The 61st update for 'Shell of a King' is here! As always, if you find any bugs, especially game-breaking ones, please let me know via the official Discord! Will be working on a release date announcement trailer soon!

1.2t Change List:

• Add a new key item 'Bronze Shears', which lets you change the player's hairstyles while resting. It introduces 4 new hairstyles! This item drops from a slime in the northern part of Deep Sewers

• Add a new key item 'Scrawled Note', which tells you the types of damage you'll encounter in-game

• Add new map outlines for areas that you've discovered. This should improve map readability to make it clear where you haven't been yet.

• Add a map update pop-up for when you've entered a new area

• Add a new fullscreen shader for flashback-type cutscenes

• Add new effects for laser attacks

• Add a skull marker on the map marking the last place you've died

• Add a new look to the dialogue box, matching the design of recent UI

• Add a dialogue box arrow to the dialogue box

• Add more characters to the font

• Add Greg splash animation when summoned using Greg's Bell

• Add various particles to areas that had none

• Add a new death sound to pots

• Rework the Nightwing Cloak to uncloak when you dodge roll or shoot, giving you 2x firerate for 2 seconds

• Raise the equip weight of the Nightwing Cloak from 1 -> 1.3

• Attempt to fix the gaps in the water in the Swallowed Caves

• Redesign the throne to look a bit better

• Fire Sprite enemies now poof when touching water in Swallowed Caves

• Redraw large doors and sthena doors

• Make unexplored areas of the map look more like fog

• Improve the performance of some collision checks

• Camera snap and reset are now default-bound to the same button on gamepad. Tapping the button snaps, while holding resets.

• Adjust some of the tutorial tooltips

• Adjust the level of some sounds

• Improve the performance of certain particle effects

• Clean up some of the intro cutscene drawings

• Resize the dialogue response buttons when there are too many options to fit the screen

• Redraw the Nightwing Cloak sprite, and adjust it when wearing the witch hat

• Simplify some shadows for performance

• Make it clear that shots go over the Skull Baby enemies

• Fix the loud waterfall in Queen's Garden using a dynamic audio source

• Fix the crown placement on the player's head

• Fix slight player movement when input is re-enabled from a pause

• Fix the map not updating correctly when dying

• Fix being able to open the map while dead

• Fix 'ballista bolt' and 'sword of hearth and home' not getting easy mode's DPS buff

• Fix flickering dialogue boxes when transitioning between long dialogue sequences.

• Fix broken object pooler on reaching credits

• Fix candle flickering upon entering a room

• Fix the camera distance changing when resting at a statue

• Fix time scale resetting when fighting the Temporal Construct

• Fix the missing map zone for the Soldier Snakes boss fight room

• Fix various visual and gameplay bugs

• Various optimizations

• Internal changes