It introduces the new Season 3 and its Crusade, the new Atlantean Centurio class, as well as a massive visual overhaul of the game, along with new music, systems, fixes, balancing, QoL, and optimizations.
The gameplay experience is completely transformed—I truly hope you like it!
Check out the release trailer made for the occasion:
Their new resource, Courage, increases your defense and attack infinitely as you attack opponents, but healing resets your courage to 0. You will have to survive by playing aggressively, or on the contrary, with an iron-clad defense!
16 new passives to hybridize with all other available classes—the possibilities are endless
Two specializations: General and Aquamancer
4 new active skills
Favorite weapons: Swords / Polearms / Unarmed
A Challenge system at the start of the game to spice up the difficulty.
Via Mortem (Hardcore mode): Death is permanent
Mordred's Song: Dungeons are affected by two random seasonal affixes
. Ozira's Curse: Halves max health and mana
Arthur's Oath: Monsters are much more dangerous
You can stack oaths, but be careful not to bite off more than you can chew
Unlock Steam Achievements and their associated in-game Nobility Title
Manage your in-game Saves + Steam Cloud
No more digging through game folders; I rebuilt the entire native RPG Maker save system from scratch. This also allows better control and smoother transitions between scenes, featuring loading bars and reduced loading times.
Menu accessible directly from the in-game options to easily start a new game
Active Oaths are now visible
Randomly generated names for each world for an extra touch of lore
Steam Cloud active and corruption risks minimized to the absolute max ːresilientː
An old-school 3D art style enhanced through a vast visual overhaul
All menu backgrounds have been updated, as well as class selection screens, quest images, urban project images...
But also everything related to combat: All combat backgrounds + All enemy sprites in the game have been remade from scratch!
From-scratch overhaul of the engine's 2D sprite generation, with the creation of a custom animation rendering system. This allows, for example, the creation of flying enemies like bats with multiple frames, or levitating ones like demons during their incantations.Added 2 extra sprites per enemy for attack and incantation animations. That makes a total of 54 new sprites added to the game, replacing the old ones.
Designed in collaboration with Mirabilis Assets ːriftearthː
Smart tracking of all your buffs, with displayed values, stacking animations, and fading in/out, for a more precise and tactical management of your battles
Tooltip descriptions when hovering over a status effect
The same applies to enemies
Seasonal affixes are now statuses that you can track and read in combat
Remade from scratch (fixing all hover, tooltip, and shortcut issues since the game's launch)
Smart tracking of the remaining number of uses for certain skills, like Hex
Visual cue in blue when a skill is currently being cast
Visual cue in yellow when it's possible to interrupt a casting enemy + World of Warcraft-style circular cooldowns
Integrated beginner tutorial
Easily configurable shortcuts out of combat in the talents menu, even for potions!
Reposition skills at will
Each Environment now has its own playlist to create a unique atmosphere and vary your auditory pleasures
28 New OSTs composed by Alkakrab, in addition to the game's 15 default tracks composed by Alexander Nakarada
You can skip to the next track by clicking on the active playlist
Replaced all combat OSTs
I rebuilt the entire game audio system from scratch, adding a new volume control option
2 new Environments are added to the game at the same time: The Atlantean City with its own ancient Greco-Roman themed playlist, and the Autumn version of the village, available for free to all players in the Guild.
The Uchigatana: a sword that inflicts the highest bleed rate in the game (up to a 75% chance) but reduces rupture damage by 5 in return
The Atlantean Trident: an ancient spear that grants mana regen and a frost enchantment
-- Legacy --
Sylverine: a dagger with a 50% chance to inflict poison, which transforms your Macabre Orb into a Poison Orb
Lazarus Face: a helmet that improves the durability of your Revenant
The Abyssal Shroud: shoulders that increase your frost damage by +1
Sula Mortem: a torso piece that transforms your revenant into a skeletal mage, also increasing your magic by +2
The Abyss Stone: frost damage now inflicts 25% of your magic instead of its default value (3)
Gold Digger: a new tool that grants gold coins during a successful harvest
Maelstrom: Inflicts damage at the start of combat based on your mana regeneration
21 enhanced cards, rebalanced to have a unique and decisive impact
Truly random draws where any card can appear (no longer fixed groups of 3 bonuses)
You can now reroll draws 🔄 (max 1 time, or 2 times with a new urban project)
Removed elemental increments, replaced by elemental damage increases
New card effects like The Worldstone, which immediately gives you 3 radiant gems!
Ultimate appearance ːgodrankː Adelphos, which includes 10 unique animations for swords/maces/unarmed. Available in the Sanctified Crusade (premium).
Ultimate appearance ːgodrankː Vassilis, which includes 12 unique animations for daggers/unarmed/pistol and even for the reactive arrow and reactive bolt passives. Available in the Guild.
New appearances available at the counter (for gold coins)
A Crusade just as generous as ever, total free-to-play and infinitely farmable like the others ːsilverdollarː
More focused on gold coin rewards than the others, featuring sunken treasures that grant a high, random amount of gold
All Steam Achievements have been visually remade
General attack curves for monsters have been reduced
Agility curves slightly reduced for the swiftest ones (tiger man/pirate/bat)
Monster health bonus in Pandemonium reduced by 10%
Player's natural health curve slightly increased
Pandemonium difficulty 5 is the ultimate way to put your builds and talents to the test; it's only normal that it's a challenge requiring proper preparation (potions, perfecting gear, etc.).
However, it shouldn't completely exclude less powerful builds. That's why I've slightly lowered the damage of monsters that hit way too hard at level 40. Note that certain elite monsters remain unchanged and are still major threats. I also reduced the monster health bonus based on the Pandemonium difficulty tier, which will make runs faster as well.
ːzeroː Complete overhaul of the random monster generation system. Rules now apply to prevent frustration:
No same monster twice in a row
Incremental elite spawn rate | wave 1 = 0% | w2 = 15% | wx+ = +5% | final wave = 100% if no elite was encountered in previous waves | when an elite spawns, the rate drops back to 0%
Max healing potions 3 → 4
Thorn Ring now reflects 1+20% armor to the attacker and grants +1 armor
Deep Fang +2 agility
Serpent Ring +2 agility
Shadow Garb +1 agility
Removed poison immunity from Spider and Gorgon. There were too many poison-immune monsters, making poison builds way too RNG-dependent compared to bleed builds.
Necromancer's Revenant Overhaul: ːwcbskullː Your minion now attacks monsters alongside you (+1 attack) and absorbs a portion of damage taken (+5 armor). It naturally decays in 7 turns + new summoning animation
Occult Ritual now has a 45% chance (+ your luck stat) to re-summon your revenant
Lunar Wand now generates 1 frost enchantment
Blood Medallion removes an extra 10 health
Nerfed the Army of the Dead affix and sped up its animation
Forge Hammer now has a 50% chance to stun (previously 25%)
I changed the artifact slightly. In the end, the number of generated souls amounts to the same (it's even more profitable) because I didn't find it logical to loot large souls from normal monsters, like a bat. Now, large souls are reserved for Elites (this was already somewhat the case with the +25%, but there was still a small 3% chance to drop them on normal mobs). Their drop rate goes from 3% to 65%, and rank 3 of the artifact increases bonus chances even more in Pandemonium (up to +25% at T5, so a 90% chance for large souls on elite monsters). You might think, "He's crazy, that's way too profitable." Yes, but first of all, they no longer drop on all monsters, so that makes a big difference, and thanks to the new monster generation system, you encounter fewer elites in dungeons.
ːyubiː Overhaul of the Starting Tutorial, better supported visually, more detailed, more intuitive and practical, without being any longer
Indicative tooltip when you don't have a weapon equipped during your first dungeons
Indicative tooltip when you don't have an active skill equipped during your first dungeons
Indicative tooltip when distributing your talent points (when out of pts / when you must first invest 1 pt in the row above / when the required level is not met)
In-combat tutorial for interrupting enemy incantations
The Necromancer's Stalker Spirits no longer proc if the target is already dead
Added Mimics profile to the bestiary
Upgraded legendary weapon icons (Jotunheim, Calamity, Scarlet Sun, Lightbringer)
New prestige menu tab (replaces the old shield on the right side of the screen)
New button for the options menu
Hovering over the game logo reveals a link to the Regalia Project Discord server, gathering all my game projects in one place
Repositioned tool tabs in Character menu and the legacy tutorial button
In-combat indicator for monster casting chances instead of their luck stat, which wasn't being used
Stat tooltips in combat when hovering over them
In-combat hover options (volumes and turbo mode)
And I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of little things, but it's just too vast—I'll let you discover it all in-game! Thank you for reading the patch notes. Writing it down thoroughly and adding pictures takes an enormous amount of time, so it really means a lot ✅
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