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Genre: Platform, Adventure, Indie

Astral Ascent

Patch Notes - June 2025 - 2.1.0



Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features




  • community inspired ⭐ Electrified Area from Magnetic Field Aura now has its own icon in the damage meter to differenciate it from Lightning Orb

  • community inspired ⭐ Multiple Fire shield Effects that are applied at the same time, such as by gambits on a spell, now all apply a burn pulse if Fire shield is already active.

Balancing




  • Auras: Ember Shock III: Increased duration of embers from 2 to 3 seconds
    The First Flame: Increased combustion damage from 50 to 60%
    Ardent Sprint III: Increased burn stack from 1 to 2 on dashes
    Fairy Revenge I/II/III: Reduced Cd for wisp when player is hit from 12 to 6 seconds
    Linger Flame III: Increased ignition % on spell hit from 20 to 30%
    Wisp Caller III: Increased chance to create poison wisp from 20 to 40%
    Ignited Scar III: Increased damage boost on the ignition enemies from 20 to 30% / Increased critical chance from 10% to 15%
    Igneous Shield III: Increased duration fo fireshield from 4 to 6 seconds and reduced CD from 18 to 12 seconds
    Fiery Retribution I/II/III: Reduced CD on fireshield when player is hit from 16 to 10, 14 to 8 and 12 to 6 seconds
    Absolute Zero: Reduced damage boost on frozen enemies from 75 to 60%
    Rustling Fall: Increased ice fragment damage from 75 to 100%
    Carve Master: Reduced CD for ice idol on critical hit from 3 to 2 seconds / Increased critical hit chance from 15 to 20%
    Sub-Zero Sprint I/II/III: Reduced CD for ice idol on dashes from 14 to 10, 12 to 8 and 10 to 6 seconds
    Snow Fall I/II/III: Reduced CD for ice idol on fall attack from 12 to 10, 10 to 8 and 8 to 6 seconds
    Snow Amulet I/II/III: Reduced CD for snowflake spawn when the player is hit from 8 to 6, 8 to 4 and 8 to 2 seconds
    Snow Amulet III: Increased chance to spawn snowflake on critical hit from 10 to 25%
    Ring of Storms and Blizzards: Increased chance to spawn plasma on snowflake hit from 25 to 30%
    Saber Call I/II/III: Reduced CD for ice sword spawn from 10 to 8 seconds
    Thunder Blessing II/III: Reduced spark damage boost from 30 to 20% and 50 to 30%
    Storm Blow II/III: Reduced spark damage boost from 30 to 20% and 50 to 30%
    Sparkling Sprint II/III: Reduced Reduced spark damage boost from 30 to 20% and 50 to 30%
    Sparkling Cast II/III: Reduced Reduced spark damage boost from 30 to 20% and 50 to 30%
    Sparks Conductor: Reduced CD for spark spawn from 12 to 10 seconds
    Plasma Cast II/III: Increased the number of plasma from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3
    Plasma Generator I/II/III: Reduced mana cost from 12 to 10, 10 to 8 and 8 to 6
    Plasma Generator III: Increased chance to spawn plasma on plasma hit from 20 to 30%
    Form of Plasma: Increased the number of plasma from 6 to 8, reduced CD from 10 to 8 seconds and added 100% damage to plasma
    Nimbus Revenge I/II/III: Reduced CD for nimbus spawn when the player is hit from 12 to 10 s, 10 to 8 and 8 to 6 seconds
    Thundering Sprint I/II/III: Reduced CD for lightning orb spawn on dashes from 10 to 8, 8 to 6 and 6 to 4 seconds
    Crackling End II/III: Reduced CD for lightning orb spawn on enemy death from 5 to 4 and 4 to 2 seconds
    Boots of the Herald: Increased chacne to create a spark from 25% to 50%, Increased spark damage from 50 to 60% and reduced CD from 10 to 5 seconds
    Lightning Favor III: Increased thunder strike chance to create an another thunder strike from 20 to 30%
    Lightning Sprint III: Increase number of thunder strike on dashes from 1 to 2 and increased CD from 4 to 5 seconds
    Toxic Firework I/II/III: Reduced CD for toxic gas on spell hit from 8 to 6, 6 to 4 and 4 to 2 seconds
    Serpent Fang III: Reduced CD for toxic gas and sapling on enemy death from 5 to 2 seconds
    Green Thumb I/II/III: Reduced CD for sapling spawn from 3 to 2 seconds
    Sapling Generator III: Increased number of sapling on mana use from 4 to 6
    Xeno Seeds: Increased number of sapling on spell cast from 2 to 3
    Slimy Fall I/II/III: Reduced CD for slime spawn on fall attack from 12 to 10, 10 to 8 and 8 to 6 seconds
    Meteor Cast I/II/III: Reduced CD for meteor spawn on spell cast from 7 to 5 seconds
    Meteor Caller I/II/III: Reduced CD for meteor spawn from 12 to 8 seconds
    Spreading Pest III: Reduced CD for toxic gas on poison from 5 to 4 seconds
    Viper Fall I/II/III: Reduced Cd for toxic gas on fall attack from 8 to 7, 7 to 6 and 6 to 5 seconds
    Sword Fang: Reduced CD for toxic gas on spell hit from 8 to 3 seonds
    Newfound Strength II/III: Increased damage when player's health is high from 25 to 30% and 30 to 50%
    Crisis Power II/III: Increased attack speed when the player's life is low from 15 to 25% and 25 to 40%
    Crisis Power III: Increased damage when player's health is low from 50 to 60%
    Sword of the Warrior: Reduced attack speed from 25 to 20%
    Eye of the Eagle III: Reduced CD for missiles spawn on critical hit from 6 to 3 seconds and reduced critical hit damage from 25 to 15%
    Aiming System III: Increased critical chance from 10 to 15%
    Balance Master: Added a new stat critical hit damage 25% and reduced CD from 7 to 6 seconds
    Scale Armor III : Increased armor from 8 to 9%
    Adamantite Armor: Added a new stat armor 12%
    Wild Breath I/II/III : Increased life from 20 to 30, 30 to 50 and 50 to 75 life
    Traveler Wisdom III: Increased movement speed from 10 to 20 seconds
    Cetus Secret: Increased life from 100 to 150 and armor from 10 to 12%
    Advanced Wizardry II/III: Reduced CD for mana on spell hit from 10 to 7 and 8 to 5 seconds
    Mana Drainer II/III: Reduced CD for mana on spell hit from 8 to 7 and 6 to 5 seconds
    Sapping Strike II/III: Increased ember chance from 30 to 50 and 50 to 75%
    Pink Pulsar: Increased armor from 10 to 12% and added a new stat 15% chance to restore life on all hit
    Weakening Strike III: Reduced spark on enemies with vulnerability from 3 to 2 seconds
    Grey Pulsar: Increased damage from 15 to 30%
    Guardian Shield II/III: Increased damage on shield effect from 20 to 40% and 30 to 60%
    Crystal Screen III: Increased life when the shield disappearance from 20 to 40 life
    Missile Generator III: Increased chance to apply electrify on missiles from 20 to 30%
    Astral Cast III: Increased chance to create ice fragment on missiles from 10 to 30%
    Sword Sculptor III: Reduced chance to create toxic gas on spirit sword hit from 50 to 30%
    Thunder-Yalee Coat: Increased yalee damage from 75 to 100%
    Agile Foot II/III: Reduced CD for slime on fall attack from 10 to 7 and 8 to 5 seconds
    Killer Ember III: Increased number of missiles on ember hit from 1 to 2
    Polar-Yalee Coat: Increases yalee damage from 75 to 100%
    Explosive Wisp III: Reduced CD for wisp on enemy death from 10 to 5 enemy killed
    Sparkling Fire III: Reduced spark damage from 50 to 30%
    Frosted FIre III: Increased number of snowflake on fireshield hit from 1 to 2
    Toxic Burn: Increased ignition damage from 75 to 100%
    Propagating Fire: Increased number fo ember on fireshield hit from 1 to 2
    Bubbling Projectiles: Increased Frostbite damage from 50 to 100%
    Piercing Surprise: Increased ice idole damage from 75 to 100%
    Chain Reaction: Reduced CD for demonic explosion on toxic gas from 3 to 2 seconds
    Cold Amplification I/II: Reduced damage on enemy frozen from 30 to 20% and 50 to 30%
    Cold Amplification III: Increased stack of freeze on dash from 1 to 2
    Conductive Shards III: Increased chance to create spark on ice fragment hit from 20 to 30% and reduced spark damage from 50 to 30%
    Flaming Touch III: Reduced CD for snowflake spawn on enemy death from 10 to 5 enemy killed
    Swords Invasion II/III: Reduced CD for spirit sword spawn on ice sword from 10 to 7 and 7 to 4 seconds
    Yellow Jelly III: Reduced spark damage from 50 to 30%
    Sharp Lightning I/II/III: Reduced CD for spirit sword spawn on full life enemy from 15 to 9, 12 to 6 and 10 to 4 seconds
    Sharp Lightning II/III: Increased number of ember created on target disappearance from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3
    Homing Ember: Increased ember damage from 75 to 100%
    Shrineless Flame: Increased ignition damage from 75 to 100%
    Heatseker Shield: Increased time of fireshield from 4 to 5 seconds
    Glacier's Fall: Increased damage on frozen enemies from 50 to 60%
    Cold Sap: Increased number of sapling from 1 to 2
    Icarus Slime: Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60% and flying slime attack much faster
    Wisdom of the Blue FIre: Increase chance to create ember on spell hit from 50 to 80%
    Iron Armor III: Increased armor from 8 to 9%
    Warchief Bracers: Added a new stat 3 mana max
    Furious Storm: Added a new stat attack speed 20%
    Careless Wispers: Kamikaze Wisps are much faster to attack with less cooldown between their attacks

  • Slot Unlocker salvage changed from 15 quartz to 50 quartz

  • community inspired ⭐ Pavo's Feather Salvage from 30 for all rarities to 30/60/150

  • Embers duration has been increased from 2,5 seconds to 4 seconds + Embers collision box has been increased

  • Meteors now fall faster on their target with an increased hitbox to miss their targets less frequently!

  • Slimes now have a bigger hitbox making them miss their targets less frequently!

  • Saplings now move faster to their target and have a bigger explosion hitbox

  • Yamat Spells: Butterfly Effects: Collisions of butterflies is much bigger now
    Phoenix's Ascent: Added Dodge while jumping up
    Umbral Wave: the spell is now faster to be easier and safer to use
    Dance of Contempt: Dodge duration has been increased
    Stern Presence: Dodge duration has been increased
    Nihil: Duration when channeling is canceled has been increased

Visuals




  • community inspired ⭐ Badges are less visible now to take improve readability when they are there

Bug Fixes




  • community inspired ⭐ typo in english for Calie's Unbreakable Rempart description and Siege Breaker passive description

  • community inspired ⭐ Multiple Pulsar Auras launched at the same moment would not work together, only one effect would be applied

  • community inspired ⭐ Judgement Cut Passive was missing the Regen Mana tag in its description

  • community inspired ⭐ Following Auras would not summons pets in Andromeda's boss fight room:
    - Seal of the Fariy King
    - Seal of the Storm Lord
    - Sword Sculptor
    - Twin Calibur
    - Vampiric Friend

  • community inspired ⭐ Living Rocks Aura was only spawning 1 Sapling on Meteor impact instead of 2

  • community inspired ⭐ Boots of the Herald Aura was not spawning extra Sparks on Lightning Orb Hit

  • community inspired ⭐ Echoes - Sova's Benediction, Chamaeleon's Stare and Chamaeleon's Luck would still work if you had Curse from Cursed Telescope preventing Zodiac Summons and Echoes use

  • community inspired ⭐ Sparks Conductor Aura extra bounces for Sparks was not working

  • community inspired ⭐ Blaze Mine Imprint text description had development tags in it

  • community inspired ⭐ Venenbrulo imprint would display 7.00000001% instead of 7% in its description

  • community inspired ⭐ Auras with ""on enemies killed"" condition would display dev text instead of the condition

  • community inspired ⭐ Kiran and Yamat could beneficiate of extra signature spell cooldown reduction when played as P2 in coop

  • community inspired ⭐ Multiple Ignitions gambits on the same spells could stack the ignitions stacks instead of acting normally with 1 ignition and the other ones exploding and adding burn stacks


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Update 2.1 is live now!

Summer Barbecue Update!

[p][/p][p]Summer is already hot super hot in France we have used Barbecue's flames to cook you a surprise an update with a lot balancing and bug fixing! ːtaffyː[/p][p]
Take a look to the full Patch Notes below -
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/523095184762733086"][/p][p]We have fixed many bugs and balanced a lot of elements based on community feedback so we hope you will enjoy this new update to play during the summer![/p][p][/p]

Update 2.2 preview!

[p][/p][p]We are also already working hard on the version 2.2 including many assets to unlock and buy to customize your own hub, here are a few examples![/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/99a7c84e4b7aec9967ab1d714b6ce83f03e679d7.png"][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/3071d5d914c9cbbcf546e1ad409c90672e67c9cb.jpg"][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/cb467766c02cee859b841ec3040ef2da886800fa.png"][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/37277553ad446a9d8684f9e17fd08b5b4b1c574e.png"][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/669d058c689a08bf1a957b4e1d73c686a5c0efad.png"][/p][p]You will have dozens of specific assets to select, that's a lot of graphical work with different themes such as Oasis, Steampunk and more, if you have suggestions for graphical themes, feel free to let us know on our Discord Server ![/p][p][/p][p]In addition to this update we also have a surprise for you with new spells coming for the heroes in this 2.2 version! [/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/d9db2802d1f53eb6d0f6eb83c1893e66c8f0709e.gif"][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/b50c16b916b71d73a94ac14f8590ff8f26c5454f.gif"][TAG-50][/p][p]
[img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/0811164a97c6ce26619355dc633ffee2042a4582.gif"]
And we have listened to the community once again, the most upvoted request is that Yamat gets more spells as she has less than the others so we will add more spells to Yamat than to the other heroes for this update! [/p][p][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/3e3aeb38588cd9fe889c6212ff25d52a092e0e8d.jpg"][TAG-60][/p][p]Same than for the environments, don't hesitate to come over our Discord Server to give your suggestions![/p][p][/p][p][/p]

New playable Hero!

[p][/p][p]Don't forget Arven the new playable hero for Astral Ascent from our next game Fallen Fates coming to Kickstarter on September![/p][p][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/a11cfb962bd79c5269a0f35249c3355e71aafdc0.jpg"][/p][p][/p][p]Once again it is super appreciated if you take a look at our upcoming campaign, if you want to support us, follow the Kickstarter Campaign !! [/p][p]And you can even gain physical rewards by doing so by joining the Celebration Giveaway! [/p][p][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/d027b26dc7f46d361970ac3b88bfd0b049a4088d.png"]

We are still going to update Astral Ascent frequently, don't worry about that! [/p][p]Wishing you the best summer and see you soon for the 2.2 update!

- The Hibernian Workshop Team[/p][p][/p]

Celebration Giveaway!

[p]Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː[/p][p]Our new game Fallen Fates is coming to Kickstarter in September, in just 3 months![/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/47427f8732aaf20d26e6c394af8e7046707c1388.png"][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/2ece8735c4a16920c03f40eb34d4d2c79f3164e5.png"]
As we are self-publishing this new game too we are mostly relying on the Astral Ascent community to help us making it visible and noticed, in order to make it interesting we are making a big giveaway![/p][p]You take a look at our campaign and in exchange you can get :[/p]
  • [p]1 Ayla Figure[/p]
  • [p]3 Physical copies[/p]
  • [p]5 Digitals keys + DLCs[/p]
[p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/d027b26dc7f46d361970ac3b88bfd0b049a4088d.png"][/p][p][/p][p]Click here to participate to the giveaway and to get a chance to win prizes![/p][p]
We already have more than 1300 followers on the Kickstarter page, when we reach 5000 we will confirm the DLC of Arven in Astral Ascent ![/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/37710613/8cc3e4f8b84d278541f12655b202eb92d11e7daa.png"][/p][p]Arven will have a famous voice actor in both Fallen Fates and Astral Ascent and we cannot wait to reveal![/p][p]
Some asked when the new hero would be released and our best answer so far is probably right after the current announced Roadmap is done! Or we would need to delay updates and make it ealier which could also be an option so we will keep thinking about it but definitively before Fallen Fates releases!

We will be addressing Astral Ascent reports soon once we start working on next update which should start soon!

Finally, thanks for everyone supporting us and understanding why we are doing to try to get more eyes on our new project, we would love to keep self-publishing and keeping our full creative freedom and money for the team and so far our best option is our beloved community but we assure you this campaign for Fallen Fates will be great and full of nice rewards so stay tuned !

Thanks a lot and have a great day,

- The Hibernian Workshop Team[/p]

Help to unlock a new hero DLC !

Hello everyone ːzimzimSmileː

A NEW JOURNEY - FALLEN FATES



We have an amazing news to share with all you today, a new game named Fallen Fates!



It is going to be by far our biggest game to date and if you love the fights, bosses, characters of Astral Ascent we are sure you will love what we are cooking with Fallen Fates!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276270/Fallen_Fates/

Any share or wishlist of the game is greatly appreciated to help us get more visibility as we wish to self-publish this game once again!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276270/Fallen_Fates/

UNLOCK A NEW HERO IN ASTRAL ASCENT


First of all, this new project does not mean at all the end of Astral Ascent updates and support, we have already announced a roadmap for 2025/2026 and today we are coming to give the possibility for the community to unlock a 6th playable hero in Astral Ascent, a swordsman named Arven, let me explain more about this!


Fallen Fates will be having a Kickstarter campaign in September 2025, we have created a Kickstarter coming soon page.



The hero of Fallen Fates is named Arven and to unlock it we need to reach 5 Social Goals points, for now the points are only unlockable through Kickstarter Page Followers, so as soon as we reach 5 points the Arven DLC will be confirmed ːzimzimSmileː

The idea is for us to get more visibility/attention around the Fallen Fates Kickstarter and for Astral Ascent community to get a great new playable character if the goal is reached, it's a win-win situation !

Additionally, if the Arven DLC is unlocked, it will be offered to all backers of Fallen Fates Kickstarter campaign!

Just so you are not scared, during the Kickstarter campaign, more Social Goals will be available meaning more ways to increase the number of points to unlock the DLC if we don't reach the number of points before the campaign starts in September !

We are counting on you to spread the word, let's do it ːzagplsː



Update 2.0 is live now!

Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː

Today is the day, exactly 4 years ago we finished our Kickstarter Campaign for Astral Ascent and today, after 6 months of work (we nearly doubled the game content, it takes time!), we finally release the 2.0 Update: The Outer Reaches which is by far the biggest update to the game so far, here is the trailer!


We are happy we were able to support the game with so many updates and that was made possible because all of you are supporting and talking about the game!

To celebrate, the game will hit its biggest promotion to date of 50% off for 2 weeks starting at 7PM CET today!

We're self-published and every share and review has helped so much. Thank you for your continued support!ːzagplsː

If you want more detailed informations you can check the detailed Pach Notes below!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/523090111361974309


DLC New Content



https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/


4 New Worlds


Ophiuchus conquered new worlds and added them to his collection and you can now go through The Outer Reaches worlds!

Explore these new worlds for a new experience!

  • Shattered Rises

    They said hiking is good for the cardio, but it’s really high up here.



  • Molten Wastes

    You like the heat, but your soles are melting.



  • Frostbound Expanses

    You love snow, but you'd better keep moving if you want to keep your finger alive.



  • Obsidian Heights

    You like fog but care of what it hides from you.



Each new world has a total of 8 new enemies and 4 traps for a total of 32 new Enemies and 16 new traps!
This is doubling the content related to these elements making runs much more interesting, we also made sure to give an incentive to select one world over another one during the run which is explained below in the section dedicated to the new special rooms!
Each new world also comes with a new music from Dale North! The new musics are more rhythmed for dynamic exploration!

Andromeda Boss Fight


Andromeda had enough of hiding and wants to join the battle for freedom!


  • Defy Andromeda in an epic duel!

    Once per run, you can defy Andromeda in her bar, she wants to see if you have what it takes at your full potential so she will be giving you max life, max mana and a fullfil your healing shards for the fight.

    • If you fail she will simply set your life mana and healing shards as they were being defying her, so feel free to defy her at each run, you have nothing to lose, this fight is always a quick win or a quick defeat!
    • If you win she will grant you her super drink giving 1 drink of each type and join you as a summon for the rest of your run



  • Andromeda summon
    Andromeda summon is not replacing Zodiac Summons but it's an addition named Zantetsuken that will automatically finish Star Guardians and Zodiacs when their health reach 15%.

    It's so satisfying to have such a powerful ally by your side!

  • Andromeda Ending
    You will also be able to get Andromeda's narrative ending if you escape the prison with Andromeda by your side!

Andromeda also comes with a lot of new lines fully voiced in English and Japanese!

Free Update New Content



  • New Imprint system - 90 ways to improve your spells!

    The Imprint system is probably the biggest addition to the game runs coming with this Update 2.0! We wanted to add a new currency for exploration rooms to have more choices than : Quartz / Gambits / Auras making it more interesting to select rooms. We also wanted to make spells, supposed to be the core of the game, more central in the experience and more interesting! Finally, we wanted to shake a little the currency synergy system consisting of stacking things looking alike to be powerful, the imprints system requires more flexibility to create powerful combos!

    • New Loot in Exploration Room
      One more loot type in exploration rooms dilutes the existing room types, it makes all rewards overall a little less common and more valuable to get. For example getting a little bit less Gambits will make Cetus room and Sun Room more interesting and getting a little bit less Auras will make the Yalee Kingdom and the New Aura Room more interesting!

      You can loot up to 8 imprints per run and you loot them 2 at a time in Exploration rooms, we wanted this to not be too overwhelming by having too many elements to read and compare. You can only equip one of the 2 imprints but all imprints will automatically go to the Imprint Infuser at Andromeda's Bar and Imprints you find during your runs can be freely equiped and removed from your spells at the dedicated UI in Andromeda's Bar.


    • 90 Blueprints to collect!
      The 90 new Imprints are linked to Blueprints you will have to find during your runs through the game! You can find them by defeating Zodiacs bosses, Star Guardians and Elite enemies!

      You can see all of your collect imprints in the Imprints Archive at Andromeda's Bar


    • Synergy and Transcendance
      Some Imprints can have an effect no matter your spell like the first condition below


      Some other have requirements to work even for their first effects like below

      In both cases you will have Transcendance Effect giving extra power ups if you meet specific requirements. Sometimes you will already have the right elements and sometimes you will need to work on them to have the effect and the Transcendance activated. As I said earlier, this is changing a bit the habits of focusing only on one affinity, one spell type as some imprints can be of a different affinity than your main one but still super useful or powerful, so make sure to think about that while making your builds!

    • Powerful combos
      You can create a lot of fun and powerful combos, you can see some examples below, you have 90 of them to experiment!













  • New Intro Room
    We thought the previous introduction room was too stacked and overwhelming, we decided to create a new one allowing to separate better the start of runs bonuses from the classical world intro rooms.
    It also makes it clearer and easier to select in which world you will start your run (classical or The Outer Reaches version).


  • New Special Rooms
    2 times per world, a choice will be attached to world selection, one time it will be a selection among existing special rooms (Cetus, Pavo, etc.) so one biome will have one special room and the other biome a different one, they appear organically (next to Exploration/Fight Rooms) during the world so they are an additional speical room. Another time, it will be among the New Auras Room and New Echo Room (explained below), even if they are guaranteed it will cost you 5. These 2 choices are guaranteed in every run making the biome selection more interesting depending on the reward you want.
    • New Aura Room
      This new room allows you to pick any existing Aura at a Mythic or Astral rarity level, this room is the best choice to complete a build you are making. It should make powerful builds much more frequent and reliable than before!



    • New Echo Room
      This new room allows you to pick any existing Echo to have the best synergies or to have the support Echo you need for your run!



  • Better Impacts
    A feedback we received multiple times was the lack of powerful impact feeling with basic attacks so we added new impacts for all weapons giving much better sensations!
    We have also added extra vertical bumps on enemies so the hits feel more impactful.



  • Tons of QoL

    • In the Yalee Kingdom, the Camera is now centered so you can see all the Auras at once without needing to go on auras one by one like before and the Reset Yalee is now at the center to walk less to reset the choices

    • In the Echo Island, the camera is now centered so you see all auras at once with no need to move to check them and icons above heads show you what they do so you do not need to check them one by one

    • Selecting the drinks at Andromeda's Bar could be very slow, even more if you had a lot of stars on you, now it's much faster making it more fluid

    • Some rooms are now shorter like Intro rooms, Zodiac Rooms and Star Guardian rooms, they needed to walk too much to get to the next room
    • Transitions between rooms is now faster making it smoother to go through rooms
    • Teleport rails in Event Horizon is also faster
    • The UI windows are clearer for loots



    • You can now buy with Sun Pieces (if you already defeated DL6+) the Zodiac Summons, this is made for experienced players who already did the challenges many many times and have extra sun pieces to use!


    We have globally tried to improve a lot of small frictions we could find to make the overall experience more enjoyable!

  • Tons of Balancing
    We have made a lot of balancing on Auras, Spells, Weapons Passive that people mentioned being too weak and you can find all of that in 2.0 Patch Notes.
    We have also made an important change to the Cursed Telescope, we only kept the Astral rarity for effects but we made maluses more important. We think this makes this room much more interesting and the bonuses full to play with!



New Roadmap


We are super happy to announce that thanks to the support we received until now, we are able to commit on more updates for Astral Ascent and that's a great news because we still have a tons of things in mind to make the game better and funnier to play!



  • Customization System for the Hub
    Following a suggestion event (about what to do with the Extra Sun Pieces) on our Discord Server, the most voted choice was being able to Custom the hub with the Extra Sun Pieces. We are working on many different collections for you to buy and make this place truly yours! Here is an example below with the Coral/Seaside collection!



  • Charity Pet DLC
    We found very inspiring the Paws and Claws DLC from Children of Morta to collect money for Charity for animals, they already collected more than $460 000 for the Humane Society International charity. That's also a cause close to our hearts at Hibernian Workshop and we asked Dead Mage if they would be fine for us to follow their lead and create a similar initiative on our side for Astral Ascent and they were absolutely fine for that so we are completely going to do that! Like for Paws And Claws DLC, 100% of the benefice will go to Charity!

  • Boss Rush
    We have the Boss Rush in mind for a very long time, it was supposed to be the first update post 1.0 release. It just makes so much sense for Astral Ascent to have a Boss Rush given how many bosses we have


Collector Physical editions


Taking the occasion to speak again about the beautiful Collector Editions including Yamat DLC and The Outer Reaches DLC available for preorder coming from Red Art Games, for PS5 and Nintendo Switch!


The DELUXE edition contains:
  • Base Game
  • DLC 1 : Yamat, the breach Traveler
  • DLC 2 : The Outer Reaches
  • 6 die-cut stickers
  • 1 acrylic stand

The COLLECTOR edition contains:
  • Same as DELUXE Edition
  • Steelcase
  • Double-sided Poster
  • OST


These are coming in limited editions for each platforms!

Updated OST


We will soon update the OST of the game as new musics were introduced for the 1.7 and the 2.0 for a total of 7 new musics and 37 tracks in total!

So stay tuned for that!

Big Surprise Coming Soon!



Well, 2025 might be full of surprises from our studio and you might not want to miss what we will announce end of May, so be sure to follow us on your favorite social media!


Have an excellent day and time in game! ːzimzimSmileː

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Patch Notes - April 2025 - 2.0.0



Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features




  • New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore
    5 new musical tracks
    16 new traps and elements
    32 new enemies

  • Andromeda's Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle
    Earn Andromeda's respect and the ability to summon her
    Witness Andromeda's Ending

  • New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a less overwhelming experience

  • The Void Imprints: - New reward loot in exploration rooms, featuring 90 unique imprints
    - A way to improve your spells with unique activations
    - Players start with 25 different imprints, the rest are unlocked by finding Blueprints during runs
    - A new interface in Andromeda's bar to reuse the imprints you looted

  • Bonus Room System: Added New system to world selection, which adds a bonus room to the world twice during a run.

  • New Rooms: Added Aura selection room, which allows the selection of an aura

  • New Rooms : Added Echo selection room, which allows the selection of any echo

Small Features




  • In Event Horizon you now move faster using the rail between islands

  • community inspired ⭐ Transitions between rooms in now faster when entering a portal

  • New visual FX for each weapon when hitting the enemies

  • Enemies are now bumped up when hit by weapons

  • Some enemies are now bumped higher when hit by upward attacks

  • The Small Dragon now triggers automatically to give your Auras faster

  • Slimes were not impacted by the Opacity effect

  • Yalee Kingdom: Yalee's reset is now located high up on a platform and the camera zooms out to get a direct view of all auras.

  • Echo Island: Echo Island now shows all echoes at once and icons above Echoes help seeing what the echoes are about without needing to check them.

  • The Zodiac Challenge Chest for Summons can be purchased with Sun Pieces from Destiny Level 6+

  • Intro and boss rooms are shorter

  • New interface for Gambit loot, slot unlocker and Pavo feathers

  • Portal to next rooms are now closer in The Void and The Reckless Void

  • Ghost Enemies from Destiny Level modifiers are removed upon room or Zodiac Fight completion.

  • Added Jump Crystals in the Cursed Telescope room and it's also a little smaller now

  • community inspired ⭐ Andromeda's Bar changes
    - Andromeda's bar for drinks has is now higher to always see the drinks
    - Drinks reappear much faster
    - Drinks distance of interaction is bigger now
    - Andromeda animation plays directly and stat equip appears directly
    - Visual Effects have been reduced

Balancing




  • community inspired ⭐ The cursed telescope now only has astral rarity bonuses (all other rarities have been removed).
    To compensate, penalties are more dangerous.

  • Auras: Unique Tag Context: Due to the increased availability of duplicate Astral Auras, a number of Auras have received the ""Unique"" tag if it was determined that stacking these could be stronger than intended.


    Carve Mastery
    On critical hit, creates 1 Ice Idol: reduction of the cd from 5 to 3 seconds
    Increases critical hit chances: Increased critical chance from 10% to 15%

    Spark Conductor
    Spark bounces an additional time: unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)

    Boots Of The Herlad
    On lightning orb hit, 25% chances to create 1 spark: unique tag added

    Warchief Bracers
    On spell refresh, restores 2 mana: unique tag added

    Sword Of The Warrior
    Increases strength: Damage increased from 20% to 30%
    Increases attack speed: Attack speed increased from 20% to 25%
    Increases critical hit chance: Critical hit chance increased from 15 to 20%

    Twin Calibur
    On spirit sword, creates 2 missiles: unique tag added

    Fire Propellant
    Massively increases combustion size unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)

    Raw Force
    Increased combustion damage from 75 to 100%

    Absolute Zero
    Increased Frostbite damage from 50 to 75%

    Prowess Of The Sky
    When hero it hit, gains a random bonus effect for 5 seconds: Reduction of cd from 12 to 5 seconds
    When gaining a bonus effect, create 5 thunder strike: Reduction in the number of thunder strikes created from 5 to 4

    Rustling Fall
    On fall attack, creates 4 ice fragment: reduction of the cd from 10 to 6 seconds

    Polar Venom
    Added a new effect: Increases poison limit by 5

    Balance Master
    On critical hit, gains velocity for 2 seconds: Increased duration of the buff from 2 to 3 seconds

    Blade Storm
    When dashing through enemies, casts slashing squall: Reduction of cd from 7 to 4 seconds

    Homing Embers
    On critical hit, creates 2 embers: Reduction of cd from 3 to 1 seconds

    Incandescent Rain
    Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%

    Blinding comets
    Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%

    Bigger Body Initiative
    Missile have 25% chance to become explosive missle: unique tag added

  • community inspiredSpells: Ayla

    Unrelenting Tornado: Increased damage from 141 to 192
    Psy Trap: Increased damage from 123 to 165
    Blade Tempest: Increased damage from 110 to 156
    Fatal Trigonometry: Increased damage from 146 to 186
    Endless Blows: Increased damage from 110 to 152

    Kiran

    Explosive hug: Longer duration of invulnerability
    Lightning Dance: Increased damage from 102 to 160
    Hadoken: Increased damage from 88 to 120
    Energy Projectiles: Increased damage from 83 to 120
    Earthquack Kick: The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 180

    Calie

    Topaz gladius, onslaught:The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 210

    Common spell

    Meteor blade: Reduced mana cost from 3 to 2
    Aqua ball: Increased damage from 89 to 140

  • Weapon passives: AYLA

    Lunar Daggers
    Parting gift: damage increase by 50%
    Gliding star: damage increase by 50%

    Moonlight Blade
    Judgment cut: added mana steal tag and damage increased by 30%

    Eclipse Shards
    Hunter x Hunger: Increased stack time from 1.5 to 3 seconds

    Throwing Knife
    Charge Knives: damage increase by 200%

    KIRAN

    Burning Bo
    Magnetic Personality: damage increased by 30%

    Fiery Falchions
    Santoryu: Increased damage by 100%
    Hit Maker: damage increase by 50%
    Sword Juggling: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds

    Nutcracker
    Kaio-Bam: Increased the chance from 10 to 15 percent, increased duration from 5 to 10 seconds and max stacks from 5 to 10 max

    CALIE

    Unbreakable Rempart
    Siege Breaker: damage increase by 30%
    Avenging Shield: Increased damage by 50%

    Scythe Claw
    Surprise Element: Increased damage by 60%

    OCTAVE

    Pistor Vocatis
    Coniicio Iocor: Increased damage by 50%

    Magnum Cupitere
    Miseria Labrum: increased chance of applying the mark with the dash from 30 to 100%

    Exterminatus Exemplaris
    Priora Signa: Increased damage by 250%

    Wrenching Whip
    Ictus Tempestas: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds
    Potentia Amplificatio: incresed the number of charge from 4 to 6

    Yamat

    Fighting Spirit
    Spirit Rising: Increased damage by 30%
    Obsidian Wyrm: Increased damage by 70%

    Oblivion Greatsword
    Destined Death: increased the number of mark from 3 to 5

    Symmetrical Lance
    Detonation Seal: Increased damage by 100%
    Chaotic Surge: Increased chance from 20 to 30%

Music & SFX




  • New music rearranged for the hub

  • Octave: The sound of the ""Wrenching Whip"" weapon has been lowered

  • Added FX for when stat stones are lost by the player

Visuals




  • New title screen with new artwork

Miscellaneous




  • A number of effects were not being added to the damage meter, these have been added where possible. (Thick Yalee, Snow Day, Glacier's Fall, Maddening Darkness)

Bug Fixes




  • community inspired ⭐ Taurus Sword FX could remain on the ground after being defeated

  • community inspired ⭐ Leo rocks could remain on the field after being defeated

  • community inspired ⭐ Aries Red Feedback could remain on the field after being defeated

  • community inspired ⭐ Pisces could keep her invincibility bubble (visual only) when getting in Phase 2

  • community inspired ⭐ Yamat second down attack had one frame not aligned with the other frames

  • Auras:
    Fixed an issue where the ""spread ice"" effect was not dealing the correct damage (damage too low)

  • Narration typo in french in Telescope descriptions

  • Enemies could attack more frequently or less frequently depending of framerate

  • community inspired ⭐ Resilience Mode was wrongly Labeled at different places

  • Unlocking Gambit Slots were not working correctly for the 4 small gambit icons (example if you had unlocked slot 4 while slot 2 was still locked, it wouldn't show the icon correctly)

  • Music was very loud in hub when exiting Telescope menu

  • Octave's Bellator shooting SFX was not playing

  • Burn and Combustion stacking: Combustion was unintentionally triggering twice if two or more combustions occurred subsequently. To compensate for the damage loss, the base damage of Combustion has been increased by 50%. Additionally, a number of Astral Auras related to Combustion have had their damage increased.

  • Auras: Maddening Darkness was not scaling with strength or critical chance, this has been corrected

  • Text correction: Yalee effect text updated from 3 to 4 projectiles. No change in functionality.


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Collector Physical Editions!

Hello everyone!

The Outer Reaches 2.0 releases in 24h from now and we hope you're as excited as we are for that!



If you haven't already, make sure to wishlist the DLC to be notified when it's out! (and help us for visibility ːzagplsː)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/

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In the meantime we are super happy to announce a new DELUXE and COLLECTOR physical edition coming from Red Art Games, for PS5 and Nintendo Switch!




The DELUXE edition contains:



  • Base Game
  • DLC 1 : Yamat, the breach Traveler
  • DLC 2 : The Outer Reaches
  • 6 die-cut stickers
  • 1 acrylic stand


The COLLECTOR edition contains:



  • Same as DELUXE Edition
  • Steelcase
  • Double-sided Poster
  • OST


These are coming in limited editions for each platforms!

Wishing to see all of you around tomorrow for the 2.0 Update!

Have an excellent day!

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

2.0 update - Mark the date!

Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː

We are coming to show you a bit more elements of the 2.0 Update - The Outer Reaches update and DLC, first of all thanks so much for being already more than 10.000 to have wishlisted this new DLC ! ːbarbecuePogː

Wishlisting it helps us with visibility on Steam and you will of course receive a notification once it's out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/

Andromeda is getting ready


Andromeda fight is almost ready and she will be brutal! We want this duel to be either a quick win or quick defeat, you've been warned!


(but no worries she just wants to see if you are worthy or not, she wont stop your runs)



New system for spells


We have been working on the new system related to spells named "Void Imprints", it is going to be a new loot type in Exploration rooms (in addition to Gambits, Quartz and Auras) giving more variety to the choice of rooms.

You can equip one directly on a spell but every one you found (even if not equiped) during your run are available at Andromeda's bar to equip during your run.

There are Void Imprints for each affinity for a total of more than 90 unique imprints!

Here is one example per affinity -


  • On spell cast, create an Incandescent barrier for 10 seconds, create 1 combustion if the enemy hits you
    Transcendence effect:If the spell is lvl 10+, gain Shield for 3 second and attract 3 enemies

  • The first enemy hit by this spell creates a frozen ground for 6 seconds applying 1 freeze periodically
    Transcendence effect:For each freeze gambit equipped on this spell, adds 1 second to the duration

  • On spell cast, 2 enemies are marked by a curse mark for 7 seconds, dealing damage when the affected enemies attack
    Transcendence effect:If the spell is full poison affinity, adds 1 curse mark on another enemy

  • The first enemy hit by this spell creates a column of lightning for 5 seconds, pushing back enemies and apply 1 electrify on hit
    Transcendence effect:If the spell is full electric affinity, passing through column of lightning grants thunder dash for 5 seconds

  • The first enemy hit by this spell attracts up to 4 enemies
    Transcendence effect:If the spell is full neutral affinity, increase damage on this spell by 30%


This new system is made to make spells more interesting to use and build and overall more impactful and strategic to use!

New Intro room


One new change is that we decided to add a new room before the first intro room when starting a run and there are several reasons for that


  • First Room was too stacked with too many things to do at once
  • First Intro Room was very different from the other intro rooms from worlds 2, 3, 4
  • We needed to be able to select default world or The Outer Reaches variation before entering the world
  • Elements were badly placed with the Baby Dragon being on the left of spawn for example


This has also allowed us to add the portal to buy the DLC there instead of adding even more elements in the main hub, we will have more possibilities if we want to add more features there!


We decided to make of this new room a calm and neutral place!




More Improvements


In addition to all the content planned, (not everything is shown there as its missing the 4 new worlds, 32 new enemies, 16 new traps) we are also taking time to improve things all around the game. One feedback we often received was the lack of impact feeling when doing basic attacks, we have made a new impact FX per weapon/per character (so 20 different FX) and improved the hit feeling.


We have also speed up many slow interactions like picking up the drinks at Andromeda's

We have also speed up entering end of rooms portals, reset start auras, we even reduced the size of some rooms to make runs more fluid and smooth to go through!


New physical edition


We are also super happy to announce that we will be partnering with Red Are Games open pre-orders for new physical editions including steelcase and other elements!

Long story short, the 2.0 Update will be a massive change for the game and we hope you are as excited as we are for it!

We are still keeping more secrets coming for 2025 so stay tuned and don't hesitate to follow us on


Have an excellent week ahead and mark the date for April 30 ! ːzagplsː

The Bergsons' Reinforcements update

We are so happy to make updates including licences we love and inspire us and this time it's Children of Morta's turn!



We'd like to thanks once again Dead Mage and 11 bit studios for the opportunity!

For more details you can check the 1.10 Patch Notes.

7 new Echoes from Children of Morta


It's really great to be able to summon the Bergsons with 7 new echoes that complete the possible builds.



  • - Apan's Magic Glyph (restore life)


  • - Joey's Smite (meteors)


  • - John's Heaven's Strike (spirit swords)


  • - Kevin's Fan of Knives (missiles)


  • - Linda's Explosive Crescendo (ignition)


  • - Lucy's Cyclone (sparks)


  • - Mark's Scourging Whip (ice idols)



As we have more echoes now, 40 in total, we added an extra Yalee reroll.

Reroll Starting Auras


We have also added the possibility to reset the Small Dragons Auras for Sun Pieces so you have more flexibility for your starting Aura -



Visual Effects Opacity Option


We have also added an option to change the opacity of visual effects -



More of the 2.0


This 1.10 update content is smaller than usual because we are hard working on the 2.0 update!

The update is planned for April 30 2025 and we still have a lot to do! The amount of content is very big as we wish for it to deliver a new and fresh experience for Astral Ascent at this moment.

We have already been working on the new Rooms. One of them is allowing you to pick any Auras from the game, Auras are ordered by key words so if you have Fire Slime like in the example below, they will be in the Fire and in the Slime categories.

The idea is that you simply go to the category you are focusing right now, for example Ice Swords and you will see all auras related to Ice Swords at once.

We have also worked on the Room to select any Echoes from the game, with 40 Echoes in the game it makes sure you can get the exact Echo you want to complete your build as we want to make sure all echoes exist for their respective builds.


We have also started to work on the Andromeda's boss fight and we found out how she will fight and how this fight will be integrated in the game!


Don't hesitate to wishlist the DLC if you want to!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/


Steam Couch Co-op Fest


Finally, we are part of the Steam Couch Co-op Fest so it's a great opportunity to remind you can play in co-op in Astral Ascent, either in local co-op or through Remote Play Together or Parsec for online play!


We wish you all to have an amazing week ahead and we cannot to tell you more about the Outer Reaches and other surprises coming this year!

-The Hibernian Workshop Team

Patch Notes - February 2025 - 1.10.0



Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features




  • The Bergsons' Reinforcements: 7 new echoes from Children of Morta licence :
    - Apan's Magic Glyph
    - Joey's Smite
    - John's Heaven's Strike
    - Kevin's Fan of Knives
    - Linda's Explosive Crescendo
    - Lucy's Cyclone
    - Mark's Scourging Whip

  • Rerolls of Small Dragon Auras: You can now rerolls for Sun Pieces the starting auras of the Small Dragon

  • Visual Effects Opacity option: A new option allows you to reduce the opacity of visual FX for better readability

Balancing




  • Octave's Bellator Destruction damage now deals double damage

  • Reset Echoes in the Echo Island goes from 3 times to 4 times

  • Cursed telescope:
    The Astral immunity: increased chance of gaining 1 protection absorbing next hit from 10% to 20% (mythic) and 20% to 40 % (astral)

Bug Fixes




  • Small dragon Aura spawning would show an empty text for one frame

  • community inspired ⭐ When playing for a long time, Chinese symbols could be replaced by circle symbols

  • community inspired ⭐ Typos fixed

  • Ice Idols hits could not work when several were spawned at once


- The Hibernian Workshop Team