Update 2.0

After 4 months of work, update 2.0 is now available!

It introduces the new Season 3 and its Crusade, the new Atlantean Centurio class, as well as a massive visual overhaul of the game, along with new music, systems, fixes, balancing, QoL, and optimizations.

The gameplay experience is completely transformed—I truly hope you like it!

Check out the release trailer made for the occasion:

New Features

ːACODC_Helmetː New Class: The Atlantean Centurio

Their new resource, Courage, increases your defense and attack infinitely as you attack opponents, but healing resets your courage to 0. You will have to survive by playing aggressively, or on the contrary, with an iron-clad defense!

• 16 new passives to hybridize with all other available classes—the possibilities are endless

• Two specializations: General and Aquamancer

• 4 new active skills

• Favorite weapons: Swords / Polearms / Unarmed

ːShowdownː Divine Oaths

A Challenge system at the start of the game to spice up the difficulty.

• Via Mortem (Hardcore mode): Death is permanent

• Mordred's Song: Dungeons are affected by two random seasonal affixes

• . Ozira's Curse: Halves max health and mana

• Arthur's Oath: Monsters are much more dangerous

• You can stack oaths, but be careful not to bite off more than you can chew

• Unlock Steam Achievements and their associated in-game Nobility Title

ːbonfire2ː Worlds Menu

Manage your in-game Saves + Steam Cloud

• No more digging through game folders; I rebuilt the entire native RPG Maker save system from scratch. This also allows better control and smoother transitions between scenes, featuring loading bars and reduced loading times.

• Menu accessible directly from the in-game options to easily start a new game

• Active Oaths are now visible

• Randomly generated names for each world for an extra touch of lore

• Steam Cloud active and corruption risks minimized to the absolute max ːresilientː

ːMysteryDiamondː Visual Overhaul 2.0

• An old-school 3D art style enhanced through a vast visual overhaul

• All menu backgrounds have been updated, as well as class selection screens, quest images, urban project images...

  

  

  

• But also everything related to combat: All combat backgrounds + All enemy sprites in the game have been remade from scratch!

  

• From-scratch overhaul of the engine's 2D sprite generation, with the creation of a custom animation rendering system. This allows, for example, the creation of flying enemies like bats with multiple frames, or levitating ones like demons during their incantations.Added 2 extra sprites per enemy for attack and incantation animations. That makes a total of 54 new sprites added to the game, replacing the old ones.Steam post image

Designed in collaboration with Mirabilis Assets ːriftearthː

ːretreatː Combat Status Display 2.0

• Smart tracking of all your buffs, with displayed values, stacking animations, and fading in/out, for a more precise and tactical management of your battles

• Tooltip descriptions when hovering over a status effect

• The same applies to enemies

• Seasonal affixes are now statuses that you can track and read in combat

ːDoomBoltː Skill Bar 2.0

• Remade from scratch (fixing all hover, tooltip, and shortcut issues since the game's launch)

• Smart tracking of the remaining number of uses for certain skills, like Hex

• Visual cue in blue when a skill is currently being cast

• Visual cue in yellow when it's possible to interrupt a casting enemy + World of Warcraft-style circular cooldowns

• Integrated beginner tutorial

• Easily configurable shortcuts out of combat in the talents menu, even for potions!

• Reposition skills at will

🎻 Atmosphere 2.0

• Each Environment now has its own playlist to create a unique atmosphere and vary your auditory pleasures

• 28 New OSTs composed by Alkakrab, in addition to the game's 15 default tracks composed by Alexander Nakarada

• You can skip to the next track by clicking on the active playlist

• Replaced all combat OSTs

• I rebuilt the entire game audio system from scratch, adding a new volume control option

• Added2 new Environments are added to the game at the same timeThe Atlantean City with its own ancient Greco-Roman themed playlist, and the Autumn version of the village, available for free to all players in the Guild.

ːuyf_logoː 8 New Pieces of Equipment

• The Uchigatana: a sword that inflicts the highest bleed rate in the game (up to a 75% chance) but reduces rupture damage by 5 in return

• The Atlantean Trident: an ancient spear that grants mana regen and a frost enchantment

  -- Legacy --

• Sylverine: a dagger with a 50% chance to inflict poison, which transforms your Macabre Orb into a Poison Orb

• Lazarus Face: a helmet that improves the durability of your Revenant

• The Abyssal Shroud: shoulders that increase your frost damage by +1

• Sula Mortem: a torso piece that transforms your revenant into a skeletal mage, also increasing your magic by +2

• The Abyss Stone: frost damage now inflicts 25% of your magic instead of its default value (3)

• AddedGold Diggera new tool that grants gold coins during a successful harvest

ːcotdgattackː New Seasonal Affix

• Maelstrom: Inflicts damage at the start of combat based on your mana regeneration

ːiratus_medallionː Pandemonium Tarot Cards Overhaul

• 21 enhanced cards, rebalanced to have a unique and decisive impact

• Truly random draws where any card can appear (no longer fixed groups of 3 bonuses)

• You can now reroll draws 🔄 (max 1 time, or 2 times with a new urban project)

• Removed elemental increments, replaced by elemental damage increases

• New card effects like The Worldstone, which immediately gives you 3 radiant gems!

ːAOEKnightː New Coat of Arms Appearances

• Ultimate appearance ːgodrankː Adelphos, which includes 10 unique animations for swords/maces/unarmed. Available in the Sanctified Crusade (premium).

• Ultimate appearance ːgodrankː Vassilis, which includes 12 unique animations for daggers/unarmed/pistol and even for the reactive arrow and reactive bolt passives. Available in the Guild.

• New appearances available at the counter (for gold coins)

ːimperialcrossː New Crusade

• A Crusade just as generous as ever, total free-to-play and infinitely farmable like the others ːsilverdollarː

• More focused on gold coin rewards than the others, featuring sunken treasures that grant a high, random amount of gold

ːsolitudeː New Nobility Titles and Steam Achievements

• All Steam Achievements have been visually remade

📊 Balancing

• General attack curves for monsters have been reduced

• Agility curves slightly reduced for the swiftest ones (tiger man/pirate/bat)

• Monster health bonus in Pandemonium reduced by 10%

• Player's natural health curve slightly increased

Pandemonium difficulty 5 is the ultimate way to put your builds and talents to the test; it's only normal that it's a challenge requiring proper preparation (potions, perfecting gear, etc.).

However, it shouldn't completely exclude less powerful builds. That's why I've slightly lowered the damage of monsters that hit way too hard at level 40. Note that certain elite monsters remain unchanged and are still major threats. I also reduced the monster health bonus based on the Pandemonium difficulty tier, which will make runs faster as well.

ːzeroː Complete overhaul of the random monster generation system. Rules now apply to prevent frustration:

• No same monster twice in a row

• Incremental elite spawn rate | wave 1 = 0% | w2 = 15% | wx+ = +5% | final wave = 100% if no elite was encountered in previous waves | when an elite spawns, the rate drops back to 0%

• Max healing potions 3 → 4

• Thorn Ring now reflects 1+20% armor to the attacker and grants +1 armor

• Deep Fang +2 agility

• Serpent Ring +2 agility

• Shadow Garb +1 agility

• Removed poison immunity from Spider and Gorgon. There were too many poison-immune monsters, making poison builds way too RNG-dependent compared to bleed builds.

• AddedNecromancer's Revenant Overhaulːwcbskullː Your minion now attacks monsters alongside you (+1 attack) and absorbs a portion of damage taken (+5 armor). It naturally decays in 7 turns + new summoning animation

• Occult Ritual now has a 45% chance (+ your luck stat) to re-summon your revenant

• Lunar Wand now generates 1 frost enchantment

• Blood Medallion removes an extra 10 health

• Nerfed the Army of the Dead affix and sped up its animation

• Forge Hammer now has a 50% chance to stun (previously 25%)

• I changed the artifact slightly. In the end, the number of generated souls amounts to the same (it's even more profitable) because I didn't find it logical to loot large souls from normal monsters, like a bat. Now, large souls are reserved for Elites (this was already somewhat the case with the +25%, but there was still a small 3% chance to drop them on normal mobs). Their drop rate goes from 3% to 65%, and rank 3 of the artifact increases bonus chances even more in Pandemonium (up to +25% at T5, so a 90% chance for large souls on elite monsters). You might think, "He's crazy, that's way too profitable." Yes, but first of all, they no longer drop on all monsters, so that makes a big difference, and thanks to the new monster generation system, you encounter fewer elites in dungeons.

Quality of Life and Miscellaneous Improvements

• ːyubiː Overhaul of the Starting Tutorial, better supported visually, more detailed, more intuitive and practical, without being any longer

• Indicative tooltip when you don't have a weapon equipped during your first dungeons

• Indicative tooltip when you don't have an active skill equipped during your first dungeons

• Indicative tooltip when distributing your talent points (when out of pts / when you must first invest 1 pt in the row above / when the required level is not met)

• In-combat tutorial for interrupting enemy incantations

• The Necromancer's Stalker Spirits no longer proc if the target is already dead

• Added Mimics profile to the bestiary

• Upgraded legendary weapon icons (Jotunheim, Calamity, Scarlet Sun, Lightbringer)

• New prestige menu tab (replaces the old shield on the right side of the screen)

• New button for the options menu

• Hovering over the game logo reveals a link to the Regalia Project Discord server, gathering all my game projects in one place

• Repositioned tool tabs in Character menu and the legacy tutorial button

• In-combat indicator for monster casting chances instead of their luck stat, which wasn't being used

• Stat tooltips in combat when hovering over them

• In-combat hover options (volumes and turbo mode)

And I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of little things, but it's just too vast—I'll let you discover it all in-game! Thank you for reading the patch notes. Writing it down thoroughly and adding pictures takes an enormous amount of time, so it really means a lot ✅

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