Source of Madness

• device info is no longer collected (contained hardware details, IP, and some local paths). This data was on by default and we don't need it. - login location IPs are still collected but without the last part (ipv4 last number becomes zero). This data is mainly used to understand our demographics.
  
• client focus time is no longer collected. This was a measure turned on by default to measure time spent in the game, and we don't need that data.
  
• We still send some gameplay data such as unlocking items, completing biomes, or dying. This data is anonymous and helps us balance the game.
  
• Data is saved for a duration of 30 days (unchanged). - Data that has already been collected is not removed yet but we're working together with the support of Playfab to ensure this gets purged.
  
• We will add a privacy policy asap to list what data is collected and why.
  added an in-game check box to opt-out of analytics data.
  
• Unity crash/exception logs are still being sent. These contain details about hardware but are not tied to an individual player. This data is important to help us improve game stability. This will be clarified in the privacy policy also.
  

Quality of Life

• Improved visibility on cooldown spells and when they are ready
  
• Added a General Menu into options
  
• You can now change so that the dash aims at the mouse in the General Menu
  
• You can Opt-out of game data sharing in the General Menu
  
• You can now bind several actions to one button
  
• Loner now has the correct name instead of TOWER OF KNOWLEDGE
  
• Fixed Japanese language issues
  
• Temporarily removed spikes from monsters in Cave of Lost souls, however take note that we will add back hedgehog creatures in a future patch. But they should be more obvious and fair.
  

Privacy

• device info is no longer collected (contained hardware details, IP, and some local paths). This data was on by default and we don't need it. - login location IPs are still collected but without the last part (ipv4 last number becomes zero). This data is mainly used to understand our demographics.
  
• client focus time is no longer collected. This was a measure turned on by default to measure time spent in the game, and we don't need that data.
  
• we still send some gameplay data such as unlocking items, completing biomes, or dying. This data is anonymous and helps us balance the game.
  
• Data is saved for a duration of 30 days (unchanged). - Data that has already been collected is not removed yet but we're working together with the support of Playfab to ensure this gets purged.
  
• We will add a privacy policy asap to list what data is collected and why.
  
• added an in-game check box to opt-out of analytics data.
  
• unity crash/exception logs are still being sent. These contain details about hardware but are not tied to an individual player. This data is important to help us improve game stability. This will be clarified in the privacy policy also.
  

New Content

• Act 3
  
• Cinematic AI videos
  

Monsters & Combat

• Nerfed Spike monster frequency damage
  
• Balanced Blackhole monsters
  
• Improved movement of Elites and some Bosses
  
• Stun lasts longer
  
• Fixed Krampus movement
  
• Final boss bug fixes
  

Player

• Improved teleportation with Keyboard
  
• 2 new trinkets to fill the roles of more trinkets early on and a wider variety of stats
  
• You now need to unlock the healing station in the safe zone
  
• Improved gamepad movement upwards
  
• Added more elemental legendary stats
  

World

• Balanced legendary stats a bit
  
• Blood sacrifice does not kill you anymore
  
• Added a lot of cinematic flavour videos you can interact with around the world!
  

Other

• Faster potion refill at save station
  
• Categorized and sound sources
  
• Improved gambling eye
  

Bug Fixes

• Unused Vial charges lost on save
  
• Tweaked
  
• Fixed 
  
• Flask and Curse dis
  
• Wrong skill tree title in german for Flask 1
  
• Previous curse not being removed properly
  

Salutations!

New Content

• Immensely improved Monster movements
  
• Waves are directional
  
• New cool Legendary effects
  
• New unlock animation
  
• Sewers are now their own biome (removed Cave of Lost souls from Act2)
  

Monsters & Combat

• Monster shrink went sideways instead of down
  
• Fixed: Monsters stopped walking while waiting for combo attack
  
• Monster jump is now more reliable
  
• Improved pathfinding
  
• Improved platform interactions
  
• Nerfed monster item drop chance
  

Player

• Buffed Kingsring
  
• Limit +1 projectile stat on Waves
  
• Balanced Tier+
  
• Balanced Rarity drop
  
• Secondary effects do no longer proc trigger effects
  
• Wave magic has been nerfed, it only deals damage once per killable body or limb
  
• Wave magic is now aim-able
  
• Juicy unlock animation effect
  
• Slash is now aim-able
  
• Arcane guardian minions now spawn with offset
  
• Corrupt cloud upgrade is now cheaper
  

New Legendary Effects

• Chance to create a minion on crit
  
• Create poison rot while poisoned
  
• +1 projectile
  
• On life cost cast +1 Projectile
  
• + 1 Teleport Dash
  
• Chance to spawn a black hole
  
• Chance to cast a stone pillar
  
• Chance to cast a Web projectile
  
• Chance to create a fire turret on crit
  
• On Dash Increase Cooldown buff
  
• +1 projectile while poisoned
  
• Chance to cast Fire projectile
  

World

• Act1 will now look different after defeating the Act2 boss
  
• Improved visuals of steel cages on chains
  
• Other
  
• Optimized SpellTurret code
  
• Optimized Monster AI code
  
• Improved Tooltip performance and positioning
  
• Fixed Localization updating when changing language
  
• Fixed visual issue with staircase on the moon boss
  

Bug Fixes

• Greed skill did not give Evenstar achievement
  
• Some Evenstar unlocks did not get filled in the skill tree
  
• Bamboo Augment was using the wrong bamboo projectile
  
• Prologue candles were not lit
  

Monsters & Combat

• Damaging the Limbs of a monster now also enabled the Monster Health Bar
  
• Bosses are redesigned to handle cheese with directional teleportation
  
• Gravity attack spawns closer to monster
  

Player

• Balanced Rot
  
• New Skilltree node: Greed
  
• New Skilltree node: Blood Extraction
  
• New Skilltree node: Power of Knowledge 1 2 3
  
• New Skilltree node: Tier+ 1 2 3
  
• New Skilltree node: Favor of the Gods
  
• New Skilltree node: Arca Aurum
  
• New Skilltree node: Arca Sanguis
  
• Redesigned Skilltree structure
  
• Nerfed Bamboo Burst and Arcane Burst to not deal damage to more than two body parts per projectile
  
• Changed sounds for Stormcaller
  
• Changed sounds for shop
  
• Changed sound for Arcane Missile explosion
  
• Changed how cast-time works on charged spells to feel more instant if you spam them
  
• Balanced Icemancer dash cooldown
  

World

• Forest of Lies is now shorter
  
• R’Lyeh is now shorter
  
• The Moon is now shorter
  
• Yith is a bit longer
  
• Tweaked Loam Land post effect
  
• Removed drowning effect in Loam Lands
  
• Krampus now has lower hp
  
• Moon boss now has lower hp
  
• Secret boss now has lower hp
  

Other

• One less roll for Gambling Eye
  

Bug Fixes

• Changing language in Tower of Knowledge now change titles and names properly
  
• Jing mode on Yang messed up water
  
• Mysterious Altar text overlapped by terrain
  
• Evenstar blood visual was missing from Skilltree
  
• Monster Charge effect was missing after first use
  
• Fixed sleeping monster bug
  
• Save and Exit is now localized
  
• Glens text for german was in English
  
• Localization: Binding action window was missing the translation
  

Greetings and Salutations

New Content

• Teleportation in any direction
  
• Teleportation can now be held to show where you will land
  
• Charge spells display the projectiles to be cast dynamically
  

Player

• Teleportation in any direction
  
• Teleportation can now be held to show where you will land
  
• Swift ice dash glides in the direction you aimed the dash
  
• Poison bomb balanced and now displaying projectiles
  
• Arcane Burst balanced and now displaying projectiles
  
• Bamboo Burst balanced and now displaying projectiles
  
• Eye of Cthulhu balanced and now displaying projectiles
  
• Vampire Ring balanced and now displaying projectiles
  
• Ring of Filth balanced
  
• Reworked ice dagger
  
• Reworked Slash
  

World

• The moon is now a bit shorter
  
• R’Lyeh is now a bit shorter
  
• Yith is now a bit shorter
  
• Optimized Lights in the Loam Land
  

Other

• You can now key bind up and down moving, used for aiming with dash
  
• Better gamepad navigation between ring slots in the inventory
  
• New dash tutorial in the prologue
  
• Improved input mapping visuals
  
• Optimized Shaders
  

Bug Fixes

• Teleportation while going through a sidearea
  
• Act 2 boss charge effects are back
  
• Pause menu did not pause inside black hole slowdowns
  
• Can’t read npc text down in the basement of Tower of Knowledge
  
• Fixed getting stuck in flame pillars
  
• Polished water in Loam Lands
  

New Content

• Major spell rework
  
• Major performance optimizations
  
• Added the Thai language
  

Monsters & Combat

• Improved new damage text and animations
  
• Improved attack and distance priority for monsters
  
• New improved monster health bars
  
• Improved monster visuals
  
• Monster projectiles now have correct elemental damage instead of physical
  
• Improved visuals for certain Monster projectiles
  
• Improved visuals for Monster spell limbs
  
• The correct cooldown on world turrets
  
• Improved damage text placement
  

Player

• Improved ice lance sound effects
  
• Poison bomb has been changed and improved with Charge state
  
• Fire Pillar ring is now Charge based and improved
  
• Arcane Missile has been improved
  
• Ice Sphere is now Charge based and freezes on max charge
  
• Lightning Ball is now Charge based for ultimate
  
• Poison Bomb is Charge based
  
• Arcane Burst is improved and Charge based
  
• Eye of Cthulhu is now Charge based
  
• Bamboo Burst is charge based
  
• Boulder ring is now Charge based
  
• Ring of Filth is now Charge based
  
• Force Push exists as a field now
  
• Added: New spell ring Poison Rot
  
• King’s ring has been changed and is now Charge based
  
• Player damage text is now red
  
• Melee Slash is now Arcane damage instead of physical
  
• Charge spells are now displayed along the aim direction while charging
  

World

• Improved Fog visuals
  
• Tweaked post effects and lighting in biomes
  
• Improved Item and Challenge room spawns
  
• Monsters now have a chance to drop items
  
• Vendors now have more Trinkets
  

Other

• Improved visuals for monsters
  
• Optimized Tower of Knowledge
  
• Optimized Spells
  
• Optimized all biomes
  
• Optimized all boss fights
  
• Cinematic to prologue now has a loading animation
  
• Improved AI monster performance
  
• Improved button binding readability
  
• Improved gore and gore performance
  
• Local music is now affected by music volume settings
  
• Added pooling system for many effects
  
• Improved visuals of the Skill tree
  
• Improved Spell performance
  
• Changed some font character distance relations
  

Bug Fixes

• Charge spells now scale with tier (Arcane Missile and Force Push)
  
• Golden chest now has its material back
  
• Monsters now relax properly on death
  
• Fixed width of the fog of war in grids
  
• Fixed saving cam shake settings not working
  
• Pausing right before scene loading would get you stuck
  
• Hide zero damage numbers
  
• Pillar flame used black hole damage settings
  
• Disable pause menu while talking to NPCs
  
• Geomancer fighting area bug fixed
  
• Fixed UI lag bug
  
• Local Music is now properly affected by the music volume
  
• Krampus music is now affected by the music volume
  
• Several cameras are now properly affected by the cam shake slider
  

New Content

• Save between biomes and continue run added
  
• Save-zone
  

Monsters & Combat

• Slightly easier and readable monster attacks early on and harder later on
  
• Monsters now have more reliable intervals between attacks
  
• Monsters now pause a bit before exiting their attack phase letting the combo finish
  
• Improved monster dodge behaviour
  
• Less Blood on dealing damage and monster death
  
• Optimized and created new Monster spell limbs visuals
  
• Improved Monster rendering optimizations
  
• Improved death lag-spikes
  
• Added culling to eyes
  
• Web slingers
  
• Bombers
  
• Electric wave casters
  
• Not all limbs detach all of the time from a dead monster
  

Player

• Life and Bottle state is now saved between zones but can be refilled at the save zone
  
• The player no longer does extreme poses near borders
  
• Animation: Pick up Items
  
• Animation: Interact
  
• Animation: directional casting
  
• New optimized cloth simulation
  
• Low-hp threshold now is 30% instead of 20%
  
• Improved shadow for Player
  
• Blood wave balancing
  

World

• Darker Loam Land Water
  
• Optimized Tower of Knowledge
  
• Optimized Loam Land
  
• Optimized Water rendering a lot
  
• Removed Deep Background rendering layer to optimize light rendering
  
• Skill tree rendering optimized
  
• New Post-effect and water in Forest of Lies
  

Other

• Bloom is now cheaper on the lowest settings
  

Bug Fixes

• Monster Positioning Bug
  
• Interactive grass in Loam Land did not fade movement properly
  
• Clicking Space on The Third Gate Conversation froze the movement of the player forever
  
• Skill tree node selection lag-spike