Hold onto your hats! We've thrown a few piping hot Pizza Tower tracks into the Rift of the NecroDancer blender. Prepare for a sonic experience that's equal parts frantic and cheesy.

Buy the songs individually, or get them all together for 25% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51747/Rift_of_the_NecroDancer_Pizza_Tower_Music_Pack/

Here's the trailer again in case you missed it in the last post:
Songs included in the Pizza Tower Music Pack are:

• It's Pizza Time![store.steampowered.com] by Mr. Sauceman
  
• The Death that I Deservioli[store.steampowered.com] by Mr. Sauceman
  
• Unexpectancy, Pt. 3[store.steampowered.com] by Mr. Sauceman
  
• World Wide Noise[store.steampowered.com] by ClascyJitto

If you don't have Pizza Tower yet, make sure to pick it up in the Rift + Pizza Tower + Music Pack Bundle!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51746/

Additionally, we've set up a Rift of the NecroDancer Ultimate Pack! We'll be adding each new DLC to the bundle, so if you ever want to see if you're missing anything, you can check here.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53059/Rift_of_the_NecroDancer_Ultimate_Pack/

• Fixed practice mode not working correctly when entering from the results screen of a Custom Track
  
• Fixed practice mode not displaying a menu highlight for Custom Music
  
• Fixed missing Rift VFX config for custom counterparts

• Some custom tracks may not change difficulties correctly via the pause menu
  
• Exiting a boss battle tutorial will return the player to the top of the Story Mode menu
  
• After completing a boss battle it's possible to see all boss portraits in the menu when scrolling up and down the list
  
• The kerning on text in artist names is broken if the name contains 'GI'
  
• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues. Workaround: Edit the SaveData file (via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer) and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly (both in Remix and in Custom Music)
  
• Assist indicators for the minigames can disappear occasionally

Get FUNKY with the Pizza Tower Music Pack DLC, coming May 5th!

Peppino brings 4 Pizza Tower tracks with him into the Rift:

• It's Pizza Time! by Mr. Sauceman
  
• The Death that I Deservioli by Mr. Sauceman
  
• Unexpectancy, Pt. 3 by Mr. Sauceman
  
• World Wide Noise by ClascyJitto

You'll be able to purchase the songs individually, or the whole bundle for 25% off, so stay tuned! See you next week!

Some of y'all were asking if you could wishlist, and your wish(list) has been granted! Links below:

• It's Pizza Time![store.steampowered.com]
  
• The Death that I Deservioli[store.steampowered.com]
  
• Unexpectancy, Pt. 3[store.steampowered.com]
  
• World Wide Noise[store.steampowered.com]

Keep your eyes peeled for a discounted bundle on launch day (May 5th) as well!

If you have at any point installed a mod to Rift of the NecroDancer, you may find that the game no longer launches correctly or experiences strange bugs during gameplay. Before launching this newest update, please make sure that you have uninstalled any mod launchers (ie BepInEx, MelonLoader)! You will also need to find and delete the file winhttp.dll within the game install folder if it exists.

• Fixed credits missing a couple names for the community level designer section

Ten years ago, we unleashed a game so groovy, it woke the dead (literally!). Crypt of the NecroDancer has been keeping your fingers tapping and your hearts pounding for a whole decade! That's right, we've officially hit double digits – time for a mid-life crisis where we buy a fancy new lute and maybe get a dancing dragon tattoo?

But instead of existential d(r)ead, we're bringing you gifts! In the spirit of cross-game pollination (and because we thought it would be super cool), we're sneaking THREE legendary tracks from Crypt of the NecroDancer into Rift:

• Crypteque
  
• Fungal Funk
  
• Power Cords

And because looking good is half the battle (especially when facing down a horde of skeletons), these songs feature new Crypt outfits for Cadence and the NecroDancer. Now you can bring that classic Crypt style to your Rift runs.

Thanks for sticking with us through all the beats and bobs. Here's to another ten years of rhythmic mayhem!

That's not all! If you haven't yet, you can pick up the Crypt of the NecroDancer Ultimate Pack for an ALL-TIME LOW of 55% off for a limited time only.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2553/NecroDancer_ULTIMATE_PACK/

If you see a 🎸 emoji, know that you as a community helped us make this change, whether that was by providing feedback or reporting bugs!

• Added three new Rhythm Rifts based on tracks from Crypt of the NecroDancer:
  
  • Zone 1-2: Crypteque
    
  • Zone 2-1: Fungal Funk
    
  • Zone 5-2: Power Cords
• Added classic Crypt-style outfits worn by Cadence and the NecroDancer while playing the Crypt tracks
  
• 🎸 Added custom portrait support to Custom Music tracks
  
  • This includes official compatibility with existing tracks designed for 96 LB's CustomPortRifts mod!
• Added Shopkeeper Mode support to Custom Music tracks
  
  • See here for more info on custom portraits and Shopkeeper Mode: https://vortexbuffer.com/rift/editor-advanced/

• Changed unlock criteria for DLC tracks:
  
  • From now on, the Impossible difficulty and Remix Mode will be unlocked by default for any song that requires purchase
    
  • Free tracks added via content updates follow the same set of unlock criteria as base game tracks for Impossible difficulty (100 diamonds), Remix Mode (60 diamonds) and Impossible Remix Mode (120 diamonds)
• Changed asset storage format to reduce download size for future updates
  
  • Future updates to the game should require much less data to be downloaded!

• 🎸 Added support for offsetting the audio track by a specific number of milliseconds to sync it up with the beatmap
  
  • This offset is visually indicated by the waveform display on the side of the track, and also applies to preview playback
• 🎸 Added an option to play a 4-beat or 8-beat countdown at the start of a song
  
  • The countdown's BPM is based on the starting BPM of the song, independent of BPM change triggers
    
  • The countdown audio does not play in the editor, and is instead represented by visual annotations on the right side of the level
    
  • This can be configured on a per-difficulty basis
    
  • For compatibility, existing songs continue to use silent countdowns by default
• 🎸 Added an option to select which existing Workshop item to replace when publishing a track
  
• Added a hotkey to mirror the contents of the paintbrush or selection rectangle
  
  • This is bound to H by default, but can be configured via the options menu
• 🎸 Added a "Halve BPM" tool, which transforms all enemies on the song into their equivalent half-BPM counterparts, preserving the timings of each hit at a reduced scroll speed
  
• 🎸 Fixed enemies sometimes being saved at beat times below the start of the song

• 🎸 Fixed "DLC now available" item not being removed from Track Select after obtaining all DLCs
  
• 🎸 Fixed Skulls sometimes spawning Skeletons 2 tiles back instead of 1 tile back
  
• 🎸 Fixed enemy hit sounds being out of sync near mid-song BPM changes
  
• 🎸 Fixed enemy timing accuracy issues in Resurrections Hard and Impossible
  
• 🎸 Fixed Skeleton timing accuracy issues in Scattered and Lost Hard
  
• 🎸 Fixed Armadillos snapping to the incorrect sub-beat intervals on Visualize Yourself Impossible
  
• 🎸 Fixed pause menu not opening when pressing the pause button near the end of the song
  
• 🎸 Fixed Practice Mode start/end range not being applied accurately to songs with variable BPM
  
• 🎸 Fixed leaderboards not always being hidden when the Golden Lute modifier is equipped
  
• 🎸 Fixed the background video in Rhythm Rifts continuing to play while the game is paused
  
• Fixed unpause countdown not staying in sync with the rhythm on songs with variable BPM
  
• Fixed seeded leaderboard toggle not working on the Remix Mode results screen
  
• Fixed Shopkeeper talking over his own singing in Shopkeeper Mode
  
• Fixed slow loading times for Track Select and Custom Music menus
  
• 🎸 Fixed inconsistent audio synchronization when beginning playback for some Custom Music tracks
  
• 🎸 Fixed fractional BPM values being rounded to integers in Custom Music
  
• 🎸 Fixed unpublished Custom Music tracks sending records to the leaderboards
  
• Fixed Custom Music tracks not contributing towards the play time statistics on Steam Workshop
  
• Fixed Custom Music menu sometimes showing outdated scores in the small leaderboard view
  
• Fixed the pause menu's difficulty selector not working in Custom Music
  
• Fixed changes to the Practice Mode start/end range from the pause menu not applying in Custom Music
  
• Fixed game over screen not allowing the difficulty to be changed in Custom Music
  
• Fixed infinite loading screen when starting a Custom Music track without any enemies
  
• Fixed missing sound effect when entering a Custom Music track
  
• Fixed Cyan, Magenta and Yellow Portal Traps all appearing as blue in-game
  
• Fixed Celeste and Super Meat Boy tracks not always appearing in the same order in Track Select when sorting by character

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but some of these issues have fixes that require more delicate handling. Thanks for your patience!

• Exiting a boss battle tutorial will return the player to the top of the Story Mode menu
  
• After completing a boss battle it's possible to see all boss portraits in the menu when scrolling up and down the list
  
• The kerning on text in artist names is broken if the name contains 'GI'
  
• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• NVIDIA graphics cards may cause framerate issues
  
  • Workaround: Edit the SaveData file in a text editor (located in %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer\Saves) and change the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly (both in Remix and in Custom Music)
  
• Assist indicators for the minigames can disappear occasionally

Hey folks! We’ve partnered up with Maddy Makes Games and Extremely OK Games to bring tunes straight from Celeste Mountain into the Rift.

Keep the musical combat flowing with the paid DLC, Celeste Music Pack, strawberry jam-packed with four iconic tracks from the award-winning Lena Raine:

• Scattered and Lost
  
• Reach for the Summit
  
• Confronting Myself
  
• Resurrections

To celebrate, we’ve also added a FREE Rhythm Rift to the base game for everyone:

• Resurrections (Remix) by Danny Baranowsky

You’ll get to rock out with Madeline or Badeline in each new track. Buy individual tracks, or grab the Celeste Music Pack bundle for 25% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51263/Rift_of_the_NecroDancer_Celeste_Music_Pack

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51259/Rift__Celeste__Celeste_Music_Pack

If you see a 🎸 emoji, know that you as a community helped us make this change, whether that was by providing feedback or reporting bugs!

• Updated our credits to include the DLC songs and level designers
  
• Added an additional countdown sound for songs where gameplay inputs start at a delay from the initial countdown
  
• Updated the Results Screen poses for Cadence to reorganize the poses for each letter grade
  
• Updated the Supporter Pack - Cadence now has her Supporter Pack outfit on the Results Screens of Rhythm Rifts, Boss Battles and Minigames (with the exception of Story Mode)
  
• 🎸 Changed the MISS animations in the Show Time! minigame to be more inline with which input was failed
  
  • This known issue is still occurring separately from the above change: An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended

• Fixed a misplaced Slime in Suzu's Quest Easy
  
• Fixed an incorrect Portal trap exit in Rift Within Impossible

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but some of these issues have fixes that require more delicate handling. Thanks for your patience!

• Even if all DLC is owned, the item in the Track Select menu that links to the store page will still appear. This will be resolved in a future update
  
• Skulls sometimes spawn their skeletons two beats back instead of one
  
• Entering practice mode can sometimes produce a freeze (research ongoing)
  
• Exiting a boss battle tutorial will return the player to the top of the Story Mode menu
  
• After completing a boss battle it's possible to see all boss portraits in the menu when scrolling up and down the list
  
• The kerning on text in artist names is broken if the name contains 'GI'
  
• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues. Workaround: Edit the SaveData file (via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer) and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly (both in Remix and in Custom Music)
  
• Assist indicators for the minigames can disappear occasionally

Hi everyone! We've got a quick patch with some quality of life changes, and quick bug fixes.

If you see a 🎸 emoji, know that you as a community helped us make this change, whether that was by providing feedback or reporting bugs!

• The displayed difficulty on Track Select, Story, and Custom Music menus is now saved when the menu is exited
  
• Remix Mode activation state now persists when returning to the main menu or exiting the game
  
• Track Select and Custom Music sorting order now persists when returning to the main menu or exiting the game
  
• Leaderboards are now visible by default on the Rhythm Rift Results screen

• 🎸 Fixed a race condition that prevented the Feedback Form from opening
  
• Fixed modifiers enabled in Custom Music from influencing gameplay in other areas of the game
  
• 🎸 Fixed incorrect end points in Practice Mode for Got Danged
  
• 🎸 Fixed What's in the Box Impossible not showing double BPM on the track select screen
  
• 🎸 Fixed duplicates of custom music appearing in the list
  
• 🎸 Fixed stereo audio getting downmixed to mono for custom music, causing crunchy-sounding audio
  
• 🎸 Fixed a NecroDancer boss battle softlock (again)

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but some of these issues have fixes that require more delicate handling. Thanks for your patience!

• Skulls sometimes spawn their skeletons two beats back instead of one
  
• Inputs are not registered for a brief period after closing a tutorial dialogue box
  
• Audio calibration blips are sometimes off by a few milliseconds, which can result in inaccurate calibration results
  
• Custom music can desync when using practice mode
  
• Exiting a boss battle tutorial will return the player to the top of the Story Mode menu
  
• After completing a boss battle it's possible to see all boss portraits in the menu when scrolling up and down the list
  
• The kerning on text in artist names is broken if the name contains 'GI'
  
• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues
  
• Workaround: Edit the SaveData file (via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer) and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly (both in Remix and in Custom Music)
  
• Assist indicators for the minigames can disappear occasionally
  
• The Final Hit VFX appears prematurely in some circumstances
  
• Flames on the intensity bar can be missing in some circumstances

🎸 means a change was made based on community feedback!

• 🎸 Fixed PC locales that use commas instead of periods for decimal points interpreting some values incorrectly, causing animation speed problems
  
• 🎸 Fixed Turkish PC locales not loading text correctly in Dialogue Events
  
• Fixed an overlapping Wyrm in Baboosh Impossible (no changes to the scoring!)

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but some of these issues have fixes that require more delicate handling. Thanks for your patience!

• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly
  
• Assist indicators for the minigames can disappear occasionally
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues
  
  • Workaround: Edit the SaveData file (via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer) and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)

We're beefing up the track list with not 1, not 2, but 3—THREE brand spanking new Super Meat Boy remixes[open.spotify.com] from Danny Baranowsky! Update your game to play these songs for FREE:

• Slugger's Refrain
  
• Got Danged
  
• Bootus Bleez

If you're missing either Rift of the NecroDancer or Super Meat Boy in your collection, you can now pick them up in the Rift of the Super Meat Boy bundle, available for a limited time.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47973/Rift_of_the_Meat_Boy

If you see a 🎸 emoji, it means that you as a community helped us make this change by providing feedback or reporting bugs!

• 🎸 Added text to Custom Music gameplay and results screens to display the beatmap creator name
  
• Three new tracks, all for free! Remixes of Danny Baranowsky's favourite Super Meat Boy tracks:
  
  • Slugger's Refrain
    
  • Got Danged
    
  • Bootus Bleez

• Updated credits text
  
• Boss Battles and Minigames now have their current difficulty listed during gameplay, on the pause menu and on the results screens
  
• Game will now pause when opening the Steam Overlay
  
• Added Assist Mode to the Hard versions of all Minigames
  
• 🎸 Beatmap adjustments to the following:
  
  • Elusional Medium
    
  • Om and On Medium

Why adjust these beatmaps?

Based on feedback and analytics, we found that both these tracks at medium caused large spikes in our difficulty curve which we wanted to eliminate. As they're some of the first tracks that are played, we simplified some patterns and replaced a few monsters with food items. This means scoring is exactly the same, so your highscores are still valid.

We aren't planning to make a habit of changing base game levels this way, but this was significant enough that we wanted to smooth it out. Thanks for understanding!

• 🎸 Resolved an unhandled exception that could cause save data to corrupt, making the game unlaunchable
  
• Fixed some challenges using the incorrect section of the song (which caused issues with traps etc, making some challenges less interesting)
  
• Fixed monster behaviour bug with Shielded Skeletons
  
• Fixed some beatmap bugs (ie incorrect placement, overlapping inputs) on the following maps. These changes DO NOT require leaderboard resets, they simply resolve unintended issues:
  
  • Visualize Yourself (Impossible)
    
  • Baboosh (Impossible)
    
  • Necrosonatica (Impossible)
    
  • Brave the Harvester (Hard, Impossible)
    
  • Final Fugue (Hard, Impossible)
• 🎸 Fixed the tutorial not respecting the Invert Up/Down setting
  
• Fixed Remix Mode incorrectly displaying the New High Score banner under certain circumstances
  
• Fixed a missing indicator loop in Showtime! (Medium)
  
• Fixed the controls menu getting offset when opened too many times
  
• 🎸 Fixed PS4 and PS5 controllers triggering double inputs when using the Dpad for any inputs
  
• 🎸 Fixed double inputs when gameplay was rebound to the triggers
  
• Resolved a rare softlock that could occur in any boss battle due to hitting late in an input window right before a phase transition
  
• 🎸 Corrected the song name used on the results screen of certain Boss tracks
  
• 🎸 Fixed cinematics not respecting Master volume slider (only impacted by the music volume slider)
  
• Fixed letter grades not being displayed on Custom Music menu
  
• Unfocusing the game while the feedback form is open no longer causes a softlock
  
• Corrected inverse iconography for controllers displayed in the Boss Battle tutorial
  
• Expanded leaderboards can now be opened on the Custom Music results screen
  
• Fixed some boss battle animation and SFX bugs
  
• Fixed the Perfect sticker appearing on Minigames that had not been cleared with Perfect
  
• Fixed the following achievements triggering incorrectly:
  
  • On Repeat
    
  • Butterfly Perfect
    
  • Lich Please
• Resolved typos in the following languages:
  
  • Russian
    
  • Spanish (LatAm)

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but some of these issues have fixes that require more delicate handling. Thanks for your patience!

• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly
  
• Turkish PCs will not display text correctly
  
• If an Assist Mode indicator is missed in the Show Time! Minigame (Medium Difficulty), all further indicators will be missing
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues
  
  • Workaround: Edit the SaveData file via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)

Hi everyone! Hope you've had a blast crushing those monsters and taking photos of Heph.

We have been absolutely blown away by the response to Rift of the NecroDancer since it came out yesterday. We appreciate all the feedback we've received so far. Please keep sending stuff our way -- we read everything that comes in!

There are a few small-but-annoying bugs that we wanted to get a hotfix out for ASAP, so read below for the full list of changes and known issues.

• Added the words 'Custom Music' to the gameplay screen when playing a custom track to help distinguish between official and custom music

• Disabled the automatic FPS throttling when the game is unfocused
  
• This also fixes the softlock that could occur when unfocusing the game while the feedback form was open
  
• Reduced the resolution of all videos to prevent stuttering on low end PCs
  
• Prevented a softlock that would occur when entering the Calibration Test from a custom track
  
• Fixed a performance dip that occurred when triggering vibe power while 'Remove Guitar Strings' was set to Enabled

We're moving to action on these as quickly as possible, but due to the more complicated fixes we need a little bit more testing time. Thanks for your patience!

• It's possible to soft-lock boss battles when hitting extremely late in the input window right before a phase transition
  
• Boss battles sometimes do not load the correct difficulty if Play Back-to-Back is enabled
  
• Triggers and joysticks cause double inputs on all controllers (with the exception of SteamDeck)
  
• Workaround: Enable Steam Input in the Steam library properties for Rift of the NecroDancer
  
• Double inputs occur when playing using DualSense controllers (PS4 and PS5)
  
• Workaround: Enable Steam Input in the Steam library properties for Rift of the NecroDancer
  
• An animation bug occurs in Show Time! Hard difficulty that makes the game more difficult to play than intended
  
• The results screen for all boss battle Rhythm Rifts displays the incorrect song name
  
• On Repeat achievement triggers incorrectly
  
• A hidden achievement related to story completion triggers incorrectly
  
• Shielded Skeletons sometimes behave incorrectly
  
• NVIDIA graphics card settings may cause framerate issues
  
• Workaround: Edit the SaveData file (via C:\Users\your username\AppData\LocalLow\Brace Yourself Games\Rift of the NecroDancer) and set the FramerateLimit value to match your monitor's refresh rate (e.g. 60, 144, etc.)
  
• Japanese and Chinese fonts do not display punctuation correctly
  
• The tutorial does not pick up on the Invert Up/Down setting correctly
  
• New High Score banner sometimes doesn't display correctly
  
• Banshee does not enter the correct animation when stunned occasionally
  
• Turkish PCs will not display text correctly

Known Issues for the Level Editor will come at a later date!

[twitch.tv]Hang out with us and celebrate the launch of Rift of the NecroDancer February 5th at 2pm Pacific Time!

https://twitch.tv/kleientertainment

See you there!