Together with developer Team ADOM we have today released our traditional roguelike Ultimate ADOM on Steam! In addition to the full release and leaving the Early Access, we have launched a massive content update: The Update of the Living Dead. But first, check out the full release trailer: [previewyoutube=jxgK8I_0Kus;full]https://youtu.be/jxgK8I_0Kus[/previewyoutube]

Ultimate ADOM Release-Livestream on Twitch!

• Our official Twitch-channel: https://www.twitch.tv/assembleentertainment
• Our official YouTube-channel: https://youtu.be/656fqj2Ey0Y
• Or on our official Steam Store page as live-broadcast: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1266820/Ultimate_ADOM__Caverns_of_Chaos/

The Update of the Living Dead

Newly added

• The Necromancer joins the ranks of playable classes.
  • A master of death magic and grafting, a powerful necromancer my choose to follow the path of Lichcraft, turning themselves into a powerful undead creature.
• Two new magical effects:
  • Life Draining will steal your enemies' life force and apply it to you.
  • Necrotic Damage completely bypasses armor.
• Three new magical skill trees for a total of 68 new skills and 19 new spells:
  • Death Mastery will set you on your path to Lichdom.
  • Summoning Evil Spirits will grant you undead allies to slaughter your foes with.
  • Death Magic grants you mastery over Life Drain and Necrotic Damage spells.
• The factions now reward your loyalty and progress.
  • Accumulate their favour by playing for the same faction repeatedly, and gain powerful boons from them when starting new characters. Each faction will provide different starting equipment or stat boosts.
• More than 20 new monsters have entered the Caverns of Chaos on all levels.
• Several new items and story elements have been added.
• During custom character creation, you can now fully customize your looks.

Improvements, QoL, Balancing and more!

• Many monsters have also dabbled in the arcane and divine magic skills.
  • Beware of kobold wizards and more powerful casters, for they can learn all the spells you can, and then some more!
• Power points and spell costs have been completely rebalanced.
  • Additionally, many spells will now scale much better when cast at a higher character level.
• Many buff spells can now be toggled to run indefinitely until cancelled or dispelled.
  • These will instead reduce your maximum power while running. E.g. no more reapplying Ice Armor every ten steps!
• If you attack one and the same target multiple times in a row, your chance of hitting progressively increases, meaning you have a fighting chance even against enemies that are very hard to hit. If you interrupt your flurry of blows with any other action, this effect resets! Also beware: monsters may use this against you, too.
• Elemental effects make much more sense now. Especially fish do not like if you freeze water around them.
• Keyboard players rejoice! Several additional commands can now be accessed by keyboard: D - drink, E - eat, U - use, R - read, Z - zap.
• You can now customize how the inventory screen (for the backpack and items on the ground) looks like with two new modes. One is a bit more elaborate, while the other is more compact.
• The Tome Of Knowledge now contains more explanation texts for the UI to help new players find their way into learning what things mean even faster.
• Visual combat feedback has been optimized. Hits that are dealing damage are shown in red, while hits that are not dealing any damage are now shown in orange.
• We have added more help texts to the more complex screens.
• Several major visual enhancements, including spell effects, new level biomes and more wall decorations to add a lot more diversity to the dungeon levels.
• While slingers had an easy way of generating more bullets for their sling, archers and crossbow-users would often find themselves without ammunition. No more! Fletching arrows and quarrels now works as intended.
• Items granting you special movement modes (such as flying, hovering or others) will work now.
• Legacy items you were able to find but had no purpose will no longer appear in the game. Everything you find has a purpose and a function now!
• Added a lot more item explanations to tell you what these functions actually are.
• If you are unaffected by bad karma, you will actually be unaffected. Previously, your luck would be reduced even if you had immunity.

Bugfixes, Stability and Performance