Changes

• Lowered shooting volume.
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed the 'shooting dummy sometimes not shooting' issue.
  
• Changed logging to be on a different thread to fix certain lag/crash issues.
  

Added

• Added orbs. Orbs are slower, floaty projectiles with increased explosion damage and no collision damage.
  
• Added a wand that shoots orbs.
  
• Added friendly orb glyph.
  
• Added friendly totem glyph.
  
• Added enemy totem glyph.
  
• Added visual feedback when a wizard receives damage.
  

Changes

• Updated the steam trailer, screenshots, and gifs.
  
• Increased wands mana usage.
  
• Increased player max mana and mana regen.
  
• Increased player health.
  
• Decreased wizard base movement speed.
  
• Changed explosion damage to not damage friendly entities anymore and to have more pushback force.
  
• Slightly decreased spitting cost for small spellshots.
  
• Changed wall tiles to have more variety.
  
• Changed post-processing to make the game more vibrant.
  
• Changed spellshot lighting to be more consistent.
  
• Removed bloom effect.
  
• Increased render performance by ~20%.
  
• Increased the camera to mouse interpolation.
  
• Changed the launch entry point from NuroseGame.Desktop to NuroseGame.Launcher. Should not change anything if you launch the game through steam.
  
• Removed background moon.
  
• Changed audio of the nature element.
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed two bugs that caused players sometimes to not be able to use any wands until the player respawns.
  
• Fixed issue when combining paths of two splitted glyphs not working correctly.
  
• Fixed an audio issue that occurred when cloning a wizard with low health.
  
• Fixed a rendering issue with powerup particles.
  
• Fixed the powerup circle particle effect render issue when the player dies before the effect is finished.
  
• Fixed splitting position offset.
  
• Fixed render size of typing indicator issue if players have different UI scale settings.
  
• Fixed the crash reporter to (hopefully) always show up no matter the crash cause.
  

Changes:

• lowered shooting volume a bit.
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed crash on startup on video cards that don't support the latest OpenGL functions.
  
• Fixed spellshot render direction interpolation.
  

Added:

• Added a loading screen on startup.
  
• Added background birds singing audio.
  
• Added campfire sound effect.
  
• Added explosion sound effect.
  
• Added powerup pickup sound effect.
  
• Added totem spawn sound effect.
  
• Added a hit sound effect when damaging wizards.
  
• Added collision sound effect.
  
• Made sound effects spatial. Sound effects are now louder/quiter depending on the distance from the audio source.
  
• Made sound effects directional. Sound effect volume in left/right speaker volume now depends on direction of the audio source.
  
• Added environment volume and directional audio setting. This will reset the current settings but perserve all loadouts.
  

Changes:

• Decreased minimum spellshot size.
  
• Changed splitting result size calculation to be more accurate.
  
• Changed spellshot particle emission to leave more of a particle trail.
  
• Changed powerup station positions to discorage hugging the corners.
  
• Decreased powerup spawn rate for both stations and water/nature elements and increased their effectiveness.
  
• Removed collision from the non
• player spawned powerups.
  
• Decreased input delay by 1 frame.
  
• Reworked cloth system for improved performance.
  
• Improved performance for online games a bit.
  
• Reduced Air element brightness.
  
• Changed music.
  
• Removed unnused resource files.
  
• Made sure that spellshots and totems can't get out of the map bounds.
  
• Removed player name/rank rendering from the home world.
  
• Increased spellshot lighting.
  
• Having too many consistent force glyphs used to use up mana without adding additonal force. Now it won't use more mana than force added.
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed crash when 'pasting loadout from clipboard' fails. Now it shows up an error message instead of crashing the game.
  
• Fixed crash that occured when splitting wizard clones.
  
• Fixed crash when starting certain online matches. Was caused by Steam sometimes not being able to estimate ping between players.
  
• Fixed the crash that occurred when Steam API was not able to find a leaderboard rank.
  
• Fixed hand rendering direction issue when using the quickfire key.
  
• Fixed some spelling mistakes.
  
• Fixed audio issue that casued certain sound effects to randomly stop playing.
  
• Smoothed spellshot direction rendering to decrease spellshot render jitter artifacts.
  

Added

• Added nature element which drops health pickups when damaged.
  
• Added air element that has increased movement speed and spellshot speed.
  
• Added health and mana pickups in the arena map.
  
• Added a powerful powerup dispenser in the center of the online map.
  
• Added element description to the element buttons.
  

Changes

• Changed water element to drop mana pickups. (used to have increased spellshot speed).
  
• Added an extra cost for splitting when the target is not large enough to split its mass. Should fix most of the one-shot builds.
  
• When splitting the velocity is split between clones. This will nerf builds that rely on splitting right before colliding.
  
• Allowed circular paths and multiple flows to the same glyph.
  
• Increased range for 'someone in queue' indicator to be shown when anyone within matchmaking range is in queue, not just for the same region.
  
• Increased max projectile speed slightly.
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed force calculation for very fast projectiles.
  
• Fixed issue with dragging the scrollbar pointer.
  
• Fixed bracket loadout validation for condition glyphs.
  

Added

• Added birds that fly in the background. (has no effect on gameplay)
  

Changes

• Modified visuals of pretty much everything except for UI.
  
• Remade the lighting and particle system to be more performant. So should be more playable for budget/older GPUs.
  
• Adjusted the cost of splitting spellshots, wizards, and totems to discourage lag machines without limiting spell possibilities.
  
• Lowered mana cost of harden tether ‘pull’ force to be more competitive.
  
• Renamed staffs to wands. Existing loadouts will be automatically migrated and should work as expected.
  
• Renamed group directions category to split directions.
  
• Increased selftarget wand cooldown to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue that caused spellshots with low health to do more damage than allowed.
  
• Fixed loadout dropdown not rendering correctly when there are more than ~10 loadouts.
  
• Fixed camera offset. It had different behavior per resolution.
  
• Fixed an issue with the camera offset which occurred when a popup window was open while the editor window was closed.
  
• Fixed the crash that occurred when a hardentetherglyph tries to harden with a dead or removed entity.
  
• Fixed shot canceling behavior/animation.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred when spawning totems.
  
• Fixed text hard edges issue which should improve text readability for 1920x1080 and smaller screens.
  
• Fixed robe rendering bug that occurred when splitting a wizard while holding a wand in hand.
  
• Accidently adding extra whitespaces while copying loadout will now be detected and work properly.
  
• Fixed 4th wand refresh particle trigger to work with totem wands.
  

Added

• Added an indicator when someone in the same region is in matchmaking.
  

Changes

• Some optimizations. The game runs about 10% faster now.
  
• Added extra mana cost for splitting wizards and totems to discourage lag machines.
  
• Fire element explosions will now apply fire damage over time effect.
  
• Removed collision damage from wizards and totems.
  
• Nerfed collision damage.
  

Changes

• Redone the drag calculation as the 0.3.0 version had a lot of issues.
  
• Rebalanced forces and damages values.
  
• Fire totems now apply on hit fire damage.
  

Fixes

• Fixed hardened tether not resetting properly after breakage.
  
• Fixed totem spellshots not working with path left glyphs.
  
• Fixed totem not receiving collision damage.
  

Added

Changes

Fixes

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the crash which occurred when a player changed selected weapon while dead.
  
• Fixed the crash which occurred when using the harden tether glyph on a destroyed spellshot.