Hi folks, A key focus of this update is making equipment much more satisfying to loot and use.

Upgrade Forges

These stations provide you with a way to adds modifiers to your equipment. You can upgrade your equipment multiple times during a run, but only once per forge. Forges allow you to upgrade 2-3 items at a time, to encourage you to experiment with more tools.

Item Modifiers:

These change how your gear behaves: from piercing arrows to recharging shield gauntlets. Or occasionally freezing enemies to sending enemies flying! Modifiers can be applied to any of your items (except consumables and powers). Feel free to experiment with over 16 of them across more than a dozen items!

Altars and Treasure Updates:

An altar will generate several items that you'll need to choose between. This may be equipment items or runes you don't have yet or consumables. There are well over 40 possible items!
In the past, most items would not spawn in game until you had unlocked it as starter equipment. We realize this was a mistake, as it prevented players from experiencing a core part of the game until much later. To remedy this locked items still have a chance to spawn in altars and chests, (just at 1/10th of their regular probability if locked) To make things more interesting, equipment that you loot from the world (e.g. altars and large chests) will usually have random modifiers attached to them (not all of them positive).

New Potions:

Potion of luck: Increases your luck by a substantial period of time (see below)
Flask of Frost: Freezes any enemy that you attack! Just be wary of the temporary resistance to ice after thawing.

Luck
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May the odds be ever in your favor! Luck increases the chance of good things happening while fighting, forging and other activities. It's always possible to win the game with good skill and poor luck, however it pays to have an edge. Some of the affects that luck has includes:

• Discounts at stores.
• Dodging an attack (despite it touching you)
• The chance of getting more then one positive item modifier upon upgrading.
• Amount of money dropped by enemies.
• and more...!

Dodging and critical hits

There is now a chance to dodge attacks (despite them touching you) and a chance to deal much more damage to the opponent. Factors such as luck, acrobatics, runes and equipment modifiers all affect this.

More Graphics Changes:

• New unlock menus
  
• Each area has it's own water colors.
• Status effects time is now display with a darkened image meter:
  

Other changes:

• Orb mage retreats slower and projectiles can't damage you before their launched.
• Bosses marginal increase in health due to the modifiers making things easier.
• Easy mode XP percentage increased from 70% to 80%
• Fixed bug with mouse/cursor lock would crash the game.
• Fixed various glitches with help prompt displays.
• Foxed bug with
• Various improvements and fixes to the inventory menu,.

Feedback is welcome, especially through the forums or on [url=https://discord.gg/qN9J5f4]Discord: https://discord.gg/qN9J5f4 Thanks everyone! We hope that you enjoy the updates and keep well during these strange times!

[ 2020-08-16 18:20:29 CET ] [ Original post ]