Black Ice News

The focus this patch was improving minion gameplay. I still have some things I'd like to try, but please let me know your suggestions too!

• New Item: Networks. When activated, Networks temporarily add constant laser beams between each of your minions. Damage scales a LOT depending on the number of minions you have. Range of each beam is ~25 max. Unlockable.
  
• New Item: Speed Daemon. When activated, it buffs your minions' Attack and Movement speed drastically for a short time. Unlockable.
  
• The Affix Reroll and Item Upgrade machines now show the complete list of affixes you can get for the item, including the chances of each affix!
  
• All minions can now drop with Attack Speed and are affected by it
  
• Critical Defragmentation now only gives 4% per stack, making the total added crit +20 instead of +25
  
• Lasbreakers now use purple beams/icons to make it easier to differentiate from incoming Scorporation targeting lasers
  
• Aimbots now fire in a two second burst no matter how many projectiles they have (small nerf for low level, big buff for high level)
  
• Scorporations and Aimbots now fire faster at higher level
  
• Fixed a bug where the Slowed debuff actually made enemies attack faster instead of slower
  

Hey y'all, sorry for the delay on patches here - I've been on sabbatical from my day job. Went on vacation, got covid, all that.

• New Perk: Critical Defragmentation: Kills with Grenades give you +5% Crit Chance for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
  
• New Perk: Left Shift: Critical hits Double the Chance to X affixes chance to activate.
  
• New Affix: On Hack Recharge: recharges all cooldown/charges on an item after you complete a hack successfully
  
• Grappling hooks now accelerate slightly over their duration
  
• Shredder executables now have a little longer range, but falloff damage like Shotguns
  
• Photosensitive Mode now makes the ground way less bright to make it more comfortable
  
• Updated saving algorithm to create a temp file, so if it gets interrupted during saving, it won't delete the old save.
  
• Made E-Snail barrel hitbox size a little bigger
  
• Encrypted hack icebreakers now take only 10% damage from zones, lava, etc
  
• Talus shooting gallery events now drop Talus gear
  
• Total Move Speed now shows in the full stats UI
  
• Weak point hit sound +50% volume
  
• Fixed a bug where movement speed wasn't updating quickly enough
  
• Fixed quest item rewards not scaling with difficulty settings
  
• Fixed an issue where Encrypted hack icebreakers spawned in inappropriate areas on linked servers
  
• Fixed grenades/missiles not playing their explosion particles if they hit a target directly
  
• Reinforced a few walls/corners in the Volcano
  

• Added a new Talus-branded shooting gallery with two challenge levels to the Arcade (look for the sparkles!)
  
• Improved the Chain after Kill perk from Chain +1 to Chain +3
  
• World Events now try to find servers closer to you
  
• Respawning will now spawn you in the most recent sector you were in
• for this difficulty setting*. This will initially reset everyone's spawn point to the startup valley, but it'll work properly when logging back in.
  
• The Yo-Yo projectile affix can now combine properly with Chain/Ricochet for multiple hits
  
• Added Javelin, Yoyo, Circuit, and Sine projectile movement types to the drop pool at level 40+, but very rare.
  
• Fixed a Teleport/Dash/Grapple issue where it wouldn't allow short range teleports after correcting for an angled floor
  
• Fixed a Grapple issue where it would cancel early if it was aimed straight up
  
• Fixed a bug where Accuracy, Crit%/x, and Attack Speed were not marked as Weapon Local
  
• Fixed a rare issue causing loading to fail (couldn't find a random server for a quest). If this ever happens again, just try logging back in.
  
• Fixed an issue where grenades/zones would (re)spawn as the wrong size after a while
  
• Fixed the Brute Force exploit not dealing damage at all. And nerfed the damage it was supposed to do, because wow it was more than I thought. Still is super strong.
  
• Fixed the Volcano end boss arena not letting people out
  
• Fixed Ride the Glide achievement unlocking too early and only when on the ground
  
• Minor AI navigation fixes
  
• Started working on the Sol Fusion tower, but it's definitely not open for business yet.