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The Bestiary Update is out of beta! 6 new mobs, 10 new affixes and more...

Hi everyone,

The Bestiary update has made it through beta and is now available on Steam. It's a 'relatively' small update to keep you going until our next big one, but there’s still plenty to get stuck into for now!

New mobs:

The name just might have given it away, but this update is centered around introducing some new mobs. The 'common' enemy pool was getting a bit too small considering the addition of new levels, and the BC enemies just weren't enough to avoid some repetition.
So, there are now six brand new enemies - 3 are biome-specific, the other 3 are spread through different levels at different Boss Cells. These will freshen up the gameplay and give you some new attack patterns to master, but hopefully not too soon!
There's a couple of clips in here showing new mobs, but the rest you can discover yourself...

New affixes:

We’ve added 11 new affixes on active skills, aimed primarily at growing the pool of affixes available for the items that didn't have enough. Again, this is to flesh out the existing parts of Dead Cells before we introduce new pieces of larger content.

8 new normal affixes:
- Ice, fire, bleed or poison on nearby floors or enemies when the effect of the used active ends
- A grenade, a volley of arrows, or fire spreads when a deployable trap is destroyed
- Get all your arrows back when using a skill

3 new starred affixes:
- Oil and fire spread around when a deployable trap is destroyed
- Push enemies around you when the effect of the used active ends
- Extended duration for powers like Corrupted Power or the Smoke Bomb

Slumbering Sanctuary just seemed to be missing some stabbing action...

The Bad Seed

The levels from our recent DLC 'The Bad Seed' felt a little empty in terms of finding juicy secret areas (*cough* CELLAR *cough*), so we’ve added some new lore rooms and secrets for you to discover in the Arboretum and the Morass, which should make them feel more ‘Dead Cells’.

We also took this opportunity to re-balance the bestiary for The Bad Seed. None of the new mobs are being introduced, but we've tweaked the numbers of the guys who are already there to make these biomes a bit less punishing. On top of this, we've made a few tweaks to the behaviour of the mobs and the layout of these levels that'll make them more fun to play through.

Ten new achievements

Yes, you can stop asking now! Levels from The Bad Seed now have eight achievements up for grabs, plus two ‘general’ achievements have been added to the base game that are available for everyone.

A samurai crab thing - what's not to love?

Three new outfits

Two new outfits can now be found that are linked to the secrets and lore of The Bad Seed DLC. We have also added in a pretty cool skin (well, we think so at least) that's available for everyone that can rise up to the ultimate challenge.

Balancing

Finally, we have included an absolute buttload of balancing and quality-of-life changes. None of them are huge on their own, but all together they will make your runs feel smoother. If you want to see the whole lot you can find them here, but be warned it's a pretty long list!
Some personal favourites are: frozen enemies have their attacks interrupted, Knife Throwers always dodge or dash once before starting to attack you, neighbouring rooms in Arboretum are now inter-connected and some teleporters in the Morass and Clock Tower will activate from further away to avoid backtracking.

That's all for now, speak to you soon!

Cheers,
Matt, Evil Empire & Motion Twin

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Update 19 makes a lot (no, a lot) of smaller changes to the game, including sweeping changes to items and weapons—many of which were completely reworked, nerfed, or boosted.

Examples of these small but meaningful changes include alterations to crossbows, which are now two-handed weapons (duh) and ‘Survival’ only, giving players two separate attacks and a generous health pool. There’s also a backpack that lets you hold a weapon (sorry, you can’t use it if it’s in the backpack) while you wield a two-handed weapon, making sure you’re never punished for switching back to a dual weapon build.

Additionally, the in-game economy and merchants got a makeover with the removal of gold-scaling (gear price will now go up with item level), prices have changed on a variety of items, and there are various changes to refining and affix rerolling costs. Shop categories are now color-based instead of being based on equipment type and you now get a shop reroll for free, however, it makes items on sale pricier so do with that what you will.

The other more notable changes include scrolls being removed from ++ and S weapons, but to compensate more scrolls have been added to the early biomes (heyoooo make it rain!), enemy damage has been reduced, and gear damage has been increased. #balance

Also, for fans who lovingly encountered unrelenting death in 2BC (two Boss Cells), the new update has smoothed out difficulty progression—0BC (zero Boss Cells), for example, has been made more challenging in order to teach new players more of the moves and give them time to collect more gear/runes before progressing, but the difficulty curve in general has also been adjusted from 0-5BC so difficulty spikes should be (should be) less of a problem.

 

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Vem um novo DLC para Q1 de 2021.

Hey everyone,

We’re stoked to announce our new DLC “Fatal Falls” will be available early next year! The Beheaded will be getting some much-needed fresh air in two mid-game levels outside the castle. There's also a new boss happily minding their own business until you drop in to say hello...


What's in it?

The two new biomes, Fractured Shrines and The Undying Shores, are a parallel to the Stilt Village, Clock Tower & Time Keeper areas and their alternate paths. So if you need a break from getting slaughtered by undead pirates or hearing "Let's finish this", then you're in luck!

In Fractured Shrines you'll be leaping between floating islands dotted with deadly traps & treacherous ledges, and at The Undying Shores you'll descend a cliff face in the middle of a storm, where some familiar faces lie in wait... Check out our relaxing teaser for a small preview of what to expect.

At this point we hope it doesn't need to be said, but the DLC will also be stuffed with new weapons & enemies - you'll be hearing more about those soon.

How much is it going to be?

Just like The Bad Seed, Fatal Falls will be $4.99 (or equivalent). This will continue to help support the development of Dead Cells, i.e. allowing the free updates to keep dropping, and in the meantime Motion Twin can develop their next project.

What else is happening?

We're in the last month of the year (insert obligatory "WTF was 2020" comment here), so it's as good a time as any to give you a small update on our situation - both for Dead Cells and the devs.

When The Bad Seed was announced last year we said there was at least 2 years worth of content left to build - and that's still the plan. Any maths geniuses out there will work out that there's at least a year of content to go, and we're pretty sure that we have more than that in our heads. To be honest, if we locked Joan in a room for a week he'd probably come out with about 20 years of content scribbled on the walls...

So basically you can fully expect more of our regular updates to continue next year. In fact, one will be coming in a few weeks - check out our last Steam post for a bit of information about that.

Motion Twin are still working on their new project - unfortunately we can't share any information at the moment, so you'll have to wait a bit longer for news on that.

Finally, Dead Cells has passed 3.5 million copies sold on all platforms, which we never expected to happen at the start of all this, so thank you for all your support!

We'll be back soon with Update 21 and some more news about Fatal Falls, until then stay safe and healthy

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadcells/comments/k4oynt/new_dlc_coming_q1_2020/

 

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“Fatal Falls” Overview

The “Fatal Falls” downloadable content introduces a significant amount of new content for fans including two new mid-game biomes, a killer new boss and a slew of new weapons and items. The gameplay reveal trailer released today showcases new biomes The Fractured Shrines and The Undying Shores as well as a cranky new boss—The Scarecrow, who existing fans may recognize as the Royal Gardener gone wrong with Malaise.

The two new biomes are parallels to the “Stilt Village,” “Clock Tower,” and “Time Keeper” areas and are intended as alternate paths to spice up your mid-game runs. Along the new paths fans can expect to encounter a homicidal pet sword (why not?) and new slightly psychotic enemies like the Myopic Crow, the Clumsy Swordsman, the Compulsive Gravedigger and a lot more (eight total) culminating with the final boss, The Scarecrow (might want to keep an eye on those exploding mushrooms when you encounter him).

And what’s an update without new weapons? “Fatal Falls'” new maniacal sword (did we mention it flies?) is designed to bring Brutality players a real counterpart to the Great Owl and Mushroom Boi. Scythes, undoubtedly one of the more iconic weapons in existence, have also been added—they are attracted to enemies and will follow you around a bit. Seven new weapons in total have arrived: Lightning Rods, Ferryman’s Lantern, Scarecrow’s Sickles, Iron Staff, Snake Fangs, Serenade and Cocoon. Each one will help you in different areas of the two new biomes. And because we want you to feel good AND look good, a total of 10 new outfits have also been added to the update.

Pre-Order Bundles

To celebrate the downloadable content release, the developers have also launched pre-orders on a newly announced bundle and slashed prices across all platforms starting in late January (dates vary slightly per platform, so fans should check their preferred platform shop starting January 26 for details on the 10-plus day discount period).

A 33 percent-off pre-order discount is now live for the newest bundle, “Dead Cells: The Fatal Seed Bundle” for fans on Switch ($19.99 / €19.99). The sweet af bundle will also be on sale for 33 percent-off across all platforms starting January 26 (sale dates will vary slightly per platform) for $19.99 / €19.99. Bundle content includes all previous 20 free game updates plus the two paid downloadable contents, “The Bad Seed” and “Fatal Falls” (regularly priced $4.99 / €4.99 each).

For interested newcomers and veterans of Dead Cells, the developers also announced several additional discounts starting January 26 into mid-February. Specific dates for these deals will vary slightly per platform so make sure you check your preferred digital platform for the precise details:

• First-ever 50 percent-off the base game ($12.49 / €12.49) is a superwicked deal for fans interested in checking it out for the first time.
• 33 percent-off “Dead Cells: The Fatal Seed Bundle” ($19.99 / €19.99) for those looking to go all the way.
• 30 percent-off “The Bad Seed” downloadable content—never discounted before ($3.49 / €3.49).

 

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Whack-a-mole Update​

Important features​

• New weapon: the Oven Axe.
  
  They say the last hit can be chained, but no one lived long enough to confirm...
• New weapon: the Toothpick.
  
  A big wooden club. Hold to charge and break the club on the head of your unfortunate enemies.
• New weapon: the Tombstone.
  
  Stay on the ground and doom nearby enemies if you manage to kill something with the last hit.
  An ethereal tombstone fall on the heads of doomed enemies. Each kill starts a new wave of doom (up to 3 consecutive waves).
• Community suggestion New mutation: No Mercy. (Colorless). Instantly kill enemies going under 15% health (non-scaling). Effect halved for bosses.
• Community suggestion New mutation: Point Blank. Close-ranged range attacks inflict X% bonus damages.
• Community suggestion New mutation: Barbed Tips. Inflict x damage per seconds to enemies per arrows stuck in them.
• New difficulty curve: We're experimenting with a new way of increasing the difficulty from one BC to the next.
  
  BC0: Health fountains in every transition.
  BC1: Health fountain every other transition, with one minor flask when the fountain is missing.
  BC2: No more health fountain, one minor flask in every transition.
  BC3: One minor flask after the first boss and before the second.
  BC4: No more health in any transition, enemies teleport to your position.
  BC5: No more health, enemies teleport, malaise added.
  
  Looking to have your opinion on that new formula, so don't hesitate to give us feedback!
• Community suggestion A new PNJ 5bc exclusive has appeared, the Collector's intern! He will be able to unlock blueprints while the big guy is away.
• Community suggestion Added an Omnivorous diet which randomize the appearance of your food.

Balancing​

• Legendary items now scale based on the sum of your two highest statistics. Legendary no longer increase the item level. This is very subject to change and hence has no visual indication implemented yet.
• Community suggestion Tesla Coil blueprint drop rate increased.
• Items obtained by the Collector (when completing a blueprint) are now Colorless.
• Community suggestion Malaise no longer increases the movement speed of enemies.
• Community suggestion Sudden Death prevention invulnerability duration increases from 0.5 to 0.6 seconds.
• All weapons now have a bit of air control if an ennemy is in the strike zone.
• Capped the fatal fall's damages to 15% of your max life.
• Fatal Falls Community suggestion Added bonus scrolls in Fractured Shrines (in BC3+) and Undying Shores (in BC4+) to make them on par with other levels.
• Fatal Falls Community suggestion Turned one double-scroll into a triple-scroll in Fractured Shrines.
• Fatal Falls Community suggestion Improved Soul Shot's (the off-hand of Ferryman's Lantern) aim to target multiple enemies if possible.
• Community suggestion You can now find one outfit and one other item as blueprints in a level.
• Mobs can no longer spawn or turn into elites do to Malaise in the first few seconds after an Elite mob aggroes you.
• Fixed Shovel, Flashing Fans and War Spear not working with Porcupack.
• Prevented elite Demolishers to spawn with the cage elite skill. Update 23.3

Level design​

• Fatal Falls Community suggestion Fixed missing scrolls in Fractured Shrines and Undying Shores.
• Fatal Falls Made fatal fall's zones in Fractured Shrines more tolerant to prevent unfair damages.

Graphics & UI​

• The description and affix list of items now scroll together in the Pause menu for a better readability in all situations. Still not an excuse for really long descriptions of items, but it's better than nothing.
• Fatal Falls Community suggestion Reordered Fatal Fall's achievements in the Statistics panel to a more logical order.
• Increased the size of the flask zone to account for all items.
• Community suggestion Cocoon now display "Parry" when a succesful parry occur.
• Improved Cold Blooded Guardian animations and visual effects for a better readability.
• Community suggestion Fixed Myopic Crows color in the Statistics panel.
• Malaise rules modification are now denoted by icons when the malaise increase. You can find the meaning of each icon in the Infos tab of your pause menu.
• Fatal Falls Improved Serenade's visual effects for a better readability.
• Improved readability of War Javelin and Snake Fangs teleport visual effects, especially in Fractured Shrines.
• Community suggestion Added a small visualisation of the item in your backpack in the pause menu.
• Added a small mention of the possibility to use Custom Mode to lock back items in the Collector UI to encourage players to unlock everything, even items they might end up not liking. Use the Custom Mode! It's part of the game! You're not cheating!
• Backpack mutations (Porcupack, Acrobatipack and Armadillopack) now have their icon showcasing the internal cooldown.
• Removed the confusing "Hold RB to empty your backpack" prompt in the switch item GUI.
• Fixed Acceptance text not mentionning food cursing you.
• Community suggestion Fixed Acrobatipack not mentioning that melee weapons don't trigger the effect.
• Fixed some typos.
• Allow off-screen attack indications even if on-screen indications are disabled. Both can still be disabled separately in the menu. Update 23.3
• Community suggestion Uniformized exit names after all boss battles. Update 23.4
• Community suggestion Clarified Crow's Wings description. Update 23.4
• Community suggestion Edited Rampart description to mention that only melee parry trigger the invulnerability. Update 23.4

Quality of life​

• Community suggestion Cursed Gems now require a long press to be picked up. No more accidental cursing.
• Community suggestion Added the option "Hold to chain attacks" in the Gameplay tab of the options. Serious note here: please suggest more accessibility options. We will do our best to include them.
• Hunter's Grenade now respawn on a platform after being thrown into the void.
• Moved the "Random Outfit" option from the classic options to the Custom Mode, with a new option to randomize your skin on every main level (not in the transitions) and an interface to chose which skins you want to have randomly selected.
• Community suggestion Included several player-suggested rewording for mutations. English only for now. Update 23.2
• Community suggestion All items now respawn when falling into the void. Update 23.3
• Community suggestion Differentiated the two Purulent Zombie's name:
  - The one with the flies is now the Swarm Zombie
  - The one who throws eggs is now the Festering Zombie Update 23.4
• Community suggestion Blueprints are now automatically registered when entering a transition level. You no longer need to interact with the Collector to register them. Update 23.4

Music & Sfx​

• Community suggestion The Derelict Distillery soundtrack has been remastered and reexported to be more in-line with the rest of the game. Update 23.5

Bug fixes​

• Fixed a crash when using the "Hitchcock" or "Darkness" game modifiers in Custom Mode.
• Fixed a crash that occured with some mods due to Malaise.
• Fixed a crash occuring with hero climbing when modifying SFXs.
• Fixed the force malaise option from the Custom Mode always re-activating even after deactivating it manually.
• Fixed a bug making you float after entering a challenge portal with the Assault power.
• Reduced the lag occuring when breaking a ground or wall.
• Fixed malaise spawning enemies in transition levels.
• Fixed Cocoon being able to rally.
• Fixed being able to load the Katana's strike when holding a shield.
• Fixed some seed errors (notably in Cavern).
• Fixed bosses having a small life bar after reloading the level.
• Fixed a crash on the Tentacle Whip.
• Fix Phaser sometimes teleporting the player out of a boss arena.
• Fixed Porcupack only working on the first enemy hit.
• Fixed various crashes.
• Fatal Falls Fixed a crash that occured when dying with a Serenade equipped and replacing a Barrel Launcher.
• Fatal Falls Fixed a crash related to Myopic Crows.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Giant Whistle freezing the Scarecrow.
• Fatal Falls Fixed some crashes related to the Scarecrow.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Serenade's icon disappearing when entering or exiting a sub-level.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Serenade sometimes eating your main weapon. God that one was a doozy!
• Fatal Falls Fixed Serenade resetting the other power's cooldown. A very finite amount of power.
• Fatal Falls Improved performances in the corners. Don't expect anything revolutionnary, but we're working on it.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Mac OSX version. Technically it was fixed earlier, but better to put it in a patchnote, right?
• Fatal Falls Fixed a soft lock occuring in Undying Shores when using the War Javelin to reach the far right of the map.
• Fatal Falls Prevented some soft-locks in Undying Shores when paths are too close to one another.
• Fatal Falls Fixed some crashes occuring with Serenade.
• Fatal Falls Fixed non-reanimated corpse in Undying Shores appearing on the minimap.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Pool Party achievement not triggering.
• Fatal Falls Fixed A cut above achievement triggering on hits instead of kills.
• Fatal Falls Fixed unstable platforms collapsing during cinematics. Scrolls pickup, etc.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Hunter's Grenade locking doors when used on Stone Warden. Yes, it means that you can turn a Warden elite. You asked for this.
• Fatal Falls Prevent altars from spawning on unstable platforms.
• Fatal Falls Forced dead cultist to appear if you didn't unlock the Cultist Outfit.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Cocoon's cooldown not resetting when parrying a grenade.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Cursed Sword, Perfect Halberd (and other weapons interacting with hero's damages) not working when replaced by Serenade.
• Fatal Falls Fixed the achievement "Me, Jealous?" not trigerring.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Soul Shot (the off-hand of Ferryman's Lantern) not triggering Accrobatipack.
• Fatal Falls Reverted unwanted changes in bestiaries from non-DLC levels to state before the DLC.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Myopic Crows dying when entering fatal-fall zones. Yes, this means more crows. Gnehehe
• Fatal Falls Fixed the first Serenade you encounter not being colorless.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Snake Fangs teleporting to hidden mobs.
• Fatal Falls Prevent a soft-lock when going to the end of the room at the end of Scoring Mode. Why would you do that?!
• Fatal Falls Fixed Soul Shot (the off-hand of Ferryman's Lantern) not interacting with the perk Kill Rythm.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Cocoon not damaging thrown Jerkshroom's.
• Fatal Falls Removed a confusing "point at self" animation from a lore-room in Undying Shores.
• Fatal Falls Fixed Scarecrow's Sickles disappearing after reloading a level, locking the power until the end of the level.
• The Bad Seed Fixed crash related to Jerkshrooms.
• The Bad Seed Fixed Ticks soft-locking because of the Hunter's Grenade and the Cocoon.
• The Bad Seed Fixed a crash on attacking Mama Tick during the cinematic. Who does that? And how?
• The Bad Seed Mushroom Boi now teleport next to you when fatal-falling instead of disappearing.
• The Bad Seed Fixed a crash occuring on Mushroom Boi. Update 23.2
• Fatal Falls Fixed a crash related to Ferryman's Lantern and Backpack mutations. Update 23.2
• Fatal Falls Fixed several Scarecrow crashes. Update 23.2
• Fixed soft-lock occuring when glitching on top of un-deployed Vines. Update 23.2
• Fixed a crash with Hayabusa's Gauntlet. Update 23.2
• Fixed a soft-lock occuring when teleporting out of the boss room with Phaser on Conjonctivius. Update 23.2
• Fixed a crash on Tentacle Whip. Update 23.2
• Fixed a crash occuring when opening the "additionnal content* panel in the main menu. Update 23.2
• Fixed several rare crashes. Update 23.2
• Fixed items descriptions being unaligned by 3 pixels. Yes. Update 23.3
• Fatal Falls Fixed scrolls sometimes appearing out of reach in the Undying Shores. Update 23.3
• Fixed Ygdar Orus Li Ox perk consuming your cells when you die by falling into the void. Update 23.4
• Fixed being able to eat food at full health when Malaise is active. Update 23.4
• Fixed a typo in Alienation mutation english description. Update 23.4
• Fatal Falls Fixed a lore room interactible missing a label. The "null" water tank. Update 23.4
• Removed mention of malaise protection in Tonic's description. Update 23.4
• Fixed Custom Mode maximum flasks setting not working as intended. Update 23.4
• Fatal Falls Removed healing in transition between Fractured Shrines and Undying Shores in relevant difficulties. To keep it in line with other 4th to 5th level transitions. Update 23.4
• The Bad Seed Prevented a certain sacrifice to consume unrelated items. Update 23.4
• Fixed Distillery being accessible on a fresh save for players having already reached the Throne room on another save. Update 23.4
• Fatal Falls Added a lantern in the Mausoleum when playing with the darkness modifier. Update 23.4
• Fixed a crash occuring when picking up a tier scroll with the homunculus while climbing. Update 23.4
• Fixed diminishing returns no longer resetting after a while. Update 23.4
• Fixed being unable to stomp across one-ways platforms when standing in front of a ladder. Update 23.4
• Fixed Tentacle Whip kick chaining indefinitly. Update 23.4
• Fatal Falls Fixed Iron Staff parry not stunning when parrying after the hit.
  Update 23.4
• Fixed Repeater Crossbow off-hand using main-hand's affixes. Update 23.4
• Fixed Repeater Crossbow off hand affixes pool. Update 23.4

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