Act 1 Content + Polish update

Thank you for playing Rising Spire! 💙

The first content patch in the game's Early Access stage is here, and it also includes lots of polish for already existing content and systems. Let's take a look!

New Content

• New side quests

Take your time exploring Dohan, and you will be greeted with new faces, ready to send you in the jaws of dangers for some rewards that will definitely help you save the world, mhm.

• New dialogue / character interactions

Won't go into spoilers, but I will tell you that we added a few more scenes where Atlas interacts with other characters to try and get an understanding of what is actually going on around him. Can't make any promises for Atlas himself, but it's sure to help you, the player!

• Visual content

Added more flavor to the overworld. This includes lots of changes to the town of Dohan in particular, but also visual updates / more items in the Dohan Forest where the biggest part of Arc 1 takes place: new grasses, trees, landmarks, textures, and VFX.

Polished Content

Let's go over the updates that we've implemented for the content that was already in the game with the original Early Access launch.

Enemies and Combat

• General battle balance: increased difficulty of standard enemies and minor boss battles
• Reduced difficulty of the current final battle (if you managed to beat her before, hat's off to you, major respect)
• Added more abilities to enemies
• Added more animations to enemies
• Battle UI updated
• Battle scenes updated

In other words, the battles are generally more challenging, and also way better looking.

Party Members

• Modified the starting stats values
• Stats are now gained for all party members on combat level increase
• Weapon mastery now increases base damage done with that particular weapon

Player Menu & General UI

• Major changes to general appearance (and I mean major)
• Increased inventory size
• Added new icons for inventory items
• Added currency and epitaph tracker in the inventory
• Tooltip style changed to better accommodate various screen sizes
• Added new rewards notifications system

Everything UI related got a facelift and is now more helpful for players.

Other

• Camping can now be done at any time as means to fast forward from dawn to dusk, or dusk to dawn.
• Journal updated both in terms of appearance, and also helpfulness (no more cryptic entries that tell you nothing about next steps).
• Maps (M) have been updated in the Journal to better reflect each scene and to help you figure out which direction to go.
• Each area has a distinct name now, displayed upon entering the scene. We know it's difficult to not get lost in a forest - this should make exploration much easier.

Bugs and known issues

• Fixed several big and small bugs from the previous public patch
• Known issue: the epitaph tracker will only start tracking the epitaphs after accepting Valentin's quest (previously read epitaphs will be tracked accordingly)
• Known issue: the tooltips for the Twin Blades runes are missing description.

Aaand that's a general overview for today's update! If you find any bugs or issues, please reach out to let us know. You can open a discussion thread here on Steam, leave a comment to this update, or simply write to us on Discord - we have a dedicated channel for bug reporting and it's easier to ask for details and all that stuff. A huge thank you, this is much appreciated!

Enjoy, have fun, and let us know what you think!

Love,
The LFB Studios team