Fix softlock on night 12: If two boss parts die at the same time due to poison the game sotflocked.
Heroes can now exit watchtower on walkable buildings such as traps or warp gates.
Bug fix of the seasoned operators upgrade which could make the ballista shoot 3/4 shots at the same time.
When hiring a new hero, you can now place them on top of a trap/warp gate, or gate.
Bug fix on some audio in the character customization window.
Bug fix on some controls in the character customization window.
The reset button now resets the name in the character customization window.
Bug Fix for the tab for the City stash that was locked when leaving character customization.
Improvement on the save file backup system to prevent save loss in case of crash. Now, when the Appsave.bin doesn’t exist, the game tries to retrieve a Backup file in the Backup folder. Before the fix, it only did it when there was an existing AND corrupted Appsave.bin file.
Bug fix on the size of the goddess, especially in resolution higher than 1080p.
Important note about resetting your progression: A lot of players told us they liked resetting their progression, so here’s the new procedure: If you want to fully reset your progression, you need to go to the folder %Appdata%/../LocalLow/Ishtar Games/The Last Spell/Save (you can copy/paste this in your explorer) and delete AppSave.bin, GameSave.bin, and the Backups folder, if it exists. Make sure to do it while the game is not launched. Also, you'll have to delete the steam_autocloud.vdf file and choose your local files when Steam Cloud will ask you whether you want to use local files or Cloud files (only if it is enabled). Also, Make sure to store those files somewhere in case you want to go back to your current save !
Don't forget to update your game!
Reddit AMA with our Game Designers on July 27th at 4PM UTC+2
Hello warriors!
Summer is here! (Not so much here, it's always raining) We're working hard on the next big update planned for the end of summer!
As you all wait for this update, we've decided to host an AMA session on Reddit, which will happen... TOMORROW!
Chloé and Thomas, game designers on The Last Spell, will answer all your questions about the game tomorrow (July 27th) on Reddit at 4PM UTC+2!
🗓️ July 27th, from 4pm to 5.30pm (GMT +2) 👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastspell/comments/osn7vw/ama_thomas_and_chlo%C3%A9_game_designers_on_the_last/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Don't forget to join us!
See you tomorrow, warriors!
Changelog 0.92.2.1
Hello warriors! Here's a new hotfix for The Last Spell, with minor improvements for the Characters Customization feature!
New Features 0.92.2.1
Improvements on the portraits customization
Implementation of the « any » appearance option that allows the characters to have every available parts of portraits
The shareable codes now include color palettes
The old codes still work with the new system
Diverse minor improvements
Bug fix 0.92.2.1
The perk “Back protection” works with the “wooden gate”
Fix of a visual bug on the number of required perks to unlock the next tier
Fix of a visual bug on the bought perks following the rearrangement of the tree in the previous update
Don't forget to update your game!
"We can be heroes!" Patch out NOW!
Hello warriors! Today, we have a BRAND NEW update for The Last Spell, and it’s available NOW! This will be our biggest update to date since the release, so we have a LOT to say today! Please note that most of those features were highly requested by the players, on Feature Upvote, our Discord Server, Steam forums and Reddit! We have the best community in the world, and keep sending us your feedback and suggestions! <3
Character customization – Be whoever you want to be.
Being able to rename your Heroes was probably one of the MOST requested features sent to us. And, as some of you already knew from Discord/Reddit, it was also a request we had foreseen (I guess we have a Seer in our game dev Haven!) and thus already planned for “soon enough after the release”.
However, only being able to personalize a Hero’s name is nowhere near the amount of customization frenzy we envisioned for TLS, so we geared up and prepared a full-fledged character customization system! Now, at any moment during your run, you will be able to modify everything and anything about your Heroes: name, appearance, color palettes, individual facial features… You can hand-pick everything manually or use one of the several Randomization options offered (be it per feature or more global ones).
And we even devised an additional VERY nice feature. Thanks to our devs' magic, you will be able to share your favorite portraits with the use of an in-game Code. Basically, if you have a character that is SO cool you want to share it with the whole world, it will be VERY simple to do it!
Please keep in mind that, for now, this feature is limited to the Portraits Parts (the various facial features), and does NOT include the color palettes... We're currently investigating a potential remedy to overcome that limitation, so hopefully it may come a bit later! We’ll probably organize some things related to that feature in the future, so stay tuned…
Last but not least, we also took that opportunity to add a few additional, more "funky" color palettes to our database. These palettes can be chosen by the standard procedural generation (please keep in mind these are random, not tied to any gameplay aspect!), albeit with a lower chance, and can also be picked freely within the Hero Customization interface.
Keyboard remapping Here's another feature we've had in our backlog for a long time and actually taken into consideration at all time as an upcoming addition, but never found the time to implement into the game. As the public release was rushing towards us like a crawler towards the Magic Circle, we had to prioritize tying everything together.
We definitely want people to be able to setup their hotkeys however they want, as this is an incredible tool regarding accessibility – be it for preference/muscle memory purposes, or because some setup that seems perfectly coherent to us may fall completely flat for people with different needs, abilities, hardware, culture... you name it. And noticing that it was quite highly requested by players bumped this feature back into the top of our TODO-list. Please note that only keyboard keys are remappable.
Screenshake + UI scale settings
One other requested feature is more options, especially regarding screenshakes and the size of the UI. Many players stated that they wanted to be able to the screenshakes. That’s now possible! What's more, you can actually tweak the strength of the screenshakes, so if you like them but they were a little too intense for your liking, just tone them down a little bit.
Now, regarding the size of the UI, we were actually aware that depending on your resolution, the UI size/ratio could end up being quite unpleasant. Truth is, despite many internal discussions during the development, we had been reluctant to add means to resize it at will because of artistic considerations: without going into details, the pixel art technique is beautiful but comes at the cost of a lot of constraints/limitations, especially when it comes to scaling (upscaling is painful, downscaling is outright hell...). But hey, that's why your feedback is valuable, right? We admitted that the elephant was still in the room even though we wouldn't look at it (how comes?!), so we swallowed our pride and embraced the custom UI scaling. We still want to state that any value other than integer multipliers (x1-2-3) of the original UI size may end up with some UI elements losing quality, depending on your resolution. On the other hand, most of the time it actually doesn't look as ugly as we were afraid it would, so... better for everyone, right? Also, please note that the UI Scale slider adapts to your current resolution, meaning that the min/max values available will change if you change your resolution, to try and avoid really absurd values.
First run Tainted Essence
We listened, and heard your frustration regarding the feeling of not being rewarded properly during the first run. I'm going to be honest here: we tried to do a little something to alleviate the issue a bit and show you that we are indeed listening, but we know this most likely won't be The Perfect Solution™. Doing so will take much more time as it will require more analysis, design, development and fine-tuning.
The main issue is that TLS is a complex game, with a lot of mechanics, and we really wanted new players not to be too overwhelmed ; and as many of you guessed, this first run takes the role of the acting tutorial, and we need to control as accurately as possible both the amount of content already available to the player and how it will evolve at the end of this very first run. The only way this would change drastically is by completely revamping the early campaign and how this tutorial run is handled, which is definitely not impossible but a consequent enough challenge that will not be undertaken right now (at least not in a way that will leave it finished and available in a close future).
Anyways, without further ado, here's what we could change: from now on, the Essence reward for the first run isn't fixed to 500 no matter what, but instead is a portion of the Essences granted usually by the enemies killed. It will still be less impactful than a subsequent run, because we still need to control the player's progression a bit over this first run (acting tutorial, once again), but the rewards can still greatly vary depending on how long they managed to survive – we estimate that surviving the 2nd night will already net you a total a little bit over the previous 500, and surviving until the 5th night can grant a total of 2-2,500 Essences (so more than 4 times the current one!).
Keep the horde out!
We felt that the stone variant of the walls was a bit underwhelming: the enemies damage during the last few days (even Clawers start hitting quite hard!) combined with the loss of Vision when upgrading from Wooden to Stone didn't feel like it was viable to do so. We decided to bump their Health quite a bit as a compensation.
In addition, we also added a new, stronger Gate for the same reason! We did split the current, only Gate into a Wooden Gate and a Stone Gate: the Wooden Gate has a brand new visual, but otherwise retains all of the characteristics the old Gate had ; the Stone Gate keeps the old visual but gets to match its Stone counterparts' characteristics.
For technical reasons, any ongoing run loaded after this patch goes live will see their Gates replaced with Stone Gates directly.
Show the move range of all the enemies
Another one of the highly requested features: there's now a hotkey (default to [LeftAlt], but hey, one can remap their hotkeys now anyways!) that, while pressed, displays the aggregated move range of the entire horde. It can become quite hectic with all those enemies at once and their big move range, but knowledge is power. Also, if you start using this regularly, this devious Runner/Crawler that made a habit of hiding behind a building to then the Magic Circle rush unhindered should be waaaaaay easier to spot!
Concluding note: Balancing We wanted to add a small statement regarding the overall balancing and what’s been/being changed since the release. Having so many players helps tremendously in discovers the strengths and flaws of the game, which is really nice! We can’t react to everything, but we try to follow/read the plethora of feedback and discussions appearing on so many channels (Discord, Steam, Feature UpVote, Reddit, etc.). As one can guess, this is really time consuming, though. What’s more, we obviously can’t just « follow », we have to analyze, debate, and devise solutions (lots and lots of “solutions” are often proposed, but not everything is feasible or interesting or even accounting for the whole picture).
We also have to accommodate our own planning, available resources, etc. We definitely notice some trends, and the fact that they have not been addressed (or not “properly”) doesn’t necessarily mean we disagree or won’t do anything more about them. For the time being we were more focused on improving the overall User Experience of the game, fixing bugs, and adding accessibility-oriented features. We don’t want to rush some deep, heavy, modifications so we preferred keeping the balancing on the lighter side, while still keeping them consistent with the bigger goals.
A few examples:
Perks: they need some deeper changes (some reworked, some removed/added, etc.) but we can’t do this at the moment; in the meantime, we tweak a few numbers and reorder some of them in the “tree” (not a tree!) to smooth things and make the best of what we have. (spoiler alert: changing/adding completely a perk is definitely a lot of work)
In this patch we did nerf a bit the Momentum because it was definitely very exploitable. Those are simple, small changes because we don’t want to destroy Momentum completely either, and doing heavier changes without taking the time to do so would be very risky. All of this probably won’t prevent dedicated players to “momentum goes brrrrr!”, but this is a first, quick step towards balancing this mechanic as a whole in a way that will keep it fun but not OP.
Changelog 0.92.1.0
New features
Addition of the heroes customization popup :
Addition of an option to change the intensity of the screen shake
Addition of an option to change the size of the UI with a slider
Addition of a tab to remap the keys
Visual rework of the options pop-up
Display of the enemies range by using the Alt key
Rework of the first run: The amount of earned Tainted Souls depends on the number of survived days.
New defense: Wooden Gate
When a unit is stunned, their dodge is reduced to 0.
Wording change for the new game/continue button
Acceleration of the animation for the souls gain in the night report
Change in the numbering of the numbers of runs, you now start at 1 instead of 0 (visible on the name of the city: Lakeburg #XX)
Bug fixes:
Fix of the Apocalypse 3 that didn’t increase the cost of the buildings and items upgrades
Fix of the perk “Potion Thrower” that didn’t work on the potions skills with a level superior to 4
Fix of a bug that could trigger save corruptions
Fix of a softlock that happened when players made too many buildings on the first line of Mist
The stats bonus related to the perks now respect the stats caps
The doors stay open if a hero is on the door when the save loads.
BALANCING
Item Affixes
Reduced drop rate for big rolls.
Reduced drop rate of the multi hit attribute.
Momentum
Attribute is now hard-capped at +100%.
Reduced momentum values on items, affixes and level ups.
Defenses
Stone Wall : 165 Health > 215 Health (30% increase)
Stone Wall Reinforced : 220 Health > 330 Health (50% increase)
Lancer
Block : 50 from night 11 -> 20 from night 10 (the 50 definitely was an integration mishap, and we understand why many felt like night 11 introduced a huge difficulty gap)
Perks Reordered some of the existing perks:
Vampire: Tier 5 > Tier 3
Poisonous: Tier 4 > Tier 2
Initiator: Tier 2 > Tier 4
Thrifty: Tier 3 > Tier 4
Mana Collector: Tier 4 > Tier 5
"We can be heroes!" update livestream!
Hello warriors!
As you know, this Monday July 5th, we will release the next patch of "The Last Spell" called "We can be heroes!".
To celebrate, we're going to host a livestream with two members of the team: Bruno (Community Manager) and Matthieu (Developer). During the stream, they will showcase the new content, including the much-anticipated "Character Customization" feature!
And to spice things up, they will create characters that YOU will choose!
Tomorrow, on Discord and Twitter, we will tell you more about it, so don't forget to follow us!
NEW UPCOMING PATCH "We can be heroes" coming July 5th!
Hello warriors!
We hope you're all okay! :) The Last Spell has been out for... nearly a month?! Wow, times surely does fly.
We have some great news for our players! We have a patch incoming next week! On Monday July 5th, the "We can be heroes" patch will be released!
NEW PATCH! We can be heroes!
We're happy to finally announce the upcoming release of the next patch for The Last Spell.
This patch will be called "We can be heroes" and it will be released on July 5th... That's right, NEXT WEEK!
Here's a few things included in this update:
Character Customization! That was a feature VERY requested by the players! Now, you'll be able to create your own characters, with their own names and all, and lead them to their death unclear fate.
Keys Remapping Another highly requested feature: Players will now be able to remap the keys as they want :)
There are other requested features that will be added in the game, but we'll keep them as a surprise for the release ;)
We also have some news of everything that happened this month!
100,000 Warriors?!
That's right, more than 100,000 warriors joined the fight in less than a month. This is... a LOT! We're delighted, because it nearly doubled our more optimistic expectations for the lifetime of the game! Also, we now have 91% of positive reviews on Steam, and we're super happy about it, this means that many of you are enjoying the game so far!
(By the way, if you haven't already, don't forget to review the game on Steam! It's VERY helpful for us!)
This past month has been amazing, and it's a great reward for us after 3 years of work to see so many people enjoy the game. Thank you <3
This past month
For this past month, we've been mostly focused on big fixing. Thanks to all of you, we were able to fix many nasty bugs that were found in the game! Obviously, before being able to work on the balancing and adding new content, this was our huge priority.
However, we didn't only focus on bugs!
We also released our roadmap, that you can see here:
We added a new feature: HP/Mana regen are now displayed in the main HUD of the heroes!
We also started to balance the game, thanks to player feedback, the most important one being the defenses!
Can’t dodge this: Stun Trap, Damage Trap, Slow Trap, Ballista, Mounted Ballista and Catapult now have the No Dodge skill effect.
Friendly traps: Damage Trap now only hits enemies, meaning that both your Heroes and your other buildings should be safe. How considerate of them!
Now that the game is more stable, we're going to focus on balancing and new content! Which brings us to our next upcoming patch... coming next week!
Finally, we will also be doing a livestream to celebrate this new update! So don't forget to join us at 4PM UTC+2 next Monday, July 5th, as Matthieu (Developer) and Bruno (Community Manager) will show you everything we've done for this new update!
Take care, warriors!
Hotfix 0.91.11 (+ HP/Mana Display in the Heroes HUD Feature totally functional!)
Hello everyone!
This will probably be the last hotfix of the week, but it's a very special one! Yesterday, we (unintentionally) added a new feature that was highly requested by players: now, HP/Mana regen are displayed in the main HUD of the heroes! At first, that feature was supposed to be released a little later on in our roadmap, but it's now ingame, so we hope you'll enjoy it :)
However, it wasn't working properly, and was also causing refresh issues. Now it's all fixed and functional! :)
Changelog - HP/Mana regen are displayed in the main heroes HUD - HP/Mana regen are also displayed in the HP/Mana tooltips - Bug fixes of the HP/Mana bars not properly refreshing
Don't forget to update your game!
Main Hero HUD - Health & Mana bar refresh issue
Hello everyone,
We are aware that an issue is affecting the main hero HUD, resulting in the HP and Mana bar not refreshing properly.
We're working as fast as we can to produce a fix. We'll let you know as soon as the issue is resolved. Hopefully, it'll be applied tomorrow.
In the meantime, these two workarounds will allow you to see your current health and mana:
check your bar in the world (upon the head of your heroes)
open your character sheet
We apologize for this inconvenience. The Last Team
Roadmap available!
Hey survivors!
Alright, the game has now been out for nearly two weeks, and one thing you've been requesting is the Roadmap!
*drum roll* There it is!! :)
A couple of things to note:
This is the roadmap as it was designed TODAY. This means that it's very likely to change over time.
The roadmap will be available on the store page, so you won't have to look for this post when you want to check it again :)
The "???" will be community suggestions or secret surprises ;)
We'll update this roadmap as we get closer to the different updates!
So, now, the next step for us is the "Early July" update, which will bring a VERY requested feature: the Character Customization, among other things!
Happy surviving!
Hotfix 0.91.10
Hello warriors! New patch :)
Fix of the max apocalypse level reachable: there was a bug allowing you to go higher than 4 in apocalypse level. All apocalypses higher than 4 were just the apocalypse 4 duplicated (so no higher challenge for the players). The hotfix will bring you back to the apocalypse 4 (the maximum level for now) if you were playing in a higher apocalypse.
Fix of the 4 meta upgrades that couldn’t be unlocked: now you should be able to complete the meta at 100%!
Fix on the main stats that didn’t appear on the “Gladiator Greaves” and “Priest Boots” items
Fix on the “Wooden Wall Reinforced” and “Stone Wall Reinforced” not leaving remains on the floor when destroyed.
