Spelunky 2

• Fixed issue where mounts were having a hard time squeezing into platforms
  
• Fixed player's color when leaving an underwater door
  
• Fixed issue where spiders that spawned from a pot were hanging from nearby roofs
  
• Fixed issue where falling platforms were being triggered by the wrong things (such as blood)
  
• Small tweak to the Ice Caves' yeti caves entrance layout
  
• Added missing tunnel transition decoration towards a shiny treasure world
  
• Removed incorrect facing laser trap from a certain palace's treasure room
  
• Fixed artifact on Pilot's character
  
• Fixed initialization error with some old graphics cards
  

• Fixed an issue which would cause the daily challenge to restart shortly in some setups
  
• Fixed issue where players were sometimes being unjustly crushed just by having platforms nearby
  
• Players can now let go of a rope while attacking
  
• Fixed whip issue when jumping and attacking on a 1 tile high corridor
  
• Fixed issue where being damaged while holding the jump button could later trigger a jump if button isn't let go
  
• Fixed issue where dying after a long fall while wearing the ankh would make the player do a small jump after being revived
  
• Players now recover control slightly sooner after leaving pipes
  
• Slightly reduced the time before a player can grab a rope
  
• Fixed issue to prevent players from being dropped from a rope when attacking right after throwing something
  
• Fixed issue where the throwing animation made players unable to move through platforms while climbing ladders down
  
• Fixed issue where players with the climbing gloves could accidentally grab falling platforms far away from their physical collider
  
• Fixed issue where standing on a falling platform while hovering with a hoverpack prevented the platform from falling
  
• Fixed issue where players could sometimes miss a stomp right after leaving a pipe
  
• Tweaked stomp margin so it should hopefully feel safer to use
  
• Tweaked lavamander's hitbox
  
• Slightly tweaked bats' and vampires' flying hitbox shape
  
• Tweaked grub's hitbox to better match their sprites
  
• Widened floating orb's hitbox just slightly so it can be hit by the whip right from below
  
• Hermit crabs starting to climb will now smoothly switch hitboxes so they don't make players miss stomps
  
• Fixed issue where creatures could sometimes move while outside of the level bounds
  
• Broken arrows will hopefully no longer be the bane of your existence (tweaked depth)
  
• Fixed issue when necromancers revived a creature that had just been tossed by the Pitcher's Mitt
  
• Fixed issue when necromancers revived a pet while another creature was holding it
  
• Opening crates by using up+attack now tosses the contents forwards so they can more easily be skipped
  
• Fixed issue where items stuck to honey could sometimes slowly fall down
  
• Fixed issue where chained blocks could still be pushed
  
• Setting an on sale equippable on fire now correctly angers its vendor
  
• Fixed issue where certain events that didn't trigger a defensive response from vendors could eventually kill them without ever dropping their weapon
  
• A player that's hanging from the base of a giant clam will no longer be crushed when it closes
  
• Fixed issue where players wearing Vlad's Cape got stunned when jumping away from other players' hands
  
• Certain closed back layer rooms will no longer have blocked paths generated towards them
  
• Floors now also trigger falling platforms
  
• Lava will now cook dead turkeys as well
  
• Fixed issue where bear traps weren't triggering when put over certain floors (such as the sliding walls)
  
• Fixed issue where cavemen could sometimes harmlessly pick an armed bear trap up
  
• Fixed issue where tossing a creature against upside-down spikes with the pitcher's mitt prevented the corpse from falling back down
  
• Octopus will now only inflict vertical toss and stun damage when actually damaging from above
  
• Fixed issue where certain wall torches could keep on igniting on a loop after being put off
  
• Fixed issue when a player wearing the pitcher's mitt tried to toss the light arrow while riding a mount
  
• Fixed issue where a falling platform could get dragged down by a pushblock and not explode on contact with the floor
  
• Fixed issue where fire frogs triggered by players left Waddler in a bugged angered state
  
• Teleporting inside the back layer room of the vault now always correctly angers shopkeepers
  
• Pushing the imp's lava pot with a shield or by any other means now forces it to drop
  
• Firebugs can now be correctly pushed away from chains
  
• Fixed issue where helmet Olmites could sometimes still be stomped
  
• Fixed issue where stealing from a shop made backpacks have extra invencibility frames that other items (such as bomb bags) didn't
  
• Fixed issue where an in-flight sorceress' dagger could still spawn an enemy after the Sun Challenge completes
  
• Fire frogs no longer explode when shattered after being frozen
  
• Red skeletons are now also considered undead and can therefore be killed by the camera flash
  
• Being killed by a red skeleton now uses the same death message as the regular one
  
• Fixed issue where mosquitoes could sometimes get stuck infinitely on the corner of a tile
  
• Fixed frog trap generation so they don't create paths that require resources
  
• Fixed crash when dice were brought into a portal
  
• Fixed issue when a monster wakes up while on hands of a player that's riding a mount
  
• Shields no longer protect from witch doctors' voodoo attack (also fixes a related teleporting issue)
  
• Prevented certain floor tiles from spawning right above platforms
  
• Fixed Au's robe flipping during his walking forward animation (and his head moving one pixel to the side)
  
• Fixed Van Horsing's hat poking out of the frame on one frame of his throwing animation
  
• Fixed several blocked paths (many related to coffin rooms)
  
• Fixed issue where blowing up a pipe while inside left your equipped item looking smaller
  
• Deployed parachutes can no longer be cloned
  
• Blowing up a certain altar after a specific sacrifice will no longer halt the transition to a certain world
  
• Fixed issue where paused time wasn't being added on certain scenarios
  
• Renderer tweak, might make the game run smoother on certain scenarios (updated Windows 10 swap flip mode)
  
• Fixed broken tree texture artifact
  
• Fixed issue where the HUD wasn't hiding after taking off with the ship
  
• Slight tweak that will hopefully make the renderer pick the correct screen frequency
  
• Made available a structure to make developing autosplitters less annoying
  
• Fixed issue where particles were suddenly disappearing
  
• Fixed a memory leak related to liquids
  
• Updated credits title
  

• Certain item outputs (such as when opening a pot) will now be decided at generation, making the experience more stable across runs and during online rollbacks
  
• Fixed an issue which would allow players to wrongly unlock achievements and journal entries during prediction phase of rollback
  
• Dying in an online run now keeps the camera in place for a couple of seconds so players can get feedback of what killed them
  
• Fixed issue where players could be given the wrong amount of bombs/ropes after a player had disconnected from an online run
  
• Fixed issue where online players disconnecting after their coffin had been created could lead to uncontrolled situations
  
• Player coffins will now generate in levels 10, 50, and 90 of a certain world
  
• Fixed issue where a player disconnecting in certain situations could crash remote games
  
• Added support for Recent Players of players joining by invite code or steam invite
  
• Players that disconnect while wearing the Ankh will now drop it first
  
• Disabled joining to the room you're already in via room code
  
• Cloned player coffins will now become hired hand coffins
  
• Fixed camera glitch when reviving during an online run
  

• Prevented char selection scene from processing players' input when the disconnected controller popup is on the screen.
  
• Pitcher's mitt effect will now be removed for invincible entities on being tossed or damaged
  
• Fixed capes' state when the player gets stunned, frozen, bubbled, killed, or lost control
  
• Fixed assassin Jiang-shi's rotation on being frozen while turning upside down
  
• Prevented closed doors' prompts from appearing when a Hired Hand is carrying a key
  
• Prevented normal boss from falling a bit every time she gets frozen
  
• Fixed chain visibility when a non-punished player grabs the ball
  
• Fix daily score submissions in normal and hard endings
  
• Added intermediate level to bright flashes
  
• Fixed cloned bows' ammo state
  
• Chests can now be crushed
  

• Fix ending showing wrong amount of players
  
• Fix disconnections when changing levels
  
• Fix multiple background music issues
  
• Fix disconnections when alt-tabbing
  
• Fix ending journal journal lock
  
• Fix special ending title lock
  
• Added room code system, room codes are automatically copied / read from the clipboard
  

• Fixed crash on carrying a gold monkey through any portal
  
• Fixed crash when a challenge appeared on the same level as a two-floored store (yesterday's daily challenge crash in Volcana)
  
• The merchant will now enrage if a player wearing the true crown teleports into her shop
  
• Slightly reduced the stun time of the falling platform
  
• Fixed bow-like weapons' ammo on being cloned
  
• Fixed torch flames state on being cloned
  
• Fixed dice number on being cloned
  
• Prevented eggsac from being cloned
  
• Entrance lasers of the Sun Challenge will now re-enable if the player doesn't survive
  
• Added a new option to disable bright flashes
  
• Added back cross-play view in leaderboards
  
• Fixed blocked paths related to player coffins in Volcana
  
• Fixed shopkeeper Earl's name
  

• Display choice of server information
  
• Fixed crash when a secondary player carried a gold monkey through the ending (in both local coop and online coop)
  
• Deployed more servers (available in 27 worldwide locations mainly in North America / Europe / Oceania but also including Tokyo, Seoul, São Paulo and Eastern Russia)
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to join a room multiple times (ephemerally)
  
• Allowed controller auto-assignment using any button in the menus, which fixes the controller not being detected in the lobby scene
  
• Fixed pause menu in the online mode after opening it and closing it with the Resume option
  
• Fixed input mapping to the wrong player for online players nº2, 3 & 4
  
• Fixed case where a player could control a character and a ghost at the same time after reviving from a coffin
  

• Cross-play with PS4 and other QoL improvements will be added in the first half of 2021.
  
  
• This month's planned update for online multiplayer on PS4 is still being worked on.
  
  
• Online Arena Mode will be worked on after cross-play is added and all the basic features of online multiplayer are extremely solid.
  
  
• An alternative way to invite friends will be added in the future so that you can invite through Twitch, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
  
  
• During the beta, some or all of the servers may suddenly go down for improvements.
  
  
• We currently have a decent fleet, with servers located at Madrid (Spain), Beauharnois (Canada), Warsaw (Poland), Gravelines (France), Sydney (Australia), London (United Kingdom), Strasbourg (France), Frankfurt (Germany), Singapore (Singapore), Moscow (Russia), New York City (United States), Miami (United States) and Santa Clara (United States). We will more than double the fleet by adding servers in other locations everywhere (but mostly in Asia, South America, and the US West Coast).
  
  
• Other multiplayer options more fit for LAN parties and offline situations will be evaluated later next year.
  

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Patch Notes (1.19.6a, 1.19.7a)

• Added online (public beta)
  
• Fixed case where Olmec could get stuck to a wall in his second phase
  
• Fixed glitch when Olmec's UFOs try to spawn inside walls
  
• Fixed issue where mounted players could still toss bombs and ropes while inside pipes
  
• Falling platforms should now be a lot less likely to crush items when falling
  
• Prevented vendors from enraging on breaking a shop tile if they are already dead
  
• Prevented merchant from angering when she is dead and the player sneaks into a challenge
  
• Fixed case where vendors were not enraging on being killed while frozen
  
• Prevented vendors and NPCs from widening without limits on receiving damage continuously
  
• Prevented vendors from blaming players when they die due to spikes, lava, or thorn vines
  
• Increased sword-like weapons' shape
  
• The second jump of Axolotl can now be shortened if the player releases the jump button
  
• Player will now correctly stomp while hanging from a falling platform or any other floor
  
• Fixed another case where the player was receiving falling damage after being slowed down by the water
  
• Fixed case where a player was receiving falling damage after riding a mount
  
• Fixed case where a revived player that died while being cursed was being revived with one HP
  
• Fixed mole state on being flashed when is about to dig
  
• Prevented revived sorceress from immediately attacking after reviving if she had died on attack mode
  
• Fixed gravity for pitcher's mitt thrown entities on whipping them
  
• Parachute will now disable if the player goes underwater or enters into quicksand
  
• Fixed door transition when a non-cursed player is crossing a ghist's door and the cursed player dies
  
• Fixed money recount when a Hired Hand deposits the idol on a door
  
• Fixed grub state on being blown up by a player ghost
  
• Fixed axolotl buoyancy when it is stunned, killed, or frozen
  
• Fixed crash when a secondary player carried a gold monkey through the ending
  
• Fixed issue where large spear traps could spawn immediately to the left of arrow traps, rendering the last one almost useless
  
• Prevented unlockable characters from unlocking in the journal when the player is killed by a mate on an online game
  
• Tikimen can now pick up torches
  
• Fixed player state on being stunned by a sticky trap while riding a mount
  
• Prevented buyer player from auto picking up a bought power up when they already have it (in multiplayer)
  
• Added special message from certain King to certain playable character
  
• Added special message from certain thief to certain playable character
  
• Added "Cheater" message on rolling the same die twice
  
• Prevented ankh from triggering during the tunnel
  
• Added some items in the settings menu to preview the brightness setting
  
• Fixed sliding wall ceiling rubble in certain world
  
• Added custom rubble to Tide Pool spikes
  
• Fixed Imp's pot-holding animation
  
• Fixed numerous little artifacts, glitches, mispositioned sprites, etc., in the textures
  
• Added further decoration to jade ushabti to differentiate it from gold ushabti
  
• Darkened shop price background
  
• Fixed more blocked paths
  

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• The second jump of mounts can now be shortened if the player releases the jump button
  
• Fixed stomp's jumping speed after Vlad's cape double jump
  
• Fixed issue where hanging on a ledge would prevent the player from correctly stomping on an enemy that was nearby
  
• Previous grace period that prevented players from collecting gold right after using a door now only applies while on the door tile. This prevents regular-run players from constantly missing gold while giving nogold-run players still the chance to dodge it
  
• Wooden shields no longer push stuff inside walls and will now correctly break when trying to crush things other than critters, small gold nuggets, pots, skulls, mosquitoes and leaf-like entities
  
• Hard boss' portal bounds will now increase progressively along with the visuals
  
• Slightly increased portal visuals' size to better match its physical range
  
• Fixed issue where Olmec was sometimes breaking floor tiles that it was only barely scratching
  
• Fixed previous physics fix oversight (should now make incorrect crush hopefully less common)
  
• Quicksand will now cancel the pitcher's mitt effect on thrown entities
  
• Fixed paste bomb's gravity when it has been thrown by the pitcher's mitt and the attached-to entity disappears
  
• Camera can no longer flash entities that are inside pipes
  
• Pushing the bear trap's gold nugget away (by using a shield, pushblock, etc.) now correctly detaches it from the trap
  
• Prevented players from grabbing Excalibur from other players' hands
  
• Reduced invulnerability frames for monsters after being damaged by firebug's fire
  
• Fixed more cases where the player was being unfairly blamed by a shopkeeper
  
• Player-activated robots will now enrage vendors if they explode inside a shop
  
• Vendors will now anger if you whip out of the shop bomb bags and bomb boxes
  
• Fixed certain crown teleport when the player is on a pipe
  
• Prevented robots from being poisoned or cursed
  
• Lava will now destroy floating orbs
  
• Prevented Hoverpack from being activated when it is not equipped
  
• Fixed hermit crab's shape on being stunned or dead while hiding or emerging (fixes issue where crab became undamageable)
  
• Improved performance in the base camp
  
• Slight "Low visual effects" performance improvement
  
• Fixed Qilin state on spawning on a tight space
  
• Prevented players from receiving fall damage after being slowed down by the water
  
• Fixed velocity reset of equippables on desale
  
• Dice shops will no longer reward previously rewarded items
  
• Prevented golden keys from spawning inside shops
  
• Fixed issue where using a certain ship could sometimes make players pick treasure up accidentally
  
• Prevented clone gun shot from cloning leaf-like entities
  
• Idols can now be deposited in some special world's doors
  
• Loading the light arrow on a bow will now unlock the arrow's journal entrance
  
• Hired Hands will now detect nearby paste bombs
  
• Fixed Hired Hands' door usage when there was a rope in front of the door
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from fighting crabmen
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from performing ledge-flips if they have any held item
  
• Hired Hands will now try to wait outside shops
  
• Prevented Arena AI from considering some useless pickups
  
• Prevented Arena's AI from getting stuck on picking up continuously any two different equippables
  
• Prevented AI from trying to pick up an already equipped backpack
  
• Brightness now only affects ingame, fixing the issue where certain UI elements were unreadable on extreme brightness values (currently shows no change on the settings menu)
  
• Fixed lamp fire state on carrying it to the next level
  
• Added proper rubble to the different coffin styles when they break or open
  
• Added special player coop coffin's style to a certain theme
  
• Fixed ice caves player coop coffin using the wrong sprite
  
• Fixed issue where coop coffins could sometimes not appear in certain levels
  
• Fixed level generation issue that could sometimes block a forcefield tile
  
• Fixed sleep bubble's depth
  
• Fixed issue where some things could still interact while the game was paused
  
• Fixed Waddler's enragement message
  
• Fixed bomb soot culling issue
  
• Fixed issue where dead wet monsters would never seem to dry
  
• Fixed weird shadow on attacking while sitting on a base camp's chair
  
• Fixed issue where the arena music was stopping and restarting when going to Options
  
• Angered vendor music will no longer stop when opening the options menu
  
• Profile "last game played" stickers are now correctly filled when beating the game
  
• Fixed some blocked paths
  
• Removed artifacts from various images
  
• Fixed Spanish text typo
  

• Profile wins count will now only increase when winning without using any shortcut
  
• Added Data Management section in the Options menu (only accessible from Main Menu)
  
• Fixed issue where pushblocks were sometimes crushing other pushblocks
  
• Fixed issue where pushblocks weren't falling on a gap between a solid floor and a platform
  
• Players can now fall through platforms while underwater
  
• Players can now unhang from ledges while underwater
  
• Fixed issue where certain items were still being detached from elevators and other moving platforms
  
• Olmec should no longer move towards players ever so slightly right after jumping if the player is already below him
  
• Prevented vendors from blaming players when the on-sale entities go out of the shop due to a non-player-action
  
• Players can now teleport straight down while climbing without having to jump
  
• Fixed issue where teleporting downwards right after touching the ground incorrectly made the player teleport sideways
  
• Fixed shortening Vlad's cape double jump height when the player releases the button
  
• Trying to ride a mount that's standing over spikes should now be much safer
  
• Firebug flames will now burn ropes
  
• Reduced the speed of the second form of the ghost
  
• Fixed crash on receiving some non-damager damage (like falling damage) while holding a shield
  
• Fixed crash on generating some levels
  
• Shields now protect horizontally against thorn vines
  
• Leaving pipes now grant the user a small invulnerability
  
• Fixed issue where certain things could still affect the player right after crossing a door
  
• Prevented players from directly picking up loot when crossing a door
  
• Fixed Star and Sun challenges' crash on finishing the challenge with any of the entrance floors broken
  
• Added necromancer attack's warning over the place or the corpse that is going to be affected
  
• Fixed issue where floating orbs were stunning players as they were leaving pipes
  
• Fixed mount's stomp to a giant spider
  
• Hired Hands will now detect and defuse bear traps
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from attacking certain pacific world monsters
  
• Improved AI performance when the Hired Hand gets stuck on a pit
  
• Hired Hands are now able to climb the drill's chain
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from pulling push blocks
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from changing their looking direction while attacking
  
• Hired Hands can now attack stunned entities
  
• Improved some items handling for Hired Hands
  
• Fixed powerups detection in Arena for Hired Hands
  
• Hired Hands can now stomp frozen entities
  
• Improved shield handling for the Hired Hands
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from trying to pick up stuff from thorn vines and from some other dangerous places
  
• Fixed Hired Hands stomp to enemies placed lower themselves
  
• Prevented Hired Hands from trying to pick up underlava entities
  
• Hired Hands can now detect lava and lasers while wandering
  
• Tweaked green coral foreground so that it doesn't obscure the bear trap
  
• Prevented monkeys and leprechauns from grabbing the players' back while being bubbled or frozen
  
• Fixed certain spaceship usage when a secondary player was crossing a door
  
• Prevented bow-like weapons from loading on sale arrows
  
• Fixed input on going back to title scene from a controller disconnection popup
  
• Fixed PS5 controller input
  
• Fixed Lamassu's attack sound on being frozen
  
• Fixed Lamassu's ice cage size
  
• Fixed arena's loser picks option when the winner died when the game was already finished
  
• Fixed capes' state on being carried to the next level being held
  
• Fixed mole's clone on cloning a dead mole
  
• Fixed some weapons depth on firing them continuously while climbing
  
• Fixed wrong door decoration when door spawns on top of a spark trap
  
• Fixed a certain palace's ambient light issue
  
• Fixed arrow rotation in the bow when the bow is on the floor
  
• Fixed equippable's looking direction when the wearer is webbed
  
• Fixed issue where floor-embedded equippables could be set on fire by nearby lava
  
• Tweaked treasure token's chances
  
• Fixed some texture artifacts and glitches