Backpack Battles Patch 0.8.2

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a great week! This patch adds a long-requested quality-of-life feature - box selection for bags! Just click and drag to draw a box and select multiple bags.

The new item of the week is The Fool, a Playing Card that you can get as a Reaper by purchasing the Deck of Cards!

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Patch notes for 0.8.2

• Multiple bags can now be selected, moved, and rotated by drawing a box!

• NEW ITEM: The Fool (part of the Playing Card pool)

Balance:

• Ruby (inventory): Now triggers once after a delay, life steal increased

• Sapphire (inventory): Now triggers once after a delay, adjusted Cold amount

• Emerald (inventory): Now triggers once after a delay and gives Regeneration directly

• Topaz (armor): Now also gives some crit resistance, but less stun resistance

• Topaz (inventory): Now gives base stamina regeneration instead

• Lucky Piggy: now has two * tiles, chance bonus 25% -> 15%

• First playing card in the chain no longer reveals after 1.0, uses the reveal time of the respective card instead (mostly for consistency)

• Dancing Dragon: Cooldown 2s -> 2.2s

• Hungry Blade: Cooldown 1.6s -> 1.7s

• Bloodthorne: Cooldown 1.6s -> 1.7s

• Stone: Accuracy 65% -> 70%

• Burning Torch: Ramp chance 30% -> 35%

• Mr. Struggles now reliably triggers before Health Potions bump your health back over the threshold

• Mr. Struggles: Speed boost duration 5s -> 6s

• Strong Demonic Flask now applies the healing debuff before doing the damage, so Health Potions are affected

• Darkest Lotus now has the “Magic” type

• Critwood Staff is now Legendary

Fixes:

• Fixed cards creating wrong connections when pushed aside by the Deck of Cards itself

Other:

• Items in storage box are now easier to grab

• Items now move to the storage box when dragged below the inventory around the character so it is easier to store your items

• Potion fluid effect now has different properties for different potion types