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Steam News2 January 20266mo ago

Patch 0.2.3 New Year, New Tweaks 🎉

Happy New Year, Slayers! Patch 0.2.3 focuses on progression depth, clarity, balance tuning, and a tougher endgame, along with plenty of fixes and optimizations.

In this update9

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Full Horde Slayer update

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What changed

1 fix5 additions14 changes2 removals
  • Performance
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Store
  • UI and audio
changedHappy New Year, Slayers!Patch 0.2.3 focuses on progression depth, clarity, balance tuning, and a tougher endgame, along with plenty of fixes and optimizations.
addedLuck & Rarity ImprovementsAdded Luck as a new stat.
addedLuck & Rarity ImprovementsAbilities and upgrades now have a Luck-based chance to roll with a minimum rarity in the skill selection popup.
removedLuck & Rarity ImprovementsSkill popups can no longer roll multiple upgrades of the same type (e.g. Rare Crit & Epic Crit at the same time).
changedLuck & Rarity ImprovementsThe shop has been improved with categories for easier navigation.
addedOverlord – Phase 2Added Overlord Phase 2 , featuring: Its own set of new, very challenging enemy types Difficulty that increases every third minute during Phase 2

Horde Slayer changes

changedPatch 0.2.3 focuses on progression depth, clarity, balance tuning, and a tougher endgame, along with plenty of fixes and optimizations.
addedAdded Luck as a new stat.
addedAbilities and upgrades now have a Luck-based chance to roll with a minimum rarity in the skill selection popup.
removedSkill popups can no longer roll multiple upgrades of the same type (e.g. Rare Crit & Epic Crit at the same time).
changedThe shop has been improved with categories for easier navigation.

Happy New Year, Slayers!

Patch 0.2.3 focuses on progression depth, clarity, balance tuning, and a tougher endgame, along with plenty of fixes and optimizations.

Changes

Luck & Rarity Improvements

  • Added Luck as a new stat.

  • Abilities and upgrades now have a Luck-based chance to roll with a minimum rarity in the skill selection popup.

  • Skill popups can no longer roll multiple upgrades of the same type (e.g. Rare Crit & Epic Crit at the same time).

  • The shop has been improved with categories for easier navigation.

Overlord – Phase 2

  • Added Overlord Phase 2, featuring:

    • Its own set of new, very challenging enemy types

    • Difficulty that increases every third minute during Phase 2

New Upgrades

  • Epic Health

  • Legendary Health

  • Epic Mana

  • Legendary Mana

  • Luck upgrades

  • Legendary Regeneration

Pick-Up Buffs

Temporary buffs can now be found during runs:

  • Health

  • Speed

  • Haste

Balance Adjustments

  • Damage ramping has been reduced to smooth out late-game spikes.

Visual & UI Improvements

  • Minimap moved to the top-right corner

  • Coins moved to display below the minimap

  • Objectives are now shown in the top-left

  • Stats map has been fully disabled — the minimap now stays visible at all times

  • Skill selection popup now subtly indicates the minimum possible rarity

  • Improved chest visuals and interactions

  • Added client-side XP visuals collection

  • Map navigation visual fixes

Performance & Fixes

  • Investigated and improved performance drops when many enemies are hit simultaneously

  • Various optimizations and bug fixes

Thanks for playing and supporting Horde Slayer! See you in the hordes, /Aero

Source

Steam News / 2 January 2026

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