Break the Path | Balancing, QoL Patches & Stability

Hey All!

A huge thank you for all the love and feedback you’ve shared since the Break the Path update dropped last week! Seeing your reactions has been incredible.

Behind the scenes, we’ve been diving deep into your suggestions and expedition data to level up the experience. We’re currently "cooking up" some fresh tweaks to make your journeys even smoother.

Please join us in our Discord if you want to share ideas!

Stay tuned, and thanks for being part of this adventure! — Bidju & everyone at MT

Patch Notes

Note: ⭐️ indicates changes inspired by community feedback!

Balancing

• ⭐️ Map: Secret zones are now in light color once visited. Secret entrances are hidden. 0.9.0.13

• ⭐️ Givers / Shells Fallback Reward: The amount of shells proposed is now aligned with the items' highest value 0.9.0.13

• ⭐️ Enemies: Improved visual telegraphing for the

  Incubator Big Tentacle’s 360°

  attack. 0.9.1

QoL

• Adjusted⭐️ TrinketsFury : Improved the stats displayed in the UI 0.9.0.12

• ⭐️ Minimap: Interiors, Caverns and other unconnected islands' are now displayed on the mini-map 0.9.0.13

• ⭐️ Map: Biome Rewards now appear directly next to exit icons. 0.9.1

• AddedUIBiome Rewards : Added a '+' symbol on the reward icon 0.9.0.12
• AddedUIAdded scrollbars in some of the Ark's menus 0.9.1.1
• Adjusted⭐️ LDAdjusted camera positioning in branching zones to improve path visibility . 0.9.1

• ⭐️ Keyboard: Can also pause and check the inventory with TAB. 0.9.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed⭐️ Softlocks- Fixed a softlock where arenas wouldn't open because our loot algorithm thought a mob on a neighboring island was part of your fight—turns out, "close enough" wasn't smart enough. 0.9.0.12 - Fixed Alterattack tutorial room softlock if you had a Shield (another kind of weapon will be proposed) 0.9.0.12 - Fixed some rare failing level generations by increasing the maximum amount of attempts 0.9.0.13 - Fixed being able to teleport yourself while in arenas which could lead to softlocks 0.9.0.13
• Removed⭐️ Gameplay- Resolved a flask duplication exploit. - Fixed Ethereal Blades interrupting Crystallize, which previously disabled dashing. 0.9.1
• Fixed⭐️ Level Generation- Fixed teleporter which were, from time to time, missing at the end of branches 0.9.0.12 - Fixed generation issue which made some secret unaccessible 0.9.1.1
• Fixed⭐️ ShopFixed teleporter not activating if you REALLY keep dash on the edges toward the boat 0.9.0.12
• Fixed⭐️ Rat VillageFixed some situations where flying elements would prevent you from seeing what you are doing 0.9.0.12
• Fixed⭐️ KillstreakFixed occurrences of not having enough enemies in a biome to reach the killstreak goal 0.9.0.13
• Fixed⭐️ Random Chrysalis HexFixed the negative effect of taking damage when doing alterattacks 0.9.0.13
• Adjusted⭐️ LootImproved Weapon selection in low level drops 0.9.0.13
• Fixed⭐️ Ark- FREND : Fixed duplicated FREND's loyalty program cinematic 0.9.0.13 - Cuprik's Forge : Fixed Cuprik Forge not being accessible 0.9.0.13 - Macaba : Fixed not being able to select species since last patch 0.9.0.14 - Fixed persistent star icon appearing on Sigourney's choices after all content had been viewed. 0.9.1.1
• FixedLighting- Fixed super bright lighting of the Ark on some screens 0.9.0.13 - Fixed lighting in the Ark and the Incubator being too shiny in some configurations 0.9.1.2
• Fixed⭐️ TeleportersFixed having all teleporters suddenly always unavailable 0.9.0.15
• Fixed⭐️ RarityFixed an issue where rarity was incorrectly applied to unlevelable Gifts and Magifishes. 0.9.0.15
• Fixed⭐️ Payment Gates / RarityFixed cost estimation of items which have a rarity 0.9.0.15
• Fixed⭐️ OnsensFixed an issue where button mashing near the entrance tornado caused instant re-entry/exit, preventing access. 0.9.0.15

• ⭐️ LD: - Fixed several generation bugs that created unreachable secret zones. 0.9.1 - Corrected another one which added enemies in transitions placed after the Boss. 0.9.1 - Annihilated (yes) an issue that could cause the

  Cuprik Grave

  to be appear two times in the same Expedition. 0.9.1 - Fixed some camera positions which were offeseted 0.9.1.1

• Fixed⭐️ QuestsFixed the "Explore the Vortex" prompt appearing for players who already completed it. 0.9.1
• Fixed⭐️ AudioFixed several cases of broken sound triggers. 0.9.1
• Fixed⭐️ StabilityFixed a memory leak occurring during UI video playback. 0.9.1
• Fixed⭐️ FactoryFixed having decorations spawned in the middle of combat arenas 0.9.1.1
• Fixed⭐️ Lost Archipelago- Fixed incorrect exterior lighting appearing inside Caverns. 0.9.1 - Fixed caverns not being accessible 0.9.1.2
• Removed⭐️ UI- Fixed Thrift Shop having a bugged entry shown 0.9.0.13 - Fixed Amplifier's position marker displaying a Boost icon instead of an Amplifier one 0.9.0.13 - Fixed weather panel text 0.9.0.13 - Boosts : Fixed text vertical alignement 0.9.0.14 - Secrets : Their rewards will not have a position marker anymore to avoid spoiling their location 0.9.0.15 - HUD : Removed rarity colors from Magifishes (they do not have rarity) . 0.9.1 - Dialogs : Fixed an issue preventing mouse-click skipping. 0.9.1 - Payment Gates : Corrected UI elements bleeding off-screen. 0.9.1 - Cuprik's Forge : Fixed broken controller icon text strings in item selection. 0.9.1 - Options : Corrected an issue that caused the wrong buttons to be selected by default 0.9.1.1 - HUD : Fixed PlayStation controller displaying the wrong Map icon on the HUD 0.9.1.1
• Fixed⭐️ DialogsFixed several issues related with dialogs and other story-realted elements 0.9.0.13
• Fixed⭐️ RTC- Sound : Fixed muted sound during Pietro RTC 0.9.0.13 - Fixed Yua's dialog trigger when she is next to the banking fish 0.9.0.13 - Sound : Fixed SFX being played too early during Altar RTC 0.9.0.14
• Fixed⭐️ Localization- Fixed Russian 'Leave' text in the Onsens 0.9.0.15 - Fixed having some text entries being mixed between DE, RU, PT-BR and ES languages. 0.9.1
• Removed⭐️ Co-opSoftlock : Fixed having disabled inputs in multiplayer when someone launched a dialog of Yua 0.9.0.13
• Fixed⭐️ Co-opFixed under the hood error when looking at other players' rewards in a Giver UI 0.9.0.14
• Fixed⭐️ Co-op / SoftlockFixed a softlock preventing Alterattack/Crystallize unlocks if one player already unlocked them. 0.9.1
• FixedCo-opLost Archipelago Quest : Fixed not being able to find signal in a co-op game 0.9.1.1

• ⭐️ Various under the hood fixes 0.9.0.15

Optimization

• ⭐️ Optimized enemy bars rendering 0.9.0.13

• Reduced the footweight of enemies' related UIs 0.9.0.14

• Optimized memory usage of the Map 0.9.0.14

• ⭐️ Optimized the calculation algorithm for item Shell-values. 0.9.1

• Optimized memory allocation of the decoration culling system. 0.9.1

• Significantly improved the culling of the decoration 0.9.1.2

• Reduced ambient sound effects footweight 0.9.1.2

Misc

• Rat Village decoration small tweaks 0.9.0.12

• Updated lighting of the Incubator 0.9.0.13