- 3 New enemies: Skeleton, Red Skeleton and Shielded Skeleton . They are not 100% complete on the art side, but should be playable.
- Room fights have now a chance of getting modifier that will heavily affect combat conditions.
- Added lots of new corridors between rooms, some of them with special surprises.
- New champion type: Invisible (similar to Mental difficulty in Serious Sam).
- Added a few new rooms.
- Improved lighting and visuals on Challenge rooms.
- Bosses should not regain health when respawning Minions (except Poloko)
- Improved a bit pathfinding. Not perfect yet, but enemies shouldn't get stuck on stairs that frequently.
- Minimap can be set to rotate with player in game options.
- Amulet charge is kept when you drop it and pick it up later.
- New amulets are found totally charged.
- Finished visuals and sound for the weapons added in the last update
- Improved models for moving platforms
- More tips and stats on the loading screen
- Character selection is sorted so unlocked characters are shown first.
- Last character and difficulty selected is saved.
- Lots of bugfixes
Ziggurat
Update #8: New enemies, Combat modifiers, new rooms, bugfixes!
Update #7: New Game+, Easy mode, new weapons!
- Added Easy mode. It increases drop effectiveness and reduces the number of enemies on most encounters.
- Added New Game+, unlockable for each character. This mode has 6 levels and is way more difficult than the standard mode: Less experience, less drops, and more damage from enemies. It's probably too difficult, but we'll wait for user feedback before reducing it.
- Adjusted some amulet energy requirements to better fit their effects.
- Amazon,Sage and Golden amulets - They now give a decent amount of mana in addition to increasing fire rate.
- Fixed issue with Magnetic amulet and the Portal key
- Amulet effects are reset when switching levels.
- Changed spawn behavior so bosses aren't as vulnerable when spawning them.
- Boss Sir Arthur - Increased speed, reduced movement time, increased health
- Boss Gunkarr - Added some AoE damage to the sword attack.
- Boss Poloko - Now he recovers a bit of health when spawning enemies. Increased speed of his attacks. Removed some columns of the room so there's less cover from attacks.
- Boss Amanda - Increased leading time for attacks, increased health a bit.
- Boss Percival - Reduced a bit attack damage
- Boss Adam - Removed arcs that blocked AI pathfinding, now Adam can spawn Mini Golems too.
- Boss Ignus - Added more obstacles in the room.
- Boss Bastian - Increased speed of his short ranged attack, reduced attack delay
- Boss Examiner Cepheus - Many changes to increase difficulty: More speed, less delays, more attack variety...
- Added female voices for female characters (Bard).
- Added 3 new weapons - Skull of Xanatos, Flame Mortar, Serpent Staff. The art isn't fully done yet, but they should be playable.
- Increased number of standard rooms per level by 1.
- Changed Death Pact perk effect so it lasts a while.
- Perk selection screen cards are now shuffled.
- Fixed instancing issues, the game
- should* run a little better.
- Added some decoration to challenge rooms, and fixed minor issues with them.
- Added new model for challenge reward item
- Improved visual and sound feedback for amulet interactions
- Fixed some grammar issues with texts.
Don't forget to share your thoughts on these changes! :)
Update #6: Minor balancing
- Weapon - Catapult of Doom: Reduced mana usage.
- Weapon - Fireweaver bombs: Increased mana usage.
- Weapon - Dragon's bile: Increased mana usage.
- Weapon - Divine wrath: Increasd damage and mana usage.
- Reduced Seer experience boost
- Enemy - Cockatrice: Increase a bit time between jumps
- Enemy - Basilisk: Slightly increase damage and reduce fire rate
- Enemy - Funghi: Slightly reduce health
- Enemy - Golem: Slightly increase health and threat value
- Enemy - Golem mini: Reduce damage
- Enemy - Orc: Slightly increase threat value
- Enemy - Armor: Slightly reduce damage
- Enemy - Demon: Reduce long range projectiles speed
- Enemy - Flying Armor: Reduce fire rate
- Increased trap damage on Hazard rooms
- Fixed ending sequence not starting properly
Update #5: Challenge rooms, Amulets, and more!
- New optional challenge rooms, with punishing platforming sections, and big rewards if you manage to get to the end.
- New feature: Amulets. They can be found in challenge rooms and treasure rooms, and have powers that can be activated by pressing the E key. Some powers last some time, such as double damage, and others are applied instantly.
Currently the amount of amulets is a bit low and, although they are useful, their powers aren't that interesting. We plan on doing more amulets with more specific behaviors in the future. - Bestiary should properly work now.
- Now you can switch to the last weapon you selected by pressing Q.
- View bob/zoom while sprinting can be disabled in game options.
- Reduced zoom out while sprinting on high FOV settings.
- Treasure boxes can now give perks, just like secret rooms.
- Improved the ending cutscenes.
Update #4: New enemy, Champions, lots of improvements!
- Added new Enemy: Funghi, a level 1 enemy with homing and poison cloud attacks.
- Added enemy champions that can have increased health, speed or damage.
- Added bestiary (not finished yet)
- Fixed obelisk health bar disappearing too soon
- Obelisk rooms now have to be cleared after destroying the last obelisk, instead of all enemies dying instantly
- Fixed "master of magic" achievement
- Increased experience drop lasting time
- Floor 5 is now shown as "Final floor"
- Additional images on the ending sequence (not finished yet)
- Mouse cursor now disappears when idle
- Button prompts now change dinamically depending on which controls you are using
- Big spike hazard room: Made the spikes in the central area faster to traverse.
- The ending stats and unlocks should now be properly seen after the ending sequence when completing the game
- Escape key isn't polled on the input map dialog (it's the cancel key)
- Removed "All" category from leaderboards (it made little sense to compare scores between different classes).
- Fixed "It's a trap!" achievement
You can discuss this update on the discussion forums
Update #3: Obelisk rooms, more difficulty tuning, bugfixes!
- Fixed fullscreen issues on OSX
- Fixed input customization dialog not working properly for most keys
- Added a new room type: The obelisk rooms. These rooms require you to destroy some tough obelisks in order to clear the stage.
- Done some work to improved performance on crowded situations and on church and castle settings (levels 3,4 and 5)
- The same weapon shouldn't drop twice during a game so frequently (still possible if you haven't unlocked more weapons yet)
- Added a new score drop. "Picked items" score now depends on this drop exclusively. This also has an effect on difficulty, since health and mana drops will be a bit less frequent.
- Done some work on perks to balance them a bit ( Check the forum post for specific details )
- Added a "Revert to defaults" button in the input customization section.
- Added new doors in the Castle Theme
- More themed music added to the game
Update #2: Input configuration and minor difficulty changes
- New control customization screen
- Improved loading screens
- Increased amount of enemies on each room by ~25% (both total and maximum alive enemies)
- Reduced max number of enemies when there's only one type of enemy in the room by 15%
- More musics included
Update #1: Linux bugfixes and small graphical improvements
- Fixed black flickering when specific shaders were rendered (Heat distortion and Water)
- Should* fix the problems when using a mouse with high polling rate
- Perk items on secret rooms have now a different look.
- Improvements on some visuals and particle effects (Eagle Staff & Catapult of Doom)
- Added some separators on the ending texts.
- Added some additional decorations on the castle theme (Level 5)