Spelunky Guy Is Coming to Fraymakers

Fraymakers has just announced their latest free DLC character - Guy! That's right, it's that Guy from Spelunky, one of the most iconic characters among indie games.

As some of you might've come to expect, Fraymakers doesn't suppress the quirks and unique elements of the guest character's original game to make them into a more conventional platform fighter character.

Instead, they once again tried to fit as much of Spelunky into his kit as possible, to a point where it's another character who's basically playing their own game (complimentary).

If you played the games before, you will be intuitively familiar with what to expect. Outside of his classic whip, Guy has access to bombs that you can manipulate for trickier attacks, ropes, jetpack and teleports to defy traditional platform fighter movement, but also use freeze gun, shotgun, spike boots, and his pickaxe for unique attacks and combos.

He's already available in the game, and comes with a sizable patch, you can find the notes below:

General

CPU
· Improvements
    - CPUs now leverage C-stick inputs for aerial moves for improved mobility
    - CPUs try harder to follow up confirmed hits with additional attacks.
    - CPUs now attack more frequently.
    - CPUs no longer empty jump as often.
    - CPUs no longer buffer a double jump when they intended to full hop.
    - CPUs now have a minimum and maximum parry reaction time
    - CPU air dash no longer crashes the game when airdashAccelMultiplier is at or below zero

Gameplay
· Wall Grazing
    - Addressed premature consumption of momentum during wall grazes against the upper body.
· Bug Fixes
    - Fixed bug that could allow buried players to move while in the bury state.
    - Spikes now always pop opponents up when grounded. Previously, some spike angles would send grounded characters to knockdown instead.
    - Fixed incorrect calculation of knockback angle when spiking grounded opponents on slopes.
    - Fixed crash caused when attempting to land while in INPUT_FREEZE status.

Menus

Match Options
· Stage Switch
    - Added a new menu that allows you to control which stages the random button can select.

Extras
· Replays
    - 📢 Replays now also display the time the replay was saved.

Playable Characters

CPU Improvements
· Hat Kid
    - Now stops charging potion when offstage.
· The Watcher
    - Now switches stances when either bar is full.
· Welltaro
    - No longer spams double jumps too quickly while recovering.

Assists

Balance Adjustments
· Aine
    - Damage to charge increased (90 → 100)
    - Increased startup (2 → 8)
    - Reduced size of initial hitbox.
· Cadence
    - Shovel hit knockbackGrowth reduced (55 → 50)
    - Fire hit knockbackGrowth reduced (65 → 60)
· Crewmate
    - Double tap input window increased (10f → 20f)
· Diogenes
    - Damage to charge decreased (100 → 85)
· Hat Kid
    - Zoom speed increased (18 → 25)
    - Now spawns further forward and higher up.
    - Increased strength of homing.
· Impostor
    - Now spawns closer.
· Josef
    - Damage to charge increased (65 → 75)
· Kragg
    - Damage to charge increased (85 → 90)
    - Now stops the owner’s momentum while the pillar is growing.
· Nikandreos
    - First hit hitstop reduced (15 → 11)
    - First hit selfHitstop reduced (8 → 4)
    - Second hit hitstop reduced (14 → 10)
    - Second hit selfHitstop reduced (14 → 10)
· Mustache Girl
    - Startup reduced (134 → 104)
· Niko
    - Startup increased (13 → 25)
    - Damage multiplier reduced (1.75 → 1.65)
· Orcane
    - Damage to charge increased (50 → 75)
· Peppino
    - Damage to charge reduced (85 → 80)
· Rhythm Doctor
    - Now buries grounded opponents.
· The Silent
    - Poison meter now extends by 6x damage received rather than a flat 60 frames per hit.
    - Poison meter now increases with damage that doesn’t cause flinch.
· Super Hexagon
    - Now spawns further forward and higher up.
· Tankman
    - Damage to charge reduced (125 → 120)
· Vi
    - Damage to charge reduced (100 → 90)
· The Watcher
    - Damage to charge reduced (75 → 70)

Ape
· Sound Adjustment
    - 📢 Reduced cymbal crash volume.

Birthday
· Sound Adjustment
    - 📢 Reduced hit sound volume.

The Kid
· New Functionality
    - 📢 Pressing the assist button again now causes the Dangerous Fruit to ascend.

Pizza
· Fixed bug that could rarely cause paint to fall through structures.
· Brush now correctly despawns when colliding with a wall.

Rockman
· Improved behavior on slopes and connected floor segments.

Stages

Adjusted Blast Zones (all values measured from edge of main floor)
· Backyard
    - Top blast zone 721 → 720 units.
    - Horizontal blast zone 699 → 700 units.
· Merchant Port
    - Top blast zone 719 → 855 units.
    - Bottom blast zone 551 → 550 units.
· Pepperpain
    - Top blast zone 721 → 720 units.
    - Bottom blast zone 549 → 550 units.
· Stratostar
    - Horizontal blast zone 695 → 700 units.
· The Spire
    - Top blast zone 770 → 860 units.
· Subcon Forest
    - Top blast zone 747 → 750 units.
    - Horizontal blast zone 756 → 725 units.
    - Bottom blast zone 523 → 500 units.

Merchant Port
· Camera
    - Expanded camera box downward significantly. Positioning of background and waves adjusted accordingly.
· Stage Select Images
    - 📢 Small hazard preview image updated.

Super Gravitron
· Music
    - New music track added.
· Camera
    - Implemented an experimental camera view for the hazards off version of the stage that is more zoomed in and pans horizontally. Let us know what you think!

Custom Content

New Feature: Frozen status
· New data types added for freeze moves (see API changelog for details)

GameObjectStats changes:
· dashSpeed and runSpeedInitial can now be set to null to disable the application of those speeds.
· doubleJumpSpeeds now accepts Math.NaN to disable jump speeds for that entry.

Bug Fixes
· Fixed bug with forceStartHitstop(0) calls being delayed by 1 frame.
· Fixed bug with duplicate stages appearing in custom stage select.