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Patch #05: Chaos Beasts Update

[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]It's time for the first big update in Hold The Mine: the Chaos Beasts Update! [/p][p][/p][p]This update introduces the first two bosses: the Mountain Dragon and the Giant Worm Duo. [/p][p][/p][p]Available in Lord Of Stones and King Under The Mountain difficulties, those bosses are respectively actives in the Mountain and the Volcano biomes and are here to cause you some trouble both day and night. And before you ask, yes the Frozen biome is still boss free... at least for now... but maybe not for long. [/p][p] [/p][p]The update also includes new buildings and relics, to provide more ways to specialize your build. I know it's still impossible to rely entirely on one single synergy, but that's something I'll keep improving over the next patches without removing the ability to play a mix of some. [/p][p][/p][p]Some important balancing changes come with this update, including several hero buffs, a big improvement of the curse synergy and the hospital building among other things.[/p][p][/p][p]Hold The Mine released just 3 weeks ago and I feel like the game already improved a lot. Thanks to your feedback, I'm sure I can make it even better in the coming weeks and months. You guys really share some really cool ideas I can wait to work on. [/p][p][/p][p]It's still the beginning of the Early Access, there is so much things I want to make and implement into this project. [/p][p][/p][h3]Patch Highlights[/h3]
  • [p]2 Regional Bosses[/p]
  • [p]2 new Buildings[/p]
  • [p]5 new Relics[/p]
  • [p]Several heroes got buffs[/p]
  • [p]Balancing Changes (incl. a major buff to Hospital building)[/p]
  • [p]A lot of bug fixes[/p]
[p][/p][h2]Patch Notes - Early Access Version 0.7.34 [/h2][p][/p][p]The Leaderboard has been reset to take into account all of the changes![/p][p][/p][h3]New Content[/h3]
  • [p]Mountain Region now has Mountain Dragon as regional boss event[/p]
  • [p]Volcano Region now has Giant Worm Duo as regional boss event.  [/p]
  • [p]Sealed Sewer (Uncommon Building): Whenever a stack of Poison is applied, 20% chance of triggering a toxic flood that deals 5 damage within a small area. Damage is increased by 3 per additional stack of poison on the enemy.[/p]
  • [p]Electric Pole (Common Building): Periodically triggers a giant lightning strike every 10 seconds, dealing 25 damage and applying Shock to enemies within the area.[/p]
  • [p]Poison Vial (Rare Relic): Poison status effect deals 1 more damage per tick.[/p]
  • [p]Blunt Dagger (Uncommon Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 30% chance of applying Knockback 1.[/p]
  • [p]Mysterious Fruit (variant) (Uncommon Relic): Increases heroes' base damage by 2.[/p]
  • [p]Ritual Dagger (Common Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 20% chance of applying Curse.[/p]
  • [p]Burning Sword (Common Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 20% chance of applying Burn. [/p]
[p][/p][h3]Balancing (+)[/h3]
  • [p]Slight reduction of the bonus health on enemies for the first 10 nights.[/p]
  • [p]Reduced Curse trigger cooldown from 4 to 3 seconds.[/p]
  • [p]Increased the Hospital (building) effect damage from 75 to 150% and decreased construction cost from 10 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Decreased Volcano Heart (building) construction cost from 10 to 9.[/p]
  • [p]Decreased Giant Bellows (building) construction cost from 7 to 5.[/p]
  • [p]Decreased Cursed Temple (building) construction cost from 10 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Decreased Ambusher Ground (building) enemy spawn trigger from 10 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Unstable Furnace (building) damage from 6 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Dragon Hunter base damage from 10 to 12.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Dragon Hunter base critical hit chance from 5 to 10%.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Fire Heater (Dragon Hunter Power) next attack cooldown reduction from 50 to 60%.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Cursed Apostle base damage from 7 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Cursed Apostle base attack speed from 0.55 to 0.65.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Berserker base range from 6.5 to 7.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Huntress base critical hit chance from 5 to 10%.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Necromancer base attack speed from 0.6 to 0.7.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Necromancer base range from 5 to 6.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Necromancer base damage from 5 to 6.[/p]
  • [p]A guaranteed Mimic spawns on the first night in Endless Mode (3% chance for one to spawn before that). After that it's 6% chance for to spawn and the percentage increases by 3% every 5 nights for a maximum of 12% chance. [/p]
[p][/p][h3]Balancing (-)[/h3]
  • [p]Decreased the Harpoon Atelier (building) effect knockback strength from 5 to 3 and from 10 to 6.[/p]
  • [p]Decreased the Windmaker (building) slow effect from 20 to 10% and increased construction cost from 5 to 8.[/p]
  • [p]Increased Tax Collector (building) construction cost from 4 to 5.[/p][p][/p]
[h3]Misc[/h3]
  • [p]The leaderboard has been reset to take into account all the changes introduced. [/p]
  • [p]Building Information Panel has been updated. Building tooltip now displays the cost for building not built yet and linked synergies information, similar to relics and powers. This panel is accessible through the little House button near the Play/Pause button.[/p]
  • [p]Flying Skull Heads can now be affected by Death Mark and Hunter Mark as it doesn’t do direct effect or damage to them. They are still immune to status effects (Burn, Slow, Poison, Shock, Slow) and Knockback. [/p]
[p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]
  • [p]Fixed an issue where the Siren Scream (Sea Witch power) visual effect would trigger as soon as you get the hero.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue preventing stats of the hero in battle to show the real and updated numbers when mouse hovering a hero at the surface.  [/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue where the Group Pillar (Bastion power) bonus knockback would not be applied to Cursed Apostle and Necromancer.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue where a tile covered by snow without something on the block would not show any tooltip, hinting it contains nothing.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue preventing any digging after looting a blueprint even when expedition is available.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue that could cause some music overlapping after the game is paused.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue with the HP counter growing too much when taking multiple damage in a short period of time.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue allowing more than 2 uses of each spell per night.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue where an enemy could show damage numbers from previous death occurring once respawned. [/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue with the gem that adds a random status effect on basic attacks that would prevent any shock or curse application.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue with the gem that adds a random status effect to apply 2 random status effects instead when the Gem Belt relic is active.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue preventing 2 stacks of Burn to be applied with a certain gem once the Gem Belt and Sacred Torch relics are both active. [/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue preventing Death Mark (Rogue Power) to consider the Flying Skull Head as a top priority enemy.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue allowing the Flying Skull Heads to spawn within the same short period of time at the start of the night. [/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue when Explosive Stash (Building) could trigger visual effects in the fog of war at a bomb location, revealing the position of the block. [/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue making a call for help in the mine disappear after an expedition.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue with Berserker range calculation allowing her to hit enemies out of range.[/p]
[p] [/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3][p]Several people experienced a bug with the previous patch causing the game to be locked into a loading screen. After investigating, the issue seems to be linked to the save file. It could be that the game is unauthorized to write/read the file or the save itself got corrupted. [/p][p]I added several safe checks with this update to prevent this issue from happening, but It's possible it doesn't prevent every cases. [/p][p][/p][p][c]If it happen to you after today's patch, before restarting the game, access the game logs: [/c][/p][p][c]press Windows + R, then paste this text, "%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Hookaria Games/"[/c][/p][p][c]Compress the entire folder into an archive and send us an email here: [email protected][/c][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]This is only the beginning of Hold The Mine Early Access, tons of cool stuff are coming, including highly requested features:[/p]
  • [p]Dwarf Perks - A unique meta progression system with choices to make and experiment with[/p]
  • [p]New content - More heroes, bosses, buildings, relics, enemies and blocks[/p]
  • [p]New shop - Destruction service[/p]
  • [p]Endless Improvements[/p]
  • [p]Mid Run Saving[/p]
  • [p]Sandbox Mode[/p]
  • [p]Conquest Mode[/p]
  • [p]And much more![/p]
[p][/p][p]That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support![/p][p][/p][p]paci[/p][h3]
Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters
[/h3][hr][/hr][p]I've been reading through all your Steam reviews, and I appreciate the feedback we've been receiving. Keep in mind this is just the beginning of Early Access. I'd love to continue seeing more of your thoughts and suggestions! Your support is important and it helps knowing what to focus on for each upcoming patch.[/p][p]
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