Patch Notes - April 2025 - 2.0.3

Astral Ascent · published 16 months ago

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⭐Changes inspired by our community!

Major Features

New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore
5 new musical tracks
16 new traps and elements
32 new enemies
Andromeda's Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle
Earn Andromeda's respect and the ability to summon her
Witness Andromeda's Ending
New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a less overwhelming experience
The Void Imprints: - New reward loot in exploration rooms, featuring 90 unique imprints
- A way to improve your spells with unique activations
- Players start with 25 different imprints, the rest are unlocked by finding Blueprints during runs
- A new interface in Andromeda's bar to reuse the imprints you looted
Bonus Room System: Added New system to world selection, which adds a bonus room to the world twice during a run.
New Rooms: Added Aura selection room, which allows the selection of an aura
New Rooms : Added Echo selection room, which allows the selection of any echo

Small Features

In Event Horizon you now move faster using the rail between islands
community inspired ⭐ Transitions between rooms in now faster when entering a portal
New visual FX for each weapon when hitting the enemies
Enemies are now bumped up when hit by weapons
Some enemies are now bumped higher when hit by upward attacks
The Small Dragon now triggers automatically to give your Auras faster
Slimes were not impacted by the Opacity effect
Yalee Kingdom: Yalee's reset is now located high up on a platform and the camera zooms out to get a direct view of all auras.
Echo Island: Echo Island now shows all echoes at once and icons above Echoes help seeing what the echoes are about without needing to check them.
The Zodiac Challenge Chest for Summons can be purchased with Sun Pieces from Destiny Level 6+
Intro and boss rooms are shorter
New interface for Gambit loot, slot unlocker and Pavo feathers
Portal to next rooms are now closer in The Void and The Reckless Void
Ghost Enemies from Destiny Level modifiers are removed upon room or Zodiac Fight completion.
Added Jump Crystals in the Cursed Telescope room and it's also a little smaller now
community inspired ⭐ Andromeda's Bar changes
- Andromeda's bar for drinks has is now higher to always see the drinks
- Drinks reappear much faster
- Drinks distance of interaction is bigger now
- Andromeda animation plays directly and stat equip appears directly
- Visual Effects have been reduced
Chamaeleon was misplaced in World 4 boss fight room and missing in World 3 boss fight room - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2

Balancing

community inspired ⭐ The cursed telescope now only has astral rarity bonuses (all other rarities have been removed).
To compensate, penalties are more dangerous.
Auras: Unique Tag Context: Due to the increased availability of duplicate Astral Auras, a number of Auras have received the ""Unique"" tag if it was determined that stacking these could be stronger than intended. Carve Mastery
On critical hit, creates 1 Ice Idol: reduction of the cd from 5 to 3 seconds
Increases critical hit chances: Increased critical chance from 10% to 15%Spark Conductor
Spark bounces an additional time: unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)Boots Of The Herlad
On lightning orb hit, 25% chances to create 1 spark: unique tag addedWarchief Bracers
On spell refresh, restores 2 mana: unique tag addedSword Of The Warrior
Increases strength: Damage increased from 20% to 30%
Increases attack speed: Attack speed increased from 20% to 25%
Increases critical hit chance: Critical hit chance increased from 15 to 20%Twin Calibur
On spirit sword, creates 2 missiles: unique tag addedFire Propellant
Massively increases combustion size unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)Raw Force
Increased combustion damage from 75 to 100%Absolute Zero
Increased Frostbite damage from 50 to 75%Prowess Of The Sky
When hero it hit, gains a random bonus effect for 5 seconds: Reduction of cd from 12 to 5 seconds
When gaining a bonus effect, create 5 thunder strike: Reduction in the number of thunder strikes created from 5 to 4Rustling Fall
On fall attack, creates 4 ice fragment: reduction of the cd from 10 to 6 secondsPolar Venom
Added a new effect: Increases poison limit by 5Balance Master
On critical hit, gains velocity for 2 seconds: Increased duration of the buff from 2 to 3 secondsBlade Storm
When dashing through enemies, casts slashing squall: Reduction of cd from 7 to 4 secondsHoming Embers
On critical hit, creates 2 embers: Reduction of cd from 3 to 1 secondsIncandescent Rain
Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%Blinding comets
Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%Bigger Body Initiative
Missile have 25% chance to become explosive missle: unique tag added
community inspired ⭐ Spells: AylaUnrelenting Tornado: Increased damage from 141 to 192
Psy Trap: Increased damage from 123 to 165
Blade Tempest: Increased damage from 110 to 156
Fatal Trigonometry: Increased damage from 146 to 186
Endless Blows: Increased damage from 110 to 152KiranExplosive hug: Longer duration of invulnerability
Lightning Dance: Increased damage from 102 to 160
Hadoken: Increased damage from 88 to 120
Energy Projectiles: Increased damage from 83 to 120
Earthquack Kick: The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 180CalieTopaz gladius, onslaught:The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 210Common spellMeteor blade: Reduced mana cost from 3 to 2
Aqua ball: Increased damage from 89 to 140
Weapon passives: AYLALunar Daggers
Parting gift: damage increase by 50%
Gliding star: damage increase by 50%Moonlight Blade
Judgment cut: added mana steal tag and damage increased by 30%Eclipse Shards
Hunter x Hunger: Increased stack time from 1.5 to 3 secondsThrowing Knife
Charge Knives: damage increase by 200%KIRANBurning Bo
Magnetic Personality: damage increased by 30%Fiery Falchions
Santoryu: Increased damage by 100%
Hit Maker: damage increase by 50%
Sword Juggling: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 secondsNutcracker
Kaio-Bam: Increased the chance from 10 to 15 percent, increased duration from 5 to 10 seconds and max stacks from 5 to 10 maxCALIEUnbreakable Rempart
Siege Breaker: damage increase by 30%
Avenging Shield: Increased damage by 50% Scythe Claw
Surprise Element: Increased damage by 60% OCTAVEPistor Vocatis
Coniicio Iocor: Increased damage by 50%Magnum Cupitere
Miseria Labrum: increased chance of applying the mark with the dash from 30 to 100%Exterminatus Exemplaris
Priora Signa: Increased damage by 250%Wrenching Whip
Ictus Tempestas: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds
Potentia Amplificatio: incresed the number of charge from 4 to 6YamatFighting Spirit
Spirit Rising: Increased damage by 30%
Obsidian Wyrm: Increased damage by 70%Oblivion Greatsword
Destined Death: increased the number of mark from 3 to 5Symmetrical Lance
Detonation Seal: Increased damage by 100%
Chaotic Surge: Increased chance from 20 to 30%
community inspired ⭐ Shattered Rises biggest enemy (""Emissary"") attacks a little more frequently - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Labrum (Octave Sword Dash Passive) cooldown to apply on enemies from 1second to 0.3 seconds - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2

Music & SFX

New music rearranged for the hub
Octave: The sound of the ""Wrenching Whip"" weapon has been lowered
Added FX for when stat stones are lost by the player

Visuals

New title screen with new artwork

Miscellaneous

A number of effects were not being added to the damage meter, these have been added where possible. (Thick Yalee, Snow Day, Glacier's Fall, Maddening Darkness)

Bug Fixes

community inspired ⭐ Taurus Sword FX could remain on the ground after being defeated
community inspired ⭐ Leo rocks could remain on the field after being defeated
community inspired ⭐ Aries Red Feedback could remain on the field after being defeated
community inspired ⭐ Pisces could keep her invincibility bubble (visual only) when getting in Phase 2
community inspired ⭐ Yamat second down attack had one frame not aligned with the other frames
Auras:
Fixed an issue where the ""spread ice"" effect was not dealing the correct damage (damage too low)
Narration typo in french in Telescope descriptions
Enemies could attack more frequently or less frequently depending of framerate
community inspired ⭐ Resilience Mode was wrongly Labeled at different places
Unlocking Gambit Slots were not working correctly for the 4 small gambit icons (example if you had unlocked slot 4 while slot 2 was still locked, it wouldn't show the icon correctly)
Music was very loud in hub when exiting Telescope menu
Octave's Bellator shooting SFX was not playing
Burn and Combustion stacking: Combustion was unintentionally triggering twice if two or more combustions occurred subsequently. To compensate for the damage loss, the base damage of Combustion has been increased by 50%. Additionally, a number of Astral Auras related to Combustion have had their damage increased.
Auras: Maddening Darkness was not scaling with strength or critical chance, this has been corrected
Text correction: Yalee effect text updated from 3 to 4 projectiles. No change in functionality.
community inspired ⭐ Aura: Magic Weapon III would not display one part of its text - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Aura: Warchief Bracers would not restore mana on Spell Refresh as indicated - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Aura: Twin Calibur Creating Missiles on Spirit Sword hit wasn't working - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Aura: Bigger Body Initiative wasn't trigger the explosive missiles - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Picking Imprints would not interrupt UI inputs making them impossible to pick up if your dash was on R1 - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ A text box could appear for 1 frame at the end of Andromeda's ult - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ Andromeda was invulnerable for 1 sec at the start of her fight wasting Zodiac summons if they were used during this time period - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ You could get stuck in platforms while using the Spinning Lotus in Shattered Rises - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
community inspired ⭐ French typos fixed - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ On the build recap, electric affinity spells would be showcased as neutral - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ The Crystal Creep enemies (small enemy in new world 3 of the outer reaches) projectiles would bug if multiple projectiles were launched at once - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ If there was multiple Missiles created ""On Spell Cast"" they would overlap visually - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Launching several spells one after another with Missiles created ""On Spell Cast"" would not stack the missiles - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Gemini was using ""his"" instead of ""her"" to mention Libra in a dialog - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ The Reminiscing Mirror would display ""Ayla"" as the speaker of Andromeda's Ending - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Calie launching spells with alternative weapons would spawn Gems where she is - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Weapon Passives were deactivated during Andromeda's boss fight - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Surprise Element Scythe passive of Calie was not recovering mana on hit as indicated - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ Aquarius as a second Boss (DL90+) could soft lock player if defeated while rushing when player is in his barrel - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.2
community inspired ⭐ All Auras with ""On Timer"" would display ""On Enemies Killed"" - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.3

- The Hibernian Workshop Team