that it is hard enough for some but not hard enough for others. We are in Early Access and will continue to iterate on LORT, including all difficulties. Some details on Hard:[/p]

• [p]Stronger and more enemies[/p]
• [p]Less gold and item drops[/p]
• [p]Fewer Attribute availability [/p]
• [p]Decreased health regeneration[/p]
• [p]Fewer shops[/p]
• [p]Way more Rune Juice rewards[/p]

[p] [/p][p]The timing of this update coming out next week is pretty important for LORT. The Steam Spring sale starts on March 19 and we want to give all the new players who will be discovering LORT for the first time as enjoyable of an experience as we can. And, we know that those of you who have been playing for the last 2 months have been craving more of a challenge. So we are hoping this update can deliver on both while also introducing critical bug fixes and more. The next Adventurer will not be in this update - but they have made their mark on the Hilly Billy Countryside for you to discover. [/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for your continued support of LORT and the team at Big Distraction. We are super excited to keep serving yall more LORT in 2026 and beyond.[/p][p][/p][p]They LORT like us - Kendrick Lamar[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]How now brown cow? LORT on NVIDIA Geforce NOW of course! Yea that's right, you can play some good ol' LORT via GeForce NOW cloud streaming right now. Can we say now any more times?[/p][p][/p][p]We've heard some requests from LORTers to get the game up on GeForce NOW, so we worked with the folks over at NVIDIA to make the dream come true. LORT is now a "Ready-to-Play" game which you can access from the free or paid tiers as long as you own the game on Steam. If you don't know about Geforce NOW, it's an NVIDIA service that let's you play games from your Steam account via cloud streaming. You can learn more here. [/p][p][/p][p]We hope this unlocks more LORTers to join in the LORTing everyone is doing. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]LORTers,[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you to all that have joined us so far for The Stabbening. We have a small update to fix a few issues.[/p]

• [p]Fix for perma slow bug happening during healing flask usage.[/p]
  • [p]Thank you to "D" on Discord for sending in the video footage that helped us find and resolve this issue. You too can help make LORT better by submitting videos of issues to discord.gg/lort.[/p]
• [p]Fix for key binding changes not saving.[/p]
• [p]Fix for pistol audio not working after multiple shots in a row.[/p]
• [p]Fix for multiple gameplay crashes. [/p]
• [p]Added an extra WARNING message when resetting profiles to make it extra clear you are resetting your progress for Unlocks, Rune Juice, etc. [/p]

[p][/p][p]Do you believe in LORT after LORT?[/p]