We are constantly reviewing players’ experiences and we have found some areas we can improve. These are some smaller changes we are able to make prior to our next major update, which we will be releasing with further QOL improvements based on the feedback from the Community!
Extra shards in all quest rewards.
Extra shards will now drop from chests.
The cost to speed up Follower missions/crafting has changed from 30 to 20 Gems per hour.
The cost to speed up Minion missions to open Chests has also changed from 30 to 20 Gems per hour.
Added extra crystal rewards in Follower side quests – basically every second quest or better.
Chest-rarity drop rates have been changed in all game modes. More Ruby and Diamond chests, fewer Wooden Chests.
Lots of minor tweaks to chest drops. Mainly more items used for evolving Gear and Spells (eg. Scrolls, Runes, Relics) from dungeon chests & more shards from skirmish chests.
The difficulty of Dungeons at the end of Quests early in-game has been eased.
Dungeons and Skirmish battles in the Battle tab have had a difficulty reduction on Easy or Medium.
Chapter 15 now gives a Legendary Bloodfang Shield.
Lots of minor changes to shop packs. Mainly increasing stock & making Keys and superior Shards cheaper.
Daily Deals have had some weighting adjustments & extra crystals added.
We have completed our first month in Steam Early Access! Thank you for being on this journey with us, we look forward to all the adventures to come.
World-Wide Release Hot Fix v1.0.2
Today we released a hotfix to help resolve the issues that players have encountered in Etheria over the last week.
As mentioned in our Week One Recap post, we are continuing closely monitoring every aspect of the game – from community discussions, to player feedback. Rest assured we are still working to address other bug fixes, and game optimisations. Further updates will continue to be shared across our social channels!
Thank you to all the players who reported these issues via our community and support channels, your feedback is always helpful!
The Puzzle Quest 3 Team
Added language names to chat rooms (in 1.0.2)
Note: In 1.1 new users will have their initial chat room set based on language, not 1.0.2
Added more contextual help center links
Fixed possible soft lock when loading into a battle
Fixed soft lock caused when closing the mass salvage menu
Fixed softlock issue with using loot tickets on Dungeons
Fixed issue where the game would not start correctly if the system language is set to certain languages (eg. Lithuanian)
Fixed ‘Leave your current party’ error message is displayed during the conversation and title becomes unresponsive after dismissing the message while being in a party and attempting a story battle
Added error message when new Kingdom Names are not unique
Fixed issue where the Dungeon Node would sometimes disappear after a Dungeon Battle
Fixed icons on the side quest progress bar disappearing on returning from a battle
Fixed issue where the Minion Filter and Mass salvage buttons would disappear after upgrading a Minion.
Fixed Anchor Menu overlapping with follower menu
Fixed Gold not updating in UI when leveling up followers
Fixed an issue where in game notifications stop appearing after completing a battle
Fixed various UI menus where safe regions where not being applied correctly
Fixed ‘Quit’ text not being localized
Fixed The arrow button highlight when changing quantity on a shop item facing the wrong way and in the battle select menu for parties
Fixed issue where enemies would respond to quickly to the Dwarven Hammer hit animation
Fixed the issue where The Dwarf Berserker had his shoulder plate in the wrong spot when facing left in the conversation screen
Fixed issue with Xione when in disguise not appearing correctly in conversations
Fixed issue where the Premium Plus pack for Quest Pass had no visual indication of doubling the rewards, before they are collected. However this was just a visual issue as rewards are correctly being doubled when collecting.
Fixed issue where searching by Kingdom Name was not working
Fixed issue where prices in-game on Steam were not showing correctly for some currencies, such as Japanese Yen
Puzzle Quest 3 Steam Early Access starts now!
Happy Puzzle Quest 3 Steam Early Access Day! To celebrate, here's a message from Steve Fawkner aka Sirrian, creator of the Puzzle Quest series:
Hello Puzzle Quest 3 fans!
It's Sirrian here, AKA Steve Fawkner, the creator and lead designer of the PQ series. I couldn't be more thrilled today as we usher in the Early Access on Steam for PC. To mark this momentous occasion, we've created a brand new trailer to welcome players both old and new to the world of Etheria.
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It's been a long journey since we first started development almost 3 years ago - so much around us has changed and continues to change - but I want to thank the entire team at Infinity Plus 2 and 505 Games for being such a rock-solid, creative, and talented bunch of people; no matter what the world served up, I was constantly in awe of all the hard work the team did to get us to this point. The entire team has poured their hearts into this dream project to deliver a worthy successor of the series to our players. We couldn't have reached this point without every single person from producers, programmers, designers, artists, support, community, and more. And I especially want to give a giant-sized thank you to our mobile Early Access players who have provided us with invaluable feedback that helped us shape the game to where it is today. We will always be grateful for your hard work and dedication to making this the best Puzzle Quest game yet!
I also want to congratulate the entire player community for helping us achieve over 200,000 Steam Wishlists and Pre-Registrations! Our entire team was deeply moved seeing how many of you were ready to head back into Etheria and save it from the next big threat. You’ll be able to claim your pre-reg rewards in the game upon unlocking the global mailbox when you reach level 5 after the game launches.
With so many of you enthusiastically answering the call of adventure, I can't wait to see what hero class many of you will choose and how many will contend for honor in the PVP tournaments or work together to conquer some of our challenging co-op dungeons. We're looking forward to starting this journey with our Steam Early Access players - we're eager to hear your feedback on PC as you begin to familiarize yourself with the game.
We are incredibly proud to share Puzzle Quest 3 with all of you out there, and though we've finally arrived at our launch day, this is just the beginning of an exciting new journey into Etheria. As Puzzle Quest 3 continues to evolve, we'll bring more stories, classes, enemies, and much more. We want to ensure Puzzle Quest 3 grows with your continued help, so be sure to follow all our official Community channels!
Thanks again and congratulations, adventurers. We're glad to have you in Etheria.
Steve "Sirrian" Fawkner CEO and Creative Lead, Infinity Plus Two
