Lichdom: Battlemage 1.2 is Now Live!

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