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* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: The four difficulties added by the Better Together update are Ranger (easy), Gunslinger (normal), Sheriff (hard) and Outlaw ([[HarderThanHard very hard]]).
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** [[GoldenEnding Good Ending]]: [[spoiler:The Riders ''were'' recruited and brought to the final battle using the Voidskimmer. Hilda and the Riders help your Gunmancer defeat the manifestation of Chaos and permanently Tether his soul, ginally preventing him from ever returning to the Shatter]].

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** [[GoldenEnding Good Ending]]: [[spoiler:The Riders ''were'' recruited and brought to the final battle using the Voidskimmer. Hilda and the Riders help your Gunmancer defeat the manifestation of Chaos and permanently Tether his soul, ginally finally preventing him from ever returning to the Shatter]].
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The game's second major update, "Better Together", released on May 13th, 2024 and added long-requested four-player CoOpMultiplayer, more lore (and an easier and more convenient way to read all of it), and something new locked behind [[CoolGate the Oculus]].

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an actual FinalBoss and true ending.
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* CoolShip: The GSS Voidskimmer is a ship located in the Tower that Hilda and the Riders once used to travel through the void unimpeded. [[spoiler:Repairing the Voidskimmer and recruiting the Riders one by one to man it is how you get the GoldenEnding]].


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* EarnYourHappyEnding: if you want to get the good ending, you're going to have to [[spoiler:defeat every boss (optional or otherwise) in the game at least once, and some of which using Charm Bullets, which may require some work to level up enough that they are effective against said bosses]].


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* GoldenEnding: In order to save Hilda from the fate of [[spoiler:taking the Cryptomancer's place holding back Chaos, you must first repair the GSS Voidskimmer by collecting one of each [[OptionalBoss Golden Bounty]] and then defeat each Rider by [[CharmPerson charming them with Charm Bullets]] to recruit them to your aid. By doing this, Hilda and the Riders are able to permanently ensnare Chaos' soul in a Soul Tether, halting the impending apocalypse at last and [[FireForgedFriends making her and all the Riders your friends]]]].


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* GuideDangIt: It is not adequately communicated to the player how they are supposed to get the Riders as passengers on the Voidskimmer, but the solution is a lot simpler than you might think; you just need to [[spoiler:[[SheatheYourSword defeat each of them with Charm Bullets]] instead of killing them]].


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* MultipleEndings:
** Bad Ending: [[spoiler:The Riders were not recruited and brought to the final battle using the Voidskimmer. Hilda commits a HeroicSacrifice in order to stave off the advent of Chaos for a little longer at the cost of her own life]].
** [[GoldenEnding Good Ending]]: [[spoiler:The Riders ''were'' recruited and brought to the final battle using the Voidskimmer. Hilda and the Riders help your Gunmancer defeat the manifestation of Chaos and permanently Tether his soul, ginally preventing him from ever returning to the Shatter]].
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* BadassCrew: Hilda and her Riders are a quintet of extremely powerful and legendary outlaw gunmancers working to beat back Chaos and solve the myriad problems in the Shatter. Barring Hilda, each and every one of them is a boss encounter and they all have numerous accomplishments under their belt.
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* WhamShot: Entering the Oculus grants two:
** [[spoiler:The first is the corpse of Archwizard Xavier with a journal entry attached describing his spiral into madness and all the things Chaos promised him. If you've been following the lore entries concerning Xavier, this reveals that [[AllForNothing all the awful things he did were for nothing]]]].
** [[spoiler:The second is that you see the Cryptomancer. No, not a {{Hologram}} of the Cryptomancer like every other time she's appeared, but the Cryptomancer's ''physical, mortal body'', [[BarrierMaiden desperately holding back Chaos from manifesting]]. It then suddenly becomes ambiguous whether she's truly been helping you over her whole quest or whether [[TheCorrupter Chaos was using her as a mouthpiece to lead you to him the whole time]] with [[WhamLine her next line of spoken dialogue]]]]:
--> ''Free me, Wizard, and I will show you the secrets of the universe.''
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* MadeOfIndestructium: Objects made out of Godsmarble are said to have been created by the gods themselves, including the immensely powerful and indestructible Godsmachines like the Chronomancer's Wheel. Tellingly, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration these are they only items you can't destroy or deconstruct]].

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* MadeOfIndestructium: Objects made out of Godsmarble are said to have been created by the gods themselves, including the immensely powerful and indestructible Godsmachines like the Chronomancer's Wheel. Tellingly, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration these are they only items you can't destroy or deconstruct]]. You unlock the ability to build Godsmarble structures by [[spoiler:scanning Chaos' physical form in the Oculus]].
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* CoolGate: The largest gate into the Tower that the Godwizards left behind was the Oculus, a huge trapezohedral-shaped gate which can only be found by defeating the Harbinger of Chaos. It's currently unopenable, but is clearly planned to be traversable in a future update.

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* CoolGate: The largest gate into the Tower that the Godwizards left behind was the Oculus, a huge trapezohedral-shaped gate which can only be found opened by defeating the Harbinger of Chaos. It's currently unopenable, but is clearly planned Chaos and binding Hilda's Shattered Soul to be traversable in a future update.the Soul Tether. [[spoiler:Behind it lies [[EldritchAbomination Chaos, the Exiled God]], the TrueFinalBoss of the game]].
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The game's second major update, "Better Together", released on May 12th, 2024 and added long-requested four-player CoOpMultiplayer, more lore (and an easier and more convenient way to read all of it), and something new locked behind [[CoolGate the Oculus]].

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The game's second major update, "Better Together", released on May 12th, 13th, 2024 and added long-requested four-player CoOpMultiplayer, more lore (and an easier and more convenient way to read all of it), and something new locked behind [[CoolGate the Oculus]].
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: Shooting objects soaked in water with Lightning or Lightning Strike bullets will cause a wave of electricity to radiate outward from the target and damage anything in its path. The Angler Queen actually takes advantage of this by making it rain in her second phase so that her ShockAndAwe attacks cause this effect around her.
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* DentedIron: Some of the Mechana you can encounter out in the shatter are in much worse states of disrepair than others, with rusted metal plating and missing machinery, due to the toll time has taken on them. They'll sometimes spontaneously deactivate for a second after doing an attack, unlike their more preserved counterparts.

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* DentedIron: Some of the Mechana you can encounter out in the shatter Shatter are in much worse states of disrepair than others, with rusted metal plating and missing machinery, due to the toll time has taken on them. They'll sometimes spontaneously deactivate for a second after doing an attack, unlike their more preserved counterparts.



* OptionalBoss: Each region has a unique Golden Bounty enemy which is much, ''much'' stronger than anything else in the region and drops a Golden Bounty upon being defeated, which not only rewards rare guns but also materials necessary to repair the [[CoolShip GSS Voidskimmer]] in the tower. They won't go down without a serious fight, though, and you may have to plan an entire expedition around killing just one of these creatures.

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* OptionalBoss: Each region has a unique Golden Bounty enemy which is much, ''much'' stronger than anything else in the region and drops a Golden Bounty upon being defeated, which not only rewards rare guns but also materials necessary to repair the [[CoolShip GSS Voidskimmer]] in the tower.Tower. They won't go down without a serious fight, though, and you may have to plan an entire expedition around killing just one of these creatures.
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* OptionalBoss: Each region has a unique Golden Bounty enemy which is much, ''much'' stronger than anything else in the region and drops a Golden Bounty upon being defeated, which not only rewards rare guns but also materials necessary to repair the [[CoolShip GSS Voidskimmer]] in the tower. They won't go down without a serious fight, though, and you may have to plan an entire expedition around killing just one of these creatures.
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* ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes: The game's artstyle means that all humanoid characters have faces obscured by blackness with their only discernible features being their colored eyes.
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You play as a customizable [[{{Whatevermancy}} Gunmancer]]--a type of wizard who casts spells in the form of magic bullets from a gun of choice--who crash-landed in a [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels procedurally generated]] post-apocalyptic landscape called the Shatter, destroyed by beings of Chaos. Along your journey, you come across a tower standing outside of time, built by the gods and housing an artifact known as the Chronomancer's Wheel. This wheel is capable of reversing time, and it was used by Hilda Bulla--the creator of gunmancy--along with her band of Riders to perpetually push back the Chaos in a futile effort to prevent the end.

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You play as a customizable [[{{Whatevermancy}} Gunmancer]]--a type of wizard who [[MageMarksman casts spells in the form of magic bullets from a gun of choice--who choice]]--who crash-landed in a [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels procedurally generated]] post-apocalyptic landscape called the Shatter, destroyed by beings of Chaos. Along your journey, you come across a tower standing outside of time, built by the gods and housing an artifact known as the Chronomancer's Wheel. This wheel is capable of reversing time, and it was used by Hilda Bulla--the creator of gunmancy--along with her band of Riders to perpetually push back the Chaos in a futile effort to prevent the end.

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* SpritePolygonMix: In the vein of the artstyle of ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', the game uses a combination of TwoPointFiveD sprites and an isometric [=3D=] background to give the illusion of a fully [=3D=] environment.
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* ChargedAttack: Charge wands are unique in that their bullets can only be shot by holding down the fire button and then releasing them.


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* ReviveKillsZombie: Order bullets are normally supposed to be used for repairing structures that have been damaged, but they are ''also'' [[OrderVersusChaos extremely damaging against Chaos creatures]]. Thus, there's nothing stopping you from constructing and attuning a specialized gun just for killing Chaos using Order bullets.


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* VictorGainsLosersPowers: Each of the Riders drops a Bounty that allows you to grab their signature weapon for yourself.
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* DentedIron: Some of the Mechana you can encounter out in the shatter are in much worse states of disrepair than others, with rusted metal plating and missing machinery, due to the toll time has taken on them. They'll sometimes spontaneously deactivate for a second after doing an attack, unlike their more preserved counterparts.


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* WantedPoster: A Bounty board can be found next to all the Tower entrances in the Shatter, and will give you information on the local Bounties in that region in the form of these. You can choose to use some Arcana to pinpoint them on the map or try to track them down yourself.

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