Fractured worlds update

Discover new, fragmented worlds within the chronospheres! Slices of other planets are beginning to intersect the worlds within chronospheres, filled with strange weapons and stranger enemies.

Unlock four new minor biomes: chronospheres begin to manifest active volcanoes, killer scrapyard robots, and more!

0.141 adds four new minibosses, 20 new weapons, nine new enemies, nine new missions and three new gadgets. As well as balance changes, weapon damage numbers, story replay and a host of fixes and improvements.

Steam Cyberpunk Fest

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Overview

• Steam cyberpunk festival

• Minor biomes

  • "Volcanic"

  • "Geometric"

  • "Scrapheap"

  • "Dunes"

• Weapon damage numbers

• Era 2 balance changes

• Codex stories tab

• New gadgets

• Changelog

• Final thoughts

Minor biomes

This release introduces four minor biomes. These special biomes are populated by neverbeforeseen native inhabitants. Will they be your friends or will they try to kill you?

They will try to kill you.

Minor biome "Volanic"

Some like it hot. Specifically Magma Diver, Pyrocrystal and of course [REDACTED].

Urtar feeling the heat.

Minor biome "Geometric"

A realm of pure mathematics. This ain't the math you learned in school. Unless they told you about cubes.

Marcia trying to find an angle.

Minor biome "Scrapheap"

A galactic rubbish dump. They say one alien's junk is another alien's treasure, but this junk walks around and fires shrapnel at your face.

Urtar carefully aiming his "Discarded Device"... What does it do?

Minor biome "Dunes"

Course, rough, and full of sandy desert raiders.

Lillypilly evades Dune Dervishes and Sand Snipers.

Weapon damage numbers

A much requested feature! You can now see the range of damage each weapon's attack can deal.

The low end of the range is the minimum damage a wepaon will do, provided that it lands a hit. The high end is the most it can do.

For example, the mining laser's attack shows "1–39". It fires three beams that do continuous damage. If one beat hits one enemy for one frame it does 1 damage. If all three beams hit an enemy for the entire turn duration, will do 39.

The numbers I was just talking about!

Era 2 balance changes

Era 2 enemies were sponging way too much damage, and have head their health reduced. The dreaded Mad Doctor has had his behaviour adjusted to include more openings to retaliate, especially for melee enjoyers.

Codex stories tab

We've added a new "story" tab to the codex. Here you can read and replay all of the stories and conversations you've seen. You can also replay the intro cinematic.

Codex stories page

New gadgets

Three new gadgets to find!

For example: The Gunboots. You're probably familiar with boots already, maybe you're wearing some right now. Imagine those boots but with guns on them!

Changelog

🌐 Content

• Added 4 new unlockable "minor biomes." These smaller biomes can now appear to add more variety and challenge to your runs.

• Added 4 new minibosses.

• Added 9 new enemies.

• Added 9 new missions.

• 20 new weapons.

• 3 new gadgets (found in Warmonkeys and Outerback)

🏓 Gameplay

• Reduced mass of summoned Clockworker minions, so players are less likely to get trapped by them. (Reported by @pvmpkinpi3)

• Adjusted Big Boy attacks and colors to make it easier to track it's attacks, especially when behind it. (Reported by @alivealone)

• Fixed issue where the rework to the Siege Mode gadget didn't apply. (Reported by @pezzo)

• Buffed Absolute Unit; the tackle now inflicts Weak Point. (Reported by @rymarq, @sertainlysomeone)

• Weak Point is no longer triggered by non-damaging hits. (Reported by @sertainlysomeone)

• Burning overload now leaves the burned enemy with the correct number of burning stacks.

• Fixed an issue where porbs did not stick to the heart (despite being close to my own.) (Reported by @bones__, @juh9870)

• Rocket Shotgun quickdraw attack reworked to be more exciting.

• Health nerfs to many Era 2 enemies across all biomes. Generally, these enemies were sponging up a too much damage. In some biomes these are small adjustments, in others (like Warmonkeys) the reduction is significant.

• Nerfed Mad Doctor: He now has significant openings in his behavior, which should make life easier for melee builds in particular.

• Buffed Ol' Sputters; the old girl can now carry twice as much ammo.

• Fixed an issue where fracture rifle's quickdraw was using too much ammo. (Reported by @juh9870)

• Slight nerf to Molemech health.

• Fixed an issue where damage from statuses applied by weapons did not count towards weapon mastery. This fixes kills from Ovipositor's "Eggs Inside", Flamethrower's "Burning", Molecular Katana's "Already Dead", and Siege Microwave's "Burning", as well as any other similar interaction. (Reported by @xdbc_)

• Fixed an issue where Jitterbomb kills were not attributed. (Reported by @kyrenin)

• Fixed an issue where Jitterbomb explosions beyond the first were not affected by Big Bada Boom.

• Fixed an issue where pit kills by weapon knockback did not count towards weapon. This allows Clockwork Fan to be mastered.

• Fixed an issue causing Drillkit's draw attack to aim backwards.

• Fixed an issue causing Slasher Shot status to be removable on the same turn that you gain it.

• Fixed an issue causing the Rocket Shotgun to shoot more rockets than intended if fired while at low ammo. (Reported by @.swoopie)

• Fixed an issue causing the Slasher Shot item to incorrectly apply to all weapon attack types instead of only projectiles.

• Fixed an issue causing damage reduction effects (such as the Limiting tactic) to not be correctly counted in the Damage Debt irregular sphere. (Reported by @zenkazemaru)

• Fixed a rare issue causing Hate Uncaged enemies to remain alive after Clutch was killed if both of it's phases died in the same turn. (Reported by @zenkazemaru)

• Mastery mod stations can now be found in upper hemisphere minor biomes. Use at your own risk.

• Reduced nailgun hitstop.

• Greatly reduced hitstop on Splitter. (Reported by @juh9870)

• Booster pack is now more 'flame-y'.

• Updated most mods to work with Shotgun Attachment (eg. Chaining). (Reported by @pezzo)

• Added a spawn delay to the minions spawned by Experience Share so that they never appear in front of you without warning.

• Updated the Close Combat tactic to ensure it doesn't apply to self-damage. (Reported by @juh9870)

• Purifiers are no longer immune to ailments (except burning). Go ahead and ruin their day.

• Supply Lines now reloads both weapons instead of just your current equipped one.

• Added some more mods to the Bellusect Eggs weapon and replaced Prismatic with Overwhelming in the third mastery slot.

• Dodge Roll now reduces stacks of Burning by 10 on use.

• Broodmother no longer activates when hitting larva (which cannot receive the Eggs Inside ailment).

• Eggs Inside will no longer activate on any kind of larva (including Pinky).

• Removed the hidden move action requirement to trigger Pocket Pistol's "Twitchy" mastery mod.

• Biofuel no longer requires kills which are attributed to the player to activate (matching it's description). (Reported by @pezzo)

• Prevented enemies which are about to burrow underground from being targetable by Berojutsu.

• Prototyped new Fungal biome weapons.

• Reduced collisions into the back of projectiles.

• Doubled the base accuracy of the Super Porber to reduce how reliant it is on mods to be useful.

🗺️ Codex

• Codex now unlocks after the first run.

• Added story, intro cinematic, and conversations to the Codex.

• Added hazards to the codex (under enemies tab, for now).

• Added missing biome descriptions to Codex. (Reported by @catastrophy427)

• Minor changes to the equipment UI in the codex to improve readability.

✅ UI

• Fix default UI scaling on Steam Deck.

• Fixed an issue causing the reload bonus of the Outlaw Gloves gear to not be correctly reflected on the weapon card UI.

• Added missing reload binding to gamepad control options.

• Fixed an issue where Wasphive attacks were not correctly localized into several languages. (Reported by @rols_23)

• Minion health bars are now green. (Reported by @kenjiow)

• Reduced the duration of the mod station success screen.

• Improved descriptions of several unlockables. (Reported by @sboxle)

• Take equipment buttons are hidden when unfocused using the keyboard, matching gamepad behaviour.

• Added a text effect when catching a projectile to indicate the effect.

• Fixed Bonesaw causing damage to flicker on the health bar.

• Added damage numbers to weapon attack UI.

📖 Story

• Fixed typo in "The Former Bounty Hunters" conversation. (Reported by @yogitus)

🤖 Tech

• Fixed falling in a hole not triggering ragdolls.

• Fixed a bug where "abandon run" could softlock the game.

• Miscellaneous minor performance improvements.

• Improved performance when activating move indicators at the start of a turn.

🗺️ Level Generation

• Archways will no longer generate adjacent to breakable walls.

• Updated the description of the Glass Dimension sphere to reflect the fact that bosses/minibosses are exempt from the effect.

🔊 Audio

• Updated Molio to make the correct sound when falling to his untimely demise.

🌏 Localization

• Update Japanese localization.

• Update Traditional Chinese localization.

📚 Changelog history

Final thoughts

Thank you everyone for your feedback!

As you can see we've been getting a lot of reports from Steam Discussions, Discord and the in-game Bug Reporter.

Keep it coming, we will have another update in two weeks.