Midnight Horde Demo

Midnight Horde Demo Celebration: Patch Notes

Thank you for playing the demo of Midnight Horde! Your feedback has helped me shape the game into a better experience, and I'm thrilled to share all the updates I have made based on the feedback. Here’s a summary of all the new features, balance changes, and fixes I implemented based on your input.

New Features

• Added tooltips for better clarity:

  • On popup unlocks in the main menu.
  • On chest rewards.
  • In the inventory during level-up.

• Introduced a Gold quest: Stay alive for 1 minute to earn gold earlier.

• Added a gold-spawning building.

• All pickups like heal or summon-all-xp now recharge.

• Improved castle building selection and zoom focus on the selected piece.

• Enhanced level socket readability and appearance.

• Updated the power-up menu to make it juicier.

• Power-ups you can afford are now highlighted.

• Added a new sound for the winning screen.

Balance Changes

• Spread bosses out more evenly and nerfed certain events.

• Skull boss eyes now have increased HP when they drop out.

• Reduced many power-up menu stat costs by up to 50%.

• The red XP now slowly moves toward the player.

• Introduced a new difficulty scaling system where perk upgrades increase enemy HP by 35% instead of 50%.

• Lowered the number of upgrades for many stats during a run to allow for faster synergy unlocks.

• Out-of-map teleport now:

  • Pushes enemies away.
  • Makes the player invulnerable for 1 second.

• Death from Above now triggers on normal falling as well.

• Nerfed Explosive Monster speed.

• Made it easier to get more chest rewards when repeatedly earning them.

Readability Improvements

• Monsters are now dark until they finish climbing.

• Heavy Landing now features more particles and a new sound effect.

• Out-of-map teleport slows down time and shows damage before teleporting.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a major bug that doubled power-up stats when upgrading again.

• Reduced lag caused by ghosts.

• Explosion Monster damage radius now matches the visible explosion.

• Fixed Speed Bullets incorrectly pointing to Machine Gun as an evolved state.

• Winning menu updates correctly now.

• Fixed the 20-minute quest goal not triggering.

• Improved localization for Roman numerals.

• Adjusted settings menu for better usability.

• Reduced shakiness of the Rod of God.

• Fixed splash screen resolution issues.

• Fixed number scrolling and text alignment issues in the castle builder.

• Resolved Steam Cloud save issues.

I hope the demo has been fun! I got a lot of new energy watching people play the game.

I will let the demo stay up for at least a month more. But for now I will try to wind down the updates and try to take some holiday vacation.

All the best Per