Heroes of Hammerwatch news & patch notes

• Hammerwatch: Anniversary Edition – the original Hammerwatch, now remastered.
• 20 Additional Player Colors to Choose from.
• 2 Additional Voice Packs.
• 5 Additional Hero Facial Features.

• Mercenaries now start with the squire pet selected
• Fixed issue with deleting mercenaries from ledger
• Arena now always gives 5 swords when beating it with a mercenary
• Beating a dungeon in a multiplayer game while dead now revives mercenaries instead of incorrectly marking them as dead
• Walking pet now moves a bit better and can now teleport to the player in some cases
• Waning and Waxing Crescent can now be found in all dungeons, still requires completion of Moon Temple
• Papers of Nobility are now attunable
• Fixed some mistakenly placed destroyable secret wall parts
• Fixed a spelling error
• Fixed a glass walk not spawning correctly

• Added missing blueprints for new Moon Temple items.
• Fixed issues where you could stuck in great threat rooms in both act 1 and 2 in Moon Temple.
• Fixed an issue where you could stuck behind the door at the last boss in Moon Temple.
• Fixed some flickering tilesets in Moon Temple.
• Fixed imp spawning with an offset that could place him in a wall in Moon Temple.
• Fixed First Aid not healing the correct amount.
• Corrected mercenary remedy tooltip.
• Added some missing language strings.
• Fixed XRay rendering on projectiles.

New features

• Added two new drinks: The Smirking Shopkeep and Snake Blood.
• Added cats and dogs as new companions.
• You can now travel between the different hub areas with a travel service.

Various Changes and Fixes

• A lot of tweaks to enemy NG+ skills.
• Flaming Hounds: The projectile now loses more of its forward momentum when colliding.
• Branding Ward: Increased trigger and explosion radius slightly. It should now trigger more easily on bosses.
• Gladiators Net: Lowered proc chance from 20% to 10%.
• Archives floors are now a bit bigger, but doesn't get as affected by larger size modifiers.
• Removed Magic Furnaces from mines.
• Fix for multiple Vampire Lord bestiary entries.
• Fix for Vampire Lord not spawning if you hadn't picked up any crosses.
• Fixed Fancy Plume allowing item duplication in dungeon stores when reloading.
• Dungeon and Arena settings UI now has a slider, when hovering over the NG value, for changing the level.
• Fix for dungeon settings UI always being available once you complete either campaign.
• Speedrun UI now supports all dungeons rather than just Forsaken Tower.
• Crash fixes.
• Performance improvements.

• Fixed an issue where saves got tagged as being modded when joining multiplayer lobbies where the host had enabled cheating

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New Features

• When gambling in the Tavern you now have a chance to win bonus prizes in the form of Drinks, Blueprints and Dyes. Raise the stakes to increase your chances of winning higher quality prizes.
• Three new Fountain effects: Expeditious Expedition, It's Your Lucky Day and It's Not Your Lucky Day.
• You can now save your favorite Fountain setups with the help of presets.
• New item "Golden Lamp" added for Pyramid of Prophecy owners.

Gameplay Adjustments and Balance

NG+ Progression Changes

• Available NG+ is now unlocked across all campaigns. Including Arena.
• The highest completed NG+ across all campaigns and heroes is now tracked by the Town.
• Completing a campaign at a NG+ level that is lower or equal to your highest available NG+ level will count as the hero completing the campaign at that level and you will receive the corresponding rewards and effects.
• In practice, this means your heroes can skip NG+ levels up to your highest completed across all characters and campaigns.
• In multiplayer, when completing a campaign above your highest tracked NG+, it counts as you completed that campaign at your highest tracked NG+.

General

• Blood Rite bonuses are now scaled up based on the current NG+ you are playing.
• Retired Gladiator now tracks what upgrades you have bought on each hero, and respeccing upgrades is now free in gold up until the maximum-ever upgraded value.
• Tweaked Magic Furnace costs. Available items to craft are now also limited by act.
• Added an option for selling 100 ore at the Ore Trader.
• Character list now displays if a hero is currently in a dungeon or not.
• Improved the "mismatched mods" dialog.
• Archives act is now a bit smaller and with fewer enemies.
• Removed teleports in Archives that doesn't lead you to a hidden room.
• Removed wind between Great Threats in the Battlements act.
• Reworked Great Threat in the Chambers act. You no longer face the Vampire when picking up crosses, he now appears instead of bats as the Great Threat.
• The Thief is now more likely to spawn in Prison after reaching the Archives act.
• The secret room with the duke is now more likely to spawn in Armory after reaching the Chambers act.
• Nimbus now adds +25 HP and Mana per level to your potion.

Classes

• Paladin - Charge: The Paladin will now only go through enemies if the damage instance kills them. Charge now also stuns enemies for 0.5 seconds in a small area on impact.
• Paladin - Shield: Block arc reduced from 90/120/150/180/210 degrees to 80/100/120/140/160 degrees.
• Wizard - Flame Shield: Cooldown reduced from 8/7/6/5 seconds to 7.5/6/4.5/3 seconds.
• Gladiator - Trident: Movement speed penalty during usage was lowered slightly.
• Priest - Smite: Smite no longer blocks the use of other skills when attacking.
• Witch Hunter - Repeater Crossbow: Lowered the spread slightly.

Items and Drinks

• Added two new item sets: "Rings of Recovery" and "The Shining Knight", consisting of pre-existing items.
• Markham's set now gives +0.25 Armor/Resistance per item at step 3 & 4.
• Reworked Wrath of the Thundergod: Now shoots 5 lightning bolts at nearby enemies when hit, dealing 10 Magical damage each.
• Reworked Blood Dagger: Changed to 10% chance to regain 2.5% of your current Health on primary attack.
• Ring of Arcane Powers: Now also has a 10% chance to restore all your mana when casting a Skill with a 2 second cooldown.
• Mask of Bewilderment: Now also increases your damage dealt to confused enemies by 25%.
• Spiked Boots: Increased damage from 25 to 50.
• Cranky Clergyman: Changed the positive effect so it gives +25% Resistance instead of a flat +25 to Resistance.

Various Changes and Fixes

• Added colored health bars to the Three Councillors.
• Added missing stat for killing Thundersnow.
• Fixed some Drink cost inconsistencies.
• Fix for companions always facing right when idling.
• Fixed floating texts not showing the correct amount healed by Remedy.
• Fixed multiple healing floating texts when drinking potion.
• Some character screen tooltip fixes.
• Fixed Nimbus’ X-ray color.
• Monstrous Eyes (Archives mini-boss) shouldn't get stuck as easily in the Archives.
• Various fixes and tweaks to different enemy skills.
• Fixed a crash caused by the Defender’s Halberd.
• Crash fixes.
• Performance improvements.

• Fixed an invulnerability exploit
• Reworked luck to be a bit more consistent
• Made it easier to hit with the Thiefs Grappling Hook and Warlocks Soul Dagger
• Fix for accidental character duplication that could happen after character creation
• Fixed menu lock when getting disconnected while typing in multiplayer chat
• Fixed walking pets being stuck indefinitely
• Gladiator class is now retroactively unlocked if gladiator rank is greater than 0
• You can no longer die in town

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• Fixed load screen freezing for some users running in fullscreen.
• Added missing blueprint for Defender's Halberd.
• Cape of Withdrawal can no longer be attuned. (Attuning it had no effect).
• Pendant of Penance was accidentally tagged as a PoP-only item. Now available in the base game.
• Fixed names and materials for Gladiator.
• Fix for the Witch Hunter DLC store page button in the main menu.

New Features

• Magic Furnace - New dungeon mechanic that lets you craft items during your run.
• Item Gambler - New dungeon mechanic that lets you stake items for a random new one.
• Companions - Acquire a companion that helps you collect gold and ore.
• New drinks - Caustic Touch, Markhams Moonshine, Primal Fury and The Hairy Magus.
• New statue - "Daran" the red priest, (requires Pyramid of Prophecy).

Gameplay Adjustments and Balance

• Reworked Watcher boss fight.
• Tweaked player NG+ scaling of Armor/Resistance.
• Increased boss health scaling in NG+.
• Retired Gladiator - Upgrades to Armor and Resistance only gives you +0.5 instead of +1.
• Path of the Magician - Changed from 20% to 25%.
• Path of the Warrior - Changed from 20% to 25%.
• Path of the Defender - Changed from 20% to 15%.

• Paladin - Health per level lowered from 10 to 8. Armor per level lowered from 0.7 to 0.6.
• Charge - Increased width of the charge so its easier to hit enemies. Increased mana cost from 10/12/14/16/18/20 to 10/13/16/19/22/25.
• Powershot - Now fires 2 additional projectiles.
• Smoke Bomb - Now obscures vision for most ranged enemies. Increased mana cost from 30/35/40 to 30/40/50. Increased cooldown from 5s to 7s.
• Soul Dagger - Increased width and range of the attack. Lowered movement speed penalty while attacking.
• Soul Cleaver - Enemies killed while under the effect of Soul Consumption have a chance to apply Soul Consumption to nearby enemies. Increased range slightly.
• Holy Light - Increased healing.

• Medusa’s Charm - Enemies affected by the gaze now also have their armor reduced by 50%. Lowered the slow from 66% to 50%.
• Duke's Signet Ring - Increased healing from 3% to 7.5%.
• Greaves of the Barbarian - Now always triggers movement speed buff when killing an enemy.
• Mail of Thorns - Now also gives +2 Armor.
• Great Helm - Increased Armor from +5 to +7.
• Boots of Freedom - Changed to Epic.
• Greater Sphere of Regen - Changed to +50% Health Regen and +75% Mana Regen.
• Markham's Mastery - Moved first set bonus from 3 to 4 items.
• Kings Regalia - Set bonus changed from 33%/66% to 25%/50%.

Various Changes and Fixes

• Added more chest room variations.
• Added Monoliths used stat and accomplishment.
• Fixed an issue where you could get stuck outside the bridges in Upper Pyramid.
• Fixed pasting not being supported in chat (and all other text input widgets).
• Enemies can now be killed by poison.
• Ghosts now drain a percentage of your mana instead of a flat amount.
• You can now change the menu theme in options.
• Fixed music not starting when loading a save.
• Fixed a problem with fountain effects saving in town rather than in run.
• Fixed dungeon settings not using the host's highest NG+ level.
• Added an effect for Medusas Charm.
• Added effect and sound for gaining a potion charge with the Apothecary Set.
• New art for Apothecary's Sphere.
• Performance improvements.
• Crash fixes.

DLC Specific:

• Repeater Crossbow
• Flaming Hounds
• Branding Ward
• Witch Pyre
• A Murder of Crows
• Fanatic Zeal
• Searing Torch

• New items.
• DLC specific companion, a raven.
• A new dungeon mechanic called Blood Rite.

Patch 97:

• Overall balance changes and bug fixes.
• Balance changes and improvements for several other classes.
• Companion/pet support (3 companions for those that owns all DLCs (1 free)).
• Item gambler in dungeons, lets you roll items for new ones.
• Dungeon crafting, the Magic Anvil can now be used in dugeons (if you find it).
• More colors.
• More drinks.
• New statue for the POP-DLC*
• Craft all items that coulden't be crafted before, even if they can't be attuned (not pink and red items).
• Reworked Eye-Boss (Archives boss), should be simpler and faster now.
• And more...

• More variation and a lot of tweaks done to the Arena
• Added switches to the arena
• Fixed Warden's destructible corpse
• You can now destroy the Crustworm's corpse to avoid getting stuck behind it
• Fixed some mini map inconsistency
• Fixed an empty room bug in Upper Pyramid
• Fixed duplicate drink icon (Last Stand and The Last Sin had the same icon)
• Added new sounds
• The game can now handle much higher character levels
• New design for character color picking
• Fixed some crashes

• Fixed random crash in Arena
• Fixed multiplayer timeout during loading causing a crash
• Gladiator summons now properly scale with skillpower for clients
• Fixed Book of Monsters achievement not unlocking sometimes
• Fix for enemies losing aggro in arena after loading

• Fixed issue with double gamepads & joysticks.
• Added controller name tooltip to controls menu so controllers can be identified easier.
• Fixed being able to accidentally change graphics slider options by scrolling down the graphics menu.
• Fixed the game editor for Linux versions of the game.
• The Arena is now always played during daytime.
• The night time in the desert is now a bit brighter.

New Features included with the Pyramid of Prophecy DLC

• The Pyramid of Prophecy campaign is a completely new set of randomly generated levels unlike those experienced in the Forsaken Tower. New surprises and twists await you at every floor!
• Gladiator is a new melee-oriented class focused on the art of physical combat. With the aid of a Crippling Net and Pit Fighter allies, the Gladiator is a master disabler that employs hit-n-run tactics.
• City of Stone serves as the hub for all of the new content, including duplicates of the Fountain, Tapster, and General Store.
• Aridara Arena is the place where you fight waves of enemies for the crowds amusement. Climb the ranks and earn riches and a special Sword Token-currency that can be spent on further upgrades.
• The Retired Gladiator is a new NPC in the City of Stone who exchanges your character’s earned Sword Tokens for permanent upgrades.
• The Sculptor is a a new NPC in the City of Stone who builds Statues of legendary heroes. The Statues provide unique benefits to the whole party and can be upgraded to be more potent.
• Nimbus, The Potion Djinn remains a mystery. You’ll have to find out for yourself how to earn his aid!
• Several new DLC-only items, drinks and dyes have been added. Jump into the game and discover them for yourself!

New Features added to the Base Game

• The Town Hall now has a sixth tier, introducing new levels for the Chapel, General Store, Blacksmith, Magic Shop, Treasury, Ore Trader and Apothecary!
• Custom Voices have been added to the game. Players can choose among different voice packs at the barber, and at character creation.
• Five new items have been added to the base game: Lucky Charm, Lucky Horseshoe, Lucky Hat, Seal of Rage, and Apothecary's Flask.
• A new stat called Luck is introduced, which quite literally makes you luckier by tipping RNG calculations, such as Crit and Evasion, in or against your favor!
• Two new drinks have been added to the base game: Evil Infusion and The Outlook Special.
• Three new Fountain effects have been added: Sluggish Adversaries, Miner’s Strike, and Ace Chests.
• Added Baltzar the Beastmaster to the guild hall. Help him recover his Book of Monsters to unlock new upgrades!

Gameplay Adjustments and Balance

• Using the elevator in single player now pauses the game while you make a deposit.
• Gold and ore rewards when gaining guild hall titles have been increased.
• More accomplishments have been added to the game.
• Two more guild hall titles have been added to the game.
• You can now pick blessings freely on each chapel tier. Additionally, any blessing you unlock will be free to re-select when choosing to Convert.
• When a player is revived, they now become invulnerable for 3 seconds.
• Added “Sundering Strikes” monolith buff (50% armor/resistance piercing).
• Added “Fortuitous Events” monolith buff (+5 Luck).
• The Chambers now have more chest rooms.
• The Lock Up Fountain effect has been removed.
• The Armory Boss no longer drops loot when under the Empty Pockets Fountain effect.
• Some enemies have learned new attacks in NG+.
• The way enemies surround players has been adjusted to reduce clustering.
• Added a small chance of bosses dropping Ace keys.
• The Imp now gives out more ore in the early game Acts.
• Improved The Apothecarys upgrades.
• Added wind effects that slightly increase with each “Great Threat” to the Battlements.
• Lowered the amount of waves of trolls that jumps down when taking the fast way on Battlements Floor 1.
• Collapsing bridges in the Battlements should no longer be able to kill players and now have a chance to spawn a glass walk-bridge.

• Spheres of Power: This set now provides a 25% damage bonus when in Combo at 3, 5, 7, and 9 pieces.
• Cloak of Many Pockets: Increased gold gain from 25% to 50%.
• Markham's Stone: Increased ore gain from 1% to 2% per item in the player’s inventory.

• A Fool's Errand: This drink’s negative effect is now “Health Regen set to 0.”
• Frenetic Eruption: This drink now has a 5% chance of triggering Combo when scoring Crits. The negative effect is now “+20% damage taken while out of Combo.”
• Last Stand: This drink now provides +30% bonus damage & +30% damage reduction while standing still; but +10% damage taken while moving.
• Hammer Time: This drink’s negative effect is now: “Lose 5% of your current health while standing still.”
• Unbalanced Essence: This drink’s negative effect is now: “Lose 10% of your current mana when casting a skill.”
• Spilled Blood: This drink’s base Health reduction has been reduced from 25% to 20%.
• Stab in the Dark: This drink’s Darkness duration has been reduced from 2.5s to 1.5s.

• Crimson Death: This drink now only provides 5% lifesteal on Primary Attack damage.
• Evil Infusion: This drink provides 5% Skill lifesteal. The player loses 10% of their current Health when casting a Skill.

Visual, Audio, and UI Changes

• The character screen now has an “Effects” tab, covering everything that is affecting your player that isn’t an item, including Fountain Effects, Drink Effects, and Monolith Buffs.
• Some Towers now spawn into the game by rising from below the ground when a player approaches. Additionally, their collision is now removed when they’re destroyed.
• It is now possible to host lobbies without a maximum player level restriction.
• Scrolling the mousewheel on slider widgets now slowly increases or decreases the value of the slider. (For example, when choosing a maximum player level, one tick of the mousewheel scroll increments/decrements by 1.)
• Player names now display on their dead corpses.
• Teammates’ mana bars now display under their health bars in the game field.
• Players now receive a visual notification when an Imp spawns.
• Players now receive notifications of NG+ unlocks and progression when returning to town.
• When playing with a gamepad, the in-game mouse pointer now resets to center-screen whenever the player opens or closes any menu or window.

Bug Fixes

• The Thief Class Title modifier now displays correctly in character menu when viewing the Gold Gain % tooltip.
• Some negative modifiers now display in the Character sheet.
• Grappling Hook (Thief Skill): Corrected the speed of this skill.
• Controllers can now be plugged in and out while the game is running.
• Fixed a bug where Combo Nova would trigger twice upon activation.
• The Flame Shield buff icon should no longer accidentally duplicate.
• Fixed a bug in Multiplayer games where breakables wouldn’t netsync correctly, causing them to still appear (and then be unbreakable) for some players after being broken.
• Fixed a bug where players could receive old network messages from game sessions they've already left.
• Fixed a bug where if a player’s Health displayed as 0 due to rounding, they would die upon changing floors.
• Fixed a bug where one of the chambers prefabs would cause heavy frame drops.
• Fixed an issue where players leaving and quickly rejoining a multiplayer game would prevent their character from respawning into the game.
• Fixed an issue where the upgrade payscale wouldn’t apply to gold/ore spent statistics.
• Fixed a bug where some loot was missing.
• Fixed an issue where the amount of Skill Stars spent in the Skill Shop was incorrectly displayed.
• Fixed a lighting related rendering artifact.
• Fixed an issue where some xray colors on player projectiles (those which go under the sides of walls, etc.) wouldn’t display correctly.
• Fixed collision issues with the Vampire’s coffins.
• Fixed a bug in Multiplayer where miniboss health bars would remain after they died.
• Several small visual and audio fixes have been made, as well as cleanups for performance improvement.

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• Now displaying item count per rarity in items tooltip
• Fixed bug with constant wind on Battlements
• Fix potentially missing soul link chain in UI
• Several skills now work better with increased attack speed (like charge)
• UI performance improvements
• Shatter level 1 used the wrong sound
• Changed Ice Elementals to Aberrations
• Fixed some dungeon shop visual inconsistencies
• Fixed mismatched mods in multiplayer
• Added option to allow or disallow modded saves for un-modded hosts
• Crashfixes
• Added settings dialog to editor
• Fixed issue with placing lights in editor

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• Another fix for Battlements not always being beatable
• Fixed wrong title given on beating Thundersnow
• Only save fountain effects for server
• Added ability to unpack mods in mod packager
• Added "extract base resources" button to packager
• Packager now refreshes after packing or unpacking mods
• Fix resource mods not being marked as Workshop items

• Fix for Battlements not always being beatable
• Fix for multiplayer level switch loading
• Fix not being able to join because of mismatched mods even though the mods were correct
• Fix profiles menu crash when upgrading from an old-style savegame
• Fix for Linux build

• Added new act, Battlements, with 2 floors
• Chambers levels made bigger, but the act reduced to 2 floors
• Reworked shortcut levels
• Added modding support

Classes

• Increased health gain by level from 4 to 5
• Sidestep, now has both passive evasion and stacks
• Grappling hook, bigger hitbox

• Orb or Winter shards now bounce and pierce enemies
• Frost Shard damage increased by 10% per enemy pierced/bounce
• Biting Chill, increased freeze chance from 5% to 7.5%
• Shatter, other players can also cause a shatter from your frozen enemies

• Lowered base health from 75 to 60
• Soul Dagger now does damage on every hit, but with 2 lower damage on all levels

• Blastwave now places the correct Scorched Earth for level 3 & 4

• Holy Light, added a small impact aoe

• Marked Prey reworked to being a crit that applies the mark when it procs
• Powershot, 90% slow instead of 100% while charging
• Flurry of Arrows cooldown lowered from 2s to .75s

Items/Drinks

• Added new drinks: Enchanted Slammer, Mind Control, Overflowing Physique, Frenetic Eruption, Kinetic Kiss, Spilled Blood, Stab in the Dark
• Drinks are now free if in stock but cost more money when out of stock
• Added new items: Gloves of Warding, Seal of Souls, Boots of Freedom, Duke's Signet Ring, Searing Sabatons, Mask of Bewilderment, Lesser Sphere of Time, Sphere of Time, Sphere of Warriors, Sphere of Heroes
• Boots of Speed split up in to two items with a set bonus, each giving as much as the old boots
• Lowered cooldowns of Earthsplitter, Stormcaller, Wrath of the Thundergod, Scarab of Protection and Descending Destruction so they trigger more frequently
• Increased damage of Spiked boots from 15 to 25
• Boots of the Giant moved to rare
• Stormcaller, increased range of the lightning bolt
• Descending Destruction, increased damage and burning
• Reinforced Gloves now block more damage

Fixes and changes

• You no longer have to press a button under the armory statues
• Class titles now scale infinitely
• Separated respeccing attunements from skills
• Lowered taxes when defeating the last boss
• Shop no longer spawns on the first level of an act
• Added new shop variations
• Mana drain debuff is now a percentage loss of max mana
• Added announcement text to imp
• Added "Gold Fever" monolith buff
• Game over screen now shows icon of whoever killed you
• Adjusted enemy health scaling to be lower when playing as 2 or 3 people
• Show cost of locked chapel upgrades
• Added several new dyes
• Statistics can now go above 2 billion without getting bugged
• Removed attack and skill effects icon/text in character menu, it's now part of the tooltip of attack power
• Improved frame limiter accuracy
• Experimental fixes for getting pushed through walls
• Fix ace key being given multiple times on town reload
• Fix game over screen crash which can happen randomly
• Added and adjusted several new sounds