This is a smaller patch to clean up and fix certain issues. There are a couple of buffs to certain abilities but it’s mostly a visual effects change for certain things.
Tighter Battle Camera
Visual Changes
- Battle camera is now a bit closer to the monsters (significantly closer when monsters are in close proximity of each other)
- Decreased the size of the Battle UI a bit to help free up some screen space (Will try to make this customizable in a future patch)
- Updated visual effect for Recharge base ability
- Made the red circle effect under projectiles thinner and more subtle
- Changed the color of EX Psychic abilities to make them stand out more
- Fixed fire melee abilities not having the proper fire effects or colors
- Uppercut abilities now have more of an upward force, launching enemies up a bit
- Using the Cast Now command by issuing the ability command a second time now properly displays the added ” NOW!” text (I will probably find a better way of issuing this command in a future patch)
- Removed the belts from spawned AI. (Belts were being tested here and will return in a future game mode)
- Added many trailing effects to different projectiles where appropriate
- Made Water projectiles more visible
- Stopped many ability effects from immediately disappearing as soon as the ability ends
- Improved the visual effect of Flame Breath and Frost Breath as well as their EX counterparts
- Added a spawn effect to rocks that are spawned during abilities, such as Rock Punch & Rock Protect
- Added a large dust effect when rocks are spawned to leave a haze of dust in the air during battle
Hiding Non-Battle UI
You can now use the “;” key to toggle most non-battle UI. This will help free up screen space to better spectate/record battles.
Abilities
Heavy Psy Bubble can be a very powerful EX ability but its slow speed combined with its projectile lifetime makes it a bit too easy to avoid. This change should make Heavy Psy Bubble a bit more of a threat without going overboard. Psy Bubble also gets a small increase to help out a bit.
Psy Bubble
- Projectile lifetime increased from 4.5 seconds to 5 seconds
Heavy Psy Bubble
- Projectile lifetime increased from 4.5 seconds to 6 seconds
Psy Burst has it’s situational uses, but usually Psy Push could accomplish similar results. To make it more worthwhile its damage has been increased.
Psy Burst (EX Psy Push)
- Damage increased from 3 damage X 3 to 5 damage X 3
While the EX versions were already useful, Flame Breath and Frost Breath became a lot less useful after the change of pacing for battles in the previous patch. To help these abilities out I have given them persistent armor, which the used to have in a much earlier version of the game.
Flame Breath
- Now has persistent armor during the entire cast time
Flamethrower
- Now has persistent armor during the entire cast time
Frost Breath
- Now has persistent armor during the entire cast time
Freeze Breath
- Now has persistent armor during the entire cast time
