Patch 1.1: Multiplayer, Performance & Stability

Multiplayer Meta-Progression Rework

• Added an individual Meta-Progression system:

  • Multiplayer progression is now saved per player instead of being fully shared across a session. At the end of an Age, each player receives their own rewards and keeps their own persistent unlocks and purchases on their personal profile:

    • Evolution added to Collection

    • Wargear unlocked and upgrades

    • Essence unlocked and upgrades

    • Echoes

    • Aphotic Shards

• The Celestial Hourglass still remains tied to the host during a multiplayer session. If you join another player’s game, you will see the host’s Hourglass progression, and you cannot spend your own Echoes on it. Your Wargear and Essence upgrades, however, still use your own personal resources. This means that two players can complete the same run together and still leave with different long-term progression, depending on what they had already unlocked and what they chose to upgrade on their own profile. Your rewards and permanent progression are personal, but the host’s Celestial Hourglass still defines the session.

• The Fresco reflects your personal progression. In multiplayer, the Fresco does not automatically unlock Ages just because you joined a host who is further ahead. If you play a later Age with another player, you only validate the next Age available on your own profile, along with its associated rewards. Your long-term Age progression therefore follows your personal unlock path, not the host’s overall advancement.

For players who already had multiplayer runs in progress with friends, the option to copy the host’s save remains available, allowing you to keep playing with the host’s progression instead of starting over from scratch on your own profile.

Performance and Stability

• Performance improvements to procedural maps generation

• Performance improvements to first level map

• Improved stability and fixed specific crashes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to move the hero during certain combat situations

• Fixed a crash that could occur when joining a multiplayer game when some session data was not yet available

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Rutheon’s ability with certain evolutions not yet unlocked

• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the battle preparation screen before a hero was selected

• Fixed a crash that could occur when creatures were killed or destroyed

Balancing

• Battle Flare - Reduction of the base value (from 50->30) and scaling value(From 5->3)

• Siege Workshop - Mining Cart upgrade - Reduction of the bonus (From 20Gold -> 10 Gold)

Improvements

• Added a cursor size slider in game settings

• Reworked Amplifier display in the “Amplifier panel”

• Improved the Main Lane to reduce overly narrow angles that were causing issues with protection gates and towers

Localization

• Rutheon - Detonation Recall Evolution - Updated name and description to properly reflect its effect

• Vampires - Concubine and Leskar - Added names and houses for each elemental type

• Dark Elves - Minions - Added unit name localization

• Added tool tips on empty and locked slots in the Battle Preparation menu

• Dungeoneers now properly mention the Elemental Plane

• Overall fix over the entire localization on every language

• Fixed the Poison entry to correctly display the elemental damage type and percentage

• Fixed an untranslated text in the potion component selection screen

• Improved the warnings for “Abandon Game,” “Quit to Main Menu,” and “Quit to Desktop” with clearer messages

UI / Display

• Minimap icons for Cleared Lairs now appear grey instead of blue

• Creature health bars are now visible when they took damage immediately upon spawning (e.g. Vinewraiths’s egg spawns)

• New icons for the following items:

  • Trading Amulet

  • Blessed Regeneration

  • Cloak of Sorcery

Audio

• Added missing Verandiel voice lines in Vinewraith faction introduction cinematic

• Added new Verandiel voice lines for faction introduction cinematics

• Improved sound mixing for faction introduction cinematics

• Polished sound effects for various units, skills, guardians and bosses

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bastion unit passing through closed protection gates

• The Shadow Strike from Scyron & Thallos could hard lock player’s movement if the ability was cancelled by an external interruption (e.g. Spider Stun)

• Faction Dark Elfs traps could trigger on Scyrons in ghost form (after death)

• Scyron Ferun can not activate mount while using Berserker skill

• Dead scyron could remain mounted after death causing issues during the re-apparition

• The Dark Elves Boss could teleport themselves during their "Circling Shot"-attack when near map borders

• Using Phase Javelin from Scyron Rutheon in a very specific location could teleport the player to the Gate Keeper location

• Fixed a visual bug where the Scyron weapons remained visible when the player was riding a mount

• Improved Drasilian units attack animations to feel more dynamic

• The Flesh Golem now correctly grants its Echoes only once when killed, even if it respawns with the Unraveler Perk

• Improved animations for the Flesh Golem

• Improved cinematic for the Flesh Golem

• Temple of Fate’s evolution “Martyr’s Blessing” was not scaling on the correct stat (was the amount of Fate Power Altar taken and is now the amount of Sacred Shrine interacted with)

• Fixed an issue where the Shield Throwing evolution “Bloody Rebound” did not properly apply its effect

• Fixed a bug where the Edict icon appeared white for players who did not select it

• Fixed a bug that could prevent the party display from being available

• In multiplayer the Scyron is now properly removed from the game after a player is disconnected

• Fixed indoor areas (Dungeons, Creature Lairs, Crystal Tombs and Elemental Planes) where players could fall out of the playable zone

• Prevented environment spawning too close to Portals in procedurally generated maps

• Fixed a bug where creatures inside indoor areas (Dungeons, Creature Lairs,Crystal Tombs and Elemental Plane) could target players located outside their area

• Fixed a bug where the dead Scyron could be unexpectedly teleported while returning to Bastion for resurrection

• Fixed a bug that could lead to a freeze with specific interaction in Verandiel Fresco

• Fixed incorrect visual materials on some trees and bushes in various domains

• Fixed Bone Dragon and Flesh Golem Rifts from not appearing right at the start of the skill

• Rifts from Bone Dragon and Flesh Golem did not stop growing after explosion impact