Thank you everyone for your continued support and your great feedback, we're humbled and couldn't have wished for a nicer community! As a thank you we wanted to something a tiny bit special and we hope that you'll enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed designing it! [b]GAME UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS[/b] For all the peeps that can't get enough of Astalon, we've added a whole new mode! Please welcome a real NEW GAME + mode! Not only you'll now be able to dive back into the tower with your power ups after the end of the normal game, but you'll now be able to discover a cool new take on the tower itself! New visuals, new room layouts, new secrets, new challenges await you in the Tower of Serpents! [b]PHYSICAL EDITION[/b] For those of you who haven't heard, we're working with the awesome people at Limited Run Games to bring "Astalon: Tears of the Earth" to real Switch cartridges and PS4 discs! There will be 2 editions. First up is the standard game case (with brand new Ryusuke Mita cover art, and a retro-style manual). And second- the COLLECTORS EDITION BOX! The CE box features a 3-disc deluxe soundtrack with a whole album worth of unreleased music, a huge development art book with tons of behind-the-scenes info, sketches, art, lore and trivia, and more! Pre-orders are open now at the URL below: https://limitedrungames.com/collections/astalon-tears-of-the-earth Remember, it's a limited release, so you have to pre-order a copy before Feb 20th. So, what are you waiting for :D? [b]COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS[/b] We also have some very good new to share! The amazing speedrunning community of Astalon did a tremendous job at running the game, finding routes and doing friendly competitions with one another, and as a result to their hard work, @strizer86 did a great, very suspenseful live run of the game during AGDQ 2022 in January! Congratulations to him, to Colt for managing Astalon's speedrunning community and for his awesome work as a commentator during the run! And thank you to the whole speedrunning community, we couldn't be more proud! Make sure to check out the run below! [b]PATCH HIGHLIGHTS[/b] [list] [*] Added New Game Plus mode with a modified and tweaked map! (start a new game from a normal save file with a "cleared" tag on it) [*] Made numerous fixes to the main map [*] Added a copy/paste feature for save files in the saves menu [*] Fixed Void Portals not appearing on the map [*] Fixed orbs not spawning anymore after playing the game for a while [*] Changed the Bestiary achievements to trigger the previous ones too as a safety [*] Ukrainian translation fixes with the help of SBT Localization Team [*] Added Russian translation credits [*] Fixed Gate not registering as opened when you hit a teleporter at the exact same time [*] Added more screen resolutions between 1280 and 1680 [*] Added the option to keep a button pressed to skip dialogues faster (no more button mashing! Keeping the Jump button pressed with now auto-complete dialogues) [*] Added potential fix for characters moving on their own after a character swap [*] Added a potential fix for characters blinking through platforms on some occasions [*] Various small fixes [/list] [previewyoutube=6DQJjeNUg9c;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]