As many might already be hyped about the upcoming 0.8 content update we want to give you some news on our progress and plans for all the new stuff coming to Striving for Light. Actually the scope for 0.8 has steadily increased since we last posted our initial plans for the 0.8 content update. Our 0.8 anouncement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/3642883289649903034?l=english So lets summarize what was already planed for 0.8:

• New Side Dungeons
• New Item Type
• Difficulty Tiers
• In-game achievements
• Pathfinder rework

With this already being a massive update we decided to add another feature:

Armory and Build View Integration

We are currently developing back and front end for an armory and build view system that lets you check out the builds, stats and weapons from all players on the leaderboards. This will grant players a whole lot of new inspiration by checking out what other players have played or which weapon and skill combinations they used. Furthermore this will help us balance skills and weapons and also make cheating obvious. Overall this should be positive additon to the online seasons and leaderboard experience.

Performance Improvements

We did a lot of fundamental from the ground up testing and refactoring the code base to improve performance and convert some of the few remaining older cpu based particle effects to use the GPU. This will further increase the endgame experience for Striving for Light. Since more content and features also means more time needed until you can get your hands on all of this, we decided to repack all of those features into two seperate updates so that you can get your hands on them sooner.

Update 0.8.0 will contain

• Armory and Build Viewer
• Difficulty Tiers
• Endgame rebalancing
• In-game achievements
• Pathfinder rework

Update 0.8.1will contain

• New Side Dungeons
• New Item Type
• more to be announced...

With Update 0.8.0 we will also kick off the new Season 8. With the introduction of in-game achievements and difficulty tiers that can be unlocked we will give players even more to achieve in one season.

Difficulty Tiers

With update 0.8 you will get access to 5 difficulty tiers. In the beginning only the first difficulty is unlocked but as you progress in your runs and reach certain level thresholds you will be unlocking new difficulty tiers. These higher tiers come with a complete fresh leaderboard. So you will need to start a fresh run for these higher tier runs. These difficulty tiers will mainly impose additional challenges and do not come with additional rewards. You will get the chance to compete agains the best players on the highest tier leaderboards. We will release some further information about the 0.8 content update as soon as it is ready, so stay tuned for this. Let us know your thoughts about the new armory and build viewer! Join the official discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light! Join the official discord!

[ 2023-02-11 19:27:28 CET ] [ Original post ]