⚔️ Novak
Novak got serious upgrades:

• Saint Rain attack reworked

• Charged attacks no longer leave energy clouds

• Charged Vertical Strike now launches a damaging wave

• After a Dash, Novak can perform Charged Vertical Strike

• Base attacks can now be performed as combos

• Railgun attacks now include an extra effect to better telegraph timing

• Damage, cooldowns, shield cost, and weights of most attacks rebalanced

• Spawn position adjusted

• On first boss difficulty (Towers 1–5), Novak’s primary color changed to orange

• Stage 2 now starts slightly earlier

• Fixed an issue where some attacks were extremely rare

• Fixed an issue where DoT status damage could cancel Novak’s flight

• Fixed an issue where the melee strike in the railgun combo couldn't be parried

📝 Novak Comment: You had your fun. Now it’s my time :)

📊 Balance
Second Wind status updates:

• 3 burning swords: Regeneration → Protection

• 4 burning swords: Vampirism → Regeneration

• 5 burning swords: Symbiosis → Vampirism

Endless Mode

• Reduced risk of one-shots

• Difficulty scales faster

• Points rebalanced

Minigun

• Base damage: 7 → 12

• Ammo capacity: 300 → 200

 Augmentation “Golden Shield”

• Bonus limit: 85% → 80%

• Bonus per 100 tokens: 5% → 1%

 Augmentation “Bulwark Protocol”

• Ally healing on parry: 5% → 25%

Bar Prices

• Bottomless Pit: 500 → 400

• Clear Sky: 400 → 250

Mutator “The Last Light”

• Temporarily disabled

Laser traps

• Slowed (again)

🚀 Blur

• Damage over time from status effects no longer resets attack chains

• Damage over time from status effects no longer triggers torso explosions

• Removed Aerodynamic Design augmentation

• Added a new augmentation: Ghost Synchronicity – ghost copies now inherit all of Morgan’s bonuses to movement and attack speed

📝 Dev Comment: A QoL change — the removed augmentation’s effect is now applied by default, and the slot has been repurposed for a new augmentation

⚡ Thundergod

• Heart’s resurrection energy cost increased: 3 → 5

• Power Flow augmentation reworked – new effect: Triples the energy gain rate

📦 Miscellaneous

• A “Stuck” button is now available in the pause menu during combat – it teleports the player and enemies to appropriate positions

• Fixed a bug preventing Stage 3 from appearing in Endless Mode

• Fixed a bug that allowed entering the helicopter after encountering Novak in endless mode

• Fixed a bug where combat mods weren't generating properly

• Updated Gunslinger agent’s attack animations

• Updated light and heavy attack animations for dual-wield weapons (bats, swords)

• Fixed a bug where Source Slenders could spawn after room completion

• Fixed a bug where Ricochet Rounds caused bullets to hit allies

• Fixed lighting issues in Arena 2

• Updated several sound effects