tl;dr; New character, ability, relics, and a ton of small balance/QOL changes

Hi All,

The preview build for the 0.8.0 patch is now available on the beta branch . This patch has a lot of changes so I'm hoping to get a few days of testing before I move it to the main build on March 16th. I'd still like to add in a few more relics to this patch as well as a screen to show current seen/unlocked content but too be determined if I'll get that ready by my deadline of March 16th.

Much love,
Aarimous

Here's a video on my 2nd channel where I talk about path to releasing Chess Survivors this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKO6DqODjuw

New Content

• New Koala Character
• New boomerang ability
• New 4 relics
  

Changes

• Increasing to max health now also grants that much current health
• Rare relics on the main game UI now show with a rare color in the background
• New colors for relic rarities
  [*[ Act rewards now give you a choice of 3 rare relics
• Lucky Crown relics now increases chance to spawn a rare relic by 10% (previously 5%)
• Chance to loot a rare relic does not increase each act. Instead its now a flat 10% chance for the entire
  game
• Blocked damage appears as floating blue text for both enemies and players
• Updated player healing floating text animation
• Updated damage floating text to scale with amount of damage
• Enemy floating damage text is now yellow when greater than 10, and orange when greater than 15
• Setting to enable floating text now applies to damage, heal, and block texts
• Gambit levels now grant 10% Player Progression XP increase pre level (previously didnt effect Player Progression XP)
• Playing on normal speed no longer grants 10% bonus Player Progression XP
• Playing on chill now grants -15% Player Progression XP (previously was 0%)
• Removed Give Feedback buttons from Main Menu and Pause screen, I wasnt checking the form and nobody was really posting there
• Level up screen now prevents player from clicking the upgrade until the upgrade is visible
• Slightly adjusted the timing for when upgrades to popup
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the player was healing after killing an elite
• Fixed a bug where the level up screen could case the game to crash, not sure if anyone actually had this bug. But I found it while testing other features