I pushed the update in a rush 2 days ago and didn\'t have time to make an announcement anywhere. Mainly bug fixes and adding things that were missed on release.

Changes

Tutorial has been reworked.

• This is still being worked on so let me know if I missed anything or if there are things that should be added to it.

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Separated stage/traversal hooking from enemy hooking. this will come in handy later*.

Defeating a boss now rewards 3 skulls.

Added audio to enemy spawning.

Added 1 new room to the Cold Castle.

Added 1 new item, Ninja Scroll.

Priests, the enemies that spawn shields, can now do more than just spawn shields.

Unlocked moves can be toggled on/off.

Items are now displayed in a grid to prevent overflowing out of the screen.

Wall dashing is more consistent.

Improved spine rotation during the player\'s Hook animations.

Reworked stage loading visuals.

Changed Gamepad\'s default Lock-On button to Right Stick/R3.

*the later

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Random Ramblings

This year was difficult and life-changing, and there were many times when I was overcome by absolute despair and felt like giving up on everything, so I am really grateful for all the support everyone has shown; I can\'t find the right way to express it, and I don\'t think any amount of words will do this gratitude justice. I couldn\'t wish you all a happy holiday, but I hope I can still wish everyone a happy new year!

[strike](this sounds so corny reading it back now but cringe is good so i\'ll just roll with it unedited)[/strike]

King Static is out now in Early Access!

Thank you all for your support and patience. The game is still far from complete, and to be honest I am a bit disappointed in its current state, but we go to war with what we have, you know what I mean.

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I will share a roadmap within this week if all goes all.

Additions

• Stages will prioritize new rooms where possible.

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• Player damage logic has been made identical to the enemies\', meaning the player can get grabbed, wall slammed, and staggered.

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• New room in Tether\'s Stage: The Big Fan.

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• Hub has been reworked, still very bare bones but I hope it is better than the previous one.

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• New Item Uninterruptible has been added.

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• Item Reward had its menu completely redone.

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• Skull Reward has been added. This is the currency used for meta-progression, the store isn\'t implemented yet.

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• Tether now has an intro cutscene.

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Changes

Items

• Wall Bounce now has an icon.

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• Flash Step now has an icon and particles.

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• Heavy Drop Lollipop now has an icon. Visuals recolored to green.

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Fixes

• Weapon model doesn\'t switch when weapon is switched mid-combo.

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• Characters can properly step on tiny step collisions now instead of glitching like crazy.

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• No more soft-locks when the player has all items and chooses Item Reward.

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• Game no longer crashes if no weapon is equipped.

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Boring internal stuff

• Tons of binary assets were replaced with text-based versions.

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• Navigation system has been rewritten.

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• Automated build uploading. Updates will be easier to release!!!

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• Updated Godot up to version 4.5.

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• Shader compiling screen has been removed as 4.5 supports shader baking. The executable is now larger by ~10MBs.

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