Hi folks, We just released an update for DemonCrawl that introduces two exciting new masteries:

Additionally, we have overhauled the Spellbinder boss, reworked Obelisks, fixed a ton of bugs and more. Full patch are below! ---

New Features

• New mastery: Novice - Offers powerful learning tools at the expense of score
• New mastery: Demolitionist - Bring on the Barrels
• New memento: Demolitionist's Memento - "Whenever you blow up an object in the Metagate, spawn a Guide."
• You can now manually detonate barrels at the cost of 1 damage
• The autosolver can now utilize monster count to determine if progress can be made

Quality of Life

• Added a sign to the tutorial that explains chording
• Items with a cost of 0 are now included in the Codex
• Improved targeting descriptions of the following magic items: Trash Bin, Handbell, Watering Can, Surgical Saw, Drill, Pendulum, Magic Dark Ink, Mortal Root, Loudhailer, Troll Cross, Ritual Chalk, Lotus, Mjolnir, and Powder Keg
• Added simple animation to inventory button when you gain a new item
• You can now paste text into input fields

Balance Changes

• Obelisks have been reworked:
  • You must now choose to activate the obelisk
  • All obelisks require you to open x cells within 10 seconds
  • The random penalty for failure is listed upfront
  • You will gain a Tablet on success
  • Tablet of Pyxe buff: "Gain 100 XP at the end of each stage, and 1000 XP at the end of the quest."
  • Tablet of Ne'kot buff: "Gain a Token at the end of each stage, and 50 Tokens at the end of the quest."
  • Tablet of Drocer has been replaced with Tablet of Lairetam: "Gain a random artifact at the end of each stage, and 10 random artifacts at the end of the quest."
  • Obelisk sprite updated
• Spellbinder boss overhaul
  • Take 2 damage whenever a Dark Heart is collected.
  • Whenever you make a mistake, manalock your magic items for 30 turns.
  • Whenever you use a magic item, destroy a random Dark Heart.
• Snowflake I and Commander I now operate on left-clicking flagged cells
• Defense can now fall below 0 (makes monsters stronger)
• Reduced the coin cost of Starpond items by one third
• Reduced the base durability of Chainmail from 3 to 1
• The Library can no longer give omens
• Reduced the price of Godmonger from 28 to 23 coins

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lag when gaining a massive amount of XP at once
• Fixed crash related to "Airtight" Sigil
• Fixed Sentry Gnome failing to activate under some conditions
• Fixed Tablet items that were dropped from Obelisks not writing to disk properly
• Fixed a typo in the "Death" Hero Trial description
• Fixed a rare issue related to visible monsters that would make the autosolver incorrectly believe you did not have to guess
• Fixed several instances of lingering tooltips
• Fixed Key of Undoing not updating the "stage completed" label after use
• Fixed explosion effects bypassing the "Demonlord" Hero Trial
• Fixed Arcane Staff ignoring manalock
• Fixed a hardlock related to the Scholar ability completing Smog and Fruit of Labor at the same time
• Fixed First Aid bypassing the Active stage mod
• Fixed a hardlock related to Wishlist, Gravedigger and Gluttony
• Fixed a typo in the Wishpool tooltip
• Fixed Mirror manalocking itself for 30 turns instead of 40
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a Harbinger was spawned from a Friendly Glint
• Spring can no longer be consumed before monsters have spawned
• Fixed a crash related to Soft Clay transforming a legendary item
• Fixed a rare crash related to Cleansing Bell
• Fixed "new item" notification layering issue in the codex
• Fixed "new item" notification not showing up in the first row of codex items
• Fixed boss selection not updating between dimensions in Endless Multiverse
• Fixed strange behavior regarding Bullet Time effect stacking
• Fixed a rare crash related to using items during the Mega Token animation
• Fixed Key of Undoing crash
• Fixed an issue with Drill not spawning loot
• Fixed a crash related to a stage that has both Judging and Diverse mods
• Fixed Novice II consuming a revive in addition to its own revive effect
• Fixed leaderboard entries without masteries showing as different mastery
• Fixed profile data corruption related to visiting the Patreon leaderboards through Quest 5 (If you were affected by this bug, please reach out to us ASAP and we will do our best to help restore any lost progress.)
• The "Death" Hero Trial effect is now capable of multikills
• Mobile only: Fickle mod now operates on a longtap
• Fixed a crash that could occur after reloading a Native stage
• Fixed some objects losing their custom colors after popping out of bubbles
• Fixed layering depth of objects popped out of bubbles
• Fixed artifact requirements on one of the Mythic Emblems
• Fixed visual glitch related to Convulsing stage mod
• Improved performance of "confine cursor" option

Hotfix #1 @ 2:07 PM EST - Fixed Present crash. Hotfix #2 @ 2:40 PM EST - Fixed game client closing at the end of a quest, and Starpond not letting you buy an item that you have just enough Tokens to afford. Hotfix #3 @ 7:30 PM EST -

• Fixed Bones showing up twice in the Codex
• Fixed Casual Mode lockup
• Fixed a visual glitch related to Bubbles
• Fixed Powder Keg barrels not exploding after 5 seconds

Hotfix #4 @ 2:20 AM EST -

• Fixed XP skip animation not providing levelup rewards
• Fixed missing Barrel arrow from Demolitionist I

[ 2020-07-17 17:28:49 CET ] [ Original post ]