v0.4.0 - Structures (merchant)

Major changes

Merchant

• Work like the elite room, it can spawn in any room (except start and boss), available at the top of the room when it’s clear
• Give 5 items to buy
• You can reroll the items (price increase each time) and start price scale with fortress number
• The shop keeper sell sometimes an exotic item, that would be only available in other fortress normally

Room Modifier System

This is a system that add content to a room without changing the reward, it can increase it or make the enemies stronger

• Modifiers that increase the loot have a chest icon
• Modifers that increase the difficulty have a death skull

Snowman Refactor

I changed his ability from:

• A big snowball send in the direction of mouse, creating a giant frost explosion on hit To:
• Make frost shard fall around the mouse for 3s (can be increase by various stats), creating a lot of small frost explosions
• Rely more on frost burn effect than pure damage

I also changed his second passive to make him less op, I removed his ability to gain permanent aoe range and damage, instead I increase a bit his damage from:

• … ice spikes deals 5/8/11/14/20 damages To:
• … ice spikes deals 10/13/16/19/25 damages

Samuraï Refactor

I changed the side effect of the active ability from boosting stats to:

• Shoot around the player, the number of shots depends on the APS

I also changed his second passive from gaining various stats to:

• On dash, the next 3/4/5/6/7 shots will do a critical hit

Later, I will remake his ability like I want

Modifiers added

• Merchant
• Weapon Merchant
• Curse: Spawn thunder on the player regularly (has 3 modes)
• Horde: Double the normal enemies and change them to a single type
• Treasure: Spawn 1 to 3 chest with a rare item inside, can be increase by going against strong enemies

Collectibles added

• Relic Upgrader: Upgrade a relic you own
• Weapon Upgrader: Increase the level of the weapon by 1/3/5/7/10, depend on the rarity

Balancing

• Increase relic of yellow altar tier 2, gain 3 -> 5 golds on room clear
• Increase damage of Katana weapon from 20-40 to 30-50
• Increase Soul Sword speed by 50%
• Decrease bonus projectile size and speed from Soul Cycle (2nd passive of Soul Reaper) from 150% to 75%
• Nerf thunder damage from 100 to 75
• Heart Drinker relic will now only drop half red heart and half shield
• Unstable Projectile relic now apply things like homing from the original projectile
• Decrease APS of Shadow Scythe weapon from 1.5 to 1
• Increase chance of applying shadow curse for Shadow Scythe weapon from 15% to 30%
• Buff Charged Ability yellow relic from thunder targeting near enemies to thunder falling upon all enemies
• Buff Repeater relic from 5/15/30% to 10/20/35% chance of refire
• Decrease damage of Shell Staff weapon from 75-100 to 40-60 and reduce APS from 3 to 2
• Decrease damage of Cosmic Ray weapon from 200-250 to 100-130

Double shots relic

• Add a 20/50/80% chance to make the shot critical when refiring
• Decrease chance to refire from 15/35/70% to 10/25/40%

Qi Sword weapon

• Decrease damage from 110-140 to 55-75
• Increase damage by 10% per meter without hit any enemies
• Increase projectile speed by 20% per unique enemies hit
• Decrease projectile lifetime from 30s to 10s
• Decrease projectile speed from 20 to 15
• Allow additional projectiles from refire or projectile stat

Quality of life

• Change gold reward to give a lot of different coins
• Change how gold gain work to still gain bonus gold with amounts like 1 gold
• Add current version number to main menu
• Make color flask usable in fight and freeze the time
• Weapons found will be first the one player haven’t discovered yet
• Redesign some old projectiles
• Remove lights from some projectiles (will reduce lags)
• Enemy taken by Absolute Control ability can now take damage from player
• New icon
• Added the future skill tree in the hub (only visual for now)
• Changed how projectile speed work (so souls sword and some other projs are fixed now)

Bug fixs

• Stat displayed on the left were displaying a change even with a 0% difference
• Execution bar was displayed on allies
• Relics displayed by relic selector were not centered on screens other than 16:9
• Fix the third level yellow color when infused in a weapon
• Rays were not given stats correctly

Next

Major things

Add a system of “tag” for relics, weapons and active abilities, in order to only show relics that can be use by your current build. Then, add A LOT of new relics, like I have listed more than 130 relics, I want to add a lot of them. And, if I have time, some new weapons as well as the refactor of bounce and pierce.

Minor things

I’m planning to add more collectible (I was a bit late for this update) and some other room modifiers. Also, refactor the samuraï like I wanted (but it takes some time to do it properly)