Patch Notes: 0.9.3 (249)

Major Changes

• New "Gauntlet" game mode, a hardcore game mode of just pure dungeon crawl

• Added local "Hall of Fame" high score board for Gauntlet, Story (Normal), and Story (Hard) game modes

• Quest destinations are now automatically made available via the travel map, there is no need to visit the Inn to inspect and accept quests

• Level cap effectively removed

• Story mode progression is now based on dungeon count instead of player XP, it's far easier to balance and ensure players don't level up too fast and miss any content

• "Magic plasma" style environments are procedurally colored and available in Gauntlet games

• Sticky Blobs are now called Acid Blobs, and their replicating goo now deals damage instead of haulting movement

• All Kickstarter backers which have been animated in the game now appear as random NPCs in Gauntlet mode

• New audio settings UI with music and sound effects volume sliders

Minor Changes

• Portals to Guild Wizard boss rooms now have plasma effects, unique colors, and a stone dragon skull overlooking the doorway

• Added custom mouse cursor artwork

• Vendors now appear in level chains that have only 2 level instances

• Tutorial tips on/off menu is now in the Home->Settings menu and is no longer a debug only setting.

• The spell tree is now accessible from the paper doll so you can upgrade spells while in a dungeon

• Game stats and hall of fame UIs are now automatically presented when completing story mode or upon permadeath

• Experience bar now set to full when at max level

• Tempest is now limited to 3 live eggs total and only tosses 1 at a time

• Increased the egg hatch time

• Tweaked secondary tooltip selection logic to prefer weapons matching the same handedness (1h vs 1h and 2h vs 2h)

• Wandering merchants no longer ever refill their inventory and their loot quality has been decreased some

• Waypoints are no longer usable, but give give players a tutorial when clicked on the first time

• Overseer wall now does damage

• AI now better selects randomly between multiple targets for attacks or movement decisions

• Removed the difficuly settings on quests, they are all generated at a balanced difficulty rank now through the whole storyline

Fixes

• Fix vampire style enchantments generating at 0 health returned to the user

• Shields that have enchnatments that give xp when you are damaged no longer do so if the shield blocked all the incoming damage

• Fixed enemy health bar incorrectly showing empty in some rare cases

• Fixed a case of not being able to load a portion of some old save game levels

• Fixed Skeleton Lord raising dead skeletons in locations that were blocked by something else

• Fixed boss death ceremony camera zooms going to the wrong location when the boss was killed with something that moved him around like singularity or quake

• Fix Shield Others effects sometimes not showing up from Guardians

• Fixed NPC conversations happening in dungeons when the entire party is not on the screen