Enter the Chronosphere - Version 136

Chronosphere version 136

Breakable walls are here!

Utar is about to smash breakable walls above + below him.

We've added 25 new gear options to the game, as well as truckload of tweaks, bugfixes and improvements.

Today's changelog is a monster so I'm just going to dump it here for you to go through. Hope you enjoy the update. 😉

If you find any issues, please let us know in Discord or Steam Discussions.

Changelog

🏓 Gameplay

• Breakable walls may now appear. They can be destroyed by explosions, Urtar's avalanche, and anything that destroys doors. OH YEAAAAH!

• 25 new gear options.

• 1 new gadget.

• Fixed a bug where Bearzerking / Eggs Inside combined could cause a soft-lock.

• Fixed issue where drilldrones would duplicate their melee attacks.

• Fix issue where move input stay enabled if release during a UI banner popup.

• Station navigation pointers are hidden once visited.

• Fixed an issue causing the tutorial to get stuck when entered.

• Fixed a bug where some minions were not considered minions.

• Poison spit is now sticky.

• Summoned minions now have unique appearances.

• Behavior changes and health buffs to some minions.

• Fixed a bug where Stolen Rations wouldn't heal groups of minions correctly.

• Stolen Rations now also gives minions a buff on use.

• Kinetic Surge can now knock enemies back through destructible walls.

• Large enemies may try to flank you by breaking through destructible walls.

• Fixed an issue where certain melee mods could appear on the sniper rifle and other weapons. (Reported by @xgit)

• Replaced weapons are dropped when a station is used instead of being consumed.

• Prevent katana side strikes from being rotated by accuracy modifiers. (Reported by @juh9870)

• Fix issue where Pocket Pistol's unique mod Twitchy was failing to work or overriding movement direction. (Reported by @ninmonkey)

• Don't spin shurikens when they're stuck in enemies.

• Fixed an issue where the mod Torching was incorrectly appearing on non-melee weapons. (Reported by @xanodia, @zeekai, @rymarq).

• Adjusted Flamethrower attack pattern so it is far more difficult to hurt yourself with it.

• Sawn-off Shotgun now has additional mobility: lunges on both attack and quickdraw.

• Anarchist now also triggers when destroying walls or doors, and grants fast.

• Minibombs now bounce less far from walls.

• Fixed a bug where absolute unit had way too much knockback when parrying melee attacks.

• Increased the delay before the close door prompt appears.

• Certain projectiles can now destroy doors and destructible walls.

• Certain beams can now destroy doors and destructible walls.

• Fixed a bug where poison incorrectly had hitstop assigned when it dealt damage, even outside of an overload.

• Significantly reduced hitstop on poison overload.

• Added missing Molio Cart icon to the titular Molemines gadget. (Maybe you'll all finally notice it and send us sick Molio clips to the discord.)

• Resignation now displays text when reducing damage.

• Fixed an issue causing the Shrapnel Cutter unique mod to not work. (Reported by @ilovelizards, @ninmonkey)

• Removed the "Focusing" weapon mod from rotation.

• Adjusted Killing Time and Power Cycle to allow for up to 2 stacks of Powerful gained in one turn when used together.

• Fixed an issue causing the Focusing weapon mod to not reset it's accuracy buffs until 1 turn after you stop attacking.

• Fix issue where holding RMB on player will continuously do "wait" actions.

• Fix issue where aim indicator could be wrong when first aiming Grenade Gadget.

• Fixed an issue causing the Pocket Sand status to remain forever if a teleporter was used while in the dust cloud. (Reported by @ninmonkey)

• Slightly increased the thrown range of Pocket Sand.

• Pocket Sand can no longer be used through walls.

• Various beams and projectiles can now destroy doors.

• Fixed an issue where porbs were not properly destroyed by explosions and other projectiles.

• Adjusted porbs to not release pins when destroyed early.

• Company Policy no longer triggers on hazard destruction.

• Voidwing now bursts through doors, provided it's not on full heat.

• Reduced named bullet damage buff from quadruple damage to triple damage.

• Fixed an issue where Rexogenus and certain other enemies were immune to burning overload damage. (Reported by @catastrophy427, @juh9870)

• Reduced hitstop on the explosion from burning overload.

• Fixed an issue where rare weapons would sometimes appear in the wrong stations.

• The following weapons are now rare: Orebreaker, Molecular Katana, Railgun, Needle and Thread.

• The following rare weapons are now common: Cardinal, The Highwayman.

• Rare weapons now have a small chance to appear as an unstable option in regular weapon stations.

• Rare weapon stations now guarantee one option with one high quality mod, and a second with three high quality mods.

• Fixed Drilldrones being hittable when burrowed.

• Explosion indicators are colored based on their effect on the player.

• Eggs inside reworked, eggs now physically erupt from bodies and have a one turn delay before hatching. All severity levels of the ailment now utilize eggs instead of drones.

• Larva now deal three times as much damage.

• Larva no longer deflect or cut projectiles (no more larva rocket launcher shenanigans).

• Larva no longer evolve into pupa on hit.

• Bellusect Worker attack and behavior updated.

• Bellusect Soldier attack and behavior updated.

• Egg Hosts replace Infested Hosts in most places.

• Bugzapper adjusted to no longer be able to zap friendly projectiles at all, even accidentally.

• Acid sac, shotgrub, and other acid attacks no longer leave acid pools behind.

• Fixed an issue causing aim indicators of lunged attacks to misrepresent where their attacks would occur in the lunge.

• Improved shields so they have more consistent interactions with all attack types.

• Shields rotate with actors.

• Fixed beams being able to be shot through walls.

• Enemies will no longer open doors unless they're alerted to you.

🖼️ Art

• New actor spawning VFX.

• Station goo now morphs to create your weapons.

• Fixed spawn indicators persisting across levels. (Reported by @megaquack)

• Fixed an issue where some flames didn't play their smoke effects on expiry.

• Extend transporter glow VFX.

• Hitstop effects now occur before audio/VFX play when a door is shattered.

• Increased the strength of door shattering effects from non-explosive sources (eg. Avalanche).

• All VFX for door shattering are now pre-generated to reduce lag from spawning the effects.

• Beam weapons now cast light.

• Fix issue where shuriken and other rotating projectiles would not always face forward between turns.

• Adjust decorative 'doors' in clockwork biome to read as windows instead

✅ UI

• Fixed issue where rejecting a customizer wouldn't exit when using a binding. (Reported by @c1nnbun, @hvarf)

• Fixed floor callout misalignment with missions in world choice.

• Removed hover audio from world choice background buttons.

• Environmental hazards will no longer show their health bars.

• Fixed stabilizer station interaction point persisting when used.

• Show aim indicator for Boosterpack flames.

• Show aim indicator for Kinetic Surge.

• Fixed the item cooldown wipe updating slowly when taking turns quickly.

• Prevented invalid tooltips from displaying during spawn animation. (Reported by @juh9870)

• Hud shows "Equator" instead of "Floor" when reached.

• Fixed a template error when receiving the Risking tactic as a reward. (Reported by @ninmonkey)

• Fixed typo in die hard description. (Reported by @ninmonkey)

• Fixed incorrect hovertank ammo icon.

• Adjusted the poisoned icon to not overflow text lines.

• Fixed the rare tag being retained in some chests, causing non-rare weapons to be tagged otherwise.

• The customizer can now show higher rarities of equipped mods. (Reported by @reinerevans, @catastrophy427)

• Increased the clickable button area of in-world UI bubbles.

• Fixed UI bubbles flickering slightly in size under certain conditions.

• Correct colors on rare weapon chest interact popup.

🤖 Tech

• Prevented another rare crash caused by accessing a destroyed physics object.

🗺️ Level Generation

• Improved level generator speed and stability.

• Fixed several common level generation failure cases that could lead to increased generation times.

• Levels will no longer generate if the path to the exit cannot be formed.

• Fixed an issue causing all floor paths to no longer be rendered.

• Improved the clarity of floor paths, separating them more effectively from walls.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the exit (and maybe other) objects to spawn inside walls and out of bounds,

• Fixed some cases where the posts between walls were using inconsistent appearances.

• Fixed an issue causing walls to still generate between large blocks in some cases.

• Fixed a rare softlock when moving between floors.

• Moved some common failure cases earlier in generation, so less time is wasted if a map has to regenerate.

• Optimised pathfinding mesh generation that occurs when doors open.

Check out the full changelog

—Chronosphere Team