Ring of Pain – “Mimic’s Hoard” update out now on Switch (version 1.3.00S), patch notes

The roguelike card crawler Ring of Pain has received a major patch on Switch. Version 1.3.00S is the “Mimic’s Hoard” update, featuring lots of new content, a new difficulty mode, balance adjustments, and more.

Below are the full patch notes:

Features

• Added Medium difficulty
  Medium difficulty can be unlocked by completing a run on normal difficulty, and hard mode is now unlocked by completing a run on medium difficulty.
  If you’ve already unlocked hard mode, medium mode will be automatically unlocked.
• 80+ new items
• 15+ new Daily Dungeon modifiers
• 15+ new Achievements
• 5+ new special paths
• 10+ new creatures
• Added a new status effect Petrify, which reduces max health.
• Added a Statistics Page
  This will display your statistics for runs, items, combat events, exploration events
• Display creature effects when inspecting them
  This will display things such as the amount of explosion, poison, ranged damage a creature will deal
• Added new Daily Dungeon modifiers
• Path taken is displayed on the game over screen

Improvements

• Show end game choice on game over screen
• Candles that are unlocked through achievements are displayed on the achievements page
• Added Up button when hovering over certain cards
• Added controller tutorial for observing previously explored paths
• Hovering over creatures will now show their souls

Balance

• Adjusted hard and medium mode levels to feature new creatures
• Ensnare now in addition to stopping movement, halves physical attack
• Adjusted Spellbook cooldowns
• Loombird Changes:
  Crooked Loombird in Hard mode: Speed increased 6 -> 12
  Huge Crooked Loombird in Normal mode: Health 32 -> 26, Attack 13 -> 11
  Huge Crooked Loombird in Hard mode: Health 32 -> 36, Speed 8 -> 16
• Double Candle now allows you to select a common-tier starting item, Stealth chance removed
• Dark Stone starts with Barrier scroll, Stealth change increased 30% -> 40%, Speed reduced -1 -> -2
• Necklace Rebirth cures poison.
• Choker item effect increased from +1 to +2 Attack for consecutive attacks.
• Metal Ox stats increased 0 -> 4 Health, 0 -> 4 Clarity
• Chestplate explode damage reduction changed from half to reduce by 2
• Special path balance
  Fountain of Life reduced spawn rate in early game
  Careful Maneuvre and Overwhelm can no longer spawn in the first level
  Companions Sam can appear a little earlier
• The timer starts counting up when the player has control
  Previously it would start when the tutorial started or the starting camera animation

Bug Fixes

• Spineback is no longer revealed before its card has rotated
• Fixed behavior for Confidence
• Hollower only plays it’s particle effect when it’s area of effect is completed
• Fixed issues with Crown of Clarity
• Polearm + Knockback now works with the projection system
• Fixed issues when using a Spellbook or Scroll over the Creature card’s inspect icon
• Fixed issues with the collection’s scrollbar not resizing
• Adjusted stat manipulation calculation and how it can be absorbed
  Clearer projections when losing stats from items like Siphon Gem

Other

• The “Trinket” item slot has been renamed to “Jar”

We have a trailer for the new Ring of Pain update below.

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