Curse of the Dead Gods news & patch notes

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The world of Dead Cells is getting Curse of the Dead Gods-inspired items as part of our collab’ with Motion Twin!

Back in April, we were honored to welcome our friends from Motion Twin by including a new character, three new weapons and a pretty cursed vault in a free update. This time, we took the carriage and travelled over to their world, and brought over a trusty combo of a machete and a pistol, an explorer outfit and a pretty cursed door (an eye for an eye!). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/0fdb70af82cc83d1ac08f1f6ee5020819294ec45.gif And this wouldn’t be a good celebration without a discount! Get Curse of the Dead Gods with a 40% discount, or 60% off as part of a bundle, alongside three other great indie games! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23637/Indie_Friends/ Additionally, Curse of the Dead Gods is included in a bundle featuring two other Focus Entertainment games featuring jaw dropping art direction: Shady Part of Me and Aeon Must Die!. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23363/Focus_Indie_Bundle/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/6427a38813c333460cc48f20b7a5a0718014ceae.png Hello, Pretenders! Curse of the Dead Gods and its first content patch have been officially out for a few months now and we couldn’t be happier with your reviews and feedback! Back in February, we released Curse of the Dead Gods with its full-intended content. At the moment, our team is still debating about adding more things to the game as we are satisfied with its current state, but we’re also enthusiastic adding more of your thoughts and cool suggestions! We are adjusting with the development of a new game at Passtech and still trying to figure out at what capacity we would be able to continue working on Curse of the Dead Gods. Not adding new content doesn’t mean not hunting some bugs! Today, here is a not-so-hot hotfix that fixes a few issues that came along with the CURSE OF THE DEAD CELLS patch! Have a look at the patch note below for the detailed list of changes:

:: PATCH NOTES ::

Version 1.24.4 - June 15th, 2021

🍉 = Community additions

Fixed bugs

• 🍉 Spawn: Cannot spawn in traps at the beginning of rooms anymore
• 🍉 Kill: Cannot kill yourself with Void Bombs when holding the Sword of Conjunctivius anymore
• 🍉 Death Throe Echos: The stalactites caused by the “Death Throe Echos” Curse cannot kill you anymore when holding the Sword of Conjunctivius
• 🍉 Xbeltz’aloc Face: Now works with the Sword of Conjunctivius
• 🍉 Thorny Seeds: Thorny Seeds don’t activate on self-hit anymore
• 🍉 Eagle Eye: Cannot heal you after death anymore
• 🍉 Heal on kill: Cannot heal you after killing yourself with a bomb using the “heal on kill” affix anymore
• 🍉 Debug tool: Cannot use the debug tool in the HUB anymore
• 🍉 General: Fixed some localization and spelling mistakes
• 🍉 Xbox One: Fixed the Grey Screen bug that would occur when using Void Bombs
• 🍉 Nintendo Switch/Origin: Fixed a localization issue which wouldn’t warn players that activating the Assist mode was permanent Note: Assist mode has been deactivated on all Nintendo Switch/Origin saves because of a bug linked to the localization text. If you had a save mid-run, it will be erased. Finish it before updating! Otherwise, no general progress will be lost and you should be able to activate the Assist mode again with the correct warning message this time!

From the Community

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/01a381a9c6018276087b01709bd10b4a691d9a2b.png Hello, Pretenders! Today, we are excited to release Curse of the Dead Gods’ first free post-launch patch! For this particular event, we partnered up with our friends at Motion Twin & Evil Empire to bring you this surprising crossover between Dead Cells and Curse of the Dead Gods! You’ll learn everything you need to know about the CURSE OF THE DEAD CELLS UPDATE in our new trailer, right here: In addition to this crossover, we added a bunch of new content for Curse of the Dead Gods. Don’t forget to check our patch notes to learn all the crispy details. And that’s not all! Curse of the Dead Gods is currently 20% off on Steam and all platforms. It’s time to celebrate! -------

:: PATCH NOTES ::

Version 1.24.2 - April 14th, 2021

🍉 = Community additions

Dead Cells crossover

• 3 new Iconic Weapons: + Broadsword of the Knight (Broadsword in Dead Cells) + Sword of Conjunctivius (Cursed Sword in Dead Cells) + Crossbow of the Condemned (Explosive Crossbow in Dead Cells) Note: These weapons need to be purchased in the Forsaken Weaponry!
• Vault rooms (Cursed Chests in Dead Cells): A new room type inspired by the Cursed Chest in Dead Cells! Defeat all enemies without getting hit to reveal what’s inside this special chest… Spoilers: it’s cursed
• New Curse - Curse of the Headless: Pay homage to the Prisoner by sporting his iconic flaming head… at the cost of a terrible Curse

New features

• New Fighting Style for Two-handed weapons: Bombs + Pirate Bombs + Crackling Grenades + Sticks of Dynamite + Incendiary Bombs + Fuming Skulls + Lightning Orbs + “Devouring Orbs”, Bombs of the Void
• New Curse: Reflected Temple. Yes, it means what you think it means
• 7 New Relics: + Alchemist’s Manual + Mark of the Enlightened + Templar Amulet + Scroll of Sacred Songs + Obsidian Bracelet + Blazing Ring + Thorns Seed
• 🍉 Weapon banishing: It is now possible to ban and unban weapons from the Forsaken Weaponry in the Underworld, at no cost
• 🍉 Sorting system: It is now possible to sort all weapons in the Forsaken Weaponry section of the Underworld. Base weapons are now available for consultation
• 🍉 Assist Mode: Curse of the Dead Gods is a challenging game by design. However, if you want a more customized and accessible experience, you can now enable the Assist Mode to drastically change the game’s behaviour
• More Rooms: We added a bunch more rooms in the Jaguar, Eagle and Serpent Temples to balance things out and bring more variety

Balancing

• 🍉 Eagle Temple general balancing: We heard you! We’ve made quite a few tweaks in the Eagle Temple to try to create a more enjoyable experience + Less “Medium” enemies at the beginning of explorations + Made some enemy waves “easier” in some Weapon and Upgrade rooms + Spawning of enemies in Tier 3 Time Challenge rooms is now kinder + Projectiles from the Eagle head traps are now slower, making them easier to dodge + In some rooms, percentage of traps appearing has been reduced
• General: + Element - Lightning: Fixed Lightning strike damage calculation, now taking into consideration all damage modifiers from triggering attack Design Notes: Some damage modifiers, like critical damage, were not taken into consideration when computing the lightning strikes’ damage, making them less powerful than intended. They should now always deal 50% damage of the triggering strike. Some lightning weapons’ damage has been reworked to balance the equation). + Gold - Challenge Rooms: Increased initial amount of Gold to 2500 (from 2000) + Curse - Biting Breath: Increased attack range of Eagle statues under the effect of the curse "Biting Breath” + Blessing - Skillful Adaptation: Skillful Adaptation is now triggered when killing summoned enemies + Blessing - Brutal Temper: Fixed this blessing so it correctly triggers in every situation + Rooms:
  • Jaguar Temple: The Exploration and Challenge rooms of the Jaguar Temple are now assigned to specific tiers (like the other temples)
  • Serpent Temple: Challenge Room in Tier 3 is now a bit more difficult (harmonization)
  + Relic - Eagle Eye:
  • Removed Rare Version
  • Very Rare version now heals 5% of critical damage dealt (from 10%)
  Design Notes: Eagle Eye was just off the charts in terms of healing potential. It should now encourage players to build a strong synergy to make the best of it rather than relying on the relic’s raw power. + 🍉 Curse removal: It is now possible to remove a ‘Pending Curse’ while at a Champion or Boss room. Pending Curses can be Temple-themed Curses in Mixed Explorations or Curses received while fighting a Champion or a Boss. + Greed Kill: Gold gain Bonus is now maxed out at x10 (+500%) instead of x20 (+1000%) Design Notes: Reaching x20 Greed Kill was almost only possible by using the Endless Greed blessing, thus rewarding this blessing with a huge amount of additional Gold in addition to its already powerful effects. The change should not change much gold gains without this blessing, and better balance the gains when playing with it.
• 🍉 Enemies: + Blademasters: Regular versions’ HP reduced to 250 (from 270), Elites’ reduced to 750 (from 810) + Sentinels: Rain of Arrows attack cannot be parried anymore (consistency with other AOE attacks) + Soul Reliquaries:
  • Regular versions can now heal up to 2 enemies (from 3). Elite versions still heal up to 3 enemies
  • Soul Reliquaries are now less inclined to use their Siphon Beam while other enemies are attacking around them
  • Soul Reliquaries have increased recovery time after Healing or using Siphon Beam
  • Regular versions’ HP reduced to 160 (from 180), Elites’ reduced to 480 (from 540)
  + 🍉 Dreadful Offspring:
  • Reduced tracking time for their Chain Lightning attack to 1sec (from 2sec)
  • Increased attack cooldowns so they attack less frequently
  • Regular versions’ HP reduced to 180 (from 200), Elites’ reduced to 540 (from 600)
  + Malok Paal: Fist pounding attack cannot be parried anymore (consistency with other AOE attacks) Design Notes: The behaviour of this Champion has also been slightly modified to make him a little more active and efficient. + Final Boss: Heavy weapon smash in the second phase cannot be parried anymore (consistency with other AOE attacks) + Dark Avatar of the Serpent: Increase summoning cooldown to 35sec (from 30sec)
• Weapons: + 🍉 Champions’ Weapons: Secret Champions’ Weapons can now also be found in Weapons Sanctuaries once unlocked and bought in the Forsaken Weaponry! + Throwing Weapons: Raw damage of all Throwing Weapons has been increased by ~10% + Obsidian Stiletto: Increased Raw Damage to 24 (from 20) + Bone Shard Whip: Increased Critical damage time after a kill to 5 seconds (from 3). Raw Damage set to 32 (from 29) + Blazing Shield: Raw Damage set to 32 (from 35) + Barbed Shield: Now reflects 100% damage to parried melee attackers (from 50%) + Storm’s Bulwark: Raw Damage set to 28 (from 35) + Sky Hammer: Raw Damage set to 36 (from 40) + Storm’s Point: Raw Damage set to 22 (from 24) + 🍉 “Moonblade”, Night’s Sword: Raw Damage set to 15 (from 12) + 🍉 “Gambit”, Xbeltz’aloc’s Gauntlet: Charged Attacks extra hits deal now 200% damage and critical damage (same as final Charged attack hit) + 🍉 “Annihilation”, Bow of madness: Raw Damage set to 15 (from 12) + 🍉 “Cataclysm”, T’amok’s Fury: Can no longer have the Affix reducing damage dealt in Light + 🍉 “Reaper”: Raw damage set to 20 (from 16) + 🍉 “Abnegation”, Xbeltz’aloc’s Blade: Raw damage set to 13 (from 12) + 🍉 “Fulmination”, Death’s Rempart: Raw damage set to 32 (from 28) + 🍉 "Effulgence”, Harbringer of Yaatz: Charged shots no longer cross enemies Design Notes: With the lightning strikes calculation fixes, this change encourages players to use lightning on multiple targets before releasing the powerful lightning strikes.
• 🍉 “Disembowler”, Dread Claw: All finishers’ hits now deal critical damage Design Notes: Many Cursed Weapons were a bit low in terms of damage. In combination with their special affixes review, Cursed Weapons should now get the place they deserve!
• 🍉 Cursed Affixes: + +50% damage taken reduced to +25% damage taken + +100% damage taken reduced to +50% damage taken + Gold loss on each attack reduced to 5 (from 10) + Merged +damage per other Cursed Weapon and +damage per Cursed Relic in a single Affix + Added new Cursed Affix: +50% damage to Elite, Champions & Bosses

Visual changes

• Relics icons: All relics now have their own pretty icons! Note: We've been putting off relics’ icons for the entire Early Access period to focus on more essential features, but we've finally given each of the game's relics a visual! The main effect is now represented in the item's frame. In addition to the visual enrichment, this should help to better identify the relics in the UI and make it easier to remember their effects.
• Main Hub: Pimp my Hub! + Starting weapons altars are now all fancy (and with a progression system!) + A more visual effect to the resurrection of your character + A lot of potteries + Even more potteries
• Biomes & Bosses introductions: We added a little name to all the different sections of the Temple. Champions & Bosses also now display their names during their introductions
• Xak’ olchir, the Blood Hunter: Changed the look of his invocation portals
• 🍉 Dreadful Offsprings: Teleportation and projectiles VFXs have been modified to make the combat more clear
• Curses: + Dark Fervor: Since Dark Fervor removes the corruption cost of changing rooms, the purple glow of the doors is replaced by the color of the current temple you’re exploring + Gold Puncture: Under the effect of Gold Puncture, a seal marks each door to signify the payment in gold (or life) that the player is about to make
• Weapons: + Spears: We added visual emphasis to the tip of Spear attacks to better convey their passive critical effect + Whips: The VFX of the whip off-hand combo has been reworked to better differentiate it from the charged Spear attacks
• Stamina while poisoned: Dots representing Stamina are now green when you’re suffering the poison effect

Fixed bugs & QoL

• Claws: Fixed a bug where you could do a charged attack with the claw without stamina
• 🍉 T’amok’s Bones: Fixed a bug where players could stack on Constitution with the Blessing “T’amok’s Bones”
• 🍉 Brutal Temper: Fixed a bug where Brutal Temper wouldn’t apply correctly
• 🍉 OOB: Fixed some OOB issues, occurring mostly on the Nintendo Switch
• 🍉 Blood Emblems: Fixed a bug where you couldn’t win a Blood Emblem after an OOB issue in the Abomination’s room
• Critters: Fixed an issue where critters (bats, vermins), would count in the ‘Enemies killed’ stats
• Final Boss: Fixed a bug where the diving attack of the Final Boss didn’t inflict corruption
• 🍉 Localization: Fixed some minor localization issues (missing Japanese characters, misspellings)

From the community

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/fd7128e5266ebc3b09a054d919a972edac0eb9fa.png We are proud to announce a partnership with Motion Twin and Evil Empire for “CURSE OF THE DEAD CELLS”, a crossover update releasing on April 14! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/3ad40e8cdb807cfd57f53b21c611c474a1746f45.png This free update to Curse of the Dead Gods will add a new curse, three new weapons, and a new kind of Challenge Room, all inspired by Dead Cells.

What kind of Dead Cells-themed content can you expect?

A new Curse, the Curse of the Headless, will let players move faster while receiving more damage, with a visual twist emblematic of Dead Cells’ main character. Three new weapons inspired by Dead Cells will be added: the Sword of Conjunctivius, the Broadsword of the Knight, and the Crossbow of the Condemned. Each is fashioned after its equivalent from Dead Cells (the Broadsword, the Cursed Sword, and the Explosive Crossbow). Finally, a new Challenge Room players can find during their runs will feature Dead Cells’ Cursed Chest: you’ll have to win its challenge to earn rare items for your run, including a cursed one. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/0880cd0de00111ae06f9f02e0029677797227c3c.jpg Besides this Dead Cells-themed content, more features will be coming to our game with this update! There will be a new two-handed weapon style, a new curse, new relics, and much more. More information will be unveiled soon. Stay tuned! Don’t worry explorers: the Curse of the Dead Cells Update comes at no additional cost! Get ready for this major update coming April 14! - The Passtech Team 🍉

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/8357840e0f52cd01131e7017698770a4bbcdb901.png Hello, Pretenders! It's been a little over a week since the release of Curse of the Dead Gods on all platforms and we couldn't be more happy and proud of the reception! If you've been hesitant to step foot into the Temple, know that you can get Curse of the Dead Gods with a 10% discount until March 9th! We‘re aware that some explorers have suffered from terrible Curses last week. If you had trouble with PS4/PS5 pads, achievements, and Sincere Offerings, our hotfix today has come to the rescue! In this minor patch, we fixed (ver. 1.23.3.8):

• 🍉 PS4 & PS5 pads connectivity: Fixed most issues where PS4 & PS5 controllers weren't recognized by the game at launch or after being disconnected
• 🍉 Playstation UI buttons: Fixed an issue where the inputs in the HUD wouldn't display the proper buttons for Playstation controllers
• 🍉 Invulnerability / Omnipotence / Clairvoyance Achievements: Fixed a bug where those 3 Achievements wouldn't unlock
• 🍉 Sincere Offerings: Fixed a bug where you could pay with Corruption at Altars with your mouse when suffering this Curse
• Gold stats: Fixed a bug where the Gold record wasn't updated in the Selection menu

Note: We expect most issues with PS4 & PS5 pads to be fixed, but if you are still encountering problems, let us know on our Discord server or in the comments under this post! --- Now close your eyes, Pretenders, if you don't want to get spoiled! We are going to reveal how to drop the Eagle Champions' weapons ⚡️ We know a few of you have already found the conditions, but are still waiting for a confirmation. Here it is! Both weapons have a 20% chance to drop if the condition is met. There is only one requirement for each Champion, and it is never too late to complete it:

K'ax Taca, High Lord of the Storm

To drop “Effulgence”, Harbinger of Yaatz, you need to inflict the fatal blow to K'ax Taca while he is attacking with his laser/lightning beam. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/98db1ed9fc1e39b932487b9bb2499b2708ec4b7f.gif

Malok Paal, the Flesh Monstrosity

To drop “Sunderer”, Fist of Doom, you need to perform 5 perfect dodges when he dashes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/13d1b7ef4abfae05d3317b36650d20429d928992.gif The odds are now in your hands, Pretenders! Let us know what you think of those new weapons ;) If you want to see them being unlocked live, Margaux from the team is currently doing a devstream! Join her on our Twitch channel. ---

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/656abc703ec6da9912e2dc8bac37058d98ab3b30.png Hello, Pretenders! It’s a big day today, probably the biggest of the year for us! Curse of the Dead Gods is officially out of Early Access and available in version 1.0 (actually, 1.23, don’t be surprised). Have a look at our launch trailer down here: There are not enough words to express how we feel about the game being out, the community’s support throughout the Early Access, and the new journeys that are to come. Thank you very much, and we truly hope you’ll enjoy what the Temple has to offer. Share your feedback with us on the Steam forums or on our Discord server, we cannot wait to read it! There’s more to come! We are planning tons of livestreams this week with the Passtech team and we hope to see you there! Have a look at our Twitch schedule: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/6824a89863b8746f8fcac16cdb6282e2cc31556d.png Follow us on Twitter or Twitch to not miss any! If you’re a longtime player, you’ll probably want to read our patch notes below detailing the changes and new additions to Curse of the Dead Gods:

:: PATCH NOTES ::

Version 1.23.2.5 - February 23rd 2021

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• Mixed Temples: + Go through all three Temples: The "mixed" explorations have been added and allow you to browse a special assortment of the three Temples and reach the final confrontation!
• New Hard Modes & Selection Menu: + The different explorations as well as the menu giving access to them have been reworked Notes for longtime players: "Hard" explorations have been removed from the game. The "Very Hard" explorations can be found in the "Hard" part of the explorations next to new mixed explorations offering new levels of difficulty. The "final" explorations (with the countdown) are now daily events. Daily events are now cumulative up to 3 (instead of 6).
• New Weapons: + Cursed Weapon - Bow - "Effulgence", Harbinger of Yaatz + Cursed Weapon - Shield - "Sunderer", Fist of Doom Design note: Two new hidden weapons have been added. Like the other Champions’ Weapons, these can be obtained by defeating the Champions of the Eagle Temple by fulfilling a special condition. + Main Weapon - Throwing Weapon - Evasive Knives
• Achievements: + Unlock all 30 achievements on Steam!
• Codex entries: + The Eagle bestiary and Pantheon entries have been added!

Balancing

• Introduction Champions & Bosses: A quick cinematic introduction has been added at the beginning of the Champion and Boss fights
• 🍉 Jade Rings: Jade rings are now awarded at each victory against a Champion or Boss (regardless of the exploration chosen). The bonus for the first completion of an exploration has been removed Design note: Crystal Skulls and Jade Rings gains on Champions & Bosses are increased by 40% for difficult explorations.
• Weapons: + 🍉 Whips: Acceleration of the "Off-hand Combo” attack. It now hits 0.1s earlier than before. + Spears: Slight increase in the area triggering critical hits when the attack hits with the tip of the spear + Shields: The charged attack now inflicts a light stun instead of a heavy stun. Stopping an enemy attack always inflicts a heavy stun. It is now possible to chain attacks with your main weapon earlier after a charged shield attack + 🍉 Shield - Whispering Aegis: Will no longer trigger an automatic parry during the dodge window + Claw - "Disembowler", Dread Claw: Base damage increased to 13 (instead of 12). Additional swirling attacks have a radius increased to 4m (instead of 3m) + Spear - "Vengeance", Xbeltz’aloc’s Spine: The Riposte triggered during an attack after a successful parry now inflicts critical damage and interrupts standard enemy attacks. The description has been adjusted to clarify the effect
• 🍉 Curses: We added upsides to some Curses + Shadow Word: The player now deals 20% more damage in the dark when this curse is active. + Visions of Madness: Dodging no longer costs stamina when the hallucination effect of this curse is active
• Blessings: + Brutal Temper: The time window during which you have to kill two enemies to activate the effect is increased to 3 seconds (instead of 1 second)
• Enemies: + 🍉 Plaguebringer: The protection time of the Plaguebringer has been reduced by 1 second
• Environment: + Balancing in the Eagle Temple’s rooms: The waves of enemies in the Weapon, Upgrade, and Challenge rooms of the Eagle Temple are a little harder, to match the difficulty of the other temples + Flamethrowers: Flamethrowers in the Jaguar Temple can be interrupted by a dark attack
• Stats: A new and more detailed screen showing more statistics appears on the Victory / Defeat screen
• Tips: Tips have been relocated to the Main Hub and can be accessible by pressing the “Map” button

Fixed bugs

• 🍉 OOB issues: Most Out of Bounds issues have been fixed
• 🍉 Black screens: Fixed a bug where a black screen would appear if you died at the same time as a Champion
• 🍉 Blood Priest: Fixed a bug where Blood Priests would get stuck on spike traps.

Known issues

• Impossible to reconnect a PS4 pads after it’s been disconnected
• Incompatibility with PS5 controllers

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/6510ccaaf5515672dfb78ddbb6c561e619ec52b6.png Hello, Pretenders! We are less than one week away from the official launch of Curse of the Dead Gods! It’s been an amazing year in Early Access on Steam and we’re proud of what the game came out to be. We’ve prepared you a new Gameplay Overview trailer to celebrate the release of the game! Plus it’s voiced by the delighting Jane Perry who recently played Diana in the Hitman trilogy series and it just sounds wonderful. Have a look for yourself:

Release week celebration with the Devs

We’ll have a special event for the release week of Curse of the Dead Gods! Tune in from Monday 22nd until Sunday 28th on Twitch! Meet us each day with a different member of the Passtech team to talk about the development of Curse of the Dead Gods and try some fun challenges in the Temple. We hope to see you there! Here's the schedule for next week:

• Monday 22nd - 17:00 (CET) - Pascal (Level Design) & Margaux (Production & Communication) - IN FRENCH
• Tuesday 23rd - 15:00 (CET) - Adrien (Game Design), Margaux & Jérémy (Creative Producer at Focus Home Interactive) - IN FRENCH
• Tuesday 23rd - 17: 00 (CET) - Valentin (Art Direction), Margaux & Jérémy - IN ENGLISH
• Wednesday 24th - 17:00 (CET) - Adrien & Margaux - IN ENGLISH
• Thursday 25th - 17:00 (CET) - All the Passtech team! - IN FRENCH & ENGLISH (we'll try haha)
• Friday 26th - 17:00 (CET) - Sylvain (Programming) & Margaux - IN ENGLISH
• Saturday 27th - 17:00 (CET) - Margaux - IN ENGLISH
• Sunday 28th - 17:00 (CET) - Margaux - IN ENGLISH

Follow us on Twitch to not miss any devstreams!

OST

The soundtrack for Curse of the Dead Gods will be available next week on Steam! 15 tracks of music to explore the dark Temple’s depths and fight the Champions of the Dead Gods. Composed by Léon Shelby and provided in MP3 and FLAC formats, the soundtrack will be available on February 23rd. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/c72801f2e963e93d117e02097df33fe2624f949f.png

Memorable deaths in the Temple

Our Art director Valentin started a series of special artworks representing the most miserable and inevitable deaths you'll suffer in our Temple! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/131283d4d64e3c18fd55cc734ecd0b42d199833b.png Follow him or us on Twitter to not miss any!

Livestream today

To top it off, Margaux from the team will be streaming today at: - 17:00 (CET) - 16:00 (GMT) - 08:00am (PST) - 11:00am (EST) Actually, it just started! Join us on our Twitch channel right now!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/67c38e45a7b3178386eb05e5f9cebe99fb9c3418.png Hello, Pretenders! We have some incredible news for you today! We are very excited and proud to announce that Curse of the Dead Gods will be leaving Early Access on February 23rd of 2021! That’s right! We are planning our full release for next month and we can’t wait to reveal the ending of our game to the community! Have a look at our announcement trailer: The Early Access of Curse of the Dead Gods has been a rollercoaster, and we are very pleased with the reception of the game. The community has grown over the months and we’re proud of what the game has come to be thanks to your feedback and reports! February 23rd marks a new chapter in Curse of the Dead Gods’ development and we can't wait to continue this journey with you. As expected, we are planning to raise Curse of the Dead Gods’ price for the final release. We’re giving you a little heads up as you still have until January 22 to get it for its Early Access price of $17,99! Stay tuned for more news as we approach our release date! PS: Join our livestream tonight on our Twitch channel at: - 17:00pm (CET) - 16:00pm (GMT) - 08:00am (PST) - 11:00am (EST)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/6510ccaaf5515672dfb78ddbb6c561e619ec52b6.png Hello, Pretenders! We hope you’re still having fun in the Eagle Temple that we released last month! This new temple brings its share of new content with more enemies, traps, Champions and a Temple Boss! Which of you have already climbed the Eagle’s Spire and defeated the Dark Avatar of the Eagle? We’re curious to know! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/d0e186cdb08816ab04cc81cc4711502acb765c49.png The third temple was a big step in the Early Access of Curse of the Dead Gods, and we’re so proud to have completed it in time! There are still adjustments that need to be made thanks to your feedback and suggestions. If you’re interested in our creative process, we will publish in our dev diary next week how we made this temple! In the meantime, here’s a selection of some cool artworks made by Valentin, our art director! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/a87c2baff9641342a745245d757310ff20a89ad5.png As you may have noticed on our roadmap, we’re close to our v.1.0 release! It will be synchronised with the long-awaited consoles releases and will feature the final Temple of Curse of the Dead Gods! (among other things that you can peek at on the roadmap). We’re reaching the end of the adventure, but it doesn’t mean we’ll stop working on the game. We have at least one update planned after the official release of Curse of the Dead Gods, and for the rest… we’ll have to see how the game does once out on the market! Right now, we’re focusing all our efforts on putting an end to this incredible journey. All of our time is dedicated to adding the grand finale, polishing every aspect, and correcting bugs to make the game run as smoothly as possible. Plus, the holiday break is coming and we’ll take some time off to celebrate with our loved ones! That’s why there won’t be any update until the final release of Curse of the Dead Gods. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/36e8b7a07fb888bd0c5cb934de30512d8f17549a.png We’ll be back soon in 2021 with more news! In the meantime, we hope you all have a good holiday season and that you play some games with your friends and family. - The Passtech Team 🍉 PS: We won’t go silent during our break, don’t worry! Join our Discord server to chat with us, or follow our Twitch channel to not miss any livestreams!

Hello explorers! https://i.imgur.com/neGr7nQ.gif We are extremely happy and glad that Curse of the Dead Gods has been receiving so much support since we started this Early Access! Our Temple keeps growing bigger and bigger thanks to our community’s love and dedication for the game. Our team is still working hard on creating the most challenging yet fun Temple out there! We have still a lot of new trials coming to you in the upcoming weeks. Get ready for the final showdown with the God of Death himself! Steam has just launched its Steam Awards! We’d be happy to be nominated in any category, but we think maybe one of the funniest and most accurate would be the Best Game You Suck At ;) Thank you so much if you decide to nominate our game! Curse of the Dead Gods is also 33% off until December 1! Enter the temple now to discover our latest zone full of new foes and great champions: the Eagle’s Spire. https://i.imgur.com/cvjwymy.jpg

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/8681a7bf4a66858ec881c46e9c4d96a77764a7b6.png Hello, Pretenders ! It’s here! The Eagle Temple is finally ready! The EAGLE’S SPIRE update is now available on Steam. We have a lot to say, so have a good read (and have fun!)

:: PATCH NOTES ::

Version 0.22.0 - November 25th 2020

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• The Eagle Temple: + New environments + New traps + 6 new foes with their elite versions + 2 new Champions + 1 new Temple Boss + 5 new Curses
  • Eternal Guardians
  • 🍉 Dark Mines
  • Biting Breath
  • Sky Fire
  • Chromatic Defense
• Have fun! Give us your feedback on our Discord server or on the Steam forums 🍉

Disclaimer: We had some problems with the writing of certain texts related to the Eagle Temple. What’s missing in this version: - The bestiary notes for the Eagle enemies - The introductory texts of the specific Eagle curses - The mood text of the new blessing These texts will soon be integrated into the game! Regarding the bestiary notes, please note that this does not prevent the unlocking of the entries in the Eagle bestiary (and the golden portrait version). The texts will be automatically updated when they are integrated into the game. Also, we were not able to produce the secret weapons that can be obtained when defeating a Champion (under special conditions) in this update. Rest assured, these will arrive soon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/b375a2e3b59184979d7fe5a126bcee3b928583ed.png

Balancing

• 🍉 Perception: The Perception stat now increases, in addition to the amount of gold found, the chance of killed enemies dropping a piece of equipment. Usually, one enemy per room can release a piece of equipment. Perception now increases the chance of two enemies releasing an item (or even more if you exceed 100% found treasure!)
• 🍉 Cursed weapons & Dark damage: The Cursed weapons and the functioning of Dark damage have been reworked + Cursed weapons now have 2 exclusive affixes, 1 positive and 1 negative, randomly selected from the existing ones + Dark attacks now take advantage of the other 3 elements! + Dark attacks extinguish a flaming enemy and apply the ‘Weaken’ effect to them + Dark attacks inflict poison on a poisoned enemy + Dark attacks instantly trigger lightning on an electrified enemy.
• Revision of the damage formula: We have reworked the way we calculate the final damage of the main character's attack. The calculation is based on several factors: • A: The basic power of the weapon (white number in its description sheet) • B: The basic damage increase factor (final result in yellow numbers in its description sheet, including the dexterity bonus) • C: The contextual additional bonus damage factor (e.g. additional damage to fire attacks, in the back damage bonus affixes) • D: The movement factor (e.g. a charged sword attack inflicts 200% damage) • E: The critical hit factor (+50% by default, increased by effects increasing critical hit damage) • F: The weakened factor when hitting a weakened enemy (+50% by default, increased by the effects increasing the damage on weakened enemies) Previously the calculation was as follows: A x B x C x D x E x F The new formula is now: A x (B + C) x D x (E + F) The purpose of this change is to temper the damage curve when the damage becomes very high. Previously, the formula was very explosive and allowed for final damage that was too high compared to the game progress curve when damage based synergies were created. Don't worry, it is still possible to inflict very heavy damage ;)
• 🍉 Review of Blessings: Some of the blessings have been reworked to better balance them and offer more attractive effects. + Tamok's Breath: Your physical attacks (non-elementary) have a 50% chance to turn into fire attacks + Indomitable: Restore 50% max health after defeating a non-optional Champion or Boss + T’amok’s Bones: Gain 5 Constitution at the start of your exploration and 1 Constitution at the beginning of each room if your health is below 50% of its maximum + Skillful Adaptation: After defeating an enemy with your Main or Secondary weapon, your Two-Handed weapon deals 50% more damage and vice-versa + Gust of Agility: Gain 5 Dexterity at the start of your exploration. Any Perfect Dodge triggers Haste (increased movement speed for 5 seconds) + Sich’al’s Treasures: Gain 2 Perception each time you make a Gold Offering + Favor of Sich’al: Gain 1000 gold and 5 Perception at the start of your exploration + Gift of Transmutation: Sich’al’s Trove has been replaced by Gift of Transmutation: any healing that exceeds max health is turned into gold + Reptilian Hunger: The maximum damage bonus is now 50% (instead of 100%) + The costs and conditions of unlocking have been adjusted for certain blessings. For long-time players who have already unlocked these blessings, they will now be re-locked and will have to be purchased again. Crystal Skulls previously invested in these blessings will be re-credited to you.
• Removal of relics: Some relics were removed, either because they did not provide enough benefit to the player, or because their effect was too circumstantial, or because their effects were introduced into the redesign of blessings. + Crystal Shards + Crystal Orb + Crown of Purgation + Jewel of Transmutation
• Relic - Temple’s Heart: Healing effects increased to 4%/8%/12% (instead of 3/6/9)
• Relic - Torture Ring: Healing effects increased to 3%/6%/9% (instead of 2/4/6)
• Relic - Humble Tiara: Healing effects increased to 6%/12%/18% (instead of 5/10/15)
• Lightning: The time during which enemies are electrified is increased to 8 seconds (instead of 5 seconds)
• Weapons altars: Once the altar's upgrades are achieved, the chance of common weapons (with special effects) appearing on the weapon's altars is now 75% (instead of 100%)
• Locked defense windows: In the past, certain movements such as charged attacks prevented the use of dodge or parry for a short period of time. All of these locking windows have been removed, except for heavy two-handed weapons where they remain in place on each attack
• Whips: The charged attack with whips now requires only one point of stamina (instead of 2)
• Shields: The distance traveled by the character during a charged attack with a shield has been reduced by about 10%
• 🍉 Seeker’s Mace: Now grants +5% basic damage per level of transported relic (instead of 2%)
• Curse - Gold Puncture: If gold is paid, now restores 10% of maximum health (instead of 5%)
• 🍉 Prophetesses: The prophetesses in trance will no longer trigger their counterattack if they are hit by the environment
• 🍉 Titan Skulls: Adjustment of the life span of the spinning blades sent by the Titan Skulls + Normal version: the lifetime reduces to 2.5 seconds (instead of 3.5) + Elite version: lifetime increases to 4.5 seconds (instead of 3.5)

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Visual changes

• FX: Addition of electric impacts on the ground for heavy two-handed weapons

Fixed bugs et QoL

• 🍉 Graphic options: Graphic options: We have added an option to remove the SSAO and replace it with an outline; and an option to enable or disable the bloom
• Damage: Damage that breaks the enemy's guards does its damage correctly
• Shadows: Fixed a bug that did not make the shadows disappear once an object was destroyed

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Known bugs

• Champions and Bosses slip out of their arenas, preventing you from finishing the fight
• It is possible to die at the same time as a Champion or a Boss, preventing the display of the victory or defeat screen

What’s cooking in the Temple

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/f4f7ec866d7ce17575db209a8401582429769964.png Hello, Pretenders! The whole Passtech team has been working on the upcoming EAGLE’S SPIRE update, coming out on November 25th! It’s almost ready, mark it in your calendars! 🦅 This new update brings a whole new Temple with a new environment, as well as new enemies & traps. We can’t wait to share it with the community and read your feedback. Consider joining the fun on our Discord server to chat with your fellow Pretenders! Now let’s give you a little glimpse of THE EAGLE’S SPIRE ⚠️ Beware, spoilers ahead! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/ee36546617c231317312cfb270fa4aa5872ab658.png In the Eagle Temple, you’ll finally reach the top of the Cursed Temple. Expect to get wet in the storming rain ⛈️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/25571636750ea67ff612dd98f5c1ff3a64ff7884.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/b375a2e3b59184979d7fe5a126bcee3b928583ed.png Nature again takes its rights and invades the Eagle Temple 🌿 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/6901fb939130b04dda5dd390e36191d491e6e646.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/7cb5753716cd39fe80bd985eaf6a3ed0e92d7759.png Meet new foes like the Sentinels, formerly members of the guard of honor of the Hauts Chatac. They have been the first to take advantage of the Chatac's science by enhancing their bodies and minds with bio-mechanical parts. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/f13a7e825322dd7c87d6939fc4a2274ca8c27472.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/0cc33abf060c899bb57ab432da6e5e71abe8e8f9.png Humanoids with winged arms, their lower legs are sharp claws. Flying, aggressive creatures, Harpies rush their prey to tear it apart from their sharp limbs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/fa81a8b9375658d5aac5e55b7c5b57ad94682ce8.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/e2e7515b066d8af567598c1b5b4a65737829f232.png See you next week! PS: Tune in on our livestream today at 17:00pm (CET) - 16:00pm (GMT) - 09:00am (PST) - 12:00pm (EST) for a little chat with us!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/4216e42a8c43274d87cc16db4048a680dd441d6f.png Hello, Pretenders! Are you ready for our monthly update? Here comes the ARMORY! New weapons, a new Underworld, and the Lightning element await you in the Temple! ⚡️⚔ Check out our new Trailer! ALSO! Curse of the Dead Gods is 33% off for a limited time 🎃 Grab it now!

:: PATCH NOTE ::

Version 0.21.0 - October 29th, 2020

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• New Underworld:
  • The Armory: New upgrade tab in the Underworld: + Unlock new weapons to find them in all your next explorations! + All weapons from the game have been separated into two categories: a starting selection matching all the default weapons you can find in the Temple, and a selection of weapons to unlock in the Underworld + When you unlock a new weapon, it can appear in any of your future explorations + Champions’ weapons have to be unveiled first: unlocking them in the Underworld will give you a chance to find them in weapon Sanctuaries + The Armory is destined to evolve! Please share your feedback with us to make it better
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  • 🍉 Weapons altars: New game mechanic + You’ll now find in the Main Hall some weapon altars that will offer you different equippable weapons before each exploration! + A new upgrade tab appears in the Underworld: Restore weapon altars to expand your starting weapon choices and upgrade them to increase their quality + Choices offered by weapon altars are renewed after each exploration or when you upgrade the altars in the Underworld

• New currency: Jade rings + Defeat the last Champion or Boss of each exploration to gain Jade rings! + Jade rings can be spent to unlock new weapons in the Underworld + A first victory will award you a large number of Jade rings. Each additional victory for an already completed exploration will give you a few more Jade rings + Note that some previously available by default weapons are now to be unlocked in the Underworld. For the pre-update players, Jade rings will be credited depending on the completed explorations.

• New fighting styles:
  • Throwing weapons, main weapons + Simple attack (x2): launches a projectile at mid-range + Final blow of the combo (1 stamina point required): launches a projectile at mid-range that inflicts critical damage at 200% of the weapon's damage + Charged attack (1 stamina point required): launches 4 projectiles on 4 different close targets. Each projectile inflicts 150% of the weapon's damage. + New weapons list:
    • Throwing Knives
    • Weighted Blades
    • Hunting Axes
    • Silver Stars
    • Chromatic Knives
    • “Heartseekers”, Teeth of Death
  • 🍉 Whips, secondary weapons + Simple attack (x1) (1 stamina point required): hits at medium distance + Final blow of the combo (1 stamina point required): hits at medium distance, inflicts critical damage + "Off-Hand Combo" (1 stamina point required): launches a swirling attack that deals 150% of the weapon's damage to all nearby targets. + Charged attack (2 stamina points required): attracts hit enemies close to the character. Can interrupt enemy attacks New weapons list:
    • Braided Whip
    • Barbed Whip
    • Desperation’s Flail
    • Stinger Lash
    • Bone Shard Whip
    • Storm Lash
    • “Flagellation”, Mistress of Agony

• New element: Lightning + Lightning completes the trinity of elements alongside fire and poison! + Lightning weapons apply an “electrified” status to hit enemies + Final attacks with lightning weapons trigger a lightning bolt, which will strike all surrounding electrified enemies (each lightning bolt inflicts 50% of the final attack's damage). + Entities struck by lightning are also set on fire + New weapon affixes and relics related to lightning and new weapon styles have been added

• New weapons + New weapons from previous fighting styles have been added:
  • Main weapon - Sword: Gusting Glaive
  • Main weapon - Mace: Spark Hammer
  • Main weapon - Claw: Warmonger Claws
  • Main weapon - Claw: Blunt Claws
  • Secondary weapon - Pistol: Alchemist’s Firestick
  • Secondary weapon - Shield: Storm’s Bulwark
  • Secondary weapon - Shield: Worn Shield
  • Secondary weapon - Dagger: Obsidian Stiletto
  • Secondary weapon - Dagger: Chipped Dagger
  • Two-handed weapon - Heavy: Sky Hammer
  • Two-handed weapon - Heavy: Stone Hammer
  • Two-handed weapon - Heavy: Broken Longsword
  • Two-handed weapon - Spear: Storm’s Point
  • Two-handed weapon - Spear: Primitive Spear
  • 🍉 Two-handed weapon - Bow: Serpent Bow
  • Two-handed weapon - Bow: Stiff Bow

• New Champion’s weapon: “Cataclysm”, T’amok’s Fury - Whip + A new Champion’s weapon can now be found when fighting the Cursed Twins of the Jaguar Temple! + The special condition is different from the one for "Moonblade", Night’s Sword (but they are indeed "Twins", aren’t they?... 😉) + Only one Champion’s weapon can be obtained during a fight: if both conditions are met, a random draw determines the weapon released

Balancing

• 🍉 Bows: The playstyle of bows has been revised + Single shots can now be chained together very quickly, making it possible to inflict damage quickly from a distance + Perfect shots become charged shots: once fully loaded, they inflict a critical attack based on 200% of the weapon's damage + Fully charged shots from all bows are now piercing; each enemy hit restores 1 stamina point + Keen Bow now has a new special effect: fully charged shots increase their damage by 50% for each enemy hit
• Jaguar Hammer: Base damage adjusted to 45 (instead of 40)
• 🍉 Stone Breaker: Base damage adjusted to 45 (instead of 40)
• Two-handed Weapons - Heavy: The distance traveled in a charged attack with a heavy weapon has been reduced by about 20%. The impact zone has been reduced by about 10%
• Dodge: The dodge time for rolls is now 24 frames (instead of 18) Design note: The previous window could cause frustration when a highly anticipated dodge resulted in damage while the character still seemed to be visually rolling.
• Loot: The chance of obtaining a Relic or Weapon from a chest or an enemy is now 60% for a Relic and 40% for a Weapon (previously 50/50)
• Corruption: Corrupt prices for weapon upgrades were increased by 10 points
• Off-hand Combo: All "Off-hand Combo" now inflict 150% of the weapon's damage (instead of 100%)

Visual changes

• Redesign of the Underworld interface: The different Underworld menus have been redesigned and harmonized
• Hero's Hand: The FX of the hero's corrupted hand now adapts to his number of curses
• Weapon frames: Frames of the equipped weapons change according to the quality of the equipment

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Fixed bugs & QoL

• 🍉 Victory Cinematics: Fixed a bug that would cause the hero to leave the arena during victory cinematics against a Champion or Boss
• 🍉 Calendar door: Fixed a bug that caused the calendar door to rotate too fast when canceling during the Exploration menu
• 🍉 Screenshake: Added an option to disable screenshake
• Lost focus: The game now pauses when you alt-tab, return to the desktop or just lose focus. This option is enabled by default but can be disabled if necessary (streaming purpose, etc.) Note: The game officially shifted to 64-bit. If you’re having troubles with your 32-bit operating system and launching the game, please contact us at [email protected]

Known Bugs

• Champions and Bosses slip out of their arenas, preventing you from finishing the fight
• It is possible to die at the same time as a Champion or a Boss, preventing the display of the victory or defeat screen

What’s cooking in the Temple

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/e1d0e3a33823771373f3956ac77b0601a22d4430.png Hello, Pretenders! We’re so excited to reveal more about our upcoming major update: THE ARMORY! If you want to keep everything fresh, skip this post to avoid any spoilers. We are about to give you an extensive preview of what’s coming in just a few days! To remind you, THE ARMORY update will be released next week, on Thursday 29th of October! Let’s dive in! ⚠️ Beware, spoilers!

• LIGHTNING

One thing we weren’t shy to showcase those last few weeks was the new element coming to this update: Lightning ⚡️ Lightning completes the trinity of elements alongside fire and poison, capable of applying the “electrified” status to enemies you hit. 5 new weapons with this new property make their way into the game, here’s one: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/54bfb939a2cd92d1e2c604cb10e3f0efc7f37c2c.png Consider it also a little sneak peek for the Eagle Temple 🦅

• NEW FIGHTING STYLES

Is that a whip?! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/bfcf1334d519624eacf63e93501ce74d47f1bf27.gif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYReYNzMiew We also have another new fighting style that we’re keeping secret for now ;)

• NEW UNDERWORLD

The Underworld got a makeover! Everything is harmonized to welcome the new tabs that appear with this update! And new tabs mean new things to unlock! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/33ef2db02499aeef603c2af0920ea23658ff108a.png We can’t wait to share all of this new content with you! You can always join our Discord server or give suggestions on Steam forums if you want to help the development of Curse of the Dead Gods! See you next week! PS: Si vous parlez français, nous participerons au Game Made in France online qui se déroulera jeudi 29 octobre au soir et en compagnie des streamers At0mium et Maghla ! Plus d’infos très prochainement.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/3172a5d6517177a27a5eed9d29dcab02364db32b.png Hello, Pretenders! The Passtech team is working hard on our next two updates: THE ARMORY and THE EAGLE'S SPIRE. In case you missed it, we released another minor update this September: PATH OF TRIALS. Have a look at our roadmap to get a more comprehensive look at what's coming to Curse of the Dead Gods: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/0588ad50096bd5a48e753059f6ba3f7c88c1cee9.png Be ready for tons of new weapons, dearly requested by our community since the launch of the game in Early Access. We're actually asking you guys to share your suggestions for two-handed weapons on our Discord server at the moment, care to participate? Now, we thought it'd be fun and interesting (tell us if it's not) to chat about what it means for us to make Curse of the Dead Gods in Early Access. This is our first game in EA, and it's definitely been a roller coaster! For most parts, we had good feedback and reception, but there were some inevitable bumps on the road. Don't get us wrong, we're super happy with how the game turned out so far, but we never knew how ambitious this project would become. If you’re interested in that, read our latest dev diary! You can also subscribe to our newsletter so you won’t ever miss any. We have more behind the scenes available for you, Pretenders! Valentin, our art director, has been posting quite a lot on twitter recently. Follow his thread on old sketches and concept arts made in the early days of Curse of the Dead Gods! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/71906268a8bed1376477e8fa13fe27b629db3335.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/e43bbe505d2452a6b0951bf5d9cd6d34bcd46559.jpg See you next week!

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➡️ Download the fan kit here

PATH OF TRIALS UPDATE

If you’ve missed it, we released a new update last week: PATH OF TRIALS. Try it now and see all the new content we added: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/1baa93583daf4f741cd41ba03eb9491e96d6bb23.png We’ve also asked people on our Discord server to share their ideas for new Two-handed weapons! Do you have some suggestions? We currently are live on our Twitch channel to discuss about it! See you next week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/f9b65347d2149df2e8951e335008317ddbb4cbeb.png Hello, Pretenders, Some bugs made their way into our PATH OF TRIALS update. Hotfix incoming! Fixed in this patch:

• Fixed a crash that occurred in between rooms
• Fixed a bug related to saves on new games (if you launched one on an older version)
• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Grace of the Tempest' Blessing from working properly
• Fixed a bug that blocked the door of the Blood hunter once defeated

⚠️ NOTE: Your current run will be deleted if you haven't played on the 0.20.02 version yet (update from Thursday 09/10). Don’t worry! Your save will stay intact (Unlocked explorations, Unlocked Blessings, Crystal Skulls count…), but if you had a run in progress, you won’t be able to finish it. Thanks to the community for their fast reports! Don't forget that Curse of the Dead Gods is currently on sales for 33% off! See you next week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/eb9cfb0a52ee57c8d24a6bbb7460e5a5f39d741d.png Hello, Pretenders ! The PATH OF TRIALS update is now live! New room, gear recycling, and new tutorials… The Temple is getting ready to welcome new Pretenders!

Curse of the Dead Gods is also on sale, starting today, for Focus Home Interactive’s publisher sale! Get 33% off our game and discover our Cursed Temple 😈

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:: PATCH NOTE ::

Version 0.20.0 - September 10th, 2020

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• 🍉 New tutorials: A new game zone at the start of the adventure will let players discover Curse of the Dead Gods’ core game mechanics and practice with the combat and defense system

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• Tips: Tips are shown during loading screens
• 🍉 Gear recycling: Weapons and relics found in the Temple can be recycled for healing, stats, corruption reduction, and other bonuses
• 🍉 New room type: Weapon upgrade shrines. It is now possible to level up your gear at Weapon upgrade shrines

Visual changes

• The 5th Curse: The 5th Curse icon and Health bar haven been replaced to emphasise its danger
• Damage in Darkness: We added a red flash when the character is hit in Darkness to better signify the increased damage suffered.

Fixed bugs & QoL

• 🍉 Disconnecting pads crash: Fixed a crash that would happen when disconnecting pads while playing
• 🍉 Shadow Word x Torch of Sorrow: Enemies invisible because of the “Shadow Word” curse can now be revealed with the modified torch of the “Torch of Sorrow” curse
• 🍉 Sincere offerings: Fixed a bug that would prevent players from clicking the Blood offering button with a mouse
• Mad Temple: Fixed a bug that did not increase the damage of the Mushroom traps in the game mode "Mad Temple" in the Serpent Temple
• Darkest Explorer: Fixed a bug that did not increase the damage inflicted to the player in the light in the game mode "Darkest Explorer".

Known bugs

• Character can go OOB when being so fast that the game can’t cope with him
• PS4 pads: If your PS4 pads disconnect during a run, it will be impossible to reconnect it (Tip: Use your keyboard/mouse to go at the beginning of a room and save your progression)
• First run: If you've launched a new game and started your first run on an old version, but didn't finish it (Victory/Death), you'll have to delete your save and start a new one

What’s cooking in the Temple

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/3172a5d6517177a27a5eed9d29dcab02364db32b.png Hello, Pretenders! In this week’s community post, we’ll share a first look at our upcoming minor update: PATH OF TRIALS! But just before we dive in, we’ve updated our roadmap and we wanted to show you our next plans for Curse of the Dead Gods! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/97396aaefced802563287c19ff373c024fe245d8.png PATH OF TRIALS will be available next week! But if you’re impatient like us, continue below to see its full content! ⚠️ Beware, spoilers!

• NEW TUTORIALS

Practice in a dedicated tutorial zone with extended explanations of all the game’s mechanics. Previous tutorials were not as effective as we wanted, as players could miss out on important information about the core gameplay of Curse of the Dead Gods. We’re getting the game ready for its final release so a good tutorial is always handy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/975c3ea4ef16b547f5d0c91b6b60b7fe7029c6f4.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/357b1d6888318c1f6583362a6cff4919b30c91b9.png

• GEAR RECYCLING

Recycle your loot to gain some minor bonuses during your explorations. This highly requested feature is likely to become one of your favorites! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/105fc731fbd1146ef74850512864be5a197f8f8b.png

• NEW ROOM TYPE

Make offerings at the new Weapon Upgrade shrines to level-up your gear and obtain more powerful effects for them. We know some players love their Weapons very much and don’t want to leave them behind. This new feature will allow you to keep your gear throughout the Temple! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/bab5a67f23d3593db9b57326e703faa482bb9929.png We can’t wait to see your feedback about those highly requested features! You can always join our Discord server or give suggestions on Steam forums if you want to help the development of Curse of the Dead Gods! See you next week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/0270ce37b6fa7e2d3800213afd3ad3a573a06c39.png Hello, Pretenders! Today, we’re releasing a hotfix that resolves some issues reported by players last week. Have a look at the bugs and problems fixed in this patch:

• Low FPS
• Daily events not showing up each day
• Unexpected crash with fire projectiles

Once again, we want to thank the Curse of the Dead Gods’ community for reporting these issues and helping us resolve them. Remember that you can always report bugs on Steam forums or on our Discord server. Your saves from the Experimental branch will automatically transfer to the Main branch. If you backed up your saves to test the Experimental branch, you can put them back in the appropriate folder (Steam-steamapps-common-Lost Temple-TempleResources-_Saves) See you next week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/006499453bd741ae455d3cfd6a831fc9fbbf8d2c.png Hello, Pretenders! We hope you’re enjoying the latest patch! We’re aware that some of you are experiencing low FPS and Daily Challenges issues, and we’re working on fixing these problems this week. That’s why we’re launching an experimental branch for those wanting to see if your problem has been resolved by our little tweaks. Fixed bugs/issues on the experimental branch:

• Low FPS
• Unexpected crash with fire projectiles

HOW TO HOP ON THE EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH: → Right-click on the game → Choose "Properties" → Choose "BETAS" tab → Enter this password: wehatelowfps → Select "specia_public_test - /!\ Special/Experiment fixes" → Close and launch the game. If your game is working fine, no need to jump on this branch as it’s only a temporary fix until we’re able to fully release a hotfix early next week. We want to thank all the players that have been helpful in resolving these issues, either by providing videos or analysis of bugs and crashes, or data of their personal computer configs. Let us know if our fix is working for you!

Updated Roadmap

What’s coming next for Curse of the Dead Gods? As we’re still actively working on the new Eagle Temple - coming later this year - we still have some cool and game-changing content coming in the next few months. Here is our updated Roadmap for September and October: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/329ab09073232385c2576d650c7d02f03c367503.png

ActuGaming French Showcase

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/793fd83af80c712a5524ba1e3dbf0aa746214763.jpg It’s with great honor that we accepted ActuGaming.net’s invitation to their first-ever online Showcase for French video game productions. We’ll be next to other amazing studios to show some gameplay and videos of Curse of the Dead Gods. And what a perfect place to unveil some exclusive new content about the Eagle Temple! Tune in August 26th at 17:00pm (CET) on ActuGaming's website. The event will only be in French, but don’t worry as we’ll share all the tasty details on our social media after the show. See you next week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/db1ae4d194bd511839fbf5d79b79cc8de02532c1.png Hello Pretenders! Our monthly update has arrived! Take on some new challenges and discover new layouts and Curses in the Serpent’s Catacombs 🐍 ⚠️ NOTE 1: Your current run will be deleted. Don’t worry! Your save will stay intact (Unlocked explorations, Unlocked Blessings, Crystal Skulls count…), but if you had a run in progress, you won’t be able to finish it. ⚠️ NOTE 2: Music and sound design are not fully implemented in this version, meaning new effects and new features maybe be soundless or with placeholder sounds.

:: PATCH NOTE ::

Version 0.19.2 - August 12th, 2020

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• New Hard Modes: Hard mode has been replaced by 3 levels of difficulty : Hard, Very Hard and Final Design note: The difficulties of all the explorations have been reworked in order to obtain a smoother progression curve, allowing new players to discover more content and hardcore players to maintain a high level of difficulty. The "Hard" explorations of the previous version now match the "Very Hard" explorations.
• 🍉 New Daily Challenges: Try Daily runs with fun and challenging new rulesets and win extra Crystal Skulls! Design Note: Previous mode variations have been rethought to become Daily Challenges. Each challenge features exotic rules, diversifying the experiences in the Temple. New challenges will be added soon.
• New Meta Currency: A completed exploration now rewards a Blood Emblem. These are used to unlock access to further explorations and Blessings Design note: This change prepares the game for its future evolutions, in particular the new content that will be unlocked soon.
• New Rooms variations: Chests and traps will be placed differently and new corridors will emerge, increasing diversity in the Serpent’s Catacombs
• 5 New Curses: + Devious Darts + Death Throe Echos + Putrid Hosts + Fungal Awareness + Malicious Flora

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Balancing

• Spears: Combo attacks, as well as the final combo hit, have a thinner detection zone than before Design note: The damage area now better matches the weapon's visuals.
• Spears: The final attack of the combo now deals 150% of the weapon's damage (instead of 100%) Design note: The increased damage of the final move encourages using the whole combo attack.
• Two-handed Heavy Weapons: Heavy weapon charged attack can now be cancelled earlier by dodge or parry. Design note: The charged attack now has better recovery as well (as for combo attacks).
• Two-handed Heavy Weapons: Heavy weapon charged attacks can now be followed by another charged attack or a regular attack Design note: Heavy Weapons were the only weapons that could not chain combo hits after a charged attack. Now it's possible!
• 🍉 Poison: Damage over time inflicted by poison can no longer kill the player (1 hit point remaining) Design note: Since damage over time from poison could not be removed by the player, it was frustrating to be in an "undead" state.

Visual changes

• Relics and Stats Sanctuaries: New look for the Relics and Stats Sanctuaries!

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Fixed bugs & QoL

• 🍉 Clickable buttons: With the mouse, it is now possible to click on all the buttons! Note: If we missed any, please report it!
• 🍉 Parry: Fixed a bug that prevented parrying two attacks at the same time
• 🍉 Poison fog: Added a small buffer before damage over time (DoT) applies
• 🍉 Haven / Random rooms: If the first visited room of a section is a Random room, it cannot be a Haven room
• Map: A legend has been added to the map

Known bugs

• Crash when a controller disconnects
• Character can go OOB when being so fast that the game cannot cope with him

What’s cooking in the Temple

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/006499453bd741ae455d3cfd6a831fc9fbbf8d2c.png Hello, Pretenders! We've got some news about the upcoming update of Curse of the Dead Gods! Have a look down below to see all the new stuff currently cooking in the Temple. ⚠️ Beware, spoilers!

• NEW META-CURRENCY: Blood Emblem

A completed exploration is now rewarded with a Blood Emblem. These are used to unlock access to further exploration and Blessings. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/fbdf3cb7ba331b4661354d784ea744da28442fbd.png

• NEW HARD MODES:

3 new Games Modes make their appearance in the Temple, replacing the original Hard Exploration. These changes will allow new or casual players to discover more content, and will give an increasing and harder challenge for hardcore players. More details on that next week!

• DAILY CHALLENGES:

Each day, play with a fun or challenging set of new rules: Special weapons at the beginning of your run, Curses upon you… These challenges are based on the previous game mode variations, providing exotic new runs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/2bebb85e549c95c27b4541e47aa482da300dc2f8.gif

• SERPENT ROOM VARIATIONS

As in the Jaguar Temple, rooms in the Serpent’s Catacombs will have new random layouts or set ups. Chests and traps will be placed differently or new corridors will emerge, increasing diversity in the Serpent Temple!

• NEW SERPENT CURSES

5 new Curses make their way into the Serpent’s Catacombs. Directly connected to the Serpent environment, those new Curses will make the Snake’s den a living hell. Here is one to give you a taste: Death Throe Echos See how the corpse shakes in its final moments, refusing to believe that it is already dead.

• Destroying an enemy has a chance of triggering an earthquake

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Join our next livestreams

Join our livestream today to have a glimpse of all of these new features! We’ll be live in English in a few minutes on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/PasstechGames

What’s cooking in the Temple

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/006499453bd741ae455d3cfd6a831fc9fbbf8d2c.png Hello Pretenders! It’s been almost 3 weeks since we released the Serpent Champions’ Weapons patch and it was very fun to read all of your theories about how to make them drop. Some of you were even right! Well done, everyone ✊ We stayed a bit quieter than usual to give you a chance to figure it out yourself, but it’s time to fully reveal the boss's weapons drop! Both weapons have a 20% chance to drop if the condition is met. Only one requirement for each Champion, and it is never too late to complete it. There was a little twist on the first Champion, though...

Xucat’, the Witch

Xucat’, the Witch must be burning at the time of killing her. It’s as simple as that. You can use a Fire weapon to do it, or just your torch. There is only one situation where you cannot unlock the condition, and that is if you don’t have a Fire weapon during the fight and you’re suffering the “Torch of Sorrow” Curse. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/e4894a766dcb6997d103c15c48db823372729b3c.gif

Ratyapu, the Abomination

Ratyapu, the Abomination must die with the Weaken status. You can give the Weaken effect by doing a Parry or with a weapon with Weaken abilities (i.e.: the Barbed Javelin, the Crippling Bow...). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/a65716a27981d7bbb557c6cffc145f39d0258309.gif

Twitch livestreams

After taking a little break, we’ll be back on our Twitch channel this week, both in French and in English! Keep an eye on social media or on our Discord server to know our schedule. You can ask us many questions during the livestreams, and try to retrieve exclusive information 😈 ----------------- Join our Discord Join our Reddit Follow us on Twitter here and here

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/2e80b49f931c6a3b9ac7f476e96c948166182c45.png Hello Pretenders! Welcome to the first update of the Serpent's Catacombs 🐍 In today’s patch you’ll be able to loot Champions’ special weapons. The rate is unchanged since the Jaguar Temple (20%), so good luck to all! We can’t wait to read your theories about how to drop them. Eventually, we’ll reveal the unlocking conditions, so stay tuned! This update also adds a lot of bug fixes and balancing, plus a big rework of the fire and poison effects. You’ll probably be a bit surprised by some of the changes that we made, hopefully in a good way! We’ll be waiting for your feedback to see your first impressions!

:: PATCH NOTE ::

Version 0.19.1 - July 15th, 2020

🍉 = Community additions

New features

• New Champion’s weapon - "K'etyaam yaan", Witch's Crook
• New Champion’s weapon - "Disembowler", Dread Claw Design note: Two new weapons are now to be dropped when defeating the Serpent Champions (one for each)! As for the Jaguar Champions' weapons, they only can be dropped if you achieve a special hidden condition during the fight.

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• Pistols Reskins + New Icons: All the pistols now have their own icons and 3D models
• Fire & Poison Synergy: The damage over time from Fire is doubled if a character is also Poisoned. Design note: Elemental synergy! Be careful, this also applies for the player character!
• Fire/Burning: Enemies on fire now take a small amount of damage over time. This amount is always the same for all enemies. Some Champions, like the Cursed Twins, remain immune to burning. The Dark Avatar of the Jaguar does not take damage over time while burning Design note: Taking damage over time while on Fire feels more natural and encourages the player to set enemies on fire. It is also more consistent with the fact that the player character takes damage over time from fire.

Balancing

• Difficulty levels: Players' resistance in Medium explorations is now the same as Short ones. Long ones now also give a (lower) boost of resistance. Hard Explorations remain the same as before Design note: We chose to slightly lower the difficulty of Medium and Long explorations to smooth the progression and let players discover more content. Hard mode remains in place for greater challenges.
• Dark Avatar of the Serpent (Final Serpent Boss): The Serpent Boss fight has been reviewed to create a more unique and challenging fight Design note: We are still monitoring this fight, you can expect further changes according to feedback.
• The Abomination (2nd Serpent Champion): Abomination now triggers a poisonous explosion when going into frenzy mode and is more pro-active during non-frenzy phases Design note: The Abomination fight had a tendency to be a little too predictable. This should help make the fight more dynamic.
• 🍉 Prophetesses: Prophetesses can no longer be healed by other healers Design note: Same as for Blood Priests, healers should not heal each other to avoid long and tedious fights.
• Blessing - Eagle’s Fascination: Completely changed the behavior of this blessing. Its new effect is now “Killing a Weakened enemy spreads Weaken effect to a close enemy" Design note: Previous design was problematic as it was too weak by itself unless paired with the Endless Greed Blessing, then becoming powerful. It was too weak for new players and mandatory/broken for advanced players (thus limiting the choice of Blessings to equip). This new Blessing should bring new possibilities, encouraging tactical and aggressive behavior. Text will be translated in all languages in a next update.
• Blessing - Endless Greed: Merged this blessing with the effect of the previous Eagle's Fascination. Endless Greed now freezes the Greed Kill timer when not in combat and increase all damage dealt by 1% for each Greed Kill count (up to 100%) Design Note: Endless Greed was too powerful when combined with the previous Eagle's Fascination, making this last blessing very weak on its own. Merging the two blessings allows a more balanced effect and leaves more Blessing choices for players.
• 🍉 Two-Handed Spears: Charged Attacks' move damage multiplier back to 50% x2 (from 75% x2) Design note: Spears are naturally powerful when properly used, the previous Charged attack buff made them too strong and less interesting to play with.
• 🍉 Two-Handed Heavy Weapons: Significantly reduced the time during which you cannot dodge/roll after 1st and 2nd combo hits Design note: Lowering recovery from heavy weapons should make them more practical by allowing quicker dodges/parry in the middle of a combo.
• Incandescent Claws: Raw Damage set to 13 (from 15) Design note: Setting enemies on fire with a Primary Weapon is strong. This change is related to new fire's damage over time property.

Fixed bugs

• 🍉 Bestiary: Fixed unlocking conditions for the Serpent Cultists portrait
• 🍉 Hard Explorations: Fixed Improved Attack Speed for Elite Serpent enemies during Hard Explorations
• The Abomination (2nd Serpent Champion): Fixed Abomination Projectile attack. It now can be properly reflected by “Fulmination”, Death’s Rampart
• Crystal skulls drop: Fixed the Crystal Skulls count dropped by the Abomination and the Dark Avatar of the Serpent

Notes & Known bugs

We are still currently working on the Final Boss of the Serpent Catacombs (the Dark Avatar of the Serpent), despite having made some changes already. We’re looking for some feedback about your fight experience with him. We hope to enhance the combat by adding some moves, balancing, and other interactions. If you have some ideas, drop them in the comment below or on our Discord Server, channel #suggestion-box.

• Crash when a controller disconnects
• Character can go OOB when being so fast that the game can’t cope with him
• Poison and fire shouldn’t kill you, but it does. Sorry?

What’s cooking in the Temple

We are slowing down the tempo. The new rhythm of updates will be 1/month! This will let us focus on more significant changes in the game (as well as a new Temple!). Check out the road map below: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/ff5348d20349be2df5c3a98e1641fb62bceaf0b8.jpg

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/f92171938bb53df8f7a7921211b6f75cad12bf54.png Hi, Pretenders! Small post this week to announce that we've launched our own Twitch channel where we'll stream some sessions of Curse of the Dead Gods (and maybe our previous games as well!)! It'll be a great occasion to share some news with the community, show some exclusive looks of new features and content, and answer your questions about the game! Streams will be in French and in English each week (schedule TBD) on Passtech Games' Twitch channel.

🔴 Follow us here! 🔴

Join us today for our first English stream where we'll play with the new Serpent Champions' weapons before next week's update!

• 08:30am (PST)
• 11:30am (EST)
• 16:30pm (GMT)
• 17:30pm (CET)

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/006499453bd741ae455d3cfd6a831fc9fbbf8d2c.png Hello Pretenders! It’s been a blast to read all of your impressions about the newest additions to Curse of the Dead Gods and watch your explorations in videos and streams. The team is super happy to see that you enjoyed the Serpent Temple! We’ve thoroughly noted all of your feedback and bug reports about our latest update, and we’re currently working on improving some of the stuff reported. It wouldn’t be possible without your support on our Steam forums, subreddit and Discord server! By the way, we are going to open a suggestion box on our Discord to get some more specific feedback about the Final Boss of the Serpent Temple. Let us remind you that Curse of the Dead Gods is currently 20% off until July 9th! If you’ve been hesitant about jumping into the Temple, now is the perfect time! New content is coming, here is our roadmap from July to September! You may notice that we are going to slow the rhythm of updates this summer to focus on more big and significant changes in the game. We’ll always keep you posted on Steam, don’t worry! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/40ce4f583be5c90f3b5269364a449f4f9b68f241.png To explain it all, we’re going to add a few more things to the Serpent Temple before jumping on a completely new theme! First, regarding the Jaguar Temple’s Champions, we’ll add two new Cursed Weapons that will be dropped under special unlocking conditions during the Witch and Abomination fights. This update is coming very soon - get a sneak peek at the new weapons in action right now: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/048723ebf92c532be9c7de2a0b0b51887b84fb09.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/eb4491ffd88876f8f9de2110cce82363ef7046ac.gif We’ve also taken the time to completely reskin and give shiny new icons to all the pistols that needed them. Check them out: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/b9a0bf4b7ee8362ffce51076e249d6d39e732ac8.png Then, in the same way as we did with the Jaguar Temple, we’re adding additional room variations to the Serpent Catacombs: new layouts, as well as traps and chests placed differently. The goal is that this will further improve replayability and unpredictability in the Serpent Temple. This update will also include new Curses specific to the Serpent Catacombs, bringing various new modifiers and challenges. Plenty of more trouble in the Serpent Temple! 🐍 Now, you may wonder what we’re planning for the new Currencies, Masters Modes and Weekly Runs. We’ll unveil it all in due time, but just know that some cool new challenges are on the way! ----------------- Join our Discord Join our Reddit Follow us on Twitter here and here

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/c7ffbcb627cad1c08c87f6d36b2d7b47fa65c471.png It is here 🐍 We are so excited and happy to unveil the Serpent's Catacombs. The content of the game has now doubled since the launch in March, and so much more is yet to come. You’ll find below a summary of what this update has in the store for you, as well as a sick reveal trailer for the Serpent Temple. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFl0tKfIx20 Great news, get 20% off Curse of the Dead Gods to celebrate the release of this major update!

What’s new

• 3 Serpent tiers each with their own atmospheres
• New traps and game mechanics with poison
• 6 new dangerous foes
• 2 new challenging Champions
• 1 new epic Boss
• 4 Serpent Game modes: Short, Medium, Long and Hard explorations

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/09241ea542abc010692a84d2e52781a625670bee.gif We’ve also fixed some little issues, have a look at the patch notes down there!

:: PATCH NOTE ::

Version 0.19.0 - June 22nd, 2020

🍉 = Community additions

Balancing and other changes

• Input buffer: Input buffer has been reduced to 0.2 seconds (from 0.3 seconds) Design Note: Reducing the input buffer will avoid too much anticipated inputs to be effective, and avoid undesired moves.
• Parry: All Parry Windows have been increased by 2 frames, making them 12 frames by default (from 10) and 14 frames when handling a Shield (from 12) Design note: We chose to increase the parry window to make it more appealing and more reliable.
• Haven Rooms: Add some additional Haven Rooms during the second part of all Medium Explorations Design Note: Medium explorations should be easier to complete with regular healing sources.
• Bestiary: Unlock conditions for bestiary have been adjusted and are now only linked to defeating the enemies and their elite versions
• Global Stats: Made some revisions on how Offerings and Lifted Curses are counted

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36091660/a1473865f25b941034c98240dd964f95ffcc8103.png Hello Pretenders! We are happy to unveil the Serpent Temple’s (or Serpent’s Catacombs as we call it) release date: June 22nd, 2020! That’s right, next Monday! What to expect from this new Temple:

• New environments with a completely different atmosphere
• New traps to be fooled by
• 6 new enemies
• 2 new Champions
• 1 new Final Boss
• 4 new challenges: Short, Medium, Long and Hard explorations
• Many more new features to come after the first update of the Serpent’s Catacombs!

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