Hell Clock news & patch notes

🪓 Welcome to the Improvised Cangaço Contest!

It is time to raid your closets and kitchen cabinets! Continuing our 1-Year Anniversary month celebrations, we are officially opening our Low-Budget Cosplay Contest.

You do not need expensive materials, metal armor, or a Hollywood wardrobe to survive in Purgatory. We want to see your creativity, improvisation, and most importantly, your sense of humor!

How it works: The community needs to put together a low-budget cosplay of the Sertão. You can use common household items (brooms, cardboard, pots, bedsheets, duct tape, you name it!) to recreate the look of Pajeú or any other character or demon from the game. Creativity and humor matter more than perfection!

🗓️ Duration

• Starts: July 27th

• Ends: August 22nd at 12:00 PM BRT / 11:00 PM ET

📜 Participation Rules

Welcome to the Purgatory Woodcuts Contest!

The ink is about to spill in Purgatory! To kick off our 1-Year Anniversary month, we are launching our official Fanart Contest.

The world of Hell Clock and the Cursed War expansion is deeply rooted in Brazilian culture. Now, we want to see your vision of our universe through the lens of traditional art.

How it works: Community artists must draw characters, demons, or scenes from Hell Clock or Cursed War emulating the classic visual style of Brazilian "Cordel" woodcuts. We're looking for black and white art with rustic, striking lines!

🗓️ Duration

• Starts: July 23rd

• Ends: August 22nd at 12:00 AM BRT / 11:00 AM ET

📜 Participation Rules

One year of purgatory, one year of survival, one year of Hell Clock! ⏳🔥

Our journey through Canudos would be nothing without you. The clock keeps ticking, but today we pause to celebrate who really matters: our community. We've prepared a whole month of events, challenges, and prizes to commemorate this historic milestone.

From artists to strategists, from cosplayers to meme masters: there's room for everyone in our Anniversary Celebration!

What’s coming?

We are hosting four major community events over the next 30 days. We'll share dedicated posts with specific rules and prize details when each event begins, but here is a sneak peek of what you can expect:

• Fanart Contest ("Purgatory Woodcuts"): Show us your art inspired by the classic Brazilian "Xilogravura" style.

• Low-Budget Cosplay ("Improvised Cangaço"): Grab your household items and show us your best improvisations.

• Build Showcase: Share your most efficient or absolutely chaotic builds.

• Purgatory Memes: Make us laugh with your best Hell Clock memes.

🎁 Prizes: Participants will have the chance to win Digital Artbooks, Digital Soundtracks, and Game/DLC Keys (PC, Xbox, or PS)!

🗓️ 30-Day Anniversary Roadmap:

• July 22: Anniversary Kickoff!

• July 23: Start of the Fanart Contest

• July 27: Start of the Cosplay Contest

• August 05: Start of the Build Showcase

• August 12: Start of the Meme Contest

• August 22: 🛑 End of all Submissions

• August 28: Announcement of the Winners!

Thank you so much for believing in us and playing Hell Clock. Keep an eye on our Steam news and join our Discord Server so you don't miss any of the upcoming event rules. Let's make history! ⚔️📜

What a journey, Clockmarkers! The Race to Hell has officially come to an end, and we're absolutely blown away by the skill, speed, and dedication shown by the community.

Before we get to the final standings, we want to take a moment to highlight the absolute cinematic finish for the 1st place. Potato-King-Kai took the crown, beating Havel by a jaw-dropping difference of just 1 minute! We were watching the dispute closely on both of your streams, and it was genuinely thrilling to witness your dedication and push for the absolute limit. You both put on an incredible show!

A Special In-Game Tribute

In celebration of our winner's dedication, incredible skills, some... let's just call "unorthodox" actions that led him to the ultimate prize in this race, we are excited to announce that we are developing a brand new in-game Relic: The King's Potato! The Relic's lore will read: "Racing Hell for my Wife - PotatoKingKai", and it will be implemented in our game very soon!

🏆 The Top 10 Winners

Here are the legends who braved the depths and secured their spots in the Top 10:

Hey Players,  what a week!

The release of Cursed War (finally!), our console launch, and the Race Challenge. 

2.0 is the biggest update Hell Clock has received to date. Seeing all of you dive into Cursed War new story arc, challenges and Endgame systems has been amazing. 

To every member of Hell Clock’s community that helped us with playtesting, feedback and bug hunting  (even after Palworld's shadow drop right in our faces) we are grateful for all your support! 

As always, launch week also means bugs. Today’s patch focuses primarily on fixing unintended Relic and skill behavior, Campaign and Endgame progression blockers, Localization issues and many other problems you reported over the last few days.

Rumble Support for Gamepads

We've added gamepad rumble feedback to every skill in the game, making combat feel much more responsive when playing on gamepad.

Localization

We fixed some missing or placeholder translations introduced in 2.0, most of them affecting Unique Blessings and Unique Relics.

About the PS5 Version

Some players are experiencing a critical issue causing crashes and save data loss. This issue has only been observed on the PS5 version of the game. Our team is fully focused on resolving them as quickly as possible.

We are also aware that the Ascension mode is currently broken on PS5. This problem has now been fixed, and Ascension will be fixed in the next update.

What we are currently working on?

• We're continuing to improve the game's overall performance.

• Investigating an issue where players can receive more Constellation Points than intended from Cursed Shrines.

• We're also looking into a issue preventing some players from claiming their Twitch Drops,

What about the Race?

First of all, thank you to everyone who took part in the Race. Who needs the World Cup when we've got multiple streams open, watching all of you battle for first place?

We'll announce the winners soon! Until then, keep pushing those builds and we'll see you in Hell.

Full 2.0.1 Patch Notes 

Improvements

• Added controller rumble support for every Skill.

• Reduced flashing visual effects for Carcará Dive and Bombardment.

• Uber Unique Relics now use the same VFX presentation as Unique Blessings.

Relics

• Fixed Black Cilice causing zero damage while the player is at full Life.

• Fixed Charred Figurine not properly scaling Holy Fire's damage with Skill Projectile Amount. 

• Fixed Blighted Carcass Pierce/Explosion being nullified by the From Nothingness node from the Yebá Beló constellation.

• Fixed Death Bell Devotion affinity to Discipline

• Fixed Blood Boil Devotion affinity to Fury

• Fixed Infection not increasing Bleed duration.

Gameplay

• Temporarily removed Vultures from Survival Floors while we investigate an issue where they sometimes freeze in the flying state, blocking run progression.

• Fixed Tamarindo's Arena Portal spawning immediately after the boss escaped, allowing players to unintentionally skip the Unique Relic reward.

• Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck during an in-game campaign cutscene by pausing the game while Pajeú was moving.

• Fixed non-hitscan Projectile Attacks using fixed breakpoints for Projectile Amount instead of percentage-based additional projectile chance.

• Enraged Deadman's homing projectiles now become increasingly accurate over time.

• Removed projectile collision against curtains and beds in the Laboratory and Research Camp.

• Fixed Act IV being incorrectly displayed on the Cursed Shrine Checklist popup on Ascension.

• Renamed Acts to Steps in the Ascension Cursed Shrine Checklist.

Localization

• Fixed placeholder localization appearing for Unique Blessings in some languages:

  • Sanctuary (Slow Time)

  • Blessed Speed (Prayer of Health)

  • Righteous Blade (Prayer of Health)

  • Swift Vengeance (Prayer of Vengeance)

  • Relentless Hunters (Phantom Marksmen)

  • Ashes of Mourning (Bombardment)

  • Blighted Carcass (Holy Fire)

• Fixed The Crossing displaying the incorrect Skill name for Slow Time in Brazilian Portuguese.

• Fixed Stolen Weapons displaying its description in the Lore field.

• Fixed incorrect Max Floor values on the Save Selection screen.

As always, thank you for your continued support and patience.

~ The Hell Clock Team 

Hey Players,

Let's start the day with another batch of fixes and improvements, shall we?

Fixes

• Fixed clicking skills by mistake when dragging the skills screen

• Fixed Carcará Dive range being bypassed by mouse distance

• Fixed a few localization issues

• Fixed Nightmare Portal's silent music

• Fixed VO being affected by Effects slider control volume

• Fixed train stages soft-locking the with Carcara Dive skipping some areas

• Fixed train stages minimap not working correctly mid-run

• Fixed red portals showing up in Hilltop biome boss arena (Endless Nightmare / Ascension)

• Fixed Phantom Lance Carcara Dive animation T-Posing

Improvements

• Improved search function on gamepad

• Improved reliquary navigation on gamepad

• Removed unused hotkeys on some screens on gamepad

• Improved Prayer of Health audio performance

• Improved Righteous Blade Unique Relic sound effects

• Improved Cursed War Hub sound ambience

• Pajeu now moves to the center of the arena during the Canudos Gate in-game sequence

• Improved ambience attenuation detection

• Reduced flash effects for Matadeira and Energized Figurine

Abraços,

~The Hell Clock Team

Hey Players,

We are watching you all play our new Cursed War and there are some pesky bugs that we just fixed in Endless Nightmares and our new Unique Blessings.

Fixes

• Fixed incorrect Unique Blessing showing up for Matadeira (even tho it was meant to be for Judgement)

• Fixed Death Worship and Tenkiei's Skyhammer interaction not working

• Fixed Urgency of Expedito causing Summons to Bug and go to a limbo of existence (while also keeping their form and power each time the player tries to equip the skill)

• Fixed missing material from a bridge (aka Pink Bridge) in the Wetlands Biome (Endless Nightmares / Ascension)

• Fixed Red Portals not showing the first time you enter Endless Nightmare tiers or Ascension Steps

Abraços,

~The Hell Clock Team

Hello, Clockmakers!

First of all, thank you so much for the incredible support on today's launch of Cursed War. We've been closely monitoring your feedback, and we noticed a lot of players reaching out regarding regional currency conversion issues for the DLC on Steam.

You were absolutely right—the regional conversions were incorrectly set at launch.

What Went Wrong & How It's Fixed

Our original intention has always been for the expansion to cost roughly half the price of the base game in every country, following the exact same fair regional conversion rates we used for the base game launch (matching the $9.99 USD DLC price tag relative to the $19.99 USD base game).

We have just updated the system, and the correct regional pricing should now be live globally.

How to Get a Refund If You Overpaid

If you bought the DLC earlier today before this correction went through, please don't worry! Steam has advised us on the proper protocol to ensure you aren't overcharged:

The gates of Hell have opened, and the race has officially begun! Hunters are already diving into the brutal depths of Cursed War to conquer Tier 9 of Endless Nightmares and claim the ultimate grand prize: the custom Starforge PC.

Check all the rules and how to participate here

Why You Must Stream Your Run

As we kick off, we want to address a common question from the community: "Why is livestreaming required to participate?"

We completely understand that not everyone usually streams their gameplay, but we want to be 100% transparent about why this rule is vital for the integrity of the contest.

To ensure a completely fair competition, our development team must be able to thoroughly review the full VOD of the winning run. This allows us to verify that no cheats, hacks, external tools, or exploits were used to unfairly accelerate progress. We want to guarantee that the grand prize goes to a player who achieved victory solely through skill, strategy, and pure effort.

Crucial Rules for Your Livestream

To avoid disqualification, please pay close attention to the following guidelines:

• Stream from the very beginning: Your livestream must capture your entire journey from the exact moment you create your fresh save file all the way until you successfully clear Tier 9. Missing chunks of gameplay will result in disqualification.

• No webcam or mic required: You do NOT need to use a camera or talk on a microphone. Only your clean, uninterrupted in-game audio and video are required.

• Enable VOD Saving: Crucial Step! Please double-check your streaming platform settings (Twitch, YouTube, etc.) to ensure that your channel automatically saves past broadcasts (VODs). Once you complete your run, you will need to submit these links in our Discord for our dev team to evaluate and validate your entry.

Platform & International Eligibility Restrictions

• PC & Steam Deck Only: Due to technical verification capabilities, this race is strictly limited to PC (including Steam Deck) players.

• Shipping & Sanctions Notice: Because our prize partners are based in the United States, we must comply with international shipping regulations and trade policies. Consequently, some countries under international sanctions or severe shipping restrictions will unfortunately not be eligible to receive the physical grand prize.

Thank You, Hunters!

We want to send a massive thank you to our entire community for the incredible support leading up to the launch of Cursed War. This expansion is a labor of love, and we hope you all thoroughly enjoy the new content, biomes, and the brutal journey of Pajeú.

Fire up your streams, double-check your VOD settings, and show us what you've got. May the best Hunter win!

👉 Join our Discord to submit your runs and read the full breakdown:

discord.gg/hellclockgame

Clockmakers,

The wait is finally over. Cursed War, the massive new expansion for Hell Clock, is officially live! Dive into our biggest update yet, featuring a dark fantasy prequel campaign, a complete endgame overhaul, and endless ways to break your builds.

Key Features of Cursed War:

• The Paraguayan War Prequel Campaign: Explore a haunting, grim-dark fantasy retelling of South American history and uncover the tragic origins of Pajeú.

• 10+ Challenging New Biomes: Battle your way through treacherous swamps, blood-soaked rivers, and cursed battlefields.

• 80+ New Unique Items & Relics: Discover powerful gear designed to unlock game-breaking synergies and screen-clearing combos.

• The "Endless Nightmares" Endgame Mode: Push your characters to the absolute limit with difficulty progression system built for the ultimate grind.

Full Patch Notes & Details

We’ve packed this launch with tons of balance changes, quality-of-life updates, and surprises. Check out the complete breakdown of everything new in our latest Steam community update:

👉 Read the Full Patch Notes on Steam Here

The "Race to Hell" Contest Starts TODAY!

Think you have what it takes to build the ultimate character? The Race to Hell contest kicks off right now along with the launch! Start your runs today, stream your progress, and submit your VOD entry for a chance to win a brand-new, powerful gaming PC from Starforge featuring a stunning custom Hell Clock art case!

Check out all the specific rules, submission guidelines, and contest details here: 

👉 Race to Hell Contest Details

Twitch Drops are LIVE!

Earn exclusive in-game rewards just by watching your favorite creators play! Tune into any participating Hell Clock stream on Twitch starting today and watch for a total of 2 hours to unlock two exclusive cosmetics:

• 1 Hour: Exclusive Cursed War Clock Skin

• 2 Hours: Minister of War Target Dummy Skin

Thank you so much for your incredible support throughout development. Grab your gear, step into the clock, and let the race to Hell begin!

Hello, Clockmakers!

To celebrate the official launch of the Cursed War expansion, we are running an exclusive Twitch Drops campaign! 

Earn exclusive in-game rewards just by watching your favorite creators play! Tune into any participating Hell Clock stream on Twitch starting today and watch for a total of 2 hours to unlock two exclusive cosmetics:

• 1 Hour: Exclusive Cursed War Clock Skin

• 2 Hours: Minister of War Target Dummy Skin

📅 Event Duration

• Start: July 9, 2026 6:00pm (UTC)

• End: July 22, 2026 9:00pm (UTC)

After watching the required hours on Twitch and claim the drops in your Twitch Inventory, follow this quick guide to get them into your game instantly!

Step-by-Step In-Game Setup

Unlocking your rewards is incredibly simple and can be done entirely through the game menu. Just follow these steps:

Introducing the Hell Clock: Cursed War Race To Hell Contest - your chance to win a custom Hell Clock gaming PC from Starforge Systems! 

To celebrate the upcoming launch of our first major expansion, we’ve partnered with our publisher, Mad Mushroom, and Starforge Systems on a contest where you can win a hellish prize.

Here’s how it works.  Starting on Cursed War launch day (now set for July 9th), stream your campaign and Endless Nightmares runs, and the first eligible player to clear Tier 9 of Endless Nightmares in the first week of launch wins the grand prize.

That grand prize is a Horizon Core pre-built gaming PC from Starforge Systems, a custom Hell Clock art case, and Steam keys for everything in the Mad Mushroom portfolio.

Nine runner-up submissions will also win three Steam keys each for both the Hell Clock base game and Cursed War DLC to share with their friends or community. A few important things to note: 

• This contest is open only for the PC / Steam version of the game, not consoles. 

• You can stream on Twitch, YouTube, or Kick, and your VODs must be enabled and publicly available. 

• All submissions must be made in the Hell Clock Discord server. 

• This contest is for players 16 years old and up, and there are a few regions that aren’t eligible (check the rules below). 

• If you’ve been part of our Cursed War QA test or Closed Beta test community, you have a significant advantage and are unfortunately not eligible. 

• If you’re a content creator that has received a key for Cursed War early, you’re still eligible but you can’t start playing patch 2.0 or Curse War until launch day. So sit on that Steam key until the 9th!

Read on for the full contest rules and details as well as Terms & Conditions.  

Good luck, Clockmakers!

Contest Details

• Goal: Be the first player to complete Tier 9 of Hell Clock’s Endless Nightmares endgame mode on Veteran difficulty, while streaming live on a specified platform (Twitch, YouTube, or Kick).

• Prize: Starforge Systems gaming PC and custom Hell Clock art case

• Dates: Thursday July 9, 2026 - Saturday July 18, 2026

• Start time: July 09, 2:00pm Eastern Time

• End time: July 18, 12:00am Eastern Time

• Platforms: PC (Steam) only

• Discord Server: http://discord.gg/hellclockgame

• Terms & Conditions: Hell Clock: Cursed War Race to Hell Contest_Terms & Conditions

Contest Overview

Race To Hell is a contest to see which player can be the first to complete Tier 9 of Hell Clock’s endgame mode, Endless Nightmares, on Veteran difficulty, while livestreaming on a specified platform.

Eligible players will have one week to achieve this, and the winner will receive a gaming PC courtesy of Starforge Systems as well as a custom Hell Clock art case and the Mad Mushroom portfolio of games, provided via Steam keys. 

The top nine submissions (winner plus the next nine players who are determined to have achieved the goal but do not have the fastest time) will also receive three copies of the Supporter Edition of the game (base game + DLC) to use as community giveaways, provided via Steam keys.

How to Compete

In order to take part in the race, participants must install the Hell Clock base game (the Cursed War expansion is not required, but is recommended) and stream their Campaign and Endless Nightmares gameplay live across all 9 Tiers on Veteran difficulty. 

The use of “Relaxed Mode” and “Vengeance Mode” is not allowed at any point of the progression. Any type of save editing, cheating or purposeful exploitation of glitches will also lead to disqualification.

If you had early access to the Cursed War and patch 2.0 changes and/or insider information - either as a content creator, press member, Beta tester, QA tester, Rogue Snail or Mad Mushroom employee, you are automatically disqualified.

VODs must be enabled and submitted to Rogue Snail via the game’s official Discord server. There is no need to officially sign up, just stream your entire Campaign and Endless Nightmare runs and submit your VOD. 

How to Enter

• Install the Hell Clock base game on Steam (Cursed War expansion is optional) with the 2.0 update

• As soon as the 2.0 update is publicly available and the game is installed, start streaming on Twitch, Youtube, or Kick

• Create a new Save File on Veteran difficulty, with Journey of Nightmares toggled on

• Softcore is recommended but not mandatory

• The use of “Relaxed Mode” and “Vengeance Mode” is not allowed during this contest

• Play the game until you are able to complete a Tier 9 Endless Nightmare

• Submit the VODs of your entire playthrough, from save file creation to finish, to Rogue Snail via the game’s official Discord server

Prize

The winner of the race will receive a Horizon Core pre-build gaming PC from Starforge Systems, as well as a custom Hell Clock art case and a Steam key for each title in the Mad Mushroom portfolio. 

The top ten submissions will also each receive three Steam keys for the Hell Clock Supporter’s Edition (base game + DLC) to use as giveaways for their community.

Eligibility: 

• Participants must be 16 years of age or older. 

• Participants in the following countries and regions are not eligible to win the grand prize: 

  • Russia

  • Crimea, Donetsk, and Luthansk regions of Ukraine

  • Belarus

  • Cuba

  • Iran

  • Syria

  • Venezuela

• Participants must have the Hell Clock base game in their Steam library, with the 2.0 update applied. 

  • Purchase is not necessary, streamers who have received a Steam key from the   studio or publisher are eligible. 

• Participants are only eligible when playing on PC via Steam, console edition is not eligible. 

• The game must be played on the default branch of Steam, with the latest available updates.

• Streamers who have received early access to the Cursed War expansion (e.g. via closed playtest or provided keys by the publisher early), and have played this content before launch day (July 9) are not eligible to win the grand prize. . 

  • Streamers who receive a key early must wait to play the game until launch day in order to be eligible for the grand prize. 

  • Streamers who receive and play the expansion early can compete and will be eligible only for runner-up prizes. 

• Participants must stream their runs on Twitch, YouTube or Kick, and have VODs enabled. 

  • Participants need not be an established or partnered streamer, they just must stream their entire run live on one of these platforms and submit their VOD. 

• VOD recordings must be submitted directly via the Hell Clock Discord server, “race-to-hell-submissions” channel: http://discord.gg/hellclockgame

• Participants may not cheat in any way. This includes but is not limited to: 

  • Save file editing or sharing

  • Using external tools to change the gameplay and/or progression

  • Having insider information about the Cursed War and Patch 2.0 ahead of time

  • Having more than one player using the same save file

  • Purposefully exploiting in-game glitches to gain an advantage

• Rogue Snail reserves the right to disqualify any submission pending manual review and discovery of any cheats, exploits or unfair advantages used. 

Hey backlanders,

Today we want to share the patch notes for our upcoming 2.0 update, which will come for free to all users when the Cursed War expansion launches - a little earlier! - on July 9th!

You read it right - we are coming out earlier than previously announced! External forces once again conspired against our set release date, but this time we decided to no longer postpone, and move our date forward instead.

There are many, many new things and changes coming with the big patch next week. Due to the extra time we had because of the previous release date postponement, we’ve been able to run TWO rounds of Closed Beta testing and really refine this patch!

The biggest new additions are: the Journeys system, the Endless Nightmares endgame with new Biomes, the new Ascension, the Unique Blessings, and all the new items.

You can check them all out in this quick Video Walkthrough:

TL:DR

The TL:DR if you don’t feel like reading the massive patch notes below are: campaign progression is now faster, endgame is deeper, Ignite, Bleed and Shock are stronger, and build variety across all activities has been massively increased.

For those who want the details… let's get into it!

Full Patch Notes

Gameplay

• Added the “Journeys” system

  • New Save files can activate as many Journeys as they want, adding new gameplay systems and rewards to the playthrough. This is intended to be our interpretation of “Seasons” or “Leagues”, but without any FOMO or time pressure to complete them.

• First Journey is now available: “Journey of Nightmares”

  • Nightmare Portals might appear anywhere, taking you to a twisted version of the next dungeon Floor

  • Nightmare Portals contain deadly Modifiers and might be Minor or Major, with the latter having additional Modifiers and better Currency drops

  • Unravel the Nightmares within to receive your choice of dozens of new Nightmare Relics

  • Nightmare Floors have random monsters and bosses, including brand new ones

  • Complete Journey Challenges to unlock an upgradable unique cosmetic reward on your hub (Quixeramobim or War Camp)

• Added a new Endgame system: Endless Nightmares

  • Unlocked in Campaign save files after the Campaign is completed (Act IV if you own the Expansion, Act III if you don’t)

  • Endless Nightmares are ever-changing Dungeons that you create by making your choice of Nightmare Shards

  • Choose the Zones, and accumulate Penances and Rewards as you progress

  • Progress through 16 Tiers with increasing dangers and rewards

  • 12 New Zones added to Endless Nightmares and Ascension:

    • Necropolis

    • Plague Fields

    • Research Camp

    • Hilltop

    • Red River

    • Bog

    • Warzone

    • Wetlands

    • Overgrowth

    • Infected Basement

    • Crash

    • Landfill

• Added the “All Skills Available” option for new Campaign save files

  • Recommended only for experienced players

  • Allows all Skills to be acquired as soon as you have access to the Skill Book, with no Act restrictions

  • Unique drop tables for all Acts have been reworked for this mode

  • This is default OFF for players who have not completed the Campaign on any Save file, and default ON for all others. But you’re free to toggle it on or off freely when creating a new Save file

• Added the “Unique Blessings” system

  • Add fun and powerful effects, aimed at making each individual Run less predictable

  • You can rarely find a Unique Blessing for a Skill when levelling up

  • Unique Blessings are extremely powerful and often simulate the effects of existing Unique Relics

• Added 83 new Uniques to the game, including new Endgame Uniques, as well as the new Nightmare Uniques and Uber Uniques (see full list and descriptions below)

• Added a New Constellation to the game: Charía, the Celestial Jaguar

  • Melee Damage, Summon Life and Summon Damage nodes

  • “Celestial Jaguar”: Kills with Jaguar Spear and hits on Elite enemies with Carcará Dive summon Celestial Jaguars (max 3). The Hounds deal a portion of Jaguar Spear's damage as Physical Melee Summon damage.

  • “The Eclipse”: Carcará Dive teleports all Summons to its location when it lands.

• Completely rebalanced the progression curve of the Campaign to accommodate for Endless Nightmares and Act IV. You will find progression through the campaign to be smoother and faster overall compared to patch 1.2, especially around Act III.

• Improved Dungeon Generation

  • Enemy spawns are now completely procedural (they were hand-placed before, and always static)

  • Increased the variety of dungeon layouts you can encounter in the Campaign

• Endurance Rework: 

  • Whenever you would take damage on your Life, a portion of that damage equal to your Endurance value is taken over 4 seconds instead

  • The new Endurance cap is 75%

• Ignite Rework

  • Ignite now deals damage faster than before, so that builds which do not rely on explosions are more viable. Base ignite damage increased from 85% to 125%, but base duration reduced from 6 to 4 seconds

  • “Oiled” reworked: Fire damage instantly Ignites Oiled Enemies, dealing Ignite damage 3 times faster

  • “Oiled” is no longer consumed when applying Ignited

• Bleed Ailment Thresholds on monsters have been significantly reduced. Monster Life is now half as effective as before when trying to apply Bleed

• Base Bleed damage increased from 40% to 80% of Base Damage

• Shock now has the added effect: Shocked enemies are 40% more vulnerable to Critical Damage 

• Cursed Shrines and Constellation Points changes

  • Added 4 new obtainable Constellation points from cleansing Cursed Shrines (the new total is 46 if you’re not in Ascension)

    • 6 Starting points

    • 4 points for Campaign Completion

    • 8 points in Normal (4 in Act III and 4 in Act IV)

    • 16 points in Abyss (4 per Act)

    • 12 points in Oblivion (3 per Act)

  • You can now clear Cursed Shrines either on Campaign (via Abyss/Oblivion World Tiers) or Endless Nightmares, in any combination. For example, if you missed a Shrine at the end of Act 3, you can get that missing point from Endless Nightmares T1-T4, with no need to return to Act 3 again if you don’t want to

  • If you don’t own the Cursed War expansion, you will need to play Endless Nightmares to find the last missing Shrines that you’d otherwise find during Act 4 in Normal, Abyss and Oblivion

• Added new Currency rewards to Recycle

  • Gain Tool of Tinkering when recycling Common Relics

  • Gain Fragment of Enhancement when recycling Magic Relics

  • Gain Fragment of Greater Enhancement when recycling Rare Relics

  • Gain Fragment of Locksmithing when recycling Unique Relics

  • Gain a Fragment of the correspondent Tool of Imbuement when recycling Imbued Relics

  • Gain a Fragment of Corruption when recycling Corrupted Relics

• Created a new stat "Summon Basic Skill Damage", which affects the damage of Summons which are not using proxy player skills such as Split Shot or Repeater

• Several "Summon Damage" nodes on the Bell and Constellations have been reworked to hybrid "Summon Damage / Summon Basic Skill Damage" nodes 

Quality of Life

• Added “Point-per-Point Respec” to the Bell and Constellations

• Added a new “tab” system to the in-game HUD so you can easily keep track of multiple events and quests simultaneously (such as a Cursed Shrine inside of a Nightmare Portal inside of an Endless Nightmare dungeon, for example)

• “Bonus Currency Drop Chance” renamed to “Bonus Tools Drop Chance” and now exclusively affects the chance of finding Clockmaker’s Tools

• Added HUD feedback when you gain additional Time for the Hell Clock

• Skill Book now show “available to buy” Skills in grayscale

World Tiers

• Removed the temporary “Void” World Tier from Campaign (it is now exclusive to Endless Nightmares Tiers 13-16)

• Void no longer reduces the Gold and Experience gain compared to Oblivion

Ascension

• Added the new “Blessing of Beginnings” at the start of each new Ascension

  • Blessings of Beginnings contain a choice between 3 Blessed Gear (with at least one Tier 1 Weapon always being included) and 3 Unique Relics

  • The offerings will remain the same unless you have cleared at least the 14th Floor of the First Step in the previous Ascension - so re-rolling until you get your preferred loadout is not a viable strategy

• Ascension no longer uses the regular Campaign Acts, which were replaced by the new Steps of Ascension, using 12 new Endgame Biomes

  • Once you Ascend, the Biomes are locked in place for that Ascension - so you can expect fixed zones and Bosses on each one of those zones, and plan your Resistances accordingly

• The balance, difficulty and progression of Ascension has been redone from the ground up to be faster and with less grind. In general, expect:

  • Higher drop rates, better Relics and Tools overall

  • Less aggressive enemy and Boss scaling

  • Starting Runs count reduced from 7 to 5

  • Runs counts awarded for each Step completion reduced from 7 to 3

  • In general, each Ascension will take less runs than before, and the difficulty is balanced accordingly

• The Penance Tree is now fully available, and this game mode is no longer considered to be in “Beta”. Climb up to Hell 100 and show your true potential!

Skills

• Basic Attack now cannot be cancelled by another attack before 0.7 seconds of the animation

• Double Knives Mana Cost scaling reduced from 130%-420% to 115%-320%

• Feitor's Lash Mana Cost scaling reduced from 130%-420% to 115%-320%

• Matadeira's Mana Cost scaling reduced from 130%-420% to 115%-320% 

• Repeater's Mana Cost scaling reduced from 130%-400% to 110%-285%

• Split Shot's Mana Cost scaling reduced from 130%-400% to 110%-285%

• Shadow Dash base damage increased from 80% to 120%

Blessings

• Added 3 Unique Blessings for each one of our 27 Skills, totalling 81 new Blessings

• Precision IV "Projectile Amount" Blessing no longer has a damage penalty, reduced to +50% Projectile Amount

Relics

• You can no longer drop or craft Rare affixes to Skills you don’t have access to yet (i.e. you will no longer find a Rare affix for Passage before you’ve reached Act 3 of the Campaign)

• Added a new Relic category, “Uber” Relics. These are approximately 10 times rarer than most Relics and can drop in Endgame and Ascension

• To avoid diluting the drop tables too much with all the new Uniques added to the game, a few Relics will now have a requirement of Devotion Points to be eligible to drop. Most new Endgame Uniques will require at least 4 Devotion to drop, while the rarest ones may require up to 10. Some rarer generic Uniques (such as Propaganda) require 3 points on each Devotion to be eligible to drop.

For example, in order to drop one of the two Ubers which have Discipline Affinity, you need to have at least 10 Discipline Devotion on your Constellations

• Reduced the Move Speed values that could be crafted with Discipline Imbuement to be more in line with other Move Speed bonuses in the game

• The Rare "Summon Damage" affix has been reworked to "Summon Basic Skill Damage"

• The Rare "Melee Damage vs Stunned enemies" affix had its scaling increased from 1.15-1.5 to 1.7-2.5

• The Rare “"Damage vs Blighted/Withered" affix had its scaling reduced from 0.15-0.5 to 0.15-0.35

• Flat Life affix scaling increased from 90-228 to 90-300

• Life and Life Regen Corrupted affix increased from 200/1% to 300/1.5%

• "Max Conviction" Relic affix scaling changed from 4%-15% to 5%-11% (stronger in early game, nerfed in endgame)

• "Max Conviction" Imbuement affix scaling change from 12%-24% to 5%-11%

• \ Trickster's: Spells deal more damage against Stunned enemies and against Shocked enemies

• \ Thundering: Tupã's Wrath damage is increased by a percentage of Current Mana

• \ Hunting: Jaguar Spear deals more damage but costs 50% more Mana

• \ Redeemer: Lead Sermon deals more damage but costs 50% more Mana

• \ Armory: Lead Sermon gains more maximum ammo

• \ Ashen: Holy Fire deals extra damage but has lowered Critical Chance

• \ Trapper's: Enemies trapped by Cilada take extra damage

• \ Searing: Enemies take an extra percentage of your base damage as Fire damage when taking Ignite damage

• \ Bloodletting: Deal extra damage against Bleeding enemies. Double the bonus if they have less than 5 Bleed stacks

• \ Soldering: Applying Ignite to enemies makes them take extra damage for 1 second. Double the bonus if they are Oiled

New Uniques

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Careful Hunter (Small): Gain Evasion for each Agility Orb.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Justice of Expedito (Grand): +Max Agility Orbs.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Urgency of Expedito (Grand): Gain Damage if there are no enemies Near you.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Blood Stone (Large): Throw a Spectral Knives projectile for each Agility Orb active.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Moldy Skull (Exalted): Converts a percentage of Marksman Skills' damage to Plague.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Light of Tupã (Grand): Increased Power Orb damage, size and orbiting radius.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Mother’s Blessing (Grand): If your current Mana is above a threshold, gain Spell Damage.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Sound of Tupã (Grand): +Max Power Orbs.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Bloodied Tools (Grand): Casting Passage creates one Holy Rosary for each Power Orb you have active.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Calcite Necklace (Large): All of your Physical damage and Physical damage modifiers are converted to Lightning.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Courage of Ogum (Grand): While "Child of Ogum" is active, increase all Healing effectiveness by {0}, but your Mana Regen is zero.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Primal Dagger (Grand): Gain a Physical damage bonus.based on your Missing Mana.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Strength of Ogum (Grand): +Max Vigor Stacks.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Son of the Draught (Exalted): Closed Body stops granting Conviction, but Retaliation Aura Damage and radius are increased. Closed Body gains the "Melee" tag.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Crimson Necklace (Large): All of your Physical damage and Physical damage modifiers are converted to Fire.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Blessed Bullets (Exalted): Split Shot and Repeater lose the Marksman tag and gain the Spell tag.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Belt of the Cowboy (Exalted): When you take damage, gain a portion of your Max Conviction equal to a portion of your Evasion%.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Bloodied Chains (Large): Feitor's Lash deals more damage against Bleeding enemies.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Dry Leaf (Large): Deal more Lightning damage against Ignited enemies.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Book of Judgement (Exalted): Killing an enemy affected by Judgement gives more damage for a few seconds. Your Critical Hits do not deal extra damage.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Skull of the Forgotten (Large): Gain Endurance and Move Speed for a few seconds after Shadow Dash.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Summoning of Death (Grand): {0} chance to reduce the target's Physical Resistance by {1} for 1.5 seconds on dealing damage with Repeater.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Energized Figurine (Grand): Veil of Quills is converted to a single Lightning projectile that deals a percentage of the original damage, multiplied by the total number of projectiles.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: In Flames (Grand): When you Ignite an enemy, gain a stack of In Flames (max 5) for a few} seconds. Your max Life is increased for each stack.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Propaganda (Large): Contains 2 Corrupted Affixes.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Red Candle (Large): Double Knives cause a Physical explosion on Bleeding enemies, dealing damage multiplied by the current Bleed stacks on the enemy, and scaling with Bleed damage bonuses. This effect has a 1-second cooldown.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Grim Rosary (Large): Spectral Knives throw interval and regen time reduced.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Unwieldy Weapon (Grand): Repeater damage is increased. Repeater shots now fire at a random angle from their target.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Breath of Death (Large): Brute Retaliates when it takes damage, dealing a proportion of your current Mana as Lightning damage.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Green Leaf (Large): Hitting Withered enemies with Physical damage spawns a Veil of Quills projectile.

• Added new Unique to Endgame: Bottle of Oil (Large): Physical damage causes enemies to be Oiled (Fire damage instantly Ignites Oiled Enemies, dealing Ignite damage 3 times faster).

• Added new Uber Unique: Death Bell (Exalted): REDACTED

• Added new Uber Unique: Broken Mirror (Exalted):  REDACTED

• Added new Uber Unique: Blood Boil (Exalted):  REDACTED

• Added new Uber Unique: Wall of Thorns (Exalted):  REDACTED

• Added new Uber Unique: Wall of Fire (Exalted):  REDACTED

• Added new Uber Unique: Kaleidoscope (Exalted):  REDACTED

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Blood Dagger (Large): Bleed damage is massively increased, but Bleed Duration is massively reduced

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Olho de Cabra (Small): Full-Life enemies have a chance to be instantly Stunned when taking Physical damage.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Soldier’s Holster (Large): Using Marksman skills does not slow you down.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Infested Cross (Grand): Old Bell deals more damage for each Bleed stack on the target.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Lone Quill (Large): Repeater shots have a chance to also shoot a Veil of Quills projectile.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Infested Skull (Exalted): Hits with Shadow Dash on Blighted enemies consume the Blight to explode, dealing Plague damage. Withered enemies cause a much bigger explosion.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: The Crossing (Large): Enemies inside Slow Time receive a stack of Bleed every few moments.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Plague Bullets (Large): Split Shot is converted to Plague and deals more damage. Shots ricochet, but cannot Pierce.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Anhangá’s Horn (Large): Blighted enemies have a chance to Miss with their attacks.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Infection (Small): Bleed lasts longer if applied on Blighted enemies.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Yaci’s Pipe (Large): All Skill areas are increased.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Artillery’s Manual (Exalted): Enemies hit by Bombardment are Exposed (take +30%\ damage from all sources).

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Wild Dog Fang (Small): Holy Rosary hits on Full-Life enemies remove a portion of their Life.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Tiriri’s Cachaça (Large): Hits with Split Shot give a stack of Cachaça for a few seconds. Each stack of Cachaça increases Ignite damage.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Feathered Bone (Large): Veil of Quills no longer home in on enemies. Gain Ailment damage for each enemy hit by Veil of Quills.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Brass Knuckles (Exalted): When your Life is full, gain +1 stack of Melee Damage every few seconds. Lose all stacks if your Life is not full.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Crimson Flower (Large): Gain a stack of Fire damage each second. Lose all stacks when you deal Critical damage.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Spyglass (Grand): Bombardment deals extra damage against Bleeding enemies, Ignited enemies, Shocked enemies and Blighted enemies.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Worker’s Gloves (Exalted): Brute gives a stack of Melee Damage to you when he hits enemies.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Infested Weapon (Grand): Phantom Marksmen now shoot Repeater instead, dealing a portion of the original damage.

• Added new Nightmare Unique: Trusty Bible (Exalted): You have a chance to summon a Phantom Marksman on kill.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Assassin’s Dagger (Large): Deal more Melee damage against enemies who are Stunned, Withered, or Taunted.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Skull of the Carcará (Large): Carcará Dive hits on Bleeding enemies deal a portion of all pending Bleed damage as a small Physical explosion. Consumes all Bleed stacks on the enemy.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Infested Chains (Exalted): Cilada is converted to Plague. It no longer has a Cooldown and no longer stays on the ground, dealing a portion of its original damage on direct contact only.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Phantom Spear (Grand): Hits with Jaguar Spear summon a Phantom that uses Carcará Dive into nearby enemies, dealing a portion of the original damage as Physical Melee Area-of-Effect and scaling with Summon damage.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Gunsmith Tools (Large): Lead Sermon projectiles can bounce to you if there are no other enemies nearby. Bounced shots deal no damage to you, but can bounce again into enemies.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Cloak of Storms (Grand): Automatically cast Tupã's Wrath when you lose Life or take damage. Gain up to {0} Lightning damage, proportional to your missing Life percentage.

• \ Added new Nightmare Unique: Charred Figurine (Grand): Holy Fire always fires a single projectile, multiplied by its current Projectile Amount.

• \ Added new Unique: Blood and Fire (Exalted): Converts 50%  of Jaguar Spear's damage to Fire. Ailments caused by Jaguar Spear deal additional damage.

• \ Added new Unique: Hunter’s Charm (Large): Kills with Jaguar Spear give Move Speed and Attack Speed

• \ Added new Unique: Throwing Spear (Grand): Jaguar Spear hurls a projectile forward.

• \ Added new Unique: Fresh Bait (Large): Enemies trapped by Cilada take more damage from Marksman skills. 

• \ Added new Unique: Thorned Net (Exalted): Enemies trapped by Cilada gain stacks of Bleed over time

• \ Added new Unique: Traveller’s Pouch (Large): Cilada throws 3 traps in an arc instead of one, but its Mana cost is increased. 

• \ Added new Unique: Bird Claw (Large): Melee attacks after Carcará Dive deal more Damage.

• \ Added new Unique: Feathered Bracers (Exalted): Carcará Dive gains more Charges and instantly recovers its Cooldown if it hits an enemy. 

• \ Added new Unique: Feathered Staff (Grand): Carcará Dive is converted to Physical and gains base Bleed chance. 

• \ Added new Unique: Blighted Carcass (Large): Converts Holy Fire to Plague. Holy Fire now pierces all enemies and only explodes at maximum range. You gain Wither Build Up Rate. 

• \ Added new Unique: Crimson Sword (Grand): Holy Fire throws 4 additional projectiles in an arc after exploding. Gain more Ignite Damage. 

• \ Added new Unique: Black Cilice (Exalted): Holy Fire drains Life on Cast. Holy Fire deals more damage proportional to Missing Life. 

• \ Added new Unique: Icon of the Sun (Exalted): Tupã's Wrath gains Projectile Amount, but now casts in all directions.

• \ Added new Unique: Scorched Bones (Grand): Tupã's Wrath can hit your Summons. If it does, it Energizes them, increasing their Damage, Life and Attack Speed.

• \ Added new Unique: Scorched Branches (Large): Damage from Tupã's Wrath contributes more to Stun Build Up. 

• \ Added new Unique: Explosive Lead (Exalted): Enemies hit by Lead Sermon gain a stack of Marked. When you Reload, enemies take damage as Lightning, multiplied by each stack of Marked, then lose all Marked stacks. 

• \ Added new Unique: Hunter’s Pouch (Large): While Reloading Lead Sermon, gain Move Speed and Evasion.

• \ Added new Unique: Enchanted Loader (Small): Lead Sermon regenerates ammo as you move. Deal more damage proportional to the amount of ammo left.

Uniques

• Righteous Blade now deals about 40% more damage, but cannot deal Critical Hits

• Book of Sin no longer requires enemies to be affected by Judgement

• Poem Never Recited now applies Oiled to enemies affected by either Slow Time or Judgement

• Mother of Perpetual Help reworked: it now gives you Max Conviction per second, and no longer provides a Decay Resilience boost

• Delicate Rosary reworked: it now provides flat Mana instead of a percentage of your max Mana

• Updated the description of Ashes of Mourning to clarify how it works: Hits recover X% of cooldowns for all other Skills

• Arapuca was scaling way more with Rank upgrades than intended. We have drastically reduced the upgrade scaling to be more in line with similar Uniques

• Stolen Weapons now has the added effect: "Delay between attacks is doubled".

• Powderbag scaling reduced from 1.6-2 to 1.4-1.64

• Mark of the Vulture now explodes in 16 stacks (up from 12)

• Skull of the Vulture scaling reduced from 0.85-2 to 0.75-1

• The Sacrificed damage cap scaling increased from 120-230 to 180-500

• Unshakable Faith damage cap scaling increased from 120-230 to 180-400

• Unshakable Faith damage conversion rate reduced from 7% to 3% of Current Mana

• Toll of the Dead no longer increases the base Cooldown of The Old Bell

• Monddoc’s Orbs have been reworked to preserve late-endgame build variety by making stacking Orbs more demanding. The Devotion requirements have been shuffled around, and the damage bonus have been changed from Multiplicative to Multiplicative Additive 

• Murk’s Blood Veil reworked:

  • The damage scaling has been increased from 500-1300% to 1500-4000%

  • Added the “Spell” tag to the effect

  • The Veil now adds new damage Blessings to your run when equipped, which can “steal” the Blessing slots from any equipped Skill

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Gear

• Blessed Boots Tier VIII - All bases: All Movement Speed values slightly increased

• Blessed Boots Tier VIII - Move Speed/All Res hybrid base: Resistances slightly increased

• Blessed Armor Tier VII - Life/All Res hybrid base: Life roll range slightly increased

Monsters

• Monster attacks now may have a cap to how many hits they can deal at once to the player

• Starved Beast

  • Reduced the collision size of its dash attacks

  • To make the fight more fair for Melee builds, the Beast now actively avoids placing poison pools directly at its feet

  • Slightly Increased cooldowns for the projectile attacks

• Machinist

  • New Overload skill added, with parallel cannon shots coming from behind it

  • Tendril attacks now can only deal damage to the player once every 0.3 seconds

  • Furnace area attacks now can only deal damage to the player once every 0.5 seconds

• Urubu

  • Feather attacks now can only deal damage to the player once every 0.3 seconds

• Wraith

  • Homing projectile attacks now can only deal damage to the player once every 0.3 seconds

Drops

• Some Unique Relics now have a Devotion requirement before they are eligible to drop from endgame and Ascension sources

Constellations

• Reworked the St. Paul Constellation: Gain Cooldown Speed based on your current Mana, up to 20,000. Having lower Mana values might hinder your Cooldown Speed instead

• Reworked the Ogum Constellation: You now gain Vigor stacks by dealing Melee damage (instead of taking damage). Also, the “Child of Ogum” effect now affects only Attack Speed instead of affecting both Attack Speed and Cast Speed

• St Joseph’s “The Carpenter”’s splinters can now be triggered by any Mobility Skill, not just Shadow Dash, and will scale with the triggering Skill’s damage

• Onilé base Life nodes increased from 50 to 85

• Onilé Constellation's "Gift of Life" node increased from 5 to 9 base Life

• Logun Edé's Constellation projectile damage node increased from 15% to 45%

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Sao Jose Constellation would give you a Splinter stack even if you had converted damage from Physical to Plague

• Fixed an issue where Bloodied Doll was scaling with the amount of Spells you had access to

• Fixed an issue where the Starved Beast wouldn’t drop any Unique Relics or Currency

• Fixed an issue where the old Small version of Skull of the Vulture would sometimes appear in the Blessed Shop for sale

• Fixed St. Joseph's Carpenter projectile not using proper mobility skill damage

• Fixed Summon Skills with visual overrides bugging out (Stolen Weapons + Plague Bullets for example)

• Fixed an issue where you could have “infinite” Summons by equipping and unequipping Summon Skills while in town

• Fixed Hell Clock time not visually increasing when picking up Time drops while the timer is frozen

• Fixed Oblivion Bell point requirements for travel nodes sometimes being inconsistent

• Fixed Summons double-dipping AoE buffs on areas linked to Skills (such as Mark of the Vulture)

• Fixed Summons not receiving some global conditional damage bonuses

• Fixed the Orunmilá Constellation not working properly with damage conversions

Clockmakers, we now have a new launch date for the Curse War expansion: July 14! Last month we shared the news that we were shifting our launch date to make room for PoE’s Return of the Ancients update. Today we’re happy to say that you’ll only have to wait a few more weeks to continue Pajeu’s story in Hell Clock. For a closer look at what to expect in Cursed War, check out our new trailer that just ran in the Latin American Games Showcase: 

In our new expansion, Cursed War, you're going to dive further into Pajeu and Brazil’s past during the Paraguayan War of 1864 - 1870.

The expansion also drops these six new skills:

Tupã’s Wrath

Tupã’s Wrath sends sparks of electricity flying all over the place.

Jaguar Spear

Jaguar Spear can pierce multiple enemies with a long-range Melee attack.

Lead Sermon 

Lead Sermon shoots bouncing Lightning shots, but needs to be reloaded.

Holy Fire

Holy Fire is a classic Fireball, which burns everything to a crisp.

Cilada

Cilada is a trap Skill, holding enemies in place and debuffing them.

Carcará Dive

And with Carcará Dive, you can Leap Slam into enemies with the strength of the Carcará!

We are also adding over 80 new Unique items, which can drastically change how all of these Skills work!

We hope you’re all looking forward to trying out these new skills and testing out new builds when Cursed War hits in July. Keep your eyes out here and on our Discord as we plan to share details on the expansion as we get closer to July 14th. 

- The Rogue Snail Team

Hey Clockmakers, remember when we moved the launch of Hell Clock to avoid a new PoE league? 

Well, we have to push back the Cursed War expansion's release as well... GGG has pushed their next Path of Exile 2 update to May 29, and that’s simply too close for comfort for us. We know exactly where everyone in the ARPG community will be spending their precious free time that week, and to be completely honest, we'll be right there with you, grinding and playing Return of the Ancients.

While we know a delay is always frustrating, releasing Cursed War just four days later simply wouldn’t make sense. As a small studio with a very limited marketing budget, we also rely heavily on content creators for our launch visibility, and the vast majority of them will be playing the much bigger game in PoE 2. So to be clear, Cursed War will not drop on June 2nd. We’re moving it by a few weeks, and we’ll be announcing the new date very soon.

The silver lining is that this gives our team a little extra runway. We’re using these additional weeks to add even more polish, crush a few extra bugs, and make sure the Cursed War experience is top-notch on day one.

We’ll be announcing the new release date very soon. But we didn't want to leave you empty-handed today. To give you a taste of what’s coming, here is our brand-new trailer that dives deeper into the dark story of Cursed War:

We expect some of you to be disappointed by the date shift and we completely understand.  But this will give you more time for Return of the Ancients and Cursed War, and we can’t wait to see what you think when we drop the expansion.

Stay tuned here and in our Discord for more updates and the new date.  Thanks for your patience and support.

BRAZILIAN COMMUNITY ALERT! WE NEED YOU!

Besides the Cursed War news that you'll soon be enjoying, we have another announcement to share and a very special request for our community in Brazil.

Hell Clock has been selected as one of the 10 FINALISTS for the Brasil Tá Pra Game award!

For those who might not know, this is an initiative by Embratur alongside Abragames, aimed at rewarding games that showcase innovation, our culture, and the talent of the Brazilian gaming industry to the world.

We're competing in the Popular Vote category, and that's where you come in! Winning this award isn't just a massive honor, it also comes with a prize that would be an absolute game-changer for us as an indie studio, helping us invest even more into the quality of the game for you.

Since this voting is focused on national promotion, it requires a CPF (Brazilian ID/Taxpayer number), which means only our Brazilian players can participate in this phase.

If you dig our work on Hell Clock and want to give Rogue Snail a boost, please take a minute out of your day to vote for us!

• 🗓️ Deadline: Voting closes on June 26, 2026.

• 🔗 Where to vote: https://votacaoembraturlab.lovable.app/

• ⚠️ Important: You will need to enter your CPF simply to validate that it is a legitimate vote within Brazilian territory.

We're counting on the strength of our BR community to bring this award home! Thank you so much for always having our backs and for your endless support.

- The Rogue Snail Team

Hey backlanders,

We are grateful for your patience with us for the last 4 months, as we locked in to finish developing Hell Clock's big first expansion.

We are proud to present the official reveal for Cursed War:

So About That Release Date...

Uh, this is awkward...

A couple of days ago, another ARPG gaming company (the one with the gears grinding) announced a big update for one of the biggest ARPGs in the world. And it's on the same weekend as us, basically.

We had the June 2nd date locked for a while now. Had trailers and press releases already submitted to press and events, so it was too late to change the date on the videos and such.

Obviously a tiny studio like ours cannot compete with them, we would be crushed completely, so unfortunately we will need to delay. We are working with our publisher Mad Mushroom on a new date, and will announce it as soon as possible, hopefully over the next few days.

We are very, very sorry about this whole situation, but hopefully we can use this additional time to make sure Cursed War is even more polished when you do get to play it.

Now that the sad part is out of the way, let's talk about some fun stuff!

What's On The Expansion?

Cursed War's main features are:

• New Story Content: relive the gruesome War of Paraguay in Act IV

• New Skills: unleash the power of 7 new Active Skills and 20+ new Relics

• New Monsters and Bosses: over a dozen new creatures of Hell to challenge

• New Locations: explore a dark fantasy version of Paraguay

But that's not all! You don't need to buy the Expansion to enjoy the huge Update 2.0, which will come for FREE to all players, and features:

• Endless Nightmares: a new Endgame system - our own spin on "mapping" endgame, where you get to build your own dungeon as you play it by making a choice of Shards every 7 floors. Progress through 16 Tiers of difficulty, taking your builds to the limit!

• Journeys System: a reason to start fresh with a new save file, with new mechanics, challenges and rewards

• Journey of Nightmares: the first Journey will have dangerous Nightmare Portals opening all over the game, and powerful new Nightmare Relics await those who conquer their terrors

• New Endgame Zones: Both Ascension and Endless Nightmare will take place exclusively in all-new zones created for endgame

• "All Skills Available" Mode: Start new Campaign save files with access to all Skills - no need to wait to put together the playstyle you want

• 63 New Unique Relics: We are adding many new Unique Relics to shake up the meta. Yes, this is not a typo. There are sixty-three new Uniques for you to loot, and make OP builds with!

• Improved Dungeon Generation: We are also improving the way our dungeons are randomly generated to make the game feel less repetitive. Enemy spawns are now completely procedural, and we have also made improvements on the variety of dungeon layouts

• Full Version of Ascension: Our experimental Ascension game mode will come out of Beta in patch 2.0! Expect a fully working Penance Tree, new randomized zones, rebalanced progression and difficulty up to Hell 100, a new "Starting Loadout" feature, and faster and more meaningful runs.

• Performance and Quality of Life Upgrades: We are squeezing every last drop of performance from Unity engine with this one, and adding some much-requested QoL features on top of that, such as "Point-per-point Respec" of all Trees and Constellations

• New Steam Achievements: A lot of Steam Achievements are being added, both for the new content and for crafting and endgame. You may notice those already showing up on your game page - these will only be unlockable when patch 2.0 hits!

Thanks for your support, and see you back in Hell very soon!

Cheers!

~Mark and the Hell Clock team

Hey folks,

We’ve been in “heads down, focus on development” mode for a while now, and it is about time for an update!

After we shipped all of the promised post-launch features from our Roadmap, we have shifted our efforts 100% to the new upcoming Cursed War expansion and patch 2.0.

While we were originally targeting a Q1 launch, the scope of the expansion ended up, uh, expanding, so we need a bit more time to get it polished and ready.

We expect this to be a short delay. In fact, we already have a new date internally that we are committed to, and our publisher Mad Mushroom should announce it officially Soon™.

In the meantime, we think it’d be rude to keep you waiting without at least a few spoilers about what’s coming, so buckle up!

New Endgame: Endless Nightmares

Patch 2.0 will include a full revamp of the campaign Endgame, introducing a new system called “Endless Nightmares”.

This is a “mapping” endgame done in the Hell Clock style: you’ll face randomized dungeons in completely new biomes, with 16 tiers of scaling difficulty. Each one of these Nightmare dungeons will have modifiers that will be familiar to ARPG players. The twist is that you’ll be able to choose these modifiers as you play through the dungeons, rogue-lite style.

The existing Abyss/Oblivion system (that is, the “replay the campaign” endgame) will still be available for those who enjoy that experience, but we will be removing the temporary “Void” tier. You will be able to play either Abyss/Oblivion or Endless Nightmares, or combine both freely as you progress your character through the endgame.

Expect more details and a full breakdown of Endless Nightmares when we officially announce the expansion release date!

Improved Ascension Mode

The experimental Ascension endgame is undergoing significant improvements for patch 2.0, and it will be officially released out of “Beta” state!

First of all, Ascension is getting the fancy new endgame Biomes from Endless Nightmares, so you will have fresh environments and enemies every time you Ascend. No more fighting the Jailer at the Basement on every restart!

Also, we have finished implementing all of the nodes of the Penance Tree, so the experience will be much more brutal than before.

To counter-balance that, we are making two pivotal changes to this rogue-like gamemode:

1) The very first run on each Ascension was a bit boring and too RNG-based. We are introducing a “starting shop” every time you Ascend so that you can go into your first run with a Blessed Gear and a Unique Relic of your choice (from a randomized pool of options).

2) Ascension attempts were a bit too long, sometimes taking upwards of 1 hour or even 2+ hours if you’re not a blaster. We are rebalancing the difficulty scaling of the mode so that you can progress faster, but also reducing the maximum number of Runs before the Ascension fails. The goal is to keep the same challenge level as before, but have you either succeed or fail faster.

We are also currently looking into reducing the time spent on “farming” runs where you are not looking to progress deeper into the dungeons

New Skills and Relics

The Cursed War expansion, besides a whole new story campaign with new monsters and bosses, will introduce six new active Skills to the game, as well as dozens of new Unique Relics to shake up the meta!

While we cannot spoil everything before the official announcement, you folks deserve at least a few sneak peeks, so here it goes:

Sneak Peek: Tupã’s Wrath

One of the six new Skills coming with the Cursed War expansion is Tupã’s Wrath: a Lightning Spell that spreads bolts of lightning all over the screen, shocking and burning the minions of hell.

And it wouldn’t be Hell Clock if there weren’t Uniques that changed the way your new Skills behaved! All of the new Skills have dedicated Uniques, and here’s a preview of one of them:

Sneak Peek: Icon of the Sun (Unique Relic)

Icon of the Sun gives a disgusting amount of Projectile Amount to the new Tupã’s Wrath - but the projectiles now fire in all directions, turning the Skill into a true screen clearer!

Sneak Peek: Infested Cross (Nightmare Relic)

Patch 2.0 is introducing a new type of Unique Relic called “Nightmare Relics”, all themed around death and decay. The Infested Cross will make your Old Bell deal massive damage against Bleeding enemies, making a “Bleed Bell” build one of the many new possible archetypes for you to build around.

Sneak Peek: Broken Mirror (Uber Unique Relic)

We are also introducing dozens of new endgame items to grind for, including a new type of super-rare and super-powerful items called “Uber Uniques”. The Broken Mirror gives you a Shadow bestie that will absolutely destroy your enemies using Repeater, and can be used either to massively increase the damage output of Repeater builds, or to get a “free” Repeater to proc effects or apply debuffs.

QoL: Performance and More!

Of course there are also quality of life changes coming your way!

Most notably, we are making great progress in performance and optimization. Although we believe our game currently has respectable performance in most cases, it is still our weakest point, and there are still some edge cases where you can get consistent freezes or very low frame rates.

We are trying to squeeze as much performance as we can out of the Unity engine for Patch 2.0, so expect the game to run better than it ever did before when it drops, including better base framerates 

We are also putting in some much-requested features. To spoil one of them, we’re finally implementing per-point respec! Gone are the days of having to completely reworking your Constellations or Bell every time you want to make a small adjustment.

New Steam Achievements

To celebrate all of the new stuff coming into the game, we will also be adding a lot of new Steam achievements. Some of these are of course related to the new story campaign, but we are also adding a lot of endgame challenges.

You will notice that these new achievements have already been added as “hidden” on Steam. While you cannot unlock them right now, they will be fully available as soon as Patch 2.0 is live!

What’s Paid and What’s Free?

The vast majority of content coming with Patch 2.0 - Cursed War will be FREE to everyone who already owns the game. This includes ALL of the new endgame activities and changes (both Endless Nightmares and Ascension), as well as ALL of the quality of life changes and new items.

The paid expansion will restrict access only to the new story/campaign content and the 6 new Skills. While we’d very much appreciate it if you could support the continuous development of Hell Clock by purchasing the Expansion, we are making sure that you’re still getting a great experience if you’re not able to do that.

We can’t wait for the official expansion announcement, and we hope you’ll join us soon for the party!

See you in Hell! ~Mark and the Hell Clock Team

Hello Clockmakers! Quick blog from the publishing team at Mad Mushroom to let you know about a new bundle: Hell Clock X Night Swarm.

Night Swarm is a new survivorslike RPG that we've launched today. It has intense horde-survivor combat and some seriously extensive RPG systems. You play as a vampire prince in exile, tasked with braving the wilds to push back the horde and rebuild your family's ancient legacy.

You might like it, and if you already own Hell Clock, you'll save a few bucks:

Thanks for checking out Night Swarm! - The Mad Mushroom Team

The Hell Clock soundtrack was crafted with great care to reflect Brazilian culture, using traditional elements and instruments infused with a dark tone to match the atmosphere of the Canudos purgatory.

Our sound designer, Thommaz Kauffmann, poured an incredible amount of passion and attention into this OST. The result is a soundtrack that is immersive, emotional, and full of identity.

You can listen to the full soundtrack by purchasing it on Steam or streaming it on Spotify. If you believe in our work, nominate Hell Clock for Best Soundtrack and help us showcase the strength and beauty of Brazilian music in games.

Thank you so much for the continuous support. We hope to show the world the relevance of this project and its powerful musical identity! 🎶🔥

Hey players,

Another day, another update! Here's what we're fixing this time:

• Fix Murk's Blood Veil damage not scaling with % mods

• Fix Shadow Dash with Death Worship not proccing specific effects for Melee Skills, like Bundle of Syringes and Melee Life Leech)

• Reduce Dummy life to improve ailment testing

Abraços, ~The Hell Clock Team

Hey folks, Most of the new Constellations seem fine so far, but we clearly miscalculated the power of St. Paul, so we're making a quick balance change, while also adding more fixes and stabilizing the game.

This change was actually a Community suggestion, so thanks to @Ghost-Tales on Discord for the elegant solution!

Gameplay

• The St Paul Constellation now has the added effect: "Reduces your Cooldown Speed by 65%\"

• Changed the Rare affix "Using Passage recovers Mana" from percentage to flat (from 8-16% to 100-360)

• Changed the Rare affix "Using Closed Body recovers Mana" from percentage to flat (from 20-50% to 250-1200)

• Shrine buffs are no longer purged when Second Wind is triggered

• Book of Sin's Blessing now always consumes a Blessing from Judgement instead of other Skills

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Player Camera would slowly drift from the center

• Fixed Bombardment not following the player when using Colonel's Insignia

• Fixed an issue where The Sacrificed Unique would not properly increase its value when upgraded

• Fixed an issue where Player sound effects for steps would not play

• Fixed Blessed Shop not resetting when selecting other save slot

• Improved the written description of St. Paul to explain that some Skills have a Min Cooldown that cannot be overriden by any effect

Cheers!

~Mark and the Hell Clock Team

Hey Players,

As promised, here's the skill interruption fix, plus a few more!

• Fixed an issue where channeled Skills (Repeater and Double Knives) are not being properly interrupted;

• Fixed a visual glitch on the character animation that would occur sometimes when using Click to Move;

• Fixed missing Localization lines for Nossa Sra Aparecida and Yebá Beló Constellations;

• Matadeira and Bombardment now properly respect the input buffering queue;

• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes shoot Repeater without the move speed penalty;

Abraços,

~The Hell Clock Team

Hey Players,

1.2 was supposed to have active cooldown reduction effects respect a "min cooldown" setting on every Skill, to prevent the crazy manalooping shenanigans we had in the past. Due to an oversight on our part, this was not properly implemented, but it is fixed now!

• Fixed an issue where Active Cooldown Reduction was not respecting a Skill's min Cooldown value;

We are still looking into the issue where channeled Skills (Repeater and Double Knives) are not being properly interrupted. We hope to have a patch out that fixes this tomorrow.

Abraços, ~The Hell Clock Team

Hey Players,

Although 1.2 went relatively smooth, you have reported a few issues over the weekend that we're getting fixed right now!

• Changed patch notes URL to Steam Post direct link

• Disorientation now correctly scales with the stats "Skill Area of Effect" and "Summon Damage"

• Bosses are now immune to Ailments until they can start to take damage

• Fixed player light being disabled on some occasions, mostly after triggering Second Wind

• Fixed Second Wind freezing the game if triggered while the level is being changed

• Fixed Graphics Options not being loaded / shown properly

• Fixed Blessed Stash recycle generating Soul Stones multiple times

• Fixed a case where Damage numbers would be duplicate after restarting a session

• FixedMurk's Blood Veil not using the proper value for Life and Conviction drain

• Fixed Click-to-Attack enemies not working

• Fixed Shift+Click not forcing Basic Attack when using WASD mode

• Fixed Final Reckoning damage being inconsistent and also doing way more damage than it should

Also, we are looking into the issue where channeled Skills (Repeater and Double Knives) are not being properly interrupted. Expect another patch with this fix ASAP.

Abraços, ~The Hell Clock Team

Hey backlanders,

We're happy to announce that Update 1.2 is live, and it brings some exciting new things to Hell Clock!

Our previous Update 1.1 was gigantic and it has put the game in a very respectable place in terms of balance, quality of life, and performance, but we still want to improve all of these things further.

Consoles Announced!

We also have some awesome news to share with you all: Hell Clock will be available on Consoles (Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, and Switch 2) in 2026! Keep following us to get all the updates as they happen!

What's New on 1.2?

• Movement Revamp: we have re-built our character animation and movement system from the ground up to support one of your most-requested features: move and attack simultaneously;

• All 52 Constellations Available: all the power of the Constellations has been unlocked in the Campaign Endgame and in Ascension mode;

• New Community Unique Items: added new Uniques created by members of the Hell Clock community;

• Search Function added to the Constellations screen;

• Search Function added to the Bell screens (Great Bell, Infernal Bell, Oblivion Bell);

• Melee buffed: some of you have struggled with Melee builds after the combat changes in 1.1, so we are giving all Melee builds some love

What's Next?

We now have the bulk of our team focused on next year's Expansion, which will bring a new story with about 1/3 of the content of the base game, alongside exciting new Skills! Although we'd love it if all of you could support us by purchasing the Expansion, the vast majority of improvements will come for free and will NOT be behind a paywall. These are:

• 12 new Biomes for endgame (both Campaign and Ascension);

• Improvements to Dungeon Generation and Randomization across the board;

• Per-Point Respec of Skill Trees and Constellations;

• "Mapping" Endgame System: Endless Nightmares;

• Dozens of new Relics;

• Final version of the "Ascension" game mode

• ...and a few more surprises!

Developing Hell Clock with you since our 1.0 release has been the time of our lives, and we are grateful for all the support and feedback you're providing us. We hope you enjoy this update, and have a great end of the year!| Cheers, ~Mark and the Hell Clock Team

Full 1.2 Patch Notes

Features

• New "Movement 360" system that allows for walking and attacking at the same time, at 50% move speed penalty by default

• New Constellations available: Iansã, Obá, São Judas Tadeu, São José, Nossa Sra de Aparecida, Onilé, São João, Exu, São Sebastião, São Paulo, Sumé, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, São Francisco, São Pedro, Exu Caveira, Yeba Beló, Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Logun Edé e Curupira

• New Unique Relics available: Tenkiei's Skyhammer, Murk's Blood Veil and Monddoc's Orbs (Earth, Fire, Air and Water)

• Added new Run and Walk animations

• Added new dynamic object system to simulate cloth and accessories on Pajeú's attire

• Added new animations for Shoot, Cast and Lash actions

• Added Search functionality to the Constellations screen

• Added Search functionality to all Bell screens (Great Bell, Infernal Bell, Oblivion Bell)

• Gamepad input can now walk slowly by not pushing the thumbstick all the way

• Add input buffering system for Skill triggers, ensuring that button presses can no longer be lost

• Reworked the Attack Speed and Cooldown system to work as intended, with the "Attack Speed" stat working for skills with the "Attack" label, and "Cooldown Speed" stat working for Skills with the "Spell" label

• Replaced the old "Shared Cooldown" system for attacks and quick casts with a Semaphore and Masks system for fine-tuning behavior when using and interrupting Skills, with configurations available per each Skill

• Reworked Pajeú's character model to work with the new Movement 360 system

• Reworked all enemies to use the new animation system (but no changes to enemy behavior were made)

Gameplay/Balance

• Holy Rosary no longer has the "Attack" tag

• Active Cooldown Reduction effects no longer apply to Skills which have no Cooldown listed

• Changed the basic timing on all attacks that use the "Shoot" and the "Cast" animation to be identical. All "Shoots" and "Casts" are now much more responsive, with only 1 frame of anticipation before they are fired off

• "Feitor's Lash" now has two animations that alternate (from just one animation previously), adding more fluidity to this Skill's use

• The player character now "turns in place" to always face the mouse cursor or the gamepad aim direction

• Improved the animation blending overall, especially when the character is interrupting actions or stopping

• Double Knives' base damage increased from 0.55 to 0.64

• Feitor's Lash's base damage increased from 1.65 to 1.9

• Removed the Damage Blessing (Magic and Rare) for the Last Prayer unique (Mark's Note: it wasn't even working in 1.1 lol)

• Headless Doll's temporary buff from Update 1.1.1 has been reverted

• Powderbag damage scaling on the high end reduced from 215% to 200%

• Disorientation base damage scaling increased from 280-400% to 400-800%

• Worker's Tools overall damage reduced by 15%

• Added a line to the Bleed Damage tooltip in the Character sheet explaining that Bleed does twice as much damage when targets are moving (Mark's Note: this was always a thing, but was not properly communicated)

• Final Reckoning damage is now multiplied by your Max Life

• Added a new Corrupted Affix to Grand/Exalted Relics: +1 Max Summons

• Oxumaré active cooldown recovery increased from 18% to 20%, and from 1 seconds to 2 seconds

Fixes

• Objects spawned by Boss enemies now correctly deactivate when the Boss dies

• Fixed an issue where Feitor's Lash would not scale with other sources of Increased Area of Effect beyond its own Blessings

• Fixed an issue where the Last Prayer Blessings (both Damage and Radius) were not doing anything

• Feitor's Lash VFX now persists until the the end of its execution

• Improved the Skill execution code to add more safety and to reduce the possibility of getting "stuck" and not being able to execute any other Skill

• Fixed an issue where Pajeú would sometimes get stuck in the Canudos Gate cutscene

• Fixed an issue where the game would get stuck on The Machinist cutscene if the player managed to kill the boss off-screen before the battle started

Hey Players,

Here's a quick hotfix before the weekend! Enjoy!

• Fixed Santo Antônio constellation stacking with itself on respec

• Fixed enemy projectiles not being affected by Slow Time

• Fixed a Guaraci exploit to keep Dawnlight stacks without the Constellation

• Fixed an issue where Lasso cooldown Blessings would not stack properly

Abraços! ~The Hell Clock Team

Attention, Clockmakers: Hell Clock is now live on Maxroll!

We're honored to see our labor of love on a site that we've all used for years with our PoE builds. Head on over to use the Hell Clock planner, check out their guides, try out some crazy builds, and dive into the database.

• Main page

• Guides

• Planner

• Database

You can even upload your own builds to share with other players:

• Community Builds

Check out the Hell Clock page on Maxroll.gg today, build your strategy, and share your best setups with the community!

The Hell Clock is ticking, and now, you don’t have to face it alone.

Steam Point Shop & Trading Cards

Also, Hell Clock now has Steam Trading Cards and exclusive cosmetic goodies available on the Steam Point Shop! 🎴 Collect and trade Trading Cards 🖼️ Unlock animated Avatars & Backgrounds :HCSOULSTONE: Express yourself with Stickers …and more to customize your Steam profile with the Hell Clock style!

Jump into Purgatory, grind some runs, and start collecting today.

Greetings, backlanders.

The launch of 1.1 was our smoothest one so far, while at the same time being the game's biggest update ever! This made us happy, but it doesn't mean there isn't stuff to fix!

Endgame Difficulty

The main motivation behind this update is adjusting the difficulty of the early endgame, especially for Regular difficulty players. Our testing both internally and on PTR was mostly focused on Veteran difficulty, and we dropped the ball a bit with the difficulty curve coming out of the campaign for novice players.

Early Abyss is now a bit more manageable than in 1.1.0, and hopefully this encourages more players who are new to the ARPG genre to get invested and take their builds to their limits!

Summon Builds Bug Fix

We have also found and fixed a couple of nasty bugs with the new Headless Doll Unique. It basically, uh, didn't make much sense, to be honest. It was giving a LOT more Summon Damage than it should in most cases, but sometimes it would give less.

We have NO intention to nerf your builds that you already have going for 1.1, so we are applying a significant buff to Headless Doll that should bring it to about the same power level as it was before this patch, in the best cases. If you are playing Summons, your damage might change a bit (either up or down), but hopefully not more than 15-20%.

This buff, however, is temporary. Headless Doll was capable of performing WAY beyond intended due to these bugs, and this buff is a way to compensate for that and make sure your Summon builds are still performing at the same level for now. But in 1.2 (est. late November) this buff WILL be reverted, so Summons can return to dealing damage more in line with the other archetypes in the game.

Chinese Localization Fixes

We have also noticed some issues with Chinese localization and fixed those! We apologized to your Chinese friends, and hope to do better in the future.

Buffs

And although we are generally very happy with the current state of Hell Clock's build variety, with basically all skills being strong in endgame and a variety of different builds being able to clear Void, we are giving a few buffs to Bombardment, Spectral Knives and Veil of Quills to get them more in line with the rest of the meta.

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Cheers! ~Mark and the Hell Clock Team

Full Patch Notes (Update 1.1.1 and Hotfixes)

Gameplay:

• Spectral Knives damage scaling with Skill Levels increased from 20% to 25%

• Mark of the Vulture damage increased from 170%-370% to 240%-480%

• Bombardment base damage increased from 140% to 150%

• Bombardment damage scaling with Skill Levels increased from 24% to 30%

• Headless Doll Summon Damage bonus increased from 7.5%-11.5% to 15%-23% (this is to compensate for the bug fixes, and will probably be reverted in 1.2)

• Removed the "Doctor's Lackey" endgame skill that allowed him to root players

• Reduced Vulture Ranged Attack base damage by 60%

• Constellations "Três Marias" tooltips now additionally display a brief description of the Fury, Faith and Discipline archetypes to help new players make more informed decisions early on;

Endgame Difficulty Scaling:

• Reduced endgame Regular difficulty scaling by about 20% across the board

• Reduced The Jailer damage scaling in Abyss World Tier by ~50%

• Reduced The Jailer Life scaling in Abyss World Tier by ~40%

• Reduced The Merchant Life scaling in Abyss World Tier by ~30%

• Reduced The Starved Beast Life scaling in Abyss World Tier by ~20%

• Reduced The Matriarch Life scaling in Abyss World Tier by ~15%

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where sounds would sometimes get muffled/lowered during gameplay;

• Fixed an issue where sometimes Stashed items and Currencies would not reset in Ascension;

• Further improvements to FMOD performance around Split Shot projectiles in particular;

• Fixed a couple of Rare affixes not displaying their icons properly;

• Fixed Base Damage Stat on the Character Sheet displaying your Physical Damage instead

• Fixed some new Options sometimes not persisting correctly

• Fixed Veil of Quills pierce not working on some enemies

• Fixed Guaraci "The Sun" notable not working correctly

• Fixed Ceuci Star-Mother Constellation not being unlockable

• Fixed Nina`s Monster not dropping loot in endgame Act 3

• Fixed an issue where Tier 8 and Tier 7 "Projectile Amount" Weapons had their base damage values swapped

• Fixed Nina's Monster hitbox sometimes not interacting with Shadow Dash and Skull of the Vulture's explosions correctly

• Fixed a performance issue with Feitor's Lash where framerate would degrade over time due to an object leak. We are still investigating further performance problems with Lash, but this fix is already a significant improvement

• Fixed an issue where Feitor's Lash would not register hits correctly when hitting too many enemies at the same time. This fix also benefits other systems in the game such as gamepad auto-aim

• Fixed an issue where Headless Doll would apply its buff using the Spell tag on Skills instead of the Summon tag

• Fixed an issue where Headless Doll buff could be applied repeatedly for each relevant Skill, instead of being applied globally and only once

• Replaced Ceuci's and Xango's "Elemental Damage" nodes with separate +Fire, +Lightning and +Plague bonuses for clarity and for the values to read correctly on the character sheet

Hi players,

You keep reporting, we keep hotfixing, until it is DONE!

Here are today's fixes:

• Fixed Ceuci Star-Mother Constellation not being unlockable

• Fixed Nina`s Monster not dropping loot in endgame Act 3

• Fixed an issue where Tier 8 and Tier 7 "Projectile Amount" Weapons had their base damage values swapped

• Fixed Nina's Monster hitbox sometimes not interacting with Shadow Dash and Skull of the Vulture's explosions correctly

• Fixed a performance issue with Feitor's Lash where framerate would degrade over time due to an object leak. We are still investigating further performance problems with Lash, but this fix is already a significant improvement

Abraços, ~The Hell Clock Team