v1.76 Patch Notes - Summer 2021

Hi folks,

DemonCrawl's tropical Summer Event is now live! Check out (https://steamcommunity.com/games/1141220/announcements/detail/2966165443311909229) for more details.

In addition to a ton of new seasonal content, this patch marks the debut of Arena, our online multiplayer gamemode! Arena is officially in Open Beta - we plan to monitor server performance carefully in the coming days and deploy any fixes as needed. We're keeping our fingers crossed for a smooth launch, but please bear with us should we encounter any technical issues. Thank you!

Full patch notes are available below. Have fun!

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Summer Event

• Complete the holiday questline to earn 4 new avatars and a new inventory skin

• 11 additional avatars are available through Prizeboxes

• Participate in summer tournaments to earn a ton of Tokens

• Each run, you will encounter one of three summer afflictions

• The Shopkeeper has stocked up on summer items

• The Shopkeeper's handing out free water, what a cool guy

• Added unique holiday stage

• Reskinned menu graphics

• Added Summer Special Chest

• New holiday Mythic Emblem

• New seasonal boss: Trixie - "Play Beach Ball like your life depends on it, because it does."

Arena

• DemonCrawl's new online multiplayer mode is now in Open Beta

• Choose between Manual and Autosweeper division depending on your playstyle

• Added Season 1 avatar rewards

• Implemented Arena Plus DLC for extra online perks

New Features

• New magic item: Beach Ball - "[20 Mana] Throw at a stranger and be prepared to have a radical time, dude!"

• New consumable item: Water - "Gain 50 mana."

• New consumable item: Sunscreen - "For 100 turns, you are immune to burns."

• New consumable item: Shark - "Cook by removing Burning from a random visible cell, then gain the ability to powerchord any cell until the end of the stage. Or sell raw at an Item Shop for 40 coins."

• New omen: Sun Burn - "Every 100 turns, remove all Frozen auras and get burnt."

• New omen: Dry Spell - "At the end of each stage, lose half of your mana."

• New omen: Hurricane - "Each stage has an additional Wishpool. You cannot activate Wishpools. Whenever a Wishpool gains a charge, drop your other items on the ground and destroy any objects in the same quadrant as the Wishpool."

• Added blueprint for Wishing Coin

Quality of Life

• Updated visual effects for Fishing Pole

• Updated color of Discord button to match their new branding guidelines

• Adjusted appearance of main menu labels

• Changing the difficulty on the quest selection screen no longer restarts the music

Balance Changes

• War Paint nerf: "Whenever a living object dies, solve 3 cells."

• Updated several item recipes to utilize the new Starfish artifact

• Lowered the chance to encounter a seasonal boss from 50% to 33%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the price of treasure chest Nomad not increasing with use

• Holiday bosses can no longer override special encounters like Ego

• Magic Dice can no longer target the Metagate

• Fixed a couple bugs related to Ectoplasm

• Fixed an issue related to the sigil that procs on death

• Fixed a rare crash related to Novice Doll

• Fixed Ghost not being able to interact with the Dimensional Portal while dead

• Fixed expiration of Plum status effect