Our latest Open Beta build just went live, delivering an update which completely overhauls the Gift system!

Gifts are a major part of Windblown, and are paramount to how your builds come together. However, some of them have felt lacking, and some weren't scaling properly with new features, like Endless Mode. So, we've taken the time to dive back into the ocean of Gifts in the game, and give them all an update!

• New Gifts - You'll find 17 new Gifts in the game, adding more flexibility and options to builds.

• Gift Rework - A HUGE amount of gifts have been reworked, including some gifts/effects being deleted and replaced altogether.

• New Inventory Items - All the important objects collected during your adventure are now visible in your Inventory.

• New Weapons - \Impactone and Jar.\

• Hexes - Now have dedicated slots.

You'll also find a bunch of QoL and balance changes coming in this new patch, all aimed at improving player experience with the game.

We hope you enjoy taking these new Gifts for a spin, and seeing how the reworked existing ones feel after this update!

• Go to your Steam game library.

• Right click on Windblown and click "properties".

• Select the tab "Betas".

• In the first dropdown box select "public_beta"

• Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.

• ⭐️ The bar does not deplete anymore (thus you cannot die because of it getting empty)
  
• ⭐️ You can use your Heal Flasks
  
• ⭐️ The enemies now deal less damage to the players
  
• ⭐️ The difficulty does not increase at each attempts anymore
  
• ⭐️ You can interact with / use any item (those are thus not teleported anymore when you win)

• ⭐️ Player Remains: can now be retrieved while in combat and do not require to hold the button anymore (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• ⭐️ Co-op / Chests: when you find rewards inside chests, they will never be locked inside a loot box (from 0.5.2.2)
  
• ⭐️ Co-op / Loots: when your teammates are fighting, but you don't, you can now interact with equipment pickups (from 0.5.2.2)

• ⭐️ Crystalize: fixed not being able to crystalize if you don't have any weapon equipped (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• ⭐️ Weapons: Fishing Rod: the spawned fish can no longer be stunned to ensure it completes its attack (from 0.5.2.2)
  
• ⭐️ Timed Chests: fixed not being able to unlock it if you arrived right on time (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• ⭐️ UI: Eperin's & Fr3nd's menus: fixed buttons not clickable when changing tabs (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• ⭐️ UI: fixed multiple pop ups showing when clicking on a locked or unaffordable option when talking to Eperin (from 0.5.2.2)
  
• ⭐️ UI: fixed biome title possibly not showing up correctly (from 0.5.2.2)
  
• ⭐️ Crystallize: fixed not being able to Crystallize enemies which are falling because of the Elder Sword's Alterattack
  
• ⭐️ Co-op / Softlock: several situations where you could be softlocked by having an ally down or AFK are now fixed
  
• ⭐️ Co-op: UI: Tutorial popups: Will now be closed if you teleport to a teammate to avoid issues where the popup stays shown indefinitely (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• Other minor visual fixes on pickups

• Updated game, rendering and text/audio chat engines to the latest versions to enhance stability (from 0.5.2.2)
  
• ⭐️ More dynamic bones are deactivated on lower graphics profiles

• Player Remains now visually emits the Cogs they contain when retrieved (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• Player Remains' position marker display distance is shorter, it is also hidden when you are close to it to prevent readability issues in combat (from 0.5.2.1)
  
• Changed the Banking Fish setup