Update 4 Overview (10/7/18 (LIVE))

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Level Expansion:

-Cave Level 1 has had an increase in size by roughly 60%, adding a new platforming section with more enemies.

-Cave Level 3 is now much darker and has been expanded on by roughly 40%, adding a new portal section with mantis enemies.

-Temple Level 5 has had an increase in size by 60%, adding a new platforming segment with enemies.

Difficulty Increase and Rebalancing

Max Health Adjustment

-Ruby and Ami now have 425 max health, down from 450.

-Lira and Vanessa now have 525 max health, down from 575.

-Terra max health reduced from 725 to 700.


Healing Balancing

-Terra max mana reduced from 55 to 45, ether stasis mana cost increased to 25.
Terra had insane burst healing, she can still burst heal, but it costs MORE than half of her mana.

-Lira passive heal rate reduced by roughly 40%.

-Ruby passive damage to heal conversion reduced from 17.5% to 15%.

-Ami heal on kill reduced from 40% to 25% of max health.

-Vanessa arcane damage on some attacks has slight increased healing, she actually has the worst healing due to it being tied to her mana, so she burns through many quickly to have good healing and damage, but must conserve her mana bar.

Damage Balancing

-Ruby's fire magic damage has been increased and finely balanced to her mana cost, range, and activation time.

-Terra Axe attacks now inflict more force and damage, to match how weighted down and slow they are.

-Ami now attacks faster so she needed a durability nerf to compensate for her insane DPS. She is now high risk high reward, or high skill high reward.

Enemy Balancing

-A lot of enemies now have increased health and poise, so a lot of damage and poise numbers have been adjusted on characters for balancing.

-Most enemies are more durable, but attack less often, or with less frequency.

New Enemy Variants

Two new mini boss type enemies have been added, Predator, a larger mantis(scavenger) on level 3, and Ghost Horror, a larger spectral Rock Horror added to certain maps.

Future Content

I am currently busy. So I am sectioning off the HUD update, new outfits, hard mode, and and endless mode from Update 4 and I will add them in the near future in Update 5.

The new HUD assets are already done, and the new outfits are as well, they need re-rigged and implemented, and I need to update the UI to allow for item unlocking and equipping outfits, which isn't too hard to do.