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Genre: Platform, Adventure, Indie

Astral Ascent

Patch Notes - December 2023 - 1.1.2



Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features




  • Damage Meter System: See each element dealing damage in real time for current room and for your whole escape attempt

  • New Exploration Rooms: 10 new Rooms to find in each world

  • 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)

  • 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

  • Japanese Voices: Full implementation of Japanese Voice Over

  • Implementation of Backup system to prevent losing saves if game quits at a very bad moment

  • New Translation: Game translated in Brazilian/Portuguese

Small Features




  • Merchants now have 4 gambits altar instead of 3 to make finding your build easier

  • Ayla's signature spell now deals instant damage to avoid canceling by mistake if the player moves

Balancing




  • Balanced Armor Stones/Drinks drop chances

  • 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

  • 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%

  • Effects: Nimbus: Slight damage reduction

  • 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

  • Void Catalyst: Zodiac's Embleme: Reduced % of charge per tier

  • Prowess: Weakening symbol: reduced damage on the Ayla mark

  • Bapy Achievements: Guardian Angel: The number of encounters with the chosen sign has been reduced

  • Increased the spawn rate for encounter the chosen sign

  • 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

  • Stars balancing: aura salvage
    - astral 6 -> 10 - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.2

  • Armor Drinks/Stones: Spawn chances for drink/stones armor back to values from 1.0 release - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.2

Level Design




  • You fall from less high in the Elite Rooms

Music & SFX




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

Interface




  • Increased width of many titles (for example it was too small in French for Pavo's title)

  • Added a new settings choice under gameplay option to disable damage texts

  • community inspired ⭐ In Destiny Levels 1 or more, you now have a display of current Destiny Level on interface

  • New launch screen asking you to choose the voice-over language you want - can always be changed in options

Visuals




  • Reduced brightness when hitting enemies and reduced opacity of visual FX when hitting enemies for better lisibility

  • Death visual FX on enemies is now behind everything for better lisibility and has some random colors

  • Reduced some spells/ visuals to make them more visible

  • Gambits altars at merchants now show their elemental affinity instead of their rarity to make finding the right elements to build easier and faster

  • Reduced visuals intensity of Ignition on enemies for better lisibility

  • 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

  • Combustions explosion visuals have been reduced for better lisibility

  • Poison ticks on enemies visuals have been improved and are better for lisibility

  • Particles on spells for : lifesteal / burn / poison / electrify / pacification and vulnerability have been visually improved and are now always behind everything for better lisibility

  • Color of critical drink on Andromeda's bar color has been improved

  • Increased transparency for the all Hit Fx to improve lisibility

  • Visuals change in the background of ""outline choice"" layout

Narrative Design




  • community inspired ⭐ Many differences between text and dialogs fixed

  • community inspired ⭐ Many typos fixed

  • community inspired ⭐ Improvement of Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations

Bug Fixes




  • In Coop, player 1 would always have priority when being over stone altars

  • In Coop, player 2 interacting with a stone altar while player 1 was also on stone altar would equip the stone to player 1

  • community inspired ⭐ Softlock possible when double interact on Papa Yalee's interface

  • community inspired ⭐ You could get stuck by dashing at the beginning of an Elite Room

  • community inspired ⭐ Void Catalyst descriptions had codes elements in Russian

  • community inspired ⭐ Lava Scorpios in the red barrens red feedback would not disappear if they were interrupted before launching their attacks

  • community inspired ⭐ Aries could get stuck in the ceiling if player was too high during her grab attack

  • community inspired ⭐ Brazilian/Portuguese didn't have last version update - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Re-increased Armor Stones/Drinks chances a little - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Using the Small Astral Dragon could make you loose all your Sun Pieces - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Removed Sun Pieces counter when being near Small Astral Dragon - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Patch Notes - December 2023 - 1.1.1



Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features




  • Damage Meter System: See each element dealing damage in real time for current room and for your whole escape attempt

  • New Exploration Rooms: 10 new Rooms to find in each world

  • 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)

  • 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

  • Japanese Voices: Full implementation of Japanese Voice Over

  • Implementation of Backup system to prevent losing saves if game quits at a very bad moment

  • New Translation: Game translated in Brazilian/Portuguese

Small Features




  • Merchants now have 4 gambits altar instead of 3 to make finding your build easier

  • Ayla's signature spell now deals instant damage to avoid canceling by mistake if the player moves

Balancing




  • Balanced Armor Stones/Drinks drop chances

  • 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

  • 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%

  • Effects: Nimbus: Slight damage reduction

  • 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

  • Void Catalyst: Zodiac's Embleme: Reduced % of charge per tier

  • Prowess: Weakening symbol: reduced damage on the Ayla mark

  • Bapy Achievements: Guardian Angel: The number of encounters with the chosen sign has been reduced

  • Increased the spawn rate for encounter the chosen sign

Level Design




  • You fall from less high in the Elite Rooms

Music & SFX




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

Interface




  • Increased width of many titles (for example it was too small in French for Pavo's title)

  • Added a new settings choice under gameplay option to disable damage texts

  • community inspired ⭐ In Destiny Levels 1 or more, you now have a display of current Destiny Level on interface

  • New launch screen asking you to choose the voice-over language you want - can always be changed in options

Visuals




  • Reduced brightness when hitting enemies and reduced opacity of visual FX when hitting enemies for better lisibility

  • Death visual FX on enemies is now behind everything for better lisibility and has some random colors

  • Reduced some spells/ visuals to make them more visible

  • Gambits altars at merchants now show their elemental affinity instead of their rarity to make finding the right elements to build easier and faster

  • Reduced visuals intensity of Ignition on enemies for better lisibility

  • 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

  • Combustions explosion visuals have been reduced for better lisibility

  • Poison ticks on enemies visuals have been improved and are better for lisibility

  • Particles on spells for : lifesteal / burn / poison / electrify / pacification and vulnerability have been visually improved and are now always behind everything for better lisibility

  • Color of critical drink on Andromeda's bar color has been improved

  • Increased transparency for the all Hit Fx to improve lisibility

  • Visuals change in the background of ""outline choice"" layout

Narrative Design




  • community inspired ⭐ Many differences between text and dialogs fixed

  • community inspired ⭐ Many typos fixed

  • community inspired ⭐ Improvement of Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations

Bug Fixes




  • In Coop, player 1 would always have priority when being over stone altars

  • In Coop, player 2 interacting with a stone altar while player 1 was also on stone altar would equip the stone to player 1

  • community inspired ⭐ Softlock possible when double interact on Papa Yalee's interface

  • community inspired ⭐ You could get stuck by dashing at the beginning of an Elite Room

  • community inspired ⭐ Void Catalyst descriptions had codes elements in Russian

  • community inspired ⭐ Lava Scorpios in the red barrens red feedback would not disappear if they were interrupted before launching their attacks

  • community inspired ⭐ Aries could get stuck in the ceiling if player was too high during her grab attack

  • community inspired ⭐ Brazilian/Portuguese didn't have last version update - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Re-increased Armor Stones/Drinks chances a little - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Using the Small Astral Dragon could make you loose all your Sun Pieces - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1

  • community inspired ⭐ Removed Sun Pieces counter when being near Small Astral Dragon - ☄️ hotfix 1.1.0.1


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

2024 Roadmap + December Update

Hello everyone!

Today we celebrate our 1 month anniversary since the 1.0 release ːzimzimSmileː

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



Complete damage meter menu


Small damage overlay of either global damage / current room damage or turned off.




We think this system is something very interesting to implement for people enjoying making builds. We are having tons of fun playing with it to see what is making damage and how synergies/builds work together but of course this is also going to show what is too weak or too strong so you can expect a lot of balancing to happen after this update!

We are reading all your feedback about the game, we saw a lot of feedback about lisibility and we improved a lot of things regarding it (including a new option to turn off the damage numbers) and the difficulty to create coherent builds (we added some elements above but we have also added one more gambit altar at the Merchant for example)





Thanks a lot and have a fantastic day!


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

1.0.15



Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features




  • Added brief tutorial explaining the intent of Gemini challenge

  • Tutorial loot spell cannot have a gambit anymore now

Balancing




  • Gemini time between attack has been slightly increased

  • Heroes dialogs played while sitting on a bench are triggered more often

Music & SFX




  • Reduce Spirit Sword spawn sound

  • Shadow Clones death SFX was saturated

Interface




  • Increased window size for Key Chests

Visuals




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

Narrative Design




  • Typo of ""damages"" instead of ""damage"" fixed in several cases

  • ""Shooting Star"" at Aura Refiner was not translated in several languages

Miscellaneous




  • Wrong description for steam achievement ""Beyond Horizon - Success an escape at Destiny Level 15+""

  • Japanese is now displayed 日本語 instead of 日本 in Main Menu

  • Updated Credits for backers names

Bug Fixes




  • Steam achievement ""Multi-Classed"" would not trigger correctly when buying Andromeda's drinks

  • Aquarius hit ground fury attack FX were not well positioned

  • Bellators would incorrectly target Ophiuchus during their special attack

  • During specific actions players could get locked outside of the fight arena in the last boss fight

  • Octave's shadow clone Bellator could follow the player during Andromeda's challenge.

  • 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

  • Steam achievement ""Pushing Limits"" would not unlock after upgrading a spell to level 15.


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Patch Notes - 1.0.14



Changes inspired by our community!

Small Features




  • Added ambient SFX on The Void room

  • Readjusted tutorial about NG+ content to hint the player what should be done after finishing a run

  • Increased number of Auras loot in Exploration Rooms

  • 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




  • 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%

  • Increased HP for Astral Spirits

  • 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+

  • Cancer has now 2 invulnerability moments and recharge his Ultimate faster from 55 seconds to 45 seconds

  • Balanced Sculptor that was too hard compared to other Star Guardians

Level Design




  • Modified Level Design in end of Areas

  • community inspired ⭐ Modified level design of one Exploration Room where you could get stuck when spawning and dashing very fast.

Music & SFX




  • Balanced sound volume for ""Thousand Knives"" and some Taurus attacks

  • Oloon first dialog with Kiran had an unmixed line of dialog

  • Polished sound of Heroes Clones defeat

Interface




  • Polish of some Auras descriptions

Narrative Design




  • community inspired ⭐ Aries had sentences not matching voice acting

Bug Fixes




  • Following Steam Achievements were not unlocking correctly: Guardian Angel, Maximized Friendship and Perseverance.

  • community inspired ⭐ Several texts fixed in Simplified Chinese

  • Game could mistakenly save multiple times in Andromeda's bar while entering and exiting the interior multiple times

  • Libra challenge would not work correctly while playing as Player 2


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

1.0 is Out Now!

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!


Main Game + OST + Artbook Bundle


https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36431/Astral_Ascent__OST__Artbook_Bundle/

Original Soundtrack


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2455290/Astral_Ascent_Original_Game_Soundtrack/

Digital Artbook


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2633220/Astral_Ascent_Artbook/



If you were already playing the game on Early Access, the 1.0 comes with a lot of changes! More than 1000 lines of change to read in our 1.0 Patch Notes.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3776891376332040308


The Master


You will finally be able to face The Master, a final confrontation to escape from the astral prison! We do not want to spoil anything about it but there is a lot about this final boss, it took us as much time as the 3 other Zodiacs combined.





Beating The Master will also lead you to the 17 different Endings of the game!

Aries


Aries is super friendly but she will not hold her attacks on you!








Cancer


Cancer is the leader of the Orphnées family, he fights with a bird named Basileus.








Gemini


Gemini are special, expect an intense fight facing multiple threats!








Star Guardians - Monoceros and Sculptor


Monoceros and Sculptor are joining Pegasus, Lupus, Draco and Hydra as minibosses you can encounter during your escape attempts!

We think it's important for these Fights to not feel too repetitive. You can only face 3 of them maximum per escape attempt. They hit hard but we want you to pick these fights only if you feel comfortable during your run!


Monoceros is based on ice attacks!


Sculptor creates weapons to attack you!


Animated Cinematic


We now have a traditional cinematic introduction when launching the game, giving a mood and first impression we absolutely love. The animations of Tokkun Studio fit perfectly the music of Dale North for an epic introduction to the Astral Ascent universe.




Reworked Introduction and Tutorial


We think the game introduction was not exposing the story and universe enough, we have created a new introduction cinematic!
It is also an introduction to Ayla who did not have a proper pixel-art cinematic yet, it comes with a complete change of Ayla personality and backstory!



For the tutorial itself, we thought the previous one was too static and frustrating because we created a game focused on aerial movement and the tutorial was forcing you to not move much. The new tutorial gives you a total control over your movements from the very start now!






Event Horizon


You will not be automatically killed when accessing the Event Horizon (5th world), instead you will have many elements to prepare before the final confrontation!








Mid-run Saves


This might be the most requested features from the 18 months of Early Access, everytime the icon below appears, you can open your options and safely quit to main menu and resume later.



Combined to Steam cloud you can even do a run on your PC and continue your run on your Steamdeck for example!



Beyond level 8


Maximum level you can reach per escape attempt is 12, once level 8 reached you have 4 perks for your Signature spell and 4 for your Basic attacks but now each level above level 8 allows you to replace one perk to optimize your build even more at the end of your runs.




Stats Window

It was not easy to know how your current build is impacting your base stats, now you will be able to see the stats anytime when opening your inventory or all the time by activating an option in the Gameplay menu.




Itinerant Peddlers


We have made the itinerant peddlers much more interesting. As the spells did not have much and no gambits on them, in late-game it felt not right to pick new spells.

Now prices are much more varied and spells can have gambits on them, impacting their prices up to 2000+ Quartz a spell. You can also find and buy astral Gambits there making Quartz currency much more interesting that it was!

We have also changed the altars to see the elements of spells and the rarity of gambits for a better lisibility.




Storytelling Elements


Narration has been extended and reworked a lot, there is a lot of changed dialogs and many new types of dialogues. For example you can now have self conversations on benches and heroes talk to each others.





Most Memory Fragment have been modified too to give a more complete story of every characters.




Co-op icons


We have given a lot of attention to co-op, one example is these icons that have been requested a lot by the community! But there is many other changes making the co-op experience more enjoyable!




If you want to interact with the community, report bugs or make suggestions, you can join our Discord Server!



Thanks for supporting us through this journey and have fun playing the 1.0 version of the game!

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Patch Notes - 1.0



Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features




  • Final Boss: Face the Master in an epic boss fight!

  • Mid-run Saves: You can save and resume your runs at the start of any rooms.

  • Traditional Cinematic Introduction: Fully traditional hand animated cinematic when launching the game!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Complete Voice Acting: Extended and completed voice acting with over 7800+ lines of dialogues for 27 different characters.

  • 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)

  • Event Horizon: This room now has many things to do in it before the final confrontation.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 5 New Musics: Discover complete OST with many orchestral versions and featuring vocalist Emi Evans for the Master songs.

  • New Star Guardians: Monoceros and Sculptor join Pegasus, Lupus, Draco & Hydra for a total of 6 minibosses and 13 main bosses.

Small Features




  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • Pisces Challenge:
    - Reduced time and number of notes to collect.

    - Added sound when you hit a red note.

    - Sentence clarification for the objective.

  • Leo Challenge:
    - Balanced damage of Leo per world and dummy can accumulate more maximum damage so it's not a last minute rush anymore.

  • Sagittarius Challenge:
    - Increased the number of arrow that Sagittarius can shoot.

    - Added sound when the players get hit by the the arrows.


  • community inspired ⭐ In Coop, P1 and P2 icons above head to differenciate each other.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Zodiac spells affinity: Zodiac spells can also be of neutral elemental affinity now.

  • 326 Aura: Ignition poison is now purple.

  • 334 Aura: Plasma of fire are now red.

  • Astral Auras rarity symbol is now on both sides of title everywhere.

  • 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)

  • All spells previews videos in the Merchant and Loots have been recaptured and improved.

  • 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

  • community inspired ⭐ The moon room now can appear at the side of exploration or fight rooms, not anymore with other special rooms.

  • In Moon Room, you can now choose from 4 spells instead of 2.

  • community inspired ⭐ In Moon Room, if playing co-op, both players can take a reward now.

  • 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


  • The pause after the taurus summon is longer so that the player regains control better.

  • Shadow Clones now have a small taunt animation when spawning to give you more reaction time.

  • Added a delay before spawning second Shadow Clone when you have 2 Shadow Clones at once.

  • Spirit Friends (from Void Catalyst), all summons are now in the random pool.

  • Sixth Sense (from Void Catalyst), Reduced Critical hit damage by 20 to 10% per tier.

  • Zodiacs spells can now have neutral affinity.

  • Astral Spirits waves can now appear sometimes in fight rooms.

  • Andromeda's Challenges are now unlocked after several discussions with Andromeda.

  • Reactivation of the Astral Trees, now it is not linked to Zim-Zim upgrade but activated by default.

  • The Star Guardians are now invincible during their ultimate attack.

  • Several Zodiacs attacks are now making Zodiacs not blocking the players when moving on them.

  • You can now skip Zodiacs intro videos by pressing an input.

  • Papa Yalee:
    - The memories are now unlocked in correct order and only for characters you already encountered

  • community inspired ⭐ We can now view the equipped summon in the inventory.

  • Improved Quartz loot performances.

  • A lot of vibrations have been added to Zodiacs fights.

  • Improvement and polish for respawn in the Hub.

  • Taurus is the first boss to defeat just on time, not for each hero anymore.

  • Zodiac bar no longer resets when you change in the bar.

  • New introduction of Kiran character.

  • Armor on enemies are visible from the beginning, instead of being visible only after first hit.

  • Removed possibility to talk to Itinerant Peddlers (merchants in Andromeda's Bar).

  • Added pointer to Telescope in the hub when you didn't select your bonus of the day yet.

  • The Jukebox is now unlock once you defeat The Master.

  • The Jukebox is now outside the bar so you can enjoy it longer.

  • The affinity of Zodiacs cannot rise above 80% in the bar (except it's is your Zodiac affinity)

  • 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).

  • Slight performance increase by removing unused colliders on some enemies.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Some spells could focus Elites clones (black shadow Aspect)

  • Added descriptions for Zodiacs in the interior bar in order to know the behavior of their summons.

  • Shadow Clones are now correctly displayed on Death Recap.

  • Changing character is now much faster.

  • Leaving the game right after the tutorial now saves progression.

Balancing




  • 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%

  • 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%"

  • Calie balancing:
    -Basic attack speed has been increased

    -Basic attack damage has been increased

  • Sier Bapy's Life Boon: "Sier Bapy appears and gifts you 3 Healing shards" Cooldown increased by 20 > 40 enemies death

  • 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

  • The casting speed of common spells has been improved.


  • 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


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 n°186 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"

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Rebalanced damage from Zodiac summons.

  • 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

  • community inspired ⭐ Enemies Adds during Boss Fights (from Path of Destinies) cannot have armor.

  • community inspired ⭐ Added a cooldown to Vampiric Foes (from Path of Destinies).

  • Higher chances to get +2 and +5 Feathers in Pavo's Ruins.

  • Increased damage of world 3 Medusa level design element.

  • Zodiac chests now give Stars currency.

  • Increased Zodiac Affinity chances to appear in rooms.

  • Quartz spots in Exploration rooms now scale per world.

  • Pegasus Thunder attack is faster.

  • Hydra Fire Tornadoes attack is faster.

  • Star Guardians damage global balancing.

  • Taurus Fight:
    -Taurus Invincibility is longer at the start of his ultimate attack.

  • Leo Fight:
    - Leo invincible until he reaches ground at the start of his ultimate attack.

  • 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+

  • Scorpio Fight:

    - dash in all directions attack - only 1 time and 2 times in DL6+ instead of 3 times everytime

  • Many Sier bapy achievements and rewards balancing

  • Zim-Zim:
    - More levels of Reroll Perks

Level Design




  • Change of place/removal of Jump Bumpers in certain exploration rooms which could interfere during combat.

  • A dozen new Fight rooms.

  • Improved many Exploration Rooms level design.

  • All Rooms starting direction is now to the right for better fluidity.

  • Added new asset in background on fight/exploration room/hub.

  • Added magical animals in Andromeda's Bar.

  • Added 1 new exploration treasure room.

  • Fixed and improved some climbing walls in Fight Rooms so they do not become an issue fights.

  • Moved some clouds on top of rooms as they could hide Astral Chest texts.

  • Fixed places where wrong collisions in the levels.

  • One fighting room could be escaped by climbing the wall on side of it.

  • Some Fight rooms fight could be completely avoided by chain dashing and attacking.

Music & SFX




  • Added new sound on challenge Zodiacs chest.

  • Added sound on Draco attacks (giant Shuriken attack).

  • Many various audio mixing updates.

  • Many sounds volumes readjusted.

  • Music volumes readjusted.

  • All background ambiant musics of worlds have been slightly modified.

  • Virgo had no sound during her teleportation of dash attack (challenge / boss fight).

  • Improved audio feedback of Taurus swords in air attack.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Changed hurt / spell cast voice sound of all heroes and added more variations.

  • More variations have been added to many existing sounds.

  • Modified sound when reappearing in the Garden.

  • Increased volume of Bosses context dialogues so we can hear them better.

  • Wall Grab and end of run animation SFX were missing on Ayla

  • Reduced volume when picking up stones in stones altar as picking up several could be saturating.

Interface




  • Move boss lifebar + changed position of elements there + visual modifications because of new windows stats addition.

  • Added Element type in gambits titles to understand each type of gambits.

  • Improved of "Conditions" descriptions for gambit/auras/prowess (example: On hit > On each hit).

  • Next spell icon is now higher so it does not overlap too much with effects.

  • Interface is now hidden during Andromeda's challenges to better see the challenges.

  • The icon when all content has been unlocked with the experience bar has been removed.

  • Bilinear added on most UI elements.

  • Background of hints now fit correctly the texts (could lead to many hints out of screen before).

  • NPC Pointers was laggy in hub, performances have been largely improved.

  • Improved Life bar and animated portrait in game UI

  • Added a lock icon next to icons not remappable in Options

  • Added UI to elements related to UI in the Menu

  • Improved display of cooldowns in Inventory

  • Reroll perk icon are visible all the time in Prowess tree even if player have not unlocked the perk at Zim-zim

  • Switch perk icon are visible all the time in Prowess tree.

  • Armor is written 3% instead of 3 on the stones/drinks.

  • Added English name of all languages next to their localized names.

  • The hints of Stone Altar appear faster.

  • Description of Merchants spells is bigger.

  • Navigating in Merchant UI does not show the spells if you don't stop moving.

  • Opening UIs of NPCs in the hub is much faster.

  • Path of Destinies and Void Catalyst UI description was flickering when moving from to another.

  • No More Progression bar in World 5 / Event Horizon

  • The Void Catalyst:
    - Text window and text is bigger there

    - Increase slightly tier/preset text size

  • Changed Star icon on quests/challenges UI

  • Death Recap XP decount speed is faster and now has a time maximum limit.

  • Slots save selection had red bars showcasing input.

  • Glossary/Path of Destinies main menu UI are now smoother to navigate.

  • Simplified UI and reworked some elements in Constellations menu (removed tween effects, wrong fonts, change dispositions)

  • Constellations display position have been re-adjusted to be more centered and not overlap UI.

  • Removed text "Skill unlocked" title appearing at the merchant in the hub when buying a new skill.

  • All LDI titles are now uppercase and bold (healing shards, stone altar etc)

  • Skip Credits is now on left for more consistency and changed input name for more consistency too

  • Removed [ ] around the continue in Dialogues system

  • In coop, Merchant's UI is now displayed on the left if player 2 opens it for better lisiblity.

  • Bapy's UI had many titles regular and description bold while it was supposed to be the opposite.

  • Sun Rooms titles were not centered.

  • Wrong fonts were used on Death Recap screen.

  • Xp points on death recap are smaller now to fit the size of the trails.

  • Color of experience bar have changed.

  • Reduced flash intensity in Death Recap.

  • Wrong font displayed when Heroes captured Astral Spirits.

  • Enemies displayed on Death Recap now take more width so we see them better.

  • Re-activating all characters on main menu screen (it was always Calie since world 4 update)

  • Modified displays of SL and SR buttons for Nintendo Switch inputs icons.

  • We can now modify options by pressing button or moving directional keys.

  • Destiny Fragments were not updating during the runs.

  • Drinks description does not overlap anymore when 2 players check drinks.


Part2 of Patch Notes below



https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3776891376332040609

Patch Notes - 1.0-2

This is Part2 of 1.0 Patch Notes visible below


https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/3776891376332040308



Visuals




  • Wolfs are more transparency on Ikki summons to improve readability.

  • The daggers of Ayla are now yellow on all animations.

  • Some Zodiacs intro videos had white fade out.

  • All Zodiacs intro videos quality has been improved.

  • All basic attack icons have been reworked.

  • Ayla shadow mark on enemies is now more visible.

  • Added many prisons in worlds background to understand better how it works.

  • The "dodge" effect is more bigger and more visible.

  • Spirit Sword are more transparent to improve readability.

  • Removed Shockwaves effect on Ice idols for better readability.

  • Improved visual of shield on Capricorn summon.

  • Fishes are more transparenct on Pisces summons to improve readability.

  • Text multiplicator is now in the middle for clearer visibility in Path of Destiny selection.


  • Improved visuals of Red Lasers in world 4 and in Andromeda's Challenges.

  • Increased size and improved visuals of Crystal Jump elements.

  • 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

  • Lupus and Draco ultimates could not be their first attack when their ultimate bar is full.

  • Improved visual feedback for Lupus and Draco.

  • Better Feedback on Invincibile Star Guardian Attacks.

  • Changed position of effects, Ayla mark and Octave target on Star Guardians and Zodiacs.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Capricorn Fight:
    - Added feedback on projectiles

    - Destiny level 6 attack - red feedback more visible

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pisces Fight:
    - Ice clones attack - Camera does not follow Pisces in this attack so camera does not move all around.

    - most feedback more visibles

  • 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

  • Most flashes during fight should now be behind players/enemies instead of in front for better lisibility.

  • Visual feedback addition on Zodiacs, Star Guardians & enemies invincibility, replaced old ethereal effects on first world Zodiacs.

  • 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

  • Zim-Zim:
    - If player 2 opens UI, descriptions now displays on the left

    - UI global polish

  • Global improvement of readability of characters with background by making all background a bit less satured and a bit less luminous

  • Improved max level color when level 12

  • Polish intro of Octave And Calie

  • Changed font for the all numbers

  • Many elements in exploration/fight levels were misplaced.

  • Merchant has the good colors now on spell rarity, same for spells loot

  • Added "dodge feedback" visual on Kiran Counter.

  • The aura upgrader icon was not properly aligned and added bilinear on it.

  • The Cetus Category titles was not properly aligned.

  • Removed some outlines in different places, mainly for elements visible enough where outlines was not improving lisibility.

  • Made Save icon more visible.

  • Moved most shockwaves effect behind characters to improve lisibility.

  • The "shadow mark" of Ayla is better placed on enemies overall.

  • Improvement of elite Aspects with better feedback.

  • Camera improvement when the player sits on benches.

  • Added visual of Ordan giving us first sun pieces batch when unlocking Zim-Zim.

  • Changed Starfield effect when DL6+ in Path of Destiny selection.

  • Arrow feedbacking when bar is open in Andromeda's bar.

  • Added more visual godrays in Cetus' Cavern.

  • Added vertical rays of color to show categories in Cetus' Cavern.

  • Added vertical rays of color to show categories in Sun Room.

  • Cetus was too often active when not above a category loot.

  • Pavo's Ruins had birds while it was not supposed to.

  • Yalee kingdom placement of yalee on rocks is more natural now.

  • Bar door was not centered.

  • Plushies added back in bar.

  • Sova Echo visual had no glow, reimported with glow.

  • Better visibility of incoming danger from world 2 sand Shark.

  • Radial Blur effects has been visually improved.

  • Outline effect has been visually improved to work with objects having glow.

  • Some flickering could be seen on portraits / trees due to compression.

Narrative Design




  • Improvement on Echoes descriptions and inventory loots.

  • NPCs dialogues now prioritize Zodiacs related dialogue if they have other less important dialogues to display.

  • Major review of all texts in all languages, in particular for Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese & Traditional Chinese

  • Bar "Talk to" -> "Invite to join" is clearer to invite Zodiacs to join.

  • Signature spells were still referred as "Utility Spell" in the options.

  • Many elements were too long in french so we reduced some texts length.

  • Fixed many places where the texts was not displaying what the Voice dialogues were saying.

  • Prevented Contextual dialogues to be displayed too small if text was too large. Now window adapts to the text not the opposite.

  • 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

  • Calie and Ayla dialogues have been fully re-recorded (by same voice actors) for a small change of personality

  • All NPCs voice lines have been fully re-recorded for consistency of records and Sova + Merchants voice slightly changed

  • Fully re-voiced Taurus for voice consistency and fully re-voiced Aquarius to make sentences faster

  • 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

  • Many reworked elements of dialogues / context for consistency and update of the lore

Miscellaneous




  • Changing languages is only possible in Main Menu now

  • Modified/improved default keyboard inputs

  • Removed Banner for updates on Main Menu

  • Credits have been updated

  • Removed Banner for updates on Main Menu

  • Removed Yamat character icons on Merchant and Memory library (will be re-added later when DLC is released)

  • Removed "Dev Message" when the game launches.

  • Added a pop-up to warn Early Access players that it is adviced to start a new save.

  • Updated musics for Jukebox

Bug Fixes




  • 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


  • Aura "Catnip II and Catnip III" the descriptions of the rare and mythic version were not in the correct order.

  • Aura Electrifying Touch III- Now works correctly.

  • Sova's benediction did not increase the level of the feather in "Pavo's room".

  • Bapy summon stars only gave stars 1 time per world.

  • Forbidden Knowledge perk of Ayla was not working.

  • The perk "double mox" of Calie didn't work.

  • Coop - Octaves "Pluvia" shoots out of the coop partner instead of the player using it.

  • The fireshield effect was not DT proof.

  • Nimbus shoot SFX were missing.

  • Frostbyte FX on enemies would go in front of players.

  • 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

  • The Quartz reward of Chamaeleon Lottery no longer gives the maximum amount of quartz each time.

  • Fixed issue on Chamaeleon altar when taking a 5 keys chests.

  • Shadow Clones didn't have collisions with players.

  • community inspired ⭐ Ikki echo from Void Catalyst would give a Zim-Zim echo.

  • Fixed World 3 puddles that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc).

  • Fixed World 4 rain drops that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc).

  • Fixed Astral Spirits that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc).

  • Fixed Elite Aspect Thunder that could appear outside of the ground (ceiling, walls etc).

  • World 3 Medusa element spawned Slimes on hits.

  • Using Ayla's signature spell on Taurus during his ultimate would make Ayla go below ground.

  • Aquarius Fight:
    - DL6+ attack loop sound design would remain all the time if Aquarius was defeated during the attack.

  • Visual effects could remain on bosses when teleporting (example freeze FX).

  • community inspired ⭐ Leo and Pisces could become endlessly invincible if they reached their ultimate before launching their first attacks.

  • Camera was not following correctly players and bosses during Zodiac fights (not unzooming if Zodiac was far).

  • Camera was moving a bit higher when Zodiacs were not on screen.

  • Everytime you relaunch merchants choices the loot FX would cumulate.

  • We could access inventory during Zodiac summons.

  • Some Texts could be cut in Bapy's achievement UI.

  • Input to get all loots in Bapy's and Papa Yalee's could be changed by changing inputs leading to inputs issues unwanted

  • Dialogue contexts could happen twice in a row.

  • The timer during challenges was not paused when opening menu or summoning Zodiacs.

  • "Embers" hint was not displayed in English language.

  • In Sun Room ans Cetus room, the "toxic gas" effect Hint was not displayed.

  • Optimization/fixed issue for elements happening "every X second".

  • "Best client" achievement of Bapy was not working.

  • Spread ice auras was not working in Coop mode.

  • community inspired ⭐ In fight room in Coop mode, the P2 could be stuck in a wall at the start of a room

  • community inspired ⭐ Possible hardlock in coop at the perks statue fixed.

  • The Echoes icons on UI would flash when being hit.

  • Pavo could break the perk "Warrior's pride" and achievements "perfect" on bapy (like "kill X enemies without getting hit etc...)

  • community inspired ⭐ The calculation of damage/crits/full life damage has been fixed.

  • Fixed many code apparition in dialogues.

  • Fixed bug on Kiran counter perk that could create too many effect in one time.

  • community inspired ⭐ Fixed music in Elite fight room that was too loud if coming from the Forge room.

  • In the Merchant, price icon brightness could remain very high if spell changed while brightness is high.

  • community inspired ⭐ Visual feedback could remain after defeating Capricorn.

  • Words were cut in Prowess Tree UI.

  • Auto attack icon was not grayed out when the inventory is opened.

  • Signature spell icon was gray when you pass over it in inventory.

  • Visual warning could remain visible after defeating Calie's Shadow Clone.

  • Some sentences from Ordan were missing.

  • community inspired ⭐ In co-op, if both players would enter a boss fight at the same frame, the interface would no longer reappears.

  • When starting Fight Rooms, the background clouds would teleport instantly everytime.

  • Leaving a room was making uncollected keys/quartz to disappear.

  • Some enemies could follow players in Andromeda's Challenges if they had teleport skills.

  • Fixed bug on texts that were cut in Japanese and Chinese language

  • Fixed a lot of places where behaviors would be different depending of current FPS.

  • The Piercing Shark enemy attack in DL6+ could hit 3 times if overlapping enemy during the attack.

  • World 3 Toad Enemy could not be blocked by Kiran's counter.

  • At 165+ fps, the character would fall faster when keep attacking in air.

  • Prevented Characters from moving when swapping characters in hub.

  • Leveling up could make your HP bar go beyond maximum.

  • Some Enemies elite width was too small when launching specific attacks.

  • Jukebox inputs applied to game inputs (LB to skip song also changed spell order)

  • Jukebox title would remain if you dashed out of the jukebox while changing music.

  • Some elements were not accepting increased damage per world like Kiran summon and Thunder Dash.

  • Merchant, if swapping hero while "not enough money feedback" background would remain red.

  • Cetus, gold coins were jumping at the wrong place when walking on ground gold coins.

  • Fungal being smoke fx was not displayed since some patchs.

  • Wild Grass (Spinning world 1 enemy) teleport hitbox was not horizontally centered.

  • Navigation bar would appear and blink everytime we change menu in Bapy/Papa Yalee menus

  • Player could Over-heal when using life restoring gambits (more than their max HP).

  • "Practice makes perfect" Bapy achievement did not work.

  • Background clouds in Capricorn Challenge were cut out.

  • The sky in world 1 had some horizontal lines visible.

  • community inspired ⭐ Fixed Performance issue in Yalee kingdom and Cetus.

  • Some Auras Descriptions in Barbecue were displaying way too small in certain languages due to a bug.

  • Zim Zim's laugh did not trigger under certain conditions

  • Eclipse room had noticeable fps and sound stutter

  • Coop - When P2 interacted with Zim-Zim, only P1 could navigate through the menu

  • In Coop, players catching the Astral Spirit could show the wrong name.

  • Pink Dandelions would continue their reset animation when game is paused and they could become giant.

  • Feathers could be equiped or salvaged while being in the menu.

  • Trails had a different behavior depending of game fps.

  • Weather effects appeared in Echo Isles while it was not supposed to.

  • Some effects during Aquarius ultimate would still move while game is paused.

  • Explorer's curse was not working properly

  • Dialogues portraits could overlap each other if big enough.

  • Pausing the game during cinematic was not pausing the videos.

  • Spell preview videos were not leoping at Merchant.

  • Missiles trails were not connected to the missiles.

  • Blue disappearing platforms collisions are not there anymore when they are invisible.

  • Papa Yalee pointer in hub was sometimes bugging.

  • Chamaeleon in The Forge would appear in a strange way, changed his position.

  • Taurus Zodiac Affinity had a missing dialogue.

  • Virgo could remain invisible after being defeated during 2 specific attacks.

  • Sometimes wrong spells could be bought in Andromeda's bar (standing on a specific altar and buying another altar).

  • Ayla's Flash Step spell would move camera even during bosses.

  • 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.

  • Libra's Light spell did not track invincible enemies which felt weird.

  • Yalees in Yalee kingdom could be in front of Auras descriptions.

  • community inspired ⭐ Decimals in Sun Pieces multiplayers could go wrong like x1,7000000000 instead of 1,7

  • community inspired ⭐ Sova Summon giving Pavo's Feather +2 was not working for player 2 in coop.

  • Aquarius ultimate was taking too much performances leading to FPS drops.

  • Entering a new layout and pausing (for example in the Pantheon) would feel like game is frozen because it pauses the transition.

  • community inspired ⭐ You could get locked inside Andromeda's bar if pressing exit button too fast.

  • Failing Andromeda's Challenges while auto climbing a wall would teleport player back inside the challenge and leave them stuck there.

  • Zodiacs could be half visible if defeated during their teleports.


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Official Animated Trailer



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!




Have a fantastic evening,

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

1.0 Release Date Announcement 🔥



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




We have been working on it for months alongside regular updates and here is what you can expect from this final version -


  • 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)



As you can see, we have invested all our incomes from the Early Access directly into the game to make it the best possible game we could do which means we are going to release with close to no marketing budget and we are counting on you to spread the word about the game!



The more success the game will have, the more updates we will make and we have so many ideas already!





Slight game price adjustment


We did not change game price since its Early Access release but the game is so much bigger than initially planned and we have adjusted the price slightly.

Have an excellent day and thank you so much for your support!
- The Hibernian Workshop Team