Patch Notes (1903261649)

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✨ Major Additions

• Added 2 new enemies:

• Totem: makes every enemy in its range invulnerable to all damage sources. Runs away from the player. Only spawns on Master difficulty and above

• Unstable Tank: a tank that explodes into 3–4 enemy projectiles when eliminated. Only spawns on Expert difficulty and above

• You can now enable "High Contrast" mode for the player, which turns it green

UI and Visuals

• Player visibility has been greatly improved: it is now rendered on top of everything (except for a few selected effects), along with the weapons, which have been placed slightly further away from it

• Added some "shadow pixels" to the "invisibility ready ring" above the player

• Lightnings have been redrawn to be less obstructive. The impact "spark" is now hidden, except when triggered by the boss or the Discharge upgrade

• The reroll icon in the upgrades and artifacts menus is now animated

• Muzzle flash sprites are now rendered in front of the weapons

• The "Magnetism" upgrade now makes everything move smoothly

• Added a "+1" indicator on the bottom-left magazine whenever a shot is restored

• Sub-elites are now always rendered on top of common enemies

• The "blood splat" effect triggered when damaging the player is now rendered below enemies

Optimizations

• Centralized the movement logic for all enemy projectiles

• Reworked how eliminations are handled to improve performance

• Reworked bullet bounce logic to make it much lighter

• If "Numbers Opacity" is set to 0, damage numbers will not be generated

• Centralized the logic for damage number movement

• The intro section of songs is now disabled once the loop starts

Balancing

• "Fortress" upgrade: Damage taken +5% (was +15%)

• "Bone Scythes" artifact: Max health -22% (was -33%)

Audio

• Boss fight and main menu music are now stereo and better mixed

• Reduced the volume of the "Machine Guns" class shots

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused "frozen" bullets

• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to obtain more weapons than the maximum limit

• The "Signed Pact" artifact now correctly doubles only the damage enemies receive from the player

• Fixed a bug where enemies sometimes didn’t take the second hit from the "Personal Affair" upgrade

• Fixed a bug that caused the "Sentient Gun" to fire in incorrect directions

• Fixed a bug that made Snakes unhittable by bullets

• Fixed a bug where tutorial texts overlapped with previous languages when rapidly changing language

Others

• Dashing is now only possible when timescale is equal to 1

• Best damage is now saved only if dealt by the player

• The game now enters the "Automatic Optimization State" if it drops below 56 FPS (was 60 FPS)

• Improved the souls and scraps pooling system