Heroes For Hire has been updated to 0.17.0.0!

On April 27th, Heroes For Hire will be joining the InterfaceX sale, keep an eye out for that!

Heroes For Hire is nearing content completion! This patch introduces the final boss, and with it, an actual way to beat the game! This is only part 1 of the final boss as I wanted to include a lot more along with it, but couldn't get it done in time for the sale.

Enjoy, and here are the patch notes!

0.17.0.0

Additions:

• Dragging a Dimensional Key to the raid map now unlocks the final boss...

• The boss isn't complete fully yet, a furniture expansion is planned alongside it, but it could not be finished in time for an upcoming event so part 2 will come later.

• Does drop 'Antimatter' which can be crafted with magic, feather and scale dust to create 'Divine Dust.'

• Which can be used with expert equipment braces and sharpening stones, results upgrade weapons/equipment. Will be used in future furniture as well.

• Drops 3 relics.

• Black Heart: Acts as an Orb of Infinity, but doesn't damage heroes. If crafted with antimatter, turns into a Blessed Heart that counteracts 1 cursed relic, and turns back into Black Heart when it breaks.

• Universal Tear: When a hero takes damage, the enemy that dealt the damage will become cursed for a short period of time.

• All Seeing Eye: When a hero misses their target, the next attack they deal will always deal critical damage.

• New advanced service. Baron: Increases the chance of bosses appearing in your dungeon pool, and makes the two penultimate raids always appear in the pool if they can.

• New bomb! Flash of Antimatter. Curses enemies.

• Completion times have been added to the audit screen when the mission, and final boss have been completed.

Other Changes:

• Expanded the "Get the ball rolling!" list slightly. Sorry, this probably breaks some older files.

• Holding V now always speeds the game up to the max speed, no matter what.

• Added the ability to move the map camera on raid popups.

• Five star raids can no longer appear before the final boss is vanquished.

• Tweaked the look of the Juggler set.

• Projects now properly update the last raid button.

• The prep button for raids no longer factors in levels, as it was messing things up.

• Switched the order of the Sort dropdown on the Item Storage popup so that Item Type is now the first in the list.

Balance:

• Small raids are now even smaller, while medium and large raids are slightly bigger.

• Enemies now have less health in beginner raids.

• The price of guide unlocks have dramatically reduced. Also fixed some functionality.

• Tweaked enemy spawn mechanics slightly to try and make encounters fairer.

• Key drops are now more common from both penultimate raids.

• Increased the Crystal Queen's healing.

• All chests/cabinets now provide 4 more inventory slots as a base.

• Tweaked enemy spawn distribution on higher level Cave/Slime raids so that webs/slimes are more common at higher levels.

• The Void Ritual totems have been nerfed.

• Reduced the value of Raid Orders.

• The Miner/Lumberjack shop now sells items for cheaper.

• Holidays now occur far more often when playing Speedway Slums. You can now only ever hire one hero at a time as well.

• Increased received healing from the Salmon Head.

• The Incandescent Slime now cures status effects when a potion is used. Previous relic was too niche and commonly obsolete by the time it was obtained in my testing.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a potential crash caused by automatic crafting.

• Furniture on tables are now drawn on tables, not on the ground.

• Fixed a mismatch with project levels, which can no longer be level 5.

• Fixed some issues caused by pausing on an exact frame while in a raid.

• Fixed some mismatched guide entries.

• Fixed scrapping Divine equipment, inside and outside of the crafting popup.

• Spawned Bosses and Tended Hollows raids now start at the right level. This means it is no longer possible to cheese bosses early, sorry.

• Orbs of Infinity can now break when returning from raids. Sorry this was always intended.

• Bone Piles no longer save as Peaceful Lakes.

• Moving items around in the Item Storage while it is full no longer spams messages.

• Sharpening pristine equipment no longer degrades it.

• Fixed some small oddities with moving popups.

• Fixed some hover tooltip sizes.