Lichdom: Battlemage 1.2 is Now Live!

We have just released Lichdom: Battlemage 1.2. This 5.7GB update includes the following content additions and bug fixes.

TL;DR

• New Achievements (for bosses, difficulties, and spell crafting)

• Allow players to choose a particular Synergy shape when synthesizing

• NG+ Fast Travel - Play the game again with scaling difficulty and loot

• Adjustable Player Difficulty - Casual, Explorer, Battlemage, Badass!

• Various sigil improvements

• User Interface improvements

Details

New Achievements

• Bosses now have new achievements for defeating them on Battlemage and Badass difficulties. Previous boss achievements will be awarded for downing bosses on Casual or Explorer difficulties.

  • Badass difficulty boss achievements do not currently reward the Battlemage difficulty achievements. We plan to Hotfix this issue after 1.2 has been rolled out.

• “It does not get any better than this”

  • All equipped spells are tier 20

• “A need to acquire every permutation”

  • Craft every possible Synergy spell

Controller Support

• Fixed an issue where sigils were not being highlighted in the sigil selection menu when using a controller

• Fixed menu focus bugs when using a controller

Unique Item Creator

• Players now have the option to choose which synergy gets crafted when upgrading to a unique shape. Players may also opt to create a unique shape without a synergy, instead selecting an extra stat modifier.

• New synergy tutorial video will play the first time a synergy is equipped

NG+ Improvements

• All fast travel Vortex Pools are accessible from the NG+ Hub. You can replay the campaign levels with scaling loot and difficulty.

• Increased the difficulty of NG+ to provide a more challenging experience

Gameplay Changes

• Sigil progression is not lost when playing in the first 3 difficulty settings

• New Feature: Players can now select from 4 difficulty settings

  • Casual

    • Players are immune to all detrimental status effects

    • No enemy Affixes

    • Player takes 25% less damage

    • Shield regeneration is not bound to a single pip

    • All sigils are automatically focused

  • Explorer

    • Shield regeneration is not bound to a single pip

    • All sigils are automatically focused

  • Battlemage

    • Default difficulty

    • All sigils are automatically focused

  • Badass

    • Players take 25% more damage

    • All enemies enrage when crowd controlled

    • Players are attacked more often

    • Only three sigils can be focused at any given time

• Pacing

  • Levels 4-8 have been rebalanced to improve pacing

  • Players now receive a 40% "out of combat" movement speed buff

• Sigils

  • Players may now choose from all available sigils upon reaching the third reliquary. The first three sigils acquired (fire, ice, kinesis) remain the same.

Spell Changes

• Delirium

  • Control

    • Control Delirium is now duration-based instead of encounter-based

    • Delirium pets are imbued with an existing status effect for their entire lifespan

    • Delirium pets kill themselves at the end of the Control duration

    • Pets can no longer be created while previous pet is still alive

    • Control Delirium marks targets for your pet to attack

    • Pets who have been shielded by Control Delirium are now immune to crowd control effects

  • Mastery

    • Enemies affected by Delirium Mastery are now taunted to your Delirium pet until the pet dies

  • Sigil Power

    • Invisibility now lasts for five spell casts instead of a duration

• Lightning

  • Sigil Power

    • Arc Lightning now lasts for five spell casts instead of a duration

• Ice

  • Control freeze and Mastery slow area curves were adjusted so that durations scale better when progressing through the game

• Phase

  • Synergies

    • Maw of the Abyss

      • Fixed a bug where the player would become stuck on respawn if the player died while standing in the synergy

User Interface

Crafting and Inventory

• Spells now display their tier using Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals

• Items of tiers 11-20 now display their tier values instead of an infinity symbol (lemniscate)

• Spells with long names are no longer truncated in the inventory menus

Prompts

Interactable objects now display 'Hold "F" or (A) button to activate.' to improve clarity for controller users