Hey everyone, quick balance patch before the weekend, plus a few suggestions and bug fixes that were sent in.
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Hey everyone, quick balance patch before the weekend, plus a few suggestions and bug fixes that were sent in.
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changedHey everyone, quick balance patch before the weekend, plus a few suggestions and bug fixes that were sent in.
changedSeeing the item combos people are using (through the leaderboard) is opening up a lot of great opportunities for balance adjustments. I’m really happy to see such a wide variety of builds! My overall goal is to make more synergistic adjustments so players feel encouraged to combine more items in different ways. I think that will lead to a better overall experience.
addedCore: - Steam Deck -- the viewport now expands to 16:10 to fit the steam decks resolution. - Hold-to-Auto-Attack (new Accessibility-tab toggle, default OFF): holding the melee button continuously attacks as fast as possible. While enabled, secondary/special katana attacks switch from hold-to-charge to double-press (fire immediately when available), and the HUD shows two smaller button-popups above the sword icon to indicate the double-press input.
changedBalance: - Chronocide: temporal strike special cooldown ~44% shorter (18s -> 10s) and its strike damage +33%; it was the weakest special payoff on the longest cooldown in the roster. - Leedras Scale: primary swing damage +30%; it had a baseline primary (single-type syringe scaling) and leaned entirely on its dash special.
changedSootforge Cannon: damage ~+125% (more than doubled) so it isn't 100% dependent on its flat burn DoT (burn doesn't scale with gun level and bosses clear DoTs). - Protean Gun: damage ~+70% and ammo cost cut ~33% (about +155% damage per ammo). - Plasma Minigun: damage ~+45% to offset the extra fire gate that made it strictly worse than the Mini Gun. - Ballista: damage ~+35%. - Flare Gun: damage ~+33%. - Cosmic Pact: damage ~+55%; only lands one reliable hit since its rift triggers after the target dies. - Siphon Strike: cooldown ~-42% (about +75% effective DPS); was a single hit on an extreme cooldown. - Aether Drain: damage ~+45%. - Void Impalement: damage ~+30%. - Summoned-minion base damage doubled (+100%): buffs Void Legion, the Protean Pet combo, Spectral Dagger, and Warp Thornes; Swarm Rifle drones were left as-is since they already deal full gun damage.
temporal strike special cooldown ~44% shorter (18s→10s↓temporal strike special cooldown ~44% shorter ( decreased, buff
Katanaut changes
changedHey everyone, quick balance patch before the weekend, plus a few suggestions and bug fixes that were sent in.
changedSeeing the item combos people are using (through the leaderboard) is opening up a lot of great opportunities for balance adjustments. I’m really happy to see such a wide variety of builds! My overall goal is to make more synergistic adjustments so players feel encouraged to combine more items in different ways. I think that will lead to a better overall experience.
addedCore: - Steam Deck -- the viewport now expands to 16:10 to fit the steam decks resolution. - Hold-to-Auto-Attack (new Accessibility-tab toggle, default OFF): holding the melee button continuously attacks as fast as possible. While enabled, secondary/special katana attacks switch from hold-to-charge to double-press (fire immediately when available), and the HUD shows two smaller button-popups above the sword icon to indicate the double-press input.
changedBalance: - Chronocide: temporal strike special cooldown ~44% shorter (18s -> 10s) and its strike damage +33%; it was the weakest special payoff on the longest cooldown in the roster. - Leedras Scale: primary swing damage +30%; it had a baseline primary (single-type syringe scaling) and leaned entirely on its dash special.
changedSootforge Cannon: damage ~+125% (more than doubled) so it isn't 100% dependent on its flat burn DoT (burn doesn't scale with gun level and bosses clear DoTs). - Protean Gun: damage ~+70% and ammo cost cut ~33% (about +155% damage per ammo). - Plasma Minigun: damage ~+45% to offset the extra fire gate that made it strictly worse than the Mini Gun. - Ballista: damage ~+35%. - Flare Gun: damage ~+33%. - Cosmic Pact: damage ~+55%; only lands one reliable hit since its rift triggers after the target dies. - Siphon Strike: cooldown ~-42% (about +75% effective DPS); was a single hit on an extreme cooldown. - Aether Drain: damage ~+45%. - Void Impalement: damage ~+30%. - Summoned-minion base damage doubled (+100%): buffs Void Legion, the Protean Pet combo, Spectral Dagger, and Warp Thornes; Swarm Rifle drones were left as-is since they already deal full gun damage.
Seeing the item combos people are using (through the leaderboard) is opening up a lot of great opportunities for balance adjustments. I’m really happy to see such a wide variety of builds! My overall goal is to make more synergistic adjustments so players feel encouraged to combine more items in different ways. I think that will lead to a better overall experience.
Core: - Steam Deck -- the viewport now expands to 16:10 to fit the steam decks resolution. - Hold-to-Auto-Attack (new Accessibility-tab toggle, default OFF): holding the melee button continuously attacks as fast as possible. While enabled, secondary/special katana attacks switch from hold-to-charge to double-press (fire immediately when available), and the HUD shows two smaller button-popups above the sword icon to indicate the double-press input.
Balance: - Chronocide: temporal strike special cooldown ~44% shorter (18s -> 10s) and its strike damage +33%; it was the weakest special payoff on the longest cooldown in the roster. - Leedras Scale: primary swing damage +30%; it had a baseline primary (single-type syringe scaling) and leaned entirely on its dash special.
Sootforge Cannon: damage ~+125% (more than doubled) so it isn't 100% dependent on its flat burn DoT (burn doesn't scale with gun level and bosses clear DoTs). - Protean Gun: damage ~+70% and ammo cost cut ~33% (about +155% damage per ammo). - Plasma Minigun: damage ~+45% to offset the extra fire gate that made it strictly worse than the Mini Gun. - Ballista: damage ~+35%. - Flare Gun: damage ~+33%. - Cosmic Pact: damage ~+55%; only lands one reliable hit since its rift triggers after the target dies. - Siphon Strike: cooldown ~-42% (about +75% effective DPS); was a single hit on an extreme cooldown. - Aether Drain: damage ~+45%. - Void Impalement: damage ~+30%. - Summoned-minion base damage doubled (+100%): buffs Void Legion, the Protean Pet combo, Spectral Dagger, and Warp Thornes; Swarm Rifle drones were left as-is since they already deal full gun damage.
Bugs: - Doctor's Syringe tracking was not properly tracked in the leaderboards.
