BUGFIXES
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- Fixed crash during Cypher boss.
- Fixed misaligned credits screen when using East Asian UI Languages.

Hello Survival Typists!

We’re back with our regular updates, creating more content for you to enjoy, as well as some cosmetic experiments. Let’s get right to it!

The Guardian is a self propelled persistent Drone that guards the main turret with melee orbiting heat attacks. While it is a very powerful automated weapon, you need to keep picking up fuel to keep it going!

Last update we drew from Greek mythology, this time we take a nod to Norse mythology. Jörmungandr was a mythological creature who supposedly encircled the world, biting its own tail. One of the signals that the end of the world is coming is when the serpent finally lets go of its tail to wreak havoc on the world. Our version of the serpent circles your main weapon menacingly while releasing single letter projectiles for you to shoot down.

We’ve added a new consumables system to the game to allow you to store items in an inventory and then use them at will by typing the corresponding word. For example, the “Warhead” consumable triggers a massive string of explosions to take out enemies close to the main weapon. Right now all consumables are obtained via the Loot system, but we’re working to expand this and create more consumables in future updates.

We’re slowly rolling out cosmetic updates like letting you change the music and color scheme to the game. This is more complex than we thought it would be, and we need more time to implement it fully. However, we did want to give you all a sneak peek of how it would work. In the audio settings, you can now choose between Glyphica’s current music set and the original music it launched with back in the 2024 Next Fest.
In addition, we’ve added a couple of new color themes aside from our light and dark themes. We will slowly open this up so more players can take advantage of this and make their own color themes, but if you have any theme requests let us know!

We’ve added more weapon Evolutions to the Minefield to increase the variations of gameplay. But on top of that, we’re excited to add weapon evolutions that only happen if you are using two specific weapons. The Dirty Bomb evolution makes your mines shoot puddles of goo when they explode, but you can only use this evolution if you are using Splattershot as well. We want future combos like this to be a cool surprise for players, but we’re leaking this one for you all to enjoy.

There were players who didn't want the weapons kept from growing due to the Omen II penalty. We've updated the omen system and replaced the penalty with a new 9-letter wordlist.


Achievements are now localized so you can all challenge yourselves to be better typists!

That’s it for this update folks! We hope you enjoy this update, and we will be back again in 2 months to give you some fresh new content and features!

CHANGELOG
BUGFIXES
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- Fixed Exploding Bullet evo for Repeater damage not matching description.
- Fixed enemies with "large" modifier sometimes blocking their own words.
- Fixed trial completion sometimes does not kill shooter projectile.
- Fixed evolving weapon on boss loot screen bugs Evolution prompt UI.
- Fixed "Scapegoat" Augment consuming drones on mistype in menu screens.
- Fixed Evolution screen re-rolls return the same options.
- Fixed uncompleteable Poet text in German.
- Fixed double colon typo in Japanese damage upgrade text for Hunter.
- Fixed misaligned pinyin for one Poet text in Simplified Chinese.
- Fixed Jormungandr recticles not destroyed on boss defeat.
- Fixed spacing issue between segments on Jormungandr on spawn.
- Keylog increased to 12 characters long (was originally 10)
- Fixed Medpack consumable healing more than advertised.
- Fixed crash for Jormungandr InstaLetters attack in Korean.
- Fixed reversed mistype logic for Jormungandr InstaLetters attack.
- Fixed Medpack always healing to full.
- Made Jormungandr InstaLetters affected by Freeze pickup as well.
- Fixed mistype logic reversed on Jormungandr InstaLetters.
- Fixed crash for InstaLetters in Korean.
- Fixed InstaLetters crashing game on Jormungandr defeat.
- Added safeguard to hide level up prompt when returning to main menu.
- Fixed Regeneration does not block Health pickup spawn.
- Reverted Regeneration changes from last patch.
- Prevent Guardian Fireballs from blocking words.
- Fixed Caustic Ammo does not last for 20 seconds like described.
- Fixed Jormungandr recticles do not respect resolution.
- Prevent Jormungandr recticales from spawning on main menu.
- Fixed endless records not being updated in main menu.
- Fixed getScreenEdgeCoords crash for Heat Ray Blaster evolution.
- Update old saves from dark mode setting to visual theme.
- Fixed Guardian Toxic Ward Evolution crash.
- Fixed Guardian Fuel pickup does not respect resolution changes.
- Fixed empty last page in modifiers in Run Information page.

BALANCING
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- Added range upgrade to Repeater after Exploding Bullets evo has been picked.
- Made Exploding Bullets deal more Explosive damage.
- Made Spoils Augment only have a 60% change to roll for pickup when drone expires instead of 100%.
- Added Recursive Mines and Dirty Bomb (requires SplatterShot) Evo for Minefield
- Blocked enemies with "fast" modifier from having "large" modifier at the same time.
- Increased health of end-game drone variants.
- Added 2 more levels of Shooter enemy for end-game.
- Made "Devotion" Augment ensure at least one option during level up is an upgrade.
- Minor buff to Dirty Bomb Evolution for Minefield.
- Prevent "duration" loot from spawning due to Meteor after getting "Relentless" Evolution.
- Added Omen level number to summary screen on defeat.
- Made SplatterShot projectiles explode at original target position even if target is no longer valid.
- Removed trigger letter highlighting for now.
- Spawn rate of Recursive Mines evo for Minefield now uses the Rate of Fire stat.
- Added Rate of Fire uncommon and rare upgrades to Minefield after acquiring Recursive Mines.
- Updated Release loot description to be more accurate to effect.
- Updated Release Loot to deal 20 explosive damage every 20 perfect input.
- Updated Eager Augment to also give 1 level up every 4 minutes survived in Endless mode.
- Updated Omen II to increase length of words instead of restricting Evolution.
- Cypher reverted to old letter scrambling instead of completely random alphabets.
- Reduced Jormungandr health.
- Added InstaLetters attack for Jormungandr.
- Keylog increased to 12 letters for custom wordlists.
- Changed consumables loot to common rarity.
- Buffed Guardian damage significantly.
- Buffed Guardian fuel pickup frequency and fuel gained.
- Introduced gradually decreasing weight for Guardian range upgrades.
- Introduced gradually decreasing weight for Barrage range upgrades.
- Nerfed Seismic Munition Evolution's range and duration for Barrage.
- Jormungandr moved to it's proper place in Trial II, randomly selected between it and Cypher.
- Capped Seismic Munition rate of fire to +100%.
- Use gradually decreasing weight for Meteor range upgrades instead of hard cap.

FEATURES
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- Added trigger letter highlighting. This is turned on permanently for testing and not available for Korean for now, will provide option to switch it on/off later.
- Added Consumables system.
- Added Medpack, Warhead, Serum, Cryocore & Kill Pill Consumables. (only available atm via loot system as uncommon loot)
- Added Audio Themes in options.
- Added new boss Jormungandr. Very experimental, replaces Cerberus for easy testing now. Will eventually be randomized with Cypher for Trial II.
- Added auto-detect of Korean language for custom wordlists.
- Added new BGM and SFX for Jormungandr!
- Added first pass for new weapon Guardian.
- Added all official localizations.
- Added Guardian SFX.