Community15 Mar 2024Dev Diary #5As players continue to engage with the game and express concern about its future, we aim to clarify a current stage of development. Next Update Since the last update, our dedicated team of enthusiasts has been developing the game despite the challenging times. Finally, we plan to begin beta testing for the next major update this spring . The exact date will be announced on Discord at least a we…
Greetings, pilgrims! 🔥 If you wanted to build bases and fight bosses with friends - Frozen Flame goes on discount! 📅 During Steam Summer Sale starting today and until July 13 at 10 am PDT, Frozen Flame will be 20% off. Grab your copy and send a link to a friend! ABOUT FROZEN FLAME Frozen Flame is a Survival RPG set in the vast world of Arсana, an ancient land once governed by the Dragons. Add…
It has been just over a month since the last major update, and we want to share with you what is happening inside the studio, as well as to tell you about our future plans. How was Early Access? Before the release in Early Access, the game was in development for over 5 years. Initially, it was developed by a small indie team, which eventually expanded up to 20 people. After the release in Early…
Greetings, pilgrims! 🔥 If you wanted your friends to join you in adventures in Frozen Flame - now is the time! 📅 Starting today and until the 5th of June at 10 am PDT, Frozen Flame will be 20% off. Grab your copy and send a link to a friend! ABOUT FROZEN FLAME Frozen Flame is a Survival RPG set in the vast world of Arсana, an ancient land once governed by the Dragons. Addled by the curse, it…
Greetings, pilgrims! We prepared a small hotfix for our latest update. Gameplay : · Tuned flight animations and controls. · Stamina regenerates in water. · Enhanced jump animation in water and on the ground. · Increased radius for gathering up loot dropped after death. · The charged Sentinel protects all the stations from decaying even without shelter. UI : · Favorite servers are now tagged wit…
PUBLIC SERVERS Public server doors have finally opened! Meet up, unite in groups, build empires, and conquer the world of Arcana together with other players. Play on official servers or create your own! · Added a list of public servers. · Added 2 modes to choose from: Campaign and Cataclysm (beta) · Added PVE and PVP servers. · Optimized servers to support dozens of players online. CATACLYSM (B…
NEW GAMEMODE: CATACLYSM The long-awaited "Survival" mode has entered the open beta stage under the name "Cataclysm" and is now available to everyone! We have temporarily closed access to the Campaign mode during this time. To participate in the beta, you will need to take a few simple steps: · Right-click on the game in your Steam library. · Select "Properties" and go to the Beta tab. · In the…
Greetings, Pilgrims! While our last announcement was just recently, we already have more news to share with you. And considering that you have already read the title there is no need to delay any further - Open Beta for Survival Mode is coming on 5th of April 2023. Next week we will share more details with you before Open Beta starts - including full patch notes! And with the upcoming Open Beta…
We continue on our way towards the bigger update, having received plentiful positive feedback and suggestions based on the Closed Alpha Test. And now we’d like to share more information about the occurred changes. First, we decided to relocate the entirety of the starting location into the water and turn it into a sort of a continent. And it seems like sooner or later we’ll have to implement fu…
Greetings, pilgrims! 🔥 If you wanted your friends to join you in adventures in Frozen Flame - now is the time! With something huge coming really soon - you don’t want to miss it. 📅 During Steam Spring Sale starting today and until the 23rd of March at 10 am PDT, Frozen Flame will be 20% off. Grab your copy and send a link to a friend! ABOUT FROZEN FLAME Frozen Flame is a Survival RPG set in t…
Greetings, Pilgrims! The work on the next update continues apace, so we'd like to share the details of the upcoming "Survival" mode with you. It is going to be PvPvE mode where the players will side with one of the Orders and lead it to victory by participating in various activities, such as hunting deadly bosses. These challenges take place after the events of the campaign. The players will be…
Pilgrims, welcome to our first building contest after release in Early Access! While we are busy working on the upcoming survival mode and preparing for the alpha and beta tests, we want to check your building skills. There will be up to 10 winners, and as a reward for your architectural abilities, the top builders will receive exclusive access to the Closed Alpha . And finally, THE GRAND PRIZE…
Greetings, Pilgrims! We have exciting news to share with you regarding our game's development! As you may have seen, we recently published an updated roadmap that includes plans for the release of the survival mode this spring. However, before we can launch such a vast game mode, we need to conduct thorough testing. Therefore, we will be conducting two tests before the survival mode. The first…
Dear Pilgrims, It's been three exciting months since Frozen Flame hit Early Access, and we've been working hard to make the game even better. Thanks to your valuable feedback, we've made several improvements and releases. We are now happy to announce some exciting changes and future updates. We recently conducted a survey on our Discord channel to gather your thoughts and ideas on what you'd li…
NEW BOSS: THE GOLEM Golems are powerful, profane creatures. Born of the Faceless’ dark energy, they were thought to disappear after the demise of the dragons. Yet one of them still remains. Somewhere in the Astral, this mighty giant slumbers, guarding the portal core of the Dragon’s Grove. · New location: Hollow Golem. · New boss: The Golem. · New Steam achievement: Defeat the Golem. · Dragon’s…
Greetings, pilgrims! 🔥 We are happy to announce that Frozen Flame will take part at Steam Base Builder Fest ! 📅 The event will be held from 23.01.23 till 30.01.23, 10:00 (PDT). ❄️ Grab a copy with a 20% discount ! ABOUT FROZEN FLAME Frozen Flame is a Survival RPG set in the vast world of Arсana, an ancient land once governed by the Dragons. Addled by the curse, it now beckons for souls capabl…
While we are working on the next update, we want to share some other news about the development of Frozen Flame. One of the cornerstones of our world and lore are characters, whom you meet along the way. And we always try to give them unforgettable stories and voices. And to make their voices unique, recognizable, and memorable we decided to invite several streamers to lend their voices to our…
Pilgrims! While we diligently work on the update, your feedback doesn’t go unnoticed. We see that you have a lot of different requests and suggestions that will improve Frozen Flame even further. This is why we want your opinion about the priorities of the most requested changes and planned features for Frozen Flame. We created a separate category on our Discord server - #roadmap-poll - on our…
Greetings, pilgrims! Here are some changes and fixes we implemented as soon as we could. At the players' requests : · Forge now produces resources indefinitely, adding them to stacks. Now you can queue up a bunch of stone blocks and continue exploring the Dragon's Grove without worrying about your production. · A peace treaty has been signed with the rams - they will no longer attack players as…
NEW BIOME: DRAGON’S GROVE Centennial pines still remember the reign of the great dragons, and Library archives keep chronicles about life side by side with those winged giants. Now only bones scattered across the islands remind us of their former glory. Before the Rift this was a much different place: dragons shared their knowledge with humanity, and the Orders kept peace. In those days, the Cu…
Christmas Event Ho ho ho! Hope that you behaved yourself this year because we have prepared a special gift. An island, filled to the brim with sounds of bells and smell of Christmas trees, is already available in the Sanctuary. There you can meet Krampus, and every Pilgrim can find a lot of beautiful decorations in his bag. He is ready to part with them for luscious gingerbread - Arcana’s tradi…
Greetings, pilgrims! Currently, we are working on the first update for the game, which you can expect in the first half of December. Combat We are continuing to improve the combat system. This hotfix includes the following changes: · Reduced delay between attacks of melee weapons; · Improved hitboxes for all melee weapons; · Power attack damage for axes, swords, and clubs was increased by 100%;…
Today’s update is focused on improving quality of life by adding additional gameplay settings. New gameplay settings Fly settings We have noticed that you didn’t like that we took away your ability to fly inside energy barriers. This shouldn’t be the case in the first place - it was just a bug that crawled into the Early Access release. But we heard you and added an option to turn this off. Ple…
Pilgrims, We’re ready to release the next patch, which includes plenty of fixes and gameplay improvements. If you’re experiencing any issues with the game, please message us on Discord - we’ll do our best to resolve them. Your messages and feedback never go unnoticed and help us correct the development course according to them. We’d like to express our gratitude to everyone, who left positive r…
We have received a lot of feedback from you in these 24 hours. And we are ready to present you with some changes based on that feedback. Here they are: · Durability loss of weapons was decreased by 50%. · Structure decay is now capped at 30%, so your house won’t disappear after a while. · Crafting cost of ragged clothes was reduced. · Magic Essence doesn’t have weight anymore. · Reduced bow cha…
Greetings, pilgrims! As we advance on our adventure, it feels like the right time to share more information about its milestones. Take a look at what we have planned for the future as we keep progressing through Early Access. For more on Frozen Flame , follow the game on social media on the following channels. Join other fans on Discord: Find us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Like our image…
We can’t stop sharing news with you today. Our launch was rocky and we know about it. We already provided you with an option to host your own servers on Windows and Linux, but we want to push it even further - we will cover your server rent! Yes, we have started refunding your server rent. You will receive your funds back to your payment method, and you could still use the server you purchased…
Small update for you, pilgrims! At 12 PM Pacific Time we will update the game to add an option for dedicated servers. After this update, you will be able to host your own servers on Windows and Linux.
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