Challenge Accepted

Hello fellow Pinball Hero Flippers!

Today's build adds an entirely new way to spice up your run adding challenge mods to the game. We also have a decent amount of additional fresh loot, UI polish, bug fixes, items, and other iterations like hero action previews that play in the widescreen mode for hero selection. 

TDLR: 

• NEW Challenge System. Bolt optional risk-vs-reward mutators onto your run.
• Hero Preview Videos. Watch each hero do their thing before you lock-in.
• Cinematic Transitions & Impact FX . Juicier room fades and hit flashes.
• +6 new relics & consumables, balance pass on legendaries.
• Lots of QoL, audio candy, and bug squashing.

Challenges

Activate up to 12 (to be refined later) gameplay mods from the hero select menu. Drag a chip into a socket to crank difficulty for bonus rewards. Challenges are applied at run start and removed at the end of your current run. 

Content & Balance

Boon of Vitality, Life Vine, Crystal Carver, Goblin Pick, Necronomicon, Weeping Chalice. Each is themed around life-crystal synergies and essence conversion. This opens up fresh build paths focused on healing loops or glass-cannon magic.

Evasive Sash: stackable evade tokens every 10th crit. Gives crit builds a defensive twist.

Other changes:  Shadow & Claw emblems re-worked, ~20 items retuned. Narrows power-spikes and keeps mid-game interesting.

The update also includes many small bug fixes and stability improvements, although there are still more in the task list that we're working on. 

Once again, thank you for playing Pinball Hero 💖