Notes
- Early Access is finally behind us! After 3+ years of development the game is in a position that I can proudly say is worthy of version 1.0! I'm extremely excited to finally bring the finished product to everyone who has patiently waited for so long and I really hope the game doesn't disappoint.
- This update adds a new room, 3 new achievements, and a Game Guide/Bestiary accessible from the main menu that explains the complexities of the game and allows you to view all playable, enemy, and boss classes to get a better understanding of their abilities!
- This update also brings a huge overhaul to spell descriptions. I went through every spell in the game (over 400 of them) to condense and clarify their descriptions so information can be relayed to the player more cohesively.
- The final note of this update is that, unfortunately, it is not compatible with previous versions of the game. I'm hoping this is one of the last times I have to do this, so if you're on an Early Access save file I greatly apologize that you won't be able to transfer your save files over.
Additions
- Added the Game Guide. This is accessible from the main menu and contains information about many topics and mechanics of the game. It has information pertaining to stats, effects, spells, damage types, and other topics to help clarify the more complex portions of the game. It also contains a search bar so you can search for specific topics.
- Added the Bestiary. This is accessible from the Game Guide and allows you to view every playable, enemy, and boss class in the game (except hidden classes). You can view detailed information about each class such as base stats, spawn values, and every spell that class has. This will allow you to familiarize yourself with classes so you can get a better idea of what you're up against when you encounter these classes during your run. For enemy and boss classes it also tells you how many of that class type you've killed (this can help with determining what enemies you have left for the Enemy and Boss Roulette achievements).
- Added more features in combat to add more clarity to who the current character is and when damage/healing is dealt. The icon for the character currently taking their turn now has a white border around it. Additionally, when damage or healing is dealt, a number is displayed next to that character's icon with a corresponding color: orange for attack damage, blue for spell damage, bright blue for divine damage, bright red for an instant kill, dark red for a critical kill, white for critical strike damage, light green for healing, and dark green for reviving.
- Added the Teleport Room. This semi-rare room allows you to teleport straight to the boss room! The upside being you get to potentially skip a whole floor, the downside being you also skip the healing room right before the boss.
- Added three new achievements: Guided, Teleporter, and Double Stacked! You get these from going to the Game Guide, using the teleporter in the Teleport Room, and having both buffs from the Resting Room simultaneously.
Bugfixes
- Fixed Achievements and Statistics not syncing and updating properly.
- Fixed the Well Rested damage reduction buff from the Resting Room increasing your damage taken instead of reducing it as it was supposed to.
- Fixed combat ending a character's turn properly if you press the skip hotkey. You could spam the skip key and the game would freak out and make enemies take multiple actions at once.
- Fixed the visual bug with item slots not properly updating their icons when the compare target was changed.
- Fixed self-targeting spells not allowing you to re-select the character casting the ability if you didn't have that character selected upon queuing the ability.
- Fixed boss rooms not correctly generating bosses based on the run seed.
- Fixed the Shield Wall's Overshield soft-locking the game if it had the spell upgraded while also not having Raise Shield unlocked.
- Fixed rare occasions where the action text in combat describing what spell a character is about to cast is too long and gets overlapped by the character icons
- Reduced the lag from swapping items even further. The previous update had a marginal increase in speed but I was able to get it to swap items near instantaneously.
Overhauls
- Overhauled many spell descriptions. I went through every spell to condense and clarify descriptions. I also normalized descriptions so different spells across different class types that did similar effects used the same language and syntax.
- Applied total spell effects to the main spell description. What this means is if you upgrade a spell to apply additional effects and hover over the main spell icon the spell description now shows the entire effect, including additional effects. Descriptions before wouldn't update if you upgraded to add more effects to the spells, only upgrades that changed the base values would update. Now you can get all information about a spell from its main description instead of having to check each upgrade to see more effects the spell does!
Changes
- Moved the attack and skip buttons in combat to be closer to the center of the screen. This way they're more easily accessible since those buttons are used quite a bit, plus it moves them out of the "Spell List" which you would think wouldn't house such buttons!
- The Gambling Room can no longer spawn on the first floor of the game since you're likely to have either no Gold or very little.
- Tweaked the Duelist's Assault. It now costs a flat 20 Mana instead of 10 (25 initial - 15 upgrade). The upgrade that used to reduce the Mana cost by 15 now allows the Assault debuff to bypass Debuff Resistance.
- Changed the second upgrade of the Arcane Mage's Divine Blast. Instead of resetting the cooldown if the spell killed its target, the spell now deals a bonus 15% Maximum Health Divine Damage to a random Enemy that's not the main target of the spell.
Nerfs
- Increased the turns it takes for the Brewer's Burning Brew active to deal its total damage to 5 from 3.
I wanted to conclude these update notes with a sincere thank you to everyone who played the game during its Early Access phase. The feedback I've gotten has helped shape the game immensely into something that I hope is as accessible and enjoyable for as many people as possible. The game will receive updates in the future for bugfixing but the updates will slow down as I start to transition to other projects. This game has been 4 years in the making, it's my baby and I don't want to stop working on it until I know it's in a position in which it can be enjoyed long after I leave it behind.