Update Set 0.73.X

New Abilities

• Enthral: Turn your opponents into temporary allies.
    
  Side Note: lighting was disabled for this GIF.
• Frost:
  
  Wrap your opponents in ice.
  
  

New parallax backgrounds for the grotto

Other mechanics

• 2 New status effects.
• Reworked knockback physics of all melee weapons.
• Chakram is much more versatile now:
  • Can stun unaware opponents.
  • Can hit more often
  • Can travel under water
• The targeting system has been vastly reworked to accommodate how quickly alliances can change...

Bug fixes and optimization

• Substantial rework of Gnarled Gardens plants for much better performance.
• Fixed bug where continuous sounds could loop indefinitely; if played at the same time as an identical non-continuous sound.
• Fixed bug where using quick swap with a given item didn't deactivate the shield (thanks Rubenmenton for flagging that)
• Fixed weird bug where the player's equipped item would appear to be stabbing them at an awkward angle; after being knocked from a ledge they were holding.
• The item order is now consistent on the weapon wheel
• Adjustments to some item descriptions.
• Fixed bug with dart traps not triggering.

Other

• Multiple new sound effects 🔉
• New particle animations
• ...

W.I.P. stuff

We're still working on the ice world in the background (though want it to have more polish before putting it out)

Here's some (slightly older) artwork

*** Happy New Year's Patch (0.73.11)! ***

• Added 1 achievement.
• Poison flowers in the garden can be picked up and thrown.
• Fixed bug with dragon fly rebounding off and immediately dealing when knocked against a wall with force.
• A lot of polishing work with how Grotto's background tiles generate.
• Added much more randomisation to the grotto of guidance parallax.

Last patch of this update: 2nd January 2019

*** So when's the next major update??? ***

We're pretty close now...
There's a lot of new features coming in mid-February...