Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog!

Modding Context Extension

Silence

Chinese Publisher

0.10.1 Beta

Dynamic difficulty

Before I start to explain it, I want to point out what ARE NOT the goals of the dynamic difficulty.

• This is not to make the game harder.
• This is not to nerf the player if they overperform in the game.
• This is not to make the game easier either by allowing any build to perform.

What is the goal of the Dynamic difficulty?

If you outscale the enemies, it also prevents you from overkilling enemies, which is also not the goal of this. For this, I could make the overkill requirement stay at the original enemies' health, or have a lower requirement depending on the health scaling value. [/olist] There is still lot of room for improvement and for tweaking, and this will likely be the case for the upcoming weeks.

Achievements improvement

Another aspect I got suggestions on that I wanted to improve is to give a tip to players on what to do next for achievements. This is particularly the case for Secret and Super secret achievements that simply don't have any hints on how to obtain them. A change for that is a small list in the main menu that displays the 3 achievements that the player is closest to completing. This will always display normal achievements first, then secret achievements, and then super secret achievements.
Another change I want to make is to change the description to display a hint instead of the actual description when the achievement is not completed, and make secret/super secret achievements be displayed in the achievements menu in a similar way.

Mass Equipment Recycling

Nothing much, but you can now select multiple equipment items inside the forge to recycle multiple of them. Mass recycling ignores favorited items.

Hello. I want to officially start the first modding contest of Rogue: Genesia.

The theme of the mod creation contest is:

challenges

The contest is open until Sunday, 6th October at 6pm GMT/ 2pm EST/ 11am PDT

To participate:

How are the winners chosen

• How fun they are.
• How they push the player to change their way of playing the game.
• How balanced they feel (Hardmode ones should still be possible to complete).
• How original they are (surprise me).

If you need help on mod creation,

• I've written 2 guides about it:
  • First guide is on how to create mods: https://github.com/PlexusDuMenton/RogueGenesiaExampleMod/wiki/Create-your-first-mod
  • And a guide specialized in how challenges work and how to create them: https://github.com/PlexusDuMenton/RogueGenesiaExampleMod/wiki/How-to-create-Modded-Challenges
• You are also more than welcome to reuse code/learn from the example mod source code:
  • https://github.com/PlexusDuMenton/RogueGenesiaExampleMod/blob/main/ExampleMod/ModContent/ExampleModdedChallengeModifier.cs
  • https://github.com/PlexusDuMenton/RogueGenesiaExampleMod/blob/main/ExampleMod/ExampleMod.cs#L174
• If you have any additional questions or think something is not clear in the guides, you are more than welcome to either write a comment or send me a message on the game's discord.

Fixed loading screen being stuck on SteamDeck

Fixes Stage selection visual Glitches and Missing damage number glitches introduced in Hotfix 0.10.0.3c.

Reverted the game version to 0.10.0.3a until it can be properly fixed. The game engine seam to causing a ton of issue out of nowhere, It is better to revert the public game version until I can properly fix all the issues

Fixed Graphics bug in Dream Forest & Manors of everlasting memories

Fixes

• Launching the game after removing mod that add challenge would lock the game during loading.
• Fixed modded card from json not having StatsModifier causing initialization error.

Modding

• Mod source creation now reference Unity.Localization from the game install.

Fix

• Clicking rewards not properly working

Changes

• Added Projectile tab on Sun sword
• LagRog reduce stage requirement by 35%
• Changed scaling on Dwindling fire after level 90 to no longer become negative
• Arcade now banish Blood Spirit
• Reduced Flying candle experience gain
• Greatly Increased Health from monster inside the manor
• Pressing shift while clicking challenge level change button increment/decrement it by 10 Pressing shift and control increment/decrement it by 50 (Yes this is a placeholder so doesn't work on gamepad), I'll work on a better solution for next bigger patch
• Once modifier crafting unlocked, boss will drop their respective equipment material. Goblin shaman will drop Goblin Alloy This should greatly help late game player have a steady source of early materials that can easily come to miss after a bit of time

Fixes

• Challenge stacking navigation issues with gamepad
• Multiple challenge confirm button not being accessible with gamepad
• Removed % under enemies name in stage selection
• Blood transmutation effect wrongly used capped health instead of uncapped health.

Fixes

• Bosses soft locking the game
• Missing translation for explosion opacity

QoL

• Equipment can be set as "favorite" in the forge, preventing them form being recycled
• Added an option to reduce Explosion's opacity This is multiplicative with projectiles opacity Know issue: Missing translation
• Ouroboros's Necklace and Phoenix totem now display a buff icon when active

Changes

• Added a "light armor" variant to adaptive plate Appear in the same way as adaptive plate
• Made phase skipper achievement much easier to obtain

Fixes

• Challenge level above level 5 not properly allowing to select challenge at much higher level

QoL

• Material in crafting menu can be hovered to display a bit of information (like how to obtain them)
• Added confirmation in soul-shop in case of a save is already active, warning the player of the lost of the run progress This can be disabled in Game options
• In challenge that don't increase ranks when leveled-up and above level 5, you can increase the challenge level to max completion level + 5, to reduce grinding

Changes

• Equipment sometime no longer generate negative modifier (10% chance) this is increase to 75% until you have unlocked modifier crafting
• Reduced option kill count requirement scaling
• Knight's pendant can be recrafted to change the weapon Cost 1 Goddess tear as well as 5 Empty souls
• Shop keeper health in Defend shop-keeper objective now scale with player's health

Fixes

• Player's collision detection from discrete to continuous Should prevent Out of Bound Bugs
• FPS dropdown not allowing to be scrolled correctly
• Loadout dropdown not allowing to be scrolled correctly
• Fractal modifier being equipable on katana when it does nothing
• Holy Conversion description stating it remove corruption (when it actually increase it)
• Sage leaf's FX should now properly fit the duration of the artifact
• Monster hunter & Red Bear Fang not updating their value on game loaded until something increase it's value
• Minimum dash capped at 0
• Talent charge cost being marked as negative modifier
• Wind and Gale stone inverting Dash cooldown and attack speed value inside forge
• Restarting some challenge would stack some effects multiple time (mainly corruptions related ones)

Changes

• Crystal sword consecutive attack now increase with projectile count
• Having 100 level or more at once, should no longer automatically display the level-up screen
• reduced Flying Scout kill's requirement for summoner's weapon unlock from 8k to 3k
• Overgeared no longer prevent end of stage card selection

Fixes

• Summon having issues attacking elite/boss
• Lunar inferno description not display the right value
• Being able to pause during death
• Health regenerating after death

Hello everyone!

What's the plan?

modding contest

Game OST

0.10.1

• Twitch integration (if it's not too long, otherwise, pushed to 1.0)
• Missing sprite & animation for Manor's enemies (Hope to have them finished by then)
• Add a menu where players can re-read tutorial text
• Add tutorials for shrines, altars, buffs, Quickmode, and equipment
• Search bar for equipment modifiers
• Adding secret achievement hints when all other achievements are completed
• Making super secret achievements visible with a hint when all secret achievements are completed
• Listing the 3 achievements that are closest to completion in the main menu
• Cursor option menu rework to properly display the size with a gameplay image as background
• Searching for options in game options

1.0

Fixes

• Soul-shop position reseting when upgrading/selling an upgrade.
• Worm's gland causing freeze of gameplay

QoL

• Added 2 new framerate option (165 & 240)

Changes

• Potion pick-up range now follow the player pick-up range
• Summoner's flying summon now properly fly over cliff in Behemoth Graveyard
• Optional objective Killcount, start at lower value early in a zone, but scale much more aggresively with stage count

Optimisations

• Added FSR upscaling
• Fix a major Fractal's memory leak
• Contact shadows is now disabled on Medium quality
• Reduced number of shadows cascade on Medium quality (from 4 to 2)
• Depth of field being more expensive on medium than on ultra
• Main menu no longer ignore Motion blur setting from options Those 4 last change should overall improve performance on medium quality without affecting visuals significantly

Fixes

• Goblin's Ear providing it's passive effect when equiped as active
• Fire stone, Fiery Stone, Moon Stone, Lunar Stone, Stelar Stone description error and inconsistency between tooltip and forge
• Pause menu in Stage selection using right stick instead of left stick for navigation
• Menu navigation work on rebinded controls
• Challenge toggle not being selectable on gamepad
• Boss Skipping work on rebinded controls
• Ending a game at the start of a Time Paradox run no longer give soul-coin
• Worm Boss' telegraph staying behind after it's death
• When switching between soul-shop tier, the scroll bar wasn't reset to the top

Hotfix 0.10.0.2a

Fixes

• Cooled steel's experience malus

Changes

• Modifier that are not yet known are much more likely to appear depending on how many modifier you already know The more modifier you know, the more likely unknow modifier are to appear)

Fixes

• Learnable modifier count in encyclopedia modifier tab using all modifier (even non learnable one) instead of only learnable one
• Pause menu & Game menu opening/closing hiding the gameplay UI

Performance

• Reduced particle count for main menu intro animation

QoL

• Added a smart aiming option in Game options > Gameplay When enabled, the character will auto-aim when no aiming direction in inputted instead of aiming in the movement direction (gamepad only)
• Steam Deck will now use the non-pixelated font by default to improve lisibility This only affect new players
• Corruption slider now display the gain of quality it provide

Changes

• Cooled steel experience loss no longer scale with the challenge level
• Left impairment challenge will now remove Behemoth Graveyard in the zone selection when active

Fixes

• East button on gamepad not working in Pause & Game menu to close them
• East button on gamepad not closing achievement in pause menu
• Leaving Encyclopedia on gamepad not selecting any button
• Opening the pause while inside the encyclopedia actually keeping it open
• Pressing pause when a card/artifact is hovered will now properly hide it
• Fullscreen toggle resetting to On when changing scene
• Card filtering now use the displayed name for zone limited card (instead of internal name)
• Hero-mode record value not displaying the old record
• Survivors mode displayed rank multiplier being x5 per rank instead of x3
• Selecting an artifact and leveling-up at the same time kept the game slown down
• Adaptive equipment description
• Cooled steel challenge disabling active talent when it shouldn't

Optimisation

• Improved Main Menu loading (especially after leaving the soul-shop) (TO TEST)
• Reduced Video memory usage by 3Gb in stages This bug is likely present in the game since update 0.8.1
• Reduced Video memory usage by 800mb in Dream forest stage selection
• Passive Pike talent causing memory leak

Fix

• Martyr cloak description (definetly this time)

Changes

• Blacksmith now sell both weapon and weapon modifiers
• Increased Cooled Steel soul-coin reward from x15 to x30
• Red skull, weightless crystal and Goblin's hand now has the projectile size tag
• Shaman's Attack now has a projectile spawn cap to avoid lag Projectiles spawned above the cap are counted to increase it's damage)
• Slight reduction to explosion FX
• Explosion FX become less performant heavy if projectile visibility is set to 5% or less
• All component of explosion FX are properly affected by projectile visibility

Fixes

• Brawl Damage description
• Goblin's Hand active talent causing summon's projectile to multiply to super high value and causing both lag and possibly crashes
• Ref Bear Fang actually reducing piercing multiplier by 100%
• Martyr's cloak using Town Hall registry description

Changes

• Gambling event can be repeated up to 4 time during the same event
• Reduced Golden Altar Event chance to appear early in the run
• Golden Altar Event given gold is now added to the money that can be stole

Fixes

• Knight Pendant giving evolved weapon (sorry for those that exploited it)
• Artifact rerolling in reward screen will no longer unselect and force the gamepad player to use mouse
• Red Bear Fang's affecting base exp gain instead of Defense piercing multiplier
• Pausing at the start of a card selection and then unpausing not correctly slowing down time and causing the game to continue playing during card selection
• Concentration range reduction description being inverted
• Arcane beam talent description

QoL

• Added Card numbering
• Improved Foliage spawning position to avoid "diagonal" pattern

Fixes

• Procedural object placement ignoring world-rank limitation (Like shrine of Nera spawning at F-rank for example)
• Rune of Heaviness description mentioning -50% attack speed instead of the actual -33% attack speed applied
• Trade-off using Fire tag instead of Wind tag
• Thunder Vial not affected by project visibility
• Having a reward screen on the last boss even when equipment wasn't unlocked
• Talent notification when Talents wasn't unlocked yet

Command

• New command "loadSteamAchievement" Load Achievements from Steam to overwrite your profile achievements Require to have "dangerousMode" enabled before activating it

Fixes

• Card Requirement not displaying required level when no card are required
• Made with unity screen
• Trial version text on linux

Sorry for the bug. This was caused by my former publisher removed my unity license without warning. There is still the made with unity screen that I'll remove next patch

QoL

• Grealy increased Adaptive Unique equipment drop-chance (x5)

Fixes

• Rune of Necromancy important performance lag
• Spectral dagger causing lag and gameplay freezing

Fixes

• fix that If you quit/lose when an altar was active (but no completed) it prevented future altar from being activated until you restart the game

Help required

QoL

• Removed Modifier crafting from gods' stone (as no modifier could be crafted on it)

Fixes

• Anachronistic removing Balista Siege mode
• item in reward not displaying tooltip when not using a mouse

Modding

• Added a new "Optional" bool to challenges so they don't need to be completed to unlock hardmode

QoL

• Ignore steamdeck setting for input (in case you are playing on Steamdeck with keyboard&mouse)

Fixes

• Anachronistic removing Immovable Object effect
• Giant Worm interphase being pushed around

Fixes

• Soul-shop navigation between tier
• Being able to reach locked menu in pause menu suing left/right button on gamepad
• Only a single altar can be activated at once now
• Duplicate achievement (killing C-rank necromancer)

FIxes

• Challenges adding bonus artifact not having their description displayed (like Plexu's sadism)

FIxes

• Chicken statue, Sheep statue and Golden goblin hand artifact description
• Item on shop not displaying tooltip when not using a mouse

Fixes

• Small error at the end of stage screen with summoner
• Warning spamming inside cave due to enemies spawning

Performance

• Planar reflection's quality in Boreal Pinewood and Manor not scaling with game quality and causing important performance issues for Steam-Deck and low-end pc users

Fix Text localization bug

Changes

• Shrine spawn chance are now affected by card tag drop chances modifiers Challenge shrine is affected by Dark tag
• Zealot halve Moon tag drop chance per level This should also greatly reduce Luna's shrine appearing chance
• Ice Spirit buff Doubled the effect of slow-down
• Flame-Thrower buff Increased Angle covered by the weapon
• Collectibles spawned inside terrain collision will slowly move toward a walkable area
• Changed how Anachronistic work internally This is to fix issues like particle effect now being affected by time slown-down and becoming innacurate (like crystal sword) Post-process now have a small transition when activated/disabled instead of being instant
• Duelist Buff Weapons modifier can be attach to one additional weapon
• Fractal Buff Damage from sub-projectiles increased from 25% to 100% Lifetime from sub-projectiles increased from 50% to 75% (up to 2 sec)
• Weapon Aura is now a Weapon Modifier and got reworked Increased max level from 2 to 3 Increase the weapon damage by 150% per level Increase weapon defense shredding by 50% per level Increase weapon defense shredding by 100% per level Increase weapon projectile piercing by 15 per level Decrease projectile count by 3
• Katana no longer prioritise enemies over crate, and it'll randomly attack enemies or crate in range
• Rogue Avatar now have +50% Wind tag card dop-chance
• Nerf to Necromancer damage
• Buff to Lava titan damage
• Huge buff to lava titan defense piercing
• Health Transmutation now scale on Uncapped pre-post health
• Reduced exp from splitting boss in cave This caused a too big surge of experience and made the rest of the zone give almost no exp in comparison
• Goblin shaman "bullet storm" (the one with the aiming laser) will no longer instantly lock on the player There is now a bit of rotation speed
• Greatly reduced Necromancer summon spawn count
• Reduced Heroic weapon talent kill requirement from 100K to 50K kills
• Reduced Epic weapon talent kill requirement from 50K to 20K kills
• Reduced Price scaling from Shop-keeper's shop based on level
• Already owned artifact, or artifact that are banished will no longer appear in shop when they are locked from a previous shop
• Reduced Tactical Soul Kill requirement from 10 Million to 5 Million
• Castle required card level increased from 0 to 20
• Steel required card level increased from 0 to 10
• Slipery skin required card level increased from 0 to 20
• Sub-Sonic required card level increased from 0 to 25
• Hyper-Sonic required card level decreased from 50 to 25
• Absolute focus required card level increased from 25 to 50 (to be on par with Average)
• Silk edge tweak required card level increased from 10 to 100 Increased conversion rate from 3% to 5% per silkedge level Increased conversion rate from 2% to 2.5% per player level
• Armor-less, Zealot, and Metal transmutation now all require card level 50
• Moon Shield rework Can Appear from level 5, it's purpose is to serve as a rail to target metal transmutation Rarity increase from uncommon to Rare Only has 2 level Increase Moon tag chance by 25% per level instead of 5% No longer reduce attack speed Reduce power multiplier by 20% (compound) per level
• Divine shield now require Light armor instead of Moon Shield Moon shield was anti-build of Zealot, and didn't make much sense
• Clover now increase Hunt tag drop-chance by 10%
• Yeti Heart buff Increase Wild tag drop-chance by 20%
• Fairy in a bottle buff Increase Wild tag drop-chance by 10%
• Lepreuchaun Hat Tweak Changed tag from void to metal Increase Metal tag drop-chance by 10%
• Concentration is now a weapon modifier Increased the bonus damage from 10% per level to 30% per level Area malus decrease from 15% per level to 10% per level Can only be applied to weapon with Area tag
• Increased distance the necromancer spawn the skeleton summon from the player, so it no longer spawn on the player position
• Killing necromancer summon slightly reduce it's invulnerability state (by 0.01s per kill when out of the charging circle, or 0.1s of circle charge per kill while inside the circle)
• Increased Shop-Keeper return challenge "most stats" bonus from 100% to 200%
• Increased Shop-Keeper return challenge soul-coin gain from x1.50 to x3.00
• Ice Nova Tweak Increased Ice Nova sub-projectile piercing Increased Ice Nova projectile spread
• Holy Conversion nerf Reduced Power ratio from 25% to 10% Increase final corruption instead of reducing it
• Change to Hero's soul Challenge now limit the soul-shop to the current rank of the shop So you can only access F-rank soul-shop for F-rank challenges
• Improved Dual minigun stats Improved base Attack speed and Attack speed scaling to be more inline with HMG Slight improvement to damages Major improvement to defense piercing
• Singularity Gland tweak Blackhole damage tick now happen 5 times per seconds Damage falloff is now limited to 25% (instead of 10% previously) Reduce Singularity gland damage by 75% (to compensate with the increased damage ticks)
• Reworked Arena stage camera They are now less zoomed out, but the camera follow the player up to a maximum distance (25m in each direction
• Angel beam no longer explode when hitting enemies but when killing them this is to save on performance The explosion damage got doubled to compensate for the rarer procc
• Negative defense equipment modifier now slightly increase level requirement instead of reducing it
• Lunar inferno is now unlocked by "Moon is on fire" achievement Reach 1000 or more defense
• Area Conversion cap now start at 40% and gain 5% cap per level
• Stage Tooltip no longer display enemies spawn rate It wasn't very useful, mostly inaccurate, and made the tooltip noisy
• Talent charge rate is now affected by the player timescale
• Flying crystal summon now automatically reposition themselves when one is dead, they also respawn even when not all are dead
• Modified Balanced assault achievement unlock requirement from 99% crit chance to 90% crit chance
• Crit-strike infusion is no longer unlocked by default
• Added a new Achievement, that require you to reach 99.99% crit chance (or higher) that unlock crit-strike infusion
• Slight change to flying scout in Crystal Depth (zone 3) Decreased their spawnrate Increased delay between projectiles Decreased projectiles lifetime Increased projectiles velocity Increased damages No longer stop moving to attack in B-rank and higher
• Reduced budget cost of enemies in Crystal Depth This mean that more enemies will spawn
• Tainted card drop-rate got slightly changed and is more uniformised 0.25 weight for 999 level card 0.15 weight for 99 level card
• Added an unlock achievement for RogNGesus Lose 3 gambling events in a row
• Quick-Game is now disabled when started FastPass challenge
• Reduction to enemies Movespeed especially in early zone and lower difficulty Looking for feedback on this change
• Increased corruption effect on move speed The scaling is now multiplicative instead of additive (x1.5 per OoM after 10 corruption instead of linear +50%)
• In Notice board, The hardest choice with 2 artifact, no longer appear in F-rank I noticed a lot of new player tend to go with this choice and die in their first run
• Wind stone (and upgrade) now increase attack speed instead of increasing dash-delay
• Fire stone now increase Piercing scaling instead of attack speed
• Portal shard no longer appear on GunSlinger (since his attack are not affected by portal shard)
• Tweaked a few enemies scales and size
• Thunder spirit will try to target more diverse enemies simulataneously previously, when the "thunder" was branching, it had the tendency to target the same enemy with multiple branch, mostly leading to a single powerful thunder, instead of a dispersing array of thunder jumping from enemies to enemies)
• Thunder spirit jump will be faster at higher level this should increase thunder spirit dps overall and reduce the time where you wait for all the jump to be procc
• Many projectiles now collide with wall They are either destroyed, bounce back from them, or ignore them
• Most of Summoner's weapon are now unlocked with achievements. Achievements require you to kill a certain number of each monster with the necromancer This affect the following weapons: Dried mushroom, Goblin's Hand, Hard leather, Light crystal, Long Nail, Pharaon Mask, red skull, weightless crystal and Wind feather
• Fiery dash is now a synergy between brawl and Fire spirit

Fixes

• Crystal sword talent FX not following the player when the damaging area did
• Vine CD reduction being displayed red instead of blue
• Shrine of Reconstruction bugging the game when having an active talent
• Sola's Lance afterimage not having defense shredding
• Banished artifact list not properly cleaning itself when starting a new run
• Prevent stats from being saved as infinity or NAN(they are replaced with the float max value)
• Lava titan hand taking damage from certain source during titan invulnerability phase
• Collection book increasing power instead of Damage
• Defense piercing being multiply twice by the player defense piercing
• Dash during anachronistic having the player timescale applied twice
• Evasion description
• Pet not being able to follow you during cripple challenge
• Anachronistic should no longer make projectiles movement feel choppy
• One of Throwing Knife stats not being displayed correctly
• Time Survived not displayed correctly
• Shrine of disorder (and likely other shrine) causing error and removing cards
• Fix navigation issues in shop
• Fix button click issues in shop
• First reward not being correctly selected and causing navigation issue on gamepad
• End of game screen Soulcoin from monster killed displaying the wrong value
• End of game screen Mastery from monster killed displaying the wrong value
• Having "Legacy Music" checked on in zone that don't have legacy music would bug the objective of a stage
• Pike talent not working
• Loading an outdated mod will no longer corrupt your save files
• GiveCard command now properly set the correct level
• Multiples issues with Rift and Interdimensional rose not working correctly
• Humility actually reducing damage taken by elite when faith was low (and even reducing it to 0 when faith was at 0)
• Player sprite becoming invisible when trying to move during cripple challenge
• In hero's soul, soul-shop limitation of challenges due to the profile gamemode are not displayed in the challenge description
• Stack number actually disabling Overkill bonus
• Talent overflowing out of text
• Gunslinger's weapon reload time not having a unit of time
• Enemies Animation sometime not playing (especially worm boss)
• Default power in stats panel is now properly affected by "base power multiplier" soul-shop upgrade
• Opening artifact encyclopedia showing default value instead of the first artifact.
• Explosive vial (and Thunder Vial)'s sprite sometime being in the wrong orientation and becoming invisible
• Auto-aiming using the vertical position of enemies for aiming when it shouldn't and causing minor visual glitches
• Explosive vial having a full-sized explosion for a frame before the explosion started
• Some projectile sprite not being affected by Projectile opacity
• Player no longer collide with singularity gland's blackhole
• Fixed Altar spawning out of reach in Risk of Storm challenge
• Loading a game for the first time loading the wrong RNG state
• Level Generating in the wrong place in quick-mode in certain instances
• Card dropped as boss reward ignoring biome limitations
• Some missing feedback when taking damage Player and healthbar wasn't blinking on taking damage
• "blue screen" when sometime when fighting the lava titan
• Thunder vial projectils spawning at various height and sometime being hard to see
• Profile loading often causing issues
• Explosive vial talent colliding with enemies at any height
• Cursor scale option navigation issues with gamepad & Steamdeck
• Audio options navigation issues with gamepad & Steamdeck
• Video options navigation issues with gamepad & Steamdeck
• General Stats navigation issues with gamepad & Steamdeck
• Weapon Modifiers navigation issues with gamepad & Steamdeck
• Stage Tooltip displaying monster that couldn't spawn on the active difficulty
• Profile Gamemode description not having the right tooltip
• You can no longer skip more than 1 boss phase at a time
• Game not loading in case the save file was corrupted (it now automatically load a backup)
• Low Health FX option being ignored
• Summon defense being ignored when taking damage
• Scavenger card having 0 chance to appear after level 1
• Summon having issues with buff
• Loading screen issue when starting the game with no saves
• Some synergy card not telling which card are component in their description
• Pressing escape during the first profile creation would lock the player
• Thunder spirit having highly stacking damage over multiple jumps
• Thunder spirit ignoring the cooldown when used on summons
• Explosive vial talent not working with explosive bow
• Arena stage and Risk of storm challenge creating bug together
• "Increase World Rank" of challenges not updating correctly on max level
• Passive talent giving card at set level on loading that was lower than the saved level
• Challenge description not correctly updating the value on different level This affect challenge with "custom" modifier like Vild's Curse
• Error relate to fire ring active talent in rog's mode not properly cleaning it's reference to existing explosions.
• You won't be able to level-up once your required experience reach "infinity" or "NaN" if you've reach those level, leveling up is likely becoming annoying as you've emptied the card pool That also mean there is technically a max level
• Creating a new profile not properly refreshing bestiary
• Animation looping on run animation
• Some text not using the right font in non-latin alphabet
• Shrine of reconstruction when no active talent were equiped
• Fractal description
• Guided projectile (like Magic Wand or Arcanist's Staff) having weird/shaky/laggy movement
• Explosive vial's talent having issues with Angel prism evolution
• Elite, Champions and player healthbar not being properly centered (sorry)
• Enemies health bar now more accurately follow them
• Fixed some weird offset between an enemy and their healthbar
• Some enemies staying immobile
• Revolution requiring Fire spirit to drop
• Foliage on ground sometime changing position when moving
• Mushroom jelly description
• Slide Show (Lag rog unlock) achievement being triggered during loading (so very often).
• Preventing profile name ending with a "." causing some issues
• Monsters in bestiary having "0" damage
• Anachronistic tooltip not displaying right binding if it was rebinded
• Level-up background fx being misplaced when the zoom-level wasn't at 1

Optimisation

• Reduced maximum enemy count during red-time down to 200 when the game is run on Steamdeck to make infinity more doable/less laggy
• Removed lag spike when new music are loaded
• Added an Projectile Cap option The projectile cap is per type of projectiles This greatly improve performance in late game when a lot of projectile is active at the same time.
• Upgraded game loading time (from 1-3 min to 15 secondes)
• Improved Thunder vial FX performance

Commands

• New Command "dangerousMode"
• New Command "downgradeProfile" (Require dangerousMode)
• New Command "upgradeProfile" (Require dangerousMode)
• New Command "startRun [RankID] (Seed)"
• New Command "listUniqueEquipment"
• "InfiniteStamina" (Require CheatMode)
• "SpawnMonster [MonsterName] [MonsterLevel]" (Require CheatMode)
• "listMonster"
• "Kill"
• New Command: GiveEquipment [EquipmentInternalName] [EquipmentTier] [EquipmentLevel] (Require dangerousMode)
• New Command: listEquipmentModifier
• "giveGold [Ammount]" (Require CheatMode)

Modding

• New Event - OnOverkill(Monster, DamageInfoRef)
• New Event - OnCardConstructed(SoulCardScriptableObject, SoulCard)
• New Event - OnCalculateCollectibleSpawnWeight(FloatValue, Collectible)
• New Event - OnProjectileSpawned(DefaultProjectileAI)
• New Event - OnSummonSpawned(Summon)
• New Event - OnSummonLaunchProjectiles(Summon, FloatValue ProjectilesCount)
• New Event - OnSummonTakeDamageStart(Summon, DamageInformationRef)
• New Event - OnSummonTakeDamage(Summon, DamageInformationRef)
• New Event - OnSummonDeathCheck(Summon, BoolValue, DamageInformationRef)
• New Event - OnSummonDeath(Summon)
• New Event - CalculateOneShotProtectionThreshold(FloatValue OS_HealthMultiplier)
• New Event - CalculateOneShotProtectionDuration(FloatValue OS_Duration)
• New Event - CalculateOneShotProtectionCooldown(FloatValue OS_Cooldown)
• New Event - CalculateItemQuality(FloatValue ItemQuality)
• New Event - OnWeaponSelection()
• New Event - OnMonsterDropExp()
• New event - OnCalculateMonsterLevel(Monster,FloatValue)
• New event - OnGenerateMonsterAbility(Monster,IntValue,GeneralMonsterAbilitySO[])
• New Event - EquipmentRequiredCardLevel(AvatarData avatar, Equipment equipment, FloatValue requiredCardLevel)
• New Event - EquipmentRequiredCardLevel(AvatarData avatar, Equipment equipment, FloatValue requiredCardLevel)
• New event - OnHoverKeyword(string,string,TMP_LinkInfo)
• Change to Event "OnCalculateCardLevelGainAtOnce()" to use "SoulCardScriptableObject" instead of "SoulCard" Class
• PostUpdate value of Damage is now applied after every multipliers
• Removed "AttackDelay" player stats internally, as only "AttackCooldown" was display to the player, and there is no case where one is affected but not the other and lead to both duplication of code, but also useless complexity to many systems
• DamageInfoRef now have both the current damage Info and the source damage info (before defense and other damage boost)
• Projectiles and DamageInfo now have a reference to the weapon it is coming for (if there is a weapon source)
• Change to OnStageEnd Event to add a boolean to know if the stage has been completed or not (like due to the death of the player in casual)
• Added "GlobalMessageManager" class that allow to display message at the bottom of the screen You can either manually display/hide a message using "DisplayImmediateMessage()" function or add a message to display in a queue using "DisplayMessage()" function
• Added a new overridable function to StageObjective Class, "AddEnnemyToETK(Monster)" This is used when adding a target enemy to the objective (like champions)
• Stats modifier can now be of type "AdditionalPostUpdate", which allow to easily change the add to the post-update value without a need to make custom cards
• Changed internal name of XPMultiplier to XPGain
• Changed internal name of GoldMultiplier to GoldGain
• Changed internal name of SoulCoinMultiplier to SoulCoinGain
• Changed internal name of MasteryGainMultiplier to MasteryGain

[MAJOR FEATURE] Equipment System

Item Upgrading

Modifier & Recycling

Unique equipment

Equipment Loadout

[MAJOR FEATURE] Weapon Modifier

Major Change

B-rank World

New avatar - RogNGesus

Zone 2 Variant - Behemoth Graveyard

Attack speed attribute is now related to Wind instead of Fire

Active talent can now be equiped as passive talents

• Kunai Talent Has 6/7/8/9/10% chance to remove an enemy positive defense when it take damage
• Fire Ring Start the game with Fire Spirit at level 1/1/2/2/3
• Ice Nova Start the game with Ice Spirit at level 1/1/2/2/3
• Thunder Staff Start the game with Thunder Spirit at level 1/2/3/4/5
• Throwing Knife Start the game with Dash (card) at level 1/1/2/2/3
• Death Aura Increase your Area size by 25/30/35/40%
• Magic Wisp Increase Power damage scaling by 70/90/110/130/150% Multiply additional projectile multiplier by 0
• Pistol Reduce Ammo cost by 20/27.5/35/42.5/50%
• Worm Gland Increase Defense Piercing damage scaling by 50/75/100/125/150%
• Explosive Vial Greatly increase artificer potion spawn chance by 50/100/150/200/250% Increase artificer potion duration from 30sec to 40/45/50/55/60sec
• Crystal Sword Increase damages by 30/35/40/45/50% to enemies in close range Range: 4/4.5/5/5.5/6m
• Thorn Upon taking damage, give invincibility frames for a short duration (0.3/0.35/0.4/0.45/0.5 sec)
• Crossbow Increase projectile damage by 5/6.25/7.5/8.75/9% for every enemies pierced, up to a maximum of 200/400/600/800/1000%
• Bow Increase damage by 2/4/6/8/10% for every meter of distance between you and the damaged enemy.
• Shuriken Increase Defense shredding by 3/4.5/6/7.5/9% for every enemies pierced
• Magic Wand Increase projectile lifetime by 15/22.5/30/37.5/45%
• Pike Overkilling an enemy apply 30/35/40/45/50% damage to the enemies behind in a range of 6/7.5/9/10.5/12m and an angle of 30/35/40/45/50
• Shaman Staff Weapon with "Magic" tag get their damage increased by 15/20/25/30/35% and projectile count by 0/0/1/1/2
• Arcane Beam Weapon with "Area" tag get their attack speed increased by 15/20/25/30/35%
• Cleaver Increase damage and projectile size of weapon with melee tag by 15/20/25/30/35%
• Wind Blade Projectiles have 15/20/25/30/35% to have their lifetime increase by 50/75/100/125/150% and have infinite piercing
• Spear Critical Projectile have infinite piercing and increase their defense shredding by 10/15/20/25/30% (additive)
• Katana On overkill, permanently increase your base experience multiplier by 0.05/0.075/0.1/0.125/0.15%
• Swordrang On Projectile's first kill: The projectile has 4/8/12/16/20% chance to spawn a copy projectile if it can be splited

Casual Profile Mode no longer make you Unkillable,

Card requirement now use cumulated card level instead of player level

Changed Talent mastery gain formula

Change how Hyper-Crit damage are calculated

Stackable Challenges

Artifact Reroll

Shop-Lock

Major QoL

Improved Grass rendering to better blend with the ground




Added onboarding when discovering a new mechanic for the first time


There is still some improvement to be made on it, but it's a first step in the right direction to help new players to learn the game

Added color variation to the first biome depending on the difficulty of the run (world rank, challenge, challenge level and hardmode challenge affect this)



• Added telegraph to many attack that would be hard to dodge otherwise
• Boss now sometime has a secondary bar that depend on the boss
• Main menu visual will vary depending on the selected world-rank
• Added Lighting variant to the main menu depending on the result of the last game you finished
• Added marker on the health bar to have a rough idea of your max health There is small mark every 20hp, disapear arround 400 max hp A medium one every 100 hp that disapear arround 3K max hp A large one every 500 hp that disapear arround 20K max hp Final one every 2.5K hp, disapear arround 50k max Hp Higher than that, marker wouldn't scale and you have the good old health bar Added a green/cyan line to display the OS-Protection requirement
• Added 2 button in profile that allow to load backup (one for achievements, and one for persistant data (since they use differents file and have differents backups)
• Projectile tag of a weapon will now tell you which stats affect the weapon
• Added a shield FX on boss when they are invulnerable
• Separated "Pause menu" and "Game Menu" Respectively escape (start on gamepad) and Tab (select on gamepad) Had to changes a few gamepad default bindings: Level-up menu is no longer on "select" but on "North Button" Keyword menu is no longer on "select" but on "left Trigger" West/North/East/South aiming button are unbinded by default You can bind all of these button back to what you were used for
• Added a small animation to make objective much more obvious to new players
• When starting the game for the first time (no profiles exist), it now ask the player if he want to disable a few setting that can help reduce incomfort of the dizzynes feeling

QoL

• Survivors mode will now loop through multiple track available in the zone to lessen the repetitivity of the tracks
• New OST for Cave elite stage
• New music for Elite and boss stage for boreal forest
• New soundtrack for Desert elite fight
• Worm Boss now use his new sprite
• Worm boss now tell how many worm you have to kill
• Added a small FX to display katana's range Also improved collision detection for katana
• Steam achievement will now be displaying In-Game instead of when closing the game
• Card type is now displayed on the card It can either be Weapon, Stats, Weapon Modifiers or effect
• Camera zooming now update even when the game is paused
• Statistic page in encyclopedia now display more stats (notably the shop-keeper discount)
• Added Keyword for Limit-break
• Profile will also display your soulcoin networth (actual soulcoin + price of all upgrades)
• Added a warning when trying to create a first profile in hero-soul mode
• Added a warning when creating a casual profile
• Tooltip should no longer become smaller with high resolution
• Added an option to scale the tooltip size, from 50% to 200%
• Added camera shake in the game in multiple situation This can be configured in option, from anywhere from 0% up to 200%
• Added camera shake when taking heavy damage (more than 50% of your health) This can be disabled in option
• Improved Many stages visuals Added an option in Visual to change how much of "ScreenFog" is present during stage
• Increased Card detail scale in card list menu when playing on Steamdeck Increased scale by 20% to improve lisibility
• Now handle all input field for Steamdeck
• Increased Achievements tooltip size on Steamdeck
• Improved Equipement navigation with gamepad & Steamdeck
• Improved Visibility of selected option in game option
• Improved Slider with number in game option You can now directly input the number value
• Improved Fire ring explosion FX
• Improved all common explosions FX This could also lead to some performances improvements for certain weapons as the collision check has changed
• Windows Confirmation for refund in Soul-Shop
• Rework of the Keyword menu for gamepad added a key prompt when keyword are available No longer display a list of keyword, but you can now "navigate" through keyword and a tooltip for them is displayed
• Added tooltip to why challenge are not available
• Ground Foliage amount is now independent from "Visual Effect" setting, and now affected by "Foliage Multiplier" Option in Game Options Visuals (from 0% to 200%)
• enemies and Player's healing are now displayed as stacked number
• Enemy Outline is "ON" per default now This only affect new players
• Renamed "Game stats" to "Game info"
• Weapon tab improvement Weapon in weapon tab now always have the modifiers slots open by default, this can be changed with the "WeaponModifierFold" option in Visual UI.
• Added a "new" in game to warn the player that he has a new weapon modifier
• Added a small text in soul-shop to indicate that soulshop upgrade affect every world rank
• Added a "new" to soul-shop tier to better indicate a new soul-shop tier is available (same in main menu)
• Altars now have a visual indicator on how charged they are
• Added a "Game Menu" button in the pause menu
• You can now use the "Card Detail" key inside the weapon tab
• Corruption keyword tooltip now display the change in corruption effect
• Boreal Pinewood has improved visuals
• Tweak how feature are displayed in the play game menu to tease the player on feature he hasn't unlocked yet
• Added an option to disable pixelated font
• Added a small text to indicate the requirement of some event choices
• Opening the command console will automatically open the pause menu should be less prone to error as input would be bugged otherwise

New Challenge

• New C-rank Challenge "Left Impairment" You cannot go to the left.
• New B-rank Challenge "Mortal Soul" Disable Equipments Disable Active Talents Disable Passive Talents
• New B-rank Challenge "Dwindling Fire" Your damage get reduced by 10% (multiplicative) per stage Your defense piercing get reduced by 8% (multiplicative) per stage I'll likely have to tweak those value
• New B-rank Challenge "Arcade" You only have 3 Health points Every damage you take are 1 damage Health regen is capped at 0 Disable Healing on Level-up Disable Healing in shop Replace Chicken by Heart that heal 1 health point Banish: Love&Hate, Pyromaniac and Revolution Banish Saint's Shinbone and Saint's Pelvis Start with Luna's Cross artifact
• New B-rank Challenge "Time Paradox" Skip the first zone Enemies are imune to anachronistic Enemies level are much higher than they usualy are
• New B-rank Challenge "Overgeared" Equipment ignore level requirement No Soul-shop bonus Card cannot be of higher rarity than Tainted Maximum weapon: 2 No shop nor blacksmith No artifacts No Evolution Reduce Exp gain by 99%
• New B-rank Hardmode Challenge "Cooled Steel" Equipment ignore level requirement No Soul-shop bonus Card cannot be of higher rarity than Rare No shop nor blacksmith Reduce Exp gain by 99.9% Damage and Defense Piercing are reduced by 20% per stage Start with Cold Touch Disable Passive Talents

New Artifact

• Luna's Cross - When taking damage, for 0.25sec, make you immune to all damages. Banish Sage's Leaf
• Salamander Hide Once every 4sec, Protect you from one hit and then emit a powerful explosion that damage ennemies arround you based on the number of FireTag card that you own.
• White bear Fang Increase your piercing by 0.1% per elite killed, 2% per Champion killed, and 25% per boss killed
• Witch Doll Every 3 seconds, trigger your "on take damage" effect
• Gold Idol Unlocked and obtainable in the golden altar event Guaranteed Ascended card on your next card selection Each Ascended card increase your gold gain by 5% and exp gain by 20%
• Stone heart (yes finally properly added in) Unlocked upon defeating the lava titan (retro-active) Increase max Health by 400% Increase Damage multiplier by 25% Decrease health regen by 90%
• Destabilizer - Increase damage dealt to enemy inside your pick-up area by 100% (after defense calculation)
• Molten Core Gain 5% damage multiplier for every second you stay at less than 50% of your health Capped at +200% When you health is above 50%, you progressively lose the bonus Reset when you enter a new stage

Talents

• Removed God Stone talents Player who upgraded their god stone will receive the equivalent stone as equipment

New Talents

• Monster Hunter Increase your base defense piercing for each monster you killed (1 points is about 2K monster killed, Elite are worth 100 monsters)
• Weapon Specialist Increase Weapon modifier drop-chance by 50% (+10% per level) Decrease Weapon drop chance by 50% After level 5, Weapon Modifier can be equipped on one additional weapon
• Blood Syphoon talent Active: Drain 30% health of all non-elites enemies arround you Range: 8m Heal 10% of your Max Health (+ 1% per enemy hit) (Have no effect on elites and bosses) passive: Every second, decay 0.3/0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1% of the maxhealth of all enemies in a range of 4/5/6/7/8m around you when decay is active, you lose 0.3/0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1% of your health per second as negative health regen If you health is bellow 40%, disable itself until you reach 70% of your health
• Lightless crystal respawn all the flying crystal Each flying crystal will shoot a powerful beam in the targeted direction
• Light Crystal Spawn many small golem far from you converging to your position
• Dried Mushroom Active: Spawn 1/2/3/4 big mushroom, that explode in 4/5/6/7 smaller explosing mushroom Passive: Every time a summon die, heal all other summon for 6/7/8/9/10% of their max health
• Goblin's Ear Active: Summon the goblin shaman, Buff all summon arround him Have 10/14/18/22 time the health of a normal mage goblin Last 60/80/100/120 secondes Only one goblin shaman can be summoned. Passive: Summons have 20/25/30/35/40% chance to shoot double projectiles
• Goblin's Hand Active: All goblin summon become berserk. Increase their Damage by 100/140/180/220% Reduce their Maxhealth by 90% Last 15/20/25/30 secondes Passive: Melee Summons gain 4/5/6/7/8% damage everytime it damage an ennemy
• Runic Stone Active: All golem summon become adamant. Increase their Defense by 1000/1500/2000/2500% They obtain One-shot protection Slow their movespeed by 30/27/24/20% Last 15/20/25/30 secondes Passive: Summons gain 4/5/6/7/8% defense everytime it take damage
• Light Crystal Active: Spawn many small golem far from you converging to your position (already there previous patch) Passive: Increase Lifetime of all summons by 10/15/20/25/30%
• Long Nail Active: The "On Take Damage" of your summons is activated every secondes for 4/6/8/10 secondes Passive: Upon dying, a summon deal 5/7/9/11/13% of an enemies health as damage (ignore armor) Only deal 1/1.5/2/2.5/3% to elite Doesn't affect Boss
• Pharaon Mask Active: All Desert summon now curse the enemies they touch. Cursed enemies get their damage reduced by 50/55/60/65% for 4 secondes Last 15/20/25/30 secondes Passive: Reduce damage taken by summons from elite by 30/35/40/45/50%
• Red Leather Active: Gain a fire aura, Continuously burning all enemies arround you. apply 50/100/150/200% of your Damage Stats every seconds. Last 11/14/17/20 secondes Passive: Start the game with Fire Spirit at level 1/1/2/2/3
• Red Skull Active: Instantly summon 6/9/12/15 skeletons Passive: Every time a summon die, Increase damage of other summons by 6/7/8/9/10%
• Suspicious Eyes Active: Doesn't do anything yet Passive: Increase Move speed of all summons by 10/15/20/25/30%
• Weightless Crystal Active: Respawn all the flying crystal Each flying crystal will shoot a powerful beam in the targeted direction Passive: Summons's projectile have 20/25/30/35/40% chance to ignore enemies defense
• Wind Feather Active: Doesn't do anything yet Passive: Increase Knockback of all summons by 100/150/200/250/300%

New Event

• Snow Village notice board Boreal Pinewood equivalent of the Notice board event, there is 4 quest available
• Jald Temple (Only appear once in Ember Dune) The Corrupted option artifact is from the Boss pool)
• Mirror of Truth (Only appear once in Manor) Allow you to fight a (boosted) boss from previous zone again

Achievement

• New Achievement - "Phase Skipper" Skip a boss phase by doing enough damage in a single frame Don't unlock anything yet

New Weapon

• Blood Syphon Continuously drain health from enemies in the aimed direction While draining health from enemies, you gain 1% (+0.05% per enemies) of your max health per second
• Corrupted Shaman Staff Evolution of Goblin's Ear, Goblin's Hand and Fairy in a Bottle
• Giant Worm Scale Evolution of Wind's Feather, Hard Leather and Gigantification
• Necromancer Staff Evolution of Weightless crystal, Red Skull and Necrotic bone

New Weapon Modifiers

• Rune of Heaviness - Epic Increase the weapon damage by 50% (+12.5% per level) Decrease the weapon attack-speed by 33%
• Rune of Alacrity - Epic Increase the weapon attack-speed by 25% (+12.5% per level) Speed-up the time-scale of the enemies hit by the weapon by 25% Maximum of 4/6/8/10 undead simultaneous
• Gigantification - Heroic - Behemoth Graveyard Increase damage and piercing of projectiles based on their size Increase projectile size Weapon modifier that can only be equipped on weapon with projectile size
• Rune of Consolidation - Heroic Greatly increase the damage of the weapon by 50/62/75/87/100% for each additional weapons Reduce the attack speed of other weapons by 50% Can only be equipped on a single weapon
• Blood Spirit - Heroic Damaging enemies with the weapon slowly heal you
• Rune of Necromancy - Ascended killed Enemies are summoned as undead. Summon stats are based on the monster's own stats on death Undead cannot use any of the capacity of the monster it originate from.
• Rune of Luck - Ascended Reroll your critical chance when it missed, Increase critical chance on the second roll.

SoulCards

• Colossal Strength - Epic Card - Behemoth Graveyard Increase Power by 40% Decrease Move Speed by 10% Decrease Attack Speed by 10% Decrease Projectile speed by 10%
• Thick Skin - Rare Card - Behemoth Graveyard Increase Base Defense by 5 Increase Damage Mitigation by 5% Reduce Defense Piercing by 20%
• Dense blood - Common Card - Behemoth Graveyard Increase Maximum Health by 10% Increase Health Regen by 5% Decrease Move Speed by 2.5%
• Wisdom of the Forgotten - Ascended Card - Behemoth Graveyard Increase exp gain by +300% Banish and remove all exp gain related cards (with the exception of void spirit and Wisdom of the Forgotten)
• Antique Moon - Heroic - Behemoth Graveyard Increase you defense by 2% for each level of card with the "Moon" tag
• Temporal Lens - Ascended - Manor of everlasting memories Increase your Time scale by 5% (+2.5% per level)
• Vine of Time - Synergy - Manor of everlasting memories Synergy between Eyes of truth and Vine Every 20 seconds, create a sphere of anachronism, that Increase your timescale by 30% and reduce enemies & projectile timescale by 80% The sphere is unaffected by time-scaling
• Suspended Touch - Synergy - Manor of everlasting memories Synergy of Cold Touch and Temporal Lens When Taking damage: Time scale of enemies damaging you is reduced by 90% (50% against boss) for 3 seconds Increase Player's timescale by 30% for 3sec
• Queen's Blood - Heroic - Manor of everlasting memories Increase you Max Health by 2% for each level of card with the "Wild" tag
• Eyes of Truth - Synergy - Manor of everlasting memories Synergy of Wisdom of the Forgotten, Queen's Blood and Necrotic bone Unbanish all cards, Evolutions no longer remove cards Set Corruption to 0 Multiply Bosses health by the corruption you should have Multiply Bosses Damage by 10% of the corruption you should have
• Thermophobia - Rare - Boreal Pinewood Reduce defense by 25% Increase power by 25% Increase Fire tag drop-chance by 15%
• Blade Skin - Ascended - Manor of everlasting memories Max level of 1 Reduce final damage you take by your (uncapped) power value (reduction capped at 90% (95/97.5/99 depending on how overleveled it is))) Require Card Level 500
• Unity - Epic Increase the damage of all your summon based on how many summon is alive Summoner only card Unlocked by Summon upgrades - Kill B-rank Shaman
• Brawl - Epic Inflict contact damage to enemies during dash
• ContagiousFire - Synergy of Fire spirit and Scented Jar Enemies that die while affected by Fire spirit will also spread it to nearby enemies
• Lucky Frost - Synergy of Ice spirit and Clover everytime you slowdown an enemy, increase you critical chance by 0.1% for 10 secondes
• Electric Corruption - Synergy of Thunder spirit and Necrotic Bone Corruption increase the strength of Thunder spirit
• Rifting Thunder - Synergy of Thunder Spirit and Rift When thunder jump from one enemy to the other, teleport them at the mid-point between each of them and inflict 1% of their max health as damage
• Synchronous Brawl - Synergy of Brawl & Temporal Lens Also Inflict contact damage to enemies during anachronistic
• Spectal Daggers - Heroic Upon overkilling an enemy summon Dagger thrown in the aimed direction Damage scale by the overkilled enemies health

New Soul-shop upgrades

• D-Tier - Artifact Reroll Allow artifact to be rerolled once in reward
• E-Tier - Shop Lock Slot
• D-Tier - Equipment inventory page
• C-Tier - Shop Lock Slot
• C-Tier - Damage Multiplier from Faith
• B-Tier - Rarity Reroll
• B-Tier - Piercing Scaling
• B-Tier - Limitbreak Level cap
• B-Tier - Equipment inventory page
• A-TIer - Shop Lock Slot Allow you to lock one additional item in shops
• A-TIer - Anachronistic slowdown Increase the slow-down of anachronistic
• A-TIer - Hyper-Crit Stack
• A-TIer - Equipment inventory page
• A-TIer - Base Power
• A-TIer - Mastery gain
• A-TIer - Reroll
• A-TIer - Dash Duration
• A-TIer - Weapon per Weapon Modifier

Hello Everyone

The next major update, "Blood & Steel" is coming out on

August 7!

What are the big changes of the update ?

• Equipment System

  
  
  
  
  

• Weapon Modifiers

  
  
  

• B-rank world & Manor of everlasting memories

  
  
  
  
  

• Behemoth Graveyard - Variant for the second zone

  
  
  
  

• Weapon talent can be equiped as Passive talent

  
  
  
  

• Locking item in Shop

  
  
  

• Artifact Reroll in reward

  
  
  

• New Avatar

  
  
  

• Challenge stacking

  
  
  

• Improved Grass rendering & Dynamic color variation for Dawn forest

  
  
  

• Main menu variation based on the selected World-Rank

  
  
  
  

• Main menu lighting variation based on previous run result

  
  
  
  
  

• (Optional) Projectile cap

  
  option to cap the number of projectiles, this allow to greatly boost performance in late game when there is a lot of projectile.

• Attacks telegraph

  
  
  

• And so many more things

  
  Those were just the "Big Changes", there is so many other small change through all the game!

What didn't make it

New enemies' sprite and animations

Twitch Integration

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog! To start this month's dev blog, I have an important news to share:

Rogue: Genesia is no longer published by iolaCorp

Isn't that a bad thing?

What does it mean for the game?

Month progress

Music

Challenge

Equipment loadout

Unique Equipment

Balance change

0.10 release date

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog!

First and foremost, I'm looking (again) for a pixel artist animator.

Equipment System

Equipment Modifier Collection

From feedback, the collection of equipment modifiers looks to be fun, this makes sure that even items that you don't like can still allow you to progress/unlock new modifiers by disassembling them (as well as giving crafting materials). I may also want to improve the drop chance of the rarer modifiers, some players that I expected to unlock almost all the modifiers are still lacking a good amount of them. [/olist] There have also been some good QoL improvements to the Equipment system, like the new equipment tooltip
Finally, God stone talent no longer exists (fire stone/wind stone). I always had an issue with these talents simply being stat boosts, which to me is much more fitting as equipment. The god stones that you already own and their equivalent level are converted into equipment (accessory slot) with the same stats. In addition, there is finally the addition of Storm stone, an upgrade of both Fiery stone and Gale stone. (Icon is just a placeholder) https://i.imgur.com/TEeVzlN.png

Main menu variety

Another thing I spent a bit of the month working on is adding more variety to the main menu. There is now a version of the main menu for each world-tier.



The lighting also changes depending on the result of your last game (but it's been in the beta for a bit of time now).

Improved visuals

The first major change in visuals is improving how the grass blends with the ground, as well as reworking the ambient occlusion values to help with that. This is how the game looked:
And this is how it looks now:
Another thing that started as Fernanda's suggestion and where she did a bit of work on is a variety of color schemes for the forest. Grass, ground, and tree colors will now vary depending on your location, world rank as well as other difficulty settings in the game.



I've also worked on implementing "Screen Fog", which adds a bit of fog to the top of the screen that depends on the zone you are in (The intensity can be changed in the options menu).

Summoner's Talent

Another big chunk of this month was spent working on adding talents for the summoner. Each summoner weapon has related talents, with their own passive and active effects. Passive effects mostly affect summons and allow for some interesting combo/builds, while active effects can often vary, from summoning the goblin shaman to emitting a fiery aura around you, and even one that greatly increases the defense of your golem summons.

Other Stuff

New Weapon

Blood Syphoon (Temp sprite) is a new weapon added recently, that could be summarized as an aimed Death aura, that also heals the player. The healing is a percentage of the player's health per second, it starts at 2% and increases by 0.1% per enemy drained.
Blood Syphoon talent passive talent also has a particular effect. I'm not yet sure how players will use this passive effect, but I'm sure it can find its place in some builds.

New Cards

Behemoth Graveyard and the Manor now both have their biome-only cards, here are some of them:

Casual mode change

Casual mode no longer makes the player unkillable. Instead, dying in casual mode simply brings you back to the level selection screen, giving you any tries you want to complete a stage. I think this is a good way to still make a run "challenging" without any frustration for players looking for a casual experience.
I've also added a new game mode, "Ultra Casual" which is basically the old casual mode. There is a warning screen when you create a profile in casual mode to make sure you don't accidentally make a save where you are unkillable. (I've seen negative reviews because the player couldn't die and didn't understand why)

Marker on health

Small QoL I wanted to add for many months, the player health bar now has small markers that help to know how much max health the player had. There are 4 levels of markers, each corresponding to a bigger and bigger amount of health, but only 2 can be visible at once (lower tier markers slowly get small and then invisible when you have a lot of health to not clutter the health bar).

New explosion FX

Nothing much, but I've also reworked the explosion visual as the existing one was pretty ugly (and always placeholder) https://twitter.com/RogueGenesia/status/1791644962636943599

0.10 Release date

I still cannot give a clear date for the 0.10 release, but I believe I should be done with everything on my side for a release in July. I just hope animations could be finished by this time, but this is also why I'm looking for an extra animator. If it's not ready by then, I'll make an open beta, and focus on the content for 1.0

Updated roadmap

Before ending this dev-blog, I've updated the roadmap (which is now quite short, but hey, better late than never)

Hello Everyone

Rogue: Genesia will be on a 20% discount during Steam Endless Replayability Fest 2024.

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog!

Equipment System

Mod unfriendly

The last of my worries was to make the equipment system almost impossible to mod. But the design I finally went for is highly moddable, with even equipment slots being easily modded in. [/olist]

Final idea of the equipment system

Each character has multiple slots, each slot designs themselves what their positions and size in the equipment UI. Each "Procedural Equipment Object" has a list of slots they can be equipped in (this allows for multiple accessory slots, or having light equipment being equipped on heavier slots, for example). Those objects also have a list of "Main Modifiers" that they can be equipped with. Each "Main Modifier" has a list of valid Negative and Positive secondary modifiers, and each modifier has a maximum count of maximum positive and negative modifiers. Each modifier has a "Card Level" variable that increases or decreases the item card level requirements (negative modifiers reduce it while positive ones increase it). Modifiers don't have any randomness in the value of their effect (so not having a +1% Attack speed where you could have +5%, but you were not lucky). Different Modifiers have a set "Rarity"; higher rarity has better effects but also increases the card level more than lower rarity ones. Rarity also affects the odds of having them in an equipment, as well as the minimum Tier of an equipment for it to be generated on. Equipment have both a "Level" (that goes from 1 to 10) and a "Tier" (from F to S (even more with modding)). Power of the modifiers is only affected by the Level and Tier of an object. Equipment are rewarded as a reward of a boss stage; the Level of an object depends on the zone the equipment is dropped in, while the Tier depends on the World Difficulty. (there is a bit of randomness in there). Equipment can be leveled up to level 10 in the main menu; it'll cost Soul-coin depending on the tier of the item. Equipment, once they reach level 10, can have their Tier upgraded in exchange of soul-coin and crafting materials. Equipment can be recycled and will refund all the soulcoin invested in the item and give crafting material of the corresponding tier. Later in the game, the player will unlock a new tab that allows them to customize their equipment: Equipment recycled will have all their modifiers saved in a "Modifier glossary" where they will be marked as "Learned". In exchange for a certain price, the player will be able to change/remove/add any main modifiers and secondary modifiers (up to the limit defined by the main modifier). This is where the positive/negative soul card level plays an important role, where the player could create very powerful equipment that is only enabled in late game, or make equipment with tradeoffs that can have an impact super early on. Equipment will have a "Rarity", but it's just a visual thing, based on modifier rarity (50% from the main modifier alone, and 50% by the average of secondary modifiers). Equipment can be equipped/unequipped during a run (in the pause Menu). I know this is a lot of information, and that it's changed quite a lot compared to the usual equipment system, but I believe this a system that both adds depth and involvement in it.

What has been done already

So out of the whole idea, what is already implemented? Code-wise, almost all of it. UI-wise, it is very, very barebones at the moment, and I focused on the minimum to make it work. The save/loading of equipment is also working well. Here is how it looks like right now:
Recycling and upgrading of items is also functional.
A lot of the work left is also in the content itself. I've already done more than 144 Modifiers, but there are still many left to add all the slots I would like to make.

What is left to be done

The modifier crafting is still missing. The whole process of learning modifier is there so modifiers from recycled items won't be lost. There is also a lot of work to be done on the UI/UX. Item tooltips are the bare minimum, with no comparison. You cannot drag and drop items yet, nor can you see only equipment specific to a single slot either. Item Icons are just placeholders. A ton of balancing; most of the values are just straight out of nowhere and will require some playtesting before it's good. Equipment presets (so you could define early-game/later game equipment and easily swap between them). Unique equipment from specific bosses. These will come when I'm sure the system is set to stay in the game.

What if it's not left in the game

If feedback on this is negative and there is no way to properly integrate it into the game, the whole system will be disabled in the code. That means that for those who love it, a simple mod that tells the game "enable equipment" would allow it to be enabled very easily.

The first version of the equipment system is playable in the beta of version 0.10

5th zone boss

Another big task I was focused on during this month was the AI of the 5th zone boss, the Vampire Queen. One of the main aspects of this boss is that she also possesses the ability to slow down time, similarly to the player. This special characteristic is represented by 3 things: [olist]

[spoiler]Ability that plays around time stop. After completing the first phase, she'll occasionally almost stop time (1% original speed) and quickly throw multiple knives at the player before resuming time.[/spoiler] [spoiler]([strike]Yes, that's a Jojo reference[/strike])[/spoiler] [/olist] The boss also has other abilities, but I'm not going to spoil everything.

Other changes

The last month was mainly occupied by making the new boss and the equipment system, but there are a few noteworthy things to tell about:

Better telegraphing

This is mainly a beneficial fallout from the Vampire queen boss. There was a need for much better telegraphing, so I made 3 different types of telegraphing that also got added to other bosses.

Camera shake

A minor thing that I wanted to add is a bit of camera shake. Obviously, there is an option to tone it down (or increase it for the brave) if it's uncomfortable. They are mainly used in boss intros to give more impact and a few of their attacks.

Current and Future Modding

As many may know, modding is a little bit dead at the moment. This is easily understandable; the game is still in early access, and some mods can easily be broken by an update. While the base support for modding is there, there is a clear lack of documentation on the subject, and the API could clearly use improvement. I'm totally open to suggestions on what guides people would like to see on mod creation, as well as things that are not clear or that could be improved. Modding is not the highest priority right now, as I prefer to focus my attention on the game itself. I also plan to make a modding contest with small cash prize, especially after version 1.0, when the game programming will be stabilized. I originally come from a modding background, and I believe this could be a great opportunity to develop a community in the game modding, and this is the sort of thing that could definitely help the long-term lifetime of the game once I've finished working on it. I'm thinking of making the first contest about challenges.

Online and Local Multiplayer

In the comment on the previous Devblog, someone asked about a coop. Even overall, this is something that got asked a few times, so I believe it's a good subject to talk about. I have no plan for coop in the game, either online or locally. There are both technical and design reasons for that. First, an online multiplayer would have too much data to synchronize between users. 4 players each having 200 simultaneous projectiles at 20 ticks per second would require about 1 MB/s, which is a lot for a game (a typical FPS usually uses around 100 KB/s). And 200 simultaneous projectiles is not that much in Rogue. Genesia (I've seen games with tens of thousands of simultaneous projectiles). Secondly, there is also a technical knowledge limitation. I have almost no knowledge or experience in networking or multiplayer. and those things are far from easy and could easily end up becoming development hell and taking multiple years to implement. especially as the game architecture was never designed with multiplayer in mind, none of the systems support such a thing, and it would basically mean remaking most of the game from scratch. Then comes the possibility of offline co-op. It's technically much easier to implement in the gamenot easy, but definitely more realistic. However, it would also require a lot of small things to be reworked to support multiple players, especially on the UI. We are talking about a about a month of work. Then comes the design reason that pushes me against multiplayer: Rogue: Genesia power scaling during a run is exponential; enemies usually have their health multiplied by 100 for each zone on average, and the player is meant to follow a similar trend on his power level. This means we could easily end up with one player carrying the game and the other players simply being powerless. This is a design issue. I've noticed a lot in Risk of Rain 2, and the scaling there is much less aggressive than in Rogue: Genesia. Those reasons are why I don't plan to make the game multiplayer. However, if a moderator were to try to tackle this challenge, I would provide any assistance I could to make this a reality.

0.10 Release Date

I sadly cannot yet give a release date for 0.10. There is obviously the fact that equipment testing just started, and there are a few things I want to add to the update. But again, the enemy animation is likely to add additional delay to the update. which again is fine as I'll simply advance some planned stuff for 1.0 into the 0.10 to prepare ground for 1.0 content in advance (notably the talent upgrade tree). I would also like to hire an additional animator or sprite artist around July to speed up the development of the game. I prefer to avoid hiring anyone right now for reasons that I cannot disclose yet (and that I hope I'll be able to during my next development blog).

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog! This blog post will be focused on the advancements made in the last month toward update 0.10.

Finished Manor Visual

Shop Locking

Card Requirement Change

Active Talent as Passive Talent

Active Talents can be equipped as passive talents, so you can level up multiple at once. [/olist] Of course, simply making active talents be equipped as passive for additional mastery gain is boring, So in the process, I've added passive effects to each active talent that are only active when the talent is equipped as passive. This greatly improves the pool of passive talents and gives much more diversity of choice. Here are a few examples of passive effects for active talents:



There are still a few active talents that are missing passive effects as of now, but they will slowly be added over the beta lifetime.

Hyper-crit Rework

Hyper-crit got a buff to be a more important mechanic to play with. Until now, the scaling of hyper-crit was linear, with each stack of critical simply adding +1 to the multiplier in this way: x1 > x2 > x3 > x4. With the new scaling, the damage of critical is multiplied by 2 for each stack of critical applied, so it is now following this formula: x1 > x2 > x4 > x8. One of the main reasons for this change is that it was most of the time much more worth it to simply go for as much level of "Absolute Focus" than increasing critical chance above 100%, and didn't add any importance to the choice. I hope this change will add a proper build choice between going for hyper crit or going for absolute focus (in the case you're going for a crit-build). I also think this should make the addition of cards that increase critical chance but reduce critical damage more interesting.

Challenge Stacking

Maybe one of the more exciting additions for a few players and a massive QoL for many. After watching a few streamers playing recent versions of the game and collecting multiple feedback, a major issue that arose is that early-game challenges (specifically F-rank and E-rank) are more of a checklist than a proper challenge for most players, and can become especially frustrating for experienced players to play through. The issue is that they don't really feel difficult, especially when they are playing after completing other ranks and simply become boring bloat to go through. Directly increasing the difficulty of these challenges, while a possible fix for this issue, would also make the game less accessible, and would simply be satisfying a part of the player base while sacrificing another part, which is simply not something I was willing to do. The best compromise I could find was to make most challenges "stackable." In the way that you can now activate multiple challenges at once and complete them all in one go. This allows for challenges to still be "easy" to complete, while giving the possibility of more skilled players to have harder challenges and complete them faster.

Balancing

I'm not gonna go through every little bit of balancing done, but I think there is a few things that gonna please to players.

Necromancer Nerf

To the joy of many, Necromancer got nerfed (yet again). The nerf is a major reduction to the summon count of the necromancer. In addition, I've fixed a bug that allowed the necromancer to summon enemies directly on the player position and could cause frustrating death.

Divine Shield

Until now, Divine Shield required Moon-shield as a requirement, but it wasn't aligned with the theme of moon-shield, divine shield being a faith-build card, which usually wants to lower moon-tag and reduce defense and defense multiplier as much as possible. So from now on, Divine Shield will now require Light-armor instead. While not being perfectly aligned with the idea of the faith build, it'll work well together for them.

Moon Shield

As for Moon Shield, it got a rework. It'll now appear much earlier in the game (only requiring Card-level 5) and its main purpose is to rail the player into obtaining metal transmutation. It no longer reduces attack-speed, but instead reduces power multiplier by 20%, which no longer makes it collide with metal transmutation. In addition, it now increases moon tag drop-rate by 25% instead of 5%, which also greatly increases the chance of metal transmutation appearing and helps toward a defense build.

Other Balance

To get quickly through them:

• Silk Edge got a buff but appears later in a run
• Armor-less, Zealot, and Metal Transmutation all require Card Level 50
• Many cards now also provide a bit of tag drop-chance
• Tactical Soul kill requirement reduced from 10 Million to 5 Million
• Concentration is now a weapon modifier

Backup

As some may or may not know, the game creates a backup of your data every hour and always keeps them in the save folders. For various reasons, players can lose their progress, and it's almost always recoverable. I've made a guide on how to replace your current run with the backup on the Steam forum. However, many players are simply not tech-savvy enough to follow the recovery process, and I've often had to spend time helping some players recover their backup via emails, or seen negative reviews from players losing their saves (when they are easily recoverable). To help with that, I've decided to add 2 new buttons in the profile manager to load either Persistent data backup or achievement backup directly within the game.

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog! This blog post will be focused on the advancements made in the last few weeks toward update 0.10. As some may know, the beta for update 0.10 started about 2 weeks ago, so let's see what's already done:

Weapon modifiers

RogNGesus

Amber dune alternative zone, "Behemoth Graveyard"

Next Zone - Manor

Terrain Generation rules

Valid Spawn Position

Other Minor Things

Reworked "Game Options" Menu

Slight Anachronistic Rework

Shrines Are Now Affected by Tag Drop Chance

Artifact Reroll in Reward

Content

Beta Roadmap

• Shop-Lock Feature Similarly to many auto-battlers, the ability to lock one or multiple things in the shop for the next shop or reroll. This will only affect shops of the same type (blacksmith to blacksmith, shop to another shop, shopkeeper level-up to another level-up). And it'll only work on cards, consumables, and artifacts (you won't be able to lock a limit break or a card selection). This should be the next thing I work on and should be part of beta update 3.
• Equipment System Test In a few beta updates, I'll implement a rough version of the equipment system to check if it properly fits into the game. This will be an experimental change that may or may not be kept in the game.
• Twitch Integration This is something I want to investigate for a long time, but I think it's time to add Twitch integration into the game. I'm still not sure how I want it to be implemented, but I'll likely open a Community Feedback about it in the upcoming week on the game discord.

Fixes

• Ice Nova talent blocking boss
• Some shrine spawning at a way lower difficulty that they are supposed to (looking at you Nera shrine)
• Golden altar event Too low gold given for stealing that it was supposed Appearing chance being too high early on
• Right/Left tabs not updating correctly the pause menu tab
• Right/Left tabs not working correctly in gamemode selection menu

Talent

• Ice Nova Active Talent Added Throw a large icicle in the aimed direction Deal 500/1000/1500/2000% of your weapon damage Slow-down enemy by 80% for 4/5/6/7 sec, slowly regaining it's movespeed Cancel the active spell of the enemy/boss

Changes

• Survivors Challenges can now be leveled to increase the world rank it can be played on
• Critical strike Increase Defence Shredding effect Double the effect on critical strike Increase it further for each Hyper-crit stack

Fixes

• multiple commoner's guidebook dropped by villager events
• Stats menu XP and Health not being updated
• Card in Survivors mode displaying "Only Appear In" when it wasn't relevant

Hello everyone, time for the monthly dev blog! This dev blog won't focus on new development since everything made is in the stable version. In the first part, I'll talk about balancing and difficulty in Rogue: Genesia. Then I'll discuss the future months of development and what is planned!

Game Balancing

Difficulty

Changes

• Reduce Acid Coating max level from 10 to 5 Doubled it's effects to compensate for the reduction in levels
• Corrosion Damage Mitigation reduction changed from 5% to 2%
• Mind Corruption Tweak Increased Defence shredding multiplier from 10% to 20% Reduced max level from 10 to 5 Also increase Defence piercing by 10%
• Unholy aura Damage mitigation reduction changed from 10% to 5%
• Weapon aura max level increased from 1 to 2 Additional projectile reduction changed from -2 to -1.5 per level
• Weapon polish max level increased from 6 to 10
• New Stats - Piercing Scaling Damage multiplier from weapon now increases damage piercing Default Value at 5% (nothing modify it's value for now) A weapon with 1 damage multiplier increase damage piercing by 5%, a weapon with 20 damages multiplier, increase damage piercing by 100%. This should help damage piercing scaling

Fixes

• Ever increasing list size for object generation when going far away the list is now properly cleaned
• Modifier being applied to non monster entity by railgun and causing errors
• "Item Name" reward in challenge with "No Artifact" and "No card in stage reward" conditions in place you would normally obtain artifacts or cards
• Achievement that should normally be hidden being shown in certain conditions
• Empty stats category left in the stats list

Fixes

• Fiery dash being displayed as Fire Spirit damage in enf of screen menu
• GiveCard command not updating the card list in pause menu
• Localization issues with Love&Hate description

Fixes

• Thunder Spirit not working on Gunslinger

GunSlinger Tweak

• Tier 2 weapon can be obtained at level 20 instead of level 25
• Reduced maximum level of Gunslinger weapon from 7 to 5 A lvl 5 gunslinger weapon will have equivalent stats than a level 7 weapon from before
• Improved reload speed of pistol Since you simply cannot swap for other weapons early on, having a long reload speed is too much of a penalty
• Reduced Enemy move-speed by 30% when playing as Gun-Slinger This should help keep the game more readable and manageable as it require an active play-style

Modding

• Added both "DisplaySelectedWeapon()" and "DisplayAmmo()" virtual function to the AvatarData class to make the ammo counter and weapon selection work on any avatar (and not just the gunslinger)

QoL

• Railgun now have a proper sprite

Fixes

• Humility not having any effects
• Silk Edge mentioning Damage instead of Power
• Holy Conversion mentioning Damage instead of Power
• Boiling Blood mentioning Damage instead of Power
• Volt-Charge and Volt-Strike buff description
• Goblin Summon damage being displayed as "Debug_Summon"
• Freeze when Goblin shaman music start
• Changed Entity time precision from float to double Should remove precision issues with some buff/weapon attack for multiple hours long runs
• Dashing out of the Lava titan arena (again end definetly this time)
• Evolutions not unlocked in the run where the achievements is obtained
• Skin description using wrong text formating

Optimisation

• Improved performance of Arcanic beam with long projectile lifetime (and high enemies count)

Performance

• Improved Explosion Performances impact (especially with anachronistic)

Fixes

• Explosion size displayed as much bigger than they should be

Fixes

• Artificer explosion becoming purple and staying on screen
• Border colours in Card selection

QoL

• Keyword for gamepad/steamdeck user

  
  You can now press Select (rebindable) to open a small list with all the displayed keyword, selecting the keyword will display a small pop-up describing the keywords as if you put your mouse over There is a lot of room for improvement but it should prove useful.

Changes

• Tweak Silph's blade Reduced attack speed overall When reaching level 5 and 7, reduce it's attack speed to compensate the gain in projectiles Greatly increase damages (This is made to reduce the performance impact of the weapon)

Performance

• Slightly improved projectile removal performance test show up to x5 time reduction, it's minor in the grand scheme of all thing, but still a small improvement
• Fixes a maximum-Timestep error that caused fixed-update to take up to 0.5s per frame (instead of 0.05s) and causing a snowball effect on bad performance This should improve performance by about 50% in extremes situations
• Disabled Projectile Update when game is paused Should greatly improve performance when game is paused
• Worm gland now has a low-visual effect quality FX
• Ice nova now has a low-visual effect quality FX
• Soft-capped Fuuma shuriken to 1000, above that, projectiles will see their life-time reduced.

Fixes

• Auto-scrolling not working in stats menu when using a gamepad
• Ice Nova not being affected by projectile opacity option
• Wind Blade not being affected by projectile opacity option
• Worm Gland edge not being affected by projectile opacity option
• Ice nova not being visible in Low visual-effect

QoL

• Added Shaman boss music

Changes

• Arcane Beam buff Damage ramp-up also affect defence shredding
• Buff to the shaman boss Heal-Buff Reduced cast-time From 3.2s to 1.6s Now also greatly increase other monster max health (+200%) and Defence ( +5/10/20/50) Now fully heal them Affect any monster that entered the aoe during the casting and not just at the end of the casting

Fixes

• Performance degradation during Endurance of Vild challenge
• Shaman buff actually being a debuff to other monsters

Fixes

• Survivors run end screen causing error and preventing the game to register progression.
• Performance drop when Shaman does his laser>bullet attack Debug printing was left into the game and wasn't removed

Fixes

• Card selection during reward hiding the UI

Change

• Riven's blessing experience from void magnet no longer affected by xp multiplier
• Ethereal Elite modifier now reduce an elite health by 70%

Fixes

• Enemies projectile instantly being removed in survivors mode after finishing a stage in Rog's Mode
• Card being slightly cut-off at the top when hovering them
• Altars not disappearing in certain situation during boss fight

Fixes

• Missing localization for new shrine
• Vild shrine causing performance drop
• Zone 3 Boss sometime spawning the zone 3 Mid-boss instead of the necromancer

Changes

• Immovable now shortly disable itself during a dash (dash duration + 0.25 sec)
• Added Challenge Shrine Summon a random level 100 monster with boosted health Upon killing the monster you gain a free card-selection If the monster is an elite, gain 3 card selection instead They are disabled in survivors mode when you reach red timer
• Jaald blessing now increase all damage (instead of just power stats)

Added others god's shrine blessing

• Skaldi +100% Critical chance Every weapon deal critical damage +100% base critical damage
• Vild Heal 5% of your health per seconds
• Riven Void-Magnet no longer attract soul-gem Void-Magnet fill-up 10% of your required experience for next level
• Nera +10 base Corruption x5 Corruption Multiplier +1000% base Defence Shredding
• Logam +2 base Additional Projectile

Fixes

• Grass and stone on ground Z-fighting with higher visual effect quality
• Arcanic Pike bugging the game
• Immovable and dashing allowing to go out of the Lava titan arena
• Level of challenge that increase world-rank reseting to 1 and preventing progression
• Divine Shield locking the game
• Decaying armor and Divine shield buff using the wrong icons
• OnCalculateMonsterDefenceLoss event being called twice

Modding

• New Event - OnCalculateTakeDamageStart(Monster, DamageInformationRef) Called at the very start of the gake damage function of a monster

Fixes

• Cursed challenge stage sometime not spawning any enemies

Changes

• Slightly increased back the monster count in Cave zone
• Decreased number of skeletons spawned by the necromancer Also Slighty Increase their health and damage to compensate
• Slight change to stage generation seed for some reasons, the previous way created a desync between my debug tool and the game, and made debugging save properly impossible
• Buff to Pike and it's mechanic Base damage increased from 1.5 to 2.5 Gain bonus damage at level 3 (+0.25), 5 ( +0.5) and 7 (+1) Increased the bonus damage from hitting at maximum range from x2 to x4 (provide guaranteed critical hit) Added a smaller bonus damage if you hit from almost the maximal range (x2, doesn't provide guaranteed critical hit) and an even smaller if you hit with the 25% end of the pike (x1.5, doesn't provide guaranteed critical hit)

• Thunder spirit in other than english language (truly this time)
• Being able to sometime take damage and die during a boss intro
• Elite not spawning in elite stage This required a well needed refactorization to how enemies are chosen, so there may be some unexpected bugs)
• Katana talent not working
• Pike collision not scaling with it's size
• issues with Fight & Flight not correctly removing itself
• Decaying armor not being removed upon taking damage (and not unregistering from event when removed)

Important Notice

Fixes

• Major memory leak caused by Katana, wisp (void and magic) and sword-rang talent

Commands

• New Command - godMode Toggle Godmode, require to enable cheatmode

Physiscs

• Changed back Simulation mode from Update to Fixed Update Update caused major glitch in case enemies were colliding a lot with each other and caused "explosion" to move them or even the players on long distance when leveling-up This change should decrease performance at low FPS, however, the maximum timestep was increased from 0.1s to 0.5s, (which mean it shouldn't affect performance until you hit 2 fps instead of 10 from before)

Changes

• Greatly increase drop-chance of evolution card you don't already own (multiplied by 8) This should greatly help players obtain the first level of evolutions card, especially in survivors mode
• Removed Survivors time in Steam leaderboard (since infinity is reachable, they don't really serve much purposes as of now)
• Slight change to how soft card requirement are handled (before, just having the corresponding tag would be valid, now you require both the tag and another of the requirements)

Fixes

• Divine shield not being obtainable or unlockable
• Thunder Spirit localization causing glitch in German translation
• Exiting and entering controls option multiple would push keybindinds down
• Music not changing for Arena stages fight
• Shaman Staff - bugged talent Reworked the talent to now use the summon system made for summoner

Fixes

• Flight&fight stats name
• hand of cheater description
• Event choice overlapping at certains resolutions (like 1440x900)
• Card tree display issues at certains resolutions
• Input UI in zone selection not being correctly updated
• Huge GPU performance drop in third zone fight
• Major performance issues that slowly degraded performance over-time
• Arcane Beam talent missing description

Changes

• Improved Arcane beam width & damage over leveling
• Updated Death aura sprite

Fixes

• Witch being invisible when attacking
• Flight&Fight description
• Arcane Beam level 1>2 being a nerf to attack speed
• Icicle damages being reported as "Other"
• Archer enemies sometime doing moonwalk
• SSU_CardSelectionChoiceCount soul-shop upgrade know bug (and already fixed for future version) : displayed: 3% > 4 instead of 3 > 4

Fixes

And here we are, Update 0.9.1 is finally out but that not all, the game now officialy have a proper trailer ! [previewyoutube=cwCRjrJ4tX4;full][/previewyoutube] If Steam don't give you the option to update the game, you can restart steam and it'll automatically download the update.




You can check the patchnote here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2067920/view/3953664641950728703

Major Change

Updated from 2022.3.0f1 to Unity 2022.3.15f1

Quick-mode

Migrating from 3D to 2D collision

Physics calculation now happen once per frame

New Difficulty on profile creation - Casual mode

Terrain generation

All achievements are now on steam

Challenge Level

Weapon Modifiers refactorization

Input system refactorization

Gun-Slinger rework

Card pool rebalance

Weapon Refactorization

Major QoL

• Card tree

  
  When viewing a card details, you can now check it's card tree, which allow to easily see the requirements or the evolution of a card
• Zone Selection screen You'll now have a zone selection screen between each zone, This mean the first zone in D+ rank is no longer random between boreal pinewood and dream forest
• Stacked Damage number In option you can now enable stacked damage number, so it display the recently cumulated damages per enemies
• Stage Information when hovering/selecting a stage
• Option to enable health-bar over all non-elites enemies (without performance hit) This also allow health-bar over summons
• Weapon tab added in the pause menu. You can see each weapon damages stats You can also see weapon modifiers
• Added damage graph over time (and kill count) You can click the damage on the left to check damage stats for each damage source You can change in option the time precision of the graph (default is 30 sec) from 5sec to 120s
• Weapon with auto-aiming will now predict the enemy position based on their actual velocity

QoL

• New fight music for Crystal depths (cave zone)
• Music for Scroshed Plateau boss stage
• Improved Visibility in Crystal depths
• Added a Default camera zoom option, where you can slightly unzoom the camera when there is nothing overriding the camera zoom
• Added support for DX 12 and Vulkan (can be changed by using "-force-vulkan" or "-force-d3d12" launch command in Steam)
• New Sound-track for Boreal Pinewood combat stages (snow forest zone)
• Added a title text when you enter a new zone in Rog's mode (this also mean all zone now have proper names)
• Improved stage selection of Boreal Pinewood
• Added error message when trying to create a profile with unvalid name
• Slightly changed light model used for enemy and foliage sprites They should slightly be affected by back-lighting, most noticeable in Crystal depths
• Damage number color is now slightly affected by environement to not be too distracting (especially in cave zone)
• Reworked a few sounds in the game
• Improved sound mixing during anachronistic
• Reworked the pause menu
• Blur the background when the game is paused
• Slightly reworked the visual option menu Give better visibility to what you can see
• Added Wide Rog skin
• Damage number now support Q and Qt OoM
• Removed collision between player and summon
• Updated Soul-shop UI to fit the rest of the updated UI
• Soul-Shop tier text color is changed when a tier is maxed
• Sound Setting now has a Master slider
• Sounds Option UI improvement Added an input field on the value, so it can precisely be edited Also slightly updated the UI to the new style
• Next stage button text in event will be replaced with "Fight" in the right situation
• Added an FX feedback for volt-strike to easily track active charges or if the effect is active
• Future damage from poison debuff is also displayed on the healthbar
• Fire spirit damage is also displayed on the enemies Healthbar
• Improved Scorched plateau stage selection visuals
• Biome only card now have a small text so you know it only appear in this biome (and not only in the card details)
• Music no longer restart from 0sec when entering a stage
• Slightly changed Scorched plateau ground color to help with enemy readability.
• When creating a profile, the game will pull out Steam virtual keyboard for steamdeck user (or big picture users)
• Added a Damage line in the stat menu, that will display a breakdown of damage source
• Pressing F11 now hide all UI
• Weapon stats are now breakdown when there is modifiers affecting them
• Damage source in End of game damage summary can now be hovered and a tooltip of the source card will be displayed
• Stats category can now be expanded/collapsed
• Added a small loading screen when starting the game

New Artifact

• Ranked Dice Give one free rarity reroll on card selection, refreshed every 2 card selection Unlocked by "Getting Scammed"
• Light Arrow Each Purification points increase base critical damage by 3% Unlocked by having Light spirit level 4
• Golden Goblin Hand Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Goblin quest) Picking gold inflict 5% (+0.5% per player level) damage to enemies in a 15m area (scale with area size) Damage scale with Damage multiplier Can crit Ignore enemy defense (and defence shredding)
• Mushroom Gel Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Mushroom quest) 75% of damages taken are slowly applied over 10 seconds This is post-defence damage Damage inflicted by mushroom gel ignore your defence
• Silkskin Wings Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Flying eyes quest) Increase final dash duration by 1.5s Increase final dash cooldown by 1.5s Increase final dash delay by 0.5s Reduce dash speed by 80% Increase Dash Charge by 1

New Weapon

• Ice Nova - Heroic Launch a slow-moving nova of ice spawning icicles around itself related talent is just a placeholder for now
• Arcane Beam - Epic Charge and shoot a powerful beam in the aimed direction Cannot charge another beam while one is already being shoot Deal continuous damage overtime Width of the beam scale with area size

New Weapon Evolution

• Ballista Evolution of Throwing knife and Crossbow Automatically Attack healthier enemy Also attack in the aimed direction upon dashing Throw multiple parallel bolt Simultaneous bolt only work when in Siege-mode or during dashes When not moving, Enable "SiegeMode", the weapon gain double it's damage, halve it's attack delay, and greatly increase it's bolt penetration, but reduce the player's movespeed by 30% for 3 sec after quiting siegemode
• Singularity Gland - Evolution of Worm gland and Void Spirit Create massive blackhole that slowly attract nearby enemies Deal less damage as the enemy is farther to the center Deal damage more often as the enemy is closer (up to 10 tick per seconds) Size/attraction speed depend on the "Mass" stat Slowly grow in size to it's maximum size Gain 50% chance to shot a second black-hole at level 5 (100% at level 7) Blackhole that get close enough will merge Blackhole that just spawned cannot be merged immediatly Enemies hit gain a permanent time-slowness effect (depending on how close they are to the center)
• Explosive Bow Evolution of Bow and Explosive Vials Arrow that target the closest enemies and explode when the projectile hit an enemy Maximum piercing capped at 5
• Arcanic Pike Evolution of Pike, Light spirit and Arcane Beam Slowly charge a powerful arcanic laser that decimate non-elite ennemies on it's path
• Angelic Prism Evolution of Ice Nova, Explosive Vial and Arcane Beam Summon an Angelic prism that quickly cast beam toward the nearest enemies Each enemy hit cause an explosion dealing 50% of it's damage in AoE

3 New Gun-Slinger's weapon

• Dual Gatling Require Perfection Upgrade of HMG Start shooting slowly and scale up to 50 time per seconds Shot 2 time[
• Rail Gun Require Thunder Spirit Shot a infinitely piercing rail Each enemy touched cause 3 sub-trace to be shot randomly Very high damage Very slow attack speed
• Flame Thrower Require Fire Spirit Quickly shot wide weak projectile that can quickly cumulate damage on enemy May need balancing

New Soulcards

• Health potion - Rare Increase Health regen by 35%
• Vengeful shield - Synergy Synergy between Stalwart shield and Health Potion Every damage receive (post-defence) increase your damage (60-80-100)% of this amount for (6-8-10) seconds Increase Wild tagged card drop chance by 10%
• Holy Skin - Ascended Card Reduce Bonus damage receive from negative defence. Reduce Defence by 20% per level
• Unwavering Faith - Synergy Card Synergy of Zealot and Blood Candle Remove all Positive defence card you own Ban All positive Defence card Increase Zealot conversion ratio based on your purification Reduce Defence by 10%
• Decaying Armor - Epic Overtime, Decrease your defence and increase your defence penetration Reset upon taking damage or entering a stage Require Zealot
• Faith - Tainted Reduce Base Defence by 0.25 Increase Faith by 1 Only available after you obtain Zealot
• Discipline - Tainted Reduce Defence Multiplier by 1% (compound) Reduce Health Multiplier by 1% (compound) Multiply Faith by 1.025 (compound) Only available after you obtain Holy skin
• Humility - Epic Increase damage dealt to elites and boss enemies based on your faith
• Divine Shield - Epic Grant you shield charge based on your faith Each charge protect you from 1 hit are restored when a stage start Only available in Rog's mode

New Soul-Shop Upgrade

• Soul-card selection choice Increase Soul-Card choice during selection by 1 (stack with cheater's hand)

New Event

• Notice Board (Forest variant) Choose between 4 missions to complete and get the reward Can only appear once
• Golden Altar

New Elite Abilities

• Ethereal Cannot be affected by debuffs (like fire spirit)
• Fast +30% move speed
• Giant + 50% size +150% health +50% Damage -15% speed + 30% drop reward (gold and exp)
• Maiden has 10 charge, each blocking damage, Recharge 1 charge every 2 second, Cannot regen more than 30 charge
• Priest Heal other nearby non-boss enemy by 5% of their max health each second Cannot be healed by another Priest elite
• Stalward Reduce knockback received by 90%
• Tiny Reduce Size by 35% -50% Health -35% Damage +50% speed
• Undying Have 3 Extra life After each death, increase it's size by 10%, Damage by 10%, Health by 25% + 300% drop reward

Changes

• Renamed "Damage" stats into "Power" stats to reduce confusion ( especially with lunar inferno)

  
  
• Wrath now require area tag
• Temporarely removed Spirit's water from artifact pool until it get a rework
• Old Coin buff Increased Experience bonus from +100% to +300%
• Player's health regen and weapon attack speed depend on players timescale (as of now, nothing in the vanilla game affect player's timescale)
• Pike reworked New Visual FX (so it's doesn't look horribly ugly like before) No longer has delay between multiple pike projectiles Hitting an enemy with the tip of the pike will deal guarantee critical hit with a 100% damage boost Slightly follow the aimed direction after it's spawned
• SwordRang Tweak If a projectile get too far away from the players, it'll get removed if the projectile is alive for too long ( > 10 sec) it'll also get removed to avoid lags In Addition, if there is more than 1000 Sword-rang alive, returning sword-rang life-time get depleted 5 time faster (again to avoid huge lag-spike from getting out of control)
• Similarly to Swordrang, Wisp projectile will see their lifetime greatly reduced when their number is greater than 1000 to save performances
• Soul-Coin gained from gold is now soft-capped over 1 Million gold
• BonFire event change Merged rest and meditation, so you always improve one of your card when you rest Card limit break option no longer has requirements (ouside of having a maxed out card)
• Fairy in a bottle tweak Increase health regen multiplier from +20% to +50%
• Throwing Knife nerf Increased base attack delay from 0.33s to 1.5s
• Kunai buff new effect: Remove all positive defenses from enemies hits by the kunai
• Arcane beam, Void Wisp and Magic wisp buff Ignore positive enemy defenses Still benefit from damage shredding bonus damage (similarly to critical hit)
• Magic wand buff Increase damage of all Magic tagged weapon by 20%
• Arcanist staff buff Increase damage of all Magic tagged weapon by 50%
• Removed some artifact form the boss poll list Glass Sword Jaald's potion Sacred Sword Troll blood Pork Statuette Void Statuette
• new artifacts added to the boss poll Holy cross Shop-Keeper's Plate Adventurer's License
• Thunder staff now deal a little bit of knockback
• Damage in statistic now directly track the damage dealt without being clamped by the monster health
• Evolutions unlocked via achievements are now added to the pool of the current run Need to be tested
• Fuuma Shuriken, Storm Staff, Void wisp and Arcanist staff no longer requires any achievements to be unlocked (they are unlocked by default) These two change should help new players to access evolutions without spending too much time into the game, especially since I've noticed a lot of player think that the game don't have evolutions
• Save Villager Event Fighting the monster is now a real fighting stage instead of being an auto-damage for reward one
• FireSpirit tweak Fire damage duration no longer increase when applied but is reset instead Increased damage percentage from 10% + 5% per level to 20% + 10% per level Reduced duration from 5sec to 3sec
• Fight & Flight change No longer increase Power by 100% + 20% per level Increase Attack speed by 50% + 10% per level instead
• Berserker card renamed Bloodthirst
• Glass sword now multiply the final damage by 2 instead of just multiplying the power multiplier by 2 this mean it affect both lunar inferno and all transmutation builds
• Change to Zealot Add a new Stat called "Faith" that increase Damages Zealot now increase Faith instead of Power
• Increased Thunder Staff talent charge cost From 200 to 500/466/433/400 charges
• Fire Aura tweak DoT duration no longer increase as you apply it (it get reset instead) Greatly increase DoT damages
• Boss Changing Phase only remove 75% of it's defence shredding instead of 100%
• Changed Tainted drop-chance based on player level Tainted drop chance should slowly increase at the player level-up
• Shrine are no longer save-scummable the game will automatically save after your card has been changed quit and saving at this point will load the stage selection as if you pressed continue
• Fresh Bullet rework Effect only apply if you reload with less than half of your ammo left. duration no longer increase infinitely but is reset when reloading if still active Increased effect from 30% + 10% per level to 50% + 15% per level
• Scavenger rework When you kill enemy, you have a chance to regen 10% (+5% per level) of your max ammo on your selected weapon Have a cooldown of 5sec Max level increased to 4
• Reworked how connection between stage is generated Should no longer be Left-centered Now allow connections to cross each other
• Increased OS-Protection duration when taking fatal damage from 0.15sec to 0.35sec
• Reduced "Critical ontop of critical" requirement from 101% to 100.1%
• Removed consecutive death bonus from Hero mode
• Corruption slider now also Increase Talent mastery gain
• Corruption slider is now available after you completed D-rank Instead of being available after completing last available difficulty
• Increased Budget cost of zone 3 enemies this should reduce their number overall and improve performances
• Elite monster count as 10 monsters killed for kill count objectives

Achievements

• Added a new secret and stupid achievement. that unlock a new skin Good luck
• Getting Scammed - Rarity reroll an Heroic or higher rarity card into a lower rarity
• Pour directly on your wounds Reach 10 health regen Unlock Health potion
• Time for Payback Receive 1M damage in total Unlock Vengeful shield
• Increased Small slime and Medium slime size to make them easier to see
• Boreal pinewood can appear in F and E rank rogs mode after you completed E-rank rogs mode
• Throwing knife nerf Dash regen delay is capped at twice the dash delay to prevent infinite dashing
• Gold collect and enemy kill objective are now mutually exclusive
• Summon now inherit Damage mitigation stat from the player

Fixes

• Worm boss having invincibility when dealing too much damage

  
  

• A major bug with how the game select which card to pick for card selection

  
  for those who want details: Game pick a card to take based on the final weight of a card (it's weight (either level-up weight or drop weight) + all the modifiers that is applied to it) It then add the final weight of all card together, generate a random number between 0 and this maximum weight as the "card to be picked" and then go through the whole list of card and add the weight of card together in a "cumulated weight" variable, it then check which card has the right cumulated weight value and stop at it's index Once it found the card, it remove it from the list and remove it's weight value from the total weight However, the bug was that it didn't removed the final weight of the card, but it's base weight, so it ended up with some card not being pickable at all as they would fall out of the range
• Weapon's custom Critical multiplied not being applied in case of Hyper crit it was keeping the player's default critical damage in those case
• Sniper's Effect not working
• Bug when synergizing Cold touch and spike boots making anachronistic not consume dash charges
• Some summon not getting close enough to boss to touch them
• Throwing Knifes talent not giving dashes charges
• Throwing knife talent description displaying 2 more dashes than it should
• Training dummy charge being reset when loading a run
• Card Details - Requirements level now display the right required values
• Necro Decay debuff not being removed properly
• Throwing knife Addition dash is now part of the activation buff
• Shop - Scroll bar not handling the entire shop properly
• Saint's Shinbone being removed from a run when saving and loading a run
• Stats calculation issues with "Health Every 5 Level" Soul-shop upgrade and negative health modifier upon loading a save leading to major health mismatch until you open the stats screen or level-up
• Chicken statue being noted as Pork statue in the stats screen breakdown
• Artifact sometime not displaying the right value in certain places
• Fight&Flight no longer give +1 defence when inactive
• Corrupted avatar corruption not being displayed in the stats breakdown
• Corrupted rog able to obtain negative Damage
• Some damage number displayed a slightly off value
• Boiling blood not stating it's Max health increase
• Some stats displaying " X > Y base stat" but was displaying the actual value instead of the base stats value
• Crystal sword not properly applying it's critical effect (crit damage were applied, but not the crit information)
• Magic and physical tag not being displayed
• Damage number spacing being wrong when the camera was unzoomed
• Challenge list in survivors mode not displaying rank button when having selected hardmode in rogs mode
• C-rank survivors mode making the challenge button clickable even though there is no challenges available for it
• Gunslinger weapon starting at 0 ammo
• Purification lower than 1 doing... weird things
• Tree, rock, shrine or any procedurally placed object will spawn and block altars (same for the shop-keeper)
• In stats pannel, negative stats get multiplier by the multiplier instead of being divided
• Fire Spirit not being able to kill an enemy by itself
• Wind Feather name fix, also increased summon attack range so they are a bit more aggressive
• Profiles button not being accessible with Gamepad
• Enemies Innate knockback multiplier not being applied
• Sometime damage from the previous run would leak into the current run
• Champion tracker not disapearing after their death when their death position is going out of screen Icicle level 2 and higher giving much more higher procc chance that it was supposed to
• Blood thirst buff using the wrong icon
• Blood thirst buff not having description
• Blood thirst cap not being correctly updated unless you lost and regained the buff effect
• Some Dynamic modifier having a broken name in stats breakdown That also mean you can hover some of them to see their card source
• Artifact description not handling smart text in artifact selection
• Thunderstaff's projectile lifetime starting at 1sec instead of 2.5sec
• Game count achievements displaying 1/1 count
• Corrupted Avatar having a very outdated stats update function this mean stat modifier weren't properly replicated when stats were caculated, or that casual difficulty stats modifier wasn't applied
• Music transition bug
• Boss shown as appearing in one side in intro, but when the intro finish, they ended up in the opposite direction
• Mute In Background reseting master volume to 1 instead of the default value when alt-tabing
• Clicking on the tag section of a card during card selection did not select the card
• Immortality shard not having Sprite
• Ammo Cost stat name being displayed as "AmmoCostMultiplier"
• Projectiles not inheriting original projectile Defence piercing and shredding when split from fractal
• Duelist & Summoner Death and Victory sprites
• Menu overlap card selection (when going to encyclopedia and going back by pressing escape)
• Lunard Inferno lvl 0 not telling about the damage scaling from power
• Mods not loading on the first game load
• Worm gland acid bubble not being affected by projectiles transparency (the edge are still not affected for now, as it's a bit more tricky and a lesser priority as of now)
• Error spam with cactus's summon in certain situations
• Enemy rarely spawning during the Lava titan fight
• Tacticool reloading not working on Gatling
• Corruption slider only going up to +400 instead of +500
• Level-up sound stacking multiple time in a single frame
• Profile Directory button not working
• Differents profile difficulties should properly display a description tooltip

Commands

• Added a game console (open console key is ` (or for azerty keyboard))

  
  Commands can be modded in
• New Command - help DIspaly the list of all comand, can also be used as help NameOfTheCommand to check details about it
• New Command - cheatMode (cheatState (0 or 1)) Change cheatmode to true or false Using the command without parameter simply tell you if cheatmode is activated Enabling cheatmode disable achievements, talents mastery and soulcoin gain
• New Command - listCard List all the card in the game, with both their internal name and their displayed name
• New Command - listArtifact List all the artifact in the game, with both their internal name and their displayed name
• New Command - listZone List all the zone available in your run, with both their internal name and their displayed name
• New Cheat Command - giveArtifact [artifactName] Give the artefact to the player
• New Cheat Command - giveCard [cardName] (cardLevel) Give the card to the player a set number of time
• New Cheat Command - gotoZone [ZoneName] Instantly start at the begining of zone
• New Cheat Command - selectZone [ZoneNumber] Load the zone selection screen to select the ZoneNumberth zone
• New Cheat Command - gotoStage [Y position] [Xth stage] Move Rog to the Xth stage at floor Y

Modding

• TimeScale refactorisation There is now a global timescale for all entities in the game set in GameManagerFight Summon, projectiles and Monsters still has their own global timescale that is also affected by the GameManagerFight timescale Monsters timescale is now a statistic, which mean it can support multiple modifiers Player is now affected by GameManagerFight timescale the timescale for the players is saved as a statistic in the player entity (since we don't want to keep the timescale on the avatar data)
• New Event - OnCardsReroll(List, List) Called when rerolling cards Provide the previous and the new set of cards
• New Event - OnCardRarityRerolled(SoulCardScriptableObject, SoulCardScriptableObject) Called when rarity rerolling a card Provide the previous and new card
• New Event - OnPlayerTakeDamage_CalculateDefence(PlayerEntity, DamageInformationRef, FloatValue);
• Modified Event - OnCardBanished(SoulCardScriptableObject) > OnCardBanished(SoulCardScriptableObject, SoulCardScriptableObject) The new event now also provide the new card replacing the old one
• All game events are automatically cleaned up when reloading mods
• Projectiles modifier variable no longer exist Since this is now a legacy system that is completely replaced by the new weapon system
• Player's Modifier are also removed this is also legacy system that got replaced by custom card linked to events
• Damage stats internal name renamled to Power, remember to change it
• New Function in Card - OnGameInit() Called when the game is launched, this can be used for example to have complexe banishement rules
• Fixed some projectile class name being "Projectil" instead of "Projectile" (Yeah, this one was annoying me for a long time)

Another year, another [strike]monthly[/strike] Dev-Blog! First off, happy new year to everyone!

Retrospective

Game origin

Player Count

• 0.7 update boosted player count from 1300 to 3100
• 0.8 update boosted it from 300 to 1400
• 0.9 update from 170 to 600.

Price increase and Sales Count

Update 0.7

Update 0.8

• In red is the decaying effect of the update,
• In green, the moment the -10% discount started Now, the part in red wasn't just the update increasing the number of sales miraculously; it was due to Content creator making video on the game when the update dropped (to name them, it was both Sifd making a ton of video and Wanderbot releasing a video just after the release). The 0.7 update did not have much simultaneous exposure (and there has been a lot more copies sold at this time, so similar exposure wasn't noticeable)

Update 0.9

• In blue, you can see the Wanderbot video of July 2023 and the slight increase of sale that followed
• In red the release of 0.9 update and the price increase from 4.99$ to 8.99$
• In blue, you can notice a first increase; this is due to the bundle with Lethal zone for its release.
• In green, this is the first time Rogue: Genesia got a discount of -20% during the Bullet Heaven Fest followed by the Autumn Steam sales.

Youtube vs Twitch

Conclusion

Work-time balance

Plan for 2024

New plans

Update 0.9.1

Challenges Level

Steam Achievements

Steam has no tool to add in bulk large amounts of achievements. There is a way to massively edit localizations of achievements, but for adding new achievements, you have to manually add them, one by one, and upload both the locked and unlocked images manually. This means at best 2 minutes per achievement, so for R:G, which has about 200+ achievements, this is days of work that would be spent on it. [/olist] But after pushing it back for a long time, I ended up "hacking" a website testing software to automate the achievement uploading automatically from a Json file and images file.

Card Tree

A small QoL addition I originally planned to make for 1.0. A tree of soul-cards to easily see which cards are required or built into which card. This should make card requirements or evolution much easier to understand for players.
White thin lines mean that it requires any of the cards, Red line means it requires this specific card. There is still space for improvement, but this is a great addition.

Trailer

Rogue: Genesia never had any trailer. Well, Steam asks for a trailer to publish the page, but I simply put a small gameplay video randomly taken because it's the only thing I had. And it's funny to see video using this as if it was the real trailer of the game (especially today at how outdated it is)

But this will be part of the past!

The official trailer of Rogue: Genesia is complete and will be published at the same time as Update 0.9.1.

Another month, another monthly Dev-Blog!

Open Beta

0.9.1 expected release time

Things done this month

New elites modifiers

New Quality of Life (QoL)

Weapon Tab

Weapon Damage Graph

Stacked Damage Numbers

Health Bars

Zone Selection

Rework of the Sound Design

Soul-Card Pool Issue

What to Expect with 0.10

Hey.

I obviously greatly advice you to backup your profile if you plan to return to version 0.9.0

but here is the current changelog for all the change made between Version 0.9.0.3f to Version 0.9.1 beta 9

Updated from 2022.3.0f1 to Unity 2022.3.9f1

Major Change

Migrating from 3D to 2D collision

Physics calculation now happen once per frame

New Difficulty on profile creation - Casual mode

Terrain generation

Weapon Modifiers refactorization

Input system refactorization

Gun-Slinger rework

Quick-mode

Refactorization

Major QoL

• Stacked Damage number In option you can now enable stacked damage number, so it display the recently cumulated damages per enemies
• Stage Information when hovering/selecting a stage
• Option to enable health-bar over all non-elites enemies (without performance hit) This also allow health-bar over summons
• Weapon tab added in the pause menu. You can see each weapon damages stats You can also see weapon modifiers
• Added damage graph over time (and kill count) You can click the damage on the left to check damage stats for each damage source You can change in option the time precision of the graph (default is 30 sec) from 5sec to 120s

QoL

• New fight music for Crystal depths (cave zone)
• Improved Visibility in Crystal depths
• Added a Default camera zoom option, where you can slightly unzoom the camera when there is nothing overriding the camera zoom
• Added support for DX 12 and Vulkan (can be changed by using "-force-vulkan" or "-force-d3d12" launch command in Steam)
• New Sound-track for Boreal Pinewood combat stages (snow forest zone)
• Added a title text when you enter a new zone in Rog's mode (this also mean all zone now have proper names)
• Improved stage selection of Boreal Pinewood
• Added error message when trying to create a profile with unvalid name
• Slightly changed light model used for enemy and foliage sprites They should slightly be affected by back-lighting, most noticeable in Crystal depths
• Damage number color is now slightly affected by environement to not be too distracting (especially in cave zone)
• Reworked a few sounds in the game
• Improved sound mixing during anachronistic
• Reworked the pause menu
• Blur the background when the game is paused
• Slightly reworked the visual option menu Give better visibility to what you can see
• Added Wide Rog skin
• Damage number now support Q and Qt OoM
• Removed collision between player and summon
• Updated Soul-shop UI to fit the rest of the updated UI
• Soul-Shop tier text color is changed when a tier is maxed
• Sound Setting now has a Master slider
• Sounds Option UI improvement Added an input field on the value, so it can precisely be edited Also slightly updated the UI to the new style
• Next stage button text in event will be replaced with "Fight" in the right situation
• Added an FX feedback for volt-strike to easily track active charges or if the effect is active
• Future damage from poison debuff is also displayed on the healthbar
• Fire spirit damage is also displayed on the enemies Healthbar
• Improved Scorched plateau stage selection visuals

New Artifact

• Ranked Dice Give one free rarity reroll on card selection, refreshed every 2 card selection Unlocked by "Getting Scammed"
• Light Arrow Each Purification points increase base critical damage by 3% Unlocked by having Light spirit level 4
• Golden Goblin Hand Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Goblin quest) Picking gold inflict 5% (+0.5% per player level) damage to enemies in a 15m area (scale with area size) Damage scale with Damage multiplier Can crit Ignore enemy defense (and defence shredding)
• Mushroom Gel Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Mushroom quest) 75% of damages taken are slowly applied over 10 seconds This is post-defence damage Damage inflicted by mushroom gel ignore your defence
• Silkskin Wings Only obtainable in Notice board (forest - Flying eyes quest) Increase final dash duration by 1.5s Increase final dash cooldown by 1.5s Increase final dash delay by 0.5s Reduce dash speed by 80% Increase Dash Charge by 1

New Weapon

• Ice Nova - Heroic Launch a slow-moving nova of ice spawning icicles around itself related talent is just a placeholder for now
• Arcane Beam - Epic Charge and shoot a powerful beam in the aimed direction Cannot charge another beam while one is already being shoot Deal continuous damage overtime Width of the beam scale with area size

New Weapon Evolution

• Ballista Evolution of Throwing knife and Crossbow Automatically Attack healthier enemy Also attack in the aimed direction upon dashing
• Singularity Gland - Evolution of Worm gland and Void Spirit Create massive blackhole that slowly attract nearby enemies Deal less damage as the enemy is farther to the center Deal damage more often as the enemy is closer (up to 10 tick per seconds) Size/attraction speed depend on the "Mass" stat Slowly grow in size to it's maximum size Gain 50% chance to shot a second black-hole at level 5 (100% at level 7) Blackhole that get close enough will merge Blackhole that just spawned cannot be merged immediatly Throw multiple parallel bolt Simultaneous bolt only work when in Siege-mode or during dashes When not moving, Enable "SiegeMode", the weapon gain double it's damage, halve it's attack delay, and greatly increase it's bolt penetration, but reduce the player's movespeed by 30% for 3 sec after quiting siegemode
• Explosive Bow Evolution of Bow and Explosive Vials Arrow that target the closest enemies and explode when the projectile hit an enemy Maximum piercing capped at 5
• Arcanic Pike Evolution of Pike, Light spirit and Arcane Beam Slowly charge a powerful arcanic laser that decimate non-elite ennemies on it's path

3 New Gun-Slinger's weapon

• Dual Gatling Require Perfection Upgrade of HMG Start shooting slowly and scale up to 50 time per seconds Shot 2 time[
• Rail Gun Require Thunder Spirit Shot a infinitely piercing rail Each enemy touched cause 3 sub-trace to be shot randomly Very high damage Very slow attack speed
• Flame Thrower Require Fire Spirit Quickly shot wide weak projectile that can quickly cumulate damage on enemy May need balancing

New Soulcards

• Health potion - Rare Increase Health regen by 35%
• Vengeful shield - Synergy Synergy between Stalwart shield and Health Potion Every damage receive (post-defence) increase your damage (60-80-100)% of this amount for (3-4-5) seconds Increase Wild tagged card drop chance by 10%

New Event

• Notice Board (Forest variant) Choose between 4 missions to complete and get the reward Can only appear once

Changes

• Wrath now require area tag
• Temporarely removed Spirit's water from artifact pool until it get a rework
• Old Coin buff Increased Experience bonus from +100% to +300%
• Player's health regen and weapon attack speed depend on players timescale (as of now, nothing in the vanilla game affect player's timescale)
• Pike reworked New Visual FX (so it's doesn't look horribly ugly like before) No longer has delay between multiple pike projectiles Hitting an enemy with the tip of the pike will deal guarantee critical hit with a 100% damage boost Slightly follow the aimed direction after it's spawned
• SwordRang Tweak If a projectile get too far away from the players, it'll get removed if the projectile is alive for too long ( > 10 sec) it'll also get removed to avoid lags In Addition, if there is more than 1000 Sword-rang alive, returning sword-rang life-time get depleted 5 time faster (again to avoid huge lag-spike from getting out of control)
• Similarly to Swordrang, Wisp projectile will see their lifetime greatly reduced when their number is greater than 1000 to save performances
• Soul-Coin gained from gold is now soft-capped over 1 Million gold
• BonFire event change Merged rest and meditation, so you always improve one of your card when you rest Card limit break option no longer has requirements (ouside of having a maxed out card)
• Fairy in a bottle tweak Increase health regen multiplier from +20% to +50%
• Throwing Knife nerf Increased base attack delay from 0.33s to 1.5s
• Kunai buff new effect: Remove all positive defenses from enemies hits by the kunai
• Arcane beam, Void Wisp and Magic wisp buff Ignore positive enemy defenses Still benefit from damage shredding bonus damage (similarly to critical hit)
• Magic wand buff Increase damage of all Magic tagged weapon by 20%
• Arcanist staff buff Increase damage of all Magic tagged weapon by 50%
• Removed some artifact form the boss poll list Glass Sword Jaald's potion Sacred Sword Troll blood Pork Statuette Void Statuette
• new artifacts added to the boss poll Holy cross Shop-Keeper's Plate Adventurer's License
• Thunder staff now deal a little bit of knockback
• Damage in statistic now directly track the damage dealt without being clamped by the monster health
• Evolutions unlocked via achievements are now added to the pool of the current run Need to be tested
• Fuuma Shuriken, Storm Staff, Void wisp and Arcanist staff no longer requires any achievements to be unlocked (they are unlocked by default) These two change should help new players to access evolutions without spending too much time into the game, especially since I've noticed a lot of player think that the game don't have evolutions
• Save Villager Event Fighting the monster is now a real fighting stage instead of being an auto-damage for reward one
• FireSpirit tweak Fire damage duration no longer increase when applied but is reset instead Increased damage percentage from 10% + 5% per level to 20% + 10% per level Reduced duration from 5sec to 3sec

Achievements

• Added a new secret and stupid achievement. that unlock a new skin Good luck
• Getting Scammed - Rarity reroll an Heroic or higher rarity card into a lower rarity
• Pour directly on your wounds Reach 10 health regen Unlock Health potion
• Time for Payback Receive 1M damage in total Unlock Vengeful shield

Fixes

• Weapon's custom Critical multiplied not being applied in case of Hyper crit it was keeping the player's default critical damage in those case
• Sniper's Effect not working
• Worm boss having invincibility when dealing too much damage
• Bug when synergizing Cold touch and spike boots making anachronistic not consume dash charges
• Some summon not getting close enough to boss to touch them
• Throwing Knifes talent not giving dashes charges
• Throwing knife talent description displaying 2 more dashes than it should
• Training dummy charge being reset when loading a run
• Card Details - Requirements level now display the right required values
• Necro Decay debuff not being removed properly
• Throwing knife Addition dash is now part of the activation buff
• Shop - Scroll bar not handling the entire shop properly
• Saint's Shinbone being removed from a run when saving and loading a run
• Stats calculation issues with "Health Every 5 Level" Soul-shop upgrade and negative health modifier upon loading a save leading to major health mismatch until you open the stats screen or level-up
• Chicken statue being noted as Pork statue in the stats screen breakdown
• Artifact sometime not displaying the right value in certain places
• Fight&Flight no longer give +1 defence when inactive
• Corrupted avatar corruption not being displayed in the stats breakdown
• Corrupted rog able to obtain negative Damage
• Some damage number displayed a slightly off value
• Boiling blood not stating it's Max health increase
• Some stats displaying " X > Y base stat" but was displaying the actual value instead of the base stats value
• Crystal sword not properly applying it's critical effect (crit damage were applied, but not the crit information)
• Magic and physical tag not being displayed
• Damage number spacing being wrong when the camera was unzoomed
• Challenge list in survivors mode not displaying rank button when having selected hardmode in rogs mode
• C-rank survivors mode making the challenge button clickable even though there is no challenges available for it
• Gunslinger weapon starting at 0 ammo
• Purification lower than 1 doing... weird things
• Tree, rock, shrine or any procedurally placed object will spawn and block altars (same for the shop-keeper)
• In stats pannel, negative stats get multiplier by the multiplier instead of being divided
• Fire Spirit not being able to kill an enemy by itself

Modding

• New Event - OnCardsReroll(List, List) Called when rerolling cards Provide the previous and the new set of cards
• New Event - OnCardRarityRerolled(SoulCardScriptableObject, SoulCardScriptableObject) Called when rarity rerolling a card Provide the previous and new card
• Modified Event - OnCardBanished(SoulCardScriptableObject) > OnCardBanished(SoulCardScriptableObject, SoulCardScriptableObject) The new event now also provide the new card replacing the old one
• All game events are automatically cleaned up when reloading mods
• Projectiles modifier variable no longer exist Since this is now a legacy system that is completely replaced by the new weapon system
• Player's Modifier are also removed this is also legacy system that got replaced by custom card linked to events

Hello everyone, it's time for the monthly Dev-Blog

Update 0.9.1

Collision Rework

Weapon Stats Rework

Weapons

Balance and gathering feedback

• Players complaining about Health Transmutation not being strong enough at Version X,
• I buff it in version Y, so it's fine
• Now many months later at version Z, I nerf the Max Health gain all around the game, and players who wanted to complain about Health Transmutation not being strong enough see the post that is many months old and simply think there is no point in reporting it again or that the issue has persisted for many months when, in fact, it just got accidentally reintroduced. It takes a lot of time before I notice this important change.

What is missing for 0.9.1 ?

A few other things

Hello everyone

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Hello everyone, it's time for the monthly Dev-Blog

Unity

Result of Equipment and Weapon Modifier Polls

Equipment System

What Type of Equipment System Would You Prefer?

How Many Equipment Would You Like to See Dropped per Run?

How Many Equipment Slots Would You Like to See?

Should the Equipment Be Upgradeable Using Soul-Coin?

Would You Like the Equipment to Be Craftable?

Should Equipment Have Rarity Tiers?

Equipment System Conclusion

Weapon Modifiers

Would You Like Weapon Modifiers to Be Added to the Game?

In What Other Ways Would You Like Weapon Modifiers?

Update 0.9.1

Terrain

New Difficulty on profile creation

Weapon Modifiers groundwork

Input System Refactorization

Gunslinger Rework

Rogue: Genesia 1.0

My Next Game

This is a hot take, and the announcement is recent, so I really hope things will change in the near future. Hello, I believe this is an important post as it may greatly affect the future of Rogue: Genesia. So, what's the deal with Unity's new pricing plan? Earlier today, Unity made this announcement: https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates This blog post announces Unity's new pricing model, set to take effect next year. The new pricing model of Unity, in addition to maintaining the subscription, will now include a fee per installation of the game on the user's device. At first, I thought it was simply a $0.20 fee per sale of the game, which, while a bit annoying, I could easily understand the pricing and I'm fine with it. However, after some research, I found that this $0.20 fee is per installation of the game. YES, PER INSTALLATION.
This means that anytime you uninstall the game and then reinstall it, that's a $0.20 fee sent to the developer. As you can imagine, this can lead to dangerous situations for many game developers using Unity. First off, installation counts for demos also add to the game installation count. So, any player installing the demo is basically costing the developer $0.20.
Pirated versions of the game would be "prevented by their fraud detection practices," which, to be honest, is basically "trust me, bro," or spending a ton of time trying to recoup fees from pirated versions of the game. I would be very surprised if they suddenly resolved the issues of piracy when so much effort has already been made by multiple other big companies.
Similarly, they replied that benevolent copies of the game (Humble Bundles, etc.) wouldn't be counted, but I don't see how they can ensure this without invasive data collection. Of course, what is considered an install is entirely up to Unity's decision and they could make up the numbers themselves if they wanted. There is also concern about Unity collecting data that I wasn't aware of from my players. This change applies to every Unity game, even those already released. Installation fees only apply to new installations starting on January 1, 2024.
This also means they could change the fee charged out of nowhere. What's preventing them from increasing it to $150 per installation out of nowhere? This could also lead to a lot of abuse from the players as a way to harass developers. Nothing prevents a player from buying a game, installing and uninstalling it as much as possible, and then asking for a refund. And that's without going further with installations of the game in Virtual Machines or directly grabbing the packets sent to Unity and replicating them. I sincerely hope this change will be reverted. There is a possibility this could be dangerous for the development of Rogue: Genesia. I could even end up having to remove the game from Steam if it ends up costing more money than it can earn. I'll continue to work on Rogue: Genesia in the meantime, waiting for changes on Unity's behalf, and exploring possible legal action along with other developers if nothing changes. I just wanted players to know, what are at stake, and I wouldn't be surprised if other developer of Unity game to act similarly. As I expect this question: No, porting Rogue: Genesia to another engine is not a realistic approach due to the amount of work required, especially at the moment, as there are a lot of uncertainties. (source of official unity replies can be found here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/

This is a short notice to inform you that the demo has been updated to be based on version 0.9 of the game.

Changes

• Increased Swift Elixir duration from 10sec to 20sec
• Increased Crit-strike Infusion duration from 15sec to 25sec
• Increased Artificer's Potion duration from 15sec to 30sec
• Increased haste-strike Serum duration from 20sec to 30sec
• Increased Fire wine duration from 10sec to 30sec

Fixes

• Potion pick-up having no texture after a certain time
• Tracked still pointing to chest already picked up
• Sometime temporarily losing D-rank Soul-shop upgrade +Max health every 5 level

Fixes

• Elite split's spawning at the center of the stage
• Gold counter in shop starting from the original value anytime something is bought (visual bug)

Fixes

• Boss staying at 1 HP in certain conditions

Fixes

• Major bug that prevented damage processing from continuing after a death is detected

Fixes

• Knockback infinitely cumulating on monster

Now I'm going to start working on the new demo

QoL

• Objective indicator's arrow now blink so it's easier to notice them
• Objective indicator's no longer rest on the very edge of the screen, but slightly more centered

Change

• Tweaking to how knockback is handled Maximum applicable knockback is no longer (MaxSingularKB x MaxSingularKB) but (MaxSingularKB x log(MaxSingularKB)), This should reduce the strength of knockback in the most extreme case

Optimizations

• Another major optimization to how damage processing is handled About a x5 performance increase on damage processing, I Don't think I can get more performance on damage processing without rewriting half the game

Fixes

• Throwing knife not giving back dash
• Thorn Firework not working
• Storm staff special effect not working
• Red Skull projectile not being destroyed when killing an enemy
• Banishment icon not disappearing when rerolling a card (definitely fixed this time)
• Rift/interdimensional rose's rift affecting bosses (again)
• Selling health not possible if you didn't had more gold than what it would pay you.
• Icicle trail sometime going through the screen to a newly spawned one

Hello everyone, it's time for the monthly Dev-Blog

Let's start with 2 Features/Major changes I'm thinking about

Features Polls

Equipment System

• It would be a Meta-progression; equipping/Obtaining and Upgrading equipment would only happen outside of a run. Otherwise, this would too greatly slow down the gameplay if you had to equip/unequip item as you look at them in-game.
• There is still no decision made on whether equipment should be Procedurally generated or manually made.
• There is still no decision made on whether equipment would have rarity or level.
• There is still no decision made on whether equipment could be upgraded using soul-coin.

• Each type of equipment would have a list of possible Main Stats. Depending on the item type, the stats would be different (glove would be attack speed/ projectiles/ a bit of defense, while chestplate would be most likely armor, health, health regen...).
• Each main stats would have sub-stats that can be added to the item, a Damage main stats wouldn't be able to have a positive health-regen sub-stat for example.
• Each Main Stats would have both positive substats and negative substats.
• Value of each stats/substat would be predefined with non-random multipliers, only the level/rarity of the equipment would affect the value of the stats,
• Number of substat wouldn't be random, but defined by rarity/rank of the item
• There is still no decision made on whether stats/substats can be rerolled

Weapon Modifiers

Passively push the players to take fewer weapons without limiting the number of weapons even more. This is both good for replayability, game feel (as you would properly see how effective the two weapons you have are), improve player's building (taking 12 weapons just makes you very weak as it denies you 70+ passive levels you could have taken), and improve performance. [/olist] This change will also bring a new UI to show which weapons you have and how many max slots (which is something that I've seen a lot of requests for).

Gameplay Polls Analysis

Results of the poll can be publicly viewed at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pCCwSiyMoxIHoZ8pvhi4q1GtOMNGz_dCfA8Ari6Pd0A/edit?usp=sharing

Update 0.9

How do you feel about the last major update (0.9)

Overall, it's an update greatly appreciated by players, not perfect for sure, but it assures me I'm not too disconnected from the playerbase and that the change was overall positive. There is a minority not liking the update, but it's much smaller than I expected from the forum posts.

How do you feel about the new card dropping formula

Almost half of the players didn't notice a change in the card drop formula, which was a bit expected as the change is not as drastic as many would have expected. However, there is a non-negligible part of players thinking it's a harder distribution. I may very slightly tweak the settings to lessen the effect of the new formula. Also, this doesn't affect weapons (since some players seem to believe it does).

How difficult do you find C-rank

I was a bit afraid the difficulty was too high, but it looks like it's spot on. I expected many more players on the right side of the graph, but only 2.5% find the C-rank difficulty really difficult. Overall, C-rank is the end of the middle section of the game, being the 4th difficulty out of the 6 planned, so it's normal for the difficulty to start picking up. There are a few people in the polls who like the difficulty in the early game but are a bit disappointed by the enemy scaling as it gets a bit too easy. Due to the overall scaling of the game, this is something hard to balance and pinpoint, especially with the huge difference in player skills. Good players will quickly snowball in the mid/late game, while less skilled players will have a lot of difficulty keeping up. Scaling enemies too hard could lead to a lot of frustration from less skilled players who spend a lot of time just to die in the middle of the Volcano. I'll make a poll about enemies in different zones at different difficulties so I can get precise data on what needs to be buffed/nerfed without just blindly relying on personal experience or raw data from the game's values. Another possibility would be to add a "casual" mode where you simply cannot die or adding additional lives, as is common in other roguelites. This could remove frustration from less skilled players while allowing me to better scale the difficulty for average/skilled players.

What is the new QoL you like the most

Not really much to say. I was mainly curious about the QoL features most liked by players, and keywords are by far the most appreciated ones. Also, I noticed that while new card design is last, it's something that got noticed a lot by players in the "like don't like" section.

How do you feel about the new enemy balance?

Overall, it's a slight improvement perceived by players. There are still improvements to be made, but I think it's on the right track.

What changes from Update 0.9 do you like or hate the most?

This one can't really have a screenshot as there are A LOT of different answers, and there is too much to analyze every one of them here. So here are a few things I've noticed: [olist]

UI navigation with a controller is a known issue, but I prefer to keep it for 1.0 polishing as the UI/menu can still change in a significant manner, and spending time on that would be a waste of time at the moment. [/olist]

Avatars

Would you prefer to see more unique avatars like the Gun-Slinger, Summoner and Shop-keeper or less unique like the rogue and Duelist?

So far, there's a very clear preference for unique avatars that have more than just a small ability or different stats/stats caps.

Which of the main avatar do you prefer the most?

I think the results are not the most accurate, especially as Summoner got a lot of tweaking after the beginning of the polls and the rework of the gunslinger. Having Rog's knight so high is to be expected. I'm a bit surprised to see Duelist so low, but I can understand as she can be very hard to play due to the extra damage she takes, especially in the early game. I may want to tweak her negative armor a little bit or her ability a little bit. I expected to see Gunsligner a bit lower due to the multiple feedback I've seen, but I guess he's in a better place now than during 0.8.

Why?

443 answers to this question, so I can't reply to everything (again). [olist]

Outside of the duelist and the summoner, most feedback seems to be more of personal preference than a real issue with X or Y character. [/olist]

General

What do you like the most/least about the game?

I'm mostly surprised to see avatars so low, Especially as they are one of the most time-consuming aspects of game development (due to animations), and they were greatly requested additions. I'll likely spend a bit less time on making more avatars and try to balance the current avatars (especially Summoner and Gunslinger).
Difficulty is the highest unliked thing, but it's likely related to the "hard early, easy late" issue I've talked about a bit earlier. Challenges come second, but as they are optional and aimed at more experienced players, it's to be expected that they are not liked by most players. For graphics, I think some players may confuse graphics with performance, but I also expect some players to dislike the perspective. However, this is not something that can be changed at this point in the game. Some players feel that the talent system is a bit weak/boring. I sort of agree with this. God's stones are by far the most used talents, but they are just stat boosts, which is the most boring type of talents. This would work a bit better if they were converted into equipment. This should also make other talents be more appreciated, as I've noticed some talents are underrated.

What is the boss you prefer?

I expected some shamans to be higher and the worm and necromancer to be lower, but overall it's a slightly balanced distribution. However, I suspect some players like some bosses over others for very different reasons than others, but this will be expanded in the future enemies balancing polls.

How much would you like to see the camera unzoomed by default?

This question is there randomly because I've seen some people wanting this in the game. I prefer to avoid making it just an option due to the heavy impact on gameplay it has (more monsters/ longer range is useful, some effects based on the screen edge would also be affected by it). From the results, I think it would be interesting to slightly alter the default zoom level of the game, at least by a tiny value and see how it goes for most players.

Would you like to see new major features added into the game or simply new content

This question may seem odd, but it helps me to know if most players consider the case "feature" complete or not. So far, from the results, I think I can add the two features I've talked about earlier without bloating the game with too many features. As for the additional content, there seems to be a huge incentive for more variety rather than just more.

Do you think the run length is too long ?

Would you like to see an alternative mode with shorter run length?

Overall, the game length is a bit too long for half of the players. A vast majority agree on an alternative game mode with shorter duration. The alternative game mode is a solution to the issues. Another solution I can think of is adding an off-road path with a boss stage much earlier in the zone you've already completed. This way, players could go for a higher challenge immediately if they think they can handle it, and that would greatly reduce game length when wanted.

Anything you would like to add?

I'll let you read all of them by yourselves. I've used the answers in these parts as important data to clarify some conclusions in the other sections, and this was a very important source of details for me! Thank you for all of your answers. They greatly help me to better define the expectations of players for the game, its future, and think of improvements for the game!

QoL

• Reworked Shop UI Made it cleaner Each buyable have an icon Selected buyable should be easier to discern from the other You can inspect card by pressing I
• Reworked Reward UI Similar to the new Shop UI Artifact are now displayed first

Soul-card

• Fire Ring tweak Slightly reduce range and range scaling with level-up Slightly Increased damage scaling over levels
• Artificer's katana tweak for performance Greatly increased damages (25 > 60 base damage, increase base damage per level from 3 to 5) Greatly Reduced attack speed starting delay from 0.2sec to 1sec Slightly increased base range
• Evasion no longer require armorless, but now required 0 or negative defence

Changes

• Reduced Gluttony achievement requirement from 6666 to 666
• Enemy spawned are now seeded, (meaning quit&save should lead to the same elite/enemies spawned) This aim to make debugging MUCH easier in the future in case of certain enemy behaviour that only happen in certain conditions
• Elites only challenge shouldn't spawn hard champions on the first few stages
• Reduced Small bluemushroom defence and spawn-chance
• Removed small blue Mushroom from the snow biome

Optimizations

• Major change on how damage processing is handled, this should reduce performance loss due to damage processing This may create a few bug I've missed
• Major Improvements to Fuuma shuriken performance

Fixes

• Rarity rerolling a card would keep it's banishments icon and hovering it would display the banishments from the previous card
• Town hall registry not displaying any text in German
• Saving/killing villager reward not being clickable
• Blacksmith should no longer give you a card selection if there is no card available to upgrade.
• Saint's pelvis description having "healt" instead of "heal"
• Pyromaniac and revolution healing the player when under the "death's door" effect
• Procedurally generated objects being in the wrong position after Lava's titan boss fight (Crates/shrines...)
• Voltstrike gauntlet not giving the +1 dash charge

Visual

• Grass made with VFX graph are now affected by wind (most of the grass in Forest and snow forest biome)

Changes

• Fiery dash damage now also scale off square root of (Move-speed) (capped at 1 minimum)

Optimization

• Improved Performance for AMD GPU in Stage Selection

Fixes

• Persistence description being bugged

Hello

My Reaction to Performance Complaints

CPU Performance and Late-Game Slideshow

So, how does a developer optimize a game?

• Yellow represents "Idle time" which indicates moments when the CPU is either waiting for the GPU or waiting for the vsync.
• Orange represents "Physics" which includes everything related to collision and physical body movement.
• Blue represents "Scripts" encompassing calculations made in the game's code.
• The brownish-green section is labeled as "Other" accounting for a variety of miscellaneous processes done by the game engine.

GPU performance

Changes

• Thunder Spirit Rework for performances Now has a global cooldown Greatly maximum target and damage has 100% chance to activate Can split to hit multiple enemies Ignore enemy defense Cannot activate until the thunder strikes are finished
• Reduced Elite spawn-rate and maximum count in Elite swarm This should greatly increase performances in Elite Swarm stages

Fixes

• Bannishement icon displaying locked card in the list

Changes

• Slight buff to defense piercing behaviour the post-defense damage inflicted to an enemy cannot be lower that the maximum between your defense piercing and your attack damage Damage applied = Max(Post-Defense Damage, Min(Pre-Defense Damage, Defense Piercing)) (That a buff for the player)
• Slightly reduced Goblin shaman inter-phase duration in higher difficulty

QoL

• Increased tab Drop-down visibility in Gameoption menu
• Added a small icon to card that banish other card Hovering this icon will display all the card banished by taking it
• Normalized a few text size in Soul-shop and Options that were having a too wide range in their possible size

Fixes

• Evasion not working
• Gunslinger's shot not being visible in low graphic setting (or low visual effect setting)
• Elentor Scaling Hell and Descent Into Hell challenge glitching when you pick purification or increase corruption
• Gunslinger's shot not hiting any enemy when having low enough piercing
• Card Level-up detail text going outside of the box
• Tooltip text sometime overlapping with upper/lower section

Hey!

Poll link

Changes

• Gunslinger's weapon behaviour rework Shot are now ray-casted instead of being projectiles 2 New weapon stats: Spread and Range Pistol Fire-rate increased at level 5 and 7 Automatic weapon and shotguns got slightly rebalanced Removed Balistic entanglement due to the effect not being compatible with the raycasting of projectiles (I'll think of a proper rework in the future)
• Tweaked Balanced Assault value Base damage increased from +0.3 to +0.5 per level Base Critical Chance Increase from -7.5% to -2.5% per level

Fixes

• Critical Chance multiplier being wrongly displayed
• Critical Damage being display as just "Critical" in some instances
• Hovering a stats will now correctly apply the dynamic modifiers
• Fight&Flight bonus disabling during a card selection, leading to incorrect values displayed
• Ice Spirit unrooting enemies rooted by vine
• Survivors achievement not unlocking in most case
• Survivors achievement check never happening expected when loading a save (it should happen every 20 sec (IRL time))
• Pet missing from the Stage Selection
• Lunar Inferno description effect being different than the actual effect
• Killing C-Rank enemies Achievements auto-unlocking on new profile

Fixes

• Save issues for save coming from 0.8 version

Optimisation

• Greatly Improved Start-up time from 7-12 sec to a 2-4 sec in vanilla from 15-18 sec to 3-5 sec in modded
• Greatly reduce lag when switching page in Soul-card List
• Minor reduction to lag in many menu in the encyclopedia
• Removed regular lag spike caused by game saving This is a long running issues, no one until today reported this issue correctly so I couldn't properly investigate and fix it until today.

Fixes

• Death aura talent minor description issue

QoL

• Card Rarity drop chances now display the actual chance to drop a card of set rarity

Fixes

• Avatar skin not displaying the right name
• Snow biome tree being in all biome by accident (why no one reported it and I noticed it in a video?)
• Average not banishing Persistence
• Crit Chance and def shredding missing their percentage

Optimisation

• Improved Stats menu performance when quickly hovering multiple stats

Modding

• Modded Avatar skin will now display correct name

QoL

• Added Keyword to stats in Soul-Shop Upgrades

Changes

• Slightly increased lava titan hitbox so it can be touched by summon when close to the top of the arena
• Reduced maximum range of Vulture summon
• Slightly increased the range of many summons
• Slightly Decrease Projectiles speed of goblin shaman blink+projectile in C-rank+

Fixes

• Unable to earn "Survival Mode' achievements
• Lava titan boss not being damageable by summon
• Most stats being noted as "base" in card description
• Lava biome enemy name
• Description will come a bit later

QoL

• Synergies and Evolution now has the requirement in the description automatically generated for the actual requirement They won't be outdated anymore They handle keyword and allow to easily check the requirement without having to check the detail of the cards)
• Death Scythe now tell you it double it's effect chance when you deal critical damage

Changes

• Summons now inherit Critical stats from the player
• Summons now inherit Defense Shredding from the player
• Summons no longer collide with each other
• Summons now apply Fire spirit and Thunder spirit effects
• Flying Golem now benefit from additional projectiles
• Reduced the maximum speed of knockback from 4 time the monster speed to 3 time the monster speed
• Reduced knockback decaying time from 0.5sec to 0.33sec
• Increased Gunslinger monster multiplier from 0.25% to 0.35%
• Increased Gunslinger Experience Multiplier from 100% to 120%
• Reduced projectiles speed of Shaman's Projectile barrage ability.
• Greatly reduced optional objective "kill elite" requirements
• Changed "True Snuffhead's favourite" challenge name to "Snuffhead's Bane" so players don't get confused between the two
• Vine no longer apply to Bosses
• Increased Vine range (from 5m to 8m base range, with a maximum increasing from 15 to 16)

Fixes

• Collection book description not updated to 1%
• Vild's Curse Unlock being in B-rank shop instead of C-rank shop
• Card selection in Event having a bugged UI
• Thunder spirit on projectiles always dealing 100% projectile damages instead of the displayed value

Fixes

• Rerolling on a limit break service bugging out card selection
• Banishing the last card will now reroll the card selection to prevent softlock

Fixes

• Card tag requirement not working even when validated
• Checking Icicle, Vine, Ankh or Volcanic fury Card Detail crashing the game during the run
• Sand Armor having more tag than it should
• Snuff Head favourite displaying the wrong unlock
• Clover card missing crit tag requirement

Fixes

• Removed Debug-rank Survivors mode
• Controller issues in soul-shop when buying/selling an upgrade
• Bow talent lvl 0 description

Fixes

• Level 6 Throwing knife not doing anything

Cat DLC released

Engine Updated from Unity 2020 to Unity 2022

• Improved the game performance and stability
• Will allow for future implementation of DLSS 2.0 And FSR 1.0

Major Changes

C-rank World

Major rebalancing of the game

• Enemy Stats

  
  Smoothed the overall progression of enemies health and damage Increasing from a zone to another shouldn't create a sudden drop in difficulty anymore Major reduction of enemies' damage to balance the change in player's health regeneration

• Health Regen

  
  Greatly reduced Health regen from many sources, This makes taking damage have consequences for the following 1-2 stages rather than being an immediate effect. The goal of this change is to trend towards a more balanced experience, The main way a player would die was of an "instantly getting obliterated without understanding anything" This allows for enemies to still be a challenge without instantly obliterating the player, and to smoothen the danger, allowing small mistakes. Maintaining the previous health regeneration rate would either completely eliminate any challenge from the game, as all damage could be healed within a second, or it would result in enemies becoming highly threatening by being able to eliminate the player with just one shot. (Health also no longer fully regens when entering a stage as this was actually a bug)

• Enemies Spawnrate

  
  The game will now slowly increase the enemies spawnrate, this aims to improve performance in late game. There is also an increase in early game spawnrate for higher difficulties compared to 0.8.

• Weapon Cap

  
  Avatars will now have a weapon cap to prevent huge performance issues. There is still an option to override the weapon cap (or remove it altogether), but it is inadvisable

• Card drop-rate

  
  Card drop-rates received a major overhaul, reducing the odds of high rarity cards in the earlier levels but increasing it later on. Most cards are also locked behind a similar card, this allows the players to have much more control over their build compared to Version 0.8.

• Corruption

  
  Corruption effect got greatly tweaked, mainly reducing the move-speed scaling to follow a logarithmic progression (no more lighting speed enemies at only 400 corruption) Since this update adds new build possibilities based on Corruption, it was really important to make sure that corruption doesn't just make the game seem ridiculous right from the start. Also halved the impact of corruption on enemies damage

Boss

• Polishing

  
  Bosses received a major overhaul, Added a skippable intro animation to every boss, making a Health-bar, separated their behaviour into multiple phases

• Reworked Necromancer

  
  I've read that a lot of players were greatly confused by the current iteration of the Necromancer boss, The necromancer has been reworked from the ground-up, making his first phase simple to let the player learn its pattern, and then increasing the difficulty as you progress through his phases. There is also the addition of a custom objective to guide the player in case he is confused.

Stats

• New Stats Menu

  
  Completely redesigned the stats menu from the ground up, now showcasing every statistic present in the game, along with providing a precise breakdown of the sources contributing to each stat.

• New Stats: Defense Shredding

  
  Defense Shredding determines the amount of armor an enemy loses when taking damage. The extent of armor reduction is calculated by multiplying your Defense Shredding value with your Defense Piercing value

• New Stats: Purification

  
  Purification already existed, but it's now a proper statistic, with a slighty reworked formula.

Avatar Skin

Key-words

Zone Variant

Biome Soul-card

Enemy AI improvement

Reworked End of game screen

Per Avatar talents

Hyper-Crit

Quality of Life

• Pick-up List in Encyclopedia

  
  

• Projectile opacity option

  
  

• Added Encyclopedia to the pause menu

  
  

• Added a Monster Abilities list to the bestiary

  
  

• You can now pet your dog by staying close to him at the end of a stage

  
  

• Improved gold display

  
  Will display the recently collected gold for a short duration.
• Improved motion blur (should no longer apply to the player or any slow objects overall)
• Added a small notification when there is a free talent slot (disappears until next game reload if you viewed the talent)
• Added a small notification that you can click the card to display more information about them.
• Added a small FX when leveling-up
• Slight improvement to the Desert zone ground material
• New Achievement unlock animation
• You can now mouse over a achievement to stop its animation
• Game now tracks the damage your receive, you can now check in the game history which monster killed you and the last 10 damage instances you've taken during the game.
• Profile creation: will use the players steam username by default if it doesn't exist yet.
• Reworked Soul-Card UI
• Reworked Soul-Card Selection UI
• SoulCard list now only displays cards for the selected avatar
• Reduced the number of cards per page in soulcard list for SteamDeck, it'll now display as 7x3 instead of 9x4 to improve readability
• Shop prices are now formatted
• Number formatting in standard notation now start 1 OoM later after 10K instead of 1K
• Updated damage numbers to be slightly more readable
• Added a Damage number size slider
• Option to change maximum Damage number displayed per frame
• New Option - EnemyOutline - adds an outline to normal enemies
• Custom visual option got moved into their own tab in the game option tab
• Muted in background now also mutes the BGM
• New option - Popup Hover delay used for Keyword hovering
• Added a weapons cap option
• New Gameover theme
• New Desert Fight music (old one can still be listened to using the legacy music option)
• Now tracks which avatar completed a challenge Only works for challenge completions after 0.9 and later

New Avatars

• Duelist

  
  Unlocked by dying one time Duelist is an offensive oriented avatar She possesses very low health, negative base defence, but 50% increased damage and the Death's Door ability. Death's Door ability allows Duelist to survive a fatal hit if her health is greater than 1. After activating Death's door, she cannot regenerate health for 3 sec.

• Summoner

  
  Unlocked by killing C-rank Necromancer The Summoner possesses unique weapons that summon enemies to fight for you.

Changes

• Filling up the bestiary Entry of a monster slighty Increases its experience drop

  
  

• Shop Rebalance

  
  Major increase to reroll price scaling Slight increase to Card selection, and artifact price scaling Doesn't affect Card, Banish/reroll/rarity reroll price scaling; very slighty increased Limit break price scaling, but also slighty reduced base scaling from zones Increased artifact price scaling over zone Artifacts have a significantly reduced likelihood of appearing in rerolled shops. Increased the price scaling when rerolling shop from x2 to x3 for buyable items. Increased the price of rerolling Increased the amount of Buyable cards in the shop
• Reworked how knockback is applied to feel more natural.
• Increased Cave Biome Luminosity
• Dash improvement Also give a 0.15sec damage immunity after the end of the dash Movement speed also increases dash speed
• Death Aura talent tick-rate increase nerf actually a buff since it wasn't applied before
• Ice Spirit rework - slow down now scales with the level of the card.
• Reduced Gold Coin pick-up objective requirement scaling from zone
• Seven sin achievement now unlocks the broken demon horn card
• GunSlinger now have 25% Enemy Count to better balance the gameplay for the avatar
• Poisonous debuff can no longer kill the player
• Poisonous debuff now resets its duration instead of having an individual stack duration
• Card selection after level 50 will now totally pause the game and be instant
• Monster waves no longer spawn during a boss fight in survivors mode
• Removed boss monster from Red Timer in C-rank survivors
• Capped movespeed between 20 and 30 depending on avatar to avoid situation with uncontrollable speed
• Every 25 levels as the shop-keeper will be a "blacksmith" shop
• Shop-keeper price now scales with the player level in Survivors mode
• Normal combat stages now give exp rewards when you have less than 20% of your health left
• "Selling health" value is no longer affected by the shop discount, but by the gold multiplier stat
• Shops now reset their "already generated" card pool every 2 rerolls (so it can regenerate a card it already generated)
• Card requirement with weapon tags now always require at least one of the weapon tags
• Time left optional objective no longer appears in the first stage on a run
• New stat for gunslinger: Ammo Cost Multiplier Ammo cost when firing a weapon, if the chance is not an integer, there is a chance to not use the incomplete int (140% mean you have 40% chance to consume 2 ammo, and 60% chance to consume 1 ammo)
• Reload speed is now a proper separate stat instead of being the renamed weapon cooldown stat. That means it's not longer affected by attack speed cards
• Capped duration of survival stage at 1:30 (it still can go up to 2:30 with Stage requirement increase)
• GunSlinger no longer has the pistol talent forcibly equipped
• Sick challenge difficulty decrease - Stat reduction from -50% to -40%
• Default card detail display changed back from relative to absolute Thanks to the tooltip feature, you can now quickly check your stats and the benefits they provide. This makes it more fitting to display the exact effect of the card
• Capped number of altars for boss stages at 4
• Reduced Elite spawnchances in D-rank survivors mode at 40 to 45min
• One-Shot protection still applies for 0.15s after losing it This should prevent dying in one frame when taking damage from two different instances in the same frame
• Crates will now sometimes spawn in small cluster
• Outside of the "destroy crate objective", crates no longer take damage outside of the screen
• Overall reduction to the amount of gold dropped by enemies
• Slight increase to the Shop-keeper level-up gold gain from 1000 (+ 175 per level) to 1000 (+ 250 per level)
• Altars disappear when all altar objectives are completed
• Worm boss no longer takes damage when burying
• Shaman boss now enters a shielded state when doing his near death pattern
• Reduced Food-dropchance from crates when above 50% of your max health
• Normal Enemies no longer drop food
• Level-up Heal can only heal up to 50% of your max health
• Reduced monster kill optional requirement
• Elite kill count and survive stage have greatly reduced enemy spawn rate when you complete the secondary objective
• Boss Altar corruption now only starts increasing 20 seconds after the stage starts
• Death Streak will now increase Soul-Coin drop The second death will Increase Soul-Coin by 50%, third by 75%, and then it's increased by 100% for all future deaths
• Reduced Mastery gain Death penalty from -75% to -50%
• Survivors mode is now also affected by Elite number cap (this should also prevent situations with poor
• performance due to elite spamming)
• Slight boost in enemy spawn-rate in arena stages
• Added Banishes, reroll and rarity reroll charge as a possible reward for optional objectives Only gives you charges if you do not have the maximum amount of charges otherwise it'll give money

Soul-Card

Weapons

• Buff magic wisp damage Starting Damage: 1 > 2 Damage per level 0.75 > 1 Also gains 2 additional damage at level 5
• Throwing knife Rework Has a new stat, "Simultaneous knife" which is the number of knife thrown per projectile Simultaneous knife shares the orientation and are close to the original projectile Base damage : 4 > 5 Base Cooldown: 0.5s > 0.33s Reduced the dash regen cooldown from 100% weapon cooldown, to 50% of its cooldown Gains a good cooldown reduction at level 5 Increased knife size by 50%
• Kunai Buff Increased piercing from 0 to 1 Gains additional piercing at level 5
• Death scythe now also requires Divine smite
• Thorn and Interdimensional Rose buff You no longer take damage from an enemy you kill.

Cards Change

• Evasion is now a Synergy card Synergy between Armorless and dash Also refactored the card to no longer be hardcoded into damage calculation Removed Evasion from Rift's requirements
• Metal transmutation is now a Synergy card Synergy between Benediction, Moonshield and Steel skin This change aims to make Metal transmutation easier to obtain during the early game Ratio increased per level from 15% to 20% Reduced Ratio scaling from player level from 5% to 4.5% Increased max level from 3 to 5 Banishes Armor-less and Zealot Increases Moon tag cards drop-rate
• Armor-less now banishes Metal transmutation and Zealot
• Armor-less now has the Fire tag
• Zealot now banishes Armor-less, Metal transmutation and benediction
• Practice max level increased from 10 to 30
• Reactive trigger cannot activate its effect more than once per frame in case you're hit by multiple enemies in a single frame
• Reactive trigger effect cannot trigger the same weapon more than 8 times in a single frame (performance sanity check)
• Health conversion slighty increases Wild tag card drop-rate
• Pyromaniac Tweak Procs if the target is affected by fire spirit (even if it was killed by another source) No longer enter cooldown when taking damage Cooldown reduced from 5 to 3sec Reduced Heal value
• Reduced Sun sword base range from 5.5m to 4m
• Slippery skin rarity increased from Uncommon to Rare
• Light spirit nerf Reduced multiplier from X2 to X1.5
• Gluttony Reduced the bonus health from 5% per food to 2.5% The actual health now scales with maximum health instead of being independant
• Castle health bonus increased from 25 to 40
• Flesh tweak Max level increased from 1 to 2 Base health increased from 150 to 200 Corruption increased from 1 to 3
• Lunatic tweak Max level increased from 1 to 2 Base damage increased from 4 to 6 Defense piercing multiplier increased from 5 to 6 Now also increases area size by 15% Base corruption increased from 5 to 10
• Accumulation Change Reduced AttackSpeed penalty from 15% to 7.5% Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.25 to x1.125
• Recursion Change Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.15 to x1.1 Increased max level from 4 to 5
• Armor-less Change Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.5 to x1.35 Increased Health multiplier from x1.5 to x1.75
• God's wrath Change Reduced damage multiplier from +10% to +8% Increased max level from 4 to 5
• Aiming Change Reduced damage multiplier from +10% to +7.5%
• Size Up Change Reduced damage multiplier from +5% to +3%
• Blood transmutation buff Base ratio increased from 1.5% to 5% Increased gain per level from 0.5% to 2.5%
• Healthy Health regen Decreased from +0.1 to +0.075 now also slighty increases Health regen by 1%
• Healing Factor Health regen Decreased from +0.5 to +0.25 now also slighty increases Health regen by 5% now also slighty increases Max Health by 5%
• Black Blood now also increases Health regen by 10% Health regen increased from +0.35 to +0.50
• Tower Also Increases health regen by 10%
• Castle Also Increases health regen by 20%
• Durability Increases Health gain to +15 Base health
• Flesh Also Increases Health regen by 2
• Heavy No longer increases projectile size by 25% Instead Increases Health-Regen by 25%
• Iron Will Now also increases Health regen by 10%
• Buff to Fiery Dash Increased damage multiplier from 1 (+ 0.25 per level) to 2 (+ 1 per level)

New Cards

Normal Cards



• Weapon Polishing | Normal Increases Defence Piercing by 10%
• Heavy Pickaxe | Normal| Cave Biome + 0.35 Base Damage
• Ashes | Normal| Volcano Biome + 0.5 Base Damage - 1.0 Base Defense

  Uncommon Cards

  
  
• Blacksmith's insight | Uncommon Increases your defence piercing multiplier by 20% Increases Damage mitigation by 2%
• Armor Polish | Uncommon Increases Defence by 15% Reduces base Defence Shredding by 0.05%
• Stalwart Shield | Uncommon Increases Damage mitigation by 5% Increases Defence Multiplier by 10% Reduces Critical chance multiplier by 5%
• Blunt edge | Uncommon Increases base defence by 1.5 Reduces base damage by 0.5
• Mind Corruption | Uncommon Increases Defence shredding multiplier by 10% Increases Corruption by 0.5
• Candle | uncommon + 0.1 base purification, x1.1 experience multiplier
• Balanced Assault | Uncommon Increases base damage by 0.3 Decreases Critical strike chance by 7.5%
• Clover | Uncommon | Forest Biome + 1% Base Gold Gain + 3% Critical Chance
• Bright Crystal | Uncommon | Cave Biome + 5% Base Gold Gain

  Rare Cards

  
  
• Blood Candle | Rare +0.5 base purification, x0.9 purification multiplier, +10% corruption multiplier
• Corrosion | Rare Increases your Defence piercing multiplier by 50% Reduces your Damage mitigation by 5%
• Vile Coin | Rare +10% gold gain x0.95 purification +1 base corruption
• Cursed blade | Rare +15% damage multiplier x0.95 purification multiplier +3 base corruption
• Flesh Armor | Rare +10% armor multiplier +10% health multiplier +2 base corruption
• Black Wing | Rare +15% Move speed +1 Dash charge x0.9 purification multiplier +5 base corruption
• Acid Coating | Rare Increases your base defence shredding by 1 %. Increases your Defence piercing by 1. Increases your base damage by 0.15
• Moon-Shield - Rare Increases defence multiplier by 25% Reduces attack speed by 2% Increases moon tag cards drop chance by 5%
• Leprechaun's Hat | Rare | Forest Biome + 10% Base Gold Gain
• Yeti's Heart | Rare | Snow Forest Biome + 50 Base Max Health + 0.5 Base Defense - 5% Attack Speed
• Sand Armor | Rare | Desert Biome + 5% Damage Mitigation - 2% Move-speed Multiplie

  Epic Cards

  
  
• Subsonic | Epic Increases Projectile lifetime by 50% Reduces Projectile speed by 30% Hyper sonic and Subsonic ban each other
• Love&Hate | Epic Increases your final Health regen by 3(+1)% of your max health when below 40% health, But lose 3(+1)% of your max health when over 70% of your health
• Funny mushroom | Epic | Forest Biome + 15% Damage Multiplier - 30% Projectile speed
• Fairy in a bottle | Epic | Forest Biome + 20% Health Regen Multiplier + 15% Corruption Multiplier
• Frostbite | Epic | Snow Forest Biome + 30% Defense Shredding Multiplier - 20% Max Health
• Icicle | Epic | Snow Forest Biome When killing an enemy, it has chance to spawn an icicle targetting a random enemy
• Sun-Burn | Epic | Desert Biome + 5% Base Experience Gain - 10% Corruption - 10 Base Max Health
• Ankh | Epic | Desert Biome Reduces enemies' projectile damage by 50%
• Necrotic Bone | Epic | Cave Biome + 1 Base Damage + 4 Base Corruption

  Heroic Cards

  
  
• Boiling blood | Heroic Increases your final damage by 50(+10)% of your missing health, +30% max health multiplier
• Revolution | Heroic Heal 20(+5)% of your max health when you kill an elite or a champion , 1sec cooldown
• Hemokinesis | Heroic Increases your Defence shredding on Critical Hit by 5/10/15 %
• Vine | Heroic | Forest biome Every 10 sec, leave a surface of 5m that lasts for 3sec, enemies entering it get rooted
• Cold-Touch | Heroic | Forest Biome When an enemy is touched, its move-speed is reduced by 90% for 3 sec
• Scented jar | Heroic | Desert Biome + 10 Base Max Health + 1 Base Damage + 1 Base Armor + 1 Dash Charge + 2 Base Corruption
• Volcanic Fury | Heroic | Volcano Biome Enemy killed by fire damage has a chance to explode with magma and deal damage around them Apply Fire DoT to the damaged enemies

  Synergy Cards

  
  
• Divine Smite - Synergy Synergy of Absolute focus and Analysis On critical hit, kill non-boss enemy with health below a set threshold increases critical chance by 5%
• Persistance | Synergy Synergy between Overworked and Patience After a stage starts, your critical chance and damage slowly increases over the first 60sec
• Purifying Fire - Synergy Synergy of Fire spirit and Light Spirit + .25 Base Purification + 2 Base Damage Enemies killed slightly increase your Purification Multiplier for 3 sec

  Ascended Cards

  
  
• Broken demon horn | Ascended + 50% damage multiplier, +150 base Health, x0.5 health regen, + 20 base corruption, x 0.90 experience multiplier
• Holy Conversion | Ascended Convert 4/6/8/10% of your corruption into Damage (at 10% ratio), Health (at 10% ratio) and Health regen (at 2% ratio), Affected by their relative stat multipliers
• Silk Edge | Ascended Convert 99% of your damage into Defence piercing at 6/9/12/15% Ratio. Ratio Multiplied by 2% of the player level
• Unholy Aura | Ascended Increases your Defence piercing multiplier by 500% Increases your corruption multiplier by 25% Increases your Defence mitigation by 10%
• Weapon Aura | Ascended Increases your damage by 200% Increases your defence shredding by 25% Increases your defence piercing by 200% Add 10 Projectile piercing Remove 2 projectiles

Artifacts

• Cursed belt nerf No longer affected by health regen multiplier Health regen reduced from 3% to 2% of max life Max Health loss reduced from 50% to 30%
• Saint's Shinbone nerf Heal 15% of your health instead of 100%
• Collection book nerf Damage per card decrease from 2% to 1%

New Artifacts

• Saint's Pelvis heal 30% of your health at the end of a stage
• Commoner's guidebook each tainted card level increases your max health and health regen by 2%
• Rozegold's Circlet If you are at max health, Increase your damage by 50% and defence piercing by 100% and projectile lifetime by 75%
• Spirit's Water Cleanse your debuffs every 15 sec
• Challenger's armband Elite stage are twice more likely to appear
• Challenger's amulet increases card quality during elite stage
• Jaald's potion Gain a 300% damage bonus, Lose 15% per stage down to 0%
• Companion mimic Increase your current gold by 5% of its value at the end of a stage (Bans Midas's sword for my own sanity)
• Pouch of greed Randomly level-up 10 cards on pick-up If no cards are available to be leveled-up, it'll simply halve the missing card level-up as a card selection
• Training's dummy Raise your max health damage by 1% at the end of each stage
• Leaping boots In Stage selection, lets you select ahead to the level after the next one.
• Stone Hearth Increases Max Health by 500% Increases Damage by 25% Reduces Health Regen by 90% Reduces Food healing by 50%
• Voltstrike Gauntlet When you dash, you gain "volt-charge" buff for 10 sec Having the "volt-charge" buff increases your damage by 15% (don't stack) Upon accumulating 5 volt charges, they get consumed and you gain a "Voltstrike" buff for your attack speed, damage and critical chance for 15 sec. You cannot gain volt charge while "Voltstrike" is active
• Town Hall Registry For each banned card, Increases your base damage by 0.25 and your base critical chance by 1%

Talents

• Greatly Reduced Mastery requirements for Tier 2 and Tier 3 God stones
• Greatly Reduced Mastery requirements for Lunar Inferno
• Reduced Mastery requirements for Level 3 and 4 weapon talents
• Nerf to Desynchronized Heart Talent Reduced the effect from 400% (+ 200% per level) to 300% (+50% per level)
• Reduced Sola's themed stone talents, exp gain Sun stone: from 2.5% + 2.5% per level to 5% + 1% per level Solar Stone: from 25% + 5% per level to 15% + 2% per level Stelar Stone: from 45% + 5% per level to 25% + 2.5% per level
• Buff bow talent Increased volley count from 2+1 per level to 8 + 3 per level
• Crossbow's talent tweak Instead of shooting 1 bolt at a time, it shoots a number of arrows equal to the ability level This also means the ability duration is shorter Increased the number of arrow shot
• Reworked Throwing knife active talent When used, Instantantly replenishes dash charges Also grants a bonus dash charge for a set duration and Reduces dash recharge delay
• Gunslinger now has a proper active talent: Ammo belt Increases attack speed by 100% Increases damage by 50% Reduces Ammo cost by 90%

Pick-up

• Dash potion drop-chance from crate greatly reduced during anachronistic

New Pick-up

• Fire Wine Increases your damage by 25% for 10 sec
• Swift Elixir Increases your Move Speed by 20% for 10 sec
• Haste-strike Serum Increases your Attack Speed by 50% for 20 sec
• Immortality Shard Become immune to damage for 10 sec
• Critstrike Infusion Increases your Critical Chance by 100% for 15sec
• Artificer's potion Enemies explode on death, dealing 20% of their max life in a 5m radius around them to other enemies Explosions dont happen if it's caused by artificer's potion explosion (for performance reasons) lasts for 15 sec

Events

• Villager event tweaking Killing villagers now nets better rewards Saving them is only possible if your corruption is less than 20 Saving villagers always gives the commoner's guide if you don't already have it Killing them is only possible if your corruption is over 5 Killing them always give the pouch of greed if you don't already have it

New Events

• Gambling Den - You can gamble a part of your gold, you have a 50% chance to lose it or double it!
• Shrine of Order - Take the cumulated level of every card in a set rarity and combine them in a random card.
• Shrine of Balance - Take the average level of every card and apply it to every card.
• Shrine of Disorder - Randomly distribute the levels of your cards.
• Shrine of Reconstruction - Completly reroll your whole build while keeping the same amount of cumulated levels for your cards.

New Challenges

• C-rank challenge | Armor Ban Start with "Silk Edge" and "Armor-Less", reduce your damage by 50%,You cannot level-up Silk Edge. Banish conversion type cards | upon completion it unlocks "Silk Edge" card
• C-rank challenge | Fast-Pass
• C-rank challenge | Shop-Keeper's Vacation end Xp multiplier set at 0 Gold multiplier set at 300% Corruption Multiplier set at 10%
• C-rank challenge | Vild's Curse Lose 5% of your max health after each stage
• C-rank challenge | Risk of Storm

SoulShop

• Soul-shop should now properly updates when unlocking upgrades (like anachronistic upgrades when unlocking anachronistic
• Nerfed Base Damage multiplier upgrades

New Soul-Shop Upgrades

• B-rank Upgrade | Hyper-Crit Allows critical strikes to stack if you reach more than 100% crit chance Allows for crits to stack up to x2 More upgrades will be added on to increase this further
• B-rank Upgrade | Hyper-Crit Stack Can increase Hyper-Crit stacking up to x4
• B-rank Upgrade | Max Health every 5 Level You gain 2/4/6/8/10 Base Max health every 5 levels completed
• B-rank Upgrade | Critical Chance
• B-rank Upgrade | Defense Shredding
• B-rank Upgrade | Dash Charge
• B-rank Upgrade | Base damage multiplier
• B-rank Upgrade | Overkill Experience Multiplier

Achievements

• Reduced Death requirement for Death related achievements
• Throwing knife now requires "Offensive dash" This change is to prevent it from appearing in the first run as it can be a confusing weapon for new players
• Cursed book now requires "Learning can become difficult"
• Portal Shard now requires "Strange teleportation device"
• Ouroboros now requires "Mastering death"

New Achievements

• "Your Corruption make them stronger"

  
  Reach 1 Corruption Unlock Candle

• "Am I wrong?"

  
  Reach 5 Corruption Unlock Flesh Armor

• "This definetly look wrong"

  
  Reach 20 Corruption Unlock Blood Candle

• "They are wrong"

  
  Reach 100 Corruption Unlock Cursed blade

• "Dangerous line"

  
  Reach 20 Purification Unlock Holy Conversion

• "Critical Overkill"

  
  Reach 5000% critical damage Unlock Hemokinesis

• "Armor is a suggestion"

  
  Reach 35 Defence piercing Unlock Acid Coating

• "Aerial superiority"

  
  Reach 14 Move Speed Unlock Black Wing

• "Heavy Shield"

  
  Have more than 80% of Damage Mitigation Unlock Stalwart Shield

• "Finish him!"

  
  Have more than 1000% Critical Damage Unlock Divine Smite

• "Mistreated Armor"

  
  Have more than 10 Defence Piercing Unlock Armor polish

• "Even the mind?!"

  
  Have more than 15% Defence Shredding Unlock Mind corruption

• "Inconvenient Shield"

  
  Have more than 250% Moon card Drop chance Unlock Moon shield

• "You no longer need your damage"

  
  Have metal transmutation level 4 or more Unlock Blunt Edge

• "Kill the Elites"

  
  Reach 50 damage or more Unlock Revolution

• "Bear-Shirt"

  
  Reach 300 damage or more Unlock Boiling Blood

• "Reaching the limit of sword mastery"

  
  Reach 1500 damage or more Unlock Weapon Aura

• "Balanced, as all things should be"

  
  reach 99% Critical Chance or more Unlock Balanced Assault

• "Critical of critical"

  
  Reach 101% Critical Chance or more Unlock Persistance

• "Slowly but surely"

  
  Reach 35% Defence Shredding Unlock Corrosion

• "Stabing"

  
  Reach 100 Defence Piercing Unlock Blacksmith's insight

• "Evil thrust"

  
  Reach 666 Defence Piercing Unlock Unholy Aura

• "What are you doing ?!"

  
  Have less than 0.2 damage Unlock Jaald potion

• "AntiHero"

  
  Kill villagers Unlock Pouch of Greed

• "Commoner's Hero"

  
  Save villagers Unlock Commoner's guidebook

• "Shop-Keeper best's friend"

  
  Gamble and gain more than 50K gold in a single gambling event Unlock Mimic Companion

• "Practice to improve"

  
  Get Practice soul-card up to level 30 Unlock Training Dummy

• "Giant's Steps"

  
  Finish C-rank mode in less than 45 minutes (IG Time) Unlock Leaping boots

• "Slower"

  
  Reach 200% projectile speed Unlock SubSonic

• "Offensive dash"

  
  Have Spear level 1 Unlock Throwing knife

• "Learning can become difficult"

  
  Have 80% or less Experience multiplier Unlock Cursed book

• "Strange teleportation device"

  
  Kill C-rank Goblin Shaman Unlock Cursed book

• "Proper summoning power!"

  
  Kill C-rank Worm Boss Unlock Ouroboros Necklace

• "Volting-up"

  
  Require Thunder spirit level 5 Unlock Voltstrike gauntlet

• "Shoo!"

  
  Banish a card Unlock Town Hall Registry

• "Duality"

  
  Complete SnuffHead's favorite using duelist Unlock Love&Hate

• "Mastering death"

  
  Kill C-rank Necromancer Unlock Summoner

• "Vild's thanks"

  
  Complete Vild Curse Unlock C-rank Soul-shop Upgrade: Max Health every 5 Level

• "Armor is an illusion"

  
  Complete "Armor Ban" challenge Unlock Silk Edge

• "Overtake the queue"

  
  Complete Fast-Pass challenge Unlock B-Tier Soul-shop upgrade, Mastery gain multiplier

• "The Storm Formerly Known as Purple"

  
  Complete Risk of Storm challenge Unlock some rare "shrine" events that have funny effects

Fixes

• Summoned enemies dropping 0 xp gem instead of not dropping them at all
• Optional objective being "initialized" twice, leading for example to "kill X monster" optional objective to increase the monster killed by 2 instead of 1
• Death Aura talent not increasing the tick-rate
• Non-elite enemy in Fang collection objective not dropping fang
• Ability, reloading or manual attacks activating in pause menu when pressing their key
• Ouroboros Necklace Description
• Many Issues related to dynamic modifiers
• Many cards not displaying the correct value for their level
• Corruption having a huge issues with dropped experiences (it dropped 100% less exp that it was supposed to)
• Double Edge sword and Armor-less unlock achievement unlocked at level 20 instead of 50 and 100
• Scavenger granting ammo above the maximum ammo
• Arrow Tracker pointing the wrong direction in certain conditions
• Simulated dynamic modifier being applied to the player stats when they shouldn't (Broken statuette when not picking it for example)
• Few bugs with shaman staff talent
• pets not being lit by the player light's in cave
• reroll only having 2 sets of card
• Necromancer taking damage from death scythe when flying
• Limit-break card Selection not being randomized
• Normal combat stage having experience reward
• Black flickering bug when having the Fog quality set to low.
• Black flickering bug when using Worm gland at medium or lower fog quality
• Achievement displaying wrong required value for damage mitigation
• Stats from card in cardlist in MainMenu wasn't synchronised with your current avatar if you changed avatars.
• Default brightness value being set at 1/5 of what it should be by default.
• Poisonous debuff stacking issues
• A few navigation issues in game option menu
• Necromancer, Shaman and ranged enemies AI Improvement They no longer try to walk to a position off screen, If their target position get off screen, they simply skip to the attacking state This fixes them infinitely walking to a target position without ever reaching it and ignoring the player
• "relative" card detail now just display the current change if the value is negative (to avoid the +-XX% display bug)
• Worm's spit flying projectile being the same colour as the player's
• Fix sloth giving 20% of it's base value instead of being a 20% multiplier bonus
• Procedurally spawned objects sometimes stacking and creating visual artifacts
• Player having its health completely healing when starting a stage
• Damage number's letter being incorrectly displayed
• Damage number space between number being wrong when camera was unzoomed
• Enemies spawned by enemies abilities wouldn't add correctly to the monster cap (only affecting hard cap and not the soft cap)
• Splitting monster ability spawning monster at level 1 instead of the same level as the monster source (so basically had the stats of a level 1 monster)
• Shaman's projectile not inheriting defence piercing
• Impenetrable Damage mitigation being a multiplier modifier instead of compound
• Necromancer's projectile casted high in the air when he's flying and missing the player
• My brain after having to write this freaking long Patchnote D:

Modding

Now use Net Standard 2.1 instead of Net Standard 2.0

Expect all mods to be broken

• DamageInformation class constructor now require a defenceShredding parameters.
• Removed GetDescriptionLevelUp()
• Changed how GetDescription work, it now uses a level and comparisonLevel variable
• Enemies AI refactorisation, you can now easily add new AI for your own monsters
• Pet required DLC also has an "any" setting to make modded pets work with both pet or cat dlc
• Refactored Training weight to no longer have anything hardcoded into the game
• ModdedStatsContainer now contain a "Category" string
• PixelAnimationData now contain a "AnimationSpeed" float.
• Slight change to SetDynamicMultiplyValue & SetDynamicAddValue to support a "display name" as they are shown during the stats detail windows now
• New stats : EnemyCountMultiplier Multiplies the number of enemies spawned naturally, also affects boss summoning spells and all forms of enemies spawning
• New bool in DamageInformation "CannotKill" - when set to true, it will not kill the entity (only works on the player for now)
• Fixed chendrak's bug otherwise he's gonna complain
• Achievement refactorisation, much cleaner code, and can now handle entirely custom Achievements
• New function AchievementAPI.CustomAchievement to register achievements with custom requirements
• Added AvatarData.DamageHistory which is a list of all the damage received by the player (is not saved when quitting and saving the game)
• AvatarAPI.AddCustomAvatar() change, it now requires the use of an avatarskin instead of just animation data
• New function AvatarAPI.AddAvatarSkin(), used to add a new skin to the game.
• GameData.SetCustomValue function now properly mark the Persistant data as "needing saving".
• Added "HasStat(StatsName)" check to check if an avatar own a stat.
• Stats not owned by an avatar will be ignored by cards description

New events

• OnCheckObjectiveCompleted
• OnCheckOptionalObjectiveCompleted
• OnAddForbidenStagePosition
• OnCalculatePlayerDamage Called everytime the player damage multiplier needs to be updated (everytime a stat gets updated)
• OnChooseSelectableStage Called when deciding which stage can be selected;
• OnDisplayStageObjectiveText(StringValue) Called when displaying the stage objective text to inject text (currently used for Custom boss related objectives)
• OnFightUpdate - Called Once per frame when in fight.
• OnCalculateCardLevelGainAtOnce Called When determining how many levels at once a card should gain when picked up (expect bugs if you set it to 0)
• OnCalculateCardMaxLevel Called when detecting what is the max level of a card
• OnCalculateMonsterDefenceLoss Called before calculating the defence less of an enemy
• OnRollShop_FinishedSetBuyableCount(ShopManager,ShopGenerationInfo) called before validating the shop buyable item, use this event to add custom buyable items to the shop of your choice.

Hello Everyone

I am here to announce that the 0.9 update will be released on August 29th

What is missing right now?

If the assets are not finished by the due date?

And then?

Hello everyone, it's time for the monthly Dev-Blog!

Hiring Pixel-Artist

If you are interested and think you can fit the game art-style, please send an email to roguegenesia@gmail.com.

Progress of Update 0.9

Tooltips & Keywords

Stats menu

New card design

New endscreen

Bestiary

Pick-up list

Avatar skin

New Avatars

Summoner

Duelist

Talent changes

Music

Other minor changes

• 12 New artifacts
• 9 New soulcards
• Encyclopedia can now be viewed at anytime during a run.
• Enemy spawn rate scaling overtime rebalance
• Artifact price in shop rebalance
• New gunslinger stat
• New C-rank challenges
• New C-rank challenges
• Likely others things I forgot about because I have a bad memory

Weapon Cap

Run Length Debate

Left to Be Done

4th Zone Boss

C-rank Survivors

Finishing Volcano Enemies

Finishing Biomes Visuals

New Cards

Snow Enemy Variant

Hello Everyone

Future Price Increase of the Game Has Changed

USD $5 > $9 (0.9) > $12 (0.10) > $15 (0.11)

Discount for 1.0 release will be increased from 20% to 33% and yes, the price will still be localized

Edit: Here is the explanation from discord for non-discord users:

Update 0.9 is Delayed by 2 to 3 Weeks

I'll Also Increase the Time Between Major Updates from 2 to 3 Months

Community Discussion

This Is Why I'm Creating a New "Community Feedback" Thread in the game's Discord

Hello everyone, it's time for the monthly Dev-Blog!

Hiring Composer and Sound Designer

This time, I'm looking for someone who can preferably handle both composing and sound design, but composing is the most urgent matter at the moment.

If you are interested and think you can fit the target style, please send an email to roguegenesia@gmail.com.

Start of beta 0.9

Card drop rebalance

Worm boss improvement

The worm boss has also received a small improvement, making its abilities more interesting in higher difficulties. There may be further improvements based on feedback. [spoiler]In C-rank difficulty, the boss will summon spikes of rock that pursue the player. In C-rank difficulty, the boss will summon large quicksand areas to slow the player down. The Worm Spit ability has been reworked in D-rank+ difficulties to properly target the player and pose a serious threat. The boss's last phase involves repeated dashes that the player must avoid until its defeat. [/spoiler] [/olist]

Rework of stage generation

In order to continue adding new zones with unique and interesting gameplay, the stage generation system has been reworked. Players now have more control over the paths they can choose, and stage generation can be customized to create committed paths or prevent stages from spawning in certain locations. This update also allows for more visually interesting stages that blend better with the environment

(visuals are still WIP)

New Stats Menu

With the addition of more stats in the game, the current stats menu no longer suffices. Therefore, a complete rework of the stats menu has been implemented. The new menu now displays as many stats as needed, including modded stats. Additionally, it provides a detailed breakdown of (almost) all the stats, allowing players to understand the effects of each card they have.
(the way the breakdown is displayed is also a work in progress, and further improvements will be implemented)

Improved Achievements

Achievements have undergone a significant refactor to eliminate hardcoded functionality. Custom achievements can now be created, listening to custom events. There are also two major UI improvements for achievements:

• New Achievement Menu: This menu allows for the display of a larger number of achievements at once. However, the option to revert to the old achievement display is still available.
  
• New Achievement Unlock Animation: It was easy to miss achievements unlock before, now you won't miss them! [previewyoutube=Xg9tjTqhWWU;full][/previewyoutube]

Gunslinger Monster Count

To address the disadvantage faced by the Gunslinger avatar in combat due to a similar number of monsters as other avatars, a new stat called "Monster Count" has been introduced. For the Gunslinger, this stat is set to 25%, resulting in a reduction in the overall number of spawning monsters. This adjustment aims to preserve the uniqueness of the Gunslinger avatar without compromising its abilities.

Shop and Soul-shop Refactorization

The Shop and Soul-shop systems have undergone significant code overhaul to improve their functionality and flexibility. Previously, buyable items in the shop were hardcoded into the shop class, leading to a bloated class and difficulty in adding new buyable items. With the refactorization, modders now have the ability to add new buyable items through modding. Similarly, SoulShop upgrades were previously hardcoded into a few categories. The refactorization introduces individual classes for each upgrade, allowing for more versatile upgrades and enhancing the overall functionality of the Soul-shop system.

Things Left to Do Before the 0.9 Update is Ready

The 0.9 beta has seen significant progress, with a focus on time-consuming tasks and slow progress. However, there are still several important tasks remaining to be completed before the update can be finalized. Here is a summary of the remaining work: [olist]

Hello!

You can join the game discord and look into the "beta-announcements" Channel for the beta code.

Update 0.8.5.0 (first 0.9 beta) Changelog

Engine Updated from Unity 2020 to Unity 2022

• Improved performance when a huge amount of visual effect happen
• This will allow for future implementation of DLSS 2.0 And FSR 1.0

Majors Change

• (Experimental) Card Drop-rate now change as you gain level, Low rarity card are much more common at low level but high rarity card become much more common at high level
• Added more requirements to many soul-cards, this should help player have the build they are aiming for more easily (You can check the requirements for card in the Soul-card list by clicking on the cards)
• Placeholder C-rank work (Enemy are placeholder, visual are unfinished, and boss is missing)
• Unfinished alternative zone to Forest zone (Visual are unfinished and enemy are for now just the same as the Forest zone)
• Improved Bosses Bosses now has an healthbar Bosses now has an intro (can be skipped by pressing Escape, space or Enter key (A button/start button on gamepad)) Bosses are now more clearly put in multiple phases
• Rework of the Necromancer Now cut into 3 distinct phase, between each phase, he'll go into a "fly" mode where he can't be targeted, you either have to activate the magic circle to bring him down, or survive for long enough. First phase will be focused on the necro-mancer attacking ability for the player to get used to it's attack pattern. Starting on second phase he'll summon skeleton soldier to help him. Third phase will bring improved ability for the necromancer as well as the ability to cast and move at the same time Defence loss from defence piercing is reset between each phase
• Rework of the Worm boss Did a major refactorisation on how the boss work as it was the oldest boss, and the most outdated code-wise Update into the new boss format, cut into 4 dinstinct phase. Gain a lot of defence during his burried phase On D-rank+, his spit ability got updated, he also spit dangerous zone arround him during his second "burried-phase" On C-rank+, gain new a new ability, summon spike from underground, be careful where you walk! On C-rank+, gain new a new ability, create quicksand zone, slowing down your movement On C-rank+ he can also summon spitter worm to help him during phase 2 and phase 3// Defence loss from defence piercing is reset between each phase
• Slight rework of the Shaman On D-rank+, Gain a buff ability to buff entity around him On C-rank+, Gain a new attack ability.
• New stat : Defence Shredding - how much of your defence piercing permanently increase the damage a monster take (was previous a value locked at 10%)

Changes

• Knockback of enemy capped at twice their movement speed (only to 100% when the knockback is negative)
• Slighty changed how pike collision are working to try at improving performances
• Slighty increased Cave boss stage brightness, also increased survivors mode cave brightness
• Dash improvement also give a 0.15sec damage immunity after the end of the dash movement speed also increase dash speed
• Death Aura talent tick-rate increase nerf (actually a buff since it wasn't applied before)
• Ice Spirit rework - slow down now scale with the level of the card.
• Balance changes to monster in zone 2 (Vulture health was way too low, Cactus health too high)
• Castle health bonus increased from 25 to 40
• Reduced Gold Coin pick-up objective requirement scaling from zone
• Seven sin achievement now unlock broken demon horn card
• Flesh tweak Max level increased from 1 to 2 Base health increased from 150 to 200 Corruption increase from 1 to 3
• Lunatic tweak Max level increased from 1 to 2 Base damage increased from 4 to 6 Defense piercing multiplier increased from 5 to 6 Now also increase area size by 15% Base corruption increased from 5 to 10

  made an overall reduction to damage multiplier

  
  
• Accumulation Change Reduced AttackSpeed penatly from 15% to 7.5% Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.25 to x1.125
• Recursion Change Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.15 to x1.1 Increased max level from 4 to 5
• Armor-less Change Reduced Damage multiplier from x1.5 to x1.35 Increased Health multiplier from x1.5 to x1.75
• God wrath Change Reduced damage multiplier from +10% to +8% Increase max level from 4 to 5
• Aiming Change Reduced damage multiplier from +10% to +7.5%
• Size Up Change reduced damage multiplier from +5% to +3%

New Soul-cards

• Candle - uncommon | + 0.1 base purification, x1.1 experience multiplier
• Blood Candle - Rare | +0.5 base purification, x0.9 purification multiplier, +10% corruption multiplier
• Vile Coin - Rare | +10% gold gain, x0.95 purification, +1 base corruption
• Cursed blade - Rare | +15% damage multiplier, x0.95 purification multiplier, +3 base corruption
• Flesh Armor - Rare | +10% armor multiplier, +10% health multiplier, +2 base corruption
• Black Wing - Rare | +15% Move speed, +1 Dash charge, x0.9 purification multiplier, +5 base corruption
• Broken demon horn - Ascended | + 50% damage multiplier, +150 base Health, x0.5 health regen, + 20 base corruption, x 0.90 experience multiplier
• Holy Conversion - Ascended | Convert 4/6/8/10% of your corruption into Damage (at 10% ratio), Health (at 10% ratio) and Health regen (at 2% ratio)
• Silk Edge - Ascended | Convert 99% of your damage into Defence piercing at 4/6/8/10% ratio.
• Hemokinesis - Heroic | Increase your Defence shredding on Critical Hit by 5/10/15 %.
• Acid Coating - Rare | Increase your base defence shredding by 1 %. Increase your Defence piercing by 1. Increase your base damage by 0.15

New Challenges

• C-rank challenge - Armor Ban | Start with "Silk Edge" and "Armor-Less", reduce your damage by 50%,You cannot level-up Silk Edge, Banish conversion type cards | upon completion unlock "Silk Edge" card

New Achievements

• "Your Corruption make them stronger" - Reach 1 Corruption - Unlock Candle
• "Am I wrong?" - Reach 5 Corruption - Unlock Flesh Armor
• "This definetly look wrong" - Reach 20 Corruption - Unlock Blood Candle
• "They are wrong" - Reach 100 Corruption - Unlock Cursed blade
• "Dangerous line" - Reach 20 Purification - Unlock Holy Conversion
• "Critical Overkill" - Reach 5000% critical damage - Unlock Hemokinesis
• "Armor is a suggestion" - Reach 35 Defence piercing - Unlock Acid Coating
• "Armor is an illusion" - Complete "Armor Ban" challenge - Unlock Silk Edge
• "Aerial superiority" - Reach 14 Move Speed - Unlock Black Wing

QoL

• Added a small FX when leveling-up
• Slight improvement to the Desert zone grouds material

Fixes

• Summoned enemies dropping 0 xp gem instead of not dropping them at all
• Optional objective being "initialized" twice, leading for example to "kill X monster" optional objective to increase the monster killed by 2 instead of 1
• Death Aura talent not increasing the tick-rate
• Non-elite enemy in Fang collection objective not dropping fang
• Ability, reloading or manual attack activating in pause menu when pressing their key
• Ouroboros Necklace Description

Modding

• Breaking Changes, `DamageInformation` class constructor now require a defenceShredding parameters.

  
  

• Breaking API change for `SoulCard`

  
  Removed `GetDescriptionLevelUp()` Changed how `GetDescription` work, it now use a `level` and `comparisonLevel` variable
• Enemies AI refactorisation, you can now easily add new AI for your own monsters
• Pet required DLC also has an "any" setting to make modded pet work with both pet or cat dlc
• New Event - `OnDisplayStageObjectiveText(StringValue)` - Called when displaying the stage objective text to inject text (currently used for Custom boss related objectives)
• New Event - `OnFightUpdate` - Called Once per frame when in fight.
• New Event - `OnCalculateCardLevelGainAtOnce` - Called When determining how much level at once a card should gain when picked up (expect bug if you set it to 0)
• New Event - `OnCalculateCardMaxLevel` - Called when detecting what is the max level of a card
• New Event - `OnCalculateMonsterDefenceLoss` - Called before calculating the defence less of an enemy
• Refactored Training weight to no longer have anything hardcoded into the game

Hello!

Soul-Card Rarity

• Tainted - 10.58%
• Normal - 31.10%
• Uncommon - 22.63%
• Rare - 9.89%
• Epic - 16.26%
• Heroic - 6.98%
• Ascended - 0.05%
• Evolution - 1.74%
• Synergy - 0.76%

The problem

• Players often reach their full power relatively early in the game, which can make subsequent runs feel less engaging and exciting.
• Leveling up becomes less rewarding and less interesting as players progress, as they have already acquired most of the good cards. This also renders artifacts like Gilgamesh and talent points relatively pointless.

Solution?

Fixes

• Stage selection - Player not moving when selecting a stage if you had no pet selected

The previous update was planned to be the last for 0.8, but some unexpected bug got reported, so here it is

• Updated Japanese Translation

Fixes

• Monster category kill progress being reset upon restarting the game or loading a profile (like Elite for pride achievement or golem for Crystal sword achievement)

Changes

• Shrine buff - now increase duration when stacked instead of just reseting the duration
• Goblin engineer - rank increased from normal monster to elite His stats has been increased to reflect the changes Spawn rate reduced in D-rank survivors

QoL

• Slight change to how actives talents are named
• Added the selected pet in the Victory screen

Fixes

• Timer from survivors mode not added to total time survived stats, Now it's added up to the red timer (15min for F, 30min for E, 45min for D)
• Goblin engineer not having animation on spawning
• Worm boss burrying animation not working
• Pet scaling being wrong in a few places (especially with modded pets)

Fixes

• Crossbow having some weird texture.
• Damage source icon
• Solar Stone Card drop chance and Xp bonus displayed value being wrong (their actual effect were still working)

Hello everyone, time for the monthly Dev-Blog!

Hiring Artists

First off, I would like to mention that I am looking for a Pixel-art animator (high priority) and a Pixel artist

Send an email to roguegenesia@gmail.com if you are interested.

Secondly, I've made a roadmap for the upcoming major updates.

Dog DLC release

First off, why make a paid DLC in the game?

Then why not wait for the release of the game? Why spend time on a DLC when you can focus on the game?

Solo Dev, not so solo

• 1 programmer for 3 to 4 months to support me with the D-rank boss, talent development, and other minor additions. This was especially helpful as I focused on creating the talents and avatar system.
• 1 animator I hired for 2 months who worked on the avatar animations.
• 1 animator who did a few animations but quickly disappeared after completing them.
• 1 technical artist I hired to work on optimizing the game, as it goes beyond my technical capacity.
• 2 musicians. (one that we parted way due to not fitting the game, and the other not giving much life sign <.<)

Update 0.9

One last note

• Creating new zones and zone variations is primarily asset-heavy work, with programming focused mainly on implementing AI, particularly for bosses.
• Enemy design involves about 95% of the work dedicated to sprite and animation.
• Implementing unlockable skins is again mostly asset-heavy, requiring about one week of work at most to integrate them into the game.
• Some refactoring needs to be done for the shop, achievements, and soul shop, but each task would likely take no more than one week.
• The cursed stage will likely require a significant investment of time.
• Avatar design takes some time, usually around 3 to 7 days for the most ambitious ones, while animations typically require approximately 2 weeks of work.
• Card and artifact development usually involves spending equal time on both sprite creation and coding.
• Weapons generally have a 75/25 split between programming and art, with a major focus on creating particle effects.
• Events and stage objectives can be more involved development-wise, but I can easily work on a few of them per day.

Changes

• Sun Stone, Solar Stone and Stelar Stone now increase purification instead of removing corruption

QoL

• Added talent at the end of active talents as some user were confused (especially for achievements)

Fixes

• Fixed scrolling speed in mod list
• Display issues when having a huge amount of avatar for avatar selection

Modding

• Made font easier to mod in
• Made public a few more variable from pet class.

Fixes

• Scavenger removing ammo instead of adding ammo (this was due to a change on how weapon attack/ammo left is counted)
• Necromancer magic circle staying alive after his death
• Pet behaviours not being overwritable when inheriting from PetData class
• Modded version of the game creating a folder in Document/Home(linux) even when not required (it is normally used for mod sources location ,but an empty folder was created by default)

Hello.

I am glad to say the dog pet DLC is finally available for everyone!

Update 0.8.4.0

Previous run save are not compatible

Dog DLC available

New Weapon

• Crystal Sword - Deals heavy damage in melee range in the aimed direction. Enemies killed by this weapon drop double experience.
• Sola's Lance - Evolution of Light Spirit and Spear. Sola's Lance creates a deadly afterimage after being thrown (500% damage).
• Sun Sword - Evolution of Crystal Sword, Cleaver, Light Spirit, and Fire Spirit. Quickly slashes in the aimed direction. The last slash creates a fast-moving cleaver projectile after level 3.

New Card

• Light Spirit - Increases Purification, which reduces the negative effect of corruption. Only appears when you have 50 or more corruption.

New Talent

• Crystal Sword Active Talent - Creates slow and powerful slashes in a large area around you.

Fixes

• Kill enemy count and survivors' green coloring not using the correct variable.
• Thunder staff talent on Thunder vial not working as intended.

Changes

• Removed Life-Link Ability from monsters. It caused near invulnerability in monster bug, even after spending days trying to fix it.
• Bosses killed outside of boss stage and specific cases in survivors mode no longer count for the bestiary.
• Reduced distance at which flying golem would start their ranged attack (from 15m to 8m).
• Increased Interdimensional Rose damage: > Base damage from 20 to 30. > Damage per level from 3 to 5. > Gain +5 damage at level 5 and 7. > Gain +10 damage at level 8 and +50 at level 9.

Modding

• Added `GameData.ArtifactDictionary` and `GameData.SoulCardDictionary` to quickly get a soul card or artifact scriptable object from internal name (this only works after the game has loaded).
• To use the PRD, use `RandomExtensions.PseudoRandomCheck(float chance, string eventName, Pcg randomGenerator = null)`. Make sure to use a unique eventName.
• Added a new stat: `Purification` - reduces Corruption negative effects (by 1/Purification) but keeps the increased XP gain.

Technical stuff

• Moving from System.Random to PCG random generator.
• PCG is a lightweight and more efficient random generator than System.Random.
• Added Pseudo-Random Distribution (PRD) to a few chance-based elements in the game. This should make RNG more "fair." > For example, I ran some tests with 1 million rolls on a 1% chance basis. Using the naive random approach, there were up to 1000+ tests without proccing. > With the same chance on PRD, the maximum test without proccing is around 400. > You can see more information about it here: https://dota2.fandom

QoL

• Filled up the description of monster for the first zone

Fixes

• Some challenges modifier not being applied when saving and then loading a save

Modding QoL

• Logs not list all mods that are enabled when loading them

Modding Fixes

• Some issues with modded card when they had null stats modifiers

Major QoL - Bestiary

• This is a very first version of the bestiary available, it is for now limited to monster list only, later on, Monster's abilities and Pick-up will be added to the bestiary There you can check information about monster you already killed, more information will be unlocked as you kill more of a monster You can also check the monster stats for multiple level (1 level = 1 stage in the current zone for rogs mode, or 1 minute in Survivors mode)

QoL

• Slight improvement to the Soulcard filter - It'll now properly look for stats (both internal name and localized name in your current language)

Fixes

• Limited soul-shop challenge not applying the limitation

Minor change

• Game is now internally tracking kill for each enemy, this will be used for the bestiary later on.

Fixes

• Getting a new buff stack added after your stack count was capped reseting the buff effect to level 1 until a new stack could be added (that fix the 999 stack lust bug)
• Minor visual bug on a few stage objective when taking a requirement modifier not changing color at the right time.
• Defend shop-keeper stage in No-Shop challenge actually giving out a normal shop as a stage rewards - The shop is kept but you cannot reroll the shop
• Artifact from challenge being removed from player inventory when starting the game but still having effect, this lead to Plexus' sadism being impossible to lose

Modding Fixes

• Custom Challenges modifier should now be able to add starting card (it was called before player initiation, not it is properly called after)

QoL

• Added a confirmation windows when doing the wander trick so people don't accidentally trigger it (refusing it still give out the related achievement) (this is experimental, if there is any issues, make a bug report with your save file so it can be fixed asap)

Fix

• Rogue avatar having no stage requirements

QoL

• Altar will continue to be tracked even when they are on screen to help find them
• Necromancer's magic circle to bring him down is now tracked
• Added a brightness option in the video options menu

Changes

• Monster fang requirements slighty lowered
• Monster fang collection range increased from 2m to 4m
• Corruption will temporary and slowly increase overtime if you don't activate the altars during the boss, the corruption is halved when activating an altar, and nullified when the boss is spawned (you gain 0.1 corruption per second after 60 second without activating an altar)

Fixes

• Adamantite rod not working
• Mythril compass not working

Modding

Modding QoL

• You can now build mod directly from the game, no longer need visual studio to build a mod .dll

Modding Fixes

• Weapon's function to get target wasn't correctly using the right amount of projectiles

Modding Changes

• Changed how assemblies are loaded (shouldn't cause any compatibility issues)
• Added a new stats : "MasteryGainMultiplier" that multiply Mastery gain
• Added a new stats : "StageObjectiveRequirementMultiplier" that multiply stage requirements (doesn't affect optional requirements)

Modding Fixes

• Fixed issues with manifest builder if you were editing a manifest without a correct version format
• Issues where the create source wouldn't correctly link-up references
• Fix manifest builder adding a . at the end of the version when Revision is empty

Modding QoL

• Create source button, now also put a command to automatically copy/paste built dll to the mod file upon build

QoL

• Added a distance indicator to arrow tracker, it should help as I got a few people reporting having issues finding objects pointed by arrow
• Improved altar visibility when disactivated
• Altar distance is slighty reduced if you movespeed is very low
• Boss objective change to the old one if you are both crippled and have no dash charges

Fixes

• definitely fixed the ability to dash out of screen

Modding Fixes

• No method to create SoulCard creation data without passing from a json
• Loading mod with error should no longer bug out the entire game. If an error is catched during mod loading, error will be printed in logs and the game will reload mods removing the failed mods. (this for example lead to being unable to open the soulshop, among MANY other issues)

Modding QoL

• Added a "Add Mod" button at the top of the mod list, this is an easy way to add a new mod with integrated manifest builder
• Added an "edit manifest" button when selecting mod in local to easily modify a mod manifest without having to go inside the mod manifest with a text editor

Major Change

• Replacement to boss stage objective, you now have to activated altar to spawn the boss

QoL

• Added tracker that follow important thing out of the screen removed the old chest tracker at it's now outdated

Changes

• reduced health achievement requirements to adapt to the 0.8.2.0 health balance

Fixes

• Being able to dash out of screen during Arena stages

Modding

• RogueGenesiaMod class now contain `ModData ThisModData` that you can always access inside your mod, it is added as a variable before OnModLoader is called
• Added a function inside your mod `GetSoulCardCreationData(string relativePath)` that allow to load a SoulCardCreationData from a json
• Added a button to automatically set-up a visual studio project for your mod.
• Mod Uploading windows description and changelog now automatically resize for your text
• Input field in Mod Uploading windows no longer lag the game
• You can now create CardRequirement without a SoulCardScriptableObject just using the card name, this should make cardRequirement to other mods much easier.
• Slighty improved how dll are loaded in (thank to chendrak)
• Added PetAPI into modding api to add custom pet, to add custom behaviour you'll need to use RogueGenesia.Actors.Survival.Pet, it contain `AddBehaviours()` and `RemoveBehaviours()` functions
• You can now add tracker that will display on the border of screen if something is out of screen - `RogueGenesia.UI.GlobalIndicatorHelper.AddObjectToTrack(Transform,Sprite)`
• `RogueGenesia.UI.GlobalIndicatorHelper.AddPositionToTrack(position,Sprite)`
• Tracker for transform will automatically be removed when the object is destroy and be hidden if it's on screen Tracker for Position will automatically be removed when the position in on screen
• Experimental : Added `OnMonsterTakeDamage(Monster, DamageInformation)`. I'm worried it may tank performance this event is only called in modded version of the game

Changes

• Slighty increased Time for time limit optional objectives
• Slighty reduced required Elite kill in elite kill count stages objectives
• Increased elite spawn-chance in elite kill count stages objectives

Fixes

• Card reward disappearing when obtaining optional reward in challenge that remove additional card selection as reward
• (modding) DropDrown option not really being dropdown option

0.8.3.0

Content

• 2 New stage type 1 rare that can appear after zone 2 1 uncomon that can appear anywhere
• 2 new possible objective in elite stages
• 2 new uncommon objective in normal stages
• Optional objectives that when completed give better rewards

QoL

• Improved Lust's card icon
• Gold pick-up sprite change with it's value (change at 10, 100 and 1000)
• Slighty changed the achievements order (so challenges achievements don't fill up the 10 first pages)
• (modding) Upload mod changed to Upload mod update for already uploaded mod

Fixes

• bug where tooltip for profile Gamemode were not working if you created your first profile
• evasion triggering before sage's leaf
• Hourglass challenge affecting timer
• GameHistory not working for game without active talents
• (modding) Workshop/upload button being mixed up for mods and causing issues to update mod on workshop
• (modding) OnStageEnd being called more than one and in the wrong place (called every frame during the timer count down)

Modding

• Changed how unlocks are working with achievements > beforehand, achievement had one slot for each type of unlockable > Now, most unlockable content got put into the same class which contain informations required for unlocks, so achievements just contain a list of all unlockables
• Added `SetMonsterLists()` function in GameManager class
• Added `GetEnemyList()` ,`GetEnemyPatternList()` and `GetMaxEliteAtOnce()` functions in StageInfoClass and StageObjective class
• `OnStageStart()` in StageInfoClass now take LevelObject as parameter
• `LevelObject` class now contain EnemyPool, which contain the list of possible enemy for the stage, they are added during `BuildObjective(LevelObject level)` of StageInfoClass
• Added New Event `OnMonsterKilled(Monster)`
• Added `AddArtifact(...)` function to ContentAPI

Hello everyone, time for the montly Dev-Blog!

Work done

0.8.1 - Modding update

Technical debt and refactorisation

I'll take for example Artifact that received an important refactorisation during update 0.8.2:

UI elements Making an Menu is about 1 to 3 day of work each, having to design the UI and coding the logics. [/olist] All those factor lead to a huge developement time for minor content addition during those last few months.

And now ?

While there is still a few refactorisation I would like to make, they are much less important and are post-poned for later (Right now I'm thinking of Achievements and Soul-Shop upgrades, and likely challenges much later) Those new refactorisation and rework of the game allow for a much easier addition of contents. and I can share with you a few of the addition that are comming with Update 0.8.3.0

New stage type

2 News stage type has been made so far that should increase diversity. more will come over time

Elite Swarm stage

They are a bit self explaining, they are basically the Swarm stage, but with ONLY elite monster. These will only appear in zone 3 or more, and are a bit rare.

Arena

Arena will be stage were the camera is fixed and unzoomed, and you cannot leave the screen They are slighty harder than normal stage. I'm thinking of adding a bit of structure into these stage.

New stage Objectives

Wanting more diversity into the run, new stages objective has also been added as a simple objective, some elite stage will simply ask you to kill a set number of elite There will also be a rare stage objective where enemies are much more likely to drop gold and you goal is to find a set value of gold I'm also experimenting with a stage objective where you have to defend the shop-keeper for a set duration, and keeping him alive reward you with gold coins as well as a shop instead of a reward

Optional Objectives

Finally one last thing I'm currently experimenting with for the 0.8.3 update is the addition of option objective which will increase the end of stage reward.

Replies to a few concerns

Before I talk about what is planned for the next month, I want to replied a few question/concern I've noticed

Optimisation

The patch is still being worked on, as I'm not directly working on I still can't give a set ETA, there is hope for it to be ready for update 0.9, but I can't give any promises.

Crashes

I know a few people are having crash with the game. From looking into it, the crashes seam to be due to the game taking too much ressources (ram and vram) This issues is very likely to be fixed with the optimisation patch.

Pet DLC

There will be 2 different Pet DLC, each costing 1$, one for a dog and another one for a cat. The reason I'm making them DLC instead of including it with a game update is that it was a popular request from userbase to have pets following you. I personally don't think they are an important addition to the game and they are actually a bit of an investment to add int othe game (animations, design). Making them as paid DLC is a way for me to mitigate the cost of the adding something I don't think is important while making the community happy, however to make sure it's not a paid advantage, they will be stictly cosmectic, they won't serves any purpose. However, I've noticed than making them "useless" annoyed a part of the community. After a bit of reflexion, I've made the pet having multiple "behaviours": Behaviours are small AI component of the pet that control it's action, the pet will choose random behaviour everytime the previous behaviour is finished. In the vanilla game, the pet will have 2 behaviours, idle and walking along the players The catch is that these behaviours are moddable. adding or removing behaviours with modding will be possible. I plan to release a mod after the DLC release that will add a simple "fetching" behaviours where the pet will pick-up collectible for the player. This is I think the best way to keep them as cosmectic while allowing player who want to have trully useful pet be happy. (of course adding more pets via modding will be possible)

"I would have preferred more progress on the game itself, and what it offers itself, over anything to do with modding"

This is something I've seen when I talked about artifact refactorisation (to make them moddable), and I think is shared by a few players. While it's true a bit of time went into modding, as I explained above, this is often more complex, and striking the balance between modding and progressing the game can be difficult. while it look like I spent a lot of time into modding. I would say I spent about 5% to 10% of my developement effort toward modding. [strike](it's even likely I've spent a little bit more effort toward writing these monthly dev blog than modding)[/strike]

Modding is too hard

There is a balance between having an easy modding and having a complete modding. You can't make a modding that allow lot of thing to be easy and available to everyone especially when you are an Indie developer, knowing nothing on how to make a game modable when you start working on it. My target for modding difficulty/possibilities was RimWorld/TmodLoader. so far I think the possibilities and difficulty of modding for Rogue:Genesia is alongside these game. Also, just recently, Chendrak released EasyCard. which is a mod that allow for anyone to make card easily filling up json and adding an image. There is also a pack of card made by PlushPaws using EasyCard You also are more than welcome to come on the discord if you have any question about modding or need help

0.8.2 Nerf

I've also seen some people concerned or even complaining about the recent "Nerf" First off I don't think they did much more than reading the patch note before complaing. The "nerf" affect both the player and the monster, and was made so it's shouldn't be much different than before. from the feedback I had, many players didn't even noticed any changes. The goal of the nerf wasn't the made the game harder but to reduce the uncontroled powercreep you have arround Zone 3. i've seen many complain from begineer player slow and unfun fight with enemy in zone 3. The main reason being they simply skip to much of the damage source and end-up having good survivability but very low damage, leading to a boring game. After collecting a lot of feedback of a long period (I've seen this appear multiple time on the Steam forum during those last few month) I've decided to greatly reduce many of the Damage multiplier you can find (making the stacking a bit less important) balanced the enemy health arround that (to give an idea of the nerf, Necromancer (zone 3 boss) health went from 5 billion to 250 Million) Nerf also reduced Huge Health bonus card, that simply pulled player toward those boring build, seeing a +40% health bonus is much more appealing that a +0.2 base damage. (however proper tank build are still possible and fun)

Too much Typo/spelling mistakes in news/Changelogs

I prefer to spent my time working on the game. And english is not my first language :).

And then?

Right now, I'm waiting for the pet's animation to be finished before seriously starting to work on Update 0.9, that will like other Major update follow a lenghty beta phase with players. Until then I'm working on 0.8.3 update and likely a few minor patch depending on the time required for the hired person to finish. So I would target for a start of 0.9 update developement to be for Early May and the release of 0.9 targeted for June or July 2023, Release of update 0.9 will also see a price increase of the game from 4.99$ to 6.99$ 0.9 Update will add C-rank difficult into the game (both Survivors and Rogs Mode) the definitive scope of 0.9 is not yet confirmed, but I would like to add 2 major additional features: [olist]

(made a lot of ground work for the upcoming Pet dlc, I'm just waiting for the animations to be ready)

QoL

• Improved Worm gland visual
• Card can also be filtered by mods

Changes

• Worm Gland (1000/950/900/800 to 400/350/300/250)
• Wind Blade (1000/950/900/800 to 400/350/300/250)
• Swordrang (1000/950/900/800 to 500/450/375/300)
• Shuriken (1000/950/900/800 to 400/350/325/300)
• Pike (1000/950/900/800 to 300/260/230/200)
• Magic Wand (1000/950/900/800 to 300/275/250/200)
• Kunai (1000/950/900/800 to 275/250/225/200)
• Katana (1000/950/900/800 to 550/500/450/400)
• Fire Ring (1000/950/900/800 to 250/200/150/100)
• Explosive Vial (1000/950/900/800 to 700/600/550/500)
• Crossbow (1000/950/900/800 to 750/700/650/600)
• Cleaver (1000/950/900/800 to 400/350/325/300)

Fixes

• Negative ammo display
• Ouroboros necklace artifact name
• Tooltip on talent charge bar about charge rate being display as the charge
• (Modding) BuffOverride not correctly replacing a buff
• (Modding) Dependency version check being inverted (validating dependency if the version was equal or lower instead of equal or higher)
• (Modding) Some mod not being loaded as they should

Fix

• Shop keeper having a much smaller level-up shop at high level
• Poisonous debuff Tooltip
• Fix Plexus' sadism totem effect still effectives after one usage
• Bug when changing tab for multiple mod in mod options
• Tooltip not working correctly on resolution other than 1920x1080

Fixes

• Cursed belt description still showing 1.5%
• Some artifact effect not being displayed on some card buff

Modding

• Added `OnStageStart()` function for `StageObjective`
• Added `OnStageStart()` function for `StageInfoClass`

Warning

Run save are not compatible

Major Change

major Damage/Health rebalance

QoL

Artifacts list in encyclopedia where you can check the unlocked artifacts information




You can now put your mouse over buff to get a name and description



• Volume slider now correctly scale in the logarithm scale (also migrating to unity audio mixer)
• Moved the load button to be in the start game menu
• Added a warning if you try to start a new run while you have a ongoing run in the same Gamemode
• Added an option to prevent the start of new run if you have an ongoing run in the same Gamemode
• Gold display in survivors mode when playing as shop-keeper
• Tooltip for the talent and talent bar
• Added a bit more detail in artifacts list
• Added tooltip to profile gamemode when creating a new profile

New Artifact

• Ouroboros Necklace - Upon dying, gain a card selection (once per Stage)

Changes

• Cursed belt Health regen increased from 1.5% to 3% of max health
• Dash refill Potion pick-up distance no longer scale with player pick-up distance and is now 2m when dash charge are full
• Removed Quantum processor compatibility

Fixes

• E key not being rebind-able and causing issues
• evasion sometime proccing twice in the same attack
• Evasion not properly capping damage to 10% of player's max health
• Shadows from sun glitching on medium shadows setting
• Way to display challenge you shouldn't had unlocked already
• Card selection option description
• Option menu always being scrolled
• Option text not using the right font
• Buff stacking bug when going over 999 stack (now it properly cap at 999 stack)
• Soul-shop gamepad button for refund being displayed as B when it should be Y
• Gamepad navigation issues with game history
• Bug where the game thinking you were on keyboard just after you did a gamepad input for the first time after moving the mouse
• Talent bar fill in pause menu not filling correctly

Modding

Custom Pick-up can be added into the game

Custom Stage Objective can be added into the game



• Updated from .Net 4.x to .Net Standard 2.0 (Sadly I don't have the option to upgrade further, it'll likely be updated again when the engine will be ported to Unity 2022 later on)
• Added `string GetSaveName()` to `GameModeClassInfo`
• Added `bool HasSave()` to `GameModeClassInfo`
• Added `void LoadSave(GameModeSO gameMode)` to `GameModeClassInfo`
• Added `void ClearSave(bool EndOfRun)` to `GameModeClassInfo`
• They are used to make the saving location handled by the gamemode instead of being hardcoded into the game
• SoulCard class now contain `GetName()` ,`GetDescription()` and `GetDescriptionOnLevelUp()` function so you can make your own custom dynamic description for custom cards (Description and name override still work and are still supported, this is just to give modders more control over that)
• Added `GetName()` and `GetDescription()` function to buffs

Complete rework on how Artifacts work. That mean they can finally be modded in

• Artifacts which are missing or have incomplete factorisation :
• CorruptedCore
• TrainingWeight (incomplete)
• AdventurerLicence (incomplete)
• ChampionBracer (incomplete)
• Gilgamesh Crown, Seal and Ring

Artifacts that won't be refactored in the near future (for technical reasons)

• Portal Device
• Wander Helmet

Changes to the API

• AddCustomStat
• AddSoulShopUpgrade
• AddEvent
• AddTalent
• AddCustomDamageSource
• AddCustomEliteAbility

• AddCustomCard
• AddCustomStatCard
• AddCustomWeapon
• AddCustomChallenge
• SetSoulCardInfo
• MakeCardRequirement
• ReplaceRogSkin
• GetCardFromName

Events Changes (for modding)

New Events

• `OnPlayerHitByProjectile` - was previously `OnPlayerTakeProjectileDamage` (it is called before all other TakeDamage events)
• `OnPlayerTakeDamage_PreDefence` (Called before Defence from player is applied to damageinformation)
• `OnPlayerTakeDamage_PostDefence` (Called after defence is applied to damageinformation)
• `OnPlayerTakeDamage_BeforeApplying` - was previously `OnPlayerTakeDamage`
• `OnPlayerTakeDamage_PreDeathCheck` - Called after the player had received the damage to his health and before the death is checked)
• `OnPlayerLoseHealth(float previousHealthValue, FloatValue newHealth)` - Walled whenever the player lose health
• `OnPlayerDeathCheck` - Called when the game is doing a death check (only called when health is 0 or less), can be used to prevent death of the player.
• `CalculatePlayerExtraHealthBar(AvatarData, FloatValue newMaxHealth)` - used to calculate the second healthbar (troll blood for example)
• `CalculateCardPickCount` - used to change the amount of card pickable
• `CalculateFreeRerollCount` - used to change the amount of free reroll on level-up
• `CalculateFreeRarityRerollCount` - used to change the amount of free rarity reroll on level-up
• `CalculateFreeBanishesCount` - used to change the amount of free banishes on level-up
• `CalculateEnemyBudgetAndDelay` - used when calculating the maximum enemy budget and spawndelay
• `CalculateBudgetBossModifier` - used by bosses to change the maximum enemy budget and spawndelay when they are spawned
• `OnEatFood(PlayerEntity,FloatValue HealValue)` - called when the player is eating food and regain health
• `OnCalculateMonsterStats` - called when a monster is spawned and the stats are being calculated
• `OnMonsterLoot` - called when a monster die, killed by the player (doesn't procc if killed by phoenix totem or end of level)
• `OnRollShop_Generate(ShopGenerationInfo)` - called when generating the shop
• `CalculateShopDiscount(FloatValue priceMultiplier)` - called when calculating the shop discount
• `OnCardWeightCalculation(CardWeightEventInfo)` - called when calculating a card weight
• `OnSelectStageObjective(LevelObject)` - called when generating a stage Objective
• `OnCalculateExperienceReward(LevelObject, FloatValue experienceReward)` - called when calculating the experience reward from completing a stage
• `OnCalculateGoldReward(LevelObject, FloatValue goldReward)` - called when calculating the gold reward from completing a stage
• `OnCalculateCardSelectionReward(LevelObject, FloatValue cardSelectionReward)` - called when calculating the number of card selection given from stage completion
• `OnCalculateArtifactReward(LevelObject, FloatValue artifactReward)` - called when calculating the number of artifacts given from stage completion

Greetings, players!

• Added Quantum processor compatibility, you can now run Rogue:Genesia on quantum computer at ludicrous speed!
• Removed a few lines of code that were doing nothing.
• Fixed a bug where nothing happened when you do nothing. Now, nothing still happens, but it happens more efficiently!
• Optimized the game to not use less memory and processing power when nothing is happening.
• Added a new loading screen featuring a blank screen to represent the nothingness that awaits you in the game.
• Improved the AI of the NPCs so that they can now do nothing more convincingly.
• Increased the amount of space between objects in the game world to create a sense of emptiness and nothingness.
• Increased the randomness of the weather patterns in the game, so that sometimes it will rain, and sometimes it won't. But in either case, nothing will happen as weather is a lie of the illuminati.
• Added absolutely nothing to the game.

QoL

• When creating a new Profile, pressing enter now directly create the profile if the name is valid
• A keybind can now be added to toggle Auto-aim (there is no binds by default)

Modding

• New Event - "OnRunLoad" called when loading a save
• New Event - "OnRunQuit" called when leaving a run
• Mod Uploading UI improvement - Can now properly write multiple lines in Description and changelog

Modding

• Survivors mode now also trigger OnStageStart using an empty LevelObject
• Workshop mod uploaded now have the tags set in the .rgmod file
• When uploading a mod it should properly get the title and description from the workshop page

Fixes

• New players with no save being unable to play
• Looking into profile list and going back reseting all achievements

Hello, I'm glad to tell everyone that the Steam Workshop update is ready! In my previous post I planned for 0.8.1.0 to not have Steam Workshop and push it to 0.8.2.0, but in the end I preferred to spend a few more day to include it in 0.8.1.0! The 0.8.1.0 Update also come with a few additions

Mod support and Steam Workshop

Save Profile

Hero mode

Complete changelog

Major Feature

Save Profile

• You can have multiple save profile
• When you start game for the first time you'll be able to transfer your old save to a profile

Official ModLoader With Steam Workshop

• This is a great step toward proper mod support, the game now has a proper mod loader without requiring any external software or complex instalation steps
• You can enable/disable mods in the mod list, You don't need to restart the game for mod to be disabled/enabled
• Enabled mods list are saved with your Save profile
• You can download mods form the Steam Workshop

Hero's Soul" Profile's GameMode (aka Hero mode)

• This is a gamemode related to your profile, you need to create a new profile to test this gamemode
• The main change is that the game will only reward you the best soul-coin gained per World-Rank (this also count challenges)
• This will completely change what upgrade you take in the soul-shop as you can no longer farm soul-coin by doing the same rank again and again

QoL

• Search field for achievements

  
  
• Search field check for description and name

• Search field for Soul-Card

  
  
• Search field check for name, description, card type, rarity and tags
• Survivors challenge are now correctly completed when you beat the last boss of a set difficulty without having to die for it to be completed.
• Added tooltips to option in Game Option (and Mod options)

Changes

• Player start with 1 defence piercing
• Blue Mushroom hitbox size got increased
• Armor-less ban Metal trasmutation
• Changed Uncommon Weapon talent unlock from 1k to 5k
• Changed rare Weapon talent unlock from 5k to 10k
• Changed Heroic weapon talent unlock from 250k kill to 100k kill
• Broken Statuette : If you have the requirement for it, and you don't have the achievement yet, it'll be guaranteed every 4 Young Sculptor events
• Increased Lust cap from 500% to 10000%

Fixes

• One shot protection timer not set correctly, (this made the .15sec immunity not working)
• Japanese translation reload speed having issues
• Fix Envy Stacking multiple time at once
• Fix Sloth Stacking multiple time at once
• Fix Wrath Stacking multiple time at once
• Fix Gluttony Stacking multiple time at once
• Life linked Champion not displaying the correct value in their health bar (only showed individual health instead of shared health)
• Life linked leaving non-attacked enemies at 0 Health instead of killing them
• Immovable part of immovable Buff not being applied when you start a new round
• explosive vial aiming being off by 5
• Defence piercing not starting at 1
• Fix "XX:XX" bugged display in end-screen menu preventing unlocks (GameHistory files being corrupted)

Modding

• Official ModLoader with Steam Workshop You can get a example mod at https://github.com/PlexusDuMenton/RogueGenesiaExampleMod
• Added `RogueGenesiaMod` which mods should inherit from
• Added `ModGenesia.LoadPNGTexture(string path)` and `ModGenesia.LoadSprite(string path)`, directly copied from Chendrak's easycard
• Added `ModGenesia.IsModActive(string modID)` to know if a mod is active
• Fixed modded card with no requirement not appearing.
• Fixed some issues related to ModOptions
• Added `OnOptionChanged` Event
• Added `OnOptionConfirmed` Event
• Added many MapGeneration related events:
• Added `OnMapGenerationStart` Event
• Added `OnGenerateStagePosition` Event
• Added `OnDoneGeneratingStagePosition>>` Event
• Added `OnBuildStageConnection>` Event
• Added `OnBuildLevelType` Event
• Added `OnBuildLevelTypeFinished>` Event
• Added `OnBuildLevelObjective` Event
• Added `OnFinishedGeneratingStages>` Event
• `RogueGenesiaMod.GameRegisterationStep()` got changed into `RogueGenesiaMod.OnRegisterModdedContent()`
• `RogueGenesiaMod.OnGameFinishedLoading()` got changed into `RogueGenesiaMod.OnAllContentLoaded()`
• Added `RogueGenesiaMod.OnModUnloaded()`
• All GameOptionData creation function got a LocalizationDataList LocalisedTooltip parameter added to add tooltips to them
• Category are now implemented for modoptions

Hello everyone!

Optimization

Modding and upcoming patchs

0.8.1.0

• Vanilla - Compiled in the more optimised IL2CPP as it was until now
• Modded - Compiled in Mono, having worse optimization but allowing Modding and loading of external library

Hero's Soul (aka Hero mode)

0.8.1.0 is expected to be ready in a few days and can already be tested in the beta

0.8.2.0

Pet DLC

major update 0.9

Change

• Lunatic no longer has Moon-tag

Fixes

• Blue Mushroom spawning way more food than they are supposed to
• Save villager event (and a few other event) description glitching out when picking option giving reward
• Some buff levels going negative (especially Envy and Berserk)

Fixes

• Amor-less bannishing immovable object

Optimisation

• Reverted a change made during beta until proper optimisation patch is ready: Before, the weapons attacks were limited to 1 per frame, it's usualy bad practice as it give a better advantage to better computer During the 0.8, one of the change is that maximal weapon attack rate is no longer affected by frame-time This also mean that for low frame-rate, they can now easily attack multiple time during a single frame, leading to incredibly bad performance when going for a projectile and attack-speed heavy build I've reverted this change, capping back the amount of weapons attacks to 1 per frame until better optimisation can be done This should greatly alleviate performance problems many player had since 0.8

FIxes

• Armor-less description
• Benediction not being banned by Armor-less
• Spike shield not having moon-tag
• Sniper scaling up the monster killed by it instead of the explosion it's causing
• Log spamming error when opening talents screen during a run
• attack speed stat on gunslinger showing reload speed

QoL

• Auto-aim will now auto-shoot on Gun-Slinger

Changes

• Shop-Keeper gold per level formula changed : from 750 + 250xLevel to 1000 + 175xLevel Shop-Keeper also start with 2500 gold.
• GunSlinger Bolt Action Change Now, bullet explode into sub-munition on enemy kill
• GunSlinger Sniper Change Now, bullet explode upon killing an enemy, dealing AoE damage
• Reduced Blue-mini mushroom health, but scaled their defence up

Fixes

• Not all active talent gaining mastery upon ability usage
• Spear talents not actaully having 100% chance for crit
• Manual level-up being bugged in blacksmith/shop if you have left-over levels
• "Change Talent" and "Change Avatar" screens not going back to start-game menu upon pressing escape

QoL

• Option change to Auto-Level-up, now has 3 option [olist]
• Manual - you press The level-up button for One-level-up at once, you exit the card selection on each level-up
• Automatic - you automatically level-up everytime you can level-up
• Semi-automatic - You press the level-up button to level-up, you exit the card selection after you done all your left-over level-up [/olist]

Changes

• Shaman staff active talent's goblins now also scale defence and damage mitigation from player

Fixes

• Aim line being invisible
• Fix endscreen saying you unlocked new soul-shop upgrade when you died (and you didnt)
• Tech-goblins not having animations
• Void Magnet not being capped at 50

QoL

• Option to keep the old music in Survivors mode
• Shop buyable Reroll/Rarity Reroll/Banishes now show you current and max owned Reroll/Rarity Reroll/Banishes

Change

• Optimization for Pike: Pike now only spawn one projectile per frame for each attack at most multiple attacks can stack if they are fact enough, this should not affect dps of the weapon (as the attack will still happen at the same speed as before)
• Thorn Firework change Thorn firework only chain once, it will no longer have an infinite loop of sub-projectile triggering thorn firework. This change aim to improve performance of thorn firework
• Armor-less now only ban card with both defence stat and Moon tag
• Portal shard now only loop projectile Once per projectiles
• Slighty increased light in cave zone(yet again)

Fixes

• Some Post-process thing not being correctly disabled on low
• Silph's blade having "-1 tag"
• Artificer's Katana, Thunder Staff, Staff of Storms, Explosive vials and Thunder vials missing area weapon tag
• character stats staying open upon re opening the pause menu
• When automatic level-up is disabled you only level-up once at a time
• Event Rewards Menu Selection automatically selects Next Stage instead of Loot
• Armor-less banning Immovable-Object

QoL

• Option to change Player's health bar size since a lot of player complained about health bar being too big
• Option to remove Dash pannel on the bottom left of the screen

Fixes

• Swordrang and magic wisp talent being unlocked by default
• Vulture, Fast Vulture, Kobolt and Kobolt mage droping WAY less exeperience than they were supposed to
• Mastery multiplier from World tier giving only half as much
• Damage over time number formating
• Many localization issues in achievements
• Issues with shadow not updating correctly to video setting on loading a stage
• Unlocking D-rank world after completing F-rank world instead of E-rank
• Unlocking Corruption after completing E-rank world instead of D-rank
• Time reach achievement in survivors mode not working

Change

Fixes

Hello! After 3 intensive months of work, I am happy to share with you version 0.8 of Rogue:Genesia. Version 0.8 Is very different from other major updates, as the main focus was the addition on major features and an important rework of the internal workings of the game instead of purely adding new content/world-ranks.

Major Features

• Avatar system

  
  Rogue:Genesia now welcomes multiple playable characters, each with their own gimmicks and stats [spoiler] There is a total of 6 avatars for now, among them there are 2 secret avatars [/spoiler]
  

• Talent System

  
  You can now equip powerful active and multiple passive talents before you start your runs [spoiler] Each non-evolution weapon has an active talent linked to them, allowing you to start your run with them, after they reach level 1, they each have a different and unique active ability. There is for now a total of 15 passive talents. [/spoiler]
  

• D-rank survivors mode

  
  Survivors mode also has a D-rank world, you'll be plunged into the darkness of the caves, so be careful of your surroundings Also Survivors Challenges [spoiler] There is also a Secret ending added to any Survivors mode rank, if you can survive long enough...[/spoiler]
  

• Event Rework

  
  Events got a total rework, Question-marks can now give you some situations with multiple choices.
  

• Defence Piercing rework

  
  Many enemies got buffed with armor, Defence Piercing also now permanently reduces enemy defence by 10% of it's value.

New Soul-Cards

Weapons

• Explosive Vial - Throw Vials full of explosive substances in the aimed direction
• Thunder Vial - Evolution of Explosive Vial and Thunder Staff
• Staff of Storms - Evolution of Thunder Staff and Thunder Spirit
• Jald's Amulet - Evolution of Death Aura and Fire Ring
• [spoiler]as well as 10 new weapons exclusive to the Gun-Slinger [/spoiler]

Attack Modifier

• Thunder Spirit - Chance to create an Arc Lighting from your weapons which hit nearby enemies

Passives

• Rust - Increases Defence Piercing
• Reactive trigger - Procs an attack from your weapons on taking damage
• [spoiler]12 new passives exclusive to the Gun-Slinger [/spoiler]

New Artifact

• Portal Shard - Projectiles loop back to the other side of the screen
• [spoiler] Broken Statuette - Triple Soul-Coin gain, but you gain corruption for each stage you had previously passed, you also take +50% damage[/spoiler]

Quality of Life

• Game History - You can now see previous runs you have done in a listed history
• Card Details - You can now click on a card in the card list to display advanced details about the card (there is also a bind to display details of a card when in card selection)
• Camera Lock Option - Option to lock camera on your character
• Card Tag - Cards now have small icon to indicate which tag they belong to
• Auto Level-up option - You can now choose if the level-up is automatic or manual (so you can choose your cards when you want) (defaults to enabled)
• Auto Aim improvement - Now automatically targets the closest enemy (instead of the direction you are moving)
• Mouse Control - Option to control the character with the mouse, it also automatically activates auto-aim
• Delay Card-Selection - Option to set a safe duration during which you cannot select a card to prevent mis-clicks (defaults to 0.3sec)
• Number Formating - Option to change how numbers are formated Standard for the normal way (using K/M/B/T....), Scientific or Engineering
• Improved HealthBar visuals - Elite, Champion, Boss and Player's healthbar has been reworked to have better visuals, there is also an option to make the "useless" part of the healthbar invisible so you only have healthbars.
• Pick-Up range visualisation - you can now see the pick-up range of your character (option to change opacity is in the settings)
• Music Effect - Option to change how much gameplay impacts the music (slowing-down & reverb on level-up)
• Descriptions added to gamemodes
• Improvement to challenge panel navigation

Hello, It's just a simple announcement that the next update release date which is

Monday 6 March

Have a nice day

Hello! I recently got a proposition to make a bundle with 4 games, all in the Horde Survival / Bullet Heaven genre. here is the list of game:

• Rogue: Genesia
• 20 Minutes Till Dawn
• Nomad Survival
• Void Scrappers
• Project Lazarus

Hello Everyone! I hope 2023 is going well so far for you. As you may have noticed, I recently update the game's store graphics I always felt like a more proffesional artwork would be better, This one ended up taking me more time than I expected, but I'm quite happy with the result.

January

Quality of Life

Chest opening FX

New GameOption menu (with the modding options)

Camera lock option

Anachronistic visual improvement

New Auto Aiming

Card Details

Musics

Content

Thunder

Active Talents

Gun-Slinger

Today

Things left to be done

Avatar animations

Events

Passive Talents

Optimisation

Performance Improvements

Average and Low FPS Situations

Performance Analytics

RAM Issues

Conclusion, ETA and a Thank You

Replying to some question about modding

Hello.

Today I'm going to talk about modding!

Modding as of today

Possibles solutions

Future of modding

Hello Everyone!

I want to thank you all

December 2022

The Major Update 0.8 is still expected to be released during march

Beta is already available to anyone, you simply have to join the discord and check into the beta-announcements channel to see how you can join the beta!

Avatar

Talents

Events

Optimization

Graphic Usage

Inconsistant framerate

And then ?

2023 RoadMap

Making all the World tier up to A

Adding more variety

More content

Fixes

• No evolution challenge don't removing guaranteed evolution in blacksmith
• 7 sins achievements not having the correct icons
• Modded challenge not being displayed in game
• Description of Aura conversion not having the cap

Modding

• Challenge can now have custom description with colour code(in case modders want to implement custom modifiers to challenges or simply want to add more informations)
• Added a new function to build custom description for challenges ModGenesia.ChallengeAPI.BuildCustomChallengeDescription(string Key, List localisedText, CustomChallengeDescription.EDescriptionType descriptionType)
• Challenge adding function got slighty modified and moved to another class ModGenesia.ModGenesia.AddCustomChallenge(string name, EDifficulty worldRank,float soulCoinMultiplier ,ChallengeModifier challengeModifier, bool isHardMode, List localisedName, int oder = 9) marked as obselete, Use ModGenesia.ChallengeAPI.AddCustomChallenge(string name, EDifficulty worldRank,float soulCoinMultiplier ,ChallengeModifier challengeModifier, bool isHardMode, List localisedName, int oder = 9, List CustomDescription = null) Instead

QoL

• added formating to the damage value of weapons (as they can easily reach unreadable numbers)
• added back-up files to achievements, should prevent lost of In-Game achievement in the futures (or at least highly mitigate the issue)

Changes

• Slighty reduced Third zone Elite's Health
• Slighty reduced Third zone first boss health

Fix

• Elite with garantee ability sometime rolling it twice

Hello ! Update 0.7 dropped about one month ago and many hotfix and minor update were pushed to add some requested additions to the game and QoL stuff. I'll continue to look for some leftover issues and some minor balance change, but I felt like the 0.7 version is very close to be in a stable state. That mean time will soon come for me to start working on bigger stuffs! I have 4 big features I want to work on for the 0.8 Update:

Talent System

Actives Talents

• Actives talents will be Active ability that will slowly charge up during gameplay, that'll allow to unleash a powerful attack.
• Each active talent will be linked to a weapon and have ability related to them.
• You can only active 1 active talent at once
• Having an active talent equipped will skip the weapon choice at the start of the game and guarantee you to start with the weapon related to the talent.
• Talents will slowly gain mastery over multiple runs, granting minors bonuses related to the weapon
• To unlock a talent, you need to level-up the linked weapon to level 8
• Evolution don't have linked talent, but will benefit from the base weapon's talents

Passives Talents

• Passives talents are minors bonuses, you can equip that will slowly gain mastery, unlocking more powerful version of themselves or other related talents
• You can have multiple passives talents at once
• You'll be able to buy additional talents slots in the Soul-Shop

Avatar System

D-Rank survivors mode

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Minor content will also be added for this update, new weapon, QoL features and improved modding API

What is the schedule about the update?

What about C-rank Rog's Mode and survivors?

QoL

• Added bind for reroll, rarity reroll and banishes (check your binds menu)

Fixes

• Challenge button only appearing after E-rank instead of F-rank (same for talent button only appearing after D-rank instead of E-rank)

Fixes

• Corruption modifier not loading when loading a run's save

Corruption slider

QoL

• Due to numerous request, added a PickUp SFX slider in sound options, that control volume from pick-up independently from other SFX

  
  
• Challenge button should not longer be display on a new save, it'll only appear after you have completed the first difficulty of rog's mode
• Talent system should no longer be displayed before you completed Rog's Mode Rank E (which is when the feature will become available to player later on)

Changes

• Elite's Rift ability - Increase minimal range for rift ability to trigger from 2m to 4m
• Complete refactorisation to how data from options are saved, this can lead to some minor issues of having some of your option reset.

Fixes

• Some effect trying to be applied on already dead monster with life-line

Modding

• Adding 2 new functions, that allow to have data saved for the current run (this can be usefull for custom cards effect that last for the entire run) ModGenesia.ModGenesia.SetCurrentRunValue(string key, float value) ModGenesia.ModGenesia.GetCurrentRunValue(string key)
• Adding 2 new functions that allow to Set/get value form the persistant save (Can be used to track any stats for example) ModGenesia.ModGenesia.SetPersistantDataValue(string key, double value) ModGenesia.ModGenesia.GetPersistantDataValue(string key)

Fix a bug that allowed to launch challenges in survivors mode, leading to serious bugs

Fixes

• Escape not bringing to the previous menu in Start game menu, challenge menu and Soul-Shop
• UI navigation in the New menu
• New difficulty not unlocking

Huge Main Menu overhaul

• The whole Play menu is changed to be more flexible, and ready for the future features of the next beta.
• Rework of the challenge menu, this allow to have as many challenge as I want for each rank, this also allow ... modded challenge!

QoL

• Added a bit of color variation to the grass in first world

Modding

• Function to add custom challenge into the game: ModGenesia.ModGenesia.AddCustomChallenge(string name, EDifficulty worldRank,float soulCoinMultiplier ,ChallengeModifier challengeModifier, bool isHardMode, List localisedName, int oder = 9)

Change

• Reduced Shaman's Staff spread by 50%
• Increased Shrine's buff duration from 30s to 60s
• Removed pick-up delay on golds coin
• Removed pick-up delay on Dash potion when you are missing dash charges

QoL

• Greed will no longer display a buff when not having any stacks
• Slightly increased Shrine's text duration

Optimisation

• Reduced reflection probe resolution to save memory and video memory
• Reduced Stats Update due to Wind ring and martyr cloack

Fixes

• Memory leak caused by shrines when moving a lot
• Complex bug leading to some post-update bonus being reset until a dynamic value forced post-update value to be refreshed (for example Blood tranmutation not giving damage for a few seconds)
• Plexus's challenge giving back phoenix totem when loading it (or usualy any challenge giving you multiple copy of the starting achievements) and making the challenge super easy
• Fumuu shuriken bouncing to some wrong position
• Localization font being ignored in the card list in main menu

Modding

• Function to add custom damage source to be displayed in the end screen: ModGenesia.ModGenesia.AddCustomDamageSource(string key, List localisedName, Sprite texture)
• (experimental) Function to add custom Elite ability (Remember to override getGeneralAbilityTag() function. also LoadAbility() if you want the icon to be properly displayed) ModGenesia.ModGenesia.AddCustomEliteAbility(string internalName,System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo Constructor)

Sorry for the complete game breaking bug for the past 2-3 hours. Seeing how much bug I'm introducing lately, that mean I need to take a few day break, I'll take a few days off.

Fixes

• Greed bricking the game completely
• More issues related to localized font (hope they are the last)

QoL

• Added Icon for Greed, Envy and pride.
• Added placeholder icon for Lust, Sloth, Wrath and Glutonny so people don't confuse sins' buffs.
• Added a buff indicator for greed stacks.
• Added a new card detail display mode (which is the new default mode), it'll simply display the relative increase/decrease in percentage instead of showing the absolute card effect per level, of course you can still keep the old absolute display (still in video settings)

Fixes

• Health reseting to pre-buff when updating stats (level up and some buff stacking)

Changes

Fix

Changes

• Rifted monster no longer teleport if they are close to the player
• Rifted monster has a 1 second cooldown on the teleportation

Fixes

• Void crate not spawning void magnet
• Trigger amulet speeding up weapon's attack speed after a dash

Fix Swordrang not working at all

Fixes New weapon evolution bugging out Game version not being updated (a patch with Swordrang fix will come in a few minutes)

Major Changes

Shrine

• Silph - Increase Movespeed by 40%, reduce dash cooldown by 50%
• Jald- Increase Damage multiplier by 50%, Increase attack speed by 10%
• Sola - Increase Experience gain by 100%
• Luna - Increase Defence by 50% and damage mitigation by 20%

Buff UI

Specialised crate

QoL

• Added some variant for object that spawn like tree and cactus
• Chest indicator is now always drawn on top
• Completing a time requirement in higher rank also unlock time requirement for lower rank (only for ENTIRE run completed, not just the zone)
• Added precision that the teleported cactus is a plant in the achievement (so stop trying to teleport the cactus enemies for the achievement!)

Changes

• Gold cactus?
• Capped Swordrang and death scythe projectile lifetime to 30sec (especially for fractal)
• Plexus' Sadism nerfed: Reduced Corruption by per stage from 2 to 1.5, also reduced elite health by 25%, Increased bonus stat to 10%, added phoenix totem as starting artifact

New Weapon Evolution

• Fuuma Shuriken - Evolution of Kunai and Shuriken, Bounce off enemies

New Soul-Card

• Trigger Amulet - All weapons attack when you dash

New Elite Ability

• Rifted - When taking damage, have 25% chance to teleport in a random position around the player

Reworked Character movements and collision

Localisation

• Added back localised font (without major issues this time (I hope)) (and no I won't add comic sans (maybe for first april?))

Fixes

• many card's buff not being applied correctly
• You can no longer load and save at 30 minute and 1 second to load back at 25minutes in survivors mode
• removed "multiplier" to dash charges stats in card's descriptions
• F-rank survivors unlocking E-rank survivors achievement
• Damage summary for Rift

It is still an experimental version of the game, but I am happy to share with you that the Linux version of the game is available to be played for every Linux user. You may need to transfer your save from your proton compatibility folder to this location: ~/.config/unity3d/HuardOuadi/Rogue Genesia/ If you encounter any issues, please report the issues in the game's discord: https://discord.gg/WbrgtCaP4T

Reverting localised font for now due to the huge number of issues,the localised font will back later once all issues are fixed

Changes

• Plexus' sadism nerfed : Increase maximum rarity from Rare to Epic
• Interdimensional rose unlock has been changed: It now get unlocked when you use rift on a cactus

Fixes

• Wander's trick achievement unlock notification even if you already unlocked it

Localization

• Added custom font for Japanese, Simplified Chinese and korean

Fixes

• Thorn firework not appearing with interdimensional rose
• Thorn firework not working at all
• Interdimensional rose not having icon on the damage source screen (The thing I keep forgetting on every new weapon)

QoL

• Updated thorn's Sprite
• Enemies health-bar should always be draw behind the player's Health bar (instead of always being draw in front as it was the case until now)
• Enemies health-bar should be way less affected by post-process's blur
• Added small info in soul-shop for buy/sell action (so people know they can simply sell one single upgrade)

New Soul-Card

New Weapon Evolution

Changes

• Evasion buff - When triggered, damage cant exceed 10% of the player's max health
• Uncapped boomerang speed on the return, so you can no longer outrun them indefinetly
• Throwing knife dash recharge now scale with the weapon attack speed, capped at 0.2s minimum
• Cave zone - Added a directed light so the player can have a better look in the aimed direction

Fixes

• Life-link issues (again there was another place prevent monster's health from going negative and disturbed the health share calculation)
• Weapon's Damage mitigation are now correctly displayed based on your actual damage mitigation (as it have diminushing return based on your actual damage mitigation)
• Challenge's stats multiplier having weird effect on negative defence

Change

• Death Scythe - Capped projectile size to 400%

Fixes

• Fix death Scythe damage icon in end-game screen
• Death scythe scale by the square of the projectile size
• Death scythe Instant death not counting as damage

New Weapon Evolution

Death Scythe

Fixes

• Pause menu tabs not going to the right tabs in the end-game screen
• LifeLink + regeneration usually leading to nearly unkilable enemy
• Berserker buff still trigering complete stats recalculation

Fixes

• Thorn's projectile not dealing damage if the player did not have any piercing
• Wander's trick bug no longer unlock shop/higher difficulties
• Blood transmutation, Metal transmutation and zealot displaying the incorrect value (the reduced scaling on player level was not applied)
• Selling health having red outline when having less gold that what it give (it was still working otherwise)
• Fix minor UI issues with Wide screen on end-game screen

Fixes

• End game achievements menu having filter when it's useless
• End game achievements back button not working
• End game soulCard and artifact button not working
• End game achievement button not working when not having achievements unlocked during the run
• End Game pause menu not working
• Achievements unlocked during the run not being reset when starting a new run
• Achievements displaying "page" instead of page number in the top left when opening the achievements menu for the first time
• Achievements notification not working when starting the game for the first time

QoL

• You can now check the list of achievements unlocked during the run in the end-screen
• some weapons sprite update

Change

• Evasion now reduce damage received by 99% instead of voiding them completely

Fixes

• UI issues for HardMode button on Wide screen
• Immovable should no longer be disabled when "moving" during the menu
• Loading incompatible save from demo causing corrupted game and everything being broken
• Dashing and anachronistic activating when game is paused/during level-up
• Picked up chest is now added to a queue, so grabbing multiple chest at the same time should no longer lost them (You can also save and quit during the artifact selection and load back int to see the artifact selection)
• Artificer katana explosion radius not properly scaling with the projectile size (the visual were, but not the collision)

Optimisation

• A sound effect can only be played once per frame at most
• Berserker buff now use dynamic stats value instead of triggering total recalculation

Change

• Descent into hell Corruption per zone decreased from 50 to 35
• Descent into hell Corruption per stage decreased from 5 to 4.5

Fixes

• Healing price not updating after taking a card selection
• Wander's trick still saving highest stats reached and allowed easy unlocks
• Wander's trick also disable Challenges completions

Replaced zone 2 "red goblin" sprite by a proper sprite as it was just a placeholder

Introduced back a bug, triggering it unlock an hidden achievement, but also disable unlocks for the run, disable scoreboard and reduce soul-coin gain by 90%

Artifact

• new artifact related to the bug

SoulShop

• new soul-shop upgrade - C-tier - You no longer take damage during Anachronistic

Changes

• Greatly reduced Blood transmutation, Metal transmutation, and Zealot scaling with level
• Reroll should prevent the same card from being rerolled

Fixes

• Arcanist Staff visual trail
• Pause menu when leveling-up at the start of a stage
• When loading a new stage, adding owned card inside the banished card list (they were not banished, just the display were wrong)

Fix missings translation for achievements description in japanese Fix Brazilian translation being almost completely broken

• Adding unfinished Japanese translation
• Added Brazilian translation, Removed Portuguese translation (Because the current Brazilian translation was wrongly labelled as Portuguese
• Added an automatic fallback to english language in case of a language is missing a input, to avoid errors and bugs

QoL

• Minor Achievements menu redesign to improve navigation

Changes

• Slight nerf to celerity
• Slight buff to lightweight
• Added a small Invulnerability time after you level up (0.5 sec)

Fixes

• Some card applying twice the effect due to very specifics situation
• German localisation issues related to Corruption tool-tip
• Hard mode not translating at start
• Game Stats not translating

QoL

• Taking hit will colour slightly differently the bonus health from troll blood, sage leaf activating will also have different colour for the bonus health from troll blood
• Added Some controller binding in the bind menu (Dash, Anachronistic, Pause, Map fast movement and Map Pin placement)
• Banished card list in pause menu
• New achievements are new displayed first in the achievements menu
• (Placeholder) Names of achievements unlocked during the run are displayed at the end of the game-stats menu (similarly to how banished card were there before)

Fixes

• Shops Button overlapping for text too long
• Aim line being hidden by the 3D UI

Other

• Removed some Visual FX when fighting the Necromancer on the lowest quality, this should help with some of the lower spec having crashes

Simplified Chinese updated, thanks to SunflowerBASARA from Bilibili

Changes

• Anacronistic also slowdown timer
• Zone 3 Mid-boss also drop boss's limited artifacts
• Artificer katana now activate pyromaniac
• Reworked sound muflling to be less abrupt on repeating sound

Fixes

• Fight Music in zone 3 not playing and keeping the stage selection music instead

Fixes

• Soft-lock from chest in survivors mode

  
  
• Bonus stats from challenge reducing Damage mitigation instead of increasing it
• Poisonous Elite Ability stacking being too powerful
• SoulShop Bonus damage display not scaling with base damage multiplier
• Anachronistic ability not working after a level-up if you don't pause and unpause

Changes

• Chest from crate in survivors mode now have all artefacts pool due to popular demand
• Life regen Elite ability: regen cap reduced from 100% of the Elite health to 50%
• Life regen Elite ability: healing speed reduced from 1% per second to 0.5% per second
• Vampire Elite ability: Reduced from 5% per attack to 2%
• Vampire Elite ability: total regen is now capped to heal 100% of the enemy health at maximum before disabling itself
• Martyr Elite ability: No longer heal boss
• Increased necromancer Decaying health over time, from 10% per pattern to 20%

Fixes

• Removed WIP shaman buff spell (it is not finished and was not supposed to be enabled)

FIX

• BLACKSCREEN WHEN STARTING

  
  
• Immovable not making the player immovable when entering a new stage
• German translation issues with berserker cart