Katanaut Patch 1.130

That's a wrap on this season's leaderboards! Huge thank you to everyone who threw themselves down the elevator and competed this month. Watching the runs pour in never gets old. <3 Rewards are going out to the TOP 10 on every leaderboard. If you placed, this season's crown reward is yours: Reaper's Harvest - a gravity rift that warps the world behind you while every nearby kill detonates a soul-reap implosion that sucks the whole horde in. Go flex it.

Massive shoutout to all of the people that top 10'ed the leaderboards below! I hope you enjoy your buffs! Aimai, BANG, Big Chap, bonjourhippo, C4PTAINCRUNCHY, Dante2153, DarkTemplar, Dr.onabinol, FaintSpeaker, fixxxer667, Gemini Killer, Geeni, hasttati, Hazman_Yahya, Jerbear, kirilov99, Lersayil, Manaく くYne, matty-pro, mcamelia.vol13, mdma/tgk, Mordicus, Mr.Stick, Mutant Funk, ohanaska, Pertsa, pile bunker, Potatosack111, Q84, r3vLL, R_HaTTNльнNk, Stein Leas, syusyupoke, Tony, Uh_Oh_Bro, VAC,启动!, vrdrv, wabbiT, Xiven, YAOHU, Ебоboy, Криптофашист, 雨の匂い

And a brand-new season starts RIGHT NOW. Every leaderboard resets to zero, so whether you topped the charts last month or you're jumping in for the first time, the climb is wide open again - go take it.

Full notes below: new combos, fresh combat feel, and a pile of fixes!

Core: - When unlocking a "combo", player will see a description of what the combo does as the combo is unlocked, so its more clear what the buff is. - Red warnings for unparryable boss attacks: boss attacks that can't be parried now flash a RED exclamation telegraph, while parryable attacks keep the normal white one - so you can tell at a glance which to parry and which to just dodge. - Melee hit sparks: connecting a melee swing with an enemy (or clanging the blade into a barrel) now throws off sparks - fast yellow pixel-line streaks that shoot out along the swing, ricochet off walls/floor/ceiling, and fade. - Roll-cancel attacks: you can now dodge-roll straight out of a grounded melee swing instead of waiting for the whole animation to finish. - Season reward buff - Reaper's Harvest: the leaderboard-winner crown chest now drops a new temporary buff, replacing last season's cherry-blossom petals. A gravity rift warps the scene behind you the whole time, and every nearby kill detonates a soul-reap implosion at their corpse.

Balance: - All poison/fire damage over time effects is buffed by 100%. - Laser rifle damage buffed by 50%. - Plasma Minigun damage buffed by 15%. - Ballista damage buffed by 50%. - Shuriken damage and scaling buffed by 100%. - Ninjato buffed by 40%. - Meat Grinder damage buffed by 150%. - Overload Cannon damage buffed by 50%. - Charger SMG damage buffed by 80%. - Personal Teleporter damage buffed by 30%. - Crowbar damage buffed by 50%. - Blast Gauntlets buffed by 110%. - Executioners strike damage buffed by 60%. - Zeal damage buffed by 100%. - Ion Storm damage buffed by 300%. - Decapitate damage buffed by 100%, cooldown scaling set to 0.1 second at max level. - Fox Claw damage buffed by 100%, cooldown scaling set to 0.1 second at max level. - Vorpal Pistol damage reduced by 20%.

Bugs: - Fixed a Save & Exit bug where the time was not being properly saved and re-loaded when the player loaded back into the game. - Fixed bug for speed run timer overlapping with existing timers. - Fixed melee swings sometimes missing point-blank near walls. - Fixed a rare Weaverfang damage quirk (found while corner-case-testing the melee fix above): its rapid double-strike could inherit a leftover special-attack multiplier from a katana you'd just swapped off of, occasionally making a Weaverfang hit deal far more than intended. Quick strikes now always deal their normal damage. - Fixed the Assault Shotgun's "better/worse" pickup indicator: finding a higher-quality Assault Shotgun showed damage in red and never lit the green "better" arrow, so a clear upgrade looked like a downgrade.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

See you soon.

• Eugene | Solo dev