Before anything else, I have a note for returning players. There's one thing that will be a little confusing if you're loading your old save. I recommend checking out the world Pass to see if you see anything suspicious. After investigating that, you can reveal this spoiler.
Each world has a secret puzzle. Most of them won't appear as secret to you because you've already beaten them. Secret puzzles are generally challenging puzzles that ramp complexity, as opposed to showcasey endgame levels that are about something new (and not secret).
That is all, enjoy! Now for the rest of the announcement:
This update is by far the biggest yet, particularly when it comes to the puzzle changes, so I want to give some of the design goals behind it.
- Explore some more crazy, emergent ideas that the game was lacking.
- Clean up the design of the endgame, which was previously kind of a random mix of special showcase levels and very challenging levels.
- Remove some of the difficulty in the early and middle stages of the game.
- The bottom line is to make the game better and more dense with interesting ideas, and not to just make the game bigger and longer. The game is already huge and very long!
Aside from this, I'm excited to finally have some progress towards localization to Simplified Chinese! This update contains translations for the menus and UI. Translation of puzzle names and hints is still on-going.
Here are the full notes. It's so long that I haven't bothered to mark spoilers, so beware!
Puzzle changes
- Attraction
- Rearrange puzzles.
- Remove Tether.
- Add Linger.
- Repulsion: Remove wall.
- Rearrange puzzles.
- Crowdsurf
- Move Skid.
- Move Skid.
- Exchange
- Move one tile down.
- Move one tile down.
- Flare
- Add several bombs.
- Swap Clear and Dud.
- Clear: Remove bonus.
- Precision: Remove teleporter.
- Punctual: Remove wall and cracked tile.
- Add several bombs.
- Foreboding
- Remove (old) NAG.
- Add GroundRules.I and rename to NAG.
- Add Mjolnir.Wipeout.
- Remake Barrage.
- Remove (old) NAG.
- Exfiltration
- Remove (old) G and Locked.
- Reword bonus.
- Make space for secret and endgame puzzle.
- Add Synchronize and G (with subpuzzle Blocked).
- Use Space biome for Sideload.Archive.
- Remove (old) G and Locked.
- Gentoo Rescue (hub)
- Add tiles for secret.
- Add ____ ____.
- Add tiles for secret.
- Ground Rules
- Add bonus.
- Add Transition.PathOfPlain and Distant.
- Rename Separation to I.
- Add bonus.
- Herrings
- Replace cracked wall with regular wall.
- Remove Assembly.
- Add Hook and Line, and rearrange puzzles.
- Gorge: Tweak fish placement and starting position.
- Replace cracked wall with regular wall.
- Lemniscate
- Remove Leap.
- Add extra tile and cracked wall for secret, rearrange puzzles, and remove side columns.
- Remake While and Ricochet.
- Add Cycle and bonus.
- EYO: Remove one bonus.
- Wormhole: Remove top corners.
- Quake: Remove fog and add wall.
- Remove Leap.
- Liftoff
- Remove Deflection, Halt, and (old) Intercept.
- Remove tile and add extra column for secret.
- Rename Countdown to Chicken and Final to Respect.
- Add Across, Countdown, Final, Intercept.
- Ejection: Remove a fog, replace hammer with cane, and move green walrus left.
- Ejection: Replace old bonus with much better one.
- UU: Remove fog tile.
- Remove Deflection, Halt, and (old) Intercept.
- Moonwalk
- Remove Rebound and (old) Reciprocity.
- Remove tiles for secret.
- Add Reciprocity.
- Remove Rebound and (old) Reciprocity.
- Mjolnir
- Remove cracked wall and fog, and rearrange some puzzles.
- Remove Smash.
- Add GroundRules.Cradle.
- Remake Brake.
- Trail: Add nest for green.
- Remove cracked wall and fog, and rearrange some puzzles.
- Pass
- Remove Pinch.
- Add tiles, cracked tiles, and rearrange items for secret.
- Add Blink.
- Remove Pinch.
- Path of Plain
- Remove NN.
- Rename Alignment to NN.
- Remove NN.
- Pickpocket
- Remove two columns and a tile. Add a few tiles bottom center and on the top row.
- Remove (old) Relay, (old) Protection, Storage, Forbidden, Burden, and MASK And Some Koi.
- Add Relay, Protection, Donation, Solicit, and MASK And Single Koi.
- Quasar: Add mask.
- Remove two columns and a tile. Add a few tiles bottom center and on the top row.
- Restriction
- Add extra cane, tile, and fog for secret.
- Add Exfiltration.Rush and rename to T.
- Add Pullback.
- Rename (old) T to Pushout.
- Add extra cane, tile, and fog for secret.
- Transition
- Add Blue Steel.
- Add Blue Steel.
- Transplant
- Add extra tiles and rearrange puzzles to improve Cleanse and support secret.
- Add CANE At New Entry.
- Add extra tiles and rearrange puzzles to improve Cleanse and support secret.
- Trapped
- Add tile for secret.
- Swap Reach and Toggle.
- Add tile for secret.
- Vault
- Move wall for secret.
- Remove Fuse.
- Move wall for secret.
- Walk
- Octave: Removed cracked tile.
- Octave: Removed cracked tile.
Other content
- Add Amethyst, Hive, Rainbow, and a secret biome.
- Add 2 music tracks.
- Add 2 achievements.
- Unhide achievements that are unlikely to be earned during normal play.
New features
- Add secret puzzles and support for them in the puzzle editor.
- Add localization support, with Simplified Chinese as the second language supported. All menu text is done (outside puzzle editor), but translation for puzzle names and hints is still on-going and will be updated in follow-up patches.
- Add biome creator to the puzzle editor.
- Add toggle to disable the "new journal entry" popup notification, and reword description to Journal to mention 'Show journal popups'.
- Puzzle files and directories can be deleted from the create menu.
Lock changes
- Do not lower locks after they have been raised. Remove warp icon decal from locks for visited levels.
- Raised locks will become transparent when the tile contains an unselected animal or an item.
- Locks no longer disappear/reappear upon zooming in/out. The chains for the current level will fade out/in from the top.
- Small lock icons in the level list (top left) will now glow for levels that contain a colored pinwheel.
Bugfixes
- Items flinging to the same tile near the same time could cause items to disappear or get stuck.
- Launching animals check for other animals before diving.
- Don't rainbow color any ?? in journal menu.
- Don't remove "Exit current puzzle" option from pause menu in Lemniscate under particular circumstances.
- The solver is now aware of some crazy stuff that players found in custom levels.
- Attempting to reorder "Redo" binds by re-adding an existing bind will no longer close the settings menu.
- It's now possible to rename a puzzle to change capitalization in the puzzle editor.
- The puzzle editor permute function will now properly convert the color_item_animal keywords in hints.
- The record journal entry feature will no longer crash when using the warp menu to enter a puzzle that was not reached while recording.
- Selecting tiles in the puzzle editor will be canceled upon leaving the editor.
- Sliding penguins transitioning to the spin win animation should now transition more smoothly.
- Ghost animals will no longer appear when a puzzle is exited during the export animation, under certain conditions.
- Fast particle effect of an occupied fog tile is now correctly removed after a bomb explosion.
- The penguin on a sublevel tile will not stop celebrating the win after exiting the sublevel.
Misc
- Add new page in credits to thank the following people for their custom levels and ideas.
- Awesome Phoenix: Inspiration for G.
- Cloudy: Creation of MASK And Single Koi, plus inspiration for Blink, Dribble, Final.
- Garygoh884: Inspiration for Distant and Synchronize from their levels "Get Far" and "Teleports to Void".
- JoWovrin: Creation of Donation and inspiration for Protection from their levelpack "Breakout".
- Mountebank: Inspiration for Pogo from their levelpack "Levels that shouldn't exist".
- Noelle: Basically the creation of Intercept and Pullback, plus inspiration for Across, Dribble, Relay, and Hook.
- Tonite: Inspiration for Solicit from their level "Yoink".
- TNT Dragon: Inspiration for Blue Steel from their levelpack "The Dragon".
- Many of the above, plus Cookie, enzopuzzlesolver, xplodous, and YoshiRoshi for playtesting and feedback.
- Awesome Phoenix: Inspiration for G.
- Add sound and visual effect for telefrag.
- Add sound effects for launching.
- Add bind prompts for quick exit to Hopeless, Shuttle, and Resilience.
- Add bind prompt for slow time to Lemniscate, Trapeze, and Buffer.
- Add LEFT, UP, DOWN, RIGHT keywords for rainbow arrows in hints.
- Fix journal entries "Required for current level" for Replication.
- Move 2 journal entries about on-hit items to bomb, swap, and mask menus.
- Add 3 new journal entries and remove 8 unimportant or confusing ones.
- Update journal entry video for recursive entry.
- After resetting, the undo bind prompt will be visible until the player makes an action.
