The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
v7.16a
-Removed a tiny speed acceleration delay every time you start moving. It was imperceptible to most players and I honestly forgot it existed. It didn't really serve any purpose to gameplay, so I removed it.
-Pearl's eyeball will now visibly escape if you do not break it in time
-Added alternate blood bullets that contrast against certain backgrounds
-Some backgrounds will be tinted when battling monsters that can attack with blood bullets
-Fixed a graphical error on one of Default's forms
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #65
New Monster
The final common glyph monster may have been Chionotoh, but I still had to add a shiny glyph to the list. So far, there hasn't been any alternate battles for any of the glyphs, and that trend continues with the new shiny!
I'll let you discover who the new glyph is. Some of you already guessed it correctly. A couple of you even predicted her name perfectly!
Early Access updated game version to v7.16
Content Added
- 1 shiny new monster (Total: 93)
- 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 616)
Updates and tweaks
- Adjusted the encounter rules for the "Lucky Break" event
- In Altered Story, when choosing from multiple treasure events, any with a missing Rose Medal are much more likely to be chosen.
Bug Fixes
- None this time!
Coming Up for v7.X
These are the 4 remaining common monsters in the order I will release them!
- Ventra
- Guardian Soul
- Shanx
- Alter Shanx
There has been a slight change of plans for events. Two of them will be affected by a certain new mechanic that will be introduced in v8.0 along with "The Towers" mode. So there are only 4 events remaining for version 7.x
- Knot Knott
- Chemory
- Astrayo
- Syncron
- Shanx [v8.x]
- Hadesoh [v8.x]
One of these will be a shiny battle. I'm sure everyone keeping track will be able to guess exactly who it will be.
Next update will be on December 16th!
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v7.15a
-Added many new questions to Sentinel's Quiz
-Bug Fix: It was possible for Long dream names to use a notification box that is too small to contain it
-Bug Fix: It was possible to unlock one of Chionotoh's dreams in a battle with Emerald
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #64
New Monster
I got a new glyph monster for you this time! The final glyph slot went to Chionotoh the ice glyph!
Also, for the overachievers out there, you can now earn new Sublime medals in Endless mode! These are retroactive, but you must complete a run via heartbreak as any character so that the game will update and save your totals.
Early Access updated game version to v7.15
Content Added
- 1 monster to love (Total: 92)
- 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 614)
- Sublime medals can now be earned in Endless
Updates and tweaks
- Decreased the time between Duality's attacks
Bug Fixes
- The Link Synapse would warn that Lovely Hearts, Tiny Wings, and Starry Night were for inactive shot types
- During Shiny battles, letting a part escape would visually remove the shy pink combo tint until the next time the love bar was filled
- It was possible for the Self Doubt event to trigger at levels above the difficulty maximum. Excess levels are always reduced at the start of each stage, but this now occurs at the start of this event too.
- A suspended run would rarely fail to load if you scored over 4096 motes in the previous battle before saving
Coming Up for v7.X
These are the 4 remaining common monsters in the order I will release them!
- Ventra
- Guardian Soul
- Shanx
- Alter Shanx
These are the 7 remaining events (2 are shiny battles)
- Knot Knott
- Shanx
- Chemory
- Hadesoh
- Astrayo
- Syncron
- (???)
I don't have an order for the events since I tend to jump around between them while working. Shanx's will probably be last considering she will be the final common monster.
Next update will be on December 2nd!
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v7.14b
-1 new power gift (Total: 212)
-Added scenes for encountering Vitrea's event for the first time as Her Heart and Defect
-Added a scene for the first encounter with the new shiny
-Various adjustments to the new shiny battle (most notably, reduced the amount of bullets after her finale super attack)
-Increased the score medal goals for the new battle
-Bug Fix: it was possible for treasure bullets to get stuck orbiting around the heart instead of being collected
-Bug Fix: Pearl's pearls would still flash while damage flash was turned off
Spooky Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #63
You can now find Vitrea's Observatory! This event parallels Blot's Art Gallery, but with cosmic gifts instead. You can only encounter one of these events per run, so choose wisely.
Early Access updated game version to v7.14
Content Added
- 3 new events (Total: 38)
- 1 shiny new battle (Total: 91)
- 1 new song to discover
- 6 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 612)
Updates and tweaks
- In quickplay, Alter Defect's panic limit has been reduced by 1
- The panic duration gained by the Tower gift has been reduced from +0.75 to +0.67 seconds
- Heart Candy and Bandage now heal 40% instead of 25%
- All gifts that increase panic damage have had this effect increased
- Added sounds to when any form of Roundsaw begins an attack
- All power gifts that Glacia trades will now be from the heart shot, feather shot, star shot, or charged attack categories
- The amount of gifts Calorie has to trade has been raised from 6 to 7
- The Null Scrap Pile event guarantees more rank 1 quick gifts if you only have 1 or 2 free quick gift slots
- The game now auto saves when backing out to the title screen from the game mode hub menu. It was possible to lose some stat progress before if you did not let the game save by completing a battle.
Bug Fixes
- Storing an unradiated gift in the synapse would not hide the card details while Scrambla/Boiler remarked about it
- Completion % for story path medals was only counting the normal medals and not the max level radiant medals
Coming Up for v7.X
5 remaining common monsters
- Shanx
- Alter Shanx
- Guardian Soul
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
7 events remain (2 are shiny battles)
- Knot Knott
- Shanx
- Chemory
- Hadesoh
- Astrayo
- Syncron
- (???)
These lists are getting pretty small! Not much longer now.
Next update will be on Nov 18th! Then I'll likely go back to the 2 week schedule for the rest of version 7.
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Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #62
Over the course of development, I've tried to be careful of releasing any big number accumulation achievements too early, since some of you will be compelled to grind for that 100% while I want them to come a little more naturally.
The Achievement for 2,500 total loves is a good example of this. A few years ago, I added it at a time where some people would have everything else completed, yet still be a few hundred battles off from this one achievement. I lowered it to 2,000 temporarily, and kind of forgot about it for a while. I've finally raised it back up to it's intended goal. The game is now nearly content complete, so all the big number achievements I added this week are going to be the final tier for each of them!
Based on what's left, the total achievement count will end up some where around 750! With a big chunk of the remainders being various Story Path Completion achievements.
Early Access updated game version to v7.13
Content Added
- 3 new events (Total: 35)
- 12 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 606)
Updates and tweaks
- The requirement for the "Lovepocalypse" dream has been raised from loving 2,000 monsters back up to 2,500 as originally intended
Bug Fixes
- None
Coming Up for v7.X
5 remaining common monsters
- Shanx
- Alter Shanx
- Guardian Soul
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
10 events remain (3 are shiny battles)
- Knot Knott
- Roundsaw
- Shanx
- Chemory
- Hadesoh
- Astrayo
- Syncron
- Vitrea
- (???)
- (???)
If you notice that the event counter only went down by 1 instead of 3, well you see, I have a problem. I can't stop making things up in my brain. I knew this update would be extremely light with only a single new event getting done, so I made 2 extra unplanned ones in a single day. They are both really simple and didn't require me to make any new art assets, so enjoy this free little bonus!
I'll be going out of town next week and taking a nice little vacation, so the next update will be in either 3 or 4 weeks.
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v7.12b
-Bug Fix: The 5 dreams that were changed yesterday could accidentally be unlocked in quickplay or endless
-Fixed some typos
v7.12a
-Prisma's Duplicator's max power is reduced from 12 to 10
-Added a level 7 battle to Monovai
-Added a level 7 battle to Joule
-Joule will briefly hold the combo when quickly moving into an attack position
-The dreams that required 7 defense of each element have been changed to loving 7 monsters that can attack with each element in a single run
-The effect of Determination has been changed
-Added an effect to Drumsticks
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #61
Some of you may remember that Hematoren used to introduce the Altered story mode, but she's been missing for a little while now. Well now she's back along with Prisma with 2 new trading events. Both of these have a twist on the way they trade.
Early Access updated game version to v7.12
Content Added
- 2 new events (Total: 32)
- 3 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 594)
Updates and tweaks
- Monsters now gain 1 extra mood point by giving them a Power Gift of their preferred type
- Some of the oldest events have been re-coded to match internally with all the new events. "No One's Gift" and "Key to Love" have been changed very slightly because of this
- You can now "Check Heart" while browsing gifts in the following menus: Donating gifts to Blot, storing gifts with Scrambla and Boiler, and taking gifts out of the Link Synapse
- The Link Synapse will now have a warning about taking any gifts that are for inactive shot typesgoals
Bug Fixes
- The prompt for charging was not shown during the first charge attack tutorial
- The Blue Zest gift was mistakenly not assigned a dream to unlock it
Coming Up for v7.X
Reminder of how much content is left to do
5 remaining common monsters
- Shanx
- Alter Shanx
- Guardian Soul
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
11 events remain (3 are shiny battles)
- Knot Knott
- Roundsaw
- Shanx
- Photoxai
- Chemory
- Hadesoh
- Astrayo
- Syncron
- Vitrea
- (???)
- (???)
I won't be able to do my Devtober tradition this year since most of the remaining content can't really be done in daily chunks anymore. I also won't be home for a week in the middle of October, so that doesn't help. You can still expect the next update on October 7th or 8th!
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