There will be more data and proper atribution here (original author, steam link, original post date, etc) real soon, I promise. This is just like a technical test to see if they're coming in ok at all.
Power Fantasy » NEW HERO! NEW UNLOCKS! PERFORMANCE! DYNAMIC SPAWNS! – UPDATE V0.17
New hero: Effy, the Ice Queen
Effy, the Ice Queen, ruled the frozen wastelands with an icy resolve. Her secret lover, Icicle, a nomadic frostwalker, veiled her face with a mysterious cape, a silent testament to their forbidden love, as they braved a world uncertain if their paths would ever intertwine again.
Has no red hearts.
Starts with 3 spirit hearts.
Your projectile frequently freezes close enemies based on your chance to freeze.
Enemies also get frost damage when they get frozen.
Improved dynamic spawn system
- Completely reworked and polished the waves
- Normal enemies now spawn dynamically based on how many you kill (More kills = more to kill)
- Added a more swarmy behaviour to the enemy waves and spawns
- Drastically improved the overall performance
- Reworked bullet patterns of mages and added them as a modifier for Nightmare 2
Perk changes:
- New perk: Distant Mirror. 50% chance to reflect enemy projectile while attacking. (Arcane)
- Life leech now only applies to the first impact of the main frontal projectile
- Increased the chance for Life leech to trigger from 0.5% to 2%
- Removed the perk requirements for the perk Rampage
- Removed the boss related mods from the books and activated them by default
- Far Shot: Reduced projectile distance from 50% to 20%
- Fuzzy Illusion: Reduced projectile distance from 25% to 10%
- Moved Ignited Wounds to Book of Fire
- Attractive: Reduced pickup range from 100% to 80%
- Psychic: Reduced the enemy projectile slowdown from 50% to 25%
- Pacifist: Increased the timer from 5 to 10 seconds
- Daydreamer: Increased the timer from 5 to 10 seconds
- Corrected the description of Daredevil from “below 50% hp” to “while on low life”
Ascended perks get unlocked by completing Nightmare 3 with different heroes. They will upgrade perks and add powerful modifiers:
- Blades of Justice+ (Aric N3)
- Elusive Grace+ (Kaito N3)
- Mystic Volley+ (Icicle N3)
- Ignited Wounds+ (Gundel N3)
- Concentration+ (Ember N3)
- Psychic+ (Misty N3)
- Arctic Presence+ (Effy N3)
Other Unlocks:
- Bloody Hands 1-3 (5% global projectile damage)
Companions
- Companions now have their own damage type and modifier: Companion damage (Pink)
- New companion: Buffy. Attracts butterflies.
- New companion: Goblin Carrier. Opens chests for you. 50% chance to remove curses. 20% chance to die while doing so.
- Cloudy is now more aggressive
- Ice Orb now circles around the hero
Fixes
- Fixed a bug with Heat and Hotheaded not adding burn damage
- Fixed a bug with Concentration not getting applied immediately after activating the perk
- Fixed a bug with Concentration getting deactivated after getting a perk with attack speed
- Corrected the arrow pointing towards the blue butterfly
- Fixed a bug that caused butterflies to fly towards the map center
- Reduced the move area of butterflies
- Reduced the spawn range of butterflies from 14 to 10 units
- Added Blue Butterfly. Activates XP buff + xp vacuum
- Fixed the cursor again
- The gamepad mode will now automatically toggle when you press a button on your gamepad
- Fixed Gundels burn area. It applied 2 stacks of burn on first impact before, now it correctly applies 1 burn stack per second
Tweaks
- Improved the visibility of the direction arrow
- Companions now teleport to the player when they got left behind
- Changed the visual indicator for butterfly buffs
- Addes stats to the stat panel: burn chance, burn duration, frost damage, freeze chance, freeze duration
- Stat panel now shows the current aoe modifier (including temporary from concentration)
- Stat panel now shows the current attack speed (including temporary from concentration)
- Added “Always crit bosses” to the item mods
- Adjusted spawn rates in Krampus Night
- Bosses can now still attack while being frozen
- Polished the swarm effect of the Shadow Invasion
- Polished the perk upgrade preview
- Polished the UI for Unlockables and Achievements (Now with a scrollbar!)
New Achievements
- Slayer 2-3
- Entomologist: Touch a total of 300 bufferflies. Unlocks Buffy.
- Pacifist: Survive 3 minutes without attacking once.
This update includes the latest hotfix 0.163:
- Fixed a bug with Arics knockback paired with knockback damage that made the game crash
- Fixed a bug that wouldn’t let Zikk reach his full amount of chains
- All heroes now start with the book of their damage type
- Changed it so perk upgrades have a 30% chance to show in every slot instead of 100% in the middle slot
- Rerolling perks now doesn’t show the same perks twice
- Added a dedicated mode for gamepad so each mode can be better polished
- Made it easier to navigate through the hero and companion selection with gamepad/Steamdeck
- The game now automatically selects the last played hero
- Removed unnecessary mods from the stat panel
- Perk upgrades and perk synergies now show the perks that were required
- The patch already includes a fraction of the achievements and unlocks that were scheduled for 0.17
- Fixed a bug that made heroes deal no damage after using Mystic Volley+
- Fixed a major performance leak