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[ Input ] - Added native Steam Controller support, which includes an experimental gyroscope-bindable action to control your aim by pointing directly at the screen. - Fixed a singleplayer issue in which alt-tabbing out and then returning to the game would block inputs from the gamepad until alt and tab were pressed and released again to reset their states. - Gamepads can now additionally control the menu cursor and click with right stick and right trigger, respectively. - Renamed the "Default Gamepad" profile to "Simple Gamepad". - The "Twinstick Gamepad" profile now uses right stick to jump.

[ UI and Settings ] - Added video settings submenu to the options menu. - Renamed "Upscaling" option to "Supersampling". - Add audio settings submenu to the options menu. - Added option to pause the game when focus is lost. - Added description text to options in the Options menu. - Added description text to the bindable commands in the Profile Edit screen. - Added onscreen keyboard for the gamepad and mouse when the player is prompted to enter a new profile name. - Input prompts now cycle if multiple inputs can be used for the same command. - Actions in the pause screen which will end an active game now display a confirmation dialog. - Fixed health bar trails freezing in place when a player dies or descends to the next floor. - Fixed player damage numbers not appearing. - Fixed "Damage Taken" always displaying as 0 at the results screen.

[ Audio ] - Added slight spatial audio. - Master volume, music volume, and sound effect volume can now be set individually through the audio settings menu.

[ Powerups ] - Homesick Shard now fires downward, and gives slight upward thrust when it strikes an enemy.

Have I mentioned that Cavern Kings is still in development?

We recently dropped patch b27.1.1, and have been posting regular updates over the course of a year. So many new things have popped up, and so many dramatic changes have come and gone. We’re really happy to see the improvement Cavern Kings has undergone since our first Kickstarter demo, and excited to see what else is to come.

That said, development time has been going up as well, to make room for all kinds of new features, new monsters, new worlds, and finally multiplayer to roll the whole thing together.  I apologize for this, but I think it’s for the better. Thanks to Kickstarter, we’ve been able to dedicate a lot more time to polishing Cavern Kings into something much greater than we ever imagined.

CHARACTERS

This patch includes ALL 12 CHARACTERS

New character: Android

New character: Top Hat

New character: Shelby

New character: Alium

New character: Entite

New character: Shark

Voice acting removed

Made Yoji and Thorax much easier to unlock for the sake of having mutliple characters to begin with

Rex's passive health sapping cap quadrupled from 0.5% max HP to 2%

You can now select a random character from the character selection menu

WEAPONS

Golden Sawgun damage increased from 0.4 to 1.0

Kinetic Fist now has 5 frames of invulnerability when punching

Jackhammer now has some very minimal hovering ability while attacking

Katana's damage reduced from 11 to 10

POWERUPS

This patch includes ALL 50 POWERUPS

New powerup: Resplendent Vial

New powerup: Parasite Egg

New powerup: Phantom Missile

New powerup: Flashbang

New powerup: Vacuum Stone

New powerup: Money Shot

New powerup: Clump of Moss

New powerup: Philosopher's Stone

New powerup: Siren's Harp

New powerup: Paralysis Curse

New powerup: Doppelganger Torch

New powerup: Pilfer Engine

New powerup: C4

New powerup: Growth Battery

New powerup: Giga Drill Bit

New powerup: Red Diamond Relic

New powerup: Thorny Gem

Tesla coil must now be unlocked

Pugilist's Fist knockback decreased dramatically

Pugilist's Fist renamed to something much more appropriate

Phantom Shell (an alpha powerup removed long ago) was reworked into Phantom Missile

Phantom Missile releases friendly vengeful spirits when enemies are killed

Massive Titan changed to Beetle Barrage

Beetle Barrage has a chance to unleash exploding beetles on hit

Beetle Barrage is now a tier 3 powerup

Piercing Oculus now has an unlock condition

Phoenix Pinion now has an unlock condition

Ankh of Life now has an unlock condition

Wind Leaf is now a tier 1 powerup

Hero's Blade damage (on Jackhammer) increased from 0.5 to 0.75 per stack

Hero's Blade range (on Jackhammer) increased from 64 to 92

Hero's Blade should now deal damage with Katana equipped

Sullied Kirpan's throwing formula has been reworked (should get thrown more often)

Sullied Kirpans can now be processed by melee attacks

Sullied Kirpan now scales differently (weak at first, strong with stacks)

Vigor Beetle now has a limit of 10 bonus HP per stack

Ankh of Life now has a limit of 20 bonus HP per stack

Fixed Bomb Squad Armor's unlock availability

Aces now does 5 times damage instead of 9999 (very important for balance late-game)

Plague Scarab starting damage increased from 1 to 4

Updated Black Hole Box's graphic

MONSTERS

Fixed a bug where monsters wouldn't scale correctly on cycles

Elite monsters now have a 10% higher chance to drop powerups on death

Elite monsters can now drop tier 2 powerups (as well as tier 1)

Elite monsters will no longer drop tier 1 health packs

Elite monsters now get additional stat boosts on cycles

Stronger monsters now spawn at the beginning of new cycles, as opposed to the usual (ie: tier3+ monsters instead of Eyekids)

Stronger enemies begin spawning a tier or two earlier

Stronger enemies now have a 5% larger chance to spawn in an earlier tier (for a total of 10%)

Monsters now grow exponentially in strength in cycles

Monsters now give bonus exp on cycles

Cube Golems spawn limit was removed (previously 6)

The first boss will now spawn on floor 10 as opposed to 15

The Obesrver's creep rate has been reduced

The Observer's base HP reduced from 1600 to 1200, but scales more steeply

Giga Mechworm no longer does % damage

Giga Mechworm now has freeze immmunity

Titan Bloodworm's damage reduced from 30~ to 22~ (body segment damage reduced from 30/4~ to 22/4~)

Titan Bloodworm's HP reduced from 750~ to 600~

Small Eyeglobs can now spawn early in the game

Monsters no longer display HP when a certain key is held (debug leftovers)

All ground-based enemies now walk faster

ITEMS

Added new traps: crusher blocks

Increased the default magnetic range on gems

Reduced the time before gems can be magnetically pulled

Reduced the spawn rate of TNT crates by 25%

MISCELLANEOUS

Added a new game mode: Arena

New room mutation: darkness

Added a new music track

Improved text clarity in several areas of the game

Recap menu now shows your character and weapons

There are now vague unlock tips on the main menu

Repaired recap scaling for showing 64+ items

Gamepad no longer skips the character select screen

CHARACTERS

All characters now have global invincibility frames instead of on a per-enemy basis

All characters now have unique "voices"

Mishka's passive attack speed now ranges from 0.8x to 1.45x (old: 0.9x to 1.1x)

Rex gets a little more HP per level

Thorax's max speed should be properly reduced

WEAPONS

Harpoon Rifle now does 3x damage to the first target, and diminishing damage for every other target hit per shot

TNT Sling can no longer poison the player

Jackhammer's personal knockback reduced from 2 to 1

POWERUPS

Added a new, unlockable powerup: Mole's Orchid

Added a new, unlockable powerup: Bomb Squad Armor

Added a new powerup: Black Hole Box

Hero's Blade should shoot correctly now

Tome of Secrets are now half as effective

Pugilist's Fist now launches further and should no longer "pull" enemies into you

Fixed Aces' outline to be cyan, as all tier 2 powerups should be

MONSTERS

Monsters now have more HP on cycles (from 6x to 7.5x per cycle)

Monsters should no longer spawn in the centermost column of a stage (attempt #2)

Enemies that spawn in doorways spawn closer to the ground

Toxic elite gas cloud damage reduced from 2 to 0.5

Toxic elite gas cloud is now more visible

Enemies on cycle 2+ should have reduced damage (from 5x to 4x per cycle)

Baby Bloodworm HP reduced from 22+ to 18+

Bloodworm HP reduced from 175+ to 150+

Titan Bloodworm HP reduced from 900+ to 750+

All Bloodworms no longer adopt elite properties on the body segments

Golem HP reduced by 10 per tier

Bosses will no longer drop tier 1 powerups

The smoke that rolls off of a damaged Giga Mechworm appears less frequently

Giga Mechworm's cannon damage doubled 

Giga Mechworm now shoots cannons less often

The Observer now creeps toward you a tad quicker

The Observer now has a surface trophy

The Observer should no longer spontanteously explode

ITEMS

Silver and Gold chests now begin spawning 2 tiers earlier

There are now 2 more TNT types, which explode in crosses

TNTs no longer count as crates (which basically means there are double the amount of crates)

Crates drop half as many gems to compensate for the previous change

There are now gold crates, which have a low chance to drop tier 2 powerups

Chests no longer appear on recap or main menu screens

Chests now play a unique sound for when they plummet to the next floor

Sawblades traps no longer obscure doorways

Traps should no longer spawn on or in indestructible terrain

The gems on the surface no longer disappear

MISCELLANEOUS

The VINE splash screen can now be skipped

The VINE splash screen is 3x shorter

A quick restart key has been added to the pause menu

Fixed a game freeze involving Hero's Blade

Made an attempt to fix a crash on start-up for XP users

Terrain now has more HP on cycles (from 6x to 7.5x per cycle)

The rocky border outside of the game window obscures much less of the screen now

Raised the floor in boss rooms by 1 block

Temporarily removed local co-op to make way for a bigger multiplayer patch

This was necessary.

This gem made by Vine is funded but there's still time to pledge (Kickstarter).

Here's the public beta to try.