Major Demo Update

Over the last few days I focused on expanding the content, polishing gameplay, and improving performance across the board. This update brings a lot of new things into the demo - especially the entire second act.

Below is a full breakdown of what’s new, changed, and fixed. NEW CONTENT

• 15 new unique, handcrafted levels for Act I I - each with its own artwork and narrative entry. This chapter pushes the story deeper into the corrupted cathedral grounds.

• New destructible objects - you can now destroy marked objects using abilities.

• New hint for unlocking the Cathedral. A clearer message now indicates that permanent blessings become available only after reclaiming the cathedral.

• Anti-Aliasing setting (including Super Res). Super Res + Screen Percentage at 150% allows the game to run at extremely high resolution. Highly recommended for stronger GPUs.

• Localization of the demo into German, Korean, and Russian.

• Added Act IV artwork. A small teaser of things to come.

BALANCING CHANGES

• Rebalanced critical damage stats and weapons.

• Removed modules: Vowed Might & Manna Drop.

• Shorter, lore-friendly Act I chapter descriptions.

• Rebalanced game speed, player movement, and enemy pacing in Act I

• AddedNew free blessing for Act I“Mother’s Blessing” that helps new players find unique items and smooths the early game experience.

FIXES

• Improved collisions with trees

• Fixed screen percentage not updating correctly

• Main character and boss now stick to the ground more reliably in animations

• Added missing localization and corrected typos

• Fixed several rare crashes

• Fixed disappearing enemy grenade red zones

• ESC works properly while attaching upgrades

MAJOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Significant optimizations were made to:

• enemy movement and action processing

• enemy projectiles and mines

• spawning and despawning map resources

• spawning new enemies

• displaying floating damage text

• overall performance - especially in large battles - should now feel noticeably smoother.

WHAT’S NEXT?

In the next update I’m focusing on:

• New Act II boss: The Bishop - a major fight that ties directly into the story of the corrupted church.

• The Codex: a full in-game book with explanations, tips, lore, and mechanical breakdowns.

• Metaprogression expansion. What you currently see in the demo (The Statue) is only a placeholder with basic upgrades. In the full game there will be six buildings, each offering a different path of meta progression.

Also, a quick note - Arms of God is currently part of Bullet Heaven Fest 3.0. If you enjoy this genre, the event has plenty of other great titles worth checking out. There’s a Midweek Deal running right now, in case you’re browsing for something new to play.