August 10, 2025 - v0.2.0

The first biome boss has been added to the game. Bosses are instanced encouters. Discover their location by working your way through increasingly difficult quests.

New Features

• heartbeat now contains a map of gameObjects with two new object types:
  • portal
    • Portals can be used to get to boss instances.
    • A players entire party must be at the portals position to enter.
    • A new portal will spawn at { x: 0, y: 0 } if the boss is defeated.
  • hazard
    • Hazards will have various effects, and generally speaking you'll want to move out of them.
• unit.stats now contains a radius field indicating how large a unit is.
• Added support instances to have a boundary
  • When present on an instance, the heartbeat.boundary field will look like { minX: -10, maxX: 10, minY: -10, maxY: 10 }
  • Boundaries represent the furthest you can move any given direction and prevent endless kiting.
• Added new weapon skills:
  • misdirectingShot - a bow skill that does normal attack damage, but misdirects its threat to another player.
  • threaten - requires no specific weapon, does no damage, but adds a modest flat amount of threat to the target.
• Monsters will now decrease threat against their target as they damage them.
• Added the first boss Slime King to the game.
  • Bosses come with unique mechanics that require careful gameplay.
  • You should not expect to defeat a boss without a fully geared party.
  • Bosses are instanced, and can be reached via portals in the over world

Miscellaneous

• Reduced client side onTick interval from 17ms to 300ms
  • onTick is called for all events coming from the server, so there shouldn't be any real need to run this often.
  • Reducing this should lower the CPU impact of running the game, and reduce logs generated when debugging in the game loop.
• shield status effects no longer apply the defense stat before their damage absorption is determined.
  • This change increases the value of shield status effects for units that have low defense.
• Significantly increased the base mana regen.
  • Significantly reduced the summonMana multiplier on mana regeneration.
• Tripled the damage of fireball, slightly increased the mana cost.
• Significantly increased the size of biomes, it now takes roughly 4 real world hours to traverse an entire biome.

Breaking Changes

• The client package no longer exports raceStats from programming-game/types
  • This only contained radius, which is now handled entirely serverside.
• The call signature for useWeaponSkill has changed, it now takes an object with fields skill and target plus an options object needed for specific weapon skills.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with heal over time, damage over time, and snares not applying their intended effects.
• Death events from damage are now broadcast to units within range.
• Fixed proc rate of critical hits, every attack now has a 5% chance at being a critical hit.
• Fixed an issue where monster focus wasn't being updated.
• Fixed many issues related to measuring elapsed time.