Improvements

• Enemy knockback has been completely reworked. Enemies now always get knocked away from your current player position. The knockback strength has been increased for all enemy types. This should make playing melee weapons much more viable.
  
• Improved drop algorithms for destructible world objects to make hearts and weapon drops more consistent.
  
• Improved game over visual effects.
  
  

         Balancing

• Increased enemy heart drop rates
  
• Increased heart drop rates from all destructible world objects
  
• Decreased maximum trap scaling for endgame levels
  

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      Improvements

• [Skill Tree] Added new unique images for increased melee damage and increased projectile damage skill nodes
  
  
  
• [Skill Tree] Added information to the skill gem window to explain how skill gems are used
  
• [Visual Effects] Updated player level up effect
  
  

         Balancing

• [Skills] Increased Melee Damage: Skill node spawn possibility has been increased drastically
  
• [Skills] Increased Projectile Damage: Skill node spawn possibility has been increased drastically
  

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      Improvements

• [Stats] Added tooltips to the stats window sections to improve the explanation of the different stats
  
• [Stats] Added movement speed stats to the stats window
  
• [Skills] Improved several skill descriptions
  
  

         Balancing

• [Weapons] Darkness Staff: Increased projectile sped to 250 (was 150), increased the travel distance of projectiles to 400 units( was 300 units)
  
• [Weapons] Dagger: Increased hitbox size
  
• [Weapons] Short Sword: Increased hitbox size
  
• [Melee Combat] Faster default endurance regeneration time. It is now 0.8 seconds (was 1.0 second)
  
• [Range Combat] Faster default energy regeneration time. It is now 1.0 seconds (was 1.3 seconds)
  
• [Skills] Melee Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy reduction to -1 (was -2 before)
  
• [Skills] Range Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy reduction to -1 (was -2 before)
  
• [Skills] Ravaging Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy reduction to 0 (was -1 before)
  

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      Improvements

• [Melee Combat] Improved enemy knockback behaviour for all enemies to improve melee viability and to prevent the rubber banding effect of enemy attacks. Enemies are now not directly returning to the attack state when they have received a melee hit with weapons which cause knockback effects.
  
  

         Balancing

• [Weapons] Increased range of scythe weapon to compensate for knockback improvements
  
• [Skills] Range Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy Regeneration -25% (was -50% before)
  
• [Skills] Melee Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy Regeneration -25% (was -50% before)
  
• [Skills] Ravaging Companion: Decreased Endurance & Energy Regeneration -25% (was -50% before)
  

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      Improvements

• [Super Bosses] Super Boss Arenas can now be revisited after going back to the normal dungeon floor to pick up remaining fragments of light or loot
  
• [Scenes] Decreased scene transition time to make switching to the skill tree faster and feel more responsive
  
• [Minimap] Chests now display already opened state on the minimap as well
  
• [Camera] Increased the player camera speed to prevent a decreased vision in walking direction with high movement speed
  
• [Skills] Projectile Multiplicator: Added extended explanation for additional shooting directions
  
  

         Balancing

• [Endgame] Increased enemy hp scaling on the endless mode
  
• [Weapons] Dark Staff projectiles now can only pierce through a target one time
  
• [Enemy] Wood Crawler:  AoE field duration has been decreased to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds before)
  

         Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which caused the uncovered minimap state to get reset after returning from a super boss arena
  
• Fixed a bug which caused collected keys get lost when entering the super boss arena
  
• Fixed a bug which caused buttons in the skill tree to be not working when switching from gamepad to mouse input and vice versa
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash when entering the options menu while inside of a super boss arena
  
• Fixed a bug which caused not all buttons of the pause menu being interactable while being in the super boss arena
  

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      Improvements

• [Skills] Revert Shot is now depending on projectile range instead of projectile speed, which now always keeps the projectiles in your range independent from the current projectile speed
  
• [Skilltree] You will now get a notification that you can disable skills with right click as soon as one of your skill cost exceed your maximum resources.
  
• [Visuals] Improved visibility of enemy projectiles
  

         Balancing

• [Superbosses] Superbosses now additionally drop hearts
  
• [Superbosses] Superboss Gride now has increased cooldown between attacks to increase melee viability
  
• [Superbosses] Increased drop rates for superboss chests to make fighting superbosses more rewarding
  
• [Enemies] Cellar Spiders now have increased cooldown between attacks to increase melee viability
  
• [World Events] Increased darkness world event spawn possibility to 100%
  

         Bugfixes

• [Controls] Skill gem menu is now opened on Button B with the gamepad
  

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      Improvements

• You can now enter the options menu from the pause menu in game and after altering your settings resume the current run with the back button
  
• Stats window UI has been redesigned to match the new introduced UI elements
  
• Key rebindings UI elements have been updated
  

         Balancing

• Enemy HP values of higher dungeon floors have been rebalanced
  

         Bugfixes

• Skill gems are now only placed in the skill tree when the mouse is not over the skill gem window. This should prevents accidential placements of skill gems.
  

New Features

• Force back the devouring darkness on the new world events to earn a unique reward which lets you choose between three skill gems to obtain.
  
  
  
  
• Skill gems can be placed in the skill tree to influence the skill tree progression.
  
  
  
  
• Collect and hoard skill gems. The skill gems carry over from run to run but vanish when used.
  
  
  

Improvements

Input

• Improved input processing wich prevents mouse with high dpi settings to not constantly switch to mouse from gamepad controls
  

Sounds

• New Sound System has been developed which prevents the stacking of sound effects and makes the individual sound effect to much more stick out in heavy fight scenarios
  
• Added new and improved sfx for existing abilities
  
• A new devouring darkness themed soundtrack has been added
  

Tech

• Performance has been improved by removing the basic fog shader and replacing it with a better looking more performant particle effect solution
  

Graphics

• Reworked endgame environment
  
• Improved player light radius and light interaction with the environment
  
• Reworked all portal effects to better integrate with the environments
  

Balancing

• Reworked endgame trap density to have a max amout of traps
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which caused projectiles being destroyed near the city portal in maps
  
• Fixed a bug which caused range attack speed to not be updated directly on ranged weapon pickup
  

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New features

• We added a effect culling system which makes the endgame now more enjoyable. Effect culling prevents particle effect stacking and improves performance in endgame builds by an enormous amount. It even improves the readability of the action on screen a lot to make it easier to react on approaching dangers.
  
  Here is the comparison which shows the new effect culling system in action:
  
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Improvements

• All AoE effects have been overhauled to increase the readability in endgame scenarios
  
• Particle layer improvements to prevent enemies being covered by particle effects
  
• Updated button design
  
• Updated pause menu design
  
  
  

Balancing

• Superboss HP now additionally scales with the cleaned floor levels
  
• Taking the increased arena sizes from the last patch into account the superbosses have now increased movement speed to keep fights more challenging in the endgame
  
• [Skill] Increased Area of Effect: AoE effects are increased by 30% (was 50%)
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which caused the Superboss HP bar to become active again after defeating the superboss