[0.7.7] Reloaded Update

[0.7.7] RELEASE NOTES

Content

• Added 2 new levels (9-10) with a new environment: the ice biome

• Added 1 new hero: Elise, the “Freelance Demolitionist” and her heavy arsenal

• Changed hero max level from 8 to 15

• Added 2 new minor modules:

  • Pepper Spray - It confuses monsters and forces them to attack each other

  • Seblaster (offence) - It targets monsters with an area of effect, hitting without distinction heroes and monsters

• Added 2 new mobs:

  • Hurna Hunter

  • Door opener: he can open a door if you don’t kill him on time!

• Added 5 new elite mobs:

  • Kamikaze Necrophage

  • The Keeper

  • Silics Supporter

  • Chimera Debuffer

  • Chimera Kamikaze

• Added the Stele Event. If you find a stele, it will add one or several effects to the entire floor for a limited amount of time. These effects can be positive, negative, or both.

Improvements

• Added a reset skill system: you can use Science and reset the skills cooldown

• Changed the healing system which is now based on the hero’s percentage of HP, and the cost is proportional to number of healed HP

• Changed the operating system: the hero needs to stay in the room at least one turn to obtain a (bigger) bonus

• Added an animation for the Merchant when he teleports to the Merchant module

• Added a comparison system for hero equipment

• Added a preview for the next skill available when you level up

• Added a scrollview for passive skills when you have more than six

• You can now select several heroes with the “shift” key

• Added a default cursor

• Updated hero selection menu

• Added feedback (visual and sound) on dying heroes (< 25% HP)

• Removed the Research button in the HUD

Balancing See the latest dev blog post for more details and rationales about the multiple changes which impact the balancing of the game

• Refactored configuration system which allows us to control the flow and the events more precisely:

  • Some events (exit, merchants, heroes and artefacts) are placed at the generation to control the:

  • Quantity of Dust loot in rooms at each floor is now controlled

  • Spawn of mobs is now random at each floor

• The targeting of some mobs have changed:

  • Necrophage Flying attacks major modules and target in priority long range heroes

  • Silics Bulldozer no longer attacks heroes

  • Silics Trash attacks only the Crystal (but is weaker)

  • Most part of elites mobs attacks NPC

• The offence modules have now a priority target:

  • Prisoner pods are anti-heroes mobs

  • Tesla are anti-modules mobs

  • Claymoars are basic mobs

  • Smoking guns are special mobs

• The move speed of entities are reduced when in the same room than enemies, except:

  • Flying Necrophage

  • "Crysophile" Necrophage

  • Hydra Chimera

  • Some heroes with "dodge" passive skills

• The previous version level 8 is approximately the new level 11-12 in terms of food cost and stats

• The heroes stats and skills have changed with new levels and to create a distinctions between the different teams of heroes

• Increased waves difficulty when the exit is found

~Amplitude Studios