Ascendant v.1.2 Feedback and Bugs

[Hapa Games]

Version 1.2 has dropped! Fixed a number of bugs and added some new stuff. Thanks for being patient, everyone. You can post any feedback, bugs, or other comments here. We'll read all of it.

Update Notes

• New Stuff and Bug Fixes

• New game difficulties added: Baby, Normal, and Rage.
  
• Time-based leaderboards added for each difficulty.
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Humbaba from exiting an invulnerable state.
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the Ascended bosses from attacking after cutscenes.
  
• Map generation has been fixed. Players should now no longer be stuck without a boss room in the Winter levels.
  
• A certain boss room door has been removed from the wall. (Sorry, TorNis)
  
• Hachiman event rooms now occasionally reward players correctly with the Blessing of Hachiman instead of the Blessing of Gran Bwa.
  
• Pots in the shooting gallery will now properly self-destruct after 30 seconds if they do not initially break on impact.

• Blessings

• Kamoho Blessing on weapons now awards players with 5 influence every time an enemy is eaten.
  
• Kamoho Blessing on spell has had its homing buff effect doubled.
  
• Spell homing in general has been doubled.
  
• Zephyrus Blessing on weapon has had its proc chance increased from 10% to 15%. Additionally, its launch force has been doubled.
  
• Zephyrus Blessing on spells now instantly staggers most enemies in addition to its current knockback.
  
• Blessing of Kali now saves the player's life when spending health in various event rooms and blood shops.
  
• Tlaloc Blessing on spell has had its delay raised from 0.1 seconds to every 0.4 seconds.

• Gameplay Changes

• Demon pot projectiles have been made more visible.
  
• Enemy shields are now initially much weaker but scale as the game progresses.
  
• Launch force has been increased on The Twig.
  
• The restart option has been removed upon winning the game. This allowed players to replay the game as the character they had won the game with.

• Others

• There Can be Only One Steam Achievement has been fixed.
  
• A script has been added to check and see if players have completed certain achievements and award them. This will check to see if players have completed New Challenger based achievements and journal-based achievements (e.g. Heavy Breathing - Discover every breath).
  
• 1280x1024 resolution added in the Settings menu.

Edit:

Difficulty Mode Clarification

• Baby Mode

• All characters start with an additional max heart
  
• Invulnerability Time (after being struck) is increased by 0.75 seconds
  
• Pots drop more loot
  
• Health pickups drop more frequently
  
• All damage is reduced by a quarter heart (down to a minimum of a quarter heart)

• Normal Mode

• The same mode you have been playing since launch

• Rage Mode

• Stronger enemy variants work their way in earlier
  
• Rooms generally have more enemies earlier
  
• Enemies have more hp
  
• Bosses have more hp
  
• All damage is increased by a quarter heart

Edit 2:

A few more bug fixes

• Lugh Blessing on weapon now pierces enemies and travels slower.
  
• Fix to the interactions between Spirit of the Divine, Spirit of the Master, and Gada weapon type. This would just completely break the game. This has gone down as best/most interesting bug to fix yet.
  
• Moved the point where the achievement check script is executed.
  
• Re-added the fancy spring title effects.

[[Q]uik]

Wow, this is a big patch. Awesome work!

[Celtia]

Fantastic! Great to have another update to play around in, especially good to see some of the most requested changes.

[(Gk) Erasels]

So I like the changes, but did you really just patch the blessing of Zephyresh and not blessing of Lugh? The probability feels like 1% when I imbed the blessing of lugh into my weapon
And what do the game modes do? I played rage for a little and I saw they take more hits, any other changes? Tooltipps would be nice ^^

Other than that, the patch is really good, thanks for investing more time into the game after you released it.

[hipants]

引用自 (Gk) Erasels：

And what do the game modes do? I played rage for a little and I saw they take more hits, any other changes? Tooltipps would be nice ^^

The game modes increase/decrease the amount of enemies in each room along with adjusting what level harder enemy types (increased health, shield variants, et al) will appear in.

[[Linux] unbridledExüberance]

Do the difficulties affect boss health or damage at all? I find that 90% of my deaths are on bosses- usually that friggin Late Spring boss.

[FooBar08]

Nice update! Do we need to run the script to award missed achievements manually? The achievements that should have unlocked didn't unlock when I ran the game and I can't find a script or executable in the game's folder.

[hipants]

引用自 FooBar08：

Nice update! Do we need to run the script to award missed achievements manually? The achievements that should have unlocked didn't unlock when I ran the game and I can't find a script or executable in the game's folder.

It only works for New Challenger and journal-based achievements (unlocking all Breaths, etc.). I'll edit the update notes for clarification.

[Ay Gurl]

A little added clarification on the new modes:

Baby Mode
- All characters start with an additional max heart
- Invulnerability Time (after being struck) is increased by 0.75 seconds
-Pots drop more loot
-Health pickups drop more frequently
-All damage is reduced by a quarter heart (down to a minimum of a quarter heart)

Normal Mode
-The same mode you have been playing since launch

Rage Mode
-Stronger enemy variants work their way in earlier
-Rooms generally have more enemies earlier
-Enemies have more hp
-Bosses have more hp
-All damage is increased by a quarter heart


Hope this helps. Get at those leaderboards!

[VoidInsanity]

Aha! I knew there was something off about ragemode, I wondered why I died so fast on my first attempt. All damage being increased by a quater heart makes everything SO much harder when you are Hanuman and his pitiful HP pool. I am scared to beat the game with Ghat now, every projectile doing a minimum of 3/4 heart of damage is the stuff of nightmares.

[MagonDead]

Thanks a lot for the new modes, I was struggling on normal mode so far (I don't think I've made past early summer before), now I reached late fall on easy mode on my first try. That renewed my urge for playing the game again. :)

[Ay Gurl]

That's what I like to hear Magon. Keep at it buddy.

[Justivus Rex]

is this gonna be updated on the itch.io website?? i bought it on there before it was released on steam

[Ay Gurl]

Yeah we're working on all of the itch.io builds now. Should be up there before long. You'll get the new difficulty modes as well as bug fixes and balance changes but unfortunately the leaderboards are built using steamworks.

[Justivus Rex]

thanks. was debating buying it on steam for leaderboards and trophies

[Billaras 009]

Nice update! Gonna try the easy mode, game was too hard for me and eventually i stopped playing.
I ll be back!