Striving for Light

New Gatekeeper Bosses

• Ancient Tree
  
• Bleak Worm
  
• Emerald Widow
  

• [Melee Weapon] Spear: Fast stabbing weapon with large range.
  
• [Melee Weapon] Elder club: Very powerful but heavy and slow weapon.
  
• [Range Weapon] Emerald Staff: Each attack summons a spider companion which is lasting 6 seconds.
  

New Map "Eternal Sands"

• New map "Eternal Sands" has been added. Featuring new enemies, two new bosses, new destructible and obstacle objects and a new trap.
  
• New soundtrack for "Eternal Sands" has been added to the game and the official soundtrack DLC
  

New Endgame Map System

New Skills

• [Melee Ability Skill] Poison Nova: Your melee hits unleash a poison nova dealing damage over time to all enemies nearby.
  
  
• [Range Ability Skill] Poison Shot: Your projectile hits unleash a poison shot dealing damage over time to all enemies nearby.
  
  
• [Advanced Skill Node] Empowered Companions: Your companions deal additional damage. Reduces your attack speed and dodge regeneration.
  
  

• When unlocking new weapons you will directly get access to these weapons in the town
  
• When unlocking a new skill you will directly receive a skill gem of the unlocked skill
  
• You now receive one skill gem for each of your 6 starting skills 
  
• Improved drop algorithms to make drops more consistent with increased unlocked weapon amount
  
• Weapon tooltips are now localised
  
• Advanced enemy condition system which allows enemies to have multiple conditions at the same time
  
• Increased dialog volume on experimental voice acting
  
• Performance improvements and optimisations for void enemies (centipede)
  

• Reduced drop chance for weapons from normal map chests
  
• Reduced drop chance for weapons from optional super boss chests (Izamuth/ Gride)
  
• Map chests and super boss chests now also drop skill tree shards
  
• Merchant now only offers basic weapons for trade (did also offer boss weapons before)
  

• Fixed some bugs which caused wrong world being loaded in the super boss arena when entering the skill tree or the options menu
  
• Fixed text alignment for skill gem window in skill tree
  
• Fixed typos in the skill descriptions
  
• Various smaller bugfixes
  

Skill Tree

Wold Bosses

• A new boss has been added for the first dungeon floor
  
• A new boss has been added for the second dungeon floor
  

• The stats window now only displays each type of active skill effect only once. This helps to keep the overview over different active effects. If you hover over the active skill icon all active skills of this type are highlighted in the skill tree.
  

• Fixed some boss minimap icons having the wrong size
  

• The magic shield visual effect has been reworked, this now also makes it possible to spawn multiple shields without performance issues on high AoE scales.
  
• Added an additional system which prevents you beeing locked in a world with unactive portal.
  

• Some recursions from the last update have been fixed leading to even better performance.
  
• Magical Shield is now spawning the shield AoE effect again.
  
• Focus is now spawning the fire splash AoE effect again.
  
• Hammer is now spawning the ground slam AoE effect again.
  
• Fixed player beeing locked in world with inactive portal.
  

• Overhauled skill spawning system which enables batching of multiple equivalent skills, this should lead to performance improvements in endgame scenarios.
  
• Improved skill tree performance
  
• Skill tree zoom settings is now set to the value when you have left the skill tree.
  
• Various codebase improvements, which should lead to some degree of improved performance.
  

• Fixed some crucial memory leaks which lead to crashes on very high dungeon floors.
  

• Improved weapon thumbnails for all UI elements
  
  

• Fixed a bug which caused tooltips to be displayed outside the window, especially on high dpi displays (1080p+)
  

New items





• Added "Shard of Conjunction" a new consumable item which can be used on skill tree nodes. A shard with the power to reforge the connections of a skill.
  
  
  
  
• Added "Shard of Change" a new consumable item which can be used on skill tree nodes. A shard with the power to change an unactive skill to a new random skill.
  
  
  
  
• Added "Shard of Refund" a new consumable item which can be used on skill tree nodes. A shard with the power to undo skill choices which do not interact with other skills.
  
  
  
  

  Merchant NPC

  
  
  
• New merchant NPC has been added where you can trade your fragments of light during your runs.
  
  
  
  

  Weapon Stats

  
  
  
• Weapon stats have been implemented.
  
  
  
  

  World Event

  
  
  
• New world event has been added.
  

• Drop rates have been adjusted to make up for the new implemented consumable items.
  

• A confirm Interaction option has been added to prevent unintentional pickup or portal interactions. This option is on by default but can be turned of anytime in the options menu to get back the old interaction system. You can dynamically switch this setting on and off during your runs to suit your playstyle.
  
  
  

• The search and filter field on the skilltree now automatically deletes entered text to make it ready for your input without having to delet the content first.
  

• Fixed a bug which caused the super boss area timer to not reset properly making it unable to leave the area on some cases.
  

• The "void" has  been added as a complete new map with new destructible objects, new traps and obstacles.
  
• Along the new map a new soundtrack "the void" has been added to the game. This is now pushing the total play time of the game soundtrack to over 30 minutes, with even a lot more to come.
  
• Added two new enemy types (centipede and corrupted light).
  
• Added two new map bosses.
  
• Added a new skill tree search function where you can now search through all skills and skill descriptions to highlight matching nodes. You can even search by trigger type or skill type or the applied condition. This should make it easier to navigate through big skill trees.
  
• Added lantern as obstacle objects for the endgame maps.
  

• The skill tree can now be used in the town for active runs.
  
• When opening the skill tree the last view where you left the skill tree is restored.
  
• Big performance improvements.
  
• Enemies now not switch to the wander state when out of sight, improving performance and keeping enemies in place.
  
• The available time for escaping super boss arenas has been increased to 12 seconds (was 6 seconds). The remaining time is now saved so that re-entering does not reset the remaining time.
  
• [Skill] Glaring Light: Has now improved VFX with effect culling to improve screen readability when multiple active effects.
  
• Increased trap distance from player spawn location in super boss arenas.
  
• Removed the city map from the endgame map pool.
  

• Fixed a bug which made it possible to escape from the super boss areas when entering the skill tree.
  

• Added support for borderless window mode
  
• The minimap overlay does now remember the open or closed state after leaving the skill tree or switching scenes
  

• The time where you are able to leave a superboss area has been increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds before)
  

• Fixed some typos in the story dialogue
  

• You can now edit the key binding for the "interact" button.
  

• The fluid weapon animation setting has been removed from the options menu. This setting activated an interpolation of the weapon movement to make it appear more fluid. As weapon movement without the interpolation is more responsive it's now completely removed from the game. Initially this setting also caused some performance issues on lower end hardware so therefore is was made available as an option.
  
• Added tooltip to the experimental voice acting option
  
• Better tooltips activation on the attack cost section of the stats window