In this patch, we reworked the "Knight" talent tree and gave it its own mechanic. The "Slash" is a close combat attack that scales with your contact damage - this should make the stat way more viable. There are many balance changes and fixes, as always. Here's the complete changelog: [b]New Features:[/b] [list] [*] Added “Tactical Tackle” Talent [*] Reworked the Knight talent tree, replacing stat-only talents with the SLASH, dealing your contact damage without the need to run into things (essentially 5 new talents) [*] Reworked “Heavy” talent. It now gives block chance and regenerates HP on block [*] Reworked “Evasiveness”. It now refreshes your dash when you take damage. (10s cd) [*] Reworked Cleansing Amulet: regeneration now triggers when you are below 50% hp. It also gives 50% increased hp regen [*]Increased coin pickup amount now increase with floor, Reduced luck-based pickup amount from 2% to 1%. Let us know how this changes the exp you get. It *should* give roughly the same exp for high luck runs and more for low-luck runs. [/list] [b]Fixes:[/b] [list] [*] Tesla Buckler cooldown was not working at all [*] Enemies had the same stat caps as the player, resulting in some stats not scaling in very late regions (this might need some rebalancing) [*] Hopefully fixed a rare issue where the tutorial cactus died before landing, softlocking the game. We could not reproduce the issue, let us know should it still happen [*] Fixed some tooltips persisting after talent pick [*] Fixed tutorial slime poses [*] Fixed screenshake slightly effecting your aiming [*] Fixed some aiming jankiness when hellfire ray was aimed close to the player [/list] [b]Balance:[/b] [list] [*] Player projectiles are now much more resilient against aoe damage zones [*] Strength scaling changed from 120 + 7* str -> 60 + 10*str [*] Regen per strength 0.1 -> 0.15 [*] Player now has 10% more resistances in Doom and 20% more in Death (we reduced the reduction) [*] ZOP damage from 4% current hp to 50 + 2%. ZAPs can no longer cause other ZAP effects. [*] Skeletons now have an 0.5s invulnerability time after taking damage [*] Skeleton base movespeed increased by 10% [/list] Items: [list] [*] Slightly reduced the amount of speed shoes give you [*] Ampere’s Gauntlets: ZAP chance 30/40/50 -> 25/30/35 [*] Ice Armor: shards 3 -> 9/10/11. Damage 20 -> 40. Also works on block now. Now has 5s cooldown. [*] Grand Lich's Rib Cage: skeletons 2-> 3. Now also works on block. Added cooldown of 3. [*] Firemaw and Flame sword: no longer add “Fire damage” tags to the talent pool [*] Thor’s Hammer: 40/45/50, Electricity damage 10%/15%/20% -> 10%/12.5%/15%, the actual hammer damage is increased by 5 [*] Icicle Spear: projectile damage 50 -> 70 [*] Flame Sword: damage 50/55/60 -> 90 [*] Firemaw: damage 40/45/50 -> 60/65/70 [*] Calm Keeper: bonus attack speed 6/8/10 -> 6/7/8 [/list] Spells: [list] [*] Rainbow catcher cooldown 1.5 -> 1.0 [*] Throw Sword: Reduced sword turn-rate while thrown, increased charge time of “throw” to 1.3s to prevent canceling mid air [*] Shock Hands: Slow 50% for 1.5s -> 25% for 1s. Player speed buff 50% → 30% for 1s [*] Dashes [*] Britta: dash invulnerability time after dash 0.1 -> 0.05, cooldown 2s -> 2.5s [*] Wilhelm: dash cooldown 4 -> 3.5, the aoe lingers 0.1s longer now, making it easier to hit [/list] Talents: [list] [*] Split Devastating Crits into two talents. Also reduced the extra damage to 30% and the critical damage to 35% [*] Conductive Research: only worked on Electricity damage without mentioning it. It now has a 50% chance to ZAP on Electricity damage and 20% on every other type of damage [*] Scythe Juggling: damage 60 -> 30 (the damage of the weapon when picked up as an item is unchanged) [*] Up Your Arsenal: effect damage 40% -> 30%, now gives additional +30 contact damage [*] Epic Effect Damage: 100% -> 80% [*] Wet Dog: Intelligence -> 12, water damage 30% -> 10% [*] Brave Bird: Strength 10 -> 12 [*] Character-specific talents now have a minimum level of 5, removed other restrictions [*] Toughness: additionally gives +20% max hp [*] Flash Friends: now requires “Precision” [*] Skeleton Shields: now requires 30 block chance [*] Friend Combustion: damage 60 -> 75 [*] Stronker Chonker: now gives 10% damage resistance [/list] Trinkets: [list] [*] Critical rate average on trinkets 5% -> 4%, Crit damage 10% -> 8% [*] Contact damage on trinkets 10 -> 20 [/list] [b]Visuals[/b] [list] [*] Dash cooldown now shows an approximation when it is done, not the base value [*] Improved starting screen artwork [*] Presskit is now linked in starting screen [/list]