We have news from the Guild Council for you, Keepers! It is our pleasure to announce that the 2.5 Re-Assessor Update is coming to Dome Keeper in the first week of May! So get ready to re-assess the Assessor. This update focuses first and foremost on improving gameplay for the Assessor. While the Assessor is a powerful keeper on paper, gameplay wise there has been a lot of room for improvement. Weve overhauled it completely, making it stronger and much more fluent and fun to play, while staying true to the original idea and what was interesting about it. More on that in an upcoming dev blog purely focused on this topic! This update will also feature a new Prestige Mode variant for those of you who enjoy the challenge: Prestige Pro Mode. Once youve gotten the High Score Achievement, Prestige Pro Mode gets unlocked. Prestige Pro Mode is not its own mode, but provides more options to your prestige runs. You can choose a preset order of gadgets that you'll encounter and caves, so you never have to restart your runs because you didnt meet the caves or gadgets you wanted.
No more hoping for the seed cave, decide your own future! The best of you also had the luxury problem of having the mine completely dug out and then waiting for monsters for 20 cycles. To eliminate this idle time, you also get access to an additional upgrade that lowers the cycle length in steps, down to a few seconds. This should make the waiting time in between waves disappear, if you like. Oh, and speaking of Prestige Mode, with this patch were also starting season 4!
Making the monsters angry. In addition to the Assessor rework and Prestige Mode Pro, we are of course also including various other fixes and tweaks like for example having the Leaderboards accessible right from the title screen and the skies being different in the landing intro depending on which world you are in. We are also adding a way to revisit all past tutorial popups, something that was requested a lot. A full list of patch notes will as usual be available once the update is rolled out. We are also releasing a purchasable Booster Pack alongside this update. The Assessor Gear Pack contains a new suit for the Assessor as well as a brand new pet(!) and 2 new Assessor songs. Purchasing this pack helps support Dome Keeper development, and adds no new gameplay features. The pack will cost 2.99, and you can wishlist it here. In addition to the pack, there will also be a new Assessor suit and pet for everyone, for free! Until then, come on in to the Bippinbits Dome Keeper Discord Server, its the best place to discuss Dome Keeper and a pretty nice place to hang out while we wait for the update to drop.