Update 12, Prey.

New Boss: Anomaly Hunter

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• With prey mode enabled, appears once the countdown reaches 18, 12 and 6 hours remaining.

• Each encounter acts as a different phase, gaining new moves for each one.

• Each attack makes it move in different ways; combines them to act unpredictably while chasing you regardless of where in the map you are.

• New theme for its battle.

New run setting: Prey mode:

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• Unlocked by obtaining 2 unlocks which require winning with multiple characters in the same run.

• Every 6 hours, the Anomaly Hunter will challenge you.

• Defeating it grants you Aether, used to craft powerful upgrades.

New items, with these there are now over 300!: Aether Dropped by the Anomaly Hunter.

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• "Latent matter, or the lack of it. Exists only to be molded by the Anomaly."

Hunter's Launcher Recipe: Rocket Launcher + Aether + Aether.

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• Fire1: Fire a rocket that travels towards where you are looking and generates clouds which constantly damage anything touching them.

• Fires twice as fast while in the air.

• Explosions can’t damage you and knock you backwards at high speeds.

• Rockets don’t follow your aim while holding fire2.

Final Spark Recipe: Spark + Aether.

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• Spell cooldown: 12.

• Fire a black hole which pulls in enemies then generates a large laser beam.

Aether Arrow Recipe: Wood Arrow + Aether.

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• Can only be equipped with the Longbow.

• All other arrows in your inventory get shot alongside it.

Dim Gun Recipe: Flare Gun + Aether.

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• Fire1 Fire a dim flare which explodes on impact and applies Dark Flames.

• Enemies take an extra 100 damage for each unique negative status effect + 25 per effect level.

Other changes:

• New Sub Scanner model and behavior.

• Added bubble particles coming out of the Submarine's proppeler

• Fixed the Submarine's missile speed being framerate dependent.

• Updated stick's description to mention the faster switch speed.

• Arsenal slots update when you open it.

• Death animation that shows you losing a live no longer plays in the tutorial.

• Improved water to avoid causing visible seams in spheres.

• Volatile effect's explosion is larger if the enemy is also wet.

• Fixed Spark dealing yellow damage.

• Explosive Arrow can knock you back.

• Changed Fireball's crafting recipe to Pocket Star + Gunpowder. The Cannon was needed for way too many items, this cuts its recipes in half.

• Spark is crafted using a Pocket Star instead of Fireball, so it can still be obtained at any time.