Hello Guardians.

Here's the third out of four quick devblog about the Endless Update.

Today we'll be discussing the progression systems that support the Endless Mode.

When we were designing the new mode, we realized we needed something that would make Endless Mode more complete in its intent to be a replayable experience.

And we felt like a "mutator" system would be a great solution to that.

We called those "Singularities and Glitches".

There are "main mutators" (Singularity) and "secondary mutators" (Glitch).

Whenever you defeat a boss, it adds a random Singularity to your run, up to a certain maximum. And every other level completed, it adds a random Glitch to your run, endlessly.

Singularity have a greater impact on your run whereas Glitch tend to modify metric values from the base game or from the Singularities that were added to the run. Pretty much like "enemy perks and upgrades".

Here are a few example of Singularities:
Bunny Shield - Some enemies have a shield that can only be broken by headbonking them
Safety Goggles - Enemies have a chance to have an eye patch protecting their weak spot
Kaboom Protocol - Enemies have a chance to explode when destroyed

In addition to that, every level comes with an updated roster of enemies and the difficulty will ramp up endlessly. Enemies get beefier and deadlier, more elites come into play and mechanically weaker enemies are replaced with stronger ones.

• Every few levels, you'll have a perk choice, up to a maximum of 5.
  
• Every levels aside from those, you'll have an upgrade choice, up to a certain maximum (resulting in much more upgrades than regular runs).
  
• In terms of items, you won't be limited (that is, until you have them all).
  
• Once you reached the maximum number of perks and upgrades, you continue to level up and get to pick one of three "Boosters".
  
  The main reason we're limiting perks is that going above a certain thresholds removes the idea of "having a build", you just "have everything" and that didn't sit right with us.
  
  Hopefully this will still make you reach high highs and let you experience an "end-game build" for much longer compared to the regular runs. But we will be monitoring this closely.
  
  
  
  That's the end of the third quickblog, there's a final one planned later this week (a very short one) and then we'll be in "soon to be released" territory.
  
  
  Stay tuned!
  
  
  
  The Endless Update lands end of November.
  

Guardians, it's us again.

We're back with more information on the Endless Update.

The "Save & Resume" feature is coming in the Endless Update.

"Finally, this should have been there day one". You'd probably be correct to think that. But it wasn't and there isn't much more we can say about it other than "our bad, sorry".

To be fair, that was a lot of work and we wanted to make sure the main game architecture was final before starting it. But it's finally coming.

When finishing a level, you'll be given the choice to "Save and Quit" the game.

This will bring you back to the title screen.

From there, clicking "Continue" will launch your saved run while clicking "Basecamp" will erase your saved run and... bring you back to the Basecamp for a fresh start (after a confirmation window, obviously).

Please note that this feature is not available in multiplayer, only in single player.

This feature is available for both Normal and Endless Run.

Let's discuss if that feature was required for the game since it was a growing debate within the community.

Lots of people were asking for it and lots of people were against it (mostly because it would take us time away from developing other features).

Let's get this straight: it doesn't deter us from doing anything else. Despite this feature being a lot of work, the person in charge wouldn't be able to implement other things like weapons and classes anyway (we would need to game-design those, but we were busy game-designing the Endless Update).

And then, the main point defending the idea of having this feature was that not everybody has 45+ minutes to allocate to a full run. That's completely fair and we do understand that everybody has different lives and different spare time for their hobbies.

We apologize if anyone felt like "we weren't respecting their time". It was always one of the pillar of our philosophy (to respect your time), that's why we tried to limit as much as possible the feeling of "grind" in our game (among other things).

In any case, the question became broader with the incoming Endless Mode. A run virtually has no end in this game mode. So regardless of the previous debate about "Save & Resume", we knew we needed that feature for this new mode.

So yeah, that's it. You'll be able to save and resume your runs at a later time!

Apparently, we weren't clear enough in our previous devblog regarding power ceiling and player progression.

To be a little bit more accurate, we quickly setup this graph so that you can have an idea of the character growth over time in both Endless and Normal modes.

Approaching the 30/40 minute mark is when players usually complete the normal mode according to our data. Reaching about level 16.

In Endless Mode, by that time you will be around level 22 and you will have reached level 16 about 25% to 30% sooner than normal mode.

So what will happen in the Endless Mode in terms of character growth?

• You will reach highest highs
  
• You will progress faster
  
• You will spend more time in the "superpower" state that late game builds bring
  
  Keeping the progression from Normal Mode would be boring in terms of reward distribution after the first time you beat The Moon. It doesnt fit that "quickest" progression and "highest" peak we were looking for in the Endless Mode.
  
  We hope we clarified the situation about character growth and power ceiling.
  
  
  
  That's it! But we will be back soon once again :)
  
  
  Stay tuned!
  
  
  
  The Endless Update lands end of November.