[Game Update] - 585956

[DiogoW]

Changes

• Whirlportals will now stay open for half of a day.
• Bootleg will now show where the boot will land and the Whirlportal exit on the map.
• Added new sounds for activating Lunar and Shadow Allegiance skills.
• Skins for Battle Spear and Battle Helm may be applied to the Commander’s Helm and Elding Spear.
  • Further skin support for BERNIE! will be added later.
     
• Frostjaw changes:
  • Bootleg Getaway is no longer dropped as loot, but can now be obtained by trading Fish with Frostjaw after defeating them.  This can be done up to 5 times per encounter.
  • Frostjaw is now sleepable.
  • Ice spikes can now be mined in one hit when using stronger tools (e.g. Pick/Axe, Brightshade Smasher)
  • Added more ice FX and sounds.
  • Added speech lines.
     
• Willow skill tree changes:
  • Willow skills now consider all Hot Embers in the inventory, not just the stack in use.
  • Increased the range Willow’s lighter will absorb fire, smolders and embers.
  • Willow’s Combustion skill will activate Burning Burnie.
  • Lunar Flame can no longer be channeled while mounted.
  • Lunar Flame and Shadow Fire now have a cooldown between casts.
    • UI support will be added later.
       
• Wigfrid skill tree changes:
  • Renamed the Lightning Spear to Elding Spear.
  • Increased the speed provided by the Battle Saddle.
  • Battle Rönd: Increased the cooldown reduction when successfully blocking an attack.
  • Battle Rönd: decreased durability loss when attacking.
  • Battle Rönd Enhancement II: now does damage based on the damage blocked.
  • Warrior's Reprise: revive up to 2 players now. Requires more inspiration to use.
  • Fighting Words: decreased Battle Calls cooldown time.
  • Elding Spear Enhancement II: increased Charged Elding Spear durability. Its special ability now repairs it slightly more.
  • Elding Spear Enhancement I: decreased the cooldown for the Charged Elding Spear.
  • Dark Lament / Enlightened Lullaby: now provide more defense against Shadow / Lunar aligned enemies, respectively

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when using Willow's Combustion skill.
• Fixed Willow’s Burning Frenzy skill effect not working properly.
• Fixed some Giants dropping less Hot Embers that they should.
• Fixed Willow’s Flame Cast skill lighting campfires/fire pits indefinitely.
• Fixed Wigfrid’s Battle Rönd Enhancement II skill not working properly.
• Fixed Commander's Helm losing its knockback resistance after being unequipped for the first time.
• Fixed Sawhorse Crafting Icon's color filter.
• Fixed Cannonballs being able to kill creatures inside containers.
• Fixed Bernie’s Patch Up skill’s regeneration not working outside of combat.
• Fixed Willow’s damage resistance and bonus when aligned.
• Fixed animation bug when Willow starts absorbing with her Lighter.
• Added missing footstep sounds while absorbing with her Lighter.
• Added missing Fire Ball inspection strings.
• Fixed Wigfrid keeping the Lightning Spear’s special attack visual effect after hitting an electrified Volt Goat.
• Fixed the Bootleg not using its minimum toss radius.
• Fixed the Bootleg not unpausing from auto pause when using it from the map.
• Fixed crash when trying to place/plant something using a controller.
• Fixed characters other than Willow being able to Absorb Fire using Lighters.
• Fixed some issues in the Absorb Fire animation, Battle Rönd attacking animation and BERNIE! animations.
• Fixed Wigfrid’s skills not applying to skinned hats.
• Fixed Wigfrid’s skinned spears going invisible.
• Fixed campfires and fire pits dropping smoldering charcoal if the campfire was lit by Willow having the Controlled Burning skill.
• Updated BERNIE! scrapbook icon.
• Ice chunks broken off of the ice arena will now despawn properly while off-screen.
• Fixed Frostjaw arena not respawning properly.
   

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[Gashzer]

No increase in beefalo damage for Wigfrid? 

Edited December 8, 2023 by Gashzer

[Anthony_L3hr]

Nice new menu art,

[xhyom]

6 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

 

• Frostjaw changes:
  • Bootleg Getaway is no longer dropped as loot, but can now be obtained by trading Fish with Frostjaw after defeating them.  This can be done up to 5 times per encounter.

 

 

Does this mean there is a different drop from Frostjaw? NVM missread

Edited December 8, 2023 by xhyom

[Primalflower]

5 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Dark Lament / Enlightened Lullaby: now provide more defense against Shadow / Lunar aligned enemies, respectively

happy about this

[HowlVoid]

6 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

• Wigfrid skill tree changes:
  • Renamed the Lightning Spear to Elding Spear.

 

Is this an elder ring reference?

[lenship2]

8 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Fixed Wigfrid keeping the Lightning Spear’s special attack visual effect after hitting an electrified Volt Goat.

[-Variant]

8 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Willow skill tree changes:

• Willow skills now consider all Hot Embers in the inventory, not just the stack in use.
• Increased the range Willow’s lighter will absorb fire, smolders and embers.
• Willow’s Combustion skill will activate Burning Burnie.
• Lunar Flame can no longer be channeled while mounted.
• Lunar Flame and Shadow Fire now have a cooldown between casts.
• UI support will be added later.

Good changes, these are more in line with up keep though.

Are any of the suggestions being currently considered? I still feel a lot of changes could be done to improve her tree so far.

[Yuuko]

18 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

• Willow skill tree changes:
  • Lunar Flame and Shadow Fire now have a cooldown between casts.

 

Cool down added with no indicator?  Bad news.  Really why not just cap her at 1 stack of embers and no cd?  Spam the spell but run out of juice seems like a fine scenario to me.  Aside from lunar hitting groups their dps isn't crazy anyway.  Then we don't have to worry about the "nerf willow" memes because someone c_give 800 embers and solo a landlocked boss with a spell...

Edited December 8, 2023 by Shosuko

[Jakepeng99]

18 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Skins for Battle Spear and Battle Helm may be applied to the Commander’s Helm and Elding Spear.

Autocorrrect lol. Also that is cool, more skins!

18 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Bootleg Getaway is no longer dropped as loot, but can now be obtained by trading Fish with Frostjaw after defeating them.  This can be done up to 5 times per encounter.

That is a cool mechanic. It is Ark survival style.

Edited December 8, 2023 by Jakepeng99

[_zwb]

15 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Bootleg Getaway is no longer dropped as loot, but can now be obtained by trading Fish with Frostjaw after defeating them.  This can be done up to 5 times per encounter.

So it's pointless to fight frost jaw now?

Also BERNIE can still kill you if you aggro him with a brightshade bomb:

 

[Horsheen]

11 minutes ago, HowlVoid said:

Is this an elder ring reference?

no

[Yuuko]

1 minute ago, _zwb said:

So it's pointless to fight frost jaw now?

I believe what they mean is - you fight him and THEN are allowed to trade up to 5 times for boots.  Then you must fight him again.

Edited December 8, 2023 by Shosuko

[Jakepeng99]

19 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Renamed the Lightning Spear to Elding Spear.

Nevermind, not a typo. 

[chirsg]

17 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

• Fixed Wigfrid keeping the Lightning Spear’s special attack visual effect after hitting an electrified Volt Goat.

No one asked for this. Literally no one

[_zwb]

1 minute ago, chirsg said:

No one asked for this. Literally no one

Pretty sure you can mod this back some way. Hope is not lost.

[Jakepeng99]

4 minutes ago, _zwb said:

So it's pointless to fight frost jaw now?

It is like ark survival. You beat him to a pulp for no reason,  then offer fish, expecting rewards.

[mkemal23]

1 minute ago, chirsg said:

No one asked for this. Literally no one

Wilson idle animation part 2

[Arcwell]

Numbers for you all:

• Lunar Flame cooldown increased from 0s -> 20s
• Shadow Fire cooldown increased from 0s -> 14s
• Battle Saddle speed increased from 20% -> 30%
• Battle Rond on-equip cooldown decreased from 2.5s -> 2s
• Battle Rond cooldown after block decreased from 4s -> 3s
• Battle Rond durability loss on hit decreased from 4 uses -> 3 uses
• Battle Rond enhancement damage increased from 10 dmg -> 15-30 dmg depending on enemy's damage (enemy must deal 60+ dmg for max)
• Warriors Reprise inspiration cost increased from 50 -> 95
• Fighting Words cooldown decreased from 30s -> 15s for taunt/frighten and 360s -> 180s for revive
• Uncharged Lightning Spear lunge cooldown decreased from 3.5s -> 3s
• Charged Lightning Spear durability increased from 150 uses -> 200 uses
• Charged Lightning Spear lunge repair increased from 3 uses -> 4 uses
• Charged Lightning Spear lunge cooldown decreased from 3.5s -> 1.5s
• Dark Lament / Enlightened Lullaby increased from 5% -> 10%

Source:

Spoiler

From tuning.lua:

Edited December 8, 2023 by Arcwell
Uncharged lightning spear seemed to no longer have lunge but either that was immediately patched or it's a separate bug that I haven't been able to reproduce.

[Jakepeng99]

23 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Dark Lament / Enlightened Lullaby: now provide more defense against Shadow / Lunar aligned enemies, respectively

The songs still feel rather underwhelming for needing riff materials. I suggest maybe make the songs provide a special ability.

[-Variant]

Gorgeous.

Looks like they changed some of the fire FX, too. A lot more violent now.

[Mysterious box]

8 minutes ago, Shosuko said:

Cool down added with no indicator?  Bad news.  Really why not just cap her at 1 stack of embers and no cd?  Spam the spell but run out of juice seems like a fine scenario to me.  Aside from lunar hitting groups their dps isn't crazy anyway.  Then we don't have to worry about the "nerf willow" memes because someone c_give 800 embers and solo a landlocked boss with a spell...

Personally I don't really see the point of giving them a cooldown or stack count especially the shadow one which is already underpowered compared to the lunar one now there's really no reason to pick shadow alignment...

 

On a side note how long is the cooldown?

Edit: nevermind on the cd

Edited December 8, 2023 by Mysterious box

[chirsg]

1 minute ago, _zwb said:

Pretty sure you can mod this back some way. Hope is not lost.

You can't mod in the joy in brings to people who bear witness. 

All Golden Wigfrid ever achieved was to be a literal glowing symbol of hope.

[Anthony_L3hr]

Beautiful skins! All I had at a moment's notice,

[Jakepeng99]

1 minute ago, Arcwell said:

• Lunar Flame cooldown increased from 0s -> 20s
• Shadow Fire cooldown increased from 0s -> 14s

Feels like an overnerf. The shadow fire was alright and lunar flames were overrated. The lunar flames have less dps than a dark sword.

1 minute ago, Mysterious box said:

Personally I don't really see the point of giving them a cooldown or stack count especially the shadow one which is already underpowered compared to the lunar one now there's really no reason to pick shadow alignment...

 

On a side note how long is the cooldown?

Edit: nevermind on the cd

Shadow flames are very underrated, lunar flames very ovverrated. I agree the cooldown is too much, should be like 4 seconds or something for shadow, 8 for lunar.