TowerFall Ascension has just been updated with three new variants, a new achievement, various balance changes and fixes.
The new Variants:
Trigger Corpses - Hold the shoot button when you're dead to explode your corpse
Encumbrance - The more arrows you're holding, the slower you move
Super Seeking Arrows - Arrows curve towards targets twice as strongly
This brings the total to 70 variants! All your feedback has been super helpful, keep it coming and have fun :)
-Matt
The full changelog:New Content:- Added Super Seeking Arrows variant
- Added Encumbrance variant
- Added Trigger Corpses variant
- Added Reaper's Crown achievement
- Added [???]
Balance:- You can now change your facing direction while ducking
- Made the Return As Ghosts ghost controls a bit faster and more responsive
- Arrows no longer collide with treasure chests in the short time they are flashing after they appear
- Reduced requirements for Massive Mythology and Time Lord achievements
Changes:- Can no longer hold the shoot button to prevent your corpse explosion with Exploding Corpses variant
- You can now activate the Exploding Corpses and Return As Ghosts variants simultaneously
- Removed variants from the Randomize Variants pool: Cursed Bows, Cursed Dodges, No Slipping
- New variants added in patches will now show up as "NEW!" in-game the next time you play
- Returning to Archer Select from Versus match end menu now un-joins all players
- Changed how Most Trigger-Happy Award is rated. Previously it went to the archer who shot the most arrows, now it goes to the player who spams consecutive arrows the most.
- Added new player-made gamepad configs
- The "input_log" console command now copies the first gamepad's ID to the clipboard
- Game now checks for Keyboard_Config_Custom.xml before Keyboard_Config.xml. You can rename your config file to Keyboard_Config_Custom.xml to avoid it being overwritten with every update
Fixes:- Fixed facing direction flipping when another player bumps you while you're ducking
- Picking up your own crown no longer counts toward the Usurper Award
- Picking up your own hat now only counts toward the Most Fashionable award if you were previously hatless
- Fixed Koala Hunter Award only counting stomp kills
- Fixed replays during slow mo being really short
- Fixed crash on startup with no sound device enabled
- Fixed various bugs with Return As Ghosts with vsync disabled
- Fixed White Archer's hair behaving incorrectly with vsync disabled
- Fixed some backgrounds drawing wrong with vsync disabled
- Fixed some small physics bugs with falling arrows with vsync disabled