Another dev log will be coming at the end of this month per usual. For a little spoiler, a system called "Personality Core" is being developed!

MAY 2024 PATCH NOTES

patch notes tl;dr:

Legendaries are here 🛠

Item colors and drop rates/h2]
As we move into longer playtests and less frequent stash wipes, we’re also moving towards a more long-term item economy. We’ve done a tuning pass over certain resources, standardized drop tables behind the scenes for easier maintenance, and we have added some new rarity colors in between the main ones so it’s easier to tell an item’s overall power at a glance and feel the progress you’re making.

- Added additional item colors to reflect the new `+` tiers, e.g. Rare and Rare+ are now slightly different colors
- Item rarity color is now reflected in their tooltips and item cards (like in your stash)
- Added more **unique items** with unique passives to named enemies around the map
- ⭐It was very difficult to craft a spear without any wood drops, so we’ve added more ways to get your hands on wood for crafting. Breaking crates will now drop some extra wood as well as the usual assortment of junk.



We’ve added an early prototype of quests to Seekers! We have lots of plans for these, including quests to help new players learn the ropes and ones for veteran players to achieve. For now, let us know if tracking and rewards work properly and if there’s anything specific you’d like to see.

To access the Quests UI, click on the exclamation point in the Lobby. If you are in a match, you can see your progress on quests using the ‘L’ key or by clicking the new exclamation point button available in the upper right corner of the match HUD.



In the Quest screen, you will see the quests we have available for you to try out. There are two types of objectives to test, kill and collect. When you click on a quest name on the left hand side, you will see its objective detail appear on the right, as well as the rewards it will grant you if you complete it.

Once a quest has been completed, you will see a CLAIM button. Click the button to receive the tasty tasty rewards from the Quest! Note: You can only claim completed quests in the Lobby or at the end of a match.



Known Issue: Quests may display over 100% completed if you have finished the objective and you are looking at the quest progress in match. This is a cosmetic issue only; when back in the lobby the quest will properly show as 100% completed (no extra credit for you).

The feedback about losing your mouse continues, so this time we took a more holistic look at how aiming visuals work and how they could be better. Which brings us to our new aiming indicator!

You can see it in action below, but in short… You can now see your aim direction at all times, with a line between your character model and cursor showing where your attacks will go. Your cursor will also change based on what the attack will hit (ex: a wall vs. an enemy). Please let us know what you think of the changes in our feedback forum and today’s survey.

p.s. You can now adjust your cursor size in the settings.

We noticed the default vision cone is great for immediate engagements and chases, but we were still lacking a true recon mechanic, which is where our new ‘Scout Ahead’ feature comes into play. Scouting ahead will lean into the tension of peeking across rivers or down long hallways to gather intel or craft sneaky plays while you maneuver around chokepoints and explore dangerous areas.

We will be iterating on the final representation of Scout Ahead, but we hope you enjoy this first hand ‘look’, so to speak. Go forth and be sneaky… and please share any clips and feedback on how it goes!

You can now press `Left Alt` to scout ahead! Scouting will elongate and narrow your vision cone, allowing you to see further distances. It’ll also slow down your character movement. While scouting, a spyglass VFX will also appear over your character's head, letting others know that you’re peepin’.

We’ve also made some adjustments to the vision cone introduced last patch to heighten tension and thrill while also reducing eye strain and flickering. Notably, you can no longer see your allies’ vision cones and must rely more on your own devices. We’ve also made some QoL adjustments to how the cone interacts with the environment and enemies, including enemies fading away when you lose sight of them and appearing briefly if they damage you outside your vision.

Extracting should be challenging because of gameplay, not because of clarity. So the clarity work continues!

- ⭐Active extractors now display a countdown to when they’ll whisk everyone away
- ⭐Notifications now state when an extractor was activated by an ally
- ⭐Continued VFX iterations to reduce noise and better communicate the countdown

Once the game timer reaches zero, you now enter overtime! As the Aurastorm closes in, you’ll start taking ramping DPS over the next minute, with 50% reduced damage while standing on an extractor. You can’t hold on for long against the storm, but if you pop an extractor with 29 seconds remaining, you’re no longer doomed to perish.

Wounds apply pressure to extract when you bite off more than you can chew, but it was applying too much pressure so we’re lowering the damage to wounds conversion rate. However, we still want wounds to feel important so we are adjusting both the system and how bandages help players recover wounds.

- Wound damage reduced to 25% of incoming damage (down from 30%)
- Lowered the amount of wounds you take after being downed and resurrected, especially early game where new players are more likely to die to PvE encounters
- Bandages now recover wounds gradually over 6 seconds and the user is slowed during that time

The clarity clean-up on events continues! We’ve also got a new Wishing Well event inspired by a happy little accident a few patches ago.

- **[NEW]: Wishing Well Buff**: Wishing Wells are buffed for the rest of the match! Drop in some goodies and see what you get. Just watch out for other players doing the same.
- ⭐**[TEMPORARILY REMOVED]: Teleport**: We’ve heard this event feels disruptive without the fun to go along with it, so we’re removing it until we have time to make it better.
-**[UPDATE]: Player Ping**: Player Ping event no longer pings dead players and also shows you and teammates as green. No more getting spooked by your own ping!
- **Fixes**: Fixed the probability weights of events so you should be seeing boon events at equal probabilities, and bane events at equal probabilities 50% of the time.

We’ve made quite a few small changes to creatures (including more unique enemies for variety & clarity), which hopefully add up to a better overall experience. Along with our continued content iteration and refinement, we’ve made some improvements to Wishing Wells.

- Added a couple of PvE-focused tips to the Lobby, regarding XP Efficiency and Creature Behavior
- The dynamic wall between Mesa & Lake Jundt now starts lowered, for consistency with other early rush direct paths
- ⭐Single-use extractors have new crystalline visuals to differentiate them from reusable extractors

- ⭐We’ve adjusted the underlying loot tables the wishing wells use, so the output of a wishing well should be much more predictable. As an example, if you drop three Rare items, you’ll get a Rare+ item in return, or possibly even something better – especially if the Wishing Well event is happening!
- The Grasslands Wishing Well has been moved from the base of the Mountains to the Fountain area on the path, to serve as a more central and thematically appropriate location

- ⭐Instead of casting a one-time 50% shield up front, Soldier Treants and Lumbering Treants will recast a 15% shield with a 25% cap every 20 seconds
- Shadebough follows the same pattern with its shield cast, but with slightly reduced numbers due to having a much higher HP
- Treants now prioritize using melee attacks over casting Ironbark, if there's a player within melee range
- Increased Soldier Treant's Double Strike windup from 25f to 30f
- Soldier Treants can now use Double Strike and Club Swing regardless of whether they have Ironbark active, similar to Lumbering Treants
- Increased Soldier Treant's Stag Rush cooldown from 8s to 12s, since Club Swing now has 8s cooldown
- Shadebough now casts Vengeance to summon minions during phase transitions
- Increased the cast range of Vengeance, so Shadebough doesn't have to chase players around as much to cast it
- Added a multi-rush attack to Shadebough’s final phase
- ⭐Adjusted some creature pack locations in Downtown, to make pathing a little more intuitive
- ⭐Replaced the early elite packs in Mesa & Lake Jundt with normal packs, to further prevent early pathing mistakes
- ⭐Converted patrolling packs to regular locally roaming packs when their patrol paths would pass through reusable extractors
- ⭐Replaced the elite duo pack in the Swamp with a unique Verdant Shaman, to convey their increased difficulty more clearly, while also making it slightly easier to sneak into Tunnels or grab the chest
- Upgraded the elite Lumbering Treant pack in Corrupted Forest to a unique with a linked rare chest instead of the poison-trapped chest
- ⭐Downgraded the Sap Spitter in the Lake unique pack to a Sticky Spitter
- Shielded creatures no longer lose their shields when retreating

- Added a rare chest to the center of Druid’s Circle, for parity with other starting area unique creature packs
- Converted the chest at the end of the Path from a cursed rare chest to a regular rare chest, with the assassins already spawned (and slightly weaker)
- ⭐ Moved the common chest on the bridge near Lonely Oak Island to the end of the path near the Tunnels entrance, because having it visible on the bridge was drawing players into difficult leveling routes

- Converted the pack near the Temple’s Cooldown Reduction altar from elite duo into a unique duo pack with a linked rare chest, although that area still needs some layout adjustments
- Converted the elite duo pack guarding the Perma Health altar in the Mountains into a unique Flower Magus pack

- First Art pass on Lonely Oak Island
- First Art pass on areas east of the Great Path

- **[NEW]** Added a personal stats screen in the end-of-game flow that showcases three stats you did well at in the match and how you ranked against others
- Updated the general end-of-game screen to show all items obtained that match (this is WIP!)



- ⭐ ***You can now look at your Loadout and Seeker tabs while in queue***. You can’t change what you’re going into the match with, but you can read your Seeker abilities, browse your stash, etc.
- ⭐ Added more new player tooltips to the lobby; added images to all new player tooltips
- ⭐ You can now purchase/sell multiple items at once by clicking it multiple times before confirming

- Fixed an issue that prevented Kumu and Zuraya from properly being slowed while using their basic attacks.

We’re feeling pretty good about the core gameplay loop, which means time for MORE CONTENT! Notably, this means we started building out our Seeker pipeline so we can create more Seekers more quickly (the current rate of three per year is slooow). Stay tuned :]

- ⭐RMB will no longer fire abilities if you have the inventory screen open and are trying to equip an item.
- ⭐Creatures will no longer have delayed or missing animations in the midst of combat encounters. Note - if you still see this, posting a bug report with video in Discord would be very helpful! We believe we have tackled most, if not all, cases.
- ⭐The 2D map now correctly shows epic loot and boss icons again.
- ⭐The 2D map now correctly shows extractor icon colors.
- ⭐Decal issues (where decals may have been showing up black) for certain enemy attacks have been fixed.
- Adjusted a few inaccessible crafting node locations due to collision issues.
- Fixed a few missing large brush clusters.
- Fixed the missing Ironbark break animation for Lumbering Treants.
- Fixed the missing spawn-in circle effects for Vanishers.
- Fixed Woozy Shroom’s Spore Cloud ability dealing 0 poison damage over time.
- Fixed Horned Marauder’s spin attack spinning way too fast!

Dear Friends!!!



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