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9.5 New Elements

10/5/2024

9.5 New Elements

New Features:
Added 5 new elements with 170 new spells.
Added 8 new talents.
Created new PoM accessories.
Created new Ghost Potions.

Balancing:
Increased Ghost Potion debuff from 20% to 25%.
Organic enemies take double damage from acid,
fire, and dark.
Robotic enemies receive half damage from fire,
ice, wind, dark, holy, psychic, and expression.
Staff's arcane spells are now colorless.
Robotic enemies take double damage from arcane.
Further increased robotic weakness to lightning
by 25%.
Further increased robotic weakness to water
by 50%.
Increased weight of invocation speed tenfold.
(fast attacks and slow attacks had little
meaning at high dexterity)
Slightly buffed Mezra Monster.
Increased both weight and damage reduction
of Protective Mother gear.
Slightly reduced damage of Skeletal Tremor.
Slightly reduced difficulty of chapter 6
bosses. (most stats reduced by 3-6%)
Placed a talent point crystal in chapter 6.
(this is found near the NG+ painting)
Lowered Thread's luck bonus from 25% to 20%.
Increased and simplified EXP softcaps:

old exp softcaps:
200+ = -75%
250+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -87.5%
500+ - 90%

new exp softcaps:
100+ = -75%
200+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -75%
500+ = -90%
1000+ = -90%

Misc:
Fixed pathing issue in Poetry of Blood 1.
Applied recent gravity buff to its AoE spells.
Fixed robots not being immune to cancer.
Fixed haywire and confusion.
Fixed some Undercity dialog from not working
properly on NG+.
Fixed a ghost road quest from not resetting
on NG+.
Removed exp rate from status screen. (this
number was confusing players)
NPCs no longer roam inside Lampless mayor house.
Fixed Fatdink from not returning on NG+.
Fixed Stimpacks. (until addiction is added, these
are temporarily reduced to 50%)
Updated credits with specific track section.

Dev note: Due to the new exp softcaps, chapter 6
was made a step easier.

9.4 Compound Showdown

9/21/2024

9.4 Compound Showdown

New Features:
Created quest for Trinity Compound.

Balancing:
Increased magic component to gravity spells by 25%.
Higher difficulties now require more knowledge
to see NG+0 knowledge chests. (infinite nightmare
needs 10 more, nightmare needs 8 more, etc)
Slightly improved rewards from playing Rakenzie
in the Card House.
NG+ enemies are now less likely to run away
outside of battle.
Art level now slightly affects whether enemies
will run from the party or not.
Lowered charisma needed to enter Trinity Compound
by 10. (this will be reverted when an alternate
way in is created) (failing this charisma check
currently fails the quest)

Misc:
Large Demon in Southern Undercity now requires
20 knowledge to be seen.
The blood altar cat at the start of the game now
requires 10 knowledge to speak.
Fixed various issues inside Cosmic Color.
Fixed metal walls from having skill requirements.
Fixed Living King Bomb from not costing any
realism shards.
Fixed various typos in Trinity Compound.
Fixed Nameless Sewers from setting Hotel Level
to 100.
Increased Violet's generic book tolerance from
300 to 400. (note that book tolerance has no
effect on knowledge gain)
Fixed Quebec's dialog in Yamen Farm.
Fixed pathing issue in Eastern Ocean.

9.3.3 Expanded Floor 1

9/16/2024

9.3.3 Expanded Floor 1

New Features:
Finished Acceptance of Scale.
Added 2 more sections to the first floor of
Cosmic Color. (total sections are now 11)
Added purple flames throughout Cosmic Color.

Balancing:
Slighty weakened chapter 1 enemies.
Slighty increased exp from early game enemies.
Reduced Toxic Spider's attack by 25%.
Increased healing received on Radiation element
from 10% to 20%. (renamned to recovery)

Misc:
Fixed guard.
Fixed Violet from gaining extra AP when
respeccing.
Fixed confusion. (the unique confusion status
effect for robots is now called haywire)
Fixed a chest in Nameless Forest from interacting
with a chest in Cosmic Color.
Changed battle music to Failed Artist.

9.3.2 Hotfix

9/8/2024

9.3.2 Hotfix

New Features:
Created an alternate scene.

Misc:
Fixed succubus quest.
Removed "future content" from priest inside
the Infinite Hotel.
Fixed Nameless Temple entrance.

9.3.1 Hotfix

9/8/2024

9.3.1 Hotfix

New Features:
Created some alternate scenes.

Misc:
Fixed mapping issue in Western Ocean.