• Cosmetics.
  
• Unlockables.
  
• Pets
  
• Starting Equipment Options
  
• Character Backgrounds
  

Engine Overhaul:

Halloween event (31st October, till the 6th of November)

• The Hunter enrages faster.
  
  
• Undead foes have an increased chance of spawning
  
  
• + 16% XP for runs during this period.
  
  
• The game is on sale!
  

Personal note

Introducing a new system of Pets

• These companions that will follow you around as you navigate the labyrinths of death and the realms beyond.
  
• As with most systems (starting gear/worlds/character backgrounds/skins) their unlock cost is discounted during early access.
  Keep an eye out for those egg collectables...
  

🎼 New Audio

New skin tones and outfits

New Difficulty Mode

• Most noticeably there is no timer for the hunter's appearance, so you can take as much time as you like without having to evade it.
  
• Special pursuit level themes (lava,gas,fading lights...) move slower.
  
• Your attacks are stronger
  
• Take 12% less damage.
  
• Many enemy moves are nerfed including having slower and fewer projectiles.
  
• Health potions are more effective.
  
• Be warned though that world/boss completion achievements are disabled in this mode; XP is also earned at a 30% slower rate.
  

• Bosses have more health and enter their enraged phases sooner.
  
• Certain enemy moves are faster and happen more frequently (e.g. skeletal warriors become much better at dodging).
  
• Enemies are more resilient to harm and will deal out more damage per attack.
  
• Starting health and recovery is smaller.
  
• Pursuit level themes (lava/pollen flood/fading light etc.) move faster.
  
• Made slightly harder as of this update.
  
• Bonuses: + 30% XP, hardest achievements and bragging rights.
  

New Ability: Sphere of influence

GUI and other graphics

• Added shield gauntlet collapsed state; actively drawn on character.
  
  
• New menu for purchasing pets.
  
• Better scaling of existing menu elements for wide screen.
  
• Notification icons now appear when a new item/character background/pet becomes available.
  
• Fixed up the control rebind menu so it is fully compatible with the Xbox controller.
  
• Additional background set pieces including parallax statues for the grotto and chains for the temple.
  
• Updated credits screen.
  

Narrative

Steam stats:

• Fixed bug with Ghost Lover achievement and stats not unlocking properly. Sorry about that, if you've met the pre-requisites it should now auto-unlock the next time you play.
  
• Added additional Steam stats regarding unlockables. These will go to automatically unlocking some new achievements in the future...
  

Optimization

• Reduced the number of draw calls and render textures created across the entire game.
  
• Render textures are cached more instead of creating new ones to save on memory and performance.
  
• Fixed Rare OpenGL memory issue which randomly skipped rendering the lighting layer for a chunk.
  

Bug fixes and rebalancing

• Behavior for grapple release adjusted to be more intuitive on controller.
  
• You can stand on fallen stalactites now.
  
• Nerfed orb mage pre-hard difficulty. It will no longer jet away from you as fast to dish out pain.
  
• Skeletal soldiers will roll away from you at close range.
  
• Crystal eye telegraphs where it's going to fire.
  
• Repeater dart trap have been slowed slightly
  
• Firebrands/embers are no longer acting like straphnel.
  
• Fixed issue with notification text not appearing
  
• Multiple other tweaks
  
• Additional time before the hunter's summoning is given on the higher levels.
  
• Progress Menu now shows character backgrounds and pet unlocks at the end of each run (not just equipment items).
  

• Certain pets now glow.
  
• Fixed uncommon generation glitch where 1 block waterfalls could spawn.
  
• Updated Steam stats: added world unlocks, tied unlocked_equipment stat to Shining Collector achievement
  

• Pets cloak along with their owner.
  
• Fixed bug where steam stat for unlocked_equipment didn't get uploaded until game was closed.
  
• Added new version of level end stinger for completing a boss level.
  
• Items in quick slots are now much more visible.
  
• Added Advanced Graphics Options menu.
  
• Changed damage resistance of Easy mode from 12% -> 15%
  
• Added an option to change how quick slots are displayed (see advanced graphics options menu)
  

• Added Legacy Tile Render option (for the rare case of older drivers running out of OpenGL memory).
  Go to Graphics->Options->Advanced->Tile Renderer on starting the game.
  
• Added a couple more background art objects to the temple.
  
• Health potions and vampirism orbs now heal you 8% and 20% more respectively on Easy mode.
  

• Added options to invert X/Y axis on controller right analog stick.
  As well as an option to swap them. This could give better support for PS4 controller.
  
• Added more clarity to grotto foreground tiles.
  

Character Skins

🎼 New Music

GUI

• Confirm dialogues
  
• Skins menu
  
• Some internal tools such as a tilesheet editor (this should help us to get more content in each update set).
  

Graphical Improvements

• Numerous additional sprites, including:
  
  
• Grotto has been given additional parallax depth, including randomized light beams
  
  (Note: as these beams are randomly placed they appear in world rather than infinitely scrolling Splash menu)
  
  
• Garden background recolored slightly to improve readability.
  

Improved Fullscreen support

☁ Steam Cloud Synchronization:

• game.progression: keeps track of your achievements, gear, character background and world unlocks.
  
• Player.customization: 'cause style is important!
  

Bugs fixes

• Numerous in menu texts readjusted.
  
• Fixed bug with vases from different areas sometimes appearing in the temple.
  
• Fixed bug with infinite jump using High jump background.
  
• Prevention of accidental clicks from unintentially closing the menu/game.
  
• Multi-jump is no longer a starting item; though it's possible to find it in shops or chests.
  
• Usual rebalancing and squashing smaller bugs.
  

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• F̶o̶r̶c̶e̶f̶i̶e̶l̶d̶ ̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶b̶u̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶v̶i̶c̶t̶i̶m̶.̶.̶.̶ ̶A̶i̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶m̶o̶r̶r̶o̶w̶.̶
  

Behind the scenes

Achievements

• 5 New achievements
  
• Redesigns of 2 previous achievements.
  
• Steam stat integration.
  
• Tracking of multiple new player metrics behind the scenes for future unlocks.
  

Player Damage Overhaul

Graphics & Options

• Much better widescreen support.
  E.g.
  
  
  
  • Shadow sight target markers scale properly.
    
  • Multiple menu/hud elements reworked to resize with larger resolutions.
    
  
  
• New graphics for character background sets and unlockable items menus.
  
• Mouse locking now available (See Options->Other).
  
• Cleaned up player HUD of many extraneous details.
  

Other Key Changes

• Level generation for the Grotto is much more varied.
  
• New Sound effects for picking up items.
  
• Skeletal warriors move more predictably when fighting.
  
• Multiple medium and high tier enemies have a much greater chance of dropping coins or other items.
  
• Now all the bosses have enraged phases. For example the bronze knight now becomes considerable faster and more aggressive below a certain HP.
  
• Damage and knockback adjusted to take into account how player damage has been reworked. Health potions also heal for a little extra.
  
• Made dodge rolling faster and longer range.
  
• Multiple other balancing changes.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare issue of 2 textures disappearing from the multi-thread rendering
  
• Disabled buttons are now faded out.
  
• Fixed bugs with enduring and resourceful achievements triggering without meeting the conditions.
  
• You can no longer pick up and carry temporal fields.
  
• Numerous title and description texts fixed.
  
• Multiple other.
  

***Update 0.75.7 (24th February)***

• Updated all status/collectable/helper prompt text in game to scale with the resolution (previously they were blitted onto a render texture which was scaled); though testers have told us they've found this much smoother.
  
• Various tweaks including:
  
  
  
  • Most enemies in the grotto have lower health on normal difficulty.
    
  • Dodge rolling works against skeletons on hard mode.
    
  • updated a couple of icons:
    
    
  • Aquatic enemy pools are a bit less crowded.
    
  • Fixed mouse detection for weapon wheel at different resolutions.
    
  
  
  
  

***Patch 0.75.10 (3rd March)***

• Adjusted enemy health scaling for temple and grotto enemies.
  
• Aquatic pools have less enemies during pursuing toxic pollen.
  
• Pursuing toxic pollen is slightly slower on moderate difficulty.
  
• Ceiling lickers retract with their catch more slowly.
  
• Fixed glitch with Chakram unlock.
  
• Added more knockback resistance when the player is hit under water.
  
• Several other adjustments.
  

Update 0.73.5 introduces Achievements, new abilities & more!

New Abilities

• Enthral:
  
  Turn your opponents into temporary allies.
  
  Side Note: lighting was disabled for this GIF.
  

New parallax backgrounds for the grotto

Other mechanics

• 2 New status effects.
  
• Reworked knockback physics of all melee weapons.
  
• Chakram is much more versatile now:
  
  
  
  • Can stun unaware opponents.
    
  • Can hit more often
    
  • Can travel under water
    
  
  
• The targeting system has been vastly reworked to accommodate how quickly alliances can change...
  

Bug fixes and optimization

• Substantial rework of Gnarled Gardens plants for much better performance.
  
• Fixed bug where continuous sounds could loop indefinitely; if played at the same time as an identical non-continuous sound.
  
• Fixed bug where using quick swap with a given item didn't deactivate the shield (thanks Rubenmenton for flagging that)
  
• Fixed weird bug where the player's equipped item would appear to be stabbing them at an awkward angle; after being knocked from a ledge they were holding.
  
• The item order is now consistent on the weapon wheel
  
• Adjustments to some item descriptions.
  
• Fixed bug with dart traps not triggering.
  

Other

• Multiple new sound effects 🔉
  
• New particle animations
  
• ...
  

W.I.P. stuff

*** Happy New Year's Patch (0.73.11)! ***

• Added 1 achievement.
  
• Poison flowers in the garden can be picked up and thrown.
  
• Fixed bug with dragon fly rebounding off and immediately dealing when knocked against a wall with force.
  
• A lot of polishing work with how Grotto's background tiles generate.
  
• Added much more randomisation to the grotto of guidance parallax.
  

*** So when's the next major update??? ***

New Abilities:

• Dashing:
  
  
• Sap of Weakness: The fluid derived from a rare plant can be used to lower the defence of your opponents.
  
  
  

Mechanics:

• New Status effect.
  
• Chests can be carried to block projectiles.
  
• Lucky dip for unlockables: Optionally spend tokens on a random item at a lower cost.
  
• Temporal field: now properly slows down special level threats such as pursuing pollen. You can also expand it by holding down the control.
  
• ...
  

Rebalancing work:

• Bronze Knight's arena now has semi-destructable floors; with a couple of alternative ways to fight em'.
  
• Rush level themes (lava, poison etc.) have longer levels.
  
• Flooded corridors are longer.
  
• Traps take longer to reset (spears, dart traps etc.; following feedback from PAX players)
  
• Nerfed giant bat (following feedback from PAX).
  
• Cost of unlockables has increased as has the max level.
  
• Several parts of the 2nd tutorial, were remade to be much more forgiving and instructive (following feedback from PAX players)
  

Optimization:

• New algorithm for tile-render allows caching of the entire map's terrain rather than one chunk at a time.
  
• Rewrote multiple collision and physics routines to use less processing power.
  
• Fixed several issues with flickering framerate with vsync on older systems.
  

Controls:

• Weapon wheel and grid inventory controls have been rewritten slightly to be more intuitive. e.g. you can override which slot certain items go to with just the right/left triggers. You can also instantly consume potions/execute most powers with a single button instead of having to equip them.
  
• Multi-jump ability can still be used even if it's not in the hotbar.
  

Graphics/Menu:

• New Weapon wheel graphics
  
• Some minor bug fixes with humanoid arms.
  
• Particle and HUD elements for new abilities.
  
• Larger mini map
  
• ...
  

-----**--- PATCH 0.71.4 ---**-----

• Cleaned up HUD by removing debug variable display.
  
• Removed links to unfinished editors.
  
• Other:
  
  
  
  • You now recover more health before entering the knight's arena.
    
  • Adjustment to laser traps in the tutorial.
    
  • Updated controller prompt icon.
    
  
  
  

Venue Information

Event Dates

New weapons / abilities

New XP system

• NOTE: This is done in a way that does not compromise on challenge; but allows you to access strategic options and bonuses. You can read about the rationale in the first post here:
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/841600/discussions/0/1739964947814298396/
  
  
  
• Earlier players will also be rewarded a large starting bonus; based on what's been achieved so far. What you've unlocked stays unlocked in the future.
  
• Levelling up grants tokens which can be spent on various unlockable items/world shotcuts etc.
  

Unlockables include:

• 7 relating to weapons and abilities.
  
• Rerolling starter equipment.
  
• Two world shortcuts will be free if you unlocked them earlier (otherwise they cost 5 tokens each)
  
  
  

Menu Stuff

• Multiple menus reprogrammed to work much better with widescreen and higher resolutions.
  
• Added Progression Menu.
  
  
• New graphics for all purchase/equipment related menus.
  
• Added Unlockables Menu.
  
  NOTE: costs may be discounted slightly for this update.
  

Tweaks to player physics

• Reach maximum speed faster; but max sprint speed is marginally lower (<10%) for better control.
  
• Made grapple swinging more instantaneous.
  

Animation refinements

• Several new animations including:
  
  
• Spear slashes now have a weapon trail.
  
• Fixes to the frames of humanoid entities holding weapons when landing.
  

Bug fixes and optimizations

• Light colors of melee weapons now reflect their materials more closely (with crystal yielding more light).
  
• Code optimizations to collision checking.
  
• Fixed Credits menu cropped at higher resolutions.
  
• Fixed Choose equipment menu breaking when reopening after changing resolutions.
  
• Considerably reduced time writing to output files (e.g. saving progression and logging).
  
• Several others.
  

New enemy 1 - Giant blood bats

New enemy 2 - Skeletal rangers

Crossbow and arrow improvements

• Arrows stick in blocks.
  
• Arrows shot through pollen clouds become venomous.
  
• A burst of particles is released when arrows are ignited/envenomed + new graphics!
  
• Arrows slow down in water.
  

Necromancer changes

• New animations.
  
• A warning will display if the boss is unalerted and you're down to the last 3 crystals.
  
• No more stun-lock cheesing.
  
• Rebalanced enemy spawning.
  
• Fixed bug where it would randomly turn away from the player when attacking.
  

Control improvements

• For items that can be equipped in both hands; you can use the left/right trigger to specify which with the weapon wheel (or just use the default).
  
• Bouncing off enemies now resets wall vault count/multi jump
  

Control options

• All remaining control options (toggling default run; gamepad tilt sensitivity determining sprint; changing the aiming mode etc.); are now saved on leaving the game. Some settings are now saved separately per control scheme.
  
• Auto-wall vault is toggle-able.
  

Screen

• Multiple HUD design improvements and icon updates
  
  
• Improved widescreen support.
  

Bug fixes/balance chances

• Eye lazer attack has been nerfed.
  
• Crystal weapons now recharge much faster.
  
• Various graphical glitches related to humanoid arms have been fixed.
  
• Swords and spears can no longer be drawn on the player's head after they simultaneously try and grapple and climb at the same time.
  
• Multiple others...
  

-----**---Patch 29th July, 2018---**-----

• Time between fire dart trap volleys has been greatly increased.
  
• Boulders and rock traps now displace spike tiles.
  
• Boulders deal more damage with enough velocity.
  
• Increased enemy damage resistance slightly.
  
• Poisoned enemies are more vulnerable to damage.
  
• This guy...