Path to the Sky

General
Farja was added to the game, and with her, a character selection screen
Most enemy attack patterns have been reworked
Enemies can now equip bows, staffs & shields
Several new enemies have been added to the game
An item-log has been added to the lower left of the UI
A target name, mod & level display has been added to the lower left of the UI
Several new monster mods have been added, mods can now combine properly
A slowmotion and zoom effect has been added to the death screen
Akamos vocal sounds have been completely reworked to fit the quality of Farjas vocals
Daily leaderboards have been added and are now the standard leaderboard mode
You can now traverse the leaderboards with the left/right/up/down buttons


Combat & movement
Stamina is a new resource, gained by attacking enemies
Casting spells, rolling, and blocking, will consume stamina points
The combat system has been fundamentally reworked
Wind-up and release timers have been added to all combat mechanics
Rolling has been added to the game (Shield + Move Key)
You will now stand still while shooting
Targeting is now guided and your shots can fly off the 45 degree grid
Dropping off of bridges and platforms can now be done by pressing the Down + Jump buttons at the same time
Staggering has been added to the combat mechanics, stopping an enemy attack or shield wind up (this can also happen to the player)

World & nature
A new transition screen has been implemented, showing the current islands silhouette
Islands are now generated by biomes, which will allow for more diverse levels
Rock, Ice and Bog biomes were added
Monster level, health and damage now scale with the island level
The game will now continue after the 6th level, and allow the player to play as long as they can survive
A new room type, the choice room, inhabited by the drowned sailor, has been added.
Room tokens, representing the rooms type, have been added
Item pools and item pool depletion were implemented
23 new items have been added
Several items were reworked to complement the new combat style
Swords & shields will now not drop in the item room anymore
The shopkeeper and the item room are now fully sized rooms
The boss room now always drops a chest
Chests now all require keys to be opened
The shopkeeper will now sell cheaper stat items
Grass can now be destroyed by player and enemy projectiles
Equipment carried by the player as well as by enemies will be dropped on death and turn into visual props


Visual & sound changes
A new series of visual effects, based on distortions, have been added
Environmental props now have spatialized impact sounds
Entity shadows were changed to now be a round area behind the entities, as opposed to a line on the ground beyond them
The area around the rooms is now darker, to decrease visual confusion and increase the immersion feeling of traversing a big cave
Removed outline and lighting settings due to renderer changes and easier maintenance. Visual consistency was turning into a issue to big to ignore, so it will from now on be streamlined


Technical changes
You can now configure your controls in the settings menu
the separation of controller mode and keyboard mode has been removed
The OpenGL renderer was rewritten to use instanced rendering, reducing the drawcall amount by around 90%
The OpenGL renderer & GLSL compiler are now set to 3.3 core profile with compatibility mode
Settings are now stored in an XML file locally, as opposed to in the steam cloud (no-one uses the same settings across devices anyways)
A compressor and limiter have been applied to the master audio channel
Sound volumes were adjusted
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The A* pathfinder was changed to now work on a grid equal to the game grid rather than a 2x as fine grid to help with enemy tunneling