Maiden and Spell

Hello Maidens, Unless you've been following my development updates on my upcoming game RABBIT & STEEL (wishlist it now, do it!), it's been a little while! After some consultation with the Discord, it has been decided to pull back some of the changes that Lich and Stormbeast got in last year's update. In addition, some players expressed an interest in playing some older builds, so I have made some of those available as separate branches. Please feel free to play what you'd like! Keep in mind, you'll only see lobbies of players who are on the same branch as you. Without further ado, the patch notes! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/880b61dbfe64eaaf3a93218bd1d2281dedc31665.png Novi Holy - Fixed issue where Cooldown Hold would persist between casts {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/f6e1ac31b80eb05978e061e06e3a28a1c6b2487d.png Lat Life - Draw layer adjusted downwards - Duration 14s > 12s Butterfly Thrall (Offensive Special) - Movespeedmult changed 1.0x > 0.8x (overwrites other movespeedmults) Novi Life (Defensive Special) - Cooldown increased 8.5 seconds > 10 seconds - Flower duration increased 17 seconds > 20 seconds {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/f16b39104bd

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/3c6ee826bc6be1c0232a123fdadf462b37acef8a.png Garnet Flare (Offensive Special) - Move slowdown on use .35x > .4x {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/1c24917faa143c1946add491a7f0d328933f1c71.png Sniper Shot (Basic Attack) - Fully charged fire angle increased 4 > 8 degrees Bind (Wide Attack) - Draw layer adjusted downwards Knife Juggle (Offensive Special) - Draw layer adjusted upwards Vanish (Defensive Special) - No longer has a slowdown at the end - Using knives no longer resets movespeedmult during Vanish - Movespeedmult reduced 1.5x > 1.3x - Movespeedmult length is now 1300ms (previously overwritten by the slowdown at the end) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/f16b39104bd731719b134ee70776d303bc815838.png Dimi Lightning (Basic Attack) - Fully charged bullet speed 4.5 > 5 - Now categorized as a Spell - Now adds 700ms SpellLock Lat Lightning (Wide Attack) - Sprite adjusted for visibility Doppelganger (Offensive Special) - No longer effected by SpellLock or AttackLock - Cooldown reduced 8 seconds > 7 seconds - Now has 500ms SpellLock (300 when focused) - AttackLock increased 500ms > 700ms (300ms > 500ms when focused) Flashstep (Defensive Special) - No

Hello Maidens! ...Are you still maidens? A lot can change in... 15 months since the last post, gosh. I've been busy myself with a plethora of different things, so I'll try to bring you up to speed. First off, new patch notes for a new balance patch! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34270977/4480d1f09d28162f650620eb44a353cd9dc4e086.png ......... Uh, on second thought, the patch notes are pretty long. Maybe I'll separate that out into a different post. ......... A few months ago, a couple of the top Maiden & Spell players approached me about possibly updating the game with a few balance tweaks. Over the course of years of playing, a few lopsided matchups and weird quirks about particular moves had been rubbing them the wrong way. So, we did a pretty long, back and forth, feedback-driven beta. I'd be lying if I said these were carefully considered developer-knows-best changes. The truth is, these people have gotten so good at the game, and know it in-and-out so well, that I can no longer win against them. So uh, I mostly did what was asked of me. And read lots of Discord discussions. And the results are patch 1.3.2.0! If you'd like to thank these brave maidens or try yo

Hello everyone! I hope you've all been staying safe. As it'll likely be a little while before I do more serious content updates, I wanted to try to get the game's balance in a better place for those that are playing online on a regular basis. After reading a lot of feedback on the Discord, I thought that the best move going forward would be to temporarily open a beta branch so we can try a lot of different changes to characters. Since I don't want to split the playerbase between the "proper" game and a rapidly changing beta for too long, my goal is to only have the beta open for a few weeks at most. Hopefully I can make some progress towards having a well balanced game in that time. To access the beta branch: Right click the game in your Steam library Click "Properties" Go to the 'Betas' tab Select 'Beta' from the drop down menu Again, while the beta is running, many of the game's regulars might be on the beta branch, and thus their lobbies won't be visible on the main branch. If you're having trouble finding a match online, the place to look for opponents is in the Discord! Also, since the Beta branch will