What's new in Wildcrest

New

• Glide. Hold jump while falling to drift down under a big leaf and keep your momentum over the crowd.
• Updrafts. Columns of swirling leaves in every meadow launch you high into the air.
• Gust landing. Come down from a height and a ring of wind throws nearby Hollows back. It’s your way out when you’re surrounded.
• Jump over danger. Telegraphed shockwaves and orb rings pass beneath you if you’re high enough.
• Breeze. Running fast, gliding and near misses fill a meter that makes every attack up to 30% faster and 20% stronger. Standing still or getting hit drains it.
• Slopes. Run faster downhill and a little slower uphill.
• Creatures now walk with a bouncy, waddling gait.
• The armory at Camp shows one row per gear set, with its set bonuses and a detail panel for each piece.

Changed

• Hollows find their way around trees and rocks, and they no longer shove each other. Wardens and guardians crash straight through the undergrowth.
• Busy fights stay readable. Attack effects thin out as the screen fills, and new options offer reduced effects and fewer damage numbers.
• Damage numbers are bigger, outlined and stay up longer.
• Chests have a proper curved lid and open toward you.

Fixed

• Movement is smooth at any refresh rate.
• Damage numbers no longer appear next to you for hits that happen off screen.
• Webs and danger circles follow the ground instead of clipping into slopes.
• The mouse wheel no longer zooms the game while a menu is open.

New

• Your collection. Every creature you befriend stays with you and can lead later runs.
• Kinship. Friends grow closer every run they join. Each rank adds damage, and high ranks start the run at a higher bond.
• Glimmer and Camp. Every run earns Glimmer, spent at Camp on lasting upgrades: health, damage, speed, luck, rerolls, a second starting friend and more.
• Rarity. Every card rolls Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary, and rarer cards give much more. Luck tilts the odds.
• Gear. Six slots, a gear set for each stage with bonuses for wearing 2, 4 or 6 pieces, Legendary perks like falling stars and a second wind, and coin upgrades up to +5.
• The armory. Gear you wear when a run ends is saved. Choose a loadout to bring into the next run.
• Elites, wardens and guardians. Elites arrive with modifiers like Swift, Warded and Splitting. A warden appears mid-stage, and every guardian grows stronger with your party and becomes enraged at half health. All of their big attacks are telegraphed.
• Damage meter. See total damage, damage per second and share for every creature and perk, and reset it whenever you like.
• Mastery and Boons. Creatures at full bond keep growing, so upgrades never run out.

Changed

• Gear found together arrives as a single cache of the best pieces.
• Spirit shrines show a pillar of light, a charge ring and what they do.

Fixed

• Sounds no longer stack when many things happen at once.

• Survive each meadow while the creatures who join you fight with their own signature moves.
• Eight creatures, each with its own attack: fireballs, waves, leaf rings, whirlwinds, darting bites, sticky silk, shockwaves and homing wisps.
• Level-ups offer new friends, stronger bonds and eleven charms.
• Three stages, each ending with a guardian: Sunlit Meadow, Rainy Thicket and Moonlit Hollow.
• Chests, spirit shrines, and crowds of Hollows under a violet veil.
• A storybook paper interface, and a live demo run behind the title screen.

• Sculpted 3D creature models, baked ahead of time so the game loads quickly.
• A painted storybook look: warm light, big drifting clouds with their shadows sliding over the ground, and wind gusts sweeping through the grass.
• Towns, a great tree, a mossy cave and spring, and turn-based battles.
• A full-window, modern interface.