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Patch Notes

Fixes

• Fixed that the meta perk Magnum Opus applied a guaranteed negative modifier instead of the promised legendary modifier.
  
• Fixed the issue that Glass Cannon trait could be randomly rolled with Obsidian Dice.
  
• Fixed a bug where being judged as unworthy disabled interaction with the ichor bowl.
  
• Fixed a bug that the statues in the staircase rooms always talked to you even after you have progressed beyond floor 11 once already.
  
• Fixed a bug with aura infliction effectiveness, making traits like Unforgiving not scale them correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the verb forms of taunt, charm, fear, and intimidate were not highlighted as key tags. ("E.g.: fears, intimidates, charms, taunts)
  
• Fixed a bug where the green highlights caused by the [[]] brackets would not be resolved in dialogue messages.
  
• Fixed an issue where not all shops in the black market were correctly rerolled and restocked when staying overnight at the tavern.
  
• Fixed a bug with bending projectile, such as attacks from axes. This often lead to axes aiming into odd directions, especially while playing without mouse.
  
• Attempted to fix a bug where when a boss reward was guaranteed, there was a chance that both doors lead to that same boss reward. E.g.: guaranteed companion showing twice on floor 1 boss.
  
• Fixed a bug where if you had Mystical Belt or been playing as the Mystic, some non-charm items would sometimes randomly show double value of stats in description, but only once.
  
• Fixed a lot of random typos. (Not nearly enough though,...)
  
• Fixed a bug where Death could become invincible or get invisible lasers after transitioning to phase 2.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could get softlocked if you killed the left King's Guard boss too quickly before their dialogue would finish.
  
• Fixed that when using the double mimics perk, only one mimic would be active. Now both mimics will attack you.
  
• Fixed that mimics would always appear on the right door making them too predictable.
  
• Fixed that the Leviathan Axe would not spawn the room if worn in weapon swap slot.
  
• Fixed a bug where the cinder modifier Conqueror's Will would only subdue you but not your companions.
  
• Fixed that increased effect of stats, e.g.: from Mystic would double the mana drain gained from enchantments. Increased effect of mana drain now applies in inverse, reducing the mana drain instead.
  
• Fixed that Mystic was bugged, it only showed double the stat value on weapon enchantments but didn't actually double the stats you gained from it. (At least not always. Might still be a bit buggy...)
  
• Fixed an issue where Corruption would cap out at 51 stacks. It now caps out at 100 stacks.
  

General Changes

• Christmas is over.
  
• New reward: Golden Cherries: Grant 10% increased trigger damage. Appear on floor 11 and floor 12.
  
• New reward: Golden Croissant: Grants 10% increased companion damage. Appears on floor 11 and floor 12.
  
• Golden Steak has been buffed, from granting 5% increased damage with non crits, to 10%.
  
• New ailment: Nature damage now by default applies Nettles, which is an ailment that increases effect of debuffs.
  
• Nature damage is now considered elemental damage.
  
• Mana power has shifted. Each point now grants 10% more damage, previously 20% but intelligence now grants 2.5% increased stats granted by mana, previously mana regeneration. Base mana regeneration has been increased by 25%, from 1.5 mana per second, to 2 mana per second, to compensate. Mana grew a bit out of control after giving more and more access to mana, e.g.: the bonfire. There is a lot of new ways to get non magic weapons to drain mana in this patch, and so that it doesn't take overhand mana now takes an investment to get back to previous state. At 40 intelligence, mana is the same as before, but you have a little bit less mana regeneration. Mana regeneration items have been buffed. (See below.) If you get above 40 intelligence, or make use of traits like Keen Mind, mana is even better than before. Also it is worth to mention that intelligence now scales additional effects from mana, e.g: the trait Dreamer. Overall mana is a lot worse if you aren't invested into it but better than before if you go all-in. More changes (new trait, new items,...) are also coming to support mana even further.
  
• Confusion now increases effect of all debuffs, not just emotion debuffs.
  
• Soul Pickups are now slightly attracted to the player.
  
• Flasks now take 2 seconds to drink, up from 1.5 seconds. I think it was a bit too easy to flask mid-combat and I want to entice you to try out the drink speed meta perk.
  
• Companions now scale to up to x5 damage, previously x4 at max level.
  
• Companions can catch up to enemies about 30% faster. Probably still too slow to catch enemies that teleport or charge a lot, but it's a step in the right direction.
  

Item Changes

• New consumable: Maple Pine Resin: Grants a nature damage infusion.
  
• New consumable: Fairy Pine Resin: Grants a mana drain buff to your weapon.
  
• New consumable: Spore Pine Resin: Grants a poison damage infusion.
  
• New consumable: Fairy Tale Branch: Enchants weapon with the Arcane modifier.
  
• Storm in a Bottle: Damage scaling has been increased from +50% per level to +100% per level. Also now strikes 4 times per second, up from 3 times.
  
• Experimental: The Mana Catalyst, usually chosen as a gift, can now appear randomly in runs. (I might remove this item in the future and replace it with another gift.)
  
• Mana Orb: Now generates 1 mana on completing rotation, up from 0.5 mana.
  
• Mind Charm: Now grants 35% increased mana regeneration, up from 25%.
  
• Sorcerer Cloak: Now grants 45% increased mana regeneration, up from 35%.
  
• Magus Cap: Now grants 35% increased mana regeneration, up from 25%.
  
• Radio (Gift): Damage has been doubled.
  
• Replenishing Repair Powder (Gift): Replenishes slightly quicker.
  
• Soul Scarf (Gift): Only grants a Soul Heart when you recover a heart with it now.
  
• Poison Filled Jar (Gift): Instead of granting a poison infusion, now applies the Poisoned enchantment modifier to your weapon up to 3 times.
  
• Tent (Gift): Is now a charm and also recovers 2 hearts on entering a new floor, previously 1 heart.
  
• Mana Elixir (Gift): Now grants a special mana potion buff that grants 20% mana drain refund, previously 15%.
  
• Mystical Wrappings: Doesn't specify "infusion" keyword anymore. Now cycles periodically every 4 seconds instead of every room.
  

Other Gift Changes

• Coin Bag: Gold amount reduced from 35 to 30 gold.
  
• Bomb Pouch: Bomb amount reduced from 6 to 5 bombs.
  

Room Changes

• New Tavern NPC: The Princess. She sells Fairy Tale Branches. She has a preference for Good aligned characters but doesn't grant any alignment herself (for now).
  
• Storm in a Bottle cost in tavern reduced. Now 30G, previously 50G.
  
• Nurse in tavern can only heal and refill flasks once per tavern visit.
  
• The Black Market entrance in the tavern is now locked again, requiring another key, after you stay overnight. (The tavernkeep makes sure to keep that stuff under lock, sorry!)
  
• Leviathan Room: All options now cost 5 souls instead of 10 souls.
  

Meta Perk Changes

• New Perk: Pandoras Boxes: Opening any treasure chest permanently grants +2.5% magic find, up to a maximum of 25%. (Replaces "Giving Up" and made legendary weapons 15% rarer.)
  
• Bulk Seller: Now capped at +10 Gold. Also only grants +1 Gold per consecutive item, instead of +2.
  
• Mixed Bag: Now also reduces the price by 25% when swapping the currency.
  
• Odyssey: Epic weapons now are 25% more common, previously 30%.
  
• Worth of a Soul: Upgrading weapons now costs 5 souls at blacksmiths, instead of 10 souls.
  

Weapon Enchantment Changes

• Unstoppable modifier, which increases "not very effective multiplier" is now a normal enchant and not a legendary enchantment anymore. (This is kind of a buff because the modifier wasn't that great and now that Magnum Opus perk is fixed, you are more likely to roll an actually good legendary modifier.)
  
• New legendary enchantment: Sniper's: +20% critical hit chance
  
• New legendary enchantment: Merciless: +75% critical hit multiplier
  

Trait Changes

• Spellblade: Now works with ALL melee weapons, previously just swords.
  

Enemy Changes

• Possessed weapons health and armor has been roughly halved, especially in the early game.
  
• Increased health and armor of all mimics. For some more than 50% more health and armor.
  

What's missing?

• Add some more companions.
  
• Add some new set items.
  
• Add new traits and buff some bad traits.
  
• Buff non shield offhand items.
  
• Go over some items that are really underwhelming and buff them.
  
• Fix more bugs.
  

• Fixed bug with the Hero Sword "Flex" materials not appearing correctly. (I hope it's finally fixed now.)
  
• In the previous hotfix a bug was fixed which caused a softlock when trying to upgrade a weapon at a blacksmith that cost souls while not having any souls.
  

Patch Highlights

Bonfire Favours

Developer Thoughts: A big goal in bringing back stat upgrades to your character was to present it in transparent way and to make the system more flexible. The new system is powerful, flexible, brings interesting changes and choices to veteran players and most importantly it is: simple. The 0.2.0 update made the game quite a bit more complex and this patch introduces a bunch of simple but effective changes to make you feel a little bit more at home from the start, even without knowing and utilizing all the new funky mechanics.
It costs 30 Souls to gain a heart container, a point of stamina or a point of mana. As every boss drops 10 Souls this new system basically equals to the old system, just more flexible. You now can get 3 stat upgrades before floor 10 and if are lucky you might even be able to sneak in a 4th one from time to time. Players further in the game might note though that you need some Souls to go beyond floor 11, for that reason the prices of alignment shops have been reduced a bit. So even when you are deep into the game, you still get to gain at least 2 or 3 powerups.

Over 30 New Items

Developer Thoughts: I think it is important that players are regularly offered strong defensive options. Not every item has to be a wall of text with intricate effects. It is fine when some items are just there to bolster survivability or damage.

Developer Thoughts: Having a lot of equip load and equipping some heavy but strong item feels good on a strength character but defensive options for low equip load characters often were lacking. There is a slew of new defensive charms that aid you in your quest to survive on generally squishier builds.

Blacksmith Buffs

Developer Thoughts: Weapon upgrades previously felt very underwhelming. Again, while it is cool and all that the game allows for more funky combinations and interactions to make a strong character, I find it very important, especially for new players, that fallback mechanics exist and that they feel impactful. When lacking damage it makes intuitive sense that a player might think to upgrade their weapon and now you should be able to feel the weapon upgrades.

Melee Buffs

• All one-handed sword base DMG has been increased by 10% to 30% across the board.
  
• All mace base DMG has been increased by 10% to 20% across the board.
  
• All axe base DMG has been increased by 10% to 20%. Twin Axes, Winged Axes and Berserker Axes have been buffed by up to 30% to account for their odd flight behaviors.
  
• All daggers base DMG has been increased by 10% to 20% across the board.
  
• All polearms and scythes base DMG has been increased by 10% across the board.
  

Stamina Availability

Developer Thoughts: While you can get a stamina point from the bonfire, I also wanted to add new additional ways to gain stamina. The game throws a lot at you and it is important that as a player you feel like you stand a fighting chance.

Other Survivability Improvements

Mastery EXP Curve Adjustments

Patch Notes

General Changes

• New bonfire favour feature. (Explained above.)
  
• Mastery EXP curve has been adjusted so you can level up faster, even without Cinder.
  
• Tally requirements now have a minimum of 1.#
  
• Soul Hearts are slightly more common.
  
• Suppression now comes before your Soul Hearts.
  
• The Arcade can now grant Soul Hearts.
  
• The Arcade now can break a lot quicker but the base chance to win has been increased.
  
• Dice have been added to shops.
  
• Heart Containers have been added to shops.
  
• Phoenix Feathers have been added to shops.
  
• Rat Merchant now presents 3 to 4 offers. Nomad Merchant now presents 4 offers and the Alien Traders now always present 5 offers.
  
• Soul price now don't increase with each floor anymore.
  
• Normal shops don't ever sell Souls anymore.
  
• Soul prices for rare, epic and legendary items have been made cheaper overall.
  
• The Soul Peddler and Charon (Soul Shops) have an inherent discount of 25% now.
  
• Shops that appear in floor 11 now also affect alignment.
  
• Curse has less chance to take effect in the range of 1 to 3 curse.
  
• Fixed how magic find worked for equipment and weapon rewards. Previously it was partially bugged and displaying on the wrong items, that it didn't actually affect. Magic Find is even better now.
  

Enemy Changes

• Death Tyrants in floor 10 now activate their spinning laser attack staggered instead of all at once.
  

Trait Changes

• NEW: Ignition Burst
  
• Double Trouble: Instead of doubling critical hit multiplier of repeated attacks, now makes them deal lethal hits.
  
• One Step Ahead: Additionally to repeating the attack after dash now doubles the critical hit multiplier of repeated attacks.
  
• Swagger: Additionally now triggers your on dash effects on the tally of 5 primary attacks.
  
• Near Death Experience: Should appear more often now.
  

Weapon Changes

• Each weapon upgrade level now grants 10% more damage, up from 5% more.
  
• A lot melee weapons had their base damage buffed. (Explained above.)
  
• All versions of the Hero Sword have been massively buffed and the quest line to repair it has been fixed and improved.
  

Equipment Changes

• Added a total of 30 new equipment items.
  
  • Some of the 30 items are new defensive charms: Soul Heart Charm, Block Charm, Evasion Charm, Stamina Charm, Flask Charm and Suppression Charm.
    
  • There is a new set for swords, the fencing set: "Touche! Engarde!"
    
  • The new items include support for on combat start, on picking up mana star and on dash effect builds.
  
  
• Dragonscale Greaves: Now also grant +1 Suppression and Combat Prowess buff now grants 30% increased melee damage, up from 20%.
  
• Heart Charm and Armor Charm are now rare rarity, previously epic.
  
• Jousting Armor: Now also grants +1 armor.
  
• Wisp Lantern: Now grants 2.% increased primary attack damage per soul you have, up from 0.5%.
  

Consumable and Companion Changes

• NEW: Camel Leash, summons a camel companion that grants +1 Stamina.
  
• Stamina Potion: Is now in the main pool of potions. Previously you would only be able to get this from brewing it in the swamp event.
  
• Shellfish Surge and Ocean's Bounty now last 10/20 rooms (depending on the consumable), up from 1/10 rooms.
  
• Kelp: Now grants 1 stamina permanently, similar to the Starfish consumable that grants +1 mana.
  

Tavern Changes

• NEW: Dryad NPC that sells Green Blossom and makes you good. Like the Cleric, she also has a preference for good and will give you a discount if you are good.
  
• The Nurse now also refills your flasks.
  
• Farmer and Santa are 5G cheaper.
  
• Tax Collector now trades you 30G for 10 Souls.
  

Class Changes

• Necromancer passive ability now grants 2% increased damage per Soul, up from 1.5%. (To compensate a bit for the new Soul sinks.)
  
• Necromancer now finds more soul rewards than other classes.
  

Meta Perk Changes

• NEW: Evergreen, makes Stamina Surge (from Green Blossoms) last 10 rooms instead of 1.
  
• NEW: Heart Seeker, makes items that grant hearts 25% more common.
  
• NEW: Stamina Scout, makes items that grant stamina 25% more common.
  
• Soul Thief → now named: Thief In the Shadows: If you defeat the boss without getting hit, you gain 25% magic find for the reward selection it presents.
  
• Inflation and Deflation: Now only work for Gold prices.
  
• Ethereal Roulette: Now grants 2 bonus ethereal dice, up from only 1.
  
• Loss Leader: Makes blacksmith prices be 10/15/20/25,... instead of 10/20/30/40,... (Previously was too much of a downside.)
  
• Worth of a Soul: Now makes weapon upgrades at blacksmiths cost 10 Souls, previously 20. (With the new Soul economy this might need even more changes in the future.)
  
• Loyalty: The upgrade to level 4 now doesn't increase the price. (But you have to pick either Loss Leader or Worth of a Soul before, so the 4th upgrade by default costs 25 gold or 10 souls.)
  

Cinder Changes

• Unjust Incentive: Now specifies in the description that the spiked doors can be bombed.
  

Bug Fixes

• As mentioned above, magic find has been generally buggy.
  
• Fixed that the calculation of advancing your periodical effects was completely wrong and triggered way too much. (Mainly affects the trait: Dynamo.)
  

What's next?

TLDR:

• Heart-, Stamina- and Mana power ups are back.
  
• Lots of new defensive items, especially for melee characters but also for low equip load characters. (E.g.: new defensive charms)
  
• Upgrading weapons has been massively buffed.
  
• Base DMG of a lot of melee weapons has been buffed.
  
• Stamina is more widespread available in the game.
  

• Fixed a bug where projectiles from your own companions could hit you (for a lot of damage), if the companion despawned while their projectiles were mid-air. (Sometimes experienced on Hydra Wand, Ninja, ...)
  

• Fixed a massive oversight. Previously only your unspent Souls have been correctly converted into Mastery EXP. Now also your spent Souls contribute to that value. This means if you unlocked and spent Souls in the previous version you now already levelled up in mastery level. Please note that your playtime will not match because before the save state rework mid 2023 the game didn't track the times of your runs.
  
• Fixed that some class unlocks might have disappeared (Wizard, Mystic, ...) because their unlock conditions changed. The game now checks if you have ever done a run on these classes before, and if yes, they will be unlocked for you.
  
• Cinder modifiers are now only active when they actually have been unlocked. Previously some players would be stuck on a certain cinder level due to the unlock requirements for cinder modifiers changing.
  
• Additionally, the unlock requirements for cinder have been changed from defeating Death at Cinder 4/8/12 to 3/6/9.
  
• Fixed that a few descriptions in the game gave the same value instead of multiple different values. E.g.: Puncture said "5 to 5 damage" and Rainbow Staff listed the same damage number 4 times.
  
• Fixed that the "copy save slot" functionality on the beta branch of the game was broken.
  

New Challenges

More Variety

New Character Classes

New Items

New Weapons

New Traits

Companions

New Meta Progression

And Much, Much, More!

Announcing 3 More Expansions

A personal message to the community:
I've dedicated almost the entire year to this update. Pretty much every day the first thought after waking up was: Tiny Rogues. I have never worked as hard on anything as I have on this update. Over the past two months, I've invested 70 to 80 hours each week into the project and while my TODO lists are still plentiful, I must say that I am absolutely in love with the current state of the game I've created. I cannot thank the Tiny Rogues community enough for helping me balance and polish the game during the beta that has been running all throughout December. These three weeks really dialed in a new era for the game. While the beta launched in a rough state on December 1st, by now I truly enjoy every second playing the game. A lot has changed since version 1.9 and I hope you will find as much joy in trying out all the new features, discovering exciting new synergies, and facing all the new enemies and bosses as I do. I wish you happy holidays and thank you so much for your ongoing support. Thank you for playing and enjoying Tiny Rogues. (And I really mean it. I'm a solo dev. This ain't some post written by a PR department. Actually... now that I think about it, I am the PR department. Oh noes! )

Pricing Changes

Update Information

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About the Beta

Information For Content Creators

TLDR;

• Price is increasing from 6.99 to 9.99 USD. (varies between currencies)
  
• Trailer and Beta are coming on Friday.
  
• Beta will be untested, only jump in if you want to help.
  
• Content creators please share the hype/the trailer but I ask you to not showcase the beta.
  

0.2.0 Delay

• The update is not done yet.
  
• I have to move the release date to September.
  
• My estimated release date is the 1 year anniversary of the game, so September 23rd.
  
• Yes this means December 2023 is becoming a more and more unlikely release date for Tiny Rogues 1.0.
  

0.2.0 Demo

• The demo is a demo, not a beta or a test version. You are not meant to play it extensively, progress is limited and features are incomplete. The demo offers 9 alternate floors and some new items.
  
• I strongly recommend everybody to wait for the update though, it will be worth it, trust me.
  
• I also kindly ask other content creators wait patiently for the actual update as the demo is very rough and I'd personally love for the main bulk of content on the new update to be created when it is actually fully done, tested and released.
  

• I will release a trailer with an announcement date for the 0.2.0 expansion update when I can make
  more precise predictions about when the update is actually coming out.
  
• The plan is still to release Tiny Rogues 1.0 in December 2023.
  

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Progress Update

Tangent: To be completely honest, I am putting in surprisingly more effort into these bosses than I expected. I initially planned to just reshuffle and reuse my old systems but I've been just having so many new ideas for new kinds of attacks that I just have to implement them.