As 2024 comes to a close, another patch, with a ton of fixes, polish and fixes!

V1.02a

This patch has focused on Performance (as I've been playing it loads on my Steamdeck), Polish and Progression.

Having played the game a bunch, I've decided to soup up a bunch of XP rewards; difficulty multipliers now apply to more XP sources, and the XP rewards for completing a level are now significantly higher!

• • Mana Gen bonus now shown on Character UI
• • Bonus Collected Dust now shown
• • Improved performance of skin select on SteamDeck
• • Poison cloud tweaked down
• • Improve shiny mob reflection probe performance
• • Collectables now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
• • Massively optimised shadows of gnomes
• • Cleared up a ton of unused models in the game to improve performance
• • Reduced thickness of some smoke, so you can see where you're going a bit better!
• • Bonus Mana Gen now shown under stats
• • Pets now target your last-hit location, as opposed to firing straight past it
• • Toned down a number of impact effects, so it's easier to see what's goin gon when you have a massive army
• • Gnomes now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
• • Mobs now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance
• • Knight pet no longer fires Dog Barks
• • Walking pets no longer fire under the ground
• • Bonus XP at level end from remaining Gnome Army is now scaled by the quality of the Gnomes you had (upto 600% for Special Gnomes)
• • End of level Bonus XP now correctly shows and obeys boosts from gear
• • XP Drops now obey extra XP from gear and display it
• • Player Mana Regen now gets a boost every 20 levels spent on it
• • Gnome Resurrection Skill now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
• • Gnome Speed now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
• • Gnome Damage now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
• • Gnome Health now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it
• • Remaining Cash and Dust bonus XP now correctly respects difficulty
• • Fixed a long-standing issue with AutoGnomes and StoryGnomes
• • Improved some readability of stat upgrading UI
• • Improved readout of Mana Regen and Gnome Damage boost from gear
• • Implemented browsing of currently equipped gear. It's not perfect, but it's a vast improvement over 'not being able to do this at all'
• • Rare, Epic and Legendary chests are now shown at level end if you missed them
• • Reworked Player Health calculations to take into account level + gear better
• • Massively improved Gnome Health and Player Health stats on Gear
• • Healers will overheal much less now
• • Mages will over-rejuv much less now
• • UI Readout now shows a more accurate average Gnome Health
• • Fixed issue where Mages would waste their mana over-juving you, due to a lack of clamp
• • Fixed issue where Healers would waste their mana over-healing you, due to a lack of clamp
• • Capped stat upload rate to Steam.