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Apr 24, 2017

Deathstate is 33% OFF until May 1st!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - Black Shell Media LLC

http://store.steampowered.com/app/402120/

Apr 24, 2017

Deathstate is 33% OFF until May 1st!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - Black Shell Media LLC

http://store.steampowered.com/app/402120/

Dec 21, 2016

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition has been released!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - Daniel (BSM)

An ominous Deathstate update has arrived just in time to End the Year!

Explore an endless abyss in the brand new Endless Mode, bursting with new unlocks and surprises. Boggle at new and improved special effects and sounds, improved animations for every character, and polish to every corner of the UI. Recoil in horror from Deathstate 2.0: Abyssal Edition!

Major Changes

New Endless Mode!
Tons of new animations for every character.
Totally updated sounds.
Many upgraded visual effects.
9 new organs to find and unlock.
Overhauled UI: Redesigned HUD, Cutscene Viewer, per-Player statistics
screens, and more!
A Comet Passes the planes...

Minor Changes

Fixed a number of issues with strange collision in levels.
Deathstate now pauses when it loses focus.
Added individual music and sound volume controls.
Added high-contrast bullet mode to help color blind players.
Addressed black-screen issues on some Macs.
Tweaked player hit box position to be more intuitive, and enabled hit box display by default.
Decoupled dodge distance from player speed to lessen the punishing effect of movement-slowing items.
Added another way to dodge - which defaults to the Spacebar. Pressing this while moving will cause you to dodge in the direction your player is moving.
Redesigned the Traveling screen to show more worlds.
Steam-lined the Unlock screen.
Desecration warning is now shown only if you haven't Desecrated yet.
Added messaging describing what happens when unlocking a Demonic Forge.
Made shotgun always shoot one "fairly accurate" bullet so you get less insane whiffs.
Fixed embalmer being able to avoid self-harm from curse using various tricks.
Fixed various boss behavior oddities when you knockback/slow/root them.
Fixed drinking potions after death. The dead cannot drink.

Dec 21, 2016

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition has been released!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - Daniel

New Endless Mode!
Tons of new animations for every character.
Totally updated sounds.
Many upgraded visual effects.
9 new organs to find and unlock.
Overhauled UI: Redesigned HUD, Cutscene Viewer, per-Player statistics
screens, and more!
A Comet Passes the planes...

Minor Changes

Fixed a number of issues with strange collision in levels.
Deathstate now pauses when it loses focus.
Added individual music and sound volume controls.
Added high-contrast bullet mode to help color blind players.
Addressed black-screen issues on some Macs.
Tweaked player hit box position to be more intuitive, and enabled hit box display by default.
Decoupled dodge distance from player speed to lessen the punishing effect of movement-slowing items.
Added another way to dodge - which defaults to the Spacebar. Pressing this while moving will cause you to dodge in the direction your player is moving.
Redesigned the Traveling screen to show more worlds.
Steam-lined the Unlock screen.
Desecration warning is now shown only if you haven't Desecrated yet.
Added messaging describing what happens when unlocking a Demonic Forge.
Made shotgun always shoot one "fairly accurate" bullet so you get less insane whiffs.
Fixed embalmer being able to avoid self-harm from curse using various tricks.
Fixed various boss behavior oddities when you knockback/slow/root them.
Fixed drinking potions after death. The dead cannot drink.

Apr 19, 2016

Deathstate at PAX East 2016!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - workinman

Deathstate Attax PAX

Workinman is excited to announce that Deathstate will be corrupting a shadowy corner of Indie Megabooth this year at PAX East!

We'll be showing Deathstate's brand-new 1.20 build with a few extra PAX-Specific surprises.

Come meet the team, play the game, pose with an emissary, and pick up distressing Deathstate Merch!

Apr 19, 2016

Deathstate at PAX East 2016!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - workinman

Deathstate Attax PAX

Apr 18, 2016

Deathstate Update 1.20

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - workinman

Lessons of the Grand Grimoire

Deathstate 1.20 is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone who assisted with the beta testing.

Major Features:

Magic system revamped.
Redesigned many Relics to be more interesting and effective.
Greatly improved Laser and Mortar weapons.
Overall balance tweaks with the goal of increasing the number of viable builds at higher difficulty levels.
Added 2 new unique enemies and several new items.
Added a new beneficial potion.
Magic Globe pickups will now drop from enemies.

Minor Features:

Fixed text blurriness caused by filters. Text should always be crisp now.
Corners should be a bit less sticky when moving your character.
Standing over an organ or item now displays its name.
Reduced the intensity of some screen overlay effects.
Added Large health globes that drop rarely.
Merchants appear more frequently.
Several inhabitants of the final world have new Desecration abilities. Watch out!
Insanity Emissaries are now more... interesting.
Added new possible map layouts to most worlds.

Tweaks and Bug Fixes:

Nerfed Reverse Damage effects. They now stop healing after X heals, and only heal 1 tick per impact instead of being full damage mirror.
Most "Slow Fire" effects (including the Aggravating Brain) now cause your bullets to pierce 3 enemies.
Lasers have better stacking with many organs and weapons.
Fixed various rendering bugs with lasers.
All weapons now benefit The Eye character, even lasers.
Reduced the Eye's base damage stat because lasers are much more powerful now (the Eye's actual damage output was not reduced).
The Embalmer can make good use of mortar weapons now.
The Eye and The Embalmer have new activated abilities.
Ice weapon slow and freeze effects occur more often.
Bubble damage is now improved by Ice Boost stat.
Forges and Altars now continue to appear even after their unlocks are earned. They will drop random weapons and organs respectively.
Fixed circumstances that could cause Forges or Altars to not appear or become exceptionally rare.
Improved the damage scaling on Entropy DoTs.
Made confusion heart particles on the player more apparent.
Gambling Merchants now have a cap on how much they can charge.
Nerfed Otylosh the Fleshbeast and Amon Morax the Demon on Desecration 2+
Slightly increased the world time limit on Maze of Ix, Carcassus and Grave of Time.
Slightly increased the world time limit on Desecration 1 and above.
Slightly REDUCED the world time limit on the final world.
Slightly nerfed several enemies in the Temple of Qit on Desecration 0 to make the difficulty more in-line with the Fortress of Torment for new players.
Yellowed Eel Guts have new stats.
You can now dismiss messages more quickly (such as item stat popups).
You must now press a specific key to skip cutscenes, instead of Any Key. Maybe you won’t accidentally skip half of the cutscenes anymore!
Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes dodge right instead of the intended dodge direction.
Fixed a bug that caused the confusion debuff to apply even if you dodge through a succubus heart bullet.
Fixed a bug where Insanity progress unlocks did not always unlock. This should work retroactively.
Fixed a bug where Prince Ziggur would not unlock in the bestiary. This is not retroactive.
Fixed a display bug that caused the player to flicker between poses sometimes when firing.
Fixed some issues with music sometimes stopping/starting/changing unpredictably after bosses die.
Fixed the level music volume increasing after desecrating.
Fixed an issue where lazy Grimoires would take too long to pick new targets when the player has a slowed fire rate.
Fixed "best win speed" stat sometimes resetting.
Once you’ve played insanity or desecrated a few times, the “warning” messages will cease to appear. You know what you’ve done!
You can no longer pick up items while dying. Because you're dying.
Added Zeralith to the credits for seriously exceptional Community QA work.
Tentatively fixed Xbox One controller issues.
Many other bug fixes based on Community bug reports. Thank you!

Magic Revamp Details:

MP no longer regenerates passively, it only regenerates when you deal damage. The regeneration rate scales with damage dealt.
* Cooldowns on most abilities and relics greatly reduced. As long as you have the MP, you can usually use them again within seconds. This makes high-MP builds much more interesting.
The MP Regen stat is much more effective.
All organs granting Max MP and MP Regen stats were improved.
Organs that previously reduced Max MP now reduce MP Regen instead. It's no longer possible for your abilities to become unusable.

Apr 18, 2016

Deathstate Update 1.20

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - workinman

Lessons of the Grand Grimoire

Deathstate 1.20 is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone who assisted with the beta testing.

Major Features:

Magic system revamped.
Redesigned many Relics to be more interesting and effective.
Greatly improved Laser and Mortar weapons.
Overall balance tweaks with the goal of increasing the number of viable builds at higher difficulty levels.
Added 2 new unique enemies and several new items.
Added a new beneficial potion.
Magic Globe pickups will now drop from enemies.

Minor Features:

Fixed text blurriness caused by filters. Text should always be crisp now.
Corners should be a bit less sticky when moving your character.
Standing over an organ or item now displays its name.
Reduced the intensity of some screen overlay effects.
Added Large health globes that drop rarely.
Merchants appear more frequently.
Several inhabitants of the final world have new Desecration abilities. Watch out!
Insanity Emissaries are now more... interesting.
Added new possible map layouts to most worlds.

Tweaks and Bug Fixes:

Nerfed Reverse Damage effects. They now stop healing after X heals, and only heal 1 tick per impact instead of being full damage mirror.
Most "Slow Fire" effects (including the Aggravating Brain) now cause your bullets to pierce 3 enemies.
Lasers have better stacking with many organs and weapons.
Fixed various rendering bugs with lasers.
All weapons now benefit The Eye character, even lasers.
Reduced the Eye's base damage stat because lasers are much more powerful now (the Eye's actual damage output was not reduced).
The Embalmer can make good use of mortar weapons now.
The Eye and The Embalmer have new activated abilities.
Ice weapon slow and freeze effects occur more often.
Bubble damage is now improved by Ice Boost stat.
Forges and Altars now continue to appear even after their unlocks are earned. They will drop random weapons and organs respectively.
Fixed circumstances that could cause Forges or Altars to not appear or become exceptionally rare.
Improved the damage scaling on Entropy DoTs.
Made confusion heart particles on the player more apparent.
Gambling Merchants now have a cap on how much they can charge.
Nerfed Otylosh the Fleshbeast and Amon Morax the Demon on Desecration 2+
Slightly increased the world time limit on Maze of Ix, Carcassus and Grave of Time.
Slightly increased the world time limit on Desecration 1 and above.
Slightly REDUCED the world time limit on the final world.
Slightly nerfed several enemies in the Temple of Qit on Desecration 0 to make the difficulty more in-line with the Fortress of Torment for new players.
Yellowed Eel Guts have new stats.
You can now dismiss messages more quickly (such as item stat popups).
You must now press a specific key to skip cutscenes, instead of Any Key. Maybe you won’t accidentally skip half of the cutscenes anymore!
Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes dodge right instead of the intended dodge direction.
Fixed a bug that caused the confusion debuff to apply even if you dodge through a succubus heart bullet.
Fixed a bug where Insanity progress unlocks did not always unlock. This should work retroactively.
Fixed a bug where Prince Ziggur would not unlock in the bestiary. This is not retroactive.
Fixed a display bug that caused the player to flicker between poses sometimes when firing.
Fixed some issues with music sometimes stopping/starting/changing unpredictably after bosses die.
Fixed the level music volume increasing after desecrating.
Fixed an issue where lazy Grimoires would take too long to pick new targets when the player has a slowed fire rate.
Fixed "best win speed" stat sometimes resetting.
Once you’ve played insanity or desecrated a few times, the “warning” messages will cease to appear. You know what you’ve done!
You can no longer pick up items while dying. Because you're dying.
Added Zeralith to the credits for seriously exceptional Community QA work.
Tentatively fixed Xbox One controller issues.
Many other bug fixes based on Community bug reports. Thank you!

Magic Revamp Details:

MP no longer regenerates passively, it only regenerates when you deal damage. The regeneration rate scales with damage dealt.
* Cooldowns on most abilities and relics greatly reduced. As long as you have the MP, you can usually use them again within seconds. This makes high-MP builds much more interesting.
The MP Regen stat is much more effective.
All organs granting Max MP and MP Regen stats were improved.
Organs that previously reduced Max MP now reduce MP Regen instead. It's no longer possible for your abilities to become unusable.

Apr 18, 2016

Deathstate Update 1.20

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - workinman

Lessons of the Grand Grimoire

Deathstate 1.20 is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone who assisted with the beta testing.

Major Features:

Magic system revamped.
Redesigned many Relics to be more interesting and effective.
Greatly improved Laser and Mortar weapons.
Overall balance tweaks with the goal of increasing the number of viable builds at higher difficulty levels.
Added 2 new unique enemies and several new items.
Added a new beneficial potion.
Magic Globe pickups will now drop from enemies.

Minor Features:

Fixed text blurriness caused by filters. Text should always be crisp now.
Corners should be a bit less sticky when moving your character.
Standing over an organ or item now displays its name.
Reduced the intensity of some screen overlay effects.
Added Large health globes that drop rarely.
Merchants appear more frequently.
Several inhabitants of the final world have new Desecration abilities. Watch out!
Insanity Emissaries are now more... interesting.
Added new possible map layouts to most worlds.

Tweaks and Bug Fixes:

Nerfed Reverse Damage effects. They now stop healing after X heals, and only heal 1 tick per impact instead of being full damage mirror.
Most "Slow Fire" effects (including the Aggravating Brain) now cause your bullets to pierce 3 enemies.
Lasers have better stacking with many organs and weapons.
Fixed various rendering bugs with lasers.
All weapons now benefit The Eye character, even lasers.
Reduced the Eye's base damage stat because lasers are much more powerful now (the Eye's actual damage output was not reduced).
The Embalmer can make good use of mortar weapons now.
The Eye and The Embalmer have new activated abilities.
Ice weapon slow and freeze effects occur more often.
Bubble damage is now improved by Ice Boost stat.
Forges and Altars now continue to appear even after their unlocks are earned. They will drop random weapons and organs respectively.
Fixed circumstances that could cause Forges or Altars to not appear or become exceptionally rare.
Improved the damage scaling on Entropy DoTs.
Made confusion heart particles on the player more apparent.
Gambling Merchants now have a cap on how much they can charge.
Nerfed Otylosh the Fleshbeast and Amon Morax the Demon on Desecration 2+
Slightly increased the world time limit on Maze of Ix, Carcassus and Grave of Time.
Slightly increased the world time limit on Desecration 1 and above.
Slightly REDUCED the world time limit on the final world.
Slightly nerfed several enemies in the Temple of Qit on Desecration 0 to make the difficulty more in-line with the Fortress of Torment for new players.
Yellowed Eel Guts have new stats.
You can now dismiss messages more quickly (such as item stat popups).
You must now press a specific key to skip cutscenes, instead of Any Key. Maybe you won’t accidentally skip half of the cutscenes anymore!
Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes dodge right instead of the intended dodge direction.
Fixed a bug that caused the confusion debuff to apply even if you dodge through a succubus heart bullet.
Fixed a bug where Insanity progress unlocks did not always unlock. This should work retroactively.
Fixed a bug where Prince Ziggur would not unlock in the bestiary. This is not retroactive.
Fixed a display bug that caused the player to flicker between poses sometimes when firing.
Fixed some issues with music sometimes stopping/starting/changing unpredictably after bosses die.
Fixed the level music volume increasing after desecrating.
Fixed an issue where lazy Grimoires would take too long to pick new targets when the player has a slowed fire rate.
Fixed "best win speed" stat sometimes resetting.
Once you’ve played insanity or desecrated a few times, the “warning” messages will cease to appear. You know what you’ve done!
You can no longer pick up items while dying. Because you're dying.
Added Zeralith to the credits for seriously exceptional Community QA work.
Tentatively fixed Xbox One controller issues.
Many other bug fixes based on Community bug reports. Thank you!

Magic Revamp Details:

MP no longer regenerates passively, it only regenerates when you deal damage. The regeneration rate scales with damage dealt.
* Cooldowns on most abilities and relics greatly reduced. As long as you have the MP, you can usually use them again within seconds. This makes high-MP builds much more interesting.
The MP Regen stat is much more effective.
All organs granting Max MP and MP Regen stats were improved.
Organs that previously reduced Max MP now reduce MP Regen instead. It's no longer possible for your abilities to become unusable.

Mar 11, 2016

Check out this Deathstate Behind the Scenes video!

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition - Workin Matt

We put together this quick Behind the Scenes Video for all our fans! Gain some insight on our thinking during our development process. Thanks for your support and stay tuned for more Deathstate Updates!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74PdwwFxBPg&feature=youtu.be

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