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 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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