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Patch Notes:

New Threat System

• New threat system. A threat table now drives enemy target selection. Damage, heals and taunts all generate threat, the old health threshold system has been replaced entirely

• Companions also generate threat by dealing damage and healing

• Threat Meter HUD showing your standing against your current target as well as other party members threat

Party Size & Companion Changes

• Party size increased to 3

• Companions now take a role of Primary and Secondary

• Primary Companion: Holds both passive and active abilities

• Secondary Companion: Holds only passive abilities

• Companions now weave in auto attacks alongside their abilities

• Companions may actively disengage from high threat targets

• Companions will always auto attack an already engaged enemy (for now)

• Ranger teleport revamped. Teleport now triggers when the ranger gets hit and brings the ranger to safety with a short cooldown

• Ranger passive revamped, now fires Heartseekers on enemies the player holds on them for 10 seconds, repeating every 10 seconds

• At level 10, the companion upgrades are rolled between all living companions

New Companion: Summoner

• The summoner raises an army of skeletons that follows you

• Passive ability: summon a minion every 3 seconds, up to 5 minions

• Active ability: Sacrifice a minion, healing the player for 60 health

• Minion damage is attributed to the Summoner’s threat

New System: Marking Targets

• You are now able to mark enemies to be focused by your party

• Default keybinds: Left mouse button on keyboard, South Button (A) on controller

• Summoner minions will also prioritize hitting the marked target

New System: Pull Counter

• A counter now appears on the screen and provides bonus the more enemies are targeting you in combat

• Tier 1: “Tanking” requires 5 enemies targeting you (Wave Defense) or 4 (Dungeon Crawl) and provides a 5% bonus to EXP

• Tier 2: “Chain Pulling” requires 10 enemies targeting you (Wave Defense) or 8 (Dungeon Crawl) and provides a 12% bonus to EXP

• Tier 3: “Aggro Lord” requires 15 enemies targeting you (Wave Defense) or 12 (Dungeon Crawl) and provides a 20% bonus to EXP

• This system is not active in Boss Rush mode

Buffs and Debuffs

• Introduced new buffs and debuffs applicable to yourself and to enemies

• Slow: Reduces enemy speed

• Bleed: Deals damage over time, stackable

• Invulnerable: Block all incoming attacks for 100% of the damage

• Absorb: prevents damage taken

• Root: prevents movement

Abilities & Upgrades

• Maximum Toughness is now 4 stacks (up from 3)

• New ability: Blood Strike. Deals 40 damage to your target and heals you for the amount. Costs 1 Toughness, 4 second cooldown

• New ability: Hold The Line. Taunt all enemies around you and become Invulnerable for 10 seconds. Costs 3 Toughness. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Moving or using abilities cancel the effect.

• New ability: Holy Light. Heal yourself for 30 and damage your target for 10. 4 second cooldown, gain 1 toughness

• Ground Slam revamped to work at any range, but damage and knockdown duration scales with distance

• Retribution now has a 1-second internal cooldown so it can't be spammed by rapid blocks.

• Blood Strike upgrade: Increases damage and healing based on the target’s missing health

• Blood Strike upgrade: Finishing an enemy with Blood Strike taunts all enemies around it

• Blood Strike upgrade: Blood Strike applies Bleed stacking up to 3 times

• Hold The Line upgrade: Companions inside Hold The Line gain +100% damage and healing

• Hold The Line upgrade: Companions inside Hold The Line are healed for 5 per second

• Hold The Line upgrade: Spending Toughness reduces the cooldown of Hold The Line by 1sec per stack

• Hold The Line upgrade: Can be used while moving but no longer taunts

• Shield Throw upgrade: Shield Throw applies 70% Slow for 10 seconds

• Whirlwind upgrade: Whirlwind applies 70% Slow for 10 seconds

• Absorb upgrade: overheal create an absorb shield for 50% of the overheal done, up to 50% of max HP

• New Heartseeker upgrade: Upon inflicting slow fire an instant heartseeker with 30% efficiency

• New Holy Ground upgrade: rooted enemies in Holy Ground take +100% damage from it

Tutorial

• Removed the old Tutorial

• A new tutorial covering the basics of the game was added for Dungeon Crawl

• Tutorial now teaches interrupts, tabbing, marking and an introduction to threat

• Added Companion death explanation on first ally death.

• Added a step in the academy tutorial that introduces the Spellbook at the Altar

• Changed the training grounds tutorial tooltip

Dungeons & Modifiers

• New Modifier: Marked for Death - Marked targets take 50% increased damage

• New Modifier: Puddles - Enemies drop puddles on death that heal nearby enemies

• Aggro immunity modifier removed from Wave Defense and Dungeon Crawl.

• Minibosses and bosses are no longer immune to taunt

• Boss Rush now unlocks at level 10 (up from 2)

• Boss Rush 101 now spawn 8 adds (down from 20)

• Boss Rush - Boss health increased

• Increased EXP gained from completing Wave Defense and Dungeon Crawl

• Reduced EXP gained from completing Boss Rush.

UI/UX

• Added a “Retry” button when dying in a run

• Added a “Give Up” button for forfeiting a run

• New companion party screen with hover previews and per-role scaling (primary and secondary roles)

• New Shield Select menu

• New Portal screen for starting runs

• Added Off-screen companion direction indicators with damage-flash pulse.

• Companion damage flash screen effect, toggleable in settings.

• Healer channels a beam during Holy Ground, to explain her casting ability.

• Healer recolored white.

• Talent refund. Right-click / Y refunds a single point, replacing the old full reset button.

• Menus with tabs are now navigable with LB/RB on controller

• New waypoints in the academy now point to freshly unlocked features

• New window for unlocking content when completing runs

• Best score and ranking are now shown in the portal screen, per mode, with grayed-out medals for tiers you haven't earned.

• New loading screen

• New pause menu

• New settings menu

• New talent menu

• New Achievements menu

• Moved the Spellbook from the main menu to the altar

• New medal UI

• Added HUD Scaling option in Display settings

• Added feature tooltips to better explain abilities and upgrades and improved their placements

• Added animations for gaining and spending Toughness

• New input glyph and callout UI

• New graphic settings: brightness, contrast, bloom

• Added VSync toggle in the display menu

• Changed the default keybinds for Mobility and Utility abilities to better support hold-to-aim

• Changed the default controller keybind for Cycle Targets

• By default all nameplates will be visible, toggleable in the settings menu

• Added icons to enemy casts

• Added overhead player health display when lower than 65% health

• Improvements to the tab targeting algorithm

• Tab targeting (“Cycle Targets”) now also targets enemies with aggro

Shields

• New shield: Martyr. Each available Toughness stack grants +20% damage. Abilities no longer generate Toughness, instead, gain 1 Toughness for every 40 damage taken. Starting ability: Protect

• New shield: Shredder. Each available Toughness stack increases  dodge chance by 10%. Dodging an attack increases Attack Speed by 20% for 8 seconds stacking up to 4 times. Starting ability: Charge

• New shield: Absolver. Each available toughness stack grants +10% healing bonus. Auto attacks heal for 30% of the damage. Healing causes AoE damage for a portion of the heal. Starting ability: Holy Light

• Crusader now grants 15% damage reduction per stack down from 20% to compensate for the increase of total Toughness stacks available

• Disc toughness modifier changed: Each available Toughness stack grants 2 Block value

• Vice Grip toughness modifier changed: Each available Toughness stack grants 15% Movement Speed

Enemies and Bosses

• New enemy telegraph HUD. Tracked abilities surface as timed bars, most urgent cast promoted to center under 3 seconds, with a sound warning when it fires.

• Boss nameplates now show status effects.

• Bosses in Boss Rush now show a timer when Adds are about to spawn

• Added Enemy patrols and linked packs. Enemies patrol aggro as a group when pulled.

• Non-engaged enemies no longer cast abilities.

• Melee Goblin enemies give more XP and have slightly more HP.

• Ranged enemies health increased

• Spawn layouts revamped across several maps.

• New enemy ability: Call for Help - some enemies might run away and call their friends

• New enemy ability: ranged enemies will now perform a frontal charge attack

• New enemy ability: Enrage - some enemies cast enrage increasing damage of nearby enemies, stacking.

• Enemies scale in size while targeting companions

Music and Audio

• Added sound priority systems for companion voice lines and critical sound effects

• City ambience layers added.

• Music added in Boss Rush, Dungeon Crawl and Wave Defense

• Music layers change dynamically to combat state and react to companions in danger

• Added sounds for boss abilities

• New sound for Ground Slam

Bug Fixes

• Fixed all enemies snapping to the player the moment companions died.

• Fixed a bug where Pull required an active target

• Fixed a bug where the boss’ Cleave would hit the player even outside of the impact area

• Fixed a bug where you could lose mouse input if leveled up while aiming

• Fixed a bug where some enemies were untargetable during knockdowns

• Fixed several walls where companions could walk through

• Fixed a bug where levels failed to complete if Steam wasn’t running

• Fixed an audio bug where companion voice lines could overlap

Performance

• Improved performance and memory costs

• Added shader pre-compilation to avoid stuttering especially on AMD GPUs