Onboarding Update

Onboarding Improvements

• Fully reworked tutorial

• Added a prompt advising players to survive 5 minutes to unlock the Bell

• Added a prompt advising the player to use the Bell

User Interface

• Changed game font

Balancing

• Decimal spell damage now has a chance to round up (e.g., 50.6 → 60% chance to deal 51 damage)

• Monster death loot now scales with their health

• Reduced amount of gold gained per coin in multiplayer

• Reduced gold gain increase per bell ring

• Added a “Stress” random event that increases monster count for one minute

• Removed the “Chill” random event that reduced monster count for one minute

• Monster count now increases linearly during the first 5 minutes

• Reworked the Tornado spell

• Balanced Challenge unlock prices

• Winter’s Respite can no longer be triggered by Multicast

• Reintroduced the Lich enemy

• Decreased upgrade costs for Chests and Blessing acquisition/upgrades

• Decreased Everrotting One boss health

• Decreased Everrotting One charge damage

• Decreased Everrotting One cleaver throw damage

• Increased trigger rate of stronger spell upgrades

• Increased Eruption spell damage and radius

• Increased Elite monster spawn rate

• Decreased Elite monster damage

• Increased overall monster count

• Balanced orb upgrades

• Increased multiplayer monster count and health

• Decreased Shrine of Elites trigger ratio

Small Changes

• Improved text outlines

• Fine-tuned UI gray levels

• Shrine alpha now increases gradually upon spawning

• Increased volume of some spell sound effects

• Improved boss kill rewards

• Renamed spell tiers

• Added Orbs to the Grimoire

• Changed “START LOBBY” to “MULTIPLAYER”

• Improved lobby models

• Multiplayer menus now allow more time to choose when multiple options are available

• Clients are now dropped from multiplayer sessions if their connection is too unstable

Bug Fixes

• Improved multiplayer stability

• Fixed terrain lighting issues

• Fixed Dash cooldown resetting when consuming a charge

• Fixed incorrect “HEXITE GAINED” display in Slaughterfields

• Fixed crash when upgrading a level 5 Chest

• Fixed crash when leveling up

• Fixed crash when pausing after failing to join a multiplayer lobby

• Fixed UI depth fighting between multiplayer portraits and challenge panels in the lobby

• Fixed players being waited for at run start despite not being in the server

• Fixed server-side issue

• Fixed Fireshard being cast in the wrong direction as a client in multiplayer

• Prevented players with different game versions from playing together

• Fixed client-side timer desync when server load time differed

• Fixed stretched challenge background texture

• Fixed collision issue allowing players to pass through a wall in Slaughterfields

• Fixed model and terrain culling issues

• Fixed Analytics consent being stuck on “No”

• Fixed incorrect sign displayed when upgrading Ice Orb slowdown strength (“-” → “+”)

• Fixed Permafrost damage stat decimal display

• Fixed mid-run freezes

• Fixed client-side spell upgrades not applying in multiplayer

• Fixed occasional crash when starting a multiplayer run

• Fixed server incorrectly marking players as ready while still loading

• Fixed crash occurring upon smashing a runestone

• Fixed orb skills not being correctly upgraded in multiplayer

• Fixed orb upgrades unlock one level too late (21 instead of 20)

• Fixed crash occurring upon leveling up spells as client in multiplayer

• Fixed progression counters not working properly

• Fixed client-side crash occurring when a player grabs a pickup

• Fixed client-side bug preventing game end table appearing