Greetings traveler! Our fates once again intertwine, the stars align, and another patch is born. This time the focus has been mostly on network and movement optimization. This patch improves the general movement feel and reduces stuttering when playing with a ping of up to about 150. Fluid motion is no longer the sole luxury of the host!

Change Log

Features

• Improved movement networking to work better on high ping servers
• Smoother movement

Fixes

• Bot names & titles in lobby screen are now fixed
• Gravity orb has a smoother pull effect
• Lobby settings menu no longer has an apply button (settings apply automatically when changed)
• Fetch is now properly despawned if the user dies
• Starting Spellsworn no longer starts Steam VR, if a VR-headset is connected
• Improved network sync for props when joining mid game.
• Lobby gold settings now change with increments of 5; max value is now 180
• Players can no longer get more score than intended for a kill
• Scoreboard has been reworked to contain more information & provide a nicer visual look
• Intro splashscreen now has a lower volume
• Bugfix for replacing bots if “Drop In Replace Bots” is on
• Drop in is now turned on by default for all servers
• General network optimizations
• Added flavour texts for the arenas in the lobby settings screen
• Tooltips on spellbar no longer has the wrong offset

In general Frogsong news, I have donned my big-boy pants and taken on some contract work at Tarsier studios (The creators of Little Nightmares (!)). This means there’ll be less art for Spellsworn for the upcoming updates. But games don’t need art to be good, right?! And we already have a rock pillar in the game, what more could you want?! But it’s not all doom and gloom - we have some BIG stuff planned for the coming months, so get hyped! Check these places to keep yourself up-to-date with everything Spellsworn Facebook, Twitter and the Discord channel. Until next time, friends! (Drawing fanart of rock pillars)
/Anders (@CannonFood) -Frogsong Studios

[ 2017-03-09 12:02:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Spellsworn is an Online Player vs. Player Arena Game. It is a place where wizards and magical creatures use their wits and spells to wage war in an everchanging arena. Prove yourself in the arena and battle with all who dare call themselves your peers. Victory and pride outweighs reason and diplomacy, thus any debate between wizards is indistinguishable from outright warfare. Alliances will be broken, lives will be lost and the world will crumble. Will you remain, towering over the ashes?

Spellsworn is heavily inspired by classic arena games such as DotA, League of Legends, Super Smash Bros. and traditional sumo-wrestling. Most of all however; Spellsworn is inspired by the user-created mod Warlock, made in Warcraft III.

• Spells

Each round you, the spellsworn, will recieve some coins to fund your battle. A shop stocked full of spells will serve as your arsenal as you prepare for the next battle round. It's imperative that you choose your spells carefully, as they may be completely countered by your enemy if you're not careful. There's very little grace to be had when standing with your pants down and no way of counterattacking your enemy's barrage of destruction.

• Game modes

There's plenty of ways to play Spellsworn. If you enjoy playing in teams and making up sick combos and rediculous plays with friends then maybe 2v2, 3v3 or 2v2v2 is for you. If you're more of a strong independent lonewolf then 1v1 is also fully supported (including all of the FFA variations, i.e 1v1v1v1 and so on). In the future we're hoping to include workshop support for your own scripted gamemodes and playstyles.

• Matchmaking and progression

Spellsworn will definitely have a competitive side to it - which means ranked plays and matchmaking is a must. It will likely follow the Elo standard that is used in many established e-sports games today. There will be a leveling system as well which will progress as you complete matches. Stats will be recorded during each session so that you can follow your progression along and track how well you're doing compared to past games.

• Forums

If you want to connect with us and discuss mad strats or other unrelated topics with people from the community, we do have a public forum over at http://www.reddit.com/r/spellsworn as well as the forum here on steam. Join us and give feedback. Let us know what you like and what you dislike so we can work together to make this an awesome game for everyone.