Nefarium
New Tutorial, Ability Codex Update & Save Slots - Game Update - August 25, 2022
- All abilities are now dropped in the form of Ability Codices. These are dropped by bosses.
- There are now 3 save slots that can be used to store different kinds of characters.
- Added SPARKS to the dungeon.
Item Sets & Sound Effects - Game Update - June 22, 2022
- Added 11 new sigils
- Added new sound effects to numerous things
- Removed Sigils of Corruption, Reaper, Celestials, and Elements. These effects have been put on items instead as set effects.
- The number of required items for the set effects on equipment has been increased (2/4/6 per tier, up from 1/2/3)
- Decreased the loading screen time by a lot
- Added new rooms
- Changed the color and the lighting of the dungeon (once again)
- Teleporting has been removed as it serves no purpose
- Player level has been removed
- Natural Health and Corruption regeneration are removed (might come back as passives later)
- Nature typed attacks now have a chance of healing the player (instead of creating a small aoe around the player)
- Abilities no longer have specific Element types, instead they use your primary element
- Removed auto attacking
- Corruption now starts at 0, every primary attack gives +10 Corruption (Experimental)
- Bonfires no longer give full Corruption
- Altars of Corruption are (temporarily?) removed from boss entrances
- Music can now be muted
- Music volume can now be adjusted
- Leeching Strike has been removed
- Drain Life has been removed
- Ice Shard has been removed
- Added two new weapon "types", main hand orbs and off hand orbs
- Orbs can be equipped to get access to Elemental type attacks
- A sword can be equipped with an orb for a hybrid style combat
- Equipping two orbs at once makes attacks longer ranged
- Every item has been updated in terms of stats, Legendary and Corrupted item stats now are randomized instead of being a set value
- Shields and 2 handed swords have been removed for now
- Added a text for gold pickups
- Bosses no longer drop ores or crystals
- Sigils can now be disassembled for crystals
- Corrupted Spirit has been renamed to Blood Fury and is now a dual melee buff. The effect is the same (take 50% damage, gain 50% corruption)
- Number of abilities on the action bar has been reduced to 6 (excluding primary attack, dash, and potion)
More Monsters & Environmental Changes - Game Update - May 01, 2022
- Added 4 new monsters that can buff nearby monsters (these buffs are attack + movement speed, attack damage, increased armor, healing)
- Added 4 new "elite" monsters
- Elite monsters(Wardens) guard portals and doors found in the dungeon. Each has different effects based on the number of monsters surrounding them
- Added 3 new ranged monsters
- Added elemental versions of some monsters;
Fire enemies have a chance of burning
Ice enemies have a chance of slowing
Nature enemies have a chance of lowering player's Corruption
These chances scale with the player's elemental %, ie. if fire % is high, there's a high chance player won't be burned - Added a new ability, Cleanse. Cleanse removes all the debuffs affecting the player and grants immunity to all debuffs for 5 seconds
- Passive skills now unlock with highest unlocked floor rather than player level
- Monster spawns now scale with floor, reaching maximum amount at floor 75
- Town has been updated a little
- Normal attacks can't proc Elemental effects anymore
- Removed the 25% Elemental base chance from Elemental Set [1], replaced it with "Normal attacks can now proc Elemental effects"
- Improved gameplay performance
Sigils and Item Sets! - Game Update - April 08, 2022
Statue of Death can hold up to 4 sigils with a slot being unlocked at every 15th floor.
Sigils:
Reaper's Sigil Set
[1] Gain a burst of movement speed for 2.5 seconds after using Shadowstep
[2] Shadowstep's range is extended by 50%
[3] Shadowstep's cooldown gets reset after an enemy kill
Elemental Sigil Set
[1] All Elements get a 25% increase
[2] Gain an Elemental Aura based on your strongest element
[3] Elemental attacks and abilities can critically strike. The critical strike chance scales with an element's strength
Corrupt Sigil Set
[1] Enemy kills give 1% Corruption
[2] All abilities cost Health instead of Corruption. All Corruption gets converted to Health
[3] All attacks do double damage. Take double damage from all sources.
Celestial Sigil Set
[1] Every third auto attack always ignores the enemy armor
[2] Gain 3% Attack Speed and 3% Critical Chance per auto attack for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times
[3] Critical strikes deal 300% Damage if Critical Chance is above 50%
Other Changes:
- Increased bank space to 100
- Fixed a bug where if you quit the game with the Bloodlust potion equipped it would show up as Stoneskin on next session
- Removed the RMB as a separate ability, basic slash (melee) is now a normal ability once again
- Holding the mouse button won't move the player anymore during animations that are supposed to halt player movement
- Right Mouse Button is now a possible keybind
- Corruption per item upgrade is now +10% (down from +100%)
- Using any ability now puts the basic attack cooldown to 0.5 seconds
- Abilities can now be cast by clicking on the ability bar with the mouse (targeting doesn't work for now)
- Some monsters have armor ratings now, which scales with the floor
Patch Notes - Game Update - March 26, 2022
- Fixed an issue where some monsters would spawn in weird places
- Defence and block chance have been nerfed
- Fixed an issue where trying to upgrade Celestian Ores and Crystals would make them disappear
- Added an option to Mass Disassemble Legendary items
- Added 2 new rooms
- Overhead cages can now be clicked through
- Forge has been moved to the Furnace interface (destroying things make more sense in a furnace)
- The amount of coins dropped by monsters have been lowered
- Added a furnace to the start of the dungeon, will likely be unlockable in the future with blacksmith levels
- Added a loading screen to the dungeon
- Added a brand new room type
- Monster health now scales harder after floors 20 and 50
- Barrels and cages found in the dungeon now have a chance of dropping coins, ores, and crystals upon being destroyed
- Dungeon start screen has been updated
- Loot dropped from the boss now spreads out instead of being a big pile
- Treasure chests have been updated graphically
- Dungeon timer now stops as soon as the boss is killed
- Earth (Element) has been renamed to Nature
- Leeching Blow is now a Nature skill
- Voracity (Passive) now gives 5/10/15% CDR per rank, down from 10/20/30%
- Hovering an item in the inventory will also bring up the item stats of the equipped item now
- Stackable items can now be picked up if the same item is already in the inventory and the inventory is full
Graphical Update & More - Game Update - March 22, 2022
- Base movement speed has been increased slightly
- Player model size has been increased slightly
- Almost every dungeon room has received a graphical update
- Wind has been removed as an element and is replaced with Earth
- Whirlwind is renamed to Firestorm and is now a Fire spell
- Leeching Strike and Drain Life are both classified as Earth spells
- Added multiple light sources and pillars throughout the dungeon
- Teleport VFX is now fixed
- Critical hits should be fixed
- Boss spawns are now fixed and will no longer cause the dungeon to not be proceedable
- Fixed the issue where the boss gate wasn't clickable
- Added an altar near the boss gate. Currently gives full corruption but in the future the % will scale with the amount of monsters that you kill in the dungeon
- Added an option to reset progress in the escape menu (demo only)
- All AoE ability damage has been lowered
- Monster health has been increased
- Added shadows to the dungeon once again
Elemental Effects & More - Game Update - Feb 04, 2022
First of all, Elemental Stats:
There are 5 new Stats. These are Fire, Ice, Wind, Radiant, Shadow.
Fire: Burns the target for 5 seconds.
Ice: Slows and Chills the target. Chilled targets shatter on death, dealing aoe damage.
Wind: Creates a small whirlwind around the player.
Shadow: Enemies take more damage
Radiant: Enemies deal less damage
All Normal skills, including auto attacks, can proc these effects, but their damage scales with their own elements.
Patch Notes
- Added some 2h swords, they provide more damage and cdr but less attack speed (animations are not there yet)
- Added blood splatters on the floor when an enemy dies
- Added an outer glow to interactable objects on mouse over
- Added a small visual effect to monsters when they get hit
- Increased monster spawns within the dungeon
- Added an "out of combat" idle animation that triggers when there are no monsters nearby
- Weapons cannot be changed in combat now
- There's now a short global cooldown of 0.5 seconds when an ability is used
- Slash and stab animations now prevent the player from moving until the animations are over
- Fixed some enemies not acting properly with their hitboxes
- Added multiple new weapons and armor
- Crystal of corruption and Essence of corruption have been renamed to Celestian Crystal and Celestian Ore respectively
- Legendary and Corrupted equipment have static stats now (doesn't flactuate between two random values)
- Critical Damage has been removed all items. Exceeding 100% Critical Chance will now increase the damage of Critical Strikes
- Lifesteal has been removed from all items
- Attack Speed is now static across different weapons and can't be upgraded as a stat via the anvil.
- - Equipping swords now gives +10% Attack Speed (20% if both hands)
- - Equipping axes now gives +5% Attack Speed (10% if both hands)
- - Equipping two handed items gives no additional Attack Speed
- - There are still some weapons that have their own Attack Speed value
- Populated dungeon rooms with breakable barrels, chests, buckets, and some skeletons on the floor
- Added fog to various places throughout the game
- The floor tiles of the dungeon will now change colors every floor
- Added a buff bar above the health bar that shows all the active buffs (Probably doesn't show everything right now)
- Changed how resource nodes look
- Whirlwind is available at Level 1 once again
- Skills now have "Elemental Types"
- Elemental stats now boost the damage/effect of abilities of the same elemental type
Game Update - New Abilities & Adjustments - Dec 29, 2021
- Total kills, deaths, dashes, ability usage, health gained/lost, corruption gained/lost, coins gained/lost, souls gained/lost are now being tracked
- Added a Noticeboard in town, it currently only shows the mentioned stats above
- Demonic Gaze's damage has been increased (by a lot)
- Removed ability: Swift Strike
- Swift Strike now triggers with Right Mouse Button. It costs no Corruption, might make it generate Corruption in the future.
- Still scales linearly with attack speed and damage
- Since Swift Strike occupies the RMB, interacting with objects using RMB is no longer possible. Only possible with LMB
New ability:
Drain Life - AOE
-- Drain Health from enemies surrounding you
-- Cost: 100
-- Level: 20
-- Base Damage: 1x
-- Drained Health: 20% of all damage
New ability:
Imbued Blades - Active
-- Increase damage by 25%
-- Increase corruption cost of all abilities by 25%
-- Cost: 0
-- Cooldown: 0
-- Level: 15
New ability:
Cull the Herd - Single target
Previously known as Way of the Reaper
-- Teleport behind your target (within a range) and strike instantly
-- Level: 30
-- Cost: 40
-- Cooldown: 2
-- Base Damage: 2x
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Graphical Updates - Game Update - December 28, 2021
For comparison, Old Town:
New Town:
Patch Notes
- Updated most of the town and the dungeon assets graphically
- Swift Strike's cooldown is now the same as basic attack speed and scales with attack speed
- Swift Strike's cost has been lowered to 10 Corruption
- Swift Strike is now available at level 1
- Whirlwind's cost has been increased to 20 Corruption
- Whirlwind is now available at level 3
- Whirlwind's base damage has been increased by 1.5
- Fixed a problem with upgrading flasks
- Added a cat in town
- Added shields to the game
- Fixed Corrupted Spirit
- Removed the free soul button
- Removed the level up button
Next up I'll work on adding more abilities and 2-handed weaponry.
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