New Features

• Magic Furnace - New dungeon mechanic that lets you craft items during your run.
• Item Gambler - New dungeon mechanic that lets you stake items for a random new one.
• Companions - Acquire a companion that helps you collect gold and ore.
• New drinks - Caustic Touch, Markhams Moonshine, Primal Fury and The Hairy Magus.
• New statue - "Daran" the red priest, (requires Pyramid of Prophecy).

Gameplay Adjustments and Balance

• Reworked Watcher boss fight.
• Tweaked player NG+ scaling of Armor/Resistance.
• Increased boss health scaling in NG+.
• Retired Gladiator - Upgrades to Armor and Resistance only gives you +0.5 instead of +1.
• Path of the Magician - Changed from 20% to 25%.
• Path of the Warrior - Changed from 20% to 25%.
• Path of the Defender - Changed from 20% to 15%.

• Paladin - Health per level lowered from 10 to 8. Armor per level lowered from 0.7 to 0.6.
• Charge - Increased width of the charge so its easier to hit enemies. Increased mana cost from 10/12/14/16/18/20 to 10/13/16/19/22/25.
• Powershot - Now fires 2 additional projectiles.
• Smoke Bomb - Now obscures vision for most ranged enemies. Increased mana cost from 30/35/40 to 30/40/50. Increased cooldown from 5s to 7s.
• Soul Dagger - Increased width and range of the attack. Lowered movement speed penalty while attacking.
• Soul Cleaver - Enemies killed while under the effect of Soul Consumption have a chance to apply Soul Consumption to nearby enemies. Increased range slightly.
• Holy Light - Increased healing.

• Medusas Charm - Enemies affected by the gaze now also have their armor reduced by 50%. Lowered the slow from 66% to 50%.
• Duke's Signet Ring - Increased healing from 3% to 7.5%.
• Greaves of the Barbarian - Now always triggers movement speed buff when killing an enemy.
• Mail of Thorns - Now also gives +2 Armor.
• Great Helm - Increased Armor from +5 to +7.
• Boots of Freedom - Changed to Epic.
• Greater Sphere of Regen - Changed to +50% Health Regen and +75% Mana Regen.
• Markham's Mastery - Moved first set bonus from 3 to 4 items.
• Kings Regalia - Set bonus changed from 33%/66% to 25%/50%.

Various Changes and Fixes

• Added more chest room variations.
• Added Monoliths used stat and accomplishment.
• Fixed an issue where you could get stuck outside the bridges in Upper Pyramid.
• Fixed pasting not being supported in chat (and all other text input widgets).
• Enemies can now be killed by poison.
• Ghosts now drain a percentage of your mana instead of a flat amount.
• You can now change the menu theme in options.
• Fixed music not starting when loading a save.
• Fixed a problem with fountain effects saving in town rather than in run.
• Fixed dungeon settings not using the host's highest NG+ level.
• Added an effect for Medusas Charm.
• Added effect and sound for gaining a potion charge with the Apothecary Set.
• New art for Apothecary's Sphere.
• Performance improvements.
• Crash fixes.

Features:

• Procedurally generated content: Random generated levels offers a high replay value and will bring you a new challenge with each run.
  
• Persistant progression: Your heroes will retain the experience gained from a run, and will become more powerful as they level up.
  
• Town upgrades: Construct/Upgrade 10 different buildings that will help your heroes in various ways.
  
• Classes: Choose from 7 different classes, all with unique stats, abilities and playstyles.
  
• Items: Find or buy over 100 unique items of various rarity.
  
• Co-op: Play with up to 3 friends in co-op.
  
• New Game+: Heroes of Hammerwatch will be a real challenge, and even if you beat it, the challenge never ends!

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
• Processor: Intel Core Duo or fasterMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+
• Storage: 500 MB available space