We are very excited to announce to you our collaboration with Motion Twin to release a Dead Cells update for Astral Ascent coming out on November 27th! Here is our reveal teaser below! barbecuePog [previewyoutube=GYnAX_EZEIQ;full][/previewyoutube] We are very proud of this collaboration as Dead Cells is the most popular of our genre of Platformer Roguelike games it is probably the game that defined this genre the most. It is also a game we took inspiration from for its fluidity of movement and nervous action. If you do not own Dead Cells already, you can now purchase it alongside Astral Ascent in a bundle! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46767/Dead_Cells__Astral_Ascent_Duo/ They have also released a Board Game just recently and their great Animated Serie started release in English! And of course they recently launched their new game Windblown we have a ton of fun playing in co-op! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911610/Windblown/ Though you may want to wait November 27th for an extra discount for the launch of the update.

What to expect from this update?

• Nutcracker for Kiran
• Throwing Knives for Ayla
• Wrenching Whip for Octave
• Scythe Claw for Calie
• Symmetrical Lance for Yamat

First of all, thanks for the great reception of the 1.7 version! We are working hard on new updates!

Version 1.8 complete Patch-Notes:

Cursed Telescope

Builds Recap

QoL elements!

• Explo / Fight rooms - 1 Star
• Star Guardians - 2 Stars
• Zodiacs - 3 Stars

2.0 is not the end!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New room ""Cursed Telescope"": This room can appear as a reward option alongside other rooms starting in world 2, 3, or 4. Inside, you'll find a cursed version of the Telescope from the hub, offering a perk tied to a Malus, which adds a temporary negative effect to the player. The Malus is lifted once you reach Andromeda's bar, leaving only the perk behind. [hr][/hr]
• Build recap: Players can preview their build after completing a run. A list of previous runs is also available in the hub by interacting with the Altar beneath Sova's spot

Small Features

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• community inspired New Aura Refiner in Event Horizon (co-op players used to have 1 extra aura refiner use they could not use) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Auras Refiner recycled now drops rarer Auras depending of current world if you have Barbecue Summon [hr][/hr]
• community inspired You now have double the loots in Cetus Cavern when playing in co-op [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Hints are now displayed on Auras from Barbecue interface [hr][/hr]
• Arsenal now in Andromeda's Bar and in Hub [hr][/hr]
• Players can achieve a 'Perfect Room' by clearing all enemies without taking damage in the following rooms: Exploration, Fight, Eclipse, The Void, and Boss. Earning a 'Perfect Room' rewards players with stars, with the reward increasing based on the current streak of perfected rooms.

Balancing

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• community inspired Yamat ""Dance of Contempt"" spell now has Dodge at the beginning [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spirit Swords can now attack faster [hr][/hr]
• Poison now ticks faster depending on the number of stacks [hr][/hr]
• Enemies with ""Frostbite"" status effect will receive an additional 20% damage

Interface

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• Special rooms, Andromeda's bar and final boss are now displayed in the progression bar [hr][/hr]
• Challenge Rooms from Zodiacs now display the type of reward/affinity you will have by completing the challenge [hr][/hr]
• Key Converter now shows number of Keys and Stars when nearby

Visuals

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• Portal to Elite fight rooms and Elite Star Guardians are now red [hr][/hr]
• Icons above portal and not changing overtime anymore for better readability

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Typos fixed in the Forge Room [hr][/hr]
• ""Vanquisher of the Star Guardians"" and ""Stars Vanquisher"" achievements from Sier Bapy were too similar in english [hr][/hr]
• Intro voices when entering Elite Minibosses room were missing

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Loot Keys could sometime never reach players and keep rotating around [hr][/hr]
• Key Converter was now displaying the right amount of keys to stars if you used keys in the room [hr][/hr]
• The game would freeze while trying to open the Arsenal if it triggers the first interaction tutorial - hotfix 1.8.1 [hr][/hr]
• Wrong dialogue line was played by Ordan when interacting with Elite Minibosses - hotfix 1.8.1 [hr][/hr]
• The second player wouldn't receive the aura from the ""City of Gold Telescope"" with the Void Catalyst perk - hotfix 1.8.1

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Astral Ascent X Scourgebringer X Ember Knights X Spiritfall

• Bodyboulder from Scourgebringer
• Praxis from Ember Knights
• Tasmos from Spiritfall

Version 1.7 complete Patch-Notes:

The Relentless Void

Forge Rework

Keys Converter

Sneak Peak of 1.8

• The mana cost of the spell in slot 4 is remove
• Spells that cost 3 mana have a X% chance to not use mana
• Spell in slot 2 cost between 1 and 3 mana
• Reduces Echoes cooldown by X%
• On spell refresh, kill X random enemies
• X% chance to reset the signature spell when you use it

• The rooms are hidden
• The signature spell is unavailable
• All spells cost 3 mana
• The damages cant critical
• Max life reduced by X%

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• The Relentless Void: New room type with harder Star Guardians with more patterns and more dangerous only appearing in world 4 if you already beat 3 Star Guardians in your run, rewarding with Astral Gambits! [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Forge Rework: Picking a spell in the forge now allows to pick any spell from your hero and select the affinity you want instead of random spells! [hr][/hr]
• Keys Refiner: You can now transform your Keys leftovers in world 5n before the final battle into Stars to use for Andromeda's drinks!

Small Features

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• community inspired Accessibility: You can now open Big Chests by keeping input pressed instead of spamming it [hr][/hr]
• End of rooms portal now also open while being on the stopping from running animation, making them a few frames faster

Balancing

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• community inspired Yamat summon Dance of contempt: reduced cooldown from 45 to 25 seconds

Music & SFX

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• New Music in the new room and in the Jukebox

Interface

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• community inspired Resilience Mode is now displayed on main UI

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Fixed a typo in english and french Resilience description

Bug Fixes

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• Buying a spell at Andromeda's bar for the first time would not make spell sound [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed some Yamat perks that would not spawn effects correctly [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed some Yamat perks that would indefinitely spawn elements after the effect of her signature spell was over [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to skip a room during co-op if both players pressed the input to pick a portal at the same tick [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Kiran ""Explosive Temper"" passive ability from ""Burning Bo"" weapon would not hit enemies [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed a visual glitch with decimal cases of ""Resilience mode"" values [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Resilience mode would mistakenly be buffed while finishing a winning run under DL6+ [hr][/hr]
• No audio when buying a Spell at Andromeda's bar for the first time [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Yamat could not change colors as Player 2 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Light quality option on the left was not looping correctly [hr][/hr]
• community inspired World 3 Anchor enemy projectiles would hit you if enemy was destroyed and you were above a target while it didn't explode yet

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New Hero DLC Release Trailer

DLC CONTENT -

• Pixel Art hand-drawn cinematic animation!
  
• 16 new unique spells - summons powerful wild creatures, spinning giant blades and more!
  
  
  
  
• Signature Spell - Forbidden Power transforms Yamat into her flying draconic form allowing her to move freely around while shooting magic missiles to nearby enemies.
  
• 37 Associated Perks to modify her Signature Spell
• 3 Weapons types for different playstyles
  • Dark Energy Fists - close range quick attacks of dark matter unleashing flaming magical creatures
    
  • Two-Handed Dark Sword - longer range powerful slash that can hit several enemies at once
    
  • Dark Bow - shoots from afar and shower enemies with arrows
    
• 9 Weapon Passives - Each weapon comes with 3 unique passives to change playstyle, making Yamat an even deadlier fighter, here is one example per weapon -
  
  
  
  
  
  
• New Papa Yalee Stories - 4 new stories to learn more about the mysterious Yamat
• 1000+ new lines of dialogs between Yamat and all the other characters of the Garden including heroes fully voiced in English and Japanese
• Pixel Art ending screen - a new ending has been added to the game for Yamat!

ADDITION TO THE BASE GAME -

• See Yamat hanging out in the Garden
• Collect and use 2 Yamat Echoes during the runs
• Fight Yamat's Shadow Clone

1.6 version changes

• 23 New Astral Auras for more synergy builds, here are 9 examples from the 23 new Auras!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You now have 5 Auras slot instead of 4 as you will have 2 base Aura Slots instead of 1, this allows so much more synergies and possibilities of build, in particular for mixed builds!
  
• You can now reroll 3 times the Auras in Yalee Kingdom with Sun Pieces, like for Echo Island, you need to defeat the Master in DL6 first! The Yalee Kingdom has now increased amount of Astral Auras loot, making it more likely for you to find loots matching your current build.
  
• You now have 3 rerolls in Echo Island instead of 1, making it easier to find something matching your build.
• The way you find Zodiacs in the Bar to come with you has been changed, instead of finding 2 Zodiacs per run, you will find 1 per world so up to 4 in one run and their affinity are now displayed on the door of the Bar so you don't need to enter in the bar if you do not want to.
  
• Applying Ignition while enemy already has Igntion now adds 2 extra Burn Stacks and Applying Fireshield while already having Fireshield will make a pulse of 2 Burn Stacks, this makes stacking these effects much more interesting.
  
  
• The Weapon Passives working "until you get hit" can now reactivate if you don't get hit during a certain duration.
  
  • - Ayla Moonlight blade: Ray of light
  • - Kiran Raging fist: Double tap
  • - Kiran Burning Bo: Magnetic Personality
  • - Octave Exterminatum Exemplaris: Fragor mortis
• Some Weapon Passives now restore mana on hit.
  
  • - Ayla Lunar Dagger :Parting gift
  • - Ayla Moonlight blade: Starfire
  • - Kiran Raging fist: Flower power
  • - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Coniicio Iocor
  • - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Priora Signa
  • - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Seco Verbera
  • - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Anima Vampiris
  • - Calie Polytechnical Gems: Aerial Strike
  • - Calie Service Spear: Wolf Hole
  • - Calie Service Spear: Homing Spear
• Shadow Clones can no longer spawn in world 1 as they were sometimes spawning too early and very hard to beat.

Yalee Plushies

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Yamat custom cursor!

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Spiritfall Cross-over

New Roadmap!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Playable Hero - Yamat (PAID DLC): 16 new unique spells - summons powerful wild creatures, spinning giant blades and more! Pixel Art hand-drawn cinematic animation! Signature Spell - Forbidden Power transforms Yamat into her flying draconic form allowing her to move freely around while shooting magic missiles to nearby enemies. 37 Associated Perks to modify her Signature Spell 3 Weapons types for different play styles Dark Energy Fists - close range quick attacks of dark matter unleashing flaming magical creatures Two-Handed Dark Sword - longer range powerful slash that can hit several enemies at once Dark Bow - shoots from afar and shower enemies with arrows 9 Weapon Passives - Each weapon comes with 3 unique passives to change playstyle, making Yamat an even deadlier fighter, New Papa Yalee Stories - 4 new stories to learn more about the mysterious Yamat 1000+ new lines of dialogue between Yamat and all the other characters of the Garden including heroes fully voiced in English and Japanese Pixel Art ending screen - a new ending has been added to the game for Yamat! [hr][/hr]
• New Playable Hero - Yamat (Free Content): See Yamat hanging out in the Garden Collect and use 2 Yamat Echoes during the runs Fight Yamat's Shadow Clone [hr][/hr]
• We now start with 2 base Aura slots instead of 1 with a maximum of 5 instead of 4 with Zim-Zim upgrades to create more synergies [hr][/hr]
• Auras: Added 23 new astral auras: - Fire Propellant - Homing Ember - Careless Wispers - Shrineless Flame - Heatseeker Shield - Sickening Spark - Weaponized Conduct - Sleety Cloud - Magnetic field - Power Line - Glacier's Fall - Ice Pick - Snow Day - Cold Sap - Icarus Slime - Icy Shiv - Burn Your Idols - Sparkling Stars - Maddening Darkness - Disorienting Weapon - Bigger Body Initiative - Blade Dance - Cast Off [hr][/hr]
• You can now meet up to 4 Zodiacs per run in the Andromeda's Bar, 1 new is added per world there instead of having always 2 Zodiacs there

Small Features

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• Yalee Kingdom: Increased astral auras spawn chance in Yalee kingdom and added 3 reroll possibilities (unlocked with progression) [hr][/hr]
• Echoes island: Yalee for resets allows 3 rerolls instead 1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Effects: Fireshield: If it's already active, creates a pulse that applies 2 Burn Ignition: If the target is already ignited, apply 2 Burn Reduced Combustion damage [hr][/hr]
• Icons are displayed previewing the Zodiacs inside Andromeda's bar [hr][/hr]
• Added new icons displaying Aura's current, and upgraded version, effect affinities

Balancing

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• Auras: Spinning Spirit: Reduced Ravaging Spheres CD from 15 to 10 seconds Multi-Purpose Barriere: Reduced CD from 36 to 18 seconds Ring Of Sol: Reduced Fireshield CD from 18 to 10 seconds Incandescent Rain: Reduced CD from 12 to 6 seconds Raw Force: Increased combustion damage from 50% to 75% Piercing Surprise: Reduced Freezing needle CD from 2 to 1 seconds Sudden Frostbyte: Reduced Aqua ball CD from 3 to 1 seconds Snow Amulett: Reduced critical hit from 20% to 10% Ignited Scar I, II and III: Added 6, 5 and 4 seconds on Ignition from critical hits Sorcerer mantle: The effect now only triggers when there are enemies nearby to avoid the mana exploit Blinding Comet: Increased magma number from 3 to 6 Blazing Scars III: Added 100% to regen man but with a 4 seconds of CD [hr][/hr]
• Passives weapons: Added mana regen on the weapon passives - Ayla Lunar Dagger :Parting gift - Ayla Moonlight blade: Starfire - Kiran Raging fist: Flower power - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Coniicio Iocor - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Priora Signa - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Seco Verbera - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Anima Vampiris - Calie Polytechnical Gems: Aerial Strike - Calie Service Spear: Wolf Hole - Calie Service Spear: Homing Spear Added a reactivation CD for the weapon passives: - Ayla Moonlight blade: Ray of light - Kiran Raging fist: Double tap - Kiran Burning Bo: Magnetic Personality - Octave Exterminatum Exemplaris: Fragor mortis - Improved cast speed for the passive ""Judgment cut"" - Increased damage for the passive ""Santry"" Reduced the unlock condition for the Hunter X Hunger passive from 100% to 75% attack speed Reduced the unlock condition for the ""Homing Spear"" passive from 60% to 45% critical - Octave Priora Signa: orbs spawn closer to the ground to hit more enemies Weapon Passives should not be appearing in special rooms anymore [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Thousand Knives spell now attack faster enemies [hr][/hr]
• Pisces Clones (Zodiac Spell) now has a bigger hit range [hr][/hr]
• Spells: Reality distortion: Increased cast speed Water bubble: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible Topaz Gladius - Guardian: Sword now only activate if enemies are visible N686 Hidden Dirks : Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible Pisces Zodiac spell: Increased clones explosion size and damage [hr][/hr]
• Echoes: Zimzim-Laugh: The effect now only triggers when there are enemies nearby to avoid the mana exploit Ayla's Flashing Knives: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible Calie's Sigil Weapons: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible [hr][/hr]
• Shadow clones: Octave: Added a hit cd when he does his spinning attack [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim Laugh echo (infinite mana) now needs a valid enemy in sight to trigger to avoid exploits

Level Design

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• Shadow clones can no longer spawn in world 1

Music & SFX

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• Added sounds on missiles effect [hr][/hr]
• Increased sound when a passive weapon is equipped

Interface

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• Added new icons in the glossary for Combustion, Spark and Frostbite [hr][/hr]
• You can now see the telescope bonus in the interface [hr][/hr]
• Improved texts colors of main menu and options for better readability [hr][/hr]
• New ""Additional Content"" for DLCs on Main Menu

Visuals

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• Better readability on Invincible Clones [hr][/hr]
• Added an easter egg in the hub [hr][/hr]
• Elliptic Rose and Amethyst shadow colors have been changed to visually fit better with the main color [hr][/hr]
• Added effect icons under aura loot for better feedback (colored for current effects and gray for next rarities)

Narrative Design

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• Name achievement ""Guardian Angel"" renamed to ""Zodiac Angel"" because there was 2 achievements ""Guardian Angel"" [hr][/hr]
• community inspired French typos fixed

Bug Fixes

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• Amount of owned Sun pieces would not display while near a Yalee to reset Echo in the Echo Isles. [hr][/hr]
• If you were dashing and launched a spell or signature spell you would still be considered as dashing resulting of being able to go through fire dash portals [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Meeting your Zodiac Sign during runs achievement from Sier Bapy was not giving Sun Pieces the first reward [hr][/hr]
• You could damage boss before fight starts [hr][/hr]
• Some enemies you cannot target could have armor points visible [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Calie Spell Deadly Connection would sometimes not work during fps drops [hr][/hr]
• Velocity attack speed % was wrongly displayed (no change to the behavior) [hr][/hr]
• World 3 water elemental enemy could often get into walls and ground, its behavior has been reworked to fix the issue [hr][/hr]
• In co-op, during Scorpio Challenge, Scorpio would sometimes not target the player making the challenge [hr][/hr]
• Octave Rocket Launcher target could remain in hub if you select him then select another character [hr][/hr]
• Ophiuchus now summons correctly Taurus and Pisces in Phase 2 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Rosewood color was displayed grey on shadow colors [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Portraits of Heroes at the Memory Library were not displayed correctly since 1,4 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Ruby Spear - Domination spell could set enemies in walls [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Leo could fall out of borders while doing his jump attack with the axe [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to get stuck out of the level screen by spamming inputs at start of some layouts

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First DLC Release in 4 days!

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Yamat the Breach Traveler is coming on July 29!

YAMAT, THE BREACH TRAVELER -

DLC CONTENT -

• 16 new unique spells - summons powerful wild creatures, spinning giant blades and more!
• Pixel Art hand-drawn cinematic animation!
• Signature Spell - Forbidden Power transforms Yamat into her flying draconic form allowing her to move freely around while shooting magic missiles to nearby enemies.
• 37 Associated Perks to modify her Signature Spell
• 3 Weapons types for different playstyles
  • Dark Energy Fists - close range quick attacks of dark matter unleashing flaming magical creatures
  • Two-Handed Dark Sword - longer range powerful slash that can hit several enemies at once
  • Dark Bow - shoots from afar and shower enemies with arrows
• 9 Weapon Passives - Each weapon comes with 3 unique passives to change playstyle, making Yamat an even deadlier fighter,
• New Papa Yalee Stories - 4 new stories to learn more about the mysterious Yamat
• 1000+ new lines of dialogs between Yamat and all the other characters of the Garden including heroes fully voiced in English and Japanese
• Pixel Art ending screen - a new ending has been added to the game for Yamat!

ADDITION TO THE BASE GAME -

• See Yamat hanging out in the Garden
• Collect and use 2 Yamat Echoes during the runs
• Fight Yamat's Shadow Clone

1.6 version details

Pre-orders from our partners Limited Run Games are opening from June 28 to July 28 for PS4 / PS5 and Nintendo Switch!
Link for pre-orders It also comes with limited quantity of leftovers Ayla figures from our Kickstarter campaign!
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We are happy to announce that you can now play Astral Ascent in Spanish with the 1.5.1 version! You have asked for this translation a lot so we were happy to deliver it! Muchas gracias, y... divirtanse, gracias. zagpls

Hello everyone! Version 1.5 is out now on Steam! This time again we did not do a simultaneous release on console because we wanted to keep iterating based on our Beta Public feedback, this update adds a variety of small changes and bug fixes. We hope you will enjoy it!

Patch Note

Reminiscing Mirror

Destiny Level 100 and Resilience Mode

Destiny Level 60

Destiny Level 70

Destiny Level 80

Destiny Level 90

Destiny Level 100

Resilience Mode

Banning Spells

Other smaller changes

Yamat is coming!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• The Reminiscing Mirror: View all the 38 Pixel Art cinematics from the game in The Garden once you unlocked them [hr][/hr]
• Ban Spells: You can now ban heroes and common spells from the Merchant [hr][/hr]
• Destiny Level 100: You can now go past Destiny Level 54 with new challenges like fighting 2 Zodiacs at once and more! [hr][/hr]
• Resilience Mode: Option in Gameplay similar to Hades God Mode, if you activate it will reduce damage taken by 20% and +2% each time you die for a total of up to 80% and -1% each time you success a run.

Small Features

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• community inspired Burn Stacks can now exceed 10 stacks and not be lost after a Combustion [hr][/hr]
• A Yalee allows you to reset one time the Echoes options in Echoes Island, unlocked once you beat Destiny Level 6 once (like Yalee in Telluric Ruins) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Octave Weapon Passive Coniicio Iocor and Kiran Weapon Passive Santry could spawn out of reach [hr][/hr]
• Icons of Echoes you have from Void Catalyst / Telescope are displayed when starting a run so you don't miss them [hr][/hr]
• Adjusted the Red feedback for Ice projectile of the Burning Djinn [hr][/hr]
• Octave Weapon passive Aura Meridies (lasers in fight rooms) now prevents jumping to avoid interrupting it by jumping [hr][/hr]
• Ghost Enemies now cannot attack for the first 0,4 seconds after their apparition to give more to give to see the enemy spawned [hr][/hr]
• New icons showing spells and gambits loot affinities [hr][/hr]
• Equipping an Aura on the same Aura will increase its quality if Aura can be improved

Balancing

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• Fire Plasma Aura now add 2 Burn Stacks instead of 5 [hr][/hr]
• Killing enemies give a bit more XP points than before [hr][/hr]
• Malices from Destiny level : Used Pockets / Life Crusher & Leaking Foes (losing max hp/ mana & quartz when hit) now have a cooldown in case you get hit multiple times quickly [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Kiran Weapon passive Flower Power now restores 2 charges instead of 1 when using King Counter [hr][/hr]
• Shielded Foes giving Armor Points to enemies in Destiny Levels has been reduced from 50% chances to 30% chances to give armor to enemies [hr][/hr]
• Yalee Tickets and Memory Fragments loots are more frequent [hr][/hr]
• Thunder Elite Aspect waits a bit longer before hitting for the first time and increased time between each hit + it cannot be too small as it used to be to avoid not seeing it behind an enemy + add of a red feedback visual to better see it + it doesn't hit anymore while fading out [hr][/hr]
• Calie Gems Weapons Passive Aerial Strike cooldown from 8 seconds to 7 secs and the area of effect is bigger now [hr][/hr]
• Reduced Shadow Clones health amount in World 1 and World 2 [hr][/hr]
• Vampiric Foes effect does not work anymore from Elite Aspects, Thorny Foes and Vengeful Foes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The Master Ultimate bar doesn't charge anymore while summoning Heroes Clones

Level Design

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• Removed an unwanted Fire Portal in an exploration room

Music & SFX

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• Bigger Sound when deactivating a Weapon Passive in Arsenal to avoid unequip by error

Interface

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• Apparition of texts in Main Menu is faster now [hr][/hr]
• Getting in Gameplay option from ingame would place you on second option instead of first one [hr][/hr]
• Reduced brightness on Main Menu characters when changing menu [hr][/hr]
• Main Menu options are more to the right and Heroes on Main Menu too to have more space for texts [hr][/hr]
• Main Menu options texts is larger and font size is smaller to write more things [hr][/hr]
• Reworked some French terms in options Gameplay for better understanding [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Quest progress in The Arsenal no longer halts during co-op if a player without the required weapon is hit in a specific room.

Visuals

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• Burn Effects color is more orange so it's more different from Electrify Effects [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Weapon passive Flower Power and Calie Weapon passive Homing Spear now have visual feedback for their charges [hr][/hr]
• Elite Aspects elements now spawn behind enemies and players [hr][/hr]
• Changed the Fire sprites displayed on ground from Leo's fight and Burning Djinn + added a red feedback behind the fire for these elements [hr][/hr]
• Taking damage with Barrier effect on is better feedbacked [hr][/hr]
• Taken damage number are visible for longer

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Katana Judgment Cut Weapon Passive could aim Ghost enemies [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Claws Kusarigama's fury Weapon Passive was not working during Zodiacs encounters [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Pressed Cancel on Papa Yalee Character category would not make you go back to Categories [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Gems Aerial Strike Weapon Passive was always being thrown from P1 even if P2 was launching it [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing Shards from Shards Altar spawn faster, they could not spawn before you take the Bar door + only 1 could be saved when changing layout, now working with more than 1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The progress of some quests from The Arsenal that track spell changes, such as level or affinity, would not update after changing weapons. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The progress of some quests from The Arsenal that track spell changes, such as level or affinity, would not update after changing weapons. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Addressed potential game crash caused by activating certain gambits while pausing. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Prevented accidental selection of an Echo instead of an Aura slot during equipment or upgrade attempts. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Corrected rarity tiers for auras from the Small Astral Dragon during co-op. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Respawning in the Garden was needed to force the unlock of achievement related to getting all colors from The Stylist. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Gemini chain throw scythe between each other attack would hit player with invisible scythe sometimes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Absorbing Barrier from Void Catalyst would not work if you had a Barrier effect activated [hr][/hr]
• The Master was never summoning Pisces during the fight [hr][/hr]
• community inspired ""Damage dealer"" achievement would not trigger with option to show damage numbers disabled [hr][/hr]
• Ghost Effect behind player when doing a fall attack was too present when playing at more than 60 fps [hr][/hr]
• Weapon Passives would sometimes keep showing player ghost effect while they were invisible [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Basic Attack magnet to close enemies was not activated for Calie and Octave melee weapons [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Basic Attack magnet to close enemies was working on Ghosts [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Aura ""Catnip III"" third effect triggering lightning strikes on Yalee projectiles was not working [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Capricorn Summon would not target the correct enemy when summoned [hr][/hr]
• Hitting 2 Jump Crystals with same attack now picks the closest Jump Crystal from the player [hr][/hr]
• Hitting a Jump Crystal overlapping an enemy now hits the enemy [hr][/hr]
• community inspired A few Auras were displayed with the wrong affinities [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Ayla Weapon Passive Ray of Light would not always be triggered if you have a lot of attack speed

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Hello everyone! :zimzimSmile: We are very happy to announce that the 1.4 version is out now on Steam! This time we could not do a simultaneous release on console as we had to release the update as soon as possible in order to be able to participate to a Steam festival in May but we will do our best to release it as soon as we can later this month! You can check below our first trailer since 1.0 release to showcase the new changes! [previewyoutube=sLbXoOWWCoU;full][/previewyoutube]

Patch Note

8 New Weapons

36 Weapon Passives

What is next?

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• The Arsenal : 8 new weapons and 36 passives for weapons unlockable with small quests

  AYLA

  
  Lunar daggers (Daggers):
  • PARTING GIFT: Killing enemies burst 1 colored dagger out of their remains. It comes back to you after a few moments.
  • GLIDING STAR: Dash leaves behind a rotating shuriken that comes back to you after a few seconds. Only one can be out at a time.
  • NIGHT VEIL: You gain an extra jump and each Double Jump flings a fan of kunais under you.
  Moonlight blade (Katana):
  • RAY OF LIGHT: In each room, until you get hit, the last attack of your basic attack combo will launch a wave of light.
  • STARFIRE: Dash through enemies while your signature spell is available will mark them. Using your signature spell calls upon a powerful ray of starfire on all of the marked enemies, consuming the mark in the process.
  • JUDGEMENT CUT: After a spells_refresh, your next basic attack will be empowered to execute the healthiest enemy. Zodiacs and Star guardians are too powerful to be affected by this ability.
  Eclipse shards (Claws):
  • KUSARIGAMA'S FURY: On a Fall Attack you grab up to 5 enemies with a chain and pull them to you.
  • INNER DEMON: Using your signature spell unleashes a clone in your initial position that flies back to you, shredding all enemies in its path.
  • HUNTER X HUNGER: The Hunt is On, you gain hunger stack that gives you 5% attack speed and 10% movespeed (up to 50% Movespeed) when killing enemies. You lose 1 stack every 1.5 seconds.

  KIRAN

  
  Raging Fists (Fists):
  • DOUBLE TAP: In each room, until you get hit, your basic attack does an extra punch.
  • COME AND GET IT: On signature spell, you pull all those cowards right next to you to punch them better.
  • FLOWER POWER: In each room, your first 4 basic attack are replaced by a fireball. Each time you use your signature spell you get 1 more fireball to throw.
  Burning bo (Bo Staff):
  • EXPLOSIVE TEMPER: When you successfully counter an attack with your signatire spell you do A HUGE EXPLOSION!!!!!
  • BOGGO STICK: Your double jump becomes an awesome attack that works like a basic attack!
  • MAGNETIC PERSONNALITY: In each room, until you get hit, the enemies are captivated by the last attack of your basic attack combo and assemble in front of you to admire it.
  Diery falchions (Dual Falchions):
  • HIT MARKER: Every 6 seconds, a mark appears on an enemy for a short period. Hitting them with a basic attack makes it explode.
  • SANTRY: A floating sword appears periodically. Catch it to earn its loyalty for the next 6 basic attack. After those, it will go back to its family and a new floating sword will appear after 7 seconds.
  • SWORD JUGGLING: Every 10 seconds, your next basic attack will launch a rotating fire blade that comes back to you.

  CALIE

  
  Polytechnical Gmmes (Gems):
  • AERIAL STRIKE: Every 8 seconds, your next double jump will bombard the enemy positions in front of you with 5 feathers. Timeless classic.
  • CONDUCTIVE PROPERTY: Using your signatire spell creates an energy orb on each gem and links them together with a damage-dealing energy. Practical.
  • FIELD SUPPLIES: A crystal will grow on the ground after 5 seconds. You can destroy it with 3 basic attack to create 5 gems that you can recall with your signature spell. A thrifty solution.
  Service Spear (Spear):
  • CALL TO ARMS: When using your signature spell, you call forth spears that pierce the enemies around you for 2,2 seconds.
  • WOLF HOLE: A mark will appear every 5 seconds on enemies around Calie. Doing a Top Attack will consume the mark and create an area attack around it, knocking the enemies toward Calie's position.
  • HOMING SPEAR: In each room, your first 2 basic attack throw a spear that can be called back to you. After a spell refresh you get 1 more spear to throw. Handy.
  Unbreakable Rempart (Shield):
  • SIEGE BREAKER: A destructible block will appear after 7 seconds. Breaking it will launch 3 damage dealing debris accross the battlefield. Disappointing craft.
  • DEFENSIVE MEASURES: Using your signature spell creates a force field around Calie. Each gem recalled will be deflected by it and launched toward a nearby enemy. Impenetrable.
  • AVENGING SHIELD: After 5 seconds, the last attack of your basic attack combo will launch a shield that bounces 6 times off enemies. Old efficient trick.

  OCTAVE

  
  Pistor Vocatis (Dual pistols):
  • ORBUS MINORIS: Every 8 seconds, you summon Pluto, a flying drone that follows you and attack enemies hit with a close-range basic attack. After 5 shots, it disappears. (Sad)
  • CONIICIO IOCOR: A bullet appear after 5 seconds. Collecting it replaces your next {basic attack with a laser that ricochets up to 6 times between enemies. (Stylish)
  • AUREA MERIDIES: When entering a Fight Room or an Eclipse Room, your first basic attack launch you into a flurry of laser, killing everything in sight. (Awesome!)
  Exterminatum Exemplaris (Rocket launcher):
  • FRAGOR MORTIS: In each room, until you get hit, the last attack of your basic attack combo will launch 6 grenades around your target. (Radical)
  • ORBITUM TERMINUS: Your signature spell calls a devastating strike firing 20 shots from orbit. (Total Annihilation)
  • PRIORA SIGNA: An energy orb appears after 5 seconds. Shooting it with a basic attack detonates it, damaging all the enemies in the area.
  Magnum Cupitere (Gunblade):
  • SECO VERBERA: After a spell refresh, your next basic attack will create an energy orb and split it into a myriad of small projectiles that target nearby enemies.
  • MISERIA LABRUM: Your Dash now deals damage and has 30% chances to mark enemies on hit. Hitting marked enemies with a basic attack deals extra damage and consumes the mark. (I hope she'll like it)
  • ANIMA VAMPIRIS: After each kill, Octave stores his enemy's power into 1 orb (max 3). Your basic attack consumes 1 orb to release a powerful shot. (Is that what it felt like, Mother?)

Small Features

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• Better zoomed camera at the statue of prowess world 4 [hr][/hr]
• Additional feedback on Path of Destinies menu when activating a Destiny Level 54+ run [hr][/hr]
• Ayla 2 daggers animations improved with improved hitbox [hr][/hr]
• Main Menu visual now changes depending on the Destiny Level you beat (DL6+ and DL54 versions) [hr][/hr]
• Main Menu font change for version number for better lisibility

Balancing

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• Auras: Snow Amulet: Reduced chance to spawn snowflake from 50% to 20% Sword Fang: Reduced chance to spawn spirit sword from 50% to 30% [hr][/hr]
• Balanced some heroes base weapons attack speed and damage

Visuals

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• Ghost effect behind heroes and enemies is now behind everything for better lisibility

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Fixed some inconsistencies between voice and text in English [hr][/hr]
• Improved translations - hotfix 1.4.1

Bug Fixes

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• Counter Sound of Kiran Signature Spell would not play if relaunched quickly [hr][/hr]
• Game could crash if paused for a long time at a specific frame of Flying Spirit attack animation [hr][/hr]
• Passive could be equipped on a weapon that was still locked - hotfix 1.4.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Portuguese language was not working - hotfix 1.4.1

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Major Features

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• The game now suggests slightly more often loots that could synergize with player's build [hr][/hr]
• Players can receive up to 3 accumulated destiny fragments after defeating Zodiacs on DL runs from previous destiny levels not cleared

Small Features

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• community inspired Reworked the descriptions of Effects in Hints and Glossary to give more details about the stacks, durations of effects, number of hits etc. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired After clearing the game, on the menu to pick a specific ending, there's a check mark on the name of characters on which endings have already been seen by the player [hr][/hr]
• We replaced the void catalyst perk ""Warrior's Pride"" (+1 damage stone per X enemy defeated until player is hit) for the new perk ""Barbecue's grace"", which provides Barbecue's Echo at start of a run (salvaging an aura for the first time spawns another aura of the same Tier) [hr][/hr]
• The small dragon at start of runs gives +1 extra choice for auras [hr][/hr]
• We added hint descriptions for specific auras that cast elements based on common spells [hr][/hr]
• Added an additional feedback for Aura's rarity on player's inventory [hr][/hr]
• Small increase XP gain after opening a Zodiac chest [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Mouse cursor is clamped on the app window while it's active

Balancing

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• community inspired Reduced spark damage by 30% [hr][/hr]
• Increased damage of PRCIPITATIO spell [hr][/hr]
• Rebalanced stacks (burn, poison etc.) applied by effects (slime, wisp etc.) [hr][/hr]
• Increased damage of Frostbite effect [hr][/hr]
• We increased by 2 per rank the price of the Void Catalyst perk Zodiac's Emblem (Increase charge hate of Zodiacs summon by 20% per rank)

Interface

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• Added Frostbite effect to the Glossary [hr][/hr]
• Reworked the descriptions of Elite Aspects in Glossary [hr][/hr]
• community inspired New option to make the next spell, on the player's spell cycle, to always be visible above the player's sprite [hr][/hr]
• New option to make background darker that creates a bigger contrast with game elements, which should hopefully help readability for some players [hr][/hr]
• Visual color on Auras in inventory depending of rarity

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Inputs on Steamdeck were doubled [hr][/hr]
• spell MISERIA explosions on side walls could have wrong direction [hr][/hr]
• spell MORBUS projectiles would sometimes bounce instead of exploding when colliding with ground [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Enemies Red Feedbacks of attacks would sometimes stay on the screen since 1.2 [hr][/hr]
• Damage for ""Calie's lightning combo"" Echo not displayed on damage meter and not calculated correctly during co-op [hr][/hr]
• The echo ""Sova's feather tornado"" would not work for player 2 [hr][/hr]
• Telescope would not update perks correctly on switch if players opted to hibernate the console instead of closing the game application or turning it off [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The guaranteed higher level feather from Pavo's after the third claimed feather would not always have the correct level [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The small dragon auras would not upgrade the aura tiers correctly after upgrading it at Zim-Zim on the next run [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The average damage from spells was being wrongly calculated while checking the spell thorough player's inventory [hr][/hr]
• Fixed cases on where players would not be able to be revived during co-op mode after dying [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed wrong localisation text for some Zodiacs name in damage meter (Russian language)

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Hello everyone! We just released the 1.3 version on PC. This new version is focused on elements often requested by the community.

Patch Note

Affinity System

Destiny Fragments

• You get 1 Destiny Fragment per Zodiac per Destiny Level (up to 54) and the Master gives 3 fragments per level, you can at best get 7 fragments in a run.
• If you defeat a Zodiac at a high Destiny Level, you will only get 1 Destiny Fragment and it will increase by 1 the Destiny Level you need to get a new fragment of this Zodiac.
• Ex : if you have all fragments of Taurus at Destiny Level 10, if you beat him at Destiny Level 20 you will get his 11th fragment, and you will need to beat him at Destiny Level 12 or more to get one new fragment.

• You get from 1 to 3 destiny Fragments per Zodiacs depending on the difference between your current Destiny Level and the number of Destiny Fragments already collected from the Zodiacs.
• Ex : if you have all fragments of Taurus at Destiny level 10, if you beat him at Destiny Level 13 you will get 3 fragments. Then you will need to beat him at Destiny Level 14 or more to get new Destiny Fragments.
• The Master still gives 3 Destiny Fragment per Destiny Level and you cannot collect several ranks at once so your maximum Destiny Fragments per run is now 15 and the Master and Zodiacs fragments would exhaust at the same time if you win all your Destiny Levels runs.

Improved Descriptions

Permanent spell icon

Astral Dragons

Darker Background Option

Ultimate Challenge

Arsenal Update Preview

Patch Note

20 new spells

PvP Arena

Extras

• Offline Telescope - We have made the Telescope working offline now, it will solve the problem that it was not working in some regions of the world and it will also be available on Console now.
• 4 Categories at Cetus Cavern - Cetus Cavern now has 4 categories instead of 3, the fourth one will always be the random one (Nebulous Choice)
• Pavo Feathers - Feathers on Pavo's ruins will always be of a higher level after sacrificing health 3 times (globally)

Arsenal Update Preview

Merch Suggestions event

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• PvP Mode: Added a option for players to fight each other in a duel during co-op runs. You can start a duel at Andromeda's bar by interacting with the new Duel's altar. [hr][/hr]
• 20 new spells: 5 new spells per Hero [hr][/hr]
• Telescope now works offline. We made this change to make the feature accessible for players in some areas that had issues connecting with the Telescope server. Telescope should also work now on console as well

Small Features

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• Cetus Cavern now has 4 categories instead of 3, the fourth one will always be the random one (Nebulous Choice) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Slimes will now change direction toward nearest available enemy when bouncing (if they have a line of sight to them) [hr][/hr]
• Sparks now bounce multiple times even if no enemies around (make it stronger on bosses) + visual improvement [hr][/hr]
• Effect descriptions can stack into different columns if too many elements are displayed while checking spells [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Feathers on Pavo's ruins will always be of a higher level after sacrificing health 3 times (globally)

Balancing

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• Increased damage for some spells: AYLA - Toxic bomb - Fatal dash - Misleading clone - Fisherman's demise KIRAN - Fiery dragon punch - Hadoken OCTAVE - Miseria - Adustio [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added back 3 Stars per Shadow Clones [hr][/hr]
• Sparks bounce one more time [hr][/hr]
• Increased damage for Fire Shield [hr][/hr]
• Slightly increased time delay between attacks for Aries / Cancer & Gemini [hr][/hr]
• Removed or reduced invincibility on some attacks of Scorpio / Cancer / Libra / Aquarius when it was not necessary

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired You could get stuck in a ground of one of the exploration rooms [hr][/hr]
• Calie's Prismatic Beam could sometimes not hit enemies correctly if game FPS dropped [hr][/hr]
• When being casted by player 2 some hits from the spell ""Slashing Squall"" would always use player 1 spell modificators [hr][/hr]
• When being casted by player 2 the spell ""Quicksilver"" would spawn at player 1 position [hr][/hr]
• community inspired When being casted by player 2 the spell ""Poisonous vortex"" would move facing player 1 direction [hr][/hr]
• community inspired ""Start 30 escape attempts"" would unlock earlier than it should [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Achievement for unlocking Bapy and Barbecue would sometimes not work on ps5 [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to press input to equip an aura while the game was paused [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The combo of the aura ""Prowess of the sky"" and ""Zimzim laugh"" echo would trigger pseudo infinite spawns of thunder strikes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The game could sometimes freeze while skipping Zodiacs cutscenes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing shards would not be collected if the spawn animation didn't finish before a layout transition [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Capricorn warn signs for their missile attacks would sometimes not disappear [hr][/hr]
• Topaz Companion spell would not always hit every time if attacking fast [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Return to Characters in Papa Yalee was only making you go one rank higher [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Lightning Dance spell could keep visual elements after being launched [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Favored by the Earth bapy achievement would not work correctly [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Bapy Summon Star Chest would not give stars in falling in the pit of Pavo's ruins and Echo Island [hr][/hr]
• We reworked the way we handle backup files to handler cases on where player could lost save data if their game crashed or in case of a power outrage. If you find any issues with save files after this update please contact the developer team through the steam forum or the official Hibernian Workshop discord server.

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Hello everyone! zimzimSmile We are making nice progress for the incoming update, it will be simultaneously released on Steam and Consoles on February 12th!

But we have made a Public Beta version available for you to try right now! barbecuePog

We hope to see you there to get your opinion about the update, here is what you can find in the currently uploaded Public-Beta -

Major Features

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• PvP Mode: Added a option for players to fight each other in a duel during co-op runs. You can start a duel at Andromeda's bar by interacting with the new Duel's altar. [hr][/hr]
• 20 new spells: 5 new spells per Hero [hr][/hr]
• Telescope now works offline. We made this change to make the feature accessible for players in some areas that had issues connecting with the Telescope server. Telescope should also work now on console as well

Small Features

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• Cetus Cavern now has 4 categories instead of 3, the fourth one will always be the random one (Nebulous Choice) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Slimes will now change direction toward nearest available enemy when bouncing (if they have a line of sight to them) [hr][/hr]
• Sparks now bounce multiple times even if no enemies around (make it stronger on bosses) + visual improvement

Balancing

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• Increased damage for some spells: AYLA - Toxic bomb - Fatal dash - Misleading clone - Fisherman's demise KIRAN - Fiery dragon punch - Hadoken OCTAVE - Miseria - Adustio [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added back 3 Stars per Shadow Clones [hr][/hr]
• Sparks bounce one more time [hr][/hr]
• Increased damage for Fire Shield

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired You could get stuck in a ground of one of the exploration rooms [hr][/hr]
• Calie's Prismatic Beam could sometimes not hit enemies correctly if game FPS dropped [hr][/hr]
• When being casted by player 2 some hits from the spell ""Slashing Squall"" would always use player 1 spell modificators [hr][/hr]
• When being casted by player 2 the spell ""Quicksilver"" would spawn at player 1 position [hr][/hr]
• community inspired When being casted by player 2 the spell ""Poisonous vortex"" would move facing player 1 direction [hr][/hr]
• community inspired ""Start 30 escape attempts"" would unlock earlier than it should [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Achievement for unlocking Bapy and Barbecue would sometimes not work on ps5 [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to press input to equip an aura while the game was paused [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The combo of the aura ""Prowess of the sky"" and ""Zimzim laugh"" echo would trigger pseudo infinite spawns of thunder strikes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The game could sometimes freeze while skipping Zodiacs cutscenes [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing shards would not be collected if the spawn animation didn't finish before a layout transition [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Capricorn warn signs for their missile attacks would sometimes not disappear [hr][/hr]
• Topaz Companion spell would not always hit everytime if attacking fast [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Return to Characters in Papa Yalee was only making you go one rank higher [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Lightning Dance spell could keep visual elements after being launched [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Favored by the Earth bapy achievement would not work correctly [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Bapy Summon Star Chest would not give stars in falling in the pit of Pavo's ruins and Echo Island

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Hello everyone! We are back from holidays and we are working on our next update coming on February 12! taurusSmirk

PvP Arena and public beta

New Spells

Other Changes Coming

Backerkit Survey

Astral Ascent 1.1.0 is live!

Japanese voice-over

Brazilian Portuguese Translation

Small Astral Dragon

The Telluric Yalee

New Explorations Room

• A - Metaprogression content - making more heroes spells as soon as possible for February 2024 update, we have already created some and we tried to focus on making as many spells as possible focusing on creating gameplay like moving enemies or heroes etc as you feedbacked us.
• B - Ingame content - nothing planned for now given the poll results
• C - New games modes - PvP is planned for February 2024 and a new very cool mode is coming for Q4 2024, giving it a low priority given this poll
• D - Harder challenges - nothing planned for now given the poll results
• E - Exploration runs variety - 10 new exploration rooms level design variations available now! We made it a priority due to the poll.
• F - Combat runs variety - we planned an altervative world to come alongside Yamat update on Q3 2024!

Damage Meter System

Lisibility and Readability

What is next ?

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Damage Meter System: See each element dealing damage in real time for current room and for your whole escape attempt [hr][/hr]
• New Exploration Rooms: 10 new Rooms to find in each world [hr][/hr]
• New Zim-Zim ability: Small Astral Dragon: You will be able to interact with the Small Astral Dragon in first room and start your run with one of 2 auras (rarity increases with each tier at Zim-Zim) [hr][/hr]
• Telluric Yalee: If you defeated the Master the first time, you will be able to interact with the Telluric Yalee in the Telluric Ruins, you can reset your starting spells choices if you want to with sun pieces [hr][/hr]
• Japanese Voices: Full implementation of Japanese Voice Over [hr][/hr]
• Implementation of Backup system to prevent losing saves if game quits at a very bad moment [hr][/hr]
• New Translation: Game translated in Brazilian/Portuguese

Small Features

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• Merchants now have 4 gambits altar instead of 3 to make finding your build easier [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's signature spell now deals instant damage to avoid canceling by mistake if the player moves

Balancing

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• Balanced Armor Stones/Drinks drop chances [hr][/hr]
• Echoes: Increased cooldown of multiple Echoes: - Sova feather tornado - Ikki Regeneration Pack - Oloon Secret Recipe - Yalee's Warm Aura - Poetic Pedler's chance: Increased required quartz [hr][/hr]
• Auras: Reduced armor on certain auras: - Igneous Shield II-III - Scale Armor I-II-III - Iron Armor I-II-III - Cetus Secret - Pink Pulsar - Seal of the Storm Lord: Reduced damage for all nimbus active by 20% to 10% [hr][/hr]
• Effects: Nimbus: Slight damage reduction [hr][/hr]
• Spells: Kiran: - Twin Dragon Uppercut: Increased damage Ayla: - Unrelenting Tornado: Increased damage and increased movespeed during the spell - Astral Powder: Mana now costs 2 instead of 1 but damage is significantly increased Calie: - Topaz Gladius - Onslaught: Increased movespeed during the spell [hr][/hr]
• Void Catalyst: Zodiac's Embleme: Reduced % of charge per tier [hr][/hr]
• Prowess: Weakening symbol: reduced damage on the Ayla mark [hr][/hr]
• Bapy Achievements: Guardian Angel: The number of encounters with the chosen sign has been reduced [hr][/hr]
• Increased the spawn rate for encounter the chosen sign [hr][/hr]
• Stars balancing: astral spirit 4 -> 3 shadow clones 6 -> 0 minibosses 8 -> 4 zodiacs - w1 10 -> 8 - w2 12 -> 10 - w3 14 -> 12 - w4 24 -> 18 aura salvage - common 4 -> 3 - rare 5 -> 4 - mythic 6 -> 5 - astral 12 -> 6 [hr][/hr]
• Stars balancing: aura salvage - astral 6 -> 10 - hotfix 1.1.0.2 [hr][/hr]
• Armor Drinks/Stones: Spawn chances for drink/stones armor back to values from 1.0 release - hotfix 1.1.0.2

Level Design

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• You fall from less high in the Elite Rooms

Music & SFX

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• Fire Geysers in the Red Barrens volumes is a bit lower now

Interface

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• Increased width of many titles (for example it was too small in French for Pavo's title) [hr][/hr]
• Added a new settings choice under gameplay option to disable damage texts [hr][/hr]
• community inspired In Destiny Levels 1 or more, you now have a display of current Destiny Level on interface [hr][/hr]
• New launch screen asking you to choose the voice-over language you want - can always be changed in options

Visuals

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• Reduced brightness when hitting enemies and reduced opacity of visual FX when hitting enemies for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Death visual FX on enemies is now behind everything for better lisibility and has some random colors [hr][/hr]
• Reduced some spells/ visuals to make them more visible [hr][/hr]
• Gambits altars at merchants now show their elemental affinity instead of their rarity to make finding the right elements to build easier and faster [hr][/hr]
• Reduced visuals intensity of Ignition on enemies for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: - Lightspeed Fist: Visuals have been reduced for better lisibility Common spells: -Quicksiler: Visuals have been reduced for better lisibility Zodiacs summons: Virgo: Visuals have been reduced and improved for better lisibility on players basic attacks Effects: Thunder dash: Visuals have been reduced for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Combustions explosion visuals have been reduced for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Poison ticks on enemies visuals have been improved and are better for lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Particles on spells for : lifesteal / burn / poison / electrify / pacification and vulnerability have been visually improved and are now always behind everything for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Color of critical drink on Andromeda's bar color has been improved [hr][/hr]
• Increased transparency for the all Hit Fx to improve lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Visuals change in the background of ""outline choice"" layout

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Many differences between text and dialogs fixed [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Many typos fixed [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Improvement of Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations

Bug Fixes

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• In Coop, player 1 would always have priority when being over stone altars [hr][/hr]
• In Coop, player 2 interacting with a stone altar while player 1 was also on stone altar would equip the stone to player 1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Softlock possible when double interact on Papa Yalee's interface [hr][/hr]
• community inspired You could get stuck by dashing at the beginning of an Elite Room [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Void Catalyst descriptions had codes elements in Russian [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Lava Scorpios in the red barrens red feedback would not disappear if they were interrupted before launching their attacks [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Aries could get stuck in the ceiling if player was too high during her grab attack [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Brazilian/Portuguese didn't have last version update - hotfix 1.1.0.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Re-increased Armor Stones/Drinks chances a little - hotfix 1.1.0.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Using the Small Astral Dragon could make you loose all your Sun Pieces - hotfix 1.1.0.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Removed Sun Pieces counter when being near Small Astral Dragon - hotfix 1.1.0.1

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Hello everyone! Today we celebrate our 1 month anniversary since the 1.0 release zimzimSmile We are still overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we receive, thanks so much for that! This reception motivated us to keep improving Astral Ascent so we decided to publish our 2024 Roadmap that was influenced by the answers we received from a poll we made on our Discord server.
The Roadmap can still change but will remain similar to this. But before all this new content we would like to focus a bit more on what is coming up next week, on December 21st - the Damage Meter Update!

• A new Damage Meter system so you will know exactly what deals what damage at anytime.
• Full Japanese Voice-Over, "anime roguelite" is becoming real
• Translation of the game in PT/BR
• 10 new exploration rooms per worlds
• A mini dragon in first Intro Room giving an Aura choice right away to orient your build (Zim-Zim upgrade)
• Possibility to reset Telluric Ruins spells with Sun Pieces
• A lot of debug and balancing

Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features

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• Added brief tutorial explaining the intent of Gemini challenge [hr][/hr]
• Tutorial loot spell cannot have a gambit anymore now

Balancing

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• Gemini time between attack has been slightly increased [hr][/hr]
• Heroes dialogs played while sitting on a bench are triggered more often

Music & SFX

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• Reduce Spirit Sword spawn sound [hr][/hr]
• Shadow Clones death SFX was saturated

Interface

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• Increased window size for Key Chests

Visuals

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• Gemini falling clones attack visual for the right clone has been increased

Narrative Design

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• Typo of ""damages"" instead of ""damage"" fixed in several cases [hr][/hr]
• ""Shooting Star"" at Aura Refiner was not translated in several languages

Miscellaneous

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• Wrong description for steam achievement ""Beyond Horizon - Success an escape at Destiny Level 15+"" [hr][/hr]
• Japanese is now displayed instead of in Main Menu [hr][/hr]
• Updated Credits for backers names

Bug Fixes

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• Steam achievement ""Multi-Classed"" would not trigger correctly when buying Andromeda's drinks [hr][/hr]
• Aquarius hit ground fury attack FX were not well positioned [hr][/hr]
• Bellators would incorrectly target Ophiuchus during their special attack [hr][/hr]
• During specific actions players could get locked outside of the fight arena in the last boss fight [hr][/hr]
• Octave's shadow clone Bellator could follow the player during Andromeda's challenge. [hr][/hr]
• Kiran's ""Double Whammy!"" perk, which cause it's counter to play twice, would trigger the effect incorrectly when being casted as player 2 during co-op [hr][/hr]
• Steam achievement ""Pushing Limits"" would not unlock after upgrading a spell to level 15.

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Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features

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• Added ambient SFX on The Void room [hr][/hr]
• Readjusted tutorial about NG+ content to hint the player what should be done after finishing a run [hr][/hr]
• Increased number of Auras loot in Exploration Rooms [hr][/hr]
• Removed Steam Achievement : Stubborn Prisoner because it was forcing to play not in Destiny Levels to get it and was unfair for good players

Balancing

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• Auras balancing: Guardian Shield I: Reduced duration of shield by 3 to 2 seconds and increased CD by 17 to 25 seconds Guardian Shield II: Reduced duration of shield by 3 to 2 seconds and increased CD by 15 to 23 seconds Guardian Shield III: Reduced duration of shield by 3 to 2 seconds and increased CD by 12 to 20 seconds Advanced Wizardry III: Reduced Attack speed buff by 6 to 4 seconds Nimbus Revenge III: Reduced Attack speed buff for each Nimbus by 5 to 3% [hr][/hr]
• Increased HP for Astral Spirits [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Wooden Guardian in World 1 can spawn maximum 2 Black Seeds (instead of 3 maximum) when launching crystals while in Destiny Level 1+ [hr][/hr]
• Cancer has now 2 invulnerability moments and recharge his Ultimate faster from 55 seconds to 45 seconds [hr][/hr]
• Balanced Sculptor that was too hard compared to other Star Guardians

Level Design

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• Modified Level Design in end of Areas [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Modified level design of one Exploration Room where you could get stuck when spawning and dashing very fast.

Music & SFX

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• Balanced sound volume for ""Thousand Knives"" and some Taurus attacks [hr][/hr]
• Oloon first dialog with Kiran had an unmixed line of dialog [hr][/hr]
• Polished sound of Heroes Clones defeat

Interface

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• Polish of some Auras descriptions

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Aries had sentences not matching voice acting

Bug Fixes

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• Following Steam Achievements were not unlocking correctly: Guardian Angel, Maximized Friendship and Perseverance. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Several texts fixed in Simplified Chinese [hr][/hr]
• Game could mistakenly save multiple times in Andromeda's bar while entering and exiting the interior multiple times [hr][/hr]
• Libra challenge would not work correctly while playing as Player 2

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After more than 4.5 years of work with 18 months of Early Access, we are very proud to share with you all the 1.0 version of Astral Ascent! We gave our very best during the whole development and you witnessed the evolution of the game that changed so much from Kickstarter demo to 1.0! We truly hope you will enjoy this version as much as we do (we play the game a lot as we are having so much fun on it!). The more success the game will have the more updates we will make (we have many ideas already!) so do not hesitate to share the game around if you enjoy it! We also want to take this opportunity to tell you once more how important was all your support during the Early Access, it gave us a lot of motivation and inspiration, thanks for that <3 You can see below the Launch Trailer to celebrate the Release on PC / PS4 / PS5 and Nintendo Switch! [previewyoutube=wV9Q3xnRaq8;full][/previewyoutube]

Main Game + OST + Artbook Bundle

Original Soundtrack

Digital Artbook

The Master

Aries

Cancer

Gemini

Star Guardians - Monoceros and Sculptor

Animated Cinematic

Reworked Introduction and Tutorial

Event Horizon

Mid-run Saves

Beyond level 8

Stats Window

Itinerant Peddlers

Storytelling Elements

Co-op icons

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Final Boss: Face the Master in an epic boss fight! [hr][/hr]
• Mid-run Saves: You can save and resume your runs at the start of any rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Traditional Cinematic Introduction: Fully traditional hand animated cinematic when launching the game! [hr][/hr]
• New tutorial: - New introduction cinematic explaining the world when launching a game. - New dynamic tutorial replacing the old one in the hub. - Reworked dialogues and storyline of the introdctuion. [hr][/hr]
• 17 Unique Endings: Ending for each hero and each Zodiac if you have them as summons for a total of 17 endings with narrated stories with pixel art animated screen for each of them. [hr][/hr]
• Complete Voice Acting: Extended and completed voice acting with over 7800+ lines of dialogues for 27 different characters. [hr][/hr]
• New Storytelling Elements: - Benches dialogues progression, heroes thoughts. - Dialogues between heroes. - Many extended dialogues types, each NPC from the Garden has things to say and a lot of dialogues are longer than before. - Extended and reworked Memory Library entries for final background story of all characters. (104 stories) [hr][/hr]
• Event Horizon: This room now has many things to do in it before the final confrontation. [hr][/hr]
• Beyond level 8: When you are level 9 or more (maximum 12) you can now replace perks you already have, one perk replacement per level. We think this is useful because first perks we take might not fit our end build so it is one more option to make the best possible build. [hr][/hr]
• Current Stats Window: You can now display your current stats (Strength/Critic/Mana/Life/Armor/Attack speed) by opening your inventory. It allows you to have a better understanding of your build and it can also be visible permanently by activating an option. [hr][/hr]
• Aries, Cancer & Gemini: - 3 new Zodiac fights with their animated pixel-art introduction. - 3 new Zodiac spells: Aries Fire Trails, Cancer's Tsunami & Gemini's Scythe. - 3 new Challenges and summons. [hr][/hr]
• 5 New Musics: Discover complete OST with many orchestral versions and featuring vocalist Emi Evans for the Master songs. [hr][/hr]
• New Star Guardians: Monoceros and Sculptor join Pegasus, Lupus, Draco & Hydra for a total of 6 minibosses and 13 main bosses.

Small Features

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• Taurus Challenge: - Dummies now have more life and their life depends of current world instead of behind the same in each world. - Fixed bug where effects (wisps, spirit swords, nimbus etc.) could hit targets before the challenge started and prevent from finishing it. [hr][/hr]
• Virgo Challenge: - Dummies now have more life and their life depends of current world instead of behind the same in each world. - Instead of dealing same amount of damage, Virgo damages to dummies now depends of world and she also focus . [hr][/hr]
• Pisces Challenge: - Reduced time and number of notes to collect. - Added sound when you hit a red note. - Sentence clarification for the objective. [hr][/hr]
• Leo Challenge: - Balanced damage of Leo per world and dummy can accumulate more maximum damage so it's not a last minute rush anymore. [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius Challenge: - Increased the number of arrow that Sagittarius can shoot. - Added sound when the players get hit by the the arrows. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired In Coop, P1 and P2 icons above head to differenciate each other. [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio Challenge: - Added red feedback on Scorpio spears. - Added more time for the challenge. - Reduced the time before the challenge starts. - Added sound when the players get hit by a spear. - Added visual assets to show in which direction you have to go to reach the end of the level as it could confusing sometimes. [hr][/hr]
• Libra Challenge: - Improved visuals and sound on player and Libra attacks. - The camera is more zoomed and centered to better see the action and inputs. - The player now uses now different animations. [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac spells affinity: Zodiac spells can also be of neutral elemental affinity now. [hr][/hr]
• 326 Aura: Ignition poison is now purple. [hr][/hr]
• 334 Aura: Plasma of fire are now red. [hr][/hr]
• Astral Auras rarity symbol is now on both sides of title everywhere. [hr][/hr]
• New Achievements for Sier Bapy: -Clumsy: Enemies defeated using Claw traps -Laserified: Enemies defeated by giant lasers -Practice Makes Perfect: Used Signature spell -Stones of Power: Equipped stones from Staone Altar -Optimal Affinity: Spells completed with Gambit affinity -Ultimate Assassin: Reach maximum level with Ayla -Strongestest Fist: Reach maximum level with Kiran -Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold: Reach maximum level with Octave -Perfect Gems: Reach maximum level with Calie -Wish Maker: Auras equipped -Aura Mythic Wish: Aura mythic equipped -Aura Astral Luck: Aura Astral equipped -Friends Forever: Echoes following you -Benched: Bench stories heard -Water Companion: Visit Cetus -Blood Pact: Life sacrified to Pavo -Guardian Angel: Met your Zodiac sign -Stars Vanquisher: Defeated Star Guardians in The void -Bapy achievement for memory fragments up to max (104 stories) [hr][/hr]
• All spells previews videos in the Merchant and Loots have been recaptured and improved. [hr][/hr]
• Improved Merchant in Andromeda's Bar: - Global visual improved - All prices rebalanced - Merchants can now sell Astral Gambits and spells equipped with random between 1 to 4 Gambits (including astral gambits) and random between 2 to 4 slot unlocked - Spell altars now indicate the spell element - Gambit altars now indicate the rarity - Gambit altars can now loot Astral gambits - Standing on altars of Itinerant Merchant makes UI appear faster [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The moon room now can appear at the side of exploration or fight rooms, not anymore with other special rooms. [hr][/hr]
• In Moon Room, you can now choose from 4 spells instead of 2. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired In Moon Room, if playing co-op, both players can take a reward now. [hr][/hr]
• Players can now move during certain spells for better fluidity: AYLA: - Metal Star - Toxic Bomb - Electric Scalpels - Paper Bomb KIRAN: - Lightspeed Fist - Energy Projectiles - Twin Dragon Uppercut - Tiger Roundabout - Windturner Up-Smash - Cutting Kick - Retentless Fury - Fiery Dragon Punch - Void Punch - Helping Hands (Got It?) - Flamin' Hot Strike CALIE: - Deadly Connection - Shimmering Ascent - Prismatic Beam - Azurite Falchions - Topaz Gladius - Ruby Spear - Legion - Ruby Spear - Swarm - Kunzite Scythe OCTAVE: - Laceratio [hr][/hr]
• The pause after the taurus summon is longer so that the player regains control better. [hr][/hr]
• Shadow Clones now have a small taunt animation when spawning to give you more reaction time. [hr][/hr]
• Added a delay before spawning second Shadow Clone when you have 2 Shadow Clones at once. [hr][/hr]
• Spirit Friends (from Void Catalyst), all summons are now in the random pool. [hr][/hr]
• Sixth Sense (from Void Catalyst), Reduced Critical hit damage by 20 to 10% per tier. [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs spells can now have neutral affinity. [hr][/hr]
• Astral Spirits waves can now appear sometimes in fight rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda's Challenges are now unlocked after several discussions with Andromeda. [hr][/hr]
• Reactivation of the Astral Trees, now it is not linked to Zim-Zim upgrade but activated by default. [hr][/hr]
• The Star Guardians are now invincible during their ultimate attack. [hr][/hr]
• Several Zodiacs attacks are now making Zodiacs not blocking the players when moving on them. [hr][/hr]
• You can now skip Zodiacs intro videos by pressing an input. [hr][/hr]
• Papa Yalee: - The memories are now unlocked in correct order and only for characters you already encountered [hr][/hr]
• community inspired We can now view the equipped summon in the inventory. [hr][/hr]
• Improved Quartz loot performances. [hr][/hr]
• A lot of vibrations have been added to Zodiacs fights. [hr][/hr]
• Improvement and polish for respawn in the Hub. [hr][/hr]
• Taurus is the first boss to defeat just on time, not for each hero anymore. [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac bar no longer resets when you change in the bar. [hr][/hr]
• New introduction of Kiran character. [hr][/hr]
• Armor on enemies are visible from the beginning, instead of being visible only after first hit. [hr][/hr]
• Removed possibility to talk to Itinerant Peddlers (merchants in Andromeda's Bar). [hr][/hr]
• Added pointer to Telescope in the hub when you didn't select your bonus of the day yet. [hr][/hr]
• The Jukebox is now unlock once you defeat The Master. [hr][/hr]
• The Jukebox is now outside the bar so you can enjoy it longer. [hr][/hr]
• The affinity of Zodiacs cannot rise above 80% in the bar (except it's is your Zodiac affinity) [hr][/hr]
• All mana and life orb go on the player on zodiacs chest and elite fight room (no need to go to collect them, you can simply move forward). [hr][/hr]
• Slight performance increase by removing unused colliders on some enemies. [hr][/hr]
• Room Progression UI updates better, in particular when being in Zodiac rooms and it adapts when you are over a next room portal or not. [hr][/hr]
• No More Yalee Tickets if you have all colors unlocked, it will avoid having the "something new is available in the garden" at every end game run. [hr][/hr]
• Some spells could focus Elites clones (black shadow Aspect) [hr][/hr]
• Added descriptions for Zodiacs in the interior bar in order to know the behavior of their summons. [hr][/hr]
• Shadow Clones are now correctly displayed on Death Recap. [hr][/hr]
• Changing character is now much faster. [hr][/hr]
• Leaving the game right after the tutorial now saves progression.

Balancing

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• Auras Balancing - Astral: - Saplings Wrath: ""Casts Poisonous Vortex"" Cooldown reduced by 20 to 10 sapling created - Magnifying Snowflake: ""On Snowflake hit, casts 2 Frost Mines"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 1 seconds - Sanitized Water: ""On Slime hit, casts Aqua Ball"" Cooldown reduced by 4 to 2 seconds - Radiactive Impact: ""On Meteor hit, cast Dark Burst"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 2 meteor created - Spicy drugs: ""When life is restored, casts 2 Surrounding Spheres"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 1 seconds - Toxic Chain: ""On hitting enemies with Poison, casts 2 Thorns Chains"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 2 seconds - Chasing Sparkle: ""On Spark hit, casts Quicksilver"" Cooldown reduced by 4 to 2 seconds - Spinning Spirit: ""Casts Ravaging Spheres"" Cooldown reduced by 20 to 15 seconds - Think Yalee: ""Create 1 Thick Yalee falling on nearby enemies"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 5 yalee created - Blade Storm: "" When dashing through enemies, casts Slashing Squall"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 7 seconds - Missile overload: ""Casts Corrupted Typhoon"" Cooldown reduced by 20 to 15 missile created - Chain Reaction: ""On Toxic Gas hit, casts Demonic Explosion"" Cooldown reduced by 4 to 3 seconds - Thunderwalk: ""Casts Eye Of Jugement"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 5 Thunder strike created - Raging Lightning: ""Casts Thunder Orb"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 5 Lightning orb created - Frozen Overpower: ""Casts Cold-Steel-Sword"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 5 Ice sword created - Piercing Surprise: ""On Ice Idole disappearance, casts 6 Freezing Needles"" Cooldown reduced by 4 to 2 seconds - Sudden Frostbyte: ""On enemy with Freeze death, casts Aqua Ball"" Cooldown reduced by 5 to 3 seconds - Bubling Projectiles: ""On Frostbite enemy, casts 5 Water Bubbles"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 1 seconds - Blinding comets: ""On Combustion, casts 3 Magma Comets"" Cooldown reduced by 2 to 1 seconds - Incandescent Rain: ""On enemies with Burn, casts Fire Rain"" Cooldown reduced by 15 to 12 seconds - Living Rocks: ""On Meteor hit, summons 1 sapling"" Summons Sapling increased by 1 to 2 - Crown Of Goo: ""Creates 1 Giant Slime"" Cooldown reduced by 30 to 20 Slime created - Rustling Fall: ""On fall attack, creates 5 Ice Fragment"" Ice fragment reduced by 5 to 4 and Ice fragment damage reduced by 100% to 75% [hr][/hr]
• Auras Balancing - Common / Rare / Mythic: - Crystal Screen II: ""On Shield disappearance, creates an explosion dealing 40% of Max Life as damage"" Shield explosion increased by 40% to 60% - Crystal Screen III: ""On Shield disappearance, creates an explosion dealing 60% of Max Life as damage"" Shield explosion increased by 60% to 100% - Scale Armor II: ""When hero is hit, creates 1 Ice Sword"" Ice sword created increased by 1 to 2 - Scale Armor III: ""When hero is hit, creates 2 Ice Sword"" Ice sword created increased by 2 to 3 - Eye Of The Eagle II: ""On Critical hit, creates 2 Missiles"" Cooldown increased by 3 to 6 seconds - Eye Of The Eagle III: ""On Critical hit, creates 4 Missiles"" Cooldown increased by 3 to 6 seconds - Iceberg I: ""When hero is hit, creates 4 Ice Fragment"" Ice fragment reduced by 4 to 3 - Iceberg II: ""When hero is hit, creates 6 Ice Fragment"" Ice fragment reduced by 6 to 4 - Iceberg III: ""When hero is hit, creates 8 Ice Fragment"" Ice fragment reduced by 8 to 5 - Ice Blow III: ""On Frostbite enemy, creates 8 Ice fragment"" Ice fragment reduced by 8 to 5 - Iron Armor III: ""When hero is hit, creates 1 Pulse applying 1 Random Effect"" Increase stack of random effect by 1 to 3 - Piercing Light I: ""Summons 1 nimbus"" Cooldown reduced by 15 to 10 Mana spent - Piercing Light II: ""Summons 1 nimbus"" Cooldown reduced by 12 to 9 Mana spent - Piercing Light III: ""Summons 1 nimbus"" Cooldown reduced by 10 to 8 Mana spent and increased number of Nimbus by 1 to 2 - Magic Weapon II: ""Increases Strengh by 2% by Max Mana"" Strengh reduced by 2 to 1% - Magic Weapon III: ""Increases Strengh by 3% by Max Mana"" Strengh reduced by 3 to 2%" [hr][/hr]
• Calie balancing: -Basic attack speed has been increased -Basic attack damage has been increased [hr][/hr]
• Sier Bapy's Life Boon: "Sier Bapy appears and gifts you 3 Healing shards" Cooldown increased by 20 > 40 enemies death [hr][/hr]
• Casting speed of some heroes spells has been improved: AYLA: - Toxic Bomb KIRAN: - Cutting Kicks - Helping Hands (Got It?) CALIE: - Wall Of Arrows - Stone Of The Ancients - Azurite Falchions - Emerald Bow - Ruby Spear - Topaz Gladius - Ruby Spear - Swarm - Kunzite Scythe OCTAVE: - Laceratio - Gravitas [hr][/hr]
• The casting speed of common spells has been improved. [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells increased damage: -Sphere Aqua: Damage increased -Shooting stars: Damage increased -Shattering stars: Damage increased -Frost Mines: Damage increased -Magma Comets: Damage increased -Dark Burst: Damage increased -Ki Blast: Damage increased -Ice Thrower: Damage increased -Cold Steel Sword: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac Spells increased damage: - Taurus Double slash - Capricorn's Meteor strikes - Virgo Light Swords - Sagittarius Chakrams - Libra Light - Aqurius Flow - Scorpio's Trident - Pisces Clones - Leo's Axe Slash [hr][/hr]
• Moon Room Price changes: The price of the moon room has been adjusted depending on the world because their damage has been improved and they are more interesting - - World 1: 125 life - World 2: 150 life - World 3: 175 life - World 4: 200 life [hr][/hr]
• Balancing time of dodge for certain spells: - Astral Powder: The dodge effect begins when the attack leaves, not before - Lightning Speed: The dodge effect stops when Ayla hits the ground - Ground Pound: The dodge effect is removed when Kiran jumps but he is present while he falls - Way Of The Wind: Reduced time of dodge effect - Shimmering Ascent: Deleted dodge effect - Celeritas: Reduced time of dodge effect [hr][/hr]
• Balanced Perks: AYLA: - Eagle instinct: ""Increases signature Spell cooldown by 3 seconds"" Cooldown deleted KIRAN: - Perfect punch: ""Adds 100% Critical hit chance to Signature Spell"" Cooldown deleted - Double Whammy: ""Increases Signature Spell cooldown by 2 seconds"" Cooldown reduced by 5 to 2 s - Freezing fists: ""On King Counter hit, applies 10 Freeze"" Cooldown reduced by 6 to 1 s - Crazy Pumping Fist: ""Increases Signature Spells damage by 75%"" Increase damage by 75% to 100% - Power shift: ""Increases signature Spell cooldown by 3 seconds"" Cooldown reduced by 3 to 1 s OCTAVE: - Ballista MK1: ""Increases Signature Spell cooldown by 20 seconds"" Cooldown reduced 20 to 3 s - Perk n186 throw 5 ice grenade but explode the opposite of where the drone explodes, it never hits because of it CALIE: - Goldsmith: ""Increases Signature Spell cooldown by 4 seconds"" Cooldown reduced by 4 to 1 s - Crystal Maker: ""Increases Signature Spell cooldown by 6 seconds""Cd reduced 6 to 1 s" [hr][/hr]
• Spells balancing: Ayla: - Electric scalpels: now move up and down when on moving platforms Kiran: - Ground Pound: kiran now hits while falling and it has a better hitbox Octave: - Incendium: Damage increased and mana cost reduced by 2 to 1 - Ballista: Mana cost reduced by 2 to 1 - Hasta: Damage increased Common spells global balancing [hr][/hr]
• Telescope effects balancing: - The Ember Eye: ember spawn from 1 to 2 - The Electrical Eye: spark from 1 to 2 - The Slimey Eye: slime spawn from 1 to 2 - The Frigid Eye: ice fragment spawn from 1 to 2 [hr][/hr]
• Global effects balancing: - Meteor deal less damage - Ice sword deal more damage - Snowflakes deal more damage - Toxique gas deal less damage - Plasma deal more damage - Poison effect deal more damage - Ignition deal more damage - Nimbus attack speed improved - Nimbus deal more damage [hr][/hr]
• Chamaeleon Lottery: - Increased the number of Quartz that can be earned - Increased the number of Keys that can be earned - Increased the number of Stars that can be earned [hr][/hr]
• Rebalanced damage from Zodiac summons. [hr][/hr]
• Path of Destinies: - Thorny Foes: Improved visual feedback to better understand hitting area and see better the enemies sprite - Leaking Foes: Reduced loses mana from 2 to 1 per tier when the player is hit - Mark of doom: The Mark of Doom he no longer appears in boss rooms - Used Pockets: Reduced loses Quartz by 10 to 5 per tier when the player is hit - The life of the Zodiacs has been readjusted [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Enemies Adds during Boss Fights (from Path of Destinies) cannot have armor. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added a cooldown to Vampiric Foes (from Path of Destinies). [hr][/hr]
• Higher chances to get +2 and +5 Feathers in Pavo's Ruins. [hr][/hr]
• Increased damage of world 3 Medusa level design element. [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac chests now give Stars currency. [hr][/hr]
• Increased Zodiac Affinity chances to appear in rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Quartz spots in Exploration rooms now scale per world. [hr][/hr]
• Pegasus Thunder attack is faster. [hr][/hr]
• Hydra Fire Tornadoes attack is faster. [hr][/hr]
• Star Guardians damage global balancing. [hr][/hr]
• Taurus Fight: -Taurus Invincibility is longer at the start of his ultimate attack. [hr][/hr]
• Leo Fight: - Leo invincible until he reaches ground at the start of his ultimate attack. [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius Fight: - fire explosions attack - now hit much higher, a single jump would make you safe during this attack. - fire tentacles attack - mixed patterns + reversed patters in destiny level6+ - ultimate - now follows player more smoothly before giant explosion, 2 explosions in destiny level 6+ [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio Fight: - dash in all directions attack - only 1 time and 2 times in DL6+ instead of 3 times everytime [hr][/hr]
• Many Sier bapy achievements and rewards balancing [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim: - More levels of Reroll Perks

Level Design

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• Change of place/removal of Jump Bumpers in certain exploration rooms which could interfere during combat. [hr][/hr]
• A dozen new Fight rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Improved many Exploration Rooms level design. [hr][/hr]
• All Rooms starting direction is now to the right for better fluidity. [hr][/hr]
• Added new asset in background on fight/exploration room/hub. [hr][/hr]
• Added magical animals in Andromeda's Bar. [hr][/hr]
• Added 1 new exploration treasure room. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed and improved some climbing walls in Fight Rooms so they do not become an issue fights. [hr][/hr]
• Moved some clouds on top of rooms as they could hide Astral Chest texts. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed places where wrong collisions in the levels. [hr][/hr]
• One fighting room could be escaped by climbing the wall on side of it. [hr][/hr]
• Some Fight rooms fight could be completely avoided by chain dashing and attacking.

Music & SFX

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• Added new sound on challenge Zodiacs chest. [hr][/hr]
• Added sound on Draco attacks (giant Shuriken attack). [hr][/hr]
• Many various audio mixing updates. [hr][/hr]
• Many sounds volumes readjusted. [hr][/hr]
• Music volumes readjusted. [hr][/hr]
• All background ambiant musics of worlds have been slightly modified. [hr][/hr]
• Virgo had no sound during her teleportation of dash attack (challenge / boss fight). [hr][/hr]
• Improved audio feedback of Taurus swords in air attack. [hr][/hr]
• Major issue causing a lot of sounds to not play the first time they happened in a room has been fixed. Happened when equipping first Feather, when looting spells and so on. [hr][/hr]
• Major issue causing a lot of simultaneously played sounds to not play has been fixed. It would happen for world 2 fire lasers for example. [hr][/hr]
• The Sound listener has been reworked, distance of sounds heard is now a bit further (in case of unzoomed screen some sounds would not played if positioned on sides of the screen) and cleaner than before. [hr][/hr]
• Changed hurt / spell cast voice sound of all heroes and added more variations. [hr][/hr]
• More variations have been added to many existing sounds. [hr][/hr]
• Modified sound when reappearing in the Garden. [hr][/hr]
• Increased volume of Bosses context dialogues so we can hear them better. [hr][/hr]
• Wall Grab and end of run animation SFX were missing on Ayla [hr][/hr]
• Reduced volume when picking up stones in stones altar as picking up several could be saturating.

Interface

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• Move boss lifebar + changed position of elements there + visual modifications because of new windows stats addition. [hr][/hr]
• Added Element type in gambits titles to understand each type of gambits. [hr][/hr]
• Improved of "Conditions" descriptions for gambit/auras/prowess (example: On hit > On each hit). [hr][/hr]
• Next spell icon is now higher so it does not overlap too much with effects. [hr][/hr]
• Interface is now hidden during Andromeda's challenges to better see the challenges. [hr][/hr]
• The icon when all content has been unlocked with the experience bar has been removed. [hr][/hr]
• Bilinear added on most UI elements. [hr][/hr]
• Background of hints now fit correctly the texts (could lead to many hints out of screen before). [hr][/hr]
• NPC Pointers was laggy in hub, performances have been largely improved. [hr][/hr]
• Improved Life bar and animated portrait in game UI [hr][/hr]
• Added a lock icon next to icons not remappable in Options [hr][/hr]
• Added UI to elements related to UI in the Menu [hr][/hr]
• Improved display of cooldowns in Inventory [hr][/hr]
• Reroll perk icon are visible all the time in Prowess tree even if player have not unlocked the perk at Zim-zim [hr][/hr]
• Switch perk icon are visible all the time in Prowess tree. [hr][/hr]
• Armor is written 3% instead of 3 on the stones/drinks. [hr][/hr]
• Added English name of all languages next to their localized names. [hr][/hr]
• The hints of Stone Altar appear faster. [hr][/hr]
• Description of Merchants spells is bigger. [hr][/hr]
• Navigating in Merchant UI does not show the spells if you don't stop moving. [hr][/hr]
• Opening UIs of NPCs in the hub is much faster. [hr][/hr]
• Path of Destinies and Void Catalyst UI description was flickering when moving from to another. [hr][/hr]
• No More Progression bar in World 5 / Event Horizon [hr][/hr]
• The Void Catalyst: - Text window and text is bigger there - Increase slightly tier/preset text size [hr][/hr]
• Changed Star icon on quests/challenges UI [hr][/hr]
• Death Recap XP decount speed is faster and now has a time maximum limit. [hr][/hr]
• Slots save selection had red bars showcasing input. [hr][/hr]
• Glossary/Path of Destinies main menu UI are now smoother to navigate. [hr][/hr]
• Simplified UI and reworked some elements in Constellations menu (removed tween effects, wrong fonts, change dispositions) [hr][/hr]
• Constellations display position have been re-adjusted to be more centered and not overlap UI. [hr][/hr]
• Removed text "Skill unlocked" title appearing at the merchant in the hub when buying a new skill. [hr][/hr]
• All LDI titles are now uppercase and bold (healing shards, stone altar etc) [hr][/hr]
• Skip Credits is now on left for more consistency and changed input name for more consistency too [hr][/hr]
• Removed [ ] around the continue in Dialogues system [hr][/hr]
• In coop, Merchant's UI is now displayed on the left if player 2 opens it for better lisiblity. [hr][/hr]
• Bapy's UI had many titles regular and description bold while it was supposed to be the opposite. [hr][/hr]
• Sun Rooms titles were not centered. [hr][/hr]
• Wrong fonts were used on Death Recap screen. [hr][/hr]
• Xp points on death recap are smaller now to fit the size of the trails. [hr][/hr]
• Color of experience bar have changed. [hr][/hr]
• Reduced flash intensity in Death Recap. [hr][/hr]
• Wrong font displayed when Heroes captured Astral Spirits. [hr][/hr]
• Enemies displayed on Death Recap now take more width so we see them better. [hr][/hr]
• Re-activating all characters on main menu screen (it was always Calie since world 4 update) [hr][/hr]
• Modified displays of SL and SR buttons for Nintendo Switch inputs icons. [hr][/hr]
• We can now modify options by pressing button or moving directional keys. [hr][/hr]
• Destiny Fragments were not updating during the runs. [hr][/hr]
• Drinks description does not overlap anymore when 2 players check drinks.

Part2 of Patch Notes below

This is Part2 of 1.0 Patch Notes visible below

Visuals

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• Wolfs are more transparency on Ikki summons to improve readability. [hr][/hr]
• The daggers of Ayla are now yellow on all animations. [hr][/hr]
• Some Zodiacs intro videos had white fade out. [hr][/hr]
• All Zodiacs intro videos quality has been improved. [hr][/hr]
• All basic attack icons have been reworked. [hr][/hr]
• Ayla shadow mark on enemies is now more visible. [hr][/hr]
• Added many prisons in worlds background to understand better how it works. [hr][/hr]
• The "dodge" effect is more bigger and more visible. [hr][/hr]
• Spirit Sword are more transparent to improve readability. [hr][/hr]
• Removed Shockwaves effect on Ice idols for better readability. [hr][/hr]
• Improved visual of shield on Capricorn summon. [hr][/hr]
• Fishes are more transparenct on Pisces summons to improve readability. [hr][/hr]
• Text multiplicator is now in the middle for clearer visibility in Path of Destiny selection. [hr][/hr]
• Improved visuals of Red Lasers in world 4 and in Andromeda's Challenges. [hr][/hr]
• Increased size and improved visuals of Crystal Jump elements. [hr][/hr]
• Improved/Added Red feedback for enemies attacks: W1 - Wild grass both attack Black seed attack Fungal being explosion + bigger hitbox Logbear both attacks W2 - Lava Scorpio attack Infernal wings melee attack Wrath Spirit one attack Fire Naga both attacks Fire Golem fall attacl W3 - Giant snake red feedback more visible W4 - Electric seed vertical flare when attacking Thunder cycles 3 attacks red feedbacks Blade Storm red feedback on dash attack [hr][/hr]
• Lupus and Draco ultimates could not be their first attack when their ultimate bar is full. [hr][/hr]
• Improved visual feedback for Lupus and Draco. [hr][/hr]
• Better Feedback on Invincibile Star Guardian Attacks. [hr][/hr]
• Changed position of effects, Ayla mark and Octave target on Star Guardians and Zodiacs. [hr][/hr]
• Taurus Fight: - swords in air attack - Many improvement on feedback - dash attack - bigger smoke FX when dashing + more visible ghost effect and changed color to blue - dash attack - reduced time when hitting side wall - waves attack - vertical flare when swords hit ground + rocks particles - waves attack - slashes with glow - waves attack - ghost effect more visible and additive - waves attack - added red feedback - slashes attack - added red feedback - slashes attack - flare on sword - slashes attack - very small duration ghost duration - melee attack - smoke every slash wrong side and change anim + go slightly further - ultimate - flare vertical when preparing attack - ultimate - make heatwave more visible [hr][/hr]
• Virgo Fight: - reduced brightness on most attacks - electric spheres - random color on projectiles - electric spheres - smoke fx on each side of Virgo when creating spheres - electric spheres - trail of projectiles should depend of projectiels sizes - light swords attack - red feedback appear faster, stay longer (until projectiles start) + random color on projectiles + red feedback round around each sword about to explode + removed invincibility - double dash attack - brightness + red feedback more visible + behind everything + flare vertical - double dash attack - crawling energy + progressively spawning swords when reaching the ground - ultimate - removed ghost effect when Virgo moves up - ultimate - circles + smoke on ground + shakescreen + shockwave when Virgo transforms - ultimate - random color on explosions - ultimate - bigger smoke explosion - ultimate - patterns were not centered with the middle of the arena - explosion attacl - progressive color change + hit box hit for several frames instead of 1 frame [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn Fight: - Added feedback on projectiles - Destiny level 6 attack - red feedback more visible [hr][/hr]
• Leo Fight: - Giant rocks attack - more visible feedback - less brightness on Leo - rocks and vertical flare when starting anim - ghost on giants rocks path - Jump melee attack - higher red feedback - Throw Axe attack - reduced brightness + improved opacity red feedback - Throw Axe attack - ghost effect when he teleports - Throw Axe attack - glow on axe + ghost effect more visible on it [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius Fight: - base attack - red circle feedback - fire explosions attack - trail polish visuals and projectiles visual polish - fire explosions attack - random color on projectiles/explosions - fire tentacles attack - smoke behind her when she shoots, and get the shuriken back at the end, ghost effect when she teleports is on wrong side, ghost effect more visible but for less time - fire tentacles attack - heatwave behind+darker background - fire tentacles attack - bigger smoke fx on ground when she prepares - fire tentacles attack - red feathers when she prepares at the beggining! - fire tentacles attack - less brightness on Sagittarius + jump visual effect + progressive color changes on the projectiles - ultimate - improved trails of arrow shoots +more transparent + random colors + reduced brightness for more lisibility - ultimate - we could see the top of main explosion [hr][/hr]
• Pisces Fight: - Ice clones attack - Camera does not follow Pisces in this attack so camera does not move all around. - most feedback more visibles [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio Fight: - Surf attack - Reduced brightness on red feedbacks - spears diagonal attack - added a vertical flare in diagonal when launching first spear + ghost effect when spear fall vertical - spears on ground attack - red feedback of spear on ground + better visual feedback - ultimate - particles converging at start, horizontal flare of weapon angle, reduced brightnes, red feedback following player at each attack, Scorpio jumped off his spear too early after the final dash to ground attack [hr][/hr]
• Most flashes during fight should now be behind players/enemies instead of in front for better lisibility. [hr][/hr]
• Visual feedback addition on Zodiacs, Star Guardians & enemies invincibility, replaced old ethereal effects on first world Zodiacs. [hr][/hr]
• Papa Yalee: - Added portrait in background - Portraits and names are hidden if you didn't meet the character yet - Increased font size of text - Improved visuals overall - Global rewriting of texts - Player 2 opening UI has a better position to read texts [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim: - If player 2 opens UI, descriptions now displays on the left - UI global polish [hr][/hr]
• Global improvement of readability of characters with background by making all background a bit less satured and a bit less luminous [hr][/hr]
• Improved max level color when level 12 [hr][/hr]
• Polish intro of Octave And Calie [hr][/hr]
• Changed font for the all numbers [hr][/hr]
• Many elements in exploration/fight levels were misplaced. [hr][/hr]
• Merchant has the good colors now on spell rarity, same for spells loot [hr][/hr]
• Added "dodge feedback" visual on Kiran Counter. [hr][/hr]
• The aura upgrader icon was not properly aligned and added bilinear on it. [hr][/hr]
• The Cetus Category titles was not properly aligned. [hr][/hr]
• Removed some outlines in different places, mainly for elements visible enough where outlines was not improving lisibility. [hr][/hr]
• Made Save icon more visible. [hr][/hr]
• Moved most shockwaves effect behind characters to improve lisibility. [hr][/hr]
• The "shadow mark" of Ayla is better placed on enemies overall. [hr][/hr]
• Improvement of elite Aspects with better feedback. [hr][/hr]
• Camera improvement when the player sits on benches. [hr][/hr]
• Added visual of Ordan giving us first sun pieces batch when unlocking Zim-Zim. [hr][/hr]
• Changed Starfield effect when DL6+ in Path of Destiny selection. [hr][/hr]
• Arrow feedbacking when bar is open in Andromeda's bar. [hr][/hr]
• Added more visual godrays in Cetus' Cavern. [hr][/hr]
• Added vertical rays of color to show categories in Cetus' Cavern. [hr][/hr]
• Added vertical rays of color to show categories in Sun Room. [hr][/hr]
• Cetus was too often active when not above a category loot. [hr][/hr]
• Pavo's Ruins had birds while it was not supposed to. [hr][/hr]
• Yalee kingdom placement of yalee on rocks is more natural now. [hr][/hr]
• Bar door was not centered. [hr][/hr]
• Plushies added back in bar. [hr][/hr]
• Sova Echo visual had no glow, reimported with glow. [hr][/hr]
• Better visibility of incoming danger from world 2 sand Shark. [hr][/hr]
• Radial Blur effects has been visually improved. [hr][/hr]
• Outline effect has been visually improved to work with objects having glow. [hr][/hr]
• Some flickering could be seen on portraits / trees due to compression.

Narrative Design

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• Improvement on Echoes descriptions and inventory loots. [hr][/hr]
• NPCs dialogues now prioritize Zodiacs related dialogue if they have other less important dialogues to display. [hr][/hr]
• Major review of all texts in all languages, in particular for Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese & Traditional Chinese [hr][/hr]
• Bar "Talk to" -> "Invite to join" is clearer to invite Zodiacs to join. [hr][/hr]
• Signature spells were still referred as "Utility Spell" in the options. [hr][/hr]
• Many elements were too long in french so we reduced some texts length. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed many places where the texts was not displaying what the Voice dialogues were saying. [hr][/hr]
• Prevented Contextual dialogues to be displayed too small if text was too large. Now window adapts to the text not the opposite. [hr][/hr]
• Added Context Dialogues: - Fighting Shadow Clones of your hero - Fighting Shadow Clones of other heroes - Defeating Shadow Clones of your hero - Defeating Shadow Clones of other heroes - Seeing Elites - Defeating Elites - Entering Echo Isles - Entering Eclipse Room - Defeating Eclise Room - Added context dialogue on void catalyst and Telescope - Enter The Forge - Activate Void Catalyst abilities - Entering Event Horizon - Selecting Telescope element - Extended found Gambits - Found Mythic gambits - Found Astral gambits - Different sentences depending of spells quantities - Extended out of Mana texts - Contexts for each type of stones (life / strength / attack speed / max mana / armor / critic chances) and global random ones - Equipping Auras more variations - Find Feathers more variations - Pick Feathers more variations - Reset Merchant choices - Buy from Merchant more variations - More variations when making a very high quantity of damage - Low life more variations - Finishing Fight Rooms more variations - Starting Fight Rooms more variations - Entering The Void more variations - A lot more variations when entering first room of world 1 / 2 / 3 /4 - Cetus' Cavern more variations - Pavo's Ruins more variations - Sacrificing HP at Pavo's Ruins more variations - Win Lottery more variations - Buying drinks at Andromeda's more variations - New context when special drinks of Andromeda's - More variations when no healing crystals available - Perfect Fight Rooms more variations - More variations when healing - A lot more variations when entering Zodiacs rooms - More variations when defeating Star Guardians - More variations when reaching end of Explo/Fight Rooms - More variations randomly when entering Explo rooms - More variations when taking Yalee Tickets - More variations when taking Memory Fragments - A lot more variations when sitting on benches - More variations when seeing Chamaeleon - More variations when picking an Echo - More variations when entering Sun/Moon Rooms - More variations when summoning Echoes for some cases - Zim-Zim more variations when buying elements - Sova dialogues when starting an escape - Merchant more variations when unlocking elements - Oloon more variations when unlocking elements - Andromeda greeting players entering the room, more variations - Andromeda saying good bye more variations - Andromeda commenting our drinks more variations - All Zodiacs now sometimes taunt heroes during fight - All Zodiacs now have a special sentence if they defeat you [hr][/hr]
• Calie and Ayla dialogues have been fully re-recorded (by same voice actors) for a small change of personality [hr][/hr]
• All NPCs voice lines have been fully re-recorded for consistency of records and Sova + Merchants voice slightly changed [hr][/hr]
• Fully re-voiced Taurus for voice consistency and fully re-voiced Aquarius to make sentences faster [hr][/hr]
• Added Narration Elements: - Dialogues with Zodiacs are often 4 dialogues instead of 3 - Dialogues with Zodiacs are often 4 dialogues instead of 3 - New dialogues progression when sitting on Benches for each hero - Oloon new progression of dialogues about gossips of other NPCs - Ordan now talks about Zodiacs instead of Ikki - Bapy now has progression dialogues about heroes feelings - Progression dialogues with Andromeda for each hero - Global progression dialogues with Andromeda - Heroes can now talk between each others depending of progression [hr][/hr]
• Many reworked elements of dialogues / context for consistency and update of the lore

Miscellaneous

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• Changing languages is only possible in Main Menu now [hr][/hr]
• Modified/improved default keyboard inputs [hr][/hr]
• Removed Banner for updates on Main Menu [hr][/hr]
• Credits have been updated [hr][/hr]
• Removed Banner for updates on Main Menu [hr][/hr]
• Removed Yamat character icons on Merchant and Memory library (will be re-added later when DLC is released) [hr][/hr]
• Removed "Dev Message" when the game launches. [hr][/hr]
• Added a pop-up to warn Early Access players that it is adviced to start a new save. [hr][/hr]
• Updated musics for Jukebox

Bug Fixes

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• The auras with condtion ""X created"" the cooldown is updated when the effects are created, not at the same time (which prevented the same effect from being activated several times in a row) for following Auras: - Frozen Overpower - Saplings Wrath - Missiles Overload - Thick Yalee [hr][/hr]
• Aura "Catnip II and Catnip III" the descriptions of the rare and mythic version were not in the correct order. [hr][/hr]
• Aura Electrifying Touch III- Now works correctly. [hr][/hr]
• Sova's benediction did not increase the level of the feather in "Pavo's room". [hr][/hr]
• Bapy summon stars only gave stars 1 time per world. [hr][/hr]
• Forbidden Knowledge perk of Ayla was not working. [hr][/hr]
• The perk "double mox" of Calie didn't work. [hr][/hr]
• Coop - Octaves "Pluvia" shoots out of the coop partner instead of the player using it. [hr][/hr]
• The fireshield effect was not DT proof. [hr][/hr]
• Nimbus shoot SFX were missing. [hr][/hr]
• Frostbyte FX on enemies would go in front of players. [hr][/hr]
• Summons Zodiacs: - Fixed bug when on some summons that made players go behind bosses and enemies after being summoned - Fixed bug on Leo summon that created Embers instead of ignition - Fixed bug on Sagittarius summon which was not targeting enemies - Fixed bug on many zodiacs summon not targeting enemies correctly - Zodiac summon in air would not always reach targets on ground [hr][/hr]
• The Quartz reward of Chamaeleon Lottery no longer gives the maximum amount of quartz each time. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed issue on Chamaeleon altar when taking a 5 keys chests. [hr][/hr]
• Shadow Clones didn't have collisions with players. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Ikki echo from Void Catalyst would give a Zim-Zim echo. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed World 3 puddles that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc). [hr][/hr]
• Fixed World 4 rain drops that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc). [hr][/hr]
• Fixed Astral Spirits that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc). [hr][/hr]
• Fixed Elite Aspect Thunder that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc). [hr][/hr]
• World 3 Medusa element spawned Slimes on hits. [hr][/hr]
• Using Ayla's signature spell on Taurus during his ultimate would make Ayla go below ground. [hr][/hr]
• Aquarius Fight: - DL6+ attack loop sound design would remain all the time if Aquarius was defeated during the attack. [hr][/hr]
• Visual effects could remain on bosses when teleporting (example freeze FX). [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Leo and Pisces could become endlessly invincible if they reached their ultimate before launching their first attacks. [hr][/hr]
• Camera was not following correctly players and bosses during Zodiac fights (not unzooming if Zodiac was far). [hr][/hr]
• Camera was moving a bit higher when Zodiacs were not on screen. [hr][/hr]
• Everytime you relaunch merchants choices the loot FX would cumulate. [hr][/hr]
• We could access inventory during Zodiac summons. [hr][/hr]
• Some Texts could be cut in Bapy's achievement UI. [hr][/hr]
• Input to get all loots in Bapy's and Papa Yalee's could be changed by changing inputs leading to inputs issues unwanted [hr][/hr]
• Dialogue contexts could happen twice in a row. [hr][/hr]
• The timer during challenges was not paused when opening menu or summoning Zodiacs. [hr][/hr]
• "Embers" hint was not displayed in English language. [hr][/hr]
• In Sun Room ans Cetus room, the "toxic gas" effect Hint was not displayed. [hr][/hr]
• Optimization/fixed issue for elements happening "every X second". [hr][/hr]
• "Best client" achievement of Bapy was not working. [hr][/hr]
• Spread ice auras was not working in Coop mode. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired In fight room in Coop mode, the P2 could be stuck in a wall at the start of a room [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Possible hardlock in coop at the perks statue fixed. [hr][/hr]
• The Echoes icons on UI would flash when being hit. [hr][/hr]
• Pavo could break the perk "Warrior's pride" and achievements "perfect" on bapy (like "kill X enemies without getting hit etc...) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired The calculation of damage/crits/full life damage has been fixed. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed many code apparition in dialogues. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed bug on Kiran counter perk that could create too many effect in one time. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed music in Elite fight room that was too loud if coming from the Forge room. [hr][/hr]
• In the Merchant, price icon brightness could remain very high if spell changed while brightness is high. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Visual feedback could remain after defeating Capricorn. [hr][/hr]
• Words were cut in Prowess Tree UI. [hr][/hr]
• Auto attack icon was not grayed out when the inventory is opened. [hr][/hr]
• Signature spell icon was gray when you pass over it in inventory. [hr][/hr]
• Visual warning could remain visible after defeating Calie's Shadow Clone. [hr][/hr]
• Some sentences from Ordan were missing. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired In co-op, if both players would enter a boss fight at the same frame, the interface would no longer reappears. [hr][/hr]
• When starting Fight Rooms, the background clouds would teleport instantly everytime. [hr][/hr]
• Leaving a room was making uncollected keys/quartz to disappear. [hr][/hr]
• Some enemies could follow players in Andromeda's Challenges if they had teleport skills. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed bug on texts that were cut in Japanese and Chinese language [hr][/hr]
• Fixed a lot of places where behaviors would be different depending of current FPS. [hr][/hr]
• The Piercing Shark enemy attack in DL6+ could hit 3 times if overlapping enemy during the attack. [hr][/hr]
• World 3 Toad Enemy could not be blocked by Kiran's counter. [hr][/hr]
• At 165+ fps, the character would fall faster when keep attacking in air. [hr][/hr]
• Prevented Characters from moving when swapping characters in hub. [hr][/hr]
• Leveling up could make your HP bar go beyond maximum. [hr][/hr]
• Some Enemies elite width was too small when launching specific attacks. [hr][/hr]
• Jukebox inputs applied to game inputs (LB to skip song also changed spell order) [hr][/hr]
• Jukebox title would remain if you dashed out of the jukebox while changing music. [hr][/hr]
• Some elements were not accepting increased damage per world like Kiran summon and Thunder Dash. [hr][/hr]
• Merchant, if swapping hero while "not enough money feedback" background would remain red. [hr][/hr]
• Cetus, gold coins were jumping at the wrong place when walking on ground gold coins. [hr][/hr]
• Fungal being smoke fx was not displayed since some patchs. [hr][/hr]
• Wild Grass (Spinning world 1 enemy) teleport hitbox was not horizontally centered. [hr][/hr]
• Navigation bar would appear and blink everytime we change menu in Bapy/Papa Yalee menus [hr][/hr]
• Player could Over-heal when using life restoring gambits (more than their max HP). [hr][/hr]
• "Practice makes perfect" Bapy achievement did not work. [hr][/hr]
• Background clouds in Capricorn Challenge were cut out. [hr][/hr]
• The sky in world 1 had some horizontal lines visible. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed Performance issue in Yalee kingdom and Cetus. [hr][/hr]
• Some Auras Descriptions in Barbecue were displaying way too small in certain languages due to a bug. [hr][/hr]
• Zim Zim's laugh did not trigger under certain conditions [hr][/hr]
• Eclipse room had noticeable fps and sound stutter [hr][/hr]
• Coop - When P2 interacted with Zim-Zim, only P1 could navigate through the menu [hr][/hr]
• In Coop, players catching the Astral Spirit could show the wrong name. [hr][/hr]
• Pink Dandelions would continue their reset animation when game is paused and they could become giant. [hr][/hr]
• Feathers could be equiped or salvaged while being in the menu. [hr][/hr]
• Trails had a different behavior depending of game fps. [hr][/hr]
• Weather effects appeared in Echo Isles while it was not supposed to. [hr][/hr]
• Some effects during Aquarius ultimate would still move while game is paused. [hr][/hr]
• Explorer's curse was not working properly [hr][/hr]
• Dialogues portraits could overlap each other if big enough. [hr][/hr]
• Pausing the game during cinematic was not pausing the videos. [hr][/hr]
• Spell preview videos were not leoping at Merchant. [hr][/hr]
• Missiles trails were not connected to the missiles. [hr][/hr]
• Blue disappearing platforms collisions are not there anymore when they are invisible. [hr][/hr]
• Papa Yalee pointer in hub was sometimes bugging. [hr][/hr]
• Chamaeleon in The Forge would appear in a strange way, changed his position. [hr][/hr]
• Taurus Zodiac Affinity had a missing dialogue. [hr][/hr]
• Virgo could remain invisible after being defeated during 2 specific attacks. [hr][/hr]
• Sometimes wrong spells could be bought in Andromeda's bar (standing on a specific altar and buying another altar). [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's Flash Step spell would move camera even during bosses. [hr][/hr]
• Many objects could keep spawning during pauses like Leo's ground pound axe attack. If you paused the game during this attack, elements would keep spawning forever leading to losing FPS. [hr][/hr]
• Libra's Light spell did not track invincible enemies which felt weird. [hr][/hr]
• Yalees in Yalee kingdom could be in front of Auras descriptions. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Decimals in Sun Pieces multiplayers could go wrong like x1,7000000000 instead of 1,7 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Sova Summon giving Pavo's Feather +2 was not working for player 2 in coop. [hr][/hr]
• Aquarius ultimate was taking too much performances leading to FPS drops. [hr][/hr]
• Entering a new layout and pausing (for example in the Pantheon) would feel like game is frozen because it pauses the transition. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired You could get locked inside Andromeda's bar if pressing exit button too fast. [hr][/hr]
• Failing Andromeda's Challenges while auto climbing a wall would teleport player back inside the challenge and leave them stuck there. [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs could be half visible if defeated during their teleports.

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[previewyoutube=-tMwDmc8ah0;full][/previewyoutube] Here is our Cinematic Trailer that will be displayed when you launch the game in 1.0, we have worked hard on it! We are also running a Giveaway for Steam / Console keys on our twitter account, feel free to join and good luck! 8 days left before 1.0, we hope you are as excited as we are! Aries cannot wait to face you!

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Astral Ascent Final Release is coming on November 14th, 2023

• The Master final boss fight
• 3 New Zodiacs: Aries, Cancer & Gemini, including Zodiac Spells, Challenges & Summons
• 17 unique endings
• Completely reworked tutorial
• New introduction cinematic
• Mid-run saves at start of each room
• Traditional cinematic when launching the game
• Players stats window
• Reworked and extended narration for all characters, including new narration places like heroes self-dicussions, heroes to heroes discussions, new dialogs with various characters and Memory Library stories final version
• Fully voiced dialogs including some characters fully re-voiced like Ayla
• 2 new Star Guardians : Sculptor & Monoceros
• New Musics including orchestral records and featuring of vocalist Emi Evans
• Countless polishes, balances & bug-fixes! (more than 400 tasks done on our side)

Slight game price adjustment

We went bigger than what we expected for this update, the Update is adding a various range of new elements mainly focused on extending runs variety! Full Patch-Notes of 0.47 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3690190742433248908

The Telluric Telescope

• First spell you equip is duplicated and replaces all your spells
• First Aura you find in Yalee Kingdom is Astral
• Increase Damage on full life enemies by 100%
• When starting an escape, gains 5 Critical Stones
• Summoning an Echo gives you a random buff
• Reduces by 30 the life cost of Pavo sacrifices
• etc.

Echoes Extension

Elemental Summons

New Void boss - Hydra

Andromeda's Trials

Oops we did it again... 84 new auras!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Telluric Telescope: You can choose 1 bonus among 3 bonuses (from 50+ ) everyday [hr][/hr]
• Hydra Void Boss: Hydra joins Pegasus, Lupus & Draco [hr][/hr]
• 84 new Auras: All already unlocked, mainly Astral ones adding more variations to runs [hr][/hr]
• Echoes addition: 16 new Echoes have been added (from 15 to 31) [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda's Trials: Added 9 Andromeda's Trials, from 8 to 17

Small Features

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• Pool change for Echoes from 3 to 4 [hr][/hr]
• Improved many Echoes like Zim-Zim Summons [hr][/hr]
• Improved Zodiac Summons & Echoes, effects have been added to have more impact in builds

Balancing

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• Increase of Astral Auras drop rate for more build diversity [hr][/hr]
• Increased pace and difficulty of some existing Andromeda's Trials [hr][/hr]
• Spells balancing: Increased damage of following spells Kiran - Fiery dragon punch Ayla - Doppleganger - Paper bomb Common spells - Surrounding spheres [hr][/hr]
• Balancing of multiple auras [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda's challenge can only appear maximum of 2 times per run

Level Design

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• Changed location or removal traps in some exploratory rooms

Visuals

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• Improved lisibility and descriptions of Zodiac Summon texts

Narrative Design

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• Correction of typos, re-worded elements [hr][/hr]
• Implementation of many texts variations in preparation of final release voice re-record

Bug Fixes

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• Fights Rooms barriers could bug and be misplaced [hr][/hr]
• One mushroom wasn't bouncing correctly in an Andromeda's Trial [hr][/hr]
• Destiny Level sun pisces multiplicator was bugged at lvl 7,14,19 [hr][/hr]
• Players could die in Andromeda's Trials [hr][/hr]
• Enemies could spawn outside of Fight Rooms / Elite Fight Rooms [hr][/hr]
• Players could skip fights rooms with aerial tricks [hr][/hr]
• Main Menu had visual bugs leading to blank and unresponsive UI [hr][/hr]
• Auras with ""if enemy is full life"" could trigger multiple times for enemies with armor or enemies spawn from elite modifiers [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to re-use the aura refiner multiple times in Andromeda's bar by entering and then exiting the bar interior [hr][/hr]
• Fixed volume issues on music played in Eclipse room

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Hello everyone! Last month we released the Path of Destinies Update which received such a great reception, so many of you kept playing the game much more than any previous updates! About previous Update, community member Andreiyutzzzz already beat Destiny Level 45 which we thought would take much longer to happen. We are sure DL 54 will fall at some point! Next Update will be coming late August and it will be about Summons and other things. But First --

Ayla Figure & Backer Statues

Next Update Preview

• Taurus - Spirit Swords
• Pisces - Ice Swords
• Kiran - Embers
• Calie - Plasma Portals
• etc.

Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features

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• community inspired Pavo's Feathers from Void Catalyst improvement are now further in Intro Rooms so you don't miss them [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Andromeda's Challenges now give drink for both players in co-op [hr][/hr]
• Life Crusher - Does not decrease player max life when taking damage on Pavo's ruins anymore. [hr][/hr]
• We added back the Sun pieces multiplier triggered by increasing Destiny Level in NG+ runs. [hr][/hr]
• World 2 Magma Golem Destiny Level explosion attack would keep hitting after a long time preventing player to go back hitting the golem

Balancing

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• Curse of the Blacksmith - Negative Gambits on spells went from -50% to -30% damage and from 50% chances per tier to 25% chances per tier [hr][/hr]
• Used Pockets - from -10 quartz per tier to -5 [hr][/hr]
• Inflation : from +25% per tier of Itinerant Peddler items prices to +15% per tier [hr][/hr]
• Shield Foes - Enemies now have 50% chances to have Armor instead of 100% and Spawned monsters by Wooden Guardian and Giant Snake can never have armor points [hr][/hr]
• Wooden Guardian laser shoots delay is slightly more important in Destiny Level 1+ [hr][/hr]
• Harassing Foes - From 30% chances per tier to 8% chances per tier and duration from 8 secs to 6 secs [hr][/hr]
• Vampiric Foes - from 20% per tier for regular enemies to 10% [hr][/hr]
• Thorny Foes - From 10% per tier to 2% and timer between Thorns on enemies from 3 secs to 6 secs [hr][/hr]
• Vengeful Foes - From 10% per tier to 2% and timer between Dark Missiles on enemies from 3 secs to 6 secs [hr][/hr]
• Increase all heroes basic attacks base damage and fall attack base damage for better scaling [hr][/hr]
• Spirit friends - Added one more stack to enable 1 additional Echo on start of a run and balanced prices. This ability should also assign different echo for players during co-op. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It's possible to salvage loots from Yalee Kingdom now [hr][/hr]
• Random Echos in Void Catalyst from 1 tier at 30 to 2 tiers at 10 and 20 [hr][/hr]
• First Strike from Void Catalyst from +200% dmg to full life enemies to +300% [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added a bit more time for Sagittarius to attack after her DL 6 attack [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Leo DL6 Spin Attack jump jump height has been reduced and now requires players to be further than before [hr][/hr]
• Sixth Sense - from +50% to +100% to Critical Damage [hr][/hr]
• Shadow Clones - This malice should not cause spawn of clones too on early in runs or worlds.

Level Design

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• Removed 2 jumping crystals from an Exploration room that were conflicting with fights [hr][/hr]
• Removed a spawn area that conflicted with jump crystals

Interface

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• Changed ""Activate"" to ""Beat"" in Path of Destinies interface for locked elements for less confusion [hr][/hr]
• Smoothed some Void Catalyst text descriptions [hr][/hr]
• Barbecue UI description would become invisible if you move to right while on most right element (same for all directions) [hr][/hr]
• There is now a input to completely reset all currencies committed in the Void Catalyst.

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Oloon Shield had a typo [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Removed FX from Void Catalyst that could be causing FPS drop for some players [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Being hit while being invincible (shield for example) during a Zodiac fight will consider you did not perfect the boss and deny the achievement [hr][/hr]
• Apparition Sound of Shadow Clones was not playing

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This new Update is a game changer for late game experience and we are super excited to finally make it available for everyone to play! Full Patch-Notes of 0.45 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3681178469567255745 This Update adds more than 150h to the game for those wanting more challenges and it keeps the progression you made in previous Early Access version! There is a lot to share and won't be able to cover everything in this News post but here are the main things you may want to know -

Path of Destinies

• Interesting - each element has to have an interesting effect
• Easy to understand
• Accessible start
• Hard end

• Destiny Level 1 -
  
  
  
• Destiny Level 2 -
  
• Destiny Level 3 -
  
  
• Destiny Level 4 -
  
• Destiny Level 5 -
  
• Destiny Level 6 -
  
  
  
  

• Enemies +150% Damage
• Enemies +200% Max Life
• Zodiacs +300% Damage
• Zodiacs +300% Max Life

Void Catalyst

Zim-Zim rework

Other Elements

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Botanist abilities: Reworked and added new abilities for The botanist: - Magical gift: Increase spell choices by the intro room and telluric ruins by +1 per tier. - Expert breaker: Increase Quartz gained by salvaging a spell or gambit by +10% per tier. - Star breaker: Increase Stars gained by salvaging an aura by +1 per tier. - Feather leftovers: When Salvaging a spell, you have 5% chances per tier to make a pavo's feather appear. you also gain an additional +5% to proc this effect for each gambit applied to the salvaged spell. - Gambit Rarity up: Increase chances to transform common gambit into rare gambits by +5% per tier. - Aura Rarity up: increase chances to transform common aura into rare aura by +5% per tier. [hr][/hr]
• The Void Catalyst: We added a new system linked to Path of Destinies that will enable players to unlock new abilities at exchange of destiny fragments. [hr][/hr]
• Path of Destinies: Reworked the Path of Destinies system, starting by revamping the UI for better user experience. We added new game modifiers and removed some old ones. The game has now 54 extra levels of difficulty and defeating Zodiacs on high Destiny Level will reward the players with Destiny Fragments, which can be used in the Void Catalyst to unlock new abilities. here are the first 6 new challenges you'll have to face in Destiny Level: - Enemies all gain new or improved attack patterns (Except for Zodiacs). - Increase the minimum difficulty of rooms by +2 stars. - New Shadow Clones enemies will start appearing during your journey. - All enemies and Zodiacs gain +20% Health and damages. - Increase Elite enemies spawning chances by 100%. - Zodiacs release their full potential, gaining improved and new attacks patterns, the challenge begins here. [hr][/hr]
• Added a new option in the pause menu that can be accessed after unlocking Path of Destinies which has info about active Path of Destinies modifiers (current destiny level and difficulty modifiers) and active abilities from Void Catalyst. [hr][/hr]
• Armor Points: They are now absorbing 3% damage per stone up to 70% maximum (instead of reducing damage received by 1 per stone)

Small Features

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• Polished the spawn of destiny fragments after defeating Zodiacs, they do not prevent Zodiac Chests to spawn and they will follow you faster [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spell and Gambit altars: We re-enabled spell altars and added a new gambit altar. These should make finding spell and spell modifiers more common during runs. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Adjusted zoom level on sun/moon room to make loot description better to read. [hr][/hr]
• Changed some rooms progress/unlock condition [hr][/hr]
• Kiran basic attack range and visual improvement [hr][/hr]
• Increased spawn speed of Zodiac chests [hr][/hr]
• Changed color order of Spells loot, highest rarity is now pink as it is for Gambits and Auras (Astral) [hr][/hr]
• ""Absorbed"" was sometimes wrongly display, for example when being killed after Libra/Aquarius [hr][/hr]
• Octave drone shoots faster its first missiles [hr][/hr]
• World 4 shielded enemy is not invincible anymore during its attack [hr][/hr]
• World 4 flying enemy projectile does not follow player anymore while not in Destiny Level [hr][/hr]
• Many small changes of Zodiacs patterns

Balancing

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• Spells speed cast improvement: Increased Spell cast of following spells Kiran - Ultra Loaded Knuckles - Energy Projectiles - Windturner Up Slash - Void Punch Calie - Stone of the Ancients - Prismatic Beam - Azurite Falchion Octave - Sol - Sagitta - Fax [hr][/hr]
• Balanced Elite Aspects number per world [hr][/hr]
• Buffed Aquarius summon damage

Level Design

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• Playing the game on Path of Destinies adds subtle visual changes in the game levels. [hr][/hr]
• Removed some jump crystals conflicting with fight areas

Music & SFX

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• Added Sound for Destiny Fragment [hr][/hr]
• Added Sound for Taurus summon slash

Interface

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• Darker Pause menu background [hr][/hr]
• Talent tree UI visuals improvement [hr][/hr]
• Improved Achievement message UI [hr][/hr]
• Improved Sier Bapy and Papa Yalee UI clarity [hr][/hr]
• Improved display of damage from level and affinity on spells [hr][/hr]
• Added bilinear on some UI icons [hr][/hr]
• Sier Bapy completed achievement have a different background now [hr][/hr]
• Prevented pausing the game during Menus,Talent tree and similar situations [hr][/hr]
• Pavo's Feathers mentioned Gambits when equipping them [hr][/hr]
• Spell affinity to Neutral for Elemental Gambits description improvement [hr][/hr]
• Updated Dev Message

Visuals

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• Improved rarity icon and added on common rarity [hr][/hr]
• Improvement of many text fonts for clarity, mainly for numbers [hr][/hr]
• Improved most loots UI display, changing colors for different loots, increase spaces etc [hr][/hr]
• Added Echoes icon when interface picking them up [hr][/hr]
• Uniformized many titles and text displays [hr][/hr]
• Reduced many flash intensity, for example when picking a Memory Fragment [hr][/hr]
• Improved font readability and size of damage to enemies and received

Narrative Design

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• Oloon shield description was using wrong term [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Octave text would mention {oloon} [hr][/hr]
• Yalee Madness description was not mentioning amount of Yalees spawned

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Aquarius could catch player while being revived by Ikki [hr][/hr]
• Critic icon next to critic hit text now always stays, it used to disappear very fast [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Poison chain from Astral Aura could focus invincible ghosts [hr][/hr]
• Elite lifebar would remain visible after failing a Zodiac challenge fight [hr][/hr]
• Caedes spell of Octave was hitting only 1 time instead of 3 [hr][/hr]
• Clones spawned by Elite Aspect would have aggro and could, for Wild Grass for example, teleport on you from the start of a room [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Capricorn's books could spawn Thorns from Path of Destinies while being destroyed

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Hello everyone! We released Colors & Elite Update on May 1st and next Major Update will be released at the end of June and today we want to share with you what this Update is going to be about.

Path of Destinies Rework

• Enemies will have new or improved attacks
  
  
• Bosses will have new or improved attacks
  
• And other things...
  

Void Catalyst

• Start runs with Ikki Summon
• First Andromeda's drink is free
• Increase your Healing Shards power
• Start with base Armor
• etc.

New Update available!

Elites rework

New room type - Eclipse Room

Oloon extended

• Ayla pants
• Kiran shoes & belt
• Octave boots & belt
• Calie pants

Sun Room Rework

Many new Perks for heroes

Debug and QoL changes

What is coming with next update?

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New room type - Eclipse Room: We added a brand new room type that should make runs more challenging. Eclipse Rooms are a harder version of fight rooms with extra obstacles, but it'll offer big rewards for the risk taken [hr][/hr]
• Reworked room - The Sun: The Sun room content has been reworked. It now offers a pick for a new loot added in game, Elemental Gambits. This is a rare room that should show as a option alongside other bonus rooms [hr][/hr]
• New loot - Elemental Gambits: New type of Gambit that can be equipped into spells to change their elemental affinity. You should be able to find this new loot in the reworked Sun room [hr][/hr]
• Rework spell Neutral element: Spells with neutral element type should get a damage boost from equipping only neutral gambits. It should make neutral spells work in the same way as other elemental spells, instead of receiving a smaller damage boost for any gambit [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added/Reworked elite enemy modifiers: We reworked the enemy elite modifiers system polishing old modifiers, removing some of them and adding new ones. You should be able to look into the reworked effects accessing the in-game glossary [hr][/hr]
• Added/Rework perks for heroes: We reworked and added some perks for each playable character to follow up the recent updates that added new auras and effects in the game. The heroes Signature Move should now be a more reliable way to trigger synergies by equipping perks into it [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Kiran's Signature Move balance and fixes: Reduced cooldown Increased range of the hit area to trigger the counter Fixed a bug that could cause the counter not to trigger after defending a attack [hr][/hr]
• Oloon new category & new colors: One new color type at Oloon's and many new colors, update Bapy's achievement accordingly

Small Features

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• Players are briefly invulnerable right after finishing a fight room [hr][/hr]
• Camera changes for better lisibility in Yalee Kingdom, Sun & Moon rooms [hr][/hr]
• Common spells are now linked to their affinity (example, fireball will always have fire affinity), on the opposite all hero spells can now have any affinity so they can all work with your target builds

Balancing

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• Balanced the spell damage boost gained from elemental affinity of equipped gambits [hr][/hr]
• Re-balanced several Auras [hr][/hr]
• Complete re-balance of all spells depending of their mana cost and number of hits [hr][/hr]
• Calie base attack speed has been slightly increased

Interface

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• Added a option to preview upgraded versions of auras. This should be possible to do either in player's inventory and on Aura's altar [hr][/hr]
• Reworked all Perks, Gambits and most Auras descriptions to be clearer

Visuals

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• Sylvanian thorn attack feedbacks are now behind players [hr][/hr]
• Improved feedback of NG+ missile

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Triggering an action that could heal player while it was dead could cause gameover not to trigger, resulting in a softlock [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to kill the dummy in Leo's challenge if you dealt enough damage [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to exploit unfinish refresh of itinerant merchant altars on andromeda's bar by entering and leaving the bar's inside [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to spawn multiple of the same aura in Yalee's kingdom room [hr][/hr]
• Fixed a small glitch that could happen with camera when finishing a fight room while too close to camera limit borders [hr][/hr]
• The text from equipped stats stones could display with the wrong color [hr][/hr]
• Enemies could prevent you from climbing small walls by pushing out while you climb [hr][/hr]
• Ice spell 38 was sometimes dealing twice its damage [hr][/hr]
• Octave base spell could hit NG+ phantom enemies [hr][/hr]
• Some enemies attack were not reduced by Pacification

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Time flies! That's right, we released Astral Ascent exactly 365 days ago! So, as Kiran says, it's our One Year Anniversary! [previewyoutube=ejNipcSNlRg;full][/previewyoutube] Yes, Kiran & Ayla will have an introduction cinematic as we did for Octave & Calie! First thing first, I would really like to fully appreciate how much the game changed since April 12 2022, the amount of changes is really big including -

• 2 new worlds
• 2 new playable heroes
• Many new rooms
• Major reworks like Auras' one
• Countless iterations and polish all around

• Rework of Sun Room - you will be able to change your spells affinity there now
• Re-balancing of spells and new Perks
• Bug Fixing
• Elite modifiers polish
• Red Fight Rooms - a new type of challenges during runs
• Oloon will have one more category and many new colors for better customisation

Changes inspired by our community!

Balancing

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• community inspired Ice fragments: Balanced ice fragments so it can bounce less times on screen before vanishing. Also nerfed some auras and perks that spawn it [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Dash attack exploit: We noticed it was possible to spam dash and attack on enemies quickly to reset dash cooldown. Chain repeating this action would cause players to be invulnerable for unintended long period of time and delivering basic attack to enemies very fast would cause mana recovery to be too high. We made changes to try to mitigate the powerful results from these actions, while still keeping the behavior around. Starting from this patch, If players interrupts a dash with a basic attack the game now removes the brief post-dash iframes. The iframes are still kept if the dash finishes normally or is canceled by other actions. We also added a spam counter to the dash action and a small delay to the basic attack is progressively added as long as dash attacking enemies keeps being spammed. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Aura Adjustment: We nerfed some of the auras using the following effects: Wisp, Fireshield, Ice fragments, Ice sword, Spark, nimbus, thunder strike, slime, meteor, max mana, missiles, spirit sword [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Gambit Adjustment: We nerfed some of the gambits using the following effects: Slime, Ember, Wisp, Nimbus, Ice Fragment, Missiles, Spirit sword, Yalee [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Ayla perks: Nerfing some ayla perks that could trigger undesired big amount of elements based on hitting enemies with the assassin's mark [hr][/hr]
• Slot unlocker price: Slot unlocker price on itinerant merchant now increases as game progress

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Scorpio could launch multiple different attacks when starting a fight, causing weird behaviors [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio's Zodiac spell, found on moon room, would not carry effects from equipped gambits

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First of all, thanks for the great reception of the World 4 Update! It has been by far the most appreciated of our updates since we launched Early Access back in April 2022. Everyone has enjoyed playing Calie, fighting the new Zodiacs and the new direction for game progression that felt more coherent and less chaotic. It feels like everything is nicely coming together but we are not done yet! Today we release a new update, one of many planned before the Final Release of the game anticipated to be Q4 2023. These upcoming updates, as well as today's one, are focusing on what is feeling to be the most urgent elements to work on at a specific state of the game. In this case we received a lot of feedback about how complicated it felt to make meaningful & varied builds in the game, so let's discover together what are the changes we made to improve this. Complete Patch Notes to read - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3691300790688811125

Aura System major changes

• Common - white
• Rare - blue
• Mythic - orange
• Astral - purple

• a Common aura into a Rare aura
• a Rare aura into a Mythic aura

• Poison Meteors
• Poison Explosions
• Ice Swords
• Lightning Strike
• Fire Shield

37 new hero Spells

• Ayla low mana costs spells & high mobility,
• Kiran's raw power,
• Octave's mobility, long range & speed
• Calie's versatility

Progressions changes

What is next?

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Hero Spells: 37 new hero spells for a total of 20 per hero [hr][/hr]
• Auras upgrade: Some auras can now be upgraded to a rarer tier version of itself through a new special loot added to the game [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs reward: Changed loots given on big chest from Zodiac reward. Now it spawns a pool of different auras to choose from [hr][/hr]
• New Effects added: We added several new effects to the game: Meteor(Poison), Toxic explosion(Poison), Ice sword(Ice), Thunder strike(Electric), Fireshield(Fire) [hr][/hr]
• Gambit Addition: We created several new gambits using the new effects [hr][/hr]
• Gambit Rework: We reworked the older gambits to have different triggers and % chances, overall all gambit have been buffed from their previous version [hr][/hr]
• Co-op Loots: Balanced the amount of loot given during single player and co-op mode in multiple places - 2 npc summons, 2 auras in yalee kingdom, 2 loots for exploration rooms/boss/minibosses, merchant cost less quartz in co-op too [hr][/hr]
• New auras: More than 240 new auras added to the game. This is accompanied by other major rework from auras system and it should enable players to experiment with a big amount of build varieties [hr][/hr]
• New unlock order: Reorganizing of unlocking new elements with XP points on death recap

Small Features

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• Applying ignition to a enemy now refresh the effect duration instead of triggering the effect again [hr][/hr]
• Combustion, and Spark doesn't add burn and electrify effects when hitting enemies [hr][/hr]
• Fight and Exploration room have cooldown after picked a certain amount of times to prevent often picking the same room types [hr][/hr]
• Cetus gambits categories have changed and the rarities of spawned gambits now depends of current world [hr][/hr]
• Changed the order of unlock for some NPCs on hub [hr][/hr]
• Declining a Zodiac challenge on Challenge room doesn't make Zodiac leave the room anymore [hr][/hr]
• Changed Ayla's signature spell trigger for NPC summon effects (Summoning Kiran, Octave or Calie) so the summon happens after the teleports [hr][/hr]
• During co-op, players shouldn't be able to interact with Aura altars and other loots such as Gambit or Spell at the same time [hr][/hr]
• You can now see the spells & gambits icon before opening the loots [hr][/hr]
• If you have found all memory fragments in your run, a small chest appears with currencies instead of nothing [hr][/hr]
• Improved Barbecue UI to better fit the new quantity of Auras [hr][/hr]
• Ice Fragments now go through enemies by default [hr][/hr]
• Spirit Swords now work with number of hits instead of time and we have removed the Spirit Sword spell to keep it as a neutral effect [hr][/hr]
• The ability from Zim-Zim that can make spells spawn with higher levels doesn't work on itinerant merchant spells anymore. This is so it doesn't affect intended prices for spells sold there [hr][/hr]
• Spells & Gambits icons are now visible even when they are closed [hr][/hr]
• More death recap levels: Added new unlock levels to a max of 114 (previously 38)

Balancing

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• Loot scaling: Auras and gambits quality scale with world progression [hr][/hr]
• Mini-boss loot change: With the Echos isles change, the loot of mini-boss has been adjusted as follow: 1 slot unlocker and 1 gambit between 3 gambits The quality of those gambits is improved compared to regular gambits loot [hr][/hr]
• Effects that deal damage over time (poison, ignition and frostbite) can't trigger critical hits or prevent enemies to finish their movements [hr][/hr]
• Increased the amount of destiny fragments needed to unlock a destiny level in NG+ [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim healing summon now heals more [hr][/hr]
• Co-op revive now grants more HP to revived player [hr][/hr]
• Co-op revive time is smaller, its increase between death is smaller and the increase per death is reset at the start of each room [hr][/hr]
• Lot of changes on spells damage [hr][/hr]
• Various changes of HP on Zodiacs, Minibosses & enemies

Level Design

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• Andromeda fusion with merchant: Andromeda room now welcomes a merchant at the end and merchant room has been removed from the regular room pool (Andromeda room will still appear 1 room before bosses) [hr][/hr]
• Echos isles join the regular pool: Echos isles will no longer only be accessible after defeating a mini-boss but instead will appear randomly like other special rooms

Music & SFX

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• Saplings now do sound design only if enemies around

Interface

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• Improved all Perks texts [hr][/hr]
• Improved all glossaries texts

Visuals

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• Shockwave at the end of levels (portals spawning) are now looking better [hr][/hr]
• Visuals polish on most game effects - Combustion, Saplings, Freeze, etc [hr][/hr]
• Changed order of display of most effects in the game, now most visual FX are behind enemies/players for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Removed a visual particles on slimes that was never destroyed [hr][/hr]
• Improved visuals loots on gambits

Bug Fixes

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• Fixed some glitches that could make a move from Scorpio not work correctly during the boss fight [hr][/hr]
• Added a behavior that should make it harder to have player stuck in solids [hr][/hr]
• Leo jump attack could not show red feedback on ground if he was back to a side wall [hr][/hr]
• Spell preview for itinerant merchant altar would not be auto-disabled after releasing the previous input [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Max waits crash reported [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses HP were not impacted by NG+ and Co-op HP increases [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Wrong sign when using Aquarius spell & challenge room [hr][/hr]
• Quests could activate before the end of a dialog (during game tutorial) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Aquarius challenge used to crash the game [hr][/hr]
• Aquarius summon would leave rocks particles on field [hr][/hr]
• Pufferfish would never look left [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Dev message layout was glitching on large width screens [hr][/hr]
• Trails following projectiles were sometimes too big [hr][/hr]
• Challenge room Zodiacs icons were too big compared to normal [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Octave and Calie were sliding on ground when picked in main Hub [hr][/hr]
• NPCs could have icons saying they have an important dialog while they did not [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Some weird events could appear very randomly like Andromeda challenge being completed [hr][/hr]
• It was possible for some skill unlocks to get skipped during death recap - hotfix 0.42.1 [hr][/hr]
• Calie basic spell could wrongly spawn as a new spell during runs - hotfix 0.42.1 [hr][/hr]
• Purchase value of spells could have wrong numbers on itinerant merchant [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda could wrongly repeat the ""refresh drinks"" animation if player go far away and then near her again [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Coop lifesteal going to player dying would make dead player stuck

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[previewyoutube=ywKI4kS0HEU;full][/previewyoutube] For saves issues - if you experiment saves issues because you did not play for a long time, please check our guide about how to get back your saves. We had some saves lost when changing the way we store the saves + when integrating Cloud saves, thanks for your understanding! That's it, the fourth and final world of Astral Ascent is available right now, here is a list of what to expect -

New Hero - Calie the Geomancer

The Crimson Highlands

2 New Zodiacs : Libra & Aquarius

Fifth world

Run progressions change + Telluric Ruins

• The Minibosses are not always there.
• The Echo Islands are now a reward for defeating minibosses and do not require keys to get there anymore.
• Exploration rooms rewards are now Quartz, Auras & Gambit and you cannot have multiple auras or gambit at once.
• Merchants are always there in first room of worlds.
• Astral Key chests are now limited to one per exploration but they have been reworked (see below).
• Andromeda's drinks are not increasing anymore so you are not too penalized if you are taking a healing room before a boss.
• Healing rooms can now spawn more frequently depending of your current HP.
• Healing Altars now use stars instead of Quartz so you can still create your build at the merchant.
• Salvaging Auras now grant 4 stars so you get Andromeda drinks if you are unhappy with your dropped Aura.
• The new forge Room is not in world 1 but there is a special room to get an extra spell from the beginning there now - The Telluric Ruins

The Forge - a new room Type

New Gambit rewards

Chamaeleon's Lottery

Stone Altars & Key Chests rework

• Using 3 keys will give you access to 1 Stone or a Pavo Feather +1 (level one of your spell, each level adds 20% damage to your spell).
• Using 5 keys will give you access to 2 Stones or a Pavo Feather +2.

• Armor points, each of them reduce the damage taken by 2
• Critical hits, each of them increase all your crit chances by 2
• Mana Max, each of them increase your max mana by 1

Co-op Balancing Changes

• Explorations rooms now give twice the rewards in co-op
• Forge & Telluric Ruins give twice their bonus in co-op
• Echo Island allows you to take 2 Echoes in co-op
• Merchant quartz price is reduced by 40% in co-op so you can buy more elements
• Minibosses & Zodiacs rewards are doubled in co-op

What is next?

• Minibosses fights and number
• Elites modificators
• Zim-Zim improvements
• New Game Plus System (giving the Moon Currency a purpose)
• Rework and improve Auras system
• Improve Heroes perks building

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Major Features

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• New player stats: Stone altars and Andromeda's can now provide new player effects: Armor, Critical hit chance and mana. [hr][/hr]
• Big rework on the room spawn options you get after finishing a room. Prepare for very different progression now! [hr][/hr]
• New rooms type: Two new rooms type added: The Forge and Telluric ruins. They should give options to make your spells stronger or new spells to pick [hr][/hr]
• Chameleon: Chameleon has been reworked and now. They're found in intro rooms and offers a option to pick between random quantities of different free loot [hr][/hr]
• New world and Zodiacs: Players can now progress untill reaching the new 4th world, Crimson Highlands! They can also find two band new Zodiacs waiting to be faced there: Libra and Aquarius [hr][/hr]
• New playable character: Calie: Players can unlock now Calie, the Architect! She can shapes her Gems into dangerous weapons. Her basic attacks leave precious stones on the battleground. She can call back the stones with her signature move dealing even more damage!

Small Features

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• Achievements appear in Death Recap if occured during the run [hr][/hr]
• Astral Spirits are slower, bigger, have a better hitbox but they have more HP and drop more elements [hr][/hr]
• Only one achievement can appear at a time [hr][/hr]
• Easier to open Zodiac chests [hr][/hr]
• Signature Spells damage increase with characters levels now [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs always look toward players once defeated [hr][/hr]
• Added crystal jumps in the hub [hr][/hr]
• Added explication about Kiran signature spell when unlocking him [hr][/hr]
• Re-enabled Fire Rain spell after its fix [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Giant Fists spell collider is a bit more generous [hr][/hr]
• Freeze effect now deals damage when reaching 10 stacks [hr][/hr]
• Ayla signature spell cannot target elite minions anymore [hr][/hr]
• Added new text hints for some effects, and changed the name of some old ones [hr][/hr]
• Changed conditions for Zodiacs spawn inside Andromeda's bar [hr][/hr]
• Some currencies like Quartz and Keys are automatically picked after leaving a room [hr][/hr]
• Portals rewards: Some room portals can offer different rewards (like Auras) and some of them can have cooldown to avoid same reward picks too often [hr][/hr]
• New super powerfull gambit tier added, Astral Gambits! They can be found after beating Zodiacs... If you're luck [hr][/hr]
• Amount of life restore by crystal shards is now subtly feedback on life bar [hr][/hr]
• Removed ability from Zim-zim that added aditional loot for rewards found, as most rewards have multiple choices by defaultt now. This ability will be replaced by a new one in future patches [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Crystal shards can't be used if player is full life [hr][/hr]
• More elements have been added to the glossary [hr][/hr]
• Hidden Chamaeleon was missing in Telluric Ruins & The Forge - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• Aquarius pattern with many projectiles now prevents bullets hit before they are launched - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• When your Armor absorbs completely an enemy attack, it now displays ""Absorbed"" and your hurt animation is not triggered - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• World 4 flying enemy launching 2 projectiles has been made clearer to read - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• World 4 flying enemy electricy wyrm patterns have been improved - hotfix 0.41.2

Balancing

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• Merchant itinerant altars are not reset if already bought [hr][/hr]
• Merchant itinerant now have 7 slots [hr][/hr]
• Balanced quartz per exploration room [hr][/hr]
• Increased a bit XP gained by defeating enemies [hr][/hr]
• Invincibility after dash from 0.1 to 0.06 seconds [hr][/hr]
• More HP per Rest Room depending of the world [hr][/hr]
• Increased most enemies/bosses HP [hr][/hr]
• Quartz and experience given by most places [hr][/hr]
• Buffed damage dealt by Combustion effect explosions [hr][/hr]
• Pavo sacrifice cost is higher now [hr][/hr]
• Enemies keep aggro for longer [hr][/hr]
• Salvaging an aura is now worth 4 stars [hr][/hr]
• Reduced Chamaeleon fight room summon rewards [hr][/hr]
• Adjustments made on the following effects : ignition, thunder orb, ice fragments, wisp [hr][/hr]
• Some effects like NPCs/Zodiacs summons and LDI elements like world 1 bouncing mushrooms are not affected by damage buffs anymore [hr][/hr]
• Reduced Ayla's invencibility time after using signature move [hr][/hr]
• Loot found during co-op mode should be more fairly balanced [hr][/hr]
• Kiran's signature move trigger a smaller cooldonwn if he doesn't sucessfully trigger a counter [hr][/hr]
• Decreased Armor stat from 2 to 1 per point - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses give 10 more quartz everytime - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs now give a Slot Unlocker - hotfix 0.41.2

Level Design

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• New Treasure room available [hr][/hr]
• Increased Pavo's room width

Music & SFX

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• Captured yalee now have sound design [hr][/hr]
• various enemy sfx and mix update [hr][/hr]
• worlds ambiance sfx update [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac intros do not interrupt sound as abruptly as before [hr][/hr]
• Replaced SFX for World 3 enemies

Visuals

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• Merchant itinerant altars visual improvement [hr][/hr]
• Removed Andromeda visual asset when a puzzle wasn't available in an exploration room [hr][/hr]
• Feedback improved [hr][/hr]
• Improved NPC cooldown font [hr][/hr]
• Meteors in the void room will not dissapears and flicker anymore [hr][/hr]
• Embers now spawn with the right angle [hr][/hr]
• Improved rarity feedback on gambits

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Bapy / Main Menu escape attempts could not be the same [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac summon icon would disappear for current room after summon zodiac tutorial [hr][/hr]
• Bosses & World 2 golem could become invisible in some circumstances [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac Chest input was very big at the start [hr][/hr]
• Yalees in treasure rooms had some gray parts [hr][/hr]
• Cryogenic Sword could explain in side walls or ceiling [hr][/hr]
• Chamaeleon could have wrong cloak colors [hr][/hr]
• Enemies killed without being hit achievement is not reset anymore when loosing an Andromeda's trial [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio could hit 2 times during his ultimate and purple patterns [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Invisible platforms in Virgo challenge [hr][/hr]
• Fix an issue where changing window with shortcuts made the game window become black and resulted in softlock [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to get a softlock after getting a Zodiac summon from the bar and triggering it's first time tutorial [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible for the game to wrongly trigger timers that could cause unexpected behaviors such as teleporting player outside of game area or spawning Scorpio Zodiac in impossible scenarios. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing shards feedback for amount of life restored, on player inventory, could wrongly display float values [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Sometimes in coop, spell used to stay open and never close resulting in the player not being able to interact with it anymore [hr][/hr]
• Octave's perks that affected his summon duration could not work correctly [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to get FPS drops after leaving game paused in certain parts of the game [hr][/hr]
• Cooldown from enemies hitting player could not trigger properlly in some situations [hr][/hr]
• Sidescreen tips were not being destroyed after opening the Prowess menu with player 2 [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's perk ""Yalee Disciple"" didn't stack correctly [hr][/hr]
• Kiran's counter colider, from his signature spell, could wrongly keep attached to the sprite if the attack animation was canceled [hr][/hr]
• The knockback caused on enemies after a attack could push them to the wrong side [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's signature move could teleport player outside of game area [hr][/hr]
• Wooden Guardian minions could sometimes not be instantly killed when Wooden Guardian is killed [hr][/hr]
• Water snakes could get stuck when launching their attacks near walls [hr][/hr]
• Octave revive particles were wrongly placed [hr][/hr]
• Fixing reward loots spawning position in some cases - hotfix 0.41.1 [hr][/hr]
• Perk UI in player inventory for player 2 had texts seted in wrong position - hotfix 0.41.1 [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim could wrongly display icon notifying new unlocked abilities, even if there were none - hotfix 0.41.1 [hr][/hr]
• Hidden Chamaeleon was badly placed in Challenge room - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed a bug that could cause portal choices not to spawn at end of a level - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Sometimes portals portals choices for next world could take a unusual long time to spawn - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• Fixed wrong icons for Zodiacs summon rewards in challenge room portals - hotfix 0.41.2 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Leo could be stuck in air during his fight - hotfix 0.41.2

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Small Features

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• Octave's signature spell drone is a bit more agressive, but stays in battle for less time [hr][/hr]
• It's easier to trigger jump crystals with Octave [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Player can't trigger healing shards while character HP is full anymore [hr][/hr]
• community inspired If you have enough healing shards to trigger healing, the player HP bar now shows a feedback of how much HP would be restored [hr][/hr]
• Zim-zim ability to re-roll Prowess now gives all re-roll credits on world 1 [hr][/hr]
• Glossary can be navigated using mouse scroll [hr][/hr]
• Kiran's counter hit has bigger coliders now [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's signature spell now target any enemy inside the screen (that can be seen by her) [hr][/hr]
• Ayla is briefly invincible after triggering her signature spell [hr][/hr]
• Camera movement after Zodiac intros is faster [hr][/hr]
• Yalees in Yalee kingdom are now unlocked in a random order within their world [hr][/hr]
• Yalees prisoners of Elites are now always there when you meet elites, except if you already saved/saw one in the same room [hr][/hr]
• Sun & Moon rooms entrance is paid with HP instead of max HP and costs have been changed

Balancing

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• Increase Dash invincibility by 0.1sec [hr][/hr]
• Changed merchant random spells levels

Level Design

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• Layouts for Saggitarius and Scorpion challenge have been reworked

Visuals

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• Telescop in hub: Preparing future feature [hr][/hr]
• Coral Archipelago particles were missing in boss room [hr][/hr]
• Yalees prisoners of Elites had parts with no colors (gray) [hr][/hr]
• Visual asset changed for all Zodiac challenges

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Sometimes when missing text for certain languages, the game would mistakenly not use the available english text in it's place [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It was possible to sometimes spawn in hub with some summon elements triggered by auras [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to wrongly get Astral Tree fruits buffs when entering a room [hr][/hr]
• Players signature spell UI icon could sometimes wrongly display as unable to active [hr][/hr]
• Game light effects from sun could be active on layouts that didn't use it, consuming unecessary CPU [hr][/hr]
• Player's ""magnect auto attacks"" behavior doesn't target invisible enemies anymore [hr][/hr]
• Ayla's signature spell sometimes wouldn't trigger a hit correctly when using many times in a row [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to target enemies through walls with ayla's signature spell, wich could result in case on where Ayla could teleport and get stuck inside walls [hr][/hr]
• Removing ""FIre Rain"" spell for now as we are investigating why it does not do damages

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Hello everyone, Whole Hibernian Workshop team is wishing you a great 2023 ahead! We are back from holidays and are ready to do our best for this coming year! On our side 2023 is very promising & exciting, we will have the final release of Astral Ascent with physical and console editions, the 12 Zodiacs & the final boss, Calie, Yamat & even more things coming! We wish Astral Ascent to be one of the best roguelites experience of 2023, count on us to do our absolute best to reach your expectations for the game! While we released the exporter update in December 2022, we also made great progresses on the World 4 update - The Crimson Highlands, please check below some of the exciting new features coming very soon!

Calie the geomancer!

The Crimson Highlands

Libra, the deadliest of all

Happy holidays everyone!

13 New Common Spells

New Visual Area for Zim-Zim

Visuals Improvements of some Signature spells from Ayla & Kiran

Game is now playable on MacOS & Linux!

Major Features

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• Linux & MacOs: Game is now available for Linux & MacOS [hr][/hr]
• New Common Spells!: 13 New spells already unlocked for you to play with!

Small Features

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• Itinerant Merchant: Itinerant merchant resets now also reset already bought slots [hr][/hr]
• Itinerant Merchant: Itinerant merchant resets are now possible when all elements have been bought [hr][/hr]
• Players will now dodge damages when autoclimbing for 0.3sec [hr][/hr]
• Some of Kiran & Ayla signature spells behavior changed a bit

Balancing

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• Kiran Signature spell Buff: Buffed Kiran Signature spell damage and Reduced its cooldown [hr][/hr]
• Fire Portals: Now instantly reset your dash for better mobility [hr][/hr]
• Octave small drone spell: Drone is now more aggressive, attacks more frequently and from longer ranger [hr][/hr]
• Spells level: Random spells in worlds start level 0 instead of level 1 [hr][/hr]
• Spells level: Sun Room spells are 1 level higher [hr][/hr]
• Itinerant Merchant: Itinerant merchant reset cost slightly more than before [hr][/hr]
• Itinerant Merchant: Itinerant merchant spells are of higher quality [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius giant boomerang attack has more cooldown between hits on players

Level Design

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• Removed the W4 LDI that appeared in some exploration room when they were not supposed to.

Visuals

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• Pisces summon visual polish [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim new Area: New botanist area in the Garden [hr][/hr]
• Improved visual feedback of flying world 2 enemy [hr][/hr]
• Reduced particles quantity in Pantheon for performances [hr][/hr]
• More yalees in the hub! [hr][/hr]
• Updated spells previews for previous spells [hr][/hr]
• Some of Kiran & Ayla signature spells have been visually improved

Bug Fixes

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• Wrong ground visuals in certain special Rooms [hr][/hr]
• Random Damages of enemies were not counted in some cases [hr][/hr]
• Spells level was incorrect [hr][/hr]
• Flying world 2 enemy would rarely launch melee attack if player was on ground [hr][/hr]
• In Andromeda's Trials, sometimes there was undesired lasers between laser sources [hr][/hr]
• Fixed an issue with small chest not opening in one of the secret rooms.

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Major Features

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• Sun/Moon room cost adjustement: We changed the way sun and moon rooms work, now both the Sun and the Moon room will cost you MAX HP to enter, the only difference between the two rooms will be the spell pool. In future updates, we intend to split the zodiac spells pool in two to have some zodiac spells exclusive to sun room and the others exclusive to moon room. We also adjusted the cost to enter the moon room from 100 in every world to: -50 HP in World 1 -75 HP in World 2 -100 HP inWorld 3 [hr][/hr]
• Signature spells - Replace the Utility spells: Each hero will now start the game with a unique Signature spell, this system completely replace the old utility spell system that we removed from the game. [hr][/hr]
• Level Up system: This new system will allow you to make use of the XP gained during a run, it will now improve your character, every level granting an additional 20 HP and 15% more damage on your basics attacks. Every level will also give you a new perk choice that will improve your basic attacks and signature spell giving it new unique properties. [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda's trials - New puzzle rooms!: Added new Andromeda's trials, they are unique puzzle room focus entirely on platforming skills instead of combat as it was something missing in the game until now! Completing those trials will grant you one of the famous rainbow drinks from Andromeda!

Small Features

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• Affinty gambit context tutorial: Added a small tutorial the first time you equip a gambit with an affinity. [hr][/hr]
• Ayla/Kiran summon trigger on Signature spell cast: With the new signature spell system, we made it so Ayla and Kiran summon are triggered on signature spell cast like Octave summon. [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim ability change: We removed the Zim-Zim ""Bonus loot on intro room"" ability and replaced it with a new ability that gives you reroll possibility for the new level up perks! [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Sounds now work for the second player in Remote play together.

Balancing

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• Enemies Power and HP balancing: The power of and HP of Enemies of the red barrens and the coral archipelago have been readjusted to overal be weaker. [hr][/hr]
• XP Gain from enemies has been buffed: You will now gain more Xp from defeating enemies overall, this change was made to make the progression of the new level up system smoother [hr][/hr]
• XP required to level up Hub levels has been adjusted: The price per level has been adjusted, you will now need more XP BUT Xp gain in run has been improved so overall progression shouldn't feel too different than before. [hr][/hr]
• Nerf damage output of Octave spell ""Laceratio"". [hr][/hr]
• Reduced Capricorn ultimate Cooldown time to 40 seconds instead of 60. [hr][/hr]
• Life stone nerf: Reduce Max HP given by lifestone to 15 instead of 25. [hr][/hr]
• Life Boost aura nerf: Reduce mMax HP given by the life boost aura from 100 to 50. [hr][/hr]
• Virgo summon nerf: Nerfed the damage output of Virgo summon to match the rest of the Zodiacs summon [hr][/hr]
• Reduced the chances for elites to get the gravity orb effect as it is quiet deadly compared to other effects. [hr][/hr]
• Sun/Moon room spawn rate changes: We made it so every run you'll get at least 1 Sun or Moon room spawn to give you a better access to the unique zodiacs spells. [hr][/hr]
• Overall effects nerf: We nerfed the overall effects in the game, they won't always add 1 stack of a set effect on hit but instead has a % chance to add the stack on hit. [hr][/hr]
• Nerfed damages of several Zodiac spells: -Capricorn meteor rain -Virgo light sword -Scorpio trident

Level Design

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• Special exploration room visual reworks: We reworked the visuals of the special exploration rooms to instead look like Yalee nomad villages, enjoy your yalee friends company!

Music & SFX

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• Unique SFX plays when you equip a gambit on a spell with the same affinity.

Visuals

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• Added an additional feedback to pegasus bubble attack. [hr][/hr]
• Removed the Legacy portraits: We decided to remove the legacy portrait as it became an hindrance for the future character visuals yet to be done and we will now fully commit to pixel art portrait instead. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed Hint text in merchant room. - hotfix 0.38.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed some of the % text displaying incoherent values in some cases. - hotfix 0.38.1 [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed the issue with the new zim-zim perks where the title wasn't fully displaying. - hotfix 0.38.1 [hr][/hr]
• Fixed a small artefact issue in the hub. - hotfix 0.38.1

Narrative Design

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• community inspired Fixed Ayla and Kiran Echo description to fit their new effect.

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Softlock coop revive: Fixed an issue where if one player died the moment another was revived, the other player would losce control of it's character resulting in softlock. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed an issue with the order of display of Player 2 aura that sometimes appeared behind the aura background. [hr][/hr]
• Fixed several issues where some of the auras didn't work for Player 2. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Scorpio start of combat bug: Fixed the issue where Scorpio would sometime start the combat by doing 2 attack at once resulting in a very weird behavior where he'd be flying in the air. [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn Ulimate bug: Fixed an issue where Capricorn could still launch his ultimate when he was killed while casting it. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where ordan summon could go the wrong way if player is not facing the target direction. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue in coop play where Player 2 get stucks in the vine spawning in fights rooms. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where Ikki summon could create softlock during boss fights. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where frame rate would drop whenever you interact with an NPC. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where you could change the animation of your character when defeated and waiting to be revived. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where it would display NaN when you try to buy an upgrade. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where Player 2 could trigger basic attacks aura of Player 1 instead of the one he got. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Fixed an issue where you could enter the 4th world wich is not yet suppose to be available.

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Hello everyone! After the launch of the Coral Archipelago Update we immediatly started working on the next major one: the Crimson Highlands Update. This upcoming one will make possible to visit the 4th world with the most dangerous Zodiacs as long as playing Calie, the Geomancer. We have already made great progress on this update and we should be able to release it early Q1 2023. But do not worry, we will take our time to polish it as much as we did for all previous updates. We will share more about the Crimson Highlands Update in next newsletter as we have exciting news to share in this one!

New Exporter & new Systems available!

Level up system is the answer!

• Basic attacks issue - Basic attacks do not become more powerful with time unlike your spells with levels & gambits so the more you progress the weaker your basic attacks feel and are. Also, getting Auras for your basic attacks was preventing you to have Auras for other purposes so you would sometimes sacrifice interesting builds to get them.
• Utility Spells issue - Utility spells were very inconsistent as it was rare (and occasionally too frequent) to get one. Sometimes they were strong, sometimes they were too weak and it was easy to forget to use them as they were not really part of our build.

• Signature spells - They completely replace the Utility Spells that we removed from the game, they are new and unique spells based on cooldown different for each Hero. You will have many synergies to discover and play with from one run to another as you can improve them with the Level up system!
  Kiran signature spell is "Parry then Punch!", making you temporary invincible!
• Level up system - Defeating enemies will now grant you experience points, filling an experience bar above your HP, when it reaches a certain threshold, your character will level up gaining maximum Health, Basic attacks damage and the possibility to claim a Prowess.
  Octave, level 7 with 9/40 xp points to level 8
• The Prowesses - They are a set of passive skills that can be claimed in intro rooms of each world, including first world, when interacting with the giants there. Every level, you will be able to claim 1 additional prowess to a max of 8 in a run. These prowesses are of two kinds: Basic attack (right) & Signature Spell (left)

Andromeda's trials!

Discord trading card game!

Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features

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• Spells on sun room can have a minimum of 2 gambits on it [hr][/hr]
• Octave unlocking condition: Octave is unlocked after meeting with any world 2 zodiac instead of beating them. [hr][/hr]
• Voice Over: Integrating missing lines of Sagittarius [hr][/hr]
• The Garden: Adding a teleporter to navigate faster in the hub [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: W3 small snake attack feedback improved [hr][/hr]
• community inspired It's not possible anymore to start runs through NG+ menu by pressing ""down"" when the start button is selected.

Interface

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• LB/RB Navigation in menus of hub [hr][/hr]
• Changed Collect All input for Achievement UI [hr][/hr]
• Added a Collect ALl input for Papa Yalee UI

Narrative Design

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• Typos fixed [hr][/hr]
• Extended translations for Russian & Korean

Bug Fixes

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• Malice that spawn extra enemies on zodiacs fight wasn't working in world 3 [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to unlock memory fragments of undefeated zodiacs [hr][/hr]
• Old save files would get player to be stuck into the loading screen [hr][/hr]
• Name of worlds could be wrongly displayed in the level progress UI [hr][/hr]
• During coop mode it was necessary to press inputs twice to move through relics in the inventory

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Play a new Character, explore a new World, fight new Zodiacs and much more!

Major Features

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• New Playable Character - Octave: New range hero with 11 unique spells to unlock [hr][/hr]
• New World to Explore - The Coral Archipelago: New assets, new traps and new enemies [hr][/hr]
• New Zodiacs Battles: Scorpio & Pisces. Face these 2 members of the Orphne family [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio & Pisces challenges: Get their summons through their challenges [hr][/hr]
• Sun Room: Exchange your quartz to access powerful spells [hr][/hr]
• Moon Room: Exchange your maximum life to access Zodiac unique powers [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac Spells: Find and use 7 news powerful zodiac spells: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Leo, Pisces and Scorpio [hr][/hr]
• Echo Isles Room & Summon your Friends: Pick among 15 different summons of your friends so they can help you during your run [hr][/hr]
• New Miniboss - Draco: Fight a dangerous new Miniboss [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Andromeda's bar interior: Visit the Zodiacs there and the more victory you have against them, the more likely they are to join you [hr][/hr]
• Affinity Zodiac: Your Constellation sign can now randomly help you (once you met at least once) and will more easily join you in Andromeda's bar [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Pixel Art Animated Portraits: Legacy Portraits will still be accessible through game options but default portraits will now be Pixel Art and hand-animated [hr][/hr]
• Fight Rooms Rework: Complete rework in order to have waves / difficulty depending of level of the room [hr][/hr]
• New Affinity System: Spells now have elemental affinities (fire/ice/thunder/poison and neutral) and they gain power with related elemental gambits attached (up to 100% bonus damage) [hr][/hr]
• New Synergy System: Rework - Many Auras has been reworked and a DOZEN additional new auras have been added [hr][/hr]
• New Synergy System: Rework - Many Gambits has been reworked and a THIRTY additional new Gambits have been added

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Major Features

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• New Playable Character - Octave: New range hero with 11 unique spells to unlock [hr][/hr]
• New World to Explore - The Coral Archipelago: New assets, new traps and new enemies [hr][/hr]
• New Zodiacs Battles: Scorpio & Pisces. Face these 2 members of the Orphne family [hr][/hr]
• Scorpio & Pisces challenges: Get their summons through their challenges [hr][/hr]
• Sun Room: Exchange your quartz to access powerful spells [hr][/hr]
• Moon Room: Exchange your maximum life to access Zodiac unique powers [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac Spells: Find and use 7 news powerful zodiac spells: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Leo, Pisces and Scorpio [hr][/hr]
• Echo Isles Room & Summon your Friends: Pick among 15 different summons of your friends so they can help you during your run [hr][/hr]
• New Miniboss - Draco: Fight a dangerous new Miniboss [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Andromeda's bar interior: Visit the Zodiacs there and the more victory you have against them, the more likely they are to join you [hr][/hr]
• Affinity Zodiac: Your Constellation sign can now randomly help you (once you met at least once) and will more easily join you in Andromeda's bar [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Pixel Art Animated Portraits: Legacy Portraits will still be accessible through game options but default portraits will now be Pixel Art and hand-animated [hr][/hr]
• Fight Rooms Rework: Complete rework in order to have waves / difficulty depending of level of the room [hr][/hr]
• New Affinity System: Spells now have elemental affinities (fire/ice/thunder/poison and neutral) and they gain power with related elemental gambits attached (up to 100% bonus damage) [hr][/hr]
• New Synergy System: Rework - Many Auras have been reworked and a dozen additional new auras have been added [hr][/hr]
• New Synergy System: Rework - Many Gambits have been reworked and a thirty additional new Gambits have been added

Small Features

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• New effect: Ignition: Burns enemies over time and inflicts burn stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Fire Wisp: Summons a fire whisp that follows the hero, shoots enemies and inflicts burn stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Sapling: Summons a small sprout that runs, explodes against enemies and inflicts poison stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Slime: Summon slime that bounces and inflicts poison stacks [hr][/hr]
• New Effect: Plasma: Create a lightning laser that pierces enemies and inflicts lightning stacks [hr][/hr]
• New Effect: Cumulonimbus: Summons a cloud of lightning that blasts enemies and inflicts lightning stacks [hr][/hr]
• New Effect: Thunder Orb: Create a lightning orb that persists on the field and inflicts lightning stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Snowflake: Create a snowflake around the hero and inflicts freezes stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Ice Idol: Create an ice idol that hits enemies and inflicts freezes stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Stalactite: Sends ice spikes bouncing off walls and inflicts freezes stacks [hr][/hr]
• New effect: Critical: % chance to inflict a critical hit [hr][/hr]
• Summon Zodiac: (Rework) Taurus: Now deals immense damage to all enemies on screen [hr][/hr]
• Summon Zodiac: (Rework) Virgo: Now deals damage to enemies and has a % chance to spawn when hitting enemies during the hero's basic attacks [hr][/hr]
• Summon Zodiac: (Rework) Sagittarius: Now follow the players by shooting arrows continuously and end up with a strong attack [hr][/hr]
• Pantheon Room: Backers statues Room in now accessible in the Garden [hr][/hr]
• Spells Reworks: We removed some of the beacon utility spells [hr][/hr]
• Spells Reworks: Some common & specific spells have been visually and gameplay reworked [hr][/hr]
• Spells Reworks: Dodge effect has been added to several spells, when a spell has it you are invincible during certain frames of the spell [hr][/hr]
• Voices feedback: When being hurt and when casting spells [hr][/hr]
• Camera: In several places we improved camera [hr][/hr]
• Camera: Camera movement when Zodiacs do their ultimates [hr][/hr]
• Camera: Camera is less zoomed by default [hr][/hr]
• Camera: Challenge Sagittarius: Camera is more dezoomed [hr][/hr]
• Cetus Room improvement: Better descriptions of the gambits, new categories of gambit and third random loot is more frequent and can only be a slot unlocker [hr][/hr]
• Elites visual rework: Elites have been visually reworked a lot [hr][/hr]
• Lupus Miniboss: During ultimate, a magnet effect affects player [hr][/hr]
• Spells altar: New category of altar you can find during your runs where you can choose between 2 spells [hr][/hr]
• Memory Fragments: You can now only get Memory Fragments from characters you already crossed [hr][/hr]
• NG +: Thorn feedback improvement [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Improved behavior placement for many enemies [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Stacks effects above enemies visual rework [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Enemies placements have been globally improved [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Improvements of movement behavior for some enemies [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Oloon - UI opens on last unlocked element [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Poetic Peddler UI does not show locked characters spells anymore [hr][/hr]
• Special rooms cannot appear twice in a row anymore [hr][/hr]
• Faster end of levels & appearing in levels [hr][/hr]
• Accelerated Aura pick-up [hr][/hr]
• Accelerated Spells/gambits pick-up [hr][/hr]
• Enemies projectiles improvements (visuals & behavior) [hr][/hr]
• Yalees summon improved (visual and gameplay) [hr][/hr]
• Game now playable with dpad of controller (game and interface) [hr][/hr]
• Jump crystals lisibility has been improved [hr][/hr]
• Spell order is reseted when coming back to the hub [hr][/hr]
• UI is not removed when staying IDLE [hr][/hr]
• You can now rush in Healing rooms and still get the heal/mana orbs

Balancing

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• Ayla Spells: Mana costs have been reduced [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n428 Metal Star: Visual improvement. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n 17 Toxic Bomb: Visual improvement. Improved area of effect. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n 249 Unrelenting Tornado: Visual improvement. Improved area of effect. Damage increased. Go through enemies without making them move. [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n 888 Fatal Dash: Much faster to use. Deal multiple hits. Damage increased. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n 086 Lighning Speed: Damage increased. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n12 Electric Scalpels: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n840 Doppelgenger: Improved area of effect. Damage increased. Deal multiple hits. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n+675 Moon Arch: Damage increased. Deal multiple hits. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Ayla Spells: n005 Astral Powder: Damage increased. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Mana costs have been balanced [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Lightspeed Fist: Damage increased. Do not hit multiple targets anymore [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Ground Pound: Damage increased. Deal multiple hits. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Ultra Loaded Knucles: Damage increased. Deal multiple hits. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Energy Projectiles: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Windturner Up-smash:Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Cutting Kick: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Rententless Fury: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Helping Hands (Got It?): Damage increased. Deal multiple hits [hr][/hr]
• Kiran Spells: Flamins Slide: Damage increased. Added ""dodge"" effect [hr][/hr]
• Spells & Gambits: Spells level change is bigger between worlds and balancing of empty slots on looted spells [hr][/hr]
• Spells & Gambits: Number of Gambits on spells by default has been greatly reduced [hr][/hr]
• Spells & Gambits: Slot unlocker price has been increased [hr][/hr]
• Spells & Gambits: Spells have minimum 2 unlocked slots and the slots probabilities have been reduced [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Fireballs: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Thunder Orb: Visual improvement. Improved area of effect. Higher damage rate. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Spirit Sword: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Magic Cyclone: Spell is slower. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Surrounding Spheres: Summons 5 orbs instead of 3. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Shooting Star: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Ravaging Spheres: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Glacial Spikes: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Ice thrower: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Frost Splinters: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Dark Outbreak: Damage reduced [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Electrospheres: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Shattering Stars: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Magma comets: Visual improvement. Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Ki Blast: Damage increased. Deal multiple hits [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Dark Burst: Damage increased. Deal multiple hits [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Aqua Ball: Damage increased. [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Thorns Chains: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Meteor Blades: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells: Slashing Squall: Damage increased [hr][/hr]
• Utility Spells: Fire Spreader: Visual improvement. Improved area of effect. Stack numbers reduced. Cooldown reduced [hr][/hr]
• Utility Spells: Ice Column: Stack numbers reduced. Cooldown reduced [hr][/hr]
• Utility Spells: Thunder Strike: Stack numbers reduced. Cooldown reduced [hr][/hr]
• Utility Spells: Utility spells are now anymore a possible rewars at the end of rooms / bosses [hr][/hr]
• Effect: Target: 100% chance to inflict a critical hit [hr][/hr]
• Effect: Vulnerability is 5% per stack instead of 3% per stack now [hr][/hr]
• Effect: Freeze slows now the enemies based on stack count and the stacks are reset once the enemy comes out of the freeze [hr][/hr]
• Effect: Bosses can no longer be slowed by freeze but can trigger freeze related effects [hr][/hr]
• Pavo Feathers: Feathers of +2 and +5 are less frequent [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses: Health / damages balancing [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses: Lupus Miniboss fall attack is faster [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Minibosses: Lupus dash attack has a more forgiveable collider [hr][/hr]
• Bosses: Zodiacs remove their stacks more often when teleporting [hr][/hr]
• Bosses: Zodiacs are now invulnerables in more attacks [hr][/hr]
• Bosses: Taurus Bull charges fire no longer hits behind him and Taurus no longer hits after he hit the wall [hr][/hr]
• Bosses: Leo's ultimate starts at 50% and now remains in his ultimate [hr][/hr]
• Bosses: Top attack laser of Capricorn is a bit higher now [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Sylvanian Protector enemy in world 1 is much faster now [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: HP balancing [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Lava Spider W2 enemy attacks from distance only and has an improved behavior [hr][/hr]
• Enemies: Elites HP balancing [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Zim-Zim Weakness Exploit reduction [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Itinerant merchant reset price changes with world [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Itinerant merchant altar slots are not re-filled after reseted [hr][/hr]
• NPC: Itinerant merchant altars are now always 2 spells, 1 utility spell, 2 gambits [hr][/hr]
• Global HP of Heroes have been reduced [hr][/hr]
• Fight rooms keys are now 3 by default then 4 with difficulty 4, 5 with difficulty 5 and 6 when difficulty 6 [hr][/hr]
• Mushroom trap in world one only throws one pack of mushroom [hr][/hr]
• Traps do more damages to enemies [hr][/hr]
• Quartz level ingredient now breaks in less hits [hr][/hr]
• Special rooms probabilities have been changed [hr][/hr]
• Mana Tree ""unlimited mana"" buff duration nerfed

Level Design

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• New exploration rooms [hr][/hr]
• New fight rooms [hr][/hr]
• Enemies spawn areas have been improved (placements, size) in exploration rooms [hr][/hr]
• Climbing walls are less present near fighting rooms to avoid auto-climbs [hr][/hr]
• Improvement of placement of traps [hr][/hr]
• Filled up empty spaces [hr][/hr]
• Clouds are at a more similar height when escaping rooms [hr][/hr]
• Fight rooms have been reworked to improve fight experience [hr][/hr]
• Spaces for end level portals are bigger

Music & SFX

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• Add SFX feedback in many places [hr][/hr]
• Adjusted volumes of several elements [hr][/hr]
• Add many contextuals dialogs for heroes/npc/zodiacs [hr][/hr]
• Added a sound when the hero takes a hit when he has the Shield effect [hr][/hr]
• Removed Bird ambiance from Cetus' room [hr][/hr]
• Added a voice when the hero takes a hit [hr][/hr]
• Added a voice when the hero launches a spell

Interface

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• End of levels selection visual rework [hr][/hr]
• New hurt feedback on UI [hr][/hr]
• Changed wording for many interface interactions for more coherence [hr][/hr]
• Improved ergonomy for merchant's interfaces [hr][/hr]
• Ergonomy improvements for Path of Destinies [hr][/hr]
• Sidescreen re-order in many cases for more coherence [hr][/hr]
• Coherence improvements for texts colors [hr][/hr]
• Many Auras now have a system of Cooldown [hr][/hr]
• Interface appears much faster when fight starts against Zodiacs [hr][/hr]
• Spells now have different interface backgrounds depending on the affinity of the gambits equipped on them [hr][/hr]
• Removed hint hiding option in menu [hr][/hr]
• Empty Auras slots do not show cooldown anymore [hr][/hr]
• New option to change portraits style from Pixel Art to Legacy

Visuals

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• New transition screen [hr][/hr]
• Reworked icons for Auras (including elemental distinctions) [hr][/hr]
• Reworked icons for Gambits (including elemental distinctions) [hr][/hr]
• Reworked Credits Menu [hr][/hr]
• Enemies fire sprites are on a different color now [hr][/hr]
• Improved outline selection when option is activated [hr][/hr]
• Improved lisibility for many trails of projectiles [hr][/hr]
• Pegasus Miniboss visual rework of water attack [hr][/hr]
• A lot of Fx are faster and are now behind enemies for better lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Improved ""ghost effect"" in many places [hr][/hr]
• The sun effect has been improved [hr][/hr]
• The screen becomes darker when the Zodiacs do their ultimates [hr][/hr]
• Removed a lot of flashes on screen [hr][/hr]
• Ingame clouds have changed [hr][/hr]
• Sun has been added in Andromeda's room [hr][/hr]
• W2 Djinn feedback improvement [hr][/hr]
• Changed Poison color from green to purple [hr][/hr]
• White outline removed on spells icons [hr][/hr]
• Visually improved Poetic Peddler interface [hr][/hr]
• Poetic Peddler UI opens on your current characters [hr][/hr]
• Rewards icons in Death Recap are now similar [hr][/hr]
• Generic dialogs icon above NPCs is a lot less visible [hr][/hr]
• Outline on NPCs in Death Recap has been removed [hr][/hr]
• Spells icons do not change their angles anymore, it was breaking the pixel art [hr][/hr]
• Visual improvement of Oloon's assistant UI [hr][/hr]
• Octave is always present on Main Menu for this update [hr][/hr]
• Visuals improvement in inventory when equiping a gambit [hr][/hr]
• New character unlock visual improvement

Narrative Design

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• New stories for Papa Yalee and rework of some existing ones [hr][/hr]
• Memory fragments are now unlocked only once concerned NPC/Zodiac has been met at least once [hr][/hr]
• Many typos fixed [hr][/hr]
• More generic variations on some NPCs [hr][/hr]
• More generic variations on Heroes

Miscellaneous

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• Updated spell previews for outdated spells [hr][/hr]
• Untranslated elements are now english instead of empty [hr][/hr]
• Keyboard summon default input has been changed

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired Coop - Enemies could keep focusing dead players [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Coop - Reviving a partner at same frame than dying would cause both players to remain stuck [hr][/hr]
• Coop - Player 2 could go through end level portal sometimes [hr][/hr]
• Some sound designs were not played for the first time, some have been fixed [hr][/hr]
• Summoned Zodiacs could focus invincible NG+ ghosts [hr][/hr]
• Dev message ambiance song would keep playing if skipped too fast [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to meet a Zodiac in a challenge room AND in a boss room in same world [hr][/hr]
• Oloon UI could bug if opened during Assistant's tutorial [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Clouds spawn faster in first intro room [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Some Fire portals in W2 would only go in one direction [hr][/hr]
• Jump crystals would sometimes get in front of enemies/players [hr][/hr]
• Sometimes big enemies would spawn in low difficulty rooms [hr][/hr]
• Context dialogs could occur during a dialog [hr][/hr]
• When starting the game, a pointer could appear for Barbecue while not unlocked yet [hr][/hr]
• Save icons could never disappear while NG+ [hr][/hr]
• Ordan could overlap Kiran and create issues [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Left side of the main hub shows cut-off clouds [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Right side of Pavo's ruins shows cut-off clouds [hr][/hr]
• NPC Dialog pop-up was missing sometimes [hr][/hr]
• Input of Zodiac summon could remain when swapping Zodiac while summon bar full [hr][/hr]
• Freeze effect was wrongly placed on most bosses [hr][/hr]
• Dummies could be killed [hr][/hr]
• Open NPC's UI would make player behind other playable characters [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Bosses would become invisible if killed by another Zodiac summon [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Wooden Guardian could remain on battlefield if killed at same frame than creating the laser [hr][/hr]
• Leo particles could remain on ground when defeated [hr][/hr]
• Gambits equip texts could overlap if quickly pressed [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius could launch several times her fire attack [hr][/hr]
• When climbing sides, flying enemies launching attacks could go very high [hr][/hr]
• Barbecue Auras description would resize wrongly [hr][/hr]
• Removed a yellow square when opening Death Recap [hr][/hr]
• Ordan was sometimes at a wrong place when swapping character

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Our first major Update on Astral Ascent will be available Monday 19 September, 7pm CEST! New playable character, new world, new Zodiacs and so much more! [previewyoutube=McVLj8b5pkk;full][/previewyoutube]

Let us introduce: The Astral Ascent Roadmap!

September it is!

• A new playable character (Octave for this one that comes with 11 unique spells)
• A new world to explore (+ 8 new enemies and 4 level design elements)
• 2 new Zodiacs + their challenges and summons
• World 4 Zodiac blocking your path

• Zodiacs Spells system (it means 7 of them already)
• Reworked some existing Zodiac summons
• Sun & Moon new room type
• New mini-boss - Draco (whose fighting style might remind you of someone!)
• Kinship System & Echoes Room, you can have up to 4 friends to summon by your side from a total of 15 possible summons (Zim-Zim, Oloon, Ikki, Ordan, the Heroes and much more)
• Pantheon room accessible for those who paid an ingame statue of themselves (with or without their pets)
• Andromeda's bar interior with new friendship system with the Zodiacs that will make chosing your constellation meaningful (this is not final yet but close to what we had in mind)
• Major synergy rework that will make your runs much more interesting with many new or reworked auras, gambits, effects
• One more complicated and very requested element is still unannounced

• Game is running incredibly faster
• Many crashes are solved
• Remote Play Together sound problem should be solved too
• Loading times are feeling inexistant (as you can see on below video)

Affinity system!

New zodiacs challenges!

Kinship system is done!

Old visual effects rework!

We're happy to announce that we are part of the Tiny Teams Festival!

This entire month has been dedicated to finishing all the ongoing features. This is a very ambitious update that we are working on, here are some recent news about it.

New Effects, Gambits and Auras: the Synergy rework

The coral archieplago progress

Andromeda's bar interior progress

Elites visual rework

Finally a small gameplay glimpse of Octave

Dear Astral Ascent players, We're happy to announce our first community event on our Discord server! Check out the #octave-thoughts channel if you want to participate. Suggest what you imagine Octave is thinking about and vote for your favorite line. The 2 most popular suggestions will be implemented in the game in the next major update!
Who is Octave? He is a confident boy. A bit arrogant, he's not very cautious about his word and he doesn't let people push him around. Octave broke into the garden to avenge his mother. Octave will be the third character playable, you'll be able to fight with him in the next major update.

Happy to report this month the team has made huge progress on all the new content for the next update and soon all that will be left to do is polish and playtest! So, without further ado, here is our progress report -

Welcome to the Coral Archipelago!

The Pantheon and Ayla figure

Kinship system

Zodiac summons rework

New spells - the Zodiacs spells

Andromeda's bar

Discord new emotes! Join us!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Language: Japanese has been added in the game. [hr][/hr]
• Sand Shark trap: World 2 now has a new trap that replaces the original firing projectiles statues.

Small Features

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• Carnivorous Plants: They deactivate less frequently in order to be less visually noisy. [hr][/hr]
• Implementation of new context dialogs. [hr][/hr]
• Octave and Calie disappeared from the Hub in preparation for their release. [hr][/hr]
• Armor spike goes away faster becomes darker when it does not hit anymore. [hr][/hr]
• Trees could hide the next level difficulty information in Andromeda's bar. [hr][/hr]
• Auto guided spells will not target invincible enemies anymore. [hr][/hr]
• Thunder sparks crawl on ground further than before. [hr][/hr]
• Level progress UI doesn't open automatically after equiping a new spell

Bug Fixes

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• Capricorn books trail would sometime be in front of Capricorn. [hr][/hr]
• Sova was not appearing when saving player in hub.

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First of all, we want to thank everyone for making this Early Access launch so succesful! We loved watching your reactions, reading your theories and your suggestions - one major of these suggestions is being developed. Also, if you have the occasion to leave a review on Steam, it helps us gain visibility and it is much appreciated! All the team is thrilled for what's coming next and eager to give you the great experience you are looking for!

We started working on Octave!

New bosses in the work!

New Traps and Props!

New NPC and room: The Sun and The Moon

Dear Astral Ascent players, First of all, we wanted to thank you for the support and the love you've sent us since the release of the Early Access. It's a huge step for us after over 3 years of work on the game and we're so happy to see how many players enjoy playing Astral Ascent. We have received some feedbacks about crashes and bugs related to performance issues. We are really sorry about that, we know that's is a major problem right now and we are working hard to fix this: for the next major update, the game will be ported with a new game exporter, much more optimized than the one we're using today. This change should solve most of the issues encountered and the game should run way smoother across the board. While waiting for this update, we suggest you to take a look at our common issues guide. You'll find some temporary solutions to avoid crashes. This guide is updated each time a new solution is discovered. For example, recently, some players noticed a major performance boost by installing the game on a SSD. It turns out it helps a lot of players who had performance issues. So feel free to add a comment if it doesn't work or if you find a new solution. If you encounter any more issues, you can join our Discord server and send a message in the #bug-report channel or in the thread of the common issues guide. In the meantime, we are working on a small update that should come in the next few weeks. Some minor changes will be made there and you'll be able to play Astral Ascent in Japanese! Thank you for everything and have a wonderful day, - The Hibernian Workshop Team

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Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features

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• community inspired Carnivorous Plants in World 1 does not attack you while looting anymore. [hr][/hr]
• Deactivated World 2 fire statue while searching for replacements. [hr][/hr]
• Performances improvements when hitting enemies.

Balancing

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• Enter room heal Aura: The Hp given back by this aura effect has been changed from 10 hp per room to 5% Hp per room [hr][/hr]
• Missile on cast Aura: Behavior has been changed to spawn 2 missiles after casting a spell everytime. Cumulating this aura will also augment the number of missiles spawned [hr][/hr]
• Yalee Revenge Aura: This aura will now spawn +1 Yalee per time you have it equiped (to a maximum of 4 yalee at once) [hr][/hr]
• Yalee on spell refresh Aura: This aura will now spawn +1 Yalee per time you have it equiped (to a maximum of 4 yalee at once)

Level Design

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• Removed some Flame geyser in the special trap exploration room of World 2. [hr][/hr]
• Removed some pirannah plants in the special trap exploration room of Wolrd 1.

Interface

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• community inspired Next spells mana cost are now displayed in red if not enough mana to cast them. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Added spell ID number and gambits icons next to each spell, including above player's head.

Bug Fixes

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• ""New"" icon above NPCs would disappear weirdly but moving up. [hr][/hr]
• French translations typos. [hr][/hr]
• Preview spell would trigger even if pressing once instead of holding. [hr][/hr]
• Sometimes it was possible for enemies to be hited even if player was not attacking it [hr][/hr]
• URL links from the game main menu was not working properlly (social media links and patch notes)

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Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• community inspired New Resolution Quality graphic option: It's possible now to reduce resolution quality through the game graphic options. This should help players with weaker graphic boards to player the game with better FPS

Small Features

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• Change the description of Summon Yalee Gambits, they will now display the number of Yalee that will be summoned at once. [hr][/hr]
• Change the description of ""Elite or Higher"" gambits to ""Elite or boss"" [hr][/hr]
• Disabled the context dialog of getting a spell in intro room. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing shards now restore 10 hp to players if they are full of shards when collecting it.

Balancing

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• Sagittarius summon nerf: Nerfed the duration of Sagittarius summon from 20 to 16 seconds. [hr][/hr]
• Change fight room timer duration: Change the timer to 45 seconds instead of 30, this should make them a lot more doable while still being challenging. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - SPIRIT SWORD: Duration of the spell has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. Ai and damage is unchanged. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - RAVAGING SPHERES: Damage output of the spell has been slightly reduced [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - GLACIAL SPIKES: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - SHATTERING STARS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - MAGMA COMETS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - KI BLAST: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - DARK BURST: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - N012 ELECTRIC SCALPELS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - LIGHTSPEED FIST: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses and Zodiacs now spawn one spell / one gambit and one slot unlocker. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Carnivorous Plants collider hitbox has been improved. [hr][/hr]
• Reduced heals from Resting Rooms, from Zodiacs bosses rewards, and crystal healing shards are less frequents on enemies. [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells are more frequent now.

Level Design

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• Removed some of the W2 geyser trap in the special exploration room so they don't bother you when trying to equip newly acquired loot.

Interface

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• community inspired Dialogues are now skippable with ""enter"" and mouse inputs [hr][/hr]
• community inspired When leaving a run, warning message about losing current progression has been added.

Narrative Design

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• Fixed a minor issue with a french dialog displayed while being in english in the settings.

Bug Fixes

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• Game would bug after trying to unlock the last 3 colors of the Stylist NPC [hr][/hr]
• Lottery could have chest stacking giving way too many rewards. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Zodiacs not attacking from times to times. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired One color from Oloon was not unlockable. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Gambits affecting ""elites or higher"" were not affecting minibosses. [hr][/hr]
• Astral Spirits now runaway when being hit once. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired ""NaN"" displayed on Botanist interface. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spells/Gambits could spawn inside walls.

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Major Features

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• community inspired New Resolution Quality graphic option: It's possible now to reduce resolution quality through the game graphic options. This should help players with weaker graphic boards to player the game with better FPS

Small Features

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• Change the description of Summon Yalee Gambits, they will now display the number of Yalee that will be summoned at once. [hr][/hr]
• Change the description of ""Elite or Higher"" gambits to ""Elite or boss"" [hr][/hr]
• Disabled the context dialog of getting a spell in intro room. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Healing shards now restore 10 hp to players if they are full of shards when collecting it.

Balancing

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• Sagittarius summon nerf: Nerfed the duration of Sagittarius summon from 20 to 16 seconds. [hr][/hr]
• Change fight room timer duration: Change the timer to 45 seconds instead of 30, this should make them a lot more doable while still being challenging. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - SPIRIT SWORD: Duration of the spell has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. Ai and damage is unchanged. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - RAVAGING SPHERES: Damage output of the spell has been slightly reduced [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - GLACIAL SPIKES: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - SHATTERING STARS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - MAGMA COMETS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - KI BLAST: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• BUFF - DARK BURST: Damage output of the spell has been augmented. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - N012 ELECTRIC SCALPELS: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• NERF - LIGHTSPEED FIST: Damage output of the spell has been reduced. [hr][/hr]
• Minibosses and Zodiacs now spawn one spell / one gambit and one slot unlocker. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Carnivorous Plants collider hitbox has been improved. [hr][/hr]
• Reduced heals from Resting Rooms, from Zodiacs bosses rewards, and crystal healing shards are less frequents on enemies. [hr][/hr]
• Common Spells are more frequent now.

Level Design

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• Removed some of the W2 geyser trap in the special exploration room so they don't bother you when trying to equip newly acquired loot.

Interface

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• community inspired Dialogues are now skippable with ""enter"" and mouse inputs [hr][/hr]
• community inspired When leaving a run, warning message about losing current progression has been added.

Narrative Design

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• Fixed a minor issue with a french dialog displayed while being in english in the settings.

Bug Fixes

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• Game would bug after trying to unlock the last 3 colors of the Stylist NPC [hr][/hr]
• Lottery could have chest stacking giving way too many rewards. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Zodiacs not attacking from times to times. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired One color from Oloon was not unlockable. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Gambits affecting ""elites or higher"" were not affecting minibosses. [hr][/hr]
• Astral Spirits now runaway when being hit once. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired ""NaN"" displayed on Botanist interface. [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spells/Gambits could spawn inside walls.

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Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Added an option to reduce fullscreen quality for low settings [hr][/hr]
• Dedicated Graphic Card picking: It was possible that for some users for their dedicated graphic card to not get picked to run the game in previous versions. Now the game should prioritize using the computer didicated graphic card

Small Features

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• Performances improvements on effects on enemies [hr][/hr]
• Performances improvements on World 2 level design elements [hr][/hr]
• Performances improvements on Falling Leaves

Interface

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• Hidden mouse cursor when playing with a controller

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Astral Ascent is now available on Steam Early Access!

• 2 out of the 5 playable characters
• 5 out of the 12 Zodiacs bosses
• 2 out of the 4 Worlds to explore
• 2 minibosses
• Fully Voiced dialogs
• New Game Plus feature
• Local co-op

EARLY ACCESS KEYS

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• The path of destinies (NG+): The New Game + challenges have been completely redone to be much more meaningful adding unique challenge to your future runs! [hr][/hr]
• Add of French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean & Russian to the game [hr][/hr]
• Added Zodiacs videos intro for each boss [hr][/hr]
• Added a lot of new Malices for Destiny Path system (and removed some old ones) [hr][/hr]
• Bonus damage from multiple sources could sometimes not trigger and stack correctly (leading to wrong result on total damage output)

Small Features

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• Added new contextual dialogs.(Chameleon and sitting on a bench) [hr][/hr]
• Addition of a Sun pieces multiplier by progressing in the New Game + challenges. (from x1.25 to x3) [hr][/hr]
• Added new rare specials exploration room. [hr][/hr]
• Base pool of spells changes: The default pool of available spells have been changed with the recent addition of several new spells to the game. [hr][/hr]
• Pacification displayed 1% per stack while it was 5% [hr][/hr]
• Overall polish of languages displayed text [hr][/hr]
• NG+ features improved [hr][/hr]
• Price cost to active a Malice is down to 2 destiny fragment [hr][/hr]
• Zim-Zim does not sell world 3 and world 4 updates anymore for now [hr][/hr]
• Cetus is not dancing anymore when we are checking spells to equip [hr][/hr]
• Optimisation on Andromeda's room [hr][/hr]
• Added a lot of new Malices for Destiny Path system (and removed some old ones) [hr][/hr]
• Several objects had too much radial blur, we could see sprites borders [hr][/hr]
• NG+ Random Malus are better displayed when several of them on screen and last longer so we can read them [hr][/hr]
• Better lisibility on Ghost enemies from NG+ [hr][/hr]
• Added bilinear to NG+ UI [hr][/hr]
• Added NG+ icons to the NG+ menu [hr][/hr]
• Changed camera behavior in most specific rooms [hr][/hr]
• Added multiplier for Sun Pieces during runs for NG+ [hr][/hr]
• Chamaeleon unlock now triggers an achievement [hr][/hr]
• When equipping a spell, spell on ground is now closed [hr][/hr]
• Optimization in Pavo's room

Balancing

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• Virog summon damage have been slightly nerfed. [hr][/hr]
• Faster level ups: The required XP points to level up have been reduced overall to make progression and unlocks faster. [hr][/hr]
• Damage dealt by Fire portals in World 2 have been buffed. [hr][/hr]
• Bonus damage buff have been nerfed to +50% instead of +100% damage. [hr][/hr]
• Poison stacks damage have been slightly nerfed. [hr][/hr]
• Reduced NG+ heal reduction from -40% to -30% [hr][/hr]
• Mushroom spawner in world 1 have a bigger cooldown between spawn of fungal beings. [hr][/hr]
• ""Luck"" from Zim-Zim now gives 25% chances per level instead of 10% [hr][/hr]
• Lava Spiders projeciles speed is divided by 2 when bouncing on solids

Level Design

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• Level design global polish [hr][/hr]
• Improved some visual glitches in special rooms

Music & SFX

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• Added SFX to 28 spells and NG+ features

Interface

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• Vertical navigation in main menu is more precise with left stick [hr][/hr]
• Unusable options in menus are now darker instead of invisible [hr][/hr]
• Global polish on main menu interface [hr][/hr]
• Return option on main menu adapts color to background color [hr][/hr]
• Aura interface was displaying ""already unlocked"" on locked spells sometimes [hr][/hr]
• P2 input sidescreen was hidden if sidescreen text was too long [hr][/hr]
• Constellation UI now loops [hr][/hr]
• If not enough tickets with Oloon, sun pieces counter would become red [hr][/hr]
• New Input for Sire Bapy to collect all rewards at once [hr][/hr]
• Player 2 can now move in Main Menu

Bug Fixes

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• Quartz were giving x3 for each quartz [hr][/hr]
• Elite Shields were getting bigger with time + made sizes more accurate [hr][/hr]
• Leo had broken SFX when being summoned [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius weapon could sometimes end up in front of her when you summoned another Zodiac against her [hr][/hr]
• Healing orbs could heal dead players in co-op [hr][/hr]
• Contextual dialog about having a lot of money and low life were playing at start of each new room [hr][/hr]
• Sometimes players could get stuck with slodown buffer from enemy elite modificators [hr][/hr]
• SFX was not displayed anymore on -> collecting aura effect -> spawning bosses chests (boss disappears) -> receiving bosses summon [hr][/hr]
• Some spells were targetting NG+ ghosts like Magma Comet [hr][/hr]
• Magma Comet and Shattering Stars spells were not spawning in the loot pool [hr][/hr]
• Pointers to NPCs on hub could not display correctly at times that NPC had new upgrades for player [hr][/hr]
• Player inventory could suddenly disapear in some ocaions during co-op mode [hr][/hr]
• Challenge UI could display failed challenge objectives on top of each other [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius fire tentacles attack had no cooldown [hr][/hr]
• Run progress UI (displayed when near portals) could display wrong info about current/next world [hr][/hr]
• Destiny Path info on pause menu (displayed during runs) could sometimes behave wierdly (not showing up or overlaping other menu objects) [hr][/hr]
• NPCs could sometimes move position in front of player when re-rolling dialogs [hr][/hr]
• NPCs could sometimes move position in front of player when re-rolling dialogs [hr][/hr]
• Contextual text about ""feeling better"" everytime we used crystal shards [hr][/hr]
• Mana points were hidden behind the Fireballs spells after tutorial [hr][/hr]
• Level design ingredients descriptions banners could be below other level design ingredients [hr][/hr]
• Spawned missiles around players would grab any close particles spawned [hr][/hr]
• NG+ sun pieces multiplicator could give float sun pieces to player [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs defeated while invisible would remain invisible [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs defeated while frozen would be invisible [hr][/hr]
• If Leo was defeated during his spin attack, the associated SFX would never end [hr][/hr]
• Lupus ultimate projectiles could spin forever [hr][/hr]
• Removed collision with NG+ ghosts [hr][/hr]
• Sidescreens could bug when moving from Sova to Kiran [hr][/hr]
• Dialog icons in hub were often behind NPCs [hr][/hr]
• Vulnerability was displaying 5% per stack while it was 3%

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Announcement video

Fully voiced

New Game Plus

• Dead enemies can revive as zombies
• Bosses now have elite modificators
• Elites are much more frequent and dangerous
• and much more...

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Lottery Rework: Improved visuals for the lottery coming with a new and mysterious NPC that you will meet in various places [hr][/hr]
• New Spells: Many new spells to try and experiment [hr][/hr]
• Added a new intro cutscene before intro tutorial, when starting a new game

Small Features

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• Rework Introduction room: Visual and level design changes [hr][/hr]
• We removed the bestiary feature from hub [hr][/hr]
• Fixed exploit from Pavo's room (invincibility spell, dashing & barrier spell) [hr][/hr]
• Increased performances in Death Recap's room [hr][/hr]
• Dummies move less when being hit [hr][/hr]
• Default keyboard controls have been changed [hr][/hr]
• Staying idle too long in Andromeda's bar would unselect potions to buy [hr][/hr]
• Feathers use are better explained [hr][/hr]
• Barbecue was wrongly placed in Death Recap reward phase [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn destroyed book are better feedbacked [hr][/hr]
• End of level rewards are now only in co-op [hr][/hr]
• Black Seeds enemies now predict better players movement to attack in advance [hr][/hr]
• Taurus ultimate in co-op now has 2 jumps use per crystal in co-op [hr][/hr]
• Player now dashes to the direction pressed in game pad over priority of direction that player sprite is facing [hr][/hr]
• Game language is selected automatically depending on your steam settings [hr][/hr]
• All the spells on inventory are better hightlighted when inventory is open (to hint that they can be selected to swap spells and equip gambits or feather)

Balancing

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• Removed the linked spells in intro room (with botanist upgrade)

Music & SFX

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• Added SFX on Scorpio meeting / Taurus Challenge and Leo Challenge [hr][/hr]
• Added SFX when receiving currency from interface [hr][/hr]
• New musics and improvements added for various places

Interface

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• Windowed options are now unavailable while fullscreen [hr][/hr]
• You can now confirm category on merchant interface to get to latest element to buy [hr][/hr]
• Empty utility spell (from inventory) were displaying a N/A icon [hr][/hr]
• Wrong player icons in coop during Death Recap [hr][/hr]
• Input changed for co-op revive

Visuals

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• Polished some special hub animations [hr][/hr]
• World 2 statue projectile trail is now smootherly destroyed [hr][/hr]
• Polished feathers spawning and visuals [hr][/hr]
• Spell level icon was pixelated on interface

Bug Fixes

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• community inspired You could farm highest damage achievements on Dummies [hr][/hr]
• You could get stuck on Death Recap if you killed an enemy with XP point at the same frame [hr][/hr]
• Icons above player head gameplay option was not working [hr][/hr]
• Visual glitch on top left of the screen when entering controls menu [hr][/hr]
• Flying platforms had a visual glitch when being activated [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius fire attack had no cooldown [hr][/hr]
• World 2 golem flying rocks could not be destroyed [hr][/hr]
• World 2 statues projectiles could be below level elements [hr][/hr]
• Lupus projectiles could spin forever [hr][/hr]
• Some achievements could not be validated (keys/stars use) [hr][/hr]
• Andromeda dialog icon was in front of potions description [hr][/hr]
• Sova saving player achievement was not working [hr][/hr]
• community inspired You could fall from a platform in the hub [hr][/hr]
• We could see a lock icon behind the feathers loot [hr][/hr]
• Pavo would only sacrifice player 1 health even if player 2 does the input [hr][/hr]
• In ""better performance"" a lot of particles were never destroyed [hr][/hr]
• Fixed some bugs related to music system (music could start in the wrong moments, or not fade out correctly) [hr][/hr]
• Player now dashes to the direction pressed in game pad over priority of direction that player sprite is facing [hr][/hr]
• Game language is selected automatically depending on your steam settings [hr][/hr]
• Fixed godrays (from sun object) being broken under some circunstances [hr][/hr]
• Collecting stars curency after entering portal could retrieve wrong amount of stars [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Game could behave wierdly when trying to switch between playable characters too fast [hr][/hr]
• Aura descriptions in the Dragon npc could have broken text references

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First of all, we want to left you know that we are getting closer and closer to the Early Access release date, it's no longer a matter of years or months but it's a matter of weeks! Yes, we are that close and we will keep you updated about it.

New Playtest version!

Extra NPCs Animations

Spell level up!

2 New Constellations NPCs and rooms: Cetus and Pavo

Context dialog system!

Overall bosses rework!

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Room Types: The Cetus cave and the Pavo's ruins. [hr][/hr]
• Botanist: Some abilities from botanist has been completely reworked [hr][/hr]
• New level spell system: Spells can now have a lvl between 0 to 10. The bigger the spell level is, the more damage it'll deal [hr][/hr]
• New loot type - Pavo's feather: Added a new loot type that player can be equiped into a spell to increase its spell level

Small Features

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• Player should have more control over character after dashing [hr][/hr]
• It's possible to change player direction mid spell casting, before spell commit frame [hr][/hr]
• Relic 55 (poison orb) icon integrated [hr][/hr]
• Improved new char unlock screen [hr][/hr]
• Some enemies are not backstable anymore [hr][/hr]
• Sylvanian thorns are now instantly destroyed when the monster is killed [hr][/hr]
• Money counters now reach final amount much faster (it could be annoying when collecting large amounts of Sun Pieces) [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Life orbs from life trees are not collected automatically anymore [hr][/hr]
• Spell UI on inventory now matches the UI for spell on loots [hr][/hr]
• Some player spells makes player invincible during casting animation [hr][/hr]
• Virgo: Rework of Virgo attacks and patterns [hr][/hr]
• Leo : Improvement of Leo patterns [hr][/hr]
• Pegasus and Lupus (mini bosses): Improvement of patterns and attacks [hr][/hr]
• New Botanist perks : Elemental blessings, Weakness exploit and Extra choice [hr][/hr]
• Removed botanist perks: Backstab [hr][/hr]
• Carnivorous plant now have a bigger hitbox [hr][/hr]
• Uspell 17 - Poisons Chains: The chains now break when enemy becomes invisible (like Virgo) [hr][/hr]
• Papa Yalee was overlapping his own interface [hr][/hr]
• Achievements are now displayed at the bottom of the screen [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius: Ultimate arrows deal less damage now [hr][/hr]
• NPCs dialog bubbles are always showing above npc sprite now [hr][/hr]
• In Co-op, two players cannot inspect at the same time a loot anymore to avoid overlapping interfaces [hr][/hr]
• World 2 flying enemy has its meteor destroyed when killed [hr][/hr]
• It's possible to get the chance to buy a ""super drink"" from andromeda bar. Super drinks increase all stats at once #REF! #REF! [hr][/hr]
• Added a small intro scene with Ayla talking, played before intro tutorial

Balancing

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• Nerfed Pegasus and Lupus HP value overall [hr][/hr]
• More chances to find the andromeda's room

Narrative Design

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• Context dialog system with placeholder voices

Bug Fixes

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• Player movement speed could sometimes not get back to normal after certain action [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spirit Swords could attack bosses before the fight starts [hr][/hr]
• Elites modificators were stuck on only one modificator type (Toxic Vines) [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn meteor feedback would never disappear if killed during the attack [hr][/hr]
• The icon that hints the ""continue"" input for dialogs was sometimes not displaying correctly [hr][/hr]
• Game could freeze for a few seconds after entering merchant room [hr][/hr]
• Aggro management in Co-op would keep increasing during pauses [hr][/hr]
• community inspired During Taurus' boss fight, swords could focus a dead player in co-op [hr][/hr]
• Sagittarius: Ultimate arrows could hit even when player was dashing [hr][/hr]
• World 2 fire nagas could hit multiple times very fast when charging + some particles were sometimes not destroyed [hr][/hr]
• Spell 102 - Poison Tornado: Player could remain stuck after dashing during this spell [hr][/hr]
• Elite modificator slowing enemies was remaining on player in some occasions [hr][/hr]
• World 1 Wooden Guardian laser feedback could remain on ground when killed at a specific moment [hr][/hr]
• It was possible to have a fight room with no enemies spawn [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs could sometimes not correct disappear after being interacted with in fight rooms [hr][/hr]
• HUB npcs have a pointer to it's position in case they have something new unlocked for player

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Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Stone altar rework: Mana stone has been replaced for brand new ""Attack speed stone"". Values for ""Life stone"" and ""Damage stone"" has been balanced

Small Features

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• More Narration: Added narration and extended french translation [hr][/hr]
• Added better feedback on ""side screen tip"" for the multiplayer revive input [hr][/hr]
• Carnivorous plant from W1 is easier to dodge now [hr][/hr]
• Enemies and some other objects can be spawned facing diferent directions [hr][/hr]
• Some drops (crystal, life/mana orbs) are now able to be collected faster [hr][/hr]
• Keys spawned from little chest are placed higher [hr][/hr]
• Achievements pop-up now display progression [hr][/hr]
• Enemies affected by ""Electrify"" effect can also get ministunned [hr][/hr]
• ""Freeze"" effect last longer on enemies [hr][/hr]
• Little chest found on exploration runs doesn't contain heal and mana anymore. Instead it can have different type of currencies. [hr][/hr]
• Life tree: A new ""Life tree"" object can be found during exploration rooms. This is the new source of small amount of heals during runs. [hr][/hr]
• During runs, there will always be a ""Quiet room"" option to pick between portals before a ""Boss room"". [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs can now be frozen when reaching 10 freeze stacks, but they break out of it instantly [hr][/hr]
• Text of damage dealt on enemies are displayed differently. No more multiple text object spawned in short period of times, damage count is stacked in one singe text object instead [hr][/hr]
• New visual asset for Zodiac challenges chests [hr][/hr]
• Elites modificators: 4 new elites modificators have been added + improved all the existing ones [hr][/hr]
• Increased lisibility by making a lot of visual FX much faster and added opacity on some of them [hr][/hr]
• We could not reset merchant options if every options were bought already. [hr][/hr]
• Spells Behavior: Improved gamefeel of a lot of spells [hr][/hr]
• Hub NPCs: Improved navigation for most of NPCs interfaces [hr][/hr]
• Taurus: Attacks are a bit faster & improvement of one attack [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn: Polish of existing attacks and feedbacks [hr][/hr]
• Virgo: Start of polishing, still patterns to be improved [hr][/hr]
• Increased players base movement speed

Balancing

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• Keys reward for Fight rooms are capped at minimum 2 keys and maximum 4 keys [hr][/hr]
• Buffed damage on Ayla signatures spells: - Explosive clone - Moon arch [hr][/hr]
• Buffed damage on Kiran signatures spells: - Angry fist - Heartbreaking uppercut [hr][/hr]
• Nerfed damage on Kiran and Ayla basic spells [hr][/hr]
• Adjusted cooldown values for several of the new auras: -Orbitting shields (1 spawn every 5 seconds instead of 7) -Frost daggers (1 spawn every 1.5 seconds instead of 3) -Fiery dash (1 spawn every 1.5 seconds instead of 3) [hr][/hr]
• Zodiacs: Zodiacs are now attacking more often and have less idle phases.

Level Design

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• New placement for flame geysers in world 2

Miscellaneous

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• Polish on Slot Saving UI [hr][/hr]
• Added fade in and reduced volume of music in first layouts (data gathering and devs message) [hr][/hr]
• When arriving on Main Menu while playing with controller, cursor would not be on ""Play"" requiring an extra move to get where the cursor is [hr][/hr]
• Constellation selection polish [hr][/hr]
• Patch note display on Main Menu is better feedbacked

Bug Fixes

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• Relic altar could bug after opening player inventory, equiping unwanted relics [hr][/hr]
• Fixed dialog in bar room where lines didn't display correct character that was speaking [hr][/hr]
• Players had no animation while collecting Zodiac summon chest [hr][/hr]
• Relic NPC appearing animation is displayed before triggering dialog, during first meet event [hr][/hr]
• Some sounds were not being triggered correctly [hr][/hr]
• Relic that spawned ice projectiles was spawning wrong projectiles amount [hr][/hr]
• Fix Saggitarius Arrow / Missiles and Yalee projectiles behaviour. They won't be targetting Capricorn books anymore [hr][/hr]
• It was possible for some dialogs to not trigger correctly [hr][/hr]
• Challenge music added in Capricorn and Sagittarius challenge room [hr][/hr]
• New character unlock display is now preloaded - hotfix 0.23.1

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Welcome to 2022

New playtest version is here!

• the Red barrens (second world of the game) with new enemies / challenges
• 5 new bosses to face (Virgo, Leo, Sagittarius, Lupus & Pegasus)
• 3 new room types to discover
• 2 new hub NPCs to meet with new progression systems
• 10+ new Auras
• 13 new spells to use
• and plenty more...

How to participate?

• Join our Discord Server and follow our Kickstarter Assistant instructions in the #kickstarter-rewards channel to get your backer Discord role.
• React in the #playtests-register channel to get the Playtester role.
• Welcome to the #playtests channel where you can ask for a key.
• Use the key in Steam.

Can I keep my saves from previous Playtest?

Can I help you or share my thoughts?

New level elements - the Red barrens is complete!

New unique auras - new gimmick effects

Achievements and Auras NPCs

World balancing changes and Salvage mechanic

• Fight rooms will now exclusively give keys - merchants became much more important
• Higher tier loots are rarer than before - collecting gambits became more interesting
• Exploration rooms have been shortened - experience is more dynamic all around

Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• New Zodiac - VIRGO: Added Virgo as a new boss to battle in world 1 [hr][/hr]
• New Zodiac - LEO: Added Leo as a new boss to battle in world 2 [hr][/hr]
• New Zodiac - SAGITTARIUS: Added Sagittarius as a new boss to battle in world 2 [hr][/hr]
• New challenge - TAURUS: Acquire Taurus summon in an agilibity challenge [hr][/hr]
• New challenge - CAPRICORN: Acquire Capricon summon in an mental challenge [hr][/hr]
• New challenge - LEO: Acquire Leo summon in a strength challenge [hr][/hr]
• New challenge - SAGITTARIUS: Acquire Sagittarius summon in a speed challenge [hr][/hr]
• RED BARRENS are open!: 8 new enemies to fight and a whole new world to explore [hr][/hr]
• New Level Design ingredients: World 2 level design ingredients [hr][/hr]
• New common spells: Unlock and fight with unique new spells! [hr][/hr]
• New room type - mini bosses: Fight 2 new Zodiacs as mini bosses [hr][/hr]
• New room type - Andromeda's bar: Want to take a rest, visit Andromeda in this new room type [hr][/hr]
• New room type - Hidden Yalee Kingdom: Free yalees and get bonuses in the hidden Yalee kingdom new room type [hr][/hr]
• New NPC - Auras NPC: Unlock new Auras with your progression [hr][/hr]
• New NPC - Achievements NPC: Get rewards for special achievements in hub [hr][/hr]
• Bestiary feature in hub: Get more details of the enemies you meet with this new element in hub [hr][/hr]
• NG+ system: Once you finished the challenges, discover a progressively more difficult experience [hr][/hr]
• New Level Design traps: New traps will appear in exploration rooms for world 1 and world 2

Small Features

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• Taurus boss fight now has a dark background during Ultimate [hr][/hr]
• New visual FX when we hit with Ayla & Kiran [hr][/hr]
• Updated VFX when an enemy appears [hr][/hr]
• Rework spell 37 - Glacial Spikes: Spell is easier to use now [hr][/hr]
• New signature spells: Fight with 5 new spells for Ayla and 5 new spells for Kiran [hr][/hr]
• Added a small feedback when buying spell at merchant [hr][/hr]
• Hitting ground with fast fall attack resets dash timer [hr][/hr]
• Wooden Guardian and Elites minions do not appear anymore in Death Recap [hr][/hr]
• NPC in hub have a clearer feedback when something is new [hr][/hr]
• Exploding Mushroom cannot be elites anymore [hr][/hr]
• Potion use is now instant and anim is triggered only if no other anim [hr][/hr]
• New auras: 10 new auras to discover [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Salvage mechanic: Spells, gambits and auras can be salvaged to gain a good amount of quartz [hr][/hr]
• Co-op revive: Reworked and improved the Co-op revive mechanic [hr][/hr]
• Co-op now has its own tutorial

Balancing

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• Non elites enemies do not loot spells/gambits anymore [hr][/hr]
• Zodiac damage changes: damage inflicted by Taurus and Capricorn have been adjusted

Miscellaneous

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• UI display for new playable characters

Bug Fixes

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• Level design elements could make sun color glitch [hr][/hr]
• Game saves are lost everytime we launch the game - hotfix 0.22.1 [hr][/hr]
• Lupus AI was disabled - hotfix 0.22.2 [hr][/hr]
• Disabled W2 Geyser looping SFX as sometimes it would never stop - hotfix 0.22.2

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Painted figure preview

New Playtest version is here - 0.21.0

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Painted figure preview

New Playtest version is here - 0.21.0

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Team members of Hibernian Workshop will be there to answer your questions on our LIVE page featuring our brand new demo of Astral Ascent while great streamers will be playing the game! Starting 8PM PST on October 1st https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280930/Astral_Ascent/

Painted figure preview

New Playtest version is here - 0.21.0

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Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

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• Added new GAMBIY SLOT UNLOCKER: New loot type that can be used to unlock a locked gambit spell slot

Small Features

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• New icon for intro rooms [hr][/hr]
• Crystal shard altar in merchant room and astral chest + difficulty points altar in rest room [hr][/hr]
• New visual assets in the Garden [hr][/hr]
• No more stuck on loading screen if player has outdated data [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Changed dialog characters brightness to be smoother [hr][/hr]
• Utility spells do not have animations anymore [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn books should be easier to hit now [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Magnect attack revamp: Players have more control towards targets of magnect attacks. Flying enemies should also be easier to hit now. [hr][/hr]
• New level progress icons for intro world rooms [hr][/hr]
• Change of camera movement when falling and jumping to be smoother [hr][/hr]
• Players can move during first frames of all common spells and some signature spells [hr][/hr]
• When hurt in air, hurt animation is one frame smaller to feel smoother [hr][/hr]
• Spells icons are better displayed when inspecting spell at merchant [hr][/hr]
• New animations for botanist [hr][/hr]
• Small yalees randomly spawning in the hub [hr][/hr]
• Yalee tickets are found only after unlocking Papa Yalee NPC [hr][/hr]
• Astral Chest: Spawned only if player has at least one key in inventory; Reworked the smaller reward [hr][/hr]
• New animation on characters for certain common spells [hr][/hr]
• New UI tutorial for first time aquiring a Zodiac summon [hr][/hr]
• Summon Zodiac: Summon ready is not displayed at each new room anymore [hr][/hr]
• Tweaked readibility for uSpell cooldown [hr][/hr]
• Better lisibility on merchant assistant feedback when reseting spells [hr][/hr]
• Improved lisibility for spell loot descriptions [hr][/hr]
• New UI tutorial for helping changing body part colors using the Stylist [hr][/hr]
• Improved quality of icons at the botanist [hr][/hr]
• Improved visual feedback of Sylvanian Protector melee attack [hr][/hr]
• Added white outline of fireballs spell in tutorial [hr][/hr]
• Utility spell loots also have an outline like other spells so they are more visible [hr][/hr]
• Small improviments on intro tutorial [hr][/hr]
• Fight room portals now have feedback about how many key rewards will be received in the room [hr][/hr]
• Botanist ability rework - ""Pocket Money EXTRA!!"": Now player gains a % of current crystal as bonus after picking a new room [hr][/hr]
• Changed formula to calculate rarity tier of a spell [hr][/hr]
• Added feedback to modificator description and loot depending on its rarity [hr][/hr]
• Mana & Health orbs are now more visible and more spaced when displayed on ground [hr][/hr]
• Now possible to preview spells sold by itnerant merchant [hr][/hr]
• Healing shards loot are now more visible [hr][/hr]
• Improved UI healing shard icon lisibility [hr][/hr]
• Crystal currency is now easier to pick up when in air after defeating an enemy [hr][/hr]
• Jump Crystal LD ingredient: Added a period of no auto-attack after hitting a crystal and it now requires you to face the crystal or be close enough of it to trigger it [hr][/hr]
• Taurus should now always be the first boss you meet in world 1 [hr][/hr]
• New menu option to enable or disable data collection from players [hr][/hr]
• Crystal spot altars now disappear [hr][/hr]
• Started adding vibrations for controllers to the game [hr][/hr]
• New feedback on UI when equipping a spell to try to make it more clear

Balancing

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• Enemies groups that spawn in battle room have been balanced [hr][/hr]
• Big mushroom enemy health has been reduced [hr][/hr]
• Improved cast time of Toxic Bomb spell [hr][/hr]
• Capricorn is now more aggressive and a bit more dangerous [hr][/hr]
• Healing shards altar now cost a bit more but gives 5 healing shards everytime [hr][/hr]
• Made gambits on spells less frequent and unlocked gambit slots more frequent

Level Design

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• 18 new exploration rooms have been added! [hr][/hr]
• Bouncing mushroom will now appear in rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Astro fruit will now appear in rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Explosive dandelion will now appear in rooms. [hr][/hr]
• Older exploration rooms have been reworked

Music & SFX

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• Various additions to SFX for common & utility spells [hr][/hr]
• Each character has specific sound designs when hitting enemies with basic attacks [hr][/hr]
• Added sound designs on Taurus fight

Narrative Design

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• Most dialogs reworked and new dialogs added [hr][/hr]
• Replaced name of Relics by Auras in the game

Miscellaneous

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• Made save progression icon more visible [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Constellation UI: Now explains what are the changes to be expected when picking a constellation [hr][/hr]
• Swapped LT (utility spell) & RT (healing shards) on default controls [hr][/hr]
• Added a warning to not quit while save progress icon is displayed. [hr][/hr]
• Changed order of constellations on the dedicated interface [hr][/hr]
• Changed default summoning input from L3 to R3

Bug Fixes

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• Missing platform in a specific room [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Spells preview of boss spells would appear behind boss asset [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Various small places with collision missing [hr][/hr]
• Utility spells preview were overlapped by players [hr][/hr]
• community inspired We could get stuck on death recap screen if an XP point was stuck in loop [hr][/hr]
• community inspired Kiran ground fist attack could make player stuck in ceiling [hr][/hr]
• Tips from some uSpells could show out of game camera view [hr][/hr]
• Wooden guardian laser enemies should less often be stuck in platforms [hr][/hr]
• Virgo challenge could trigger incorrectly in wrong layouts [hr][/hr]
• Crystals loot from enemies could sometimes go through ceiling [hr][/hr]
• Possible glitch that could make intro tutorial play all intro events at once [hr][/hr]
• community inspired When a spell was above a gambit loot, the gambit loot was impossible to open [hr][/hr]
• Added an invisible wall in the garden to avoid out of border situations [hr][/hr]
• Background could remain dark if you killed Capricorn at the very start of his ultimate [hr][/hr]
• Last element unlocked through Death Recap was not being unlocked correctly leading to Botanist ability impossible to unlock [hr][/hr]
• Merchant spells descriptions texts could be cut if description was too long [hr][/hr]
• Many utility spells could target invisible or inactive enemies and target effect would remain on these enemies [hr][/hr]
• Unneeded elements were spawned with ingame texts leading to performance used for nothing [hr][/hr]
• Relic about attack speed was displaying a wrong hint [hr][/hr]
• Game could freeze during dialog choices [hr][/hr]
• Game could start lag after interacting with spell loot [hr][/hr]
• When two Wooden Guardian were firing lasers, only one laser would be visible [hr][/hr]
• Wildgrass could remain stuck in infinite spinning [hr][/hr]
• Sylvanian protector thorn attack was using too much ressources [hr][/hr]
• Interface opacity was stuttering when fading out before a boss fight [hr][/hr]
• Player Effects would be there forever if you go to next room before it fades out [hr][/hr]
• Fixed some small bugs during navigation of main menu

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Last month we shared many design updates and a lot of changes all around the place and this month makes no exception: we did it again! And what better way to discover last changes than to discover them yourselves?

Playtests are open!

Iterating is key for rogue-lites!

movespeed: player moves faster for a short period of time [/olist] There is more effects and the most interesting part is of course the combinaison and builds you can create by mixing them!
New work-in-progress elements for The Garden
Papa Yalee new background
This is secret for now! We hope you like these monthly updates! On our side it is always great to look behind and see all the progress that has been made recently. Don't forget about our Backerkit shop and our Discord Server to discuss about the game development, Have an excellent day, - The Hibernian Workshop Team

Last month we mainly focused on new enemies and a new boss fight but this month contains a wide range of improvements, this bouncing toad fellow is very excited:
We really love this world 3 enemy, it has became one of our mascot!

New mechanics

Difficulty rework & key currency

More elements

Time for a new update, we will trying to keep the pace of a new update every month to keep sharing with you what is happening on our side for Astral Ascent.

Enemies update

Leo - The Unbreakable

First of all we have a big announcement to make: we have been in contact with a lot of publishers for Astral Ascent because of the obvious potential of the game. Some of them were major indie publishers with very nice offers and we took time to think about these offers. With time and reflexion we declined all the offers as it became clear to us that we wanted Astral Ascent to be our first self-published game. At this point the project has been funded by French public help, our previous game revenues and of course your incredible support so this is a great opportunity to release the game by ourselves! It will make development a bit more complicated as publishers provide things such as porting, localization, marketing and financial support but we are very confident about our capacity to overcome these challenges! From sharing the word to making suggestions or reporting bugs, your support has already been precious and will be even more precious in the months to come so thanks again! This support already gave us extra energy and we have made great progress since the end of the campaign as you can see below:

Global improvements

• Jump attack: Similar to Dead Cells one (jump + down input), this was highly requested to increase global movement, we made sure that it has a recovery time and moderate damages as it is more a movement action than a direct attack.
• Dash momentum: When you finish a dash your movement speed was resetted to 0, your speed is now set to maximum after a dash if you are pressing a directional input.
• Skip to next spell button: By far the most requested by community feature. Our Spell system allows you to have 4 different spells at the same time but sometimes you may end up forced to use a spell you don't really want to use or that will be very unefficient in the current situation in order to get the next spell. We thought about having a skip to next spell button for a long time but we thought it would lead to have players optimizing one of their spells (and use skip spell button to only use this spell) and letting down the others which would break the spell-building system we are aiming for. Hopefully we found what we believe is an elegant and great design solution to this problem! You now have the skip to next spell button and you can use it as much as you want without cooldown or restrictions BUT you need to use the 4 spells once to make them available again, this way we make sure you still need to use all your spells but you decide the orders depending of the situation, for example skip your single target spell when you are fighting 5 enemies at once (of course this is optional and you can totally play the game without it).
• Spell swap in inventory: We wanted to add this since the beginning but you can now swap your spells from inventory very easily if you ever want to change your spells basic order (You used to need a spell on the ground to do so).
• Spell not consumed if cancelled: During the demo your spell was consumed (rotate to next spell + mana used) if you were hit by enemies, dashed or jumped before the spell actually launched: it felt unfair and frustrating. We made changes and spells are not consumed until they are launched now and it feels much better: you can cancel your spell before it's launched and not loose anything.
• Spell Rarity System: Looting spells feels good but our community thought it would add spices if spells have different levels of rarity and we could not agree more! We spent time to rework our spell loots and now instead of having a fixed list of gambits and locked/unlocked slot on spells we have a list of potential gambits and each gambit now has a value depending of its power, then each spell has randomness on the locked/unlocked slots. Mixing the total value of gambits and slots give us a rarity score to attribute to the spell. We created 4 rarities: common/rare/epic/legendary and it adds a new flavor to each of your drops!
• Magnet attacks: By watching you play the game, we noticed it was sometimes hard to hit enemies (in particular the flying ones). We play the game everyday and did not realize that until now. We have added a "magnet" to closest enemies when auto-attacking. This way it becomes impossible to miss if you were very close to be in range of your auto-attack. This feature is only working if you are pressing directional input toward the enemy and if you are already pretty close to it. It is a bit complicated to explain with words but it feels very good and do not worry, it does not make the game too easy it simply makes you focus on more important things than trying to know if your basic attack is pixel-perfect.
• Astral Keys: Finally, this is something we did not have time to implement in our demo but a very important feature. It is the only feature not done yet but we are currently actively working on it. It will be a new currency that will balance fight and explorations room by connecting them together. This new currency will also add choice and strategy during your runs. But don't worry we will also improve the existing Crystals currency which is not exploited enough in the current version of the game. As we are still working on the Key system we will wait before explaining everything about it but it will be an important and nice change to the dynamic of your runs progression.

The Red Barrens ( world)

• Tilemap: A tilemap is the asset pack of all blocks to create a level, it has to handle a lot of different cases of transitions between ground and walls types. It must include seamless variations and in addition to the technical complexity to create it must also take in consideration the lisibility with characters and enemies.
• Assets: We can create the architecture of levels with tilemap but levels would be empty so we need to add different elements on the ground (in addition to nature).
• Backgroud: Finally we need to have backgrounds with variations so it does not feel too repetitive.

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Adds

• [ADD] Capricorn boss fight
• [ADD] Kiran & Ayla can now use normal attacks targeting up or down
• [ADD] Player can now cancel auto-attacks with spells
• [ADD] A new NPC has arrived in the Garden

Changes

• [CHANGE] Game is now saved after completing hub events or closing menu from garden NPCs
• [CHANGE] Light effects are a bit more optimized now
• [CHANGE] Its now possible to use spells mid basic animation attack
• [CHANGE] Avoid damage challenge, from intro tutorial, is easier (less enemy spawned)
• [CHANGE] Gamepad used for players are detected in a smarter way now, this should make setuping multiplayer mode (and Steam Remote Play Together) easier
• [CHANGE] When player is teleported, he is aiming above the ground to be correctly teleported and not have fall animation
• [CHANGE] Spell 36 (Ravaging sphere) now deals damage a bit less frequently
• [CHANGE] Spell 32 (Spirit Sword) attacks more often and costs 2 instead of 3 mana points
• [CHANGE] Improved feedbacks on Yalee unlocking new colors for Stylist

Fixes

• [FIX] It was possible to get stuck on Death Recap screen if there were experience points in the screen that was not collected by players
• [FIX] Player skins could end up distorted if moving during player respawn
• [FIX] Capricorn trap not removing buff effect on enemies when out of range
• [FIX] It was possible to get stuck with inventory open if damaged by enemies while equipping a new gambit
• [FIX] Enemies sometimes could be spawned inside walls
• [FIX] Player showed instead of character name on end of demo dialog
• [FIX] Button Keep Playing, from options menu, did not work as intended
• [FIX] Astral Trail particles used to have a messy behavior if lagging or too long distance between points
• [FIX] Spell 36 (Ravaging sphere) skill was not affected by pauses
• [FIX] Stunning Wave does not affect Zodiacs anymore
• [FIX] Taurus could not release his ultimate when his ultimate bar was full
• [FIX] Player could jump out of border in the Garden