The Basalt Tower

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Below is a round up of patch notes for various fixes and feature updates for build 0.16. Some notes may be post-hoc.

Optimization

• Optimization pass done on various lighting systems, netting big FPS gains.

World & Environment

• "Basalt Tower" New generic node variant added to Ring 2.

Gameplay

• Sphere casting collision system built for more accurate melee based attack collision. Currently only applied to player attacks.

• Player attack collision with reward orbs drastically improved as result of sphere casting collision system

• Core system for for entity movement attacks and push-based effect overhauled for more reliable physics across uneven surfaces.

• Multiple Greater enemies can no longer spawn stacked on the same spawn point.

• Permanent upgrade talents now automatically get placed in the campaign preparation talent grid.

FX

• The player's visor and weapons now emit a white-light effect.

• New pickup animation when collecting orbs.

• Added a particle effect on the player when collecting an orb.

• Added drop-shadow effect to Conduits

• Resolved camera rotation snapping when teleporting into a scene and improved animation

Fixes

• Green gem charge movement effect now functioning correctly.

• Ammo now properly resets when the player spawns.

• Players who fall out of bounds are now teleported back to valid ground instead of any ground.

• Addressed cases of the player being flagged as falling incorrectly.

• Fixed a case where the inventory of an ended run would carry over to next run.

• Fixed a bug causing map Actor combats to carry over to new runs.

• Fixed a case where scenes wouldn't be torn down after taking the exit portal.

• Cursor now reliably shows on the death screen.

• Fixed item duplication case when creating additional saves