Hey Shapers,
Here's a new update for you!
In this Resonance Update, we're introducing new features and balances for everything from Overlords, bosses, abilities, weapons, mods, and those pesky Curse debuffs. Our goal with this update is to improve the early game experience for new players, diversify player builds and weapon viability, and make adjustments benefiting the overall experience.
Much of this update stems from community feedback, so a huge thanks for everyone's thoughts and suggestions!
✨New Features:
Stacks of Player Curse can quickly become overwhelming, so here are a few ways to remove it, or use it to turn Ada into a glass cannon:
New consumable called the Purge Kit can be used to remove some curse stacks
New version of the Corrupted Vault now appears close to Huck and Hauly where you can purchase the Purge Kit with credits
New override reward floor hack that gives you a Purge Kit
New weapon mod can now appear on corrupted weapons that increase your damage based on the number of curse stacks you have
We've also made adjustments to the Strike Core, Charge Rate Mods, and Steam features:
Increased the damage of the Strike Core’s Overkill ability
Heavy Assault core enhancement now doubles the Overkill ability's damage, but will no longer double the number of charges of Hunter’s Mark
Added New Common and Uncommon Increase Charge Rate mods
Moved the Mod Extractor cipher to the shop in the first floor
Added support for Steam Rich Presence, which now displays players' active tower and access level, or indicate players are in the Daily Challenge mode
⚖️Balances:
Reduced the number of Grunts that spawn at once during Overlord encounters, limited to 3
Changed the number of major enemies that can spawn in Overlord encounters. The adjusted numbers are:
No major enemies in Tower 1, 1 major enemy in Tower 2, and 2 major enemies in Tower 3
Limited the types of major enemies that spawn in Overlord encounters:
Only Grinder, Juggernaut, Arbiter, or Mistmantle enemy types can spawn
This rule does not apply to VerOS
Overlords no longer retaliate during their encounters
Reduced the damage of Volt Colossus’ electric orbs
Reduced the health of Volt Colossus’ Spirit Bomb at Tower 1
Adjusted the Volt Colossus’ Spirit Bomb collision to make it easier to dodge
Reduced the damage of Strike Mantis’ laser attack
Reduced the damage of Wind Magistrate’s air blade attack
Sinister Invulnerability can no longer affect Arbiters
Added i-frames at the end of Volt Nova’s jump
Adjusted the distance at which the Occuli enemy types will retreat under cover
Made the Occuli’s projectile easier to avoid
Reduced the damage of VerOS’ breakout wall attack
Reduced the damage of Juggernaut captains and elites
🔫 Abilities & Weapons Balances:
Increased Bulwark’s size to offer more cover
Reduced cooldown of Crashing Syncwave from 18 to 12 seconds
Reduced Crashing Syncwave damage from 25 to 20
Increased Vibro grenade’s base chain range from 20m to 30m
Increased Sonic Boom’s damage for explosion 2 from 15 to 20 and for explosion 3 from 10 to 20
Reduced from 3 to 2 Vibro stacks each Sonic Boom explosion applies
Reduced the delay between Sonic Boom explosions to increase the chance to hit
Reduced Nanite Swarm damage from 10 to 8
Increased Shockfield damage from 6 to 10, stacks applied from 2 to 3 and duration from 8 to 10
Increased Infernal Stinger projectile per burst count from 6 to 9
Increase mag size of Infernal Stinger from 3 to 4
Reduced Infernal Stinger's charge time from 0.9 to 0.8 seconds
Increased fire rate of Sonic Lance from 1 to 3 and increased projectile speed
Increased Arc Flash rate of fire from 1.25 to 2 and increased projectile speed and lifetime
Increased Accelerator's perfect shot window
Reduced damage bonus from 100% to 75% for corrupted Accelerator
Increased reload time of corrupted Accelerator from 2.3 seconds to 3.5 seconds
Reduced Crescent Blade charge time from 1.8 to 1.1
Reduced corrupted Crescent Blade charge time from 1.8 to 1.4
Reduced Stormcaller’s charge time from 1.75 to 1.3
Reduced Havoc Hammer charge time from 1.25 to 1.1
Reduced Tectonic launcher reload time from 3.3 to 2.8
Increased Banisher's precision hit bonus damage from 25% to 35%
Reduced Vibro Kunai fire rate from 2.5 to 2.25
Reduced Corrupted Pulse rifle Mag size from 30 to 25
🌞Quality of Life:
Reduced the time required to skip cinematics
Added an option to skip the boss selection and boss intro cinematics
Added a button in the pause menu to restart the daily challenge
Remapped the controller input to recycle gears and modifiers to Left Stick Press
Made the tabs at the top of the player menu screen interactive
🪲Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue where enemy attacks would not have any curse application delay
Fixed an issue where the cursed variant of the Grinder would only attack with its right arm
Fixed an issue where Volt Nova would only bring you about a meter high
Fixed an issue where major enemies would not spawn during Overlord encounters in Tower 3
Fixed an issue where the damage of the explosions from the perk Obliterate (duo perk from Strike + Volt cores) was not scaling with the number of Hunter's Marks applied to the enemy
Fixed the Accelerator’s Perfect Shot window UI
Thank You!
Thank you for every one of your recommendations & bug reports, and inspiring content ideas.
Aaand that's it for now! See you around, Metric Empire
