Hi folks, Great news - we just released a massive balance patch for DemonCrawl! It contains reworked masteries, reworked stage mods, new items, tons of bug fixes, and much more. Did we mention there's even a new boss?
Full patch notes are below. --- Note - differences between this release and the beta patch notes are indicated by the following icon:

New Features

• New avatar for Patreon supporters: FLIPPER
• New inventory for Patreon supporters: CINDERS
• Added keyword: Duplicast - "Activate a copy of one of your charged magic items. Targets chosen randomly."
• Added keyword: Manalock - "For a number of turns, you cannot activate this magic item. It cannot gain nor lose mana."
• New stage mod: Scrappy - "Monsters deal extra damage equal to the number of nearby cells that are not solved."
• New boss: Heckaslug - The Poison Monger
• New boss mod: Profane - "Whenever a Dark Heart is collected, randomly distribute 50 turns of manalock across your magic items."
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  New boss mod: Greasy - "If the boss can't move, it relocates to a random empty cell."
• New daily mission: Combo Hype - "Create a 5-turn chain of value 3 or greater, 10 times."
• New Lv1 sigil impulse: Plunder - "Every [x] chests opened ..."
• New Lv1 sigil reflex: Cast - "... Duplicast a magic item that costs [x] or less mana."
• New legendary item: Archmage Sceptre - "Whenever a heart is collected, duplicast your magic items."
• New passive item: Bust - "Spawners are more common. Whenever an inventory slot would be sealed, you have a 50% chance to negate the effect."
• New consumable item: Blueberry - "Duplicast your magic items, then they become manalocked for 20 turns."
• New consumable item: Quest for Mythos - "After opening 100 cells without making a mistake, spawn 3 legendary items." (Much more rare than other quests)
• New omen: Profane Staff - "Whenever you collect a diamond, manalock a random magic item for a number of turns equal to its mana cost."
• New glint: Astral Glint - "Your quest will contain 3 Starponds"
• New glint: Forward Glint - "Begin the quest with 50 cells opened since your last mistake. Begin the quest with 3 omens destroyed. Begin the quest with 3 chests opened."
• New rare glint: Mega Glint - "Reduce the cost of your quest by half"
• New crafting material: Dust of Chaos - "Upgrade a broken Lv1 sigil to the next level."
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  Every quest now has a sign somewhere that indicates which boss you will find at the end
• Added button in the credits screen to view top Patreon supporters
• Added option to disable the freezeframe effect when rare loot or bosses spawn

Quality of Life

• Guardian item has been renamed to Sentry Gnome in order to differentiate it from the mastery
• The Beyond menu now utilizes a scrollbar UI instead of pagination
• Added new sign messages for some lesser-known mechanics
• The toast notification for Pillow now states how many turns were passed
• The "reset options" button now gives you a 5-second window to cancel
• If a syntax error is encountered in a translation file, DemonCrawl will mention this in its crash dialog
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  Spy III ability can no longer activate before monsters have spawned
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  Minor improvements to the appearance of quest thumbnails
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  Updated sprite for Dirty stage mod
• Beta only: new items are forcibly favored to make sure they show up more often during beta testing - this does not use up your favor slots
• Beta only: Heckaslug boss will appear 50% of the time
• Windows only: you can right-click on the difficulty slider to move it in the opposite direction

Balance Changes

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  Starpond medium artifact quantity increased from [10-20] to [10-50]
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  Starpond large artifact quantity increased from [50-100] to [100-200]
• Lv2 prizebox Token quantity reward increased from [20-40] to [40-70]
• Lv3 prizebox Token quantity reward increased from [300-600] to [600-1200]
• Exorcist II rework: "Whenever you lose an omen, gain souls and defense equal to the number of omens you've lost this run."
• Exorcist III charges reduced from 6 to 4
• Wizard I subtle but important change: "The first Item Shop in the quest only contains magic items."
• Wizard II rework: "Whenever you collect a diamond, duplicast a random magic item."
• Firefly II has been rolled into Firefly I
• Firefly II rework: "Whenever you chord a burning cell, shoot a flare in a random direction."
• Guardian II rework: "Whenever you earn the Untouchable award, reduce the power of the next stage by your defense."
• Spy III charges increased from 3 to 4
• Adjusted the position of some special stages in Beyond to prevent the possibility of a last-stage Smithy
• Opening the same cell twice in a row no longer increases your chain (it doesn't break the chain either)
• Iron Will buff: "Gain 3 defense whenever your armor breaks." (Up from 2 defense)
• Deerstalker buff: all cell values will be corrected when the item is equipped
• Binoculars and Divine Binoculars buff: Minions will spawn almost twice as often as before
• Mage will now choose his random cells a little more intelligently, e.g. he won't target a visible cell if the item states "target hidden cell"
• The above targeting logic also applies to duplicasting random items
• Familiars can no longer collect Dark Hearts
• Genie Lamp can no longer bring you to a Smithy
• Elemental Knuckles price reduced from 31 to 26
• Clarity price reduced from 12 to 8
• Stocking price reduced from 25 to 22
• Iron Will price increased from 14 to 17
• Primordial Gate price increased from 31 to 40
• Super Mana Potion price increased from 25 to 30
• Adrenaline price increased from 8 to 9
• Mana Lung price increased from 30 to 34
• Venomancy buff: "When you target a cell with a magic item, it gains Toxic. When you complete a stage, lose 1 max life for each Toxic cell of value 5 or greater."
• Dreamborne now has 100-turn manalock after use
• Ouroboros now has 50-turn manalock after use
• Chaos Portal now has a 50-turn manalock after use
• Mirror now has 40-turn manalock after use
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  Magic Smoke Bomb now has a 20-turn manalock after use
• Elemental stage mod aura density reduced from 21% to 15%
• Burning stage mod aura density reduced from 15% to 12%
• Electric stage mod aura density reduced from 15% to 12%
• Frozen stage mod aura density reduced from 8% to 6%
• Pagan stage mod now creates souls instead of hearts
• Dirty stage mod nerf: "When you leave the stage, take 1 damage for each different type of non-living object."
• Flawless stage mod now triggers on monster damage instead of any damage
• Each stage now tracks how many times it has been completed in the same quest
• With each subsequent completion, a stage will provide half as much XP/score
• After the second completion, the stage will become more difficult, similar to Mystic Statues
• Living objects that were spawned into burning cells will burn to death at the start of the following turn
• Bosses will die if they stand in burning cells for 3 consecutive turns
• Boss burn tolerance increases by their number of boss mods
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  Dirty Soap now activates Lumberjack II
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  Mementos can no longer drop from library research
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  Native stage mod can no longer spawn a monster on the first cell opened
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  Fixed ambiguous targeting description on Handbell, Surgical Saw, and Ritual Chalk, which will improve their mage/duplicast targeting
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  Blindfold now activates before the Abstract stage mod
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  Reverted change to Paragon Rod so that it can drop items with cost 0 again (however, it won't drop Mementos like it used to)
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  Book items and Leather Vest now benefit from Electric cells
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  Multiple copies of a stage mod that do not increase difficulty (e.g. Nightmare) will no longer provide additional score
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  Tangleweed can no longer apply the Double mod to a stage that already has it
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  Judging mod now stacks
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  Vengeful mod now stacks
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  Updated default leaderboard version to 1.48

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Protagonist losing multiple legendary items upon acquiring the 3rd one
• Fixed potential crash related to loot destruction on the same step as being collected
• Fixed Lighthouse removing more monsters than stated
• Fixed several boss mods activating on the collection of any heart instead of just dark hearts
• Fixed Sacred Ground emblem providing only 1 Key item instead of 3
• Fixed flares triggering the "reveal" script when colliding with visible objects such as chests
• Fixed a crash related to Quest for Piety and Doughnut
• Fixed chain value not increasing when opening a hidden cell
• Fixed Quest for Quests not being able to generate a couple of the newer Quest items
• Fixed rapidly flashing arrow on Chaos Font toast notification
• Fixed the color palette on Arcane Staff
• Fixed a couple instances of mouse input bypassing the freezeframe effect
• Fixed the position of particle effects after a freezeframe
• Fixed a typo in the unlock requirement for Undertaker III
• Fixed "Harvesting" boss mod
• Fixed a rare crash related to Yesterking and the first stage of the quest being a special stage
• Fixed Diamond armor not counting for Matching Metals achievement
• Fixed a visual glitch related to re-rolling mods on an Immutable stage
• Fixed a potential issue related to Warning Sign when used with few empty cells remaining
• Fixed final cutscene not respecting custom cursor setting
• Fixed Q5 cutscene alert getting stuck if the cutscene is skipped
• Familiars can now collect glints
• Rewrote a couple Hero Trial scripts, which may fix a longstanding crash related to restarting the Hero Trial
• Gnarled Branch now correctly triggers on magic use rather than mana depletion
• Improved click detection with Dirty Soap
• Created workaround for rare crash that occurred when daily mission progress was not properly reset
• The nomad that purchases your items will now verify that the transaction was successful before awarding coins (prevents infinites like Doughnut + another omen)
• Fixed certain lingering properties when an item transforms into another item
• Fixed Stake not updating the HUD
• Fixed Metagate cell pressed down sprite
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  Fixed The Boneyard emblem listing "Crypt" instead of "Worm" as a material cost
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  Fixed some sigils activating despite 0 durability
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  Fixed a couple issues related to Soft Clay and mana
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  Fixed an issue with chaining hidden cells
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  Fixed a rare hardlock related to Frothy mod and Doughnut
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  Fixed Doughnut not respecting omen immunity
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  Fixed lingering status effects after removing the last copy of an item from your inventory
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  Fixed a glitch where status effects that reset on mistake would not reset if the mistake happened with 1 turn left
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  Fixed portal mod Guide
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  Fixed various issues with Marksman's Memento, Guardian's Memento, Knight's Memento, and Exorcist's Memento
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  Patched out an infinite related to Smithy and the "Optional" Hero Trial effect
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  Android only: fixed a few cursor visibility issues
• Android only: Picking up items on the board now operates on a longtap, allowing you to see the item description with a short tap

Hotfix #1 @ 6:55 PM EST: Fixed crash related to Frothy stage mod. Also, the Greasy boss mod now has a unique color scheme. ---

Thank you to all of our Patrons!

In closing, we want to thank our amazing Patreon supporters for providing excellent feedback, and for helping us produce free content for the entire DemonCrawl community. Big shout outs to:

• jordan
• Nathan Klootwyk
• Zinapraigon
• Ruth Grace Wong
• Blattdorf
• Nicholas Faulkner
• Sean Matthews
• Ginger yoder
• PandaKeine
• Frdric Crte
• YELLOWsquid
• Yifan Lu
• Luk Peliknt
• Aurabolt
• Aundaay
• Andrew Sparks

We really appreciate your support.
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[ 2020-07-01 17:27:23 CET ] [ Original post ]