Welcome to Update 1.4: Alchemist's Draft

Community Feedback and Tuning

• AIs distracted by a chicken can now re-position if they get too far away from it.
  
• Audio now plays when you enter the secret room
  
• Vibration option is now a slider
  

Fixes

• Fix whip icons appearing over untargetable enemies
  
• Fixed the chest gear loot icon looking very low resolution
  Improved the damage effects system to stop edge cases where damage over time effects were being applied to things which were blocked or could not be damaged
  
• Fix the ice projectiles from the mage being able to freeze the player when they hit the shield of advancing
  
• Optimisation pass on many gameplay systems to improve framerate
  
• Fix cases where enemies in the final fight could be culled for performance
  
• Fixed cases where pickups would have the wrong texture assigned when in your hands
  

Welcome to Update 1.3: Hellion's Escape

The Hellion

• Hardier than the other rivals, but slower moving.
  
• Press and hold to charge up a lunging punch, release to punch.
  
• Unlocks at rank 9
  
• Comes with 6 new Achievements
  

The Half-Man

The Floating Pyri

Community Feedback and Tuning:

• Gear has a new Rarity Indicator (Common, Uncommon or Rare)
  
• Replaced Hurl of Penetration relic on Soldier with new Lob of Force relic
  
• Thrown knife icon indicator to only becomes active again when reload has completed
  
• Added boss genies to the journal, which unlock when each is defeated
  
• Fix the time limit sound playing when you have time limits disabled via the blessing
  
• Added audio feedback when you walk over a trap that you no longer set off when wearing the Light on Your Feet relic.
  
• Added audio feedback to the Soles of Abrasion when doing damage during a slide
  
• End cutscene is now skippable
  
• Loot and relics are now able to be grabbed with the use key even when you are attacking. Changing weapons or whips will still require you not be attacking.
  
• Fix cases in whip swinging where you would attach to the swing point you just left or one behind you.
  
• Puzzle Wall corpses now collapse when you steal their treasure!
  
• Puzzle Walls added to the Catacombs and the Palace levels
  

Fixes:

• Fix trapped chests appearing on the Chart of Revelation after being opened
  
• Fix the Leap of Stumbling triggering during climbing
  
• Fix spears not going through the Archer Boss clones
  
• Fix the display of 60 seconds on results and progress screens, it will now always round down, not up.
  
• Fix a case where you could fall in Abyss of Darkness and survive
  
• Fix AIs shaking while sliding down the stair trap
  
• Fix the Blades of Shredding being inconsistent with damage. Now they will hurt more often but each hit deals less damage.
  
• Fix crash if you were whip grabbing an enemy as you died
  
• Fix cases where fast moving projectiles would hit things in the wrong direction
  
• Fix the spear recall not updating its hud icon progress
  
• Fire and other AOE effects will now drop to the ground instead of floating in midair.
  
• Fix cases where projectiles would cause damage in the wrong direction
  Improved destructible actor hit detection
  

Known Issues:

• Turning V-Sync OFF some PC's can cause a surging frame rate. We recommend playing with Vsync turned ON.
  

• Saving only works on the progress screen after a level has been completed
  
• A saved game can be continued from the main menu the next time you return to the game
  
• Starting a new game will wipe any saved game in progress.
  
• Daily Challenge does not support save and continue.
  

Community Feedback and Tuning

• Adjusted the display of player information in interfaces. The build number is now in the top right, the rank and player name in the top left and the stream settings on its own in the bottom right.
  
• Stopped the hiding of the Wish genie button once wished/out of wishes.
• Instead now shows a ‘wished’ disabled version of the button
  
• Made the Genie UI Pop up no matter what action they may be doing.
  
• Enemy projectiles now get destroyed when the enemy is killed
  
• Player can now walk through companions
  
• Mini-Bosses now drop loot when defeated
  
  

Fixes

• Fix cases where using the whip to grab a holdable item wouldn’t play the correct grab end animation.
  
• Fix cases where whip attack combos were not correctly occuring when hitting breakables and other items.
  
• Fix the display of many weapon decals which were facing the wrong way
  
• Fix a case where input focus could be lost
  
• Fix cases where door switches would not activate when you threw something at them
  
• Fix cases where enemy shields would not block a projectile
  
• Fixed Chart of Revelation showing secret areas before you had discovered them.
  
• Added new Combo animations for the whip to work with new characters weapons
  
• Optimized particle and hit effects, especially when destroying objects.
  
• Fix Flying Pots not spawning on the ground
  
• Fix being able to kill allies for XP and stacking the Vessel of Vigor.
  
• Fix for Flying AI’s sitting in mid-air and not being aggroed by the player correctly in some cases
  
• Fixes for Itol the Hurler to require line of sight before coming out of his pot, as well as adding a delay before his first throw so he’s not as OP
  
• Various fixes to make the AI’s react better to noises made in their surroundings.
  
• Fixing rare case where AI’s would continue to stare at objects even when the player was damaging them or walk into their view.
  
• Fixed issue where bosses would fail to see the player and not become aggroed
  
• Fix for the shove not always working, as well as fixing the ability to shove multiple enemies at a time.
  
• Fix for the archer sometimes being able to insta-shoot a projectile
  
• Fix the chart of revelation showing the map on the HUD after your banked it
  
• Fix health not updating correctly after banking the Charm of Vitality
  
• Fixed incorrect display of Talisman of Confusion icon above AIs when they are asleep or you are hidden
  
• Fixed the Links of Propulsion not reflecting projectiles back correctly
  
• Fixed cases of the Akinakes of Rage doing no damage whilst the player was poisoned.
  
• Fixed a case where clearing the keybinds of an action would cause an incorrect you have an unassigned key message
  
  

Hammer of Quaking

Links of Propulsion

Blossom of Flame

• Braid of the Vine - This thorny embroidery eliminates the effects of entanglement.
  
• Chart of Revelation - Behold, a map to find your way, amongst other things.
  
• Horn of Warning - Always know where your nearest enemies stand.
  
• Iron Constitution - An esoteric antidote, providing resistance to poison.
  
• Leap of Stumbling - Upon landing from a great height, the ground shall tremble and enemies fall.
  
• Sash of the Fakir - As if guided by invisible wings, control your descent to the ground.
  
• Soles of Abrasion - Your running slides will now scrape against those you trip, wounding them lightly.
  
• Soul of Ice - A cooling power resides within you, so that even the chill of ice has no effect.
  
• Strike of Execution - Your attacks will do extra damage to those who have been tripped.
  

Community Feedback and Tuning:

• Flame of Sight (Common to Limited)
  
• Sword of Antar (Limited to Common)
  
• Akinakes of Rare (Limited to Rare)
  
• Lash of Reach (Common to Limited)
  
• Thong of Vines (Limited to Common)
  
• Body of Thorns (Limited to Common)
  
• Vest of Alliance (Rare to Limited)
  
• Bloom of Frost (Common to Limited)
  
• Element of Surprise (Common to Rare)
  
• Charm of Fortune (Common to Limited)
  
• Heels of Rising (Rare to Limited)
  
• Talisman of Confusion (Common to Rare)
  

• The Cudgel of Refutation has had it stun removed, but still does knockback and causes enemies to break things around them when they land
  
• The Sword of Antar has been changed to always do its lightning effect and will now always stun any enemy it hits for a limited time
  
• You can now queue the shove command, like the sword and whip attacks.
  
• The poison barrell radius is now a lot larger
  
• Gear chests now appear slightly more from levels 4 to 12
  
• Backstabber now does 3x damage instead of 5x but is cheaper
  
• Journal now allows you to easily go to the next or previous entry in a category within each entry
  
• Journal has different categories for weapons, whips, armours and relics
  
• Earthquakes now occur once the time limit has expired
  
• Decreased delay on replaced items appearing in the chests and genie shops
  

Fixes:

• Fixed armour relic effects activating when hit for zero damage. Amongst other things, this stops the vest of allegiance making enemies allied aftering hitting them by the cudgel, which causes them to push things away from them on landing.
  
• Fixed cases where radius damage would hit collision they should not. This caused bugs like the shield of advancing not blocking fireballs from the genie consistently.
  
• Fixed charging enemies being able to damage the mage mini boss
  Tuning to Physical Animation hit reaction on Skeletons
  
• Fixed a bunch of cases where enemies would not target/chase the player even when they were looking directly at them
  
• Stop friendly AI’s from targeting enemies that could not be reached (e.g. through closed doors)
  
• Fixed resolution and screen mode changes not applying before the message box asking you to confirm changes to the resolution or screen mode
  
• Fixed snapping / animation jitter on first person weapons when tapping directional keys or suddenly changing direction.
  
• Fixed snapping / animation jitter on enemy animations when changing velocity suddenly or when changing direction.
  
• Fixed visual errors on Shield Enemies animation set.
  
• Fixed issue where the Uber Genies wouldn’t attack the player sometimes when the Sands of Time item respawned the player in the final boss level.
  
• Enemies now look better when being hit through the air whilst flinching
  
• Silent Effigies no longer become allies if they hit you whilst you are wearing the Vest of Allegiance.
  

• Improved reach and collision detection for player weapons.
  
• Dodging now has its own dedicated button.
  
• Better mouse sensitivity and smoothing options.
  
• Streaming - new cooldown levels: Low, Medium & High, plus cooldown delay when starting a new game.
  
• Plus crash fixes, bug fixes, tuning and MORE!
  

Community Feedback and Tuning

• Improved reach and overhaul of collision for the player melee weapons
  
• Dodge moved off double tap movement and instead is its own key (Mouse Button 3 or Alt by default). It will dodge in the direction of movement when going left or right, otherwise it will jump backwards.
  
• Queuing of attacks from the other hand now adhere to the same repeat time rules as with the same hand, so instantly hitting the whip attack button and then the sword will no longer cause the sword to queue.
  
• The Censer of Venom now does damage before poisoning
  
• Small pit traps will now kill AI when they fall in
  
• Increased the range of the mouse sensitivity from 0.5 to 2, to 0.1 to 5.
  
• Added a way to lock the Y mouse sensitivity to the X axis in the controls menu
  
• Fixed the game not launching on the primary monitor in some cases
  
• Mouse Smoothing option
  
• Companions will now teleport to the player if they are too far away or get stuck
  
• If you press the journal key on something that is unknown, it now opens to their unknown entry instead of the front page of the Journal
  
• Better "can’t use" feedback on the trap genie when you have already wished it and bought the disable all traps in a previous level
  
• Better feedback on the store when you already have a piece of gear
  
• Disabled the auto play movie on the main menu
  
• Can now see previous days score in the daily challenge leaderboards
  
• Players current entry is now highlighted in the leaderboards screen
  
• Floor traps will no longer spawn right in front of secret entrances
  
• Shield enemy shields no longer block the sword when tripped or when you whip pull the shield away.
  

Stream Interaction

• Added a setting to adjust the stream interactions cooldowns to LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH.
  
• Added cooldown time to interactions after level load to stop spawning of things whilst the fade out was still occuring.
  
• Disabled the stream interaction in the tutorial
  
• Enemy spawn distance for hinder interactions tuned to be a little further away and some times tuned
  

Fixes

• Fix cases where pickups, AI and other things were incorrectly blocking the vision of AI and breaking their behaviours
  
• Fixed secret entrances and other destructible surfaces sometimes ignoring radius damage
  
• Fixed a crash in the bear trap
  
• Fixed a crash when using the bank genie to store a melee weapon
  
• Fixed a crash where the Flying pot AI would try to dive at the killed player
  
• Fixed a case in the gardens where paths couldn’t be generated when a certain stair and trap met, breaking AI and the exit arrow.
  
• Fixed weapon slash hit decals on floors
  
• Fixed being able to buy from the health genie when at full health
  
• Fixed being able to buy from a wished trap genie, when all traps in the run are already disabled
  
• Fixed cases where player sound effects for movement were not playing
  
• Fixed bosses and silent effigies from being affected by the Talisman of Confusion.
  
• Fixed ingame cutscenes not adhering to master volume levels
  
• Fix cases where the sticky trap effects were activating at the wrong time or not activating at all
  
• Fixed the lava instantly killing players by doing lots of damage in a short period
  
• Fixed being able to climb out of the First District start room.
  
• Fixed issue where the Mage boss would stop firing projectiles at the player.
  
• Fixed the charging enemies from damaging the player when not directly hitting them.
  
• Fixed a rare case of a wall not spawning leaving a hole in the level.
  
• Controller aim assist is now framerate independent
  
• GDPR compliance
  
• Fixed some rare miscellaneous crashes