Vanguard Monsters

Devlog

• Spring Bug Fixes
  May 08, 2023 by Jay

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  Aurite Reward after bosses can now give Radiant Aurite if you have a level 3 Mine in the Village Cheese now counts as food. Enemy targeting indicators now properly update when an egg hatches. Added To... Continue reading
• Spring Fashion
  May 02, 2023 by Jay

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  Costumes are back! New Costumes: 16 Monsters have new costumes to unlock. When you start a run with a monster that has a costume they will provide you with a little note describing how to unlock it. I... Continue reading

  
• Bug fixes
  April 16, 2023 by Jay

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  Made a change to Unity settings to hopefully address the random crashes, abort(197). If they are still happening please report them either on the discord or on itch. The Rescued Nest option after beat... Continue reading
• Some More Fixes
  April 13, 2023 by Jay

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  Treasure in battle can’t gain shields now Chip’s Rumble adjusted from shielding for 50% Def to 20+20% Def Nessa’s Rebirth now triggers on death effects Nessa’s Nova now triggers OnCast effects... Continue reading
• Shields Up-date!
  April 08, 2023 by Jay

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  New Mechanic: Shields ! Shields is a Stat that is reduced when taking damage before HP. Any excess damage then subtracts from your hp. Shields are distinct from HP, so effects relative to hp such as K... Continue reading

  
• Build A Buff Update
  February 03, 2023 by Jay

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  New Feature: Village The village is a new screen you can visit between runs to build some structures that allow you to gain some permanent interchangeable benefits. There are 7 locations to build stat... Continue reading

  
• More Bugs Fixed
  January 06, 2023 by Jay

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  Relatively small but important bug fix patch Pact Blessings are now all displayed as a single blessing (same as regional blessings) Added Mana Regen to the Monster’s Stat window displayed alongside... Continue reading
• Holidays End and More Bug Fixes
  January 02, 2023 by Jay

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  Relatively Small Patch this time, mostly fixing up some bugs. Holiday items removed! Damage Dealt, Damage Taken and Healing Done now appear below a monster’s synergies in the stats windows. Added... Continue reading

  
• Holiday Spirit & Bug Fixes (Mostly bug fixes)
  December 14, 2022 by Jay

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  Some more bug fixes and a tiny bit of holiday spirit. Everyone will start with 3 free special seasonal food items, and theres a few visual changes. Fortune Shrine’s 3 successes outcome now grants lu... Continue reading

  
• Next Level Update
  December 08, 2022 by Jay

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  Synergies have been improved and now can reach a New 3rd Tier for ever more powerful effects. Additionally items have been buffed to make some of the weaker ones more viable as well as to increase the... Continue reading
• Temper your Expectations
  November 21, 2022 by Jay

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  This patch introduces a new feature to forges, Tempering. While only 1 item is inserted in the forge, you can pay aura to increase the stats it has based on the type of item, as well as increasing its... Continue reading
• End of Halloween & Contest Winners!
  November 01, 2022 by Jay

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  The season is over, and the winners are: Infinite Mode: Zruty with 356 Candy! Standard Mode: LaserQuacker with 7 Candy! The end of the season also means: -Candy and Costumes are gone -Infinite Scaling... Continue reading

  
• Halloween Season, Candy Contest and Balance!
  October 01, 2022 by Jay

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  Season Update, for the month of october Costumes a few monsters have a chance for alternate appearances for the halloween season-Candy, a special food, will now appear from Candy Baskets in treasure b... Continue reading

  
• Bug Fixes for 0.7
  August 28, 2022 by Jay

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  -Added Cindermaw and Lava Skulker to compendium -Added 7 new champions blessings for completing loops (definitely not that I just forgot to randomize the lists) -Drastically lowered the chance of Caul... Continue reading
• Infinite Mode
  August 22, 2022 by Jay

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  Infinite Mode! A neverending battle to see how far you can go. This new mode starts the same as normal, except the Super Orb is available immediately. After each boss fight you will gain a curse. Curs... Continue reading

  
• Discord! and a few bugfixes
  July 30, 2022 by Jay

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  Theres now a Vanguard Monsters discord: https://discord.gg/Qs8Vb3AEdF I'll prob be sharing Work In Progress stuff there, as well as strats and advice, and bugs. Also bugs fixed this patch -Buffed the... Continue reading
• Bug Fixes
  July 21, 2022 by Jay

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  There have been some bug fixes over the past few days, FIRST AND FORMOST CHIP SHOULD NOW PROPERLY APPEAR IN THE STARTING SELECTION INSTEAD OF JUST IN EGGS Other stuff: Fixed Chaos -1(Lull) & +1(Turmoi... Continue reading
• Difficulty Update
  July 16, 2022 by Jay

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  Back again with another update. First and foremost there is now a Difficulty Slider at the start of the game. You can increase or decrease the challenge by up to 2 stages. These will change how many w... Continue reading

  
• Quick Fixes
  June 01, 2022 by Jay

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  Small patch this time -Added a downloadable version, Use this if the itch buttons are getting in the way! -Fixed the distribution of monsters when selecting your starting party (Will now always includ... Continue reading
• Jolly Cooperation Update
  May 20, 2022 by Jay

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  This update introduces 2 new major things. First thing you'll probably notice is Music and SFX! Vanguard Monsters feels so much more alive now with the energetic chiptunes from Abstraction's Three Red... Continue reading

  
• Big Brain Update
  April 18, 2022 by Jay

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  This update introduces a whole new stat: Int, which represents the magical power of a monster. Many abilities and some times now use Int instead of Str to determine how strong they are. This allows mo... Continue reading

  
• Zone 3 Complete! Big Boss Update
  January 31, 2022 by Jay

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  Zone 3 if finally done, complete with new events, enemies, items, and bosses. Additionally there have been tons of improvements, balancing in other areas, and new features as well. You can also Win th... Continue reading

  
• Devtober Post Mortem
  November 01, 2021 by Jay

  I'd consider this Devtober a success*, the goal was to complete the 2nd Zone and that was reached. What went right: Made a collection of new events, new enemies, encounter tables that were all necessa... Continue reading
• Zone 2 Update!
  November 01, 2021 by Jay

  Zone 2 has now been reworked. It has it's own new events (some zone 1 events have been moved to 2, and some can appear in either) It has 4 new enemies and it's own encounter tables so they should be m... Continue reading