Hey all, and merry Christmas/happy holidays!! We wanted to leave this year on a high note, so we decided to throw together a little devlog to cap off the year.
Let's get straight to the point, shall we?

NEW TEAM MEMBERS

We'll begin with the results of the team applications from a while back, as we've been rather quiet about who we brought in. That being said, I'd like everyone to welcome @MariGoId , @KarimFor , @Bitzkyl , and @SkieHiePie !

Marigold is one of our artists, Blitskyl and Skie are new additions to the musicians, and Kari, while originally brought on for both spriting and art, is now a director alongside Spiciii, Jixs, and Luciii. I can already say that development has had some great improvements since their arrival.

IMPROVEMENTS - PHASES 1 THROUGH 2.5

These phases may already be finished, but with the help of Kari, we've been able to go back and make some minor improvements. These include a better gradient for Phase 2 and 2.5, better matrix rain in the background, and other minor QoL additions.

In light of these recent enhancements, we decided to update the demo by implementing them. There were also other changes made, these are:

• Balancing the final Phase 2 attack. The Gaster section is no longer RNG heavy but now is scripted. In addition, telegraphs have been added in the Papyrus section too.

• In Phase 2.5, the wingdings letters have been made more visible and easier to dodge.

• In Phase 3C, the final attack was changed to be less chaotic and to give the player more room for reacting to the bullets.

• You can't open multiple phase 3Cs at the same time now.

PHASE 3B - UPDATED ATTACKS

Phase 3b has had some of its attacks updated, with the script almost finished. There's still a way to go until the phase is finished, however.

NEW DISCORD SERVER

We'll get right to the chase. We've had issues with the original COTV discord server for a while now. The current team is unable to do jack in there as a lot of the old team has perms above us. So we decided it would be better to just open a new server altogether. Once this devlog goes out, you can consider the old server essentially abandoned. The new server also allows us to show off our own work as the current team and not remain tied to the team of the past. That being said, here's the link. This will also be added to the game description at some point as well.

JOIN!!!

SENDOFF

In spite of all the issues that the demo had when it first launched, it undeniably helped us to improve this game in every single aspect and we are very grateful for that. For the time being we are going to focus primarelly on revamping the Overworld and finishing 3B for good, we will be seeing once they are done. Once again, MERRY CHRISTMAS.

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