Chronicon

Subworld Developer

Subworld Publisher

2020-08-21 Release

Indie RPG Adventure SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 129

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Very Positive (8511 reviews)

http://www.subworldgames.com/chronicon/

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Chronicon Linux [176.83 M]

Available DLCs:

Chronicon - Ancient Beasts
Chronicon - The Mechanist

Update 0.65.0 Available! New item powers, tons of balance changes, QoL changes, bug fixes, and more!

Hey guys! Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports! This update is heavily based on that, and as such it mostly concerns balance changes to both items and skills, and tons of fixes and quality of life changes. There are also 15 new item powers added to Unique and Legendary items! Some of these are completely new, and others are reworked to be more useful and interesting, such as the Jeopardy ring. With all this in mind, this is a pretty big update, and as per usual that means increased likelyhood that bugs slipped through my testing. However, I did fix a ton of issues - even some of the more elusive crashes, so I'm hoping for a more stable experience for everyone. Please let me know about any bug or crash that you experience! The more info the easier it is to locate and fix. Sadly the Windows 10 issues with black/white screens persist, as there has as of yet not been an update to the GameMaker engine. If you have any of these issues, please consult the Troubleshooting thread for temporary workarounds. Hopefully there will be an update soon so we can take care of this for good :) I will monitor the forums and dedicate the next few days for hotfixing, should it be necessary, so we all can enjoy this solstice weekend! After any potential issues have been resolved, I will continue work with Act 4. It's gonna be a good one! Anyway - that's all for now. I hope you enjoy the update! Full patch notes:

0.65.0:

Anomalies:

Shortened the boss spawn animation
Added a Gem & Sockets vendor to Tinka's Domain
Challenge scrolls can now drop in Anomalies
Updated the sprites of several Anomaly bosses
Pyre:
- Updated sprite & animations, changed active skills
Venom, Deathchill:
- Updated sprite & animations

Areas:

Deepwood + Rosewood + Eastern Wall:
- Adjusted generation algorithm to prevent from building outside of minimap bounds, and made the area somewhat smaller
Castle Lower Levels + The Catacombs:
- Reduced monster spawn density somewhat, but increased the chance of Elite pack spawns

Bosses:

The High Priest:
- Now has a much shorter range and will stay in view
Mundus:
- Updated with new sprites and animations

Character & Progression:

Base pickup radius increased to 4 meters, up from 3
Enchanting and Gem vendors are now account wide, so you only have to unlock them once
Killstreak xp gains are now based on how much xp the individual monsters killed are worth, multiplied by a difficulty modifier, scaling logarithmically with the size of the streak (thanks Arkatar for the help!)
Slightly increased base damage growth for melee characters - should mostly be noticable on low to mid levels, and neglible in end-game

Controls:

Using the left stick to aim with controllers no longer disables aiming with the right stick
Using click to move and using the "force move" button (default is spacebar) does no longer attack monsters, and will only force movement

Difficulty:

Adjusted drop rates to be more on par with actual difficulty
Upon reaching Mythical difficulty, enemeis will now start stacking resistances

Gems:

You now need 5x of each gem to upgrade them
Tweaked drop rates further:
- Chests now always drop at least one gem
- Champions are now guaranteed to drop at least one gem
- Elites have a ~25% chance to drop a gem
- Slightly lowered gem drop rate off regular monsters
- Polished Gems no longer drop, and instead have to be obtained through upgrading
Updated gem stats:
- Star Larimar:
  - Armor: Now adds 3/4/5% Evasion, down from 3/5/7%

Interface:

General:
- Added a "Shrines Activated" counter to the statistics page
- Companions now have green healthbars, and healthbar visiblity improved in general
- If you can't afford a resurrect, the cost will now be displayed in red
Inventory & Vendor:
- Quick-sell buttons now sell all equipment up to the rarity clicked, so clicking to sell all Rare will also sell all Ordinary and Enchanted
- You can now Ctrl+click (or left trigger + (A)) to gamble 10 items at once
- Item card outlines are now in the rarity color
- Stats in the inventory pages are now converted to short numbers if they take too much space, ie is over 100k
- Added a button to go backwards in the inventory stat pages
Enchanting:
- You can now hold Ctrl or Left Trigger to fully Augment an enchant instantly
- Holding the mouse cursor over an enchant efter having clicked Re-roll or Augment now shows the cost of doing so
Gemming:
- You can now hold Ctrl or Left Trigger to upgrade all gems, instead of one at a time
Minimap:
- Icons can now be scaled individually from the options menu

Items:

The base stats of items have a higher chance to roll higher values on higher difficulty & anomaly rank
Slightly increased the max base stat rolls of True Legendary items
Quest rewards and monster specific unique items can now roll sockets upon drop
Jeopardy:
- Re-designed effect to be more interesting. Retroactive change - it'll apply to already existing copies of this item
The following items have been updated with new effects, which means you need to find the new versions of these items to get the effects:
- All:
  - Hydra Scales (Unique Accessory)
  - Skyshard (Legendary Accessory)
  - Smoldering Gemstone (Legendary Accessory)
- Berserker:
  - Helm o' War (Unique Helm)
  - Flamebound Armor (Legendary Armor)
- Templar:
  - Retaliator (Legendary Shield)
- Warden:
  - Band of Nature (Unique ring)
  - Pain Bolts (Unique Arrow)
  - Stormdweller Hood (Legendary Helm)
- Warlock:
  - Brimstone Staff (Legendary Staff)
  - Death's List (Legendary Accessory)
  - Lich's Touch (Legendary Accessory)
  - Hellstone Amulet (Legendary Amulet)
  - Pestilence (Legendary Ring)
  - Note: Warlock got some extra love this update due to having less legendary items with effects than the other classes (now everyone has the same amount)
The following items have had their descriptions updated to be more clear:
- Boots of Hermes
- Nimble Boots

Set item and set bonus changes:

Templar:
- Wargod:
  - 3-piece bonus now deal a minumum of 1 second's worth of damage if the burn has less than 1 second left
Warden:
- Armor of the Wispmother:
  - 3-piece bonus now grants 200% additional damage (up from 100%)
  - 4-piece bonus now grants 3 additional permanent Wisps (instead of proc rate)
  - Wismother's Bow now rolls effect duration instead of mana on hit by default
Warlock:
- Burning Hells:
  - 4-piece bonus now has Flaming Hells duration increased by 6 seconds, down from 10

Loot:

Improved visuals of rare loot so that the different rarities are more distinguishable
All items now display sell value on mouseover
Weapons now display damage and attackspeed on mouseover
Stack sizes increased to 1000 from 100 for potions, keys, etc.
Tweaked drop rates of rare crafting materials
Loot behind walls can now be shown as a colored dot, enable this in the gameplay options
Special items like Ancient Coins now show up properly on the "inspect nearby" feature

Misc:

Added a slight delay to the spawn buttons pop up and added cutscene bars to the death to further emphasize it, and to prevent misclicks
Changed some menu button labels

Monsters:

All monsters can now be slowed, but the previously immune monsters are capped at 10% slowed, so that effects depending on slows are properly applied
Added a new "Gem Hoarder" affix

Music:

Setting music frequency to anything other than "loop" will now fade out music when changing zones, and start the music slowly after a timer. (rather than always force start it at entry, making it basically loop anyway)
Music always fades on changing zones now, rather than cutting abruptly
Boss music always starts right away regardless of music frequency setting

Shrines:

Increased chance to get the bad shrine effect for the first time, after which the chance is drastically reduced
Removed some shrine effects from shrines inside anomalies
Added 4 new shrine effects

Skills:

Note: Mastery scaling has been adjusted to promote more versatility in your builds.
- This means that, among other things, all passive skills now have caps on their Mastery damage increases, in order to keep their intended role as damage aplification, rather than the main source of it.
- Active skills remain uncapped.
- Many Mastery skills now also have a higher cap and higher damage per point, to make some previously inferior builds more evenly balanced.
- Expect more skill changes, and many new item powers to change things up, in the future!
Berserker:
- Rage Release:
  - Range increased to 3/3.5/4 meters, up from 2.2/2.4/2.6 meters
- Power Within:
  - Overpower buff reduced to 4/8/12%, down from 5/10/15%
- Frost Shock (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20
- High Pressure (M):
  - Max rank increased to 50, up from 20
- Biting Cold (M):
  - Max rank set to 100, and damage per point increased to 5%, up from 3%
- Fierce Soul (M):
  - Max rank set to 100, and damage per point increased to 5%, up from 3%
- Tremors (M):
  - Max rank set to 100, and damage per point increased to 5%, up from 3%
- Total Annihilaiton (M):
  - Max rank set to 100, and damage per point increased to 5%, up from 3%
- Overpower (M):
  - Value per point reduced to 1%, down from 2%
Templar:
- Dancing Blade:
  - Will now interrupt their flailing if their target dies, and find a new target
- Reprisal:
  - Use effect now increases Thorns% by 90/105/120/135/150%, up from 5/10/15/20/25% - additively with other bonuses
- Sanctified:
  - Now grants a minimum of 1 Health on Hit per rank. Health on Hit (lvl 100) reduced to 20/30/40, down from 25/40/55
- Favor:
  - Now grants a minimum of 1 Mana on Hit per rank. Mana on Hit (lvl 100) reduced to 20/30/40, down from 25/40/55
- Sacred (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20, but damage reduced to 5% per rank, down from 10%
- Empowered Expulsion (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20
- Electrocution (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up form 20, but damage reduced to 5% per rank, down from 10%
- Thundering Wrath (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Intensive Conviction (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20
- Pain of The Condemned (M):
  - Max rank set to 100, and damage per point increased to 5%, up from 3%
- Iron Maiden (M):
  - Max rank increased to 50, up from 20, and damage increased to 5% per rank, up from 2%
- Deep Cuts (M):
  - Max rank increased to 50, up from 20
- Overpower (M):
  - Value per point reduced to 1%, down from 2%
- Ayeela's Presence (M):
  - Health on Hit reduced to 4 per rank, down from 5 per rank
Warden:
- Agility:
  - Now increases Agility by 4/8/12%, down from 10/15/20%
- Move With The Wind:
  - Now increases Evasion by 4/6/8%, down from 6/8/10%
- Winterbringer:
  - Now increases Evasion by 15%, down from 25%
- Wisps:
  - Wisps are now permanent companions and limited to 3 (increased with set bonus)
- Empowered Wisps:
  - Now adds stacks of "Empowered Wisp" on hit with Lightning spells, rapidly increasing the damage of all wisps
- Siphon Energy:
  - Now grants a minimum of +1 mana per rank, as it would not increase on low levels earlier due to the stat growth formula
- Storm Force:
  - Overpower buff reduced to 4/7/10%, down from 9/12/15%
- Razor Cuts (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Nature's Reclamation (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Charged Lightning (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20, but damage reduced to 5% per rank, down from 10%
- Wisp Mother (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Snow Storm (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Overpower (M):
  - Value per point reduced to 1%, down from 2%
Warlock:
- Masochism:
  - Now also triggers on self-inflicted damage from Blood Rite and Soul Trap
- Vampire Lord:
  - Overpower buff reduced to 20%, down from 30%
- Vampirism:
  - Now grants a minimum of 1 Health on Hit per rank. Health on Hit (lvl 100) reduced to 20/30/40, down from 34/51/68
- Blast Wave (M):
  - Max rank increased to 100, up from 20
- Burning Hells (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Freezing Death (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Infectious Disease (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Sorrow (M):
  - Max rank set to 100
- Dark Lust (M):
  - Max rank increased to 20, up from 10
- Overpower (M):
  - Value per point reduced to 1%, down from 2%

Stats:

Overpower is now more useful as enemies will start stacking base resistances
With this in mind, the Overpower stat has been made more valuable and all skills and items now give smaller Overpower values
Health on Hit and Mana on Hit has also been made slightly more valuable in the same manner

Unstable Dimenions:

Added some new affixes
Adjusted layouts to create less dead ends and removed all disconnected platforms

Fixes:

Fixed some skill spelling errors
Fixed holding left trigger to buy 10x on controller also swapping inventory pages
Fixed Blood Rite not dealing damage to the Warlock
Fixed being able to dupe items in the Gemcutting interface
Fixed issue with items having old (useless) enchants, adding a ton of value to items and making steep enchanting costs
Fixed backspace erasing 2 letters at a time when naming your character
Fixed players using gamepads not being able to equip items from the context menu in multiplayer
Fixed players 2-4 not correctly being able to control the gem interface in multiplayer
Fixed the boss spawn in Anomalies not killing all nearby foes in some situations
Fixed rare crash from Anomaly Boss "Bramblebranch"
Fixed the last played difficulty resetting to Normal under certain circumstances in the hero select screen
Fixed dropdown buttons in menus selecting the top option when clicking outside or at the top of it
Fixed the bad shrine effect happening in Anomalies
Fixed being able to "reset" the cancel button in the waypoint menu, attempting to load an undefined zone resulting in a crash or freeze
Fixed Shrine icons remaining on the map after use when having the Challenger set
Fixed issue with a color shift in the fade out of the loading screens
Fixed issue in menus where you could in some instances select two saves at once
Fixed resurrections costing much more crystals than listed
Fixed being able to resurrect even if you didn't afford it
Fixed Warden always having a minimum of 1+ Mana on Hit
Fixed super high crystal costs being displayed for enchant scrambles while using gamepad
Fixed issue causing Soul Essence to drop in quantities lower than 1, resulting in no drops generated until a certain MF threshold was reached
Fixed dead companions teleporting to the player when outside of the view
Fixed dead companions appearing on portals after loadscreens
Fixed rounding issue with the Templar's "Vengeance" skill tree base skill and Thorns
Fixed issue causing monsters to sometimes keep moving after death
Fixed crash when loot was dropping from an unreachable point
Fixed crash on gamble & loot drops when there wasn't an eligible item in the rolled rarity to generate
Fixed monsters spawning too close to entry in Anomalies
Fixed monsters near the portal being removed on each re-enter of an Anomaly
Fixed Hidden Cellar monsters spawning outside of the room
Fixed being able to teleport out of the Hidden Cellar and locking up the quest
Fixed issue with Templar's Condemnation not always triggering
Fixed Templar's Condemnation in some instances triggering twice
Fixed Storm Mender's heals being incorrect (it was casting a Templar healing spell for whatever reason)
Fixed an issue causing barriers to visually remain after the buffs faded (this seems resilient so do let me know if they keep staying after this update)
Fixed several issues with caves and forest areas sometimes spawning portals and other objects incorrectly
Fixed issue that made it possible to "use" Ancient Coin and the Treasury Key in the inventory, deleting them from your inventory
Fixed pixies in the Mysterious Garden not dealing damage
Fixed rare crash from Templar skill Thunder Blade
Fixed some enchant's roll ranges being higher than augment cap
Fixed getting stuck in trees in Act 2 when using several Berserker jump skills (such as Leap and Hop)
Fixed Aura skills "Use" effect being cast twice
Fixed missing tiles on Eastern Wall minimap

[ 2017-06-21 14:34:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Act 4 just released!

Story

What happens in a world where the last evil lies dead, the last quest is completed, and the last chest has been opened?

In this world, the long-dead Heroes of Old are forever remembered and honored through a great magical device. This device, known only as the Chronicon, is capable of opening a portal into the memories – the very souls – of the Heroes of Old. Each year, a handful men and women are given the great honor to re-live the old tales.
And this year, you have been chosen…

Note: Trailer footage and screenshots are of high level characters with decent equipment. Expect a slower pace at first.

Game Features

The first 4 full acts to play through, with the final act in the works
4 unique classes: The Templar, Berserker, Warden, and Warlock
Procedurally generated dungeons and areas – each playthrough is different
Local co-op up to 4 players (same machine, requires 1 Xbox 360/one controller per additional player)
Over 600 items with randomized enchants & qualities, and powerful set items!
Over 900 skills and abilities to learn and improve
Infinite character progression
Basic crafting - Enchant and gem your equipment to its maximum potential!
Full Xbox 360/one controller support (optional)

Planned Features (in no particular order)

1 Additional act
Additional OS support
Hardcore mode
More items, quests, areas, and general content
Much more endgame content and mechanics
More fleshed out progression systems

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64bit. Or newer. Non Ubuntu distros not officially supported.
Processor: Quad Core 3 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 and Shader Model 3.0 Compatible Dedicated Video Card. 1 GB VRAM
Storage: 1000 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Intel (integrated) graphics poorly supported. Dedicated GPU required!

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