Realms of Magic
Version 0.19.2
Version 0.19.1
We have temporarily disabled training while we are working on the fix.
Version 0.19.0 - Improved Achievements and New Music
It's been a while since we've released an update. For the last month most of our team was working on the seventh and final realm - the Blackwall. We are in the final stages of Blackwall's development - all locations and quests are finished, all that is left for us to do on this province is to test, fix and wrap up the work on the boss fight that will be an epic culmination to the game's storyline.
While our Design Team was working on the final realm, our programmer implemented Balance Tools that will allow us to efficiently iterate on game's balance. While you won't see much balance changes in this update, many things like experience or NPCs work completely different in the backend. You can expect major rebalance patches in the upcoming weeks - including character and profession experience progressions and combat balance.
We've already discussed what's coming next, let's now focus on features and changes in this update!
Improved Achievements System
- All achievements are now earned retroactively
- If for some reason you didn't receive an achievement when it was earned, then you just need to load your latest save and they should be awarded now
Improved Talent Trees Visuals
- New icons for each talent tree with unique background and sprites
New scrolls sprites
- Replaced placeholder scroll sprites with new ones
New music track - Splinterville Village Theme
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New music track - Splinterville Exploration 2
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New music track - Splinterville Exploration 3
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New music track - Wheatfull Exploration 2
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New music track - Wheatfull Exploration 3
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Changes
- Balanced the fight in tutorial so it's no longer ridiculously long
- Big experience numbers are now separated with commas
Fixes
- Fixed bug that prevented some players from completing quest for Galfrey in Stonebridge
- Fixed names of multiple Nature summons
- Fixed tooltip on world map button sometimes providing incorrect information
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.18.1
Minor hotfix version 0.18.1 is now live! In this update we have made just 2 changes, however one of them should be a significant improvement for people who have been experiencing one of the 4 following bugs:
- Player and enemies becoming immune to damage
- Player and NPCs becoming invisible
- Combat sounds become very silent as the game progresses
- Enemies spawn near player instead of offscreen, eventually they stop spawning at all
This patch does not solve these issues entirely and they can still occur, however they should occur much less often. If you still experience these issues, the temporary solution while we are still working on a full fix is to:
- Save and load the game in case of invisibility or invincibility bugs
- Restart the game in case of sounds and spawning bugs
We have managed to find quick and reliable way to replicate all of the issues listed below, so hopefully fixing them shouldn't be of much trouble now.
Bugfixes
- Removed leftover event code that was causing several issues - this change should also slightly improve stability and decrease stuttering, especially on low-end machines.
- All creatures in handmade locations now should have correct names
Twitch Stream
We also want to give big shoutout to Tomato who has streamed our game recently on Twitch, roleplaying as a greedy goblin scavenger who is very bad at scavenging gold. If you like drinking games, then you may drink every time Tomato forgets to loot money from a container. You can check out the replay here:
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Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.18.0 - Tailoring Overhaul
Another regular update is now live. We have overhauled the Tailoring profession by adding 14 new craftable armor sets, 10 of them can be crafted right now and 4 more endgame recipes will unlock once the final realm, the Blackwall, will be released.
We are also wrapping up work on improved achievements system, we should be able to release it soon in a minor 0.18.X update.
Overhauled Tailoring
- 14 new cloth armor sets
- 10 of them are craftable now
- 4 more will unlock in Blackwall realm
Changes
- Changed Travel button tooltip on map when active location is selected
- Improved Oak tree sprite
- Improved Frostpath Pine tree sprite
- Improved Stone block sprite
- Tweaked Dwarf racial abilities values
- Change behavior of Nord Shieldbearer
- Reduced amount of Roll talents to three at the same time increasing their strength
- Added more talents to sprint and reduced requirements, to let players have much better exploring experience
- Added color to active talents icons
- Changed icons for various talents and spells
- Changed skills sorting
Fixes
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused game to load location data from other saves
- Fixed issues with multiple shouts appearing at once
- Fixed typo in Katherine dialogue
- Fixed grammar in Farkas dialogue
- Fixed typos in armor names
- Fixed issue with spell names not having space
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.17.0 - Sandbox Unlocked
In this one we introduce a new way to unlock new provinces, which doesn't require playing through the main storyline. Instead you can explore caves in sandbox areas to find Map Fragments that can be crafted into Maps. You can use Maps to unlock new provinces.
We have also rebalanced most racial abilities to match changes made to the rest of the game in the massive update released in December. Our goal with racials is to make experience of playing each race as unique as possible. If you feel that your favorite race isn't up to snuff, then let us know, so we can buff it - or nerf it in case of Gnomes.
There are also great news for all players who love soundtrack in our game. We felt that it could use more of the amazing music composed by Davi Vasc and we extended the contract with him to include around 15 more tracks, so that playing Realms of Magic will feel even more magical!
Features
New item type - Map
- Using a map unlocks a certain province
- Maps can be crafted from Map Fragments
- Map Fragments can be found in caves
Changes
Racial Abilities Balance
- Human - Tweaked values for passive bonuses
- Wild Elf - Added bonus Stamina Points
- Wild Elf - Tweaked values for passive bonuses
- High Elf - Added bonus Mana Points and Mana Regeneration
- High Elf - Tweaked values for passive bonuses
- Dark Elf - Added bonus Health and Stamina Points
- Dark Elf - Tweaked values for passive bonuses
- Goblin - Tweaked values for passive bonuses
- Lizardman - Added bonus Health Points
- Lizardman - Ability Devourer have been slightly changed. It no longer increases hunger bar size to avoid extreme stacking of food buff. Instead now grants 0.5% damage increase and 1 Health Point per stack, stacking up to 100.
- Lizardman - Ability Cold-blooded have been slightly changed. It now restores 5% Health Points on all kills, while killing cute little animals restores even more.
Other changes
- Improved tooltips on numerous talents
- Tweaked damage of Ice Shards spell
- Changed Fireball cast time to 0.75s from 1s
- Changed Ice Spike cast time from 0.1 to 0.25s
- Changed Ice Nova cast time to 0.5s to avoid issue with flying enemies
- Changed dialogue with Rody to be more subtle
- Tweaked Scroll of Knowledge crafting experience
- Changed crafting categories in Crafting profession
Bugfixes
- Fixed the infamous issue with Orwell for all characters
- Fixed issue that caused torch to incorrectly display after traveling in combat mode
- Fixed issue with Necromancy Summon Health stat on items being extremely high
- Removed unused recipes from the Witch
- Fixed world sprites for scrolls
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.16.6
Changes
- Updated placeholder icons in multiple talents and spells
- Improved visuals for Polearm special abilities
- Orc racial is now capped at 500 stacks
Bugfixes
- Fixed duplication bug when placing objects
- Fixed issue causing talent trees backgrounds to not display properly
- Fixed spelling mistakes for Bert and Obos in Splinterville
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.16.5
Changes
- Major balance of Drysoil province
- Restored crafting recipes for Steel Chain and tiers of Anvils, Sacks, Small Sacks and Sleeping Bags
- Wolf health has been increased from 50 to 100
- Minor tweaks to creatures and weapon damage
- Removed adult language from Hardwin and Bran dialogues
- Improved journal entries in quest for Grep
- Removed Burlap Shoulderpads from tutorial loot as now player starts the game with them
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue causing Orwell to sometimes have a blank dialogue
- Fixed typo in Porten dialogue
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.16.4
Changes
- Added ability to skip the tutorial
- Merchants now have infinite gold
- Massively reduced Animal Pens and Feed Grinder recipe cost
- Chickens now drop eggs when killed
Bugfixes
- Fixed crash reporter not working
- Fixed Iron Greatsword stats
Yours truly,
Polished Games Team
Version 0.16.3
Changes
- Changed starting gear to include all Stone tools and almost complete set of Burlap clothes
- Tweaked Smelting recipes - low tier bar recipes now require less coal and higher tiers require more resources to craft
- Decreased bars smelting time
- Significantly increased Tanning experience gained
- Increased Scroll of Knowledge crafting experience and crafting time
- Improved Journal entry for quest Knowledge is Power
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue causing visual glitches to appear on map and on the bottom of locations
- Fixed issue that caused secrets in Stonebridge Merchants District to not count properly
- Fixed issue that caused NPCs to fail blocking
- Fixed issue that caused empty dialogue with Temple leader
- Fixed issue that caused empty dialogue with Sayed in Drysoil