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Crab Champions update for 5 March 2024

The Variety Update Part 2 Hotfix #1

Share · View all patches · Build 13650140 · Last edited 5 March 2024 – 21:52:05 UTC by Wendy

Patchnotes via Steam Community

Hotfix #1 (Version 1999)

Difficulty scaling improvements
  • Enemy damage bonus when looping has been removed. There was previously a whopping +100% damage multiplier to all enemy attacks when looping from island 33 onwards which created very unfair situations where enemies would melt your entire health bar in a second, especially with fire. Enemy damage should feel much more fair and consistent when looping while still being a challenge- looping is meant to be quite difficult
  • Enemy spawn bonus when looping decreased from +33% to +20%
  • Islands 1 and 2 of a biome no longer can spawn two waves of ranged enemies back to back

These changes should make looping feel far less unfair / punishing while maintaining the challenge

Scorpion mega nerf + rebalance
  • Scorpion projectile damage reduced by 60%, projectile radius reduced by 33%, projectile speed reduced by 15% and removed projectile bounces. Also reworked their attack patterns to be more dodgeable and less spammy
  • Increased scorpion walk speed slightly: it should now feel like more of a close / medium range threat and less of a run ender
Other changes
  • Flamethrower buff- now starts with level 2 Fire Shot (up from level 1)
  • Rebalanced enhancements: pattern enhancements like Chaotic or Spiraling have less intense motion to make them less likely to miss their target. Enhancement damage increases are +50% damage other than Sticky and Damaging which are +100% (previously Damaging was at +400% which was very broken)
  • Splitting / Scattering bonus projectiles decreased from 3 to 2 (as it was extremely broken with some combos)
  • Fixed issue that would cause projectiles created by the Splitting and Scattering enhancement to apply ALL weapon mods to those enhanced projectiles, resulting in extreme damage spikes that weren’t intended
  • Demolition nests now scale health more with the island count as they became far too easy to destroy past the first biome
  • Scorpions can now spawn from red challenge crystals
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