Patch 52 - Status Ailments, Forest, Poison, Fireball, Devlog!

Additions:

• Added The Forest as new location with new music and scenary.

• New enemy: Mushroom Kid. (Spore particles come out when it attacks)

• Added sound effects to mushroom boy.

• New Feature: Status ailments

• Status Ailment UI now next to enemy healthbar.

• Poison now shows an icon on the healthbar.

• Stacks now show up (up to max stacks)

• Added Status Ailments to inflict on projectiles and abilities.

• On Battle Setup screen, it will now show (tease) the abilities but have lock and chain around them.

• "Damage over time" and other status effect types added and utilized.

• Added new ability: Fireball

• Added fireball visual effect when blasting the battlefield.

• Added new sounds to fireball skill.

• Added new ability: Poison

• Added poison visual effect when poisoning the battlefield.

• Added new sounds to Poison skill.

• Tier 2 ascended Fire archers now inflict burning on hit. Note: This burning stacks with fireball up to 3 times.

• Added the ability to get credit for kills via DoTs.

• Added new option to control music separate from sound.

• Added Level 19 to the game.

Fixes:

• Fixed a critical bug where archers decided to stop firing on new games!

• Fixed bug where it would always show 900 EXP for each level completed.

• Fixed a bug where level 19 wouldn't load correctly.

• Fire archer has no business having 6,400 health instead of 400. I made it so.

• Fixed a bug where fire archer's health bar wouldn't appear.

• Fixed a bug where Fire archers weren't getting credit for kills.

• Fixed bug where defenders and ability unlocks were not saving correctly.

• Fixed a bug where on Level 11, the adventurers weren't being damaged as they should on start of level.

• Damage over time status Ailments now instantly apply their first "tick".

• Fixed a bug where the first tick of damage over time ailment would instantly expire the stack instead of using it's full amount of charges.

• Fixed bug with all attackers' HP bar sized and status effect icons.

• Fixed a bug where Retry and Main menu button stopped loading.

• Fixed a bug where music got mixed up between some screens.

• Fixed issue where attempting to mute sound would cause it to bounce back to higher levels.

Improvements:

• Minimized game size a bit.

• After all this time, changed the "Ruin" ability graphic to something better representing what the skill does.

• Revamped the popup system to now pull in information from each ability dynamically. The fields will be explained properly per type (Example: Damage vs Healing vs DMG / Time)

• Popup now has colons aligned.

• Updated graphics for Poisoned and Burning Status Ailments.

• Standardizaed the prefab more so there were less variations per attacker.

• Updated Chapter 4 story text

For more info, head on over to the dev blog!