Remnant: From The Ashes' latest update was released yesterday. Update 1.20 was heavily focused on balancing changes, but some performance improvements and bug fixes were also made. The hotfix patch is now live on all platforms. You don’t have to do anything, as Remnant will automatically download and install the update by itself.
Check out the highlights of the patch below. They are mostly gameplay changes and Trinkets tweaks. The complete changelog is mentioned on the official site over here.
GENERAL
Life Steal (Leech Ember, Nightmare Spiral, Riven, Tentacle Shot, etc…)
- Life Steal is no longer impacted by Triage
Flop & Unarmed Damage
- Reworked how Flop Damage is calculated
Corrosion Effect
- Reduced total stacks of Corrosion from 6 to 5 (25% total debuff)
Achievement: Hard Bargain
- Implemented a fix for Hard Bargain to properly trigger
Survival Mode
- Prevented Burden rings from appearing on corpses (still purchasable at vendor)
Miscellaneous
- Fixed crash when interacting with a World Stone while equipped with Undying Mod and Labyrinth Armor.
- Updated performance across the board.
- Dozens of various bug fixes.
TRINKETS
Stone of Balance
- Reduced Ranged/Melee Damage bonus from 15%/15% to 12%/12%
Vulcan’s Detonator
- Increased Burning damage Scalar from 10% per level 20% per weapon level that applies it
- Fixed damage scaling to work when proc’ed by summons
Ring of the Unclean
- Changed to +100% bonus Unarmed Damage (200% total) and +300% Flop Damage (400% total)
Five-Fingered Ring
- Changed to 25% Unarmed Melee, 25% Unarmed Crit Damage, 20% Crit Chance
Restriction Cord
- Fixed a UI issue causing the wrong information to be relayed to the UI
Polished Whetstone
- Reduced Crit Damage bonus from 50% to 35%
Black Cat Band
- Increased the invulnerability window from 0.5s to 1.5s
Scavengers Ring
- Added new bonus of +10% Ranged and Mod Damage when player collects Scrap, Iron, or Ammo
Butcher’s Fetish
- Increased Crit Chance 10% to 15%
- Increased Crit Damage from 20% to 25%.
Devouring Loop
- Reduced proc chance from 6% to 5%
Evoker’s Seal
- Increased the Mod Power refund from 10% to 15%
Burden of the Gambler
- The “Burden” can no longer be avoided via Exploiter and Hangman’s Memento
Burden of the Follower
- Increased the Fire Rate “Burden” from 25% to 35%
- Great gunplay, with weight behind the shooting and a ton of variety for its weapons.
- Solid dodging, strafing and other side mechanics.
- Dynamic Progression works well, to an extent.
- Good boss and enemy designs.
- Intriguing story and narrative.
- Repetitive at times due to the nature of the rearranged dungeon system.
- Melee combat not as impactful.
- Boring voice acting and overall sound design.
- Artificial scaling difficulty.