Patch Notes - May 2024 - 1.5.0

Astral Ascent

Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.

[img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37710613/6242ded5473885a37513cb08a5f0e84b1dacae9e.gif[/img] ⭐[i][b]Changes inspired by our community![/b][/i] [h2]Major Features[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*][b]The Reminiscing Mirror: [/b]View all the 38 Pixel Art cinematics from the game in The Garden once you unlocked them [hr][/hr][*][b]Ban Spells: [/b]You can now ban heroes and common spells from the Merchant [hr][/hr][*][b]Destiny Level 100: [/b]You can now go past Destiny Level 54 with new challenges like fighting 2 Zodiacs at once and more! [hr][/hr][*][b]Resilience Mode: [/b]Option in Gameplay similar to Hades God Mode, if you activate it will reduce damage taken by 20% and +2% each time you die for a total of up to 80% and -1% each time you success a run. [/list] [h2]Small Features[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Burn Stacks can now exceed 10 stacks and not be lost after a Combustion [hr][/hr][*]A Yalee allows you to reset one time the Echoes options in Echoes Island, unlocked once you beat Destiny Level 6 once (like Yalee in Telluric Ruins) [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Octave Weapon Passive Coniicio Iocor and Kiran Weapon Passive Santôryû could spawn out of reach [hr][/hr][*]Icons of Echoes you have from Void Catalyst / Telescope are displayed when starting a run so you don't miss them [hr][/hr][*]Adjusted the Red feedback for Ice projectile of the Burning Djinn [hr][/hr][*]Octave Weapon passive Aura Meridies (lasers in fight rooms) now prevents jumping to avoid interrupting it by jumping [hr][/hr][*]Ghost Enemies now cannot attack for the first 0,4 seconds after their apparition to give more to give to see the enemy spawned [hr][/hr][*]New icons showing spells and gambits loot affinities [hr][/hr][*]Equipping an Aura on the same Aura will increase its quality if Aura can be improved [/list] [h2]Balancing[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*]Fire Plasma Aura now add 2 Burn Stacks instead of 5 [hr][/hr][*]Killing enemies give a bit more XP points than before [hr][/hr][*]Malices from Destiny level : Used Pockets / Life Crusher & Leaking Foes (losing max hp/ mana & quartz when hit) now have a cooldown in case you get hit multiple times quickly [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Kiran Weapon passive Flower Power now restores 2 charges instead of 1 when using King Counter [hr][/hr][*]Shielded Foes giving Armor Points to enemies in Destiny Levels has been reduced from 50% chances to 30% chances to give armor to enemies [hr][/hr][*]Yalee Tickets and Memory Fragments loots are more frequent [hr][/hr][*]Thunder Elite Aspect waits a bit longer before hitting for the first time and increased time between each hit + it cannot be too small as it used to be to avoid not seeing it behind an enemy + add of a red feedback visual to better see it + it doesn't hit anymore while fading out [hr][/hr][*]Calie Gems Weapons Passive Aerial Strike cooldown from 8 seconds to 7 secs and the area of effect is bigger now [hr][/hr][*]Reduced Shadow Clones health amount in World 1 and World 2 [hr][/hr][*]Vampiric Foes effect does not work anymore from Elite Aspects, Thorny Foes and Vengeful Foes [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ The Master Ultimate bar doesn't charge anymore while summoning Heroes Clones [/list] [h2]Level Design[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*]Removed an unwanted Fire Portal in an exploration room [/list] [h2]Music & SFX[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*]Bigger Sound when deactivating a Weapon Passive in Arsenal to avoid unequip by error [/list] [h2]Interface[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*]Apparition of texts in Main Menu is faster now [hr][/hr][*]Getting in Gameplay option from ingame would place you on second option instead of first one [hr][/hr][*]Reduced brightness on Main Menu characters when changing menu [hr][/hr][*]Main Menu options are more to the right and Heroes on Main Menu too to have more space for texts [hr][/hr][*]Main Menu options texts is larger and font size is smaller to write more things [hr][/hr][*]Reworked some French terms in options Gameplay for better understanding [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Quest progress in The Arsenal no longer halts during co-op if a player without the required weapon is hit in a specific room. [/list] [h2]Visuals[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*]Burn Effects color is more orange so it's more different from Electrify Effects [hr][/hr][*]Kiran Weapon passive Flower Power and Calie Weapon passive Homing Spear now have visual feedback for their charges [hr][/hr][*]Elite Aspects elements now spawn behind enemies and players [hr][/hr][*]Changed the Fire sprites displayed on ground from Leo's fight and Burning Djinn + added a red feedback behind the fire for these elements [hr][/hr][*]Taking damage with Barrier effect on is better feedbacked [hr][/hr][*]Taken damage number are visible for longer [/list] [h2]Bug Fixes[/h2] [list] [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Katana Judgment Cut Weapon Passive could aim Ghost enemies [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Claws Kusarigama's fury Weapon Passive was not working during Zodiacs encounters [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Pressed Cancel on Papa Yalee Character category would not make you go back to Categories [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Gems Aerial Strike Weapon Passive was always being thrown from P1 even if P2 was launching it [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Healing Shards from Shards Altar spawn faster, they could not spawn before you take the Bar door + only 1 could be saved when changing layout, now working with more than 1 [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ The progress of some quests from The Arsenal that track spell changes, such as level or affinity, would not update after changing weapons. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ The progress of some quests from The Arsenal that track spell changes, such as level or affinity, would not update after changing weapons. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Addressed potential game crash caused by activating certain gambits while pausing. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Prevented accidental selection of an Echo instead of an Aura slot during equipment or upgrade attempts. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Corrected rarity tiers for auras from the Small Astral Dragon during co-op. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Respawning in the Garden was needed to force the unlock of achievement related to getting all colors from The Stylist. [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Gemini chain throw scythe between each other attack would hit player with invisible scythe sometimes [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Absorbing Barrier from Void Catalyst would not work if you had a Barrier effect activated [hr][/hr][*]The Master was never summoning Pisces during the fight [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ ""Damage dealer"" achievement would not trigger with option to show damage numbers disabled [hr][/hr][*]Ghost Effect behind player when doing a fall attack was too present when playing at more than 60 fps [hr][/hr][*]Weapon Passives would sometimes keep showing player ghost effect while they were invisible [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Basic Attack magnet to close enemies was not activated for Calie and Octave melee weapons [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Basic Attack magnet to close enemies was working on Ghosts [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Aura ""Catnip III"" third effect triggering lightning strikes on Yalee projectiles was not working [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Capricorn Summon would not target the correct enemy when summoned [hr][/hr][*]Hitting 2 Jump Crystals with same attack now picks the closest Jump Crystal from the player [hr][/hr][*]Hitting a Jump Crystal overlapping an enemy now hits the enemy [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ A few Auras were displayed with the wrong affinities [hr][/hr][*][i][b][u]community inspired[/u][/b][/i] ⭐ Ayla Weapon Passive Ray of Light would not always be triggered if you have a lot of attack speed [/list] - The Hibernian Workshop Team [list] [*][url=http://discord.gg/hibernian-workshop][b]Discord Server [/b][/url] [*][url=https://twitter.com/HibernianWS][b]Twitter Account[/b][/url] [*][url=https://astral-ascent.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders#store][b]Official Store[/b][/url] [/list]