Hello everyone! We are extremely happy to share that Soulstone Survivors: Prologue is now released! This is your chance to have a first look at what the game is all about: Unlocking characters, crafting weapons, decimating hordes of enemies and discovering game-breaking synergies! While the prologue offers an early experience of the game, there is so much more that is coming to the full version! If you like what you see in the prologue, you should leave the full game a wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2066020/Soulstone_Survivors/ Now, some of you probably know that up until this point, there was a Demo for the game that is no longer available. If you are one of the players that had a chance to experience it first hand, you might be wondering... but, what is new with the Prologue? We made an announcement all about that that you can find here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2066020/view/3344505862352513151 But! In this announcement we also wanted to share the full list of changes from the last version of the Demo, to the first version of the Prologue! It's quite a lot, but here is a list of the key changes you can experience in the prologue right now:

New Characters:

- The Barbarian: Equipped with two war axes, the barbarian excells at melee combat. Starting skill: Whirlwind - The Pyromancer: A master of fire that can set the world ablaze in his wake. Starting skill: Fire Slash - The Hound Master: An experienced hunter with his loyal hunting hounds. Starting skill: Mortar Shot

New Skills:

The Barbarian - Barbaric Cleavers:

- Whirlwind: You spin with your weapons, causing damage to all enemies around you. - Stomp: You stomp the ground, causing damage and applying Stun and Fragility to all enemies around you.

The Barbarian - Tribal War Axes:

- Double Slash: You slash forward two times, causing damage and applying Bleed. - Throw Axe: Throws an axe forward hitting enemies in a line, and then coming back to your current position, causing damage and applying Bleed every time it goes through enemies.

The Pyromancer - Pyromancer's Firestarter:

- Fire Slash: Sends a fiery slash forward, causing damage and applying Burn. - Fire Walk: For the next few seconds, leave a trail of fire behind you, applying Burn every fraction of second to enemies standing in the fire.

The Pyromancer - Firelord's Ire:

- Combustion: You emit an aura of fire for a few seconds, causing damage and applying Burn to enemies that stay near you every fraction of a second. - Flamethrower: You launch a continuous pillar of flames forward for a few seconds, causing damage and applying Burn every fraction of a second to enemies that are caught in its path.

The Hound Master - Rusted Blaster:

- Mortar Shot: Fires a mortar shot in an area in front of you, causing damage and applying Bleed. - Power Blast: Fires a powerful blast in a line in front of you, causing damage and applying Stun and Dazed.

The Hound Master - Riflemen's Vengeance:

- Buckshot: Fires a blast of pellets in a cone in front of you, causing damage and applying Fragility. - Bombardment: Calls down a bombardment around your current position. Each bomb deals damage in a large area.

General Skills:

- Blizzard: Conjures a blizzard over a random enemy, hitting enemies multiple times, causing damage and applying Chill with every hit. - Shadow Spikes: Shadow spikes are summoned from the ground in a straight line towards a random enemy, causing damage and applying Doom. - Templar's Verdict: Inflict your judgement at a random enemy's position, causing damage to enemies in the area. Damage is multiplied by 3 on critical strikes. - Chain Lightning: Hurls a lightning bolt at a random enemy, causing damage, applying Dazed and then jumping to 5 additional nearby targets if possible. - Death Claw: Conjures a chaotic death claw at the feet of a random enemy, causing a random amount of damage and applying powerful effects. - Summon Chaos Golem: Summons a chaos golem to fight for you. - Summon Skeletal Archer: Summon 2 skeletal archers to fight for you. - Summon Skeletal Mage: Summons a skeletal mage to fight for you.

New Power-Ups:

- Venomous: Chance to apply Poison with all attacks; - Weakness: Chance to apply Fragility with all attacks; - Desperation: Chance to apply Burn every time you apply Dazed; - Thermal Shock: Chance to apply Chill every time you apply Burn;

New Boss:

- Colummeth, the Incarnation of Ice.

Key changes:

- Changed how some projectiles detect enemies to avoid multiple hits in the same target, but enlarged the detection area of said projectiles to compensate for the change; - End game scoreboard now counts only Effective Damage (no overkill damage) into the skill damage calculations (so you might notice that all numbers in general are lower than before); - Doom now will show stacks like other debuffs. This was necessary to make sure we can track the damage caused properly; - Overhead damage and damage in the scoreboard are easier to read; - New soundtrack for the desert map. More coming! - Added new companion system for doggos; - Increased area of effect of all buffs considerably; - On-hit power-ups no longer accumulate the percentage, only the actual effect; - Changed tags of a few skills, so most of them have at least 3 tags; - Increased the delay before the first elite enemy shows up; - Most enemy tracking attacks such as the Elite Troll Shockwave will now track you slowly; And this is all just the beginning! We have so much more content planned for the full release, including tons of new skills, the Affixes system for unique challenges and rewards, unlocks, runes, bosses... and we hope that you will be with us in this journey from now to the full release! =) Thank you all for the amazing support so far, it has been absolutely amazing being able to talk and interact with so many players and learn from you! We can't wait to share and continue building the game with you =) Best wishes, - The dev team

[ 2022-08-27 02:40:21 CET ] [ Original post ]