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The Last Spell

200 000 Heroes of the Night!

Greetings Heroes!

As of today, we've reached the milestone of 200 000 sold units in a little bit over a year! Or more precisely, in one year and twenty four days.



It's surreal to think that 200,000 people actually saw our game and bought it! So, on behalf of the team at Ishtar Games, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE SUPPORT!! We're working on some very cool stuff for the next updates, so we hope you'll like them!

We have the best players in the world <3

Fear of the Lake - Patch 0.97.2.1

Hello Heroes!

In today's update we are bringing you one new feature that will probably help you a lot during boss fights, and different types of Bug fix & Balancing. Read more below!

Summary:



  • New Feature: Night progression gauge during Boss Nights
  • Bug fix
  • Balancing

    • Waves
    • Perks
    • Harpy boss fight
    • Cetusia boss fight
    • Dryads boss fight

NEW FEATURE: Progression gauge during Boss Nights



Added a new version of the Night progression gauge during Boss Nights. We hope this will help you identify the progress you've made during the fight.



BUG FIX



  • Fix the zoom level for 2K or higher screen resolution: before the fix, the game was too zoomed in for high resolution. Now if you have a high resolution you will see more in the screen.
  • Fix all the sound stacking problems (for example it was happening when multiple ballista shot at the same time)
  • Fix a softlock when spamming the firing button with the catapult.
  • Fix the possibility to shoot multiple times with the catapult when spamming the firing button.
  • Fix of the Meta favors "More rerolls" and "Even more rerolls" not unlocking in the dark shop.
  • Fix of the Meta favor "Glenwald" unlocked too early in the campaign for new players or even players that updated their game recently.
  • Fix of self cast skills not working on boss units (this affected cetusia's fight).
  • Fix a softlock during the loading screen of a new run when right click is pressed during this screen.

BALANCING



WAVES

  • Added more Hunters in waves for Glenwald.

PERKS

  • Big Game Hunter's bonus damage: 15% of target's max Health ➝ 8% of target's max Health

HARPY BOSS FIGHT (Gildenberg)

Corrupted Harpy (assault form)

Attributes:

  • Health: 1080 ➝ 810
  • Move points: 6 ➝ 4

Skills:

  • Fury(melee attack), “Flying Assault” (maneuver attack) and “Dive Bomb” (spawn attack) all had their damages decreased.
  • Flying Assault's (maneuver attack) range has been increased but now has a cooldown before being usable again.

Alerion (small harpy)

Attributes:

  • Critical%: 0% ➝ 6%

Skills:

  • Lacerate's (melee attack) damages have been decreased.


CETUSIA BOSS FIGHT (Lakeburg)

General

  • The quantity of enemies in waves has been reduced.
  • Boss fight’s general structure has been altered to feel less repetitive.

Cetusia

Attributes:

  • Health: 3000 ➝ 3600
  • Armor: 150 → 400
  • Block: 60 ➝ 50
  • Resistance: 50% → 40%

Skills:

  • Cetusia now needs to Charge before using Head Smash (physical attack) and Hydro Catapult (long-range attack).

  • Splash! (maneuver attack):

    • Debuff 3 Move Points (3 turns) → -3 Move Points (1 turn).
    • Added Debuff -30% Damage (1 turn)
    • Added [Self] Dispel Debuff (not all negative alterations, so you can still poison her)
    • Added [Self] Charge (1 turn)

  • Hydro Catapult (long-range attack):

    • Debuff -3 Move Points (3 turns) → -3 Move Points (2 turns).

  • Putrid Water (poison attack) has been moved from Cetusia to Cetusia’s Tail.

  • Head Smash's (physical attack) damages have been increased.

  • Cetusia now inflicts damage and debuff around her in melee upon her defeat.

Behavior:

  • Cetusia’s general behavior has been altered to be more predictable.

Cetusia’s Tail

Attributes:

  • Health: 2250 ➝ 1800
  • Armor: 150 ➝ 200
  • Block: 60 ➝ 50
  • Resistance: 50% ➝ 40%

Skills:

  • Cetusia’s Tail can now use Putrid Water (poison attack), but its damages have been reduced.
  • Cetusia’s Tail now needs to Charge before using Putrid Water (poison attack) and “Tail Smash” (physical attack).
  • Tail Smash (physical attack)‘s damages have been increased.
  • Cetusia’s Tail now inflicts damage and debuff around it in melee upon its defeat.

Behavior:

  • Cetusia’s Tail’s general behavior has been altered to be more predictable.

Enraged Cetusia (last phase)

Attributes:

  • Health: 3000 ➝ 3600
  • Block: 0 ➝ 50
  • Resistance: 50% ➝ 40%

Wyrmling Egg

Attributes:

  • Resistance: 90% ➝ 80%

Wyrmling

Attributes:

  • Health: 450 ➝ 400
  • Resistance: 25% ➝ 20%
  • Critical%: 0% ➝ 12%

Skills:

  • Bite’s damages have been slightly decreased.

DRYADS BOSS FIGHT (Glenwald)

General

  • The quantity of enemies in waves has been reduced.
  • Boss fight’s general structure has been altered to feel more predictable.
  • Number of Dryads: 16 ➝ 15.

Putrefied Dryad

Attributes:

  • Health: 1360 ➝ 1300
  • Armor: 80 ➝ 200
  • Block: 50 ➝ 30
  • Dodge: 30% ➝ 20%
  • Resistance: 40% ➝ 30%

Skills:

  • Counterattack (melee attack)‘s damages were increased, but its Armor-Piercing property has been removed.
  • Dryads now spawn less Seed Mortars and Sprayers but spawn more Hatcheries (total number of plants spawned per Dryad stays the same).

Monolith

Attributes:

  • Health: 160 ➝ 200

Seed Mortar

Attributes:

  • Health: 320 ➝ 200
  • Armor: 80 ➝ 50
  • Dodge: 30% ➝ 20%

Skills:

  • Venomous Strike (poison attack):

    • Poison 15 (4 turns) ➝ Poison 10 (4 turns)

Sprayer

Attributes:

  • Health: 320 ➝ 200
  • Armor: 80 ➝ 50
  • Block: 50 ➝ 30

Skills:

  • Protective Spores' (buff skill) area of effect was reduced.

Hatchery

Attributes:

  • Health: 320 ➝ 220
  • Armor: 80 ➝ 50
  • Resistance: 40% → 30%

Thank you for playing, and see you on Discord!

Fear of the Lake update is LIVE: New Bosses, Lakeburg Rework and more

Hello Heroes!

The highly anticipated Boss Update Fear of the Lake is now available! With this major update, we are adding two new scary boss to The Last Spell: Cetusia & the sisters Aello, Celaeno and Ocythoe. We wish you the best of luck for your upcoming fights against them!

The map of Lakeburg received a full rework and we also twisted, changed and improved several other aspects of the game. More details below!

Note: Tomorrow, we will be doing a livestream on The Last Spell for the update at 15:00 CEST on Twitch.



Summary:



  • Gildenberg Boss: Aello, Celaeno & Ocythoe
  • Lakeburg Boss: Cetusia
  • Lakeburg Rework
  • Obtaining Items
  • Other
  • New Features
  • Balancing
  • Bug fixes

GILDENBERG BOSS: AELLO, CELAENO & OCYTHOE



Bloodthirsty winged creatures emerge from the mountain. A new confrontation punctuates the last night of Gildenberg, as players must now face three ferocious harpies and their squadron of feathered minions.

Stand your ground when these massive monsters cry out from above to command the enemy army, and act swiftly when they descend to hunt down the poor Heroes fighting to protect the haven.



This boss fight has been designed not to be particularly more difficult than the former last night, but it provides a more unique challenge in terms of structure creating a change of pace for new players reaching the end of Gildenberg for the first time.

LAKEBURG BOSS: CETUSIA



From the depths of the lake, the monster of legends awakens to bring chaos to the shore. Of monumental size, Cetusia the Putrescent Wyrm uses the water to her advantage, using it as a shield and to cause destruction and tidal waves. This colossus will use both her skull to smash Heroes who dare to get too close and her tail to wipe them out.

However, while the Heroes are busy trying to defeat this tenacious watery terror, her offsprings might come out to join the horde and rush straight to the Mages.



This boss replaces the Dryads fight (which have been moved to Glenwald), and takes advantage of the reworked Lakeburg’s level design.

LAKEBURG REWORK



Lakeburg has been redesigned to feature a bigger lake and a more pronounced topography: Repel the hordes in the abandoned docks on one side, a small river crossed by a bridge on the other, and behind ancient city walls to the south.




OBTAINING ITEMS



Even though random drops are a big part of roguelites, it can sometimes be frustrating to never get the weapon or piece of equipment you are looking for. With a lot of the following changes, we want to make it a bit easier for players to obtain what they want, without removing the random aspect that can make every run feel different from the previous one.

Shop Rework



The shop now levels up automatically. We also added sorting and filters:



Production buildings



Item production buildings now share their level upgrade, meaning you level them up all at once.

We changed the other upgrades and their prices accordingly, to see the full details check the dedicated section in “Balancing” later on this document.



Production reward reroll



You can now unlock “Reward Rerolls” in the Oraculum, allowing you to reroll Night Rewards or Production Rewards up to 3 times a day.

OTHER



Mist Censer and Thin Mist Rework



We changed the behavior of mist censers to make them more interesting to deal with.



Construction menu overhaul



You can now repair multiple buildings at the same time thanks to the new construction menu.



NEW FEATURES


Maps



  • Added a new boss in Gildenberg (replacing the final boss).
  • Reworked Lakeburg’s level design.
  • Reworked Lakeburg’s wave design.
  • Added a new boss in Lakeburg.
  • Moved the Dryad boss fight from Lakeburg to Glenwald and reworked the fight.



Shop



  • Added a sorting and filtering system in the shop interface.
  • Removed the Level upgrades from the shop. Instead, the level of offered items in the shop now increases automatically over the course of the run.
  • The number of offered items in the shop will now increase as the player unlocks new equipment over the course of the campaign. This will make it less frustrating to unlock weapons you dislike, as they do not dilute the item pool as much as before.

Production Building


These changes affect the Armor Maker, Blacksmith, Bowyer and Magic Shop.


  • Added a new type of building upgrade: Shared Upgrades. Item level upgrades are now shared between production buildings. To see the full details check the dedicated section in “Balancing” later on this document.

Items



  • Changed the way item drops are rolled. Some meta upgrades should not affect item drop chances as much as before (for example, players with respectively 2 and 7 different short swords unlocked will have the same chances of dropping a short sword, which was not the case before).
  • Night rewards now scale for the entirety of the run (stopped scaling after night 4 until now).

UI



  • Reworked the construction panel to easily switch between the different sections.
  • Repairing now has a dedicated section in the construction menu.
  • New repairing options to make repairing multiple buildings faster: Repair identical buildings, Repair structures, Repair defenses, Repair barricades and Repair walls.
  • Added new shortcut buttons in the bottom left panel: Inn, Shop and Construction Mode.

Mist censers & Thin Mist



  • Changed the way thin mist works: enemies under the effect of thin mist are untargetable, but can still be hit and damaged by AoE attacks, propagations, poison, etc…
  • Mist Censers (added by Apocalypse 3) are now destroyed at the end of every night, and new ones respawn at the start of every day in different locations.
  • Mist Censers now have scaling health pools (from 150 to 600 HP over the course of a run). They are now easier to kill at all stages of the game, but especially early on.
  • The number of Mist Censers now increases over the course of a run.

Reward Reroll



  • Added a feature to reroll the offered items for a single production reward, a limited amount of times a day. The feature can be unlocked in the Oraculum to get 1 reroll per day, and further unlocks can increase the number of rerolls to 3 per day.

Optimization



  • We’ve updated our game engine during this month and you should expect some performance increase thanks to that. But we still have a lot to do in optimization before the end of the early access.

BALANCING



Gildenberg



  • The mist is now a bit further away from the city.
  • Enemies on night 5 are now less spread out.
  • Slightly reduced the number of enemies on nights 4, 5 and 6.

Glenwald



Glenwald now has better night rewards (more gold and materials, slightly stronger items).

Level up



  • Available stat choices after rerolls from 5/3/1 to 5/3/2 (you will keep getting 2 choices if you keep rerolling after that).
  • Armor Level up values increased from 15/25/32 to 24/32/40.

Inn



  • Inn price reduced from 180 to 110 gold.
  • Inn first upgrade price reduced from 260 to 180 gold.
  • Inn second upgrade price reduced from 280 to 260 gold.
  • Increased the price of heroes in the Inn, especially at higher levels.
  • The price of heroes in the Inn does not take into account your current number of heroes anymore.
  • Mage cost reduced from 100 to 60 gold.
  • Reroll cost increased from 30 to 50 gold.
  • Changed the probability of a mage being available in the Inn: it will on average take less days for one to appear, but there will be days where they aren't available, even if you have not bought one.
  • At higher levels, the Inn won’t show very low level heroes anymore.

Shop



  • Weapons and armor are cheaper than before at lower levels and cost a bit more than before at higher levels.

Production building


These changes affect the Armor Maker, Blacksmith, Bowyer and Magic Shop.

Shared production upgrades (Replaces previous level upgrades. These upgrades affect ALL of your production building.):

  • Item Level +: All production buildings give level 1 and 2 items, costs 70
  • Item Level ++: All production buildings give level 2 and 3 items, costs 120
  • Item Level +++: All production buildings give level 3 and 4 items, costs 300
  • Item Level ++++: All production buildings give level 4 and 5 items, costs 560

Passive production upgrades (Replaces previous passive production upgrades):

  • Base: 10 passive production (1 item per day)
  • Upgrade 1: +10 passive production, costs 110
  • Upgrade 2: +10 passive production, costs 130

Worker action upgrades (Replaces previous worker upgrades):

  • Base action: Spend 2 workers to gain 10 production units (Max 1 use per day)
  • Upgrade 1: Spend 1 worker to gain 10 production units, costs 50
  • Upgrade 2: Max uses per day from 1 to 2, costs 80
  • Upgrade 3: Max uses per day from 2 to 3, costs 100

Armor maker, Blacksmith, Bowyer and Magic Shop prices reduced from 70 to 60 gold.

Non-upgraded production buildings give lower level items (max item level you can obtain remains unchanged, as there is an additional item level upgrade).

Item production buildings no longer give a free production yield upon construction.

Misc



  • Magic Circle health per mage increased from 50 to 100 (effectively doubling the Magic Circle's health at all stages of the game).
  • House upgrade "House Expansion +" cost increased from 60 to 80 gold.
  • Increased block on shields at early levels.
  • Increased block values on the Fortify skill (found on some armors).

BUG FIXES



  • Fix of an exploit enabling the player to have infinite gold thanks to the shop.
  • Fix a softlock caused by the BOOM! perk when killing an ally or when killing a Boomer.
  • Fix enemies stuck in the fog in Glenwald causing some nights to never end.
  • Heroes generated in the inn had too many experience points (the experience gain attribute was taken into account).
  • Fix custom hero name not refreshing after leaving the customization panel.
  • Fix the perk "Potion Throw".
  • Fix ballista upgrades not working as expected when reloading a game.
  • Fix damage estimation on surrounding skill effects.
  • Fix a softlock during the end of the night caused by the hero generation of the inn.
  • Fix sometimes not being able to move a hero after casting a skill (only happening with the “single click caster effect” option activated)


Thank you for reading! As always, your support and your feedback are much appreciated. See you in the comments and on Discord!

The Last Spell is 1 year old!

Greetings Heroes!

The Last Spell is now one year old! One year filled with Nights, monsters and heroes fighting to survive. One year of updates and players' feedback allowing us to improve the game.

One year, one candle. Off to many more!



To celebrate this first year of The Last Spell, we are sharing with you some insights about the production of the game, from 2018 to 2022. Have a good read!

FIRST IDEA FOR THE LAST STAND SPELL



In 2018, The Last Spell was just an idea our Creative Director gave to Jacques, the Art Director:

"I'm working on something, an asymetric tactical with a handful of heroes battling against a horde of monsters."

And this became the first concept art of the game, then called The Last Stand.



FIRST TESTS & CLOSED BETAS



Summer 2020 saw The Last Spell being tested by players for the first time with the Steam Festival, Gamescom, Closed Beta and the Prologue.

We conducted a second Closed Beta in May 2021, and THANK THE GODDESS we did it because together we found a few nasty things! Players, we owe you one.

STATS & NUMBERS



The Last Spell launched on June 3rd, 2021 and our biggest incredible optimistic objective was 20 000 sales in a week.

We did 60 000.


Fun facts: More than 20% of our users played 40h+. This number goes down to 4% when we look at... those who played 100h+. Which-is-quite-a-lot.

The average time played on The Last Spell is 26h 15min. So just enough time to get beaten to death by Gildenberg at least 10 times.

LAKEBURG: MAP & REWORK



Lakeburg was the very first map we created. We wanted something both simple and adaptable as we didn't know if it would be the only map of the game or not.

Now that we have a broader vision for TLS, we thought it was time to give this map a unique look and gamestyle!




THE MONSTERS OF THE LAST SPELL



When we create new monsters, our priority is to make them easily recognizable and "readable" from the battlefield and their different sides (front/back). What can this monster do? Is it a giant threat? Which behaviour can I expect?



Each monster must look terrifying or unsettling. Too many limbs, blood, bones, excrescence, spikes... And sometimes, they get it all. Monsters also follow a certain colour scheme: the redder an enemy is, the more dangerous it is.



Inspiration for our monsters comes from multiple types of medium: video games, comic books, movies, tv shows...

Here are some examples:

  • Ripper: Necromorph in Dead Space
  • Boomer: Left 4 Dead
  • Hunter: Van Helsing



THANK YOU



It's been 1 year, since we launched The Last Spell in Early Access. One year that players helped us shape its future.

To all of you defending the last bastion of humanity, thank you. We couldn't have done it without you.

May your Nights be short.

Love from Ishtar Games

Beta Branch: Changelog 0.97.1.2

BUG FIXES



  • Fix memory leak (yes the same as the one we already fixed).
  • Fix of the boomers causing some softlocks.
  • Fix of the "remaning enemy" count that was wrong sometimes.
  • Fix a lot of UI bug preventing the player to click on some buttons or displaying wrong tooltips.
  • Fix the perk "Potion Throw".

BALANCING



Production buildings upgrade cost changes:

  • Level +++: 280 -> 300
  • Level ++++: 520 -> 560
  • Passive production upgrade 1: 100 -> 110
  • Passive production upgrade 2: 125 -> 130
  • Worker upgrade 2: 75 -> 80
  • Worker upgrade 3: 75 -> 100

Shop changes:

  • Higher level items cost a bit more than before

Join us on Discord!

Beta Branch: Lakeburg and Items production

Hello Heroes!

We are doing a new Open Beta for a few weeks, and this time we are focusing our efforts on the rework of Lakeburg, the Shop and several other changes you will see down below. This update will serve as a preparation to the Major Update (Bosses) coming in June.

If you are intrigued about the future Major Updates of The Last Spell, our new roadmap is available here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1105670/view/3222896627771752948

Summary:



  • Lakeburg rework
  • Dryads in Glenwald
  • Obtaining equipment
  • Shop rework
  • Production building
  • Item generation
  • Production reward reroll
  • Mist censers & Thin mist rework
  • Construction menu overhaul
  • Others
  • Bug fixes

LAKEBURG REWORK



The objective of this rework was to, among other things, have an actual lake in Lakeburg. The initial map was designed as the only map of the game, so it had to be a jack-of-all-trades. Since we now have more maps, we decided to change things up and give Lakeburg a more pronounced topography.



We kept the plains of Lakeburg for two of the sides, but tried to diversify the terrain on the top side of the map. Northwest, the now unused docks of Lakeburg create more narrow passages, akin to Gildenberg. Northeast, a bridge crosses a small river : a great chokepoint to repel the masses. The layout of the city has also changed. Sturdy walls protect the southeast, and the northern part of the city is protected by the lake - or at least it is against most enemies.

Additional changes:

  • Winged enemies can now appear in the first two nights of Lakeburg.
  • A few Bulky enemies can now appear early on in Lakeburg.
  • The dryad boss has been moved from Lakeburg to Glenwald and replaced by a temporary enemy wave. When the update comes out of beta, a new bossfight will replace it.

DRYADS IN GLENWALD





You can now fight a revamped version of the Dryads on the last night of Glenwald. Beware: it is stronger than before! The fight may be a little longer too...

OBTAINING EQUIPMENT



Even though random drops are a big part of roguelites, it can sometimes be frustrating to never get the weapon or piece of equipment you are looking for. With a lot of the following changes, we want to make it a bit easier for players to obtain what they want, without removing the random aspect that can make every run feel different from the previous one.

Players who focus a lot on optimizing their gold and item output may have more resources than before at the end of a run (especially when playing without apocalypse mode on), but these changes should allow for more “loose” and diverse playstyles to work.

SHOP REWORK



Up until now, shop and production buildings were often seen as opposite strategies : you either focused on one or the other. The following changes aim to make it possible to use the shop even if you focus on production, while still making it possible to focus solely on the shop.




  • Removed the Level upgrades from the shop. Instead, the level of offered items in the shop now increases automatically over the course of the run.
  • The number of offered items in the shop will now increase as the player unlocks new equipment over the course of the campaign. This will make it less frustrating to unlock weapons you dislike, as they do not dilute the item pool as much as before.
  • You can now sort and/or filter the contents of the shop to your liking, allowing you to easily navigate the increased contents of the shop.
  • Weapons and armor are slightly cheaper than before, especially at lower levels.

PRODUCTION BUILDING



Before, the common strategy when using production buildings was to build one, max it out, and then repeat the process for a second one.

We reworked production buildings in order to make it easier to have more functioning production buildings at once. On the other side, we made it a bit harder to reach high levels of production. It will now be more viable to have multiple production buildings, and these buildings will prove useful with less upgrades than before.



Shared upgrades


Item level upgrades are now shared between production buildings, meaning you only have to do each upgrade once per run, and all your production buildings (Armor Maker, Blacksmith, Bowyer and Magic Shop) profit off of it. Obviously, they’re now way more expensive than before.


  • Item Level +: All production buildings give level 1 and 2 items, costs 70
  • Item Level ++: All production buildings give level 2 and 3 items, costs 120
  • Item Level +++: All production buildings give level 3 and 4 items, costs 280
  • Item Level ++++: All production buildings give level 4 and 5 items, costs 520

As a side note, this also means that production buildings will keep their level even if they are destroyed during the night and have to be rebuilt.

Other upgrades


To make production buildings more rewarding faster, we got rid of “half gauges”: everything gives 10 units of production, or a multiple of it.

Also, keep in mind that these upgrades are still individual, they are NOT shared between buildings.

We changed the base passive production rate of production buildings, as well as passive production upgrades:


  • Base: 10 passive production (1 item per day)
  • Upgrade 1: +10 passive production, costs 100
  • Upgrade 2: +10 passive production, costs 125

The worker action of production buildings has been changed, as well as worker upgrades:


  • Base action : Spend 2 workers to gain 10 production units (Max 1 use per day)
  • Upgrade 1 : Spend 1 worker to gain 10 production units, costs 50
  • Upgrade 2 : Max uses per day from 1 to 2, costs 75
  • Upgrade 3 : Max uses per day from 2 to 3, costs 75


Misc


Armor maker, Blacksmith, Bowyer and Magic Shop prices from 70 to 60 gold.

Non-upgraded production buildings give lower level items (max item level you can obtain remains unchanged, as there is an additional item level upgrade).

ITEM GENERATION



  • Changed the way item drops are rolled. Some meta upgrades should not affect item drop chances as much as before (for example, players with respectively 2 and 7 different short swords unlocked will have the same chances of dropping a short sword, which was not the case before).
  • Night rewards now scale for the entirety of the run (stopped scaling after night 4 until now)

PRODUCTION REWARD REROLL



  • Added a feature to reroll the offered items for a single production reward, a limited amount of times a day. The feature can be unlocked in the Oraculum to get 1 reroll per day, and further unlocks can increase the number of rerolls to 3 per day.

MIST CENSERS & THIN MIST REWORK






  • Changed the way thin mist works: enemies under the effect of thin mist are untargetable, but can still be hit and damaged by AoE attacks, propagations, poison, etc…
  • Mist Censers (added by Apocalypse 3) are now destroyed at the end of every night, and new ones respawn at the start of every day in different locations.
  • Mist Censers now have scaling health pools (from 150 to 600 HP over the course of a run). They are now easier to kill at all stages of the game, but especially early on.
  • The number of Mist Censers now increases over the course of a run.

CONSTRUCTION MENU OVERHAUL






  • You can now easily switch between the different sections of the construction menu.
  • Repairing now has a dedicated section in the construction menu.
  • New repairing options to make repairing multiple buildings faster: Repair identical buildings, Repair structures, Repair defenses, Repair barricades and Repair walls.

OTHERS



Glenwald



  • Glenwald now has better night rewards (more gold and materials, slightly stronger items).

Gildenberg



  • The mist is now a bit further away from the city.
  • Enemies on night 5 are now less spread out.
  • Slightly reduced the number of enemies on nights 4, 5 and 6.

Level up



  • Available stat choices after rerolls from 5/3/1 to 5/3/2 (you will keep getting 2 choices if you keep rerolling after that).

Optimization



  • We’ve updated our game engine during this month and you should expect some performance increase thanks to that. But we still have a lot to do in optimization before the end of the early access.

BUG FIXES



  • Fix of an exploit enabling the player to have infinite gold thanks to the shop.
  • Fix a softlock caused by the BOOM! perk when killing an ally or when killing a Boomer.
  • Fix enemies stuck in the fog in Glenwald causing some nights to never end.
  • Heroes generated in the inn had too many experience points (the experience gain attribute was taken into account).

Thank you for reading, and see you on Discord!

Patch 0.96.2.3: Memory leak fix

Hello Heroes!

After some fierceful fights and your help, we have been able to locate & fix the memory leak issue some of you were having while playing The Last Spell. Thank you for your patience, and we are truly sorry you've had to experience such an annoying problem.

BUG FIX



  • Fixed a memory leak introduced with the new update "Over the mist & far away". The memory leak caused the game to progressively slow down as you play (framerate loss)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1105670/announcements/detail/3222896627771752949
Thank you for playing, and see you on Discord!

The Last Roadmap: Highway to 1.0

Hello Heroes of the Night!

Since we completed our previous roadmap with the major update of March, we needed a new one and we KNEW you were eagerly waiting for it.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1105670/view/3133947998942677988
Just below, we are happy to reveal our new roadmap for The Last Spell, going from now to the official release! We still have a long way to go, but we will give you updates and glimpses as we progress! We are already sharing a few things in the #sneak-peek channel on Discord.



As we did for the previous roadmaps, this one will be updated when we release the updates (TLS store page & here).

Over the Mist and Far Away - Patch 0.96.2.0

Hello Heroes!

This new update will change several things, from new feature to balancing and improvements. Have a good read!

Also, we are working on the roadmap and it will be revealed to you all very soon!

NEW FEATURES



  • The "Undo" action can now be used on skills that only move the hero (for example Jump Over, Enter Watchtower, Vanish...). Works also with attacks skills with the skill effect maneuver if no damage was inflicted
  • The skill "Jump Over" can now be used on water and crevice tiles
  • Improved the display in skill tooltip for self range skills with the addition of a new skill effect "Caster Effect"
  • Added a new option "Single-click Caster effect" allowing you to use a skill with "Caster effect" just by pressing the skill button (or using the shortcut) instead of clicking the button and then clicking the hero
  • A victorious haven will display a pillar of light in the world map

BUG FIX



  • Fix the "Back protection" perk that had some problems with the undos.
  • Fix the bonus of the "One by one" perk that was reset by non attacking skills.
  • Fix "Glass Canon" and "Organic Armor" perks that were not refreshing wounds.
  • Fix the "Septic Shock" perk that was not taking into account enemies' stun resistance.
  • Fix the skill "Fatality" that could be used with the shortcut without being displayed.
  • Fix a softlock caused by reloading a run with a dead hero with the night owl perk.
  • Fix a bug that was causing the Splitter to stay in the fog.
  • Fix a bug in the character equipment panel that was not showing the right item sometimes.
  • Fix visual bugs when having the perk "Contamination" and using some skills (for example "Bee Sting").
  • Fix a bug that blocked the unlock of 9 meta upgrades
  • Fix winged enemies crossing the mountain in Gildenberg.

PERK BALANCING



BODYBUILDER

  • Every 20 current Health after 120: +2% Physical Damage ➝ Every 25 max Health after 115: +2% Physical Damage.

SPIKY SKIN

  • Perk and Skill name : Spiky Counter.
  • Base damage of the skill: 20% of max Health ➝ 20 + 200% of Block.

VAMPIRE

  • Whenever an enemy is killed using Physical Damage: Restore 4 Health ➝ Whenever an enemy is killed using Physical Damage or Execute: Restore 4 Health.

ORGANIC ARMOR

  • Conversion rate: 75% ➝ 125%.

BACK PROTECTION

  • Tweaked to better suit our design: no more exploit, the perk saves its value throughout the current turn

HEAD-ON

  • Physical Damage bonus: +15% ➝ +25%.

BERSERK

  • Whenever the Hero is hit: +3% Damage ➝ Whenever the Hero is attacked: +3% Damage.

MANA GROWTH

  • Mana bonus: 2*level ➝ 4 + (2*Level).

MAGIC FUEL

  • Damage increase rate : 25% ➝ 30%.

SHEER POWER

  • Magic damage now ignores 100% of the target’s resistance ➝ Attacks now ignores 50% of the target’s resistance. This effect can be cumulated with Magic damage’s natural property.

MANA COLLECTOR

  • Whenever a Critical Hit is landed: Restore 1 Mana ➝ Whenever a Critical Hit is landed: Restore 2 Mana at the end of the Heroes’ turn, up to 20 per turn.

PERSEVERANCE

  • When a unit dodges an attack from the Hero, the next attack gets: +10% Accuracy. Every 3 units dodging an attack from the Hero: Restore 1 Action Point. ➝ Every 2 attacks from the Hero dodged by at least one unit: Restore 1 Action Points. Buff +5% Accuracy (2 Turns).

LONGER WEAPONS

  • Reliability malus: -20% ➝ -15%.

SEPTIC SHOCK

  • Base stun chance: 35% ➝ 50%.

POISONOUS

  • Poison damage: 20 ➝ 30.
  • Poison duration: 2 Turns ➝ 3 Turns.

CRITICAL MASTER

  • +20% Critical Power. Every 12 units killed: +15% Critical Power. ➝ +20% Critical Power. Every 5 critical hits landed : +10% Critical Power.

NIMBLE

  • Perk name: Nimbleness
  • Dodge bonus: +10% ➝ +15%.

BLOOD MAGIC

  • Health cost: Mana cost x3 ➝ x4.

HARVESTER

  • Enemies to kill: 8 -> 3.
  • Daily Mana Regen bonus: +2 ➝ +1.

OTHER BALANCING



  • Main damage attributes' max value has been increased from 100% to 200%.


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