July Update with Extreme and Endless Worlds!
almost 5 years ago
– Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 12:31:32 AM
Hey all! Time for the FUNKY JULY UPDATE with some bug fixes and Extreme and Endless Worlds!! And the good news? It’s launching tonight on Steam! Extreme Mode is ready to go but Endless comes with a few issues we would like to bring to your attention before we get started with this update:
-Infinite loading Elevators causing a softlock. Must restart game to fix.
-Closing the game will remove your entire inventory. This can be prevented by dropping your inventory on the ground before you save and close.
-If you get stuck in an Elevator that won't go up and won't let you out of it while playing online, you may have to kick the players in your game and have them rejoin, or Save & Quit and restart.
Since the Steam version is much easier to patch than the console versions we will be pushing 1.5.0 out onto Steam first with a warning that Endless is still in beta. Once we get all these bugs sorted out we will then push a new update out with all the fixes to Steam and consoles in the form of 1.5.1. Console players, thanks for being patient with us as we get this sorted out!
So for those of you that haven’t heard, we agreed to create two new modes just for our most hardcore dedicated players. The players that want more of a challenge that was introduced in the first game, while also keeping the pace and new mechanics introduced by Back in the Groove... THIS MODE IS FOR YOU!! We understand that some players already feel Hard Mode is Hard enough so instead of making changes to that mode all these new changes will be applied to Extreme Mode with only a few making it into Endless and only the ‘quality of life’ changes getting brought into Fixed/Normal/Hard.
First off, how Extreme World and Endless World are unlocked. Extreme World is unlocked by completing Hard World, if you have already completed Hard World you may have to complete it again for Extreme to unlock, and Endless is a reward for players who are able to get to Level 15 in Extreme Mode.
Endless World starts exactly like any Random World, but at Level 50 all your presents get un-identified and some Extreme World changes will start to be applied. Every 50 levels after that your presents will continue to be un-identified, so be careful! Endless World has infinite Promotions as well, so your character can go beyond Funklord! This means in Extreme World the enemies are OP but in Endless World YOU’RE going to be OP!
When you get to the character select screen in Extreme you may notice the characters have been rebalanced a bit for this mode, here are a couple of the buffs and nerfs they have received:
All characters have been given a special focus on what makes them unique. We have also increased a bunch of their stats to hopefully help you max out one or two during your Extreme playthough. Players felt that even though they are achieving Funklord rank, that none of their skills would ever get maxed out. Because of this we have introduced the auto search feature that occurs at Max Search rank to begin around Rank 6 Search Skill instead of only applying on Max. This means that when you search there is a very small chance that items will automatically pop out of their surroundings. This chance increases the more your Search Skill increases.
Earl & Old Skool Earl have had their speed, health and inventory size increased. Both Earls have been given reduced Damage to Broken Presents (trust us, you’re gonna need it in this mode!) Regular Earl has been given an increase in Search Skill specifically, while Old Skool Earl is now buffed in Present Skill. Flo gets similar buffs to both Earls but with a focus on support. We have kept Flo’s passive increased Hi-Five health (especially with Earl!!) but also given her increased heal on Good Food. Earl gets a small health increase when he picks up bad food and Old Skool Earl still gets his 2 for 1 Sushi, but we have increased the health of Sushi in this mode. So essentially Old Skool Earl is given a tiny pocket heal he can carry, while Earl gets his extra healing from bad food on the floor, YUCK!
We have increased GeekJam’s speed to be on par with his cousin ToeJam while also making him a great scout character as he gets a larger detect radius when he searches and he also has a chance to Identify a present on pick up. Of course he retains his random stat boost when opening a School Book present.
Latisha and Lewanda are now really skilled with presents, Latisha having a higher present skill and much more deadly tomatoes and Lewanda having more Luck and extra ability to Fix a present on pickup. Latisha is now very good at clearing out a level for safe searching, while Lewanda retains her free coin meters (coin meters have also been given a bit of a buff).
Peabo has been given buffs to his stats but also retains his slow movement speed making him more of a ‘Hard Mode’ character. Due to his small size though we have given him a new passive, he is less likely to be noticed by Earthlings! So although Peabo is small and slow there is more of a chance of you sneaking around an Earthling to secure those extra presents and bucks lying on the ground.
And now for some disappointing news… we have decided to hit ToeJam with some nerfs in this mode. We know, we know, we love our homeboy TJ too, but he has been the dominant choice in the game since the first one. So we have decided to reduce his movement speed by one, keeping the ‘Jam family (Old Skool form and his cousin GeekJam) the fastest characters in the game. In order to do this we had to reduce Latisha’s movement speed by 1 making her more in line with all the other characters while keeping TJ’s family the fastest. We also removed the double time to both ToeJams on their mobility presents (Hitops, Rocket Skates and Spring Shoes) as we felt this provided too much of an advantage to just blast through levels.
Instead ToeJam is given a chance to Amp a present on pick up (based on Present Skill) and Old Skool ToeJam is given increased speed with Hitops. ToeJam is still the most viable character in the early game, which is really useful for gathering presents before the game starts to get tough, but most other characters only need to roll 1 speed upgrade to catch up to him.
Earl
Increased Speed by 1
Increased Life Bar Size by 2
Increased Search Skill by 4
Increased Inventory Size by 1
Increased Luck by 1
Add new passive: Reduced damage from broken presents
Old Skool Earl
Increased Speed by 1
Increased Life Bar Size by 2
Increased Present Skill by 2
Increased Search Skill by 1
Increased Luck by 1
Add new passive: Reduced damage from broken presents
Flo
Increased Life Bar Size by 2
Increased Present Skill by 2
Increased Search Skill by 2
Increased Inventory Size by 1
Add new passive: Good Food heals more
Adjust Hi-Five passive for chance of super heal
GeekJam
Increased Speed by 1
Increased Life Bar Size by 1
Increased Present Skill by 3
Increased Luck by 1
Add new passives: Increased detect radius and increased chance of identify on pickup
Latisha
Decreased Speed by 1
Increased Life Bar Size by 2
Increased Present Skill by 1
Increased Search Skill by 1
Increased Inventory Size by 1
Increased Luck by 1
Add new passive: Tomatoes do much more damage and have more range
Lewanda
Increased Life Bar Size by 1
Increased Present Skill by 2
Increased Search Skill by 2
Increased Inventory Size by 1
Add new passive: Increased chance of fixing a present on pick up
Peabo
Increased Life Bar Size by 1
Increased Present Skill by 1
Increased Search Skill by 1
Increased Inventory Size by 2
Increased Luck by 1
Add new passive: Reduced chance of being noticed by Earthlings
ToeJam
Decrease Speed by 1
Increased Life Bar Size by 2
Removed passive: Double time with Spring Shoes and Hitops
Add new passive: Chance to Amp present on pickup
Old Skool ToeJam
Decreased Speed by 1
Increased Present Skill by 2
Increased Luck by 2
Removed passive: Double time with Rocket Skates and Hitops
Add new passive: Increased movespeed with Hitops
All Extreme Mode Balance Changes:
Increased chance of Broken Presents 40%
Reduce chances of finding presents and food from bushes and trees 40%
Increase chances of bad food and bowling balls by 50%
Reduced presents and money spawned on the ground by 50%
Reduced Wizard, Opera Singer, Mad Inventor spawn rate by 30%
Reduced Wiseman spawn rate 40%
Wiseman will no longer be walking around the map after Level 18. (Wiseman still has a rare chance of being spawned from bushes after Level 18)
Wiseman is no longer on every level
Decreased Santa spawn rate by 30%
Reduce Sunflowers by 60%
Reduce chance of a present spawning on Backer Island by 50%
Backer Island now has a chance to spawn bad presents on it as well as all mobility presents (Spring Shoes, Hitops, Rocket Skates, etc)
Disabled Power Hats
Disabled Santa Presents
Disabled Level 0
Removed all Starting Presents
Removed Presents from Level 1, except on the secret ‘Present Island’
All Earthlings are now their ‘Deadly’ variant from Level 2 onward
All Earthlings have increased damage, notice range and speed. These stats have been individually adjusted per Earthling.
Replaced all Dolphins with Sharks
Starting lives reduced from 3 to 2
Removed the level cap on when Good and Bad Presents would appear, all presents available from Level 2. (Previously presents like Extra Life and Promotion wouldn’t appear until Level 6)
Decrease chance of finding Promotion present 25%
Decrease chance of finding Extra Life present 25%
Decrease chance of finding Duplicate Present present 25%
Increase chance of finding Total Bummer present 25%
Increase chance of finding Major Randomizer present 25%
Increased chance of Broken Presents exploding on you
Decreased chance of Identifying or Fixing a present automatically on pick up
Decreased chance of Luck stat keeping you alive after a fatal blow
Movement speed in water reduced 50%
Movement speed in water is now capped for all aliens (it would scale on Speed rank)
Increased rate health drains in water by 30%
Decreased chance of Rhythm Matching Dance games spawning by 30%
Rhythm Matching Dance games capped at 1 use instead of 2
Enemies are now allowed on Ice during Ice levels
Reduced movement speed provided by Ice
Reduced healing provided by Good Food 30%
Increased damage provided by Bad Food 30%
Increased damage of Bowling Balls 15%
Removed the aggro break that would occur after opening a Broken Present
Reduced chance of Golden Mailbox spawning by 30%
Reduced chance of Normal Mailbox spawning by 20%
Decrease XP rewarded by Bad Presents to 175 XP
Increase XP rewarded by Good Presents to 350 XP
Limit Cosplay Nerds to 3 rolls
Change Cosplay rewards to $2-5
Decrease chance of NPCs offering you free items by 75%
Capped Ship Piece cash bonus at $2-5
Increase damage of Rain Cloud 15%
Removed default Flashlight from Dark Levels
Added ability for Auto Search to happen at Search Rank 6 (chance increases with rank)
Fixed XP not being rewarded by resources revealed from Auto Search
Fixed a few enemies being able to hit you while Present Menu is up
Increase health provided by Sushi by 25%
Remove ability to use Change, Duplicate, Amp presents on Broken Presents
Duplicating a present now only duplicates the base present and does not duplicate Amped effect
Decreased Coin Meters from spawning 30%
Capped Coin Meters chain at 6 uses
Increased chances of Coin Meters paying out Money, Good Food, Presents
Removed Bad Food from Coin Meters
Decreased chances of HFZ, Secret Doorway and Devil spawning from Coin Meters
Limited the presents spawned from Coin Meters to either be REALLY good or pretty bad
Increased cost of Coin Meters to 20 cents
Removed HFZ from spawning on the ground, it can only be accessed from Coin Meters now
Made Secret Level and North Pole more evil
Reduce Telephones spawning by 10%
Increase time Telephones ring for by 10 seconds
Increased damage of Tomatoes and Slingshot (to better deal with the harder enemies)
Removed Aggro Break from School Book present
Removed Aggro Break that occurs when sleeping
Caveman will now aggro you if holding Tomatoes, Slingshot or Tomato Rain
Removed free Elevator Teleport that occurs in 3-4p games
Amped Amp 5 now Amps 6 presents instead of 8
Increased Health of Opera Singer to withstand 1 bowling ball hit (pops when hit by 2)
Increased Health of King Tut to withstand 2 bowling ball hits (pops when hit by 3)
At Level 15 all Earthlings get a 5% speed increase
At Level 20 all Earthlings get a 10% speed increase
We can’t wait to hear what you all have to say about our new modes. We made all these changes based on user feedback so we are very excited to get them into the hands of all players.
We are glad to see backers are starting to get their PC Physical Collector’s Edition delivered. If you missed out on this we will have a few of these on sale on our Funkotron Shop at a later date, we will update when those are live. We created only 2000 of these and 1600 are going to backers which means there will only be around 400 or so going up on the store. Don’t miss out! Also the Limited Run Games Collector’s Editions are due to ship out this week and should be arriving shortly. Thanks for your patience on these items!
Funkotron Shop: https://www.thefunkotronshop.com/
And our Steam Summer Sale discount is now live at 33% off which is the low price of $13.39 all to get funky with some alien homies, whoa!! Be sure to tell a friend that’s been waiting for the perfect moment to join the party, because this is it!
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/GNjXpxS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/toejamandearl
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Tune into our streams every Tuesday and Friday at 4PM PST/7PM EST at: https://www.twitch.tv/toejam_earl
Thank you all for your support and taking this journey with us to get the game just perfect for ToeJam & Earl history!
Funky June Update!
almost 5 years ago
– Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 01:07:59 AM
Yoyo! How bout that Funkothon y’all?! Hope you enjoyed it! We had a lot of fun getting the two homeboys back.. home.. to Funkotron! If you missed out you can always peep the video on demand here:
Our Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430274725
BunnyEar’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vJDRka8IU
In case you missed it here are some of the things we announced during the telethon:
1.4.0 coming to consoles with 4 player local co-op and huge optimization and balance adjustments
1.5.0 coming soon to all platforms which includes Endless Mode and EXTREME Mode
New Cookbook coming from some of the folks that brought you Mother’s Cookbook!
New vinyl reprint by Enjoy The Ride Records inspired by De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising
New T-shirts and merch up on The Yetee with plushes coming soon!
https://theyetee.com/collections/toejam-and-earl
New Yetee Merch
Head on over to The Yetee’s YeteeMart where you can find some new t-shirts, a funky coffee mug, some stickers and don’t forget about the pins and previous t-shirts available! Also here’s a sneak peek at our upcoming plushes!
Endless Mode
Endless Mode will be exactly what it sounds like. Only 15 levels! Just kidding. It’ll be endless! Over 100 levels for you to explore at your own pace. Not good enough? Well how about OVER 9000 LEVELS?! Well.. we couldn’t actually achieve over 9000 levels. So just how many levels are there? You’ll just have to play to find out!
EXTREME Mode
We hear ya. Even after all our fancy balance adjustments introduced in 1.4.0 players just don’t find the game hard enough. Well this mode is for you! Here’s just a sneak peek of what we have planned for this mode: Increased chance of Broken Presents, Reduced resources laying on the ground, Increased chance of finding bad resources from bushes/trees, Decreased chance of friendly Earthlings spawning (including the Wiseman), No Power Hats, No Level 0 and No Starting Presents. Do you think you have what it takes to beat this super funky extreme mode?
Limited Run Games Physical Editions are Shipping!
Good news! Standard Edition Limited Run Games copies have started shipping and according to Limited Run themselves “the biggest Nintendo Switch manual ever at a whopping 76 pages!” WHOA. Unfortunately the Collector’s Edition has more unique parts that need manufacturing and will be shipping closer to the end of June.
https://limitedrungames.com/collections/toejam-earl/products/toejam-earl-collectible-retro-case-telethon-exclusive
Also if you didn’t see during our Funkothon, this is your absolute last chance to get the Retro Case. This is similar to a product we released as an exclusive PAX West 2018 item. A lot of our fans were upset they didn’t get a chance to get them so we created a new variant of the case for the fans that missed out while simultaneously aiming not to upset those that purchased the original. This one comes with a fancy new keychain with our funky logo!
PC Physical Big Box Kickstarter Edition
Don’t worry we didn’t forget that we promised some of y’all the PC Physical Edition! Here is what it looks like and these are the contents. Assembly and shipping will be done in early June:
The PC box set will include:
- Unique box
- Game on Disc (Special edition)
- Soundtrack CD
- Manual
- Stickers pack
- Magnet
- Pins
- Steam codes for the game and soundtrack
Status On 1.4.0 Update
PS4 1.4.2 update is currently LIVE, Xbox should be up very shortly and Nintendo Switch version has been submitted for certification. Those of you that are receiving the physical editions please hold off on bug reports until you update your game as there is a good chance we already fixed the issue. If your game has updated to 1.4.2 (you can see the version number in the bottom left of the screen after the cutscene plays) and you are experiencing issues feel free to email us at [email protected]. We will look into any issues that arise on the road to 1.5.0.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/toejamandearl
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/GNjXpxS
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Tune into our streams every Tuesday and Friday at 4PM PST/7PM EST at: https://www.twitch.tv/toejam_earl
Also, it’d be super helpful to report any bugs or leave suggestions for features on our Canny: https://tjande.canny.io/. You can vote on the bugs or features to push them higher in the priority for us to focus on.
