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0.9.187 - 10/3/22 Payload

0.9.187 - 10/3/22 Payload
  • New World Event: Payload - Deliver this gitsfish to the site safely to earn some loot. He'll stop moving if you get too far away, or if enemies are nearby!
  • New Unlockable: Pulse Pack - Two affixes listed below.
  • New Affix: Every Third Shot, pulse additional N times.
  • New Affix: Pulse Length Reduction
  • The hidden volcano teleporter is now a Lot easier to find (to teach people that there are several shortcut teleporters to find)
  • Added a two-pulse hand cannon archetype
  • Treasure Crawlers have higher HP at higher level
  • Treasure Crawlers now color/icon match the (first) loot they're carrying
  • Increased time between successful world events from ~1.5 to ~4 minutes
  • Knocked back/falling enemies should be able to find the ground better and not get stuck
  • Modding: Added no recoil affix (does not drop normally since it makes guns feel less powerful, but it's useful for testing)
  • Treasure Crawlers now check more thoroughly in each area for server matches (and so the event should show up more often)
  • Improved the hack meter info during the act 2 finale boss fight
  • Bouncyballs are now less flashy right when they spawn
  • Fixed a navigation issue in the Forest
  • Small improvements to Volcano glow
  • Slight performance improvements

0.9.186 - 9/26/22 Resynchronizing



  • New Super Duper Recall: Resynchronizer, which lets you manually place a Recall point and come back to it within 5 seconds
  • New Super Duper Teleport: Rubberbanding, which Recalls you back to your teleport position after two seconds.
  • All player Lasguns have had their graphics updated
  • All Recalls now trigger Telefrag explosions
  • Explosive weapons now have an extra tooltip explaining that they're explosive, showing their explosion radius, and that they don't pierce/chain/headshot.
  • The Full stats UI now shows explosion radius (after bonus radius affix calculation)
  • The Eagle Eye perk can no longer activate while you are on the ground, saving the cooldown for when you actually need it.
  • Impact Grenades (from grenade launchers) now have a wider hitbox
  • Scorpion aiming lasers now only use yellow/orange colors to help differentiate them from slowing turret lasers
  • Small performance improvements for large numbers of projectiles
  • Small updates aimed at preventing enemies from snapping to positions inside objects
  • Treasure Crawlers can now go to neighboring sectors (which should make them show up more often)
  • Updated Fire Pool On End affix to have more damage
  • Updated several fire pool affixes to actually have a chance to burn now
  • Reworked World Event timers so that they can try again sooner if they fail to start
  • Loot Find now drops with a higher minimum value to add more impact
  • The Volcanyon fort server now only has one level to help with AI nav
  • Fixed the Unstoppable buffer preventing any other buffs from applying (even friendly ones)
  • Fixed Tracer item sometimes targeting invalid targets like explosive barrels
  • Yoyo projectiles fixes (target position, return miss, incorrect pierce override)
  • Fixed a rare bug where projectile death particles would play in the wrong position
  • Fixed Speed Daemon minion buff not resetting properly
  • Fixed Aimbot projectiles piercing incorrectly


0.9.185 - Treasured



  • New World Event: Treasure Crawlers. This golden webcrawler will try to deliver its package from one server to another nearby. Kill it first to earn a lot of loot, but watch out for its defenses at higher levels!
  • New Item: Tracer, which focuses all your minions on a target (and also increases its damage taken, and lets you see it through walls!)
  • New Item: Taunt, an EMP variant which causes all nearby enemies to attack you for a while
  • New Item: Friend Exploder, which sacrifices your target minion to deal a lot of AOE damage (Unlockable)
  • New Item: Recall, which returns you to where you were 3 seconds ago (Unlockable)
  • New Unique: Complete Recall, which also returns your health to where it was too
  • New Unique: Page Swap, a decoy which can be reactivated to swap places with it
  • New Affix: Movement Cooldown Speed (Global) - reduces cooldown times for movement items only, like Teleports and Recalls.
  • New Affix: Chance to Trace, which increases damage taken and lets you see the enemy through walls
  • New Affix: Chance to Taunt, which will cause the target to attack you for a while
  • Lots of optimization aimed specifically at allowing more projectiles on screen at once


0.9.184 - 9/11/22 Network/Daemon

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

0.9.183 - 9/2/22 Defrag

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