Hi folks, To kick off the second week of our Halloween event, we have just released a big DemonCrawl update that includes 36 new items, 2 special chests, a new special stage, and an item archetype called Mastery Dolls! Ohh yeah! Additionally, we have made the Maniac boss a bit less maniacal, giving you more counterplay even in bad openings. Some players have asked if the Maniac is a permanent boss - we can confirm that Maniac is not a standard member of the boss pool and will be disabled outside of the yearly Halloween event. Read on to find out more:
Full patch notes are below. Enjoy! ---

New Features

• Added Mastery Dolls (special passive items that enhance your ultimate mastery ability)
• 36 new items
• New special stage: Workshop - "Consume mastery charges to create mastery dolls"
• New special chest: Elemental - "Apply random elemental auras to all cells in this column and row when you open this chest. It contains an 'aura' item."
• New special chest: Mastery - "Gain 1 mastery charge when you open this chest. It contains a 'mastery' item."
• New glint: Geo - "Gain 5% pathfinding at the start of the quest."
• New glint: Doll - "Gain your mastery doll at the start of the quest."
• Added pathfinding Wishpool
• Added Hero Trial effect based on the number of times your mastery ability has been activated

Quality of Life

• You can now search for favored items in the Codex using the European spelling ("favour")
• Updated toast for Immutable Meteorite
• Updated toast for Surgical Saw with Guardian

Balance Changes

• We can now filter out items from the start of the quest based on profile conditions (e.g. Battery and Doll items will not drop if you don't have a tier 3 mastery selected)
• Maniac nerf: Dark Hearts will no longer spawn alongside the Maniac in your opening move
• Maniac nerf: "Whenever the last visible stranger is killed, you die."
• Pacifier price reduced from 40 to 36 coins
• Golem prices increased from 30 to 35 coins
• Hungry Plant's coin reward is now based on its item requirements rather than the stage power
• Replaced Bones with Magic Bones in the Mage's droptable
• Added various Dolls to stranger droptables
• Updated Fishing Pole droptable
• Loosened requirements for Halloween Chest

Bug Fixes

• Improved performance of item search script
• Tweaked wall collision for enlarged orbs
• Fixed Regal Chest conditions for blessing projectile
• Fixed Punching Bag Simulator achievement requiring 4 consecutive attacks instead of 3
• Fixed Babyface canker mutation
• Fixed Stake's description which stated cells opened rather than turns
• Fixed memory leak related to Deck of Cards
• Added sanity check for writing to log file in case it was already closed

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Community Shoutouts

We implemented several of your ideas this patch!

• Added Grim Pump omen created by juh9870
• Added Electric Eel omen inspired by NotAJumbleOfNumbers
• Added Wildcard item inspired by OneIsTheLoneliestNumber
• Added toast ideas by Samario and Zapo

--- Note - Due to the size of this update, we're going to delay its launch on non-Windows platforms by a few hours in case there are any urgent issues that need addressing. Thank you for understanding!

[ 2020-10-24 20:37:59 CET ] [ Original post ]