The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
v8.5a
-6 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 708)
-Added collection text to Hadesoh and Split Veyeral's events
-Blessings appearing in story events is now a reward for one of the new dreams
-Default's worm forms will now take reduced damage until their intro animation ends
-Increased the difficulty of some of Voladrome's attacks
-Bug Fix: A certain special interaction in Split Veyeral's event did not work correctly
-Bug Fix: The Clock upgrade gifts were missing their radiating cost values
-Bug Fix: Loading a run in progress would not allow blessings to appear
Voidentines Day - Update #81
This is a bit of a weird update with the main part being 3 new events including one of a brand new type! Two of these events bring over the Blessings and Burdens from The Towers into story mode. This was a lot more work than expected as now these kinds of gifts would have to interact with all the trading events, token shops, and several other edge cases.
This update also introduces a new event type which is going to be my answer to all the "common" monsters that got left out in version 7. The main issue is this new event type took a lot of setup, so I was only able to get a single one done, and it's for Split Veyeral who is very low level monster. Most late game players will hardly ever run into it. This means it'll be a little hard to see where I'm going with this event type right now. That's why I'm going to focus on making a few more for next time. I also made a few preemptive balance adjustments to gifts found in The Garden's Blessing and True Panic. The main difference being that Power Gifts are less common there, but Blessing Gifts can now appear in their place.
Early Access updated game version to v8.5
Content Added
- 3 new events to discover (Total: 47)
- 1 new power gift to find (Total: 217)
- 5 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 702)
- Added memory text to all remaining bounty gifts
Updates and tweaks
- There are now a few places where Blessing gifts can be received in story mode, but you must win one battle in The Towers first
- Adjusted the rewards from The Garden's Blessing and True Panic stages. The chance of getting power gifts has been reduced, but these stages can now give out Blessing gifts
- All trading events where you can give away gifts have new interactions with blessings and burdens
- Adjusted the rewards for several dreams especially in quickplay
- Ambient rain sound now plays in all scenes and events that have rain in the background
- In Prisma's Duplicator event, Spark Tonic will now only grant 2 power instead of 5
- In the extremely unlikely case that Sentinel asks you about a monster's quote from before battle, and that run also happened to be your first time ever loving said monster, the correct answer will be "Fear the unknown" instead of their regular quote, as that is what you would have seen
- A copy of all backup save files is now also saved in the folder that uploads to steam cloud
Bug Fixes
- The burn scars burden effect could apply past the limit of 7 hp if you also healed at the end of a battle
- In Quickplay, returning from a battle would always put you in the "All Monsters" category
Coming Soon to Version 8
Just as I did with version 7, I'm going to be including a list of the main remaining content with every update log. Hopefully it gets smaller each time.
These are all the remaining monsters in the likely order that I will make them. This won't be their actual names of course, but if you know what I'm talking about, you will understand the list.
- The Blue Heart
- The Orange Heart
- The Purple Heart
- The Special Heart
- A Common Veyeral
- Shamble Tower Boss
- Guardian Tower Boss
- Glyph Tower Boss
- Zaramech Tower Boss
- Glass Flora Tower Boss
- Veyeral Tower Boss
This is everyone who will have an event. None of these will be shiny battles or any kind of battle. I am not adding any battles to the list above this time! Most of these will be the new Bonding Time event type, but one or two might be free gifts or trading. I haven't fully decided everyone's events yet, but I just know I want these all to appear as characters.
- Sandrome
- Voladrome
- Shanx
- Dedrohai
- Lavalin
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
- Dot
- Kiwi
- Voltage Veyeral
- Storm Veyeral
- Molten Veyeral
- The New Common Veyeral
- An exclusive tower mode event
- An exclusive endless stress event
Any monster that is not on this list, is because they already feel special enough as a battle, or they are already important for other reasons like story.
These changes will come last for Version 8 and not be included in every update log. Other than this it's just more gifts that will be added throughout.
- Defect 2nd story ending scene
- Altered Story scenes for Her Heart, Alter Heart, Defect, and Alter Defect
- Endless Tower for endless mode
- Balance adjustments for very deep Endless Stress (this will likely need a beta branch)
For the next update on March 1st, I will be focused on a few more of the new Bonding Time events as I said way at the top. I need more of them to be in the game to figure out the balance I want for them.
Thank you for playing!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
v8.4b
I also threw in a few new achievements that I didn't get to finish in v8.4. If you already completed the conditions for them, you will automatically unlock them by inspecting any gift card in the collection menu.
v8.4b - January 23rd, 2024
-Dandy's orbs release a few extra treasure bullets
-Slight adjustment to Dandy's medal score goals
-6 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 697)
-New achievement icon designs for radiating gifts of each type
v8.4a
v8.4a - January 21th, 2024
-Various small tweaks to Dandy's battle
-New design for "The Towers" button as well as changes to "Altered Story" and "Endless Nightmare" buttons
-Bug Fix: Dandy was missing the extra chance to be chosen in the radiant garden if her story dream is still incomplete
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #80
Early Access updated game version to v8.4
Content Added
- 1 new monster to love! (Total: 102)
- 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 691)
- Added memory text to the Blind Love and Paranoid sets of bounty gifts
Updates and tweaks
- Orbs released by the new monsters will show cracks as they take damage
- Adjusted some of Moss' attacks at higher levels
- Slightly increased Scarlet's score medal goals
- In Ultra Quickplay, the medal counter hud now properly shows you having 10 or more sublime medals in a single battle
- The Glyph Sigil bounty will not appear on a monster that also has a Don't Panic challenge
Bug Fixes
- Bug Fix: One of Shiny Joule and Shiny Anomaly's attacks released less bullets than intended at Level 0 (Basically Quickplay only)
- Bug Fix: Some Ultra Quickplay dreams were revealed before unlocking the mode
Coming Soon
Now 3 of the 7 battles in the new set are done! I'm still focused on this set of battles for now, but another thing that I need to do is implement an easier way to handle people adding custom translations without updates messing them up. I'm hoping to work a little on that over the next few updates. The Next update will be on the game's 6th anniversary on February 14th!
Have a DANDY good time!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #79
I fixed an incredible bug that has been in the game since the beginning. Pausing 92 times would make the game think the boss was already defeated in relation to a few specific functions. Luckily, one of those was the fact that you can not pause anymore after a boss is "defeated." This had the potential to really destroy the game if you were allowed to pause just a few more times! But It's fixed now.
I was also finally able to adjust all the regional prices for every region that got a huge price increase by mistake. The new prices were set based on a lot of feedback from the community. We'll definitely be more careful with this in the future! The price will not be increased again until the game leaves early access. When the time comes it will be announced far in advance.
Early Access updated game version to v8.3
Content Added
- 2 new monsters to love! (Total: 101)
- 5 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 689)
Updates and tweaks
- Reduced radiating cost of all newborn monsters from 24 to 12 of their color
- Reduced the breaking parts challenge goals for all versions of Blot and Molten Veyeral
- While choosing a difficulty in story mode, the radiant medal icon will be hidden if it is impossible for you to earn any of them on that difficulty yet
- Pausing more than 10 times in a single battle will now set a tiny delay between pauses for the rest of the battle
- Added support for rebinding controls to various non-letter keys that were unavailable before
- Helper shot speed now has minimum and maximum caps like other shot types
- Rebalanced a few blessings and burdens
Specific Gift Adjustments
- Blessing: Her Love duration 4 -> 7
- Blessing: Null Glacia duration 4 -> 3
- Blessing: Burning Veyeral crit rate increased +8% -> +10%
- Blessing: Voltage Veyeral duration 4 -> 3
- Blessing: Molten Veyeral duration 4 -> 3
- Burden: Pearl duration 5 -> 3
- Burden: Shiny Anomaly duration 3 -> 2
- Burden: Tox Polyps duration 3 -> 2
Bug Fixes
- It was possible to reduce helper shot speed to a negative value making shots go backwards
- Pausing 92 times in a single battle would put the game in a state where pausing was disabled along with a few other obscure issues
- The hud marker for combo challenges would stay visible at the end of the boss bar after the goal became impossible to pass
Coming Soon
The first 2 of the set of 7 new monsters is done! I'm going to keep focusing on those until they are done. Next update is next week on January 20th! People who have been here for a while will understand that I like to give out gifts on that special day. (My birthday)
Thank you for playing!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
v8.2a
Here's some lore and a few bug fixes
v8.2a - December 26th, 2023
-Removed the +15% helper damage buff from Syncron's blessing and instead increased duration from 4 to 6 battles (The reason is this extra effect did not fit on the card details page)
-Added memory text to all Special Blessings and Burdens
-The panic icon on the hud will be crossed out if panics are disabled by a burden effect
-Bug Fix: In Sentinel's Quiz, selecting an answer on the first possible frame would soft lock the game
-Bug Fix: Burdens that disable all basic shot types could appear while charged shots are disabled by another burden
-Fixed some typos
Update #78 Winter Sale?
(I am so exhausted from this. It sucked a lot of my drive out on this one, but here's what I got done for this update)
Early Access updated game version to v8.2
Content Added
- 24 new bounties (Total: 37)
- Added memory text to all blessings and burdens in the Glass Flora and Veyeral categories (+Anomalies)
Updates and tweaks
- Increased the score bonus for almost all bounties
- Adjusted score limits for score gained from bonus gifts and bounties in tower runs. Shorter towers have lower limits
- Increased the duration of some quick gifts
- Rebalanced a few blessings and burdens
Specific Gift Adjustments
- Quick Gift: Small Vitality duration 1 -> 3
- Quick Gift: Large Vitality duration 1 -> 3
- Quick Gift: Super Vitality duration 1 -> 3
- Quick Gift: Armor Heart duration 1 -> 3
- Quick Gift: Terror duration 1 -> 3
- Blessing: Syncron now increases helper damage +15%
- Blessing: Shiny Veyerals helper focus rate increased +25% -> +30%
- Blessing: Duality duration 3 -> 2
- Burden: Shiny Rendy shot speed -20% -> -30%
- Burden: Alter Shanx rank 2 -> 1
- Burden: Monovai only appears if you have helpers
- Burden: Flip Flap only appears if you have helpers
- Burden: Frozen Veyeral duration 4 -> 3
- Burden: Nix Polyps duration 2 -> 4
Bug Fixes
- In the stats page, the total shown percentage of bonus gifts was a wrong value
Coming Soon
Next update I'm going to focus on completing at least one of the new 7 monster set. I'll try to get multiple done as the gems were pretty quick too. But there is a little extra set up to them since they are not "common" monsters. I still have to decide how they will be encountered in story mode.
Next update will be on Jan 12th!
All this regional price nonsense should be dealt with by then and I can stop worrying about it ugh!
Thank you for playing!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
v8.1d
-Added an option to toggle the text vibration in menus and normal scene text
-Bug Fix: In Quickplay, loading a loadout slot would not correctly switch your character
-Bug Fix: The burn scars effect would convert other negative hp into burning hp even if the effect reached its limit and added 0 burning hp
To avoid an excessive amount of post, I'll usually skip a small patch post if it comes only a few hours after the previous one. Shoutout to the few hours between 8.1b and 8.1c where I accidentally made every single battle give you a bounty!
v8.1c - December 3rd, 2023
-Adjusted the rate that levels rise in the towers starting around Lv 15
-The final stage of family towers will now have 4 options to choose from similar to a story mode path finale
-Bug Fix: Every battle was giving bounties
v8.1b
-Any Bounty that disables your panic attacks will no longer appear if the same monster has a challenge that requires you use panics
-Effects that increase Damage in focus now stack multiplicatively with other damage up effects for all 3 shot types
-Bug Fix: With Charge Type D, the timing window on queuing consecutive shots was slightly cut short
-Fixed some typos
(These changes happened just a few hours after 8.1 released)
v8.1a - December 2nd, 2023
-New bounty gifts were missing radiating cost values
-The Can't Panic effect was missing on 2 of the new bounties that use it
-Fixed some typos