Versebound Patch 1.0.2

Moikka!

Versebound has been out for a month now, and we've gotten lots of feedback, which has been great! Many of you have also given us ideas for improvements in terms of quality of life options and balance. We managed to implement most of the requested things in this patch, along with some bug fixes. Controller support was also on the list, and we tried our best to implement it, but in the end it proved too difficult with the current logic in the game. We did learn many things by digging in to the possibilities on that front, so for our future games we'll for sure manage it easily as we'll be able to design it in properly from the start. :)

But anyway, here are the patch notes!

Balance:

• Reduced Tapio’s HP

• Reduced the amount of Trial of Mielikki mushrooms in Tuonela

• Reduced the XP multiplier of Luonto

• Ukko's Wedge rotation speed fade out time prolonged

• Etiäinen taunting shadow lifetime up

• Triggering Snowshoes of kauppi is now easier

• Shortened Aino Skill end animation duration -> now resuming movement is faster

• Reduced Aino Skill cooldowns across all levels

• Poem of Henki now also heals for 2HP upon updating max health

• Increased Poem of Henki weapon damage +%

• Poem of Hurme HP per kill per level increased

• Increased Poem of Vaski dmg reduction %

• Harpoon knockback down across all levels

• Harpoon damage up across all levels (except imbued)

• Bear Trap lv 1-5 damage down

• Bear Trap lv 1-5 cooldowns up slightly

• Vengeful Tears trail lifespan slightly up

• Spirit of Kaleva base damage up

• Spirit of Kaleva damage increase upon player hit down

• Pike Jawbone damage up across all levels

• Northern Breeze lv 4-5 & imbued knockback down

• Northern Breeze lv 1-5 rotation speed down

• Northern Breeze damage up across all levels

Quality of life settings:

• Added an option to aim the Skill to movement direction

• Added an option to toggle a visible attack direction indicator

• Added an option to toggle enemy hit indicators

• Added an option to reroll upgrades once per level

Bug fixes:

• Arrow to stone altar now correctly disappears if no Väki is left after opening the door in Tuonela unlock

• Fixed a bug where pause menu could be opened before the scene has faded

• Fixed a bug where picking up a Tuonela ritual flower exactly when the ritual is failed resets the timer and bugs out the ritual

• Maybe fixed a bug where player might get stuck in the level borders

• Maybe fixed a bug where harpoon might stop attacking upon reaching near 0% cooldown

• Maybe fixed a bug where Tuonela's river might stop damaging player after Cloudberry invulnerability effect ends

Other:

• Reworded Ilmarinen’s first task to be more clear

• Reframed some text info in settings menu to be more clear

• Tuonela unlock should now be less confusing

• Whitecurrants now drop with a higher chance

• Invulnerability duration can now be prolonged upon eating another Cloudberry when invulnerability is active