Windblown | 'Break the Path' Update Patch Notes

🚀 New version deployed 0.9.0 (ab246634)

Note: ⭐️ indicates changes inspired by community feedback!

Important Changes

• NEW Exploration: Biomes are now larger with more complex layouts to encourage exploration and variety. Systems like enemy placement and economy have been re-tuned to support this scale.

• ⭐️ NEW Map which allows you to see your surroundings, know the location of important entities and objects and teleport to your teammates. Press G*(keyboard)* or SELECT*(gamepad)* to open it.

• ⭐️ NEW Minimap: Stay oriented with a view of your immediate surroundings and find secret hints.

• NEW Volumetric clouds: We've replaced the flat sea of clouds under the levels for better immersion This can be disabled via the "Clouds" setting in the Graphics panel.

• ⭐️ NEW Gift & Hex Scaling:

• Level System: Just like Gears, Gifts and Hexes now have stronger leveled versions found during Expeditions.

• Amplifiers: A new utility item that lets you boost the level of your existing Gifts/Hexes on the fly.

• With those you can now scale your build's power further than ever before.

• NEW Item Rarity:

• Items now feature a scaling rarity system: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Mythic. Each tier provides significantly increased stats.

• Frend's Loyalty Program: New reward added! Progress through the program to unlock a new Altar in the Ark.

• Cogs for Quality: Deposit Cogs into the Altar to increase the probability of high-tier item drops.

• Completion Bonus: Maxing out the Altar unlocks a Unique Skin Variant.

• NEW Enemy Variants:

• Face new challenges in Cloudy and higher difficulty modes across Golem Gardens, Factory, Fungal Swamp, and Rat Village.

• This includes a new Golem Gardens Boss exclusive to these higher difficulties!

• NEW Islands & Caverns: Expanded discovery awaits in the Lost Archipelago.

• Alterattack Tutorials Reworked: We've overhauled the training grounds. Entry gates are now blocked by Forcefields; the color of the field tells you which level of Alterattack is required to break through.

• Onboarding Narrative: Updated dialogue for the Little Girl in the early game, along with a brand-new character model.

• The Inventory is now merged into the Main Menu.

QoL

• NEW Quick Gear Swap & Drop: You can now swap (by pressing) or drop (by holding) your gear:

• Weapons with 5*(keyboard)* / D-PAD LEFT*(controller)*

• and Trinkets with 6*(keyboard)* / D-PAD DOWN*(controller)*

• ⭐️ NEW Mouse Cursor Option: You can now change the cursor size in the Accessibility panel of the Options menu.

• ⭐️ NEW Accessibility Options:

• Transparency of Size+ weapons

• Chromatic aberration intensity

• Player silouhette behind objects toggle

• Low life intensity

• Received hit VFXs intensity

• ⭐️ NEW Graphics Options: Brightness & Contrast sliders. An improved user experience with immediate feedback is planned.

• ⭐️ Trinkets: Fury: Improved the stats displayed in the UI

• UI: Confirmation popups now select "Cancel" by default to avoid triggering unwanted things when mashing the button.

• UI / Pickups: Tooltips can now be toggled

• ⭐️ Send Feedback Button: Is now placed in the main pause menu list to be easier to find

• ⭐️ Single player / ** UI**: Codex and Codex pages menu now pauses the game in solo mode.

• Co-op: Teleport to team: default binding changed to CTRL*(keyboard)* and SELECT*(controller)*.

• Co-op: Voice Chat:

• Voice Chat is using the "Push-to-talk" mode by default (not applied on previous saves)

• "Mute when Joining" and "Push-to-talk" default bindings changed to 4*(keyboard)* and RIGHT STICK PRESSED*(controller)*.

Balancing

• Pulsor:
• Default Pulsor is now way faster when held

Banger Pulsor is now faster when held and its dashes' length are increased when out of combat

• ⭐️ Difficulty Balance Pass: First pass focused on the new Rarity system. More incoming!

• Cloudy: Enemy Health: +40%(was +25%) | Cogs: +25%(was +15%)

• Stormy: Enemy Health: +80%(was +75%) | Cogs: +50%(was +30%) | Item Bonus Level Removed

• Tempestuous: Enemy Health: +120%(was +100%) | Cogs: +75%(was +50%) | Item Bonus Level Removed

• Cataclysmic: Enemy Health: +250%(was +200%) | Item Bonus Level Removed

• Ark: Memory stones are now placed in new islands.

• Memory Link: When you die in front of a boss, we'll ensure that the Memory Link will be placed in a boss room during your next Expedition.

• ⭐️ Gifts: Full Blast: Added a 50% Blast damage bonus.

• ⭐️ Hexes: The increased dash cooldown negative effect is now only applied in combat.

• ⭐️ Payment Gates: You can now pay their fee by spending Cogs you previously banked.

• Biome Reward: Magifish will be only proposed when all players have already unlocked one and none of them has one equipped.

• ⭐️ Cuprik's Iron Ore is now dropped by an advanced 'Worker Nailgun' .

Bugfixes

• Weapons: Telepike: Fixed held attack being locked for too long after the teleportation

• ⭐️ Gifts: Scythe: Fixed an interaction between the Merge scythe and Bonus scythe duration gifts causing to have irregular scythe durations

• ⭐️ Hexes: Fixed loosing Gifts in extra slots granted by an Hex when updating the game

• ⭐️ Enemies: Fixed enemies being able to keep their I-frames while being frozen

• ⭐️ Killstreak Trial Chest: Fixed cases where the amount of kills would be higher than the number of enemies in the biome

• Secrets: Fixed having some certain islands layout never having secrets generated

• ⭐️ Payment Gate: Fixed having some payement gates displaying a 0 shells cost and not be interactable

• ⭐️ LD:

• Fixed safe zone exploit in front of the Lost Archipelago Boss

• Fixed enemies not being able to dash on some small islands

• Fixed unreachable floating chest in one of the Lost Archipelago islands

• Fixed some situations where flying elements would prevent you from seeing what you are doing

• Fixed several other layout quirks

• ⭐️ Softlocks:

• Fixed boss kills failing to reopen room gates

• Fixed a softlock where arenas wouldn't open because our loot algorithm thought a mob on a neighboring island was part of your fight—turns out, "close enough" wasn't smart enough.

• ⭐️ Crashes:

• Fixed a crash when dropping stuff

• Fixed rare crash that occured when spending shells while your computer had a nervous breakdown.

• ⭐️ Visuals:

• Fixed shadow popping

• Fixed "pixelated" light artifacts (most noticeable at the Rat Village entrance).

• ⭐️ UI:

• Fixed pause menu layout when screen ratio is 16/10

• Fixed missing confirmation SFX in the currency exchange menu

• Fixed displaying 'Damage Increase: 0%'

• Fixed UI inconcistencies in the Thrift Shop and in all item-related UIs

• ⭐️ Sound:

• Fixed music being turned off when backtracking in front of bosses

• Fixed music being turned off after killing a boss

• Fixed having some ambient sound effect being prioritized over gameplay ones

• ⭐️ Texts:

• Fixed displaying weird code-like text when confirming a screen resolution change

• Fixed Russian text going nuts when loosing resources and/or encrypted memories

• ⭐️ Co-op / Softlock: Fixed softlock where you could teleport to an area not available to you yet

• ⭐️ Co-op: Crashes: - Fixed crash when a player was dead upon loading another biome - Fixed crash when players where teleporting… surely confusing the game's logic somehow ¯\_(ツ)/¯

Misc

• Co-op: Hints: Fixed first multiplayer game emoji hint not triggered

• ⭐️ Co-op: VFXs: Fixed players' footsteps VFXs sometimes showing up in the air and not on the ground

• Various fixes under the hood

Optimization

• Upgraded game and rendering engines to the latest versions to improve stability and performance

• Optimized shadows:

• "High quality" is optimized, so more configurations should be able to use this setting.

• "Medium quality" is downgraded, so one can have shadows at a lower cost.

• "Low quality" completely disables shadows, significantly reducing CPU and GPU usage.

• UI: Biome Rewards: Added a '+' symbol on the reward icon