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Full Black Ice update
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What changed
- Balance
- Maps
- Gameplay
- Store
- Events
- UI and audio
Einar's Throne Room
Einar's final resting place beneath the volcano is now fit for a king! Decked in gold, the new boss fight arena offers more platforming and routes to evade the swarm as you battle the Mother of Spiders. With the new boss fight HP bar, you can focus on the objective before you're overrun.
We've also streamlined the early stages of the game to help you get through the volcano faster. More routes, better waypoints, rebalanced enemy progression. We will continue improving the early game with a reworked tutorial area soon!
New Missions
A small taste of what's coming next, we added 2 new missions while streamlining the other 100 story emails already in the game. Tangle with Baba Yaga (again?) in the Forest, then help some Quarkus employees stage a coup in Act 3.
Looking Ahead: Helices
Stay tuned for the next update bringing the Helices megacorp tower.
Full patch notes below!
0.9.207 - 12/20/23 Gilded Rage
Remade Einar's Throne Room (Volcano Boss Arena)
Major navigational improvements to the Volcanyon and Volcano
Added a new shop in the Volcano
Quarkus improvements, including boss attack telegraphing
Overhauled mission waypoint system to be more readable and useful
Added Courier Story Missions (including one to take you to the top of the Volcano)
The first character on an account will now always get a free heal in the Cache
Added two new unique items as rewards for the Quarkus and upcoming Helices fight
Added two new missions between level 25-35
Edited and improved all previous missions
After you complete a mission, the active waypoint will automatically switch to the next active mission
Players now run a lot faster on the Information Superhighways
Heal Over Time items now automatically enable when the player logs in or respawns
Rebalanced hack speed to make it less punishing if you fall behind on icebreaker upgrades
Added Hack Timer calculation in the Full Stats UI
Added Time To Kill calculation in the Full Stats UI
Added a Boss HP bar for dungeon bosses and Lockout enemies
Increased Flat Damage affix scaling at the low end, but also reduced drop rate
Made Lockout GUI and in-game particles easier to see
Lockout enemies now slow the hack down drastically instead of completely stop it
Added a video option to reduce the sky intensity
Reduced sky star size for stars closest to the player
Added a green cooldown indicator for items with charges to show when charges will cd
Fixed terrain hazards like lava doing increased damage in multiplayer
Evading servers no longer appear in the Volcano
Reduced Charge.bat damage
New unique Sprint which applies Frictionless
Items now have full charges when equipped for the first time, and remember both charges and cooldowns when you unequip them, which you can now do at any time.
Many bug fixes, including waypoints, missions, etc.
Stay safe, hackers.
superdupergc & Nonadecimal
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