Greetings Vampires, We are thrilled to bring you a massive content and progression update focused on streamlining gathering and crafting, removing frustrating bottlenecks, introducing high-tier skilling additions, and delivering dozens of quality-of-life enhancements requested by the community! Here is a full breakdown of everything new in this update: Forging Progression Overhaul & Metallurgy…
Awakening in the Shadows: Tutorial Improvements & Polish Greetings, vampires! Today's update focuses on polishing the early-game tutorial to ensure every newly awakened initiate enjoys a smooth, seamless start to their journey in the Crimson Engine. What's New & Improved · Reliable Material Gathering: Fixed an issue where gathered materials (like Plagued Rat Blood and Thornvine) could occasiona…
Welcome to Update v0.2.28! This update brings improvements to boss rewards, zone loot drops, combat familiars, and offline gathering. Combat & Loot Drops • Guaranteed Boss Fragments: All 6 Citadel Bosses now award 1 guaranteed Sigil Fragment on every victory alongside their rare equipment and currency drops. • Dual Drop Pools: Zone-wide materials (such as Spectre Essence, Bone Remains, and Bloo…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.27 is now live! This release brings server-authoritative daily and weekly quest rotation, background quest auto-chaining, and multiplayer party combat protections. Quest System & Progression • Background Auto-Chaining: With "Auto-begin next quest" enabled, completed tasks now automatically chain into your next eligible daily or weekly quest even while the game is…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.25 is now live! This update completely eliminates background combat throttling when the game is minimized, upgrades our background simulation engine, and introduces major balance improvements to Coven Event trial progression and Grave Harvesting. Unthrottled Minimized Combat Progression • Eliminated Background Throttling: Resolved an issue where Chromium and OS e…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.24 introduces background persistence polish, seamless quest tracking while minimized, and a major experience rebalance for Coven trials and Grave Harvesting. Silent Background Progression * Uninterrupted Multitasking: Minimizing or alt-tabbing the game to the taskbar no longer triggers the full-screen "Welcome Back" offline summary modal upon returning. Progressi…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.24 introduces quality-of-life improvements to background persistence, enables seamless daily and weekly quest progression while minimized, and resolves offline duration tracking in the Vampiric Lineages screen. Silent Background Multitasking Uninterrupted Play: Alt-tabbing, minimizing the window to the taskbar, or moving between desktop workspaces no longer inter…
Greetings Vampires, This update brings a major leap forward to Coven cooperative activities with the activation of the Coven Progression Engine V2. Experience rewards across all trial categories now scale dynamically with character level, event completion modals and auto-chaining have been restored, and an interface reconciliation issue in the Coven Vault has been resolved. Coven Progression En…
This update addresses ammunition specialization preservation during Crucible upgrades, restores the Hunt Details breakdown in combat, and delivers key stability hardening across gear presets and multiplayer parties. Ammunition & Crucible Specialization · Trait-Aware Auto-Merge: Ammunition auto-merge now strictly groups by specialization trait. Newly forged or looted plain arrows will merge clea…
Obsidian Citadel Boss & Key Authority Fix · Authoritative Key Consumption: Fixed an issue where defeating Void Stalker (and other key-gated Obsidian Citadel bosses) would mistakenly refund the sigil key upon fight completion. Keys are now authoritatively consumed in the database upon combat start and continuous boss loops. · Guaranteed Boss Kill Credit: Fixed an issue where real-time solo boss…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.19 focuses on core server stability, long-term session continuity for idle gameplay, and major reward feedback improvements across Coven Trials and Events. Server Stability & Codebase Integrity - Codebase Integrity & Stability Hardening: Comprehensive integrity of the codebase and server stability work has been completed. Background task settlement and quest sync…
Coven Trials & Social * Resolved an issue where personal Coven Marks were not correctly crediting to character balances upon claiming trial rewards. * Fixed completed Coven trials prematurely disappearing from the event board before players could claim their rewards or view the summary screen. * Added a confirmation prompt when selecting Leave Event to prevent accidental abandonment of active t…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.17 activates passive combat health regeneration for gear with Spectral Regen, eliminates integer truncation on low-damage Lifesteal, brings full functionality and floating heal splats to Group Combat Auto-Vita (Auto-Eat), and fixes Crucible Tier Shift button overlaps and network parameter errors. Combat Engine & Survivability · Active Spectral Health Regeneration…
Greetings, Vampires! Update v0.2.15 is now live! This update introduces a brand new dynamic inventory priority system and an in-combat quick-drink elixir management menu. Dynamic Draggable Category Inventory Sorting · Draggable Sidebar Priority: Customize your inventory sorting on the fly! Simply click, drag, and reorder the category buttons on the right sidebar to set your own priority sequenc…
Hotfix v0.2.13 is now live! This hotfix addresses an immediate issue where inspecting or activating Covenant Writs in your inventory caused an unhandled error and a black screen. We have also introduced defensive UI protections across the game client. Fixes & Enhancements: · Covenant Writ & Premium Tokens Fix: Resolved a critical runtime error when clicking on or viewing Covenant Writs ( quest_…
Overview Update v0.2.12 delivers a major redesign of the active combat experience into an expansive 3-column command center, real-time live synchronization for Coven clan kill quests, automatic multi-player lobby pulls for cooperative events, and accurate Blood Shard valuation for all loot acquired during hunts. Key Highlights · Modern 3-Column Combat Layout: The combat interface has been re-ar…
Ammunition Stacking on Equip Equipping arrows or bolts from your inventory now combines directly into your active equipped ammunition stack if they match the same type and refinement level. Your equipped arrows will no longer be unequipped and sent back to your inventory when adding more ammunition to your loadout. Equipping a different arrow or bolt type will still swap normally, and the equip…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.11 delivers persistent Global Chat with a draggable floating window, full T2–T6 drop parity for Shadow Archery and Blood Sorcery armor sets, authoritative server combat loot persistence, a comprehensive Notification Settings tab with 22 toggles, and multi-stack crafting fixes. T2–T6 Armor Drop Parity & Authoritative Loot Persistence • Full Tri-Archetype Armor Dro…
Combat & Critical Strike Overhaul · Dynamic Critical Damage Floor: Critical strikes now dynamically guarantee a damage roll strictly higher than your standard maximum hit. A critical strike will now roll between Normal Max Hit + 1 and Max Critical Damage (e.g. if your normal max hit is 72 and your crit multiplier allows up to 108, your critical strike is guaranteed to hit between 73 and 108). C…
Greetings Vampires, Update v0.2.9 introduces a targeted combat balance overhaul for Blood Sorcery to bring magic damage output and armor scaling up to par with physical archetypes. Blood Sorcery & Mage Combat Balance · Innate 30% Spell Pierce: Blood Sorcery attacks now naturally bypass 30% of enemy flat physical armor in both solo combat and party encounters, closing the damage gap against heav…
Update v0.2.9 brings full combat parity to Group Combat, introduces lateral Weapon Transmutation in the Crucible with a Daily Free Swap, enhances Coven event autonomy, and delivers key quality-of-life UI improvements! Group Combat & Combat Potions Overhaul · Fixed Combat Potion Ticking: Eliminated the party encounter start timestamp gap that was prematurely draining or wiping active combat poti…
This update focuses on key quality-of-life enhancements for new and veteran players, updating the introductory tutorial flow and adding a dedicated health readout to the inventory equipment panel. Tutorial Flow Improvements - Rebuilt combat tutorial guidance to align with the new combat interface layout. - Repositioned the Stage counter beneath the Gains button to prevent UI overlap and ensure…
Update v0.2.8 — Combat Overhaul, Coven Treasury & Daily Soul Marks Release Date: September 5, 2026 Overhauled enemy damage, accuracy, and elite scaling across Zones 1 through 7 to establish meaningful gear checks and preserve long-term progression. Resolved a critical progression bug where tier-shifting equipment in the Crucible reverted back to Tier 1 +5 upon saving gear sets or server sync. D…
Multi-Potion Session Persistence · Fixed an issue where consuming an elixir and logging out caused the active effect to disappear or switch upon logging back in. · The server and client now persist and restore the complete multi-elixir map in the database, allowing multiple active potions (combat, skilling, and utility) to remain active concurrently across play sessions without overwriting one…
Update v0.2.4 is now live! Tonight's update is packed with major improvements across the game, including a permanent baseline inventory expansion, an overhaul of Coven Trials and Invasions, AFK leader protection, a dedicated Coven notice board, a complete rework of the Swift Siphon elixir, quest generation improvements, and critical group combat fixes. Inventory & Economy · Base Inventory Expan…
Greetings, Denizens of the Night! Update v0.2.3 is officially live on Steam! Tonight's release represents a massive leap forward for combat readability, multiboxing support, and economy stability. We have resolved community-reported roadmap tickets (BUG-001 through BUG-009), overhauled vendor sell values, uncapped weekly Coven Marks, and introduced fluid scaling for every window size. Here is t…
Update Highlights · Direct Player Gifting & Alt Transfers: Send items directly to fellow Coven members, your own alt characters, or any player in the realm right from your inventory. · Pending Gifts Mailbox: Deliveries safely arrive in your personal Pending Gifts mailbox on your Profile, complete with batch claim and return-to-sender protection. · Coven Event Mass Invites: Rally allies for Brea…
🩸 Hotfix Highlights · Offline Currency Hydration : Grave Steel, Cursed Ichor, and Stabilized Ichor earned while offline or training AFK now immediately hydrate into your active currency balances upon login and character selection. · Crimson Market Navigation : Clicking any item in the "Hottest Items of the Day" carousel now seamlessly takes you directly to its active order book where you can v…
📦 Player-to-Player Item Sending · Direct Player Trading: Fixed an issue where sending equipment or materials from your inventory directly to another player was not transferring to their account. All player-to-player transfers are now fully synchronized and verified by the server. · Real-Time Delivery Alerts: If the recipient player is online when you send them an item, their inventory will aut…
🩸 Update Highlights · Seamless Combat Looting: Blood Cores, rare crafting materials, and equipment drops now deposit directly into your active inventory during live combat and offline hunting sessions. · Uninterrupted Hunting: Slaying ambient Blood Echo bosses in combat zones will no longer stop your continuous farming loop. · Enhanced Co-op Party Invites: Gathering your allies for Group Comba…
Combat Improvements • Blood Echo Ambient Combat Fix : Defeating a Blood Echo spawned via Scent of Fear in standard zones will now seamlessly resume normal enemy combat instead of exiting the encounter. • Continuous Bossing Separation : Scent of Fear manifestations are now properly distinguished from key-gated dungeon bosses, allowing uninterrupted combat idling across all zones.
Bug Fixes & Improvements • Combat Consumables Exploit Fixed : Resolved an issue where changing equipment or combat stances mid-fight would restore consumed food/vials back to the player. • Live Inventory Reconciliation : Added authoritative server-side tracking and client reconciliation for food and ammo consumed in active combat. • In-Game Update Notifications : The game now detects when a new…
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