Post edited 2:08 pm – January 19, 2011 by WesPaugh

Good news, everyone!

The game-ending, end-of-game, soul-sapping short (a.k.a. Satan's super-self-destruct), has been identified and fixed for the next update, which will ship out in the next day or two.

The crash occurs with 100% frequency on iPads, and there is unfortunately no way to avoid it apart from to not kill Satan.

That said, there may continue to be instances of the game crashing at the moment the game ought to go to the end cutscene, but these instances should both be inconsistently reproducible, only occurring on devices predating the iPhone 3GS, and games affected by them should be recoverable by restarting the App and continuing the game. After loading the last level, the game ought to immediately begin playing the and cutscene with your score intact.

To those of you that were gracious enough to provide us with crash logs, thank you very much. Your contributions were invaluable in finding this issue, not to mention other game-breaking problems with the code.

I'm dearly looking forward to getting the next rev on to your devices at the earliest possible convenience.

Quite well, thanks. Although I understand how agonizing the Blizzard / Nintendo / Valve 'it'll be out when it's ready' approach is, in our case the priority has to be more and more making sure that our updates are stable as well as meaty. Satan Crash is fixed, but we're taking some time to hunt down other issues people have been seeing and make sure there were no undesirable side-effects of the fix.

I boldly assert you will be overjoyed with some of the as of yet unannounced additions to the game that will be coming in 2.5, as well.

OK, 2.5 has officially been submitted to Apple. At long last, we are Waiting for Review.

Official Changelog:

New Content
2 Weapons
2.5 new types of Bow Ammunition
3 throwable items with unique effects

New Features
Hyper Play! 100 Rogues' turn system has been reworked to allow most turns to occur in about a second, with all monsters attacking simultaneously
Facebook integration: post your game scores to your Facebook wall
Playhaven integration: Access 100 Rogues' Playhaven community and find great similar titles
New High Score board for fastest Satan-Killers

Balance Changes
Monsters now follow more aggressively through hallways
Overall difficulty increase throughout Normal Mode
Easy Mode made substantially easier in Dungeon and Hell worlds

Bug Fixes
Final cutscene properly functions again on iPads
Hand Grenades properly function again
The Humbled debuff properly affects ranged attackers again
Stairs following the Genie fight no longer crash if the game is saved and reloaded during the fight
Center tile of the second boss is once more targetable
Center tile of the second boss can no longer be leap attacked into, nor can a crystal ball be placed there
Godly Resistance of the second boss once again applies appropriately
Smoke Bombs no longer occasionally float in mid-air when thrown, nor subsequently crash the game when thrown after that point
Crash fix when confused monsters attempt to move but are unable to find an appropriate direction in which to do so
iPod Music Picker no longer leaves behind a screenshot of the programmer's iPod contents when closed (said programmer has also been informed that DDR is 'Soooo 1998')
Second Boss no longer temporarily locks up when hit by Crystal Balls
Familiar no longer ceases to act after swapping places with it

"How long does it usually take for Apple to certify a build once you push it out there?" 3 days – 3 weeks. We've never seen any pattern with Apple, unfortunately. There are definitely trends like longer waits around Thanksgiving / Christmas, but it's hard to say at any given time.

"Will the update erase games in progress, local high score lists, etc? (Or will I be able to waltz in and kill Satan, finally, with my current game?)"
As long as you don't delete the App first, the update will not affect your save files. This is both good and bad, though; any bugs in a save file will not be fixed in the update. Luckily the Satan crash does not fall into this category, so you'll be able to continue a Satan fight, win, and not crash.