Deathstate Update 1.20

Lessons of the Grand Grimoire

Deathstate 1.20 is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone who assisted with the beta testing.

Major Features:

• Magic system revamped.

• Redesigned many Relics to be more interesting and effective.

• Greatly improved Laser and Mortar weapons.

• Overall balance tweaks with the goal of increasing the number of viable builds at higher difficulty levels.

• Added 2 new unique enemies and several new items.  

• Added a new beneficial potion.

• Magic Globe pickups will now drop from enemies.

Minor Features:

• Fixed text blurriness caused by filters. Text should always be crisp now.

• Corners should be a bit less sticky when moving your character.

• Standing over an organ or item now displays its name.

• Reduced the intensity of some screen overlay effects.

• Added Large health globes that drop rarely.

• Merchants appear more frequently.

• Several inhabitants of the final world have new Desecration abilities. Watch out!

• Insanity Emissaries are now more... interesting.

• Added new possible map layouts to most worlds.

Tweaks and Bug Fixes:

• Nerfed Reverse Damage effects. They now stop healing after X heals, and only heal 1 tick per impact instead of being full damage mirror. 

• Most "Slow Fire" effects (including the Aggravating Brain) now cause your bullets to pierce 3 enemies.

• Lasers have better stacking with many organs and weapons.

• Fixed various rendering bugs with lasers.

• All weapons now benefit The Eye character, even lasers.

• Reduced the Eye's base damage stat because lasers are much more powerful now (the Eye's actual damage output was not reduced).

• The Embalmer can make good use of mortar weapons now.

• The Eye and The Embalmer have new activated abilities.

• Ice weapon slow and freeze effects occur more often.

• Bubble damage is now improved by Ice Boost stat.

• Forges and Altars now continue to appear even after their unlocks are earned. They will drop random weapons and organs respectively.

• Fixed circumstances that could cause Forges or Altars to not appear or become exceptionally rare.

• Improved the damage scaling on Entropy DoTs.

• Made confusion heart particles on the player more apparent.

• Gambling Merchants now have a cap on how much they can charge.

• Nerfed Otylosh the Fleshbeast and Amon Morax the Demon on Desecration 2+

• Slightly increased the world time limit on Maze of Ix, Carcassus and Grave of Time.

• Slightly increased the world time limit on Desecration 1 and above.

• Slightly REDUCED the world time limit on the final world.

• Slightly nerfed several enemies in the Temple of Qit on Desecration 0 to make the difficulty more in-line with the Fortress of Torment for new players.

• Yellowed Eel Guts have new stats.

• You can now dismiss messages more quickly (such as item stat popups).

• You must now press a specific key to skip cutscenes, instead of Any Key. Maybe you won’t accidentally skip half of the cutscenes anymore!

• Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes dodge right instead of the intended dodge direction.

• Fixed a bug that caused the confusion debuff to apply even if you dodge through a succubus heart bullet.

• Fixed a bug where Insanity progress unlocks did not always unlock. This should work retroactively.

• Fixed a bug where Prince Ziggur would not unlock in the bestiary. This is not retroactive.

• Fixed a display bug that caused the player to flicker between poses sometimes when firing.

• Fixed some issues with music sometimes stopping/starting/changing unpredictably after bosses die.

• Fixed the level music volume increasing after desecrating.

• Fixed an issue where lazy Grimoires would take too long to pick new targets when the player has a slowed fire rate.

• Fixed "best win speed" stat sometimes resetting.

• Once you’ve played insanity or desecrated a few times, the “warning” messages will cease to appear. You know what you’ve done!

• You can no longer pick up items while dying. Because you're dying.

• Added Zeralith to the credits for seriously exceptional Community QA work.

• Tentatively fixed Xbox One controller issues.

• Many other bug fixes based on Community bug reports. Thank you!

Magic Revamp Details:

• MP no longer regenerates passively, it only regenerates when you deal damage. The regeneration rate scales with damage dealt.  * Cooldowns on most abilities and relics greatly reduced. As long as you have the MP, you can usually use them again within seconds. This makes high-MP builds much more interesting.

• The MP Regen stat is much more effective.

• All organs granting Max MP and MP Regen stats were improved.

• Organs that previously reduced Max MP now reduce MP Regen instead. It's no longer possible for your abilities to become unusable.