Regular Patch with good improvements!

**⚔️ Novak **Novak got serious upgrades:

• Saint Rain attack reworked** **

• Charged attacks no longer leave energy clouds** **

• Charged Vertical Strike now launches a damaging wave** **

• After a Dash, Novak can perform **Charged Vertical Strike **

• Base attacks can now be performed as combos** **

• Railgun attacks now include an extra effect to better telegraph timing

• Damage, cooldowns, shield cost, and weights of most attacks rebalanced** **

• Spawn position adjusted** **

• On first boss difficulty (Towers 1–5), Novak’s primary color changed to **orange **

• Stage 2 now starts slightly earlier

• Fixed an issue where some attacks were extremely rare

• Fixed an issue where DoT status damage could cancel Novak’s flight

• Fixed an issue where the melee strike in the railgun combo couldn't be parried

📝 Novak Comment: You had your fun. Now it’s my time :)

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📊 **Balance ** Second Wind status updates:

• 3 burning swords: **Regeneration → Protection **

• 4 burning swords: **Vampirism → Regeneration **

• 5 burning swords: **Symbiosis → Vampirism **

Endless Mode

• Reduced risk of one-shots

• Difficulty scales faster

• Points rebalanced

Minigun

• Base damage: **7 → 12 **

• Ammo capacity: 300 → 200

** Augmentation “Golden Shield”**

• Bonus limit: 85% → 80%

• Bonus per 100 tokens: 5% → 1%

** Augmentation “Bulwark Protocol”**

• Ally healing on parry: **5% → 25% **

Bar Prices

• Bottomless Pit: 500 → 400

• Clear Sky: 400 → 250

Mutator “The Last Light”

• Temporarily disabled** **

Laser traps

• Slowed (again)

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🚀 Blur

• Damage over time from status effects no longer resets attack chains

• Damage over time from status effects no longer triggers torso explosions

• Removed Aerodynamic Design augmentation

• Added a new augmentation: Ghost Synchronicity – ghost copies now inherit all of Morgan’s bonuses to movement and attack speed

📝 Dev Comment: A QoL change — the removed augmentation’s effect is now applied by default, and the slot has been repurposed for a new augmentation

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⚡ Thundergod

• Heart’s resurrection energy cost increased: **3 → 5 **

• Power Flow augmentation reworked – new effect: Triples the energy gain rate

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📦 Miscellaneous

• A “Stuck” button is now available in the pause menu during combat – it teleports the player and enemies to appropriate positions

• Fixed a bug preventing Stage 3 from appearing in Endless Mode

• Fixed a bug that allowed entering the helicopter after encountering Novak in endless mode

• Fixed a bug where combat mods weren't generating properly

• Updated Gunslinger agent’s attack animations

• Updated light and heavy attack animations for dual-wield weapons (bats, swords)

• Fixed a bug where Source Slenders could spawn after room completion

• Fixed a bug where Ricochet Rounds caused bullets to hit allies

• Fixed lighting issues in **Arena 2 **

• Updated several sound effects