New features:

• Add settings option for pausing on window focus loss

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• Show player character on run end screen

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Balancing:

• Changed how Fear works (dodge and crit chance reduced, reduces good stacks)

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• Sodden Gauze starts working at 20% (instead of 10%)

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Fixes:

• Fix trap door spawn rate

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• Allow ducat/corpuscle collection while near portal

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• Fix ducat/corpuscle preview when above cap

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• Fix infinite ducat glitch (!)

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• Fix window size management after crash

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• Fix banish incorrectly highlighting on item pickup

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UPDATED with hotfix (0.66):

• Fix bug probably related to the Sharpshooter\'s Instakill ability

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New features:

• Ability to banish items and units

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• Added new settings option to highlight player for visibility

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• More information on run end screen (mainly related to difficulty)

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• Various new trap door locations

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Balancing:

• Buffed Luck drop rates

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• More item drops generally

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• Fewer large biters in gong

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• Buffed Buckler (5 armor to 8)

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• Merge Empty Bowl functionality into Blood Bond

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Fixes:

• Various input related fixes (to prevent menu freezes)

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• Improved shrine and loot distribution

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• Improved Cleave feel

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• Cap enemy squad size (to prevent crashes)

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• Tweaked sound gating to prevent sound glitches

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New features:

• On squad wipeout, nearby enemies are damaged and knocked back

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Balancing:

• Third tier recruitment rank upgrade is now 25 ducats (instead of 100)

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• Horde units (Carver, Hurler, Petard) now require 3 units to tier up again (instead of 5)

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• Tweaked down threat enemy stat increases

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• Tweaked down enemy spawn rate escalation on boss floor

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Fixes:

• Mortar projectile indicator is now rendered above units

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Balancing:

• Archer3 damage 40 to 30

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• Pikeman1 attack cooldown 2 to 1.8

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• Pikeman2 attack cooldown 1.75 to 1.5

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• Pikeman3 attack cooldown 1.5 to 1.3

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• Fire mage1 damage 5 to 7

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• Fire mage2 damage 10 to 12

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• Fire mage3 damage 40 to 50

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• Bulwark knockbacks up

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• Bulwark1 attack cooldown 2 to 1.8

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• Bulwark2 attack cooldown 1.75 to 1.6

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• Bulwark2 attack cooldown 1.5 to 1.4

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• War drummer3 damage 15 to 12

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• Carver2 attack cooldown 1.25 to 1.35

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• Carvers need 5 to tier up

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• Hurler2 dodge 10% to 7.5%

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• Hurlers need 5 to tier up

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• Petards need 5 to tier up

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• Ballista2 attack cooldown 3 to 2.5

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• Ballista3 attack cooldown 4 to 3

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• Flag bearer1 attack cooldown 2.5 to 2

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• Flag bearer2 attack cooldown 3 to 2.5

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• Flag bearer3 attack cooldown 4 to 3

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• Rat3 damage 60 to 30

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• Cleric2 damage 5 to 6

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• Cleric3 damage 5 to 8

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• Chomper damage 50 to 30

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• Mortar slime health 500 to 400

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• Increase Ethereal Form item cap from 2 to 5

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• Death Feint now adds 5 stacks of Feeble to the affected unit

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This is a huge demo content update - without further ado:

• Delve into the Catacombs, where the Grafter commands a legion of fleshly foes

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• Recruit new units, including the Fire Mage, Cutpurse, Sharpshooter, and more

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• Brave the trap doors - challenging areas packed with danger and treasure

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• Collect lots of new loot

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...and lots more improvements, bug fixes, balancing changes, and new music tracks!

Release date

Demo update

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• Exploring the Catacombs, a brand new dungeon with a new final boss.\n
• Venturing into trap doors in search for treasure.\n
• Lots of new items, Oaths, units, and enemies!\n

Fixes:

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• Fix run end stat screen display of Apocalypse / Glitch threat levels\n
• Attempt fix for broken item rolls (e.g. incorrect tier, or invalid item)\n

This is a minor update to:\n

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• Fix Jagged Carapace (it was scaling based on the enemy armor value)\n
• Fix resource tracking on the run end stat screen\n

New features:

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• Run end stats screen\n
• Oaths for attack types (Melee/Ranged/AoE)\n
• Added new player attack (multiple fireballs instead of Burn)\n
• Units are tinted when affected by certain stacks (e.g. Burn and Invincible)\n

Balancing:

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• Capped Burn stacks at 10 (instead of 20)\n

Fixes:

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• Thorned armor (it was doing something, but not what it was supposed to)\n
• Prevent incorrectly timed tutorial beats on run restart\n

Misc:

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• (Windows only) Changed backend graphics from OpenGL to OpenGL ES via ANGLE\n
• Updated Steam SDK\n

New features:

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• Added mouse controls to squad info screen\n
• Added new monster (currently only seen in Gong challenge)\n

Balancing:

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• Changed tags for Bulwark (added Vanguard) and Archer (removed Vanguard, added Rogue)\n
• Changed starting unit squad (removed one Archer, added one Bulwark)\n
• Reduced Mortar Slime AoE range\n
• Reduced slime enemy armor and slightly increased threat cost (i.e. fewer enemies)\n
• Added additional player character attack bolts\n
• Added starting discount to Vanguard units\n

Fixes:

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• Reset input bindings for savefiles created before \"Squad Info\" screen was added. You may need to re-map your bindings!\n
• Fixed Rampage (incorrectly dealt too much damage to friendly units)\n
• Attempted fix for exceeding stack caps\n
• Added closing shortcuts (pause and back) to squad info screen\n
• Tweaked timer between the two minimap tutorial beats\n
• Removed white dot on unit portraits (mainly visible on Bone Rat)\n

New features:

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• Added detailed squad inspection screen\n
• Bone Rat unit\n
• Added new items (Counter Attack, Shadow Veil, Spectacles)\n
• Stack data (max number and decay time) are now displayed in \"More info\"\n
• Option added to disable tutorial\n
• Changed default \"more info\" from \"hold\" to \"toggle\"\n
• Now display dungeon floor in recruitment screen\n
• Boss should now have recruitment shrine and vendor\n

Balancing:

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• Changed Incisive and Cloaked\n
• Increased max cap for Incisive and Cloaked\n
• Changed Rampage balance\n
• Added recruitment shrine to boss fight\n
• Luck rebalanced (lower impact on item tier)\n

Fixes:

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• Changed how respawn rate multiplier works (it\'s now just reflected in the total time, rather than impacting the timer speed)\n
• Modified respawn sound\n
• Do not store malformed window sizes\n
• Input rebinding sometimes incorrectly captured multiple keys of the same type\n
• \"Grit\" was not doing anything\n
• Limited the number of squad units that are displayed in the respawn queue, so that they do not overlap the minimap\n
• Hide \"more info\" prompt when leaving recruitment screen\n

Misc:

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• Added a new gamepad mapping (8BitDo Pro 2 for MacOS)\n

New features:

• Added "Threat timer" setting (ability to change how long it takes for the hourglass to turn)
• Added difficulty setting (affects starting stats for enemies)
  

• Increased AoE cap to 7
• Boss clears bad stacks when moving
  

• Fixed input rebinding not being saved
• Changes to stored window size management, attempting to prevent crashes and strange window position offsets
  

• Added a new gamepad mapping
• Implemented updated Steam SDK
• Upgrade Defold to 1.10.3
  

Features:

• Added "Explorer Mode" (available in Gameplay settings) - this removes the hourglass threat feature, instead each floor has a pre-determined threat level
• Added settings for FPS cap, Vsync, resetting tutorial, and reverting to default settings
• Made price red in Wraith Vendor when an item is unaffordable
• Added custom icon for Wraith Vendor on minimap
  

Balancing:

• Tweaked item drop rates (fewer drops as many items are collected)
• Tweaked reroll costs (item rerolls ramp up quicker)
• Buffed Thorns
• Capped AoE damage to affect at most 5 enemy units
• Tweaked enemy spawning behaviour to prevent enormous clusters in unexplored areas
• Don't reset threat hourglass between floors
• Added damage/dodge reduction to Rampage
• Reduced damage bonus for Zealot's Fury
• Reduced length multiplier for Iron Shroud
• Reduced amount for Ethereal Form
• Reduce damage bonus for Ash Husk
  

Bug fixes:

• Attempted fix for softlocking on squad recruitment screen
• Fixed bug associated with Bone Golem bone nova
• Made back button work in most menus
• Changed how volume settings work to make the sliders more intuitive
• Fixed bug which caused unit positions to be modified on hit
  

Sounds:

• Player taking damage
• Sound when an item drops due to Luck stat
• Flag bearer inspiration
• "To me!" bark and looping effect
• Updated pipe and mushroom destructible sound effects
• Ballista shot sounds
• Bone Golem hurt sounds
• Ability not ready sound
  

First of all - thank you to everyone who played our demo! We are so happy with the positive reception so far. We are hard at work on the game, and first out is a patch to address some issues we've discovered in the demo.

Change log

• In Squad Upgrade when upgrading Recruitment Rank, empty purchase slots are now filled for free

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• Rebalance item economy: Drop rates reduce over time, but shop prices scale slower

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• Update keyboard key names to be more legible (e.g. ALT and R-ALT instead of LALT and RALT)

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• Increase project resources to prevent crashes and text failing to render

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• Reset dungeon data in between floors to prevent memory leak

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• Prevent player going out of bounds (previously caused by being overcrowded by enemies)

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• Added dedicated reroll shortcut button (default R on keyboard)

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• Input rebinding "hold to reset" bar should now start empty

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• Hide enemy health bars when there are too many enemies

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• Fixed double click exploit when accepting challenges

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• Changed reroll costs for items (gift and shop), higher cap

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• Prevent enemies going out of bounds

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• Added ducat/corpuscle cap (999)

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• Various minor balance tweaks (including changes to Rampage, Archer, Petard)

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• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements

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If you encounter any bugs or issues, either use the in-game bug reporting functionality, post in our dedicated bug reports thread or post in our Discord .

Get ready to amass a horde of skeletons and take on the filthy flesh hiding in the Sewers!

If you encounter any bugs or issues, either use the in-game bug reporting functionality, post in our dedicated bug reports thread or post in our Discord .

If you want to be involved in the development, head on over to the forums or our Discord !

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