Black Ice News

• Added Unlockable Perk: Brainsaver. After being hit, gain 1 second of invulnerability (4s cd)
  
• Added Unlockable Perk: Resistance Cascade: After killing an enemy, your next shot chains
  
• Added Unlockable Item: Knockback EMP
  
• Added Unlockable Affix: Increased/decreased aggro for weapons
  
• Added visible timers for debuffs to show how long you're slowed for, etc
  
• New icons for Slowing EMPs and Halt and Catch Fire unique EMP
  
• The Flatline perk will now give you a short period of invulnerability after activating
  
• Discs will no longer upgrade to the Dodgeball in the recycle bin, since they behave so differently
  
• Buffed Dodgeball unique item damage scaling with level significantly
  
• Added sound options for muting just hit confirmation and cooldown sounds
  
• The item sorting button now accounts for Favorite and New items (sorting them first and last, respectively)
  
• When Hit Cooldown tooltip now properly mentions it does not apply when your minions get hit
  
• Hit Confirm sounds on targets you are dealing less damage to (e.g., fire damage on a fire enemy) will sound slightly different
  
• Added an option to change the scaling of in-game floating damage numbers
  
• Floating damage numbers are now more consistent and scroll faster, for readability
  
• Branded Affixes now properly mention whether they're item-local
  
• Placed 5 new Caches in the Arcade, one near each shop
  
• Items will now only be marked not New after you hover them for a bit
  
• Your minions now noclip you
  
• Player knockback fixes
  

Hi everyone! superdupergc here, here's the Funkadelic update!

• Funkadelic Disco Palace - Now Open! This level 30 survival arena has a ton of new unique mechanics - bring some heals, and maybe don't bother with a gun!
  
• Huge Achievement Overhaul
  
• Unlock System - Added a big new system which allows you to unlock new Item, Affix, Perk, and even Talent options for Unlock Points (earned with Achievements). These are account-wide, so once you unlock it, you can use it on this character or any future characters.(with more to come later - send in your suggestions!)
  
• Engine Upgrade
  
• Visual Upgrades (perk/achievement/unlock UI, fog, stars, shaders, etc)
  
• Lots of balancing bugfixes
  

Full detailed patch notes here.

Happy hacking!
- SDGC and Nonadecimal

Hi everyone! superdupergc here, here's the May update! I'm really excited for y'all to try this one.

• Courier missions - Challenge your traversal skills with these timed challenges hidden throughout the world.
  
• New Progression UI with additional rewards for leveling and hacking higher level servers
  
• AI Updates - smarter ranged hiding, sniping, and keeping distance. Enemies converge better when the hack is ending, and roaming enemies are now able to detect you if you're standing right behind them.
• Also - enemies stagger from damage for longer, which makes getting in close a little easier.
  
• Lots of gorgeous new item and enemy icons
  
• Fancy new UI particles
  
• Lots of new powerups and item drops to find in the world
  
• Upgraded item brands
  
• Recycle bin upgrade to reliably give uniques which are subtypes, or tell you if there's no available unique for that item type (but then you should tell me, so i can make one)
  
• New and upgraded item skins (Green Cosmic, Gold, and Rose Gold)
  
• Balancing (mostly item damage buffs for weird variants) and bugfixes
  
• Controller support update - every UI now uses the virtual cursor for consistency and ease of use, and the cursor now has improved handling
  
• Lots of item balancing, in particular buffing some of the weirder weapons
  
• Tons of bugfixes
  

Next up, I might do some courier variations, or I might get working on the achievement overhaul and unlock store :)

Full detailed patch notes here.

Happy hacking!
- SDGC and Nonadecimal

Hi everyone! superdupergc here, just wanted to let y'all know what I've done in the past month. This patch is already live!

• About 3 dozen new Weapon Skins for Super Duper weapons (which have a small chance of showing up on other items too!)
  
• Tripled Super Duper item drop rate
  
• Low Gravity server security
  
• Minigun and SMG weapon types
  
• Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Rainbow damage types, each with their own strengths and weaknesses
  
• Detailed sub-tooltips so you can see exactly what that new affix does
  
• Per-difficulty mission and world state saves, so each difficulty level is the full experience
  
• A gorgeous new grid shader which makes spaces easier to navigate
  
• A dozen new Bounty types, including Multikills, Out of Line of Sight, and Airborne
  
• AI Upgrades for the Bats and Minions
  
• Lots of item balancing, in particular for Heals, Minions, Scopes, and Exploits.
  
• Tons of bugfixes
  

I think you're going to like this update! I'm starting work on the new progression screen today, and Nonadecimal's been working on the Act 2 finale tower!

Full detailed patch notes here.

Enjoy!
- SDGC and Nonadecimal

Hi everyone! superdupergc here and I've gotten a lot done in the last month and a half since the Scar update.


First off, Bats! .bats! These are new flying enemies, with a whole new locomotion. The idea is to bring more verticality to the gameplay, so you have to watch not only your ankles and your horizon, but also the sky. They come in two varieties so far - the Charge.bat, which winds up an attack and swoops in to smack you, and the Heal.bat, a supporter type which uses a lasgun beam to heal enemies you've injured.

The bats normally spawn from level 25+ servers, but if you want to try them out sooner, there's a new level 15 arena in the Arcade...


This arena not only has a lot of bats to deal with, but also a bunch of teleporters and a slide (yes, you read that right). I'm trying out teleporters in combat, plus there are lasers, jump pads, a bunch of verticality, and a secret or two. This new arena is especially worth doing because I've added extra XP and better loot rarity for all arena servers.


This is what it looks like on the outside - you can't miss it!


I've added another room in the Arcade that lets you try out any perk, as long as you stay in the room. You can use this before you spend your points, and try out new combos. Just shoot the perk icon on the wall to not only test out the perk, but also get the info on how the perk works.

And if you still get buyer's remorse, perk respec points are now granted every 25 levels instead of 50.


I've been working hard on making the gameplay smoother in a lot of different ways - talent respecs, lots of item balancing, bounties are easier, more in-game tips and descriptions, rebalanced hack speed and XP curve, better colorblind mode, and more. I made a lot of things a bit easier, actually. I think it's a lot more fun!

I've done some fun visual upgrades - fire and ice servers now show the shaders above, so that you can more easily tell which ones they are (which is important because fire does more damage to ice enemies and vice versa), bigger crosshairs with on-hit and kill confirm flair,

Of course, there have been a lot of nice bug fixes too - the quest indicators now go away properly when the quest is done, the resolution no longer changes when you go to the options menu for the first time, enemies are better at staying in the hack radius, lots of nav fixes, fixes for multiplayer and even for speedrunning! (By the way, if you'd like to compete in the fastest to hack the Volcano boss server on a fresh character, the world record run is just over an hour and a half!).



We hope you enjoy this update! Coming up next, Nonadecimal is planning out the act 2 boss arena, and I'm planning to set up an achievement system with unlockable rewards!

Full detailed patch notes from every patch since the Scar update

Enjoy!
- SDGC and Nonadecimal

P.S. - The bridge the Volcano is open now. It wasn't supposed to be closed. Sorry about that!