General Update

• New Tier 2 Perk: Ninja Gear
  • +1 Dodge Duration
  • Dodging allows you to be ignored by a projectile for the duration of the dodge.
• New Rune: Homing
  • Dynamic projectiles will seek the nearest target.
• New Rune: Ethereal
  • Dynamic projectiles pierce through obstacles but become slow and expire after 3 seconds.
• Now uses pixel perfect camera.
• Serializer now supports tilemaps.
• New Event Scene: Offering
• New Fight Scene: Descent, Arena, Heights, Ascent
• New Puzzle Scene: Light-Up Tiles
• New Enemy: Rat Spider
• Boss attribute.
  • This allows for boss-related effects.
  • Giant Slime has this attribute.
• Added pseudo-vignette using fullscreen shader.
  • I’m waiting for 2023 LTS.

Changes

• Some dynamic projectiles (like Bolt rune) now have a cooldown when hitting a target.
  • This is for the Ethereal rune.
• Damage modifiers (critical strike, block, lifesteal, etc.) can now only trigger from direct projectile damage.
  • It will no longer trigger from status effects like Ignite, and perks like Flower Lantern.
  • It can still trigger from Thorns.
  • Basically it only works on damage coming from projectiles.
  • They are now called attack modifiers.
• New Dodge incoming attack modifier.
  • When off-cooldown, you automatically dodge the next incoming projectile.
  • The projectile you dodged cannot hit you temporarily.
    • This duration can be increased.
• Scenes now follow the pattern Fight > Fight > Event/Puzzle > Fight > Fight > Event/Puzzle > Fight > Fight > Boss.
• Visiting a boss scene now always increases reward and mutation points to the next tier.
• Visiting a fight scene no longer increases reward and mutation points.
• Visiting a cache or puzzle scene now slightly increases reward and mutation points.
• Reward and mutation points are now calculated just before you visit a new scene.
  • This will make the next scenes have better rewards and stronger mutations.
• Picking up the ethereal dagger will re-roll the next rewards and mutations.
• Scenes now use tilemaps.
• Slime vision cone is now 360 degrees.
  • They can see from the back of their… head?
• Lights On puzzle scene now has more puzzles.
• Cave fight scene left-most room is now slightly easier.
• Some UI animations are now faster.
• Improved pathfinding for some enemies.
  • Still a bit derpy.
• Ghost birds are now harder to detect.
• Hit feedback color to red.
• Thorns rune radius to 3.
• Rewards for fight scenes are now always runes.
• Rewards for boss scenes are now always perks.
• Boss Scene: Nest
  • Increased giant slime max health to 4000.
• Event Scene: Well
  • Buff charges now also reduced when visiting a boss scene.
  • Increased charges to 5.

Removed

• Removed Safe Scene: Camp

Fixes

• Fixed some UI elements being squished when it is shown for the first time.
• Fixed bug where owned perks and perks that are in the current scene are reappearing as rewards for the next scene.
• Fixed combustion rune not being shown as compatible with damage-related runes.
• Fixed thorns rune not displaying properly for the player.
• Fixed piercing projectiles with limited number of hits not stopping at the last hit enemy.
• Fixed projectiles piercing through tilemaps if they are fast enough.
• Fixed nest boss scene not removing the X in the spells tab after defeating the boss.
• Fixed scene deserializer not properly deserializing deferred objects from a reference point.
  • Basically, there were stuff in the scene that should be there but wasn’t loaded in because they were waiting for something to be loaded in first.