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After a year of development, v2.0 (formerly named v1.3) is now in beta! This massive content update includes three new spell schools, twenty new enemies, and five new bosses, improved enemy AI, a new game mode, a new rune, an improved chapter map, an improved player camera, and loads of bug fixes/enhancements.

v2.0 Major Updates

New Spell Schools and Abilities

Three new spell schools (Corrupted, Earth, Wind) have been added to the game, adding dozens of new spells for you to unleash and titles to unlock! We've also created a six new movement and utility abilities for you!

New Bosses

Five new bosses have been added to the game and boss fights will always occur at the end of a chapter. In addition, defeating a boss will now grant you a choice between three guaranteed unique items!

New Enemies and Improved AI

We've added over 20 new enemies into the game! Enemies have been added to all factions, each using magic from specific schools, and they will use much more challenging abilities and spells.

Inquisition will now use Fire magic
Outcasts (formerly bandits) will use Lightning and Wind magic
Debilor will use Ice and Earth magic
Corrupted will still use Corrupted magic

Each faction will only drop spells and runes of their associated schools/types, so plan your routes accordingly! In addition, we also have completely overhauled our enemy AI, giving them more natural movement both in and out of combat. Casters will be more transparent about the spell they are casting and melee fighters will attack and move more realistically. Archers will spawn on battlements and position themselves to best attack. Some enemy factions will even move in formations!

New Chapter Map Markers

Our wonderful artist, Leif, has crafted some really cool map markers for our chapter map, which correspond to the difficulty and faction in the location. Difficulty locations can be risky, but will grant better loot!

New Expanse Mode

We've added a new way to experience Fictorum! This single-chapter Expanse mode of Fictorum is a large, dangerous chapter and is drastically different every time!

Improved Camera and Targeting Reticle

We've listened to your feedback about our third-person camera and have overhauled it to be smoother and perform better across the board. Appropriate channeling spells will even use a targeting reticle and adjust the aiming camera to provide a clearer aiming.

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

The new Spiral rune can now be found through the world
Health will be completely restored after defeating a boss
Many enemies and bosses will now use area spells
Chaos and Order will now work on Area spells
Bosses are now immune to knockdown
Using a Nova rune with a Storm rune will now create a storm that follows the player
Spells and runes dropped in combat will now correspond to the faction's element(s)
Title selection has been improved to show attribute modifiers
Choosing a victory option on Classic mode will display a confirmation window
The standard animation for area spells will now take drastically less time to complete. (Was 1.2s, now .33s for the Fictorum and .5s for enemies)
A grace period has been added after defeating a boss to clear trash slots
Three new unlockable titles have been added to the game, each utilizing one of the new spell schools
Frost nova now has a new visual effect, a damage increase, and a minimum slow percentage/slow duration
Diminishing returns have been added for all negative status effects
A close button has been added to save slot selection
A UI indicator has been added for walking
Doors will now shatter when forced
Unique drop chance has been reduced from +1% to +.5% x (chapter - 1)
A Colorblind Assist option has been added to the settings menu
The Fictorum will get up more smoothly after a knockdown
The settings and control binding menus have been improved visually and functionally
Area spread will now curve around the player for non-surface snapping spells
Rintara has been given new abilities, AI, and enemy adds
Abridged is now the recommended mode
Characters in the Run History screen can now be deleted
Flare's effects have been improved
There is now a back button when choosing a reward item/rune
Seek will do a better job of tracking targets and searching for individual targets
Highly powered Seek runes will maintain velocity after collisions
The cursor will now appear over the selected mountain in the chapter map for extra clarity
Disenchanting an item will grant the full sell value
The damage bonus on High Velocity has been reduced
New loading screen tooltips have been added
The shop window has been moved to a new spot on the screen for ease of use
An option has been added to the fountain event
Archers and mages will now spawn on castle battlements
The world map will dim when it is not selected
Duplicate abilities are now viable and will trigger an independent cooldown
Navigation on the title menu has been improved
Snow beam and Fire Beam have new visual effects
Frozen enemies will be turned into snowmen once killed if playing as the Giftbringer
The inventory has been visually improved
Fixed a bug that would lock the Grand Inquisitor in a teleporting loop
Destructibles will once again do damage to the player (mwahahaha, foolish mortals)
Enemies will now move if they aren't rendered (whoops)
Indicators will appear for enemy dynamic angle spells (e.g. meteor)
Healing costs from vendors have been significantly reduced ceil(playthrough progress*3)
An additional failsafe has been added to prevent the Fictorum from falling through the earth
Engaging the Grand Inquisitor in combat will stop the Inquisition Legion from teleporting in
Fixed a serious bug that gave casting speed a ceiling of 100%
Enemies are significantly easier to hit with melee abilities
Fixed a bug that would allow clicking through the reward screen to a chapter location
The Main Menu will properly reset after the initial click delay
Fixed a bug that would prevent the inventory from opening automatically after the store is generated on the location.
Initial and maintain mana costs for channeling spells with Familiar, Storm, and Sentinel will now be more consistent for channeling spells
Christmas Tree will now match the size of it's targeting mesh
Fixed a bug that will prevent houses exploding outwards from minimal damage
Storms will fire area spells at landscapes significantly below the storm cloud
Casting sound effects will now play for enemy, familiar, sentinel, and storm channeling spells
Projectiles will now launch characters in the direction of the projectile, not the direction of the hit
Enemies will be much easier to hit at very close range with surface projectiles (dreidel, flame wave, etc.)
Fixed a very rare bug where the loading screen would infinitely loop
Enemies will no longer halt their casting animations if you're not looking at them
Game UIs will properly remain active or inactive while in observer mode
Familiars can no longer be damaged by their creator's spells
Fixed a bug that would sometimes give a mirror image item or rune from an event
Fixed a bug that would cause Telekinesis to occasionally get stuck on itself
Fixed a rare bug that would prevent locations on the chapter map from being selected with a gamepad
Dropdown boxes are now easier to navigate on the settings menu
Extra safeguards have been added for bosses that have fallen through the world, are stuck in the miasma, or are falling indefinitely
The difficulty window on the main menu will properly show changes to enemy damage, health, movement speed, and accuracy
Many spell descriptions and icons have been improved
Fire manifestations have been drastically improved
Manifest and Echo are now properly incompatible with certain transcribed abilities
Lightning bolt will properly display visual effects when used with a Storm rune
The Full Heal button will no longer show negative values
Slow time animation and effects are synched properly
Fixed a bug that would show spell tomes to have a mana cost of zero when viewed in an event
Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent channeling spells from being cast from NPCs
Resting in shop locations will no longer reopen the shop window
Fixed a bug that would cause incorrect values for additional/reduced mana cost to show on reward runes
Fixed an issue that would cause some rune sets to load incorrectly
Switching to the first-person camera while during the inventory transition will no longer lock the camera behind the player
Fixed a visual bug with raised yards
Fixed a bug that would occasionally move the player location in the tutorial
Inventory can no longer be toggled while using observer mode
Difficulty health modifiers have been changed from 5./.75/1/1.25/1.5 to .25/.5/1/1.5/2
Selecting the option to return to chapter one with all current gear will actually return to chapter one
The bug logger menu will no longer be permanent if toggling into or out of observer mode
Cooldown reduction scaling per chapter has been significantly reduced
Tutorial no longer shows the history scroll upon death
Control of observer will no longer be lost after completing a spell
Fixed a bug that would show the time of death/victory as 1/1/1900
Rune descriptions have been edited for clarity
The Vizier event has been changed for clarity
If the game is minimized, Clairvoyance will no longer remain active if it was being used immediately prior
Larger enemies will have an easier time getting up from a knockdown
Killing/fearing large groups of enemies at once will no longer cause a performance hit
Maximum projectile range will once again be reflected while targeting
Projectile aiming when looking up or down has been improved
Observer mode will properly set FOV controls once active
Fixed a bug that would cause screen discrepancies when switching to observer mode
Haven will now properly when used with transcribe
Classic and Abridged will more consistently spawn two paths
Holding the cancel hotkey for one second will cancel all active spells.
Fixed a bug that incorrectly caused fleeing folks to show up on clairvoyance

Follow these steps if you'd like to opt into the beta. Thank you for playing and send us those bug reports, they help us improve Fictorum! Feel free to reach out to us in whatever way works best for you.

[ 2019-09-13 21:48:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Fictorum

Scraping Bottom Games Developer

Scraping Bottom Games Publisher

2017-08-09 Release

Indie RPG Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 58

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Mostly Positive (1000 reviews)

http://www.fictorum.com

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A reign of terror never feels so satisfying as when you leave a literal pile of rubble in your wake. Giving wizards a much-needed makeover, Fictorum is an action role-playing game that features fully-destructible structures, a randomized node-based world map, and a satisfying magic system with on-the-fly spell shaping and customization.

In Fictorum, your mage wields real, legendary power right from the start—unlike those found in most magic-centric games. Our magic system uses a dynamic and intuitive spellcasting and shaping system that grants the player an unrivaled level of customization and reconfiguration. Up to three runes can be applied to a spell, each affecting a different spell characteristic. The runes are easily swapped to suit the player’s current need, interest, or whim. You might amplify ice blasts to freeze enemies in place, expand the radius of a fireball explosion to crumble a bridge and hinder pursuers, or chain a lightning attack together to strike several targets in a cluster. Shaping makes spellcasting much more tactical and satisfying.

Rather than starting out as a hapless farm boy who stumbles into his powers and avoids enemies or entire areas until leveling up, players take on the role of an established wizarding badass, hell-bent on his mission for revenge. Yet challenge is abundant—the wizard must bring down a sprawling empire by himself, besting scores of bandits, cadres of Inquisitors, and hordes of corrupted abominations on his quest for vengeance. The protagonist has access to unlimited magical powers, making the game less about spamming that one spell that works passably well until it becomes upgradable. The experience is more about tailoring your magical arsenal, giving the player a wide range of freedom and the ability to effectively, efficiently, and enthusiastically destroy every obstacle. The randomly-generated world map features locations where every structure (from large buildings to bookshelves to tables to even a lone fork) can be demolished.

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