Jun 12, 2020
Skul: The Hero Slayer - Skul: The Hero Slayer
Hello, SouthPAW Games here!
Our next update is planned to be released next week! That being said, the update contains a lot of experimental design elements and pretty big changes to our game.
We want you to know that we’re always listening to your feedback and making this game together as gamers. With this experimental update, we’re trying to implement all the things that we think that will make the game more fun to play.
“We think this will make the game more fun, what do you think?”
Here’s a teaser of what will change with next week’s update.
1. Balance Changes
We’ve made balance changes to all Skulls, Items and Quintessences.
As always we’ll be open to feedback and insights you can provide us. Here are the changes:
- Skills changed to be more powerful. Cooltime on skills reduced.
- Increased the efficiency of swapping skulls. Users will be rewarded for being able to masterfully swap between skulls.
- Overall buffs to items across the board.
- Increased the usefulness of the Active element of Quintessences compared to their Passive stats.
2. Level Design Changes
We’ve received many feedback from our users saying that our game could benefit from having a faster gameplay pace. We’ve been looking into how to make the game have a faster pace while also making it fun.
In our next patch, you’ll be able to play our new level design that hopefully makes the game both more fun and feel fast-paced.
3.New Reward Mechanism
We thought that having an entire map dedicated to having one Grave or Treasure Chest prop disrupted the flow of the run.
So we’ve created a new reward mechanism that will allow you to pick up your skulls, items or gold after clearing each map without having to enter a whole different map.
With the new update, there will be 2 doors instead of just 1 that you can choose to proceed to after clearing a map. Different doors will grant you different rewards, (skull door, item door, gold door) so you can choose which door you want to enter depending on what you need at that given moment in your run.
We’re planning to further develop this method of placing rewards and also add more variety of rewards so that each of your runs feels unique.
4. Simplifying in-game Stats
We have a lot of different stats right now. (Damage, Basic Damage, Skill Damage, Melee Damage, Ranged Damage, Projectile Damage, Item Damage, Quintessence Damage… we have 10+ stats related to just the damage aspect of our game!)
We know that most of you have felt that the sheer number of stats to be confusing, and with good reason.
Now we’ve narrowed damage related stats to just 2 types of stats: Physical Damage and Magical Damage
WIth the new update, most basic attacks will deal Physical Damage and most skill attacks will be considered Magical Damage.
There are some exceptions, a few skulls will have basic attacks that will have magical damage and have skills that deal physical damage.
Items and Quintessences will now clearly display which of the 2 damage that they’ll increase or deal.
We hope with these new changes, you’ll be able to more clearly be able to stack synergies between different items, quintessences and skulls and have fun testing out creative strategies each run.
5. Item Slot Increase
We’ve decided to increase the amount of items you can equip from 6 to 9!
We want you to have more fun trying out different item combinations and continue to feel more and more powerful as you obtain better items.
As always, thank you so much for having fun playing our game. Keep those wonderful feedback coming. We’ll be posting the full detail of the update once the patch is live!
Our next update is planned to be released next week! That being said, the update contains a lot of experimental design elements and pretty big changes to our game.
We want you to know that we’re always listening to your feedback and making this game together as gamers. With this experimental update, we’re trying to implement all the things that we think that will make the game more fun to play.
“We think this will make the game more fun, what do you think?”
Here’s a teaser of what will change with next week’s update.
1. Balance Changes
We’ve made balance changes to all Skulls, Items and Quintessences.
As always we’ll be open to feedback and insights you can provide us. Here are the changes:
- Skills changed to be more powerful. Cooltime on skills reduced.
- Increased the efficiency of swapping skulls. Users will be rewarded for being able to masterfully swap between skulls.
- Overall buffs to items across the board.
- Increased the usefulness of the Active element of Quintessences compared to their Passive stats.
2. Level Design Changes
We’ve received many feedback from our users saying that our game could benefit from having a faster gameplay pace. We’ve been looking into how to make the game have a faster pace while also making it fun.
In our next patch, you’ll be able to play our new level design that hopefully makes the game both more fun and feel fast-paced.
3.New Reward Mechanism
We thought that having an entire map dedicated to having one Grave or Treasure Chest prop disrupted the flow of the run.
So we’ve created a new reward mechanism that will allow you to pick up your skulls, items or gold after clearing each map without having to enter a whole different map.
With the new update, there will be 2 doors instead of just 1 that you can choose to proceed to after clearing a map. Different doors will grant you different rewards, (skull door, item door, gold door) so you can choose which door you want to enter depending on what you need at that given moment in your run.
We’re planning to further develop this method of placing rewards and also add more variety of rewards so that each of your runs feels unique.
4. Simplifying in-game Stats
We have a lot of different stats right now. (Damage, Basic Damage, Skill Damage, Melee Damage, Ranged Damage, Projectile Damage, Item Damage, Quintessence Damage… we have 10+ stats related to just the damage aspect of our game!)
We know that most of you have felt that the sheer number of stats to be confusing, and with good reason.
Now we’ve narrowed damage related stats to just 2 types of stats: Physical Damage and Magical Damage
WIth the new update, most basic attacks will deal Physical Damage and most skill attacks will be considered Magical Damage.
There are some exceptions, a few skulls will have basic attacks that will have magical damage and have skills that deal physical damage.
Items and Quintessences will now clearly display which of the 2 damage that they’ll increase or deal.
We hope with these new changes, you’ll be able to more clearly be able to stack synergies between different items, quintessences and skulls and have fun testing out creative strategies each run.
5. Item Slot Increase
We’ve decided to increase the amount of items you can equip from 6 to 9!
We want you to have more fun trying out different item combinations and continue to feel more and more powerful as you obtain better items.
As always, thank you so much for having fun playing our game. Keep those wonderful feedback coming. We’ll be posting the full detail of the update once the patch is live!
Share: 
