Warden's Will Demo Update #1 - Patch Notes

We've just put out an update for the Warden's Will Demo for Next Fest! Here is a video below explaining what we have changed in short, or you can read the whole thing below. Go now and destroy some evil robots!

Heroes

General

• Faster ground movement

• Fixed consistency of reactors trails

• Added low health indicator

• Added visual effects to better represents effective bonuses and augments

• Changed Damage Taken SFX

Dasher

• Complete rework of the hero movement

• Faster and shorter dashes

• Dashes are now directional

• Energy regen is much faster

• Trailstring is faster and has 4 dashes

• Bladestorm can now be chained/re-triggered if not all 10 attacks are used

Hover

• Closer camera when hovering to emphasize shooting

• Lower energy consumption

• Ion Cannon damage is higher and duration is shorter

• Orbital Strike triggers faster

• Orbital Strike camera zooms out while targeting

Flyer

• Now gains speed going downwards while losing speed going upwards

• This results in longer range with proper use

• Faster energy regen

• Camera tweaks

Weapons

• New weapon : Cryoflare ! Is it cold ? Is it hot ? Who knows !

• Minor sound effect changes - Some are still placeholders

Enemies

General

• Improved performances in some specific areas of the level 1

• Improved visual feedback whenever an enemy spawns

• Fixed attack animation of the Howitzer

• Added visual cues when a Driller attacks

• SFX improvements for attack telegraphs

Breaches

• Changed visuals of the enemy breaches

Level Changes

• Necrogod influence has spread following failed wardens attempt to save Sentient installation.

• Fixed multiple collision issues

Interactables

General

• Added white outline whenever player can use the interaction key with an interactable

• Collecting Bits and Data is now “a bit” easier

• Improved visibility of price display when approaching Augments dispensers

Transmitter

• Revamped all visuals

• When fully uploaded, a transmitter now hint locations leading toward other transmitters

• Exposed the list of transmitters to find under the objective tracker in the user interface

Crystals

• Added an effect to better represent the area of effect triggered upon crystal destruction

• Red crystal now grants a temporary damage boost

Accessibility

• Removed tutorial level section

• Fixed stutter and/or flickering that could appear when launching the game

• Added more contextual tutorial hints when playing

• Added hints during loading screens

• Better gamepad support overall

• You can now tweak 3 different and cumulative aim assist settings from Options menu

• Aim Assist can be set for mouse-keyboard and gamepad separately

• Graphic settings now fully works as intended - except Shading Quality that has no effect at the moment

• Audio settings now fully works as intended

• Added missing icons for mouse-keyboard in case of remapping

• Remapping a key when playing will now properly be updated on the user interface without requiring the game to be relaunched