Live - Enemy Special Abilities, Preview - World Events/Crisis

Adventurers,

All additional enemy abilities have now been added to the game on the live branch. The list of new abilities across the game are

• Abyssal Mark - Increases incoming damage by a % (Debuff)

• Abyssal Power -Increases outgoing damage done by a % (Buff)

• Bite - Reduces all incoming heals by 50% (Debuff)

• Blood Ritual - AOE healing spell at the expense of their partial health.

• Blood Thirsty - Increases damage done by a % (Buff)

• Braced Thrust - Add defensive buff with an attack (Buff)

• Commanding Presence - Reduces all incoming damage by a % (Buff)

• Group Heal - AOE heal spells

• Hamstring, Pin and Web Targets - Similar to the archer's pin ability. Stuck unable to move without the aid of potions.

• Item Breaks - Enemies will target items on you resulting in a lot of durability loss.

• Petrify - When petrified you will be much easier to be hit.

• Slam - Hits all spots around the user

• Sap Energy - Reduces allies energy

• Sap Energy and Heal Allies - Reduces allies energy and heals its allies

• Summon Undead - Summon an undead warrior to aid enemy

• Sweep Attack - Hits adjacent spots

• Throw Sand - Reduces hit chances by 50% (Debuff)

• Undying Presence - An undead buff that provides a chance to return back from the dead.

• Wolf Howls - Increases ally attack damage.

The full patch notes can be found here.

In order to remove the confusion around the story and what people believed to be the main character the game origin is being tweaked to clear up confusion.

The original three origin characters were used when the game first reached early access before all the new classes. The intent was to mix up the characters and provide a ramp way into the game. The only major intent was to get everyone up to speed with the game quickly and not overwhelm everyone starting with a small party size. Due to this, the team creator option will still limit the initial party to 3 characters. The game ramps up difficult with more members and for those starting out they have proven how difficult that is based on stats and data collected so giving a full party at least right now won't be an option. I may provide the means after a crisis has been completed as an unlock for future gameplay but I'll investigate and see how things go.

The flexibility will remain though to choose any of the classes and character set up as you wish. If you want to just have a full party of warlocks? Go for it. This could be done previously but now it will be a little more obvious.

The character creator will remain however so you can customize one character's stats and change some of the world elements as well.

Speaking of the world elements, the world crisis feature is coming into the game now. This is the "main quest" that many are familiar with. A lot of the game in early access has been just the side events and events to a fill out the world as you progress. The world crisis is going to be the central theme where events play out over a few of the in-game months. If you ignore the events the world will get even more dangerous over time.

Above is a sneak peak of some of the crisis entering the game that can be chose which you may be able to infer like undead threats and demonic entities, but yes "there be dragons" coming as well. This has been fleshed out over the last few weeks/months so hoping to get these in soon and clean up the UI a bit as well in doing so.

The next update will likely have some of this showing alone with some new UI windows to help track the progress of it as it unfolds. I've tried to avoid impacting save files while all of these elements have been implemented but there may be some oddities here and there as you may be VERY overpowered for the initial weeks on an older save. Thanks again for all of your patience.