[Demo] Patch Notes — v1.0.2551

New

• WILD HUNT: a boss rush up the tiers. It opens once you clear stage 100 on tier 3. You start with 10 random awakenings and get one more for each boss you fell.
• SIGNS: from level 10, hold the mouse button and draw with the blade to cast HOLD, KINDLE, BRAND, WARD or VORTEX. The signs bar rises into place with a demo that shows how to draw one.
• Two new skills: CROSSROADS bursts wherever your stroke crosses itself, and THREE FINGERS fans the sword into three blades.
• Blade skins: clear stage 100 on tiers 1, 4, 7 … 100 to win one of 34 swords. You pick one to wear from the new SKINS tab in the bag.

Changes

• Effects overhaul: every player skill looks and sounds new, 28 awakening cards have new casts (chain, ember and frost each in their own colour), and passive cards now visibly work.
• Burning, bleeding, poisoned, chilled and frozen monsters now look it, and their damage numbers take that effect's colour.
• The crystal shows its shield, grace and mending, and the cast rail shows what your tempo cards are doing.
• Caltrops throws real spikes, Millstone rolls a stone and Flurry cuts in slashes, and each now has its own sound.
• Far fewer white-outs from crits, crowds and big casts. FLASHES now dims skill and card flashes too.
• The crystal and the stage are called that everywhere, in every language. No more CORE or WAVE.
• Ascending keeps your level, skill points, skill tree and level cards.
• Tier page: YOU is now your estimated DPS at the start of a run. It counts skills, level cards and signs, and updates as you forge or gear up.
• Tether is only thrown when at least two monsters are in reach.
• Elites can appear from a tier's first stage again.

Fixes

• Chain jumps no longer apply FRESH EDGE, WAR DRUM, CAIRN and the crowd bonuses twice. Rebounds now keep TROPHY's fury and AVATAR's crit.
• Caltrops and Millstone now cut every monster they pass, not just one of each kind.
• Damage numbers no longer print over the awakening cards, the pause page or the results page.
• FULLSCREEN now fills a MacBook's screen under the notch instead of leaving black bars at the sides.
• On a Mac, leaving FULLSCREEN puts the window in the middle of the screen, not the bottom-left corner.
• Turning down the warnings volume no longer quiets your own awakening casts.
• The blow that kills a monster always shows its number, including burn ticks, Contact and Tether shares, and crystal thorns.
• WHETTED's whetstone stroke shows on every stage, not only the first. Opening Salvo's first socket flashes again after a pick.
• Harvest's arc on the cast rail fills with the real count, and Bounty shows the full boss multiplier.
• Bounty's gold glints no longer appear on a boss when you don't hold the card after changing gear or level cards mid-fight.
• Opening the gear page with its key no longer lets Enter close it.