As you may know we've started the [i]Closed Beta[/i] for The Spell Brigade, from which we're already gathering a [b]TON [/b]of great feedback. In between standard development and implementing said feedback, we've bundled a bunch of our recent improvements and additions together to also improve the demo! You can find the patch notes below: [h2]Balancing: [/h2]🤝 Decreased Solar Pulse Damage Rate by 25% and increased Damage. ✅ Decreased Astral Orb Damage and Fire Rate by 15%. 🤝 Decreased Arcane Broadsword Damage by 15%. 🤝 Increased Moonerang Damage by 15%. ✅ Decreased XP Gain and Luck upgrade percentages. ✅ Decreased Crabladon XP drop from 63 to 32. ✅ Increase sacrifice goal to 60. ✅ Reduce Astral Orb damage and fire rate by 10%. ✅ Increase minimum amount of enemies between waves 4 and 12 by 10%. 🤝 Increased the base Speed of all Enemies. 🤝 Iterated on initial Wizard Starter Stat values. 🤝 Rebalanced the values for each Rarity of Upgrades. [h2]NEW: [/h2]✅ Introduced new Flesh Crab variants. ✅ Introduced a new Enemy: The Spitter. ✅ Introduced new Objective: Retrieve the Bewitched Fungi. ✅ Introduced new Objective: Prevent the Elder Crablodon's escape. ✅ Introduced new Objective: Hunt down the Golden Flesh Crab. ✅ Introduced Challenges. 🤝 Introduced Health Potions. ✅ Introduced Wizard team stats. ✅ Introduced Enchantments (permanent upgrades). [h2]Improvements: [/h2]🤝 Improved wave flow with new Enemy spawn patterns. 🤝 Improved run flow. ✅ Improved visuals for Objective: Complete the Sacrifice. ✅ Improved the UI for Objective Progression. ✅ Updated Damage pop-up styling. ✅ Improved walk animation speed to match Player movement speed. 🤝 Improved explosion readability for the Explosive Tick. 🤝Reduced the cast time on the Necro Whirl and Arcane Broadsword so they fire faster when equipped. 🤝 Improved the feedback on selected upgrades in the Level Up menu. ✅ Refined hitboxes for Sol'phish, the Long One. ✅ Sol'phish, the Long One now slows down when attacking. 🤝 Updated Game Over menu with new Player Stats and Team Awards. ✅ Improved Lobby Player seating. ✅ Added a ready button in the Lobby so Players can ready up. ✅ Added a short description for every Wizard in the Character Menu. ✅ Updated Options Menu styling. 🤝 Added Screen Shake toggle in the Options Menu. ✅ Enabled Steam Cloud saves. [h2]Stability: [/h2]⚙️ Fixed issue in the Character Menu where the selected Wizard wasn't displayed. ⚙️ Fixed issue where Spell Elements weren’t accurately shown in the UI. ⚙️ Fixed issue where the Spectator UI remained visible during Level Up. ⚙️ Fixed issue where Sol'phish, the Long One, would move out of level bounds. ⚙️ Fixed issue where the Player could move out of level bounds while respawning. ⚙️ Fixed issue where players couldn't take damage from Enemies when near obstacles. ⚙️ Fixed an issue with wrong placement of armor and critical chance upgrades. [h2]Localization: [/h2]🌎 Added Dutch localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added French localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Italian localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added German localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Spanish (Spain) localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Spanish (Latin American) localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Polish localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Portuguese (Portugal) localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Portuguese (Brazil) localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Russian localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Traditional Chinese localization [Beta]. 🌎 Added Thai localization [Beta]. 🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback