Vividerie 0.48 (Patreon Release)

Previous update logs have been exclusive to the Vividerie Discord server - From now on I will post them here on Steam, since several people saw the empty Steam feed and thought the game was abandoned or cancelled.

A new Vividerie update is here!

You can download it here if you support Vividerie development on Patreon.

Here's what's new:

Dungeon 4: Prototype Bay

I'm including an early look at the fourth dungeon in this update - A hostile complex of machinery and flesh, focused on turrets, flying enemies, and terribly-deep pits in the ground.

Prototype Bay contains 9 brand-new enemies.

The fourth boss isn't quite ready yet, so your runs will end before the fight.

Localization

A handful of weeks went into setting up localization systems, and translating all of Vividerie into German.

More languages will follow in the coming updates (Currently working with a small localization team for Simplified Chinese!)

New Items

• Bloodfire > After dashing, gain +3 Bullet Count for 1 second.

• Tourmaline Drill > After killing an enemy, gain +25% Damage for 1 second. > Effect duration is additive

• Solar Module > Gain +3 Relic Charges every time you clear a room without taking any damage.

• Thaumic Compass > Gain +50% Damage. > Your aim is locked to cardinal directions. > Affects all skills.

• Solar Module > Gain +3 Relic Charges every time you clear a room without taking any damage.

• Nyooper > Your dash deals +15 Base Damage.

• Munchy > Your dash deals +30 Base Damage.

• Swirly Fuse > Using your Relic launches a ring of 20 firecrackers. > Firecrackers shoot a 10 Damage homing bullet upon explosion.

• Home-Packed Lunch (technically not new - a previously removed item returning with a new effect) > Heal +1 Heart every time you clear 7 rooms.

• Cheese (multiple items) > Heal +1 Heart upon purchase. Always shows up in shops and is cheaper than common items.

• Carbon Copy (Relic)> Gain +3 Relic Charges every time you clear a room without taking any damage.

• Arcane Electrician's Toolbox (Relic)> Gain +3 Relic Charges every time you clear a room without taking any damage.

Balancing

• Changed several Rare items to Common: > Sparkler (10% Chance to burn enemies for 3 seconds upon hitting them) > Big Snowflake (10% Chance to slow enemies for 3 seconds upon hitting them) > Rusty Nail (Critical Hits poison enemies for 5 seconds) > Nautilus (Using your Relic resets all of your skills) > Dungeon's Union (Gain +15% Damage against bosses)

• Increased hitbox size from 4x4 pixels to 6x6

• Increased player invulnerability-frames from 45 to 90

• Relics no longer recharge upon entering a boss room or new dungeon

• Dashing now always deals a consistent 30 damage, as opposed to dealing 12 damage for every frame of your dash while passing through an enemy

• The Crystal Titan will now always do 3 spiral spins instead of 4

• Frost Blaster now applies the slowed status effect to enemies

• Grub Spawners damage themselves a little bit with every gush

• Nerfed Cerulean Wizards (Crystal Caves)

• Buffed all items that increase your Secondary & Dash skill rates

• Buffed Rainbow Gloop: > Larger puddle size + it reapplies short bursts of poison every second

• Buffed Sub-Zero Molecule Nuke: > Explosion on-death while slowed ⇒ Explosion every time slowed is applied

• Buffed Book of Names: > +20% Damage to marked enemy ⇒ +50% Damage to marked enemy

• Buffed Blowgun: > +20% Range ⇒ +30% Range

• Buffed Little Sog: > no Range increase ⇒ +30% Range

• Buffed Wolf's Tooth: > 20 Kill cooldown ⇒ 15 Kill cooldown

• Updated various rooms across all dungeons

Polish/QoL

• Added an auto-fire toggle (unbound by default)

• Added additional shadows to enemy bullets for improved visibility

• Enemy bullets are now cleared after killing a boss

• Updated Caoutchouc bullet visuals

• Added custom bullet sprites for Devil's Scythe

• Renamed the Chilled status effect to Slowed to better convey its effect

• Updated Slowed status effect color blending

• Updated flower item bullet trails

• Updated Revenge description to convey that it triggers upon getting hit, not upon taking damage

• Revenge effect now stops upon killing a boss

• Rainbow Gloop can no longer be thrown outside the currently active room

• Zoomed out the camera a bit

• Prettified settings JSON for easier editing

User Interface

• Added trigger flashes, counters, on/off state visuals to item UI

• Updated nearly all fonts & text shaders

• Separated GUI Margin settings into horizontal and vertical axes

• Added a live preview to GUI Margin settings

• The game window now allows for infinitely wide aspect ratios, but still limits vertical ones

• Updated the Run Restart hold UI

• Added "press E to pick up" text to the item chest UI

• Added a short delay before New Achievement modals can be clicked through

• Updated map to render enemy dots above treasure chest icons

Sound

• Added custom SFX to Glut Bombers (Hell)

• Added Broken Block trigger SFX

• Added bullet bounce SFX

• Added an extra SFX layer to bullet bounces when you have Caoutchouc

Other

• Massively optimized dungeon generation, the rendering of all bullets, particles, as well as items in the UI

• Updated Blue Cheese to Cardboard Box (new name + sprite)

• Updated the dash skill's sprite, name, and description to better convey its strong offensive capabilities (This update also removes the dash-direction setting)

• Added native LiveSplit support for speedrunners (Thank you sam0x2b for working with me on this! Check out their AutoSplitter config vivirun)

Bugfixes

• Fixed Yummy Chalk description reading"+50% Dash Rate"when it gives +100%

• Fixed minimap icons getting cut off by the shape of dungeon rooms

• Fixed dash i-frames overriding player damage i-frames

• Fixed The Gusherrr crashing the game when you win while it's spewing firecrackers

• Fixed a crash related to Glut Bombers (Hell) not finding a valid point to throw their bombs onto

• Fixed a crash related to an interaction between Kugelblitz and Caoutchouc

• Fixed game crashing when restarting a run via the pause menu

• Fixed settings not saving in main menu

• Fixed game cursor not showing up in main menu

• Fixed cursor not animating in pause menu

• Fixed long achievement titles & descriptions overlapping the unlocked item in the menu

• Fixed non-English glyphs not rendering in Patreon supporter credits

• Fixed "M" key still opening tab map, even when key is rebound

• Fixed fire hazards shooting bullets through walls during Lygen's (Hell Boss) fight.