Hello! 30XX Patch 0.36 is here a day early, and it's packed with new Power Augs, giving players a say in how their kit develops over the course of a run.
0.36 also contains a small mountain of balance changes and fixes, including several smoothness changes for Watergrav mechanics, changes to some of Ace's abilities, and changes to effects that reduce NRG cost of your abilities.
Full notes below - thanks for playing!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Added 40 new Augs in the form of Power Augs, special rewards the player can find at the end of a level as an alternative to a Boss Power.
Bosses now drop up to 3 items to choose between - the Boss's Power, a special Power Aug that modifies a Power the player already has, or a few nuts.
If the Power Aug that would be generated applies to a Power the player doesn't have, a special Remnant Aug will spawn instead, offering a unique passive bonus. For example, if the game wants to spawn a Power Aug for Zen Mortar, but Nina doesn't have Zen Mortar, a Remnant of Flame will spawn instead.
Each Power has 2 Power Augs. There's one Remnant of each type. (16 + 16 + 8 = 40 new Augs!)
In a future patch, these will likely be part of a Memory Index unlock. For now, they're unlocked by default.
Adjusted Beta Frog's attack behavior. The initial shot now has a lower cap on how quickly it can move, and the acid shrapnel doesn't pop up as far when the main shot bursts. Time in between attacks also increased by 1 sec.
Both Frog types now have an oval-shaped aggro radius instead of circular - the top and bottom of their aggro radius have been squished in, so they're less likely to be attacking while on the fringes of the screen, especially when the player is directly above/below them. (This is mostly to help smoothen out encounters where Beta Frogs rain death from super far away vertically.)
Updated several behaviors of Watergrav's Anchor Mines:
Anchor Mines now open their eyes from slightly farther away and close their eyes again from slightly farther than that.
Anchor Mines' explosion radius is now lower for players (it'll better match the visual - it's less likely to hurt you), and a little more dangerous for nearby enemies.
Anchor Mines are now vulnerable to charged attacks, which will break their chain and send them flying (perhaps into nearby enemies).
Anchor Mines now chain their explosions - having a closed eye won't protect a Mine from its exploding friend.
Fixed an issue where firing a large bullet at an Anchor Mine's eye would occasionally trigger the "chain" part of the hit first, incorrectly blocking the attack. This frequently happened when hitting an eye from point blank range with Nina's charged shot.
Shield Turtle shields are now vulnerable to Anchor Mine explosions.
Added a whole bunch (~60) of additional sound effects for enemies, repros, and interactions.
Void Double (Ace's Penumbra Power) reworked. Void Double now projects a shadow clone in front of Ace that mimics all of his melee abilities (including other Powers) while active, and drains NRG over time until deactivated. When Void Double deactivates, the Double will throw two scythes upwards & diagonally, dealing damage based on the number of successful hits dealt by Ace while the Double was active.
Leviathan (Ace's Watergrav Power) now scales with Ace's Power stat, as well as Sacred Defender, Rage Circuit, and Coup de Grace.
Osafune (Ace's Deepverse Power) can now be canceled at any time during the animation by activating Osafune again.
Dolomite Link (Ace's Clockzone Power) can also now grapple onto walls, in addition to enemies.
Dolomite Link enemy hits now refresh Zen Ascent by default.
Fixed a bug causing Dolomite Link to occasionally not boost Ace upwards when ending near the ground or near walls.
Dolomite Link now recognizes when Ace grapples onto something he can't reach, and ends accordingly.
Reworked sources of modified NRG cost and chance-to-cast-for-free into Power Efficiency, which increases how many Powers you can use for a given amount of NRG. This also brings some outlier items in line a bit - many items/abilities that provided "free" NRG were wildly powerful, sometimes trivializing the game by themselves.
Power Efficiency lets you cast more Powers for less NRG. +50% lets you cast 50% more Powers for a given amount of NRG - +100% lets you use twice as many - and so on. (The NRG Cost of your abilities is (1 / (1 + PE%)).
Owlhawk's Head Core now grants +33% Power Efficiency (50% when Resonated).
Vagrant's Sonata now grants +50% Power Efficiency while in green Corruption (any Corruption when Resonated).
Crisis Clarity now grants +100% Power Efficiency while in red HP.
Completing the Owlhawk Set now grants a bonus 67% Power Efficiency (totalling +100 with the Head part).
Heavy Juice (Nina Aug) now reduces Power Efficiency by 50% (additively).
The Powerless Curse now reduces Power Efficiency by half (multiplicatively), doubling your Power costs.
Items that modify the NRG cost of an ability are now reflected in the cost shown in the Pause menu. This includes temporary cost reductions (like Vagrant's Sonata and Crisis Clarity). (Also, fixed Ace's Energy costs in the Pause screen displaying incorrectly.)
Void Orbs (Penumbra enemy) now aim slightly higher when approaching players. This should cause them to get caught on low ground less often, and float closer to Nina's base firing height.
Contractor Omega and Shopsmasher are now somewhat rarer.
Unleash Blade now costs 5 NRG for non-Lucavi weapons. It can be activated even if Ace doesn't have enough NRG, but will deal minimal damage.
Renewal Pod nerfed directly into the dirt. Now requires 3 kills per petal (up from 1). No longer rarely spawns Tokens.
Renewal Pod was wildly overpowered, and has been since its introduction. There's a chance that, even at these numbers, it's still too powerful. We'll keep an eye on it.
From its new home, deep in Terra's old dirt, Renewal Pod grumbles softly to no one in particular, plotting an unthinkable and elaborate revenge.
Repro attacks and Dashbolt no longer damage or move Dustria's Exploding Barrels or Ace's Leviathan Technique. (This is a buff.)
A few Repro attacks weren't correctly tagged as Repro attacks, causing them to trigger switches. This has been fixed. (No more will Reboot be the scourge of your Penumbra climb.) Repro attacks will continue to hit switches if the player is affected by Zookeeper's Burden.
Fixed an error that could cause crashes in Clockzone.
Updated tooltips of a few items to properly reflect post-0.35 NRG numbers.
Aiming Gear now has a 0.25 second cooldown (up from 37.5ms).
Rending Whirl + Crushing Void's Mega Whirl duration reduced (3 seconds, from 5).
Aiming Gear + Crushing Void is now only usable once in between landings (by default).
Reduced enemy density somewhat in Gauntlet sections. Enemies in Gauntlets drop pickups less frequently. The reward for battling through a Gauntlet should be a resonant armor piece. Prior to this change, Gauntlets also served as nut & health fountains.
Dustria Workers that find their way into Grinders will now be properly ground up.
Level 8 of a run in Standard is now always guaranteed to spawn a Shop.
Slightly reduced the number of nuts generated in mid/lategame levels.
30XX's shops result in too much player power, even without any Entropy Conditions on. We'll continue to examine the game's economy over the next few patches - in general, the sweet spot is "most players will be able to afford one shop Aug per level - two if they're lucky or find a sale".
Soul Scrapper (Challenge Flavor) now reduces Max HP by 1 per Aug/Power (down from 2).
Solution Gambler and Greased Fate now each cost 20 nuts to use (up from 10).
Tweaked Crusher's detection zone vs. Dustria Workers - they'll now be arbitrarily destroyed by Crushers less often.
Increased Watergrav Fish's vertical hitbox (so attacks are now less likely to miss).
Fixed an issue where Autodrone's Zen Mortar fire could injure players.
Fixed an issue where Deepverse's background could display incorrectly.
Fixed a bug causing the character's dash echoes to partially draw over the base player sprite.
Advanced Repair Kit value set to 35 (from 25). It'll probably become a Prototype benefit eventually.
L'il Hoot's damage reduced by 60%.
Seriously, what was I thinking on this one?
Zookeeper's Phalanx damage block chance cap reduced to 30% (10% + 4% per Repro), down from 50% (10% + 8% per Repro).
Fixed a bug causing Ultracharged shots (via Dracopent's Claw) to deal more damage than intended. The reduction is about 33%. (Normal, half-charged, charged, and ultracharged shots should deal 10, 15, 25, and 40 base damage, respectively. Prior to this patch, Ultracharged shots were dealing 60 base.)
Fixed a bug causing persistent player effects to drain NRG if left on in between levels.
Fixed a crash that could occur in Clockzone, usually lategame.
Acid Mist (Watergrav effect when Acid shots hit water) lifetime reduced to 1 sec (from 1.5).
30XX 0.35 Patch Notes - April 13, 2022
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.35 patch starts an iteration wave on player Powers. We've got some exciting new stuff coming in the next few weeks, but for today, we've revised almost all of Nina's Power Fusions, changed up the way she and Ace recover Energy, and made Energy itself more granular for the player, allowing finer control over character Energy usage and recovery.
NOTE: Players playing in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian may notice longer first-load loading times on the first game launch post-patch. We've fixed a longstanding bug causing some characters to fail to render properly in these languages, but it requires the game to regenerate some font files. (It'll do this automatically.)
Thanks for playing!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
NRG has been converted into a continuous bar on the HUD. Existing NRG values have all been multiplied by 10, so NRG use/recovery is more granular than it was prior to 0.35.
Ace now recovers 5 NRG when an enemy is killed by a Weapon Attack, and 10 NRG when collecting a health pickup. (In old numbers, this is 0.5 and 1 NRG.)
Nina now recovers 2 NRG when an enemy is killed by a Weapon Attack, and 20 NRG when collecting a health pickup.
Owlhawk's Talon (Arm Core) now doubles NRG restored via primary kill instead of its previous effect.
Jagged Bolt's base damage reduced to 35 (from 50).
Crushing Void's keyword is now "Amplify" instead of "Charge". It no longer needs to be charged before being fired - the basic use of the Power functions like the first-level-charge equivalent of the previous version.
Nina's Power Fusions are now symmetrical. (Zen Mortar + Aiming Gear == Aiming Gear + Zen Mortar.) We've adjusted the effects, numbers, and costs on almost all of Nina's fusions to be more interesting, unique, and useful.
This reduces the number of actual Powers & Fusions Nina has access to from 64 to 36 - we're confident this is a "less is more" approach. Under the previous system, many of Nina's fusions behaved very similarly - lots of effect & utility overlap.
Many of Nina's Powers and Fusions have had their NRG costs adjusted.
Crystal Wave no longer goes through walls by default.
Dash duration per button press extended to one second while on the ground (up from 1/3 of a second). Air dash time is unaffected. (This doesn't really affect player mobility, since dashing doesn't have a cooldown in 30XX. Just saves some button presses.)
The NRG cost of a Power is now displayed as part of its tooltip in the Pause screen. This updates to account for any currently-equipped Fusions.
Fixed a long-standing localization bug that could cause some characters not to render when playing in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or Russian. This may cause long first-time game load times after this patch while playing in those languages, but it should only affect the first time starting 30XX, and the first time swapping to a new resolution.
Fixed a bug causing Angle Bolter Beta and Gamma forms to have swapped health values (so the Beta had more HP than the Gamma.)
Fixed an issue where jump inputs could get eaten if entered while wall sliding within 0.15 seconds of starting a Hover or Fly.
Inputting a jump immediately before making wall contact with Hover or Fly available or active will now use the same jump buffer logic as not having Hover or Fly. (This means slightly mistiming a Jump input while near a wall no longer punishes you for having Hover or Fly.)
The "double jump" action now takes priority over the "stop Flying" action when pressing Jump. Since Double Jump normally happens before Hover/Fly, this really only matters in Highvault - hovering into a Highvault Wingzone, then pressing Jump while still hovering will cause you to use the extra jump, instead of just ending your Hover.
Fixed an error causing Gapminder to sometimes not work on the level you find it in.
30XX 0.34 Patch Notes - March 23, 2022
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.34 introduces powerful new Gamma enemies in 30XX's lategame and scales up lategame Boss health by a modest amount.
30XX's game difficulty hasn't kept pace with increases in player power since we launched 30XX in Early Access, often resulting in runs where if you can make it past level 3-4, you'll probably win - which isn't super fun. It feels great to be an unstoppable crushing machine once in awhile, but we want these runs to feel special.
Our design intent here is that, on an average run, the game's threats should scale slightly more than the player's average power gain - so you'll find the game get tougher the deeper you go most of the time, while still allowing for variance that makes for easier and harder runs. Today's changes are a first step - we'll be overhauling 30XX's enemy designs in the coming months, too.
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Added Gamma enemies! These are a new tier of challenging foe that you'll only see late in the game, joining our Alpha and Beta enemies.
Today's patch is our first step in this direction, and is far from final. Today's changes add stronger versions of foes, but we're still working on more unique movesets for 30XX's enemy cast (and more enemy types in general!), which we'll be introducing over the next several patches.
In general, Beta enemy types are slightly weaker than they were prior to this patch, but the new Gamma types are significantly stronger.
When we shipped Early Access last Spring, lategame player power was significantly lower than it is today - the introduction of powerful new Augs, new Cores, the Resonant Armor, and Set Bonuses make the player very powerful - so as we begin work on our Big Enemy Iteration Pass, we're also making lategame enemies more powerful to better keep up with powerful players.
Beta enemies will spawn earlier in runs, before being gradually replaced with Gamma foes.
Some new enemy behaviors use placeholder visuals while we make sure they're fun & well-tuned.
In addition to Beta/Gamma moveset balancing, some enemies have also had their behaviors tweaked.
Watergrav doesn't have new Gamma enemies yet. (This patch will technically make Watergrav slightly easier, as the current Beta enemies will spawn later into runs than before.)
Updated lategame Boss HP scaling:
Bosses now have 8-30% more HP when fought on levels 4-8. (This means if you fight a boss on Level 5, for example, it has roughly 14% more HP than it had before this patch. At level 8, it's a full 30%.)
We're pretty sure this is a conservative take - we don't want to push it too far at once.
We'll keep a close eye on this as we continue to iterate on the game. A few of our bosses are due for mechanical iteration updates, too - we haven't forgotten about that.
Fixed Experiment 9's Divekick behavior so it'll no longer get stuck for a moment sometimes.
Fixed Ace's interactions with Li'l Hoot and Forgotten Memento.
Fixed Ace's Victory animation not playing properly.
Fixed a scenario where Dracopent's Fang might not store an Ultracharge generated by Dracopent's Claw.
Fixed an issue where a Miniboss Choice Machine might be usable before defeating the Miniboss.
Watergrav's Beeg Frog miniboss' mini-frog spawns no longer drop loot or power up Renewal Pod (since it's terrible to feel like you have to farm them, like any infinitely-spawning enemy).
Fixed Singleton Prototypes also giving the player a blank item.
Fixed Mega Mode rarely spawning more than four Gauntlet pieces (so they'd reward duplicate Resonant Armor pieces).
Updated Powerless Void's description to indicate that it reduces Powers gained over the course of the run by -3, -5, and -8 (instead of 2, 4, 6).
Resonant Armor (other than Arm) pieces now slowly float toward the ground like Memoria and Potentia do.
Chaser Fish (Watergrav enemy) is now a little more discriminate about when it starts flopping toward players when out of water.
Fixed Zookeeper's Burden applying bonus Repros when reloading the game.
Fixed an issue where Save and Quit would negate Zookeeper's Burden's penalty.
30XX 0.33 Patch Notes - February 28, 2022
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.33 patch is 30XX's second Major Update, the Abyssal Armory update! The major points of today's update are here in this update spotlight video. 30XX will also be on sale this week during Steam's Remote Play Together sale for 15% off!
Abyssal Armory introduces Watergrav, 30XX's eighth level theme! Navigate spicy gravity-flipping fields and manipulate the stage's large goo blocks to your advantage as you battle towards the agile Experiment 9, who uses his room's gravity to his advantage. Discover Nina's new Autodrone power, which lets her summon a temporary Repro that automates her other Powers. Experiment with Ace's new Leviathan power, a bomb that interacts with most of his other Powers.
Patch 0.33 also updates 30XX's Core Aug systems in a few major ways. First and foremost, we've added the new Resonant Armor - four legendary pieces of equipment that amplify your other Cores and update your character's looks as you find them. Resonant Armor pieces are earned from new miniboss encounters that occur at the end of new high-combat Gauntlet subzones!
0.33 also introduces two new Core Sets to the game - the corruption-balancing Vagrant's set, and the Repro-focused Zookeeper's set. More details on them below!
Finally, 0.33 also reintroduces the idea of Set Bonuses to 30XX - if you manage to complete a full Core Set, you'll receive a powerful bonus as long as it all remains equipped. Try them all!
I'm sure there's some balance work to do on our new sets, but our hope with this updated design is that players have now have several dimensions to consider when evaluating Cores and Armor parts - will you aim to complete a Set for its powerful bonus, pick Cores that match a piece of Resonant Armor you have, or just pick your favorites?
Abyssal Armory is our biggest update to date, and comes with lots of gameplay tweaks and balance changes. Among them is another iterative pass at Ace's Techniques and his interactions with Energy. We've done away with the Surge mechanic, and each of Ace's Techniques now have a base cost, and have had their effects and damage balanced accordingly. (Some of Ace's techniques - the critical mobility ones - are still free to use.)
Thanks for playing! Lots more in the full patch notes below.
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Introduced Watergrav, the Endless Abyss! Watergrav comes with all the usual good stuff - new music, new enemies, new visuals, new mechanics, a new boss, and shiny new Powers for Nina and Ace! (We described them a bit in the above text.)
Runs now go to Level 8! New Mega Mode runs will also spawn with 8 levels.
Added two new Core sets, bringing the total to 6!
Dance on the razor's edge with the high-risk, high-reward Vagrant's set, whose Core Augs cause you to build Corruption while attacking enemies. Corruption empowers your character, but pushing it too far will cause damage and a brief stun. Each Vagrant's Aug introduces an additional Corruption interaction. Power use does not trigger Corruption, making Powers a great choice while your Corruption is cooling off.
Command your (hopefully) vast army of Repros with the Driver's set, whose Core Augs allow you to get the most juice out of your Repros!
We've also made a few Core balance updates:
Effects that trigger on dashing (like Oxjack's Ken) no longer consider cooldowns when used while airdashing.
If the player has access to both Hover and Fly at the same time, they now combine into one effect (with the longer duration of Hover, but the vertical movement of Fly).
Owlhawk's Focus (Head Core) CP cost increased to 4 (up from 3).
Owlhawk's Talon (Arm Core) proc chance increased to 100% for Ace (up from 15%). (I thought we'd done this one awhile ago!)
Reduced additional raw stats provided by Arm Cores by 50%. (For example, Dracopent's Claw now grants +2 ATK, from 4.) We may remove these stat gains entirely in a future patch.
Added the Resonant Armor, new Augs that show up on your character model and boost your Cores!
Each piece of Resonant Armor is found at the end of a new combat-heavy section in a level called a Gauntlet. At the end of a Gauntlet you'll come across a powerful Armor Guardian, a new miniboss who you'll have to defeat to get the Resonant Armor piece.
Found pieces of Resonant Armor change your character's model. This change altered much of how we render the player character in 30XX,
Reworked Weapon Charging:
Characters now have a half-charge after 0.5 seconds, and a full charge after 1.5 seconds (changed from "full charge after 1 second").
Effects that rely on charged attack activation require a full charge to trigger.
Nina has a new projectile visual for her half-charged shot, which deals lower damage than a full charge but still pierces through enemies it kills.
Ace doesn't currently have a visual update at half-charge, but we're working on his charged effects for a future patch.
Added a new difficulty class for lategame chunks - "spicy". These aren't used commonly, and can start appearing on Level 7.
Added Lore Terminals that can appear in stages, beginning to shed some light on what's going on in our world. NOTE: For the time being, these are available in English only, and won't appear when playing in other languages. This is because they contain a very large amount of text and are very subject to change - we'll localize them once they're final. (Let us know what you think!)
Updated visuals in Highvault and Burning Temple.
Certain non-projectile abilities are no longer defendable (by Echo Shell, Negation Pulse, or Orbital Barrier). For now, this is mostly the game's "laser"-type and "tornado" abilities.
All damage dealt by Bosses is increased after Level 4.
Sacred Spines now increases damage taken from Spikes & similar hazards by 2/5/9999 (down from 3/6/9999).
Taking hits that result in more than 1 damage taken now only counts as one hit for Glory Zone tracking purposes.
Changed several Ace Powers, and removed Surging.
Zen Ascent and Dolomite Link left unchanged.
Echo Shell and Osafune now cost 1 NRG. Osafune damage dealt increased to 50.
Raijin Call now costs 2 NRG. Damage dealt increased to 40.
Ryuusei now costs 2 NRG. Damage dealt increased to 50 (+25 per meteor stage, for a total of 100 if you fall really far while using it). Now sends the "surge sparks" by default.
Void Double is still free while we figure out what to do with it. Also, Void Double now projects Osafune when used while the shadow is active.
Scrap Trawler now caps at 5 stacks (down from 999), for a cap of 15 nuts per scrap.
Added proper palette support for Player 2 in co-op when both players are using the same character.
EDITOR CHANGES & FIXES:
Added Watergrav support to the Editor.
Added new tiles and decoration for Burning Temple and Highvault.
Implemented a new palette for Burning Temple and Highvault to match the game's visual clarity updates.
Changed the graphics of some enemies and level objects to match their updated in-game versions.
Reworked chests into "Special Items" and removed their object parameters to better represent how the game treats them.
Burning Temple's Flame now faces upward if not in contact with a solid tile.
Moved Burning Temple's "grass stone" and "grass roots" tiles to the Background Tiles category.
When selecting an asset from the asset bar, favorites bar or eyedropper tool (Ctrl + click), the page that that asset is on will now automatically be selected.
Burning Temple Chase chunks now require a Giant Rolly to be placed.
Reworked how tiles work internally. Large chunks with lots of tiles should be more performant.
Fixed an issue where Dustria spikes and containers would be drawn below certain decoration.
Fixed a bug where moving a set of tiles to connect to another set of tiles, then undoing the move, would result in incorrect tiling on the other set.
Fixed a bug where you could still select the BG/FG Tile category in simple mode using a keyboard shortcut.
Fixed line breaks in several asset descriptions, most notably in Chinese and Japanese.
30XX 0.32 Patch Notes - February 9, 2022
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.32 patch introduces some new Augs to discover in your runs while we prepare for the upcoming Level 8 patch. Flirt with danger by spending all your health in shops with the new Blood Price Aug, or become the ultimate Nuthoarder with Scrap Trawler! (And a bunch more!)
It also adjusts Salvage odds, and adds some new flavored Shops that sell specific item categories.
Thanks for playing!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Added 12 new Augs! Today's new Augs add new ways to interact with Shops when you're out of cash, new choices for scaling player damage, new ways to boost your Core load, and probably a very broken way to accumulate a ton of Nuts over the course of a run!
Changed Salvage weighting to grant nuts more frequently and other outcomes less frequently.
We love how the Salvage system gives players a choice about Augs they come across, but feel that the system made Health and NRG too readily available. Core Points have two additional Augs coming today that make Cores easier to equip (one that reduces cost and one that greatly increases CP), but we'll keep an eye on the Core Point economy after this patch and adjust as needed.
Core Extender is now more common.
In-level shops now rarely spawn as "flavored" shops that only contain a certain class of item. As of 0.32, shops can spawn as a Core Shop or a Pet Store. Both of these events are uncommon.
30XX 0.31 Patch Notes - January 19, 2022
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.31 patch is a smaller bugfix patch - we're putting the finishing touches on 30XX's eighth level theme, which should be ready very soon!
NOTE: Today's patch fixes a long-standing issue that causes boss intro text to be garbled at very high resolutions. If this affects you, you'll need to clear out the contents of your 30XX/fonts/ folder, then restart the game (or change resolution to your high, boss-text-garbling resolution). The fix changes the way the game creates certain helper files for rendering text, but it won't automatically clear out old, bad files (yet).
Also - with our next level theme around the corner, we'd love some fresh eyes on our upcoming content! Folks interested in playing our super-secret NDA private branch can apply here. https://forms.gle/RA2Wdnape58QeKH47 - We'll likely keep applications open for about a week.
Thanks for playing!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Dustria's Spring Platforms now also allow holding the Jump button to bounce higher (so you can now hold Up or Jump). Trying to trigger a hover, fly, or double jump when directly above a platform (the range is about 3 tiles) will no longer cause those abilities to trigger, so players are less likely to use them while trying to get a higher bounce.
Dustria's Exploding Barrels can no longer be attacked (mostly by Ace) while spawning (which would usually cause them to immediately strike the wall they're coming out of and explode).
Walking into a Dustria Exploding Barrel that spawns from the floor no longer puts the player into the wall slide state.
Echocave's Strike Platforms (switch-activated platforms) now have a limit on how often they can try to play their "I'm here!" sound to prevent curious Ninas from overloading the sound system on some machines, causing freezes and sound delays.
Made a similar change as the above Echocave change to Penumbra's Mirrors preventing sound spam from stalling the game.
In co-op play, miniboss events no longer start while a player is attempting to use a Teleporter (for example, to a Glory Zone). This prevents a rare scenario where a player triggers a miniboss encounter exactly while being forcibly teleported to a Glory Zone earlier in the stage, resulting in the miniboss gates being locked when the players attempt to return.
Fixed an error causing Zookeeper's Burden to repeat its effects when loading a run from a save.
Fixed a source of clients in online co-op getting locked out of a boss encounter.
Fixed an issue that could cause Contemplation Room gates to fail to close when starting the encounter for the client in online play.
Fixed an error that could cause the Save and Quit capsule to appear in Mega Mode. (You don't need it in Mega Mode - the game saves anyway!)
Fixed an ancient issue that could cause boss intro text to be garbled at some high resolutions. NOTE: If this affects you, you'll need to clear out the contents of your 30XX/fonts/ folder, then restart the game (or change resolution to your high, boss-text-garbling resolution).
30XX now shows a loading screen while generating new intermediate font files (which it often does when a user switches to a new resolution for the first time). If you've ever experienced the "it looks like 30XX freezes the first time I change resolutions!" bug, it was probably this - the game didn't inform the player that it was generating these, so it'd look like the game was frozen.
30XX now shows a loading screen when doing processing relating to switching the game language. (It's similar to the above. Sort of.)
30XX 0.30 Patch Notes - December 29, 2021
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.30 patch is a smaller bugfix patch that comes with a few gameplay and enemy behavior changes. Most of our team's taking some time off! Hope everyone reading's gotten some good time to relax a bit and catch up with friends and family over the holiday season.
Thanks for playing, and Happy New Year!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Choice Machines awarded from Contemplation Rooms now award a Weapon in the Bronze slot, and two Augs in the Silver and Gold slots (Changed from Weapon choices in the Bronze and Silver slots, and an Aug in Gold).
We may revisit this down the line, but for the time being, the existing implementation meant that the Weapon of the player's choice would almost always be available in a run, especially for Ace.
Maker Mode now works in online play.
Updated Crystal Shooter (Echocave miniboss) attack pattern so it scales a little more smoothly through the run. It now has its current "easy" pattern on levels 1 and 2, its "hard" pattern on 7+, and a "medium" pattern from 3-6. (We'll probably revisit this guy later, but this gave us a quick fix for now.)
Tweaked the Rolly Giant's (Burning Temple miniboss) AI a bit to prevent a rare case where it could attack in the wrong direction while rolling.
Drillfaces (Shielded Echocave flying enemy) no longer collide with other enemies (including other Drillfaces).
Changed how Beta Acolytes (Penumbra jumping enemy) attack. Their previous implementation felt a little unfair at times. In addition, added a slightly longer recovery period after they land before jumping again.
Fixed an issue causing Glory Zone conditions in online co-op to fail to sync if the client activated a Glory Zone teleporter first.
Fixed an issue causing Wall Lasers in Deepverse to deal contact damage to players during its spawn/despawn animations. (Should only be while its laser is active.)
Fixed an issue causing Trapmoles to grant more points than intended in Challenges when killed via Ace's Ryuusei.
Fixed an issue causing Entropy Conditions to max out at 2 when loading a previously saved Standard run in progress after closing the game.
Fixed an issue causing the Autotank to fail to show its buff icon when loading a run in Standard Mode.
Fixed a potential online crash, and added some better logging for future packet send errors.
Fixed an issue causing Choicebooster to work as intended in Standard Mode.
Rending Whirl now appropriately pushes Exploding Barrels in Dustria straight up again.
Negation Pulse now pushes Exploding Barrels an an appropriate direction, based on its position relative to the Barrel.
Removed the "Grab Bag" and "Archive" Prototype Blessings from Daily and Weekly Challenges. (They're a bit output-randomness heavy for Challenge purposes.)
Fixed an issue where starting an airdash while close to the ground could cause it to clip. Dashing in this state will now correctly complete the airdash while allowing the player to jump as if grounded.
30XX Patch 0.29 Notes - December 8, 2021
Hello! Today's 30XX 0.29 patch introduces lots of brand new ways (over 30!) that our heroes' abilities interact with environments, bosses, and enemies to give you a leg up on a situation if you've got the right tool for the job.
With patch 0.29 now live, most of Ace and Nina's Powers have 2-4 new utility applications that help the player navigate obstacles and shortcut certain boss mechanics. Our hope is that these changes add new factors to decisions about level routing, provide shortcut tools for tricky mechanics, and are fun for players to discover.
We've also made some very minor changes to Core acquisition - namely that Arm Cores should drop a little more frequently later in the game, and a little less frequently early, and several Cores have had their shop costs adjusted by 5-10 nuts. Cores are also a little less common out of shops. We've got a much bigger Core Update planned in the not-too-distant future where we'll revisit these numbers - we've noticed that certain Core combos are too powerful for how commonly they can be assembled, and wanted to take some action there in between now and our bigger Core Update.
Thanks for playing!
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GAME CHANGES & FIXES:
Added over 30 Power Interactions to 30XX! We won't spoil them here - check out the Discord if you want to be spoiled!
Each Power Interaction is a unique way that a character Power helps the player navigate a level, boss, or enemy mechanic.
We've made a few Core Aug droprate and shop cost adjustments. We've got a substantial Core Update coming in a patch likely very early in 2022, but are using the patches in between then and now to experiment a bit. Certain core combinations are too easy to get at present for how powerful they are, and we want to take a measured approach at making it a little tougher to assemble Arm Core Exodia.
Several Cores have had their shop costs adjusted:
Owlhawk's Reign & Dracopent's Pride (Body Cores) now cost 20 nuts (down from 25).
Dracopent's Fang (Head Core) now costs 25 nuts (up from 20).
Owlhawk's Focus (Head Core) now costs 30 nuts (up from 20).
Dracopent's Bound (Leg Core) now costs 35 nuts (up from 30).
Armatort's Pound (Arm Core) now costs 45 nuts (up from 40).
Dracopent's Claw (Arm Core) now costs 50 nuts (up from 40).
Note: Since shop value influences item rarity, these changes will also make cores that cost more slightly rarer earlier in the game, and cores that cost less slightly more common.
Reduced the rate at which Shops are populated with Cores (from 13% per item slot to 8%). The same number of items will still spawn per shop, but they're now less likely to be Cores.
Rising Tide (Entropy Condition) no longer causes more Beta enemies to spawn early in a run.
Rising Tide had a not-super-fun overlap with Divine Construction in a way that only really affected the early game, so we're trying this out.
