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Patch Notes (322)

29 Mar

Working on a few larger sized updates, might be smaller or no updates for a little as I spend more of my time on these. We shall see

New

New mechanic: Parallel Status Application.
These will be more frequent, shorter duration status applications that can only extend the target's status duration up to their own length (instead of simply adding to any existing status) Expect integration of this into perks in the future

Updates

Hitting a blocking enemy’s shield now adds to the counter using your weapons Force stat, instead of just number of hits
Firearms hits on shields now also add to the counter (also based on Force stat)
Calm enemy flow state duration now scales with mission progress instead of difficulty.
This is the state when enemies only spawn specific sized groups based on map traversal (if no event is active). This change should make difficulties feel more similar to each other in terms of ‘quiet parts’ where you can get a breather
Reduced coin cost of first 3 prestige levels, increased medallion cost
Adjusted prestige xp requirements to smooth out differences between level 1 and 25 as you increase prestige. Overall required xp unchanged
(Guardian Demoralize Perk) Updated to 5s Parallel Weakness (was 3s non-parallel)
Beacon Updates
- (Subdue) is now in defensive category
- (Momentum) beacon stacks now scale max momentum stacks (was duration)
- (Electro) Doubled radius
- (Pillars Mutation) Now deals a 4s Parallel Weakness (was 1s non-parallel)

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Patch Notes (321)

22 Mar

New

2 new Fallen attacks (1 from rework)

Updates

Increased Barrier decay delay to 1s (was 0.75)
Barrier decay rate improved by 20%, Guardian’s passive decay rate improvement reduced by 20%. The intent here is to improve Barrier for non-Guardians while keeping Guardian the same.
(Guardian Bastion Perk) Increased Ranged/AOE Barrier absorption to +30%, removed the melee absorption reduction
(Vanguard Seeing Red Perk) Reworked: Grants 5% damage resistance for 3s on a weapon crit. Max 3 stacks, timer resets. (was 10% damage ignore chance, no stack)
(Vanguard Too Angry to Die Perk) now grants damage resistance instead of damage ignore chance
Armory menu update
(Foothills) Updates to 1 large map tile
(Skirmisher Path)
- Passive speed reduced to 20% (was 25) but now costs 25 stamina (was 30) and applies to all movement (was just walk speed)
- Skill 2 moved to skill 5 and reworked: now grants 5 shields/s during reposition
- Previous skill 5 moved to skill 2

Demo

Updated to match

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Patch Notes (320)

15 Mar

New

2 new Paths
2 new Beacons
New Melee Alloy Mod: Quality.
For those that don’t enjoy the Energize mechanic

Updates

‘Show detailed information’ interface setting now shows basic text + stack information. Detailed version of description is shown as a tooltip on hover instead
Initial armor selection tooltips now show keywords
(Keep) Adjusted purchase price of many items
Journey progress now shows in Path Skill selection screen
Barrel charge perks will stop draining energy early if you switch to melee
Path teachings show a chat message when walking within a certain range
Small artstyle and lighting adjustments
Heavy melee swings now do +10% Stun as a baseline
Power Alloy now also increases damage by 15%
Increased Fallen scaling with Hitman and Lure by 5%
Beacon Updates
- (Fear) Now pulses 3s of weakness every 6s while energized (was just 1 initial pulse on a cooldown)
- (Whirlwind) now deals Rending damage
- (Hot Mags) now deals Molten damage

Fixes

Fixed an instance of report messages being doubled

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Patch Notes (319)

2 Mar

I have a busy week coming up so might not be able to get an update out next weekend, but we will endure

New

2 new beacons
Testing some Fallen melee combo variations

Updates

Armor classes (aura & passive) are now unlocked from the beginning of the game
- Overcharge is still unlocked at level 2
- Welcome menu has a second page that prompts you to select an initial armor class
- First Armor equip quest has been replaced with first path equip
(Bastion Path)
- (Passive) Dash distance improved to -20% (was -30), added movement speed reduction of -10%
- (Energize Perk) Energy regen reduced to 0.15/s (was 0.32), movement speed improved to -5% (was -10). Apologies for this nerf, I believe I created this perk with energy regen rate in mind, not explicit Energy gain. But I find this version more fun, it just needs to be balanced accordingly.
- (Stalwart Perk) Reduces movement speed by 5% instead of increasing dash stamina cost
(Skirmisher Path) Passive’s dash cost improved to -30% (was 35)
You can now interact with The Light to kill the Shadow, regardless of their location
Armor System’s Stun Recovery stat improved to 1.25% (was 1)
You can now interrupt swinging, reloading, blocking and weapon swap to ability drain (previously was only allowed to interrupt shooting for some reason)
(Shockwave Blade) now deals 50% damage and 1.5 stun to the first target, reducing by 10% for each subsequent hit. No longer hits within your swing’s range
Firearm Barrel charge perks update:
- Charging now costs 1 energy and lasts for 3 seconds
- Pulse Barrel deals 45% weapon damage and 200% stun
- Magnetic Barrel deals 80% weapon damage to max 6 targets
Added damage types to many beacon perks
(Ghost Beacon) Now triggers on any melee evasion (was only dodge before)

Fixes

Gadget HUD button accounts for ‘Interact uses gadget’ setting now
(MiniGunner Path) Feed the Beast Perk now functions properly on high latency clients
Fixed non-base helmet textures being low-rez on in cosmetics preview

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Path Update - Patch Notes (318)

21 Feb

New

New mechanic: Path Passives
These are Perks that immediately apply for each Path equipped. I think this is a much better integration for what I was going for with the ‘initial’ roll type system.
Every Path has been updated with passives and/or new perks

Updates

2 New Interface settings: ‘Only hidden friendly outlines’ and ‘Only far friendly outlines’
Friendly outlines are now on by default, and now you can toggle them to only show when your teammates are behind something
New Gameplay setting: ‘Auto disable Energize after 5 seconds’
New Hints menu within the Info tab for a place to easily find Path location hints while in mission
‘Hide HUD buttons’ setting no longer hides some key inputs like interact
Updated Shimmer costs scaling with difficulty

Fixes

Fixed a couple more map areas that weren’t allowing support call ins
Fixed practice range tip popup being in wrong location

Demo

Updated to match

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Patch Notes (317)

16 Feb

New

1 new Path
New mechanic: Execution
Perks that can instantly kill a target

Updates

(Keep) Environment update
(Woodlands) 1 small map tile update
(Bastion Path) swapped order of perks 2 and 4
Various UI updates

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Journey System Intro - Patch Notes (315)

8 Feb

This update adds the start of the Journey system, what I consider to be an inversion of the typical leveling based roguelite perk system. I’ve been happy with the decision to make beacons activated in mission team based, since it provides team decision making, a sense of cohesion and also helps late-joiners/spectators not feel so underpowered. However, this was only ever meant to be half of your in-mission progression. Your Journey represents your personal progression as a Knight Errant, where the general direction and goals of your Journey are known, but the details can surprise you. Instead of the typical large pool of perks that you banish/re-roll to downselect for the build you are trying to achieve, this system allows you to control which perks are within the pool from the start.
This is only the start of the system and will change and evolve over time with lots of balancing/tweaking/polish as we go along (the goal is for all of these perks to have vfx and/or hud icons, I haven’t gotten to that yet). I also have more paths in work to be added to the game and unlocked in more fun ways in the world ;) I still hope you find this update enjoyable, I’m excited to keep expanding the system.

New

Journey System
- Instead of activating random beacons when leveling up your Path in mission, you now gain a choice of skills from your Journey
- Your Journey is made up of skills from the Paths that you have equipped (and hopefully levelled up)
- Paths will be unlocked in a variety of ways, including leveling (most of the current ones), finding them, accomplishing legends or solving mini-puzzles in the world
- Paths are equipped from the new Journey menu in the Keep
- Once initially unlocked, Paths are levelled up to uncover more skills within
Damage types
- Rending, Concussive, Voltaic and Molten damage types have been added.
- For now, damage types don’t do anything inherently on their own, they simply enable various perks. Every attack has a default damage type, and a single attack is capable of having multiple damage types. This wasn’t the focus of this update and is therefore barebones for now, expect much more integration of damage types in the future.
New Interactable: Path doorway
New Interactable: Path Teachings
New HUD popup specifically for unlocks to make them more noticeable and separated from combat information

Updates

Armor Path Mods
- Renamed to System mods
- Now have 2 stats that increase with every path level, with % gains diminishing every 10 path levels.
- While the previous system of alternating stats was interesting, It wasn’t intuitive to know what stats you had at what time. This new method means you always know what stats you have and they all slowly improve over time.
Beacons
- Bleed on hit now requires rending damage
- Stun on hit now requires concussive damage
- Chain on hit now requires voltaic damage
- Debuff on hit requires molten damage (replaces existing chain on shock beacon)
Gear
- Spin barrel now adds Molten damage while at the maximum fire rate
- Power mags reduced to 15% damage (was 25%) but also adds Voltaic damage
- Pulse barrel now additionally deals 50 base concussive damage
- Lightning blade now does Voltaic damage
- Shockwave blade now does Concussive damage
(Keep) both History screens have been combined into one
(Keep) Quest board has been moved
(Keep) Practice range has been moved
Gear & cosmetic unlock level requirements have been adjusted to accommodate the new path mods
Cel Depots add time to the enemy presence timer instead of outright adding a mutation
Small increase to enemy health scaling per difficulty
Most damage reduction is now multiplicative (players and enemies). This was a necessary change due to the ever increasing amount of DR perks in the game.
Post process optimization improvement
Healing Efficiency now also affects passive health regeneration

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Patch Notes (312)

17 Jan

I also laid the groundwork for some upcoming systems during this patch. Expect a big gear update soon

New

New interactable: Path Shrine

Updates

Path System Update
- Beacon level/experience from kills has been replaced with Path Progress
- (Co-op) Path experience is per player now. The first player to get to a path level earns the random beacon for the team
  Balancing this for single player and multiplayer to scale similarly is difficult, feedback is appreciated!
- Armor path perks now scale with Path levels (was total beacons)
- Armor path perks interval is now 5 (was 10) and the stat percentages are doubled
- Total beacons count in hud has been replaced with path level. You can still see total beacon count when tac info is opened
(Co-op) Everyone hitting continue button in the end mission screen now skips the timer
Beacons and Mutations are now listed based on primary category in all locations
Keep specific upgrades cost mostly medallions now
(Co-op) Increased the range for players to be in proximity to start objective
(Co-op) Increased average Fallen target switching frequency
You can no longer die from Bleeding damage
You can only Parry attacks from in front of you by default
The Fallen have inherited our beautiful new helmet options
Hud tip popups no longer pause the game unless you are in the keep, they have also been moved over the chat window to be less confusing with combat information
Mutations counter has been replaced with enemy Presence, reflecting their level. Total mutations is still shown when the tac info is opened
Prestige Relic cost has been swapped back to medallions

Fixes

(Co-op) Fixed clients not seeing turrets rotating and tracking targets properly

Demo

Updated to match

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Patch Notes (310)

28 Dec, 2024

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and is enjoying whatever holiday time off they could take. I took some time so this patch is smaller, I also have a trip starting tomorrow where I will be away for over a week. So don't expect an update for likely a couple weekends. I'll be working on secondary things whenever I can still.

Updates

(Woodlands) Updates to 3 map tiles
Small reduction to Sorcerer's accuracy at long range

Fixes

Fixed dropped gadgets showing as tier 1 on the ground
Various UI and useability fixes related to the armor path system

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Armor Path Perks - Patch Notes (309)

22 Dec, 2024

More armor identity has been requested many times, especially in terms of base stats to help differentiate them from each other. I cannot stand when % stat changes are kept small to maintain game balance. I think this continuous Path system strikes a nice balance between providing meaningful stat bonuses while maintaining balance throughout the course of a run. I also like the thematic themes of the knights starting similar, but changing and becoming more unique as they continue their journey. Expect balancing updates to these stats over time.

New

New Armor Path perks (Tier 4 of armor mods)
(Woodlands) 1 new small map tile
Added setting to show detailed beacon descriptions in mission menus

Updates

Armor max level increased to 20.
I apologize to anyone who was about to unlock helmets at max mastery, I’ve reduced the per-level xp requirements so that the overall duration to max an armor remains similar, so topping up should be quick
Increased the limit of vault spawns by 1
You can no longer overcharge while stunned.
I know this one will hurt but I never intended for overcharge to be just a 1 button solution to CC enemies, I will be monitoring this change closely

Fixes

Improved melee hit registration on Protect objective seekers

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