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The Future Of Crab Champions
Hey! It's been a while since the last update and I wanted to let you know what the plans are for the game moving forward! Rather than a big wall of text I've made a mini FAQ to keep things easy to read. WHERE NEXT UPDAT…
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The Island Update Hotfix #3 / #4
After spending the last few weeks reading as much feedback as possible on the new update, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are two types of players when it comes to the feedback I was getting of “I’m bored, make t…
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The Island Update Hotfix #1 / #2
HOTFIX #1 PATCH NOTES Changed the Nightmare red difficulty modifier to be +4 difficulty level so this gives you an additional difficulty point to spend on either a green modifier or disabling another one of the 1 point…
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The Island Update (Early Access Update 11)
Patch Highlights ALL NEW ISLANDS Steam post imageSteam post imageSteam post imageSteam post imageSteam post imageSteam post imageSteam post image NEW WEAPON: POISON CANNON DIFFICULTY SYSTEM REVAMP WITH NEW RANK: PRISMAT…
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The Anvil Update Hotfix
Thank you all for the amazing feedback on the last update- I have spent the last while absorbing it and made this hotfix to smooth out the most common pain points 🦀 Lightning Scepter / Arcane Wand Changes Lightning Sce…
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The Anvil Update (Early Access Update 10)
Patch Highlights NEW WEAPON: LIGHTNING SCEPTER NEW ABILITY: AIR STRIKE NEW MELEE WEAPON: KATANA ARCANE WAND REWORK ANVILS NEW ENEMIES Patch Notes Anvil Portal (Enhancements 2.0) I think enhancements were a good addition…
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The Elemental Update (Early Access Update 9)
Patch Highlights NEW WEAPON: ICE STAFF NEW ABILITY: ELECTRO GLOBE NEW MELEE WEAPON: PICKAXE TURRET REVAMP INFINITE PEDESTAL NEW ISLANDS NEW ENEMY: HORNET XL TOTEM NEW ABILITY VISUALS Patch Notes GENERAL Turrets have bee…
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The Variety Update Part 2 Hotfix #2
Hotfix #2 (Version 2003) Thanks for all the community feedback on the last update- I've made some fixes and improvements based on it! 🦀 General Added cactus destructibles to the Desert biome Balance Changes Double dest…
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The Variety Update Part 2 Hotfix #1
Hotfix #1 (Version 1999) Difficulty scaling improvements Enemy damage bonus when looping has been removed. There was previously a whopping +100% damage multiplier to all enemy attacks when looping from island 33 onwards…
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The Variety Update Part 2 (Early Access Update 8)
Patch Highlights RELICS ENHANCEMENTS SNIPER REVAMP NEW WEAPON: MARKSMAN RIFLE DESERT BIOME NEW ISLAND TYPE: DEMOLITION INVENTORY STATS Patch Notes GENERAL Added 30 Relics to the game. Relics are a new loot category that…
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The Variety Update Part 1 (Early Access Update 7)
Patch Highlights ABILITIES: GRENADE, GRAPPLING HOOK, LASER BEAM, BLACK HOLE & ICE BLAST MELEE WEAPONS: CLAW, DAGGER & HAMMER NEW WEAPONS: LASER CANNONS & SEAGLE MINIGAMES: ARCADE, HOLDOUT & DUEL QUICKPLAY Matchmake for…
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Nominate Crab Champions for the Steam Awards!
If you are enjoying Crab Champions so far, it'd mean a lot to me if you could nominate it for a Steam Award (after polling the community, it looks like either the "Best Soundtrack" or the "Better With Friends" categorie…
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The Fire & Magic Update (Early Access Update 6)
Patch Highlights NEW WEAPONS: FLAMETHROWER & ARCANE WAND VFX OVERHAUL ULTRA CHAOS: NEW EXTREME DIFFICULTY UNIQUE LOOT VISUALS + ICONS (A START) Loot is finally getting some identity! While there's a lot of loot to make…
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The Difficulty Update (Early Access Update 5)
It's been quite a while since the last update- this will most likely be the pace moving forward: larger updates every 1-2 months delivering a nice chunk of new content to explore! As mentioned in previous patch notes, I…
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Early Access Update 4
Patch Notes GENERAL Added 5 new Volcanic arena islands and removed the re-used tropical islands from the Volcanic biome You can now interact with key totems even after unlocking everything to start a run off with a rand…
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Early Access Update 3
Patch Notes GENERAL Elemental weapon mods are now chance based instead of cooldown based. This has been a heavily requested feature and I will be moving from cooldowns to chance based on many other mods in upcoming upda…
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