Pre-development plan 4

"Rebirth Balance Update"

The fourth pre-development plan balances the early-game gameplay and strategy while also made the Rebirths accessible only after beating the game.

Additions

Story

• Added 6 new dedicated story chapter names:

  • Prologue: In the Beginning...

  • Chapter 1: A Shooting Star?

  • Chapter 2: A Long Journey Ahead

  • Chapter 3: Suspicious Activity

  • Chapter 4: In Pursuit of the Phoenix

  • Chapter 5: New Journey and Realm

  • Chapter 6: Tropical Approach

  • Chapter 7: Into the Dynastic Civilization

  • Chapter 8: It's Vibrant Yet Prolific

  • Chapter 9: Her Outlandish Dimensional Thrones

  • Chapter 10: Transcending Beyond the Space

  • Epilogue: The End?

Items

Primary weapons

• Added a handful of new weapons that are more powerful than the Morning Star (implemented for future plans):

  • Melee weapons (can be Ki-charged):

    • Chapter 5: Twilight Metal Axe (27 damage)

    • Chapter 5: Knight Metal Sword (35 damage)

    • Chapter 6: Dark Matter Hammer (45 damage)

    • Chapter 7: Enchanted Jadeite Bat (60 damage)

    • Chapter 7: Undergrowth Club (120 damage, also stuns enemies)

    • Chapter 8: Long Frostbite Sword (100 damage, also freezes enemies for 5 seconds)

    • Chapter 8: Volcanic Tectonic Star (150 damage, also deal an additional 30 fire damage/.second)

    • Chapter 9: Valkyrie Lightweight Sword (120 damage, also ×1.5 attack speed)

    • Chapter 9: Desolation Dagger (100 damage, also ×3 attack speed)

    • Chapter 10: Ultimate Mace (300 damage)

  • Ranged weapons (cannot be Ki-charged):

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Tools

• Added four new tools for four additional numeric keys:

Other equipments

• Added a few more equipments:

  • Chapter 5 (no key): Jetpack (replaces the Rocket Boots to allow flying upwards)

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Changes

Story

• Replanned to 10 story chapters instead of 12 to reduce the burden of planning by a fair margin. Also fitting with the 3× larger content on par with the existing Awakening version.

Items

Enemies

• Adjusted the enemies' attack damage to better justify the greatly higher maximum HP when compared to the original Flash version.

  • Bull Bee: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Baby Sand Dragon: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Desert Bandits' charged attack: 5 HP → 6 HP

  • Koi:

    • Contact damage: 5 HP → 6 HP

    • Water spit attack: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Daea Guards: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Guard Dog: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Rollo & Flying Mines: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Kobold: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Acid puddle (from Zombots and Green Beetles): 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Acid ooze (from Zombots and Green Beetles): 8 HP → 9 HP

  • Zombot:

    • Contact damage: 6 HP → 7 HP

    • Slash attack: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Cave Toad: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Beetles:

    • Contact damage: 7 HP → 8 HP

    • Whipping attack: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Purple Beetles' explosion: 11 HP → 13 HP

  • Arc:

    • Contact damage: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Axe attack: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Charged attack: 10 HP → 12 HP

  • Harpy:

    • Contact damage and needle attack: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Diving attack: 12 HP → 14 HP

    • Bomb drop (before obtaining the Harpy Backfire achievement):

      • Direct contact explosion: 15 HP → 18 HP

      • Free landing explosion: 16 HP → 18 HP

    • Bomb drop (after obtaining the Harpy Backfire achievement):

      • Direct contact explosion: 14 HP → 16 HP

      • Free landing explosion: 15 HP → 16 HP

  • Plant Dog:

    • Contact damage: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Spore attack: 12 HP → 14 HP

  • Turret and Flying Sentry: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Megalith (including lightning grounds): 10 HP → 12 HP

  • Bosses:

    • Great Drake:

      • Normal contact damage: 4 HP → 5 HP

      • Rolling attack and lava puddle: 5 HP → 6 HP

      • Falling rocks and lava balls: 6 HP → 7 HP

    • Big Robot:

      • Contact damage: 4 HP → 5 HP

      • Charged attack: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Mercenary General:

      • Contact damage: 7 HP → 8 HP

      • Energy ball attack: 10 HP → 12 HP

    • Master Computer (all attacks except Flying Sentries' bullets and mines): 10 HP → 12 HP

• Enemies can now drop multiple distinct types of loot together.

Gameplay

Player mechanics

• Now starts with 8 inventory slots instead of 10, and you can buy up to 12 bag attachments to increase your inventory slots to 20. The 10 additional free slots can only be obtained from Rebirths.

• Changed the option from "discard" items to "drop" items (will disappear once you leave the location).

• Slingshots now deal 3 damage to enemies instead of 1.

• Falling into the bottomless pit deals 6 damage to the player (equivalent to a single heart ruby) instead of 5.

• Bombs, rollo mines and flying mines now deal 8 damage instead of 7 to fit with the vastly greater HP capacity when compared to the original Flash version.

• Lasers now deal 7 damage to the player instead of 6.

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Rebirths

• Now only accessible after beating the game by defeating the final boss.

General

Display

• Changed the display from 900 × 600 to 1280 × 720 (720p HD).

Map metrics

• Updated the Location Danger Index to be scaled rather quadratically and changed the values.

Technical

Saving

• The stamina boost is now saved upon exiting the game.