Version 1.02 - Shop Sales & Performance Update

Summary

In the 1.02 update, we were highly focused on delivering smoother performance, clearer combat, and more rewarding runs. You now have a chance to find high-tier spells earlier, and snag shop discounts.

Enemies, bosses, perks, and spells have been rebalanced for better readability, stronger builds, and a tougher Hard Mode. Alongside these changes are numerous bug fixes for a cleaner, more polished experience.

Highlights

• Performance improvements & reduced frame drops

• Shop upgrades (sales + rare high-tier spells)

• Enemy & boss rebalancing for fairer difficulty

• Hard Mode difficulty increased

• Dozens of bug fixes

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Patch notes

New Features

• There is now a very small chance that a higher tier spell will appear in the spell shop. (indicated by a green gem marker)

• There is now a small chance for an item to be on sale in the shop. (Indicated by a red percent marker)

• In Graphics settings there is a slider for player projectile opacity.

• Hard mode just got harder! Enemies now do 25% more damage.

Gameplay Tweaks

• Fire Knight Enemy buff - Attacks further away, increased frequency, and a better attack indicator.

• Slight increase to Infernabomb Enemy damage.

• Removed Falling Rock Hazard from Corrupted Ascendant Boss Fight

• Beam of Light from Corrupted Ascendant has slightly longer start-up (easier to avoid).

• Infernal Warden has higher knockback on his spin move.

• Removed Pygmy follower poison chance.

• 'Hot Tempered' - Tiki Boss Perk has been Reworked. Instead of happening only 1 time at half hp, now anytime you get hit while below half hp, you release the shockwave.

• Changed the sprite of 'warden’s armor' boss perk slightly.

• Adjusted ‘flashes’ to not be pure white. This makes them less intrusive.

• Adjusted the way some perk point categories are calculated.

• RNG Master Perk now shows what you gained via Stat Menu green text.

• Explosions caused by the perk ‘explosive’, now scale with highest attack stat.

• Monolith of Chaos now has button animations.

• 'Demonic lottery' spell now scales off of highest damage stat.

• Slight change to the 'icicle volley' and 'absolute zero' spells.

• Reduced 'Ground Smash' spell's mp cost

• Explosive barrels now take defense into consideration.

• All classes now have an increased crit damage increase of +50%

• Algorithm changes for enemy hp/damage for looping.

Performance

• Gold Collection should no longer cause large frame drops.

• Slight optimization to spell inventory.

• Implemented Object pooling on floating text. (less costly)

• Health machine no longer tanks fps when standing in front of it.

• Optimized several scripts to reduce lag spikes caused by GC.

• Small layering optimization.

• Enemy stats refactor for faster outs. (slightly better performance)

• Hitbox optimization for better performance.

• Several smaller scripts refactored for better performance.

Bug Fixes

• Proper bottom tiles on Exile’s Boss Perk Room

• Fixed not getting flawless if hit while between floors (trap, monolith, etc.)

• Crit Chance will no longer appear in the shop if the player is above 100%.

• Reroll now actually deducts the currency from the player.

• Ability Inventory greyed out & red indicators scale corrected.

• Spell upgrader ability tooltip no longer says “Description: “

• No longer accidentally pause the game while trying to escape the spell upgrade window during animation.

• Warden’s Fury Boss Perk now makes the fireballs do the same amount of damage as the spell itself.

• When switching boss perks, berserk no longer stays active.

• Infinite Refraction now lightning type.

• Thunder Cloud spell now lightning type.

• Warden’s Wrath spell now fire type.

• Sacred Vortex Hitbox fix + Change from stun to burn.

• Heaven’s Spear no longer deletes projectiles

• Vorpal Drill now animating correctly.

• Spelling mistakes on buffs.

• Teleporter hover animations for the next floor button are fixed.

• Monolith text not showing for some options.

• Statue broken pieces layering

• Some torch layering

• Warden’s armor + mask layering issue in the stat menu.

• Aura Layers

• Skipping to the 3rd phase of warden doesn’t hide the lava.

• Can no longer cause status effects on enemies immune to damage.

• Elite Towerling collisions fixed.

• Abyss Level Collider Fixes.

• Explosive Barrels no longer drop coins.

• No longer aim while the game is paused.

• Ending a run no longer shows that you died by the last enemy that hit you.

• Winning with the scout no longer bugs out the loadout menu.