The Freezer Boss Update

Minigunner Build 0.8.6.0 Patch Notes

We hope you brought a sweater! The Frigid Frostblaster is here!! This boss features entirely new combat mechanics and some devastating ice-cold moves. We've also given defense drones a mini rework and have implemented steam cloud saving functionality!

Changes with the '📡 ' icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community!

Winter is coming!

General

-NEW BOSS: The ☠️ FRIGID FROSTBLASTER ☠️ This boss can be encountered in the third bossfight after defeating wave 12, and will be quite the formidable foe!

-New Arena Mechanic: The Steam Release Valve In the Frostblaster's chamber you can find a damaged Control Station that you can repair by spending some scrap. Once repaired you can interact with the big red valve to fill the room with superheated steam, and gain the STEAMY buff!

-New Buff: Steamy ♨️ This buff grants you increased movement speed and a complete immunity to the frostbite debuff!

-Speaking of Steam, we now have fully functional Steam Cloud Saving! Take your progress across multiple devices and leave those manual file transfers in the past!

-Updated the "Snowcone?" achievement OLD: Kill a boss while you're afflicted with the frostbite debuff NEW: Kill the Frostblaster without getting frostbite during the fight

-Updated the visuals of the frostbite debuff, with new particles, screen effects, and even freezing your weapon icon in the bottom left!

Sentries & Drones

-Defense Drone Price scaling per defense drone purchased has been removed Defense drones now take damage when they block projectiles, taking increased damage from more dangerous projectile types. Defense drones start regenerating health after not taking damage for a few seconds, if they take too much damage they explode, becoming disabled for a short while. Disabled defense drones will automatically repair and reenable at full health. You can see the drone's current health level by the indicator light color and visual effects as more damage is taken.

Developer Thoughts: Defense drones have always been held back by their old design. The first drone would be decently balanced, but because they could absorb infinite damage, each acquired drone would have exponential benefits, and as such several limitations had to be placed on the drones, such as the increasing price per defense drone purchased. The biggest flaw was how they limited the design of interesting enemy attacks that used a single projectile. With these adjustments, drones are much more healthy for the game, and should be easier to pick up as a result!

Items

-Whispering Lantern Lanterns needed per level decreased 5 -> 3 Chance on kill for lantern to drop increased 3% -> 5% Damage boost per level decreased +20% (Max +100%) -> +10% (Max +50%) The Whispering Lantern has been a very polarizing item, where it would be useless and slow to start stacking early on, but would become insanely too powerful late game. These changes aim to make it feel much more useful early on compared to before without becoming too powerful later. The buff from picking up lanterns once the item is fully stacked is still unchanged, and very strong. Now you should be able to stack this item faster and play for the powerful pickups as a reward.

-Juicy Co. Energy Drink Increased firerate boost per stack +10% -> +15%

Bug Fixes

If you want to report bugs or give feedback, join our Discord! If you want to check on the status of reported bugs, check out our Bug Tracker!

These bugs have been squashed!

-Fixed an issue where Candy Jar would not activate correctly

-Fixed the Safety Cone not properly displaying its current max health stat

-Fixed a bug with the R'lyehian Wood Blocks having progress not tracked correctly after returning from the underground

-Fixed an issue where Heavy Shopper ammo icons were appearing on unintended item slots

-Fixed a few issues related the minigunner using the empowered powershot from Runic Cannonball

-Fixed a visual bug where the player's muzzleflash light would be disabled for the rest of the run after their first combat roll

-Additional minor bug fixes