Abilities

• Air bolt and deflect now requires more hand velocity to trigger.
  
• Air blade chop gesture has been improved
  
• Misfires when going from hover hands to another air ability have been reduced.
  
• Earth wall can now be grabbed and punched, making for a cool earth wall ride combo. The wall can be punched 5 times while held before it breaks.
  
• Ice shuriken's now account for player velocity and have a better trajectory when thrown while the player is moving
  

Story

• Carl voice clips have been added to the Reservoir level
  
• Completing Reservoir now correctly shows a warp hand to teleport you back to the earth hub
  
• Completing Reservoir now repairs the airship at the start of Ignis island (more coming on this later)
  
• A new room has been added to the earth hub that can be unlocked with all 20 earth shards
  

General

• Floating UI can now be toggled in the Settings menu
  
• A no turn option has been added to the settings menu which stops the player turning from the controller. This will help players with extreme cases of stick drift.
  
• Element swapper can now affect items in your hand, making it so you can change elements on the Tek bow while holding the item.
  

Bug Fixes

• Large earth boulder now no longer do huge damage when they touch enemies
  
• Items no longer freeze in the air when they go flying off
  
• Flicking on hover hands particle at certain angles has been fixed
  
• Ice shards now have a collision immediately after they have been cast
  
• Fixed a few door colliders of doors at the Ignis isle docks.
  
• Power station two on Ignis Isle now correctly renders the power on state.
  

BUG FIXES

• Water tentacles no longer damage the player
  
• Water whip now uses the correct version
  
• Returning to the earth hub from the second earth dungeon now works correctly
  

Story Update - Chapter 2 - Earth

• We have 4 new new earth levels, with 20 shards and 24 lore pages to discover
  
• Unlock all the earth spells in story mode and use them to further explore Ignis Isle
  
• Ignis isle has been split with the islands now further apart, this gives us a big performance boost on Quest.
  
• Fire blast can now be unlocked in chapter 1.
  
• Fire spray and fire bomb have had their unlock positions changed
  
• Your crashed airship can now be seen on the start beach and can be entered
  
• The crashed airship will act as your home base
  
• A simple store has been added to the home base
  
• Collected Lore pages can be viewed in the home base
  
• A completion screen has been added to the home base where you can see your total complement percentage of the current version of story mode
  
• A storage locker has been added to home base to store items
  
• The Tek bow can be purchased at the store and used in story mode
  

Player

• A new Tek watch has been added to both hands, this will show health, mana, coins and active status effects.
  
• Notifications now show up on the Tek watch, pressing the left Tek watch will open the notification on the pop up menu for more details.
  
• A new grab vault has been added, grab onto a static object with two hands then pull yourself up to perfect a smooth and easy climb.
  
• An element swapper has been added that will allow you to quickly swap between different elements.
  

Ability changes

Fire

• Spray will now leave fire in the world you can make a fire wall
  
• Fire in hand now grows hotter as you charge
  
• Blast will provide a small amount of boos to the player
  

Air

• New Spell - Deflect - new air spell that will defect low mass attacks like fire and air projectiles back at the caster
  
• Air bolts now do slightly more damage
  
• Air passive will now give more hover effect, equipping two air crystals will give double hover effect.
  
• Air passive now has more jump increase
  

Earth

• New spell - Fortify - Charge with two earth hands, this spell will encase you in earth armour providing resistance to all damage types. Fortify also increases player weight.
  
• New Spell - Super Strength - equipping an earth crystal in a hand will give increased strength. Heavier objects can be lifted easier and held items can be thrown further.
  
• Boulder grab and punch - using strength you can now grab your summoned boulders. Punching these while holding will give a boost, this can be done three times before the boulder breaks. Use this for a bit of mobility.
  
• Charging and then casting earth shields will produce a shield with spikes with increased damage
  
• Quake boost - Quake now much more reliably boosts the player if released under the player.
  
• Quake can now be controlled up and down sloped surfaces.
  
• Earth damages have been tweaked.
  

Arena

• A new arena season has been added that includes Tek bots and more intense combat.
  
• Score modifiers have been added and include - reduced player health, increased enemy health and increased enemy damage. These will give a score boost and can be stacked.
  
• Element combos can be used in the arena, eg. fire in one hand and earth in the other.
  
• Element swapper can be used in the arena so you can battle with all 4 elements simultaneously. This can be selected as a modifier.
  
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Enemies

• Earth Tek bots are now in the sandbox, story and arena.
  
• Lv 1 earth tek bots are equip with earth gloves and will charge the player
  
• Lv 2 is equip with a shield and will summon boulders
  
• Lv 3 will summon boulder and walls
  
• Lv 4 is an experimental giant enemy that can be summoned in the sandbox
  

UX / UI

• Tutorial has been updated to now have a few more steps
  
• Carl can now be seen in the tutorial and will follow you from step to step
  
• New control screens have been added that better show which controller button needs to be pressed
  
• The shard display in the quest log now shows collected fire and earth crystal shards. As well as having place holders for air and water shards.
  
• Ancient Tek screens have been added to story mode.
  
• Shard unlock door have been added, these are doors that need a certain number of shards to be unlocked.
  

Other

• Four Easter eggs have been hidden in the world, see if you can find them all.
  

Bug Fixes

• Items not correct store in your backpack and are not removed when the game is reset
  
• A bug where some players could only collect 19 fire shards has now been fixed
  
• A bug with caused the game to crash on certain earth ability collisions has been fixed
  
• Duplicate shard and lore page collection has been permanently fixed with ID checking
  

FIXES

• Fixed bug where Tek arrows explode if you walk into them
  
• Improved the popup menu UI so that spell information is displayed better and not cut off.
  
• Fixed spell instruction videos being played on the quest.
  
• Fixed Fire Traps not doing correct damage in dungeons
  
• Improved the breakable wall in fire dungeon 1, it can now be destroyed by a fireball or firebomb.
  
• Wood objects now correct show there wet particle effect
  
• Flaming objects now get extinguished correct in large bodies of water
  
• Infinite shard glitch now fixed at the docks
  
• Fixed spelling mistake on main menu
  

• Our new enemy is the ‘Tek Bot’, a fully physical humanoid enemy.
  
• Water magic in arena
  
• Updated UI for - in game menu, main menu and the sandbox menu
  
• Recording features for PCVR
  
• Some spell changes and tweaks
  
• Bug fixes
  

Tek Bots

Damage Types

Tek bots

• Fully physical enemies, push them over, trip them and send them flying with ragdoll goodness.
  
• Three levels of fire tek bot, levels one, two and three
  
• Higher level tek bots are larger and heavier and will react less to all abilities.
  
• Low level tek bots can be picked up and thrown, heavier bots can be climbed and ridden.
  
• Tek bot limbs can be sliced off with slashing abilities or blown off with explosive abilities.
  
• Cutting off limbs can stop abilities from being cast
  
• Beheading insta kills the enemy, this can be done with slashing and explosive abilities
  
• As enemies are physically simulated they can be knocked over, this will cancel any attack they have underway.
  
• Aiming at an enemies legs with powerful attack can trip up the enemy. Items like the ‘hook on a stick’ can also be used to trip enemies.
  
• Higher level tek bots can have armour which will help protect against; limb slicing, decapitation and leg tripping. Although it is still possible to do these things.
  
• Heating an object will cause it to slowly glow red
  
• Once a hot enough temperature is reached the enemy will turn smoking, damaging itself slowly over time with a burn effect.
  
• Frost and Water damage will cool heated object and can remove a smoking effect.
  
• Smoking enemies will explode when they die.
  
• Explosive, kinetic, shockwave and water damage abilities can push an enemy back with a force.
  
• Killing an enemy with slash damage will result in a body split KO.
  
• Freezing an object will cause it to slowly glow blue
  
• Get a tekbot cold enough and it will freeze. Frozen enemies can be shattered with the lightest touch, killing them instantly.
  
• Ice surfaces like those created by the Frost Spray will cause Tek Bots to slip.
  
• Tek Bots can be wet with water abilities, wet enemies will freeze faster.
  
• Water tentacles can be used to grab any part of a tekbot, smaller tek bots can be dragged around with this.
  
• The water tentacle flick can be applied to tek bots causes them to go flying
  
• Water tentacle and water whips can be used to trip tek bots if aimed at the enemies feet.
  
• Kinetic attacks such as earth abilities are very powerful and have a good chance of knocking an enemy over.
  

Tek Bow

• The tek bow can now be found in the sandbox, spawn it from the sandbox menu.
  
• Tek Weapons are a new class of weapon that are empowered by the elemental crystal in your hand.
• Changing your hand crystal will change the empowerment of the weapon.
  
• The Tek bow has four empowerments, one for each element
  
• Fire will create explosive arrows
  
• Air will create fast moving gust arrows that can pass through multiple objects
  
• Earth will create quake arrows that create small earth quakes when they hit the ground.
  
• Water will create frost arrows that will freeze enemies
  

Water magic in the arena

• Water magic is now accessible in the arena
  
• Water scores will now show up on the arena leaderboard
  

UI Updates

• New main menu in the tek screen style
  
• New in game menu with a more intuitive design
  
• Each ability has their damage types listed in the in game menu
  
• A help page has been added to the in game menu to explain damage types
  
• In game menu can be grabbed and moved around for finding a more comfortable position
  
• New sandbox menu in the tek screen style
  
• Better video loading (no more lag on quest)
  
• New damage display in the sandbox, next to the punching bag which breaks down damage for each ability
  

Recording features

• New recording features have been added to the PCVR version
  
• At the moment they are only usable in the sandbox
  
• Ghost camera will create a flying camera that can be positioned with the mouse and keyboard
  
• Split screen mode will create a split screen with a ghost camera on one side and regular first person video on the other
  
• Third person mode will create a camera that tracks the player from a third person angle
  
• New UI to show the different modes
  

Ability Changes

• Fall damage has been removed for all classes
  
• Fire bombs now have a slightly larger explosion radius
  
• Air Punch has reduced force on enemies
  
• Quake has improved collision detection making it much easier to hit enemies on the spike rise.
  
• Frost spray now has a colder damage temperature
  

Bug Fixes and Optimizations

• Explosive spells produce less frame drops when they explode
  
• Reduced lag when finishing certain abilities
  
• Build number now correctly increments on main menu
  
• Hide backpack mesh renderers when not in use
  

• Fixed lagging water instruction videos
  
• Fixed bug where removed frost from objects
  
• Water now correctly cools hot objects
  
• Ice Shuriken can now no longer be grabbed after it is thrown
  
• You can now apply snap freeze to grass blocks, wooden crates and wooden barrels in the sandbox
  

NEW ABILITIES

Other Changes

• Frost damage is added to the damage system
  
• Frost damage will appear blue on damage numbers
  
• Water abilities now put out fire abilities
  
• Water abilities can slow down incoming earth abilities
  
• All water spells can wet enemies
  
• Enemies can now be frozen with frost abilities and defrosted with heat abilities
  
• Frozen enemies can be shattered with a physical attack
  
• Enemies can be wet, wet enemies will be slower and can be frozen easier
  
• Players now have more control when walking on ice
  
• A crashed airship has been added to the story mode map (more on this later)
  

Bug Fixes

• Decals now work correctly
  
• Passthrough attacks like gust now correctly pass through objects
  

Earth Magic

• Improved sound effects on all earth spells
  
• Particle improvements for most earth spells
  
• A new smooth collision system was added for all heavy hitting earth attacks. Enemies now react with more realistic forces.
  
• Earth charge now requires the hand to be facing the ground to charge earth.
  
• There are 2 distinct earth charge states, lv1 and lv2 . These are identified by particle changes, audio cues and haptics.
  
• New earth charge particles have been added to the ground that show when charge is active.
  
• Earth gauntlets have been reworked, by releasing trigger but still holding grip the gauntlet will shoot forwards. Pressing the trigger again will have the gauntlet return to the hand.
  
• Earth gauntlets now have new particles to support this new mechanic.
  
• Earth boulder has been updated to now have three distinct sizes of boulder. Small, medium and large. Small boulders require no charge and can be fired quickly, medium boulders require level 1 charge and are heavier but do much more damage. Lv2 boulders are very heavy and tough, they will kill most enemies they hit but are hard to control.
  
• Earth wall has had some reworks, the gesture has been changed from an uppercut to palm facing down, then pulling upwards motion. See the in game menu for a video on how to cast this.
  
• Earth walls are now physical objects and can be pushed over and manipulated.
  
• Earth walls can be gripped and punched to travel faster across flat ground.
  
• Earth gauntlet and shield now have more health
  
• Earth gauntlet and shield now no longer react to power punch while in the player hand. This fixes a lot of bugs that sent the player flying.
  
• Quake now no longer pushes objects while travelling along the ground, this allows it to better get under objects.
  
• Quake spikes now have improved hit detection and now deal damage more consistently.
  
• All earth spells have had their damages adjusted
  
• Reduced range of power punch
  
• Rock climb now has audio
  

Fire Magic

• Fire spark seeking now improved
  

General

• Second spawn table removed from sandbox to improve optimization
  

Bug Fixes

• Ice shard now casts correctly
  

Air Magic

• New particles for every air spell and impact effect
  
• New air charge effect, haptics and audio
  
• New audio for every air spell
  
• New haptics for casting air bolt and air blade
  
• New Air Passive - each crystal attached gives a slight hover when falling, equipping 2 crystals gives no fall damage.
  
• Charging air is now done in a more fluid twirling motion (see in game tutorial for exact details)
  
• Air bolt is now a primary air attack and can be cast with a jab motion
  
• Air blade now casts better while moving and can't travel through large objects.
  
• Gust now requires charge to cast, charging it will make it larger
  
• Air blast now is cast by charging and then doing a punch and hold, it is much more powerful now being able to push over heavy objects. It also deals damage.
  
• Air punch now applies force on objects more reliably.
  
• Air bolt attacks now leave decals on impact
  
• New instruction videos for air spells
  

Earth Magic

• Power Punch now has new hit particles
  
• New summon effect for Rock Gauntlets and Rock Shield
  
• New sound effects for certain earth spells
  
• Tweaks to all earth casting gestures
  

Fire Magic

• Added haptics to fire spray
  

General

• Updates to our gesture detection system that should help produce more reliable gestures.
  
• Casting while moving backwards now works
  
• Seeking property for spells added to UI
  

Bug Fixes

• Air blade now applies less force when it destroys an object
  
• Smoke now always travels upwards on ignited objects
  
• Reduced HDR on glove crystals that was too high when post processing is enabled.
  
• Pots now spawn correctly in sandbox
  
• Seeking on training bag
  
• Mortar Spiders fire arcs now correctly seek player and have upgraded particles
  
• Story mode UI now shows only spells that can be unlocked in story
  
• Story end game now unlocks correct abilities
  
• Coins that are out of reach now drop to the ground