Progress Update

New

• Enemy mutations. Some enemies gain new spells and/or change appearance depending on the total mutation points the player has accumulated.
• New Enemy: Ghost Bird
  • Poor vision but can cast a powerful spell.
• Visual feedback when taking damage.
  • Brief flash effect.
• New Scene Type: Cache
  • These scenes may be dangerous depending on the player’s choice.
  • May provide bonuses.
• New Cache Scene: Well
• New Puzzle Scenes: Cliff, Road
• New Fight Scenes: Cave, Bridge
• New Runes
  • Expand/Maximize: Effects are 30%/60% bigger.
• New Tier 1 Perks
  • Spectral Veil: Grants a temporary barrier upon receiving damage but makes barriers weaker.
  • Magic Marker: Restore mana upon dealing damage.
  • Apprentice Wand: Gain health and mana regen when casting spells.
• New Tier 2 Perks
  • Bulwark: Grants a permanent barrier that regenerates overtime.
  • Odorless Charm: Gain 200 temporary barrier at the start of each scene, and upon taking this perk.
  • Sun Word: Deal damage per second to nearby enemies.
  • Red Mist: Casting spells deal damage to nearby enemies, but your spells also cost health.
  • Valiant Pose: Gain temporary critical strike damage when casting spells.
  • Stalwart Pose: Gain temporary block when casting spells.
  • Dragon Bread: Healing overtime.
  • Furious Ghost: Bonus outgoing damage.
  • Glove of Pain: Even more outgoing damage but you also take more damage.
• Silence Mechanic: You cannot cast spells when silenced.
  • Players are silenced in some puzzle scenes.
• Players are now warned if a rune does not contribute to a spell.
  • Like using a mana cost reduction rune, and nothing else.

Changes

• Changed how rewards are calculated.
  • Rune and perks now share the same amount of points.
    • This means that the total number of rewards per scene are less.
• Significantly reduced reward and mutation points.
  • This makes cache and puzzle scenes significantly important now.
• Reduced reserved rune slots to 5.
• Reduced flower lantern damage to 5 and disable duration to 3.
• Raze/destroy/obliterate runes changed to 50%/100%/200% damage increase.
• Catapult rune increased explosion radius to 200% of the projectile's size.
  • It should be easier to hit multiple enemies with it now.
• Character controller now works with effector 2Ds.
• Slightly improved character controller physics.
  • Now has a higher priority than Unity's physics.
  • Hopefully would feel a bit less janky.
• Streamlined rune stats for future runes.
  • This allows for new runes that modify other runes, such as homing missiles or duplicating projectiles.

Fixes

• Fixed combustion only being able to hit 1 enemy.
• Fixed dynamic projectiles not bouncing if it hits multiple obstacles at the same time.