Hello everyone! The 1.0.2 patch is now live on the Default Branch. Mostly focused on fixing bugs.
Changes and Additions
Added a new setting called "Dynamic Casting":
Enabled: The Skill is cast at the current position of the cursor when the animation ends. This is the default setting.
Disabled: The Skill is cast at the position of the cursor at the moment of activation.
Bugs Fixes
Important
Fixed the issue preventing the game to start at fullscreen (I think).
General
Defeating an Obelisk of Illusion should now immediately grant 3 Choices for the next Challenge in The Great Forge.
Life and Mana Lock greyed parts should now be displayed properly.
The Gravity Cataclysm should now properly slow Projectiles with a modified Projectile Speed.
Ghosts (Suffering Souls) can now be dodged.
Ancestral Strikes from DoTs can now properly trigger Ancestral Effects (such as Gazloka's Conquest)
War Chests should no longer spawn when switching classes or loading other saves.
Achievements tracking Maxxed out Skills will no longer be removed once they have been awarded if players rank down a Skill. Same goes for Ancestral Skills and Attributes.
Achievements counting Floors in specific Environments will now also count Floor done inside The Netherworld.
Cataclysm : Reconstruction should now work properly and the timer should be reset on every hit.
On the Netherworld Map, Expeditions completed by other classes should now appear with the proper gold border.
"Map Transparency" is now called "Map Opacity".
Damage Numbers should now appear at the correct location even when using higher resolutions such as 2k and 4k.
Keybinds should now appear at the proper size when using higher resolutions such as 2k and 4k.
Automatically picking up lots of loot (and materials) should no longer slow the game down (at all).
Influence gained should now display the proper value on the result menu.
Fixed a rare crash occuring when displaying Enemies Buffs Icons.
Fixed a rare crash occuring when exiting the Blacksmith.
Fixed a bunch of typos.
Attributes
Willpower 45 should now grant the proper amount of Minion Increased Damage per minion.
Attributes with a condition such as "less than X% Mana" or "less than Y% Life" will now trigger when Life / Mana is less or equal. This includes:
Determination 60.
Toughness 60.
Savagery 30.
Willpower 15.
Dexterity 45.
Ancestral Legacy
Elemental Synergy should now count every equipped Aura.
Life and Mana per Second Skills should no longer display an incorrect Life / Mana Cost value when Elemental Swap is toggled on.
Elemental Pact is now properly set as a Conversion.
One Last Round now properly increase the stack limit of Enfeeble.
Power Surge now interracts properly will Skills scaling on Mana on Hit such as Arcane Missile / Voracious Missile.
To prevent people from going crazy, The Judge of Light's sound will stop looping after a few seconds.
Comfort Zone should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
The Mighty Knight
Grappling Hook / Commandeer should now have the proper Mana Cost.
Grappling Hook / Commandeer should no longer work on Obelisks.
Deflect should now properly deflect Projectiles from Light Totems.
Ascension / The Flying Man should no longer remove "cooldown debuffs" such as Reaper of the Bloodthirsty Beast passive effect.
The Fierce Huntress
Smoke Screen / Fairy Dust should now be properly removed when Smoke Screen ends.
Smoke Screen's damage buff should now work properly with Heavy Explosive Projectile.
Ravenous Daggers should now properly deal Additional Damage when being merged.
Using Steel Manipulator and Amulet of Transferance should no longer mess with Immortal Arrow's tooltip.
Fist of the Wild / Double Palm should now properly target two different enemies.
Void Arrow / Netherfire from the Void can now properly deal damage when dealing only Elemental Damage.
Self-Control now reads: "You have +25% Attack Speed. While Tormented or Delighted, this effect is disabled." (On top of making it clearer, this is also quite a buff)
While using Click to Move, Tumble should now always be cast toward your cursor.
Wandering Arrows should no longer be visible when not attacking inside The Netherworld.
The Mischievous Mage
Attunement Pulse / Reshape : Should now properly grant the "Projectile" tag to Attunement Pulse (and properly interact with effects such as Drum-Reaper of War).
Attunement Pulse / Elemental Weakness should now properly increase Elemental Weakness.
Orb of the Arcane Master / Drunken Master: Should now properly cast Additional Projectiles granted from % Additional Projectiles.
Arcane Clones now also benefit from your Attack Speed.
Chrono-Puncture / Chrono-Speed now properly displays Cooldown Reduction instead of Attack Speed, and now properly grants 2% per stack instead of 3%.
Arcane Breach / Arcane Explosion should no longer deal insane damage when casting Arcane Breach on top of an Orb of the Arcane Master.
Orb of the Arcane Master / Drunken Master should now cast the proper amount of projectiles no matter the Legendary effect or Reaper used.
Arcane Clones should now work properly with Drum-Staff of War.
Slorm Reapers
Equipping a Slorm Reaper will now reset Shield back to 0.
Reaper of the Untouchable One: Untouchable Dash should now always trigger when the key is pressed.
Reaper of Benediction should now heal the proper amount of Life.
Altior, Arah's Perfect Reaper should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Primordial Reaper of the Many's Life Projectile now deal the proper damage.
Heals from Reaper of Benediction should no longer be dodgeable.
Vengeance, Ohm Agad's Cursed Reaper should now properly apply its Max Life buff.
Reaper of the Many: Orbs of Life should now properly set damage to 0.
Reaper of Resonating Thunder should now properly calculate Ancestral Strike Chance.
Legendaries
Avg Skill Damage when using Steel Manipulator and Amulet of Transferance should now be properly calculated.
Arnaldow's Shimmering Pauldrons should now behave properly when Area Rapid Cast is off.
Celestial Shackles should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Celestial Shackles should no longer toggle itself off when leaving a map.
Chest of Immense Vitality should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Ultrasonic Bracers should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Immortal Grasp should now heal based on Skill and Elemental Damage.
The Awoken: Reaching Tormented by using a Support Skill will no longer trigger it twice.
Gloves of the Unleashed Surge should no longer trigger when casting Support Skills.
Armor of the Unstoppable Shaman will now trigger the Mini-Keeper.
Fulgurorn's Might should now properly trigger every 0.5 second.
Ultrasonic Bracers should no longer toggle itself off when leaving a map.
Boots of Extreme Confidence should now always work regardless of the direction.
Stacks from Ring of the Blood Seeker should now be properly removed when unequipping the Ring.
Damasius Awareness should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Aiming Assistance Pads should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Lowey's Wave of Fervor should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Sahrusiel's Barrage: The Holy Spirit should no longer receive damage and / or die.
Steel Manipulator is now properly set as a Conversion.
Skyward Guardian Girdle's Celestial Protection should now work properly (and no longer disappear after 5 seconds).
Midos' Collector's Bracers should no longer slow the game down.
Inextricable Waistguard should no longer work on Bosses.
Edit: 1.0.2c
Fixed a crash occuring with The Fierce Huntress using Poison.
Fixed the Discord link in the menu.
Achievements linked to Slormites should no longer count Slormites that are being transfered back from The Slormitizer.
Coward's Belt should now work properly with Vengeance, Ohm Agad's Cursed Reaper.
Rune of the Shaman should now properly display Wood Sticks instead of Mighty Swing.
Cheers!
The Slormancer v1.0.2: Patch Notes
Hello everyone! The 1.0.2 patch is now live on the Experimental Branch. Mostly focused on fixing bugs.
Just in case I've broken something while fixing another, this patch will stay on the Experimental Branch for a few days, until I'm sure that everything is working properly.
Changes and Additions
Added a new setting called "Dynamic Casting":
Enabled: The Skill is cast at the current position of the cursor when the animation ends. This is the default setting.
Disabled: The Skill is cast at the position of the cursor at the moment of activation.
Bugs Fixes
Important
Fixed the issue preventing the game to start at fullscreen (I think).
General
Defeating an Obelisk of Illusion should now immediately grant 3 Choices for the next Challenge in The Great Forge.
Life and Mana Lock greyed parts should now be displayed properly.
The Gravity Cataclysm should now properly slow Projectiles with a modified Projectile Speed.
Ghosts (Suffering Souls) can now be dodged.
Ancestral Strikes from DoTs can now properly trigger Ancestral Effects (such as Gazloka's Conquest)
War Chests should no longer spawn when switching classes or loading other saves.
Achievements tracking Maxxed out Skills will no longer be removed once they have been awarded if players rank down a Skill. Same goes for Ancestral Skills and Attributes.
Achievements counting Floors in specific Environments will now also count Floor done inside The Netherworld.
Cataclysm : Reconstruction should now work properly and the timer should be reset on every hit.
On the Netherworld Map, Expeditions completed by other classes should now appear with the proper gold border.
"Map Transparency" is now called "Map Opacity".
Damage Numbers should now appear at the correct location even when using higher resolutions such as 2k and 4k.
Keybinds should now appear at the proper size when using higher resolutions such as 2k and 4k.
Automatically picking up lots of loot (and materials) should no longer slow the game down (at all).
Influence gained should now display the proper value on the result menu.
Fixed a rare crash occuring when displaying Enemies Buffs Icons.
Fixed a rare crash occuring when exiting the Blacksmith.
Fixed a bunch of typos.
Attributes
Willpower 45 should now grant the proper amount of Minion Increased Damage per minion.
Attributes with a condition such as "less than X% Mana" or "less than Y% Life" will now trigger when Life / Mana is less or equal. This includes:
Determination 60.
Toughness 60.
Savagery 30.
Willpower 15.
Dexterity 45.
Ancestral Legacy
Elemental Synergy should now count every equipped Aura.
Life and Mana per Second Skills should no longer display an incorrect Life / Mana Cost value when Elemental Swap is toggled on.
Elemental Pact is now properly set as a Conversion.
One Last Round now properly increase the stack limit of Enfeeble.
Power Surge now interracts properly will Skills scaling on Mana on Hit such as Arcane Missile / Voracious Missile.
To prevent people from going crazy, The Judge of Light's sound will stop looping after a few seconds.
Comfort Zone should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
The Mighty Knight
Grappling Hook / Commandeer should now have the proper Mana Cost.
Grappling Hook / Commandeer should no longer work on Obelisks.
Deflect should now properly deflect Projectiles from Light Totems.
Ascension / The Flying Man should no longer remove "cooldown debuffs" such as Reaper of the Bloodthirsty Beast passive effect.
The Fierce Huntress
Smoke Screen / Fairy Dust should now be properly removed when Smoke Screen ends.
Smoke Screen's damage buff should now work properly with Heavy Explosive Projectile.
Ravenous Daggers should now properly deal Additional Damage when being merged.
Using Steel Manipulator and Amulet of Transferance should no longer mess with Immortal Arrow's tooltip.
Fist of the Wild / Double Palm should now properly target two different enemies.
Void Arrow / Netherfire from the Void can now properly deal damage when dealing only Elemental Damage.
Self-Control now reads: "You have +25% Attack Speed. While Tormented or Delighted, this effect is disabled." (On top of making it clearer, this is also quite a buff)
While using Click to Move, Tumble should now always be cast toward your cursor.
Wandering Arrows should no longer be visible when not attacking inside The Netherworld.
The Mischievous Mage
Attunement Pulse / Reshape : Should now properly grant the "Projectile" tag to Attunement Pulse (and properly interact with effects such as Drum-Reaper of War).
Attunement Pulse / Elemental Weakness should now properly increase Elemental Weakness.
Orb of the Arcane Master / Drunken Master: Should now properly cast Additional Projectiles granted from % Additional Projectiles.
Arcane Clones now also benefit from your Attack Speed.
Chrono-Puncture / Chrono-Speed now properly displays Cooldown Reduction instead of Attack Speed, and now properly grants 2% per stack instead of 3%.
Arcane Breach / Arcane Explosion should no longer deal insane damage when casting Arcane Breach on top of an Orb of the Arcane Master.
Orb of the Arcane Master / Drunken Master should now cast the proper amount of projectiles no matter the Legendary effect or Reaper used.
Arcane Clones should now work properly with Drum-Staff of War.
Slorm Reapers
Equipping a Slorm Reaper will now reset Shield back to 0.
Reaper of the Untouchable One: Untouchable Dash should now always trigger when the key is pressed.
Reaper of Benediction should now heal the proper amount of Life.
Altior, Arah's Perfect Reaper should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Primordial Reaper of the Many's Life Projectile now deal the proper damage.
Heals from Reaper of Benediction should no longer be dodgeable.
Vengeance, Ohm Agad's Cursed Reaper should now properly apply its Max Life buff.
Reaper of the Many: Orbs of Life should now properly set damage to 0.
Reaper of Resonating Thunder should now properly calculate Ancestral Strike Chance.
Legendaries
Avg Skill Damage when using Steel Manipulator and Amulet of Transferance should now be properly calculated.
Arnaldow's Shimmering Pauldrons should now behave properly when Area Rapid Cast is off.
Celestial Shackles should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Celestial Shackles should no longer toggle itself off when leaving a map.
Chest of Immense Vitality should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Ultrasonic Bracers should now properly benefit from Aura Increased Effect.
Immortal Grasp should now heal based on Skill and Elemental Damage.
The Awoken: Reaching Tormented by using a Support Skill will no longer trigger it twice.
Gloves of the Unleashed Surge should no longer trigger when casting Support Skills.
Armor of the Unstoppable Shaman will now trigger the Mini-Keeper.
Fulgurorn's Might should now properly trigger every 0.5 second.
Ultrasonic Bracers should no longer toggle itself off when leaving a map.
Boots of Extreme Confidence should now always work regardless of the direction.
Stacks from Ring of the Blood Seeker should now be properly removed when unequipping the Ring.
Damasius Awareness should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Aiming Assistance Pads should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Lowey's Wave of Fervor should now work properly with Indirect Damage.
Sahrusiel's Barrage: The Holy Spirit should no longer receive damage and / or die.
Steel Manipulator is now properly set as a Conversion.
Skyward Guardian Girdle's Celestial Protection should now work properly (and no longer disappear after 5 seconds).
Midos' Collector's Bracers should no longer slow the game down.
Inextricable Waistguard should no longer work on Bosses.
Cheers!
Slormite Chronicles #51
Hello everyone!
I've been pretty quiet over the past few weeks, but I've actually been hard at work squashing bugs. Since launch, I've compiled a list of about 100–150 bugs, ranging in importance, mostly caused by odd interactions between different effects.
I’m happy to say I’m almost done with that list!
One thing I managed to fix is the screen resolution issue on startup, I've got that going on for me, which is nice. Obviously, reaching a state of zero bugs is nearly impossible, but now that I’ve taken care of so many, I finally feel like I can move on to something else (like actual content!).
As I mentioned in a previous Slormite Chronicles, I’ve been working on whatever I feel like lately, mostly bugs, but also a few small features I wanted to play with. With bug-fixing almost wrapped up (until the next batch), I’m planning to push out an update next week, first on the Experimental Branch for a few days, then on the Live Branch once I’m sure nothing is broken.
If the update goes according to the plan, I should then be taking a break for the holidays (I can't seem to stop anyway, what's wrong with me) and come back to work on additional content and features.
Speaking of features, I’ve started preparing the new Skins system. Since we haven’t added skins to The Slormancer yet, I’m currently working on additional color variations for the default skin, along with the UI for the menu itself.
Skins (colors for now)
Here’s a preview of the new Skins menu, featuring the Mischievous Mage. With my bro HyonD (the art department) off on holiday, I had to pick the colors myself, they’ll likely be adjusted before release.
If you're wondering, the second thumbnail will show Bryan McRipped’s and Breach Doors’ skin variations.
Tooltips and console port
I’ve also started diving into the UI work required to increase font sizes throughout the game, a necessary step for a future Switch port, and to aim for that sweet “Steam Deck Verified” badge. While I was still deep into bugs, here’s a glimpse of the upcoming item tooltip redesign:
As you can see, small but meaningful tweaks going on behind the scenes.
Next update!
As mentioned above, a new update is coming to the Experimental Branch next week. It’ll include the big bug-fix pass, but won’t yet feature the Skins menu or the new tooltips, those are still in progress and planned for a future update.
Between the release itself, post-launch marketing, adjusting to our new pace, and fixing everything that popped up, this is one of those Slormite Chronicles without any big shiny surprises. But rest assured that we’re making solid progress. At the very least, the game is getting cleaner.
That’s all for now! Cheers, and happy Slorm hunting!
The Slormancer: Hotfix 1.0.1e
Don't mind me, I'm fixing a few details.
One is important though: The Final cutscene after defeating The Slormancer should now be properly played. Since there were no way for me to figure out if a player saw said cinematic or not, it will be trigerred once you log into the game if you've defeated The Slormancer even if you saw it once.
Dark Ritual should now properly cause Skills to cost Life.
Thundestruck should now deal the proper amount of damage when triggered with Blazingspark Amulet.
Holding Left Mouse Button while the Next Wave is automatically triggered in the Great Forge should no longer register when the button is released.
The Slormancer v1.0.1: is now avalaible
Hello everyone!
Patch 1.0.1 is now live on the Default Branch. Here is the full list of changes:
Additions and Quality of Lifes
Added a few QoLs to Rick Manalan's Reinforcement:
Right-Clicking on an Item to send it to The Slormitizer will now always re-equip the previous Item.
Adding an Equipment to The Slormitizer will now immediately add the proper Slormite to The Slormitizer.
Pressing SHIFT will now send 10 Slormelines / Slormandrites to the Slormitizer, and pressing ALT will send 100.
In Rick Manalan's Merge Menu, you can now select 1, 3, 10, 100 and Max as Craft values.
Pure Stats will now display !, !! and !!! based on the Max possible Pure Score instead of the current possible Pure Score, to prevent !!! turning into !!.
Added a few QoLs to The Blacksmith:
Right-Clicking on an Item to send it to Friedrich's Forge will now always re-equip the previous Item.
In the Blacksmith's Salvage Menu, you can now press SHIFT + Right Click to Salvage unequipped Equipment.
Choosing a Reforge Recipe at the Blacksmith should now snap the tooltip to the associated stat.
In the Blacksmith's Merge Menu, you can now select 1, 3, 10, 100 and Max as Craft values.
Added a "Sort" button in Storage Stashes.
Added a Search function to:
Inventory Equipment
Storage Stashes
Legendary Stashes
Class Skills: Added a visual cue to better display the fact that only a single upgrade can be active per tier.
Added a function to fully Upgrade or fully Downgrade a Skill / Ancestral Skill when holding SHIFT while upgrading or downgrading a Skill.
Added a "Automatically Start Next Wave" setting / toggle in The Great Forge.
Influence can now be gained in The Netherworld.
Fire Rage and AoEs from The Dreadful Colossus should be less noisy.
Material Tabs:
Stacks of Materials will now only be displayed up to 99 999 to not clutter the screen with useless informations (the actual stack value is still properly displayed in the tooltip).
Stack values are now being displayed with a XX XXX format (it's not much, but it looks nicer).
Goldus, Slorm, Pure and Elder Slorm values are not properly displayed and the font should adjust accordingly to the value.
Changes
Fire Rage Cataclysm is now a single "donut-shaped" attack instead of 3 areas.
The following Damage over Time effects can now deal Critical Strike Damage by default:
Skewer
Retaliation over Time
Arcane Bond
Afflict (from Reaper of Ferocious Affinity)
Exhaustion (from Reaper of Sleepy Butterfly)
Trauma (from Reaper of Deadly Accuracy)
Resonating Force (from Reaper of Upheaval)
Ancestral Firefingers now reads: Damage over Time can now deal Ancestral Strike Damage.
Bugs Fixes
General
In The Slorm Temple and The Netherworld, the proper Wrath level should now be applied when calculating resistances.
Skills Imbued with multiple elements should now have the proper Mana Cost.
Equipping Skills right after opening the Skills menu should now properly work.
The Search function should now work properly with The Netherworld map and no longer return positive for Raw Damage.
Slormites tooltips should now be properly displayed when using a 4k resolution.
Loots on the Minimap should no longer randomly disappear.
Fixed an issue preventing the possibility to Graft some Legendary Effects.
Fixed a crash occuring when opening Jemma's store.
Fixed a few other crashes.
Ancestral Legacy
Waste Not's Overkill Damage should no longer be modified by damage modifiers.
Melting Ice should now reduce the Cooldown of all relevant Skills.
Burning Rage should no longer appear twice.
The Mighty Knight
Skewered should now display the amount of stacks.
The Fierce Huntress
Void Arrow should now charge at the proper speed regardless of FPS.
The Mischievous Mage
Remnants of Overdrive should now trigger Remnant Clouds.
Slorm Reapers
Reaper of Necromancy should no longer prevent Bryan's Seal of Protection to be removed.
Reaper of Support should now properly grant additional damage to Turret Syndrom.
Primordial Malediction of Reaper of the Goldship should now work properly.
Primordial Benediction of Reaper of Upheaval should now only apply to you.
Legendaries
Ironclad Retaliation should now work properly with Cataclysm Damage.
Gloves of the Unleashed Surge should no longer trigger with Support Skills.
Jewel of Odhor should now properly reduce the Cooldown of all relevant Skills.
Jewel of Istrahsil should now properly reduce the Mana Cost of all relevant Skills.
Abrasihl's Verdict should now only trigger when casting Cadence.
Fulgurorn's Elemental Snare should no longer be applied to you.
I still have quite a list of bugs to fix, including very problematic ones that I still can't seem to figure out. So don't worry, I'm still working on those!
Cheers!
Slormite Chronicles #50
Hello everyone!
Here it is: the first (real) Slormite Chronicles since the full release of the game. And it’s also the fiftieth! Not bad! I’m definitely sweating a lot less than I was for Slormite Chronicles #49 which I wrote just a week before release. Feels like that was six months ago though.
For all the players who joined us with the official 1.0 release: we publish a devlog we call the Slormite Chronicles on the 6th of every month, which is the anniversary of the game’s Early Access launch.
In today’s Chronicle: a quick look back at the release, some of the current issues we’re facing, and what’s next for The Slormancer.
The 1.0 Release
We posted a Special Slormite Chronicles a week after the launch, which included sales figures and some of the feedback we received.
As mentioned in that Chronicle, we sold just over 75,000 copies during the first week, bringing the total to 250,00, and we should hit 300,000 sales by the end of the first month (on the 13th), which is absolutely incredible for us.
We've also reached 10,989 concurrent players and nearly 2,000 Steam Reviews that month alone.
Once again, a massive thank you to everyone who gave the game a shot this month whether you loved it or bounced off, we appreciate every single one of you.
I’ll quote myself from the previous Slormite Chronicles because it still rings true: We’re also reading tons of feedback everywhere, Reddit threads, Twitch chat, Steam discussions, and we’ve been feeling a lot of love lately.
The Slormancer was made with passion, but let’s be honest, it’s a bit clumsy in places, so we totally understand the negative reviews and that it might not click for everyone.
That said, we’re really happy to see that some of the core ideas we’ve had since the beginning, like instant build swapping and deterministic crafting, are being recognized and appreciated. That means a lot to us.
Bugs and Quality of Life Additions
Speaking of feedback, we’re still receiving bug reports on a regular basis, some are more troubling than others (like textures or UI elements randomly disappearing, for example).
Now that we’re a bit past the launch, I’ve resumed development and started focusing on fixing bugs and implementing the most requested quality-of-life features.
Updating a game post-Early Access is a bit different. Back then, I occasionally broke things while trying to fix others. So from now on, I’ll always push updates to the Steam Experimental branch first (at least for a few days) to ensure stability before rolling them out to the default branch.
Version 1.0.1 of The Slormancer, which includes a first wave of bug fixes and a handful of QoL additions, is currently on the Experimental branch and should be pushed to the default branch early next week.
This version brings improvements to the Blacksmith menu and the Reinforcement menu to make those operations smoother, along with updates to help better manage your inventory, among other things:
Working on “small” improvements without a strict schedule, and just going with the flow, has been a very enjoyable way to ease back into development after such a long Early Access period full of roadmaps and pressure to hit 1.0. Which brings me to the next point.
The Future of The Slormancer
Over the past four years in Early Access, we’ve been jumping from one update to the next without ever really taking a breather. Every update came out later than we planned, and we were always trying to catch up.
At the same time, comments from players pointing out how long we’d been in Early Access (2, 3, then 4 years) has put us under constant pressure to finish the game.
Now, we just want to take a moment to enjoy the ride and feel like we’ve actually crossed the finish line.
That doesn’t mean we’re done with The Slormancer, far from it. As I mentioned earlier, taking time to work on fun little features that make everyone happy is a luxury I couldn’t really afford during Early Access, where the “big feature” of the moment always took priority.
What we really want now is to continue without a rigid roadmap. We have a list of features we’d like to add, many of which players have asked for, but we don’t want to set deadlines or make any promises.
What we can promise, however, is that the game will keep growing.
In the short term, I’d like to keep working on QoL updates, then shift focus to a more complete skin system, starting with alternate color palettes for each class’s outfits, and laying the groundwork for even more skins down the line. Reworking the Netherworld and its equipment “economy” is also on our minds.
I won’t say more, because honestly, I don’t know what we’ll be tackling after that. Let’s call it agile development!
In the meantime, we’ve also started working on console ports. I’m collaborating with a porting team, and all changes aimed at improving clarity and performance will also be available in the PC version. This should also help us get the “Verified” badge for the Steam Deck.
So for now, no big new feature to announce, just a lot of polishing to do, bugs to fix, and preparation for the future.
That's about it for now! Cheers! And happy Slorm hunting!
The Slormancer v1.0.1: Patch Notes
Hello everyone!
Now that the release is behind us and that I have a bit more time to work on The Slormancer, here's the first round of additions and fixes.
To avoid breaking anything that will prevent lots of players from enjoying the game, we will be deploying (almost) every single patch in the Experimental Branch for a short period of time, until we're sure that the new version is stable.
Patch 1.0.1 is now available on the Experimental Branch and should hit the Default Branch soon. So if you want to give it a try, right click The Slormancer, choose Properties then Beta and select Experimental.
Important: The Experimental Branch will use the same save as the Default Branch so you can move back and forth between branches and your progress will follow through.
Additions and Quality of Lifes
Added a few QoLs to Rick Manalan's Reinforcement:
Right-Clicking on an Item to send it to The Slormitizer will now always re-equip the previous Item.
Adding an Equipment to The Slormitizer will now immediately add the proper Slormite to The Slormitizer.
Pressing SHIFT will now send 10 Slormelines / Slormandrites to the Slormitizer, and pressing ALT will send 100.
In Rick Manalan's Merge Menu, you can now select 1, 3, 10, 100 and Max as Craft values.
Pure Stats will now display !, !! and !!! based on the Max possible Pure Score instead of the current possible Pure Score, to prevent !!! turning into !!.
Added a few QoLs to The Blacksmith:
Right-Clicking on an Item to send it to Friedrich's Forge will now always re-equip the previous Item.
In the Blacksmith's Salvage Menu, you can now press SHIFT + Right Click to Salvage unequipped Equipment.
Choosing a Reforge Recipe at the Blacksmith should now snap the tooltip to the associated stat.
In the Blacksmith's Merge Menu, you can now select 1, 3, 10, 100 and Max as Craft values.
Added a "Sort" button in Storage Stashes.
Added a Search function to:
Inventory Equipment
Storage Stashes
Legendary Stashes
Class Skills: Added a visual cue to better display the fact that only a single upgrade can be active per tier.
Added a function to fully Upgrade or fully Downgrade a Skill / Ancestral Skill when holding SHIFT while upgrading or downgrading a Skill.
Added a "Automatically Start Next Wave" toggle in The Great Forge.
Influence can now be gained in The Netherworld.
Fire Rage and AoEs from The Dreadful Colossus should be less noisy.
Material Tabs:
Stacks of Materials will now only be displayed up to 99 999 to not clutter the screen with useless informations (the actual stack value is still properly displayed in the tooltip).
Stack values are now being displayed with a XX XXX format (it's not much, but it looks nicer).
Goldus, Slorm, Pure and Elder Slorm values are not properly displayed and the font should adjust accordingly to the value.
Changes
Fire Rage Cataclysm is now a single "donut-shaped" attack instead of 3 areas.
The following Damage over Time effects can now deal Critical Strike Damage by default:
Skewer
Retaliation over Time
Arcane Bond
Afflict (from Reaper of Ferocious Affinity)
Exhaustion (from Reaper of Sleepy Butterfly)
Trauma (from Reaper of Deadly Accuracy)
Resonating Force (from Reaper of Upheaval)
Ancestral Firefingers now reads: Damage over Time can now deal Ancestral Strike Damage.
Bugs Fixes
General
In The Slorm Temple and The Netherworld, the proper Wrath level should now be applied when calculating resistances.
Skills Imbued with multiple elements should now have the proper Mana Cost.
Equipping Skills right after opening the Skills menu should now properly work.
The Search function should now work properly with The Netherworld map and no longer return positive for Raw Damage.
Slormites tooltips should now be properly displayed when using a 4k resolution.
Loots on the Minimap should no longer randomly disappear.
Fixed an issue preventing the possibility to Graft some Legendary Effects.
Fixed a crash occuring when opening Jemma's store.
Fixed a few other crashes.
Ancestral Legacy
Waste Not's Overkill Damage should no longer be modified by damage modifiers.
Melting Ice should now reduce the Cooldown of all relevant Skills.
Burning Rage should no longer appear twice.
The Mighty Knight
Skewered should now display the amount of stacks.
The Fierce Huntress
Void Arrow should now charge at the proper speed regardless of FPS.
The Mischievous Mage
Remnants of Overdrive should now trigger Remnant Clouds.
Slorm Reapers
Reaper of Necromancy should no longer prevent Bryan's Seal of Protection to be removed.
Reaper of Support should now properly grant additional damage to Turret Syndrom.
Primordial Malediction of Reaper of the Goldship should now work properly.
Primordial Benediction of Reaper of Upheaval should now only apply to you.
Legendaries
Ironclad Retaliation should now work properly with Cataclysm Damage.
Gloves of the Unleashed Surge should no longer trigger with Support Skills.
Jewel of Odhor should now properly reduce the Cooldown of all relevant Skills.
Jewel of Istrahsil should now properly reduce the Mana Cost of all relevant Skills.
Abrasihl's Verdict should now only trigger when casting Cadence.
Fulgurorn's Elemental Snare should no longer be applied to you.
I still have quite a list of bugs to fix, including very problematic ones that I still can't seem to figure out. So don't worry, I'm still working on those!
Cheers!
Special Slormite Chronicles
Hello everyone! Welcome to a very special edition of the Slormite Chronicles!
Since a lot of new players have joined us recently, here’s a quick reminder: the Slormite Chronicles is what we call our devlogs. We publish one on the 6th of every month to celebrate the day The Slormancer launched in Early Access.
But hey, we didn’t want to wait until the 6th this time. So here’s a little bonus Chronicles to give you a quick recap of how launch week went, and what’s coming up next!
What a Week!
Launch week officially ends on Tuesday, May 20th at 7pm (which is just a few hours from the time I’m writing this). And overall… it went pretty well!
We sold 75,000 copies during launch week, bringing us to a grand total of 250,000 units sold! Thank you so much for your support!
Our only previous experience with a game launch was when The Slormancer hit Early Access, and let’s just say, that was a bit more of a wild ride.
We’ve seen dozens of bugs reported daily on Discord, but players are still able to launch the game and enjoy the full content without major crashes. The #1 issue seems to be the game starting in windowed mode, mildly annoying, but fixable on the player's end.
We also hit an all-time peak of 10,989 concurrent players! That’s not quite at the level of the genre’s biggest titles, but considering where we started, and the fact that our team has a grand total of two people, we think that’s pretty awesome.
Once again, a massive thank you to everyone who gave the game a shot this week, whether you loved it or bounced off, we appreciate every single one of you.
Unlike our Early Access launch, we’re also seeing a lot more players sticking around this time, which is super encouraging. There’s content, and players seem to be enjoying it.
Thanks to many streamers who jumped in and gave The Slormancer a try, we’ve regularly had between 1,000 and 4,000 viewers on Twitch. Big thanks to all the streamers and viewers, it's always fun watching new builds being discovered live.
Here’s a handful of cool videos we'd like to share:
Handling Feedback
We’ve had an avalanche of feedback to process: from Discord, Steam, emails, and beyond. Whether it’s bug reports or gameplay suggestions, we’re actually spending more time reading and sorting through it all than fixing things!
So we’ve got to optimize how we work. Aside from two quick hotfixes to address crashes, I only just got back into the code yesterday, and I’ve been working full steam ahead to squash bugs and add a few goodies.
That said, as mentioned, we’re a tiny team, and I’m actually the only developer. This whole adventure started with the two of us, and we’d really like it to end the same way, just us, doing our best to build something we care about. It’s just… a bit slower.
More feedback! We’re also reading a ton of feedback all over the place, Reddit threads, Twitch chat, Steam discussions, and we’ve been feeling a lot of love lately.
The Slormancer was made with passion, but let’s be honest, it’s a bit clumsy in places so we totally understand the negative reviews and that it might not click for everyone.
That said, we’re really happy to see that some of the core ideas we had from the start, like instantly swapping builds or offering deterministic crafting, are being recognized and appreciated. That means a lot to us.
Speaking of feedback... If you’re enjoying The Slormancer, please consider leaving a positive review! It really helps. ːbryan_mcrippedː
Patch When?
Post-release is a bit different from Early Access. My plan is to release regular patches with fixes and updates until everything’s stable and polished. The first patch should drop next week, and we’ll test it on the Experimental Branch for a few days to make sure it doesn’t break anything.
Here’s a tiny sneak peek:
Added a visual cue to make it super clear you can only have one upgrade per tier.
Added a shiny new button in the Forge.
We’ve also got a bunch of quality-of-life tweaks and loads of bug fixes coming.
What’s Next?
To be fully transparent, we’ve just wrapped up 8 years of development, with some very intense final months. I want to focus hard on fixing as many issues as I can during these early weeks, so everyone can enjoy the game under the best conditions.
After that, we’ll take a bit of a breather and figure out the next steps. There are a lot of things we’d love to add, but until we’re 100% sure what’s feasible, we don’t want to make any promises.
What I can promise, though, is this: The Slormancer is coming to consoles, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox, when it’s ready. While adapting the UI for consoles, we’ll also be polishing up controller support and working toward getting that sweet “Verified” badge for the Steam Deck.
That’s all for now! Thanks again to everyone playing, supporting, and slorm hunting with us!
(Alright, back to code.)
The Slormancer v1.0 is now available!
The Slormancer is now out of Early Access
The Slormancer is the result of countless hours of work but it was made possible thanks to the incredible support, feedback, and passion of our player community throughout its development. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this adventure!
The Slormancer: From 0.1 To 1.0
We need your help!
As a small indie team, your support means the world to us. If you’ve enjoyed your time with The Slormancer, there are a few simple things you can do to help us make this release a success:
Tell your friends about the game, or share the news on social media!
Leave a positive review on Steam if you haven’t already, it really helps more than you might think.
Come say hi on Discord, X or Bluesky and help spread the word!
Supporter Pack
Our wonderful Supporter Pack has been available for a few days now, along with the Original Soundtrack!
Buying either is a great way to support the ongoing development of The Slormancer, and every bit of support means the world to us. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or are just now joining the adventure, thank you so much for being part of this journey!
Even though this update marks the end of The Slormancer's Early Access, it’s far from the end of the road. We will continue to develop and improve the game through future updates, balancing changes, and new content, and your feedback will remain as valuable as ever.
So please, keep sharing your thoughts, ideas, and bug reports with us.
This is only the beginning.
Migrating a Save File from Experimental to Live
If you've been playing the Experimental Branch and would like to carry your progress over to the Live Branch, there is a small extra step that needs to be done:
Head over to C:/Users//AppData/Local/The_Slormancer and find the save_exp_cbeta_1 file, copy it and rename it to save_1 (and copy or erase the previous file).
When you launch The Slormancer, if Steam asks you to choose between the Local and the Cloud file, choose Local.
Profit!
This assumes that you are playing on the Save Slot 1. if not, simply change the numbers accordingly (e.g: Rename save_exp_cbeta_2 -> save_2 etc...)
Have fun! Cheers!
The Slormancer: Supporter Pack, Achievements, Cards & Badges
However, please note that its content will only be accessible with the 1.0 version of the game, which will be released tomorrowunless you’re participating in the Experimental Branch, in which case you’ll have immediate access to its content.
Slorm of Gold In The Slormancer, Bryan didn’t have the best fate… but that doesn’t mean he can’t shine! With this DLC, give him a second (and much more radiant) chance with the "Slorm of Gold" alternative skin.
Say goodbye to the spectral blue: Bryan now reincarnates as a glowing yellow orb and gains ethereal wings. More celestial than ever, he now floats with divine grace (or almost).
But that’s not all! When Bryan transforms into a door, he is no longer just any door… he becomes a golden door. With Wings!
A simple cosmetic change? Maybe. A glorious new aura for Bryan? Absolutely!
This Supporter Pack includes:
A Golden Skin for Bryan, the little ghostly orb following the player.
A Golden Skin for the teleportation doors created by Bryan and used throughout the game.
Supporting the Team By purchasing this Supporter Pack, you’re not just giving Bryan a fresh new look—you’re also supporting two independent developers who put all their passion into The Slormancer.
Creating and evolving a game is a challenging adventure, and every bit of support helps us continue improving the experience, adding more content, and pouring even more love into the game’s universe.
If you love The Slormancer, if you love Bryan, or if you just think there aren’t enough wings in the base game, then this pack is for you!
Steam Achievements
Steam Achievements should now also be available for everyone.
There are currently 83 achievements, each tied to some of the most significant milestones available in The Slormancer. Your achievements should update the next time you launch the game.
Community Items
Steam Trading Cards should now also be available, along with Steam Badges and Community Items. You will now be able to get animated profile pictures, avatar frames, background and emoticons.
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