Hello Everyone!

Hello Adventurers! We just released a small hot fix for players not playing in English fixing the Shrine of Torment description. Please note that the additional "defense" line will be fully translated in a future update. Stay Fresh - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Full Patch Notes

Compendium QoL:

• Every hero now has their own Torment Shard pool.
• Holding the button to spend a shard will continuously increase them.
• Right-Click removes shards from a single stat.
• Collecting one Torment Shard will increase the shards for all characters.
• The amount of used Torment Shards can now be seen in the end screen.

Torment Balancing:

• Agony will add 1 Defense to each enemy per rank.
• Changing the scaling of Torment Levels and the Vault past 30 minutes.
• Health will be changed to scale x1.12 instead of x1.2.
• Defense scaling will be added with x1.12.
• In Vault the Torment Levels will add 0.33 base defense to enemies each level.
• Damage scaling will be changed from +4% to +5% per level.

Blood Catcher:

• Scaling of the Max. HP effect will be limited from 100 3 000.
• Blood Catcher gains proper Diminishing Returns application.
• Blood Catcher has been changed back to only give a modifier bonus when the player is on full health.
• Blood Catcher now triggers every 5 seconds and applies its effect then based on the damage within that time frame.

Further Updates:

• In the Quest Board, one can now always see the required character for the next main quest/tracked quest on the top.
• Turning off flash intensity also deactivates the flashes when the player is hit by enemies.
• Hailstorm can now handle negative movement speed.
• Astronomers Orbs can now over-crit.
• Adding the current Game Version to the End Screen.
• The targeting range of Summons now adjust with their attack range.
• Beast Huntress' Dedication was adjusted so that the base range does not scale so much, making it more likely for the Hound to attack more enemies.

Bug Fixes:

• The Widescreen Pillar Box setting was not saved when leaving the game.
• Fixed the Artifacts "Restless Wheel" not accelerating Agony increase.
• Hunters Garb (Hawk Eye) is now modifying the Crit values.
• Hunters Garb variants now show the info Icon on the right side of the screen.
• Phantom Needles traits gave Crit Chance instead of Base Crit Chance.
• Archers Dedication was unlocked by the wrong Trait.
• Spectral Fists would not react to Attack Speed upgrades for melee/summon modifiers when Consecutive Punches had been activated.
• Values of uncommon and rare Plated Boots had been mixed up.
• Fixed an issue were the Cyclops from the Ember Eye would trigger Artifact quests to be completed.
• Quest Tank I had a wrong number in its description.
• Rank frame of Norseman's WP IV (Storming) was wrong.
• End screen congratulation text was sometimes truncated.
• Compendium did not update used Torment Shards in the info area.
• Scars of Toil had the wrong tooltip on its Icon.
• Warlocks character description said he should have only 350 instead of 500 HP.
• Cleric was stronger than their information made appear. (regeneration, Defense and Block Strength)

Update 2024-10-10 Latest changes: - Movement Speed per Torment Level has been changed back from 2.5% to 2.0% - Blood Catcher bonus has been slightly reduced, but heal was increased on higher rarities. - Polishing the shard display in the End Screen. - Adding the current Game Version to the End Screen. - Fixed the Artifacts "Restless Wheel" not accelerating Agony increase. - Fixed an issue were the Cyclops from the Ember Eye would trigger Artifact quests to be completed. - Fixed Plated Boots (Boost), uncommon and rare values were swapped. - The targeting range of Summons now adjust with their attack range. - Beast Huntress' Dedication was adjusted so that the base range does not scale so much, making it more likely for the Hound to attack more enemies. -----------------

Hello Adventurers!

Torment Balancing:

• Agony will add 1 Defense to each enemy per rank.
• Changing the scaling of Torment Levels and the Vault past 30 minutes.
• Health will be changed to scale x1.12 instead of x1.2.
• Defense scaling will be added with x1.12.
• In Vault the Torment Levels will add 0.33 base defense to enemies each level.
• Damage scaling will be changed from +4% to +5% per level.
• Movement Speed scaling will be changed from +2% to +2.5% per level.

Blood Catcher:

• Scaling of the Max. HP effect will be limited from 100 - 3 000.
• Blood Catcher gains proper Diminishing Returns application.
• Blood Catcher has been changed back to only give a modifier bonus when the player is on full health.
• Blood Catcher now triggers every 5 seconds and applies its effect then based on the damage within that time frame.

Further Patch Notes:

• In the Quest Board, one can now always see the required character for the next main quest/tracked quest on the top.
• Every hero now has their own Torment Shard pool.
• Collecting one Torment Shard will increase the shards for all characters.
• The amount of used Torment Shards can now be seen in the end screen.
• Turning off flash intensity also deactivates the flashes when the player is hit by enemies.

Bug Fixes:

• The Widescreen Pillarbox setting was not saved when leaving the game.
• Hailstorm can now handle negative movement speed.
• Astronomers Orbs can now overcrit.
• Hunters Garb (Hawk Eye) is now modifying the Crit values.
• Hunters Garb variants now show the info Icon on the right side of the screen.
• Phantom Needles traits gave Crit Chance instead of Base Crit Chance.
• Archers Dedication was unlocked by the wrong Trait.
• Spectral Fists would not react to Attack Speed upgrades for melee/summon modifiers when Consecutive Punches had been activated.
• Values of uncommon and rare Plated Boots (Growth) had been mixed up.
• Quest Tank I had a wrong number in its description.
• Rank frame of Norsemans WP IV (Storming) was wrong.
• Endscreen congratulation text was sometimes truncated.
• Compendium did not update used Torment Shards in the info area.
• Scars of Toil had the wrong tooltip on its Icon.
• Warlocks character description said he should have only 350 instead of 500 HP.
• Cleric was stronger than their information made appear. (regeneration, Defense and Block Strength)

Stay Hydrated - Chasing Carrots

Hey hey Adventurers!

- Chasing Carrots

Hello Everyone! We just fixed the first batch of bugs. To make sure you get the latest update restart Steam (Or on Steam Deck leave the game and turn it off/on) - Fixing crashes with the Scriptor Rescue in Frozen Depths. - Lord of Greed should now properly spawn the Archaeologist's Threads that enable you to recover uncommon items. - The Vault should spawn normal and progress quest in a normal pace now after 30 minutes. - Make it more clear that it's on purpose that the Wellkeeper disappears with all your money. - Wellkeeper can no longer be talked to when he should be gone. - Horde Summoner II quest is now properly tracking. - Swordsman's Stance V will now properly be displayed. - Golem Trait "Devastion" no longer reduced the Force of everything. - Critical Prowess Quest had a wrong description, this quest is Shield Maiden only! - Cleric and Shield Maiden quests to get the rank V traits for metabolism and parry do work now. - Fixed a bug where quests would not pop midrun. - Fixed that the outro no longer gets displayed when dying in the Vault. - Fixed that uncommon items could be retrieved through the well, this has to be done via the special Shrine activated by the artifact "Archaeologist's Threads" Notes: - Holy Relic has been accidentally removed with the 1.0 patch from stashes, but we won't attempt to fix this as this may cause more issues. Please just recover the item again - thank you! - Torment Shards could not be found before the language update, if you have little or none because you haven't played in the past three months, this is intended. Thanks for your support, we'll keep an eye open for further reports and feedback over the coming days and weeks. Stay Fresh - Chasing Carrots

Good Day Adventurer!

Changelog 1.0

THE VAULT

• The Vault is the final stage of Halls of Torment and can be unlocked by purchasing 30 items from the Wellkeeper.
• To enter the vault youll need to spend some coins. The price is (mostly) up to you.
• The more you pay the more modifiers are added to the Vault. They may be positive, negative, or ambiguous.
• Every 4th modifier adds a Torment Shard to the final drop.
• The Vault lord does not spawn automatically after 30 minutes but requires you to activate him.
• A Vault run lasts for as long as the lord is alive.
• After the 30 minute mark the monsters' strength continuously rises.
• Beating the Vault unlocks the post game. This currently includes making uncommon items recoverable and being able to find additional artifacts.
• The Vault has a medium sized quest board to complete.

THE SHRINE OF TORMENT

• Unlocks by defeating the first boss in the Chambers of Dissonance.
• Agony mode will be moved to the Shrine of Torment entirely.
• Defeating lords in Agony now grants Artifact drops.
• Artifacts can be used to customize the game mode, but they also increase stats of monsters.
• There are a total of 30 artifacts (for now) of which you can use as many as you want.
• Using more artifacts improves drop chances, rarity of loot, and amount of champions.
• Additional artifacts unlock when you defeat the Lord in the Vault.
• If someone manages to defeat the Shrine with all artifacts well simply keep adding.
• An artifact quest board has been added to test the mastery of each and single one of them.
• Additional quests that require the usage of artifacts have been added across all boards.

THE SCRIPTOR

• He must be rescued from the Frozen Depths. (bring some fire )
• The Scriptor kindly informs you about all recoverable items available in Halls of Torment.
• Also, you may have already collected some Torment Shards.
• The Scriptor can permanently improve characters with shards. (fully refundable!)
• In the future the Scriptor may hold additional information.
• The scriptor has something to say about the other NPCs in the camp (and vice versa).

CHARACTERS

• Trait V quests can now be unlocked!
• Each character has 5 rank V traits available. 2 Weapon Proficiencies, 2 Stances and 1 Dedication
• The Weapon Proficiency is exclusive to each character.
• Stances are trade-offs for major play styles of each character. (Available via Marks)
• Dedications are improvements of the play styles of each character. (Available via Marks)
• Only one of the V-Rank traits can be taken from each character per run. (unless you do some potion witchery )
• Traits are available at level 60 when the previous traits have been taken.
• Each type Weapon Proficiency/Stance/Dedication for each character has an unlock quest.
• Sage has seen some changes regarding his balancing.
• Minor character balancing for all other characters, but no more drastic changes.

ITEMS

• All items now have 2 uncommon versions.
• Items can now be recovered in the post game. (Beat the Vault!)
• When using enough Artifacts, items of a new rarity can be found that are further improved variants.
• Its now more likely to find new items from Boss Chests.
• Champions will now drop buckets without you having to send any item through the well first.
• Up to two additional buckets can be found per run.
• The well will teleport close to the player after defeating the lord of a stage.
• There have been no new items added in this patch, but new ones will arrive in the future!
• Some items saw changes in functionality, fixes, and improvements.
• Jade Amulet now converts collected gold to XP.
• Collar of Confidence is no longer capped but has diminishing returns.
• Duelists Spark now increases damage for the number of defeated champions, bosses, and elites. This count does not reset between runs.
• Gatherers Amulet variants can refill potions during a run.
• Berserker Boots are now uncapped and have diminishing returns.
• Elven Boots are now uncapped and have diminishing returns.
• Hunters Garb is now uncapped and has diminishing returns.
• Blood Soaked Shirt is now uncapped and has diminishing returns.

QUESTS

• Weve added so many quests, we reached a total count of 500!
• There are a lot of new additional milestone quests. They are now spanning two boards.
• Existing saves will see that new levels of existing quest types will be automatically set to the level of the previous quest.
• Almost all quests are now trackable with the quest tracker instead of just showing 0/1 completed.
• Quests that are time based may scale with run time shortening artifacts.
• Certain quests have reduced requirements, specialist quests in particular.
• The Main Quests suggestions have been expanded to cover the whole game until beating the game.
• Additional information about quest tracking has been added to the game.
• All currently available quest boards have been filled up, and they all have been added as achievements.
• There might be more quests in the future, but quests after 1.0 will not be added as Steam achievements.
• Unfortunately not all final quest icons will be available, they will be added in the near future.

STAGES

• Weve added distance information to collectables on the screen edge markers.
• All stages got one or more additional ability drops, either by champions or placed directly in the stage.
• Additional drops must be unlocked via quests.
• On some maps the well has been visually adjusted.
• All stages got unique traps and enemies activated by new major Artifacts.
• For the base stages we expanded the amount of different champions and also added new abilities to them.
• Champion drops have been adjusted to improve when playing with artifacts.
• Changed how champions scale. It should happen less often now that they have dramatic damage spikes.

ABILITIES

• New unlocks for stages to enable a fixed drop of 11 abilities scrolls/tomes for each stage.
• All abilities have gotten an adjustment regarding Crit Chances, Crit Damage, Base Damage and traits that affect those values to line up more with base traits.
• Blessings focus now on relative increase rather than absolute ones.
• Spectral Fists adaptation traits have been altered to be better understandable, converting Attack Speed and Multistrike to Damage bonus.
• Increased the normal attack damage of Spirit Warriors, but changed that the projectile upgrades scale less drastically.
• Arcane Rift explosions can now actually apply damage effects.
• Reduced effect apply chance of Elemental Rifts when enemies are standing on them.
• Changed Arcane Rift spawning to be more regular.
• Kugelblitz now spawns more regularly and scales more evenly.
• Kugelblitz speed now scales with Movement Speed instead of Range.
• Meteor Strike now hits more regularly but with less foreseeable pattern. Increasing Base Area instead.
• Fixed an issue on Meteor Strike were triggers would be skipped when certain attack speeds were reached.
• Golem Upgrades no longer affect Roll duration or Roll Cooldowns
• Golem has a higher base Speed and more lax movement restriction to attack more often.
• Golem (and all other Summons) now scale their movement speed with the player!
• Golems Base Roll Cooldown and Duration have been increased, reducing the time wasted on transition states.
• If the Golem has a lower cooldown than Roll Duration, the Golem will no longer stop rolling.
• Golem Traits have been adjusted to reflect base balance change. It is also possible to get the Golem to no longer roll.
• Dragons Breath has now a higher Base Damage, also reflecting this in its traits.
• Fixed an issue where the flame turned invisible and kept moving.
• Base Attack Speed of Ring Blades has been doubled. In turn they have a 20% lower duration.
• Cyclone upgrade has been changed into a pattern to cover more area closer to the player.
• Frost Avalanche will not travel for as long as before and will also visually disappear gradually.
• Lightning Strikes now deal significantly more damage and have bigger areas and the base spawn is higher.
• Lightning Strikes scaling has been reduced a bit, but some negative modifiers have been removed from traits.
• Astronomers Orbs have been increased to 5, but deal less damage each.
• Astronomers Orbs had almost all traits rebalanced to reflect the base balance change.
• Many traits are losing some or all negative modifiers.
• Arcane Splinter now spawn more bullets that have a significantly higher base damage.
• Arcane Splinters have a lower duration.

QOL

• Abilities have now markers to let you know if they can be upgraded.
• When leveling up, its now more likely to get traits that are related to traits youve memorized via Potion of Memories.
• Endscreen now shows the active artifacts in a run.
• The quest menu now features a row of pips that indicate where you are currently in the quest board navigation.
• You can now view character and ability stats from the ability/trait selection.
• 16:10 and Widescreen support. When in widescreen mode: We are aware that you will see monsters popping in the middle of the screen. We do not change the gameplay/balancing to accommodate various screen ratios.

OTHER

• Halls of Torment is now running on Godot 4.3 including all available bug fixes! (Huge thanks to all the Godot contributors and maintainers!)
• Tons of stability and performance improvements, the game should run much smoother now. It will still tend to lag in late games or when too many things happen at once, but we are on it to push the limits.
• Game statistic tracking in the game profile starting from 1.0, to have the possibility to add statistics views in the future.
• Some abilities have been touched to bring them more in line with others, especially some traits related to them.
• Five new blessings have been added, three of them related to critical strikes.

Stay Fresh - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

• We will add the final stage in the game: The Vault. This stage will be a bit special and you might need some coins to enter. The Vault is not limited to thirty minutes - which means you can take your time or try to get through as fast as you possibly can.
• The Scriptor can be rescued from the Frozen Depths. He just needs someone to lighten him up. If you do, not only will he give you an overview over all the collectable items, hell also allow you to continuously improve individual character stats in exchange for Torment Shards.
• Torment Shards? Yes, you probably already have a handful of them lying around. Never wondered about those fancy crystals the lords are dropping? ;)
• And why is an item overview helpful? Not necessarily to satisfy greed, but to know all the base items and variants that will be recoverable from the Halls. Yes, variants, the new Shrine of Torment will enable you to recover uncommon tier items.
• The Shrine of Torment is something we feel many of you have eagerly waited for. We want to put back the Torment into the Halls and make HoT difficult again! The shrine will allow you to customize the game while increasing the difficulty so much that we are sure you are going to die, sooner or later.
• For that find the 30 artifacts that the lords hold onto in agony mode. Agony mode will be exclusively accessible through the Shrine of Torment in the future. One of those artifacts will be the Hastening Sands that cut off 10 minutes from the regular runtime of a run.
• You can activate as many artifacts as you wish. They might spawn additional monsters, set you on fire, reverse your walking direction, or hurt you whenever you collect gold. In return for enduring such torment you may be able to find some new shiny and rare items that are much stronger than their uncommon counterparts.
• We are finishing up the achievements with a whopping set of 500 quests. There might be more quests in the future, if you want, but these 500 will make up all the achievements on Steam for the future. And naturally they unlock a few new things, such as blessings related to critical hits.
• Character traits of the 5th rank: These traits work a bit differently than other character traits and might have a higher impact. You can take only one of those traits for the chosen character (or character mark).
• Those new traits are unlocked by some extra crunchy quests in which you need to prove your worth or by the amount of uncommon items and meta upgrades collected. To make it easier to track those quests we have rewritten many of the quests to be properly trackable with the quest tracking system!
• From 1.0 on you will also have the option to use the full width and height of your screen. For example, when playing with the Steam Deck or on a wide screen. But be aware, the game experience is optimized for 16:9 and some things might just pop into your screen instead of being magically hidden.
• Other than that: polish and quality of life, like distance indicators showing you how far away the next ability scrolls is, an additional view that shows you character and ability stats during trait/ability selection, unlocking additional ability drops on early stages, and more!
• Under the hood weve also worked on performance and stability. Weve upgraded to Godot 4.3 in time to bring some additional improvements (Huge shoutout to the Godot community improving the engine and also fixing issues!). We hope we could reduce most of the lag, the crashes, and any other type of problem. But we are always on the lookout for more issue reports :)

Stay Hydrated - Chasing Carrots

Hello Everyone!

A short overview of what we can currently confirm:

• Stage 6, the Vault
• The Scriptor, a new NPC to be rescued from the Frozen Depths
• The Shrine of Torment (late and end game challenges)
• Artifacts to customize the game experience in the Shrine of Torment
• Tier V character traits, new blessings related to critical hits and champion drops
• Final item adjustments, variants for all items including a new rarity level
• Polishing and QoL features for a better game experience

Hello Adventurers! We have a small update today, mainly to adress broken, untranslated or wrong localizations in the game. Aside from that we have been also looking in a few issues with the UI. We also fixed an issue that equipped items might not correctly trigger signals in the game that may be required for quests or other features. Most prominently fixing the issue that item damage was not tracked properly. This could happen to all items and should now work properly. Stay Fresh! - Chasing Carrots

Greetings Adventurers!

Hello Adventurers!

Guten Tag, Abenteurer!

• Gem Clusters are now colored based on the XP amounts they are giving.
• Selecting an inventory slot in the stash menu will now filter the items in the stash.
• Three new gloves: Frost Thorns, Thundercharged Gauntlets, Bloodstained Wrappings
• New Glove Variants: Sparking Tipps, Invocators Grasp, Thornfists, Fencer Gauntlet, Spellcaster Gloves
• New Quests & Achievements: Untouchable II (Norseman), Bloods Blessing (Beast Huntress)
• Bug Fixes & Smaller balancing adjustments

Complete Change Log

Translations

• Adding translations for: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Spain & Latin America), Ukrainian
• Automatic language detection based on Steam language settings
• Added language selection from the settings menu
• Note: Because the game is steadily developing, not all texts will be translated when updates are released. Well be updating the translation of new texts as soon as possible.

Changes

• The Electrify effect is now called Spark.
• Several various adjustments to the English texts
• Quest board was extended to offer more space for text.
• Quest Tracker now shows required character

Small Features

• Gem Clusters now change color depending on their XP value.
• Blue: <50, Yellow: <500, Red: <5000, Translucent: 5000 or more
• Selecting an inventory slot in the stash menu will now filter the items in the stash.

Items

• Sparking Tips: Variant (Lightning) has been added
• Invocators Grasp: Variant (Elites) has been added
• Thronfists: Variant (Vacuum) has been added
• Fencer Gauntlets: Variant (Multistrike) has been added
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Uncommon) has been removed
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Hyperfocus) has been added
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Multitasking) has been added
• New Item: Frost Thorns including two Variants
• New Item: Thundercharge Gauntlets including three Variants
• New Item: Bloodstained Wrappings including two Variants

Quests

• Untouchable II (Norseman) has been added, unlocking Frost Thorns
• Bloods Blessing (Beast Huntress) has been added, unlocking Bloodstained Wrappings
• Trained Sorceress (Sorceress) does now unlock Thundercharged Gauntlets

Balancing

• Hunting Gloves: 20% -> 30% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Boost): 40% -> 60% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Growth): 20% -> 30% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Growth): 0.5%/2 Levels Multistrike -> 0.3%/Level Multistrike
• Invocators Grasp: 40% Spawns -> 30% Spawns, Remove Force
• Invocators Grasp: 20% Damage -> 50% Damage
• Invocators Grasp (Uncommon) replaced with variants (Swarm) and (Elites)
• Invocators Grasp (Swarm): 60% Spawns, 50% Damage
• Invocators Grasp (Elites): 30% Spawns, 20 Base Damage, 50% Damage
• Unholy Touch: 50% Affliction -> 20% Fragile
• Unholy Touch (Uncommon): -> (Slow) / 100% Affliction -> 20% Slow
• Unholy Touch (Fragile): 100% Fragile -> 40% Fragile
• Unholy Touch (all variants): Scale now with their respective effect chances
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Projectiles deal now damage based on the targets elemental stacks
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Now scale with modifiers
• Sparking Tips (all variants): 100% Trigger Chance -> 10% Trigger Chance
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Burn Chance bonus
• Sparking Tips: 15% Burn Chance -> 20% Burn Chance
• Sparking Tips (Uncommon) -> (Fire)
• Sparking Tips (Fire): 15% Burn Chance -> 20% Burn Chance
• Sparking Tips (Fire): +100% Elemental effect damage bonus
• Thornfists (Uncommon) -> (Retribution)
• Quickhand Gloves (Growth): 0.4%/Level Attack Speed -> 0.3%/Level Attack Speed
• Longfinger Gloves & (Growth): 80% Pickup Range -> 100% Pickup Range
• Longfinger Gloves (Boost): 160% Pickup Range -> 200% Pickup Range
• Fencer Gauntlets (all variants): Removed additional block strength
• Spellcaster Gloves: 66.6% maximum Damage Bonus -> 100%
• Spellcaster Gloves: Reduce Delay from 2s to 1s
• Spellcaster Gloves: Increase Charge Speed
• Trait Piercing Wind: 0.10 Base Crit Bonus -> 0.15 Base Crit Bonus
• Iron Ring: 10 Base Damage -> 15 Base Damage
• Iron Ring (Boost): 20 Base Damage -> 30 Base Damage
• Iron Ring (Growth): 10 Base Damage -> 15, 0.125 Damage per Level -> 0.15
• Plated Boots (all variants): Changed % values to base values
• Plated Boots: 10 Defense, 10 Block Strength
• Plated Boots (Boost): 20 Defense, 20 Block Strength
• Plated Boots (Growth): 0.1 Defense & Block Strength per Level
• Runner Shoes: 25% Movement Speed -> 20% Movement Speed
• Runner Shoes (Boost): 45% Movement Speed -> 40% Movement Speed
• Runner Shoes (Growth): 0.5% Movement Speed / 2 Levels -> 0.2%/Level
• Plate Armor: 20% Block Strength -> 10 Base Block Strength
• Plate Armor: 20% Health -> 25% Health
• Plate Armor (Boost): 20 Base Block Strength & 50% Health
• Plate Armor (Growth): 0.1 Base Block & 0.25% Health per Level
• Chain Mail: 20% Defense -> 10 Base Defense
• Chain Mail: 20% Max Health -> 25% Max Health
• Chain Mail (Boost): 20 Base Defense & 50% Max Health
• Chain Mail (Growth): 0.1 Base Defense & 0.25% Max Health per Level

Bug Fixes

• Projectile Stats, the cone display did not give correct information
• Exterminators Flame Caster no longer scales cone with Area
• Added missing Modifier Icons for Vision Crown and Warchiefs Visor
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) had no Crit Chance (now 10%) / Crit Bonus (now 100%)
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) had wrong Base Damage of 100 instead of 200
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) falsely scaled with Attack Speed and Multistrike
• Swordsman character info in the selection screen were wrong (Main Weapon stats)
• Beast Huntress Base multistrike increase should have been 0.006 instead of 0.005 per level
• Beast Huntress character info stated 0.01 multistrike increase per level, was fixed
• Description of Frost Avalanche IV (Frost) Trait: Frost Chance -> Elemental Effect Chance
• Sparking Tips now show up in damage statistics
• Red item chests only gave 1 instead 2 item options
• Potion chests would display 2 instead of 1 item option
• OnHitChance sources are now properly displayed as bonus in Effect Chance on Hit details
• Sparking Tips damage now counts as Item, Fire and Projectile damage
• Thornfists damage now counts as Item, Melee and Physical damage
• Clerics Weapon Proficiency (Propagation) was not properly applying its effects
• Transfixion Specialist quest had the wrong amount of triggers in the description
• Norsemans Proficient Stance (Blizzard) did not add Frost Chance
• Sorceress description falsely stated she has no base regeneration
• Ring Blades were not considered Melee for Attack Speed
• Warlocks Bloodletting-Traits were falsely limited to the main weapon
• Abilities get some base crit chances before revisiting their final balancing
• Kugelblitz: 0% -> 10% Crit Chance
• Dragons Breath; 0% -> 5% Crit Chance
• Radiant Aura: 0% -> 5% Crit Chance
• Golem Melee: 20% -> 10% Crit Chance | 65% -> 100% Crit Bonus
• Golem Roll: 0% -> 20% Crit Chance | 100% -> 200% Crit Bonus
• Updating all mismatches in the english achievements on Steam

Hello Adventurers!

Experimental Changelog

Translations

• Adding translations for: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, German, Italian, [strike]Japanese[/strike], Korean, Polish, Portuguese ([strike]Portugal [/strike]& Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Spain & Latin America), Ukrainian
• Automatic language detection based on Steam language settings
• Added language selection from the settings menu

Changes

• The Electrify effect is now called Spark.
• Several various adjustments to the English texts
• Quest board was extended to offer more space for text.
• Quest Tracker now shows required character

Small Features

• Gem Clusters now change color depending on their XP value.
• Blue: <50, Yellow: <500, Red: <5000, Translucent: 5000 or more
• Selecting an inventory slot in the stash menu will now filter the items in the stash.

Items

• Sparking Tips: Variant (Lightning) has been added
• Invocators Grasp: Variant (Elites) has been added
• Thronfists: Variant (Vacuum) has been added
• Fencer Gauntlets: Variant (Multistrike) has been added
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Uncommon) has been removed
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Hyperfocus) has been added
• Spellcaster Gloves: Variant (Multitasking) has been added
• New Item: Frost Thorns including two Variants
• New Item: Thundercharge Gauntlets including three Variants
• New Item: Bloodstained Wrappings including two Variants

Quests

• Untouchable II (Norseman) has been added, unlocking Frost Thorns
• Bloods Blessing (Beast Huntress) has been added, unlocking Bloodstained Wrappings
• Trained Sorceress (Sorceress) does now unlock Thundercharged Gauntlets

Balancing

• Hunting Gloves: 20% -> 30% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Boost): 40% -> 60% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Growth): 20% -> 30% Multistrike
• Hunting Gloves (Growth): 0.5%/2 Levels Multistrike -> 0.3%/Level Multistrike
• Invocators Grasp: 40% Spawns -> 30% Spawns, Remove Force
• Invocators Grasp: 20% Damage -> 50% Damage
• Invocators Grasp (Uncommon) replaced with variants (Swarm) and (Elites)
• Invocators Grasp (Swarm): 60% Spawns, 50% Damage
• Invocators Grasp (Elites): 30% Spawns, 20 Base Damage, 50% Damage
• Unholy Touch: 50% Affliction -> 20% Fragile
• Unholy Touch (Uncommon): -> (Slow) / 100% Affliction -> 20% Slow
• Unholy Touch (Fragile): 100% Fragile -> 40% Fragile
• Unholy Touch (all variants): Scale now with their respective effect chances
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Projectiles deal now damage based on the targets elemental stacks
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Now scale with modifiers
• Sparking Tips (all variants): 100% Trigger Chance -> 10% Trigger Chance
• Sparking Tips (all variants): Burn Chance bonus
• Sparking Tips: 15% Burn Chance -> 20% Burn Chance
• Sparking Tips (Uncommon) -> (Fire)
• Sparking Tips (Fire): 15% Burn Chance -> 20% Burn Chance
• Sparking Tips (Fire): +100% Elemental effect damage bonus
• Thornfists (Uncommon) -> (Retribution)
• Quickhand Gloves (Growth): 0.4%/Level Attack Speed -> 0.3%/Level Attack Speed
• Longfinger Gloves & (Growth): 80% Pickup Range -> 100% Pickup Range
• Longfinger Gloves (Boost): 160% Pickup Range -> 200% Pickup Range
• Fencer Gauntlets (all variants): Removed additional block strength
• Spellcaster Gloves: 66.6% maximum Damage Bonus -> 100%
• Spellcaster Gloves: Reduce Delay from 2s to 1s
• Spellcaster Gloves: Increase Charge Speed
• Trait Piercing Wind: 0.10 Base Crit Bonus -> 0.15 Base Crit Bonus
• Iron Ring: 10 Base Damage -> 15 Base Damage
• Iron Ring (Boost): 20 Base Damage -> 30 Base Damage
• Iron Ring (Growth): 10 Base Damage -> 15, 0.125 Damage per Level -> 0.15
• Plated Boots (all variants): Changed % values to base values
• Plated Boots: 10 Defense, 10 Block Strength
• Plated Boots (Boost): 20 Defense, 20 Block Strength
• Plated Boots (Growth): 0.1 Defense & Block Strength per Level
• Runner Shoes: 25% Movement Speed -> 20% Movement Speed
• Runner Shoes (Boost): 45% Movement Speed -> 40% Movement Speed
• Runner Shoes (Growth): 0.5% Movement Speed / 2 Levels -> 0.2%/Level
• Plate Armor: 20% Block Strength -> 10 Base Block Strength
• Plate Armor: 20% Health -> 25% Health
• Plate Armor (Boost): 20 Base Block Strength & 50% Health
• Plate Armor (Growth): 0.1 Base Block & 0.25% Health per Level
• Chain Mail: 20% Defense -> 10 Base Defense
• Chain Mail: 20% Max Health -> 25% Max Health
• Chain Mail (Boost): 20 Base Defense & 50% Max Health
• Chain Mail (Growth): 0.1 Base Defense & 0.25% Max Health per Level

Bug Fixes

• Projectile Stats, the cone display did not give correct information
• Exterminators Flame Caster no longer scales cone with Area
• Added missing Modifier Icons for Vision Crown and Warchiefs Visor
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) had no Crit Chance (now 10%) / Crit Bonus (now 100%)
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) had wrong Base Damage of 100 instead of 200
• Thunder Crown (Uncommon) falsely scaled with Attack Speed and Multistrike
• Swordsman character info in the selection screen were wrong (Main Weapon stats)
• Beast Huntress Base multistrike increase should have been 0.006 instead of 0.005 per level
• Beast Huntress character info stated 0.01 multistrike increase per level, was fixed
• Description of Frost Avalanche IV (Frost) Trait: Frost Chance -> Elemental Effect Chance
• Sparking Tips now show up in damage statistics
• Red item chests only gave 1 instead 2 item options
• Potion chests would display 2 instead of 1 item option
• OnHitChance sources are now properly displayed as bonus in Effect Chance on Hit details
• Sparking Tips damage now counts as Item, Fire and Projectile damage
• Thornfists damage now counts as Item, Melee and Physical damage
• Clerics Weapon Proficiency (Propagation) was not properly applying its effects
• Transfixion Specialist quest had the wrong amount of triggers in the description
• Norsemans Proficient Stance (Blizzard) did not add Frost Chance
• Sorceress description falsely stated she has no base regeneration
• Ring Blades were not considered Melee for Attack Speed
• Warlocks Bloodletting-Traits were falsely limited to the main weapon
• Abilities get some base crit chances before revisiting their final balancing
• Kugelblitz: 0% -> 10% Crit Chance
• Dragons Breath; 0% -> 5% Crit Chance
• Radiant Aura: 0% -> 5% Crit Chance
• Golem Melee: 20% -> 10% Crit Chance | 65% -> 100% Crit Bonus
• Golem Roll: 0% -> 20% Crit Chance | 100% -> 200% Crit Bonus
• Updating all mismatches in the english achievements on Steam

Hello Adventurers! Thank you for the quick reports. Selecting Electrified Orbs would cause the game to crash. This issue has been fixed. Cheers - Chasing Carrots

The update can be accessed early by switching the game under "properties" -> "betas" to the experimental branch. Experimental Update: 2024-05-10 Live Update: 2024-05-14

Greetings Adventurers

Patch Notes

• Performance improvements across the board
• Stability fixes (thanks for the crash reports!)
• Quest Tracker to pin and track quests during a run.
• Quest Board can now be opened during a run.
• Fix: The XP curves in some halls were off. This led to vastly different XP level thresholds post level 100 between different halls.
• Adjusted XP drops based on Agony to scale more similarly between all halls.

• Added Warchiefs Visor that scales Force based on dealt damage.
• Windcrown rework: Attack Speed bonus is now uncapped. Added new uncommon variants.
• Ruby Circlet reworked. Now it comes with an uncommon variant affecting all elemental damage.
• Fighters Headband rebalanced and simplified.
• Gorgon Mask balancing: especially damage has been increased.
• Helmet and Hood have now new values, getting seriously better.
• Mask of Madness now offers Damage and Crit in the base variant. One uncommon variant has changed to be Attack Speed and Multistrike centered.
• Mask of Madness was clearly stronger than all other Headgear. So much so, that buffing everything else was not an option to fix the balance.
• Warhorns balanced, and they can now be influenced by effect chance and area buffs.
• Thunder Crown got a new physical variant and now partially scales with traits.
• Wooden Ring has been changed to apply relative crit chance instead of base crit.
• Copper Ring has been slightly improved.

• Channeling: 12% Force -> 10% Force
• Collateral Damage: 10% Area -> 6% Area
• Cunning Technique: 0.05 Base Crit Chance -> 10% Crit Chance
• Long Fingers: 30% Pickup Range -> 20% Pickup Range (Note: Base range on chars has been increased from 3m to 4m)
• Parry: 2 | 3 | 4 Base Block Strength -> 3 | 4 | 5 Base Block Strength
• Quick Hands: 7% Attack Speed -> 6% Attack Speed
• Swift Feet: 6% | 9% Movement Speed -> 0.2m/s | 0.3m/s Base Movement Speed
• Thick Hide: 2 | 3 | 4 Base Defense-> 3 | 4 | 5 Base Defense
• Vitality: 30 | 50 | 70 Base Health -> 30 | 40 | 50 Base Health

• Demonic Exchange (Speed): Minor adjustments of values.
• Elemental Surge: Increased required level from 30 to 50 and changed the chance from 10% to 5%.
• Ethereal Shift A: Added Equilibrium option -> 10% Multistrike for Melee & Projectiles
• Ethereal Shift B: Added Equilibrium option -> 20% Force for Magic & Physical
• Ethereal Shift: changed Damage buffs from 200% to 100% and Attack Speed reduction from 50% to 30%, so doubling one of the traits will not to 0% Attack Speed for Abilities & Attacks.
• Fire/Lightning/Ice Affinity: Changed to 10% Effect Chance and 10% Effect Strength bonus.

• Health Blessing: 8% -> 10% | decreased cost
• Regeneration Blessing: 0.15/s -> 10% | increased cost
• Defense Blessing: 3 (Base) -> 10% | decreased cost
• Block Blessing: 3 (Base) -> 10% | decreased cost
• Speed Blessing: increased cost
• Pick Up Range Blessing: decreased cost
• Gold Gain Blessing: increased cost
• Damage Blessing: 7% -> 10% | increased cost
• Attack Speed Blessing: 4% -> 6% | increased cost
• Multistrike Blessing: 4% -> 6% | decreased cost
• Force Blessing: 8% -> 10% | slightly increased cost
• Area Blessing: 7% -> 6% | slightly increased cost
• Range Blessing: 7% -> 10% | increased cost
• OnHit Chance Blessing: 5% -> 6% | slightly increased cost
• Physical Damage Blessing: slightly decreased cost
• Magic Damage Blessing: slightly decreased cost
• Burn Damage Blessing: 7% -> 10% | increased cost
• Electrify Damage Blessing: 7% -> 10% | slightly increased cost
• Frost Damage Blessing: 7% -> 10% | decreased cost
• Revive Blessing: increased cost

• Almost all offensive base values have been removed from Main Weapon traits, this caused a lot of bugs that led to many crashes and performance issues in combination with the sage!
• All characters have increased Crit Chance (5% - 33%) and Crit Bonus (100% - 400%) values.
• All characters had their pickup range increased from 3m to 4m.
• All characters have higher regeneration (usually 0.5, 1.0 or 1.5 per second, except the Warlock who is still at 0)
• Base Health of all characters is now either 300, 400 or 500.
• Base Defense & Block Strength have been balanced to be either 0, 10 or 20.
• Movement Speed is still the same for all characters.
• All Characters now have a general focus that is reflected mostly in the Stance traits.
• Weapon Proficiency now is mainly for Main Weapon attacks
• The doubling of stats in IV Traits has been removed for characters that had them. Well be adding V traits in a future update that are more specialized for the character. Those will be base value improvements!
• Characters level up bonuses and Main Weapon traits have been adjusted for better damage scaling.
• All level scaling now happens each level, removing the every 10 levels ones.

• Swordsman is now the Melee specialist (sorry Shield Maiden, but you can still keep the defensive power).
• Increased the base coverage of the Swordsman. He now also has a base Area & Range scaling when leveling up.
• Swordsman Mark now offers 10 Base Damage and 10 Base Defense.
• Archer lost many base value traits. (sorry, we know its fun - but it crashes the game)
• Archer got more movement speed traits & base piercing scaling.
• Archer mark is still adding base crit chance, defying the crit chance changes.
• Cleric attacks faster and has a base attack speed scaling. But they got their multistrike reduced.
• Cleric is the magic damage specialist and has the best options for debuffing enemies.
• Clerics mark now adds a fragile/debuff chance to main weapons.
• Exterminator still makes things burn but with lower base chance. In exchange he gets a bonus to burn with every level up.
• Warlock deals more damage per hit and also starts with 2 summon projectiles. This should increase his starting damage.
• Warlock's main weapon scales Multistrike with level ups.
• The Warlocks mark summons a skeleton mage shooting Warlock Summons.
• Sorceress seriously dealt far more damage than most other classes without any buffs, so we had to reduce her damage output.
• Sorceress now applies Electrify on crits (50% chance) instead of with normal hits. Her mark allows you to do the same.
• Sorceress now has a base Crit Chance scaling on her Main Weapon.
• Shield Maiden got her melee traits removed and got more defensive/block strength traits.
• The shield bash is now manually triggered and is used after the mace attack.
• The Mark of the Shield now adds % Block Strength as % Damage bonus (i.e. you get both, the Block Strength and the Damage bonus resulting from it).
• The Norseman is now Ice based, the Beast Huntress is now Physical based. This might be confusing but the two tried to have too many things at once, so we sorted that out.
• Weve also removed the specialized traits for now, but they are likely to come back!
• Norsemans Frost Nova has now a 100% chance to Frost that scales with level ups, but no longer deals damage. This Frost Nova can be acquired on other characters with the Norsemans mark.
• Like the Swordsman, the Norsemans Area and Range has been improved and also scales with level ups!
• Norsemans hits are far weaker now, but also occur far more often. Consider playing him with some base damage upgrades.
• Beast Huntress is now faster in attacking, just as the hound, since they no longer deal Frost damage.
• Beast Huntress can now scale Physical damage with her traits.
• The Hound has a bigger range of freedom. Hes hitting faster and his bite attack scales better. His movement is faster as well.
• The Hound needs someone to walk him out more often: Equipping the Mark of the Beast makes the Hound tag along.
• Landsknechts grenades had to be redone entirely code-wise. They were the cause for a lot of lag and even crashes. They now trigger every 3 seconds and the damage is based on the damage of projectiles between those triggers.
• Landsknechts grenades now only scale with Area and Multistrike. In exchange all other characters get access to the Grenade traits when Mark of the Grenadier is equipped.
• Landsknecht had the base value improvements removed from her stances.

• Burn and Electrify used to trigger all applied stacks at once if a 21st stack was attempted to be applied. The calculated damage for this was higher than what it should be, causing damage spikes once the stack count reached 20.
• The 21st stack will now deal a flat 500 Damage (is affected by buffs) instead of triggering all applied Burn or Electrify stacks.
• Frost stacks would not be removed when triggered upon applying the 20th stack, this was not intended. (Also causing damage spikes as soon 20th stack could be achieved)
• Burn duration has been reduced to 2 seconds and triggered every 0.2 seconds, making it apply the damage faster.
• Electrify now has a base tick time of 2s. But now the duration decreases faster with more stacks ending in similar tick times with the 20th stack as before. This makes it easier to reach higher Electrify stack counts.
• Base Damage adjustments: Burn 50, Electrify 100, Frost 50
• Frost Area now scales stronger in the lower numbers of stacks, but it has diminishing returns with higher stack counts.

• Arcane Rift is now unlocked by killing enemies in Frozen Depths.
• Spirit Warriors are now a Beast Huntress unlock.
• Hailstorm is now a Norseman unlock.
• Changed Norseman damage quests from Physical to Ice.
• Changed Beast Huntress damage quests from Ice to Physical.
• Frost Damage quest (Permafrost) is now a Norseman quest.
• Added a new level of the Frost Damage quest unlocking the Frost Dragon Helmet.
• The Dont Move-Quest (Tower) of Shield Maiden now unlocks the Warchiefs Visor
• Adding monster type kill quests to the Chambers of Dissonance
• The Construct Slayer-Quest now unlocks the new item Vision Crown

• Sages pickup range would not increase on level up.
• Rifts would not unlock elemental traits.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to get all 3 Kugelblitz upgrades.
• Hellhound Slayer-Quest had a wrong reward display.
• The Dash of Spirit Warriors now counts as Magic damage.
• Proficient stances of Sage and Exterminator used to be banished together.
• Chain lighting no longer jumps across the screen.

Balancing Talk

Stay Fresh Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Final Stage

Languages

Balancing

Shrine of Torment

Other Improvements

Hello everyone!

• Fixing one shot kills caused by Wyrms on Ember Grounds
• Fixing projectiles of enemies would not spawn
• Fixing projectiles of enemies would not deal damage
• Fixing projectiles of enemy explosion effects would not trigger
• Arcane Rift no longer dealing tick damage with base damage increases

Experimental Release: 2024-03-11 Main Release: 2024-03-13 (delayed) There are still slow downs in the game that we haven't found the source yet. The update for the main will be rescheduled to a later date. ----- Last Update: Updated the experimental branch: - Fixed a lag issue with the Arcane Rift - Elemental Rift no longer spawns as extra Rifts - Fixed descriptions - Fixed a bug that not all electrify applies from Kugelblitz were counted for the Specialist quest. (Note: Crits through Sorceress traits do not count on purpose) -----

Greetings Adventurers

Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue that could lead to crashes whenever bullets or effects were duplicated.
• Fixed a crash caused by the Adaptation-Trait of Spectral Fists when Cunning Technique was picked afterwards.
• Fix: Spawn rate in Chambers of Dissonance would not increase with Agony.
• Added custom key bindings for Auto Aim and Pause in the settings.

Lords

• Added hexes for all Lords
• Lords have new and improved sounds
• The Lords have reinforcements

Ability Upgrades

• Arcane Rifts upgrade: added three new upgrades that change the element of the rifts. Only one upgrade can be chosen.
• Added Arcane Rifts Specialist-Quest
• Kugelblitz upgrade Final Discharge has been added. Kugelblitz finishes in a strong explosion.
• Kugelblitz Specialist-Quest has been added.
• Flamestrike can now be transformed into Froststrike with a new ability upgrade.
• New quest Flamestrike-Specialist has been added.

Bug Fixes

• Dragons Breath, Refined Flame: The value changes for Attack Speed and Burn Damage have been fixed.
• Fix: Champions in Chambers of Dissonance could still get the Fast Walker modifier.
• Fixed Trait: Fusion (Meteor Strikes) -> Rel. -> Abs. Crit Bonus
• Fixed Trait: Accuracy X (Transfixion) -> Description
• Fixed Trait: Proficient Stance IV (Sage) -> Damage Value
• Fixed Trait: Frost Affinity -> Description
• Fix: Warlock main attack -> Counts now as Summon for Multistrike & Attack Speed
• Fixed Quest: Spirit Warrior Specialist -> no more tracking from other abilities
• Fixed an issue that caused Base Attack Speed to affect attacks that are triggered by distance moved.
• Fixed Sage description -> Movement Speed is actually 4.5m/s not 4.0m/s
• Breakables will no longer add damage to the damage statistics.

Hello Adventurers! We are sorry for our Japanese players, we've accidentally patched a Japanese localization test into the game that made the text broken on Japanese systems. We've reverted this and fixed some other issues along with it!

• Removing broken Japanese characters for Japanese players.
• Spirit Warrior's shockwave now counts as dash damage.
• Sage will now properly transform "Arcane Elements" into his main weapon.
• Arcane Elements unlock now elemental affinities.
• Fire patches and shadow patches weren't properly affected by opacity settings.
• Spikes and thunder crown should now count as item damage.
• Bosses in Haunted Caverns wouldn't face you when attacking. (they are a bit shy like some silly ghosts sometimes)

Greetings Adventurers

Heres an overview of the incoming changes

• Performance improvements on all ends, general ones and for specific abilities and cases.
• Fixed some sources of common crashes. As per usual we ask you to send us crash dumps after every new update to find new unknown sources for crashes. Thanks for your continuous reporting, even if we cant reply to everyone!
• Trait Variants View: When selecting traits with multiple variants you can now display the mutual exclusive traits in a separate view (right mouse click, or LB on the gamepad).

Chambers of Dissonance

• The next stage that can be unlocked by defeating the Twisted Construct in Frozen Depths.
• Chambers of Dissonance quest board has been added.
• The Chambers feature a complete roster of new unique monster types, including three new bosses and a final Lord boss.
• The stage comes with its own new music track.
• The difficulty should be manageable for most regular players. Players that have maxed out their builds wont have any trouble unless maybe playing with Agony turned on. Were also looking forward to your feedback on this and might apply some adjustments in the final update.

Landsknecht

• Can be unlocked in the Chambers of Dissonance.
• Quest board for Landsknecht has been added.
• Landsknecht-Mark has been added.
• Projectile focused character wielding a powerful arquebus and magic grenades.
• Magic grenades have a chance to be thrown every time when dealing damage with projectiles. Higher damage yields a significantly better chance.
• Landsknecht has 3 variants for each Trait, but from the total of 9, 4 are exclusive for the Landsknecht.

Sage

• Can be unlocked in the Chambers of Dissonance.
• Quest board for Landsknecht has been added.
• Sage Mark has been added.
• Characters main weapon is the first ability you choose at the beginning of the run.
• You start your run with a free ability selection.
• Sage traits are focused on abilities in general.
• The sage is quite knowledgeable and can always choose from the full set of abilities, even when picking up a scroll instead of a tome.

New Abilities

• Added Morning Star ability: a physical projectile/melee ability that gets a damage buff with force.
• Morning Star comes with three upgrades and a full set of traits.
• Morning Star is unlocked by completing Landsknecht quests.
• Added Spectral Fists ability which is a directly attacking summon ability.
• Spectral fists' special traits can influence other abilities or be strengthened by main weapon traits..
• Spectral Fists are unlocked by completing Sage quests.

Ability Changes

• Frost Avalanche rebalancing.
• Frost Avalanche got a new quest and ability upgrade.
• Spirit Warriors rebalancing, scales now with summon count improvements.
• Spirit Warriors Twin Warrior upgrade got replaced.
• Spirit Warriors got a new ability upgrade + quest.
• Hailstorm got a rebalancing: You need to drop the satellites from time to time so that the upgrades will keep doing their job.
• Hailstorm got an upgrade including a new quest to set enemies on fire.
• Kugelblitz received some changes to make it more useful, especially early on.

Other Changes

• Many smaller visual updates in effects and abilities.
• Added Physical & Magic Damage blessings.
• Multistrike III and Piercing Wind III traits have been added.
• New late run min-max traits unlocked through the Sage that can be used when reaching level 70.
• Frost effect damage has been reduced to a base of 80 while burn has been increased to 30.
• New layout for the Frozen Depths quest board.
• Total damage in endscreen has been changed to show the sum of all weapons, filtering out damage sources that have not been the player.
• New quest icons. (some are still missing, but will be added for the update next week)
• The HUD shows whether you have auto attack and/or auto aim enabled or not.
• Trait and ability selection screens have a selection feedback effect. UI effects can be turned off in the settings.
• Many smaller bug fixes

Update 01 (2024-02-13): Thanks for the quick feedback, we fixed several issues! - Landsknecht quests could not be completed - Sage would not be unlocked - Possibly the screen flickering (we need feedback for that) - An Arch was not able to be passed through - Added missing trait & blessing icons Update 02 (2024-02-14): - Landsknecht, fixing the grenade spawn, they shouldn't rain amass anymore - Landsknecht balancing adjustments, we'll keep trying a few things - Sage transform to Default Weapon should now work on projectile abilities. - Some items would not count for the item damage quest - Adjusting new quests, specifically the kill quest in Chambers of Dissonance If you don't get the update immediately, please try to restart Steam. -------------------------------------------

Greetings Adventurers

Heres an overview of the incoming changes

• Performance improvements on all ends, general ones and for specific abilities and cases.
• Fixed some sources of common crashes. As per usual we ask you to send us crash dumps after every new update to find new unknown sources for crashes. Thanks for your continuous reporting, even if we cant reply to everyone!
• Trait Variants View: When selecting traits with multiple variants you can now display the mutual exclusive traits in a separate view (right mouse click, or LB on the gamepad).

• The next stage that can be unlocked by defeating the Twisted Construct in Frozen Depths.
• Chambers of Dissonance quest board has been added.
• The Chambers feature a complete roster of new unique monster types, including three new bosses and a final Lord boss.
• The stage comes with its own new music track.
• The difficulty should be manageable for most regular players. Players that have maxed out their builds wont have any trouble unless maybe playing with Agony turned on. Were also looking forward to your feedback on this and might apply some adjustments in the final update.

• Can be unlocked in the Chambers of Dissonance.
• Quest board for Landsknecht has been added.
• Landsknecht-Mark has been added.
• Projectile focused character wielding a powerful arquebus and magic grenades.
• Magic grenades have a chance to be thrown every time when dealing damage with projectiles. Higher damage yields a significantly better chance.
• Landsknecht has 3 variants for each Trait, but from the total of 9, 4 are exclusive for the Landsknecht.

• Can be unlocked in the Chambers of Dissonance.
• Quest board for Landsknecht has been added.
• Sage Mark has been added.
• Characters main weapon is the first ability you choose at the beginning of the run.
• You start your run with a free ability selection.
• Sage traits are focused on abilities in general.
• The sage is quite knowledgeable and can always choose from the full set of abilities, even when picking up a scroll instead of a tome.

• Added Morning Star ability: a physical projectile/melee ability that gets a damage buff with force.
• Morning Star comes with three upgrades and a full set of traits.
• Morning Star is unlocked by completing Landsknecht quests.
• Added Spectral Fists ability which is a directly attacking summon ability.
• Spectral fists' special traits can influence other abilities or be strengthened by main weapon traits..
• Spectral Fists are unlocked by completing Sage quests.

• Frost Avalanche rebalancing.
• Frost Avalanche got a new quest and ability upgrade.
• Spirit Warriors rebalancing, scales now with summon count improvements.
• Spirit Warriors Twin Warrior upgrade got replaced.
• Spirit Warriors got a new ability upgrade + quest.
• Hailstorm got a rebalancing: You need to drop the satellites from time to time so that the upgrades will keep doing their job.
• Hailstorm got an upgrade including a new quest to set enemies on fire.
• Kugelblitz received some changes to make it more useful, especially early on.

• Many smaller visual updates in effects and abilities.
• Added Physical & Magic Damage blessings.
• Multistrike III and Piercing Wind III traits have been added.
• New late run min-max traits unlocked through the Sage that can be used when reaching level 70.
• Frost effect damage has been reduced to a base of 80 while burn has been increased to 30.
• New layout for the Frozen Depths quest board.
• Total damage in endscreen has been changed to show the sum of all weapons, filtering out damage sources that have not been the player.
• New quest icons. (some are still missing, but will be added for the update next week)
• The HUD shows whether you have auto attack and/or auto aim enabled or not.
• Trait and ability selection screens have a selection feedback effect. UI effects can be turned off in the settings.
• Many smaller bug fixes

Greetings Adventurers

Change Log | 2024-01-11

General Changes

• Chests with uncommon loot will drop more often.
• Dialogues contain new voices and add our voice actors to the credits.
• In Dialogues, characters will now use their mouths properly.

Dragons Breath

• Adding new ability upgrade Refined Flame which makes enemies hit by Dragons Breath take more burn damage in exchange for Attack Speed.
• Adding the quest Dragons Breath Specialist to unlock the new upgrade, requiring players to hit max burn stacks.
• Heat Blast upgrade adds Physical to Dragons Breath attacks.
• Dragons Breath is now more focused into the aim direction, having less spread.
• Fixing Agony Upgrade, it was not increasing base attack speed but normal attack speed.
• Reach traits do no longer add Area but Damage bonus instead.

Radiant Aura

• Adding a new ability upgrade Echoing Light. Enemies hit by the Aura have a chance to echo the light and damage all others around them for the same damage.
• Adding the quest Radiant aura Specialist requires players to make a single strong hit of 25 000 damage on an enemy with Radiant Light.
• Performance Improvements.
• Radiant Aura flash intensity now scales with the enemy flash intensity.

Ring Blades

• Adding a new ability upgrade Cyclone which changes the movement pattern of blades to fly in a circular pattern and extend their flying duration.
• New quest Ring Blades Specialist that wants your blades to travel for 500 miles.
• Ring Blades no longer disappear when being blocked.

Meteor Strike

• Meteor Strikes can now be transformed into Fireballs with a new upgrade, making the projectiles fly through enemies and hitting them for high damage, leaving a trail of fire and exploding after a certain amount of hits.
• Meteor Strike Specialist quest has been added that requires players to reach a certain amount of crits with a single meteor (counting every over crit trigger) to be completed.
• Scattered Debris does now scale with Area instead of Multistrike.
• Burning Craters now scale with Area.
• Burning Craters also burn enemies in the explosion area.
• Reducing the effect of the Blast trait from 30% to 25%.
• Scaling down the size of visual effects.
• Performance improvements.

Summon Golem

• Golems can now be duplicated with the Double Trouble upgrade.
• Unlocked by the quest Golem Specialist which requires players to have the Golem rolling for 20 minutes.
• Ferrite Infusion does now add shockwaves to the golem when moving, adding electrify to close enemies.
• Reducing the duration bonus for roll from Ferrite Infusion from x2.5 to x2.0.
• Acceleration Trait is now also increasing the movement speed of the golem by 10% but the attack speed by only 15%.

Bug Fixes

• Projectiles would not be properly destroyed when reaching max. hits.
• Reverberant Potion would not drop from chests anymore, this has been fixed.
• There was always a trait carried over from previous runs, this has been fixed and should also fix some additional follow up bugs resulting from this.
• Typos

Greetings Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-12-14

• Adding Twitch integration to support user votes on Abilities, Items and Traits
• Disabled filtering of base traits (Area, Range, Crit Chance, Crit Bonus, Force)

Agony

• Agony decay has been entirely removed
• Losing an agony level on death is still a thing
• Agony will increase by 1 level every 5 minutes
• Some of you may die, but its a sacrifice we are willing to make

Technical & Performance

• Updating the engine from Godot 4.1.4 to Godot 4.2
• Reworking data structure for faster load up speed
• The normal render mode will now be more performant
• Flash intensity scaling has been fixed and corrected for a better scale
• Adding an option to outline the cursor
• Adding additional log entries to better trace what happens during a run
• Performance update for summons

Lightning Strike

• Concentrated Strikes upgrade has been added
• Targets the monster with the highest Health and then spreads around it
• Also adds damage bonus for each elemental stack on enemies
• Adding quest Lightning Strikes Specialist to unlock the new upgrade
• New quest can be found on the Viaduct quest board
• Explosive strikes can now apply Burn
• Exploding Strikes no longer cancel out with Electrifying Strikes
• Base Damage of Lightning Strikes has been reduced
• Attack Speed and average hits per second has been increased
• Traits were adjusted to account for the balancing change
• Lightning Strikes now attack faster with higher Attack Speed to avoid Strikes being lost

Arcane Splinter

• Arcane Elements upgrade has been added
• All projectiles get a random element with a 20% chance to apply elemental status effects
• Adding quest Arcane Splinters Specialist to unlock the new upgrade
• New quest can be found on the Viaduct quest board

Items

• All base stat items get a new uncommon variant (Growth) which will need to be leveled and should outperform the (Boost) variant after 70-80 levels
• Some base items like Quickhand Gloves and Runner Shoes were improved
• Echoing band base range has been increased
• Adding uncommon Echoing Band that can trigger with magic damage
• Elemental Resonator was buffed
• Replacing previous uncommon variant to also trigger with magic attacks
• Adding a new uncommon variant (Chaos) that makes that every element has a chance to add any or all of every other elemental status effect
• Mask of Madness (Degeneration) now adding negative regeneration instead of damaging each Tick
• Reappearing traits after they had been banished

Bug Fixes

• No more negative Health (for real this time)
• Holy Relics Light does now count as source for Warriors Fervor
• Holy Relics uncommon variant now also scales with itS own light
• Blood Catcher (Enchantment), the temporary Attack Speed buff is now working
• No more potions stuck in the well, the wellkeeper threw them away
• If one has now all available bottles in the inventory, no more additional bottle drops
• Sometimes pointers to items would not disappear
• Scorched Slayer quest now properly shows Blazing Armor as reward
• Several Typos and descriptions
• Uncommon Shadow Cloak now spawns the correct patches giving you 30 Block Strength

Update: In the first upload of the patch there is a bug where no monsters spawn on agony 5, this bug has been corrected. Please restart Steam to make sure you have the fix! Update2: Fixed the quests in the ending screen, the issues with the potion of oblivion and the normal chest not dropping uncommon variants in agony. Update3: Fixed the "Reach Agony" quests. Update4: Fixing FireSplinter info and Arcane Elements splinter are now also Magic.

Greetings Adventurers!

Experimental Change Log | 2023-12-07

• Updating the engine from Godot 4.1.4 to Godot 4.2
• Adding Twitch integration to support user votes on Abilities, Items and Traits
• Reworking data structure for faster load up speed
• The normal (not performance) mode is now longer rendered on higher resolution
• -> In normal circumstances this will be no visible change from before, the text will remain sharp, performance in normal mode will improve
• Agony decay has been entirely removed
• -> Losing an agony level on death is still a thing
• -> Agony will increase by 1 level every 5 minutes
• -> Some of you may die, but its a sacrifice we are willing to make
• Flash intensity setting is working again with better scaling
• Disabled filtering of base traits (Area, Range, Crit Chance, Crit Bonus, Force)
• Adding options to add an outline to the cursor

Lightning Strike

• Concentrated Strikes upgrade has been added
• Targets the monster with the highest Health and then spreads around it
• Also adds damage bonus for each elemental stack on enemies
• Adding quest Lightning Strikes Specialist to unlock the new upgrade
• New quest can be found on the Viaduct quest board
• Explosive strikes can now apply Burn
• Exploding Strikes no longer cancel out with Electrifying Strikes
• Base Damage of Lightning Strikes has been reduced
• Attackspeed and average hits per second has been increased
• Traits were adjusted to account for the balancing change
• Lightning Strikes now attack faster with higher Attack Speed to avoid Strikes being lost

Arcane Splinter

• Arcane Elements upgrade has been added
• All projectiles get a random element with a 20% chance to apply elemental status effects
• Adding quest Arcane Splinters Specialist to unlock the new upgrade
• New quest can be found on the Viaduct quest board

Items

• All base stat items get a new uncommon variant (Growth) which will need to be leveled and should outperform the (Boost) variant after 70-80 levels
• Some base items like Quickhand Gloves and Runner Shoes were improved
• Echoing band base range has been increased
• Adding uncommon Echoing Band that can trigger with magic damage
• Elemental Resonator was buffed
• Replacing previous uncommon variant to also trigger with magic attacks
• Adding a new uncommon variant (Chaos) that makes that every element has a chance to add any or all of every other elemental status effect

Bug Fixes

• No more negative Health (for real this time)
• Holy Relics Light does now count as source for Warriors Fervor
• Holy Relics uncommon variant now also scales with itS own light
• Blood Catcher (Enchantment), the temporary Attack Speed buff is now working
• No more potions stuck in the well, the wellkeeper threw them away
• If one has now all available bottles in the inventory, no more additional bottle drops
• Sometimes pointers to items would not disappear
• Scorched Slayer quest now properly shows Blazing Armor as reward
• Several Typos and descriptions

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-11-27

• When swapping item versions, their counters (and accumulated buffs) were not kept.
• Holy Relic now heals you for the fixed 50 HP.
• Power ups and health pickups from items can no longer spawn out of bounds.
• Characters can no longer drop below 1 max. Health.
• Shepherds Boon bonus on full health only charges when being at full health now.
• The Focus variant of Shepherds boon now increases main weapon damage.
• The Summon Rings had a bug where the base increase of summon counts would be applied multiple times. This resulted in hundreds of minions when using the Shepherds Boon.
• The Brimming variant of Maidens Tear now properly adds a 60% bonus.
• The gem spawn positions on the Viaduct are now calculated more accurately.
• Wisps and Wyrms are no longer getting lost in the Frozen Depths as theyve been taught how to navigate through the passages.
• Wyrms on Ember Grounds are back at work.
• Possessed Effigy (that nice little statue ghosts on the Viaduct) have their effect on Agony reduced.
• Decreased the effect of monsters on Agony in general, making it decay slower.
• Removed all the speed modifiers from Champions.
• Corrected a balancing mistake with Viaduct and Frozen Depths not scaling monster spawns properly.

Update - Known Bugs

• Switching to uncommon variants does not carry over buff effects
• Holy light does not trigger Warrior's Fervour
• Wyrms on Ember Grounds are stuck

Hello Adventurers!

Level 5 Progress

Crashes and Performance

Whats Next?

Change Log | 2023-11-24

• Various performance optimizations
• Fixed several crash causes and improved overall stability

Features

• Health potions and power ups now have simplified markers
• Red markers are for potions and have a max. distance of 50 meters
• Yellow markers are for power ups with a max. distance of 100 meters

New Items

• Unlocked by the existing Cleric quest Trained Cleric
• Includes two variants (Duality) and (Blessing)

• Unlocked by the new Norseman quest Warriors Fervour
• Collect 10 Power Ups in one run.
• Includes two variants (Lingering) and (Potency)

• Unlocked by the new Warlock quest Horde Summoner
• Have 20 Summons at the same active
• Includes two variants (Numbers) and (Focus)

Item Reworks

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Passive) and (Reactive)

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Champion) and (Prepared)

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Recovery) and (Unrest)

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Rage) and (Undying)

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Life) and (Enhancement)

• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Capacity) and (Sacrifice)

• Updating normal version of the item
• Replaced uncommon version with new variants (Quick Charge) and (Brimming)

Balancing

• The hit rate now scales with the orb amount in the Orbit
• eg. with 15 orbs the hit rate is now every 0.1s instead of 0.5s for each enemy
• Decreasing Base Damage from 40 to 30
• Decreasing Material-Trait Base Damage improvement from 7 to 6

• Doubled health reductions
• Buffs reduced to 1-2%
• Changing ratio of buffs
• Damage 50%, Attack Speed 33.3%, Multistrike 16.6%
• Expanded description of Degeneration-Variant
• This variant scales with Health Regeneration
• Mask of Madness now lists added sum of buffs in its stats

• Fixed that agony rank was not decreasing on death
• Increasing the time before enemies reduce agony by 25%
• Increasing the amount by which enemies reduce agony by 400%
• Agony does not rubberband anymore

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue with multiple sources of invincibility affecting each other.
• Fixed an issue with the UI input which made it impossible to navigate to all quests with the gamepad.
• Moved the Ice Slayer-Quest to a new location on the quest board.
• Beast Huntress 2/hp per level bonus did not work, it just added 2 Max. HP in total.
• The Frost Trait of Frost Avalanche wasnt applying its effect.
• Fencer Gauntlets now do work with the Sorceress.
• Meteor Strikes Attack Speed is no longer extended by the attack duration.
• The Meteor Strike cooldown now will be displayed properly.
• Some Ring Blades opacity werent affected by the settings.
• Added a note for the Specialist quest of Phantom Needles regarding double crits.

Q&A

- Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Hello Adventurers! We have swiftly added a small fix for the "Wide Sweep" achievement. There has been a bug since the last patch that prevented counting the hit enemies with the Swordsmen. Thanks for the reports and your patience! Cheers - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-10-30

Items

• New item: Gorgon Mask (Head)
  • Slows down enemies in front of you.
  • Deals damage based on slow stacks.
  • Unlocked by quest: Viaduct Survivor III (Viaduct)
• New item: Mask of Madness (Head)
  • Take damage in regular intervals.
  • On each interval you get a permanent buff in exchange.
  • Unlocked by quest: Mark of Madness (Warlock)
• New item: Brokers Cape (Body)
  • Selects a random debuff from an enemy.
  • Tries to apply the selected debuff to all enemies in range.
  • Unlocked by quest: Broken Body (Cleric)
• Item Rework: Rat Ring (Ring)
  • Rats now attack the closest enemy that theyve not attacked yet.
  • If rats cant find a new target, they wait and then attack the previous enemy again.
  • Rats deal 20 physical damage to enemies they touch.
  • Rat Ring is now affected by summon count.
  • Amount of debuffs applied is now affected by Multistrike.
  • New uncommon variants.
• Monsters can now have slow resistance and limits on how slow they can be.
  • Resistance: champion (25%), elite (50%), boss (66%), lord (80%)
  • Limit: champion (30%), elite, boss, lord (50%)
• Its more likely now to get uncommon variants of items that the character has equipped.
  • The probability factor is distributed equally among all equipped items.
  • The probability factor considers the amount of unlocked items and is increased accordingly.
• Polish: Ring summons are now listed below the item stats.
• Polish: Summon rings now have better icons in the info area.
• Bugfix: Ring summons will now despawn when rings are unequipped.
• Bugfix: Ring summons now have correct summon count limits on re-equipping.
• Bugfix: Summoned skeleton mage attacks now also count towards summon damage.
• Bugfix: Certain summon counts were not accounted for.

Abilities

• New ability upgrade: Phantom Fetter (Phantom Needles)
  • Unlocked by new quest: Phantom Needles Specialist (Viaduct)
  • Quest requirement: 10 000 double crits in a run with Phantom Needles
  • Slows enemies on hit.
  • Gets additional crit chance based on the slow stacks on the hit enemy.
• New ability upgrade: Orbital Shift (Astronomers Orbs)
  • Unlocked by new quest: Astronomers Orbs Specialist (Viaduct)
  • Quest requirement: Hit 40 000 enemies in a run with Astronomers Orbs
  • Orbs change distance from the player, forming a rotating ellipse.
  • Orbs deal damage based on the relative distance to the player.
• New ability upgrade: Amputation (Transfixion)
  • Unlocked by new quest: Transfixion Specialist (Archer)
  • Quest requirement: Apply 150 000 debuff stacks with Transfixion
  • Enemies take 10% bonus damage per debuff stack on them.
  • Adds an additional Transfixion emitter.
• Transfixion balancing:
  • Reduced base damage from 80 to 70.
  • Increased the multiplier for multi enemy hits from 66% to 75%.
  • Decreased the base damage from deadliness trait from 15 to 10.
• New trait: Crippling Strikes
  • Increases slow chance by 15%
  • 3 levels (10, 20, 35)
  • Unlocks with the new quest Crippling Strikes on the Viaduct quest board
• Polish: Swapped places of quests on the Viaduct quest board.

Agony

• Agony decay from monsters now starts after a delay.
  • Default delay is 10s. Stronger enemies or enemies that spawn further away have a higher delay.
  • Enables slower starting builds or builds that need monsters closer to not lose Agony as long as they can keep up with the normal spawn rate.
• Agony is now generated over time instead of killing monsters.
  • Earliest possibly Agony rank ups are every 4 minutes with Agony 5 being achievable at 20 minutes in.
  • Each Agony rank now requires the same amount of points to reach.
  • There is a small buffer beyond Agony 5 to not directly fall below Agony 5 if the killing speed dips for a moment.
• Agony still decreases on revive, a revive now decreases Agony by 1 rank.
• Agony scaling has been adjusted so that Agony 5 difficulty is similar on each stage.
  • Adding damage scaling for all stages (stronger on lower stages) -> 2.5% - 10% per Agony level
  • Increased monster health scaling on lower Agony ranks.
  • Increased XP and gold drop scaling on lower Agony ranks.

Bugfixes

• Auto aim now works for all characters on most of the visible screen space.
• Fixed name of Reverberant Bottle item (wrongly labeled Memorizing Bottle)
• Uncommon Firewalker Boots now give 1.0m/s base speed increase (previously 0.5m/s)
• Profile restoration is performed at game start when a corrupted profile has been detected.
• Adjusted ability descriptions
• Ring of Frost description stated wrong frost chance on hit (its 15% not 10%)
• Meteor Strike main projectiles were not affected by most Meteor Strike upgrades
• Hailstorm changes:
  • Traits now properly display they are associated with Hailstorm.
  • Increased satellite drop base damage from 200 to 500.
  • Increased satellite drop direct damage area radius from 3m to 4m.
  • Increased movement speed factor from x0.2 to x0.3.
  • Increased trigger distance of vortex and spikes from 2m to 2.5m.
  • Reduced base force of vortex from 100 to 75.
  • Reduced emit count from Eyes trait from +0.33 base to +0.3 base.
  • Added a movement speed factor reduction of base x0.05 to the Wind trait.
  • Changed Updraft trait base damage from flat +40 to 30%.
    • This means 40 -> 150 for the satellite drops
    • This means 40 -> 30 for the spikes

Performance

• Weve done some under-the-hood performance optimizations. Theres still room for improvement and well keep on working on that front.

What's Next?

Hello Adventurers!

• Cloud: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=2218750
• Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\\2218750\remote
• Linux: \userdata\\2218750\remote

Change Log | 2023-10-17

Polish

• Hailstorm spikes got adjustment to improve performance
  • Increased base damage
  • Lower spawn rate
  • Shorter duration
  • Delayed spawns
  • Increased area for spikes
• Hailstorm Updraft trait got the base damage increased from 10 to 40

Bugfixes

• In some cases save files were lost, they should be back now
  • A restart of the Steam environment or the device (Steamdeck) might be needed.
  • If you still have problems with your current profile, we recommend restoring the most recent profile backup in the profile menu.
• Uncommon Berserker Boots do now use the new icon.
• Arcane Rift got its blast animation back.
• Hailstorm spikes visibility can now be adjusted through the ability visibility.
• Game got stuck when opening the Steam Overlay.
• Hail Storm quests are now properly unhidden, when adjacent quests have been completed.

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-10-16

Features

• New frost based ability: Hail Storm
• Reworked Item: Blazing Shell. It now burns enemies in the players vicinity and additionally when the player gets hit by an enemy.

Polish

• Added class specific icons for proficient stance traits.
• Added missing icon for Frost Affinity trait.
• Added missing icons for Elemental Surge traits.
• Added missing icons for Berserker Boots and Ring of Ice items
• Added voice sounds for Lord of Pain.
• Phantom Needles stats got extended.
• Phantom Rift Area can now be upgraded.
• Astronomers Orbs stats got finished up.

Bugfixes

• Tome of Mastery can handle Ability upgrades and fallback options (Alms and Health) correctly
• Elite beasts in Frozen Depths have now normal elite HP
• Fixed piercing on bullets and chain lightning
• Transfixion has been partly counted as physical/main weapon, not anymore.
• Sometimes when players picked up multiple overlapping items on the floor, only one of them actually got registered while all others have been ignored (and deleted).
• Arcane Splinter force now properly affects the duration of the bullets, especially fading was fixed
• Phantom Needles and Kugelblitz are now properly affected by Multistrike
• Longliving Quest reward unlock description fixed from "Duration" to "Force" blessing
• Stat tooltips now show proper format for additive mods. Also, stats now are more precise.
• Some minor stability fixes under the hood.
• Fixed a bug that prevented stat changes on cascading effects (like bullets spawning bullets). This also affected the proper display of certain ability stats (e.g. Meteor Strike).
• Fixed a bug that some Effect on Hit modifiers would show 0% chance in stats.
• Phantom Needles and Kugelblitz showed wrong attack speed stats.
• Sorceress no longer gets range traits shown per default.
• Archer now has range traits per default.
• Settings Menu: Ability Effect Opacity slider was not accessible via gamepad.

What's Next?

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-09-21

Features

• Refactored display of stats in character sheet and "Traits & Abilities" section
  • stats are displayed in a more dynamic manner: weapons and items are displayed in separate categories
  • Most stats of abilities are now displayed properly
  • Stat labels are more context sensitive, e.g. it is shown which attributes are affected by Force
  • (Some stats might still be missing and should be added later on)
• Profile containing game progress is backed up once a day
• Added profile management menu which allows you to:
  • Browse and restore profile backups
  • Reset your current progress (if you want a fresh start)

UI

• Names of ability upgrades are listed in ability tooltips
• upgraded abilities are marked with chevrons in the HUD

Tome of Mastery

• allows you to pick any ability from the pool of all available abilities
• replaces initial ability scrolls in all stages

Balancing

• further reduced agony score ceiling in Frozen Depths so Agony V is achievable

Visibility

• improved contrast of bright purple enemy projectiles against bright backgrounds
• increased sprite contrast of red and blue burning skull monsters

Bugfixes

• Fixed "get xp while closing" exploit in chest UI.
• Fixed input issue caused when first time selecting a character using the keyboard.
• Fixed a bug that would give all enemies a 100% damage buff.
• Fixed a bug with modifier categories that caused modifiers to affect abilities they shouldn't apply to.
• Flame Strike heatup traits applied burn chance modifiers the wrong way.
• Kugelblitz crit chance traits now affect the lightning from the High Voltage upgrade.
• Frost affinity corrected text "frost damage" to "ice damage".
• changed frost avalanche "attraction" traits pushback force from -20 to -30.
• Fixed a bug that caused ballistic bullets to fly way too fast.
• Fixed a bug that caused electrified orb damage not being updated on movement speed changes.
• Shieldmaiden's "stalwart dedication" now restores health when max health is increased.

Prelude savegame import

• Fixed prelude savegame format so import function in full game works again.
• (Start the prelude once to update the savegame before importing)

What's Next?

Greetings!

• right-click Halls of Torment in your Steam library
• click Properties
• in the left bar of the Properties window select Betas
• under Private Betas enter the following beta access code: experimental
• Click Check Code
• Click on the Opt in button that appears
• Wait for the game to update

Hello Adventurers!

The Patch

Change Log | 2023-09-13

• Spirit Warrior
  • Buffed melee attack
  • Buffed dash attack
  • Added stun effect to dash
• UI
  • Added a character description panel at the campfire
  • Added ability description in "Traits and Abilities" screen
  • Increased size of right panel HUD tooltip
  • Increased size of inventory item tooltips
• Difficulty
  • Agony champion projectiles are slower now and shouldn't off-screen the player so often
  • Shadow Cloak: uncommon version got buffed
  • Frost Avalanche: Increased direct damage from 25 to 50
  • Reduced the Agony score cap in Frozen Depths. It hasnt been adjusted after rebalancing monsters.
  • First champions do now spawn after 90 seconds to avoid clashing with regular 2nd monster wave elites.
• Bugfixes & Typos
  • Fixed missing ingredient indicators on Gatherer's Charm (e.g. Dragon Nettle)
  • In some trait descriptions regeneration modifiers weren't described properly
  • Shadow Cloak: block strength in description now fits the actually applied block strength
  • Fixed typos in quest descriptions
  • Spirit Warrior: it is now possible to select a second ability upgrade after picking up trait VI
  • OnHit chance stats of abilities are now displayed as chance percentages instead of flat values
  • Flame Strike: typo in ability tags
  • Ring of Thunder & Ring of Frost: fixed typos in descriptions
  • "Purification" traits of Cleric have been fixed: areas and ranges were too low
  • "Voltage IV" trait fixed, now only triggers electrify on critical hit
  • "Summon Golem" - Magma Fists was missing "fire" and "burn" tags
  • Beast Huntress level 60 quest now yields a gold reward
  • Clerics movement speed was slightly to low, its now corrected to 4.5m/s
  • Beast Huntress had the physical tag instead of the elemental tag on her spear
  • Maidens Tear would make you invincible on unequip when it was fully charged.
  • There was falsely a Wraith Guard champion in the Frozen Depths, its now a Snow Effigy.

What's Next?

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-09-07

• Summons in general
  • fixed floaty movement behaviour by adjusting mass/movement speed ratio
• Beast Huntress
  • improved game feel increased attack speed proportionately lowered damage and frost chance improved projectile visuals
  • Hound
    • increased attack speed
    • reduced damage proportionately
    • Hound will choose targets that are closest to the Beast Huntress instead of its own position
    • increased aggro range and movement speed
    • changed attack to a circular emitter in front of the Hound
    • added a better visual effect and sounds for the attack
• Norseman
  • added missing description of Frost Nova ability
• Visibility
  • Player's Frost Avalanche ability effects have been moved below characters sprites and enemy projectiles.
  • Enemies' frost avalanche effects have a higher contrast and stand out more against the frozen depth background.
  • Ability opacity setting now also affects Shadow Cloak, Arcane Rift areas, Arcane Rift Splinters, and Ringblades.
• Ember Grounds tweaks
  • minor adjustments in XP distribution during early waves
  • slightly increased pickups in stage
  • slightly increased health values of some enemies
• Bugfixes
  • Spirit Warrior falsely reacted to "+Spawn" modifiers, which was unintended.

What's Next?

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-09-05

• Settings
  • added configurable keyboard bindings
  • added opacity setting for player ability effects
• Difficulties of Ember Grounds and Forgotten Viaduct
  • reduced damage dealt by enemies with special movement patterns or high movement speed
  • reduced damage from enemy projectiles
• Frozen Depths Difficulty
  • reduced damage dealt by regular enemies
  • reduced health of regular enemies
  • increased enemy spawn count for regular enemies
  • reduced agony decrease rate on each enemy, since monsters take longer to reach the player's screen edge on Frozen Depths
• Frozen Depth Bosses
  • reduced trigger distance for ranged attacks to avoid player getting off-screened
  • made projectile based attack patterns of bosses less frustrating
    • slower movement
    • less dense patterns
    • smaller damage areas
  • increased size of hit areas (the ones that receive damage, not the ones that deal damage)
  • Bugfixes
  • fixed a bug that caused frost effects to trigger every frame forever once their timer has run out

What's Next?

• adjust Beast Huntress and Hound AI
• improve information on character stats
• adjust Spirit Warrior ability
• address various bugs, typos, and missing assets
• improve enemy projectile visibility in Frozen Depths
• fix bugs in agony champions

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-08-31

FEATURES

• New feature: Class Marks
  • Class Marks allow you to pick traits from a different class
  • To unlock a class mark you will need to finish the class master quests.
  • Those quests require you to reach agony IV on the character's stage of origin.
  • These quests superseed the character quests to reach level 100.
  • If you have already completed the level 100 quests those quests will be set as completed.
• New feature: Agony Mode
  • Agony Mode can be unlocked by defeating the Lord of a stage.
  • Monster count, monster health, and XP drops are dynamically scaled based on your performance
  • Each killed enemy increases agony, while monsters that are alive reduce agony over time.
  • Aside from monsters, only reviving reduces agony.
  • You may find Uncommon Items: stronger variations of items that youve retrieved previously
  • Additional champion monsters are spawning
  • Champions are randomized monsters with extra modifiers and abilities.
  • Champions can drop various rewards from ability scrolls, to uncommon items, gold, flasks, or an extra bucket for the well.
• New stage: Frozen Depths
  • Can be unlocked by defeating the frost knight on the Forgotten Viaduct.
  • New unknown enemies await with 3 unique bosses and a new lord.
  • The stage layout limits your movement and requires you to navigate carefully through the caves while avoiding getting encircled by foes.
• New elemental effect: Frost
  • Frost explodes and deals damage in an area when the affected monster dies or 20 stacks have been accumulated.
  • If the frost effect runs out it triggers with only half of its damage.
  • Frost deals damage based on the number of stacks.
  • The strongest hit that applied frost determines the area of the effect.
• New characters
  • Norseman
    • Dual wielding axe fighter boosting your physical abilities.
    • When he hits a certain number of enemies he unleashes a devastating Frost Nova.
  • Beast Huntress
    • Throws her spear with great force, piercing through the enemy lines and applying frost effect.
    • Has a hound that protects her from close enemies.
• New abilities
  • Ice Avalanche: an ice based attack with a diagonal pattern.
  • Flame Strike: close quarter defense or boss killer.
  • Arcane Rift: magic mines that deal devastating damage.
  • Spirit Warrior: summoned warrior that dashes through enemies.
  • Potion of Renewal: allows you to reroll abilities
  • Hallucinogenic Elixir: allows you to reroll items in a chest

POLISH & QOL

• All final stage bosses have lower health but they increase in difficulty over time.
• Potion of Oblivion now allows you to banish a trait without closing the trait selection.
• Discarding all items in a chest gives you XP worth 50% of your current total XP bar.
• You can now discard all abilities from a Scroll of Mastery which will also give you 50% XP of your current total XP bar.
• Some fixes regarding item and monster positioning in level geometry
• Picking up quest items or ingredients will show a short text telling you what youve picked up
• Potion quantities have been adjusted (max amount and bottles)
• Many more tweaks, adjustments, and bug fixes that would either go beyond the scope of this post or we didnt track properly.
• Retrieving potion bottles doesnt use up the well any longer. Also, when you survive a run, all bottles in your bag will be automatically added to your potions (no purchase necessary).

What's Next?

Greetings Champions!

Have a nice weekend, whatever you do! - Chasing Carrots

Greetings Brave Souls!

Frozen Depths

Norseman

Character #9

Flame Strike & Frost Avalanche

Agony

• Randomized Champions will spawn and drop additional loot
• Health and Enemy amount are increasing based on performance
• Increased Gold rewards

Frost Effect

Other Additions and Changes

• Gold rewards when dying/winning now depend on the stage.
• All lords now work by getting stronger over time and having reduced Health pools.
• Reroll potions for abilities and items have been added.
• Characters now get automatically some stats every level (defensive) / 10 levels (offensive).
• Characters have more traits now that benefit specific play styles.
• General balancing work on abilities and characters.
• Piercing and Duration have been replaced by Force, which also boosts Knockback of melee attacks.
• Item Balancing - Most items have seen a boost in strength.
• All damage effects are now limited to 20 stacks. They trigger damage when trying to apply once again.
• Fixing several smaller and bigger bugs.

Stay Cool - Chasing Carrots

Greetings Champions!

Joining the Beta

Contents & State of the Beta

• Assets are not final and some content will be using place holders (enemies, items, abilities)
• Not all quests and unlocks will be added.
• Unlocks bound to quests will automatically be available once the content gets added.
• Content and balancing might be vastly reworked during the beta as many content items have not been tested in depth.
• The beta is not feature complete, additional features will be finished during the beta.

Duration & Updates of the Beta

Reporting & Communication for the Beta

Beta Preview

• New stage Frozen Depths
• Agony game mode (not final yet)
• Balancing changes to characters, traits, items and abilities
• Up to 2 of the 4 new abilities.
• 1 of the 2 new characters.
• Many smaller changes and additions
• Stability updates & engine upgrade

New Achievements & Quests

Hello Adventurers!

Frozen Depths

Agony

Balancing

Other Changes

Hello all!

Cheers - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log | 2023-06-27

FEATURES

• New NPC: Cupbearer!
• Quest to rescue the Cupbearer
• The trait selection can have Reroll, Banish, Memorize, and Double Potions
• Collect ingredients to unlock all the potions
• Collect bottles to increase the amount of each potion
• New Item: Gatherers Charm (automatically acquired when Cupbearer has been rescued)
• for more details see our Dev Journal #4

POLISH & QOL

• Item pickup from chests is more intuitive now. The new item will be equipped when the slot is unoccupied, otherwise it will be put into the bag. When the bag is also full, the player first has to make space or discard the chest items.
• Improved Golem roll and attack behavior
• Improved Imp and Skeleton Summons movement speed and steering
• Wraith lance attacks will also play a sound now (Lord of Despair and Wraith Horseman)
• Ability Scrolls in the world are sometimes guarded by an elite monster
• Performance with lots of XP Gems lying around should now be way better. There should also be no massive slowdowns when picking up a Hand of Greed anymore.
• Integrated Godot delta smoothing for smother gameplay when the game runs at the vsync limit
• Item well state (retrieved, owned, etc.) is not displayed if the Wellkeeper has not been rescued.
• Invocators Grasp got its own item graphic.
• Removed some very loud low frequencies in Exterminators fire sound which caused some players to complain about its loudness.
• Better sound for breaking pots on Ember Grounds.
• Improved death animation of Gargoyles.

BUG FIXES

• Added an error message to the start of the game when Steam could not be initialized. Should fix profile save/load problems.
• Fixed input problems with a few more controllers (XBox One Wireless and a few other XBox controllers)
• Fixed Lord of Despair lance attack animations.
• Overworld selection input when using a mouse to select and keys to walk around works better now.
• Fixing that left-click for auto-aim override would disable attacks with auto-attack.
• Wrong configuration for Golem and Transfixion blocked 2nd Upgrades to pop up.

What's Next?

Stay Fresh! - Chasing Carrots

How to join the beta: Right-click Halls of Torment -> Properties -> Betas Here set the beta branch to "beta" _____________________________

Hello brave heroes!

Cupbearer

Change Log

Features

• New NPC: Cupbearer!
• Quest to rescue the Cupbearer
• The trait selection can have Reroll, Banish, Memorize, and Double Potions
• Collect ingredients to unlock all the potions
• Collect bottles to increase the amount of each potion
• New Item: Gatherers Charm (automatically acquired when Cupbearer has been rescued)
• for more details see our Dev Journal #4

Polish & QoL

• Item pickup from chests is more intuitive now. The new item will be equipped when the slot is unoccupied, otherwise it will be put into the bag. When the bag is also full, the player first has to make space or discard the chest items.
• Improved Golem roll and attack behavior
• Improved Imp and Skeleton Summons movement speed and steering
• Wraith lance attacks will also play a sound now (Lord of Despair and Wraith Horseman)
• Ability Scrolls in the world are sometimes guarded by an elite monster
• Performance with lots of XP Gems lying around should now be way better. There should also be no massive slowdowns when picking up a Hand of Greed anymore.
• Integrated Godot delta smoothing for smother gameplay when the game runs at the vsync limit
• Item well state (retrieved, owned, etc.) is not displayed if the Wellkeeper has not been rescued.
• Invocators Grasp got its own item graphic.
• Removed some very loud low frequencies in Exterminators fire sound which caused some players to complain about its loudness.

Bug Fixes

• Added an error message to the start of the game when Steam could not be initialized. Should fix profile save/load problems.
• Fixed input problems with a few more controllers (XBox One Wireless and a few other XBox controllers)
• Fixed Lord of Despair lance attack animations.
• Overworld selection input when using mouse to select and keys to walk around works better now.

Hi there! Were currently working on the next update and we wanted to give you a quick preview of whats coming and what you can expect. The upcoming update wont be a huge one, since it wont contain new levels or player characters. However, the new mechanics that are introduced will take about another week to be integrated and tested properly because they mesh in with a lot of stuff thats already there. Oh, and if you want to avoid any spoilers on what those new mechanics are all about, wed advise you to stop reading right now ;) So with no further ado, heres whats coming next:

The Main Feature

How are Potions Unlocked?

What else?

Hello Adventurers!

Thanks for your support! - Chasing Carrots

Change Log | 2023-06-09

Loadouts

Lord of Pain

Mouse Only Mode

Summons and Warlock

Rebalancing

• Golem's roll ability was reworked and is now circling the player.
• Roll base damage and damage increase for roll duration have been increased.
• Golem's attack range has been increased.
• Ability upgrades of the golem have now additional effects and increasing damage rather than just transforming the element.
• Some adjustments in debuff rate, Transfixion and the Cleric have lower chances of applying those.
• Astronomer's Orbs damage has been increased.
• Range adjustments on Astromer's Orbs are now stronger.
• Astronomer's Orbs have been fixed to not revert spin duration anymore.
• Arcane Splinter's range has been increased.
• Ringblades throwing distance/speed has been reduced, mostly to avoid it destroying containers far off-screen.
• Some of the trade-off traits of the Lightning Strike have been weakened.
• The Shockwave of Kugelblitz is not activating as often anymore.
• Meteorstrike damage has been slightly reduced.
• Meteorshower upgrade was reduced to 2, but the damage of each splinter was increased.
• The Voltage line of the sorceress was bugged. Critical hits now give electrify stacks.
• Also the burn chance for lightning attacks does work now.
• The channeling trait does no longer appear whene there's nothing it can have an effect on.

Other

• Fixied an issue with Xbox Elite Gamepads.
• Fixed crashes on level-up.
• Added an option to toggle the pause on focus lost off.
• Corrected several typos.
• Level IX ability traits now have the proper number on the frame.

How to join the beta: Right-click Halls of Torment -> Properties -> Betas Here set the beta branch to "beta" _____________________________

Hello brave heroes!

Mouse Only Mode

• You move my clicking (or holding) the left mouse button at the target position.
• When in this mode you will always have auto-aim on, it can't be disabled.
• Fire or aim overwrite is with right-click instead left-click.
• Middle mouse button or thumb mouse buttons toggle auto-attack.

Change Log

Quality of Life

• Every character has now their own equipment set to be saved.
• Additionally there are 4 shared load-out slots.
• Damage statics can now be viewed from the pause menu.
• Added item filters to the item stash.

Lord of Pain

• Death timer has been removed.
• The Lord of Pain will now get stronger over time.
• Lord of Pain HP have been reduced a bit.
• Adding a mechanic to ease the Lord of Pain fight.

Warlock and Summons getting reworked

• Invocation Signet has been changed to Invoker's Grasp, Adding more buffs to summons.
• Invoker's Grasp is a glove so it won't block a space for summon rings.
• Summon movement has been improved, they should not be sliding as much anymore.
• Warlock traits have been adjusted to better support summons.
• Golems roll ability was reworked and is now circling the warlock.
• Roll base damage and damage increase for roll duration have been increased.
• Golems attack range has been increased.
• Ability upgrades of the golem have now additional effects and increasing damage rather than just transform the element.
• Astronomer's Orbs have been fixed to not revert spin duration anymore.
• The effect of range changes has been increased.
• Orbs mass trait move the orbs now more closely to the player.

Rebalancing

• Most electrify sources have their chances to apply the effect being reduced.
• Burn stacks are no longer individually tracked but are stacked together. Adding a new burn stack extends all burn stacks.
• Some adjustment in debuff rate, Transfixion and the Cleric have lower chances of applying those.
• Astronomer's Orbs damage has been increased.
• Arcane Splinter's range has been increase.
• Ringblades throwing distance/speed has been reduced, mostly to avoid it destroying containers far off.
• Some of the trade-off traits of the Lightning Strike have been weakened.
• The Shockwave of Kugelblitz is not activating as often anymore.
• Meteorstrike damage has been slightly reduced.
• Meteorshower upgrade was reduced to 2, but the damage of each splinter was increase.
• The Voltage line of the sorceress was bugged. Critical hits do now give electrify stacks.
• Also the burn chance for lightning attacks does work now.
• The channeling trait does no longer appear without anything it can affect it.

Other

• Fixing an issue with Xbox Elite Gamepads.
• Fixed crashed on level up.
• Added an option to toggle the pause on focus loss off.

Hello Adventurers!

Short-Term

• Reworking the Lord of Pain with a proper quest and removing his death timer.
• Tweaking balancing of abilities. (Yes, well make the Golem stronger )
• Adding more data in the pause menu.
• Equipment loadouts in the item stash

Mid-Term

• The Cupbearer (an NPC that can be rescued from the Viaduct and will add re-rolls)
• Torment Rank Mode (will scale difficulty dynamically for additional rewards)
• Re-balancing of several aspects. (items, effects, abilities, characters)
• Champion enemies (monsters with additional modifiers)
• Possibly some new items, abilities, traits, and blessings

Long-Term

• Stage 4 (untitled)
• At least 2 new characters
• At least 2 new abilities
• New quests & items
• New element & effect
• New game mode
• New game feature

The Beta Branch

About Feedback

Hello Brave Souls!

Stay Fresh! - Chasing Carrots

Patch Notes

• Fixing missing and resetting quests including double entries from the beta branch. (need to restart the game after initial launch to show missing unlocks)
• Fixing many, but not all crashes and starting issues. If you keep getting crashes, please send us further crash dumps.
• Fixing further gamepad input issues.
• Fixing that items can get stuck at unreachable places. (including the well)
• Fixing that you were given the choice of base abilities when already having 6 selected.
• If qualifying for it, the Ability Scroll will now at least show one Ability Upgrade. (must be unlocked and have min. trait level 3 & 6)
• Game pauses when losing focus.
• Character weapons have now proper names in the statistics.
• When leveling up or picking up items / abilities the character will get invulnerable for half a second.

How to join the beta: Right-click Halls of Torment -> Properties -> Betas Here set the beta branch to "beta" _____________________________

Hello everyone!

Crashes

How to join the beta: Right-click Halls of Torment -> Properties -> Betas Here set the beta branch to "beta" _____________________________

Hello everyone!

Crashes

UPDATE:

Hello Adventurers!

- Cheers Chasing Carrots

Patch Notes

• Warlock main projectiles count now as Main Weapon. This means statistics will be correct and all items applying to main weapons will now work with them.
• "Mark of Madness" did work, but players had a negative count. negative counts will be reset if they should be positive.
• Some players had more than 200 quests completed, this was caused by them having some older PRELUDE data with quests that aren't used anymore.
• Fixed an issue where connected input devices could interfere with Keyboard controls.
• It's possible to adjust the flash effect on enemies from the settings.
• Chests open and close now in appropriate sounds levels.

Heyhey, I've read through the forums and attempting some easier bug fixes over the weekend. But please have patience with the team, it was a long week and we need the weekend to recover a bit. We'll address more issues afterwards. Please keep reporting bugs! Cheers Mara~

Fixes

• Strikes proficiency buffs from the Sorceress won't disappear after 5 seconds anymore.
• The hood is no longer named helmet.
• Hopefully fixed "Mark of Madness" Quest, this is a bit tricky and I can't reproduce it, but I believe it should work now.
• Viaduct elite enemies did not account for Elite related quests.
• Meteorstrike and Kugelblitz no longer will trigger Spellcaster Gloves and Guiding Star
• Quest "Broken Body" did not properly register the Fragile effect.

Changes

• Reducing requirements for Pinpoint milestones by 50%.
• The quest "Demonic Exchange" now requires the Warlock HP be below 250.
• Every restart of the game should send achievement states to the steam server. Make sure you are online to get your Achievements registered.

Reminders

Other remarks

• We will do something about the boss counter in Haunted Caverns, hopefully will be patched next week
• More balancing updated will come with the priority to make all items and abilities viable to use, but also nerfing some things to present a more well rounded overall gameplay. (We don't try to kill off OP builds, it's a single player experience anyways)
• Some achievements have wrong descriptions, this will be adjusted the next days.

Greetings Pestkillers! Do you feel as much to squish bugs as I do? Great because I've got another list today for you all and also some additional information. If you have startup issues, crashes or audio crackling, please read until the end!

Bug Squishes

• Wraith Slayer does now count Wraiths instead of Gargoyles.
• Reduction in max health is not counted as damage taken anymore.
• Removing "Summon Health" from Warlock traits. (was never a thing)
• Golem should no longer be lazy and idle instead of attacking.
• All effect kills should now count towards "Prolonged Suffering" Quest.
• Warlock quest "Mark of Madness" now properly tracks damage taken.
• Trader I & Trader II quest now use the absolute count of items for tracking.
• Quests that had you avoid doing something for 30 minutes are now 28 minutes and should work reliably.
• Lord of Despair is not stuck outside of the Viaduct anymore.
• Fixing Skeletons and Imps not being unsummoned when unequipping their rings.
• Fixing wrong potion drop chances on Viaduct.
• Electrify stacks where not properly triggered in the amount they should when the game was lagging.
• Lord of Despair no longer drops his gem in the air.
• Boss music should now loop.
• Several smaller text adjustments.

Balancing

• Increasing the base pickup range by 50% for all characters.
• Cleric's stand now requires 1 500 health to be regenerated instead of 2 500.
• Sorceress has no longer base regeneration.
• Damage bonus for Shield Maiden's secondary attack has been reduced by 33%.
• Golem's base attack increased from 50 to 75.
• Golem's bonus on attack from roll duration increased by 20%.
• Golems base speed increased by 25%.
• Reduced requirement for "Trader II" Quest to 40 items.

Other

• Adding an info for quests that must be completed in one run how well you did in the last run. (quest board)
• Reducing volume of exterminator weapon.
• Characters no longer regenerate when at max. health.
• Mastery quests and quests tracking specific weapon/effect damage are now in sync with the statistics.

Audio Issues (Windows)

Crashes & Starting Issues

Hello my dear Tormented Souls! We have found false torment spreading among our brave heroes, so we decided to squish the pesky bugs bothering you and cursing some lords. Please keep reporting your issues, we'll continue the next days.

• An issue where PRELUDE players could not complete quests for the Viaduct, Warlock and Cleric.
• Lowering the Lords health slightly.
• Elites on Viaduct have a bit less health, but now there are 6 of them - more abilities!
• Kill requirements for the Sorceress unlock have been reduced.
• STOMP quest of the Shield Maiden has been fixed.
• Bullwark quest requirements have been reduced.
• Gargoyle elite enemies won't drop gold and scroll over the edge anymore.
• It's no longer possible anymore to enter locked levels.
• Single blessings can now be refunded with the gamepad

Hello Adventurers!

Important Information for PRELUDE Players

• On the machine you want to continue with your PRELUDE progress, the PRELUDE save file must be locally available. Normally this should be the case, if you havent switched to another device or cleared your system for some reason.
• If you are on a new machine since playing the PRELUDE, you can ensure that your progress is copied by installing the PRELUDE version and starting it once.

• Open the settings menu
• Click on the button Import PRELUDE Savegame in the lower left corner
• Confirm the dialog with Yes
• The game should restart automatically with your prelude progress restored in the full game.

Whats Next?

Hello Adventurers!

EA Content Overview

FORGOTTEN VIADUCT

• A new stage with new enemies, bosses and characters to unlock
• Its the first stage in which we want to try out different layouts and enemy behaviours.
• Enemy behaviours are tailored to the stage geometry.
• Forgotten Viaduct can be unlocked by defeating the 2nd boss on Ember Grounds.
• A new NPC to discover. (work in progress)

CHARACTERS

• 4 new unlockable player characters
• Cleric: Built around debuffs and regeneration, has a magic short range attack that deals its total damage evenly spread among all hit enemies.
• Warlock: Can exchange health for attack power and focus on summons. Attacks with summon type projectiles that are chasing enemies.
• Shield Maiden: Has a shield besides her main weapon which she can also use to attack and knock back enemies. The attack of the shield scales with her block strength.
• Sorceress: Queen of Thunder, can cast Chain Lightning to either focus single enemies or spread it among the enemy rows.

STAGES GENERAL

• Ember Grounds enemy spawns got adjusted for new boss encounters.
• Increased number of Abilities that can be found on Ember Ground.
• Haunted Caverns have an upgraded look and design, making it more spooky.
• Its possible to unlock starting abilities on all stages.
• Power ups can now spawn on stages. (work in progress)
• Hand of Greed now has a marker displaying its location.
• Each stage starts with a Hand of Greed spawned.
• The relative gold drop on stages has been reduced.
• Stages now reward gold based on defeated enemies and time survived.
• XP Curves have been adjusted for a more consistent levelling experience.

ABILITIES

• Added 4 new abilities to the game. (Radiant Aura, Clay Golem, Kugelblitz, Meteor Strike)
• Abilities can be unlocked by finishing character quests.
• Changed the traits for all abilities, there are now 6 paths for each trait type.
• Each ability starts with 2 trait types unlocked, additional types must be unlocked.
• Abilities can be levelled 10 times. The possible trait types for each level vary.
• When abilities reach level 3 and 6 they can be upgraded with ability scrolls.
• All abilities have currently 2 upgrades, most upgrades must be unlocked.
• Damage dealt and max. DPS reached for all abilities are now listed at the end of each stage.
• Damage from effects are listed separately as they stack and can influence each other.
• Added a new damage type: Lightning, which can cause Electrify status effects.
• Electrify deals damage based on the applied stacks. The tick time reduces with more stacks and the stack amount decreases with each tick.
• Abilities will now include information about important functions and have their types listed.

QUESTS

• Added over a hundred new quests
• All quests are tied to achievements on Steam
• New Icons for quests (work in progress)
• Locked quest boards are no longer displayed
• Quests without unlocks now reward gold
• Additional information about completion rate
• Completed quests are now displayed at the end of a run (work in progress)
• Endscreen also displays suggested next quests (work in progress)
• Bonus XP from quests are now displayed on the quest board and as a buff

ITEMS

• Added several new items with more to come over the next few weeks.
• Not all planned items are in the game for the current progress, yet. Expect more over the next few weeks.
• Added rings to summon minions to fulfil your need to play summon focussed builds.
• New items around the new Lightning damage type.
• Several other new items to be discovered.
• We are rebalancing items to avoid having totally over- or underpowered items. This is work in progress and well adjust them over the coming weeks.

FEATURES

• Added the option to target while auto aim is on to override target direction.
• To override with the mouse, clicking the left mouse button is necessary.
• Added the affliction effect that makes enemies more vulnerable to damage over time effects.
• Upgraded endscreen with statistics and completed quests.

OTHER CONTENT

• New Blessings (Duration, Lightning Damage, On Hit Chance, Block Strength)
• New Traits (Lightning Affinity, Channelling, False Blessing, Multihit & Piercing Wind II, Demonic Exchange, Bulwark)
• New Pickups (Attack, Attack Speed, Invincibility, Food) (Work in Progress)

BALANCING

• Gold values will increase, more gold will drop and be rewarded in general.
• Blessings and Items will cost more gold.
• Some general base traits have been adjusted for more well rounded balancing.
• Critical Hits and other chances can now exceed 100% and be applied several times at once.
• All effects have increased chances to apply and can stack multiple times to increase effectivity

- Cheers Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Wishlist now!

What new stuff is coming with the EA release?

• 4 new characters (Cleric, Warlock, Sorceress, Shield Maiden)
• 4 new abilities (Radiant Aura, Summon Golem, Meteor Strike, Kugelblitz)
• 2 major upgrades for each ability
• all abilities will get more and better specialized traits
• an entirely new stage, the Forgotten Viaduct
• new bosses in Ember Grounds and an updated look for Haunted Caverns
• a new elemental effect which can be a powerful boss slayer: Electrify
• many new quests that will be all hooked up to the Steam Achievements
• a new NPC in trouble on the Forgotten Viaduct
• many new items to discover and retrieve from the halls
• a couple of new quality of life features

And afterwards?!

Short FAQ for newcomers and interested:

- Cheers Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

• Cleric (Debuffs & Regeneration)
• Warlock (Summonings)
• Shield Maiden (Blocking & Crowd Control)
• Sorceress (Lightning Damage & Electrify Effect)

Change Log 2023-04-27

POLISH & QOL

• Updated effect markers (Slow & Fragile).
• Burn effect damage numbers are now displayed differently than normal damage.
• Rats from the rat ring have now proper sprites

BUG FIXES

• Stun is now also setting the attack speed of enemies to 0.
• Fixing the Bogged Boots, they actually slow down now.
• Rat ring cant be used to spawn endless rats anymore.
• Arrows and Swordsman hits with fire damage are not unblockable anymore.
• Fixed an issue that allowed item duping.
• Settings wouldnt save on the first start of the game.
• Adding backup save games in case of corrupted save games, so not the whole progress is wiped.

What's Next?

Stay Fresh! - Chasing Carrots

Hello everyone,

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log 2023-04-06

FEATURES

• Character traits now have two variations for each level so will be able to further customize your build. This has been applied to Swordsman, Archer, and Exterminator in the PRELUDE.
• Multistrike & projectiles can now be partial. Those partial additional attacks are applied regularly on each n-th attack.
• Block Chance is superseded by Block Strength which will determine the Block Chance of a character based on incoming damage. Block Strength can lead to a 100% Block Chance for attacks with a power of of the Block Strength.
• Auto-aim can now be toggled with buttons.
• Ember Grounds now has its own soundtrack.

CONTENT

• New Double Slash Trait (I) has been added, additional levels will be made available through quests later on.
• The Scorched Giant elite in Ember Grounds is now a Scorched Giant Thrower.

BALANCING

• Ashen Wyrms now stay longer overground and wait a bit longer before attacking.

OTHER CHANGES

• Lord of Pain now casts homing projectiles with the death curse. (In the future we plan to add a quest item that allows you to cancel the curse projectile. Originally, it was not intended to beat this encounter by reviving)

POLISH & QOL

• Added more descriptions for traits
• Added special info for Additional Attacks, Block Chance and Defense in the stat-tooltip
• Added an input delay to trait and ability selection
• Added graphics to the final screen
• Character Stats can now be navigated with a gamepad
• Items have now indicators to show if they have been retrieved or bought

BUG FIXES

• Auto-Aim and Auto-Attack is now properly saved and applied
• Power Hitter quest can now be completed

What's Next?

Hello everyone, First, wed like to thank you for all of your feedback and reports! When we launched the PRELUDE, we didnt expect it to become so well received. This week we dont have an update for the PRELUDE version. Instead were going to be live on stream playing the game and talking about future steps and changes. We invite you to join us for one or two cozy hours of Halls of Torment talk and play. Ask us any questions and celebrate the progress of the game with us! Stream Date: 30th March 2023 Stream Start: 18:00 CEST | 16:00 UTC | 09:00 am PST Link: https://www.twitch.tv/chasingcarrots We hope to see you there! - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log 2023-03-23

FEATURES

• The Flamedancer, first boss of Ember Grounds, got two new attack patterns.

PERFORMANCE

• Improved performance of monsters
• Improved player upgrade performance
• Improved Abilities performance
• Improved of XP Gem performance

STABILITY ISSUES

• Sometimes on pickup the game would crash.
• Fixed a freeze when an item chest was collected while the player was dying.
• Fixed that loading of stages could be triggered multiple times.

OTHER CHANGES

• Visual Upgrades to Ember Grounds
• Visual Upgrades to the Overworld
• Updated all trait frames
• Added several new item graphics

POLISH & QOL

• Added general description to undiscovered quests
• Changed item stash location and sprite in the overworld
• Improved sprite visibility of Ashen Wyrms in Ember Grounds
• Auto-Aim will now target on breakables
• When reviving an effect is shown

BUG FIXES

• Bullets would not properly react to: Sparking Tips, Ring of Fire, Shockwave Core
• Sparking Tips projectiles would not set enemies on fire
• Firewalker Boots and Bogged Boots no longer react to the attack speed modifier
• Dragons Breath could trigger burn endlessly on hit
• Dragons Breath and Ring of Fire now make the Fire Affinity trait appear (if unlocked)
• Fixed quest description for monster type kill quests
• Added monster types to all monsters on Ember Grounds (mostly Scorched and Imps)
• Items could be picked up multiple times from chests
• When re-entering a level, values on the right side should be properly reset now
• Quests hidden state will now be saved properly. A patch will unhide all falsely hidden quests.

BALANCING

• Reworked Transfixion ability: lower chance for the debuff but significantly increasied damage
• All burning effects: 10dmg/0.2s for 2s -> 25dmg/0.5 for 5s
• All burning chances have been generally halved
• Flamewalker boots trigger distance: 2.5m -> 5m
• Flamewalker boots burn chance as been reduced by 60%
• Sparking Tips damage 5 -> 25
• Shockwave Core range: 1.5m -> 2.0m
• Exterminators projectile damage falloff: 30% -> 25%
• Dragons Breath cooldown traits: increasing attack speed bonus
• Potions heal now 25 + 5% health
• Potion and Hand of Greed drops have been increased by 20%
• Invincibility time after spawn of slimes has been reduced to 200ms

What's Next?

Cheers! - Chasing Carrots

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log 2023-03-15

FEATURES

• Full gamepad support has been added and a steam default configuration has been set.
• If you have any input problems, please reset the gamepad to default settings for the game.

BALANCING

• XP distribution has been modified among monsters, giving early monsters more XP comparatively.
• Completed quests now only give 0.5% additional XP instead of 1%.
• Astronomers Orbs now have a smaller starting distance.
• Range modifier affects Astronomers Orbs less.
• Size modifier of Astronomers Orbs has been reduced.
• Second orbit of Astronomer's Orbs now spawns closer to the player.
• Disabled the automatic difficulty scaling (Torment Rank) for now.

OTHER CHANGES

• Piercing Wind trait unlocks only when the player has an attack that requires Piercing.
• Mouse cursor will not be hidden anymore. This should fix disappearing cursor issues overall.
• More Linux versions should natively be supported. Anything newer than Ubuntu 18.04 LTS should work.

POLISH & QOL

• The Wellkeeper cage location in Ember Grounds is indicated with a marker.
• Opening the pause menu will always open the character view first.
• Main menu can be opened without selecting a character.

BUG FIXES

• Weapon Proficiency is now using roman numerals.
• Blessings and stages are now unlocked without having to restart the game.
• Quests requiring certain damage now include critical hits (e.g. Power Hitter).
• Killing 50 000 enemies with effects quest is now properly tracking progress.
• Lord of Pain kills are now properly recognized by the quest system.
• Character selection via gamepad has been fixed.
• Runner Shoes movement buff has been fixed and should be now permanent.
• Corrected the description of Spellcaster Gloves: it increases all direct damage.
• Scorched Skeletons in Ember Grounds dropped way too much XP.
• It should now be possible to equip the right ring slot properly at any time.
• Health of monsters now doesnt increase over time in Ember Grounds.
• Fixed stats display of pickup ranges and health regeneration tooltips.

PERFORMANCE

• Optimised environments
• Optimised Imp behaviour
• Optimised performance of destructible objects

STABILITY ISSUES

• Fixed: Certain monsters could cause crashes on death events.

What's Next?

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log 2023-03-09

FEATURES

• Level 2 (Ember Grounds) now has a proper progression with its own elites and bosses. Some bosses are substitutes for now and are slightly different versions from the first stage.
• Additional enemies with ballistic projectiles (Vulcano Slime Elite)
• Additional exploding enemies (Bomber Imps and Unstable Magma Slimes)
• Many more additional enemies for Ember Grounds

BALANCING

• Ember Grounds now has a steeper XP curve in the beginning
• Traits are now available based on your level
• Additional level 4 & 5 traits have been added for most general traits
• Effect of traits have been adjusted (up and down, overall values increased)
• Movement speed mods have been decreased as well as enemy speed
• Adjusted drop rates of Hand of Greed and Potions

OTHER CHANGES

• Wishlist and discord buttons in the top right of the overworld UI

POLISH & QOL

• Several assets for items have been added
• Descriptions of traits, abilities and modifiers have been updated
• XPGain and Pickup range are now displayed in the stats

BUG FIXES

• Several quests were bugged. While some were removed, most have been fixed
• Fixed the quests that should have been visible where hidden
• Fixed a bug where revive blessings would crash the game
• Fixed a bug where monster speed would increase during pause

What's Next?

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Hello Adventurers!

What can you play in the Demo?

• 3 Characters
• 2 Stages
• 20+ unique enemies
• 7 Abilities
• 100+ Traits
• 50+ Quests
• 30+ Items

Hello Adventurers!

Change Log 2023-03-03

FEATURES

• Gamepad support! Its almost complete and all essential menus should be usable.
• Auto-aim setting for the main attack
• A powerup item that will collect all XP on the current stage
• New unlockable traits for each ability
• New boss: FlameDancer in Ember Grounds
• New enemy: exploding imps

BALANCING

• Unlocking the Wellkeeper will now add start items to the chest
• Torment rank build-up is now a bit faster
• Haunted Caverns progression is now a bit easier
• Ember Grounds now unlock by defeating the Imp Chieftain boss

OTHER CHANGES

• Quests can now be bound to specific stages
• Quests have been recreated with a new progression in mind
• Added many Icons for items & traits
• Added final assets for Ring Blades and Arcane Splinter

POLISH & QOL

• Additional sounds

BUG FIXES

• Fixed all those nasty crashes that happened by taking damage from stuff on the ground (like slime puddles and fire patches)
• Putting the well back on the Haunted Cavern once unlocked
• Initial shooting directions are set so that bullets wont get stuck when entering a stage
• Abilities wont continue to fire anymore in the revive screen.
• Radiant Aura trait description had negative values printed in green instead of red

PERFORMANCE

• Major changes to reduce CPU load
• Changed processing of physics and movement behaviours for better performance
• The general performance on all devices, especially in later waves should improve - please send us feedback about this!

What's Next?

Greetings Adventures!

• 2 stages with dynamic progression
• 3+ unique bosses
• 15+ unique monsters
• 3+ playable characters
• 6+ different and upgradable abilities
• 8+ blessings making you stronger for each attempt
• 30+ different items to unlock and retrieve
• 100+ traits that upgrade characters and abilities
• 30+ quests to complete

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Change Log 2023-02-17

• Each completed quest increases the experience gain by 1%
• You can now find abilities and items on the stage
• Added more Gamepad support, some menus are still missing

• General monster health has been increased
• General monster damage has been increased
• Lowered the speed for Hellhounds
• Increased speed of Elites and Boss Monsters
• Difficulty through the waves of monsters increases faster
• Lowered the effect of the torment rank
• Torment rank no longer increases monster damage and monster speed
• Monster speed increases over time now
• Level ups require significant more experience through later levels
• Increased the damage of all abilities (exception: transfixion -> view bug fixes)
• Ember Grounds boxes now drop more gold and potions than
• Reduced potions drops in Haunted Halls
• Increased Effect of Receptive Mind (6% -> 10%)
• All fire damage have increase Burn Chance
• Burn damage ticks faster now for lower damage

• Ember Grounds unlocks now by surviving until the Skeleton Lord appears

• Elites now have a blue outline while bosses have red outlines
• Added several UI Sounds
• Regeneration values are now shown in per Second values
• Added button prompts when entering the halls (can be deactivated)
• Added character selection prompt when the game started

• The damage of arcane splinters did not decline over time
• Transfixion dealt 5 times the damage it should
• Quest Flaming Passion was fixed
• Quest Shield Training was fixed
• Health would sometimes not properly displayed when picking up potions

• Putting physics into a different process to spread load between CPUs
• Reduced the damage numbers that can pop up (also added a setting to toggle them off)
• Reduce logging load
• Stages should load faster through better resource loading

What's Next?

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Greetings adventurers!

Stage 1: Haunted Caverns

Stage 2: Ember Grounds

Main Stage Progression

Additional Features

• Unlockables through events
• Torment Rank
• Quests (Achievements)
• Torment Level (to be implemented)
• Items freely spread over the stage (to be implemented)
• Different types of shrines (to be implemented)

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Change Log 2023-02-10

• Adding a new ability: Arcane Splinters (Name TBD) Attacks automatically vertically in short range spreading splinters that stick to the ground and deal damage to any enemy running over them. Damage decreases over time. ( ) Six upgrade traits have been added as well. ( ) Name and assets are place holders for now.
• Adding a new ability: Ringblades (Name TBD) Attacks automatically horizontally alternating between both sides. The blades will accelerate backwards and come back to the throwing location and then travel outwards the screen mowing down all enemies in the path. ( ) Six upgrade traits have been added as well. ( ) Name and assets are place holders for now.

• Adding a function to refund all blessings
• Improving gamepad support enabling character selection in the start menu and using certain UIs with the game. Gamepad support is not yet complete and more updates to come.

• Player damage and monster health have been increased by a factor of 5 for more fine tuned balancing changes
• Changing an upgrade for the archer from piercing to an additional arrow
• Increasing the starting range of the Swordsman

• Increases the sound of collected XP
• Added that the pitch of XP collection increases the closer you are to the next level up
• Improving the mouse visibility
• Updating the slime death animation
• Adding a small fade when unpausing the game

• The final boss should now always appear when the time hits 0
• Characters that appear in the overworld should not run in circles anymore
• Kills and damage from Phantom Needles, Transfixion and Breath of Fire arenot accounted for.

What's Next?

Welcome, Adventurers! We are thrilled to announce that well be starting a closed playtest for Halls of Torment soon. We are opening registration for the playtest now and will invite the first players later this week. If youre excited for the game and want to help us with valuable feedback, head over to the playtest registration (link below, please read it carefully!) and join us. We are planning to invite new players in waves to get a good coverage, so please be patient after filling out the form. We are looking forward to hearing your feedback! --> Register here! (Google Form) <-- Cheers, Chasing Carrots

Greetings, adventurers! Only the most courageous or wicked have travelled to the Ashen Cliffsides where the gates to the Halls of Torment are looming over the desolate landscape. Some came in pursuit of riches, some in search of glory. Others believe great sources of wisdom lie shrouded beneath the Halls waiting to be revealed. Others again are sensitive to the great powers emanating from the depths; powers they cannot leave untapped, or worse, squandered on others. Today we want to introduce the first four player characters in the Halls of Torment roster. There will be many more in the future, but these were the first ones to arrive at the gates and set up camp.

The Swordsman

The Archer

The Exterminator

The Shield Maiden

Welcome to the Halls of Torment! Whats this, a new game? Indeed it is! And before I get into any details of what it exactly is and how its made, I think its important to explain how we got here in the first place. During the past five years weve made our previous game Good Company. Although it did find its wonderful audience and is still maintained, we felt a certain fatigue setting in. This journey towards the first 1.0 release was a taxing one and it had an immediate impact on how we thought about future projects. We want to learn from our past mistakes and achievements and so, long story short, we decided to do the following three things with our next game: [olist]

Limit the projected development time to a minimum and adjust the scope appropriately. In the ballpark of six months became our rule of thumb for a manageable project length. [/olist] Weve made many rounds of internal game concept pitching and prototyping. Many of our ideas could not satisfy the constraints outlined above. And then Vampire Survivors came along and demonstrated how its done. Naturally, such a successful game would give rise to plenty of imitators. At first we hesitated. We didnt want to jump on the bandwagon. But the more time we spent with this newly hatched genre, the more it seemed like a very good fit for us. And so, we sat down, we made a plan, and we made sure its in line with our three goals mentioned above. So *clears throat*
As you mightve guessed already, Halls of Torment is a reverse bullet hell roguelite in the vein of Vampire Survivors and similar games with light RPG elements. However, we wanted to put our own spin on the genre. We are big fans of old school action RPGs and CRPGs. Those games from the late 90s with their specific pre rendered aesthetic evoke warm feelings of nostalgia in us, and were sure that many players feel similarly. We wanted to capture those vibes and include them in Halls of Torment. Our goal is to make a game you can play casually while still enjoying the rich atmosphere of these grandiose role playing games that used to consume a large chunk of our free time during our youths. I hope that we succeed, and I hope youll enjoy it. All the best! Paul