Many community requested features and fixes found during /r/roguelikedev/ ‘ s Feedback Friday #8 -Collateral Souls .

• Moved keyboard letter movement keys over so they are not spanning split keyboard’s divide
• Added Brightness setting
• Removed Lifesense from the perk rotation
• Increased player starting light radius
• Added setting to show exact values on HP/XP bars
• Added setting to show alert icons on new enemies the first time the are visible
• Improved Help Menu
  • Added New User Hints section
  • Added ‘?’ keybinding for help menu
• Improved Lore Box experience
  • First time players will always receive a boon
  • Grammar fixes in Lore Box text
  • Lore boxes explained in new New User Hints section of the help screen
  • New status indicators section on the UI shows boon/curse status
• Flipped Exit to “>” glyph to align better with player expectations
• Added minor fade out to log to indicate message ordering
• Optimizations to simulation updates
• Added license information (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; source available on request)

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Made a number of balance changes based on historic data of creature performance.

• Increased shotgun damage by 2
• Flame Demon renamed to Purifier
  • Purifiers have a slightly smaller light radius
  • Purifiers have a shotgun
  • Purifiers have a brighter color
• Pit Fiend renamed to just Fiend
  • Fiend damage reduced slightly
  • Fiend Accuracy reduced slightly
• Archangel
  • Slightly reduced damage for ranged and melee
• Wraiths
  • Slightly reduced health
  • Slightly reduced damage
• Grunt renamed to Zombie
  • Slightly reduced armor
  • New Zombie color
• Hound Archons
  • Slightly browned in color
• Carnage
  • Traded Grace for Initiative (Similar theme, but Grace was an invalid perk choice and creatures need to obey the rules as well!)
• Reapers
  • Now have Boosted, bringing them up to the correct number of perks
• Added Lifesense perk to available level up rotation ( was only available via lore box )
  • No longer can see undead creatures (Zombies & Wraiths)
• Increased visibility of Paradox Trigger weapon effect
• Fixed bug where Shadow Armor would not hide the player if they moved
• Improved lava performance by clustering lava light sources instead of a light source per tile
• Fixed rare double object destroy crash bug

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• AI no longer waits if no path to player is available, it will now try to close the distance as best it can
• Reduced the font size of the combat log, it was taking up to much space on long games and the screen could overflow on the score summary
• Blinding Armor Reworked – Now grants 50% increased ranged penalty on incoming attacks

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• Melee AI now behaves as intended
  • AI no longer prefers attacking from cardinal directions only
  • AI no longer moves away from the player when the player moves away
  • Performance improvements to melee AI

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• Added Many new situational perks
  • Called Shots – bonus damage and ignore armor when ranged target has no cover
  • Berserker – Deal bonus melee damage after taking damage, bonus drops each turn no damage is taken
  • First Aid – Heal part of last hit taken when you wait
  • Initiative – Take less damage per turn since you were last damaged
• You can now open your character sheet from the level up menu to look at you current stats and perks while deciding what perk to choose
• Solar Armor damage no longer triggers health gain when paired with Tentacle Whip

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