Double Down Update Now Live - Patch Notes

We are excited to announce that our second major update for Hyper Light Breaker, “Double Down”, is now live! Since Hyper Light Breaker launched in Early Access in January of this year, the title has been improving and expanding thanks to YOUR feedback. Today’s update evolves the Hyper Light adventure like never before, bringing a slew of new content and developments for you to jump into. Check out all the new features, gameplay updates, and bug fixes below!

Features and Gameplay Updates:

New Crowns

The Twins: Bersia & Vesia

• Intro Cinematic (not final, expect improvements in the future)

New Breaker: Gravenheart

• Gravenheart can be unlocked from the loadout menu, like all other Breakers.

• Preferred Blades: Soldier’s Light, Bloody Pillar, Vector Hammer, Breaker’s Buster, Zero Edge

• Preferred Rails: Grind 42R, Blunderbuss, and Burst Launcher

• Preferred Amps: Shatter Gauntlet, Berserker’s Exoskeleton

• Brawler Perk: Every Armor Shard increases your melee DMG.

• Tank Perk: Parrying has a chance to refill an Armor Shard.

Game Flow Updates

Bounties There are now bounties available to collect out in The Overgrowth! See the Deputy by the telepad to choose from a list of available bounties. Bounties are repeatable with rewards that will aid you in your current cycle.

• Choose carefully, you’re only allowed to complete two bounties per cycle!

New Currency Rewards: Byte Shifters - Universal Re-rollers Completing Bounties can net you a Byte Shifter artifact that allows you to universally re-roll the following multiple choice offers:

• Holobytes

• Affixes

• Vendor stock

• Gear drops with multiple choices

Soup Vouchers - Free lunch!

• Completing Bounties can get you a free lunch at the Soup Bar. Bring your voucher to get a free Soup Buff!

Glitch Bar Once you’ve successfully reached the Abyss, you will then have access to the Glitch Bar. This allows you to customize your runs through a list of difficulty modifiers!

• Increase the difficulty to earn more Abyss Stones and Golden Rations.

The Soup Master is open for business! Go visit the new vendor, Mylus, who offers a variety of delicious soups — after you bring him your ingredients! Ingredients are found all around The Overgrowth, bring them back to the Soup Master and he’ll whip up a soup bowl which will provide a temporary buff. A Buff lasts until one of the following things happens:

• The player extracts to the Hub.

• The player finishes the run.

• The player overwrites a buff with another buff.

New Mods

Rot Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase rot duration by 2 seconds

Bleed Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase how often Bleed triggers during movement

Mark Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase mark duration by 2 seconds

Crystal Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase crystal burst speed by 0.5 seconds

Hack Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase Hack duration by 3 seconds.

Shock Efficiency - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Increase shock bounces by +1

Concussive Weight

• Charged Finisher deals stagger damage equal to 5% of the target’s total stagger meter.

Symbiotic Virus

• When applying maximum stacks of Rot to an enemy, all damage dealt to that enemy will be shared with nearby enemies afflicted with Rot.

Chaos Injectors

• Hitting an enemy inflicts a random status effect every 5 hits.

Ion Surge - Rail, Blade, Amp Affix

• Shock gets additional bounces and deals 10% more damage.

Perfect Cleave

• Hitting an enemy with a charged attack deals max damage in