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Steam News17 July 202626d ago

Update 0.8.1

🚨 "THE DAILY DIVE UPDATE" releases 28 AUG 🚨 "THE FULL RELEASE UPDATE" releases 11 OCT βš– BALANCE REDACTED Guardian: REDACTED, because it was so insanely busted, especially with Armour/Shield builds (still is pretty bus

In this update6

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Full Genome Guardian 2 update

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What changed

7 fixes0 additions3 changes1 removal
  • Balance
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
changedβš– BALANCEREDACTED Guardian: REDACTED , because it was so insanely busted, especially with Armour/Shield builds (still is pretty busted)
changedπŸ”„ CHANGESREDACTED Guardian: There's now a one-time SETUP DIVE button warning that states REDACTED when using this Guardian in MINER Mode.
changedπŸ”„ CHANGES"MINER" Mode: "BOMBARDMENT!" Powerpolyp won't damage the purple Abyss Deposits (the ones that hurt you when broken). Everything else still will though! slightly increased area of effect for Freeze & Explosive Deposits.
removedπŸ”¨ FIXESREDACTED Guardian: the REDACTED part of the Lives count no longer fades out when Lives = 0.
fixedπŸ”¨ FIXES"Disc" Bracket: Projectiles would instantly vanish if Velocity was 10. "Compressor" Mod: now works with this as expected.
fixedπŸ”¨ FIXES"Seismograph" Mod: fixed a number of cases where the Size/Velocity modifier swap wasn't being applied.

Genome Guardian 2 changes

changedREDACTED Guardian: REDACTED , because it was so insanely busted, especially with Armour/Shield builds (still is pretty busted)
changedREDACTED Guardian: There's now a one-time SETUP DIVE button warning that states REDACTED when using this Guardian in MINER Mode.
changed"MINER" Mode: "BOMBARDMENT!" Powerpolyp won't damage the purple Abyss Deposits (the ones that hurt you when broken). Everything else still will though! slightly increased area of effect for Freeze & Explosive Deposits.
removedREDACTED Guardian: the REDACTED part of the Lives count no longer fades out when Lives = 0.
fixed"Disc" Bracket: Projectiles would instantly vanish if Velocity was 10. "Compressor" Mod: now works with this as expected.

🚨"THE DAILY DIVE UPDATE"releases 28 AUG

🚨"THE FULL RELEASE UPDATE"releases 11 OCT

βš– BALANCE

  • REDACTED Guardian: REDACTED, because it was so insanely busted, especially with Armour/Shield builds (still is pretty busted)

πŸ”„ CHANGES

  • REDACTED Guardian: There's now a one-time SETUP DIVE button warning that states REDACTED when using this Guardian in MINER Mode.

  • "MINER" Mode:

    • "BOMBARDMENT!" Powerpolyp won't damage the purple Abyss Deposits (the ones that hurt you when broken). Everything else still will though!

    • slightly increased area of effect for Freeze & Explosive Deposits.

πŸ”¨ FIXES

  • REDACTED Guardian: the REDACTED part of the Lives count no longer fades out when Lives = 0.

  • "Disc" Bracket:

    • Projectiles would instantly vanish if Velocity was 10.

    • "Compressor" Mod: now works with this as expected.

  • "Seismograph" Modfixed a number of cases where the Size/Velocity modifier swap wasn't being applied.
  • "Mercy" Endless Mutation: it's supposed to prevent you from dealing Damage while at full Health, and now it does so consistently and affects Deposits.

  • SETTINGS:

    • Menu Animation: in 0.8.0, it was preventing other animations from occurring too.

    • Potato Mode: was supposed to also disable projectile trails, and now it does.

  • Weapon ACGT "Chromaelstrom": explosions are now tinted red for Crits.

  • Proximity Weapons...:

    • ...with Bounce:

      • fixed cases where they'd do no Damage if their explosion size was tiny.

      • now triggers explosions when hitting Deposits.

    • ...with Pierce:

      • no longer deal Damage twice per hit.

  • some text formatting stuff.

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