WHAT'S NEW ?

This page is dedicated to Season 1 players, here's a quick breakdown of the new features and changes in Season 2:

REGIONS

Two extra regions are now available at the beginning of the game.

Check the bottom of the home page for more details.

QUALITY OF LIFE

The branch in Deathtouched Catacombs that can get your character stuck has been removed. This can no longer happen.

Failing a match because of stuff like this isn't fun. If you know other similar ways to get stuck, please talk about it on the Discord server.

Activating new sites of grace is now very fast. (1.00s instead of 4.67s)

During Season 1, it was forbidden to TP on the grace you are currently activating to optimize IGT.
The animation is now very fast so this rule has been lifted as it's no longer necessary.

The stand up animation after a TP is now instantaneous.

This animation is very random: it sometimes activates for certain players and not for others, which can create a slight advantage for those who don't have it.
To make the competition as fair as possible, the animation has been removed. Everyone can now always sprint immediately after a TP!

RANDOMIZER SETTINGS

Allow unwieldable weapons and spells is now checked to add more starting weapons variety.

Iron balls ended up being chosen very often as a starting weapon during Season 1, it had to change.

Ignore arena size for boss placement is now checked to add more bosses variety.

Some bosses like Elden Beast, Metyr, Placidusax... were very rarely encountered during Season 1.

Night bosses can now spawn at all hours.

In Season 1, there was a permanent night at the start of the game that was canceled by crashes, which could disadvantage players whose game crashed.
Some night bosses did not appear in certain arenas. With night bosses available at any time, these issues no longer exist.

Auto-upgrade items which are left on the ground and picked up.

Great Runes are now activated when picked up. You can use them!

QUALIFIERS

You have a maximum of 10 days to play a seed after its release.

Season 1 favored players who waited until the last days of the qualifiers to play all the seeds, in order to benefit from the best possible routing.
This is no longer possible and should also make it more interesting to follow the leaderboard during the qualifiers.

Submitting your score is no longer necessary: it has now been automated.

Your Twitch and Steam accounts are linked when you sign up so whenever you end your seed, your score will be automatically sent to the leaderboard.
All your seeds will still be manually reviewed afterwards, but it should make it easier for players and prevent holes in the leaderboard like in Season 1.

Turning off your Twitch chat for qualifiers is recommended but not mandatory, you can keep it on as long as you ignore all outside advice. Play fair!

MATCHES

Ranks 1 to 16 of the qualifiers will start in the winners bracket and ranks 17 to 32 will start in the losers bracket.

Single-elimination matches were brutal in Season 1, adding a loser bracket should ease up the pain of making a single bad decision during a match.
A player starting in the loser bracket can still win the entire thing if they manage to win all matches. It can still give hope to experts underperforming the qualifiers.

You now need to turn off your Twitch chat during matches to avoid spoilers.

The match doesn't end when a player dies: if both players have the same number of deaths, it's the number of bosses killed at the end of the 2 hours that counts.

Season 1 matches became very uninteresting whenever a player died early. Now, they can keep going and if the other player dies as well, they still have a chance!