New Soundtrack, Tougher Battles & Clearer Choices

The September update is now live on Steam. Return to the pilgrimage with a new scene soundtrack, tougher battles, and clearer information when choosing upgrades and completing Litanies.

Three changes to try on your next run

• Hear the journey change. Nine scene music tracks and fourteen replacement effects accompany exploration, combat, bosses, and the end of a run. Button sounds are softer, and overlapping playback has been addressed.
• Make each battle count. Enemies have 30% more HP in newly started battles. Plan your damage, Ward, and use of the shared Furnace before committing to a Burn.
• See what your choices give you. Kindle now shows the exact improvement before confirmation. The Litany display shows its reward, and completing the sequence produces a named completion message.

The 30-second opening cinematic, The Debt, sets the scene. Boss cinematics and corrected animated Keeper portraits accompany the journey.

Full changes

Audio

• Replaced the scene soundtrack with nine music tracks covering the menu, map, events, rest, combat, elites, bosses, victory, and defeat.
• Added fourteen replacement sound effects for combat and interface actions.
• Separated button clicks and confirmations from combat effects, with quieter playback levels.
• Reduced intrusive repetition and softened music ducking during combat.
• Restored combat sound with reduced motion enabled.
• Fixed overlapping music across scene and cinematic transitions. The victory cue plays once.
• Preserved music-off and volume preferences when updating.

Combat balance

• Increased enemy HP and maximum HP by 30%, rounded up, in newly started battles, including elites, bosses, summoned enemies, and Echoes.
• Prevented repeated HP scaling after redraws, revivals, previews, or reloads.
• Kept enemy damage, Keeper HP, and scripted practice encounters unchanged.
• Preserved the health values of battles already in progress in older saves.

Cards and Litanies

• Reworked Kindle into a card list, a focused preview, the exact upgrade benefit, and a separate confirmation.
• Made Litany completion rewards visible before completing the sequence.
• Added a completion message showing the Litany name and reward, with one completion sound.
• Clarified when a sequence repeats. This update changes feedback, not the combination rules.

Cinematics and portraits

• Integrated the 30-second opening cinematic, The Debt.
• Connected cinematics before boss encounters and after defeating bosses.
• Updated animated Keeper portraits and corrected Brother Kaminas's portrait selection.
• Improved playback, skipping, and the return to gameplay after cinematics.

Interface

• Moved the Litany display clear of boss names and removed Burn guidance that covered action buttons.
• Separated act introduction text from act rules and placed map navigation below the artwork.
• Improved alignment of battle statistics, the level indicator, and XP/level-up labels.
• Reworked overlapping text in the end-of-run chronicle and upgrade panel.
• Replaced generic currency flames with dedicated Cinder Shard icons.

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