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Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #43

Heya Voids and Voidettes!

It is your beloved Kitty Skies here and I am wishing to tell you Happy New Year and hoping you all have a wonderful 2021!

I would like to apologise about the radio silence on our end. We are still alive and working hard on bringing the final version to your soft paws. As gamers ourselves on Steam, we understand that it can be quite daunting when an Early Access game stops posting updates, but I am here to assure you that we are going to see this all the way through – and more!

We do have one final update planned before the full launch, but before that we wanted to implement new systems and iron out a lot of stuff in preparation for it. So, this update pushes a lot of changes and tweaks.

We hope you enjoy this surprise and if you have any feedback to the changes, feel free to let us know in the comments below or in the forums. We are highly responsive to each post!


As always, the full patch notes will be posted below, and we hope to see you lighting up voids very shortly.


EA v6.0 - January 21st 2021

Content Added -

  • 3 new monsters to love! (Total: 65)
  • 5 new power gifts. (Total: 156)
  • 7 new bonus gifts. (Total: 47)
  • 2 new quick gifts. (Total: 40)
  • 29 new dreams to fulfil. (Total: 423)
  • You can now save and continue in the middle of a run!
Updates and tweaks -

  • Spaced out the availability of gift types in the first few runs and added new tutorials for each.
  • Ultra Quickplay has a separate rank from normal Quickplay now.
  • Medals are now worth extra rank points in Quickplay (applied retroactively).
  • Changed the XP required for each quickplay rank.
  • Added a new quickplay upgrade shop instead of rewarding them per rank.

    v6.0 - Changes to battles.

  • Hematoren holds the combo briefly when breaking a blood orb.
  • Hadesoh now holds combo during her spinning laser attack.
  • Split Veyeral now holds the combo after the first split.
  • Split Veyeral medal score goals have been changed (scores have been reset).
  • Lowered the difficulty of many of Chemory's attacks during phase 1.
  • Adjusted the total amount of spawns that Chemory can create.
  • Adjusted the score goals for Chemory.
  • Lowered the difficulty of some of Kiwi's attacks.
  • Lowered the difficulty of one of Vitrea's level 8 attacks.
  • Some changes to some of Sentinel 4X's attacks.
  • Loving any monsters with alternate battles will remove all of them from the pool in story mode.

    v6.0 - Changes to gifts

  • Some quick gifts will now last longer than 1 battle.
  • The Overlove and Karma Wish bonus gifts are now all unlocked automatically.
  • Boiler Maw's rate of fire increases by +2 per hit instead of +1.
  • The Transfusion gift now increases max hp by 3 instead of 2.
  • The Chrome Heart effect now also negates the penalty to the mote extraction bonus from being hit.
  • The effect of Pressure was reduced to 20% from 30%.
  • Fixed a bug where the damage bonus from Anxiety did not affect auras.

    v6.0 - Other changes

  • The amount of gifts that you can take out of the Link Synapse is now based on a new upgrade gift set.
  • Improved the endless shop upgrade screen.
  • Several dream rewards have been swapped and moved around.
  • The ability to earn karma from panic attacks is now locked behind some early dreams.
  • Added a new sound effect for toxic bullets (they originally used the same sound as void shots).
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the FPS warning to appear every time you return to the main menu even if the issue was resolved.
  • Twin heart's starting panic duration was reduced by 25%.
  • Your looped bullets are now slightly transparent.
  • Rebalanced the damage scaling for Charged Big Heart Shots.


Coldest Wishes,
The Void

ːawooː

Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #42

Hello Voidettes and Voids!

Surprise! Here's an update! We've got lots of different small tweaks for you all, but also a few bigger things! One new monster, a couple new dreams to achieve and some new power gifts! But first, here's a message from Veyerals:

So many new players picked this up during the Summer Sale and I just wanted to make this update as a thank you! With the exception of any bug fixes within the next few days, this will truly be the last update until the game is finished! There is still a lot of work to do so it won't be for at least a few months still. I don't want to make any guesses on the date yet, but it will be posted here when the release date is finalized. And as always, I will continue to reply in the forums here!

[h3]Also, we will be raising the price of the game by a few dollars very soon! Now's the best time to get the game, if you haven't already!
The content has been doubled since the last price increase and we feel that a slightly bigger price tag is justified.[/h3]

And as always, here's the list:

Content Added
  • 1 new monster to love! (Total: 62)
  • 2 new Power Gifts (Total: 151)
  • 12 new dreams (Total: 394)
  • 1 new special event chapter to discover!
Updates & Tweaks
  • The "Radiate Tetrids" event has been changed into the Radiant Garden
  • Title cards for special event chapters in story mode will now say that they are a special chapter
  • Added an option to view the progress to karma from panic attacks on the battle hud
  • Added an option to blackout the backgrounds during battles
  • Blot's paint turrets pop with a better sound effect
  • Increased the intensity of the bullet wobble on Alter Blot's second phase
  • Reduced Alter Roundsaw's movement speed when overleveled
  • Story: The best score tables are now shown for Mist Rain difficulty
  • Quickplay: controls were changed in the loadout menus so that you can now remove gifts with a single button press
  • Endless: Added title cards at the start of each new cycle
  • Endless: Changed the stage and cycle hud when choosing a monster
  • Endless: the monster level can be slightly reduced at the start of each cycle if the level is pushed very high in the previous cycle
  • Added small heart icons that show any active denial shields and fatal hit revives on your health bar
  • Your health bar is now shown on the main page of the Check Heart menu and in the Quick Gift menu
  • Improved the card art for Sentinel 4X
  • The "A key to love" event has a lower base chance to appear while being able to greatly increasing the chance if challenges are failed during the run
  • The dreams for collecting 25 of each color tetrid have all been increased to require 64
  • The bullet magnet effect of the Love Signal gift will now only affect alternating bursts of shots from your heart. Additionally, love signals will now also cause damage over time
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed bug where Chroma used Scrambla's fear and defense stats
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Scrambla Maw helper from working correctly in Freeplay mode
  • Fixed a bug that would make rainbow ring barriers on certain monsters grow to massive sizes when hit by too much damage
Coming Soon
  • Just a few bug fixes and smaller tweaks before the FINAL CONTENT UPDATE



Coldest Wishes,
The Void

Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #41

Hello Voidettes and Voids!

Hope you're all doing well!

We've got a couple of new things for you to try out today, including a new Ultra Quickplay mode! One brand new monster to beat, and a bunch of different small, but important fixes.

This will be one of our last content updates. In about a week or so Veyerals will bring us one more update, that will add dreams to all the remaining monsters that don't have them yet. It will also add Freeplay Mode where you can challenge any boss at any level with any amount of gifts, but you won't gain any dreams or tetrids from doing it. Think of it as a practice mode with no limits!

Let's check out the full update list!

Content Added
  • 1 new monster to love! (Total: 61)
  • 2 new dreams (Total: 346)
  • Added Ultra Quickplay mode where you can challenge overleveled monsters
Updates & Tweaks
  • Duplicate gifts can be equipped in Quickplay after reaching certain ranks
  • Slightly lowered the initial fear values on the first stage monsters of Heavy Rain and Torrent Rain
  • The cap on all tetrid types has been raised to 999
  • The karma bonus point for not using a panic attack has been removed!
  • Instead, up to 2 bonus karma can now be earned per battle by absorbing a certain amount of bullets with panic attacks
  • Fast forwarding through the karma rewards at very high levels of Endless Nightmare is now faster
Bug Fixes
  • None for now!
Coming Soon
  • More dreams
  • Freeplay mode


Stay tuned for next week's update! After it, there will be no more updates (aside from bug fixes) up until the whole story is done!

Coldest Wishes,
The Void ːcowplushieː

Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #40

Hello Voidettes and Voids!

A big big content update today! 7 NEW MONSTERS! Bringing the total amount to a whopping 60 monsters. Let us know what you think of them!



Also, a special announcement from Veyerals!
There will only be one more monthly update on May 8th! It will mainly consist of more monsters. After that, there will be no more updates until the game is completely finished! That means all the story and all those Truer Finaler Battles that I've been holding back will be done in one big final update.

We've also got a lot of smaller updates and tweaks for today, as always, you can check all of them below:

Content Added
  • 7 new monsters to love! (Total: 60)
  • 1 new dream (Total: 344)
Updates & Tweaks
  • The effect of the monster Attack Speed buff/nerf has been reduced from 20% to 10% per unit
  • The overleveled monster Attack Speed cap has been increased from 12 to 24 (The actual effective limit is still +240%)
  • The tetrid cost to radiate several monsters has been adjusted
  • Quickplay: XP required for rank 35+ has been increased to compensate for all the new battles
  • Knot Knott has new sound effects
  • Slightly lowered the score goals for Kiwi at higher levels
  • Changed the colors of some glass bullets shot by Glass Flora monsters
  • Photoxai's small glyphs now take damage normally from panic attacks rather than breaking instantly
  • New card art for blot
Bug Fixes
  • Shy Lila was missing the Radiant attack element icon on her radiated card
  • Fixed a typo in the Spark Mark memory for those of you deep lore explorers. "Toh" was mistakenly refering to the wrong symbol.
  • Improvements to collisions between player bullets and Syncron units
Coming Soon
  • More monsters!


Stay Safe ː8bitheartː
The Void


Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #39

Hello Voidettes and Voids!

We've got new content for you all! This month you'll be able to fight two new monsters, get a handful of new gifts, and achieve a couple of new dreams! What are you waiting for? Get to it! Oh wait, actually, first read the changelog, and THEN get to it!

Content Added
  • 2 new monsters to love (Total: 53)
  • 1 new Power Gift (Total: 149)
  • 8 new Quick Gifts (Total: 38)
  • 7 new Dreams (Total: 343)


Updates & Tweaks
  • The Dream list has been reorganized with new sub groups
  • The Dream list can now be accessed from the Check Heart menu in any mode
  • The unlock conditions for the Elemental Dye set of Quick gifts has been changed


Coming Soon
  • Stay tuned for more!



Coldest Wishes,
The Void