Developer Vedinad has launched the Spooky replace for Megabonk, bringing a brand new map, character, and managers. The patch notes additionally level to a laundry listing of bug fixes and balancing changes.
The Spooky replace was initially “going to be a small Halloween replace,” in accordance with Vedinad on Steam. That checks out, per the free DLC’s identify, however the developer added the will “to make it a bit greater.” As such, the replace is arriving for the festive season, with the Megabonk account on X promising a “new meta.”
Megabonk launched in September, sharing similarities with Vampire Survivors and Threat of Rain. It’s a roguelike sport the place you do your greatest to outlive towards an onslaught of enemies on randomized maps. Whereas doing so, you stage up and discover numerous gadgets.
Final month, Vedinad withdrew Megabonk’s nomination from The Sport Awards for Greatest Debut Indie Sport. The developer acknowledged that it had “made video games previously below totally different studio names,” so Megabonk’s inclusion did not “really feel proper.”
Solely obtainable on PC, Megabonk has seemingly been a fairly large success. The sport sports activities an Overwhelmingly Constructive user-review label on Steam and peaked at over 117,000 concurrent gamers in October, per SteamDB. Megabonk often prices $10 however is on sale for $8 till December 17.
The full patch notes for the Spooky replace are beneath:
New Content material
- New Map
- New Character
- New Weapon
- New Gadgets
- New Enemies and Bosses
- New Achievements and challenges
Sport
- Made loads of enhancements to FPS late-game
Bugs
- Mounted a bug the place Large Fork’s Megacrit did not work
- Mounted a bug the place you could possibly purchase gadgets you didnt have unlocked
- Mounted a bug the place Frost Walker reset opacity when altering assault pace
- Mounted a bug the place Holy Guide was not affected by Particle Opacity
- Mounted bizarre textual content popup when making an attempt to microwave an merchandise that has already hit its max cap (for instance Overpowered Lamp)
- Mounted a “bug” the place you could possibly simply use the total map on the Blind Problem
- Mounted a bug the place you could possibly reset as you teleported to the following stage to maintain your progress and never transfer to the following stage
- Mounted a bug the place you bought an error in case you banished each merchandise besides one in a particular rarity after which talked to a shady man.
Settings
- New Sport Setting: Superior Settings – Will allow sure settings that almost all gamers needn’t use. That is disabled by default to keep away from making the settings cluttered for brand spanking new gamers.
- New Sport Setting: Shrine Counter -> Reveals you what number of of every shrine is obtainable, and what number of you’ve used
- [Advanced] New Sport Setting: Present HUD -> Shwo or cover the HUD
- [Advanced] New Sport Setting: Skip Chest Animation -> Skips the chest animation. Word: You will not be capable of banish gadgets from chests in case you use this setting.
- [Advanced] New Sport Setting: Skip Portal Animation -> Skips portal spawn animation (on stage 1)
- [Advanced] New Sport Setting: Allow Silver Pots -> Allow / Disable silver pots (Ghost Merchandise in shambles in case you do that)
- [Advanced] New Sport Setting: Present Merchandise Feed -> Present what gadgets you picked up in a feed on the left aspect of the display screen.
Balancing
- Tried to repair the “caveman” bug / exploit the place you could possibly cover in caves and enemies would not be capable of spawn near you or attain you
- Elevated Diceheads passive minimal reward potential (0.02 -> 0.04). Principally his late stage up rewards might be twice as excessive, absolutely will not be OP
- Chunkers now begin with yet one more projectile
- Amog Passive now will increase in radius each stage, from 4 to 12 over 220 ranges. Beforehand it was all the time 4. Additionally acquire 1% Posion Injury per stage.
- Calcium’s passive has been modified barely. As an alternative of shedding half of his momentum upon taking injury, he now looses about 25%, which decreases the upper you stage up. At stage 110 (max) you lose about 6.6%
- Cursed grabbies now has a proc per tick restrict of 250. Comparable gadgets (Spicy Meatball, Ice Dice, and many others) have already got a restrict like this (at 50). It’s to enhance FPS, however it’s most likely a slight nerf to Cursed Grabbies in case you’re veeeryy late sport.
- Poison Flask beginning projectile pace elevated 12 -> 16
- Dragon’s Breath now has 200% sooner rotation pace, and routinely targets enemies as a substitute of following the participant rotation. Injury buff 15 -> 16, period buff 1s -> 1.5s and injury improve supply additionally buffed 3 -> 4
- Noelle passive offers much less measurement per stage: 1% -> 0.75%, and the injury she positive aspects per frozen enemy has additionally been lowered a bit: 2% -> 1.5%
- Max Silver Multiplier in Last Swarm has modified from 16x -> 8x. Folks appear to have method an excessive amount of silver, so it does not make sense to have such a excessive multiplier anyway. In some unspecified time in the future it will be good to create some options that use silver, however im undecided what that will be but
- To handle a number of the flying meta: Last swarm ghosts will begin growing their pace after 20 minutes have handed. Additionally, usually, an enemy can solely be surprised or frozen 15 occasions (CC cap) earlier than it turns into immune. After this replace, beginning at 20 minutes, the CC cap will slowly lower till they will now not be surprised or frozen.
Console
- You possibly can press f10 to open the console
- In the intervening time, that is solely actually used to set a particular seed for the dungeon in case you wanna speedrun it or one thing
- Sort “assist” within the console to see all of the instructions and the right way to use them