v0.620 Update – Gladiator Backgrounds, Combat Skills, and Audio Polish

This update focuses on combat clarity, audio feedback, progression depth, and visual polish.

Combat & Audio

• Added new combat sound effects, including crowd reactions, gladiator grunts, skill impacts, and defeat cues.

• Updated Raging Bull visual effects to better align with the expanded combat skill set.

New Combat Skills

• Ghost Lunge (Agility)
  An agility-based attack that phases through the enemy, deals damage, and drains energy.
  This skill cannot be blocked or dodged.

• Roar (Charisma)
  A non-damaging debuff that disables enemy blocking and dodging for 3 seconds, enabling follow-up attacks.

Gladiators & Progression

• Added gladiator backgrounds with ethnicity-based bonuses:

  • Roman: +20% Overall XP Gain

  • Greek: +50% Charisma Training XP

  • Thracian: +15% Protection

  • Gaul: +15% HP

  • Germanic: +15% Damage

  • Numidian: +15% Speed

  • Carthaginian: +15% Energy

• Added age to gladiators as a foundation for future progression and content.

• Skill icons are now correctly displayed when skills are unlocked in the level-up scene.

Polish & Stability

• Minor bug fixes.

• Performance improvements.

Thank you for continuing to test and provide feedback. More combat depth and progression systems are planned in upcoming updates.

Demo updated and now LIVE