Saltnado Update: New attacks! New characters! New difficulty!

Hello Cops!

Hope you all are peeling good. There are a lot of details in this patch note so if you're interested, get your reading glasses and hunker down.

1. New characters

2. New Stage

3. Tornado update

4. QOL Features (?)

5. New easy difficulty and balance changes

Introducing Officer Pam and Captain Pug! (And Inspector Paul)

An elusive cop. Officer Pam is a youngin' who still remembers what life is like in the soil. When Pam goes underground, she is safe from almost all dangers... except there are enemies also capable of lurking in the soil. Being underground does require some strength to not cave in so expect yourself to spend energy underground.

Captain Pug is a senior in the field. He doesn't like the shorter peelers used by the other cops so he has a different kind of peeler. Also, he farts, a lot. Which turns out to be a good thing since even the Mafia can't stand stench. But farting takes up so much energy so he requires some rest before farting again.

Inspector Paul is Inspector Paul. He a good boy. He dash. He quick. He fast.

King Garden and Queen Garden

This was due to players saying that the final stage is too easy when compared to other stages.

The old Queen Garden has been renamed to King Garden. There are still 2 Fries and 2 Tornado Potatoes but Sherpherd's Pie has moved somewhere else? BBQ Pits were added to show prepare you for the next stage.

The Queen statue has been moved to a new Queen Garden. Shepherd is there along with a bunch of other henchmen. Be prepared for chaos.

Tornado Update - Saltnados!

Prior to this update, tornados spawn salt when coming into contact with salts. However, this mechanic barely did anything and most players didn't even notice this. Steam post image

3 Saltnados now spawn from Tornados. This simple change has made them FAR more threatening so you will only notice this in Hard difficulty.

QOL Features

Two QOL features have been added. The first one is a simple retry button at the end so you don't have to go to the main menu and select a difficulty again. Secondly, cops will now put on bandages when they are at 10HP and below.

New Easy Difficulty and Balance Changes

Ok this is where it gets more technical. But Easy difficulty is now easy to accommodate for lesser skilled players. Below is almost a full list of changes.

HP Regen Rate

Tutorial/Easy: 5s

Normal: 7s

Hard: 11s

Potato Minion

When Minions get motivated by Boss, they move faster. This speed is now lowered for Easy and Normal difficulty.

Fries

Salt spray is a weak attack in itself. Salt spray will always have at least 1 salt going towards the player. The rest are still random.

Hot Potato

Hot Potato is fairly easy to learn since he only has 1 attack pattern but this has been tweaked. The wave attack will still only appear on Hard difficulty.

Hot Potato Charge

Easy: His signature 3-charge combo is now reduced to 1.

Hot Potato Cooldown

Easy & Normal: Increased cooldown from 1s to 2s.

Chip

Easy: Chip will only have 1 Crumb.

Crumb

Crumb will always start with 1 Crumbling.

Mashed

Mashed, though an easy enemy, has been the biggest challenge for most players. Previously, Mashed has a cooldown of 2s to 2.2s between each splash. This range is still the same, but buffer times have been added for Easy and Normal to give more breathing room.

Easy: 250ms buffer (2.25s - 2.45s)

Normal: 150ms buffer (2.15s - 2.35s)

Baked

Baked Potato was super easy to stagger for good players but absolutely frustrating for lesser skill players. His behaviours have been adjusted to make way for both. Butter blast will still only predict movement on Hard.

Spring Onion Tommy Gun

Less spring onions will spawn for easier difficulties.

Easy: 4

Normal: 8

Hard: 11 (No change)

Roll Towards/Away

Baked should no longer get staggered in his roll animation. Cooldown from the start of roll has been tweaked.

Easy: 1.75s

Normal: 1.5s

Hard: 1.25s (1s for Club boss)

Tornado

Tornado was absolutely useless prior to this update. Though he's still mostly the same with Inspector Paul. He has a new attack (the Saltnado) and will affect the abilities of the other officers. Some of his values have been tweaked.

Rise Changes

Values below refers to the delay before he climbs out of the ground after tunneling towards the player.

Easy: 0.5s

Normal: 0.5s

Hard: 0.3s

Animation speed was tweaked last update. His animation for tunneling out is faster on hard.

Values below refers to the cooldown after he rises out of the ground and does his next attack.

Easy: 1.5s

Normal: 1s

Hard: 0.5s

Interactions

Tornados will remove flames.

Tornadoes will remove farts.

Tunneling tornado will do critical damage to a burrowed Pam.