Patch 0.3.1.3

Patch 0.3.1.3 is centred all around improving the overall game experience of Striving for Light. 

Improvements

General

• Experimental voice acting is now an opt-in option, you can turn voice acting on in the options menu
• The starting amount of unlocked weapons is now 5 (was 4) to give new players more weapon diversity on chest drops
• The starting amount of unlocked skills is now 10 (was 8) to give new players more build options directly from the start on
• The possibilities for base skill nodes (max. HP, Energy/ Endurance Regeneration, Attack Speed) is now being increased on each unlocked skill. This keeps the base skill node spawn possibility constant even with more unlocked skills.

Enemies

• The cellar spider enemy/ boss charge is now much more predictable
• Added additional movement animation to cellar spiders

Visuals

• New player hit vfx to make player hits more visible
• Improved flash effects on player hit to make combat feel more impactful
• Improved flash effects on enemy hit to make combat feel more impactful

Audio

• Added new sfx for player hit to make combat more impactful
• Added new sfx for enemy hit to make combat more impactful
• Improved bow sfx
• Improved jar destroy sfx
• Improved sfx mixdown

Balancing

• Increased player invincibility duration after hit to 1.5s (was 1s)
• Increased super boss arenas size to 3x3 size (was 3x2)
• Decreased enemy ice crab hp to 12 (was 15)
• Decreased enemy ice crab hit collider
• Decreased projectile amount of ice crow to 3 (was 6)
• Decreased cellar spider charge range

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which caused the flash effect not being activated on the latest added cellar ghost enemy
• Fixed cellar spider charging from off screen
• Fixed a bug which caused cellar spider to immediately charge multiple times

We wish you a lot of fun trying out the changes. You can participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light by joining our Discord and sharing your thoughts!