[Beta Test] Powers-A-Plenty now available!

[Bryce]

  Hello hunters!

Today we’re launching the beta for the Powers-A-Plenty Update! This update aims to add variety to hunts by expanding the pool of powers and putting more of an emphasis on powers that change how you interact with the world instead of simply boosting the power of your hunter.

Powers-A-Plenty also adds an entirely new type of power: The “Weapon Power”. Weapon powers aim to change how you play for the remainder of the hunt by doing things like tweaking the core rules of your weapon’s move set, adding new attacks, or changing how existing attacks behave.

In addition to all of the tweaks to the powers in the game, we’ve also been fixing bugs and implementing QoL suggestions that we’ve seen reported or suggested.

We hope you’ll try out the beta and let us know what you think of the new powers to help shape this and future updates!

More details

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Additions:

• New power family to discover, Weapon Powers
• New clearing type added for Weapon Powers
• Added new minions and powers in the summon family
• Added powers in the electric family, with more single target capability and chain reaction combos
• Added powers in the shield family, with more focus on shield segments
• Added powers in the frost family, with more focus on the cold status
• Added powers to common family
• Russian localization added to languages
• Added Hunter’s Assist in the options menu (local games only) to help provide players with an easier experience playing Rotwood. When you die, gain damage resistance for future hunts. After a victorious hunt, the assist is reduced.

Changes:

• Electric chain reactions now trigger every 7 charge stacks or when killing a target
• Cold status effect now lasts longer
• Static Shock: reduced the area of effect when heavy attacks apply charge
• Strike Twice has a chance to strike twice instead of all the time
• Reworked Split to Aftershock - instead of a chance to split chain reactions, chain reactions have a chance to repeat upon finishing hitting all targets.
• Perfect pairing now gives a limited amount of potion charges
• Iron brew has been moved to the shield family
• Introverted has been moved to the shield family
• Cold Snap now activates for every 10 enemies that get cold applied to them
• Cold Wave has a reduced cold area when activated
• Cold Storage now stores damage on cold or frozen enemies
• Chilly Response applies cold instead of frozen to enemies
• Snowball Fight has cooldown for snowballs thrown by it
• Reworked Glacial Armour
• Frozen Fatality now has a chance to trigger any time on frozen enemies instead of activating on low health frozen enemies.
• Removed Glacial Rush power
• Ice Storm now activates on killing cold enemies, in addition to frozen ones
• Desolate Imprisonment: Reduced the number of Icicles spawned around enemies
• Ice Volley renamed to Snowy Salvo; it shoots Snowballs instead of Ice Chunks
• Thinking with Portals has been moved to the common family
• Extroverted now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill
• Straight to Business now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill
• With A Little Help changed to summon only Melee Minions. Ranged Minions are spawned by the Cover Me! Power
• Minions now scale to dungeons the same as enemies
• Featherweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight have additional stat bonuses added to them
• Polearm Vault skill does damage upon vaulting, landing on the ground
• Power Rerolls now stay within the family of the power being rolled
• Fabled supporting powers now spawn for all selections when they appear

Fixes:

• Fixed Stop Loss reducing maximum health when in special encounter mystery rooms
• Fixed some frenzy weathers that were only appearing in their specific biomes. More will now be in the general pool.
• Body of Light returns your health to the previous amount if it was obtained and removed via the Quetzi Scalemail
• Fixed issue where Shell Drake’s bite could cause more damage than expected
• Fixed bug with Grimhollow’s saplings where they would keep their shield longer than they should
• Fixed bug where Rook would sometimes not topple after all crystals in the room are killed
• General performance fixes

How to play

1. Close Rotwood if it is running.
2. In Steam, click on Library > Games.
3. Scroll down to Rotwood.
4. Right click, select Properties.
5. Go to the Betas tab.
6. In the dropdown, select the 'publicbeta' branch. (You may need to restart Steam to see this branch)
7. In that same properties window, go to the Installed Files tab.
8. Click Verify integrity of game files.
9. Your game will now be updated to the beta branch.

Save files
The beta branch uses a completely separate save file, due to its experimental nature.

The beta branch is to gather feedback and ensure stability before release to the live game. If you were to copy over your existing savefile, it would work, but it is strongly recommended to store a backup of your save file if you did so. We are not treating this branch as a live branch, so we will not be taking extra precautions to support moving your save file back to the live branch.

[gibbert]

hell yeah

[MrMyther]

Find it a shame that these don't work together, the "Max 1" aspect of bodyguard seems to only exist to prevent these synergising?
Very odd condition since you only enter a clearing once per clearing (crazy), and they don't follow you through clearings without this other power.

[Kacpert25]

Ooh, I see I missed yesterday's sneaky beta release.

I've played a bit already, and I have to say, the changes are great.
I'm thrilled that the minions powers are finally getting some love. And the other new powers are a really interesting addition.

By the way, is that fella's walk is a reference to Dr. Livesey meme?

[Bryce]

Just set a new build live on the beta branch! [734752]
 

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Changes:

• Piercing focus hits fired from "The Keening" will now rebound when the player has the Return To Sender power, provided at least one target was hit
• Improved presentation for the striker power Ricochet
• Reduced shield segments gained from Hunker Down from 2 to 1
• Increased the healing bonus from Perfect Pairing from 50/75/100 to 50/100/150
• Increased the potion charges given by Perfect Pairing from 1/2/2 to 1/2/3

Additions:

• Added various missing icons, SFX and VFX

Fixes:

• Fixed some UI scaling issues when playing on a handheld device.
• Fixed a bug where you could get two powers that were fundamentally incompatible with each other.
• Fixed an issue that caused some instances of damage to not be attributed to the correct source.
• Fixed some issues where minions would target enemies they could not reach.
• Fixed an issue where rerolling a fabled power too many times would eventually result in the power disappearing.

 

[Bryce]

Set another beta build live, [735506]

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Changes:

• Increased the amount of damage done by Bait minions
• While you have the Bottomless Clip power reloading your cannon through external means (skills, etc.) now reduces the amount of time left on the overheat cooldown
• While you have the Bottomless Clip power mines placed by the Sporeshot no longer directly contribute to your cannon overheating, but do reduce the amount of shots required to overheat

Additions:

• Added various missing icons, SFX and VFX 

Fixes:

• Added a fallback case when rerolling regular powers - if you run out of options, open up all other types of powers as valid choices
• Fixed an issue where strikers thrown with the Retrograde Throw power would not count as a heavy attack
• Fixed a bug with the cooldown time for Snowball Fight snowballs; cooldown time set to 0.7 seconds
• Fixed a bug in Phase 2 of the Tefframech fight where the boss would be unable to do its double swipe attack if players ran back and forth behind it during its attack hold state
• Rebounding attacks caused by the Return to Sender power no longer hit other players
• Fixed a typo in the Single Shot power that incorrectly said the bonuses only applied to light attacks
• Fixed a UI crash that could happen when interacting with farm plots
• Fixed a crash where certain interactable machines would crash in online games

[Bryce]

  Patch 736136

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Changes:

• When joining a game in progress, new players now spawn at the entrance to the room to avoid being dropped in hazardous spots
• Weapon Power and Gift reward rooms will no longer sometimes be a hard encounter
• Damaging an enemy with the Gourdo's Community Garden will now reload cannonballs if you are using a cannon
• In multiplayer games, powers now spawn slightly closer together to help prevent situations with powers appearing in bad locations
• When attempting to drink a potion with full health, show the above-character health bar first

Additions:

• Added various missing icons, SFX and VFX 

Fixes:

• Damaging an enemy with Grody Groak Gulp will now reload cannonballs if you are using a cannon

[Bryce]

  Patch 736685

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Changes:

• Disabled the power "Scapegoat" as it made it too easy to create an unkillable build
• Increased the health of the Brute minion
• Reduced the time it takes the Brute minion to respawn when killed

Additions:

• Added unique sounds to the cannon when you have the Infinite Ammo power to better message heat state

Fixes:

• Vault Strike now counts as a heavy attack for the purpose of powers that trigger on heavy attacks
• Fixed an issue that caused some boss attacks to be out of sync in networked games
• Fortified Focus can no longer be charged on training dummies
• Defibrillator and Healing Shield can no be used to gain infinite healing on training dummies
• Eye for an Eye no longer deals more damage that it should
• Fixed up several text overflow issues