Fictorum

Enhancements

• You're now able to rotate the Fictorum in the character customization menu
  
• The tooltip for ability/passive extraction on the enchanting window will now clearly convey the extracted item's name, description, and quality
  
• Ability cooldown bars are now slightly transparent and are slots are fully shown when the ability is castable
  
• Shaping Bonus no longer has any negative effect on runes
  
• Efficiency runes now scale with Shaping Bonus
  
• The mana cost for Multishot has been reduced
  
• The mana cost of Spread runes has been increased
  
• Channeled spells will now properly damage shield spells
  
• Haven's spell effect has been optimized
  
• Channeling templates will now use caster time dilation
  
• The Fictorum is automatically put back on his feet when teleported out of the miasma
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with rewriting history that would put you on the wrong location in some instances
  
• Fixed a bug with summoned sentinel towers that would prevent aegis crystals from being automatically destroyed if the tower was destroyed quickly enough
  
• Efficiency, Blood, and Stamina scale better with shaping bonus
  
• Fixed the indestructible bridge pieces on the Inquisition Swamp map
  
• Fixed the floating nexus on the Winter Peak Town map
  
• Cone spells have been updated to scale more consistently with range and radius
  
• Defense attributes will now turn red when negative in item tooltips
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause inconsistent inventories from stores after moving to a new location
  
• The mouse cursor will be displayed properly with all resolutions
  
• Falling into the miasma pit in the center of the final level will properly teleport the character out of the miasma
  
• Fixed a bug with fire damage over time that would prevent the debuff icon from disappearing
  
• Changing the observer default speed text field will now update settings properly
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause error sound effects by equipping a passive scroll
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause a control lock if there is a conflict in the control mappings menu
  
• The Grathia quest will no longer auto complete at the start of the level
  
• Traps can now be triggered by rolling projectiles (Tremor and the like) and projectiles that only deal point damage
  
• Damage popups will now scale with time dilation
  
• Fixed a possible crash with piecing spells
  
• You can no longer spam healing while resting to regain full health during a rest
  
• Lights inside buildings will be properly destroyed with the structure
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

• If a spell collision radius is larger than spell radius, the spell radius will be increased to the collision radius
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent certain destructibles from going transparent when in front of the camera
  
• Cull distances for castle walls have been increased
  
• Airwing will now have wings
  
• Fixed a bug on the main menu that prevented character colors and inventory from loading properly
  
• Massive runes will now affect Downvote
  
• Fixed a bug with dash that would occasionally cause unlimited flight
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

Major Changes

New Runes

Runeset Changes

Minor Enhancements

• Rune mana cost is now applied based on the amount shaped (initial rune power for base cost and current shaping amount for channeling)
  
• The tutorial is now skippable and, once skipped, opens a quick tips screen showing the key features of the game
  
• The time between key presses to toggle flight/vault has been reduced from <=.5s to <=.2s
  
• Added a Toggle Flight hotkey
  
• Dash has been overhauled to have better aiming, better animation, and smoother movement
  
• Incendium's mana cost has been reduced 20-->13
  
• Rune negative values will no longer roll beyond the maximum negative amount
  
• Added a Purge History button in the developer menu which will erase the character history in order to reduce load time
  
• Magic, Rare, and Unique runes have smaller, more appropriate stat ranges, making them more consistent
  
• Chain rune strength increases will now diminish the damage loss for chain reactions
  
• Trap runes are now compatible with projectile spells
  
• Nova runes are now compatible with projectile spells
  
• A new perk is available for selection
  
• The ending credits can now be skipped
  
• Automatically generated runesets will now pick runes of the same type as a last resort
  
• The reduced channeling cost grace period for projectile and area spells has been reduced from .5s --> .2s
  
• The grace period of draining health once mana has been depleted has been reduced .5s --> .25s
  
• Walking momentum is kept when flight is toggled and vice versa
  
• Concentrate, Efficiency, Magic's Reach, Bounce, and Massive runes have been rebalanced
  
• Base elemental projectiles created by Chaos, Order, and Spiral will now include damage bonuses
  
• Spell slots will visually update when they can and can't cast be cast
  
• You can no longer equip/unequip an item that would reduce your health or mana to 0
  
• There is now no maximum essence cost for disenchanting and purchasing items
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would prevent movement while in observer mode
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause enemy weapons to float in mid-air if their wielder was killed mid-swing
  
• Cancelling Spellblade no longer spawns a persistent glow
  
• Fixed a bug for the Bulwark that would cause Sentinel runes to increase channeling cost
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent clairvoyance during the Brazmek boss fight
  
• The playthrough statistics screen will now show value ranges for magical-unique runes
  
• Map location focusing on the world map with gamepad has been significantly improved
  
• The fictorum is no longer invisible after toggling observer mode while using the first person camera
  
• Inventory camera transition has been slightly improved
  
• Reward choices now have a substantially lower chance of spawning exactly the same item
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistent event selection behavior when overlapping the inquisition legion
  
• The cast animations for Candy Cane and Snowball have been improved
  
• Fixed a bug that would clear falling lateral friction and flying breaking deceleration after flying
  
• Familiars and Sentinels will now properly target summoned shamblers
  
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a crash when destroying a physics-simulated piece of loot or furniture
  
• Chlorobeam no longer knocks down trees
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Echo runes from working with Area spells
  
• Familiars can no longer affect the player with their spells
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause staircases within castle structures to float in midair
  
• Chaos on Chlorobeam will no longer only hit the ground in front of the player
  
• Fixed a rare bug with the enchantment window that could cause spellcasting to be locked
  
• Projectile rune interactions have been standardized for Pierce, Bounce, Trap, Chain, and Echo
  
• Adds will now spawn with the proper material during the balmur fight
  
• Sentinels will now properly fire roller projectiles (Fire Wave, Tremor, etc.)
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Master Modifier from triggering
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause bosses to permanently target a sentinel or familiar
  
• Fixed a bug that would show improper mana values when a penalty to mana was applied from a passive
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

Patch notes

• The tutorial is now skippable and, once skipped, opens a quick tips screen showing the key features of the game
  
• Certain starting titles will receive the Arcane Inflexibility passive which prevents usage of Blood and Stamina runes
  
• Caeleste will no longer dash off the map during his second phase
  

On the hunt for an error

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

1. Opt into beta, try out v2.2, and let us know if you run into any bugs.
   
2. If you haven't already done so, leave us a review with your thoughts about the game!
   

Patch Notes

• Chlorobeam no longer destroys trees (for real this time)
  
• Walking momentum is kept when flight is toggled and vice versa
  
• Invigorate casting is no longer allowed while casting a channeled spell
  
• Map location focusing on the world map with gamepad has been significantly improved
  
• Dash has been tweaked to have less gravity while dashing
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit
  

Patch Notes

• Interaction pop-ups are no longer blank for keyboards
  
• Incendium will work once again
  
• Fixed a bug that would clear falling lateral friction and breaking deceleration after flying or dashing
  
• Dash has been overhauled to have better aiming, smoother movement, and better animations
  
• Added a Toggle Flight hotkey
  

• Email
  
• Discord
  
• Steam Community
  
• Fictorum subreddit