Overview: This update prioritizes clarity enhancements based on valuable player feedback, addressing concerns regarding the game's overall clarity.
Main Changes:
- Intro Level Reworked: The introductory level has been redesigned into three separate, tutorial-like segments. These aim to guide players through the game mechanics gradually.
- Tutorial Access: All tutorial windows are now accessible at any time through the Help [?] button.
- Informational Icons: Panels such as "Ability Pool," "Altar of Fading Memories," and "Place of Regret" now feature a [?] icon. Hovering over these icons reveals informative tooltips explaining each panel's function.
Level Changes:
- First Level Branching Path: The first level now offers a branching path, minimizing repetitiveness after defeat.
- Health Bubbles Increase: Additional health bubbles have been incorporated into the levels.
- Enemy Adjustments: Some chambers now feature fewer enemies.
- Environmental Enhancements: Added more pillars and altered chamber shapes to increase strategic possibilities for players.
- Limited Abilities: The first level now offers fewer abilities, with three new abilities introduced per level starting from the introductory level.
- Place of Regret Introduction: The Place of Regret now appears only in level 2, preventing player overwhelm with new concepts and mechanics.
UX Changes:
- Clarity and Spelling: Improved the clarity and spelling of all in-game text.
- New Font: Introduced a new non-pixel font for descriptions and dialogs, enhancing scalability and readability.
- Channeling Highlight Removal: Channeling no longer highlights entities for improved visual clarity.
- Color Fixes: Made color adjustments to enhance the visibility of the channeling marker.
- Visual and Sound Updates: Enhanced visual and sound aspects of channeling and casting.
- Dialogs: Dialogs are no longer skippable, but will print almost instantly. The printing sound has been modified.
- Audio Adjustments: Flame sound is now mellower and less loud, while base monster sounds have been updated to eliminate clipping.
Gameplay:
- Push Ability Enhancement: The push ability now damages both the entity being pushed and the entity it collides with.
- Chest Rewards: Opening chests now has a significantly lower chance (5x less) of repeating the same ability, though it remains theoretically possible, it will almost never occur.
Additional Technical Updates:
- Embedded DLLs: The game now features embedded DLLs, streamlining the download process. Players only need to download the executable file.
- Exclusive Full Screen: The game now properly initiates in exclusive full-screen mode, enhancing the overall gaming experience.
- .NET 8 Integration: The game has been upgraded to utilize .NET 8, ensuring compatibility with the latest technology and benefiting from its features.
