Enter the Chronosphere - Version 0.137.13

Here is detailed changelog for our EA release.

You can see our entire changelog here.

😈 Bosses

• Rexogenus is gone, the Heart of the Chronosphere is beating...

• Reworked Fated Assassin.

• Reworked Mizza, Mud Maverick.

• New miniboss: Bellusect Queen.

• Rustler now has increased beef throughput.

🚪Doors

• Allow opening a door's gate when its barrier is active.

• Allow destroying a door's gate when its barrier is active.

🐲 Enemies

• Made enemy Larva slightly less aggressive when they hatch.

• Added spawn delay for certain secret enemies when ambushing you.

⚔️ Weapons

• Removed The Highwayman from the rare weapon pool.

💊 Mods

• Added 24 new unique mods for weapons.

• Added a new Piercing weapon mod.

• Updated the description of Double Pistols' unique mod "Gun Kata" to better reflect it's function.

• Fixed an issue causing Siege Microwave's unique mod to fire a laser beam on quickdraw.

• Fixed issues with Crumbler, Rapier, Starshard and Splitter's unique mods that caused them to not fire correctly on quickdraw.

• Reduced the range of Solar Sword's unique mod from 24m to 2.4m as intended.

• Improved the Homing mod, now continually searches for targets to prevent unintuitive projectile curving.

• The "Homing" mod can now appear on Mr Blitz.

👜 Gear and gadgets

• Fixed case where enemies could walk back and forth instead of reaching their intended destination.

• Fixed Lucky Coin causing Saucy Mule to rebound against walls, repeatedly firing. (Reported by @hvarf)

• Reworked Deathclock. It now has a more powerful active effect, and no passive effect (explosive barrel huggers, rejoice).

⚠️ Statuses

• Ailments have been reworked. They no longer have weak and strong effects; instead, they are strong immediately. Gas mask has been adjusted to reflect this.

• Poison ailment duration clarified in description.

• Removed Strong condition from ailments.

🦋 Progression

• Created 8 new tactics as rewards for beating irregular spheres. All of them now reward a tactic upon first completion.

• Fixed an issue causing kills with certain weapons to not correctly be detected for weapon mastery progression.

• Weapon mastery now enabled! Completing objectives with weapons can unlock new unique mods.

• Updated objectives for several missions which required completing chronospheres as specific characters.

• Updated the "Tools of The Trade" mission objective to require 5 unique Mole Mines weapons.

• Back Pain mission now requires taking much less damage as Urtar to complete.

• Weird Weapon mission now requires more unique weapons to complete.

🤖 Tech

• Updated to Unity 6.3.14f1.

• VSync and FPS limit have been removed from cloud-synced save data.

• Persist sphere options between runs to disincentivise restarting the game to get better options.

• Improvements to the game loop that should reduce jumps between turns.

• Fully unload levels on exit, reducing memory usage at runtime.

✅ UI

• Many status effects now display underneath the thing that they affect.

• Ailment overloads now indicated by a text effect.

• Provided more detail on how Powerful and Fast statuses work.

• Added missing flavour to all tactics. (Reported by @catastrophy427)

• Hide Steam button in title screen.

• Improve version number display on title screen and in-game.

• Hide move indicator when holding quickdraw with no holstered weapon.

• Non-standard Issue potent weapons show the unique mod as equipped.

• Added "New!" indicator to previously unused equipment in stations.

• The "add mod" slot is hidden when replacing a unique mod.

• Duplicated attacks are collapsed to fix some cases where weapons like Junkgun didn't fit within the station UI. (Reported by @silentj28)

• Added drop shadow to tooltips to increase visual separation.

• Added buttons under chest options to indicate focused choice and the action performed. (Reported by @tera_enemy, @ryanm6440)

• Add bug report button to pause menu. (Reported by @catastrophy427)

• Added mission callouts to unlockable equipment in stations.

• Tweak text popup feedback animation and font.

• Show aim indicator on Demiqueen's drone attack.

• Improve(?) Absolute Unit icon.

• Improved styling of missions in the rewards popup.

• Improved visibility of hover state for instability increase buttons.

• Added phase indicators to the boss health UI.

• Added infinity ammo icon for empty attacks.

• Reorganised Empty attacks to be under primary Attack.

• Weapons with empty attacks no longer flash red when out of ammo.

• Improved styling of Killed By UI with long actor names.

• Add confirm to quit.

• Show "skip tutorial" in pause menu during run.

• Reworked splash screen, decreasing mandatory startup time.

• Clarified Disposable Dolls description.

• Clarified Under New Management rules.

• Clarified Humbling.

• Updated mission reward text.

• Extend duration of "window spurs" feedback text.

• Fixed tooltips appearing multiple times when nested twice.

• Added UI pointers for some enemies which cause rooms/stations to become locked.

• Corrected ammo icons for several weapons.

• Re-enabled the health bar for the Toxic Waste hazard.

🖼️ Art

• Restore missing Hovertank weapon models.

• Blind status from pocket sand now has actor VFX

• Angler weapon appearance

• Add Lightcarver weapon appearance

• Add lights and VFX to door pylons to better indicate where they are.

• Ricochet VFX is now more subtle.

• Add a flash to projectile power effect and increased size.

• Powerful status VFX ends faster when turned off

• Projectile clear VFX now lasts longer onscreen and is more apparent

• Add glint VFX for active abilities coming off cooldown

• Visuals for locked weapon/item stations

• Animate pipes faster during action phase

• Fixed a bug where some poison explosions were erroneously pink.

• New chronoshaft appearance

• Add death animation to "building" type enemies.

• Animate throw on Grenade Gadget.

• Simplify tunnelguard bomb mesh

• Add "dissolve" effect on death and victory.

• Add camera zoom on death and victory.

• Added death animation for buildings.

• Added a new appearance for some reward rooms in dark maps that didn't have one already.

• Disabled muzzle flash on Rollerstakes.

• Hid Rexogenus' actor shadow.

• Minor floor shader visual fixes

🌏 Localization

• Update all localization.

• Fixed French using the Arabic percent sign.

• Fixed floor callout not including index in simplified chinese.

• Localize "Enter the Chronosphere" logo for Chinese and Japanese.

• Replaced stylized "Ƶ" character with a regular "Z" to reduce confusion in Polish language.

• Replace Discord links with QQ links when playing in China.

• Hide bug reporter in China, because its endpoint is currently inaccessible from Chinese internet.

🗺️ Level Generation

• Change the way you reach the core.

• Moved the entrance to several miniboss floors further away from the arena room.

• Added rare + starting weapons to the Adaptive Arsenal irregular sphere.

• Reduced how frequently long dead end areas generate between major gameplay areas.

• Added a new miniboss to the second half of each run.

• Fixed an issue causing some sphere modifiers to override enemies/hazards much more than expected.

• Weapons, gear and gadgets will no longer appear in stations if their associated biome is not unlocked yet.

• Sphere modifiers (eg. Larva Outbreak) will no longer be applied if their associated biome is not unlocked yet.

• Fixed an issue causing some distortions to generate as a hollow ring instead of the expected appearance.

• New landmark rooms appear.

• Reduced how often encounter modifiers (eg. Larva Outbreak) effect enemy spawns.

• The strong enemy on the last floor of each chronosphere will now spawn within the Idealizer room.

• Added significantly more variance in standard combat room sizes across all spheres.

• Interactables should now generate further from doors.

• Improved the appearance/generation speed of most grid warping effects.

• Breakable walls no longer generate special texturing around where they meet the floor like other walls.

• Broke up the transition line between different floor textures a bit.

• Reduced how noisy the edges of some large blocks / holes in the maps tend to be.

📖 Story

• Add intro cinematic.

• Add special first run.

• Added more conversations to the Starseer.

• Edited down some conversations.

• Fixed typos in knitting skit. (Reported by @reinerevans)

🔊 Audio

• Barrelman Enemy SFX

• SFX for Enemy Sand Sniper

• SFX for Enemy Dune Dervish

• Obsidius Mini-Boss SFX

• Magma Diver Enemy SFX

• Clutch Enemy SFX

• Caged Hate Enemy SFX

• Mad Doctor SFX

• Stim Cultist SFX

• Rifleman SFX

• Shock Trooper SFX

• Bushwhacker SFX

• Pub Crawler SFX

• Gunfighter SFX

• Roughneck SFX

• Heart of The Chronosphere SFX

• Pyrocrystal SFX

• Tick SFX

• Wheelie Big SFX

• Dire Clock Worker SFX

• Secret Station SFX

• Scrub + Ghillie SFX.

• Larva's chittering is now subtle. (Reported by @Kniites)

• Lilly Pilly SFX.

• Changes to spatialization for small sounds (no longer hear them in only one ear).

🐛 Bugs

• Fixed an issue causing the Clockwork Slugger/Thunder weapons to crash the game if used with the Torching mod.

• Fixed an issue causing the War Crimes gear to apply ailments to the player if they hit themselves.

• Fixed an issue causing some larva spawned by the Eggs Inside ailment to stand in place and not follow the player.

• Fixed an issue causing the Adaptive Arsenal irregular sphere to randomly give the player weapons from locked biomes.

• Fixed an issue where gunfighter poncho was lasting twice as long as it should.

• Fixed an issue where the Chaining mod would cause Explosive Penetration to activate.

• Fixed an issue where the Chaining mod would not work correctly on projectiles with multi-hit, eg. Ricochet Rifle.

• Fix bug where using kinetic surge and other abilities could increment heat attack on your equipped weapon. (Reported by @ilovelizards)

• Fixed bug where enraged Bellusect Workers were sometimes non-hostile.

• Fixed issue where certain bombs would instantly explode on contact with hazards.

• Porbs and other sticky projectiles now correctly stick to hazards.

• Fixed issue where Laser Drills mod fired an infinite length laser, instead of the correct length.

• Fixed a bug where Flamelobber Turret bombs could be destroyed by explosions. (Reported by @hvarf)

• Fix issue where sphere options would change after getting any unlock, even if that unlock did not introduce new run content.

• Fix random jitter in expiring projectile animation (flames, flamelobber grenades).

• Fixed dpad navigation crashing the game when you have no items. (Reported by @piepop101)

• Fix possible error on importing invalid save files.

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

• Fixed issues where certain high-speed actions could appear to penetrate walls when hitstop occurred.

• Fix issue where analytics toggle would always appear disabled in options window. (Reported by @.swoopie)

• Fixed weapon UI disappearing momentarily when Non-standard Issue changed weapons.

• Fixed being able to equip multiple unique mods.

• Fixed a word in the Start Somewhere mission popup breaking over multiple lines.

• Fixed invalid tooltips on the character select screen (Reported by @catastrophy427)

• Fix issues where move indicator was predicting a move through doors.

• Fix direction of explosion damage number movement.

• Fix issue where Chronosphere exteriors would not be regenerated in title menu after completing a mission.

• Fixed narrow paragraph width during dialogue for some languages.

• Fix bug where actor animations were sometimes not playing.

• Fixed an issue causing enemy ambushes to occur on the final floor.

• Fixed an issue causing small patches of separated floor to generate adjacent to rooms, creating useless doors.

• Fixed an issue causing the shaft on the final floor to generate with multiple openings.

• Fixed an issue causing the shaft to occasionally be inaccessible from the final floor.

• Fixed an issue causing the shaft to occasionally be inaccessible from the final floor.

• Fixed a rare issue causing rare weapon stations to appear multiple times on a single floor.

• Fixed a rare issue causing large centrepiece rooms to appear multiple times on a single floor.