Dead Cells News

Hey,

Hope you're all safe and well!

If anyone is interested in a live stream with a couple of the Dead Cells devs, we'll be starting one very soon - just go to the Steam Store page, Evil Empire's Twitch channel or MT's YouTube page at 3pm CEST, so basically now. You'll be able to ask any questions you have in the chat so please come and get involved if you can :)

We also just wanted to say thanks to everyone who answered our balancing survey last week, the results have really helped us to flesh out our thoughts on what we need to tweak. 5,455 of you got involved, which shocked a lot of us who didn't expect that level of interest, so thanks again!

Anyway, seeing as you helped give us these extra insights, we wanted to share some of the 'top-level' results with you. Please don’t get too caught up in figuring out anything from them, because very soon we'll be adjusting some of these items based on our own thoughts, community feedback and the results of the survey.

[h3]Favourite colour[/h3]

• 41.9% - Brutality
  
  
• 27% - Survival
  
  
• 26.1% - Tactics
  
  
• 4.4% - None (Come on guys, stop lying to yourselves)
  
  
• 0.7% - Use the colourless ‘Custom’ mode
  

[h3]Most loved and hated weapons/skills (based on % of ‘Use as much as possible’ picks)[/h3]
[h3]Melee[/h3]
Top 5

• Scythe Claws (The Bad Seed)
  
• Giant Killer
  
• Rhythm n' Bouzouki (The Bad Seed)
  
• Vorpan
  
• Twin Daggers
  

Bottom 5:

• Cursed Sword
  
• Spiked Boots
  
• Spartan Sandals
  
• Tentacle
  
• Spite Sword
  

[h3]Ranged[/h3]
Top 5:

• Heavy Crossbow
  
• Quick Bow
  
• Hokuto's Bow
  
• Magic Missiles
  
• Electric Whip
  

Bottom 5:

• Sonic Crossbow
  
• Boomerang
  
• Ice Crossbow
  
• Hemorrhage
  
• War Javelin
  

[h3]Shields[/h3]
Top 3:

• Rampart
  
• Punishment
  
• Bloodthirsty Shield
  

Bottom 3:

• Greed Shield
  
• Knockback Shield
  
• Force Shield
  

[h3]Skills[/h3]
Top 5:

• Powerful Grenade
  
• Giant Whistle
  
• Great Owl of War
  
• Mushroom Boi (The Bad Seed)
  
• Double Crossb-o-matic
  

Bottom 5:

• Portable Door
  
• Wings of the Crow
  
• Vampirism
  
• Grappling Hook
  
• Root Grenade
  

A good chunk of these results were as we expected and probably won't be a surprise to you too, but some responses did make us double take. We heard the feedback about other things too, such as adjusting mutations or adding a katana (this came up A LOT, you really want this huh?) - we appreciate all the extra comments you made and have taken it all into account for future updates, but of course no promises on anything! Again, if you want to chat about any thing you saw in the post then head over to the live stream and get chatting with the devs.

A decent number of balancing changes will be on the way pretty soon and it won't be just a simple buff here and nerf there. Many additional changes will have a major impact on the experience, and we will definitely need your help to make sure we're not going the wrong way, as well as fine-tuning the balance changes. The Update 19 should make Dead Cells in the best shape it has ever been and makes it ready to welcome the content updates planned for later this year.

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

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Hey everyone,

We're looking to make a major balance change in the next update, so that every option in Dead Cells can be a realistic choice for you to take.

We already have a pretty good idea of what the preferred items and builds are, but to help us really pin down what's popular and what gets thrown on the trash heap, we've created a short survey that we're asking players to fill in. This will help us to figure out what needs the most love, so if you can spare a few minutes to give us a response we would be very grateful!

You can find the survey here.

Thanks in advance for your responses and have a great weekend!

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

Hi everyone,

The Bestiary update has made it through beta and is now available on Steam. It's a 'relatively' small update to keep you going until our next big one, but there’s still plenty to get stuck into for now!

[h3]New mobs:[/h3]
The name just might have given it away, but this update is centered around introducing some new mobs. The 'common' enemy pool was getting a bit too small considering the addition of new levels, and the BC enemies just weren't enough to avoid some repetition.
So, there are now six brand new enemies - 3 are biome-specific, the other 3 are spread through different levels at different Boss Cells. These will freshen up the gameplay and give you some new attack patterns to master, but hopefully not too soon!
There's a couple of clips in here showing new mobs, but the rest you can discover yourself...

[h3]New affixes:[/h3]
We’ve added 11 new affixes on active skills, aimed primarily at growing the pool of affixes available for the items that didn't have enough. Again, this is to flesh out the existing parts of Dead Cells before we introduce new pieces of larger content.

8 new normal affixes:
- Ice, fire, bleed or poison on nearby floors or enemies when the effect of the used active ends
- A grenade, a volley of arrows, or fire spreads when a deployable trap is destroyed
- Get all your arrows back when using a skill

3 new starred affixes:
- Oil and fire spread around when a deployable trap is destroyed
- Push enemies around you when the effect of the used active ends
- Extended duration for powers like Corrupted Power or the Smoke Bomb

Slumbering Sanctuary just seemed to be missing some stabbing action...

[h3]The Bad Seed[/h3]
The levels from our recent DLC 'The Bad Seed' felt a little empty in terms of finding juicy secret areas (*cough* CELLAR *cough*), so we’ve added some new lore rooms and secrets for you to discover in the Arboretum and the Morass, which should make them feel more ‘Dead Cells’.

We also took this opportunity to re-balance the bestiary for The Bad Seed. None of the new mobs are being introduced, but we've tweaked the numbers of the guys who are already there to make these biomes a bit less punishing. On top of this, we've made a few tweaks to the behaviour of the mobs and the layout of these levels that'll make them more fun to play through.

[h3]Ten new achievements[/h3]
Yes, you can stop asking now! Levels from The Bad Seed now have eight achievements up for grabs, plus two ‘general’ achievements have been added to the base game that are available for everyone.

A samurai crab thing - what's not to love?

[h3]Three new outfits[/h3]
Two new outfits can now be found that are linked to the secrets and lore of The Bad Seed DLC. We have also added in a pretty cool skin (well, we think so at least) that's available for everyone that can rise up to the ultimate challenge.

[h3]Balancing[/h3]
Finally, we have included an absolute buttload of balancing and quality-of-life changes. None of them are huge on their own, but all together they will make your runs feel smoother. If you want to see the whole lot you can find them here, but be warned it's a pretty long list!
Some personal favourites are: frozen enemies have their attacks interrupted, Knife Throwers always dodge or dash once before starting to attack you, neighbouring rooms in Arboretum are now inter-connected and some teleporters in the Morass and Clock Tower will activate from further away to avoid backtracking.

That's all for now, speak to you soon!

Cheers,
Matt, Evil Empire & Motion Twin

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Hey everyone,

We’ve teamed up with the guys who made Celeste, Subnautica and The Escapists 2 to create a bundle of top quality games that you can sink oodles of time into during the quarantine period. This should help people to stay inside over the next few weeks without going crazy, whilst hopefully raising awareness as to why we’re all stuck indoors.

The situation with the COVID-19 virus means that we’ve all got to be mindful of the impact of our behaviour on others. Most of us will get nothing more than a cold if we get the virus, but for those in our families and communities who will fall gravely ill, they’ll need access to quality healthcare and if a lot of them get sick all at once, that might not be available for them.

So, we would like to present for your entertainment the “Go Play INSIDE!” bundle, which you have to pronounce as if you’re an exasperated parent dealing with a 3 hour cleanup job after your kids enjoyed using every single one of their toys and breaking a vase.

This bundle should give you an excellent excuse to stay at home and practice social distancing while binge playing through your backlog, that way you’ll be helping reduce the burden on your country’s healthcare system and workers, reducing the risk of an unnecessary peak of sick people needing to go to the hospital and generally looking out for the vulnerable people out there.

The bundle gives you 20% off all the games and is a ‘complete the set’, which means if you buy it you only pay for the games you don’t already have. On top of that each game has an additional discount applied to it for the time being.

On top of this, 20% of each bundle sale will be donated to the Covid-19 Relief Fund of Action Against Hunger, which has been set up to help protect those who are suffering from malnutrition, which makes them much more vulnerable to Covid-19. If you want to know more or make a donation on your own you can follow this link.

[h3]In other more Dead Cells related news:[/h3]

We should have some more info on the latest update next week so keep your eyes peeled for that, otherwise have a good weekend, stay inside and stay safe!

[h3]Community Artwork:[/h3]

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Keep on washing those hands,

Matt and the EE and MT teams.

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re all staying safe, sane and entertained!

The latest update is now in the beta branch. It introduces 6 new enemies and some quality of life & bug fixes - if you want to know more you can see the alpha announcement here.

If you missed the alpha and want to give the beta a go, then the access instructions are below:

• Go to your Steam game library.
  
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
  
• Select the tab "Betas".
  
• In the first dropdown box select "beta".
  
• Click close and wait for the download to finish.
  
• Start playing.
  

We have a thread currently stickied on the Dead Cells subreddit to collect feedback and discuss the new mobs, but you can also post on the #current-update-discussion channel on the Dead Cells' Discord if you prefer (links are below). Let us know any feedback you have, all of it will help us to make the update as good as it can be :)

Cheers,
Evil Empire and Motion Twin

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