The first update from the 2020 roadmap is almost here! In the works is Boss Revenge Mode and Chroma Wheel, both of which will be available for free.
What will each of these features include? Let’s find out…
Boss Revenge Mode
It’s time for the bosses of Bloodstained to get their revenge on the heroes!
Boss Revenge mode puts you in control of one of Bloodstained’s notorious villains: Andrealphus, Bathin, Bloodless or Gremory.
Each boss comes equipped with their own roster of abilities, and their own unique play styles..
Once you’ve chosen your character, you’ll challenge a series of heroes: Zangetsu, Dominique and finally, Miriam. The battles are set in their own dedicated spaces. Once you win your fight, you’ll be sent to a transition room to prepare for the next challenge.
It’s time for the villains to have their day! Are you ready to accept the challenge?
Chroma Wheel
Ready for a new look? Todd the Killer Barber has really improved his abilities and is ready to update your style!
Previously you were limited to just a few color options when customizing your look. Now you will have an entire range of colors to choose from.
The variable options can be applied to Hair, Sub Hair Color (A new option!), Outfit, Sub Outfit Color, Skin and Eyes. Currently lip color isn’t an option, but it will be added in the next update.
When you’re ready to try out the new options, head to Todd and let him improve your look! We hope you enjoy these new additions to the game!
Other Changes
We want fans to access the content we release as soon as possible, as a result we are making some changes to how content is unlocked. With this new patch we will include the following adjustments:
Unlocked from the start, including new profiles and existing profiles that have not beaten the game:
Speedrun Mode – Unlocked
Zangetsu – Unlocked
Randomizer Mode – Unlocked
Boss Revenge Mode – Unlocked
Requires game progression to access:
Boss Rush
Hard Difficulty
Nightmare Difficulty
We hope you enjoy Boss Revenge and Chroma Wheel!
Last Edit: Jul 2, 2020 14:24:20 GMT -6 by Question
Post by hyugakojiro on Jul 2, 2020 17:26:56 GMT -6
Update is up and running for PS4. Played it earlier today and had a blast.
Did come across a few glitches though which are listed below (playing on US PS4 Pro). Would appreciate it if Question could forward those to the development team:
1) Game freezes while browsing through Bloodless's move set in pause menu:
Has about a 50% chance of happening while in the pre-game room, with the red sun, before the Zangetsu fight.
2) All of Bloodless's blood-based attack have an ice special effect when hitting the enemy:(DISREGARD, this is by design as pointed out by Arsenical)
This is for all of her moves except her basic attack which doesn't utilize blood.
3) Chroma Wheel: Changing the colors back to default in the Costume sub color menu also resets to default the Costume main color setting.
Since they are separate settings, changing one to default shouldn't impact the other setting. Same thing applies to the scarf color change mechanics.
4) MP bar usage not displayed on MP bar for Boss Revenge Mode.
The numbers indicate your correct MP value but the MP bar stays full. This only happened to me during the first few times I played the mode and isn't happening anymore. Therefore I don't have a video for this one. Sorry.
Last Edit: Jul 2, 2020 18:42:52 GMT -6 by hyugakojiro
Update is up and running for PS4. Played it earlier today and had a blast.
Did come across a few glitches though which are listed below (playing on US PS4 Pro). Would appreciate it if Question could forward those to the development team:
1) Game freezes while browsing through Bloodless's move set in pause menu:
Has about a 50% chance of happening while in the pre-game room, with the red sun, before the Zangetsu fight.
This ^ . Thank you so much for recording it. i was having so much fun until i tried bloodless and my fun ended in this exact same way. Moon room while scrolling through her abilities.
Bloodless attacks seem to be Ice element even on the main game. I remember equipping an ice tiara to reduce the damage i took from her blood attacks but i'm not entirely sure if that worked or not. I do remember the ice particles coming out everytime she hit me though.
Fire, Ice, Thunder, Wind, Holy, Dark, Earth, Slash, Smash, Pierce, Poison, Curse, Stone. so many colors...
Post by hyugakojiro on Jul 2, 2020 18:41:05 GMT -6
Arsenical No problem. Yeah the freeze is literally the first thing that happened to me too after booting up the game.
She is very fun to play though and the mode is no push over either. Took me several tries until I finally beat Miriam. All of the characters were unique and fun to play. Gremory took a little getting used to but was still fun once you understand how to use her.
Also thanks for pointing out that Bloodless is an ice elemental. Thought it was a glitch but seems it was put there by design to give the player and edge during the boss fight. Didn't pick up on that one lol.
Last Edit: Jul 2, 2020 18:43:54 GMT -6 by hyugakojiro
Question , at the risk of stating the obvious and coming off as an obnoxious armchair publisher, you guys have got to get your sh!t together in terms of quality assurance and project management.
A game that routinely gets its updates staggered across platforms, while at the same time launching with easily detectable, game freezing bugs on fixed hardware like the PS4 will eventually turn off part of the fan base, no matter how good it is. It's definitely turning me off at this point.
It's obvious that a lot of the problems are rooted in some bad software implementation that occurred at the beginning of the game's development cycle (which you guys had no control over), but any halfway decent QA should still be able to detect all of these bugs before an update launches, at the very least where consoles are concerned.
What's particularly frustrating to me is seeing that you guys keep making the same mistakes over and over. You plan and test to completion before you announce. That way you don't have to go back on your announcements. That way you don't have release an update on one platform but not the other. That way you won't have end-users literally debugging your release. And if there's no one in the company that knows how to test software, or if there are not enough testers to get the results you need, you hire them.
I'm hoping you guys are taking this as seriously as I would if I were in your place. Because I love this franchise, and you guys have done amazing work in so many regards...that it would be a real shame if you were to lose your momentum on account of...
"Hey there's a new update for bloodstained, have you played it?" "Nah, it's not worth the risk of corrupting my save file." "C'mon, try it!" "OK, wait... it's not on my platform yet." ... (several months later)... "Is it out now?" "Yeah, but it crashes more often, so I don't play it at all anymore."
And if you think paid DLC is controversial now, wait until it crashes your game.
Quick Edit2: Apparently, there's listing for new items and a shard, but no way to access them. Supposedly, beating boss revenge doesn't award anything and no one seems to have a clue where to begin looking, as these mystery things can't be found. Or at least no one knows how to unlock them. May just be a bug.
Gog went down the drain, lately. Probably, that question is best asked towards their "curation", first.
But other than that, it is said that Boss Revenge mode has few issues that require fix. For the time being, it is in our best interests to get the stuff bit later (in hopes it is properly administered, of course).
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!
Post by NightmareGamma on Jul 4, 2020 19:31:07 GMT -6
I have a question... when will this update be avaiable on PS4 in europe? I check daily and try to even manually update, but it always says my Game is on the most recent Version... I am from germany specifically if this has anything to do with it.
I have a question... when will this update be avaiable on PS4 in europe? I check daily and try to even manually update, but it always says my Game is on the most recent Version... I am from germany specifically if this has anything to do with it.
You should have it already, the UK version that still functions with the EU servers has updated for meI've had the update since Thursday. maybe check your patch notes it may have updated without you noticing.
About the freeze-bug of Bloodless on PS4 version, if Bloodless is in battle or triumphed and returned to the rest room then you can check the menu normally. It seems that this bug only be triggered before the battle started.
And, not surprisingly, there are other bugs with this new mode, even some new bug(s) for existing mode. Sighhhh...
And, not surprisingly, there are other bugs with this new mode, even some new bug(s) for existing mode. Sighhhh...
And until 505 manages to consistently put out updates without adding bugs, I don't think we can say that the franchise is "doing well," no matter how well the games are selling.
And until 505 manages to consistently put out updates without adding bugs, I don't think we can say that the franchise is "doing well," no matter how well the games are selling.
I have simplified the paragraph describing the bugs, 'casue I knew that even if I listed the bugs found by myself and other players with good intentions and good wishes, it is likely to be ignored as usual, as this page shows: bit.ly/BSRandomizerReport.
A page for submitting bugs, has a bug itself.
I tried to be gently, or at least, non-aggressively, to inform official this bug in the thread (bloodstained.forums.net/thread/4960), but even this minor bug, has not been fixed by this time...
Agreed. I myself also think that a production "selling well" does not necessarily mean it "doing well". Perhaps we can even say that the "well-selling" of Ritual of the Night is actually based on impairing the interests of backers and players — especially backer's — to a certain extent.
Well speak of "without adding bugs", the staff can fix most of the existing bugs is already a very luxury for players...
I can read Japanese to some extent, so I usually watch Japanese RotN walkthrough wiki(s) to help me play/enjoy the game (and in return, I also provided them with a lot of information including bugs/glitches occasionally). It is strongly recommend that if other players or you have some people close to you who understands Japanese (even just a certain extent) then please go and see the bugs/glitches-recording entry of (famously) Japanese RotN walkthrough wiki(s), your jaw may be shocked to drop due to you now understand how many bugs/glitches RotN has, half jokingly.
I understood that finding bugs is not a easy job, but players have done a number of works...
Post by yarrmateys on Jul 24, 2020 17:03:38 GMT -6
is the gog.com version going to get every update delayed from now on, or is this a one time thing? if these delays will keep happening despite being on the same system, is it possible to get a steam key?
Post by DSLevantine on Jul 29, 2020 1:32:41 GMT -6
Why are you treating GOG customers like second class citizen? There is no excuse. Just scrap your roadmap, what is the point of the roadmap if you can't even release update on GOG after a month? If I were to rate your performance, I think "poor" is the suitable word.
Ciel: Been a long time since I last logged here, but it seems that until we get any news of a sequel, there won't be much to discuss. Oh well!
Sept 25, 2023 14:32:30 GMT -6
purifyweirdshard: The discord is certainly where the activity is, but we'll keep this forum up and running as long as we can. Bloodstained's subreddit also still moves along pretty well
Oct 3, 2023 15:31:05 GMT -6
LeoLeWolferoux: Man, Yeah I'm surprised IGA hasn't said *anything* about a B:ROTN 2. As far as I know he had full intentions of making one, but radio silence as far as I know. :/
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Brainiac: So Mr. Welldone...thoughts on Dom getting a new mode and Alfred getting bupkis?
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Redogan: Classic II looks pretty good. I might add it to my Bloodstained collection.
Jun 11, 2024 10:25:56 GMT -6
XombieMike: You should! It continues the story!
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