Vagante Devlog

A game by Nuke Nine @nukeninegames

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Vagante 1.0

http://store.steampowered.com/app/323220/Vagante/

It’s been a long road (over four years!), but we’re super happy to present version 1.0 of Vagante. It wouldn’t have been possible to make it this far if it weren’t for all the people who supported us.  Thank you all for sticking with us throughout Steam Early Access!

What’s in store for the future of Vagante you might ask? We plan on continuing development as we have throughout Early Access, with bug fixes and new content, as well as adding localization and porting to other platforms. We’ll also start looking into support for modding and adding user-generated content to the game.

Vagante will retain its Early Access price until February 25 2018, after which we’ll be increasing the price to $17.99.  However, if you miss this window of opportunity you can look forward to Vagante participating in future Steam sales.

If you like the music of Vagante, Sam English has released the full Vagante OST on bandcamp. https://samenglish.bandcamp.com/album/vagante-original-soundtrack  We’ll also be making the OST available on Steam in a couple days, if you prefer getting it here.

Without further ado, you can read the full changelog below.

New/Balance

Added final area + credits to the game

Added new progression and unlocks system

Reworked Shadow Knight Boss

Reworked Necromancer Boss

Multiple Rock Worm Boss can now be hit with the same swing

Items stolen from Shops now have a new property that identifies them as Stolen

Reduced monster health scaling per player from 33% to 25%

Reduced Mechanical Soldier vertical spinning speed

Polished title screen

Polished game over menu

Changed default keyboard controls

Added input presets

Reworked emote menu

Reworked Tutorial

Removed starting affinity point

Leveling up now occurs at Bonfires, rather than on entering an intermission

Increased Bonfire healing hp (10 -> 20)

Fish Man now has a chase leash range

All characters can now aim up and down with bows

Bow aim persists between shots, until you attack with another weapon or press Melee while aiming

Reworked Archery affinity

Changed exiting of levels to use holding Up instead of Interact

Increased lighting persistedness

Increased Summon Monster spell tier, and slightly reworked the levels

Reduced bat instability 1.9 -> 1.0

Increased starting Int of non mage classes

Polished a number of weapon sprites

Added some new backgrounds

Bugfixes

Fixed Rock Worm Boss sometimes getting stuck in walls

Fixed multiple bugs with the Thief sidequest

Fixed speech bubbles sometimes not being drawn

Fixed Factory monsters not being frozen properly, and sometimes dealing damage while frozen

Fixed Icebolt and other projectiles not hitting monsters that it spawns on

Fix wallmeat spawning in tiles that serve as platforms

Fix boulders being pushed by Vine Lord’s poison clouds

Fix players being able to phase through non-level geometry

Fixed Mushroom Golem Boss’s boulder attacks teleporting through walls.

Fixed Spikes sometimes spawning in Breakable Walls

Fixed Shopkeepers not spawning when loading a saved game

Fixed some units not having a visible sprite until they have a target

Fixed Piranhas freezing at bottom of water

Fixed frozen imps falling through walls

Fixed arrows sticking to Wisps after their death

Fixed intermissions not being indestructible

Fixed Wisp Queen aggroing from non-player damage

Fixed a handful of untraversable room types

Fixed being able to hurt self when using Lion’s Roar while standing on a crate

Fixed being able to roll while casting spells

Fixed being able to roll through Tower gates

Fixed being able to get underneath Tower Serpent boss without triggering boss fight

Fixed charged sword’s sprites wandering off when the game is paused

Fixed Man-eating Plant eating doodads other than crates/barrels

OMP: Fixed tile updates not being synced sometimes for new levels

OMP: Fixed a number of issues with Platforms and their sync.

OMP: Fixed Demon Armor attacks being desynced sometimes

OMP: Fixed bug where shop inventory becomes desynced

OMP: Fixed rod charges being set to zero upon starting a new game

OMP: Fixed being able to use an item while moving it, resulting in an inventory desync

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Release Date Announcement

It’s been a while, but we’ve been hard at work on preparing for our exit from early access. Mark your calendars, we’ll be leaving Early Access on February 21, 2018. This update is our last major patch before our 1.0 release, although we’ll still be releasing some minor patches before then to fix any serious issues. This update consists of a ton of bugfixes and polish, as well as a number of new features.

New/Balance

New difficulty scaling:

Character starting stats are now consistent no matter how many players you have

Monster damage and health scales up with additional players

Monster health increases by 50% for each additional player

Monster damage increases by 10% for each additional player

Numerous tweaks to enemy difficulty

Added some new spells: Charm, and Summon Monster

Elemental enchant damage on weapons now scales with weapon damage

Elemental enchants now affect Rod spells

Added ability to remove certain positive status effects from the status menu

Improved game loading screen and speed

Removed disclaimer from NetMenu

Homing arrows now eventually lose rotation speed

Improved online packet compression

Identified Identify scrolls no longer work on identified items

Magic Rods now trigger by holding the attack button

Before, players needed to press the [Interact] button

Players can now switch facing direction with a charged bow by double tapping a direction

Before, players needed to press the [Interact] button

Removed old up/down tooltip indicators, replaced by controller-specific sprites

Added a few frames of delay before BoulderTraps trigger

Affinity levels are now visually displayed in-menu

Forest

Reworked Forest’s Plant Boss (again)

Ruins

Added SFX

Reworked Demon Knight

Improved summoning animations of Cultists

Forest Temple

Added SFX

TikiMan AI improved

Arrow traps now have a more visible animation

Improved Chimera Boss attack tells and behavior

Fixed monsters spawning on Sawblades or Pendulum Axes

Improved level generation and room variety

Tower

Added SFX

Imps can now drown

Improved Fishman and Imp AI

Players can now jump through collapsing platforms (like normal platforms)

Improved level generation and room variety

Factory

Added SFX

Improved level generation

Polished enemy and boss behavior

Volume slider values are now based on a non-linear scale

Numerous optimizations

Pathfinding calculations are now spread out over more than one frame

Added a collision detection broadphase based on a bounding volume hierarchy

Improved cache coherency of critical sections of code

Bugfixes

OMP - Online Multiplayer

Fixed being unable to enable player controllers after disabling one

Fixed some AI targeting bugs in the Forest

Fixed Fleaman being able to see stealthed units

Fixed some issues with grappling hook code and netcode

Fixed BossGoblinKing’s charge attack effects persisting after death

Fixed Boulders sometimes not correctly squishing enemies

Fixed Piranha and DiveBomber dealing damage while frozen

Fixed an issue with fast-moving entities not behaving identically to non-fast moving entities

Fixed poltergeists getting set on fire

Fixed elemental damage causing CombatText to spawn when dealing 0 damage

Fixed numerous cases of entities animating while frozen

Fixed broken Lurker frozen animation

Fixed title screen animation offsets being unsynced

Fixed NetMenu having a pressable Host Steam Game button when Steam is not loaded/detected

Fixed some offset and fade issues with pause menu

Fixed skeletons being able to roll

Fixed GrappleHook sometimes spawning with attributes and being equipable

Fixed explosions or dig effects not being reflected in minimap

Fixed some issues with Forest level generation

Fixed a memory leak of some entities not being cleaned up on level transitions

OMP: Fixed player damage sound effects not being synced properly

OMP: Fixed numerous issues with status effect client/server sync

OMP: Fixed netcode of Rogue’s Shadow Affinity

OMP: Fixed netcode of Knight’s affinities

OMP: Fixed critical combat damage not appearing correctly

OMP: Fixed fast weapons not animating correctly for other players

OMP: Fixed crash related to an edge case in swinging weapons

OMP: Fixed a crash related to using wands and teleporting

OMP: Fixed interpolation issues with ice shards

OMP: Fixed netcode of electricity arcs

OMP: Fixed instantaneous blinks or teleports looking strange

OMP: Fixed netcode of magic wands

OMP: Fixed clients timing out sometimes when connecting to a new server due to connecting too early

OMP: Fixed a bug that prevented players from joining a new game after disconnecting from one.

OMP: Fixed netcode of chaos magic effects

OMP: Fixed an issue with healing potion effects being duplicated

OMP: Fixed mimic’s attack cooldown not resetting correctly

OMP: Fixed some visual issues with Boulders

OMP: Fixed Wisps hurting players more than once

OMP: Fixed double use text appearing after using a magic scroll

OMP: Fixed stack items’ quantity not being properly synced

OMP: Fixed players not properly dropping held units when hanging on a ledge

OMP: Fixed interpolation issues with other players crawling off of ledges

OMP: Fixed some visual issues with Slime’s lunge attack

OMP: Fixed some particles not being drawn when they should

OMP: Fixed Spriggans releasing drawn arrows when hurt, instead of cancelling their attack

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Build 58

Development Overview

In terms of level content, Vagante is nearly complete. From the very beginning of development, we planned four main acts of content, as well as four unique branches. With each of these areas now in the game, all that remains is the final end-game content. We hope the ending will reveal a little more of the world’s lore as well as wrap up our game in an appropriate manner.

After we finish the last area and game ending, we still need to go back and do a lot of balancing and polishing. We also need to flesh out the level generation rooms and add additional content such as items and backgrounds. Suffice to say there’s a lot of work to do, but I’m personally excited by how close we are to a version 1.0.

More details about this new update and patch notes below.

Item Generation

In a single Vagante run some players collect nearly 100 items. Even if a player throws away an old piece of equipment, they have a good chance to find a similar one later on in the run. We want items to feel unique, such that players get attached to the rare items they have. To that end, we’ve added a new classification of item rarity now, artifacts. Artifacts spawn with a unique item attribute which can only ever be found once per a run. While items from boss chests are much more likely to be an artifact, they can rarely be found in normal chests too.

Some existing unique items have been marked as artifacts as well, such that you’ll never find more than one of these items in a run (Ring of Seltioc, Ring of Zygox, and the Grappling Hook are examples).

Patch Notes

New/Balance

Added new type of item rarity to item generation, Unique

Added a couple of new unique item attributes

Added a short windup-time before BossGolem throws a boulder

Jumping up and hitting the bottom of a boulder that’s resting will now push it away slightly

Re-enabled per-packet compression (reduces bandwidth used by online games by ~10%)

Added support for unicode chat and player names in online games.

Before now, unicode characters from other languages did not show up properly

Added new sound effects for enemies in The Catacombs

Added engine support for other languages

Bugfixes

Fixed hitbox of BossGolem not quite matching the animation when it jumped

Fixed hitbox of Necromancer bone summons’ attacks

Fixed bug where players could throw bombs into themselves when aiming downwards

Fixed bug where thrown items did not stack properly when picked up again

Fixed the arms of BossTowerSerpent not drawing correctly

OMP: Fixed a crash in Cultist’s blue-fire spell targeting

OMP: Fixed a crash in BossWorm’s behavior

OMP: Fixed a crash that could occur when using the Shackled shrine

OMP: Fixed reconnection to the game not properly reloading affinities, resistances, bonus stats, and armor

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Game Localization

This is a more technical post that might only be interesting to a couple people. -ekun

One thing I’ve been working on these past couple of weeks is adding engine support for localizing our game for other regions and languages. Since we didn’t plan to have localization support in our game from the start, this turned out to take a little more time than I expected.

At first, I tried writing my own localization library to handle everything we need. What seemed simple at first turned out to be trickier than expected. Not only do you need support for different language translations, you also have to support the formatting of these translations in such a way that grammatical rules of plurality and sentence order are correct. In addition, you want both the developer and translators to have a painless process for adding and maintaining translations. I quickly abandoned the idea of rolling my own solution, and looked at existing frameworks I could integrate.

I ultimately decided on Boost.Locale for our localization. Not only does it support everything we need for our game, but because it uses the GNU gettext dictionary model, there exist free tools to facilitate the process on the translator’s ends.

Say we want to translate some strings in our code. Before adding localization support, it might look like this:

string skillName = "Fireball"; ... stringstream ss; ss<< "Book of " << skillName; string bookName = ss.str();

Afterwards, it’d look like this:

string skillName = translate("Fireball"); string bookName = (format(translate("Book of {1}")) % skillName).str();

After adding all of the localization calls to translate() that we need, we then run gettext on our codebase to generate a *.pot (Portable Object Template) file, which acts as a dictionary for our translations. From there, we simply copy this template for each of the languages we need a translation into a new *.po (Portable Object) file. These *.po files are given to the translator, who can then add or edit translations as they need. When changes are made to the original source, *.po files can easily be merged with the updated *.pot template.

An example of what a translation file looks up in the program Poedit.

After the translator is done editing a *.po file, it can be compiled into a *.mo (Machine Object) file, which can be used by the game engine to determine the appropriate translations. All of the calls to translate() in our code are automagically replaced then by the definitions in these *.po/*.mo files, depending on the locale our game chooses to use. It’s that easy!

We’re considering our options for translation now. One thing I’d personally like to try out is open-sourcing translations and allowing the community to contribute to the languages they want to see Vagante support. 

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Build 56

New/Balance

The Factory

Enabled for online games now

Added new enemy type

Added new trap type

Reworked enemy balance and level generation

Reworked water rising mechanics in The Tower

Added new BGM for the Forest Temple

Added new BGM for the Rift

Added new BGM for The Tower

Added a new batch of sound effects

Optimized minimap drawing speed

Rainbow Slime hp and movement speed slightly decreased

Rebalanced stat scaling for multiplayer games

Increased the effect of LUK on critical chance and evasion

Changed some rune orb effects (Ruins now +INT, Tower now +STR)

Renamed some duplicate status effect potion names

Potion of Speed => Potion of Quickness

Potion of Strength -> Potion of Vigor

Magic Power potions now add additional INT, and also last until the end of the level

Some rooms now have Boulder Blockers, a small ridge that prevents boulders from being pushed by them (this reduces cases where players strand themselves in certain rooms)

Players are now pushed away from the edges of open-air level boundaries, instead of outright killing them

Reduced damage of Wand of Digging on golems from 50 -> 30

FireTortoise fire damage increased

Bugfixes

OMP: Potentially fixed an issue where players would get stuck with a black screen on level transitions

Fixed Act 4 Portals spawning overlapping treasure chests or an exit

Fixed Skeletons being able to use class skills

Fixed crash related to new BossWorm AI

Fixed Rogue’s stealth criticals not applying to bow attacks

Fixed some inescapable level generation cases in The Forest

Fixed acid water dealing inconsistent damage to players

Fixed graphical bug with unarmed icon being randomly tinted

Fixed graphical bug with Rift intermissions having a black sky

Fixed elemental status effects failing on 3 Resistance, instead of 4

Fixed some rune orbs permanently reducing stats when dropped

Fixed a level generation case where a book pedestal room can be blocked off

Fixed bug where switching to Random class in the character select screen made you lose your currently selected background

OMP: Fixed monsters targetting disconnected players

OMP: Fixed players not being able to use backgrounds not yet unlocked by the host

OMP: Fixed players being able to hold objects while swinging over a ledge

OMP: Fixed held unit positions not updating when ducking

OMP: Fixed some issues with the interpolation of Goblins and Bats

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Build 55

New/Balance

Further optimized new water code

Removed light radius penalty from berserking

Boss Golem resistance to stun increased

Reduced stun modifier for poison damage 

Poison damage now contributes less towards stunning enemies

Increased maximum resistance from 3 => 4

Each point of resistance now reduces damage by 25%, instead of 33%

Increased stability of bats

Bats won’t move as much when pushed around

Bugfixes

Fixed some weird interactions with Frost Nova and large hitbox enemies

Fixed some movement while frozen issues

Fixed bubble particles not being destroyed correctly

Fixed rune orb stats not working correctly

Fixed some level holes existing in The Forest

Fixed Behemoth’s hands giving full experience when killed

Fixed all fish bouncing in water strangely

Fixed the Forest Temple not spawning boss treasure

Fixed arrows dropped without charging from a bow benefitting from special effects

Fixed too many water particles spawning when jumping in and out of water

Fixed off-center Ruins rune orb spawn location

Fixed saved games not saving some permanent potion bonuses 

OMP: Fixed Wand of Pestilence not dealing damage correctly

OMP: Fixed DiveBomber and Mimic animating while frozen

OMP: Fixed status effects not updating correctly

OMP: Fixed Reflect Projectiles item attribute from working correctly

OMP: Fixed player hurt sound effects being played out of sync with client

OMP: Fixed Frost Nova playing sound effects when hitting dead enemies

OMP: Fixed being unable to see Crawler health bars when equipped with Zygox ring

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Halloween Update - Build 53

Today’s update includes a Halloween event, as well as a handful of larger changes that I’d like to take a moment to talk about.

Players can now jump while attacking with light weapons If you’ve ever been in the situation where you’ve had a sword but found yourself struggling to hit a bat in a narrow corridor, this change may make sense to you. While experienced players could deal with most of these maneuverability constraints, we’ve found that combat feels more intuitive when allowing for jumping while attacking. This change only applies to lighter weapons however, so you won’t be able to jump while swinging a heavy axe.

Increased attack range of unarmed attacks and CQC weapons Playing Wildling could be frustrating sometimes, due to the very short attack range of fist attacks. Increasing the based attack range of fists increases the viability of fist weapons, and gives incentivizes Wildling trees besides Animal.

Increased base damage of bows Using a bow tended to not feel great, due to their low impact and high investment of drawing a string. Increasing the damage of bows increases the satisfaction of getting a fully charged hit. 

Added a new lunging attack to Slimes We’ve also changed the behavior of Slimes (again). The rules for when slimes are able to deal contact damage felt a little unintuitive, especially for newer players. We’ve simplified slime contact damage to two cases: when slimes fall on your head, and when slimes do their new lunging attack.

As always, we appreciate your feedback. If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or even complaints, please us know on our official forums. Thanks for your continued support.

New/Balance

Added a halloween-themed event.

Added Forest Temple to online multiplayer

Added new broken shrine particles

Players can now jump while attacking with light weapons

Added a short backswing to stabbing weapons

New Ghost sprite

Increased attack range of unarmed attacks and CQC weapons

Added a new lunging attack to Slimes

Slimes now only deal damage while lunging, or jumping onto a player

Increased base damage of heavy axes

Increased base damage of bows

Boss Plant now has a new attack pattern

Increased difficulty of enemies in the Forest Temple 

Re-enabled level events for online games

Speeded up game initialization time slightly

Bugfixes

Fixed shop item pedestals sometimes having the wrong sprite

Fixed players that are hanging retaining their position after level transition

Fixed the game over menu glitching graphically while fading out

Fixed bug that causes some monsters to be able to see the player from very far distances

Fixed attacking while crawling over a ledge bugging out

Fixed numerous enemies and bosses not granting experience

Fixed Chimera tail frozen

Fixed players with the Ascetic background sometimes being able to pick up gold

OMP: Fixed backgrounds not working if the host hadn’t unlocked them yet

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Build 52

New/Balance

Added new branch to the Forest (offline only for now)

Bugfixes

OMP: Fixed players getting stuck at a bonfire

Fixed crash in Player that occurred when breaking walls near map boundaries.

Fixed crash related to melee familiars.

Fixed crash when Thieves fall of map in Act 4.

Fixed Divebombers floating down from their position strangely when spawning under a boulder trap

Fixed electric slime’s overlay sprite having the wrong offset

Fixed players being able to get stuck on physical entities while teleporting

OMP: Fixed crash when Spriggans sometimes lost their aim target.

OMP: Fixed crash when ShopKeepers’ inventories had a discrepancy

OMP: Fixed crash that occurred sometimes when stunning a Goblin mid-swing

OMP: Fixed wands showing incorrect wand charges in their description

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Build 51

A seemingly small patch today, but we've made some major performance improvements which hopefully significantly improve the speed of the game for players on older machines.

New/Balance

Heavily optimized parts of the game

Monster pathfinding is now much more performant, so players can expect higher framerates in monster-heavy areas.

Bugfixes

Fixed Swooper hitbox being taller than the sprite indicates

Fixed some possible player collision state desyncs.

OMP: Fixed certain items never disappearing, or duplicating infinitely

OMP: Fixed players becoming stuck at bonfires

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Build 50

New/Balance

Reworked Rogue’s Shadow affinity

Attacks now break stealth upon hitting an enemy or finishing an attack, rather than at the beginning of an attack

Arrows can now critically hit from Stealth

Shadow Clone replaced with Smoke Bomb

Reworked Knight’s Holy affinity

Divine Weapon is no longer a skill with charges, activates automatically

Holy Shield is no longer a skill with charges

Iceball now shoots extra projectiles in a straight line

Thief hp lowered from 19 -> 15

OMP: Players will be unable to start the game until all players have chosen a character

OMP: Host is now able to kick players by typing “/kick”

Bugfixes

Fixed cycling of a single ranged weapon causing permanent stat changes

Fixed certain items being spawned with no attributes

Fixed bug that pushed you into the wall when walking on boulders

Fixed players not being able to crouch fall hang off of one tile high ledges

Fixed slimes being able to see through walls

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Build 49

New/Balance

Reverted removal of Walk bind. (Default is still down, but is rebindable to a dedicated button)

Shopkeepers now have increased stability

Switched button for changing facing direction while drawing bow from Walk to Interact

Health of enemies in The Tower increased

Now possible to pick up items while moving

Bugfixes

Fixed interaction of cursed familiars grabbing you off ledges

Fixed accidental rolling when turning around too fast

Fixed bats sometimes having strange unroost velocities

Fixed being able to interact with things while attacking

OMP: Fixed Boss Golem’s roll angle becoming visually desync’d

OMP: Decreased bandwidth usage of The Tower

OMP: Fixed being permanently frozen if frozen while exiting a level

OMP: Fixed some small bugs involved with level transitions.

Smaller update, today. Just as a heads up, we may be behind schedule with the next update. Why? Well, we’re moving! It’s been a year since our team moved to Seattle. And while it’s been an incredible and productive experience living in a shared house and office, it’s time for a change. Not to worry though, once we’ve moved into our respective new homes you can expect us to be back on schedule.

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Build 48

New/Balance

New branch, The Tower, added to the Catacombs

Dedicated bind for walking removed; walking is now done by holding down.

New WIP walking graphics

Added more information to the stats tab of the player menu

Added a new dialog for exiting the game from the pause menu

Standing in front of a grave now shows a portrait of the grave’s dead player

Boomerang return path improved

Skeleton revival no longer depends on a player being nearby

Bomb Arrow crafting now yields 3 bomb arrows.

Bomb Arrow damage increased from 15 -> 20

Items and frozen units now fall slower underwater

Lurkers no longer attack if you walk over them (they still attack if you jump or land on them)

Wildling Pummel reworked

Wildling Wolf Sprint reworked

Shopkeepers now get angered when you teleport them with a portal

Landing on a boulder now pushes it a little in the direction you move (this allows you to push boulders away from walls)

Bugfixes

Fixed players eaten by a plant or being grabbed being able to exit through a door

Fixed minor draw offset issues with new, wider, player menu

Fixed draw offset of overhead swinging weapons

Fixed pushed boulders pushing items off of pedestals

Fixed book pedestals not spawning in the Rift

OMP: Fixed double instances of Bloody shrine text

OMP: Fixed several crashes

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Build 47

New/Balance

Added a new bindable in-game emote menu

Increased size of inventory by one column

Unexplored areas now have smoother edges

Reworked Plant Boss behavior

Units now have a 3-second stun immunity after being stunned.

Moved device/input polling to a separate thread.

Removed Refresh Devices button in Controls

Increased Protected by Spirits / Spirit Emitter damage

Bugfixes

OMP: Fixed certain backgrounds not working correctly.

OMP: Fixed certain Doodads rotating strangely

OMP: Fixed being unable to create private games.

OMP: Fixed certain NetEvent triggers colliding with entities and the level

Fixed softlock where Holy Level 3 knight would fall off the map and not be able to die.

Fixed Crawler stun sprite not getting drawn when stun by things like Lion's Roar.

Fixed FrostNova being able to freeze unfreezable units.

Fixed the issue where alternate slime types can be generated in a Slime level.

Fixed hold down to fall faster not working for Featherfall status effect.

Fixed Bats staying sticky when thrown. Fixed bats sinking fast through water

Fixed some issues with Weapon behavior when frozen 

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Build 46

New/Balance

Wall/floor phasing reworked. It’s now possible to control the direction you phase.

Holding down allows fast-falling with featherfall

‘Sink like stone’ now allows for unlimited jumps while underwater

Sound effect attenuation increased, distant sound effects will now sound softer

On first game playthrough, the main entrance now leads to the tutorial.

Spriggans now have idle behavior.

Mimics are no longer physical, players can now move through mimics.

Swooper’s magic boulder spawn cooldown increased.

Chickens can now drown

Reworked ranks one and two of the Knight’s Sword affinity.

Reworked rank three of the Knight’s Holy affinity.

Wand of pestilence effect and bombs can now ignite

Bugfixes

Fixed player sometimes not being able to grab ledges while facing rightwards

Fixed a crash with Necromancer bone summons

Fixed electricity sometimes shocking water 30 times instead of once, lagging the game

Fixed Spriggans never losing aggro despite losing vision of you

Fixed teleporting in Act 4’s portals not revealing stealth

Fixed bats sometimes spinning infinitely while stuck to walls

Fixed a GameSave bug where some items received additional stats

Fixed Spell book descriptions showing UNK for a couple frames after use

Fixed shop signs sometimes dealing damage to you on contact

Fixed Wisps not revealing fog of war

Fixed Shadow Clone + Enchanted Boomerang

Fixed a random crash that occurred due to a bug in OpenAL

OMP: Fixed stackable usable items behaving strangely when used up

OMP: Fixed some bonfire issues.

OMP: Fixed synchronization of ManEatingPlant damage

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Build 45

New/Balance

New Shrine Graphics/Effects

Act 4 Background Polish

Bugfixes

Fixed arrows and other projectiles getting stuck on the borders of Act 4 map

OMP: Fixed Ruins entrance door sometimes not unlocking

OMP: Fixed many particle effects and sound effects

OMP: Fix many crashes

OMP: Fixed many skill effects

OMP: Fixed player revival sometimes not costing anything

OMP: Fixed dropping stacks of items at bonfires

OMP: Fixed spellbooks sometimes not teaching you spells

OMP: Fixed being unable to use items on other items

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Build 44

New/Balance

ManEatingPlants can now accidentally eat Spriggans and Spiders

Dart Trap sprites updated

Shrines now take 25% normal damage in new game plus

Bugfixes

Fixed crash when starting the game with a Steam Controller

Fixed(?) Steam Controller not working correctly on Mac/Linux

Fixed Golem’s swing not properly disappearing when they die

Fixed certain large monsters (like golems) not being collidable sometimes

Fixed level generation case where ladders were not able to reach higher areas

Fixed Ruins sometimes not generating book pedestals. Changed number of guaranteed book pedestals to 2.

OMP: Fixed numerous random crashes.

OMP: Fixed empty backgrounds being selectable during character selection

OMP: Fixed invisible dummy player lighting up the top left of levels

OMP: Fixed graphical Death is easier to encounter armor not showing correct hp on other players

OMP: Fixed receiving extra level up events sometimes

OMP: Fixed Boss Golem not changing animations when rolling

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Build 43

New/Balance

Act four islands now sometimes have small paths between islands

Act four Swoopers reworked

New sprites:

Compassionate familiar

Boomerang

Arrow traps

Mage orbs limited to 2 per element

Reduced attack speed of Shadow Knight’s dash attack

Bugfixes

Fixed bug where you could equip multiple familiars

Fixed hands giving zero experience

Fixed crash having to do with the Steam Controller

Fixed spell books sometimes changing their spells

Fixed being unable to enchant already enchanted boomerangs

OMP: Fixed crash with Zombie attacks

OMP: Fixed infinite throwable items

OMP: Fixed Golem boss and Necromancer still colliding after death