Reynard News

Hey there!

It's Friday and it's update time!

As said in our “Why early access?” section on steam... we want to involve our early access supporters in development of the game.

Because it’s not the first time that we’ve received a proposal for stamina to regenerate itself instantly once you clear the room, we've added this feature.

Some of our players also pointed out that they don’t see much sense in waiting for their health to regenerate if they have a health regeneration relic. They see it as an exploit. After thinking about it for some time, I’ve decided that they're right and that the relic should be removed. So it’s gone… for now :D

The whole point of the daily run is to achieve the highest score. Until now if you didn’t die… you could clear every room and in the end your score would be very similar to your rival’s score.

That’s why from now on speed and remaining gold is being rewarded. If you complete a run under 40, 30 or 25 minutes you’ll get 10000 bonus score for each mark. Also at the end of the run remaining gold now gets transformed into score.

There are a lot of changes... Like 2 new special weapons and more. I recommend that you check all the changes with shiny gifs on our blog post:
http://hyperfoxstudios.com/reynard-devlog-23-rebalancing-new-weapons/

For those in hurry:

• [WEAPON] Titan's Belt. Can spawn up to 4 circling discs around Reynard that stun and hurt attackers.
  
• [WEAPON] Luna's Cloak. Become invisible for 5 seconds. Invisibility stops if you attack.
  
• [HUGE] Stamina refills when transitioning through doors. Regeneration rate is increased when you clear the
  room, you're waiting for the next wave or you defeat the boss.
  
• [MINOR] Wind can't spawn in forge rooms anymore.
  
• [MINOR] Added confetti to the win screen.
  
• [MINOR] Repositioned the HP bar of Xeno turret.
  
• [MINOR] Removed HP regeneration relics.
  
• [MINOR] Minor modification to Foen's island shape.
  
• [MINOR] Added a tiny easter egg.
  
• [MINOR] Added more supporters to the book of credits.
  
• [MINOR] Speed is now being rewarded! If you complete a run under 40, 30 or 25 minutes you'll get 10000 bonus
  score for each mark.
  
• [MINOR] At the end of the run remaining gold gets transformed into score.
  
• [BALANCING] Buffed the Ifrit's boot's fire damage and spread duration.
  
• [BALANCING] Reduced starting max stamina to 20.
  
• [BALANCING] Enemy loot drops in invasion are halved.
  
• [BUGFIX] Goblins don't steal from player when hitting his allies.
  
• [BUGFIX] Fixed lifestealing from corpses.
  
• [BUGFIX] Fixed jittering of a special weapon image on a HUD.
  
• [BUGFIX] Falling Boulders now deal normal damage instead of fire.
  
• [BUGFIX] Fixed 10 room cells that displayed water in a weird way.
  

PS: I'd really like to know how you like the game so far. If you have any recommendation I'd love to read it! You're welcome to join us on discord: https://discord.gg/vR3uHgJ where we chat about all sorts of stuff :)

Happy New Year!

After watching some of my friends, youtubers and streamers play Reynard, I’ve noticed that they got “crappy” items or items that have the same functionality way too many times. It was an eye opening moment.

I’ve decided to rebalance some of the weapons. Remove the ones that are “underperforming” and most importantly create more special weapons which are fun to use.

I've added "shiny" gifs which show the functionality of new items on our blog! Check them out here: http://hyperfoxstudios.com/reynard-devlog-22-special-weapons/

For those in hurry:

• [WEAPON] Ifrit's Boots. When you activate them, they spawn fiery trail!
  
• [WEAPON] Added Luna's mirror. It spawns a projection of the owner which taunts the enemies.
  
• [WEAPON] Buster Sword. No explanation needed.
  
• [WEAPON] Added Jolt, Jolt Volt and Jolt Volt Bolt - Items that shoot "chain lightning" like projectiles.
  
• [HUGE] A lot of weapons have been rebalanced. Many "junk" weapons have been removed. Critical koeficient for every weapon is now minimum 2.
  
• [MINOR] Rune slots are now displayed in a text form! Now you know how many rune slots a weapon has even if you're purchasing it from a merchant.
  
• [MINOR] You can now sell buildings in invasion. Added sfx when buying and selling.
  
• [MINOR] Space button is now scaled correctly in the dialogue window.
  
• [MINOR] Spider, spider webs and web traps have new skins!
  
• [BALANCING] Bosses now have larger pool of dropabble "cool" items.
  
• [BALANCING] Silver chest can now contain any item.
  
• [BUGFIX] Bug where you could stay locked out should be fixed.
  
• [BUGFIX] Fixed the Runemaster perk. Runes get assigned correctly now.
  
• [BUGFIX] Wave counter now gets updated correctly in the beginning.
  
• [BUGFIX] If Ferdinand was attacked by a companion... Sometimes he wouldn't trigger boulders.
  

Have fun dungeon crawling! :D

It’s holiday season and I’ve been busy… eating and hanging out with my family. But I didn’t forget about my fellow gamers!

To express my gratitude to early access supporters I’m including the Racoon’s skin to Reynard. Once Reynard is fully released the skin will become a DLC. Early access supporters will be able to claim it for free!

I've added some other new stuff! Read full post with flashy gifs and pics here:
http://hyperfoxstudios.com/reynard-devlog-21-racoon-skin-and-more-0-9-2/

For those in hurry:

• [FEATURE] Added a free Racoon for early access supporters.
  
• [FEATURE] Added trapped breakables. When you break something (pots etc.) there is a chance of spawning a cursed weapon.
  
• [MINOR] Main menu music now fades in instead of blowing out your ears :D
  
• [MINOR] Music volume gets reduced by 50% once the game is paused.
  
• [BALANCING] Kitchen knife damage increased from 0.75 to 1.
  
• [BALANCING] Necro Staff's kill count before summoning an ally skeleton is reduced from 10 to 7.
  
• [BUGFIX] All pots now add to pot breaker achievement.
  
• [BUGFIX] Cursed fork can now damage companions.
  

As you can see, this was a shorter update since it’s holiday season and I’ve been busy. But I’ll prepare a bigger update next week 😀

See you in the next year!

Hey there!

It's Friday and another Reynard's update is ready :)

Until now the balance was in favor of Melee bosses. It would be wrong if it remained that way for a longer period. But it would be boring if the new Ranged boss would deal a “regular” ranged attack damage. That’s the reason I’ve created Noc.

Unlike other bosses he doesn’t have health dependent states! Noc is aggressive from the beginning. His mission is to chase Reynard and hit him with his darkening / ethereal fists. If Reynard get’s hit by his fist, his vision becomes limited.

Not only that he’s shooting dangerous projectiles, he’s also summoning cursed weapons!

Besides adding Noc I've added all sorts of new stuff! Read full post with flashy gifs and pics here: http://hyperfoxstudios.com/reynard-boss-noc-ally-judy/

For those in hurry:

• [BOSS] New boss Noc joined Reynard!
  
• [ALLY] Judy joined the ranks of allies!
  
• [ENEMY] Added a Cursed sword.
  
• [ENEMY] Added a Cursed forks.
  
• [FEATURE] Some biomes can now have dark rooms!
  
• [MINOR] Changed the description of the throwing spear.
  
• [MINOR] Added SFX to various enemy and ally attacks.
  
• [MINOR] Drake now has a nice death animation and projects fire projectiles from correct position.
  
• [MINOR] Added SFX to “pawn” shrine.
  
• [MINOR] Added death animations to mobs.
  
• [MINOR] Crate buildings now display healthbars.
  
• [MINOR] Water can now appear instead of the abyss – More biome variations,
  
• [MINOR] Last hitting an enemy triggers mini camera shake.
  
• [BALANCING] Necro Staff’s kill count before summoning an ally skeleton is reduced from 15 to 10. Its damage has been incresed from 1 to 1.3.
  
• [BALANCING] Forest Child perk nerfed. It also takes 20% of player’s score and gold.
  
• [BALANCING] Water Plate Armor’s durability increased to 50.
  
• [BALANCING] Bubba’s prices and gap between them increased.
  
• [BALANCING] Mumu’s explosion damage increased by 100%.
  
• [BALANCING] Zombies’s damage increased by 50%.
  
• [BUGFIX] Fixed some cells where player directly runs into an obstacle or an object.
  
• [BUGFIX] Changed the colliders of the water obstacles in dungeons.
  
• [BUGFIX] Blind monk perk now influences vision on all levels… Invasion and bosses included.
  
• [BUGFIX] Rotation of Bubble turret bullets has been fixed.

In the upcoming week I’ll focus on polishing stuff! I’ll probably add some map on the loading screen, so the player will know how far from saving Prascilla he is. I’ll try to add options to the ingame menu, fiddle with dungeon progression and as always… add a new enemy or ally.

Next Friday is after Christmas so I wish you a merry Christmas upfront 😀 Have fun beating Noc and Santa!

Ho-ho-ho! Christmas is around the corner and Santa has come to visit Foen!

Since it’s December I wanted to add some Christmas spirit to Reynard’s universe.

Santa became another boss influenced by the powerful Wizco’s magic! But you can bring him back to his senses if you free him from the spell (beat him). Players who can defeat him will be rewarded with Santa’s costume!

Besides Santa I've added all sorts of new stuf! Read full post with shiny gifs and pics here: http://hyperfoxstudios.com/reynard-devlog-19-santa-boss-zombies-and-more-0-9-0/

For those in hurry:

- [BOSS] Added a Santa Clause boss battle. Free him and unlock yourself a Santa's costume. You can start the battle by interacting with portal next to the fox hole. You'll be able to fight Santa from 12/12/EveryYear to 1/2/EveryYear.
- [ENEMY] Added a Zombie. Immune to poison and necro damage. When it kills it's victim it restores 0.25 hp to self and spawns a new zombie on it's victim's place.
- [BALANCING] Doctor Plague now spawns Zombies and Skeletons. His movement speed was increased for 50%. Has some companions from the beginning.
- [MINOR] Removed a single pixel mistake on Reynard's Santa costume :)
- [BUGFIX] Fixed bugged when golem's dropped golem's fist instead of golem's hand. (one is usable other is an actual weapon of the golem).
- [BUGFIX] Wilson's laser beam can now damage allies and companions.
- [BUGFIX] Doctor Plague can now damage allies and companions.
- [BUGFIX] Fixed the bug when the stairs to secret room are spawned behind the indestructible objects.
- [BUGFIX] Companion skeletons wouldn't get transported to other levels.

In the upcoming week I’ll focus on boss battles, new enemies and new rooms! If you’d like to recommend anything, please let me know!

Till next time! Happy Santa saving 😀