v1.9 - Goblins Attack! - now live

Thanks to all who joined the v1.9 beta. It's now fully live.

v1.9 introduces an explosive new branch plus many new spells and abilities. A huge number of small tweaks and improvements have been included.

v1.9 summary:

• New branch GREAT HALL: tons of goblins and explosions

• Three new spells: VORTEX, FETTER, and QUILLS

• Six new abilities: AURA, SHRED, WRING, GUZZLE, ASSASSINATE, and FRENZY

• Abilities now take 0 turns and can be chosen out of 3 options

• Changes to Officer, Apothecary, Assassin, Commander, and Challenger disguises

• UMBRA has been properly nerfed

• Improvements to BLINK, TEMPEST, WARD, LEVITATE, and BLAST

• Options menu reworked. Custom input delay option added to fix numerous control issues.

• Tons of bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, and UI improvements

• Noise system revisited and now shown on UI

• Secrets?!?

Full changelog:

New Content

• New branch GREAT HALL: tons of goblins and explosions

• New monster Goblin Hurler: throws bomb

• New monster Balaur Hatchling: an early game version of the Balaur but this one is completely blind.

• New spell VORTEX: pulls monsters in and around you and damages flying/floating monsters

• New spell FETTER: binds a monster in magical chains that cause levitation and prevent movement

• New spell QUILLS: gives you a magical shield based on your missing health that reflects melee attack damage

• Vampire abilities now take 0 turns and can be chosen out of 3 options just like spells

• New ability AURA: a rapidly shrinking aura of immunity that can be used to shield yourself or allies

• New ability SHRED: damages monsters near you and adds Bleeding

• New ability WRING: causes non-bleeders to become bleeders

• New ability GUZZLE: collects all nearby blood

• New ability ASSASSINATE: teleport next to the closest enemy and give them stunned and vulnerable statuses for 1 turn

• New ability FRENZY: sets your HP to 1 and gives you a quills shield equal to your missing health

• New Legendary Grimoire that gives more spell options or more mana

• New MALLEABLE MODE. All spells, abilities, stat upgrades, etc. are chosen for you.

• Added 4 new entrances to the hotel

• New item Hunter's Lens: improves your critical hit chances

Graphics changes

• The explosion animation has been redrawn to look a lot better

• Chests now explode their items onto the surrounding tiles instead of just being a menu

• One turn illumination from spells now draws instantly

• Bats added to the title screen

• Added fadeouts to a few spell animations like FIRESTORM

• Primers have been colored blue to more clearly distinguish them from grimoires

• Now drawing blood behind torches... it looked really weird before

• New chair obstacle with 4 direction sprites

• Camera zooms in when talking to friendlies

Gameplay & UI

• Noise is now displayed on the main UI. Many actions that were missing noise now have them and the system has been rebalanced.

• Commander now starts with AURA, Assassin with FADE, and Alchemist with WRING

• Apothecary given another extra poison resist level

• Officer now gets a full HP/MP heal on level up

• Challenger now starts with an ability when starting as vampire

• Significantly buffed weekly challenge archenemies (they were real pushovers before)

• Raised the chance for Challenger to start as vampire to 50:50

• UMBRA has been nerfed. It should still be a great spell but not so good it trivializes the game.

• UMBRA minions are sped up but weaker, so you don't have to wait on them so much.

• No more UMBRA healing on Revenant

• Hotel stairs can now collapse. Collapsed stairs require an extra turn to climb.

• Allied vampires no longer steal your blood unless they need it