Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
New Update Adds Prologue, Tutorial & New Character Carissa Cantrecht
Those familiar with Kult, the predecessor to Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, will meet an old friend: Carissa, who is joining as a new playable character. Carissa Cantrecht is a former member of the secret society Penta Nera, and a skilled melee fighter, who finishes off enemies with her sword and shield.
All new features and changes at a glance
• Introduction of prologue and tutorial
• New playable character - Carissa Cantrecht
• New abilities and effects
• Improved, challenging combat
• Configurable controls
• Improved menus and user interface
• New recipes and a menu book for crafting added
• Enemies now respawn on most maps
• RPG system has been balanced
• Additional graphical effects
• Improved performance
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms gets second update
The crafting system is also now available, allowing players to craft their own weapons and armour, brew potions and create powerful rings. Additionally, due to feedback received during the early access phase, the developers have opened up the skill system, giving players more freedom when selecting their skills.
The new features at a glance
• New playable character: Evia, Daughter of Fire
• Crafting system
• Improved skill system
• Many minor improvements and new options
The Early Access Version of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Gets the First Big Update
The Highlights of the Update include:
1. Based on the feedbacks from the players Games Farm has implemented
a. Controller support
b. Speed and combat dynamics
2. New content
a. New playable character – Zaar
b. New enemies – Nomads, Sebekans, Maggots, Scorpions, Porcupines, Soulravens, Revenants, Mercurial Demons, Bone Demons
c. Additional Voiceovers
d. New skills for the characters
e. Lair for Devourer
f. 6 maps, including Nomad’s camp, Outlands and associated maps around.
g. Several quests will be added; some of them won’t be possible to accomplish though (those which are related to Oasis, or later locations). Approximately up to 10 new quests.
h. Additional equipment, adjusted drop system and RPG system
i. GUI updates and improvements
j. Options updates
k. Optimizations
l. DirectX11 support
m. Ragdolls and physics updates
n. Improved drop system, looting system, respawn
3. And countless of bug fixes
Update Teaser and Steam Key Give-Away!
The new content update will feature new areas to explore and adventure in, new enemies to slay and a new playable character! As time progresses, we will release more tidbits of information. So stay tuned!
If you are interested in playing Shadows, but haven't bought the Early Access version yet, then join the raffle! You can either join the raffle on Facebook or Twitter. Simply comment the Facebook post or retweet the Twitter message and you will be in the pool for a Steam Key of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms!
Who knows - this weekend, you might be among the adventurers that roam the Heretic Kingdoms...
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Functionality update for Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
The following problems were addressed:
1. Added support for multiple monitors
2. Added support for multiple rendering devices
3. Added lower and higher resolutions
4. Removed OpenAl linking which could cause crashes at game start
5. Added a new crash reporting system to better trace the problems on your end.
6. First version of an options menu
7. Added video options to adjust some basic graphical options to improve the performance and adjust visuals
8. Music options
9. General bug fixing and gameplay improvements
We hope this will help to improve your gameplay experience!
Early Access is now live!
We begin the Early Access with a 10% discount for a limited time only!