25.09.25 Update

New Content

New Areas

• Late Desert Canyon

  • Desert Pyramid: After defeating the Harvester and obtaining the key, you can unlock the sealed door near the oasis and descend inside.

  • Canyon Ridge: Once the final boss of the Desert Pyramid is defeated, the sandstorm blocking the ridge will dissipate, allowing access.

New Bosses (delayed)

• The Judge

• Tervark

New Items & Abilities

(Some cannot be obtained until the postponed boss update.)

• Reaper’s Aura: Reduces max HP but increases action speed.

• Judge’s Aura: Periodically halves damage from bosses, once per cycle.

• Cracked Scales of Judgment: Bring to Unbaek to unlock sales of Soul Inquisition and Authority.

• Fenrix’s Lost Bundle V: Bring to Fenrix to unlock sales of Judge’s Aura, Engraving of Blood, and Engraving of Void.

Abilities

• Soul Inquisition: Marks the nearest target. Marked targets take amplified attribute damage.

• Rejudgment: Reapplies the damage dealt within a short duration as lightning damage.

  • If multiple targets are affected, damage and attribute values are halved.

  • If the marked target is hit, both are increased.

  • Long cooldown.

• Meteor Shower: Summons multiple meteors from the sky.

• Fire Breath: Breathes fire forward.

New Trait Fragments

• Return of the Remnants – Fragments

  • AdjustedInstant SummonProjectiles no longer return to the player; they vanish on hit and restore reduced HP. Also applies to Disembodiment.

  • Bloodletting: Increases HP cost of abilities but boosts final damage.

• Soulrender Slash – New Fragment

  • Frost Scythe: Inflicts chill (freeze buildup) on targets hit.

• New Fragments

  • Absolution: While equipped with Judge’s Aura, has a chance to nullify incoming damage.

  • Authority: While equipped with Judge’s Spirit, increases lightning attribute damage.

• Judge’s Spirit will be added in a future update.

Changes

• Improved collision/overlap handling between player and AI.

• Replaced all NPC-based doors with independent door objects.

• Applied RVT to most textures.

• Updated Stone Golem appearance and behavior.

• Save point list is now sorted.

• Hovering over a save point shows the area preview image.

• After clicking a save point, hovering no longer updates info.

• Updated save point effects.

• Applied Cull Distance Volumes globally.

• Revised internal data retrieval methods.

• Updated damage and status effect handling.

• Characters now die after falling too long.

• Updated title screen.

• Changed effect handling when infusing attributes into Spirit.

• Using Echo of Souls now consumes all stacks.

• Improved lock-on system: switching cycles through all valid targets.

• Replaced internal save keys and applied auto-migration.

• Removed preview text from infusion UI.

• Hovering over material icons in infusion/enhancement UI now shows item names.

• Thunder Orb no longer chains through walls.

• Adjusted some item placements (items can be obtained again).

• Added gamma adjustment option.

• Reduced size of Snake Warrior Elite to fix issues where the player could stand still and avoid all attacks.

• Adjusted first encounter terrain with Tervark.

• Updated Tervark’s Fire Breath targeting logic.

• Restored feedback (mail) feature via Google Sheets.

• Removed early shortcut in the Spirit zone.

• Cooldown notification sound now plays even if the ability cannot be used.

• Quick-slot states for abilities/items are now saved & loaded.

• Fixed lost key-release events.

• Added bulk-use option for Soul Shards.

• Increased brightness of the Ring of Light and Desert Underground Cave.

• Changed Soulless Resident variation generation:

  • Before: random head + brows + beard + hair

  • Now: chosen from predefined combinations

• Adjusted Spirit Wolf patterns.

• Executions are now disabled during Focus Mode.

• When all quick-slot items are consumed, it auto-switches to the next slot.

• Updated AI rotation stop conditions.

• Changed spell effects of the Lich and Goblin Mage.

• Changed EXP gain/effect:

  • Before: EXP orb spawned → collected on contact

  • Now: EXP gained instantly with effect

• Removed dash → dodge combo (normal/strong attack combos remain).

• Fixed invisible walls blocking the camera.

• Demo version can no longer load Early Access saves.

  • Only saves created after this update apply correctly. Older saves may still display as demo saves.

• AdjustedExperimentalUpdated terrain load-check for AI/player (may cause short input delay after portal use).

• Experimental: Grouped important event objects into instances for batch loading.

• Portal system now uses the new terrain load-check.

• Increased AI damage overall (up to the Twisted Forest; later areas still under tuning).

• Kraken new pattern: If the player is behind it, plays a warning animation, deals damage, and knocks back.

• Adjusted lock-on camera:

  • No more instant zoom-out.

  • Slight sideways shift depending on target distance.

• Moving away from a portal now deactivates its layer.

• Reduced scale of Laonir, the Reaper, and Soulless Residents.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed EXP orbs slowing down near the player.

• Fixed crash when damaging non-character targets.

• Fixed data-saving issues.

• Fixed crash when NPCs became hostile.

• Fixed NPC hostility ending too quickly.

• Fixed Reaper's Spirit Focus Mode not usable.

• Fixed AI vision info overwriting incorrectly.

• Fixed throwable items colliding with player.

• Fixed Thunder Orb chaining to the same target.

• Fixed input freeze when pressing keys right after ability use ended.

• Prevented executions before animation ended.

• Fixed locked-door clipping bug.

• Fixed crash when interacting with old quick-slot widget.

• Fixed spawned AI floating upward due to missing gravity.

• Fixed Goblin swarm dying from fall damage.

• Fixed crash caused by missing internal tag in Roaring Blow.

• Fixed lock-on breaking when switching targets.

• Fixed BGM restarting when using a portal after dying in boss fights.

• Fixed white box image showing in empty quick slots.

• Fixed duplicate item pickup when spamming interaction.

• Fixed MetaHuman NPC hair not rendering.

• Fixed missing root motion in some Soulless Resident animations.

• Fixed rare UI crashes.

Miscellaneous

Adjusted internal logic to fix issues where active abilities caused input freezes.

• As a result, some items/abilities may now end early when the character is hit.

• Please report any such cases so they can be corrected.

Support

• ko-fi : https://ko-fi.com/projectsjhg

• Email: bu30808dev@gmail.com

• Discord(KR): https://discord.gg/NJ7PfuR5fV