- v0.3.13 - another hotfix (this time for a character unlock) - 14 March 2024
Dex and his attack will now stay unlocked.
- v0.3.12 - another hot fix for summon crystals - 14 March 2024
Another hot fix for summon crystals spawning
- v0.3.11 hotfix - 14 March 2024
Fixed issue with summon crystals being spawned when summoning not yet unlocked.
- Elemental Summons are here!!! - 14 March 2024
Hello survivors! It's been awhile! But your intrepid devs have been hard at work for this big big update! Hope you're ready for this!!! The biggest thing that we've added is.... ELEMENTAL SUMMONS!!!! Yes!!! You will be able to summon huge elemental beings that will wipe out every enemy on the screen! Here's how it works: Step 1: Unlock the NEW Faerie Caps area. Step 2: Defeat the final boss in the Faerie Caps area. Step 3: Defeat 10,000 enemies in one of the first four areas to spawn a mysterious crystal! Step 4: Find and shatter the crystal with attacks to summon a great Elemental Beast and its guardians! Step 5: Slay the Elemental Beast! Now all characters with the same elemental affinity will have that Elemental Summon unlocked! Step 6: Go to any area with a character of matching elemental affinity and defeat enemies to fill your Soul Bar. Step 7: Trigger that summon and witness the…
- Hot fix v0.2.35 - 28 November 2023
Fixed issue with not unlocking the Item Pull upgrade when it tracks how long you haven't moved.
- v0.2.34 - Hotfix for unlocking evolutions without restarting the game - 25 November 2023
Hello survivors! Just a quick update to fix the issue with unlocking the evolutions for attacks without needing to restart the game. We also have in there: Added achievements check to titlescreen and additional call in endgame to fix glitch not unlocking attack evolutions. Added distance information to notifications. Added keyboard arrow key aim type in Settings. Added Summon Pet to both MAG and SPI favour. Changed depth sorting for Bomb evolution. Fixed menu navigation in character select and perm upgrades getting stuck on empty grid selection. The next update we're working on is a big one! Stay tuned for some sneak peeks!
- v0.2.33 - New area, characters, attacks, and a fix for the Lost Sands area boss - 21 November 2023
Hello Survivors! We hope you enjoyed the Bullet Heaven Fest and were able to try a bunch of the games and demos available! Did you have any favourites? We love the genre so much and the devs involved did a fantastic job! And now for the good stuff... an update with lots of content and fixes! Fixed the Lost Sands area boss. Added the Craggsward area. Added Alishia the Archer character. Added the Arrow Strike attack. Added Samantha the Beaumont character. Added the Rosary Whip attack. Added Steam achievement check when unlocking the new equipment. Fixed Bomb evo damage upgrade. Added code to area features to help slowdown. Turned off sidequests in Journey Mode. Fixed Bomb evo scale not resetting after a run. Fixed Quick Retry not resetting load out. The next update will be even bigger, which means there will be a longer delay before it gets released. But trust us... the wait will be worth…
- v0.2.30 - New Journey Mode! - 6 November 2023
Hello Survivors! We have an exciting update to celebrate the Bullet-Heaven Fest today! Be sure to check out all the awesome bullet-heaven games involved in this festival... there are so many to try! This update includes a new gameplay mode: Journey Mode! Once you've completed the first area, this mode will unlock. It's a constantly escalating roguelike mode to challenge more experienced players! You can access it from the Area Selection screen by pressing J on the keyboard or Y on your controller. You'll be airship dropped into increasingly difficult random areas for 1-minute each. We've also added leaderboards! You'll be able to compare how long you lasted overall, and by character! See how high you can rank! Added Journey Mode. Added possible fix to not unlocking the Favour Steam achievement when the secret is unlocked. Increased magnet/gold magnet chances for all areas. Added overloa…
- Elemental Survivors: Bullet-Heaven Fest Playthrough! - 5 November 2023
Watch as Charlene, the artist/game designer, plays through Elemental Survivors!
- v0.2.28 - Magic attack tweaks! - 23 October 2023
Hello again Survivors! We've got another big update for you! We mainly have some big tweaks to the MAG based attacks, increasing their damage and decreasing their cooldowns, but also some tweaks on how they work. We've done a lot of testing to rebalance them, but we welcome your feedback! Longer input alarm in menus for reroll. Let me know if it's still triggering twice. Added enemy elemental damage and player elemental defense, plus icons to indicate their elemental affinity. Added player damage numbers. Added enemy attacks: slash, stab, punch, and bite. Fixed issue with banish menu navigation on 2nd page. Fixed bug levelling summoner when full MAG or full SPI based attacks. Added max evo level details to secrets menu. Added access to secrets menu from settings menu in game. Fixed volume slider/settings bug. Tweaked damage for bomb evo increases. Tweaked sound effect for magic cards ev…
- v0.2.25 - Cocoa the Birdee and Shelly! - 6 October 2023
Hello again survivors! I hope you're ready for some new content and secrets to unlock! Added Cocoa the Birdee and Shelly attack and secrets. Added Accessibility menu with: player hp bar size, player attack transparency, party attack transparency, party transparency, HUD damage fx toggle, camera zoom out toggle, damage numbers toggle (turn this off if you get too much slowdown), camera buffer, player direction arrow sprite, mouse cursor sprite and size. Added Favour secret and functionality. Unlock Favour to be able to select which damage type you prefer to affect what attacks, characters, and equipment you'll be offered. Added Quick Retry from the settings menu while in game. Add hover info to Banish menu. Tweaked magnet chance inside torches. Fixed glitch where coins were merging as xp gems off screen. Added limits to number of enemy death pops and damage numbers on screen. Let me know…
- v0.2.21 - Hotfix! - 26 September 2023
Includes: Bug fix for crash when rerolling in equipment shop. Added transparency to evolved tornado. Tweaked frequency of magnet and gold magnet drops. Added protip about projectile destruction.
- v0.2.20 - Introducing Gary Lou! - 25 September 2023
Hello Survivors! We've got another big update to celebrate the start of the SHMUP Fest, including Gary Lou the Wolfguy! Added Gary Lou the Wolfguy character. Added Arrow Blast attack and evolution. Added Gold Magnet secret and drops. Added code in levelup_script_holyring to prevent crash. Let me know if you ever notice the Holy Ring goes away after levelling it up, please! Screenshots and description of what was going on at the time help a lot! Removed obstacle pillars in the Underpass. Updated Broadstrike evo. Updated code for adding elemental fx for enemies. New equipment to unlock including 4 new Offhand items, 3 new Rings, and 2 new Hats! Added Shop Reroll achievement. Added more Banishes to purchase in Perm Upgrades. Added code to prevent banishing all items in a category. Added code for equipment to boost animation/projectile speed. Fixed ground elemental fx "root" to affect speed…
- Elemental Survivors Dev Playthrough - 25 September 2023
Welcome to the SHMUP Fest! Charlene, the artist and game designer for Elemental Survivors, will be playing through the game, showing off the mechanics and some different builds, characters, attacks, and areas.
- v0.2.16 Hotfix - Fixed some unlocks - 12 September 2023
Fixed a bug that prevented players from unlocking banish, levelup rerolls, and party rerolls secrets on subsequent playthroughs.
- v0.2.15 - New area! New character! New attack! - 11 September 2023
Hello survivors! We're so thrilled to release our first bigger content update! The new content in this build is: New area: The Underpass! This has a very dungeon-y feel and is super difficult! New character: Luna the Summoner! She's a wizardry school student and loves summoning pets to help her. New attack: Summon Pet! You can summon pets who wander the battlefield targeting enemies for you! The summon type will depend on the attack level and your highest stat. +1 Level Up Reroll! You can unlock it by surviving 20 minutes in the Lost Sands area and never rerolling once. +1 Party Reroll! You can unlock it by having a full party of 5 and Reroll at each town. Meet Luna, the Summoner! Some fixes/tweaks: Gloom should now be unlocked for all Early Access players (even if you didn't play the demo) as long as you complete all the quests in Grasslands. If this isn't happening, please let me know…
- Hotfix for v0.2.14 - 3 September 2023
- Fixed crash while navigating perm upgrades if you only have one page of them.
- v0.2.14 - More balance tweaks plus a thank you gift! - 3 September 2023
First off, we want to thank everyone for your patience as we work on balance issues. We've been tweaking and testing non-stop since the big update yesterday, and we feel we're finally at a point where it's still easy, but challenging, plus you won't be spammed non-stop with levelup menus. So as a token of our deep appreciation for everyone, we're giving you 50k zil. All you have to do is boot up the new version, and the zil will be added to your wallet. (Note this is for Early Access players only.)
- v0.2.13 - Balance tweaks and fixes! - 2 September 2023
Fixed a bug with enemy health that happened after the 5 minute mark. We also tweaked down the xp needed to level. Fixed a bug with the endgame unlock popups causing a crash.
- v0.2.12 - 2 September 2023
Fixed issue with loading up Steam Cloud save file.
