1.17 - Balance changes, polish and bug fixes

New features

• Added the Apprentice's Candlestick, a reusable spell tool that creates a small ball of flame in front of the caster, which can be found starting in Chapter 1

Polish

• On High/Very High graphics settings, the background blurs out when in the inventory or viewing new items to make text easier to read
• Your number of upgrades thus far is now displayed next to each stat type in the level up screen
• Enemies that die in doorways fall into the room
• Improve Advanced Wretch Gate dissipation FX
• The game no longer responds to input when not focused
• Optimized memory use, loading and saving speed
• Improvements to Fixed Camera Mode angles and spacing

Balance Changes

• Danger status effect now stays visible until cleared by healing
• Length of invulnerability when Danger status takes effect reduced from 4.5 seconds to 3 seconds
• Magical healing effects, such as Healing Barrier or vampirism, no longer work when in Danger
• Increased Pipe speed
• Gold Bear Ring, Silver Bear Ring and Rabbit's Heart Ring have been buffed
• Monsters are more aggressive when exiting doors
• Shield durability calculation has been changed to give additional durability for poise, and the Shield Ring's effect has been increased
• Increased the radius of Corpse Explosion
• Increased the spell toll reduction associated with leveling Weirdness
• The Doll in Chapter 2 has double the health
• Nightingale's Creature has dramatically higher health and damage(and higher scaling with upgrades)
• Apprentice's Candlestick and Throwable Knife are both sold by the Masked Man in Chapter 1, meaning spell/projectile only runs are viable from the start of the game
• Curse Rot immediately impacts health upon acquiring, rather than waiting a second
• Warding Candle healing ramp has been speed up, but the speed resets when acquiring Curse Rot

Bug Fixes

• Fix several instances of treasure chests being empty upon open
• Fix NPCs near interactable items, such as Rose, sometimes resulting in a softlock upon speaking to them
• Fix being able to talk to Margaret after she disappears during the Chapter 1 tutorial, potentially resulting in a softlock
• Fix tutorial and quest messages disappearing when entering the pause menu
• Fix equipping multiple resistance providing equipment potentially resulting in all damage being blocked for a particular damage type
• Fix spell scaling not properly applying to: Summon Spears, Annihilation, Corpse Explosion
• Fix enemies disappearing when they exit a room you are peeking into
• Fix the doll occasionally becoming invisible
• Fix some bosses, such as Beast Nightingale, not awarding a Blemished Bestiary Page
• Fix ghosts and other enemies that leave residue behind not awarding a Blemished Bestiary Page
• Fix being unable to click on a dialog option when an item icon is shown during the dialog
• Fix Ancient Greek subtitles not appearing properly when playing in Japanese
• Fix being rammed while exiting a room causing the player to teleport to the exit upon completion
• Fix having two controllers plugged in resulting in both button prompts appearing instead of the active one
• Fix L2/R2 prompts for Playstation controllers not using glyphs
• Fix the default PS5 controller bindings not being able to use the D-Pad to navigate menus
• Fix duplicated ladders in the valley basements
• Fix the Noise Effect causing some dark effects, such as being hit with cursed energy, to have an odd bright appearance
• Fix the NPC in the Organ Processing room not being responsive if wearing the witch outfit
• Fix keys not being able to be found in the Blackett House on some seeds
• Fix some story elements that require an enemy or NPC to be on-screen not working when playing in Fixed Camera Mode
• In Fixed Camera Mode, combat stance no longer causes zoom
• Fix an issue where peeking in Fixed Camera Mode could leave the camera in the peeked room
• Fix odd behavior when trying to cancel out of the circus ticket purchase screen
• Fix Nightingale's Creature Summoning Knife not reducing player to 10% health