A BIG UPDATE! There's a lot to go through so uhh... here we go!

I introduce to you: Easier mode! By pressing jump+grab while midair (similar to how you do bomb jumps with artificer), you do a dropkick! You can find the Easier mode in the BUILD tab in the remix settings. Don't worry, you can set easier mode for each player.

Escapist isn't one for combat, rather they'd prefer hitting the bricks (slowly, they aren't the rivulet). But if something does grasp the escapist, hold throw to pry out of the grasp... though by doing so they get a slowdown effect until they're ready to pry out of another creature's grasp...
Or, since the escapist gets a much more lenient bite timer (before getting a game over), they can simply grab a rock or spear while getting dragged away to pry themselves out that way

Railgunner gets spotted more easily, and can't deal with water as well as the rest... but grab two spears or rocks, and watch them FLY! Tossing spears or rocks while dual wielding (two spears/two rocks) will toss both at the same time, with added effects and power! Though be careful of how much thrust railgunner puts in their spear throws... (Rock thrust will be implemented later, as well as other combinations.)

Brawler retains the same damage boosts as before, and increased spear damage (but with reduced spear velocity to make them close-combat)... if they slide and throw the spear, it will ricochet off the floor and travel far! They also have more adjustments made to their movement kit to make combat much more consistent such as not traveling as far when stunsliding. There's also going to be a new gimmick added later, but it's not ready yet.

Now the lizard grabs should be more consistent! It's only once you toss and grab repeatedly in a short time will the lizard grabs stop being effective.

Now if you dropkick, it'll look like you're kicking instead of headbutting! (and as a byproduct you can chain rolls this way). You can turn this option off in the GIMMICKS tab, if it messes up your movements too much.


There's a lot more little tweaks here and there but I can't recall everything... so that's what y'all are getting for now. Now to work on the fixes and finishing the features...

• Fixed swimming speed... Escort is no longer a jetski

• Brawler build general buffs in terms of movement speed. Also throws spears like a survivor

• Deflector build is more ln line with survivor in general movement speed

Made the spear toss mechanic optional rather than keep it to the brawler build... big update coming to that soon ;)

Patching for DMS...
If you've updated to 1.3.0, please rollback or wait for a new patch since there's an issue on DMS's end where a softcrash happens upon customizing color for most scugs.

• Prevented the parry sound from occurring more than once on a "single" parry
  
• There's now a check where dropkicking into a lizard bites will (hopefully) do a "saving throw" that parries the damage and theoretically still lets the dropkick go through... Deflector build doesn't get this luxury however due to the implications and complications.

• Fixed an issue where infinite flight was possible by going into battlehype and doing an upthrow or downthrow from a backflip

• Increased spear spawn rate in DS
  
• Made throw velocity more consistent for Deflector build and also increased the velocity ;)

• There's a chance for needles to spawn! Cosmetics.
  
• Less unnecessary exceptions

• Increased spear spawn rate in GW, LM

• Escort (at least in story mode) starts at chieftain reputation

• Escort (story mode)'s max karma has been reduced to 4. Enjoy >:)
  
• Deflector Build: Crawl speed and pole walk speed are no longer affected by hyped (and is at approximately survivor speed)

Fixed behaviour with grabbing lizards (and added sfx!)
Also, you can now hold lizards for a flat 8 seconds (and you can't spam grab)!

Fixed the issue where every Escort shared values of one Escort...
Now each Escort should be unique!

Trade Escort's speed and base damage for a parry-central gameplay where you must parry to get empowered damage, which does incredible damage! Don't worry, when in Deflector build, Escort can parry when sliding, flipping, and rolling!