History VideoGame / GunfireReborn

* TimedMission: Endless Journey allows players to loop over to the beginning stage while keeping everything from their current run, but with new strong limitations during the looped run[[note]]Players are limited to 60 scrolls, Golden Goblets only offer one choice AND must also overwrite an old chosen Ascension, vaults are not offered, NPCs get subsequently rarer, and enemies drop fewer coins while gaining percentage damage reduction per additional level completed[[/note]]. The main limitation is a 10 minute timer that will close off the next act and force them to finish their run once the next Act boss is defeated (counting as a victory), with each level clear granting a small time bonus.

* SniperRifle: The Piercing Flame weapon is one with [[ExactlywhatItSaysOnTheTin innate flame and piercing attributes]]. The Double Caliber on the other hand fires two bullets which return to the clip if both hit a weak spot. Many of the bow type weapons are also classified as snipers.

* ChainsawGood: Wheel Saw is a combination of a shotgun with a buzzsaw.

* CriticalFailure: Normally, Effective Split is a good scroll, granting you 2 random scrolls but those scrolls cannot be discarded. This means that while small, there's a non-zero chance that you can get scrolls that will permanently alter your playstyle, actively sabotage your run, or sometimes just staright up turn you into a true OneHitPointWonder with no compensation.[[note]]Flesh and Bones converts all shield into hitpoints, while providing HP regeneration. Paranormality sets your HPTo1 in exchange for doubling shields. Combined, it sets your HP to 1, and since all attacks against the player do at least 1 damage, you're basically going to get downed by anything. [[/note]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: While most weapons in the game have some sort of fancy name attributed to them, the Brick weapon is just what it's name implies: [[ImprovisedWeapon a brick that you throw]].

* HealingCheckpoint: After each boss is a checkpoint area that restores all health and secondary supplies and, in single player, allows the player to save and quit the session. In multiplayer, this area revives any currently dead allies. In either mode, if the difficulty is set to Reincarnation, players also have an opportunity to purchase one additional Spiritual Blessing with Soul Essence.

** The Sanguine Relic and Fire Enthusiast scrolls provide a 2-3% life steal effect. Since it only affects the health bar, Ao Bai often makes the best use of it.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Brick weapon is quite literally just a throwable brick, but getting a Critical Hit with it spawns a pickup that, if collected, will increase its crit multipler to 6.0x -- the ''highest base crit in the game''. The effect can be prolonged as well by scoring successive critical hits and getting the pickup again and again, up to 20 times at once, essentially guaranteeing a critical damage buff perpetually so long as you don't miss too much.

** Several of the powerful, gamechanging scrolls come with an equally negative drawback to balance it out like the Hawkeye and Merciless Strike scrolls dealing far more damage when attacking weakpoints, but much less on normal hits. Similarly Ostrich Rider increases movement speed by 50%, but increases the dash cooldown by 300%. Enhanced versions of scrolls often remove the drawbacks of their normal counterparts, as befitting of their enhanced nature.
** Activating the Interdependent Fortunes dream modifier will force the player to take 4 additional scrolls at the start of each Act from Anxi Desert onward, but also give all enemies an equivalent boost from the chosen scrolls.

* SecretLevel: Vaults are areas hidden inside literal cracks in the wall and, as the game helpfully points out, are the primary source of occult scrolls.

*** Combined magazine size and 25% increased rate of fire.

*** The Pupil shotgun charge mechanic is also reminiscent of the Geth Plasma Shotgun from ''VideoGame/{{Mass Effect 3}}''. While it does not consume more ammo or increase damage by default when charged, an exclusive inscription further buffs the weapon when fully charged.

*** Pupil is mechanically similar to the Drakgoon - a shotgun that can be charged up to reduce spread.

* MiniMecha: Nona has Iron Wing, her mech-piloting chicken companion which can swap between being a frontline striker or a rooted auto-turret.

* MiniMecha: Nona has Iron Wing, her AI-controlled mecha companion which can swap between being a frontline striker or a rooted auto-turret.

** Solo players can self-revive once in a run by trading in Soul Essence.

* BonusBoss: The Pole Monarch is the boss of the Hyperborean Jokul, the optional fourth stage that can only be accessed if you defeated Yoruhime-Maru at least once.

* {{Macrogame}}: After every run, the player is taken to the talent screen to spend their gathered Soul Essence on permanent upgrades.

* NecessaryDrawback: Several of the powerful, gamechanging scrolls come with an equally negative drawback to balance it out like the Hawkeye and Merciless Strike scrolls dealing far more damage when attacking weakpoints, but much less on normal hits. Similarly Ostrich Rider increases movement speed by 50%, but increases the dash cooldown by 300%. Enhanced versions of scrolls often remove the drawbacks of their normal counterparts, as befitting of their enhanced nature.

** Given that Zi Xiao's playstyle is built around randomness, part of his Talents and Ascensions allow you to manipulate the outcome of his own "slot machine", called the "Astroaspects". Said Astroaspects are influenced by the scrolls you have, hence he can reroll each scroll once, as long as he has resets lefts, to get rarer ones and make his Primary Skill more powerful.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: During the DPS check on the final boss as he attempts his final charge-up, all players' weapons are granted double damage with unlimited ammo (both infinite reserves and magazines) and skills deal triple damage. However, if that still isn't enough to finish him off, they now will have to deal with him having guaranteed access to all his enhancements with the aggression of enraged mode, all the while crystal fragments rain down as debris onto the arena.