[Demo] Patch Notes — v1.0.2247

New

• Difficulty is now Tier 1–100. Each tier sets its own monster toughness, pace, crowd and pay, and higher tiers pay more shards. A new save opens Tiers 1–10. Clearing stage 100 on a tier opens ten more, and they stay open through ascension.
• Level Cards: you earn a pick every 10th level. Cut the pack open with your blade, choose one of three cards and drag it into your binder. It stays until you ascend. (for this, the remaining card options will be added as part of the new Ember skills in the future.)
• Boss entrances: a boss walks in last, behind its crowd and with an escort of eight, under a crimson banner and a pillar of light.
• Scene transitions play between the menu, the fight, the card draft and the results. You can turn them off in Settings.
• Field zoom: use the mouse wheel or the +/− pill under the top bar. INVERT ZOOM is in Settings.
• Gear lock: a locked piece can't be salvaged.
• The cursor can now leave the window for your other monitors, and CONFINE CURSOR in Settings. While the cursor is away, AUTO-CUT takes the sword.
• You can rebind the awakening draft's keys (1–4 and DEAL AGAIN) in Settings › The Keys.

Changes

• Monsters finish walking in within 10 seconds.
• Skill ranges are the same size on every floor; they no longer grow on big floors.
• Skill bar: you can drag, swap or empty slots. One click on a skill you own puts it on the bar or takes it off.
• Gear page: hover a piece to see its card, click it for its buttons, double-click to wear it. The bottom of the page is now one bar of five big tiles.
• Start page: scroll or drag the stage wheels, or click the stage bar and its named places.
• The damage graph ranks every source by damage, highest first, both during the fight and on the results screen.
• The main menu is down from 13 rows to 6. Codex, Achievements and History share one RECORD page, Level Cards sits inside Skills, and Settings and Quit are in the corners.
• Forge prices: Edge now opens at 100, Greed at 1,000, Echo at 5,000 (×3 a level) and Reach at 10,000. Warm Rows opens every row with the same shards' worth of levels.
• Keen Edge gives +10% damage a copy (was +30%).
• Stride and Stepping Stone now count any boss stage cleared in time as on pace.

Fixes

• Monsters could bite the crystal as you paused, which left it stuck at 0%.
• A crystal that is still standing no longer shows 0%.
• A key pressed as a wave cleared could pick an awakening card before the hand landed.
• The SKILLS page could open without BACK or RESET ALL, and Esc did nothing there.