Break the Path | Balancing, QoL Patches & Stability

Hey All!

Patch Notes

Balancing

• ⭐️ Map: Secret zones are now in light color once visited. Secret entrances are hidden. 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Givers / Shells Fallback Reward: The amount of shells proposed is now aligned with the items' highest value 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Enemies: Improved visual telegraphing for the Incubator Big Tentacle’s 360° attack. 0.9.1
  

QoL

• ⭐️ Trinkets: Fury: Improved the stats displayed in the UI 0.9.0.12
  
• ⭐️ Minimap: Interiors, Caverns and other unconnected islands' are now displayed on the mini-map 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Map: Biome Rewards now appear directly next to exit icons. 0.9.1
  
• UI: Biome Rewards: Added a '+' symbol on the reward icon 0.9.0.12
  
• UI: Added scrollbars in some of the Ark's menus 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ LD: Adjusted camera positioning in branching zones to improve path visibility. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Keyboard: Can also pause and check the inventory with TAB. 0.9.1
  

Bugfixes

• ⭐️ Softlocks:
  - Fixed a softlock where arenas wouldn't open because our loot algorithm thought a mob on a neighboring island was part of your fight—turns out, "close enough" wasn't smart enough. 0.9.0.12
  - Fixed Alterattack tutorial room softlock if you had a Shield (another kind of weapon will be proposed) 0.9.0.12
  - Fixed some rare failing level generations by increasing the maximum amount of attempts 0.9.0.13
  - Fixed being able to teleport yourself while in arenas which could lead to softlocks 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Gameplay:
  - Resolved a flask duplication exploit.
  - Fixed Ethereal Blades interrupting Crystallize, which previously disabled dashing. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Level Generation:
  - Fixed teleporter which were, from time to time, missing at the end of branches 0.9.0.12
  - Fixed generation issue which made some secret unaccessible 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ Shop: Fixed teleporter not activating if you REALLY keep dash on the edges toward the boat 0.9.0.12
  
• ⭐️ Rat Village: Fixed some situations where flying elements would prevent you from seeing what you are doing 0.9.0.12
  
• ⭐️ Killstreak: Fixed occurrences of not having enough enemies in a biome to reach the killstreak goal 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Random Chrysalis Hex: Fixed the negative effect of taking damage when doing alterattacks 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Loot: Improved Weapon selection in low level drops 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Ark:
  - FREND: Fixed duplicated FREND's loyalty program cinematic 0.9.0.13
  - Cuprik's Forge: Fixed Cuprik Forge not being accessible 0.9.0.13
  - Macaba: Fixed not being able to select species since last patch 0.9.0.14
  - Fixed persistent star icon appearing on Sigourney's choices after all content had been viewed. 0.9.1.1
  
• Lighting:
  - Fixed super bright lighting of the Ark on some screens 0.9.0.13
  - Fixed lighting in the Ark and the Incubator being too shiny in some configurations 0.9.1.2
  
• ⭐️ Teleporters: Fixed having all teleporters suddenly always unavailable 0.9.0.15
  
• ⭐️ Rarity: Fixed an issue where rarity was incorrectly applied to unlevelable Gifts and Magifishes. 0.9.0.15
  
• ⭐️ Payment Gates / Rarity: Fixed cost estimation of items which have a rarity 0.9.0.15
  
• ⭐️ Onsens: Fixed an issue where button mashing near the entrance tornado caused instant re-entry/exit, preventing access. 0.9.0.15
  
• ⭐️ LD:
  - Fixed several generation bugs that created unreachable secret zones. 0.9.1
  - Corrected another one which added enemies in transitions placed after the Boss. 0.9.1
  - Annihilated (yes) an issue that could cause the Cuprik Grave to be appear two times in the same Expedition. 0.9.1
  - Fixed some camera positions which were offeseted 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ Quests: Fixed the "Explore the Vortex" prompt appearing for players who already completed it. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Audio: Fixed several cases of broken sound triggers. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Stability: Fixed a memory leak occurring during UI video playback. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Factory: Fixed having decorations spawned in the middle of combat arenas 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ Lost Archipelago:
  - Fixed incorrect exterior lighting appearing inside Caverns. 0.9.1
  - Fixed caverns not being accessible 0.9.1.2
  
• ⭐️ UI:
  - Fixed Thrift Shop having a bugged entry shown 0.9.0.13
  - Fixed Amplifier's position marker displaying a Boost icon instead of an Amplifier one 0.9.0.13
  - Fixed weather panel text 0.9.0.13
  - Boosts: Fixed text vertical alignement 0.9.0.14
  - Secrets: Their rewards will not have a position marker anymore to avoid spoiling their location 0.9.0.15
  - HUD: Removed rarity colors from Magifishes (they do not have rarity). 0.9.1
  - Dialogs: Fixed an issue preventing mouse-click skipping. 0.9.1
  - Payment Gates: Corrected UI elements bleeding off-screen. 0.9.1
  - Cuprik's Forge: Fixed broken controller icon text strings in item selection. 0.9.1
  - Options: Corrected an issue that caused the wrong buttons to be selected by default 0.9.1.1
  - HUD: Fixed PlayStation controller displaying the wrong Map icon on the HUD 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ Dialogs: Fixed several issues related with dialogs and other story-realted elements 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ RTC:
  - Sound: Fixed muted sound during Pietro RTC 0.9.0.13
  - Fixed Yua's dialog trigger when she is next to the banking fish 0.9.0.13
  - Sound: Fixed SFX being played too early during Altar RTC 0.9.0.14
  
• ⭐️ Localization:
  - Fixed Russian 'Leave' text in the Onsens 0.9.0.15
  - Fixed having some text entries being mixed between DE, RU, PT-BR and ES languages. 0.9.1
  
• ⭐️ Co-op: Softlock: Fixed having disabled inputs in multiplayer when someone launched a dialog of Yua 0.9.0.13
  
• ⭐️ Co-op: Fixed under the hood error when looking at other players' rewards in a Giver UI 0.9.0.14
  
• ⭐️ Co-op / Softlock: Fixed a softlock preventing Alterattack/Crystallize unlocks if one player already unlocked them. 0.9.1
  
• Co-op: Lost Archipelago Quest: Fixed not being able to find signal in a co-op game 0.9.1.1
  
• ⭐️ Various under the hood fixes 0.9.0.15
  

Optimization

• ⭐️ Optimized enemy bars rendering 0.9.0.13
  
• Reduced the footweight of enemies' related UIs 0.9.0.14
  
• Optimized memory usage of the Map 0.9.0.14
  
• ⭐️ Optimized the calculation algorithm for item Shell-values. 0.9.1
  
• Optimized memory allocation of the decoration culling system. 0.9.1
  
• Significantly improved the culling of the decoration 0.9.1.2
  
• Reduced ambient sound effects footweight 0.9.1.2
  

Misc

• Rat Village decoration small tweaks 0.9.0.12
  
• Updated lighting of the Incubator 0.9.0.13