Genre: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Striving for Light
Update 0.7.1.2
New Features
When using a shard of power you now see the applied difference in base weapon damage.
When using a shard of quality you now see an additional failed or success information.
You can now only apply a shard of power if the weapon is not already maxed out. This should prevent re-rolling the base weapon damage from the highest possible value to a much lower value. Its now also displayed once a weapon is maxed outcraft.
Companions can now destroy world objects (v.0.7.1.2b)
Balancing
Massively increased shard of quality legendary crafting chance.
Slightly reduced shard of quality drop rate.
Increased the aeodra arena exp reward, the exp reward is now scaling with the dungeon floor you are visiting the arena.
Increased melee damage skill node now increases +80% base weapon damage (was +100 %)
Exploding Projectile skill nodes now additionally scales with your projectile damage (v.0.7.1.2a)
Exploding Hit skill nodes now additionally scales with your projectile damage (v.0.7.1.2a)
Bursting Shot skill node now additionally scales with your melee and your projectile damage (v.0.7.1.2a)
Fragmentation skill node now additionally scales with your melee and your projectile damage (v.0.7.1.2a)
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug which caused shard of quality have a much lower chance to craft a legendary item.
Fixed a bug which caused altered base weapon stats from crafting not being saved.
Fixed a bug which caused hearts in the aeodra arena getting lost on scene switch.
Fixed a bug which caused old save file which have not completed all levels to forever stay on dungeon floor 1.
Fixed wrong tooltips on merchant UI when revisiting the merchant later on.
Fixed several wrong calculated skill damage numbers in the skill tooltips on when having multiple stacks active (v.0.7.1.2a)
Fixed player cloak layering (v.0.7.1.2a)
Added further description for emerald staff that spiders count as companions (v.0.7.1.2a)
Fixed range weapon shard of recast not changing the embedded skill of a legendary weapon (v.0.7.1.2b)
Fixed wrong displayed resource cost on legendary weapons with embedded skills (v.0.7.1.2b)
Fixed shard of recast not working on ranged legendary weapons (v.0.7.1.2b)
If you encounter any bugs or inintented behaviour please report it on the steam forums or on our discord! This helps us a ton to hunt down those bugs.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light.
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Update 0.7.1.1
New Features
Map mods now have legendary drop rate and weapon shard drop rate modifiers. So now you can enjoy increased legendary and weapon shard drop rates on higher tier maps.
Map mods now have weapon drop rate as a modifier. So you can now enjoy higher weapon drop chances on higher tier maps.
Added small tutorial hint for the crafting window that a weapon has to be selected first in order to craft.
Improvements
Triggered AoE Effects are now positioned on the enemy instead of next to the enemy. This should make it easier to apply conditions with smaller AoE effect sizes.
[Ranged Weapon] Unstable Potion has received a new SFX when the poison splash gets triggered.
Balancing
[Skill Node] Increased Condition Damage is increased to +70 % condition damage (was +50%) (v.0.7.1.1a).
Readjusted drop rates of all shards, in general drop chances of all shard has been increased.
Massively increased drop chances for weapon shards from chests (there was a 0 too much :) )
Increased drop rate for weapon shards.
Increased exp reward of Aeodra Arena.
Enemies now also have a small chance in dropping weapons.
Small adjustment to enemy spawn rates in the Aeodra Arena.
Boomerang now decreases your attack speed by -50% to balance out the power gain on increased attack range. Especially when using slower weapons with high base weapon damage.
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug which caused condition damage stacks to deal always 10 damage instead of the actual increased damage per damage tick (v.0.7.1.1a)
Fixed not saved settings on first game launch. When you experienced weird behaviour when first launching the game and changing resolution or also the sound volume and it reverted back instead of saving it. This all should now be fixed.
Fixed the UI scaling bug on the Tree of Light legacy UI.
Fixed to small player detection radius on enemies and bosses.
Fixed Flood skill not reducing cooldown time on increased skill stacks.
Fixed a crash when picking up a flail weapon.
Fixed a bug which only let you aquire one chicken companion skill gem at once from the chicken in town.
If you encounter any bugs or inintented behaviour please report it on the steam forums or on our discord! This helps us a ton to hunt down those bugs.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light.
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Legendary Content Update Hotfixes
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug which caused legendaries to vanish on gatekeeper and aeodra arenas (v.0.7.1.0a)
Fixed a bug which caused legendary weapon vfx being always active on certain weapons (v.0.7.1.0a)
Fixed a bug which caused unreliable projectile range behaviour with reverting shot and increased projectile range nodes. Mostly the projectile range increase of skill nodes was only affecting the first spawned projectiles and had no effect on later spawned projectiles. (v.0.7.1.0b)
If you encounter any bugs or inintented behaviour please report it on the steam forums or on our discord! This helps us a ton to hunt down those bugs.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light.
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Legendary Content Update
Here are the full patch notes for the Legendary Content Update (v. 0.7.1.0) featuring legendary weapons, a crafting system, reworked stats window and skill gem UI, reworked skills, balancing changes and further highly requested improvements.
The Legendary Content Update will be released on Monday 28th of November at 8pm CET.
With the update lauch we will start Season 6.
Legendary Weapons
With this update we are adding a complete new weapon tier to the game: Legendary Weapons. All weapons in the game receive a legendary tier which not only has a higher base damage but also comes with a skill socket. The skill socket can hold a big variety of different ability skills which can freely be combined with your abilities from the skill tree. This will lead to over 1000 new legendary weapons to hunt for and bring your builds to the next level.
Crafting System
With this update we are introducing a crafting system as well as 3 collectible weapon shards into the game. These weapon shards are rare drops which can be found in every corner of the world granting you new ways to upgrade and modify your weapons.
This are the 3 new introduced weapon shards and what you can use them for.
Shard of Power A shard which holds the power to modify the base damage of any weapon.
Shard of Quality A shard which holds the potential to transform a normal weapon into a legendary weapon.
Shard of Recast A shard with the power to recast an embedded skill into something new.
Reworked Weapons
All weapons now have random generated damage stats. It is easy to find a weapon with normal base damage but in rare cases you can now find weapons with very high base damage.
New Damage Scaling
Along the random generated attributes we are also changing the damage scaling of skill nodes. In the past it did not make a huge difference how much damage a weapon has dealt because the base damage got quickly overshadowed by the increased damage buffs from the skill tree. With this update we are scaling the increased damage skill nodes based on your weapon base damage. So if you are wielding a dagger with a lower base damage but fast attack speed the increased damage nodes from the skill tree will grant less damage increase compared to wielding the elder club with over 3 times more base melee damage. This should make weapon choices more substantial and not only about their attack speed and range.
Reworked Stats Window
The stats window has shown its age and got completely reworked with unique icons for energy, endurance and dodge. Also the weapon attack cost are now displayed much clearer to make it easier for new players to understand the resource system. The second page of the stats window now has more space to display your active ability skill nodes.
New skill gem filters
You can now use optional category filters on the skill gem UI to quickly find the skill gem you are searching for.
New increased Condition Damage Skill Node
A new increased condition damage skill node has been added to the game which lets you further scale your condition damage. All conditions inflict +50% additional damage per tick and damage stack applied.
Ability skill nodes that deal condition damage now also display the total damage per tick considering all skill stacks and increased condition damage nodes.
On each new skill tree there will always be a ranged and melee ability node spawned near the centre.
You can now search the skill tree with the shortcut CTRL+F and end the search with the return button.
Decreased volume of intro cinematic.
Weapon stats can now be viewed directly when walking over a weapon without the need to equip it.
Weapon stats can now be viewed anytime from the stats or the crafting window.
Portals now require to interact to use them. This should prevent not intended interactions when accidentally walking near a portal when during fights.
Added a save button in the options menu that simply saves your altered settings, you can use this button if the back button does not automatically save your changed settings.
General
Increased base character movement speed.
Weapons
[Melee Weapon] Hammer: Smash AoE does now scales with player melee damage. Base damage has been increased to 16 (was 10). Hammer attack animation was reworked leading to an overall faster hit attack animation.
[Ranged Weapon] Unstable Potion: Deals 7 base damage (was 5)
[Melee Weapon] Searing Axe: Weapon has been renamed to Ripping Axe
[Melee Weapon] Greatsword: Reduced attack speed of greatsword
Aeodra Arena
Decreased EXP gain in the Aeodra Arena and increased the item rewards of the Aeodra Arena (weapons, shards, fragments of light). This should make the Aeodra Arena a better farming experience. In general the level based exp gain of the arena reward has been changed to a flat exp gain which still is affected by random exp bonuses on rewards per wave and your current map modifiers.
Increased enemy spawns in the early waves of the Aeodra Arena to make the first waves more challenging.
Skills
Increased Endurance Regeneration is increased to +60 % (was +50)
Increased Energy Regeneration is increased to +60 % (was +50)
Decreased the spawn rate of attack speed skill nodes in the skill tree.
Increased spawn rate of Projectile Multiplicator
Increased spawn rate of Empowered Companions
Increased spawn rate of Projectile Damage Skill nodes.
Empowered companions now has less dodge regeneration malus -15% (was -25%)
Increased Dodge Regeneration skill node now increases Dodge Regeneration by +40% (was +20%)
Trembling Ground does now trigger 3 On Hit effects instead of On Attack Effects this should also make it possible to combine the attack replacer skill with more other skills.
Wind shock has reduced knockback strength.
Legacy Tree
Attack speed legacy skill nodes now grant +5% attack speed ( was 3%).
Dodge Regeneration legacy skill nodes now grant 15% increased dodge regeneration (was 5%).
Enemy
Increased Gatekeeper max HP.
Increased Arda, the fallen max HP.
Drop Chances
Increased drop rate of Fragment of Light.
Increased drop rate of skill tree shards and map shards.
Fixed a bug which prevented the Skill Ability Flood to only hit enemies once. This mainly affected bosses as only one time damage could be dealt.
Fixed a bug which caused set resolution not being saved when entering the options menu from the main menu.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light.
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Legendary Content Update - Preview (Part 2)
In this post we are going to take a deep dive into the new weapon tier we are adding with the Legendary Content Update (Version 0.7.1)... yes, you guess it right, we are adding legendary weapons to the game. And we will also take a closer look on how you can modify weapons with the new introduced crafting system.
The Legendary Content Update will be released on Monday 28th of November at 8pm CET.
With the update lauch we will start Season 6.
Legendary Weapons
With this update we are adding a complete new weapon tier to the game: Legendary Weapons. All weapons in the game receive a legendary tier which not only has a higher base damage but also comes with a skill socket. The skill socket can hold a big variety of different ability skills which can freely be combined with your abilities from the skill tree. This will lead to over 1000 new legendary weapons to hunt for and bring your builds to the next level.
The legendary abilities will open up completely new build possibilities. You want to build melee constructs while casting a shot from your ranged weapon, or summon companions on melee attacks, or what about trigger AoE explosions directly on attacks? Furthermore legendary weapons complement themself. So if you wield 2 legendary weapons those legendary abilities can influence each other.
Crafting System
With this update we are introducing a crafting system as well as 3 collectible weapon shards into the game. These weapon shards are rare drops which can be found in every corner of the world granting you new ways to upgrade and modify your weapons.
This are the 3 new introduced weapon shards and what you can use them for.
Shard of Power A shard which holds the power to modify the base damage of any weapon.
Shard of Quality A shard which holds the potential to transform a normal weapon into a legendary weapon.
Shard of Recast A shard with the power to recast an embedded skill into something new.
With the new crafting system you can not only re-roll the base damage of the weapon you can also try your luck with shards of quality to upgrade a normal weapon to a legendary weapon.
Once you obtained a legendary weapon you can re-roll the socketed skill with shards of recast to a new ability to hunt for the perfect synergies for your builds.
Reworked Weapons
All weapons now have random generated damage stats. It is easy to find a weapon with normal base damage but in rare cases you can now find weapons with very high base damage.
Along the random generated attributes we are also changing the damage scaling of skill nodes. In the past it did not make a huge difference how much damage a weapon has dealt because the base damage got quickly overshadowed by the increased damage buffs from the skill tree. With this update we are scaling the increased damage skill nodes based on your weapon base damage. So if you are wielding a dagger with a lower base damage but fast attack speed the increased damage nodes from the skill tree will grant less damage increase compared to wielding the elder club with over 3 times more base melee damage. This should make weapon choices more substantial and not only about their attack speed and range.
There is even more to come with the legendary content update (version 0.7.1), we will post the full patch notes close to the update release date.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light.
You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light! Join the official Discord!
Hotfix 0.7.0.3d
Improvements
The health bar is now dynamically decreasing the size to fit all of the max health onto the screen. Yes, actually players managed to break the game and gain over 50 health.
Re-enabled player cloak. Did anyone notice that the cloak was missing? We didn't...
If you encounter any crashes please report them via discord or the steam forums, this is of great help to fix them all.
You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light! Join the official Discord!
Pricing & next Content Update!
Almost a week has past since our 0.7 Aeodra content update release with plenty of smaller improvements and bugfixes already, so you might ask yourself whats next. On this post we will give you some insight in what we are working on for the next bigger update 0.7.1 and give a hint for the scope of the 0.8 content update.
As already mentioned before our 0.7 update release we will adjust the pricing for Striving for Light tomorrow (17.11.22) 7pm CET. So there is still time to get the game on the lower price before the adjustment happens.
Pricing
Since our initial Early Access release, less then a year ago, the amount of content has grown tremendously with around 40 released content updates and over 50 smaller updates with improvements and bugfixes. Until now we have not raised the price for Striving for Light. As we are approaching the full release in 2023 we will increase the price as planed and communicated during Early Access and with the final 1.0 release.
The price for Striving for Light will raise from the current $7.99 USD (€6.59) to $9.99 USD (€9.75) (we have adjusted the pricing accordingly to steam's recently updated pricing since our last announcement).
Update 0.7.1
Reworked Skill Gem Window
The skill gem window will be reworked featuring filter options to sort gems by melee, range, basic and misc nodes to have an better overview and make finding a certain skill gem easier if a lot of them have been collected.
New Weapon Stats
Weapon stats will be viewable independently from picking up a new weapon.
Skill Rework
Plenty of skills will receive a rework and rebalancing based on your recent feedback.
This is only a fraction of what we have in store for the 0.7.1 update.
Update 0.8
New side dungeons
New side dungeons where you can acquire a new item type which hold passive as well as new active abilities when the set is completed. These items can hold set bonuses as well as single buffs. Enter the dungeon multiple times to complete item sets or combine those items as it suits your build.
New item type
The active abilities of the new items can be actively triggered using the right mouse button. This can be powerful new attacks temporal buffs and more.
This is also just a small hint what is to come with the 0.8 update. We will give more information on the next updates as we approach the release of those updates.
Thanks for being part of our game development journey for Striving for Light. We want to share our current early access roadmap to give you a basic idea of the upcoming content & feature updates.
You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light! Join the official Discord!
Patch 0.7.0.3c
Portal to town in tutorial is now automatically opened if tutorial boss is defeated.
Improvements to input responsibility routines. This should make button presses to switch scenes more reliable.
Portals are now interactible after scene switch without needing to walk away and approach them again.
Companions refresh their attacks now which should yield much more constant damage output also if they do not walk away and run into an enemy again.
Companion Rebalancing
Companions have increased attack range.
Range companion has increased projectile speed.
Companions have faster movement and attack speed and in general are more responsive to your movement.
Wolf Companion: Cost has been reduced to only reduce resource regeneration of energy/endurance by -40% (was energy/endurance regeneration -50% and reduced max energy and endurance by -1)
Range Companion: Cost has been reduced to only reduce resource regeneration of energy/endurance by -40% (was energy/endurance regeneration -50% and reduced max energy and endurance by -1)
Chicken Companion: Cost has been reduced to only reduce resource regeneration of energy/endurance by -40% (was energy/endurance regeneration -50% and reduced max energy and endurance by -1)
Bursting Companion: Cost has been reduced to only reduce resource regeneration of energy/endurance by -20% (was energy/endurance regeneration -40%)
Fixed double hit and melee constructs not being able to attack bosses, especially gatekeepers and deal any damage.
Fixed skill effects sometimes not being shown on false culling. Now skill effects should always be displayed also on gatekeeper fights, where you tend to fight long on one spot where this issue previously occured.
Thanks to everyone providing helpful feedback, which is what drives the development forward! You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light!
Portal to town in tutorial is now automatically opened if tutorial boss is defeated.
Improvements to input responsibility routines. This should make button presses to switch scenes more reliable.
Portals are now interactible after scene switch without needing to walk away and approach them again.
Pets have increased attack range.
Range pet has increased projectile speed.
Thanks to everyone providing helpful feedback, which is what drives the development forward! You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light!
Hovered nodes in the skill tree and in the pathfinder are now highlighted to improve visibility especially on playing with controller.
Increased mouse cursor size.
Tooltips are now activated from the whole boxes and not only the icons.
Reworked active button visuals to better highlight which button is currently hovered and has focus.
[Range Skill] Charge: Charge now also increases the projectile damage up to x3 depending on your charge duration, with a maximum charge duration of 3 seconds.
Fixed crash when talking to the chicken in town multiple times.
Fixed missing German translation for Searing Axe description.
Thanks to everyone providing helpful feedback, which is what drives the development forward! You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light!
