As 2024 comes to a close, another patch, with a ton of fixes, polish and fixes!

V1.02a

This patch has focused on Performance (as I've been playing it loads on my Steamdeck), Polish and Progression.

Having played the game a bunch, I've decided to soup up a bunch of XP rewards; difficulty multipliers now apply to more XP sources, and the XP rewards for completing a level are now significantly higher!

• - Mana Gen bonus now shown on Character UI

• - Bonus Collected Dust now shown

• - Improved performance of skin select on SteamDeck

• - Poison cloud tweaked down

• - Improve shiny mob reflection probe performance

• - Collectables now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance

• - Massively optimised shadows of gnomes

• - Cleared up a ton of unused models in the game to improve performance

• - Reduced thickness of some smoke, so you can see where you're going a bit better!

• - Bonus Mana Gen now shown under stats

• - Pets now target your last-hit location, as opposed to firing straight past it

• - Toned down a number of impact effects, so it's easier to see what's goin gon when you have a massive army

• - Gnomes now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance

• - Mobs now disable rendering when offscreen for more performance

• - Knight pet no longer fires Dog Barks

• - Walking pets no longer fire under the ground

• - Bonus XP at level end from remaining Gnome Army is now scaled by the quality of the Gnomes you had (upto 600% for Special Gnomes)

• - End of level Bonus XP now correctly shows and obeys boosts from gear

• - XP Drops now obey extra XP from gear and display it

• - Player Mana Regen now gets a boost every 20 levels spent on it

• - Gnome Resurrection Skill now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it

• - Gnome Speed now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it

• - Gnome Damage now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it

• - Gnome Health now has a boost every 20 levels spent on it

• - Remaining Cash and Dust bonus XP now correctly respects difficulty

• - Fixed a long-standing issue with AutoGnomes and StoryGnomes

• - Improved some readability of stat upgrading UI

• - Improved readout of Mana Regen and Gnome Damage boost from gear

• - Implemented browsing of currently equipped gear. It's not *perfect*, but it's a vast improvement over 'not being able to do this at all'

• - Rare, Epic and Legendary chests are now shown at level end if you missed them

• - Reworked Player Health calculations to take into account level + gear better

• - Massively improved Gnome Health and Player Health stats on Gear

• - Healers will overheal much less now

• - Mages will over-rejuv much less now

• - UI Readout now shows a more accurate average Gnome Health

• - Fixed issue where Mages would waste their mana over-juving you, due to a lack of clamp

• - Fixed issue where Healers would waste their mana over-healing you, due to a lack of clamp

• - Capped stat upload rate to Steam.