Hey everyone! Thank you to everyone who has tried out the demo! If you liked it, please put Backpack Battles on your wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427700/Backpack_Battles/

We got a lot of feedback and prepared a huuuge balance/fix patch for you. There are also two new items, one of which is craftable.

We plan to update the game every Sunday. The best place to leave feedback, bug reports & ideas is our Discord! Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/sbEkqeUKNr
Here's the full change log for 0.2.0:

New Content

• ADDED Vampiric Armor (craftable)
• ADDED Shield of Valor
• Added a button to show the backpacks after each battle

Fixes

• Fixed matchmaking in rare cases finding late game opponents in early rounds
• Fixed Light Sabor consuming Block instead of Blind
• Blinding Light now uses the correct duration (3s instead of 4s)
• Fixed Poison Dagger not applying the stacks when triggered by a Stun
• Stone and Ruby Whelp are now tagged as weapons
• Fixed tooltips with “Blind” also showing the context hint for “Block”
• Fixed Flute/Fanfare not visually activating
• Fixed a visual glitch happening when the player open the shop before the ranking was loaded
• Improved file handling to deal better with corrupted saves
• Fixed Spiked Shield triggering too often
• Fixed tooltips of items still showing the old bag effects
• Fixed items being hoverable a moment after selling them
• Restricted effective mouse position to the game window to prevent weirdness
• Fixed a glitch where an item could be bought after leaving the shop, leading to a crash and broken save file
• Fixed fanfare-glitter particles looking janky when clicked away too fast in the round before
• Item progress shader now looks correct for items that face down or left
• Fixed Ruby Egg hatching early when continuing a run
• Fixed a problem where the time scale slider could be pressed after the fight ended, setting the whole game speed to weird values
• Fixed Thornwhip not applying the damage bonus

Balance

• Light Sabor: Reduced Blinding Light stacks 10 -> 7
• Hungry Blade: Reduced Vampirism conversion from 2 to 1, now adds 1 Vampirism at the start, -1 damage
• Bloodthorne: Reduced Vampirism conversion from 3 to 2. Damage reduced to 3-6
• Demonic Flask: 1.0 damage per debuff -> 0.7 damage per debuff
• Wooden Sword: max damage +1
• Hero Sword: max damage +1
• Spear: max damage +1, now removes 4 Block
• Pan: max damage +1
• Dagger/Poison Dagger: max damage +1
• Storage Coffin: Chance 35% -> 25%
• Spike Shield: Now gains a spike every 15 Block instead of 10
• Fanfare: Cooldown 5s -> 3s
• Flute: now randomly gives 10 Block, 2 stamina, or 2 Lucky
• Bow and Arrow: Cooldown 4s -> 3.5s
• Rib Saw Blade: stamina cost 2 -> 1.5
• Thorn Whip: now gains +1 Spike on Crit
• Garlic: Block 5 -> 4
• Holy Armor: Poison cleanse cooldown 3s -> 2s
• Fly Agaric: Gold cost 2 -> 3

Other

• Many tooltip improvements! Texts are more consistent, show less redundant information, highlighting and layouting are better, they highlight trigger conditions now ...
• “Affected” stars now show in slots that are outside the backpack area
• Items now show the slots they would use on tiles outside the backpack area
• Items now show their size and stars (what slots they affect) when hovered in shop
• Ranking now loads much faster!
• Item overlap order in shop is now much nicer (bottom is in front)
• Added hover tooltip for backpack power
• Shop music now loops correctly