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The demo version of Boltcraft II is now available, visit the link below to download and play and leave your feedback in the comments if you want, it's very important to me.
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https://mence96.itch.io/boltcraft-ii-demo
Boltcraft
Boltcraft II - DEMO version available now!
Hello!
The demo version of Boltcraft II is now available, visit the link below to download and play and leave your feedback in the comments if you want, it's very important to me.
Thanks!
https://mence96.itch.io/boltcraft-ii-demo
Boltcraft II - DEMO version available December 30, 2023!
Hello!
I'd like to thank everyone who took a chance and played Boltcraft on Steam! This is a kind of project that I'm doing as a hobby and because of my love for top-down action games. Every new person who gives my game a chance makes me very happy and I really don't know how to thank them!
I started this new project at the end of last year, with the aim of taking the current Boltcraft mechanics and improving them, with the aim of making the game look more polished and coherent.
During this year I managed to work on this new project and you will be able to see part of this result later this year, on December 30, 2023!
Boltcraft II now includes procedural generation maps, fog of war, difficulty modes, hardcore, weapons and much more!
The new version is in the DEMONSTRATION phase and I invite everyone to give feedback on what can be improved or implemented, on the day of launch I will be informed with the page access link. Your feedback is very important to me.
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Update 1.34 - Armor and Items
Armor
We are updating the game's armor calculation so we can make armor scaling possible.
Old calculation: 5 armor -> 5% damage reduction
Current calculation: 5 armor -> 13% damage reduction = (*0.03)/(1+0.03*)
Armor reduction:
Old calculation: -5 armor -> 5% amplified damage
Current calculation: -5 armor -> 16% amplified damage = 0.97^()
With this update, we have changed the values of some armor values present in the game, follow the tables below:
Items
We have updated ALL existing items in the game with the aim of making most of them an interesting choice for the player. We will not put the list of all items and their changes here, so if you are interested in seeing the items in the game we have this link from our wiki.
Markets
- Moved item market from Courtyrd Lake to Courtyard Plaza.
- Removed old market from Courtyard Plaza.
- The first level has a market with 3 items to buy, the last level has 5 items to buy and the other levels have 4 items.
- Potions have a value of 0 gold and are no longer distributed in most markets.
Maps
- Forest Sanctuary stage now opens all dungeon gates.
Menu
- Updated HUD.
Shadow
- Added shadow on game units!
Abilities:
Thunderstorm
Level: 5
Gold cost: 3950 -> 3600
Recharge Time: 40->28 seconds
Energy Cost: 400 -> 300
Calls a lightning storm around the user dealing damage and stuns to enemies.
Area: 600
Damage: 210 + 20% AP (per lightning) -> 250 + 28% AP (unique)
Stun: 2.5 seconds
Effect: Random lightning every 0.10 seconds for 3 seconds -> single lightning ring that deals damage wherever it goes.
Randomness did indeed make this skill unpopular, we hope it finds its place now given a unique function.
Arcane Shot
Damage: 14 + 3% AP -> 24 + 4% AP
Arcane Barrage
Damage: 14 + 2,5% AP -> 24 + 4% AP
Volley
Cooldown: 2.00 -> 0.50 second(s)
Damage: 42 + 10,6% AP -> 26 + 8,8% AP
Rollout
Range: 100 + 2% AP -> 125 + 2% AP
Cooldown: 1.00 -> 0.30 second(s)
Of the Arcane Marksman's 3 specializations, the Ranger suffered the most to progress in the game even in the early areas. The idea is to strengthen the mechanics of casting the Volley skill and being able to move around frequently with Rollout while dealing a decent amount of damage to enemies.
Metamorphosis
- No longer makes use of inventory items.
A skill is already too powerful without the use of items.
Hook
Energy Cost: 50 -> 30
Cooldown: 6 -> 3 second(s)
Cast time: 0.05 -> 0.00 second
Stop movement: true -> false
Grapple
Energy Cost: 50 -> 30
Cooldown: 6 -> 3 second(s)
Cast time: 0.05 -> 0.00 second
Stop movement: true -> false
We are improving the stats for these skills to make them more attractive options.
Borrowed Time
Energy cost: 110 -> 125
Duration: 2 -> 3.5 seconds
Duration limit: Unlimited -> 1.5 second
The idea of this change is to make Borrowed Time more popular, but also now having maximum power cap.
Wind Blade
Energy Restore per hit: 3 + 0,014% AP -> 5 + 0,02% AP
Piercing Strike
Energy Restore per hit: 3 + 0,013% AP -> 5 + 0,02% AP
Spear
Energy Restore per hit: 3 + 0,012% AP -> 5 + 0,02% AP
Spear Rain
Energy Restore per hit: 1 + 0,001% AP -> 2 + 0,005% AP
We believe that making melee attacks more rewarding will help Battlemage solve its problem of lack of energy in prolonged battles.
Passives:
Command Aura
Ability Power boost: 15 -> 30%
We want Command Aura to be valuable even with Builds with few Summon opportunities.
Bugfix
- Fixed armor stacking issue after metamorphosis skill ends.
Update 1.33
Merchant - Changes
> Added Metamorphosis spell at Cave merchant.
> Added Drain spell at Courtyard merchant (replacing Flame Ring spell).
> Added Whirlwind spell at Laboratory merchant (replacing Fire Bomb spell).
Skills - New
Metamorphosis
Level: 5
Energy cost: 300
Gold cost: 3000
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Description: Transform the user into a powerful demon for 15 seconds.
Demon abilities
Akuma no Ikari (Passive) - After dealing damage, fires a lesser chaos bolt to nearest enemy unit dealing AoE damage with lifesteal.
Akuma no Shotto - Fires a chaos bolt dealing AoE damage with lifesteal.
Yugami - The user blinks and left a ilusion behind.
Kurayami - Deal AoE damage around the user and stun enemies.
Drain
Level: 2
Energy cost: 20 to cast / 0.8 + 0.1% AP each 0.04 second(s)
Gold cost: 700
Cooldown: 0.40 second
Description: Creates a stream of dark energy in the direction the user are pointing which drains the life of the enemies dealing damage each second and healing the user and slowing the targets. It consume energy each second. Recast to stop channeling.
Whirlwind
Level: 3
Energy cost: 150
Gold cost: 1800
Cooldown: 14 seconds
Description: Creates a vortex at selected point that suck all nearby enemies dealing damage every second and slowing the targets. The vortex lasts a few seconds.
# Skills - Updates
War Stomp
Energy cost: 300 -> 200
Cooldown: 26 -> 20 seconds
Cast time: 0.25 -> 0.05 second
AoE: 325 -> 350
Developer Comment: War Stomp needed to become more powerful to be more attractive for a endgame ability.
Finger of Death
Cooldown: 30 -> 16 seconds
Damage: 231 + 31% AP -> 231 + 35% AP
Bonus damage on target's missing health: 20 -> 33%
Now shows the warning of being less effective against bosses.
Developer Comment: We want to Finger of Death becomes more impactful throughout the adventure.
Borrowed Time
Energy Cost: 150 -> 110
Cooldown: 24 -> 16 seconds
Developer Comment: This ability wasn't worthy to be casted at majority of situations, we hope to change its fate... a little bit.
Reflect
Energy cost: 35 -> 55 - 1% AP
Cooldown: 1.00 -> 0.75 second
Damage: 100 + 12% AP -> 0 (removed)
[NEW] Now enemies hit are knockbacked.
Developer Comment: We're removing the non-sense damage from the ability and replacing by a knockback (more logical), improving its QoL and finally adding some scaling option.
Power Shot
Channeling maximum duration: 12 -> 8 seconds.
Developer Comment: Overextending can be dangerous.
Curse of the Swamp
Total missiles: 30 -> 60
Developer Comment: A SFX improvement.
Telekinesis
No longer ignores tenacity.
Developer Comment: You can't damage what you can't move.
Fireball
Updated blast SFX.
# Passives
Kinetic Knight
Burst Delay: 3.00 -> 0.25 second
No longer activate another passive effects.
Developer Comment: The kinetic knight burst will no longer extends damage over time effects like Soul Burn.
# Units - Updates
Warden
Assimilate - damage convertion to shield: 250 -> 100 %
Bleeding - slowness: 20 -> 0 %
Bleeding - physical armor reduction: 15 -> 0 %
Bleeding - damage: 18 -> 24 per second
Bleeding - stack limit: 1 -> 3 times
Developer Comment: We're removing the Warden incredible resistance especially against summoners but increasing their damage through bleeding effect.
Ace (Sandbox)
- Removed spells: Explosive Star, Steelstorm and Conduit Missiles
- Added Summon Skeletons spells
- Campfire Heal per second: 15% AP -> 20% AP
Developer Comment: We hope to Ace become a fair training comrade.
# Maps - Updates
Boss Run - Spells removed:
- Static Field
- Flash
Boss Run - Spells added:
- Drain
- Water Gun
- Metamorphosis
- Arcane Orb
- Curse of the Swamp
- Borrowed Time
Update 1.32
# New abilities
* Replaced Fan of Knives.
Fan of Knives
Level: 3
Gold cost: 1600
Cooldown: 3.5 seconds
Energy cost: 90
The user flings a flurry of knives (9 projectiles) dealing 72 + 12% AP physical damage. After 1.25 second delay, they return dealing 18 + 4% AP physical damage EACH and slowing the enemies by 50% by 1.00 second.
Developer Comment: The previous Fan of Knives skill wasn't proving satisfactory, so we replaced it with an entirely new version.
Preview:
* Replaced Vex Ray with Borrowed Time and Static Field with Impale
Borrowed Time
Level: 4
Gold cost: 2800
Cooldown: 24 seconds
Energy cost: 150
When the user takes damage heals himself equal 200% of damage dealt. Lasts 2 + 0.05% AP seconds.
Preview:
Impale
Level: 3
Gold cost: 1900
Cooldown: 12 seconds
Energy cost: 130
Deadly spikes burst from the earth along a straight path. Enemy units are hurled into the air for 0.25 second(s), then are stunned for 2.5 second(s) and take 84 + 15% AP physical damage when they fall.
Preview:
Developer Comment: We've put new skills in place of Static Field and Vex Beam in order to have more varied skills and more satisfying use in combat.
# Skills Balance
Frost Nova
Cooldown: 4 -> 5 seconds
Damage: 58 + 18% AP -> 106 + 20% AP
Frostbite slowness: 75% -> 90%
Frostbite duration: 2.5 -> 3.0 seconds
Developer Comment: Frost Nova was originally intended to be an ability that scaled decently towards the end of the game, but we also want to make it more worthwhile to cast at early levels due to its high energy cost.
Flame Strike
Damage: 156 + 21% AP -> 156 + 23% AP
Developer Comment: We're increasing the power of Flame Strike a bit to be more relevant in the final moments of the game.
Explosive Star
Damage (Blast): 32 + 8.2% AP -> 48 + 9.5% AP
Missile Range (Blast): 300 + 20% AP -> 400 + 20% AP
Developer Comment: This skill wasn't fulfilling its role competently, so we're giving it some power.
Life Drain
Homing radius: 96 -> 128
Developer Comment: This skill ended up being most of the time a difficult skill to hit and little compensatory, by increasing the enemy detection radius, we hope that the skill can be used more often.
# Passives
Fountain of Power
Buff duration: 3 -> 9 seconds.
Developer Comment: The fact that the player could not lose any region of the Fountain of Power made it most of the time, unfeasible even in boss battles where the character's movement is limited. With the increase in effect duration, we expect the skill to have a steady effect in boss battles and on some maps, it can keep up with the player.
Shock Nova
Cooldown: 10 -> 8 seconds.
Developer Comment: The cooldown was too high for the reasonable damage this skill sustains.
# Units
Tree Monster
Removed Summon Mushroom ability.
Rootwave activation - when current health is equal or lower than: 50% -> 70%
Brighter texture and attack sprites.
Developer Comment: The Tree Monster was too dark in color and was at risk of blending in with the terrain on some monitors, we are giving a little more light to its texture and also applying the same filter to its abilities. We've also updated his skill kit by removing the mushroom summon skill as it doesn't make sense to the character's kit but making up for it by casting his roots skill earlier.
Metalguard
Dash damage: 148 -> 106
Developer Comment: In some situations, this opponent along with other units makes his combo become something fatal if applied several times, reducing his damage makes the player have a longer counterattack time to act.
Wraith
Drowsy Bubble Armor Reduction: Removed
Drowsy Bubble Delay: 1.5 -> 0.0 second
Drowsy Bubble Cooldown: 10 -> 8 seconds
Drowsy Bubble cast time: 1 -> 0.5 second
Drowsy Bubble missile speed: 600 -> 1200
Drowsy Bubble Damage: 71.6 -> 0
Drowsy Bubble no longer collides with walls.
Developer Comment: Making Drowsy Bubble more flexible, less dangerous and more immediate balances the battle between the Wraith and players in the early levels of the game.
# Updates
* Updated abilities SFX:
- Fire Rune
- Flame Strike
- Frost Nova
- Life Drain
Preview (Flame Strike and Frost Nova):
* Updated passives SFX:
- Shock Nova
- Ignite
Preview (Shock Nova):
Developer Comment: We are constantly reviewing what can be updated and improved in the game, for this patch this is the list of elements that will receive a visual update.
Updated some cave walls textures.
Updated Frostbite SFX.
Default music volume: 40% -> 20%
# Bugfixes
Fixed destructible walls in Freezer area.
Fixed Forest Boss portal bug.
v1.31e - Improvements
Spells:
Starfall
Cast range: 0 (melee) -> 400
Developer comment: We believe the skill can have much more potential as a ranged skill.
Telekinesis
Now change unit color to indicates push effect.
Developer comment: This makes it much easier to see which units have been affected by telekinesis.
Fire Bomb
Energy cost: 100 -> 80
Poison Bomb
Energy cost: 100 -> 80
Developer comment: The cost of the skill was too high for what the effect provides.
Void Ray
Energy cost: 300 -> 350
Developer comment: Void Ray has one of the highest damage potentials in the game, we believe that increasing its energy cost makes its use of the skill more limited.
Enemies:
Wraith
Geokinesis Cooldown: 1.00 -> 2.00 seconds
Replaced Bind of Fear by Drowsy Bubble
Developer comment: Wraith had a very powerful kit for the early regions of the game, we're taking some of his power away.
Forest Spirit
Dash damage: 12 -> 6
Dash cooldown: 0.50 -> 0.75 second
Developer comment: The Forest Spirit in a group can be quite annoying to deal with even more early in the game.
Shadowpriest
Mass Sleep replaced by Mass Fear
Developer comment: The effect was replaced by fear due to the sleeping effect being confused with the Angel's blinding effect.
Mage
Enhanced Telekinesis ability.
Boltcraft will be released on July 29!
Finally the arrival of Boltcraft has a date, it will be released this Friday the 29th and comes with a 20% discount!
Start an adventure through the dungeon by making different sets of spells, items and passive powers each round. Visit the mushroom village, use the madness totem among your enemies, unleash fire blasts, summon legions of undead minions, summon storms, create black holes and much more!
And it doesn't stop there, over the next few months we will be releasing extra content like new subclasses, new skills and items to the game periodically!
Thank you very much and see you in the dungeon!
Update 1.31
- New HUD.
- The market and backpack display also had their positions on the screen updated.
- Removed opening backpack with mouse click now working with hotkey only.
- Updated tutorial.
- Removed "Options" from the pause menu.
- Menu improved, mainly in the combat key mapping part.
- Added "Default" button to reset key mapping.
- Fixed placement of menu items when switching languages at runtime.
- Fixed issue with displaying information about skills and items when they collide with information from non-heroic units.
- Pressing ESC now no longer closes menu options (still continues to pause/resume the game).
- Removed hotkey for secondary attack.
- Updated mapping from secondary attack key to primary attack key.
- HUD becomes transparent when there are overlapping units between them.
- Balanced active and passive skills.
- Updated merchant textures.
- Removed abilities: Draining Orb and Lightning Beam.
- Added new skills: Frost Rune and Earth Rune.
- Removed Passive: Smashing Strike
- Added new passive: Runemaster
- Reworked skills: Overheat and Arcane Orb.
- Reworked passives: Power Transfer and Overflow.
- Added SFX for freezing status.
- Enhanced Forest Spirit behavior.
- Boss Run mode reworked, now gives more initial gold and for each defeated boss, more item options, passives and skills and also goes up to the fifth boss of the campaign (Dragon).
Update 1.30
- Updated menu intro.
- Improved menu background.
- Reduced lag from dragon breath ability (5th boss).
- Updated Boss Run difficulty.
- Updated villager quotes.
- Added SFX for Forked Lightning spell.
- Updated bridge texture for Forest and Freezer stages.