Development Progress Update

Development Progress Update

Week 6

This Week's Development Update

This week focused on balancing the strength of equipment and character skills. We also introduced specialization quests and reworked the Royal characters' abilities.

New Features

New Hotkeys

You can now select a character and use `Ctrl + 1/2/3/4` to teleport the character without changing the map interface (1 is the main map).

Reforge System

Now, red equipment can also be used as reforge materials.

New Dungeon Status Display

A new pull-tab in the top-right corner allows you to view the number of characters in each dungeon and select the type of dungeon.

New Shield-breaking Taunt-related Traits

• Shield Theft (Attack Trait Pool): Steal 20 shield value from a target that currently has a shield.

• Shield Break (Attack Trait Pool): Offensive skills will destroy 30% of the target's shield value.

• Taunt (Defense Trait Pool): Every 24 seconds, taunt a random enemy that is attacking someone other than you.

New Specialization Quests

Players can now complete specialization quests to unlock specializations. Each class has two quests of different difficulty levels, and completing them will reward the player with the corresponding specialization.

• Shieldbearer: Complete 100 Shieldbearer’s Protection uses in a single match; during victory, Shieldbearer’s combined damage and defense exceed 400.

• Knight: Trigger Glory 6 times in a single match; clear an S-tier dungeon with a Knight.

• Priest: Revive 5 allies in a single match; trigger Divine Blessing 600 times in a match.

• Archer: Achieve 80 critical hits with an Archer in a single match; deal over 20,000 damage in a single match.

• Mage: Cast triple spells 10 times in a match; deal over 20,000 damage in a single match.

• Gunner: Take 15,000 damage in a match; deal 15,000 damage in a single match.

New Hotkey Guide

A new hotkey guide has been added to the settings menu.

Royal Character Skill Rework

Royal Mage

A character who focuses on controlling temperature and magical damage, with the ability to choose between two skill paths: Heating and Cooling. Heating causes continuous damage to enemies and quickly reduces the health of frontline units, while Cooling enhances group damage and, when using the ultimate skill, deals a significant amount of true damage.

Skill Path Options:

• Heating Path: Focuses on dealing sustained damage over time and reducing enemy health.

• Cooling Path: Increases group damage and provides high true damage through the ultimate skill.

Royal Shieldbearer

A team protector who reduces cooldowns while shielding allies. The Royal Shieldbearer has two skill lines: Ignore Distance Shielding and Normal Shielding. In the late game, this character becomes the key figure for boosting team protection and providing valuable buffs for the team.

Skill Path Options:

• Ignore Distance Shielding: Allows shielding of Royal characters regardless of distance.

• Normal Shielding: Provides standard shielding and cooldown reduction for all allies.

Royal Knight

A melee warrior dedicated to protecting the team, providing both powerful buffs and solid defenses. With skills that offer damage mitigation, counterattacks, and collaborative attacks with Royal allies, the Royal Knight excels both as a solo survivor and as a team player.

Skill Path Options:

• Defense and Counter: Provides strong defense and the ability to retaliate against enemies.

• Team Buffing: Focuses on enhancing the team’s survival and boosting damage through synergy with other Royal units.

Royal Archer

A high-explosive ranged physical damage dealer with both single-target and high AoE damage output, capable of quickly clearing enemies on the battlefield. The Royal Archer has a unique Critical Hit mechanic, which not only deals massive damage but also reduces the cooldown of the ultimate skill. The ultimate skill delivers extremely high damage in a short period, making the Royal Archer an essential core for high-damage-demanding dungeons.

Skill Path Options:

• Critical Path: Focuses on increasing critical hit damage and reducing the cooldown of the ultimate skill.

• AoE Burst Path: Maximizes AoE damage potential to clear groups of enemies.

Royal Gun Knight

A hybrid character that excels in both sustained and burst damage, specializing in mid-range combat. The Royal Gun Knight’s skills increase their attack power as they perform additional attacks. They can choose between two skill paths: Direct Attack Enhancement and Weakness Assault Flag for ranged combat. The character’s ultimate ability, Double Strike, allows them to deal a massive amount of damage to the enemy’s frontline units.

Skill Path Options:

• Direct Attack Enhancement: Focuses on improving direct attacks for enhanced damage output.

• Weakness Assault Flag: Initiates ranged attacks from a distance, causing significant damage to enemy units.

Royal Priest

A powerful support character capable of providing high healing and clearing debuffs from allies. The Royal Priest’s ultimate grants a few seconds of invincibility to teammates, making them an incredibly strong support unit. In addition to healing, debuff removal, and invincibility, the Royal Priest can provide damage output when needed, making them an indispensable core to the team, especially in high-difficulty dungeons.

Skill Path Options:

• Healing and Buffing Path: Focuses on maximizing healing and providing buffs to the team.

• Debuff Removal and Invincibility Path: Focuses on removing debuffs and granting invincibility for the team.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with equipment traits displaying incorrectly.

• Fixed an issue where the tutorial would cause the game to freeze.

• Fixed an issue where windowed mode settings did not apply correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the Royal Gunner became progressively stronger.

• Fixed an issue where characters' positions would not reset after battle in some maps.

Equipment and Character Skill Adjustments

• AdjustedImmovable ShieldHealth regeneration from each block reduced from 5 → 3.
• AdjustedUltimate Dwarven CraftDual penetration reduced from 10 → 5.
• AdjustedCrown of the Royal FamilyShield gain on hit reduced to 50 layers.
• AdjustedLong Peak StrengthAttack range reduced from 1.5 → 1.
• AdjustedNatural Shaman’s EarthquakeReduced damage.

• Ironclad Counter: Armor increase from 15 → 30.

Game Optimizations

• Optimized the appearance and visual effects of the Ashen Lord's weapon.

• Optimized the color of the dungeon description text in the dungeon selection interface.

• Improved the wording and color for dungeon unlock condition descriptions.

• Optimized the orientation of characters in the game’s encyclopedia by faction.

Currently in Development

• Dwarven Starting Content (80% Complete)

• Character Skill Condition Unlock System (60% Complete)

We appreciate the continued feedback and support from all players. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please feel free to share them in our community forums.