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Dead Cells: Immortalis Episode 1 is now available with English dubbing!

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Hey everyone! It took us a longer time than usual to prepare, but better late than never: the 35th updated The End is Near is here! In this update, we are stuffing in new mobs, weapons, mutations and biome effects all expanding on the curse mechanic, 40+ new head skins, almost 20 new legendary affixes, extra accessibility options and more! TLDR:

• New additions based on one of our most iconic mechanics, Curse: 3 new mobs, 3 new weapons, 3 new mutations and a new biome effect for you to choose whether you are gonna take the risk for more rewards or not.
• New legendary affixes.
• 40+ new heads for customization options.
• New routing: you can now go to both Return to Castlevania biomes in one run.
• More accessibility options.

• Sore Loser: a cutie who cant hurt you but is super clingy and annoying, always trying to be close to you and dash through you. When you kill it, you get cursed.
• Doom Bringer: every melee attack from it wont cause damage, but will apply 2 stacks of curse and stun you, and you will instantly die if you have already got 50 stacks of curse. Sounds pretty fair right?
  
• Curser: it launches a slow homing projectile that can go through the walls. If you accidentally get caught by this projectile, you take damage and 5 stacks of curse. One more surprise! If you get close to it, it will bonk you with its staff.
  

• Cursed biomes only spawn in runs with a Boss Cell level 2 or higher (boss fight biomes wont be cursed).
• Just like biome incentives, there will be a specific icon above the exit to a cursed biome, so that you can have the choice of taking this challenge or just going to the other normal biomes.
• A cursed biome always contains 9 (+/-2) cursed mobs randomly selected from Curser, Sore Loser and Doom Bringer.
• There is, of course, a reward for that risk: all the items dropped in a cursed biome will drop 1 gear level higher, regardless of their source (shop, loots, etc.). The spawn chance of cursed chests also increases by 10% in such biomes.
• There is a cap to the number of cursed biomes that you can go through on your route, depending on the BC level, set as follows: from BC 2 to 5 respectively: 2, 3, 5 and 8 (i.e. in 5BC, there is no cap).
• This cap only limits the number of Cursed Biomes that you can go to in a run, it doesnt mean that you must go through that many Cursed Biomes to finish your run.
• Once you have hit the cap, no more cursed biomes will appear in that run. Until you have hit the cap, cursed biomes will continue to appear.
• As long as you havent reached the cap, biomes always have a 25% chance of being cursed. There will always be at least 1 biome without cursed mobs at any point in your run, no exceptions.

• Anathema: rip a Mushroom Bois heart out to fire a heavy indirect projectile dealing AOE damage. However, there is a price for being an utter savage - you will get cursed if your attack hits anything. Yep, you only get cursed if you hit something. Whoever is creating these curses doesn't care how many mushrooms you tear apart, just if you hit anything afterwards. Makes you think...
  
• Indulgence: Calls down a ray of vengeful light on the nearest enemy dealing critical damage if you are not cursed. Targets killed by the ray purge you of 3 stacks of curse instead of 1. Fires 1 additional ray per 5 stacks of curse you have (max: 5 per cast).
• Misericorde: inflicts crits if the victim has less than 50% HP. Curses you if the crit doesn't kill its target.
  

• Cursed Flask: your health flask has infinite charges but also curses you 20 times each time you use it. But can you survive from those 20 stacks of curse? TAKE CARE, my friends
• Damned Vigor: upon being dealt fatal damage, you stay alive at 1 HP for 2 seconds. If you kill any enemy while under this effect, you will be saved. Otherwise, when the effect disappears or you get hit while under it, you instantly die without any sort of protection applicable.
• Demonic Strength: Damage increases by 30% if you are cursed. This bonus is increased by 2% per curse stack you have. Cursed Sword counts as 1 stack for this effect (no special bonus for it, but you can still stack curses on top of it).

• Flawless: NEW Almost Perfect: Killing an enemy within one second after getting hit allows you continue causing crits.
• Gold Digger: NEW Filthy Rich: Crit multiplier increases with your gold.
• Punishment: NEW Punish Combo: Recasts the AOE effect if it kills at least one target.
• Rampart: NEW Mirror Coating: Reflects damage of attacks received while under the effect of the shield's force field. This damage scales with the attack received (i.e., the stronger the attack is, the more damage the shield reflects).
• Cocoon: NEW Parry Streak: Each consecutive parry reduces Cocoon's cooldown the next time it starts.
• Emergency Door: NEW Armoured Door: The door can't be destroyed by enemies (except for bosses).
• Bone: NEW Whirlwind: Increases the last attack's whirlwind duration by 2 sec with every enemy it kills.
• Wrenching Whip: NEW Retiarus: The first attack throws 3 crow's feet in front of you (with the same internal cooldown as the grenade affix).
• Explosive Decoy: NEW Foolproof: The cooldown of the item is instantly reset if its explosion doesn't hit at least one target.
• Barrel Launcher: Triple Bullet (i.e. not a new affix, but we changed the one it had before).
• Leghugger: NEW Mitosis: Summons 2 Leghuggers instead of 1.
• Assault Shield: NEW Charged Dash: Holding the shield button will charge a stronger version of the dash, which can then be used by releasing the button.
• Ice Shards: NEW Bouncy: Projectiles bounce on the ground twice before disappearing.
• Quick Bow: NEW Sharpshooter: Critical hits will refill one ammo.
• Bladed Tonfas: NEW Lacerator: Only uses the first attack of the combo.
• Grappling Hook: NEW Octavio: Also fires a chain behind you.
• Tesla Coil: NEW Double Use: You can use the skill twice. Each use has its own cooldown.
• Lightning Rods: NEW Double Use: You can use the skill twice. Each use has its own cooldown.

• The Bank is slightly easier in 2, 4 and 5BC. Yeah, SLIGHTLY...
• The Throw Master's bone projectile deals less damage in Return to Castlevania DLC.
• Alienation rework: Instead of healing the player per curse reduced, it will now heal the player when the curse is lifted, with the amount of health recovered based on the max amount of curses you had (for that curse instance). The effect only starts triggering when the player had more than 5 curses, and requires 35 stacks of curse to fully heal you.

New head customization:

• Flame heads based on various appearances of the Beheaded along the years to make sure you are always in a suit and tie.
• Bosses heads such as the Queen, the Time keeper, etc. As if you could become as badass as those bosses with their smart brain.
  
  
• And lots of strange and secret heads, such as the Cell Head, are waiting for you!

New routing

• We've also changed the connections between biomes:
• Added an exit to Master's Keep in High Peak Castle.
• Added exits to Corrupted Prison and Ossuary in Castle's Outskirts.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (early) in Corrupted Prison and Toxic Sewers.
• Added an exit to Black Bridge in Dracula's Castle (early).
• Added an exit to Defiled Necropolis in Ossuary.
• Replaced the exit to Fractured Shrines in Defiled Necropolis by an exit to Graveyard.
• Added a light source in the Mimic Hint lore room, when it spawns in Forgotten Sepulcher.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (late) in Mausoleum, Guardian's Haven and Clock Room.

• Added two new sets of control icons and an option to select them. You can select either "Legacy" (current icons), "New" (a new, cleaner set) or "Big" (accessibiliy focused, easier to read).
• Changed the Daily Challenge's boss arrow opacity, for better visibility.
• Added new input options for the "going through platform" action.
• Added options to change the controller triggers' deadzone.
• Reworked the Auto-hit assist mode option. It will no longer force the use of a melee weapon in the first slot.
• Added an option to add a background to most texts in the game. The background's color and opacity can be adjusted.
• The left stick can now be used to scroll through item descriptions in the pause menu.
• Added options to fully invert the player and camera movement.
• Added a bunch of options to tweak the camera's behavior. The influence of the player's movement, combat, or points of interest can be customized.
• Split the "controller sticks deadzone" into two options, one for each stick.
• Added an outline option for spikes.
• Added a button to center the minimap on the player.

And thats all!

Evil Empire

Motion Twin

If you somehow missed it the first time, you're in for a treat!

What you can expect...

We'll see you at the Castle Gates, Beheaded...

Hello Dead Cells players,

Dearest Dead Cells Veterans, We have long been wondering what we should do next... 'Why not make a sequel to Dead Cells? we asked ourselves. We tried a whole lot of... brilliant ideas:

• 'Dead Cells: The Cooking Showdown' with the Beheaded as a master chef.
• Dead Cells: Love in the Dungeon', a dating sim where you can romance the Bosses
• 'Dead Cells: The Musical' - self-explanatory... and still considering that one, to be honest.

Hey everyone, We've just pushed a new patch for the beta test of Update 35, including some Balancing works, adjustments on Graphics & UI as well as Music & Sfx, and Bug Fixes of course! * This patch only affects the current beta test, if you are not participating in the beta, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing beta, just check out here for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Balancing:

• Misericorde now applies curses only if the attack doesn't crit.

• Added a Minimap icon when a biome is incentivized.

• Updated a bunch of sounds for the new mobs.

• Fixed World Map displaying deprecated paths.
• Fixed a bunch of translation problems.
• Fixed Cursed and Incentivized biomes not reloading properly with the "Multiple lives" assist option on.
• Fixed a crash when using the Emergency Door against Conjunctivius.
• Fixed some projectiles not displaying outlines when the options was on.
• Fixed some heads unlocking in the Training Room.
• Fixed some visual and music bugs when killing Dracula in Training Room.
• Fixed Richter not being able to jump down platform.
• Fixed the number of cursed biomes always being 0 in some seeds.

Hey everyone! The upcoming update The End is Near is now in Beta! In case you missed the alpha post, in this update we are stuffing in new mobs, weapons, mutations and biome effects all expanding on the curse mechanic, 40+ new head skins, almost 20 new legendary affixes, extra accessibility options and more! Before we go through the updated list of new content for the update, a quick note here for the players who didn't like the idea of Cursed mobs and mightve missed our patches in the Alpha phase. Instead of making cursed mobs spawn randomly in your run , we have introduced a new effect on biomes, Cursed Biomes, to make sure that players can choose to have cursed mobs in their run or not. Also, the players who choose to take the risk will now get rewards for taking on that risk. We are gonna elaborate more on this mechanic below! Now, lets get to the full list of new content:

New Curse additions:

• Sore Loser: a cutie who cant hurt you but is super clingy and annoying, always trying to be close to you and dash through you. When you kill it, you get cursed.
• Doom Bringer: every melee attack from it wont cause damage, but will apply 2 stack of curse and stun you, and you will instantly die if you have already got 50 stacks of curse. Sounds pretty fair right?
• Curser: it launches a slow homing projectile that can go through the walls. If you accidentally get caught by this projectile, you take damage and 5 stacks of curse. One more surprise! If you get close to it, it will bonk you with its staff.
  

• Cursed biomes only spawn in runs with a Boss Cell level 2 or higher (boss fight biomes wont be cursed).
• Just like biome incentives, there will be a specific icon above the exit to a cursed biome, so that you can have the choice of taking this challenge or just going to the other normal biomes.
• A cursed biome always contains 9 (+/-2) cursed mobs randomly selected from Curser, Sore Loser and Doom Bringer.
• There is, of course, a reward for that risk: all the items dropped in a cursed biome will drop 1 gear level higher, regardless of their source (shop, loots, etc.). The spawn chance of cursed chests also increases by 10% in such biomes.
• There is a cap to the number of cursed biomes that you can go through on your route, depending on the BC level, set as follows: from BC 2 to 5 respectively: 2, 3, 5 and 8 (i.e. in 5BC, there is no cap).
• This cap only limits the number of Cursed Biomes that you can go to in a run, it doesnt mean that you must go through that many Cursed Biomes to finish your run.
• Once you have hit the cap, no more cursed biomes will appear in that run. Until you have hit the cap, cursed biomes will continue to appear.
• As long as you havent reached the cap, biomes always have a 25% chance of being cursed. There will always be at least 1 biomes without cursed mobs at any point in your run, no exceptions.

• Anathema: rip a Mushroom Bois heart out to fire a heavy indirect projectile dealing AOE damage. However, there is a price for being an utter savage - you will get cursed if your attack hits anything.
  
• Indulgence: Calls down a ray of vengeful light on the nearest enemy dealing critical damage if you are not cursed. Targets killed by the ray purge you of 3 stacks of curse instead of 1. Fires 1 additional ray per 5 stacks of curse you have (max: 5 per cast).
• Misericorde: inflicts crits if the victim has less than 50% HP. Curses you if the attack doesn't kill its target.
  

• Cursed Flask: your health flask has infinite charges but also curses you 20 times each time you use it.
• Damned Vigor: upon being dealt fatal damage, you stay alive at 1 HP for 2 seconds. If you kill any enemy while under this effect, you will be saved. Otherwise, when the effect disappears or you get hit while under it, you instantly die without any sort of protection applicable.
• Demonic Strength: Damage increases by 30% if you are cursed. This bonus is increased by 2% per curse stack you have. Cursed Sword counts as 1 stack for this effect (no special bonus for it, but you can still stack curses on top of it).

• Flawless: NEW Almost Perfect: Killing an enemy within one second after getting hit allows you continue causing crits.
• Gold Digger: NEW Filthy Rich: Crit multiplier increases with your gold.
• Punishment: NEW Punish Combo: Recasts the AOE effect if it kills at least one target.
• Rampart: NEW Mirror Coating: Reflects damage of attacks received while under the effect of the shield's force field. This damage scales with the attack received (i.e., the stronger the attack is, the more damage the shield reflects).
• Cocoon: NEW Parry Streak: Each consecutive parry reduces Cocoon's cooldown the next time it starts.
• Emergency Door: NEW Armored Door: The door can't be destroyed by enemies (except for bosses).
• Bone: NEW Whirlwind: Increases the last attack's whirlwind duration by 2 sec with every enemy it kills.
• Wrenching Whip: NEW Retiarus: The first attack throws 3 crow's feet in front of you (with the same internal cooldown as the grenade affix).
• Explosive Decoy: NEW Foolproof: The cooldown of the item is instantly reset if its explosion doesn't hit at least one target.
• Barrel Launcher: Triple Bullet (i.e. not a new affix, but we changed the one it had before).
• Leghugger: NEW Mitosis: Summons 2 Leghuggers instead of 1.
• Assault Shield: NEW Charged Dash: Holding the shield button will charge a stronger version of the dash, which can then be used by releasing the button.
• Ice Shards: NEW Bouncy: Projectiles bounce on the ground twice before disappearing.
• Quick Bow: NEW Sharpshooter: Critical hits will refill one ammo.
• Bladed Tonfas: NEW Lacerator: Only uses the first attack of the combo.
• Grappling Hook: NEW Octavio: Also fires a chain behind you.
• Tesla Coil: NEW Double Use: You can use the skill twice. Each use has its own cooldown.
• Lightning Rods: NEW Double Use: You can use the skill twice. Each use has its own cooldown.

• The Bank is slightly easier in 2, 4 and 5BC. Yeah, SLIGHTLY...
• The Throw Master's bone projectile deals less damage in Return to Castlevania DLC.
• Alienation rework: Instead of healing the player per curse reduced, it will now heal the player when the curse is lifted, with the amount of health recovered based on the max amount of curses you had (for that curse instance). The effect only starts triggering when the player had more than 5 curses, and requires 35 stacks of curse to fully heal you.

• Flame heads based on various appearances of the Beheaded along the years.
• Bosses heads such as the Scarecrow Hat.
• And lots of strange and secret heads, such as the Cell Head, are waiting for you!
  
  

• Added an exit to Master's Keep in High Peak Castle.
• Added exits to Corrupted Prison and Ossuary in Castle's Outskirts.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (early) in Corrupted Prison and Toxic Sewers.
• Added an exit to Black Bridge in Dracula's Castle (early).
• Added an exit to Defiled Necropolis in Ossuary.
• Replaced the exit to Fractured Shrines in Defiled Necropolis by an exit to Graveyard.
• Added a light source in the Mimic Hint lore room, when it spawns in Forgotten Sepulcher.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (late) in Mausoleum, Guardian's Haven and Clock Room.

• Added two new sets of control icons and an option to select them. You can select either "Legacy" (current icons), "New" (a new, cleaner set) or "Big" (accessibiliy focused, easier to read).
• Changed the Daily Challenge's boss arrow opacity, for better visibility.
• Added new input options for the "going through platform" action.
• Added options to change the controller triggers' deadzone.
• Reworked the Auto-hit assist mode option. It will no longer force the use of a melee weapon in the first slot.
• Added an option to add a background to most texts in the game. The background's color and opacity can be adjusted.
• The left stick can now be used to scroll through item descriptions in the pause menu.
• Added options to fully invert the player and camera movement.
• Added a bunch of options to tweak the camera's behavior. The influence of the player's movement, combat, or points of interest can be customized.
• Split the "controller sticks deadzone" into two options, one for each stick.
• Added an outline option for spikes.
• Added a button to center the minimap on the player.

• Added Latin-American Spanish and Polish as language options.

• Fixed Death Outfits being able to equip custom heads.
• Fixed Spoiler Level's Lightning Walls being able to kill entities immune to lava.
• Fixed Legendary Hook cooldown resetting when only one of the hooks missed.
• Fixed a crash when loading a save with speedrun data.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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• Motion Twin Twitter
• Dead Cells' Facebook

Hey everyone, We've just pushed the fifth patch for the alpha test of Update 35, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing alpha, just check out here for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Balancing:

• Curser can now detect the player and shoot its projectile through walls.
• Fixed Mimic despawning when trying to jump a very long distance.
• Reduced Doom Bringer's speech frequency.
• Increased Doom Bringer's walking speed when targeting a player.
• Doom Bringer's stun attack radius was increased, and it can now hit through walls.
• Doom Bringer's attack now gives two curses instead of one.
• Alienation's minimum curse was reduced to 5.

• Fixed Death's instant death attack sending the player back to Prison when in Training Mode or Boss Rush.
• Fixed heads' particle effects sometimes not playing.
• Fixed some lore rooms still spawning in Dilapidated Arboretum with the "Disable Lore Rooms" option enabled.
• Fixed a crash when Dracula's Castle tries to generate a Cursed Chest.
• Fixed Giant sometimes getting stuck during the double fist slam attack animation.
• Fixed some ranged multi-hit weapons (Scarecrow's Sickles, Cross, Bible, etc.) not dealing any damage after hitting an unbreakable door.
• Fixed head unlock notification not replacing text variables with the right number.
• Ygdar Orus Li Ox can no longer be removed from the inventory by resetting mutations.
• Fixed Glitch head not unlock retro-actively.
• Fixed Boss Rush Servants just standing there when skipping the fight.

Hey everyone, We've just pushed the fourth patch for the alpha test of Update 35 yesterday, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing alpha, just check out here for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Balancing:

• Reduced Cursed Biomes chance and increased the number of Cursed Mobs in a Cursed Biome.
• Buffed Alienation's healing by reducing the curse threshold for a max heal.

• Fixed mob animations not being the right speed, when the mob was taunted or slowed.
• Fixed Smoke Bomb damage buff not affecting projectiles.
• Fixed Cursed Mobs replacing normal mobs instead of adding themselves to the list.
• Prevent Boss Rush modified Concierge from jumping when the other instance is also jumping or throwing a fire wave.
• Fixed not being able to roll in the other direction while holding the Morning Star.

Hey everyone! During the past few weeks we've seen a bunch of different opinions on the new curse additions, especially the cursed mobs We fully understand the pushback on mobs that give curses, as curse and its instadeath effect has always been an optional experience that gave extra rewards if you chose to add some spicy danger in your run. In this update so far, the cursed mobs were unavoidable at 2BC+, even with a low chance of them spawning, and they didn't give any reward for the risk. So the choice was removed. For people who want to consciously avoid instadeath no bueno. Well, we like to trumpet that we work with the community when we add updates so, 'toot toot', we've listened to you, we've had lots of discussions and have come up with a new solution. New 'Cursed Biome' system The previous system where, from 2BC+, cursed mobs could randomly spawn in a random biome is gone. Instead, we have introduced a new type of biome, Cursed Biome, which features the new cursed mobs in exchange for extra rewards. NOTE: This is not a new biome, it is a new effect on biomes. And of course, you can choose to go into the cursed biome with its rewards, or go to the other biomes that don't have any scary cursed mobs.
How Cursed Biome works:

• Cursed biomes only spawn in runs with a Boss Cell level 2 or higher.
• Just like biome incentives, there will be a specific icon above the exit to a cursed biome, so that you can have the choice of taking this challenge or just going to the other normal biomes.
  
• A cursed biome always contains 6 cursed mobs randomly selected from Curser, Sore Loser and Doom Bringer. This number might change based on alpha/beta feedback.
• There is, of course, a reward for that risk: all the items dropped in a cursed biome will drop 1 gear level higher, regardless of their source (shop, loots, etc.). The spawn chance of cursed chests also increases by 10% in such biomes.
• There is a cap to the number of cursed biomes that you can go through on your route, depending on the BC level, set as follows: from BC 2 to 5 respectively: 2, 3, 5 and 8 (i.e. in 5BC, there is no cap). This cap only limits the number of Cursed Biomes that you can go to in a run, it doesnt mean that you must go through that many Cursed Biomes to finish your run. Once you have hit the cap, no more cursed biomes will appear in that run. Until you have hit the cap, cursed biomes will continue to appear.
• As long as you havent reached the cap, there can be only up to 2 exits to cursed biomes at once. There will always be at least 1 biome without cursed mobs at any point in your run, no exceptions.

• Alienation rework. Instead of healing the player per curse reduced, it will now heal the player when the curse is lifted, with the amount of health recovered based on the max amount of curses they had (for that curse instance). The effect only starts triggering when the player had more than 10 curses.
• Slightly nerfed Anathema's damage.
• Reduced Dracula's Castle (late) scroll fragments count, to match other biomes at the same depth.
• Added a small cooldown to Emergency Triage forcefield.

• Tweaked the update banner to improve readability.

• Added a tooltip for Cursed Mobs in the Boss Cell Selection UI.
• The Tailor's Daughter will now create notifications for any head you might unlock when talking to her.
• Removed the "Leave the Body" prompt of the throne fountain, when at 5BC.

Hey everyone, We've just pushed the second patch for the alpha test of Update 35 yesterday, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing alpha, just check out here for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Balancing:

• Reduced the chance of having Cursed Mobs in a run to 40%.
• Increased maximum number of levels where Cursed Mobs can appear.
• Increased the spawning chance and the max number of Cursed Mobs per biome.
• Removed some affixes from Anathema's pool: Pierce, Super Pierce and Fire Bullet.
• Greatly increased Anathema's damage.
• Anathema now only applies one curse when hitting an enemy.
• Changed Anathema's legendary affix to Global Shield on Use.

• Fixed Servant Head not unlocking properly. It now unlocks after having killed all the servants at least 15 times.
• Fixed Katana's dash attack not doing any damage if it hits a door.
• Fixed Doom Bringer not dealing any damage when the player has more than 50 curses.
• Fixed text backgrounds appearing in undiscovered parts of the minimap.
• Fixed Deep Pockets not working with arrow or grenade affixes.
• Fixed Blue Hole head not unlocking properly
• Fixed custom heads' animation stopping in some situations.
• Fixed Sewer's Tentacle movement particles not being played enough and being the wrong color.
• Fixed a bunch of custom heads' horizontal and vertical offsets.
• Fixed Boss Cell head not unlocking retroactively.
• Fixed Anathema dealing melee damage.
• Fixed Anathema's AoE damage not scaling to player and weapon stats.
• Fixed a crash sometimes happening when reloading the game when the Owl was active.
• Fixed Damned Vigor not letting the player resurrect when killing a boss.
• Fixed heads having a downwards offset in the head selection UI.
• Fixed Collector's menu flickering when opening it.
• Fixed being able to use the flask at full health, when equipped with both Tainted Flask and Cursed Flask.

Hey everyone, We've just pushed a new patch for the alpha test of Update 35, including some Balancing works, Graphics & UI change and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing alpha, just check out the post yesterday for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Balancing:

• Increased Anathema's damage.
• Added a cap to the number of levels that can have cursed monsters. This cap is different per difficulty.
• Added a 50% chance for a run to not have cursed monsters.
• Dead Inside no longer lets you use the Health Flask.

• Removed the crit display for Anathema.

• Fixed custom head animations not being updated after door transitions.
• Fixed exit doors sometimes facing the wrong way.
• Fixed Damned Vigor not working in training room.
• Fixed Sore Loser not dropping the Indulgence blueprint.
• Fixed the cooldown display of Decoy and Maria's Cat.
• Fixed a crash when exiting the game while Medusa was performing her Petrification attack.
• Fixed a crash sometimes happening when using the Leghugger or Serenade.

• We start by checking if the run will have "cursed" mobs or not. This will be a 40% chance of happening (50% in the build you're playing on), meaning that in 60% of 2+BC runs, there won't be any cursed mobs at all.
• If your run contains cursed mobs, we then check to see in how many biomes you have encountered them up until now. If this value is equal to the cap, you won't see any new cursed mobs in the rest of the run. The cap depends on the BC level and is set as follows, from BC 2 to 5 respectively: 2, 3, 5 and 8 (i.e. in 5BC, there is no cap).
• Then, if you are both in a "cursed mobs" run AND you haven't reached the cap, we roll to see if any of the three mobs spawn. In the next alpha update, the probability of a mob spawning will be 60% (50% in the current build) and up to 2 of each mob can spawn in the biome. All of these are SEPARATE: I can very well roll and get no cursed mobs at all, or 1 Curser, 2 Sore Losers and no Doom Bringer. These values are the same across the board and do not vary between biomes.

Hey everyone! Looooong time no see, I am XYZ, the new marketing dudette of Dead Cells, who will be the main contact with you guys in the future. And for those who might be concerned about Matt, he is doing good, still keeping an eye on Dead Cells, but also taking more responsibility related to a new project! Anyway, let's get to the point: this time, we are back with something fresh and it's actually video game related! The 35th free update of Dead Cells "The End is Near" has an alpha available to test right now! Just be aware that the Alpha and Beta phases might take a bit longer than usual this time, so if the official release comes later than usual, just be cool, it's on the way! In this update, weve expanded on one of the most iconic mechanics of Dead Cells, the dreaded Curse, with 3 new weapons, 3 new mobs and of course, 3 new mutations coming into the game! We know that curses and the insta-death that comes with them is scary and sometimes even annoying, so a whole update based around them might be too much. But put down the pitchforks because we think that these new additions make the mechanic more fun, add variety and just make the game more interesting. Plus, this is an alpha so we will be taking any community suggestions seriously! Also, after digesting a bunch of suggestions from you guys, weve done a bunch of reworking and rebalancing on the legendary weapons that needed it. Plus, several new balances and new accessibility features are available too! As well as these hardcore additions, the Tailors daughter has also learned some new hairstyles to add some variety & fun to your costumes!

New Curse additions:

• Anathema: rip a Mushroom Bois heart out to fire a heavy indirect projectile dealing AOE damage. However, there is a price for being an utter savage - you will get cursed if your attack hits anything. Yep, you only get cursed if you hit something. Whoever is creating these curses doesn't care how many mushrooms you tear apart, just if you hit anything afterwards. Makes you think...
  
• Indulgence: Calls down a ray of vengeful light on the nearest enemy dealing critical damage if you are not cursed. Targets killed by the ray purge you of 3 stacks of curse instead of 1. Fires 1 additional ray per 5 stacks of curse you have (max: 5 per cast).
• Misericorde: inflicts crits if the victim has less than 50% HP. Curses you if the attack doesn't kill its target.

• Sore Loser: a cutie who cant hurt you but is super clingy and annoying, always trying to be close to you and dash through you. When you kill it, you get cursed 3 times.
• Doom Bringer: every melee attack from it wont cause damage, but will apply 1 stack of curse and stun you, and you will instantly die if you have already got 50 stacks of curse. Sounds pretty fair right?
• Curser: it launches a slow homing projectile that can go through the walls. If you accidentally get caught by this projectile, you take damage and 5 stacks of curse. One more surprise! If you get close to it, it will bonk you with its staff.

• Cursed Flask: your health flask has infinite charges but also curses you 20 times each time you use it.
• Damned Vigor: upon being dealt fatal damage, you stay alive at 1 HP for 2 seconds. If you kill any enemy while under this effect, you will be saved. Otherwise, when the effect disappears or you get hit while under it, you instantly die without any sort of protection applicable.
• Demonic Strength: Damage increases by 30% if you are cursed. This bonus is increased by 1% per curse stack you have. Cursed Sword counts as 1 stack for this effect (no special bonus for it, but you can still stack curses on top of it).

• Flawless: NEW Almost Perfect: Killing an enemy within one second after getting hit allows you continue causing crits.
• Gold Digger: NEW Filthy Rich: Crit multiplier increases with your gold.
• Punishment: NEW Punish Combo: Recasts the AOE effect if it kills at least one target.
• Rampart: NEW Mirror Coating: Reflects damage of attacks received while under the effect of the shield's force field. This damage scales with the attack received (i.e. the stronger the attack is, the more damage the shield reflects).
• Cocoon: NEW Parry Streak: Each consecutive parry reduces Cocoon's cooldown the next time it starts.
• Emergency Door: NEW Armored Door: The door can't be destroyed by enemies (except for bosses).
• Bone: NEW Whirlwind: Increases the last attack's whirlwind duration by 2 sec with every enemy it kills.
• Wrenching Whip: NEW Retiarus: The first attack throws 3 crow's feet in front of you (with the same internal cooldown as the grenade affix).
• Explosive Decoy: NEW Foolproof: The cooldown of the item is instantly reset if its explosion doesn't hit at least one target.
• Barrel Launcher: Triple Bullet (i.e. not a new affix, but we changed the one it had before).

• The Bank is slightly easier in 2, 4 and 5BC. Yeah, SLIGHTLY...
• The Throw Master's bone projectile deals less damage in Return to Castlevania DLC.

• Flame heads based on various appearances of the Beheaded along the years.
• Bosses heads such as the Scarecrow Hat.
• And lots of strange and secret heads, such as the Cell Head, are waiting for you!

• Added an exit to Master's Keep in High Peak Castle.
• Added exits to Corrupted Prison and Ossuary in Castle's Outskirts.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (early) in Corrupted Prison and Toxic Sewers.
• Added an exit to Black Bridge in Dracula's Castle (early).
• Added an exit to Defiled Necropolis in Ossuary.
• Replaced the exit to Fractured Shrines in Defiled Necropolis by an exit to Graveyard.
• Added a light source in the Mimic Hint lore room, when it spawns in Forgotten Sepulcher.
• Added an exit to Dracula's Castle (late) in Mausoleum, Guardian's Haven and Clock Room.

• Added two new sets of control icons and an option to select them. You can select either "Legacy" (current icons), "New" (a new, cleaner set) or "Big" (accessibiliy focused, easier to read).
• Changed the Daily Challenge's boss arrow opacity, for better visibility.
• Added new input options for the "going through platform" action.
• Added options to change the controller triggers' deadzone.
• Reworked the Auto-hit assist mode option. It will no longer force the use of a melee weapon in the first slot.
• Added an option to add a background to most texts in the game. The background's color and opacity can be adjusted.
• The left stick can now be used to scroll through item descriptions in the pause menu.
• Added options to fully invert the player and camera movement.
• Added a bunch of options to tweak the camera's behavior. The influence of the player's movement, combat, or points of interest can be customized.
• Split the "controller sticks deadzone" into two options, one for each stick.
• Added an outline option for spikes.
• Added a button to center the minimap on the player.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "public alpha".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey everyone, Just a quick post to let you all know that the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania soundtrack is available to buy for $7.99 or equivalent as MP3 and lossless files on Steam! Revisit the DLC and download the full list of reimagined Castlevania tunes in the Dead Cells style, including Bloody Tears and Vampire Killer, to listen to at your leisure in high quality goodness: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2502260/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania_Soundtrack We'll be back soon with more news! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hey everyone, So last time we posted here, we said that the next post would be back to video game related news. That might not have exactly been true... [previewyoutube=LMVH49-VUOc;full][/previewyoutube] You've been asking for years and now it's here! Well almost... We are stoked to announce that an animated Dead Cells series IS DROPPING IN 2024!
Made of course by Bobbypills, the French studio behind our animated trailers, the show takes place on (surprise, surprise) a cursed island that has been racked by a strange plague. After the islands foolish king develops a remedy that ends up turning the population into monstrous creatures, prophecies depicting a flame-headed hero who will kill the crazy King begin to appear. As it so happens, this beheaded hero is real, but saving a kingdom isnt on his schedule and he just wants to be left alone. Well, guess who isn't going to be left alone...
Co-produced by the also French anime streaming service Animation Digital Network (ADN), the 10, roughly seven-minute long episodes will initially be exclusive to France before being made available worldwide.
Bobbypills will be discussing the series on Twitch IN FRENCH at 17h CET today (14th June) - https://www.twitch.tv/adnanime They will be putting up a version with English subtitles in the near future, so look out for that if you can't speak the language of cheese, baguettes and wine. One more time, Dead Cells the video game has not been forgotten! We will be back with more news on that soon :) Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

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Hey everyone, Little reminder that if you're interested in backing the upcoming Dead Cells board game, you have less than 24 hours to get involved! If you back the Collector's Edition you get some exclusive content like the Bobby Character, the Legendary Panchaku card, foil effects and more...

Here's a couple of other bits that were revealed to be in the base game during the campaign that might tickle your fancy:

If you're interested in backing the project or just checking it out more, you can follow this link - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scorpionmasque/dead-cells-the-rogue-lite-board-game Thanks and we'll be back soon with more video game related news! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hi everyone, Quick announcement that the Kickstarter campaign for the Dead Cells co-operative roguelite board game is live! Check out stretch goals, daily reveals, how to play, artwork, exclusive figurines and more here - https://kickstarter.com/projects/scorpionmasque/dead-cells-the-rogue-lite-board-game Hope you're all enjoying the Clean Cut update, peace! Matt, EE & MT

Hey everyone! We've just released a hotfix to address some bugs we missed in the Clean Cut update, so this will be a short post. It's also late on a hot Thursday afternoon, so my energy levels aren't high enough for a long one... There are now legendary affixes for both new weapons that we introduced: Giant Comb: Also deals critical damage while you are airborne. Deals additional damage if both you and the target are airborne. Sewing Scissors: Enemies killed by the special effect of this weapon count three times for your kill streak. We also identified a critical bug where by fixing it has removed unlocks that were incorrectly awarded to players. So some of you might notice some slight rollbacks on features related to biome visits that you didn't unlock (for example, having access to bosses in Boss Rush that you hadn't actually encountered before). But you shouldn't have had access in the first place, so just be happy for the time you had together the usual place! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hello! The "Clean Cut" update is here! 'Tailored' (wink wink) to improve the whole Dead Cells experience with a bunch of trims and cuts for every part of the game, as well as adding some new toys to play with! TLDR

• 2 new weapons
• Change your head to Bobby with most outfits
• Speedrun mode
• Boss Rush now has customisation options and Return to Castlevania bosses (including upgraded versions)
• Training Room has a ton of new customisation

• We've added a new DIY mode in Boss Rush. With this mode, you can choose whichever bosses you want to face in a run.
• The 3 bosses from Return to Castlevania have also been added to Boss Rush and Training Room.
• Enhanced bosses have been tweaked in the Boss Rush.
• Training Room has multiple new options for you to practice your skills: - New UIs to spawn a specific weapon with a set Level, Quality and Legendary-ness. - New UI to choose a certain number of scrolls - New UI to choose the overall scaling level of the Training Room, based on the values of a selected biome. - Added the mini-bosses to the mob spawners - Added a bunch of different traps to the mob rooms. - Added the Return to Castlevania Bosses. - Bosses aren't scaled down to level 1 anymore! (no more 20 minutes fights) - Changed the UI to select mobs to a grid-based one. - Added a Training Dummy for DPS calculation.

• Combo: there is a true combo meter now! The mutation has been changed to enable a damage increase with every melee hit in a 2.5 sec window (of course the window refreshes after every hit). It scales exponentially, go crazy with it!
• Tainted Flask: it can recharge even if your flask is not totally empty. We also added 1 more elite into every biome when the mutation is equipped.
• Networking: you can just mark enemies with ranged attacks now, there doesn't need to be an actual projectile stuck in the mob's body.
• Berserker: it now stacks and renders you immune to stuns.
• Necromancy: It scales with the max health of the mobs you kill, which means you can get more healing by killing a stronger enemy. The cap of up to a maximum 50% HP is eliminated, but healing power is less effective as you get closer to max health.
• Frostbite: now stacks with slow effects and acts as a full stack on frozen targets.
• Dead Inside: now doubles your life but prevents ALL healing sources except healing with recovery.
• Disengagement: there is no longer a cooldown but can only trigger once per biome. (I know, I know)

• Slow effect stacks up to 5 times. Each stack has a greater slowing effect, then the affected enemy is frozen at the fifth stack.
• The Mimic can now appear randomly in shops outside of the Bank biome. Mwahahaaaa
• Switched the Dracula Castle (Hard) Cursed Chest chance to 10%.
• Added a new Petrification affect icon (when you're frozen by Medusa).

Rebalancing

• Whip Sword: whip form now passes shields.
• Whip Sword's transformation attack hitbox tended to bug, it should now be consistent with its visual FX, which means it wont only hit one single target anymore.
• The ghosts gathered by Death Scythe's have a slightly smaller explosion radius.
• Bible is a heavy weapon.
• Throwing Axe can no longer roll Fire Bullet affix.
• Alucard's Shield has better parry windows, and the whole combo instead of the next hit crits.
• Rebound Stone: it deals slightly more damage and has a smaller but longer window before being able to "catch it" (i.e., trigger the crit). Its cooldown now starts upon its destruction.
• Holy Water has a bigger vertical hitbox and deals damage in a more logical way. By logical, we mean the flame itself can cause damage now.
• Medusa Head deals more damage and bumps further.
• We added some security measures to prevent the Cat from being targeted by enemies. There is also a long cooldown when the Cat is killed by the Queen.

• Medusa's flurry attacks should now have a small pause after the end of the attack.
• Haunted Armor (the one with an axe) should now activate at a slightly longer range.
• Elite Merman should now fire 2 big fireballs instead of a big one and a normal one.

• Dracula (Humanoid)'s fire pillars are now slightly easier to avoid (in terms of intervals) but are not rollable anymore.
• Dracula (Demon) is now a beast, along with Buer, Werewolves and Medusa (Crowbar wise).

Boardgame Kickstarter coming soon

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Hey everyone, Hope you're all doing alright! First things first, we just published a fix to resolve incompatible version issues with save files for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Let us know if stuff's still breaking with our bug report form. Fingers crossed that that link will stay un-clicked... Anyway, the upcoming Clean Cut update is now in beta, one step closer to arriving for all the wary players avoiding the testing phase. Here's a recap of everything coming, you can skip to the end if you already know what we've stuffed into this one. New Survival Weapon: Sewing Scissors. Instakills all enemies it hits, as long as at least one of them dies to the weapon's standard damage. New Brutality Weapon: Giant Comb. Throws your enemies upwards, and deals critical damage to airborne mobs! New NPC: Tailor's Daughter. Find her in the Tailor's Room, and talk to her to freely change the look of your head. New Speedrun Mode option: Activate it to track and display the completion time of each biome. Also tracks your previous bests and compares them! New Boss Rush DIY Mode: Lets you choose whichever bosses you want to face in a run. The 3 Bosses from Return to Castlevania are also now accessible in Boss Rush. Training Room reworks: We added a bunch of options to streamline the experimentation process, such as:

• New UIs to spawn a specific weapon with a set Level, Quality and Legendary-ness.
• New UI to choose a certain number of scrolls
• New UI to choose the overall scaling level of the Training Room, based on the values of a selected biome.
• Added the mini-bosses to the mob spawners
• Added a bunch of different traps to the mob rooms.
• Added the Return to Castlevania Bosses.
• Bosses aren't scaled down to level 1 anymore! (no more 20 minute fights)
• Changed the UI to select mobs to a grid-based one.
• Added a Training Dummy for DPS calculation.

• Slow effects now stack up to 5 times. Each stack has a greater slowing effect, then the affected enemy is frozen at the fifth stack.

• Berserker: Can now stack, and renders you immune to stuns.
• Combo: Enable a damage increase with every melee hit in a 2.5 sec window (of course the window refreshes after every hit). It scales exponentially, go crazy with it!
• Dead Inside: Doubles your life but prevents ALL healing sources.
• Disengagement: No more cooldown!.. but can only trigger once per biome.
• Frostbite: Now stacks with slow effects and acts as a full stack on frozen targets.
• Necromancy: Also now grants recovery instead of healing. It scales with the max health of the mobs you kill, which means you can get more recovery by killing a stronger enemy. The cap has been removed, but its less effective as you get closer to max health.
• Networking: Marks enemies with ranged attacks now, there doesn't need to be an actual projectile stuck in the mob's body anymore.
• Tainted Flask: Can recharge even if your flask is not totally empty. It also adds 1 more elite into every biome when equipped.
• What Doesn't Kill You: Now grants recovery instead of healing.

• Dracula (Demon), Buer, Werewolves and Medusa are now considered to be Beasts (crits with the Crowbar).
• Dracula (Humanoid)'s fire pillars are now slightly easier to avoid (in terms of intervals) but are not rollable anymore.
• Elite Mermans should now fire 2 big fireballs instead of a big one and a normal one.
• Haunted Armor (the one with an axe) should now activate at a slightly longer range.
• Medusa's flurry attacks should now have a small pause after the end of the attack.
• Holy Water has a bigger vertical hitbox, and the flame now deals damage.
• Bible is now considered to be a heavy weapon.
• Medusa Head deals more damage and bumps further.
• Throwing Axe can no longer roll the Fire Bullet affix.
• Rebound Stone now deals slightly more damage, and has a smaller but longer window before being able to "catch it" (i.e., trigger the crit). Its cooldown now starts upon its destruction.
• Whip Sword - Whip Form now passes through shields.
• Whip Sword's transformation attack hitbox tended to bug, it should now be consistent with its visual FX, which means it wont only hit one single target anymore.
• Added a long cooldown when the Cat is killed by the Queen.
• Alucard's Shield has better parry windows, and the whole combo will now crit after a parry.
• The ghosts gathered by Death's Scythe now have a slightly smaller explosion radius.

• Added a new Petrification effect icon.

• Switched the Dooku Castle (Hard) Cursed Chest chance to 10%.
• The Mimic can now appear randomly in shops outside of the Bank.

• Fixed Agitated Pickpocket being able to hit through Global Shields.
• Fixed Bible's projectile disappearing after a cutscene.
• Fixed Bobby Head's disappearing in the Tailor's Room.
• Fixed Cursed Sword not disabling other inventory items when switched slots.
• Fixed Diverse Deck - Foresight tagging the blocked attacks as if they were blocked by a shield.
• Fixed Gold Plating not protecting against Dracula - Final Form's grab.
• Fixed Heal Flask glow effect also affecting the player's glow effect.
• Fixed Morning Star's chain detaching itself from the base.
• Fixed Pets' behavior being broken in Dracula's opening cutscene.
• Fixed Serenade destroying deployables when activated.
• Fixed a crash in Shipwreck, when a platform is destroyed at the same time as Mushroom Boi is spawned.
• Fixed a crash when an Automaton falls off a platform while using its Dash Attack.
• Fixed a crash when saving a reloading while a Petrified enemy is on screen.
• Fixed a crash when using the Emergency Door during the Queen boss fight.
• Fixed a softlock when falling off the map during_ Dracula - Final Form_, while all platforms were destroyed.
• Fixed being able to duplicate Turrets using the Emergency Door.
• Fixed the Shop Mimic's hitboxes being too big compared to the visual.
• Fixed weapons' crit indicator sometimes not displaying.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hello everyone, We've just pushed a new alpha patch focused on fixing lots of small bugs and visual changes. This only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take part in the ongoing alpha, just check out our previous posts for instructions on how to access. Here's everything we changed: Training Room - Fixed missing texts for various new UIs in Training Room - Fixed a crash when restarting in Training Room - Fixed training room dummy being destroyed when going through the door - Updated sprite for the training difficulty picker interaction - Fixed a crash when spawning colorless legendary item - Fixed legendary items always being level 1 in Training Room - Fixed Death not being in Training Room - Fixed Dracula's Final Form not loading in Training Room - Camera no longer tracks Tick in Training Room Bosses & Boss Rush - Fixed Dracula Final Form's meteors spawning too low during the interphase (aka Genkidama) - Fixed Dracula's exit in Boss Rush looking rough - Removed Modified Humanoid Dracula's speed bonus during his last phase - In Boss Rush, Modified Humanoid Dracula's big fireballs have been recolored to better signal their difference from the normal version of the fight - Fixed Death's AI breaking after being interrupted during its combo attack - Fixed Humanoid Dracula's hitbox on melee attack (the first hit had no hitbox) - Increased cooldown to Modified Humanoid Dracula after shooting fireballs to make it easier to catch Mutations - Armadillopack can't parry unparryable projectiles anymore (was problematic on Boss Rush Dracula) - Necromancy nerf (lower base heal) - Combo mutation damage bonus now scales more slowly with the number of stacks - Buff to slow diminishing factor (i.e. it decreases less quickly and thus should be more efficient) Other - Late game Dracula's Castle's Cursed Chest now has 10% chance of spawning - Shop Mimic no longer spawns behind Z-doors (mostly BC doors) (when outside of the Bank) - Fixed an issue with Tailor's Daughter menu (you could open multiple instance of it) - Fixed a crash happening with the Tailor upon unlocking the Scissors Thanks for taking part! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hello! We're back for a new alpha test! The "Clean Cut" update is designed to improve the whole Dead Cells experience with a bunch of trims and cuts for every part of the game, and now we just need to make some tweaks before we officially release it. So what's in store?

New items

• We've added a new DIY mode in Boss Rush. With this mode, you can choose whichever bosses you want to face in a run.
• The 3 bosses from Return to Castlevania have also been added to Boss Rush and Training Room.
• Enhanced bosses have been tweaked in the Boss Rush.
• Training Room has multiple new options for you to practice your skills now. Too much to list here, just go check it out and have a nice surprise :)

• Combo: there is a true combo meter now! The mutation has been changed to enable a damage increase with every melee hit in a 2.5 sec window (of course the window refreshes after every hit). It scales exponentially, go crazy with it!
• Tainted Flask: it can recharge even if your flask is not totally empty. We also added 1 more elite into every biome. Its kinda experimental, we might revert it at the end, and its all up to you the reaction and feedback we get.
• Networking: you can just mark enemies with ranged attacks now, there doesn't need to be an actual projectile stuck in the mob's body.
• Berserker: it now stacks (it caps at 90%) and renders you immune to stuns.
• What doesn't kill you: now grants recovery instead of healing. You have to earn your healing now.
• Necromancy: also now grants recovery instead of healing. It scales with the max health of the mobs you kill, which means you can get more recovery by killing a stronger enemy. The cap of up to a maximum 50% HP is eliminated, but its less effective as you get closer to max health.
• Frostbite: now stacks with slow effects and acts as a full stack on frozen targets.
• Dead Inside: now doubles your life but prevents ALL healing sources.
• Disengagement: there is no longer a cooldown but can only trigger once per biome. (I know, I know)

• Slow effect stacks up to 5 times. Each stack has a greater slowing effect, then the affected enemy is frozen at the fifth stack.
• The Mimic can now appear randomly in shops outside of the Bank biome. Mwahahaaaa

Rebalancing

• Whip Sword: whip form now passes shields.
• Whip Sword's transformation attack hitbox tended to bug, it should now be consistent with its visual FX, which means it wont only hit one single target anymore.
• The ghosts gathered by Death Scythe's have a slightly smaller explosion radius.
• Bible is a heavy weapon.
• Throwing Axe can no longer roll Fire Bullet affix.
• Alucard's Shield has better parry windows, and the whole combo instead of the next hit crits.
• Rebound Stone: it deals slightly more damage and has a smaller but longer window before being able to "catch it" (i.e., trigger the crit). Its cooldown now starts upon its destruction.
• Holy Water has a bigger vertical hitbox and deals damage in a more logical way. By logical, we mean the flame itself can cause damage now.
• Medusa Head deals more damage and bumps further.
• We added some security measures to prevent the Cat from being targeted by enemies. There is also a long cooldown when the Cat is killed by the Queen.

• Medusa's flurry attacks should now have a small pause after the end of the attack.
• Haunted Armor (the one with an axe) should now activate at a slightly longer range.
• Elite Merman should now fire 2 big fireballs instead of a big one and a normal one.

• Dracula (Humanoid)'s fire pillars are now slightly easier to avoid (in terms of intervals) but are not rollable anymore.
• Dracula (Demon) is now a beast, along with Buer, Werewolves and Medusa (Crowbar wise).

How to access the alpha:

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey, We've seen that some Mac users are still getting crashes. First things first, sorry that it's taking some time to completely fix this issue. We need some more information to figure out exactly where this is coming from, so if you're still getting a crash on Mac, we're asking that you follow the instructions below and send us the resulting information USING THIS FORM - https://forms.clickup.com/f/2b318-1807/WG3GMB5KUFQB4XRAHX Instructions:[olist]

Hi everyone, Hope you've been enjoying the Return to Castlevania DLC! No rest for the wicked, the devs have been hard at work fixing some issues that came up with the DLC release and we've just released a hotfix to address a decent chuck of them:

Major

• Crash fix for Mac
• Fix steam deck save issue - This shouldn't have been a save wipe situation, but a save lock situation, so your saves should be OK. If you're still having problems let us know
• Fix parallax rendering on Castle's Outskirts
• Fix softlock on Dracula's Castle for players without spider rune

• Fixed the Katana cancel technique being wrongfully removed from the game.
• Fixed a crash when loading a very old save.
• Fixed random crashes in Richter Mode when using certain affixes.
• Fixed Richter Mode Vania-moves disappearing when trying to sell them.
• Fixed a softlock in Castle's Outskirts when teleporting through a door with Snake Fangs.
• Fixed Medusa's Head clipping through walls.
• Fixed World Map vibrating up and down in certain resolutions.
• Fixed random crashes on the title screen.
• Fixed a random crash when blocking an attack.
• Fixed Legendary Items spawning in biomes where loot is disabled.
• Fixed Queen's reflected items not having the proper trail color.

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Hey everyone, It's finally here, the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC is available now! Storm Dracula's Castle on a new quest, meet famous heroes, fight classic monsters with iconic weapons and confront Death & Dracula in epic boss fights, all backed by original and re-imagined tunes! You can even play as all the main characters from the famous series with 20 new outfits!
This is our tribute to the main inspiration of Dead Cells so we have put a ton of our time and effort into making this the best possible Castlevania x Dead Cells experience, we hope you enjoy it ^^ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101430/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania/ Our resident marketing artist Steve has created a pretty epic gameplay trailer to get you in the mood for some manic vampire slaying, check it out here: [previewyoutube=56n3spvD2M0;full][/previewyoutube] So what exactly is in the DLC? Well, there's a main quest featuring Alucard & Richter Belmont, where you'll fight your way several times through both Dracula's Castle and the main island on the way to a final showdown with Dracula in his iconic Throne Room. Straight from Prisoner's Quarters you'll find an entrance to...

Castle Outskirts

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Hey everyone, With the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC arriving in just a couple of weeks, we wanted to share one last short teaser highlighting how the dev team packed the iconic Castlevania essence into every inch of the DLC, then we'll leave you alone! You'll have to listen to me waxing on about Castlevania for a hot minute, but watch to the end for one last surprise reveal... [previewyoutube=CsAyUBexG78;full][/previewyoutube] This is our last post before the release, so see you all on launch day! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101430/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

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Hey everyone, You've waited long enough to know the release date of the Return to Castlevania DLC, we said Q1 2023 and we're already in February, so here it is! But first let's explore an essay about what's going on in the game industry today. We strongly feel that in the current climate of global titans and small independent studios, that we can extrapolate... 6th March! It's 6th March OK. Here's a short gameplay trailer to get your teeth into: [previewyoutube=QBBwIHYm8Mw;full][/previewyoutube] So what you saw there is about 5% of the content on offer, there's still loads for you to discover in March, and keep an eye out for more reveals in the future. That should have been your first true glimpse of the boss fights as well, which we think look pretty damn good, if we do say so ourselves... You'll have hopefully recognised the iconic Vampire Killer track at the end - if you didn't then go listen to the old soundtracks right now! I'll remind you that we have 51 of the original Castlevania tracks in this DLC, with 12 reimagined by our resident musician Yoann "Valmont" Laulan in his Dead Cells style. If that's not reason enough to check out this DLC then I don't know what is! If you haven't wishlisted it yet, here's a handy link for you: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101430/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania/ That's not all, there's a couple more bits of Dead Cells news!

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Hey everyone! We're back with a reminder that our next DLC, Return to Castlevania, is coming early this year! To get you mentally prepared for some whipping and vampire-slaying, we've created a little teaser giving a nod to the classic Castlevania games and some (very quick) glimpses of gameplay... [previewyoutube=q10fKa_MkW0;full][/previewyoutube] We've also opened up applications for streamers and content creators to apply for keys on Keymailer - https://www.keymailer.co/g/games/164855, but we won't be distributing any keys for a little while. If you haven't wishlisted the DLC yet, then get on over to the storepage and get that thing on your list! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101430/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania/ Back soon with more news... Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

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Hi everyone, After almost a year of keeping quiet, and we still can't believe that we get to say this, but our next DLC "Return to Castlevania" is coming in Q1 2023! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101430/Dead_Cells_Return_to_Castlevania/ Wishlist it now! Yep, one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, inspirations behind Dead Cells is being reimagined in our fast-paced, frenetic gameplay with our most ambitious DLC to date. Somehow we managed to convince KONAMI to let us recreate this truly iconic pillar of gaming, and we have loved every minute of crafting our very own love letter to the granddad of Dead Cells, bringing the Castlevania series back to its 2D action roots. We hope that we have done justice to the game that inspired a thousand more and it has been a ridiculous privilege to work on this project. Anyway, that's enough fanboying, let's get on with the post! First up is a brand new animated trailer to celebrate the DLC, courtesy of Bobby Pills: [previewyoutube=Eu3zfCDbRoU;full][/previewyoutube]

What's in the DLC?

Hey everyone, We're once again asking for some intrepid Dead Cells players to test some exciting, shiny-new and very chunky Dead Cells content and help us get some final polish on it. We will be asking for feedback and there will likely be some game-breaking bugs and weird crashes, you have been warned! NOTE: People who applied after our Discord message a few weeks ago do not need to apply again! If you'd like to take part then please fill in the form using the link at the end of this post. You will need to provide your full name, email and Steam profile name - we'll only use those details strictly to contact you about the beta, but if it makes you uncomfortable to give us that information then unfortunately you won't be able to take part. However, we've done this three times now and never had any problems, so you'll be in safe hands You'll also need to sign an NDA before we start, then not share any details of the content with anyone outside the testing group until we release the content. If you do, we'll come after you with the giant Frantic Sword we keep in the office. Only half joking... Applications are open until the end of November, then testing would begin around mid-December. We will not send anyone any messages before the end of November/start of December, so don't worry if you don't have any contact from us before then. You can apply here: https://forms.clickup.com/2460712/f/2b318-21862/ION7S0V1385HHFV92D Thanks in advance to everyone who wants to take part! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hi everyone, We've just released a hotfix for a load of small bugs and quality of life issues, here are the main fixed bugs:

• Crash with Diverse Deck in custom mode
• Glow effect issues with weapons and mobs
• Generation issue with campfire lore room
• Crash when using key to unlock Cavern biome
• Flawless outfits not dropping
• Duplicate icons for Hotline Miami outfit

Hey everyone, We're back with another indie crossover update - Everyone is Here Vol. II! We've added more weapons, skills and skins from our favourite indie games, so thanks to all the studios that let us add a piece of their creations to Dead Cells. Watch out for a bundle going live in the next few hours, more on that below... So, who's in the update? [previewyoutube=A_kmohIc-b4;full][/previewyoutube]

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• Crash with Diverse Deck in custom mode
• Glow issue with some outfits and Assault Shield
• Generation issue with campfire lore room
• Crash when using key to unlock Cavern biome

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Hello, The latest and hopefully last hotfix for the Boss Rush update is out. We thought we'd fixed the missing outfits and the soft lock when you die against Time Keeper in the Boss Rush... turns out that in fact we hadn't, so this hotfix should rectify those two bugs now! Sorry for the delay! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hello, A hotfix just came out to fix several annoying bugs from the Boss Rush update, as well as adding Custom Mode settings to the Boss Rush. Quality of Life

• Added Custom Mode settings to Boss Rush

• Fixed missing door after stage 2 of Boss Rush
• Fixed Boss Rush outfits not appearing at the Collector
• Fixed item in Backpack disappearing after equipping a two-handed weapon
• Fixed missing background in Panchaku lore room
• Fixed softlock when dying to Timekeeper in Boss Rush
• Fixed softlock when playing Boss Rush without the Spider Rune
• Fixed crash when fighting servants in Boss Rush
• Fixed Flint not scaling with gear level
• Fixed Conjunctivius' projectiles being offset from their hitbox
• Fixed Concierge always giving its Flawless achievement

Hey everyone, The Boss Rush update is available to play right now! Face off against 3 or 5 bosses back-to-back to unlock new goodies. Oh, and look out for some new souped-up boss versions too... We've made a little trailer to show off the highlights: [previewyoutube=bAEt_uWf5Es;full][/previewyoutube] Plus, for the people who prefer visual/audio over text, I quickly whipped up a VLOG to showcase the content: [previewyoutube=gCaZwowMm78;full][/previewyoutube] Here's the TLDR and then we'll get stuck into the details!

• 4 stages to fight through - 3 bosses back-to-back - 3 enhanced bosses back-to-back - 5 bosses back-to-back - 5 enhanced bosses back-to-back
• New weapon, skill & mutation
• 8 skins
• Customisable statue
• New legendary affixes

• 3 bosses back-to-back
• 3 enhanced bosses back-to-back
• 5 bosses back-to-back
• 5 enhanced bosses back-to-back

• Spartan Sandals: Super Bump - bumps stuff even further
• Oil Sword: Oil on Kill (again, quite self explanatory: spreads oil on the ground on kill)
• Flint: Instant Charge - all attacks are fully charged without needing to hold the button
• Katana: Deflect Bullets - all uncharged attacks deflect bullet (but not grenades)
• Killing Deck: Random Effect - every card applies a random debuff on targets (any kind of DoT, crowd controls, etc. with a few exceptions that wouldn't make sense like item-specific effects)
• Money Shooter: Pay to Win - refund the shot's cost if it kills a target + innate super pierce. Can trigger multiple times if a shot kills several enemies.
• Knockback Shield: Super Bump
• Wave of Denial: Super Bump
• Pollo Power: Miracle of Life - eggs hatch into chicks that attack nearby enemies

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Hi everyone, We've just released a hotfix for the Boss Rush update beta. Balancing

• Conjunctivius balancing: - All projectiles are deleted when screaming. - The Shock Attack warning more accurately represents the hitbox of the attack. - Tentacles stop attacking during the bullet hell phase. - Tentacles swipe attack now has a visual warning.
• Modified Conjunctivius attacks cooldown increased.
• Boss Rush doors now get locked if the player hasn't unlocked enough bosses.
• The new Skins now get unlocked with cells.
• Boss Rush mode door does not appear if the player has never seen Hand of the King.
• Boss Rush shops now only have main stats items.

• Beheaded now spawns next to Mentor Knight after winning a Boss Rush run.

• Fixed a softlock when skipping Mentor Knight's dialogue.
• Fixed a crash with the Grenade on Destroy affix.
• Fixed Boss Rush disabled items showing up in shops.
• Fixed Boss Rush disabled items dropping from bosses.
• Fixed Boss Rush survival amulets not having scrolls.
• Fixed Boss Rush legendary altars spawn
• Fixed Mama Tick not attacking when angered with Taunt.
• Fixed Giant's arms sometimes visually going crazy.
• Fixed Queen not dropping cells at the end of a Boss Rush run.
• Fixed legendary Flint scaling.

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Hey everyone, The Boss Rush update has moved into its beta phase. We haven't been able to sort out the issue with Linux and Mac so the beta is only accessible on Windows, sorry about that! For an overview of the update check out the alpha post. Here are the changes for the beta: Balancing:

• Modified Queen is now impervious to damage during her slicing interphases.
• Modified Scarecrow no longer spawns Spikers.
• Modified Conjunctivius now has 15% less health and does not deactivate platforms periodically anymore.
• The Servants are more aggressive in Boss Rush. Euterpe has been slowed down.
• Glyphs of Peril and Magic Bow are now Tactics only.
• Taunt now has a cooldown.
• Taunt legendary affix - Troll: now taunts everything in range instead of just one target.
• Glyphs of Peril legendary affix: Overshield on crit: grants 4% max health as overshield (blue health) for 15 seconds, stackable.
• The 3 new items must now be unlocked for cells at the Collector.
• Disabled the Giant Killer, Wish and spoiler weapon in Boss Rush.
• Wish no longer works on weapons that have been recently equipped or are in the backpack.
• Added a triple treasure at the start of the Boss Rush.
• Rebalanced Boss Rush shops' prices and content.
• Cells no longer drop from bosses in the Boss Rush, except the final one. The final boss doesn't drop gold anymore.

• A few modified bosses recolors were changed.
• Added all missing dialogues for Mentor Knight.
• Polished intro cutscene of Modified Concierge.

• Boss rush transitions now have background music.
• Added SFX for Mentor Knight, Glyphs of Peril and the Beheaded Fan.
• Changed VFX of Glyphs of Peril.

• Arrow and Grenade affixes now properly scale with item damage multipliers
• Malaise no longer increase in transition areas
• Fixed a few items not displaying their synergy with stun in their descriptions
• Fixed not being able to reset equipped Perks before starting a Boss Rush run
• Fixed Servants fight music
• Fixed Wish turning an already legendary weapon into the same weapon and getting consumed
• Fixed two-handed weapons not having the same quality on both hands
• Fixed talisman rerolling in Boss Rush every time stats are upgraded

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hello, We're back with another alpha for our next slab of content - the Boss Rush Update!

How does it work?

• 3 bosses back-to-back
• 3 bosses back-to-back with modifiers
• 5 bosses back-to-back
• 5 bosses back-to-back with modifiers

• Spartan Sandals: Super Bump - bumps stuff even further
• Oil Sword: Oil on Kill (again, quite self explanatory: spreads oil on the ground on kill)
• Flint: Instant Charge - all attacks are fully charged without needing to hold the button
• Katana: Deflect Bullets - all uncharged attacks deflect bullet (but not grenades)
• Killing Deck: Random Effect - every card applies a random debuff on targets (any kind of DoT, crowd controls, etc. with a few exceptions that wouldn't make sense like item-specific effects)
• Money Shooter: Pay to Win - refund the shot's cost if it kills a target + innate super pierce. Can trigger multiple times if a shot kills several enemies.
• Knockback Shield: Super Bump
• Wave of Denial: Super Bump
• Pollo Power: Miracle of Life - eggs hatch into chicks that attack nearby enemies

How to access the alpha:

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

• Long load time after the Queen. It'll be fixed in the next patch.
• Glyph of Peril weapon lacks polish.
• The exit text when you win a run should not be "Do you want to abandon the run?", obviously.
• The alpha is only available on Windows, not Mac or Linux - we have a problem which should be fixed for beta.

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Hello, Due to circumstances that we will explain below, we're being forced to increase our prices in Argentina & Turkey. We don't make this choice lightly, but unfortunately a significant portion of sales in the last year came from these two countries, without a corresponding increase in players there. To put this in context, the % of our total sales from a given country will roughly equal the % of our total players from that country. For Argentina & Turkey, their % of total sales is 3-4x the amount of the % of their total players. By no coincidence, the price of Dead Cells and DLC in these two countries are by far the lowest in dollar/euro terms, so it is extremely likely that people are changing their region to take advantage of a 70-90% reduction in price. Dead Cells is already not an expensive game at $24.99 and we regularly discount Dead Cells by 40-50%. With people taking advantage of the region pricing on top of this discount, hopefully you can see why this is impacting us so heavily. We realise that this will seem unfair to legitimate Steam users in Argentina & Turkey, but we are not a big studio and we are losing a very significant amount of revenue while trying to finance future projects and more Dead Cells content, so we are being forced to act. We hope that explains why we're making this change, we always try to be as open as possible with our community here on Steam and we are always open to feedback. Thanks, Matt, EE & MT

Hey everyone, We're back with our thirtieth update, 'Enter the Panchaku'! To celebrate this milestone of 30 updates, we're releasing 30 NFTs that unlock exclusive content in the game. The release date for these is never, because we're not touching that stuff. Gotcha... Here's the TLDR of the update:

• panchaku and new 'flame head' Bobby outfit
• rebalancing on weapons & items
• rework of legendaries system
• Soul Knight weapon and outfit
• pet your pets
• roadmap and Evil Empire/Motion Twin priorities

• Hard Light Sword and Pistol: slight damage buff to the sword and attack speed buff to the pistol
• Hokuto's Bow: damage bonus buffed
• Queen's Rapier: the delayed slice hits sooner
• Maw of the Deep: attack speed buff
• Wrecking Ball: first and last attack are faster + greatly reduced lock on Wrecking Ball's third and fourth attacks
• Leghugger: now jumps on a nearby target before launching its reactivation attack + keeps its growth state across instances of the object in a run
• Killing Deck: damage buff on the first 2 attacks
• Hand Hook: now also crits when the thrown enemy hits another entity + removed the first hit + greatly reduced the lock of the last attack.
• Greed Shield: can now trigger once per enemy every 10 seconds + damage buff
• Frantic Sword: crit multiplier is now inversely proportional to your life (when at or under 50% max life)
• Abyssal Trident: slight damage buff
• Shrapnel Axes: slight damage buff
• Pollo Power: now fires 1 more egg + damage buff
• Crowbar: now also crits on beast enemies (hand-picked, think "non-humanoid, non-mechanic")
• Lightning Bolt: now crits one tick earlier and damages you 1 tick later
• Spiked Shield: crit damage buff
• Cudgel: Bullets parried will now stun enemies as well.
• Gilded Yumi rework: - Reduced the ammo count to 2. - Now has a 2-hit combo, which shoots the second arrow faster. - Is now considered to be a Heavy Weapon. - Increased the overall weapon speed. - Increased the base damage, reduced the crit multiplier. - Damage no longer gets split between hit enemies. - Arrows now pierce all enemies. - Bosses get dragged by the arrow more. - Reduced the arrow's speed. - No longer stuns in an AoE on hit. - Can't roll ammo or pierce affixes anymore.

• Smoke Bomb: scaling heavily nerfed (it was following the same formula as the stats)
• Grappling Hook: same as Smoke Bomb
• Boy's Axe: damage nerf + can't roll the Extra Ammo affix + can't be affected by Ammo mutation
• Bladed Tonfas: slight crit multiplier nerf
• Lacerating Aura: cooldown now starts at the end of the effect instead of starting at cast
• Maw of the Deep: its root is now less effective on bosses
• Crusher: its slow is now less effective on bosses
• Hunter's Grenade: no longer provides stats
• Rapier: damage nerf
• Sonic Carbine: damage nerf
• Hokuto's Bow: procs less often
• Barbed Tips: damage of each stack is reduced the more arrows there are in the enemy. 1 arrow = 40dmg, 2 arrows = 74dmg, 3 arrows = 104dmg, etc.

• Balanced Blade: Run Speed on Crit
• Spite Sword: Poison Skin Area
• Assassins Dagger: Mega Crit
• Blood Sword: Double Stack
• Twin Daggers: Run Speed on Crit
• Broadsword: Global Shield on Kill
• Shovel: Better Secrets
• Cursed Sword: True Evil
• Sadist's Stiletto: Super Back Damage
• Swift Sword: Run Speed on Kill
• Giant Killer: God Slayer
• Shrapnel Axes: Fire Bullet
• Seismic Strike: Death Root
• War Spear: Run Speed on Crit
• Impaler: Super Back Damage
• Symmetrical Lance: Quad Damage Free & Ignore Global Shields
• Rapier: Run Speed on Crit
• Meat Skewer: Super Back Damage
• Nutcracker: Death Root
• Spartan Sandals: Fire Feet
• Spiked Boots: Run Speed on Crit
• Hayabusa Boots: Super Back Damage
• Hayabusa Gauntlets: Mega Crit
• Valmont's Whip: Mega Crit
• Wrenching Whip: Bleed on Hit
• Oiled Sword: Poison on Hit
• Torch: Double Stack
• Frantic Sword: Heal Mid Life
• Flawless: Run Speed on Crit
• Flint: Fire on Hit
• Flawless: Run Speed on Crit
• Tentacle: Poison on Hit
• Vorpan: Fire on Hit
• Flashing Fans: Bleed on Hit
• Scythe Claw: Death Root
• Rhythm n Bouzouki: Fire on Hit
• Crowbar: Super Back Damage
• Snake Fangs: Double Stack
• Iron Staff: Frost Shield
• Ferryman's Lantern (Melee): Fire on Hit
• Hattori's Katana: Mega Crit
• Explosive Crossbow (Melee): Death Freeze
• Tombstone: Cascading Tomb
• Oven Axe: Run Speed on Crit
• Toothpick: Heavy Stun
• Toothpick (Broken): Rebuild on Kill
• Machete and Pistol: Bleed on Hit
• Hard Light Sword (Sword): Mega Crit
• Pure Nail: Death Worm
• Bone: Run Speed on Crit
• Abyssal Trident: Run Speed on Crit
• Hand Hook: Bleed on Hit
• Maw of the Deep: Triple Bullets
• Bladed Tonfas: Run Speed on Kill
• Wrecking Ball: Speed Ball
• Queen's Rapier: Super Slice
• Dagger of Profit: Run Speed on Crit
• Gold Digger: Heavy Stun
• Panchaku: Fire on Hit

• Multiple-nocks Bow: Double Bullets
• Bow and Endless Quiver: Poison on Hit
• Marksman's Bow: Heavy Stun
• Sonic Carbine: Poison Bullet
• Infantry Bow: Bleed on Hit
• Quick Bow: Mega Crit
• Ice Bow: Strong Ice
• Heavy Crossbow: Super Pierce
• Heavy Crossbow (Reload): Global Shield on Use
• Repeater Crossbow: Super Pierce
• Repeater Crossbow (Quiver of Bolts): Pierce
• Ice Crossbow: Strong Ice
• Ice Crossbow (Piercing Shot): Death Freeze
• Explosive Crossbow: Super Pierce
• Alchemic Carbine: Double Stack
• Boomerang: Extra Ammo Few
• Hemorrhage: Bleed Propagation
• The Boys Axe: Extra Ammo Few
• War Javelin: Fire Bullet
• Hokutos Bow: Super Pierce
• Nerves of Steel: Mega Crit
• Throwing Knife: Bleed Propagation
• Electric Whip: Super Back Damage
• Firebrands: Double Stack
• Ice Shards: Death Freeze
• Pyrotechnics: Double Stack
• Lightning Bolt: Global Shield on Kill
• Fire Blast: Global Shield on Use
• Frost Blast: Strong Ice
• Magic Missiles: Super Pierce
• Blowgun: Poison Cloud on Hit
• Barrel Launcher: Death Fire
• Ferrymans Lantern (Soul Shot): Fire Bullet
• Hard Light Gun: Double Stack
• Killing Deck: Bleed on Hit
• Gilded Yumi: Fire Bullet
• Money Shooter: Super Pierce
• Magic Bow: Double Bullets

• Front Line Shield: Counter Attack
• Cudgel: Long Stun
• Punishment: Death Freeze
• Knockback Shield: Death Root
• Rampart: Frost Shield
• Assault Shield: Heavy Stun
• Bloodthirsty Shield: Double Stack
• Greed Shield: Gold Damage Buff
• Spiked Shield: Mega Crit
• Parry Shield: Stun Shield
• Force Shield: Frost Shield
• Thunder Shield: Poison Shield
• Ice Shield: Strong Ice

• Double Crossb-o-matic: Super Pierce
• Sinew Slicer: Bleed Propagation
• Heavy Turret: Super Pierce
• Barnacle: Poison Bullet
• Flamethrower Turret: Double Stack
• Cleaver: Double Stack
• Wolf Trap: Ice on Stop
• Crusher: Ice on Stop
• Explosive Decoy: Run Speed on Kill
• Emergency Door: Deployed Dmg
• Tesla Coil: Oil and Fire on Destroy
• Scavenged Bombard: Double Speed

• Powerful Grenade: Bigger Explosion
• Infantry Grenade: Oil
• Cluster Grenade: Echo
• Magnetic Grenade: Echo
• Stun Grenade: Long Stun
• Ice Grenade: Strong Ice
• Fire Grenade: Bigger Explosion
• Root Grenade: Death Root
• Oil Grenade: Death Fire
• Swarm Grenade: Poison on Hit (yes, it applies to the biters attacks)

• Death Orb: Double Speed
• Tornado: Double Speed
• Knife Dance: Bleed Poison
• Corrupted Power: Global Shield on Use
• Vampirism: Oil and Fire on Use
• Tonic: Extended Duration
• Grappling Hook: Fire on Use
• Phaser: Poison on use
• Corrosive Cloud: Double Stack
• Lacerating Aura: Bleed on Hit
• Wave of Denial: Oil and Fire on Use
• Wings of the Crow: Global Shield on Use
• Great Owl of War: Super Pierce
• Lightspeed: Global Shield on Use
• Giant Whistle: Echo
• Telluric Shock: Global Shield on Kill
• : Run Speed on Kill
• Smoke Bomb: Run Speed on Use
• Mushroom Boi!: Poison Cloud on Hit
• Lightning Rods: Fire on Stop
• Scarecrow Sickles: Double Bullets
• Ice Armor: White Walker
• Serenade: Durability Up
• Cocoon: Frost Shield
• Face Flask: Oil and Fire on Use
• Pollo Power: Death Worm
• Leghugger: Bleed on Hit

• Reworked the Outfit Selection UI. It is now a grid displaying the icons of all the unlocked outfits, as well as an in-game preview.
• Added Teleportation Monoliths before the exits leading to Forgotten Sepulcher.
• Added an exit to Clock Tower in Graveyard, for cases where the player would get softlocked otherwise.
• In Ramparts, prevented the exit leading to Conjunctivius from being locked behind a Breakable Ground.
• In Prisoners' Quarters, if the player has the Spider Rune but not the Vine Rune, the passage to the Sewers door will now use a specific room. Yes, this is a very specific change, don't ask about it.
• Weapons' icons on the HUD now fade away when their controls are locked.
• Uniformized the different speed bonus feedbacks.
• Made double tap input option for Dive Attack more reliable and consistent.
• Talisman DoT Affixes now scale based on the highest tier stat, instead of the tier average.
• Gold Gorgers now can't attack or teleport to the player if they didn't see the player at least once.

• Fixed Corrosive Cloud not triggering the Bleed Propagation affix.
• Fixed Serenade sometimes losing its affixes on use.
• Fixed Explosive Barrels not updating properly when not on screen.
• Disabled gravity when picking up a scroll, to prevent a softlock when falling offscreen.
• Fixed tier icons not displaying properly on colorless items.
• Fixed the Bank Pop-up and the 1BC Pop-up overlapping.
• Corrosive Cloud now correctly displays its synergy with Bleed.
• Fixed the Cherry on the Cake bombs not dealing any damage to the player.
• Added the missing world map transition of Distillery -> Lighthouse.
• Fixed Conjunctivius sometimes shooting projectiles during the death animation.
• Fixed the Hunter's Grenade not spawning back when thrown off a cliff, or when an enemy converted to elite fell of a cliff.
• Fixed a crash when picking up an amulet with the Homunculus Rune in the Daily Challenge.
• Fixed Mushroom Boi getting stuck in the dash animation after triggering the explosion.
• Fixed Mutineers' melee attack not having the attack warning.
• Fixed Invisibility not affecting the player's head or scarf.
• Fixed Armored Shrimps moving while frozen.
• Fixed the player getting stuck off-screen in some specific situations.
• Fixed pets sometimes dying for no apparent reasons
• Fixed the Leghugger not teleporting back to the player when too far away.
• Fixed minimap refresh hiding part of the maps revealed by Explorer's Instinct.
• Fixed Scrolls on the minimap not displaying their Stat icon, when triggering Explorer's Instincts.
• Fixed mutations going higher and higher on the HUD every time the player changes the "place backpack next to weapons" option.
• Fixed Queen sometimes getting stuck on the "Reality Slices" phase.
• Fixed some powers and effects not working properly after going through a ZDoor, as well as their visual disappearing: - Ice Armor's sprite. - Cell Bonus FX. - Lacerating Aura FX. - Wings of the Crow FX.
• Fixed elite Gold Gorgers using Elite Skills when transformed by the Hunter's Grenade.
• Fixed Barbed Tips damage multiplier being applied one stack too early.
• Fixed Two-Handed Weapons not properly generating their legendary affix.
• Fixed the way DoT Effects damage scale was calculated, leading to some of them dealing less damage than intended.
• Fixed Custom Heads being on the wrong layer after the player was thrown by the Queen.
• Fixed DPS display on weapons not working properly with damage multipliers.
• Fixed DPS display for the Bone.
• Fixed options text getting out of the frame when opened on the main menu.

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Hey all, Just a short post on yet another patch for the beta - we're taking as much feedback as possible on board! Here's the changes: Balancing:

• Removed the pushback on Rampart's force field.
• The recovery after Wrecking Ball's 3rd hit and 4th hit has been greatly reduced i.e. you can dodge roll/jump much quicker after the hits. The 3rd attack can also be cancelled without losing your combo.
• Full Life Damage is not a starred affix anymore.
• Increased Barbed Tips initial damage.
• Barbed Tips damage of each stack is reduced the more arrows there are in the enemy. 1 arrow = 40dmg, 2 arrows = 74dmg, 3 arrows = 104dmg, etc.
• Removed Hand Hook's first hit and greatly reduced the lock of the last attack.
• Added new Legendary Affix, exclusive to Serenade: Durability Up, the sword pet never expires. Please note that the only translations of this affix are in French or English right now.
• Gilded Yumi rework: - Reduced the ammo count to 2. - Now has a 2-hit combo, which shoots the second arrow faster. - Is now considered to be a Heavy Weapon. - Increased the overall weapon speed. - Increased the base damage, reduced the crit multiplier. - Damage no longer gets split between hit enemies. - Arrows now pierce all enemies. - Bosses get dragged by the arrow more. - Reduced the arrow's speed. - No longer stuns in an AoE on hit.

• Double Crossb-o-matic: Super Pierce
• Explosive Crossbow: Super Pierce
• Heavy Crossbow: Super Pierce
• Giant Whistle: Echo
• Tornado: Double Speed
• Spiked Boots: Run Speed on Crit
• Cluster Grenade: Echo
• Balanced Blade: Run Speed on Crit
• Hank Hook: Bleed on Hit
• Serenade: Durability Up

• Added decorations in the Panchaku Lore Room

• Weapons' icons on the HUD now fade away when their controls are locked.
• Updated the credits.

• Made double tap input option for Dive Attack more reliable and consistent.
• Added an angry eye on some animations, with the Bobby Outfit.

• Fixed Scrolls on the minimap not displaying their Stat icon, when triggering Explorer's Instincts.
• Fixed mutations going higher and higher on the HUD every time the player changes the "place backpack next to weapons" option.
• Fixed the "Try 1BC" pop-up appearing when the player has already played 1BC at least once.
• Fixed Challenge Portals graphics being messed up.
• Fixed multiple crashes related to shader compilation.
• Fixed being able to pet Serenade when holding it as a weapon.
• Affixes now work on Leghugger and Mushroom Boi's attacks.
• Fixed a crash when entering some biomes with the "secret zone visibility" option enabled.
• Fixed Queen sometimes getting stuck on the "Reality Slices" phase.
• Fixed some powers and effects not working properly after going through a ZDoor, as well as their visual disppearing:
• Ice Armor's sprite.
• Cell Bonus FX.
• Lacerating Aura FX.
• Wings of the Crow FX.
• Fixed some sound effects getting randomly cut off. Hopefully it's fixed this time.
• Fixed elite Gold Gorgers using Elite Skills when transformed by the Hunter's Grenade.
• Fixed some fires and candles displaying as pink rectangles, not displaying at all, or displaying the wrong sprite.
• Area effects that are directly triggered by Weapons, Grenades and Actives will now be properly affected by the source item's affixes.
• Fixed Panchaku and Bobby Outfit not unlocking properly

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Hey all, Update 30 has progressed from alpha to beta! If you don't know what we'll be adding in this update, go read the alpha post. Here are the changes we've made for the beta (also in patchnotes on our website): Important features:

• Added unlocking conditions for the new content (Panchaku, Bobby Outfit and Soul Knight Content)

• Buffed the damage of the Back Damage, Super Crit and Super Back Damage affixes.
• Reduced the damage and tick rate of Barbed Tips.
• Increased the damage and crit multiplier of Gilded Yumi.
• The Hand Hook pull attack now comes out way faster, but has more lag to compensate.
• Legendary Weapons no longer roll a guaranteed Starred Affix
• Bullets parried by the Cudgel will now stun enemies as well.
• Rampart's forcefield now pushes enemies away for its entire duration.

• Reworked the Outfit Selection UI. It is now a grid displaying the icons of all the unlocked outfits, as well as an in-game preview.

• Added proper sound effects to the Panchaku.

• Custom Heads can now load custom atlases.
• Added a new folder in the ModTools : ModHelperSkin. It contains a full custom outfit with differently colored points instead of a proper model, to help with making outfit mods.
• We also provided a json file containing all the tracks of all the joints, for all the animations in the game. This data can potentially be used to roughly recreate the 2D animations.

• Corrosive Cloud now correctly displays its synergy with Bleed.
• Prevented Death Root from triggering on non-mob entities.
• Fixed the Tailor's Room decorations being offset from the center.
• Removed the Flawless Outfits displaying two times in the Outfit Selection UI.
• Fixed a crash when breaking the Bank's Golden Doors.
• Fixed the bombs from the 'Cherry on the Cake' modifier in Custom Mode not dealing any damage to the player.
• Added the missing world map transition of Distillery -> Lighthouse.
• Fixed Conjunctivius sometimes shooting projectiles during the death animation.
• Fixed the Hunter's Grenade not spawning back when thrown off a cliff, or when an enemy converted to elite fell of a cliff.
• Fixed a crash when picking up an amulet with the Homunculus Rune in the Daily Challenge.
• Fixed Mushroom Boi getting stuck in the dash animation after triggering the explosion.
• Fixed Mutineers' melee attack not having the attack warning.
• Fixed Invisibility not affecting the player's head or scarf.
• Fixed Armored Shrimps moving while frozen.
• Fixed the player getting stuck off-screen in some specific situations.
• Fixed pets sometimes dying for no apparent reason.
• Fixed Magic Bow and Scarecrow's Sickles interacting weirdly when reflected by the Queen.
• Fixed the Leghugger not teleporting back to the player when too far away.
• Fixed minimap refresh hiding parts of the map revealed by Explorer's Instinct.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey everyone, We're taking a little breather from constant alpha/beta/update announcements to kill off the belief that, with the latest DLC 'The Queen and the Sea', we are at or near the end of Dead Cells' lifetime. We can see how people ended up thinking this, but reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated... To clarify the situation we're giving you a little roadmap for the rest of the year. We're reasonably confident on the release times and content, but there's no guarantees in game development so please don't take this as gospel truth.
If you follow our Steam posts, you'll know all about our next update, which is currently in alpha. If you're not up to speed you can read the alpha post here. Quick TLDR: we'll be adding the long awaited panchaku and a new flame head outfit based on our beloved animated trailers, a ton of rebalancing on weapons & items, reworking the legendaries system to make it more intuitive & interesting, a Soul Knight weapon & outfit and you'll be able to pet the pets.
Following that update we'll be adding a Boss Rush area! The basic idea here is to let you fight all the bosses you've met so far, one after the other, with unlockables to win as you progress. There should be a few different 'modes' in the Boss Rush to expand the challenge beyond that central idea and we'll potentially be adding a scoreboard to add a bit of friendly competition. Again just a reminder that this is all TBD so, for your sanity and ours, don't take anything said here as set in stone. Before Christmas there'll be yet another update dropping, but this one is still under wraps so you'll have to wait a bit to know what's in this one. Heading into 2023 we won't be slowing down, in fact we'll be stepping things up! It's going to be by far our biggest year since the 1.0 launch and we're thrilled to show you what we've been cooking up behind the scenes. What we're getting at here is that we're very much in the mid-life of Dead Cells. We're not sneaking out at night to get drunk on street corners anymore, but we've still got plenty of life in us before our knees start to give in, so prepare yourselves for more Dead Cells content. Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

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Hey all, Hot on the tails of our accessibility release, we're releasing a new alpha into the wild! In this update we'll be adding the long awaited panchaku and a new Bobby outfit to go with it, a ton of rebalancing on weapons & items, reworking the legendaries system to make it more intuitive & interesting, Soul Knight content and (game changer!) letting you pet your pets. Patchnotes are here if you just want to read the list, if you want a bit of extra info and some gifs then keep reading!

Panchaku & Bobby outfit

• Hard Light Sword and Pistol: slight damage buff to the sword and attack speed buff to the pistol
• Queen's Rapier: the delayed slice hits sooner
• Maw of the Deep: attack speed buff
• Wrecking Ball: first and last attack are faster
• Leghugger: now jumps on a nearby target before launching its reactivation attack + keeps its growth state across instances of the object in a run
• Gilded Yumi: charge time slightly decreased + now crits reliably on Mama Tick (to be consistent with Impaler)
• Killing Deck: damage buff on the first 2 attacks
• Hand Hook: now also crits when the thrown enemy hits another entity
• Greed Shield: can now trigger once per enemy every 10 seconds + damage buff
• Frantic Sword: crit multiplier is now inversely proportional to your life (when at or under 50% max life)
• Abyssal Trident: slight damage buff
• Shrapnel Axes: slight damage buff
• Pollo Power: now fires 1 more egg + damage buff
• Crowbar: now also crits on beast enemies (hand-picked, think "non-humanoid, non-mechanic")
• Lightning Bolt: now crits one tick earlier and damages you 1 tick later
• Spiked Shield: crit damage buff

• Smoke Bomb: scaling heavily nerfed (it was following the same formula as the stats)
• Grappling Hook: same as Smoke Bomb
• Boy's Axe: damage nerf + can't roll the Extra Ammo affix + can't be affected by Ammo mutation
• Bladed Tonfas: slight crit multiplier nerf
• Lacerating Aura: cooldown now starts at the end of the effect instead of starting at cast
• Maw of the Deep: its root is now less effective on bosses
• Crusher: its slow is now less effective on bosses
• Hunter's Grenade: no longer provides stats
• Rapier: damage nerf
• Sonic Carbine: damage nerf
• Hokuto's Bow: procs less often + damage bonus nerfed

• Popup window to tell you to try 1BC at the start of every 0BC run after killing HotK, if you've never tried 1BC (stops appearing after you try 1BC one time)
• Sonic Carbine DPS display fixed
• Damage cap (50%) added to the Servants (you can't one shot them anymore, sorry)
• Conjunctivius' tentacles' damage cap increased to make them 2-shottable

How to access the alpha:

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hello, We've just released a hotfix to address some pressing bugs that were introduced with the latest update (and a couple from previous updates!) Here are the issues that we've fixed:

• Can't use the down input with analog stick on controller. If the problem persists - reset the controller settings to default to fix it.
• Glitchy sound effects
• Crash when reloading a save where you are in Undying Shores
• Issues with stat icons being misaligned and different sizes
• "We recommend playing Dead Cells with a controller" message overlapping with "Show the update pop-up again" message
• Boss HP resetting to full HP when you exit to main menu and reload
• Affixes for oil dive attack and fire dive attack triggering at different heights
• Auto-jump triggering while climbing, making it impossible to climb
• Misplaced arrow in multiple lives selection
• Dying to the vault challenge in The Bank with Continue Mode softlocks the game
• Damage numbers on enemy hit have an arrow icon in the middle
• Lock with dying on Time Keeper boss then Null Access crash on reload
• Pollo Power effect affixes not working
• Using Pollo Power while entering The Ossuary leaves you stuck in mid-air
• Custom mode is displayed twice in the main menu
• Sprite of item bought from a shop with a mimic remains on screen and can't be interacted with

Hello everyone, Our latest update 'Breaking Barriers' is live and making Dead Cells more accessible to everyone. It's been five years since our Early Access release (yep, five freaking years!) and we realised it's about time we made sure that Dead Cells can be enjoyed by as many people as possible. TLDR

• Loads of new options to improve accessibility, such as adjustable font type & size, input customisation and individual adjustment of sound effect volumes
• Assist Mode including customisation of enemy health/damage, trap speed/damage and parry window. Plus options for multiple lives, auto-hit with primary weapon & full map reveal
• Big reduction in cell cost of early-game weapons
• 7 weapon reworks

• Hold to second jump
• Hold to roll
• Shield toggle option, instead of long press
• More options to customise controls, especially actions that require a long press or a complex input + joystick action

• Customisable interface size and transparency
• Choice of game font styles (including pixellated)
• Game font colour customisation
• Font size can be changed for item names, item descriptions and dialogues
• Stats (Brutality / Tactics / Survival ) colour customisation - affects the stats colour for the HUD, menus, icons, weapons, items etc
• Texts in the stat selection menu no longer use "Red", "Purple" and "Green", but "Brutality", "Tactic" and "Survival"
• Display stats icons (fist, lightning, plus sign) next to character stats
• Add an outline to the Beheaded, projectiles, enemies, active skills, NPCs and secrets. Outline colours can be customised
• Add a colored filter between the background and foreground. The color and opacity of the filter can be freely customized
• Synergy and stat icons in equipment menu to help readability
• No-blood mode
• Adjustable particle limit (reduce the particle effect from enemies dying or weapon effects)
• Option to toggle critical hit feedback
• Adjust the size of the attack announcement exclamation mark

• Adjust volume of different sound effects separately

• Multiple lives each time you die you can resurrect from the beginning of the biome (this effectively already existed by quitting the game when you die, now it's just 'official'). You can choose between 1, 3, 7 or infinite lives. This is targeted for players who have involuntary movements or activity, such as muscle spasms, to have another chance if their run is ruined by something that is out of their control.
• Auto-hit automatically target nearby enemies with your primary melee weapon. The one time that the mobile version was ahead of us! This will automatically attack with your primary weapon, allowing players to just manage their secondary weapon and skills, reducing the need for rapid inputs.
• Adjustable trap damage, enemy damage and enemy health in % increments, plus toggable options for slower parry window and trap speed. This is meant to allow specific, dare we say delicate, adjustment of the games challenge. For instance, the standard trap speed can make a Challenge Room require a series of rapid inputs to get through it successfully, which might not be doable for some players. But, if they find the rest of the gameplay balanced already, they can just change this specific part of the game and leave the rest as it is.
• Option to instantly reveal the whole map.

Weapon Reworks

• Barnacle: new crit condition on bleeding or poisoned targets to make it less awkward (and bad).
• Tentacle: lots of bug fixes. It should be way more reliable now.
• Magnetic Grenade: full rework: it doesn't send enemies flying around (often in your head) but instead pulls them towards the explosion.
• Biters pets: now way more resistant to attacks and effects that don't specifically target them.
• Corrupted Power: now in % instead of a flat bonus. No other difference functionally speaking.
• Wings of the Crow: lots of bug fixes.
• Decoy: can be manually detonated after a few moments (it's not a grenade, but you don't have to awkwardly wait for it to explode if you don't want to)

Early-game item cost reduced

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Hey everyone, We're back with a pretty expansive beta for our upcoming accessibility update. If you haven't heard about what we're planning, go and read our previous alpha post. Otherwise, here are all the changes that we've made with the new beta...

Balancing

• Reverted the changes on Crowbar.
• Barnacle no longer crits on bleeding enemies.
• Machete & pistol: The third hit now ignores side shields.

• Added an option to toggle the Crit Feedbacks.
• Added an option to toggle Synergy Icons.
• Tweaked the Crit Feedback on the HUD to something less visually jarring.
• Changed all the Synergy Icons, as well as the Affect Icons, to make them more readable.
• Outlines' colors can now be changed.
• Added an option to toggle an outline for NPCs.
• Added an option to change the text size of Item Names, Item Item Descriptions and Dialogues.
• The HUD size can now be increased.
• Added the Assist Mode to the Main Menu.
• Added an option to increase the size of the Attack Announces.
• The Brutality / Tactic / Survival color override now apply to the HUD, menus, icons, weapons, items, etc.
• Added a new font to choose from: "Adys".
• Added an an option to add a colored filter between the background and foreground. The color and opacity of the filter can be freely customized.
• Reorganized the entirety of the Options menu and added a new "Accessibility" section.
• Texts in the Stat Selection Menu no longer use "Red", "Purple" and "Green", but "Brutality", "Tactic" and "Survival".

• "Show Kill Count" option is now enabled by default.
• The number of lives with Assist Mode's continue mode can now be changed.
• Added an option to prevent "Auto-Attack" from breaking doors.
• Added an Assist Mode option to instantly reveal the whole map.

• Added a way to modify the Assist Mode's values through mods.

• Fixed a crash when scrolling through the credits.
• Thunder Shield is now longer considered to be a ranged weapon.
• Fixed a crash when entering Graveyard.
• Fixed a bug where the mob displayed by the Mirror would appear glitched out in some situations.
• Fixed Face Flask's "Volley of Arrows" affix not dealing any damage.
• Fixed a bug where scrolling in the options felt "bumpy".
• Fixed the left-most part of the HUD never fading back in, in case the player would ever be behind the HUD.
• Fixed Options Sliders, with ranges different to 0-100, not working properly with a mouse.
• Fixed the control label being wrong in the Controller or Keyboard Rebind menus.
• Fixed a bug where Assist Mode's Continue would not work if the player died by a curse.
• Fixed a bug with Options Lists, where the text would overlap with the arrows.
• Fixed Golden Bat Kamikaze appearing in the ground in the Training Room.
• Fixed the War Javelin being instantly thrown after teleporting, when "Hold to Attack" is enabled.
• Fixed multiple issues when going back to an older version, after tweaking some settings in Update 29. Now, going back to an older version will create a clean version of the Options, while keeping what you changed on Update 29.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hello everyone, The alpha for our next update is live! This update will be all about making Dead Cells more accessible to everyone. It's been five years since our Early Access release, and it's about time that we made sure that Dead Cells can be enjoyed by as many people as possible. We're trying to achieve this in two ways one is a bunch of new accessibility options such as outlining sprites in-game, holding a button to jump/roll a second time, or button remapping (full list below). The other angle is an Assist Mode with sliders to adjust elements of the game such as enemy damage, enemy health and trap damage, options for slower parry window and trap speed, plus auto-hit and continue mode options. There's also a rework of 8 weapons, and the cost of early game weapons is being heavily reduced to allow players to unlock weapons while working towards the crucial upgrades like health flasks and gold.

So, why are we adding the accessibility options?

• Hold to second jump
• Hold to roll
• Shield toggle option, instead of long press
• More options to customise controls, especially actions that require a long press or a complex input + joystick action

• Customisable interface size and transparency
• Choice of game font styles (including pixellated)
• Game font colour customisation
• Stats colour customisation
• Display stats icons next to character stats
• Options to outline the Beheaded, projectiles, enemies, active skills and secrets
• Synergy and stat icons in equipment menu
• No-blood mode
• Adjustable particle limit

• Adjust volume of different sound effects separately

• Continue mode each time you die you can resurrect from the beginning of the biome (this effectively already existed by quitting the game when you die, now it's just 'official')
• Auto-hit mode automatically target nearby enemies with your primary melee weapon. The one time that the mobile version was ahead of us!
• Adjustable trap damage, enemy damage and enemy health in % increments
• Option for slower parry window and trap speed

Weapon Reworks

• Barnacle: new crit condition on bleeding or poisoned targets to make it less awkward (and bad).
• Tentacle: lots of bug fixes. It should be way more reliable now.
• Crowbar: new crit condition on stunned enemies to make it less awkward too.
• Magnetic Grenade: full rework: it doesn't send enemies flying around (often in your head) but instead pulls them towards the explosion.
• Biters pets: now way more resistant to attacks and effects that don't specifically target them.
• Corrupted Power: now in % instead of a flat bonus. No other difference functionally speaking.
• Wings of the Crow: lots of bug fixes.
• Decoy: can be manually detonated after a few moments (it's not a grenade, but you don't have to awkwardly wait for it to explode if you don't want to)

Early-game item cost reduced

How to access the alpha:

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey, Happy Monday! Weve just released a patch to fix some bugs introduced by the Break the Bank update. Here are the bugs weve fixed: General

• Using Hunter's Grenade on Mimic and Gold Gorger spawns Elite Zombie
• Tonic's health recovery is taken into account by Midas' Blood
• Crash on Runner teleport and BC4+ mob teleports if hero is not in the room
• Soft lock when queen dies while youre being resurrected by her when she has low enough health
• Pickpocket bugged SFX

• Mimic pulls you through the floor
• When using the Hunters Grenade on the Mimic, the item you attempt to buy is sometimes unavailable
• Obtaining a two-handed weapon from the Mimic only upgrades the primary hand.
• Extracting blueprint from mimic breaks the purchase
• Food mimic + Hunter's grenade = bugged food

• Streamer is able to navigate to the Bank before next level modifier vote is settled
• During darkness modifier, player gets killed in the elevator before he can do anything
• Twitch chest replaces special chest at the end of obstacle course, summoning enemies when you're unable to use conventional weapons, and seemingly disabling the outfit loot drop.

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Hey Steam Deck players, We've been made aware of an incompatibility with proton 7.0.1 and earlier. Dead Cells is a linux native game, so we highly recommend you keep on playing the game without any compatibility layer for the best experience. Additionally we cannot provide support with issues linked to unofficial forks of compatibility layers (ie. ProtonGE). Thanks, EE & MT

Hey everyone, Our next update Break the Bank is here!
TLDR:

• New optional biome The Bank
• 3 new enemies
• 3 new gold-based weapons
• 3 new gold-based mutations
• More updates and DLC are coming
• Many QoL changes and bug fixes - my favourite is items dropped after boss fights now have +1 item level, so no more unsatisfying boss loot!

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Hey, Hope you're all good and ready for the Bank to land! By the way, if you don't use legacy branches, you don't really need to read this post. Anyway, we have hit the maximum number of branches that Steam will allow, so we need to cut access to some of them, in order to accommodate newer branches. There are some that we're pretty sure are used more than others, v1.0 and Barrels o'Fun for example, but we don't have concrete data on which ones are used the most. This is a good problem for us to have as it means we've released a ton of updates and content - 27 updates since Early Access! But, it is still a problem... So, we've created this handy form for affected players to complete to help us figure out which ones need to be kept. Please use the form and not the comments, otherwise it's a massive pain to track what people are saying :) Back soon with more news, Matt

Hey, You might have noticed that we released a hotfix for the update 28 beta. The full list of changes are below: Bug Fixes: - Crash on loading into save on Bank - [MAC] Bank chest does not spawn in passage - Training room and world map biome images disappear - Crash when exiting then returning to Scarecrow during sickle attack - Null access after Vampirism dive attack - Leghugger actives crash - Crash when using Dagger of Profit with Scarecrow Outfit - Phaser makes the Queen get stuck on phase change - Enemies in the bank drop keys from the biome it is replacing - Gold Digger + Scarecrow crash Balancing - Gold Gorger crowd control resistance and HP nerf in its bigger form - Queen's crowd control resistance buff Language: - Languages are localised Let us know if you have any issues! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hello! The Bank has had a little polish, so we're here again with a new beta to check that we didn't break anything on the way. If you missed all the details of what's inside this shiny new biome, check out the last post from a week ago for the details. The changes for the beta are mainly balancing & bug fixing, but we've also added a load of SFX/music and lore room text, so the biome should feel closer to the real deal. Balancing:

• Slight damage nerfs to Big Gold Gorger and Mimic
• Reactivity and damage buff to Evil Guillain
• Midas Blood now interacts with Face Flask
• Guillain can now spawn in Cliff after the Bank
• Survival Vampirism buff: effect doubled on heavy weapons
• War Spear damage buff but is no longer a heavy weapon
• Gold Plating doesnt protect from curses anymore (as planned)
• Getting hit while using Gold Plating now properly resets the kill streak / breaks flawlessness on bosses

• Bag enemy whom we try not to spoil is now unavailable in the Training Room
• Shark now properly displays crits
• Reaching the Crown now also unlocks the Bank
• Gold Digger crash in Clock Room solved
• Dagger of Profit had no cooldown after its attacks, making it glitch weirdly and launch attacks while the previous one was still resolving and breaking its balancing and FXs in the process.

• Various additions to existing U28 features (lore rooms, tooltips, etc.)
• EN corrections

• Lots of SFX
• Music mastering update

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey everyone, We've put a new alpha out for our next free update, introducing The Bank!
This is a brand new optional biome that randomly appears in your run, replacing the following biome if you choose to enter it. To unlock it you just need to reach the Hand of the King once. If you've already reached the Hand of the King, then The Bank will start appearing the next time you start from Prisoner's Quarters.
We're also introducing more ways of using gold. When you finish a run there's often a ton of gold left, so we wanted to give it more utility through new weapons and mutations - it will change nothing for people who don't want to risk their gold, but those who do can gain strong but risky effects.

So how do you get there?

What's in it?

How to access the alpha:

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hey, Quick post to let you know that we've just pushed a hotfix sorting out various bugs introduced with The Queen and the Sea DLC, as well as some balancing changes too. The full list is below (or you can read them on our website) and I want to highlight the adjustments we made to the DLC weapons as we can't update their descriptions until the next update: Bladed Tonfas - Damage no longer scales on speed. The first attack always jumps forward, with subsequent attacks always critting if the first one hit. Maw of the Deep - Crits on rooted enemies. Also got a damage boost. Wrecking Ball - Speed on first two attacks increased. Queen's Rapier - Crits on all hit enemies instead of only the first one.

Balancing

• Decreased the Servants' HP.
• Increased the Queen's HP
• Armored Shrimps no longer take damage from spikes.
• Bladed Tonfas rework. Damage no longer scales on speed. The first attack always jumps forward, with subsequent attacks always critting if the first one hit. Please note that we will only be able to change the description in the next major update, sorry about that.
• Hitting an enemy with the Queen's Rapier in the Backpack triggers a Reality Slice.
• Shark crits on rooted enemies. Once again, we won't be able to change the description until the next major update.
• Increased Shark's damage.
• Gilded Yumi deals damage when releasing the enemy.
• Increased Wrecking Ball's speed on the first two attacks.
• The Rapier's now crits on all hit enemies instead of just the first one.

Quality of life

• Added screenshake to Machete & Pistol, Queen's Rapier and Hard Light Sword.
• Disabling screen-shake disables screen-bump as well.

Bug fixes

• Fixed Crows not moving in Fractured Shrines.
• Fixed the Giant's Hands getting stuck when pushed out of the arena during an attack.
• Armored Shrimps no longer attack when rooted.
• Fixed Mutineers ascending after dodging their attack.
• Kleio no longer acts during cinematics
• Fixed Kleio phasing through the floor when killed while on the wall.
• Fixed a crash if Euterpe is killed in less than two seconds during the chase sequence.
• The Queen no longer drops Boss Cells with an Aspect equipped.
• Fixed The Queen's Firewall attack not updating if it's off-screen.
• Fixed a crash during The Queen's Grenade Slice attack.
• Fixed a crash when killing The Queen during a phase transition.
• Fixed a crash when dying to The Queen while she's teleporting.
• Fixed a crash when killing The Queen by parrying the last Reality Slice of a series.
• Fixed The Queen's animations freezing after being rooted.
• Fixed multiple softlocks during the Spoiler Boss fight.
• Fixed a crash when quitting and re-loading while Spoiler Boss drinks potion.
• Killing a boss-summoned enemy no longer clears malaise.
• Leghugger can no longer de-evolve into its first form.
• Fixed the Hand Hook's DPS value in the pause menu being random.
• Fixed a crash with the Hand Hook, when killing an enemy during the hook phase.
• Fixed Wrecking Ball not triggering its crit condition.
• Fixed Wrecking Ball's projectile despawning when offscreen.
• Lava now deals damage to the player during the Pollo Power's transformation.
• Fixed a softlock when dying with the Cursed Sword in the Training Room.
• Fixed a softlock while jumping in the lava during Pollo Power's transformation.
• Fixed a duplication glitch with the Crowned Key.
• Fixed the player's Health Flasks not getting refilled when dying to the Spoiler Boss in the Training Room.
• Fixed a generation error where the Toxic Sewers' Fisherman room would not be accessible without certain Runes.
• Edited Shipwreck's level generation a bit to prevent a lot of softlocks, especially without the Spider Rune.
• Fixed the Trident room not appearing in Shipwreck when the "disable lore rooms" option is on.
• Fixed items spawning in Shipwreck's diorama.
• The door to The Crown no longer hides its name.
• Removed a Collector Sign duplicate in the transition level to The Crown.
• Pulleys can no longer be activated with the Homunculus Rune.
• The Homunculus Rune can be used after a Boss fight, even if the player is cursed.
• Fixed a bug where the Flawless Outfits would drop no matter what, when quitting and re-loading during a boss fight.
• Fixed a blueprint duplication bug in the Collector's UI.
• Fixed a duplication glitch when picking up an item while the game is lagging.
• Fixed a lag spike when breaking the ground in Shipwreck.
• Fixed long loading times in Custom Mode.
• Fixed Custom Mode's set equipment not giving a second skill.
• Prevented already obtained achievements from triggering again.
• Fixed some achievements not triggering on console.
• Fixed achievements not unlocking after The Queen, if "Skip Cinematics" is on.
• Fixed a crash when using any of the Scarecrow Outfits.
• Fixed a crash when playing certain sounds.

Hello! Recently we've been having conversations about making sure that everyone can experience Dead Cells, because the whole world should know the sheer joy of sacrificing Mushroom Boi to save your own skin. Obviously we're doing our own research, but the best way to figure out what we're missing is an open dialogue with you, the players. So far we have several ideas that we're exploring, such as introducing options to:

• Adjust font size & colour
• Adjust color palette for colorblindness
• Increase UI size
• Adjust contrast of background
• Enable autohit

Hey everyone, The Queen and the Sea DLC is available now! Finish the path we started with The Bad Seed & Fatal Falls DLCs and try to reach the new ending! All that stands in your way is a monster-riddled hulk of an ancient ship, a towering lighthouse guarded by three insanely strong fighters and a final epic showdown with an old friend... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580050/Dead_Cells_The_Queen_and_the_Sea Before we cover what you're going to find in this new content, let's take a moment to watch the latest installment of our animated trailers by Bobby Prod, featuring a battle-weary Beheaded and his new pet... [previewyoutube=ezDxvFUxDvc;full][/previewyoutube] Pretty cool eh? So, what's waiting for you in the new levels?

The Infested Shipwreck

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Hello! It's finally release day for The Queen and the Sea DLC! We're running a dev stream right now, both here on Steam and on Motion Twin's Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/motion_twin Come and ask questions about the new DLC, general Dead Cells stuff, our future plans and anything else you can think of! We're going to try and run it on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other channels as well, so if you prefer other platforms go check those out too :) Motion Twin Twitter Dead Cells' Facebook Motion Twin YouTube Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hey everyone, Just dropping in for a reminder that we will be releasing The Queen and the Sea DLC tomorrow at 18:00 CET/09:00 PT! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580050/Dead_Cells_The_Queen_and_the_Sea We'll also be running a dev stream tomorrow from 16:00 CET/07:00 PT until we get bored or things catch fire! So come and ask us questions, preview the new content and listen to our terrible jokes. You'll be able to watch it on the Dead Cells home page here on Steam, or if you prefer to watch it on Twitch we'll be running it on our channel there as well. We might even try Youtube, Twitter and Facebook too so keep an eye out! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hey everyone, We're back with another Queen and the Sea DLC announcement - it will be available on 6th January at 9am PT/6pm CET! With this DLC we are finishing off the path that we started years ago with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls. Ending a trilogy needs some special touches and we believe we've put quite a few in this DLC. We have an awesome new boss which we're sure will surprise you multiple times, one of the new levels is completely different to anything that youve seen before in Dead Cells, plus if you beat this DLC you get a brand new ending! For a quick peek at what you'll be getting in the final chapter of the DLC trilogy, check out our new gameplay trailer: [previewyoutube=AvS0JdWMjqw;full][/previewyoutube]

So what exactly is in it?

The Infested Shipwreck

Lighthouse

The Crown

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Key art by the legendary Michel Donz TLDR

• New DLC coming Q1 2022 - wishlist it here and we'll love you forever!
• Teaser trailer out now on YouTube, check it out below
• DLC will be $4.99 to fund continued Dead Cells development & Motion Twin project
• It finishes the path started with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls, giving a new ending to the game
• Free updates will continue until the end of time, well for another year at the very least

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Hey everyone, Hope you're enjoying the Everyone is Here update! We'd just like to ask if you could take a minute to vote for us in the Steam Awards in the Labor of Love category. Dead Cells is currently up to it's 26th update, over 4 years since our Early Access release and most of those updates were free, so we think we're allowed to shoot for this one! Have a great weekend :) Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hey Mac users, We managed to figure out what was going wrong and we've just pushed a fix to let you back in to Dead Cells. Enjoy the new update and please post a comment here if there's anything wrong :) Thanks for your patience and sorry again for the missed days of Dead Cells! Cheers, Matt, EE & MT

Hey, If you noticed a tiny patch we've just pushed out a hotfix for a few small problems. Crash & serious bugs:

• Fix broken animation with Drifter weapons on Scarecrow, Santa, Cultist and Snowman skins
• Fix Guacamelee lore room not appearing if the option "deactivate lore rooms" is activated
• Fix Crash with Pure Nail weapon in backpack
• Fix Crash with Skull Bone weapon during whirlwind attack

• Fix Giant Staff weapon parry
• Fix Face Flask not applying damage buff
• Fix Face Flask breaking kill streak
• Fix heal on Parry cooldown
• Fix mod related UI input scheme
• Fix Flawless Giant skin colors

Hey everyone, Surprise! A new update is available dcshocked Well maybe it's not so much of a surprise if you've been following our social media for the last 2 weeks... Anyway, this time around we're stoked to introduce weapons, skills and skins from some fellow indie studios, who kindly let us add a little taste of their games to Dead Cells! [previewyoutube=rUb-6F1TV6M;full][/previewyoutube]

How do you get this free stuff?

Hollow Knight

Hyper Light Drifter

Blasphemous

Guacamelee

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Curse of the Dead Gods

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Hey everyone, A new update has landed! This time there's no balance changes or new weapons, instead we're focusing on improving the ease-of-use and learning curve for everyone (particularly newcomers & occasional players), without altering the overall difficulty of the game. All the new features are entirely optional and designed to allow you to improve your skills with no ragequits! OK maybe you'll still have a couple... TLDR

• Training room - hone your skills against all the mobs and bosses you've seen
• Aspects - extremely strong powers to make your run easier (but you can't win the next Boss Cell if you beat the game)
• World map - see the paths you can take through the island
• When you pick up a scroll you can see the change to your overall damage for each colour
• Multi-binding moved to Custom Mode
• Lots of smaller quality-of-life changes

• Reminder after killing the Hand of the King to use the Homonculus rune to exit the run (except in 5BC or after the first 0BC kill). No more panicky posts to answer for me, woohoo!
• Total damage change is now displayed when picking stats from a scroll, time to retire the calculator...
• Incentive (cell drop buff) for picking your least visited biomes. Yep, it's time to go back to the [insert your most hated biome here].
• Return stones now teleport you outside their relative Z-door.
• A few tidbits of lore hinting at something coming in the near future, found in High Peak Castle and Undying Shores.
• Multi-binding is now properly removed from Normal Mode and available in Custom Mode.

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Hey everyone, A fresh hotfix for the current beta has just landed! Here are the changes... Important features

• Everything is translated!

• Added Outfits descriptions in the Tailor selection menu.

• Saving and reloading in a biome drastically decreases mobs' HP.
• Giant drops loot in Training Mode.
• Training Armory weapons scale with the player's BC.
• Tentacles sweep attacks hitting a player turret will hurt the player instead.
• Killing the Concierge at the end of the Daily Challenge doesn't end it.
• Slow-motion instances don't get skipped when the 'Disable Gameplay Slow-Motion' option is on.
• Some old, old typos in the French translation.
• Spoiler boss softlock should be fixed.

Hey, Back with another quick post to let you all know that update 25 is now in beta phase! Thanks for all the feedback from the alpha, we'd made some smaller changes already and have put the Spoiler Boss in the training room as many requested. Here's the main changes for the beta: Important features

• Two Flawless Outfits : Gardener and Tick.
• Incentive for picking your least visited biomes now makes mobs drop more cells and gems.

• Changed colors of the frames of the World Map to improve readability.

• A lot of small bug fixes, including spoiler boss issues, translation issues, Training Room problems, and crashes.

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Hey everyone, We're back with another alpha! This time there's no balance changes or new weapons, instead we're focusing on improving the learning curve for everyone (but particularly newcomers & occasional players), without altering the overall difficulty of the game. All the new features are entirely optional and designed to allow you to improve your skills with no ragequits! OK maybe you'll still get a couple... TLDR

• Training room - hone your skills against all the mobs and bosses you've seen, except the spoiler boss of course
• Aspects - extremely strong powers to make your run easier (but you can't win the next Boss Cell if you beat the game)
• World map - see the paths you can take through the island
• When you pick up a scroll you can see the change to your overall damage for each colour
• Multi-binding moved to Custom Mode
• Lots of smaller quality-of-life changes

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

• Reminder after killing the Hand of the King to use the Homonculus rune to exit the run (except in 5BC or after the first 0BC kill). No more panicky posts to answer for me, woohoo!
• Total damage change is now displayed when picking stats from a scroll, time to retire the calculator...
• Incentive (cell drop buff) for picking your least visited biomes. Yep, it's time to go back to the [insert your most hated biome here].
• Return stones now teleport you outside their relative Z-door.
• A few tidbits of lore hinting at something coming in the near future, found in High Peak Castle and Undying Shores.
• Multi-binding is now properly removed from Normal Mode and available in Custom Mode.

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Hey, Just a small update with some fixes for mod tools:

• Fixed crash happening on TmxTool (hopefully)
• Made TmxTool more user friendly
• Adapted ModsDoc accordingly

Bonjour, We've just put out a small hotfix for update 24, to fix these bugs that had popped their dirty heads up:

• Softlock when using Javelin during spoiler boss fight
• Game freezing and not responding when minimizing it while the leaderboard is displayed
• Serialization problem that caused game to be unable to load a save

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Hey everyone, Our Whats the Damage? Update is available to download! Patchnotes are in the normal place for anyone who wants to skip my ramblings. TLDR:

• Balanced items so that historically weaker ones are now viable
• Added rooms to Derelict Distillery and Fatal Falls biomes
• Weapons that can reflect grenades now reflect all the grenades in range
• Integrated Tiled for modders to make custom room design easier

Item balancing

Item Binding

Extra rooms

Room creation for modders

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Hey everyone, Update 24, now officially called the What's the Damage? update, has moved into beta. There's only a few changes from the alpha so I'll keep this short and sweet and all the changes are listed below so no need to go check out the patchnotes :) One thing you should do is to check out Derelict Distillery, we've made some decent changes to the room design so it has a different feel to it now - let us know what you think. Also, we've discovered that moving the multiple item binding to Custom Mode and keeping it isolated there is much trickier than we thought it would be. So, unfortunately it won't be available in Normal or Custom Mode when this update is officially released. Sorry, I know that's going to be annoying for some of you and if you desperately want to use key binding then there are 3rd party programs out there that can let you set it up manually, but for the moment it won't be an option in-game.

Changes for the beta

• Ice Shards weapon now has a 3 second slowdown effect (down from 5).
• Parry Shield counter projectiles now deal damage.
• Shovel damage increased.
• Tentacle damage increased.
• Tombstone does not allow crit affixes anymore due to its specific behaviour.
• Katana invincibility frames removed and forward movement reduced on basic attacks (we haven't change the charged attack)

• Added new extra rooms to Derelict Distillery - the place actually has quite a different feel to it now so check that out.
• Fixed some minor visual issues on new rooms for Undying Shores and Fractured Shrines.

• Preventing softlock when fighting Conjunctivitis boss with Snake Fangs weapon.
• Preventing softlock while using the Hunter Grenade weapon on the Giant Tick enemy.
• Preventing softlock if a double KO occurs during the true final boss fight.
• Preserving active turrets when a multi-forms weapon is evolving.
• Removing that damn pink square on the BC selector.
• Skull icon for the kill counter is fixed when you get the gold version after reloading the run.
• Elite Rampager enemies dont pause their charge anymore after roaring.
• Slashers enemies cant override the Cannot be interrupted by an enemys attack affix anymore.
• No more messages notifying a malaise tier increase when reducing infection.
• Updating the integrated Mod Support documentation.
• Some minor bug fixes.

Hey everyone, Were back with another public alpha! This time around were trialling our 24th update, which brings some more item balancing (before the pitchforks come out, check out the extra info below), more rooms for Distillery, Fractured Shrines and Undying Shores, plus some room creation support for modders. Were also killing multiple item binding, there I said it. You won't be able to use it in this alpha but you should be able to find it in custom mode when the update is officially released. Ill expand on this a bit later too. For the full list of everything affected, check out the patchnotes here.

Item Balancing

Binding

Extra rooms

Room creation for modders

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hellooo, The Whack-a-Mole update is ready to download! We're adding 3 new Survival weapons, 3 new mutations, the Collector's Intern and tweaking the difficulty curve.
TLDR of the changes:

• 3 big, heavy weapons
• 3 damage-focused mutations
• Altered the difficulty curve
• The Collectors Intern - spend your cells in 5BC!
• A fix to stop all seed error crashes. We hope...
• Malaise balancing and UI
• Fatal Falls balancing
• UI & QoL improvements
• A ton of bug fixes (yes, including the Me, Jealous? Achievement not triggering)
• Random diet option

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Hey everyone, The Update 23 alpha has given us loads of opportunity to tweak the new mutations & weapons and to fix the new bugs that inevitably pop up (whack those moles!), so we're moving the update into beta as of now :) There hasn't been a huge amount of changes to the new content, except a bit of a rework of Tombstone and the Execute mutation. So, the way Tombstone works now is: [olist]

Hey everyone, Its been a while since our last post, which was for the Fatal Falls DLC release in fact. Dear god that's nearly 6 weeks ago... Why is time so fast?! Anyway, since then we've been in the game dev kitchen cooking up some spicy sauce to put in our regular updates this year. Our next one, 'The Whack-a-mole Update' is heading into alpha today (access instructions at the bottom of this post for the impatient). TLDR of the changes:

• 3 big, heavy, f-off weapons
• 3 damage-focused mutations
• Altered the difficulty curve (work in progress)
• The Collectors Intern - spend your cells in 5BC!
• A fix to stop all seed error crashes. We hope...
• Malaise balancing and UI
• Fatal Falls balancing
• UI & QoL improvements
• A ton of bug fixes (yes, including the Me, Jealous? Achievement not triggering)
• Random diet option

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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Hi everyone, We are excited to announce that the Fatal Falls DLC is now officially available, giving you two extra mid-game biomes with new enemies, weapons, traps, lore rooms and a green-fingered boss! Our traditional animated trailer by Bobby Prod has just landed too, introducing the new Brutality pet who's maybe a little too clingy for the Beheaded... [previewyoutube=ERbtq7Wp_xo;full][/previewyoutube] That should have given you some idea of what's in the DLC (basically more cartoon violence, as everyone was expecting), but if you want more visuals of what to expect in the DLC then check out our VLOG below. If you'd prefer to read the highlights and then discover the content for yourself just skip right on past :) [previewyoutube=GW84Vykp85w;full]VLOG link[/previewyoutube]

New levels

Fractured Shrines

Undying Shores

The Mausoleum

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Hey everyone, We've got some streamers to show you the new Fatal Falls DLC while the devs are busy, hope you enjoy it! Cheers, EE & MT

Hey, Quick announcement that we'll be doing some Dead Cells streaming from 3pm to 6pm to celebrate the release of the Fatal Falls DLC today. It'll be on Twitch, in the community hub here (broadcasts section) and on our social media channels - I'll try and post links here when we're live: Steam Twitch YouTube Twitter Come hang out, ask questions and laugh at our noobiness (is that a word?) After that we'll have some actual streamers following on after us, including VeeDotMe! Hope to see you there, Matt

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Hey everyone, We're into the last 2 weeks before the Fatal Falls DLC release, so obviously there's no news to give you on future updates. However, we do have a few things to keep you entertained until something more juicy comes along.

Steam Points Shop

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Hey everyone, I hope youve all managed to take some time off and chill out a bit (and recover from the Christmas binge), everyone here is recharged and ready to kick on with making more Dead Cells. Thats my extremely subtle move into our announcement that the Fatal Falls DLC will be available on 26th January at 9am PT! For a taste of whats to come, check out our gameplay trailer: [previewyoutube=4eGJmv3Zr7M;full][/previewyoutube]

What's in it?

Bundles

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By David Thor Fjalarsson Hey everyone, Update 21 has just been released, introducing lots of new shiny things to play with over the holidays along with some broader gameplay changes. Theres a TLDR and an overview below, and if you want to get the full detail head here for the patchnotes. Boom, everyone's attention span covered. TLDR:

• Colour scaling rework
• Malaise rework
• New mutations
• New mob, weapon, outfits & diet
• Backpack rework
• Hand of the King lore room
• Usual QoL fixes

• Tactics keeps all things related to ranged gameplay: turrets, range weapons, with some utility and damaging spells to support it. Dual scales with anything that wouldnt fit in that category but is poison or electricity gameplay (e.g. Sadists Stiletto is a melee weapon so it shouldnt scale with Tactics, but as its crits work on poison gameplay it is still a red/purple dual scaling weapon).
• Brutality keeps its focus on fast melee weapons and everything related to jumping into the melee. Grenades stay mostly red. Dual scale with anything that wouldnt fit in that category but is fire or blood gameplay.
• Survival keeps its focus on crowd control, survivability, shields and slow, heavy melee weapons. Also supported by heavy damage skills with the long cooldown that goes with it. Dual scale with anything that wouldnt fit in that category but is root or ice gameplay.

• Acrobatic Preparation: Attacking with a ranged weapon also attack with the ranged weapon in your backpack. Roll to reload. (Tactics).
• Porcupine Backpack: Rolling through enemies attacks them with the melee weapons stored in your backpack. (Brutality)
• Tortoise Wheel: Rolling parry attacks and projectiles with the shield stored in your backpack. (Survival)

• The bar now fills with game time, but pauses in lore rooms, chest rooms, shops. The malaise contamination rate is tied to the number of enemies still alive in the level, the fewer enemies, the less quickly your malaise bar will fill. When only 10% of the enemies are left alive, the biome is considered "Malaise cleared".
• The higher the malaise, the more dangerous the enemies (increased movement speed, quicker teleport, shorter reaction time and at the latter stages, increased damage).
• Enemies will also randomly spawn around you and from time to time, an enemy will transform into an Elite. The spawn rate and Elite rate will also increase with Malaise.
• Being hit doesn't increase your malaise anymore. Killing enemies, Elite, and Bosses decreases your malaise gauge.
• Food looted in walls is always contaminated and will increase your Malaise bar, the "healthy" food looted on enemies doesn't decrease your Malaise bar. Healing with your flask does heal some Malaise too.
• The "Malaise Cleared" event completely stops the bar from filling until the end of the biome, and even decreases your malaise gauge with the amount you would get by killing all the enemies left in the level. However, these enemies won't give you any more malaise reduction. Mobs and Elites will stop spawning for the rest of the level.

• All biomes in BC3+ have less mobs overall.
• An option to disable the gameplay slow-motion (most notably when elites die) has been added.
• 2-slots weapons can now have different affixes on each part.

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Hello everyone, The Christmas Update, also known as the Malaise update, is now available in beta! It mainly includes the rework of the Malaise mechanic, which is a 4 and 5BC exclusive, a lot of weapon color changes, an improved backpack and 4 new mutations, as well as the usual ton of QoL and bug fixes. Full patchnotes are here.
Artwork by the fantastic David Thor Fjalarsson Since both the reworks to weapon colors and the Malaise have proven more controversial than expected among the community, we thought it would only be fair to explain the reasoning behind the changes and our plans for the future. Warning: This isn't the shortest explanation ever - we want to communicate properly with you and a TLDR doesn't really work for that...

Malaise

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Beta".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

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TL;DR:

• Alpha for update 21 is available.
• Malaise has been reworked.
• Colours have been changed, with a re-focus on their primary identity.
• Backpack will now be a meta upgrade and not dependent on two-handed weapons
• 4 new mutations, 3 are tied to the new backpack.
• The much requested Katana has finally been added to the game.
• New Mob, found in the distillery in 0BC and in some other levels in higher BCs
• The most ridiculous skin ever done in DC, and 4 slightly less ridiculous outfits.

• Go to your Steam game library.
• Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
• Select the tab "Betas".
• In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
• Start playing.

• Tactics keeps all things related to ranged gameplay: turrets & ranged weapons, with some utility and damaging spells to support it. Items that don't fit in that category but have poison or electricity gameplay will still dual scale with Tactics (e.g. Sadist's Stiletto, a knife that crits on poison targets, is not a turret or ranged weapon but has poison gameplay elements - so it will still scale with Tactics).
• Brutality keeps its focus on fast melee weapons and everything related to jumping into the fray. Grenades stay mostly red. Non-melee weapons that have fire or blood gameplay will dual scale with Brutality.
• Survival keeps its focus on crowd control, survivability, shields and slow, heavy melee weapons. Also supported by heavy damage skills with the long cooldown that goes with them. Unrelated weapons with root or ice gameplay will dual scale with Survival.

• Acrobatic Preparation*: Attacking with a ranged weapon also attacks with the ranged weapon in your backpack. Roll to reload. (Tactics).
• Porcupine Backpack: Rolling through enemies attacks them with the melee weapon stored in your backpack. (Brutality)
• Tortoise Wheel: Rolling parries attacks and projectiles with the shield stored in your backpack. (Survival)

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Hey everyone, Were stoked to announce our new DLC Fatal Falls will be available early next year! The Beheaded will be getting some much-needed fresh air in two mid-game levels outside the castle. There's also a new boss happily minding their own business until you drop in to say hello... Be a legend and Wishlist it for us eh?

What's in it?

How much is it going to be?

What else is happening?

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Hey everyone, Sorry for the few months of silence, weve been extremely busy blooding several new team members, plus going through a second lockdown, so we havent had much of a chance to say anything until now. There's still not a huge amount to update you on, but with just over a month to go until Christmas, were nearly done preparing a new update full of little stocking fillers to keep you entertained for a bit longer, including:

• New weapon
• New mob
• Lore room
• New skins
• New diet option
• A few other changes that we're still testing so we can't confirm them yet...

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