What's New in Hero's Song Early Access Update 6 — Hero's Song™ News

IMPORTANT: We do not support old worlds. If you created a world prior to this update, please create a new world.

General

Significantly improved sever region performance and stability
Improved city and dungeon generation performance
Improved pathfinding accuracy and performance
Fixed an issue where the game would crash while players moved away from each other across regions
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze at a loading screen if there was a port conflict while setting up a single-player world
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze at a loading screen if the player exited character creation and joined a world
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze at a loading screen when the system hostname contained special characters
Fixed an issue where purchasing an equippable item would desync the game

Balance

Added a leveling system for non-player characters
Smoothed world level between all cities and points of interest
Dungeons now scale to and beyond world level when entered
Leaving the underworld now fully restores the player character’s health
Increased health for all playable classes by around 50%
Increased base Nether resource regeneration to 5 per second

Multiplayer

Friends List
- Friends list is now functional.
- Added support for only Steam friends. All Steam friends that are online and in your world will be displayed on this list.
- Added small compass to each friend that displays position relative to your location
- Added teleport button with 30-second reuse time that will take you to your friend in the overworld. If either party is in the underworld, teleport will fail.

Classes

Necromancer
- Added passive Nether resource regeneration
- Plague
  - Plague now deals 4/7/10/12/15 area-of-effect disease damage over time
- Rot
  - Rot now deals 5/10/15/20/25 single-target disease damage over time
Paladin
- Holy Weapon
  - Fixed an issue where switching weapons would cancel the effect
- Lay On Hands
  - Fixed an issue where the ability could not affect the player character in the underworld and after exiting the underworld
Ranger
- Spread Shot
  - Increased the range on ranks 2-5.
  - Decreased the cooldown on ranks 2-5 from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Volley
  - Increased reuse time to 10 seconds
  - Fixed an issue where the ability was not consuming ammo
  - Changed ranks 2-5 from single target abilities to area of effect.
Shaman
- Hymn of the Elders
  - Removed an errant requirement from the ability
- Soothe
  - Fixed an issue where the ability was not healing over time
Swashbuckler
- Blade Dance
  - Added visual effects
  - Fixed an issue where the critical hit chance modifier was not applying properly
- Dervish
  - Dervish now deals 15/25/35/50/75 damage per second
  - Fixed an issue where the ability would not deal damage to nearby targets
- Double Strike
  - Double Strike now deals 125/150/175/200/225% weapon damage
- Hamstring Slash
  - Hamstring Slash now deals 115/125/135/150/175% weapon damage
Wizard
- Lightning
  - Lightning is now an area-of-effect ability (was single target)
  - Lightning can now strike up to four targets
  - Increased cooldown to 8 seconds at all ranks
- Zap
  - Removed the wand requirement

Navigation

Added a new procedurally generated roads and trails system
- Currently connects towns, dungeons, and points of interest
- Features variety of road and trail markers
Fixed an issue where Ithgald and Uthar players were not starting in the correct biomes

Points of Interest - General

Added a new point of interest encounter system with minibosses
Fixed an issue where points of interest could appear in same geotiles as cities

Points of Interest - Locations

Arcane Obelisk
- Added a new Sentinels encounter to the point of interest
Fairy Glen
- Added new art for the point of interest
- Added a new Elder Treant encounter to the point of interest
Vampire Castle
- Added a new Vampire Lord encounter to the point of interest

Encounters - General

Added a new dungeon boss and miniboss encounter system
- Added epic loot to bosses and minibosses
- Set bosses and minibosses to equip their loot
Added a new system where humanoids now build campfires and sleep at night
Increased global diversity of population centers within biome preferences
Improved influence of non-player civilizations on wilderness encounters
Fixed several issues where some creatures would attack campfires and containers

Encounters - Classes

Priests
- Temporarily removed from encounters
Wizards
- Fixed an issue where the NPCs would cast Firewall ability too often
- Fixed placement of NPC wizard’s Firewall

Encounters - Creatures

Bats
- Added creature to own faction
- Fixed an issue where shadows did not match creature shape
Bears
- Fixed an issue where bears were not spawning correctly
Dire Wolves
- Added Tough Leathery Skin loot
- Improved shadows attached to creature
- Fixed an issue where glowing eyes on Dire Wolves would not turn off on death
Gnolls
- Increased global encounter distribution range
- Decreased melee damage multiplier by 20%
Goblins
- Increased global encounter distribution range
- Decreased melee damage multiplier by 20%
- Decreased the minimum and maximum damage on Goblin Clubs
Goblin King
- Increased encounter difficulty to Miniboss
Orcs
- Increased global encounter distribution range
- Decreased melee damage multiplier by 20%
Rats
- Fixed an issue where shadows did not match creature shape
Scorpions
- Added sound effects
- Fixed an issue where Scorpions were hostile toward Scorpion Hatchlings
Skeleton King
- Added the encounter to the end of dungeons
- Increased encounter difficulty to Miniboss
Varloosh
- Set biome preferences to Rocky and Snowy Mountain
Wolves
- Added crafting loot
- Added creature to own faction
- Improved flanking behavior
- Reduced Bite ability damage by 20%
- Reduced the number of footstep sound effects
Zombies
- Improved death sound effects

Items

Added a large variety of rare piercings that boost attributes
Rebalanced torches to have a 10% chance to set targets alight, instead of a 100% chance to cause fear and damage over time
Temporarily removed eye patches from non-human races
Temporarily removed jewelry from non-human races

Visuals

Added a unique visual effect to critical hits
Improved the torch visual effects
Fixed an issue where weapon effects would be disabled after initial attack
Fixed an issue where weapon effects would be disabled permanently after switching between melee and ranged weapons
Fixed an issue where ranged weapon effects were not using the correct slot

User Interface

World Selection
- Added new delete world button to world row on the world selection menu
- Added new world deletion prompt with red confirmation button
- Fixed an issue where the max font size of the world description was too large
Recorded History
- Fixed an issue where the player could return to the world creation screen using the Back button on the recorded history screen
Character Creation
- Fixed an issue where the character name was no longer randomly generated
- Fixed an issue where clicking the Next Character button would generate three characters
- Fixed an issue where the character name would become NoNameSpecified after clicking the Previous Character button
- Fixed an issue where hovering the mouse cursor over a projectile on the character creation screen would not display the associated tooltip
HUD
- Added new art and layout for the day-night cycle indicator
- Increased the floating text size for damage dealt and received
- Increased the floating text size for experience and coin rewards
- Fixed an issue where the nameplate did not correctly reset buff icons when switching targets
- Fixed an issue where effect icons could scale incorrectly
Character Statistics
- Added a new Statistics window that can be found to the top left of the paper doll
General Inventory
- Fixed an issue where general inventory slots did not update correctly when a bag was unequipped
Crafting
- Fixed an issue where crafting progress was not interrupted when switching recipes
- Fixed an issue where crafting progress was not interrupted when closing the crafting window
- Fixed an issue where recipes were identifying equipped items as components
Merchant
- Added sell button
- Fixed an issue where tooltips would break when the window was closed
- Fixed an issue where item names were not displayed correctly
Tooltips
- Fixed an issue where stats would disappear from item tooltips in some situations

Text

Added new combat dialogue lines
Fixed an issue where Ithgald and Uthar race descriptions were switched
Fixed an issue where Ithgald town names and descriptions were not correctly assigned
Fixed an issue where the Vampire Castle point of interest name was labeled incorrectly

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