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Rift Wizard 2 Launch
Early Access for RW2 begins today. The game is quite similar to RW1, using the most of the existing graphical assets and a slightly modified game engine. I wanted to focus on making the game better rather than newer, an…
Announcement2 changesGameplay - Rift Wizard
Rift Wizard 2
Greetings Wizards. Been a while, hasn't it? A while ago I decided to stop updating Rift Wizard 1 to devote my full energies to Rift Wizard 2. I did this because I wanted to try some things that would be wildly inappropr…
Announcement6 changesBalanceGameplay - Rift Wizard
Bugfix Build
Todays build is just to fix a few bugs: Fixed an occasional crash in the spell shop Fixed an occasional crash involving nightmare aura upgrades Fixed volcanic eruption flow range upgrade not working Fixed hollow flesh h…
Announcement1 changeFixPerformance - Rift Wizard
Spring Cleaning Patch
Greetings Wizards! This patch focuses on making poison a more useful and reasonable mechanic in the game and correcting some longstanding balance issues. It also contains a few new high level challenges, and of course p…
Announcement18 changes3 numericFix - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220404
One last experimental change I want to test on beta: Poison now disables healing. This applies to the Wizard as well, and healing potions cannot be used while poisoned. In addition, this patch contains fixes to two long…
Announcement4 changesCompatibilityBalance - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220328
A few small beta tweaks as we push towards a merge to main: Fixed a bug where click to move sometimes failed to swap the wizard with his minions Renamed Purple Flame Radiance to Voidflame Lantern (PFR was too long for t…
Announcement2 changes1 numericFix - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220321
This weeks patch mostly deals with code optimization: Optimized many commonly used functions Optimized threat range calculation (threat range calculation is much faster in many cases now) Pressing 't' should result in m…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220311
Purple Flame Battery revised to Purple Flame Radiance: Whenever you cast an arcane or fire spell, gain that many turns of starcharged. Starcharged deals 6 arcane and 6 fire damage to 2 random enemies in LOS each turn it…
Announcement6 changesFixBalance - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220304
Many updates this week to the beta, patchnotes follow. Spells and skills: New skill: Purple Flame Battery Gain charge when you cast fire spells, which can be used to cast arcane spells for free. New spell: Essence Flux…
Announcement13 changes3 numericCompatibility - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220225
Another small beta update, these will ramp up a bit next week. For now: Death Cleave reworked a bit: Now simply recasts the spell on another random valid enemy target, rather than doing a weird pseudo bounce thing. No l…
Store3 changesCompatibilityPerformance - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20220211
Just one change for this beta update: Megavenom is gone, replaced by Dream Poison. Dream Poison is a level 4 Nature Dark Arcane passive skill that deals 2 arcane damage and 2 dark damage to each poisoned enemy unit each…
Announcement3 changesCompatibilityBalance - Rift Wizard
Beta Branch Returns
Greetings Wizards! Whilst I've begun to devote more and more of my development energies to my next project, I there are still a few changes and additions I'd like to try for RW. A new beta patch with some of those thing…
Announcement7 changes6 numericFix - Rift Wizard
Small Patch
A few minor fixes today: Fixed a bug that made the game freeze upon dying on XTurbo speed - Fixed a bug where XTurbo could not be selected using mouseclicks - Fixed a UI bug involving the Oculus buff tooltip - Clarified…
Announcement1 changeFixPerformance - Rift Wizard
Metal Magic
The new patch is here! The focus is on a new school of magic and the modding system- read on for full details. New school of magic: Metal! Metal magic is a small school, comparable in size to chaos or words. Most Metal…
Announcement14 changes5 numericFix - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20211210
The other half of this weeks changes are all bug and crash fixes as we move towards pushing modding and metal magic to the masses: Fixed a bug where tags were just totally broken and caused all sorts of mayhem especiall…
Announcement7 changesFixPerformance - Rift Wizard
Beta Update 20211203
Added new animation speed: TurboX. This is the fastest speed I can think of: the game will attempt to stuff everything that happens between each player turn into 1 frame. May cause framerate dips. Potentially useful for…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay
