Well met, adventurers! 🐉🧙🏻♂️
Autumn is upon us and the next content patch is around the corner. Here's a quick preview of what to expect from the next content patch.
🔥 By the way, the game is 23% off for Steam Autumn Sale! 🔥
Preview: Spell Evolutions 📜
All of the Active Spells are getting 3 new, distinct Spell Evolutions each (15 total) to bring them to the next level.
A quick look at the newly evolved spells:
Spell Evos make your active spells more powerful by boosting their stats and tilting the odds in your favour, additionally they can:
Adjust how the spell behaves
for instance, it can make your Shield of Frost leave a powerful ice explosive behind when depleted.
Your Summoned Flame Swords may drop some handy bombs, or help you collect experience gems.
While the Fiery Pentagram area damage becomes an aura, following and protecting you.
Some projectiles will cause additional lightning zaps for that sweet, sweet chain damage.
Change the scale of the spell's area / orb / projectile
finally a giant Fiery Pentagram, as often requested!
Modify the spell's elemental damage type, so that you can slot it into your strategy and synergies.
... and more!
Adventurers can obtain mythical Spell Tomes during their run and use them to upgrade spells.
But how? This takes us to the next part of the content patch: Map Events.
Map Events & Random Encounters
Exploring the maps is more fun when there are interesting resources to be found. While you can already hunt for mining spots, chests and potions, the next update will make things more interesting.
Random Map Events will show up as icons on your compass 🧭, indicating where (and how far away) some cool new challenges await.
Some of them will drop Spell Tomes 📕so you can evolve your spells, or get a free level-up.
Others are Rare and Epic Chests 🏴☠️ that come at a price, special Enemy Encounters and some other surprises.
Other Improvements
The past months have been full of changes and revamps, too many to list at a glance.
One that you'll immediately notice will be that various grating wait times (how quickly xp gems drop, animation delays, etc.) have been reduced as per player feedback.
The game tech can now support more enemies, more projectiles and more items on the screen at once - paving the way for some more fun with bigger attacks and more chaotic maps.
I'll keep you posted, the patch will be hitting the playtest branch shortly and released publicly thereafter.
Thanks for your patience 💜
~ Datablob
