Combat Balance, Better Aiming & UI Improvements

This update focuses on making combat easier to read, improving controls, and giving each character a more balanced starting point.

Controls and aiming

•
Controller players can aim with the right stick while moving independently.

•
Keyboard and mouse players now aim toward the mouse cursor. Attacks still fire automatically.

•
Dash is now assigned to left-stick click.

•
Updated control diagrams and tutorial explanations.

•
Added a directional indicator to make attack direction clearer.

•
Added subtle camera movement for more flexibility while exploring.

•
Removed Retaliate and unused camera rotation and zoom controls.

Combat and balance

•
Rebalanced starting character stats, including health, armor, shields, evasion, and critical chance.

•
Reduced enemy attack damage substantially. Basic goblins, skeletons, and robots now deal no more than 20 base damage per hit.

•
Reduced heavier enemy and boss attacks while preserving their greater threat.

•
Added poison-chance bonuses for Doctor Plague and Golem.

•
Repulse now charges from primary direct hits rather than damage-over-time and secondary damage.

•
Removed the screen-edge pulse when Repulse becomes ready.

•
Adjusted normal enemy spawning during boss encounters to keep fights more active.

•
Revised boss health scaling.

Upgrades and interface

•
Added a free reroll to Charge Shrine upgrade choices.

•
Redesigned upgrade choices into vertical cards with clearer highlighting.

•
Moved upgrade titles above their icons.

•
Improved controller navigation between upgrade cards and the reroll button.

•
Added an overhead player health bar.

•
Both player health displays now shift from green toward red as health falls.

•
Added a Show FPS option.

•
Updated character-select stat bars to reflect the revised character values.

•
First-time players now see “New Game” on the start screen; returning players see “Continue.”

Tutorials and menus

•
Refreshed tutorial panels to match the rest of the interface.

•
Added a minimap legend tutorial after the introductory gameplay tutorial.

•
Removed obsolete shrine entries from the minimap legend.

•
Added a binding-aware prompt when Repulse is ready.

•
Updated movement and aiming instructions.

•
Improved locked and unlocked level frames and selection highlighting.

•
Added an Exit Game button to Settings.

Effects, audio, and fixes

•
Updated explosive-prop configuration and projectile collision masks.

•
Explosions can now spawn separate burn, poison, shock, and cryo patches according to their enabled effects.

•
Corrected follower split-shot playback, aiming, and firing cadence.

•
Fixed repeated Time Freeze pickups so they refresh the timer.

•
Improved spawn placement to reduce objects appearing beneath the map.

•
Unified the shared prefab pool across levels.

•
Improved menu music continuity between Start, Character Select, and Level Select.

•
Centralized menu and event sound effects in the SFX Manager.

•
Adjusted UI sounds and set the default SFX volume to 50%.

•
Restored enemy-specific kill achievements.

•
Removed temporary diagnostic logging.