Thanks to all who joined the v1.9 beta. It's now fully live.

v1.9 introduces an explosive new branch plus many new spells and abilities. A huge number of small tweaks and improvements have been included.

v1.9 summary:

• New branch GREAT HALL: tons of goblins and explosions

• Three new spells: VORTEX, FETTER, and QUILLS

• Six new abilities: AURA, SHRED, WRING, GUZZLE, ASSASSINATE, and FRENZY

• Abilities now take 0 turns and can be chosen out of 3 options

• Changes to Officer, Apothecary, Assassin, Commander, and Challenger disguises

• UMBRA has been properly nerfed

• Improvements to BLINK, TEMPEST, WARD, LEVITATE, and BLAST

• Options menu reworked. Custom input delay option added to fix numerous control issues.

• Tons of bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, and UI improvements

• Noise system revisited and now shown on UI

• Secrets?!?

Full changelog:

New Content

• New branch GREAT HALL: tons of goblins and explosions

• New monster Goblin Hurler: throws bomb

• New monster Balaur Hatchling: an early game version of the Balaur but this one is completely blind.

• New spell VORTEX: pulls monsters in and around you and damages flying/floating monsters

• New spell FETTER: binds a monster in magical chains that cause levitation and prevent movement

• New spell QUILLS: gives you a magical shield based on your missing health that reflects melee attack damage

• Vampire abilities now take 0 turns and can be chosen out of 3 options just like spells

• New ability AURA: a rapidly shrinking aura of immunity that can be used to shield yourself or allies

• New ability SHRED: damages monsters near you and adds Bleeding

• New ability WRING: causes non-bleeders to become bleeders

• New ability GUZZLE: collects all nearby blood

• New ability ASSASSINATE: teleport next to the closest enemy and give them stunned and vulnerable statuses for 1 turn

• New ability FRENZY: sets your HP to 1 and gives you a quills shield equal to your missing health

• New Legendary Grimoire that gives more spell options or more mana

• New MALLEABLE MODE. All spells, abilities, stat upgrades, etc. are chosen for you.

• Added 4 new entrances to the hotel

• New item Hunter's Lens: improves your critical hit chances

Graphics changes

• The explosion animation has been redrawn to look a lot better

• Chests now explode their items onto the surrounding tiles instead of just being a menu

• One turn illumination from spells now draws instantly

• Bats added to the title screen

• Added fadeouts to a few spell animations like FIRESTORM

• Primers have been colored blue to more clearly distinguish them from grimoires

• Now drawing blood behind torches... it looked really weird before

• New chair obstacle with 4 direction sprites

• Camera zooms in when talking to friendlies

Gameplay & UI

• Noise is now displayed on the main UI. Many actions that were missing noise now have them and the system has been rebalanced.

• Commander now starts with AURA, Assassin with FADE, and Alchemist with WRING

• Apothecary given another extra poison resist level

• Officer now gets a full HP/MP heal on level up

• Challenger now starts with an ability when starting as vampire

• Significantly buffed weekly challenge archenemies (they were real pushovers before)

• Raised the chance for Challenger to start as vampire to 50:50

• UMBRA has been nerfed. It should still be a great spell but not so good it trivializes the game.

• UMBRA minions are sped up but weaker, so you don't have to wait on them so much.

• No more UMBRA healing on Revenant

• Hotel stairs can now collapse. Collapsed stairs require an extra turn to climb.

• Allied vampires no longer steal your blood unless they need it and you don't

• Stun and frozen moment now reduce evasion to 0

• Fixed a bug with Vulnerable inadvertently reducing Defense. With this change, Vulnerable should cause slightly less extra damage.

• Critical chance is shown on the character sheet

• Werewolves have been reworked: They now have a huge crit chance and heal/satiate on crit

• SWAP has been folded into BLINK (if a monster is in that direction, you swap)

• TEMPEST is now a lot more consistent

• BLINK has been made more accurate with further guaranteed distance

• WARD cost reduced

• BLAST can now destroy walls starting at level 2

• QUAKE damage now requires line of sight

• LEVITATE speed up increased by 1

• Big sludge XP cut in half (because you also get XP for the spawned sludges)

• Ice House monsters are now immune to cold so they won't die in the icy water

• Spiridus has been made flying

• Demon Blood potions are again guaranteed in every run

• Bleeding now does 1 damage in Easy, 3 in Despair

• Monsters will now stay in the same relative position when climbing stairs with you if possible

• Reduced Magma Golem chance per turn to create magma

• Bounty Potion payout is now purely based on turn count which should be way more consistent

• Tooltips added to small disguise buttons

• Message added if user tries and fails to use diagonal movement for various reasons

• Moroi and Samca are now vulnerable to moonlight

• Hunter gets QUILLS now instead of ENRAGE, which wasn't really something you could play around

• Added the times when you changed form to the morgue

• Goblin Anarchist now only combusts with a 1 tile radius regardless of if they blow up before or after death

Options & Controls

• The option menu has been reworked: options are now grouped by subheaders

• All options now have detailed descriptions

• Added visible values to slider options

• Added a custom input repeat option that fixes a slew of horrible control issues for some people (this includes accidentally flying across the map if you hold down a movement key or shooting the revolver 10 times in a split second and ruining the tutorial)

• Added the ability to bind some arbitrary keys that were not supported before (e.g. Alt)

• Option added to disable xp sound

• Added a button to open the minimap

• Added a button to open the hotel map

• The "center" controller button is now mappable

• Added playstation controller icons

• Ability direction selection has been improved

• Right click now works for examine in keyboard examine mode

• The player can no longer "shoot themselves" which previously did nothing but wasted a bullet

UI

• Spell and ability names are greyed out when unusable

• Broken windows are highlighted on the minimap

• Hunger status is now shown for non-human forms like bat form

• Low level human spell casters now show all possible spells on description so you don't have to examine each one

• Resistance tooltips now have precise detail

• Shadow Form description now shows total values instead of per level values

• Added success rate chance to CHARM failure messages

• Next Page indicator on books

• Added a death tip about examine

• Added a death tip if you die with Vulnerable

• Death tips now have red highlighting on important words

• Added a note on fountain descriptions to say they might identify the associated potion

Bug fixes & Tweaks

• Fixed several display issues with the player or monsters falling in pits

• FINALLY fixed the generation of ugly doors, I think

• Fixed some display issues with the health bar

• Fixed a bug with Samca and frozen moment

• Fixed a weird display message involving Holy Water

• Fixed some dash bugs

• Fixed river portal sprite

• Fixed several ASCII display issues

• Fixed a display issue with commander and firefly

• Fixed a bug with pushing Samcas through sunlight while vulnerable

• Fixed some bugs with shadow minions dying to sunlight

• Fixed an issue with Goblin Anarchist allies hurting you, which was annoying

• Fixed some staircases not spawning far enough from boss

• Fixed a double death message from Goblin Anarchist

• Fixed a bug with talking to bats, which you can now properly do

• Fixed a bug with allies refusing to swap with you if near water

• Clarity reworded, for clarity

• Fixed a bug with tooltips overlapping hotel map and other menus

• Fixed some issues with low screenshake values overriding higher ones

• More clarity on staying in the SHADOWS in the tutorial