0.13.0 The SpellCrafting Update

It has been a while. This update improves spellcrafting in various ways. Most notably:

• Custom glyphs: Spells are no longer confined to a single grid, increasing spell customizability.

• Loadout Workshop support: Loadouts can now be shared within the game through Steam Workshop.

• AdjustedElement changesRock element added and several elemental buffs reworked, allowing for more tactical spells per element.

• Loop glyphs reworked: Replaced the loop glyphs with start, reset, invert, and end block glyphs, which should be more intuitive.

• Performance: Recoded the entire spell execution system to allow for more glyphs with less online lag.

Added:

• Added Workshop support with in-game browsing and preview editor.

• Added custom glyphs with icon editor.

• Added rock element.

• Added bounce glyph.

• Added different pathing glyphs.

• Added tether direction glyph.

• Added control tether.

• Added a screen shake on/off option.

• Added a new large map with powerups.

• Added back the original empty pre-0.12.0 map to the rotation.

Changes:

• Reworked and optimized the entire glyph execution system. This will introduce timing differences compared to previous versions but should be minimal.

• Glyph count limit is set to 255 per wand to allow for complex interplay with custom glyphs, with a cap for performance.

• Reduced ambient mana decay of shots.

• Increased knockback scaling with wand instability.

• Increased directional explosion radius by 75% compared to the normal explosion radius.

• Increased rounds from best of 5 to best of 7 (first to win 4 rounds).

• Reduced input delay from 2 to 1 step.

• Changed Nature Element effect to "lifesteal." A portion of damage dealt is given back as health.

• Changed Air Element effect to allow walking through spellshots.

• Changed Water Element mana powerup drops to follow the player around.

• Buffed the strong mana powerup effect.

• Scaled harden tether force with mass to reduce random self-acceleration issues.

• Changed hand animation.

• Healing amount is now shown, similar to how damage is displayed.

• Increased map size for several maps.

• Changed Fire Edge map crate layout.

• Changed all icons to uniform size for the custom glyph icon editor.

• Homing performance optimizations.

• Moving while shooting now reduces movement speed.

• Window border is now black instead of white on Windows 11.

• Moved target glyphs to the Utilities tab as it has more space.

• Increased fire ground effect damage.

• Changed loadout file naming structure.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an OpenGL texture issue causing crashes at startup for specific hardware.

• Fixed window start visibility issue.

• Fixed large spellshot collision issue.

• Air reduced damage multiplier was not applied to arrow damage.

• Fixed hand animation bug.

• Fixed out-of-map bounds check.

• Fixed animation bug when shooting in a different direction than movement.

• Fixed leaderboard menu crash if 0 matches have been played.

• Improved networking lag distribution so that both players experience similar levels of jitter.