Update 0.9

This update is another major milestone in Backpack Brawl’s short history. It adds a new Hero, Harkon the Barbarian, new Areas, 67 new items, and a whole slew of balancing changes. Areas are our first pass at a new “soft story” of the player’s adventure through the game. In practice, it’s a way for us to unlock more items for you as you progress in the game, and to match-make you with opponents who have gotten to your level. Each area unlocks 4 new items for your pool of items, and adds craftable items beyond that.  We are making Harkon and Nymphedora paid heroes, as this is a way to make the game work long term for us. Eventually, their price will fall as we add more heroes.  We are experimenting with having a “free to play” rotation of heroes, such that you always have more than the always unlocked heroes (Ronan and Chana) to choose from. Our goal is to have many heroes and encourage as much build diversity as we can on different levels of skill and arenas. We anticipate that this will be somewhat controversial, so please join our discord server and voice your opinion on it. No one wants to spend money, but for us to be able to continually support the game, we need to earn enough to make living wages. We hope we can strike a good balance. We had intended to have a tutorial for this update, but that will have to wait for next time – too many things at the same time is impossible, so we pushed it for later.  Added New Hero: Harkon the Barbarian 67 New Items 10 new areas to visit on your journey Changes Global changes Items no longer have their cooldown reduced lower than 10% of the original cooldown. Chana item unlocks Switched Searing Wand and Wicked Stick unlock order: * Searing Wand is available to level 1+ Chanas. * Wicked stick is available to level 4+ Chanas. Amethyst Blade Stamina cost: 1.2 → 1.45 Axe of Abraxas Cooldown 4.2 → 3.4 Stamina Cost 2.9 → 1.8 Blazing Rod Inflict 2 → 3 Burn Burning water Now also heals you for 100 health, when it increases max health. Cleansing crown Cooldown 2.8 → 3.6 seconds Emerald Scarab Inflict 2 → 1 debuff Steal buffs 2 → 1 Cost 15 → 13 Ethereal Cloak:  New: Cooldown increases by 2 seconds for every use. Excalibur Damage: 18-32 → 32-45 Fanged Axe Chance 20% → 30% to gain 2 Thorns Flame Cloak Price 11 → 9 Gothic Shield Added: On shop entered: Gain 2 Gold Green Snapper Gain 25 → 50 Armor Health Potion Heal 12 → 18 Hunting Knife Max Damage 6 → 5 Accuracy 85% → 80% Knights Blessing Gain Armor 4 → 6 per star armor Light Bow Cooldown 1.9 → 2.2 Magic Orb Price 9 → 8 Mana Potion Gain 8 → 12 Mana Marshmallow Heal 2 → 3 Mars Flytrap Rarity: Legendary → Mythic Reptile Stalker Cooldown 2.4 → 2.8 Shadow Cloak Reduce Damage taken by 25% → 50% for 1 second Shield Spikes Gain 2 → 3 thorns Spice Healing 2 → 3 Starbloom Star items activate: 10% → 25% chance to gain 1 Mana Price 3 → 2 gold Steadfast Boots Critical Chance +40% → +70% Strong Health Potion Heal 25 → 32 Gain 4 → 5 Regeneration Wand of Backdraft Consume 10 Burn from opponent: Deal 40 → 80 Damage Wizard Robe Gain 20 → 40 Armor Fixes Thank you to all the kind people who report bugs on our Discord. You help make Backpack Brawl the best game it can be. Fixed Dreadleaf not having a proper condition for reducing the cooldown Fixed Settings button being clickable while dragging an item Fixed soft-lock when trying to skip the game over animations while getting a promotion/demotion. Fixed soft-lock on end-of-match screen if opening the stats popup at the exact time that you win/lose. Fixed reserved items in shop not persisting when restarting the game on the end-of-match screen.