The Chronicon Official Soundtrack is now available!
This soundtrack offers all the in-game music in its full length, both in an .mp3 format and a high-quality FLAC format.
Pick it up today to support both the composer and the continued development of Chronicon!
You can find the soundtrack on the Steam Store -here!
We hope you enjoy!
Update 1.00.3: Fixes
Hey everyone!
Thanks for your reports!
This update fixes even more problems than before, and I'm not gonna keep jinxing things by saying we are almost done fixing again :)
Please let me know if you run into any more issues!
1.00.3:
Interface:
Barrier and Damage Reduction skills now correctly state that they lower/prevent direct damage, instead of "all damage" - indirect damage such as dots is not affected by DR and are considered being on the inside of barriers!
Using the Master's Set places a crown over companions, however if nametags are disabled this crown is now also hidden.
Improved minimap of Boinepits areas (and Anomaly layouts with these tiles).
Added description of Gibbing to help index.
Monsters:
Ooglers won't shoot firewalls at you from off-screen ranges anymore.
Ooglers deal less damage with their firewalls.
Firewalls now count as ground effects and can be mitigated with the "reduced damage from ground effects" stat.
Tweaked Act 5 boss stats somewhat.
Mutated Patiens now spawn in Lower Levels and The Dungeon (Act 3).
Fixes:
Fixed being able to use portal scrolls during boss fights in act 5.
Fixed being able to gamble Jon's Book of Souls.
Fixed issue where if you previously got stuck in The Molten Sea in a certain location you could still get s tuck in the quest chain, and not be let in into the Fortress.
Fixed frost satellites shooting through walls and with endless range.
Fixed being able to sell all items in a stack and then buyback the entire stack for the price of 1 item.
Fixed The Thundering Cave and Cavern of Insanity being super loud when you approach.
Fixed Achievement "Jones Would Be Proud" not triggering.
Fixed Ni saying "MISSING TEXT!".
Fixed the Codex incorrectly listing several monster spawns on The Test Chamber area.
Fixed some incorrect quest descriptions.
Fixed the stash eating favorited items on page 2 and up when hitting auto sort.
Fixed issue where optional room portals (stairs) could overlap in Fortress of Hatred - Depths.
Fixed using Auras, Heritages, etc that applied generic stat buffs on use overwriting other sources of said buffs (shrines, passives, etc).
Fixed Quickdraw (Warden) not working with Multishot or Scattershot.
Fixed issue where if you had The Golden Touch mastery perk, you would not be able to spring the trap for the optional quest "Hidden and Trapped".
Fixed not being able to exit the codex with (B) on gamepads.
Fixed invisible walls in the skull island Anomaly layout with the bone pits style.
Fixed weird lava tiles on wall tiles in Hellscape.
Possible fix for some anomalies having too few monsters.
Update 1.00.2: Fixes
Hey everyone!
Thanks again for the reports! This update should take care of all the larger issues reported since the last update, as well as a few other tweaks. As always, please let me know if you encounter any problems!
I am planning another update during the week where I will specifically target Linux issues, and one in which I will target some localization problems to help those of you working on translations!
Thanks!
1.00.2:
Interface:
Korem's title is now "Guide & Skill Resets" because it as very unclear what he does!
Clarified the description of Lesser Rune of Thundering Avatars (it's their cooldown, not yours!)
Crafting:
Crafted items now always roll with perfect base stats.
Fixes:
Fixed a ton of problems with incorrect and missing texts, bad spacing, etc.
Fixed the Crater layout for Anomalies not spawning exits or sometimes layering exits.
Fixed Searing Burrow not spawning any monsters.
Fixed Seeking Arrow (Warden) not casting if you didn't have a target.
Fixed not being able to start Demon Hunter Semmy's quest if you didn't have the quest to find him first.
Fixed multiple issues with quest updates upon entering some late zones in act 5.
Fixed crashes from dialogue that could happen if you accidentally scrolled at the exact same frame as you interacted with the NPC.
Fixed not receiving the final quest from Death.
Fixed being able to enter the Fortress of Hatred before finishing the required quest.
Fixed Waypoint not spawning in The Molten Sea.
Fixed Molten Sea portals disappearing if the zone was reset or re-visited in a new session after obtaining the Guardians Quest.
Possible fix for lockups when entering A Dark Chamber and Storage Area.
1.00.1: Fixes
Hey everyone!
A slightly bumpy launch as expected, but this little update should take care of all the big issues. Please let me know if any issue persists or if you find anything else.
Thanks for all the reports!
1.00.1:
Fixes:
Added missing fortress loadscreen art.
Fixed Act 5 Waypoint not having a name.
Fixed multiple issues with dungeon generation in Act 5 causing random crashes.
Fixed missing text from the secret temple altar and Glod.
Fixed crash when using older custom translations.
Fixed a crash from trying to exit Hellscape into locked zones.
Fixed crash from auto-sorting stashes.
Fixed Major Aulfere not spawning in the hellscape camp.
Fixed Act 5 progression getting stuck.
Fixed some new Anomaly layouts not spawning exit when running Dunge/Elite Dungeon Anomalies.
1.0 is live! Full release!
Hey everyone!
After 5 long years in Early Access, we are launching fully! Amazing. Thank you everyone who has supported me & the game over the years, and thank you for being part of the journey!
As with all of my larger updates you can expect some issues slipping through the cracks, so I will be hovering the forums for the next few hours, ready to help & note any issues. Hopefully it should go smoothly though! Expect fixes in the next week for anything that might pop up!
And after that, well, I got some cool stuff planned. More on this later... Let's go!
1.00.0:
Major Additions:
Added Act 5, complete with 29 new areas, 23 quests (8 optional), 12 new unique items from 12 unique monster spawns, 7 new enemy types with a total of 27 variations, 6 new troves to find, and 5 new big bosses to fight!
Added 24 new Legendary+ items.
Added 24 new endgame Runes.
Updated 26 items with new powers, improved powers, or power tweaks.
Updated & improved 14 sets.
Updated & improved 9 Runes.
Added new Anomaly bosses, layouts, and rare modifiers.
Added 20 new Achievements.
Added many suggestions and QoL improvements.
Added over 120 new sound effects to monsters, bosses, interface, etc.
Improved performance.
Fixed a bazillion issues, and probably introduced some new :-)
Items, Sets, & Runes:
Items:
General:
Changes:
Normalized all Legendary weapon attack speeds to 100% - with a few exceptions where attack speed is a focal point.
Normalized all unique+ power roll ranges.
Life Guard (TL Helm): Now also reduces damage taken from indirect sources. GA buffed to 50%, up from 40%.
Hydrascale Boots (TL Boots): The HPR increment based on missing health is now always active.
Weyrick's Crown (TL Helm): Has been nerfed to 3/4% A/GA (down from 5/6%).
Crown of Solitude (Helm): Now has an extra strong Crown Slaying power (rune-able) and drops at level 20 (up from 1).
Gaia's Binding (Ring): Renamed Terra's Binding and now has a combined +all res and +all elements enchant (rune-able).
New:
Boots of Hazard (Boots): Tick Health on Hit when standing in hostile ground effects, and take much less damage from ground effects.
Aspect of the Ethereal (TL Ring): All indirect damage enchants apply a debuff dealing the same amount of damage per second as Ethereal, stacking infinitely and lasting 7 seconds.
Crown of Innate Probability (TL Helm): All skills with any chance effects, proc rates, etc, have a x% increased chance to trigger.
Talisman of Spines (TL Amulet): For each assigned skill that is Utility, Ultimate, Companion, Aura, Heritage, or Ritual, thorns is increased by x%.
Primordial Rose (TL ring): Every 3 seconds, resistance to a random element is increased by X% for 3 seconds.
Stormchasers (TL Boots): Damage increased by x% for each twister, gust, whirlwind and similar type of effect within 5 meters.
Gemstone Tiara (Helm): Any gems inserted into this helm also provide the bonuses from being in a weapon or jewelry slot.
New Unique Foe Drops (Act 5):
Skin of Terror (Armor): Has 3x Star sockets, and comes socketed with gems.
Fang of Alucard (Accessory): HoH is xxx% more effective.
Ancient Bone (Accessory, Warlock): Bone skills deal increased damage.
Eye of Hazioxth (Amulet): Reveals nearby invisible foes.
Shizbuk's Tail (Accessory): Provokes and pulls random nearby foes when attacking.
Ring of Hunger (Ring): Mana Regeneration is increased for each nearby foe. Bosses count as 15 foes.
Skull of Harlon (Helm): Vastly increased Projectile skill range & damage.
Stone of Tephra (Accessory): Thrown skills and Stone skills (Berserker) deal greatly increased damage.
Skull of Grimm (Relic): Use: Cast Bone Curse V.
Wing of Sziirk (Relic): Use: Teleport up to 10 meters forwards and deal 300% fire damage to all foes teleported through.
Templar:
Changes:
Ring of Blades (Ring): Now also commands the Blades to attack the Templar's target.
Phantoma (TL Sword): Is now Sword-only, and now greater augments up to 100% (was 45%).
Crown of Justice: Now Greater Augments up to 30% (was 25%).
New:
Contra (TL Shield): Each time a foe is stricken by a Shield skill they suffer x% increased damage from all Shield skills, stacking infinitely.
Venerata (TL Sword): Magic skills attack x% faster and have 25% chance to doublecast.
Prayer Beads (TL Accessory): While still, Auras have x% increased range. While moving, Auras have x% increased effect & damage. Effect has a 3 second overlap.
Faith (Amulet): Using an Aura causes a nova for x% damage in the element of the Aura. Damage affected by Aura Effect, and may trigger on-hit effects.
Contender (Helm): While within 5 meters of any Crowned foe, Damage Reduction, Block Chance, and Damage is increased by x%.
Berserker:
Changes:
Moe's Fury (Fist): Fists of Fury shoots projectiles instead of punching, and deals x% increased damage. Skill counts as Thrown skill.
Face Breakers (TL Fist): Max stacks reduced to 4 (down from 8). Damage per stack reduced to 40% (down from 50%). Yeah, it was OP.
Icebergs (Fists): Now increases Shattering Cold damage and gives it an AOE effect.
Floes (Fists): Is now called Floe Fist.
Improved icons of Spirit set fist & claw, and updated the name of the fist (to Spirit Fist).
New:
Haymaker (TL Fist): Brawl skills have a 50% chance to be cast at up to 2 additional random targets for X% increased damage. (no mobility skills)
The Last Word (TL Fist): Increases damage and range for Shout skills, dealing more damage the closer foes are.
Ancient Claw of The Firstborn (TL Offhand): Dragon skills attack X% faster, have X% less cooldown, and last X% longer.
Mantle of the Dragonkin (TL Accessory): For each nearby foe, maximum rage is increased by X. Rage-based passives are Y% stronger. Bosses count as 15 foes.
Drakefoot (Boots): Increased damage of Dragon Stomp, Earthshatter, and Icicles.
Rimeheart (Ring): Increases the range and damage of Rime.
Frozen Anger (Accessory): +x Minimum Rage.
Paingrinder (Accessory): Increased thorns and bleed damage.
Warden:
Changes:
Gaia (TL Bow): Now Greater Augments up to 20% (was 15%).
Harp (TL Bow): No longer depends on multishot, and has its own augmentable value for number of arrows shot in a cone. Now also goes up to 10. (Was 9)
Serenity: Now augments up to 80/100 (A/GA) - was 75/85.
Loaded Bolts (Offhand): Radius set to 3 meters, now augments bonus damage for Double Draw.
Wrap's of the Lone Ranger (TL Acessory): Now Greater Augments up to 15% (up from 10%).
Packleader's Vest (Armor): Now also increase the damage of all wolves.
Armor of The Elven Ranger (Armor): Now augments up to 20%, and greater augments up to 30% (was 15/20%).
Wolf Tooth Necklace (Amulet): Now causes a bleed for 100% damage, up from 50%.
New:
Fungimancer's Loop (Ring): Fungi skills deal xx% increased damage. Spores spawned from Fungi skills are twice as strong.
Sniper's Eye (Helm): Foes hit by Archery skill become weakened, taking increased damage from all skills.
Warlock:
Changes:
The Death Speaker (TL Staff): All curses that do not have a damage over time effect now deal an additional X% of the total remaining damage of all curse damage over time effects on that foe. Hand of Death, Blood Curse, and Flesh Rot now stack infinitely.
Book of Meteora (TL Offhand): Now drops an actual Meteor spell at rank 5, but at x% increased efficiency, rather than an Ethereal meteor at 300% damage.
Pestilence (Ring): Efficiency of Infection procs from companions reduced to 25%.
Death's Bond (Ring): Curse of Woe, Curse of Terror, and Curse of Reckoning are automatically cast once per second at the Warlocks location. Requires the Warlock to equip one of the skills. The skills deal x% increased damage.
Book of Duplus (Offhand): Now Greater Augments up to 75% (up from 30%).
Staff of Screaming Skulls (Staff): Now makes Screaming Skull bounce between foes rather than spiral the Warlock. Bounces up to x times.
Jon's Book of Souls (Offhand): Is now a TL item.
New:
Grimm (TL Staff): Bane skills deal increased damage based on Reach.
Simulacra (TL Staff): 25% chance on casting a Sorcery skill to spawn a magical clone of the Warlock, casting the same skill with x% increased damage.
Sets:
General:
All For One (TL set): Now interacts properly with other effects (except Lusombras, as intended).
One For All (TL set): Now increases all Elements by triple the highest resistance stat.
Templar:
Avatar of Ayeela: 2) +Hallowed deals 100% increased damage.
Caine's Battlegear: Old 3) bonus moved to 2) (does not replace old 2)). 3) Now makes Holy Fire deal 100% increased damage with each consecutive hit.
Berserker:
Bloodsoaked Garb: 3) bonus now doubles the effectiveness of bleeds when using non-stone skills.
Dragonfire Garb: 2) Destr.Man. now deals 200% increased damage instead of triple proc. 3) Bonus damage buff now stacks 20 times at 10% rather than 40 times at 5%.
Spiritual garb: 3) Soul Burn increased to 100% (up from 25%)
Cataclysmic Battlegear: 3) Stalagmites deal 200% increased damage rather than triple proc. and the damage per hit boost has been adjusted (15% up from 5%).
Skysoul: Buffed debuff DoT to 150% up from 70%.
Northern Rage: Frostbound's damage is now affected by Rage Release's damage %, and related Masteries.
Warden:
High Ranger's Gear: 2) now also increases the damage of Razor Tips by 100%.
Windcaller's Regalia: The merging effect of the Whirlwinds have been moved to the 2) bonus, and the 3) bonus now makes Windwalker last until death, and makes it cast rank 5 Gale every 5 seconds.
In addition, whirlwinds no longer spawn in pairs, but deal double damage instead, and have smarter merging to prevent some frame drops.
Stormcaller Set: The Static now considers the total burn damage as part of the triggering hit when adding a charge.
Wispmother Set: 2) now makes Wisps target whatever the player applies Wisp Spark to.
Runes:
General:
Changes:
Lesser Rune of Focused Lightning: Is now Lesser Rune of Chained Focus & now affects all skills with the "Chained" tag, rather than "chain lightning skill effects" (this will make more sense going forwards).
New:
Lesser Rune of The Bombardier: Bombardment skills deal x% increased damage for each second of duration, however their base duration is halved. Bombardment skills without a duration gain 3 seconds worth of bonus damage.
Lesser Rune of Relentless Assault: Assault skills no longer cost any mana, restore 3% mana on use, and have their cooldowns reduced by x%.
Lesser Rune of The Sentry: Sentry skills deal x% increased damage and last x% longer, however their radius is halved.
Lesser Rune of Splitting Throws: Thrown skills that are not thrown in an arc may now split on cast, creation X copies of itself going in random directions.
Lesser Rune of Bouncing Throws: Thrown skills that arc and hit the ground may now bounce up to X times, traveling an additional 2 meters and dealing damage on each bounce.
Lesser Rune of Polished Gems: Each socketed gem adds x% damage to the gem's element (color), regardless of the shape of the gem.
Lesser Rune of Brutal Attacks: Damage is increased by x% for each percentage attack speed below 150%. Any percentage below 100% attack speed grants twice this bonus.
Lesser Rune of Greatness: +1 to Greater Rune cap.
Templar:
Changes:
Lesser Rune of Rolling Thunder: Now Greater Augments up to 75% (up from 35%).
New:
Lesser Rune of Holy Chains: Cinderblast and Holy Bolt are now Chained skills and may jump up to 4 times. Deals increased damage.
Lesser Rune of Provocation: Foes affected by Provoke take x% increased damage.
Lesser Rune of Holy Expulsion: Expulsion deals X% increased damage when triggered from Holy Nova hits.
Lesser Rune of Thundering Avatars: Soul Avatar has X% increased attack speed and cooldown reduction, and summon an additional Avatar.
Berserker:
New:
Lesser Rune of Winter Rage: Glacial Roll, Arctic Leap, and Frigid Roar deal x% increased damage and generate twice as much rage on hit.
Lesser Rune of Rage Peak: Glacier consumes all rage on cast, dealing x% increased damage per 5 points of rage.
Lesser Rune of The Blue Bolt: Dive also casts a free Dragon Storm when used. Dragon Storm deals x% increased damage.
Lesser Rune of Soulstorm: Dragon Souls triggered from Dragon Storm deal x% increased damage
Lesser Rune of Ancestral Rage: All rage-based passives & heritage effects now always give a minimum of x% of the effect, regardless of current rage level.
Lesser Rune of Targeted Destruction: Destructive Manoeuvres now attempts to target a random enemy within range, and will apply a stacking burn effect to all foes struck, dealing x% of the damage dealt, per second, for 5 seconds.
Warden:
Changes:
Lesser Rune of Poison Trees: Now has a % modifier to the effect of Barbed Spores.
Lesser Rune of Bramble Burst: Now also affects Vine Shot, Bramble Storm, and Vine Blast.
Lesser Rune of Trap Throw: Now also changes Lay Traps into a Thrown skill, letting it synergize with new effects.
Lesser Rune of Split Thunder: Now makes one of the splits auto-target a random foe within range.
Lesser Rune of Multishot: Now also affect Scattershot and Volley.
Lesser Rune of Great Hail: Now Greater Augment up to 100%.
New:
Lesser Rune of Acrobatic Barrage: Cast Volley on using Escape or Tumble, however Volley is now highly inaccurate. +Volley damage.
Lesser Rune of Norla's Gale: Gale now follows the Warden and lasts 7 seconds. Gusts and Tornadoes cast also spawn on each Gale whirlwind. +Gust and Tornado damage.
Lesser Rune of Swelling Pods: Pods no longer deal damage in a radius when bursting, and instead add X stacks to itself. Pods also deal double base damage.
Lesser Rune of Mega Wisp: Mega Wisp is more powerful, and Empowered Wisp stacks 10 more times.
Lesser Rune of Sparking Static: Static deals increased total damage (yes, including the set bonus burns), based on number of active Sparkies.
Lesser Rune of The Wolfcaster: Air Freeze and Ice Shard now summon charging wolves instead, with their damage based on Wolfpack and Alpha Wolf respectively.
Warlock:
Changes:
Lesser Rune of Reaping: Life Reap deals x% increased damage to foes affected by Curse of Woe, Curse of Terror, and Curse of Reckoning (bonus stacks).
New:
Lesser Rune of Total Armageddon: Armageddon has +x% proc rate.
Lesser Rune of Instant Combustion: Detonation now triggers Combustion on all foes affected by Flaming Hells. Combustion deals x% increased damage.
Lesser Rune of Exploding Blood: Poison Nova now explodes all Living Blood and Clot for x% increased damage.
Lesser Rune of Putrefying Poisons: All Corruptor skills also apply Blood Curse and Flesh Rot at max rank for x% increased damage.
Skills:
General:
Expanded on the skill tag system and granted every skill 1-2 tags.
Some skills have been granted already existing tags, such as "Nova", whereas most have been given brand new ones.
Updated some skill and mastery descriptions to be more clear.
Base melee skills now use a radial hitbox affected by reach and lists their radius on the tooltips.
Rapid or double hitting base skills (Fists of Fury, Lightning Jab, etc) has a slightly lower base range of 1.1 meter radius. Shield base skills also have this radius, as they have a higher base damage.
Berserker:
Hungering Call and Dragon Warp should now both break objects properly.
Ice Slam has had its damage lowered slightly but in return has the largest radius of all base melee skills (2 meters vs 1.5 standard).
Dragmageddon is now limited to 5 instances.
Rime now has a visual aura effect.
Rage Release now triggers after a few frames, stacking up damage from very rapid triggers to improve both performance and visual clarity.
Built Up Rage (Mastery Perk): Increased to 5%, up from 1%.
Templar:
Reduced some of the sound effects from Shield Spiral.
Blaze now auto-cleanups when you get a larger trail going, to prevent some frame-rate issues.
The fire pit left by Exploding Shield now correctly triggers related effects such as Contra, but is limited to 8 pits. However the duration has been reduced by 3 seconds.
Supercharged (Mastery): Is now called Charged Auras.
Warden:
Wolves: No longer howl, and will instead growl, because this is less annoying on repeat.
Wolves: Now have attack/hurt/death/spot sounds.
Vine Shot: Now deals direct damage on all ticks, and now pulls foes harder the further away they are, rapidly grouping them together.
Storm Shrooms: Now benefit from the Shroomtender set stacking damage debuff.
Tornado: Now moves faster (double speed) but lasts shorter (-1 second).
Winter Storm: Instance limit increased to 7. (Was 4)
Increased instance cap of Bramble Storm, Nimbus, Lightning Arrow, and Blizzard by 1.
Changed arrow VFX for the skills used with Harp.
Warlock:
Masochism: Lowered regeneration bonus to 3/4/5% per stack, down from 6/8/10%.
Undeath: Lowered Health bonus to 6/9/12%, down from 10/15/20%.
Relish In Their Pain: Lowered regeneration bonus to 14/22/30%, down from 30/50/70%.
Soul Feast: Increased the recovery to 5%, up from 2,3,4%, but added a 15/20/25% chance to trigger.
Detonation: Reduced screenshake.
Bursting Boils: Is now only triggered from Poison skills.
Fire Storm, Bone Storm, and Affliction: Has been capped to 5 instances.
Bone Storm: Now follows the Warlock.
Frozen Soul (Mastery): Is now called Lich Heart.
Combat, Companions, and Mobs:
Bleed, poison dot, etc enchants now deal a damage tick on each application.
All damage over time effects now tick once per second, rather than some ticking twice and some ticking once. Note: the base DPS remains the same!
Lowered health of King Slimes.
Removed target circles from killstreak spells.
Removed target circles from some companion spells.
Improved coloring of many monster variations.
Camera now zooms on player on death.
Game Over screen made more clear.
Added Golem gibs.
Gibs and breakable object fragments that fall into pits/void no longer stops mid-air, and now fades and falls down. If landing in water, they will cause a small splash.
Added spawning animations for 5 more monsters (some new, some existing).
Reduced collision box on some Warden companions so they get around corners easier.
Removed Sticky Targeting.
Interface:
Re-ordered the item codex to place all non-set items in the same order based on class, slot, and quality.
The item Codex now displays additional info on items (such as Ring of Marvellous Gems "Rolls random permanent sockets").
Sound Volume slider is now called Sound Effects Volume to be more clear.
Removed some old tips from the loadscreens that no longer apply.
Added some new loadscreen tips.
Shifted mouse tooltips on buffs a few pixels to the right.
Improved minimap icon display so that icons are revealed in a slightly larger radius than tiles are.
Improved item tooltips so skills referenced are highlighted with their element color.
Drastically improved item card visual clarity when scaling down large cards to fit the screen.
Moved some stats on the inventory quick stat pages to make them fit better.
Improved handling of damage numbers with auto-cleanup for massive amounts of numbers and reduced frequency of overlapping numbers by shifting them vertically and having indirect damage move with an angle.
Damage number from special effects such as the Desecrator set skull bomb effect are now larger and always on top. The same applies to stacking DoT effects - after 10 stacks they'll be prioritized.
Damage numbers are now depth sorted with the highest value being on top.
Damage number auto-cleanup will now remove lower numbers before bigger ones.
You can now ctrl-click items in the inventory and stash to quickly drop them.
You can now alt-click items in the inventory and stash to favorite them. Favorited items cannot be sold or auto-sorted until un-favorited again.
You can now buyback a full stack (shift + lmb), or buy 100x from stackable stuff in sotres (also shift + lmb).
Improved the buff tooltips, fixing some alignment and spacing issues.
The text saying "all enemies have been granted the X affix" when entering unstable dimensions and rare anomalies now says "all crowned foes" instead, to clarify.
Fixed Codex cards not being named correctly when printed (f10).
Endgame:
The Memory Essence reward from Anomalies is now affected by the Crafty perk (and any other future or current sources of +bonus crafting materials).
Slime King anomalies are now more rare.
Added more special spawn setups to anomalies.
Added a new tier of monsters to anomalies (Act 5 monsters) that appear on Mythic and up.
Added 9 new Anomaly bosses.
Added a new rare champion affix: Runelord - drops random endgame runes. Only spawns in Mythic+, and very rarely so.
Added 3 new unique Anomaly layouts.
Added new layout and detail/tile/light combinations for Anomalies (old layouts, new looks).
Anomalies now have a very low chance to apply a random bonus loot affix (crystals, materials, gems) to all crowned foes in them.
Mechanics:
HoH and MoH triggers will restore based on the most powerful attack made during its internal cooldown (5 frames), so you always get maximum sustain from it.
Tweaked the movement speed applied by knockback effects.
Puzzles now periodically push away nearby companions so they won't get in the way as much.
Companions now stop idle moving if they are nearby puzzles.
Misc & World:
Removed an unobtainable Berserker armor from the Codex. (old and no power)
Added some consumable items to early quest rewards.
Added a Legendary item to the Act 4 final quest reward. You can get this item
once* if you have already finished the quest before it had a reward, by just talking to Korem.
Added a same-area portal system that allows short-range portals within the same area without any loadscreens. (You'll find this in Act 5 but it moight pop up elsewhere in the game as well for more interesting layouts)
Levers are now color-coded with red and green depending on state.
The button puzzles towards the end of Act 3 are now using colored levers.
Updated some quest texts to add location names so you can find your way back at a later time.
Updated some older quest rewards with newer enchants.
Added some missing player speech (text) upon entering certain zones in acts 1,2, and 4.
Tweaked rare mob spawning to prevent them spawning into walls.
Improved detection and filtering of externally modded/hacked items (as unfortunately these modded items may cause crashes).
Sound & Music:
Added drop sounds for Unique and TL equipment and rare materials.
Added new sounds for performing and learning transmutation recipes.
Added 5 new music tracks for Act 5 and Anomalies.
Added 120 new sound effects to enemies and bosses.
Performance:
Improved lighting system so it's slightly faster, and also supports ambient light sources such as lava.
Improved texture memory handling to try and keep the memory allocation lower.
Improved framerate on death.
Improved performance for many instant on-hit triggers by making them auto-cleanup their visual effects sooner if there are very many being triggered.
Improved performance for Berserker by queuing and batching rage-based effect updates.
Improved performance for for Berserker and Warlock by delaying some instant UI updates a few frames.
Improved internal handling of Gems & stat calculations.
Improved performance of rapid interface updates.
Improved temp data handling, removing some redundant data or stuff that can be easily recreated from saving, reducing disk access somewhat.
Fixes:
Fixed gibbed foes still drawing their shadows and auras etc after they've exploded.
Fixed the Assistant spawning in Act 3 even after the point where he shouldn't.
Fixed Magnetic Orbs and Magnetic Field sometimes disappearing before the effect ended.
Fixed Dancing Blades summoned through a Codex having very little health.
Fixed companion summon spells such as Dancing Blades not properly re-summoning if a new cast was performed as the previous blades despawned.
Fixed hammerblade converted swords sometimes flashing into their original sword form when also using ring of blades.
Fixed spell target circles not being cleaned up.
Fixed issue where if standing adjacent to walls you could shoot projectiles through them or for very long distances.
Fixed undoing multiple skill point allocations at once sometimes putting skills into negatives.
Fixed being able to use the Halloween relic without cooldown.
Fixed decals such as blood and scorch marks appearing on water or "void" areas.
Fixed Expulsion burn effect not benefiting from crit chance.
Fixed some spelling and grammar errors.
Fixed a few sequence break issues with Diana Jones in act 4.
Fixed crash from enemies using taunt and dying in the same frame(ish).
Fixed several issues with enemies and companions getting stuck due to knockback effects.
Fixed some unique foes having incorrect color tinting.
Fixed trying to use a Scroll of Return after an Anomaly boss triggering the error message "Portals blocked until victory!" - it should now say "Portals blocked in this area!".
Fixed Sporeling (Warden) not working as intended with the Commander Perk.
Fixed issue where levers could be in the wrong state after re-entering an area.
Fixed right-clicking vendors also selling any item under the cursor if the resolution and scaling was set so it would overlap.
Fixed a permanent loot radius indicator if disabling the toggle setting while it was toggled on.
Fixed random black line on buff surface.
Fixed issue where when entering Tinka's Domain with a new character you couldn't finish the introduction quest until you re-entered the area.
Fixed pulling enemies creating lightning lines across the screen if you were immune to pulls.
Fixed incorrect gamepad mappings being shown in various vendor interfaces.
Fixed some overlapping text on vendor interfaces when using a controller.
Fixed some scaling problems with item cards.
Fixed issue causing negative skill points when saving and loading some builds.
Fixed damage number visual scaling because apparently that has been broken forever.
Fixed Heat Wave (Warlock) and Shatter Shield (Templar) not properly adjusting their visuals for reach stat changes.
Fixed issue causing all skills firing Frost Spears (Warlock) requiring a LOS to the caster to deal damage.
Fixed the Boomstick power (Warlock staff) not working as intended.
Fixed issue where ice spears from Shattering Punch (Berserker) would go through walls.
Fixed issue where effects that targeted random enemies would ignore LOS-checks if they were far enough away.
Fixed Holy Hammer going through walls.
Fixed players 2-4 not being able to refund skill points in co-op.
Fixed spawning sounds playing when enemies spawned offscreen in an "un-spawned" state.
Fixed some incorrect shortcut listings in the vendor interface.
Fixed Jeopardy's description saying it has a limit of 4 stacks per second when it actually is 6.
Fixed Magnetic Field overlaying endlessly and causing a lot of lag when cast by AI.
Fixed Twister enchant description.
Fixed Insta-kills via Spirit Link (Berserker) infinite damage loop bug.
Fixed the Spirit Link (Berserker) set only applying half the intended Soul Burn damage to foes struck.
Fixed Chomp and Avalanche (Berserker) triggering Shattering Cold ice shards with unlimited range.
Fixed Shattering Cold (Berserker) passing through foes (description says to only deal damage to the first foe).
Fixed a minor hiccup/frameloss that could occur on leveling up.
Fixed some Continuity problems in Act 2.
Fixed Arrows not being able to roll Slaying enchants.
Fixed gambling using the multi-buy shortcuts causing error speech when filling the inventory.
Fixed some crashes related to delay or double cast skill mechanics in combination with companions.
Fixed crashes related to erranous dungeon generation.
Fixed issue with Graveyard.
1.0 Release Date & Pricing Info!
Hey everyone!
I can't believe I'm typing this.. but I have set a release date! Chronicon will fully launch as 1.0.0 on August 21st!
The Early Access price will remain with a small launch discount for a few days, to give everyone who's been waiting for full release a last chance to pick it up at lower price point. Afterwards, the game price will increase a few dollars to its intended full price.
What's next? I hope to be able to continue support to game for a long time with fresh free smaller content updates, as well as paid DLC with major content updates. You can expect more info on this later this year!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me & the game through this very long Early Access period!
And here's a little teaser with some Act 5 content: [previewyoutube="dxK7JEUDlKs;full"]
See you on the 21st!
Update 0.98.1 - Fixes & New Achievements
Hey everyone!
Here's a few fixes for a couple recent issues. I've also removed some old achievements and added new, broader ones in the same category, namely kill "X of Y" type achievements. In the future you can expect a few codex-related ones, too. And of course a bunch for Act5! When you see those appear in the achievements list, 1.0 is near....
Thanks for the reports, suggestions, and comments!
Here's the full notes:
0.98.1:
Added new Achievements:
Removed some old very specific kill-related ones and added new kill-type achievements for all enemy types; Beast, Fae, etc.
Controllers:
Controller default bindings now puts radial loot on left stick pressed, instead of "display all items on ground".
Fixes:
Fixed some enemies (Elves in particular) sliding around after death.
Fixed some enemy affixes that were on "pulse" setting happening even after they had died.
Fixed companion health scaling going backwards after Endless Tier 42.
Fixed "MISSING TEXT" on some locked chests.
Fixed some typos in dialogue.
Fixed Elven Druid spawn animations being stuck in the first frame.
Update 0.98.0 - Endgame difficulty rebalance, tweaks, fixes, new stats
Hey everyone!
This update should take care of the issues with indirect damage suddenly being extremely lethal, as it was balanced when a bug that was fixed in the previous update was active. I also added two new stats and enchants to specifically let you deal with indirect damage if you find your preferred form of defenses lacking in that area. While I was doing that I figured I'd take a poke at the endless tier scaling, as it rapidly got a bit out of hand, and - as always - I got a bit carried away and made a larger update than intended. I've also fixed a couple issues that popped up, gave Warden some tweaks, and poked at a few other things here and there.
Anyway, hope you enjoy this update!
Now I'm off to dig myself deep into Act 5 work :-)
Here's the full notes:
0.98.0:
Difficulty & Mechanics:
Rebalanced all indirect damage and DoT damage from enemies, and gave it an upper cap - indirect damage can no longer deal more than 5% of your health in damage per strike/tick. Best way to combat indirect damage is by your preferred method of sustain (hoh, hpr, healing skill/codex, etc) rather than beefing up your health pool. (And using the new stats, of course!)
Tweaked enemy damage bonus curve through endgame difficulties - once you get high enough (endless T42 and forwards) the curve flattens and becomes liniear, so you can shift focus to doing more damage instead of avoiding pesky one-shots.
Similarly, enemy health bonus flattens on T100, and starts to slowly pick up again as you progress further.
Increased bonus experience per endless tier reached.
Enemy "on hit" affixes are now calculated as the final step in damage calculation, meaning after shields and such has been considered.
Suffering Thorns damage now has an internal cooldown of 20 frames so you don't nuke yourself on Thorn packs.
Thorns still punch through shields (as intended).
Trap damage now scales with difficulty (oops).
Skills:
All:
Lightfooted (Perk) now also affects companions.
Warden:
Companion passives buffed:
Moon Howl (Wolves) damage boost increased to 11/18/25%, up from 9/12/15%
Empowerment (Pixies) damage boost increased to 10/15/20%, up from 6/8/10%
Antivenom (Spiders) resistance boost increased to 20/30/40%, up from 15/20/25%
Thorny (Treants) thorn bonus increased to 30/50/70%, up from 9/12/15%
Oak Wisdom (Treants) mana bonus increased to 10/20/30%, up from 12/15/18%
Stats & Enchants:
Added two new defensive stats: Ground Effect Resistance, and Indirect Damage Resistance.
Added enchants for the new stats: Ground Effect Resistance can be found on Boots and Accessories. Indirect Damage Resistance can be found on Helmets and Amulets. Both are considered Minor enchants.
Interface:
Improved stat panel on the interface by dividing stats into more clear groups.
Help index updated with new stats.
Fixes:
Fixed issue with skill resets causing blank allocated skills.
Fixed characters playing powerful skill shouts/grunts on default attacks (when not having any skill assigned in leftmost slot).
Fixed issue where Act 4 Troves achievement would trigger before the last one was found.
Fixed crash when Trogs smashed urns.
Fixed Codex adding everything in your stash to the counters on each game start.
Locale:
Updated stats locale and enchants locale with the new stats & enchants.
Update 0.97.3 - Fixes & Tweaks
Hey everyone!
Thanks for the reports! Here's a tiny fix to solve the more pressing issues. A few other things have been brought to my attention and will also be fixed sometime soon. This update also features improved Linux support, so it should work without any tweaking for more Linux players now.
Have a good weekend!
0.97.3:
Misc:
Added a new help index entry about damage & defensive mechanics.
Made Screaming Skulls (monster affix) cast less rapidly on higher difficulties.
Added Act 5 locations to Codex.
Improved Linux support.
Fixes:
Fixed not being able to refund skill points after importing builds several times.
Fixed issue where indirect damage would perform the same stat checks as direct damage (whereas it should ignore all those), meaning it incorrectly scaled with resistances and didn't pierce barriers.
Fixed issue where you could load any build with any number of mastery points spent, regardless of your mastery level.
If the "champions" file cannot be found in the selected language, it'll load the default English one instead of crashing.
Update 0.97.2 - Fixes & Tweaks
Hi everyone!
Thanks again for the rapid reports! Here's another small update to take care of some recent issues. Let me know if anything else pops up!
Special thanks to Liam Dawe for helping with recent Linux troubles.
Thanks!
0.97.2:
Monsters:
Added some more names attached to Elites with certain affix rolls.
Sound & Voice:
Added a volume slider specifically for error speech, such as "not enough mana".
Linux:
Added new & improved launch script which should work across Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Arch.
Fixes:
Fixed being able to both gamble and acquire Wraps of the Lone Ranger outside of Legendary difficulty.
Fixed Sun & Moon set behaving incorrectly.
Localization:
Added locale:
menu/AUDIO OPTIONS/error_vol
new file: champions - contains all champion name and affixes