Update 0.28.0

We’re nearing yuletide and the snow is falling pure and white, and the bells are ringing.
Have a good holiday and happy brawling!

New features

• Added Game Center / iCloud for iOS.
• Added x-mas cheer.
• Improved rank gains for Diamond and above rankings.
• Trophy chests can now overload to 29 trophies in total, so you don’t lose out from a second run.

Fixes

• Fixed positioning of item charge indicators.
• Fixed issue where the Restore Purchase button in Settings could be missing.
• Fixed that cooldown for some items would not restart from 0%.

Balance Changes

On discord we have some of the reasons behind these changes. Check out the dev blog there.

Shared

Iron Bar

• Removed: Overload-effect

Steel Bar

• Removed: Overload-effect

Adamantite Bar

• Removed: Overload-effect

Bronze Bar

• Removed: pattern
• Removed: Overload-effect

Gold Bar

• Removed: pattern
• Removed: Overload-effect

Gothic Shield

• Removed: pattern
• Removed: Overload-effect

Speed Essence

• Start of combat:
  • Removed: items are +10% faster
• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • Removed: items gain 2
  • Removed: Use 15 to become invulnerable for 3 seconds (once)
  • Added: Use 4 to inflict 3

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • 6% chance (per level) to gain 3 → 2

Life Essence

• Start of combat:
  • Removed: Gain 2
• When item activates:
  • 25% chance to gain 1 → 1
• Added: Every 3 seconds:
  • Use 4 to gain 2

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • 6% chance (per level) to heal for 30 → Gain 2

Magic Essence

• Added: Start of combat: Gain 4
• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • Use 4 to gain 4

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3 seconds

Holy Essence

• Added: Start of combat: Resist 2
• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • Use 4 to resist 2

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • 6% chance (per level) to heal for 35 → 12 :Health

Death Essence

• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • Use 4 to inflict 4

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3 seconds:
  • 6% chance (per level) to inflict 4 → 3

Infinity Essence

• Start of combat: Gain 6 → 5
• When item activates:
  • 50% chance to:
    • Removed: Heal for 12
• Every 5.2 → 3.3 seconds:
  • Removed: Use 15 to become invulnerable for 3 seconds (once)
  • Use 22 → 8 to:
    • Heal for 106 → Inflict 4

Level Bonus:

• Every 5 → 3.3 seconds:
  • 10% chance (per level) to heal for 42 → 25

Green Snapper

• Start of combat:
  • Gain 50 → 30 and 50 → 30
• Added: On hit:
  • Gain 1 or 3

Royal Seax

• On hit:
  • Removed: 50% chance to gain 1

Soulstealer

• Removed: Per on opponent: Gain +1

Leviathan

• Removed: On critical hit: Gain +10 max

Neptune’s Wrath

• On hit:
  • 50% chance to:
    • Inflict 2 → 3 , 2 → 3 and 2 → 3
    • Removed: Gain 5
• On critical hit:
  • Removed: Inflict 3
  • Added: Gain 5

Weathered Skull

• Every 3 → 4.2 seconds:
  • Added: Inflict 1 to yourself

Golden Skull

• Removed: pattern
• Removed: Overload-effect
• Every 3.5 seconds:
  • Added: Inflict 1 to yourself

Unholy Skull

• Every 3.5 seconds:
  • Added: Inflict 2 to yourself

Discordant Harp

• Every 3.9 seconds:
  • Removed: Inflict 2 per Accessory
• Added: When attacks:
  • 50% chance to inflict 2

Wing Clipper

• Stamina cost: 1.0 → 1.2
• On hit:
  • Inflict 2 → 1
  • Use 5 → 4 from opponent to inflict 2 → 1

Celeste

Elemental Whetstone

• New recipe: (Regular) Whetstone + Spark
• Can still also be bought from the shop

Charged Tesseract

• Fixed cooldown effect to actually work even if you hadn’t upgraded the item

Cyclone Gem

• Overload (30 → 33):
  • Gain 7 → 5 per second for 30 seconds
  • Inflict 3 → 2 per second for 30 seconds

Thunder Rat

• On hit:
  • This and Rats gain +2 → +1 max
  • Stun a random enemy item for 0.02 → 0.03 seconds per
• Overload (25):
  • No longer stuns ALL stunnable enemy items (but good job Thunder Rat, we’re proud of you)

Electrostatic Scroll

• Every 5 seconds:
  • Use 4 to:
    • Stun a random enemy , , or → Stun an enemy item for 1 second
    • Added: Deal 1-15
• Overload (25):
  • Stun a random enemy , , or → Stun an enemy item for 2 seconds
  • Removed: items gain 4
  • Added: Deal 1-25

Elementium Bulwark

• Removed: Drain 0.5

Fulmination Hammer

• On hit:
  • 50% chance to:
    • Stun for 1.5 → 1 second
• Per on this:
  • Gain +3% → +2%
• Overload: (33 → 40)

Stormcloud Staff

• On hit: Gain 2 → 3
• Removed: On critical hit: Gain 1

Liquid Electricity

• On Potion activation:
  • Gain 1 per Potion → Gain 2
• On stun:
  • Gain 2 → 1 per Potion

This update ships with balance changes — see the full 0.28.0 balance breakdown.