Dungeon Deathball

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🔁 Changed

• "Select Team" button now automatically closes the Teams menu and returns to previous screen.
  
• Daily Challenge Winners popup appears slightly later.

🐛 Fixed

• You can no longer break the leaderboard display by clicking the buttons too fast.
  
• Ball no longer disappears when an enemy who was holding it is killed by lightning hazards.
  
• Enemy sprites now face the correct direction for all attack directions.
  
• Mouse cursor correctly displays "Switch Player" icon again when highlighting an unselected player.
  
• "Switch Player" cursor icon no longer displays if you hover the mouse over the currently-selected player.
  
• Monsters on 'trial intro' screen stop making noise when you skip the sequence.
  
• Player class & perk icons are no longer misaligned on the 'Start Stage' screen if you only have 1 player alive.
  
• Player HUD automatically re-aligns if the player in slot 1 dies.
  
• Daily Challenge Winner will not display "no score" message if it fails to download scores before displaying (it will wait instead).
  
• Tick/cross icons display correctly again on Team unlock requirements.
  
• Enemy intention arrows now display on top of the dark square underneath the current player.

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🆕 Added

• Survival Bonus for any player who makes it to the end (750 points per stage survived).
  
• Different icon for players who survive the final stage on the results screen.

🔁 Changed

• You can now skip the end-game results sequence.
  
• Added more pages to How To Play section (Teams, Final Score and Scores & Ranks).
  
• Improved legibility and accuracy of additional How To Play information.
  
• Leaderboards now show Global scores by default.
  
• Added outline to Judgment sprite in the intro/ending.
  
• Reduced number of dust modes in title screen.
  
• Increased fog distance in intro.

🐛 Fixed

• Tooltip for "Back" button on the end-game credits screen no longer says "Return to the previous page".

Overview

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🆕 Added

• Localised text for Steam store page (Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian, Spanish).
  
• Jingle when one of your players dies.

🔁 Changed

• Some Teams now require certain Achievements to be unlocked before you can unlock them.
  
• Your current Team is automatically selected when you open the Teams menu.
  
• 'Change Team' menu is now locked until you earn your first Skull Key.
  
• 'Change Team' button now displays a small icon if there are new teams available to unlock.
  
• Optimised many special effects for better performance.
  
• Redesigned the 'New Game' screen layout.
  
• New Game screen now displays your current team's high score and stage completion progress.
  
• A warning is displayed if you accidentally close the Team Management screen (after completing a stage) if you are still able to purchase more upgrades or recruit new players.
  
• You can now skip the short 'door opening' cutscene that plays when you start a new game.
  
• Jingles now duck the music volume while playing.
  
• Player Preset slots (in the Teams menu) now show tooltips specific to the Class and Perk that they are assigned, rather than more generic ones about how they work. The old information is now in its own popup for the preset background.
  
• Reduced default volume levels.

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed crash when opening Team menu.
  
• Fixed crash when trying to push an enemy out of bounds with an upgraded Knockback perk.
  
• Fixed title screen music not playing when you quickly skip the intro sequences.
  
• Fixed Skull Keys unlocking for the wrong team in Daily Challenge mode.
  
• Teaser scores no longer display an empty "Rank" text in non-Steam builds.
  
• Fixed volume sliders showing incorrect value until you interact with them.
  
• Fixed Full Screen Mode tick-box not returning to correct value after restoring defaults.
  
• Fixed the Team name appearing too soon on the Stage Results screen.

Overview

New Key Art

New Title Scene

View Leaderboards for previous Daily Challenges

Stats Viewer

Survivor Hall of Fame

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🆕 Added

• Daily Challenge Winners are now displayed on the title screen.
  
• 3D scene background on the title screen.
  
• Added camera animation when starting a new game.
  
• 'Survivor Hall of Fame' viewer.
  
• Stats viewer.

🔁 Changed

• You can now view leaderboards for past Daily Challenges.
  
• You can now access Daily Challenge leaderboards after you've played today's challenge.
  
• Added more fog to intro/ending scene.
  
• Added dust particles to prisoner scene.
  
• Pressing Back/Cancel keyboard button on title screen no longer quits to "Thank you for playing" screen.

Overview

Teasers

Menu Popups

More Popup Options

Improved Upgrade Info

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🆕 Added

• 'Teaser scores' appear between stages.
  
• 'Menu popups' appear next to your mouse cursor when hovering over many different menu items, explaining what they do/mean.
  
• More options for which popup types you want to see.

🔁 Changed

• Improved player upgrade popup. It now displays more information (including the before and after values of the stat you're upgrading).
  
• New Recruit popup uses icons and is generally easier to read at a glance.
  
• Player upgrade buttons now display current stat and icon on the button itself.
  
• Tweaked some Perk descriptions.
  
• Tweaked some Ball Modifier descriptions
  
• When hovering cursor over the tile that the Ball is on, the tile popup now displays information about the Ball Modifier you're using.
  
• Current score is now displayed on Stage Start and Team Info screens.
  
• Options menu is now a sub-menu of Pause menu.
  
• Team name is now displayed on stage results screen.
  
• Team name is now displayed in the preview text when choosing to continue a saved game.
  
• Popups now have a coloured outline.
  
• Renamed 'Wall' to 'Rock' in the popup.

🐛 Fixed

• Hovering mouse over a fully-upgraded perk upgrade button no longer displays an empty popup.

Overview

1. Enemy AI is a bit smarter.
   
2. Intention markers give more information about the attack type.
   
3. 'Fast Mode' is even faster, and you also have additional options for speeding up the game.
   
4. Overhauled the 'Options' menu.
   
5. Overhauled the 'Stage Start' screen.
   

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🆕 Added

• Windowed mode option.
  
• Option to disable dynamic cameras.
  
• Option to automatically skip long menu animations and cinematics.
  
• "Restore Defaults" button in options menu.

🔁 Changed

• Wandering (green) enemies will move towards players if they can reach an adjacent tile.
  
• Enemies will move towards the Ball if it's on an adjacent tile.
  
• Enemies standing on Hazard tiles will prioritise moving off them.
  
• Ball Modifiers now change automatically with each stage, but the multiplier only changes if you use a modifier.
  
• All goalies in Trial 4 are replaced with the Slam Lad variant.
  
• Options menu revamped to fit more items in.
  
• Stage Start menu revamped to move ball buttons and info closer together.
  
• Stage Start screen now displays how many of each ball modififer you've used.
  
• Ball Modifier selection buttons now display their difficulty effect (Easy/Normal/Hard).
  
• Fast Mode now skips blocked spawns.
  
• Fast Mode now speeds up many more minor delays.
  
• Hazard tile popups now display their Stun stat.
  
• Attack cameras now track whatever was hit, to prevent cases where it would be pushed off-screen.
  
• Intention arrows differentiate between normal attacks and 'charge' attacks.
  
• Intention arrows differentiate between normal attacks and 'wind' attacks.
  
• Hatcheries' spawn intention marker changes colour if the spawn will be blocked.
  
• Blocked spawns now display a text popup.
  
• Missed enemy attacks now display a text popup.
  
• Clarified help text for enemies who attack a row of tiles.
  
• When Resting, the amount of stamina recovered appears in the text popup.
  
• Team Info screen displays each player's perk level as an icon.
  
• Team Info screen displays each player's class with colour-coded text.
  
• Team Info screen now displays Ball Modifier's difficulty effect.

🐛 Fixed

• 'Dino-floor' achievement is no longer unlocked by Lightning Hazards.
  
• "Stunned" popups no longer display "-1" if the duration is infinite.
  
• Options menu items are now always in the same order, regardless of whether you access the menu from the title screen or the pause menu.
  
• Piercing attacks now push all targets simultaneously, instead of waiting for each one's hit animation to finish.
  
• Team Info screen now displays correct Score Multiplier for Ball Modifier.

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed Ball disappearing if a player who was holding it was killed by a Spike Trap.
  
• Chargers now rebound on impact, instead of waiting for the character they attack to finish their 'take damage' animation.
  
• Mawbreaker achievement no longer unlocks if the Maw can't be pushed because something's in the way.
  
• Player sprites no longer pop behind the ropes in the victory ending.

👋 Say hello to your Team in the new intro

📊 Revamped Timeline

📈 Little baby Timeline after each stage

😌 You can navigate the Options menu with a keyboard (WITHOUT tearing your hair out in frustration)

🆕 Added

• Player introductions at the start of each run.
  
• Stage progress with rank icons on the loading screen between stages.

🔁 Changed

• Overhauled the Timeline seen at the end of each trial.
  
• Daily Challenge mode can now only be played once per day.
  
• Selected menu buttons now have an outline instead of being enlarged.
  
• Updates can now delete mid-run session save data to avoid deleting ALL save data.
  
• The Judgment now makes less noise while spectating.
  
• "Normal Ball" renamed to "Standard Ball".
  
• Updated the main title logo so it matches store page version.
  
• Total score popups are now brighter blue and more visually prominent.
  
• Total score popup now appears on the loading screen between stages.

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed crash when skipping menu page transitions.
  
• Fixed Options menu navigation moving to unexpected buttons (when using a keyboard or controller).
  
• Trial intro jingle now correctly uses your music volume setting.
  
• Trial intro jingle pitch no longer gets distorted if you skip the sequence.
  
• Title text on loading screens now uses pixel-perfect scaling.

💦 Players get sweaty when they're tired

🕖 "Act Order" popups

💇‍♀️ More hairstyles

🏀 You can now push other players with the Ball

🆕 Added

• Players show different animation, facial expression, audio and visual effects when their stamina drops to 4 or less.
  
• More hairstyles for players.
  
• 2 additional voice variants for male and female players.
  
• More voice events for all players (move, move with ball, rest, low stamina).
  
• Slam Lad Goalie enemy.

🔁 Changed

• Stamina gauges animate over time (instead of changing instantly).
  
• "Enemy Info" now just shows "Act Order" popups for all enemies and hazards.
  
• Aforementioned Act Order shortcut button now changes colour when used.
  
• Characters are still pushed by Ball shots, even if they catch the ball (affects Sascatches and other human players).
  
• Characters no longer drop the Ball when pushed by 'Wind' type attacks.
  
• Randomly-generated players' hairstyle is now partially determined by their skin tone.
  
• Judgment Mode now replaces all Mad Lads with Slam Lads (including goalies).
  
• Reduced maximum number of Lil Lils per stage from 4 to 3.
  
• When enemies are stunned, the duration is displayed in the "Stunned!" popup.
  
• Enemy info sidebar now shows how long the enemy is Stunned for.
  
• 'Team Fortress' achievement now displays a progress bar.
  
• Only currently-used player voices are loaded to reduce memory usage.
  
• Added audio filter to all sound effects (previously only applied to crowd sounds).
  
• All character voice audio ducks music volume more aggressively.
  
• Player upgrade node icons now have a dotted outline when not purchased.
  
• Moved health bars lower so they're not hidden by attack tooltips.

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed Ball Modifiers not applying score multipliers.
  
• Fixed crash on 'mode select' screen.
  
• Fixed stage results text not appearing when skipping results sequence quickly.
  
• Fixed loud audio mess when skipping stage results sequence.
  
• If players are pushed over the finish line by Wind attacks or Ball shots the stage now instantly ends in victory (instead of nothing happening until you act on the next turn).
  
• Sascatch no longer catches the Ball if shot when stunned.
  
• "Touch down" text changed to "Touchdown" when you complete a stage.
  
• Fixed 'dangerous tile' hazard stripe icon not disappearing from Spike Trap tiles after enemies have targetted that tile.
  
• 'Rokoban' achievement no longer counts pushes where the rock was unable to move.

⚠ Save Data Reset

Achievements

Unlocking Modes

• New modes are unlocked by earning Achievements.
  
• The criteria for each mode is displayed when you hover over its button when starting a new game.
  
• A popups will now appear on the title screen when you've unlocked a new mode.

🆕 Added

• Steam Achievements.
  
• In-game Achievements menu to view your progress.
  
• Unlock system for game mode.

🔁 Changed

• "Boss Mode" renamed to "Judgment Mode".
  
• You can now skip several of the sequences between screens (camera movement when a stage first starts, the reveal of your stage results, and the delay before results appear on Game Over).
  
• It's now faster to get into gameplay after beginning a stage.
  
• "How To Play" page list is divided into sections.
  
• "How To Play" now contains information about Gems.
  
• "How To Play" now contains information about Player Classes.
  
• Pacists team now has a fixed Snatcher perk.
  
• Updated credits with a new patron.
  
• Changed the way stage results are saved under the hood.
  
• Selecting a different game mode no longer shows a popup explaining how it works.
  
• Selecting "Save & Quit" when you already have a saved game will now show a warning and various options for what to do next.
  
• A trophy icon is now displayed next to each mode when you've completed it.
  
• Currently-selected team now shows a 'tick' icon instead of a white border.

🐛 Fixed

• It is now possible to skip cinematics using a controller.
  
• Fixed crash when unlocking new teams.
  
• Fixed "Done" button not being automatically highlighted after skipping the Game Over cinematic.
  
• Team Hodgepodge's Skull Keys are now correctly awarded after beating each trial.
  
• Fixed "Skull Keys acquired" popup not appearing.
  
• Fixed Enemies section of "How To Play" missing data.
  
• Fixed timeline icons not showing when you achieved S-Rank on a stage.
  
• Fixed tick-box backgrounds sometimes being misaligned in the Options menu.