Early Access Update #12 - The Forsaken Glacier

Hi!

Today we're releasing a new update with plenty of content, the main points being a whole new area (The forsaken glacier), full with a new set of stages, challenges, ruin levels and unlocks, and a redone UI with much more character than the previous one.

There's also a chunk of gameplay improvements and equipment balance changes (sadly not all of those have been documented... sorry!), that make the game experience even more enjoyable, and also a few performance improvements so computers can better handle the sheer amount of enemies in the later stages :)

Changelog of the full list of changes:

New features:

• New area: Forsaken Glacier, including 3 new missions with its own enemies, bosses and challenges.

• 2 New weapons and 8 new trinkets to unlock.

• Redone the UI of the whole game.

• Split world/stage selection in two screens so they're not as cramped.

Improvements:

• Improved performance when killing many enemies in the same frame (big explosions, skills, etc).

• Added small character descriptions to their information in some of the screens.

• Added an explosion effect when the boss is killed.

• Instead of a generic "Effect Power", upgrades that improve special effects power tell which effect is enhanced (for example poison damage or freeze duration).

• Level geometry is now merged for increased rendering performance.

Gameplay changes:

• Chests that are left too far away can be repositioned at a closer distance.

• Increased speed of Turbo mode from +20% to +40%. After increasing the base game speed in a previous update, turbo mode was a bit too similar paced to the standard mode, so we increased its speed a bit more.

• Damage multiplier now affects Poison and Burn effects.

• Fire rate upgrades now slightly affects burst rate of weapons (for example Magic Staff when you have several projectiles).

• Increased fire rate of Silvan Shell.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed wrong time for the character line in the results screen.

• Crossbow: Fixed projectile not seeing when Shader Quality is set to Low.

• Fixed enemy bodies keeping their inertia when killed by status effects.

• Fixed dynamite barrels flickering when spawned inside a level collision.

For this month of February, we plan on adding many gameplay features, a new character and more character variants, as planned in the roadmap: