V0.9.0 – Major Update - New Maps, Talents and more

This is one of the biggest updates ever released for the game! It brings new rooms, a completely reworked talent system, new enemies, the arrival of the Joker in the Route Map, visual and UI improvements across the board, plus a long list of bug fixes and balance adjustments.

There's a lot of new stuff to explore. ːsteamhappyː

New Content

• New Route Map — the room navigation system has been completely redesigned, with a new look, controller support, tooltips, persistent state, and per-floor balancing.

  

• Joker System — the Route Map now features a deck of special cards. Cards like Double Bonus, Merchant, Virus, Temporary Room, Collapsed Route, Radar, and others can completely change your run. The Roulette and Joker Effect are also implemented.

  

• Marionette Room — new playable room, earn an exclusive reward.

  

• NPC Rescue Room — you can now find and purchase the rescue of trapped characters.

  

• Hack Puzzle — new hacking room with a 7-error system, earn buffs and debuffs.

  

• New XP System — the XP system has been rebuilt from scratch, with collectible XP on the ground.

  

• Talents with multiple levels — Piranha, Bananarang, Chicken Grenade, Pufferfish, Hedgehog, Bouncing Monkey, Slug, and Octopus now have 3 evolution levels.

  

• New talent visuals — Dome, Bouncer Bot, Impact Shield, and Electric Tower have received their final artwork.

• Zombie Invoker — new enemy on the 5th floor: the Invoker summons zombies and has its own animations. Zombies in general have been sped up.

Improvements

• New progressive upgrades for all talents — Rifle, Ricochet, Shotgun, Pistol, and Machine Gun received new upgrades with descriptions, updated icons, and a new level point system.

• Talent slots are now grouped and organized; the upgrade icon is highlighted when selected.

• Skill Tree now turns golden when fully completed, and displays the exact values of each upgrade.

• Aim assist is now smoother and more responsive, with reduced weight so it doesn't interfere with manual control.

• Flight animations added to player skins.

• New look for the pause menu, with a variation when the keychain item is not available.

• Checkpoints added to the tutorial; tutorials 2 and 3 now allow pausing.

• Cutscene added when unlocking the Skill Tree for the first time.

• AutoScroll added to the DJ and Bluetopus interfaces.

• Purchasing a skin now equips it automatically.

• Trash icon added to the save slot menu; cursor enabled on the save screen.

• Improved visual feedback for bonus cards and the Double Bonus card.

• Sounds added to UI selectors and navigation arrows.

Bug Fixes

• Cursor would unexpectedly disappear on some UI screens.

• Input icons in talents were displaying incorrect information.

• Aim in drone mode was misaligned.

• NeonLaser beam damage was incorrect.

• A Piercing Shot projectile could apply damage multiple times from a single hit.

• Double Bonus room behaved incorrectly in some situations.

• Coin and Junk rooms were returning wrong rewards.

• Combat waves were not starting in some rooms.

• Rooms appeared locked on the Route Map when they shouldn't be.

• Route Map transition speed was incorrect.

• 2nd floor miniboss wasn't shooting; Clown Pig was displaying wrong sprites.

• Pressing an upgrade at a specific moment would freeze the game.

• Corumba miniboss immortality bug.

• Infinite dog barking in the tutorial.

• Gas mask was not working correctly.

• Hack Puzzle background music would stop in some cases.

• Volume slider in options was not saving correctly.

• Control rebinding behaved incorrectly in some cases.

• Visual bug in the ED UI and Ocko's laugh animation.

• Cyber Metrics wasn't pulling Blue attributes inside the Level Zero.

Balance Adjustments

• Shotgun charged shot damage and size revised; firing angle adjusted.

• Blue Missile now has a smoother curve and revised damage.

• Blue Pistol burst fire adjusted.

• Enemies now have variation in their drop value.

• Route Map now applies floor-based weight balancing, making progression more consistent.

• Motorcycle miniboss now gives up the chase after a time limit.

• Hack reward no longer grants XP when the player is at max level.

• XP no longer drops from enemies when the player is at max level.

• Talent upgrade cooldown now resets correctly between runs.

• Number of skulls in the Fridge limited to prevent excessive stacking.

Other Changes

• FPS capped at 60 for a more stable experience.

• Player movement optimized internally.

• New enemy projectile pooling system, improving performance during intense combat.

• Blue projectiles optimized for better performance.

• Full Japanese support added across the entire UI, dialogues, and Skill Tree.

• Save and load system restructured with a separate file for settings.

• Photosensitivity warning can now be dismissed with a button press, requiring no additional action.

Important: The save system had to be rebuilt, which may cause progress to reset on some machines.