Boneraiser Minions update for 27 March 2023

New Game Forever is now not quite forever as after pounding the King 3 times even he gives up (not that it's expected you'll survive that long but at least it guarantees a max play time). If you don't want it to end though the Creative Plaything now has a new 'Truly Forever' option for it to ignore the cap. There's been quite a lot of changes and rebalances too since the Early Access so I also went through the various NGF leaderboards skimming off runs that went beyond NGF2 so it's more of a level playing field.

//other New Game Forever changes

• The extra +50% Health boost bosses get in NGF has been reduced to +20% (mainly as the King Gigald fight dragged on rather too long).
• King Gigald: The score bonus for killing him is now multiplied by the NGF loop.
• King Gigald: There's now a small delay to his starting attacks based on how many Shade bosses spawn (to give a little breather before the chaos).

//misc changes

• Updated to the latest version of GameMaker (might improve compatibility).
• Updated the "translation_reference.csv" file.
• The save backup system can now detect partial save file wipes, in which case it's treated as a fully wiped save.
• The backup save file will now only be updated after you've died once (so just entering the hub then exiting won't trigger it).
• King Gigald: Increased the score bonus from killing him to 25000 per phase (increased from 10000).
• Queen Gigalicious: Increased the score bonus from killing her to 50000 per phase (increased from 20000).
• Doll Maker class: The chance of being offered Cannibal/Bandit when boneraising is now more consistent (since they now override base upgrade offerings).
• Dryad enemy: Upon death they now grow an Elden Tree root.
• Heavenly Vessels enemy: They now have additional 22% chance of being blessed.
• Horoscope Charm relic / Blanked Scroll spell: These now have a collective soft cap on the Banishes they can give (the more Banishes they give the less chance of them giving another until a hard cap of 9).
• Scavvy Mitts relic: The starting Blacksmith will no longer sell this relic.
• Deboning Cutlery relic: Changed the description so it's clear it's a Skelly minion that will be raised.
• Spellious Spewious spell: This now can't give a Spellious Spewious spell.

//bug fixes

• Some minion attacks weren't conforming with the Ghostly Minions setting.
• Castle Conquest: It was possible for a Curse to trigger during the end stage sequence which could cause issues.
• Castle Conquest: Loading a game would sometimes not remove all of your spells from the previous run.
• Keepsake Key meta: It could give a non-normal starting minion for Doll Maker and Beast Whisperer classes.
• Confused enemies that have a ranged attack were still able to run towards you and use their ranged attacks.
• Goblusious the Scholastic: Fixed some text issues.