Lichenvale

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• Melee enemies are now strafing more and will periodically retreat from the player.
  
• Increased minimal distance to player a bit so they won't feel like they are cliping through that much.
  
• Ranged enemies have more consistent and longer repositioning and are slowly backpedalling when player is too close to them.
  

BALANCE CHANGES

• Increased certain enemies melee attack range to compensate for greater minimal distance to player.
  
• Increased players attack range a bit.
  
• Reduced all enemy damage by ~10%.
  
• Increased attack windup for Skelemental and Knightmare's shadow bolt.
  
• Added 0.2s global cooldown for enemy attacks.
  
• Frostbolt damage type changed from point to small aoe (akin to Fireball).
  
• Fireball and Frostbolt now have slight homing capabilities (you do need to have the crosshair on the enemy at the time of the cast).
  
• Boogieman can now move while throwing pumpkins.
  

VISUAL CHANGES

• Increased camera shake when player is hitting enemies with the sword.
  
• Added camera shake when fireball or frostbolt hits an enemy.
  
• Added small glow on collectibles to increase visibility.
  
• Added small light to memoralias so they are easier to spot.
  

FIXES

• Fixed collision inside a pool in ruins on Broken Village (Werewolf is no longer stuck there).
  
• Moved Werewolf memoralia on Broken Village so its easier to spot.
  
• Hitting world objects will no longer produce multiple hit sounds.
  

FEATURES

• Red Power Orb now additionally gives permanent 10% additive melee damage increase per pickup.
  
• Purple Power Orb now additionally gives permanent 10% additive spell damage increase per pickup.
  
  (There are in total 5 power orbs of each type across levels for total of 50% increased melee & spell damage. Existing saves will have these bonuses applied!)
  

BALANCE CHANGES

• Reduced the amount of enemies across levels 4-6.
  
• Increased spawn delays of enemies across levels 4-6.
  
• Added more health potions across levels 4-6.
  
• Added Red and Purple Power Orbs on level 4.
  
• Increased cooldown of Werewolf Brute's pounce and bite attacks.
  
• Increased Medusa's health by 100.
  
• Increased Skeleton King's health by 200.
  
• Fireball's radius is slightly increased.
  

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where player would start new level on normal difficulty with 50% health at most.
  
• Fixed an issue where player would get stuck in spike / lava pits with no way out.
  
• Enemies will no longer get confused when coming from out of bounds areas on level 4.
  

FEATURES

• Added difficulty settings, players can choose from following:
  
  
  
  • INITIATE: Enemies take 33% more damage, deal 33% damage less and are 10% slower (both movement and attacks). Health potions heal for 33% more. Player starts with 5 lives.
    
  • ADEPT: Everything is at a baseline. Player starts with 3 lives.
    
  • MASTER: Enemies take 33% damage less, deal 33% damage more and are 10% faster (both movement and attacks). Health potions heal for 33% less. Player starts with 1 life.
    
  
  

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where player could get 255 lives when doing save / load when dying and 0 lives left.
  
• Fixed an issue where monsters would have 0 health and be alive on load after saving while the death animation is playing.