b26.0.6 Changelog

[Characters]

• Jack now starts with 1000 gems.
• Rex's life drain has been changed from the minimum between 2% of inflicted damage and 5% of victim max health to 10% of inflicted damage multiplied by the inverse of the victim's current health percentage.

[Powerups]

• Optimized the flashes created by the activation of Siren's Harp.

[Weapons]

• Added new weapon "Kickbeam Cannon".
• Increased weapon projectile spawn distance from 4 to 24.
• Fixed nail impact effects not matching the scale of the nails that created them.

[Monsters]

• Added Bat monster.
• Updated appearance of enemy projectiles for improved readability.
• Raised elite base health multiplier from 5x to 6x.
• Golem base damage is now fixed at 20, rather than ranging from 18 to 36 based on variant.
• Cube Golem base damage is now fixed at 60, rather than ranging from 52 to 60 based on variant.
• Squid school size has been lowered from 25 to 10 and now spawns at an interval of 0.333 seconds rather than 0.166 seconds.
• Bloodworms now have cycle-exclusive behavior.
• Fixed Eye Saws not being removed if they exit the room.
• Eye Saws no longer cause intentional freezeframes.
• Shadow Balls no longer cause intentional freezeframes.
• Raised boss death freezeframe duration from 0.4 seconds to 1 second.
• Boss-awarded gems are now emitted at an interval of 0.333 seconds instead of 0.066 seconds.
• Fixed Observer projectiles not displaying impact sprites of matching scale.
• Fixed weird behavior of nail impact effects on Artifact Engine during its death sequence.
• Fixed Artifact Engine participating in collisions during its death sequence.

[Chests]

• Lowered base cost of tier 1 chests from $1000 to $750.
• Lowered base cost of tier 2 chests from $2500 to $2000.
• Lowered base cost of tier 3 chests from $5000 to $3500.
• Chests now have a 33% chance of awarding a copy of your most recently acquired powerup.

[Shops]

• Raised base cost of tier 1 shop items from $500 to $750.
• Raised base cost of tier 2 shop items from $1250 to $2000.
• Raised base cost of tier 3 shop items from $2500 to $3500.
• Shop prices now increases by 2.5% globally upon purchase, rather than 10% compounding for that individual item.

[Standard]

• Added survival rooms, which lock for a specified duration and have monster spawners which are more powerful.
• Shadow Balls now spawn earlier.
• Fixed accessory being lost upon starting a new cycle.

[Arena]

• Added a ceiling to the Arena room.
• Fixed enemy spawners in the Arena room destroying the walls that prevented the player from leaving.
• Converted some blocks in the Arena room to vegetation.
• Arena difficulty now scales up by 5% every minute instead of 2.5%.
• Arena crate/chest spawn interval has been lowered from 20-30 seconds to 10-15 seconds.
• Fixed bug which prevented Arena mode from spawning explosives more than once in a run.
• Lowered bonus chance of elite monsters dropping powerups from 5% to 1% in Arena mode.

[Misc]

• Added prototype of hidden cavern personalities, which influence procedural generation and various other gameplay values.

• Block base health scale has been lowered from 1.75 to 1.25.

• Added screen which displays newly unlocked items upon returning to the main menu.

• Fixed cycle screen displaying the cycle as one number too low.

• Added trail to the health bar for better damage readability.

• Fixed the input guide in some menus displaying the wrong keyboard key for the "Back" input.