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What changed
- Gameplay
- Store
- Balance
- Performance
- Maps
- UI and audio
Pickscover 2 changes
TOWNS!
Towns can be found on the far right side of the world.
They contain various unique buildings where Townfolk live.
Townfolk can sell items and hand out quests, with each being occasionally restocked.
Items can also be sold to the Townsfolk at a fourth of the price.
NEW BOSS!
The Darkling Assassin is a powerful killer that weilds a Ruinous Dagger capable of tearing portals to the Dark World.
Most of its attacks involve these dark portals releasing enemies and projectiles that home in on the player.
The Darkling Assassin can be summoned at night with a Dark Contract made using dark flesh, dark blood, and lightened dust.
Using a Light Vision Potion is highly recommended during the fight!!
TREE CLIMBING SHOES!
Crafted at the loom using wood planks, leather, and iron bars.
Allows you to climb trees while equipped, making leaves and fruits much easier to harvest.
METAL INFUSER!
Using the power of Light Essence, you can infuse metal bars with specific materials to create much more powerful metal.
Crafted using iron bars, light essence, water, and blood.
New Features/Changes
Bosses
Greng Gargantuan now drops Light Essence
Buffed Greng Gargantuans attacks and health, Greng Gargantuan now spawns Greng Brutes
Added a new Greng Gargantuan attack where it launches rain shot projectiles
Increased the iFrames gained when getting hit by the Greng Gargantuan
Added a special boss health bar
Performance
Saving is now much faster
Massive performance boosts
Better performance during rain
Map loads much faster
World Generation
Refactored a lot of world generation to be much cleaner
Tree generation is now much faster
Stone and ore generation is a lot more natural
Improved cave generation
Combat
Damage Types
Attack Speed Types
Armour Set Bonuses
Critical Chance stat icon added
Balanced Critical Chance to randomly buff damage on a scale from 1.25x to 2x
Reduced base Critical Chance on all weapons
Buffed the projectile upgrades
Nerfed the Damage Upgrades from a flat rate to a percentage rate
Buffed the Cactus Spray to compensate for the damage upgrade nerf
Gold Sword projectile now costs harmony
Buffed all tool speeds to be much faster
Visual
Increased the visibility at night
Tweaked armour and player arms visibility
Greatly improved lighting
Greatly improved clouds
QOL/Misc
Steam Achievements
More player customization
Localized all item mechanics to a single script, item transferring between inventories should be much cleaner
Stat icons now display positive and negative values
Animal spawn rates have been reduced to increase enemy spawn rates
Certain buffs now affect the players color
Increased range of all ranged enemies
Damage text now shrinks instead of fades away
Furnaces now release smoke when cooking
Items now have much higher resolution in inventories
Improved how items appear in inventories
Much improved particle system
Stats inside item info boxes now display icons next to them
Buff levels are now displayed in roman numerals
Holding a block now shows an outline of where the block is going to be placed
Improved item pickups
Tree leaves now sway in the wind
Added a ton of sound effects
Holding a torch now provides light
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug with extra furnace slots
Platforms are now way less buggy
Dashing won't get stuck on platforms anymore
Fixed spawning multiple bosses at once
Fixed the Greng Gargantuan not working well with platforms. Platform arenas should work much better now
Fixed crafting recipe info being inaccurate
Fixed items in placeables info being inaccurate
Fixed multiple duplication glitches
Fixed a bug where snow wouldn't build up on tiles
Fixed incorrect info showing on upgrades/skills
Fixed info box sometimes appearing under the bottom of the screen
Fixed a bug that allowed slow use tools to be used very fast
Fixed incorrect bomb explosion radius
Fixed numerous crashes
New Content
Materials
Light Essence
Lightened Bar
Carbon Ore
Carbon Bar
Steel Bar
Lightened Cloth
Carbon Fiber
Iron Handle
Meenlock Pincer
Wasp Stinger
Bloodmetal Bar
Watermetal Bar
Dark Flesh
Grains
Foods
Light Vision Potion
Regeneration Potion
Apple Pie
Satiberry Bar
Weapons
Tribal Spear
Tribal Bow
Lightened Sword
Lightened Pickaxe
Lightened Axe
Lightened Spear
Lightened Bow
Lightened Arrow
Light Spikes Spell
Ruby Shards Spell
Pulsing Sapphire Spell
Emerald Chunks Spell
Cutthroat Spell
Gold Spear
Gold Dagger
Gold Bow
Gold Arrow
Baton
Crippling Fist
Steel Sword
Steel Tomahawk
Vile Concoction
Wasp Staff
Bloodmetal Katana
Bloodmetal Karambit
The Coagulator Sword
Iron Staff+ Gold Staff
Carbon Staff
Greng Tongue
Lightened Staff
Iron Bucket
Rain Storm Spell
Shattering Sapphire Spell
Watermetal Staff
Compound Bow
Catabowlt Bow
Cannonball
Explosive Cannonball
Shotbow
Equipables
Gold Helmet
Gold Chestplate
Gold Legs
Hunter Hat
Hunter Cloak
Lightened Helmet
Lightened Chestplate
Lightened Legs
Blood Vial Necklace
Dark Blood Vial Necklace
Carbon Helmet
Carbon Chestplate
Carbon Legs
Steel Helmet
Steel Chestplate
Steel Legs
Bloodmetal Helmet
Bloodmetal Chestplate
Bloodmetal Legs
Ranger Eyeglass
Watermetal Helmet
Watermetal Chestplate
Watermetal Legs
Tree Climbing Shoes
Carbon Fiber Helmet
Carbon Fiber Chestplate
Carbon Fiber Legs
Entities
Darkling Disciple
Greng Ranger
Greng Mage
Greng Brute
Meenlock Ranger
Giant Wasp
Townfolk
Order of Light Knight
Order of Light Ranger
Buffs
Slowed Debuff
Poisoned Debuff
Marked Debuff
Bursting Light Debuff
Stunned Debuff
Weakened Debuff
Light Vision Buff
Shocked Debuff
Satisfied Buff
Regeneration Buff
Structures
Town
Mineshaft
Quests
Slayer Common Quest
Collector Common Quest
Upgrades/Skills
Range Upgrade
Area Distribution Skill
Melee Damage Upgrade
Frenzy Skill
Harmony Regen Upgrade
Harmony Damage Upgrade
Fireball Skill
Ranged Damage Upgrade
High Velocity Shots Skill
Critical Chance Upgrade
Critical Moment Skill
Attack Speed Upgrade
Fast and Furious Skill
Source
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