Today wraps up season 4! Congratulations to the players below, you'll find your rewards in the home base! This months reward is the Void Eruption crown, where if you kill an enemy, they erupt with flesh eating minions!
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changedToday wraps up season 4! Congratulations to the players below, you'll find your rewards in the home base! This months reward is the Void Eruption crown, where if you kill an enemy, they erupt with flesh eating minions!
addedA big balance pass this season to shake up the meta. Vorpal Pistol and Pulse Barrier have ruled the speedrun boards for three months straight, so they're getting reined in, and a whole pile of slept-on skills - plus poison and fire builds - are getting cranked up to give other builds room to shine. These buffs are deliberately generous; go find a new way to break the game.
addedCore: - Season reward buff - Voidspawn Eruption: the new season's leaderboard-winner crown buff, replacing Reaper's Harvest. Every enemy you kill makes you erupt - cursed tendrils whip out behind you and a swarm of 1-3 void minions comes shooting off your body to hunt down whatever's left. The winner's crown gets a new look too, with tentacles writhing out of it. - You can now scroll around the enlarged minimap. With the big map open, use your movement controls (keyboard or gamepad stick) to pan the view and scan more of the level - your character holds still while you look, and the map recenters on you when you close it.
changedBalance: - Vorpal Pistol: its ramping same-target damage bonus is reduced by ~30%, so it snowballs less viciously on bosses and tanky targets. - Pulse Barrier: cooldown increased by ~15% and stamina cost increased by ~25%, so it can't be thrown out quite as freely. - Decapitate: cooldown cut by ~80%. - Delayed Slash: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Phantom Blades: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Storm: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Inferno: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Blade Rift: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Aether Drain: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Magnetic Collapse: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Siphon Strike: cooldown reduced by ~30%. - Inferno Ring: damage increased by ~45%. - Unstable Tether: damage increased by ~40%. - Cursed Aura: damage increased by ~40%. - Reality Rift: damage increased by ~35%. - Blink: damage increased by ~60% and cooldown reduced by ~50%. - Flashbang: damage increased by ~150% and cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Rolling Thunder: damage increased by ~60%. - Blast Mines: per-mine damage increased by ~55%, plus ~18% more mines dropped. - Warp Storm: damage increased by ~50% and it strikes ~33% more often. - Ground Stab: damage increased by ~55%. - Uppercut: damage increased by ~50%. - Shockwave Roll: damage increased by ~50%. - Eldritch Grasp: damage increased by ~85%. - Cosmic Pact: damage increased by ~57%. - Frostbite Blast: damage increased by ~60%. - Shadow Cut: damage increased by ~55%. - Warp Orbs: throws ~35% more orbs. - Void Legion: damage increased by ~45%. - Encroaching Doom: damage increased by ~45%. - Vacuum Slash: cooldown reduced by ~25%. - Kinetic Reflection: damage increased by ~50%. - Volt Shear: damage increased by ~50%. - Spectral Cleave: damage increased by ~50%. - Orbital Blades: damage increased by ~100%. - Poison and fire tick damage roughly doubled (+~100%) across every source - infecting shots, napalm, the flamethrower, and Emberlash. - Poison and fire now linger far longer - average burn/poison duration increased by ~110%. - Drone Buddy: drone damage increased by ~150%. - Life Drain: heal-on-void-damage chance increased by ~55%. - Ammo Salvage: ammo-on-hit chance increased by ~60%.
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changedToday wraps up season 4! Congratulations to the players below, you'll find your rewards in the home base! This months reward is the Void Eruption crown, where if you kill an enemy, they erupt with flesh eating minions!
addedA big balance pass this season to shake up the meta. Vorpal Pistol and Pulse Barrier have ruled the speedrun boards for three months straight, so they're getting reined in, and a whole pile of slept-on skills - plus poison and fire builds - are getting cranked up to give other builds room to shine. These buffs are deliberately generous; go find a new way to break the game.
addedCore: - Season reward buff - Voidspawn Eruption: the new season's leaderboard-winner crown buff, replacing Reaper's Harvest. Every enemy you kill makes you erupt - cursed tendrils whip out behind you and a swarm of 1-3 void minions comes shooting off your body to hunt down whatever's left. The winner's crown gets a new look too, with tentacles writhing out of it. - You can now scroll around the enlarged minimap. With the big map open, use your movement controls (keyboard or gamepad stick) to pan the view and scan more of the level - your character holds still while you look, and the map recenters on you when you close it.
changedBalance: - Vorpal Pistol: its ramping same-target damage bonus is reduced by ~30%, so it snowballs less viciously on bosses and tanky targets. - Pulse Barrier: cooldown increased by ~15% and stamina cost increased by ~25%, so it can't be thrown out quite as freely. - Decapitate: cooldown cut by ~80%. - Delayed Slash: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Phantom Blades: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Storm: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Inferno: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Blade Rift: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Aether Drain: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Magnetic Collapse: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Siphon Strike: cooldown reduced by ~30%. - Inferno Ring: damage increased by ~45%. - Unstable Tether: damage increased by ~40%. - Cursed Aura: damage increased by ~40%. - Reality Rift: damage increased by ~35%. - Blink: damage increased by ~60% and cooldown reduced by ~50%. - Flashbang: damage increased by ~150% and cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Rolling Thunder: damage increased by ~60%. - Blast Mines: per-mine damage increased by ~55%, plus ~18% more mines dropped. - Warp Storm: damage increased by ~50% and it strikes ~33% more often. - Ground Stab: damage increased by ~55%. - Uppercut: damage increased by ~50%. - Shockwave Roll: damage increased by ~50%. - Eldritch Grasp: damage increased by ~85%. - Cosmic Pact: damage increased by ~57%. - Frostbite Blast: damage increased by ~60%. - Shadow Cut: damage increased by ~55%. - Warp Orbs: throws ~35% more orbs. - Void Legion: damage increased by ~45%. - Encroaching Doom: damage increased by ~45%. - Vacuum Slash: cooldown reduced by ~25%. - Kinetic Reflection: damage increased by ~50%. - Volt Shear: damage increased by ~50%. - Spectral Cleave: damage increased by ~50%. - Orbital Blades: damage increased by ~100%. - Poison and fire tick damage roughly doubled (+~100%) across every source - infecting shots, napalm, the flamethrower, and Emberlash. - Poison and fire now linger far longer - average burn/poison duration increased by ~110%. - Drone Buddy: drone damage increased by ~150%. - Life Drain: heal-on-void-damage chance increased by ~55%. - Ammo Salvage: ammo-on-hit chance increased by ~60%.
Today wraps up season 4! Congratulations to the players below, you'll find your rewards in the home base! This months reward is the Void Eruption crown, where if you kill an enemy, they erupt with flesh eating minions!
A big balance pass this season to shake up the meta. Vorpal Pistol and Pulse Barrier have ruled the speedrun boards for three months straight, so they're getting reined in, and a whole pile of slept-on skills - plus poison and fire builds - are getting cranked up to give other builds room to shine. These buffs are deliberately generous; go find a new way to break the game.
Core: - Season reward buff - Voidspawn Eruption: the new season's leaderboard-winner crown buff, replacing Reaper's Harvest. Every enemy you kill makes you erupt - cursed tendrils whip out behind you and a swarm of 1-3 void minions comes shooting off your body to hunt down whatever's left. The winner's crown gets a new look too, with tentacles writhing out of it. - You can now scroll around the enlarged minimap. With the big map open, use your movement controls (keyboard or gamepad stick) to pan the view and scan more of the level - your character holds still while you look, and the map recenters on you when you close it.
Balance: - Vorpal Pistol: its ramping same-target damage bonus is reduced by ~30%, so it snowballs less viciously on bosses and tanky targets. - Pulse Barrier: cooldown increased by ~15% and stamina cost increased by ~25%, so it can't be thrown out quite as freely. - Decapitate: cooldown cut by ~80%. - Delayed Slash: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Phantom Blades: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Storm: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Eldritch Inferno: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Blade Rift: cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Aether Drain: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Magnetic Collapse: cooldown reduced by ~35%. - Siphon Strike: cooldown reduced by ~30%. - Inferno Ring: damage increased by ~45%. - Unstable Tether: damage increased by ~40%. - Cursed Aura: damage increased by ~40%. - Reality Rift: damage increased by ~35%. - Blink: damage increased by ~60% and cooldown reduced by ~50%. - Flashbang: damage increased by ~150% and cooldown reduced by ~40%. - Rolling Thunder: damage increased by ~60%. - Blast Mines: per-mine damage increased by ~55%, plus ~18% more mines dropped. - Warp Storm: damage increased by ~50% and it strikes ~33% more often. - Ground Stab: damage increased by ~55%. - Uppercut: damage increased by ~50%. - Shockwave Roll: damage increased by ~50%. - Eldritch Grasp: damage increased by ~85%. - Cosmic Pact: damage increased by ~57%. - Frostbite Blast: damage increased by ~60%. - Shadow Cut: damage increased by ~55%. - Warp Orbs: throws ~35% more orbs. - Void Legion: damage increased by ~45%. - Encroaching Doom: damage increased by ~45%. - Vacuum Slash: cooldown reduced by ~25%. - Kinetic Reflection: damage increased by ~50%. - Volt Shear: damage increased by ~50%. - Spectral Cleave: damage increased by ~50%. - Orbital Blades: damage increased by ~100%. - Poison and fire tick damage roughly doubled (+~100%) across every source - infecting shots, napalm, the flamethrower, and Emberlash. - Poison and fire now linger far longer - average burn/poison duration increased by ~110%. - Drone Buddy: drone damage increased by ~150%. - Life Drain: heal-on-void-damage chance increased by ~55%. - Ammo Salvage: ammo-on-hit chance increased by ~60%.
