Update 13: Balancing Patch

Dear tinkerers,

welcome to a new year of tinkering with Rogue Voltage. Thank you for sticking around! This month we tied up a lot of loose balancing ends and fixed some bugs. Please leave a review and come join the Discord community if you want to follow the development more closely, it's very active these days!

SOL REWORK:

Sol played too tedious with the many target queries. We redesigned her a bit to be a bit more interesting. She now wants to charge storage modules with more than their capacity to trigger the new Overcharge Sensor.

MODULES:

• New Module: Overcharge Sensor

• Module Redesign: Auto Turret. Now triggers at the end of turn and auto-targets the enemy with the least HP.

• New Module: Polluting Aggregate. It drops in uncommon, use it this to get more energy out of unused modules like healing potions.

• Changed the sprite of toggled Storage Charger to look more like the passive Storage Inductor

• Precision Modules are now called Repeater Modules

• New Module Type: Futuristic (for the Time Capsule modules)

• New Module Type: Status Ray

MONSTERS:

• Reactor Boss now deals 2 Grav+ (like the tooltip always said)

• Blue Grav. Shrooms now only deal Grav+ to enemies (from all combatants)

UI:

• Added new glow particle effect to many module VFX

• Changed crosshair sprite when targeting modules

• Changed crosshair sprite when targeting jacks

• Visually differentiated "select next module to fire" query from "targeting a module" query

• Tutorial has additional module contours to highlight specific modules

DROP TABLE REWORKS:

Buffs:

• Emergency Aggregate now has a universal jack

• Gatling Decelerator is now common (from uncommon)

• Dissipation Cell comes with Amplification +1

• Proximity Cell comes with Amplification +1

• Austerity Cell comes with Amplification +1

• Vulnerability Ray loses overload in uncommon

• Vulnerability Ray loses crust in common

• Merger loses crust in common

• Generator Upgrader: Berserk is now in uncommon (from rare)

• Acceleration Vault comes with Amplification 1 in common

• Acceleration Vault loses crust in scrap tier

Nerfs:

• Singularity Generator only drops from level 2

• Cooldown Redirector has malfunctioning in common and overload in uncommon

• Grav. Magnet (+) moved to uncommon (from common)

• Max. Capacity Enhancer doesn't drop in common anymore

• Max. Capacity Enhancer loses Replication 1 in uncommon

Other:

• Toggled Crust Remover now drops with malfunctioning in common

• Acceleration Vault doesn't drop in uncommon anymore

• Grav. Sensor (-) is now rare (from uncommon and common)

• Energy Duplicator doesn't drop anymore, available via the Time Capsule ?-Event

• Plasma Discharger doesn't drop anymore, available via the Time Capsule ?-Event

BUGFIXES:

• Tried to fix toggled modules not toggleable after disabling by statuses (let me know if this one persists)

• Crust now properly extinguishes module fire

• Added more world messages when modules are triggered (wind-up toys, self-charging cells)

• Fixed bug where loot couldn't be rerolled with 0 plasma

• Loot can only be rerolled after all options are generated

• Plasma is now limited to 99

• Disassembler now properly locks after activation

• Trash Compactor now doesn't activate if it gets disabled by statuses

• Fixed image and text for Steam Achievements related for the Plasma Bot

UPCOMING FEATURES:

• Run-modifying passive "blessing" and "curse" modules for the daily runs (February/March)

• A new ice biome (May?)

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