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Steam News9 March 20263mo ago

Card UI Rework + Major Balance Update (Wave 31+)

🎨 UI / Art β€’ Item Icon Rework (more distance from AI-generated imagery) β€’ Full Card UI Rework (more unique style, more improvements coming) πŸ•ΉοΈ QoL / Movement β€’ Dash improved a lot: smoother and easier to use 🌲 Nightb

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What changed

0 fixes1 addition7 changes1 removal
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
  • Store
  • Performance
  • Events
  • Maps
changed🎨 UI / Art β€’ Item Icon Rework (more distance from AI-generated imagery) β€’ Full Card UI Rework (more unique style, more improvements coming)
changedπŸ•ΉοΈ QoL / Movement β€’ Dash improved a lot: smoother and easier to use
changed🌲 Nightbloom / Fixes β€’ Trees are connectable with the Nightbloom skin again
changedπŸ”₯ Effects / Performance β€’ Burning fire zones are significantly more performant β€’ Fire Nova works correctly again and triggers reliably β€’ Poison Cloud fix: poison element + its own tick was bugged β†’ poison trail now deals correct damage
changed🧩 Points of Interest (outside Maze) β€’ Max POIs reduced from 10 β†’ 7 β€’ POI respawn interval: min 10s β†’ 20s, max 18s β†’ 36s
changedπŸ‘» Event / Enemy Behavior β€’ Scarecrow now only spawns when the player stands still (as punishment)
🧩 Points of Interest (outside Maze) β€’ Max POIs107🧩 Points of Interest (outside Maze) β€’ Max POIs decreased, nerfmin10s20smin increased, buffmin 10s β†’ 20s, max18s36smin 10s β†’ 20s, max increased, buffsize57size increased, buff

Umbra Survivors changes

changed🎨 UI / Art β€’ Item Icon Rework (more distance from AI-generated imagery) β€’ Full Card UI Rework (more unique style, more improvements coming)
changedπŸ•ΉοΈ QoL / Movement β€’ Dash improved a lot: smoother and easier to use
changed🌲 Nightbloom / Fixes β€’ Trees are connectable with the Nightbloom skin again
changedπŸ”₯ Effects / Performance β€’ Burning fire zones are significantly more performant β€’ Fire Nova works correctly again and triggers reliably β€’ Poison Cloud fix: poison element + its own tick was bugged β†’ poison trail now deals correct damage
changed🧩 Points of Interest (outside Maze) β€’ Max POIs reduced from 10 β†’ 7 β€’ POI respawn interval: min 10s β†’ 20s, max 18s β†’ 36s

🎨 UI / Art β€’ Item Icon Rework (more distance from AI-generated imagery) β€’ Full Card UI Rework (more unique style, more improvements coming)

πŸ•ΉοΈ QoL / Movement β€’ Dash improved a lot: smoother and easier to use

🌲 Nightbloom / Fixes β€’ Trees are connectable with the Nightbloom skin again

πŸ”₯ Effects / Performance β€’ Burning fire zones are significantly more performant β€’ Fire Nova works correctly again and triggers reliably β€’ Poison Cloud fix: poison element + its own tick was bugged β†’ poison trail now deals correct damage

🧩 Points of Interest (outside Maze) β€’ Max POIs reduced from 10 β†’ 7 β€’ POI respawn interval: min 10s β†’ 20s, max 18s β†’ 36s

πŸ‘» Event / Enemy Behavior β€’ Scarecrow now only spawns when the player stands still (as punishment)

πŸ“ˆ Scaling / Bosses β€’ UMBRA SURGE HP scaling significantly increased β€’ Reaper Stage 1 boss HP increased from 42,000 β†’ 55,000 β€’ Maze Warden HP increased from 15,000 β†’ 19,000 β€’ Enemy HP scaling per wave increased from 35% β†’ 45%

🎲 Systems / Rolls β€’ Area Size removed: now only gained via weapon upgrades (Rare+ upgrades grant Area Size per rarity) β€’ Reroll rework: rerolls multiple random stats per pickup; each stack increases the amount; higher rarities amplify positives & negatives

βš”οΈ Weapons & Items β€’ Jack-o’-Lantern buff: pumpkin bomb can now trigger multiple times on normal hits (not only kills) β€’ Mjolnir nerf: each bounce now loses 50% damage β€’ Ice Blade buff: size 5 β†’ 7, cooldown 1.5 β†’ 1.0, damage 50 β†’ 77 β€’ Vampire Orb buff: base damage 44 β†’ 81 β€’ Dark Orb buff: damage 77 β†’ 112 + now scales with attack range (orbit goes further away) β€’ Attack range rolls increased across all rarities β€’ Ice Wand buff: damage 40 β†’ 52 β€’ Kunai buff: damage 110 β†’ 133 β€’ Ice/Frost Tornado buff: tick damage 10 β†’ 17 β€’ Ice Tornado now properly applies Frost Slow β€’ Frost explosion now triggers correctly on enemy death if Frost Slow is active β€’ Grenade Launcher nerf: damage 110 β†’ 98

πŸ† Leaderboard β€’ Leaderboard reset: congrats to ChikoNico with Wave 103!

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Steam News / 9 March 2026

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