Fire Magic

• Graphics upgrade to all fire spells
  
• New fire charge particles and haptics
  
• Haptics improvements to all fire spells
  
• Fire spark no longer has seeking when charged
  
• Enemy fire sparks can now be manipulated
  
• Fire arc manipulation is now improved to provide much better control
  
• Fire arc gesture tweaked to make easier to cast
  
• Fire spray now 50% larger and does more consistent damage
  
• Fire spray cast now requires a small amount of charge to reduce misfires
  
• Fire blast has a new particle system, much better damage detection and now does more consistent knockback at close range
  
• Improved particle fade effects on fire spells
  
• Tightened all fire gestures to reduce misfires
  
• Fire burn marks are now left by fire spells when they hit parts of the environment
  

General

• Added a new decal system
  
• Charge instructions and videos are now added to the player menu
  
• Upgrades to the haptics systems to allow for more complex haptics
  
• Improved lighting on all scenes, low graphics modes should look much better now.
  
• Post processing for PCVR, find this under the settings menu to enable
  
• Improvements to spell casting while moving - currently this is applied to fire spark, arc and ball.
  
• Optimised all fire spells to provide more consistent frame rate
  
• Optimised the sandbox scene on low graphics modes
  
• Enemies now have death forces applied to them correctly when they die from thermal deaths
  

Bug Fixes

• Stopped players from using backpack in the arena
  
• Removed spell animators from story mode spell unlocks
  
• Fixed mistake in earth gauntlet description
  
• Optimised air gust particle systems to reduce frame drops
  
• Stopped earth magic from being unlocked at the end of story mode
  
• Fixed bug where players did not die when falling off arena map
  
• Enemy bodies now show when they die from thermal damage
  
• Adjusted all item spawn points on the sandbox item spawners
  
• Fire spells can now no longer be manipulated while holding an item
  
• Removed air acceleration for air magic users to fix the case where the movement controls could be used to fly
  
• Keys in story mode now save to the backpack correctly
  
• Earth gloves now destroy themselves after a time to stop them building up in the scene
  
• Removed plastic items from sandbox
  

Spells

• 7 spells for Air magic - Air Blade, Gust, Air Push, Air Blade, Air Bolt, Air Blast and Hover
  
• 7 spells for Earth magic - Rock Climbing, Earth Telekinesis, Boulder, Rock Fists, Earth Shield, Earth Wall and Quake.
  
• 1 new Fire spell - Fire Blast
  

Arena Mode

• New game mode where you battle waves of enemies in a dynamic arena
  
• Our hexa-grid Arena will change mid battle to create some very interesting combat scenarios
  
• Steam based Leaderboards
  
• 3 new enemy types: Aero Flyers, Boulder Meka and Mortar Spiders
  
• Variants on existing enemies with more health and changed attack patterns
  

General

• Improved spell explanation UI with videos demoing how to cast spells
  
• Huge frame rate optimizations, game is running much faster on all graphics settings.
  
• Very low graphics option
  
• Low physics option
  

Update Hotfix 1

Spells:

• Increased accuracy and ease of all spell casting whilst moving
  
• Fire Spark: Reworked to make this more of a throwing spell. Makes for a better starter spell for the story mode.
  
• Fire arc now has more area damage
  
• Fire bomb has had some improvements to stop it casting by mistake
  
• Improved spell casting gesture detection making it more responsive
  
• Charging no longer consumes mana
  

Story Mode:

• Lore page collection fix: Players can no longer re-collect lore pages. Each unique page must now be found.
  
• Shard challenge updates and fixes
  
• Fixes to save state for crystal shards
  
• Enemy respawn rate reduced (Due to feedback from users)
  
• Coin animation fixed for different save files
  
• Players can now skip Carls’ audio sequences
  
• Updates to fire boss in temple and island arena
  
• Accessibility fixes on certain story-mode cliffs
  
• Added: Buttons now available for all lifts
  
• Fixed bug where zipline would sometimes become unaligned
  
• Fixed bug where discovery beacons didn't light up
  
• Improved buoyancy on rafts
  
• Fixed mug igniting with huge flames
  

General:

• Fixed floating items getting stuck after unholster and teleport bug
  
• Improvements to holstered items and weapons
  
• Fixed bugs on fire bomb triggering at too far a distance
  
• Bow holster bug fix
  
• Fixed general errors with saving
  
• Improved wood shields so not they don't set on fire and hold in the hand better