Since the 1.0 release of Striving for Light: Survival we have been focusing on critical bugfixes and improvements in numerous patches and hotfixes according to all your valuable player feedback. But this was not all we had been working on since the release and now is the time to unleash content update 1.0.1.0 featuring new ways to shape your skilltree, a brand new chaos game mode, improvements and balancing changes for endless mode. We have heard your feedback and opinions on our poll regarding new skilltree shards and also concerns have not been overheard. With the introduction of the new shards we did major adjustments to drop rates and the acquiring mechanisms to prevent to be able to just respec every skill node. Also refunding is bound to the condition that all your skills still hold connection to the skill tree origin.

New Features:

• New Chaos Game Mode added: From the prepare your run screen you can now hit the chaos button and throw yourself directly into the action with a random character, weapons and skills. For the chaos mode no unlocks are needed and everything is available from the start. Shape the chaos and compete agains other players that all face the same odds. New leaderboards are added for this mode. Chaos mode is also available in the demo. So new players can try out everything the game has to offer without needing to unlocking them first. Also the chaos mode can be used to unlock other weapons/characters and skills if you wish.
  
• Endless Chaos Mode: The new chaos mode can also played in the endless variant.
  
• Improved random skillpool: The random skillpool now utilises all available skills and not just the unlocked ones. So if you now only select a few skills the remaining skills to fill up the 12 slots will be picked randomly among all available skills not only the same unlocked ones. This should lead to more diverse runs for new players that do not yet have unlocked a lot of skills.
• Shard of Conjunction added: New skilltree shard that holds the power to reforge the connections between skill nodes. Can be dropped by elites.
  
• Shard of Refund added: New skilltree shard that holds the power to refund skill nodes if the rest of the skill nodes hold connection to the skill tree origin. Can be dropped by elites.
  
• Blood Effect Setting: Added a new option in the displays menu to turn off ground blood effects for cleaner visuals and less gore effects. This might also improve performance a bit.

Improvements:

• Improved skill tooltips to make them more clear
• Improved elite enemy spawn tooltips to make them more clear
• Removed the collected items notification to not clutter up the screen space
• Darokin character unlock condition has been lowered to defeat endboss on tier 1 on any map

Balancing:

• To compensate for the new arsenal of shards to shape your skilltree the enemy hp scaling in the endless mode was slightly increased and also the enemy spawn speed now scales with increased waves in the endless mode
• Locust enemies have slower charge speed
• Elites now have a chance dropping one of the 3 skilltree shards. The new shards have different drop chances.
• You now gain one shard of change each 3 waves
• You now gain one shard of conjunction each 5 waves
• You now gain one shard of refund each 8 waves

Fixes:

• Fixed hidden shard icons behind mouse cursor on specific screen resolutions and zoom factors
• Fixed leaderboard glitch that displayed full leaderboard in the your rank field
• Fixed weapon spear unlocked at wave 10 instead of 20
• Fixed map switch bug