4/29 Content and Balance patch!

4/29 Content and Balance patch! New weapons Ram-Dao, new ultra-rare staff Spirit Drill, new passive skills and secret rooms!

Content

• Added a new (and first) ultra-rare staff, the Spirit Drill! Spirit drill is essentially a long ranged magical chainsaw that rips enemies apart as you hold it.

• Added a new Berserk-inspired weapon, the Ram-Dao! A faster variant of the Hundred Man Slayer with different skills, including the new Vortex skill!

• Added Vortex item skill! Vortex pulls all enemies towards you while you are in a Whirlwind.

• Added Overpower statue passive skill! Overpower increases your combo multiplier while you hold / charge your weapon swing.

• Added Temporal Rift statue passive skill! Temporal Rift gives you a permanent aura that reduces the movement and attack speed of enemies near you.

• Added two new secret rooms that involve avoiding hazards while riding platforms :^)

• Added 5 new intro story cards for you to ponder as you question your mortality.

Balance

• Hoarder stat scaling from Gold Essence reduced a bit. Hoarder now starts with high speed, but actually loses speed with higher Gold Essence (down to at most -50% speed). Now you must trade off losing speed with increasing other stats, encouraging more essence spending.

• Removed the damage reduction component of Indomitable Spirit, so now it only provides temporary invulnerability which is very powerful by itself.

• Sleight of Hand combo now provides 1 second of invulnerability when executed.

• Gladiator health reduced from 150 to 120

• Vampire can now find the Alchemist skill, but it only increases Wizard Oils.

• Vampire health increased from 75 to 90.

• Warlock now has Vortex instead of Escape Artist. Warlock defense stats have been boosted and his attack was reduced slightly.

• Berserker had the Ram Dao added to his item pool, and has reduced chance to find Divine Radiance so it’s a little bit more difficult to get two of them quickly in a run.

• Buffed Sword and Cleaver durability

• Adjusted some weapon spawn rates so some of the more powerful weapons are slightly less common.

• Slowed down that one ultra fast Maniac attack (scythe-wielders) so it’s humanly possible to parry it.

• Gave Haruspex (melee goat-men) a mirrored version of their left hand attack for the right hand attack, since the old one was hard to read and hit way too fast.

Performance

• Added texture streaming system to reduce RAM requirement for the game. The game should now use ~2 gigs less ram than it did before (from roughly ~4.3gb to ~2.3gb). This was mostly done to allow for adding more future content without breaking the memory budget for low end machines.

• Optimized flesh hand on walls delimbing to be same method as everything else.

Tweaks

• Selecting the Clear Data option in the settings during a session will now exit the session.

• Added low friction material to Maw of Sin bridges to make it harder to slip off

• Adjusted Blood Moon gold essence UI Color

• Made the combo tutorial text more clear about what the Combo Multiplier is and how it increases your overall damage.

• Reworded manifest weapon description to be Combo Multiplier language like everything else.

• Made freeze effect smaller so it’s less obstructive

• Made the in-game weapon UI and stats screen weapons laid out in the order.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where the in-game timer on the progress screen would reset between areas.

• Fixed bug where Fractured Limbs could cause spawned enemies to get stuck in walls or geometry.

• Fixed bug where Indomitable Spirit and Power Infusion showed the wrong icons.

• Fixed bug where Hoarder could get the armor durability buff from challenge orbs.

• Fixed some class descriptions using the old names for essence.

• Fixed bug where Martyr’s starting weapon would roll twice and only apply the stats of the first roll, leading to stat desync.