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Glyphica Update 12 : The Armory

Glyphica: Typing Survival · Community Announcements · August 14, 2026

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Hello Survival Typists!

We’re back with another update to your favorite typing game!

The Armory

We noticed that there’s a lot of cool content like augments and loot effects that people are missing out on because they don’t notice or come across them in the game. The Armory fixes that problem by giving you a rundown of all the weapons, augments, and effects in the game.

In addition, the armory lets you spend your hard earned coins to permanently upgrade your weapons and augments of choice, letting you focus in on that specific killer build.

Level-Up Upgrades for Loot and Augment Effects

The augments and loot effects you pick up during a run can now be upgraded when you level up! Fancy that Caltrops augment? Now you can stack cool upgrades on top of it mid-run. This opens up way more build variety and synergy options for you to experiment with.

More Durable Drones

Although Glyphica’s Endless Mode was not designed to be a mode you can play for hours, some of our fanatical players have figured out builds that let them play for hours. We’ve added 2 levels of stronger drones to ensure a greater challenge for our players. 

Visual and Audio Mods

We’re impressed with the number of cool wordlist mods our players have made so far and now we’re adding more ways for you to customize your play experience. With this update, we’re adding visual and audio mods to the game. Customize the colors and sounds to make for a unique Glyphica experience! 

CHANGELOG

BUGFIXES

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- Fixed wrong highlight colors in UI.

- Fixed inconsistent UIs.

- Fixed broken word wrap on Omen reveal UI buttons.

- Fixed flickering in new game popup due to bad UI tree structure.

- Fixed Wiki trigger letters not localized.

- Fixed Wiki images for Shooter 4 and 5 not showing up.

- Fixed Consumables and Omens not saved between Trials.

- Fixed Omens not reset when playing a new game with no omens.

- Fixed consumables amount hardcoded to 1 instead of actual consumables count.

- Fixed pickups spawning with word outside screen.

- Fixed spaces in wordlist not properly skipped when "Spaces and Punctuation" is turned off.

- Fixed archaic Thai letters from being randomized for bosses.

- Fixed trailing commas in Thai wordlist causing them to be untypable.

- Fixed periods in Thai wordlist.

- Fixed Double Pinyin option requires game restart.

- Fixed wrong pinyin for 行李箱 and 自行车 in Simplified Chinese.

- Fixed Poet and UI fixes to make game accessible in upcoming Vietnamese loc.

- Fixed UI options don't render Vietnamese in right font.

- Fixed leaderboard-related crashes.

- Fixed Retribution crash when using Overmind because Shock Spires were wrongly marked as Drones.

- Fixed loot will now drop for Barrage solo runs.

- Fixed Armory weapon descriptions don't show trigger letters.

- Fixed Armory UI taking several frames to regenerate every time it is toggled.

- Fixed Main Menu controller/keyboard arrows navigation when combined with mouse.

- Fixed Credits button triggers on mouseover instead of mouse click.

- Fixed Stats screen's category toggle doesn't work with controller or Q/W on keyboard.

- Fixed mod list pagination.

- Fixed visual theme mod UI title.

FEATURES

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- New Armory feature in main menu to choose loadouts and purchase permanent weapon upgrades.

- Weapons unlock in Armory when picked up or activated (uses Steam data for past unlocks).

- Added level-up upgrades for loot and augment weapons.

- Added Visual and Audio mod support (including font modding).

- Block mod upload if mod is unchanged from template to prevent excessive slop.

- New Omens (Weakened, Blind Type, Quick Recovery, Elite Presence & Shielded Enemies).

- Added Evolutions to Run Information.

- Added Wiki link to Pause Menu and redesigned Pause Menu layout.

- Updated wiki with Omens section, Wurm enemy description, Evolution icons, and loot/augment/weapon icons.

- Updated localization for supported languages (including Russian and Vietnamese character fallbacks).

- New sounds for Caltrops augment.

BALANCING

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- Added 2 additional harder drone types to fix end-game.

- Increased base loot drop rate for more build variety.

- Bumped weight of augment loot (e.g. Pocket Turret and Flamewave) to 150 from 33.

- Buffed perma-upgrade multiplier to 2% instead of 1%.

- Halved cost of Heat Ray and Barrage to lower early game grind.

- Increased coin drop amount to lower grind.

- Rearranged main menu UI to make room for new Armory feature.

- Updated description of HeatRay's Reflection to be clearer in Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

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