The Void Rains Upon Her Heart News

This update was supposed to include Knot Knott's free gift event and possibly Shiny Syncron if I could make it in time. However, I loved Knot Knott's interactions so much as I wrote them, that I ended up accidentally making them a whole treasure event with a shiny battle too. On accident. So enjoy this extra shiny battle!

Early Access updated game version to v7.22
[h2]Content Added [/h2]

• 1 new event (Total: 42)
  
• 1 shiny new battle (Total: 96)
  
• 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 628)
  

[h2]Updates and tweaks [/h2]

• None
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Surprisingly none!
  

[h2]Coming Up for v7.X[/h2]

Only 3 battles left!

• Shiny Syncron (Treasure Event)
  
• Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Alter Shanx (Guardian)
  

Next update will be on April 14th!

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This update focuses on making sure every gift effect can stack if it makes sense for it to do so! Astrayo also got her free gift event!

Duplicate gifts were not really part of the plans years ago when I started making this game. As a result, many effects were not designed to stack at all. Several effects, such as denial shields and revives were updated to become stackable as I added more ways of acquiring their effects. Most of the recent new gift effects, such as the Photo and Magnet helpers, were designed to be stackable. I was convinced to go back through the entire list of effects and add stacking to all of them if I could. Only 8 power gifts have no stacking effects now!

Early Access updated game version to v7.21
[h2]Content Added [/h2]

• 1 new event (Total: 41)
  
• 1 new dream to fulfill (Total: 626)
  

[h2]Updates and tweaks [/h2]

• The following gifts have new stacking effects from duplicates: Revita Heart, Shame, Frustration, Anxiety, Insecurity, Loneliness, Misfit Heart, Despair, Heart Key, Entropy, Energy Zest, Puncture, Umbrella, Fallen Angel, Glass Petal, Metal Glyph, Glass Glyph, Link Synapse, Loop, Rock Star, Second Form, Rage, Spark Thorns, Plant Glyph, Paint Brush
  
• Glass Glyph now additionally increases max hp by 2 without healing, and it has been moved to the fortifying gift category
  
• In Photoxai's event, she will never choose to copy gifts that have no stacking effect
  
• In Photoxai's event, she will always make copies of any photo themed gifts you have (Only applies to Blank Photo for now)
  
• In Prisma's event, she will warn you about duplicating gifts that have no stacking effects, but she will not stop you
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• The challenge goal for breaking parts on Ventra was accidentally set too high
  

[h2]Coming Up for v7.X[/h2]

This is the remaining content for version 7 in order of release

• Knot Knott (Free Gift Event)
  
• Shiny Syncron (Treasure Event)
  
• Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Alter Shanx (Guardian)
  

I wanted to return to the 2 week schedule, but I now have some responsibilities with team Moonana and also working on something for the game Revita! (Go play it! Split Veyeral is in there!) Because of this, I'll be sticking to the 3 week schedule for now. There will be a small patch within the next few days (especially if new stacking bugs are found), but the next main update will be on March 24th!

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It's The Void Rains Upon Her Heart's 5th Early Access birthday today! On this most special 69th update I have finally added the final newborn monster, Guardian Soul!

Excluding the original 14, I have created 81 different boss battles for this game over the course of 5 years! It feels incredible to only have Shanx's design left as a common battle. Shanx was even planned out from the start over 6 years ago. I didn't really expect her to be the last one, but it's finally almost time to reveal her!

Early Access updated game version to v7.20
[h2]Content Added [/h2]

• 1 new monster to love! (Total: 95)
  
• 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 625)
  

[h2]Updates and tweaks [/h2]

• The Love Signal gift is now locked by a dream starting on new save files
  
• The intro to the Self Doubt event will be shorter if it has been seen once per play session
  
• The final xp requirements to reach rank 50 in all quickplay modes has now been set and will not increase any further as new battles are added. It was set to a slightly lower value than the previous version.
  
• The xp required per rank starting at rank 50 has been increased, and these may still be adjusted as more battles are added (Ranks above 50 will never unlock anything)
  
• Added list menu selection wrapping to most menus that were missing this feature
  
• Ventra's first light core appears earlier in the battle
  
• Syncron will now always hold the combo during their second phase even after all 4 beams are broken
  
• Sentinel now offers one extra bonus gift to choose from if the round is cleared with no strikes
  
• When asking about monster quotes, Sentinel will no longer include any duplicate quotes that happen to be shared by multiple monsters
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• A few of Sentinel's other questions had rare duplicate wrong answers
  
• Ventra could create a bullet shockwave after she was already defeated
  
• All basic shots were accidentally given an automatic effect that increased bullet size during focus
  
• Split heart shots would not warp around with the Loop effect if the split happened on the same frame that the main bullet warped
  

[h2]Coming Up for v7.X[/h2]

This is all that I have left for version 7!

• Shiny Syncron (Treasure Event)
  
• Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Alter Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Knot Knott (Free Gift Event)
  
• Astrayo (Free Gift Event)
  

At worst, we are looking at 5 more updates for v7, if I can only manage to finish 1 thing at a time. Let's see how it goes. Next update is planned for March 3rd!

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v7.19a - January 22nd, 2023
-One new power gift to find
-Reduced the AOE damage reduction from hitting multiple of Roundsaw's saw blade attacks at once
-Most saw attacks will now spark when they are nearly broken
-Critical Bubbles become more transparent if their radius is larger or there are a lot of them at once
-The Alter Your Fate event will now always require the first gift sacrifice to be a 3-star if you have received 2 or more of them, but this will now ignore any starting 3-star gifts for your character
-Bug Fix: Getting Friend Spiral would not correctly raise the limits of orbital helpers found before it

It's my birthday again, so that means it's time for my annual birthday update! Your gift to me can be playing my gift to you!

I couldn't finish Guardian Soul in time, so this update will focus on a ton of small balance things I've been meaning to get to. Most of them apply to the helpers and helper related gifts. There was a lot of work done on how helpers work internally that will allow me to create more effects for them.

Early Access updated game version to v7.19
[h2]Content Added [/h2]

• 2 new power gifts to find (Total: 214)
  

[h2]Updates and tweaks [/h2]

• Changed the Stone Magnet effect to create helpers during battle
  
• Alter Defect and Alter Twin now start with new gifts that apply some of their effects
  
• Increased Alter Twin's base Quickplay power cost from 2 to 3 and reduced her panic threshold by 1
  
• Total helper DPS is now calculated and shown on the attributes screen
  
• Changed the scaling of the Friend Beam charge attack to be affected by the DPS of all helpers
  
• Friend Beams are generally more powerful than before, but all helper fire rates are slightly reduced while the beam is active
  
• Most gifts that increase helper damage have been buffed
  
• Petrichor now increases helper rate of fire instead of shot damage
  
• Friend Spiral can now increase the caps of special orbital helpers
  
• AOE attacks such as Panics, Auras, and Friend Beam will no longer distribute any damage to invincible monster parts
  
• AOE attacks that hit multiple parts will distribute less damage to any parts that are considered resistant and unbreakable
  
• AOE damage is not reduced as heavily while simultaneously hitting parts that deal damage to the main fear bar and ones that don't. This is most noticeable with Friend Beams.
  
• Adjusted the drop rates of bullet type activation gifts so they will not diminish as more 2 star gifts are unlocked. This will keep their drop chance consistent with that of a new save file. This applies to Lovely Hearts, Tiny Wings, and Starry Night if they are available to find by your character.
  
• The number of battles remaining on an active quick gift is now shown on the card itself
  
• The extra chapters added by The Radiant Garden and Treasure Events will never interrupt each other anymore. Treasure Events are prioritized over the garden, but they can both appear right after the battle added by the other.
  
• On new save files, monsters that only appear during specific events will now appear as locked in the collection menu until their even is unlocked. The monster's unlock hint will match their event's unlock hint.
  
• Backup save files are now created in a separate folder. This folder does not sync with steam cloud, so they can't all be overwritten by accident.
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Aviocs that appear during Shiny Snowball's battle are now purple instead of green as I had originally intended, but forgot about
  
• The Chemical Light gift did not count as a toxic gift for trades
  
• Visual bug that temporarily showed the wrong score after pausing while motes were being added
  

[h2]Coming Up for v7.X[/h2]

This is all that I have left for version 7!

• Guardian Soul (Guardian)
  
• Shiny Syncron (Treasure Event)
  
• Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Alter Shanx (Guardian)
  
• Knot Knott (Free Gift Event)
  
• Astrayo (Free Gift Event)
  

I plan on having at least Guardian Soul finished for the next one! Next update will be on the game's anniversary on Valentines Day!

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