Path of Achra news & patch notes

apologies to anyone who experienced gaining thousands of glory etc

thank you to everyone who reported it, haha

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/b84a4283e5fc55cdfb8d9864ecb968b97a13492e.png Between moments of illness, wanted to push out at least some work for the path here, some fixes / light changes, of the thousand little tweaks I'd love to make, haha

• Stormbringer now correctly applies Charge when dealing lightning damage
• Agni Helm now correctly scales with Willpower
• Qamar now correctly only does astral damage if at least one armor slot is empty
• somewhat increased the King's hit / life
• Asclepa now correctly does 5 * willpower damage
• Arjana blind / freeze increase changed to dexterity / 5
• Master Repulsion psychic / astral damage increase now also scales with skill level, needs enemies to gain stacks
• Briar Mage no longer applies entangle on game turn, now applies entangle to a few enemies at global range and increases all physical / poison damage by stacks of entangle on the target * 10

Additionally, the new project has a steam page: Lands of Achra Much effort is being put toward this. Beyond anything, the response PoA has gotten has filled me with a lot of love and energy, and I want to build out the world even more here The actual scope will no doubt be less grandiose than what I'm imagining, but if anything there will be plenty of builds to make, bare-chested battling of monsters, and poem-fragments, of those who roam the distorted earth... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/0351e0d41615cf2bd9aa82f519286bca9a218206.png

realized people really like the "cashout" gameplay of anroth so softened the power-point penalty

customary rebalancing of recent things, boosted master repulsion as well

• Tethic monks depowered somewhat
• Master Freeze now applies a lot less self-freeze on stand still and no longer increases all freeze applied (forgot to do this)
• Master Repulsion now applies 5% of Repulsion on self * skill level
• Ogham now only performs a prayer once per initial attack, not per empty armor slot (still scales heavily with ranged AOE)
• Anroth now spends all your power points when you learn it
• Fixed a bug that was causing Hadad 3rd prayer to charge with any unit attacking
• Fixed Apophis 3rd prayer not gaining 2 charges
• Fixed Agni items not healing
• typos / other bugs

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/74b181c0ea2d2e6073ba006d248101c71e604da8.png This update has a lot of buffs, with some infinite combos being corrected, plus two new funky prestige classes, one of them being very overpowered (probably, haha, I want to see what people do with it). Some new threats: Scorch damage multiplier + a new "Purge" enemy trait. An Eaten Star void zone

General
• You can now clear your current character data / all data from the title menu
• Hovering over enemies on the world map will show your relevant resistance next to their damage type
• Scorch total damage now repeats per 20 stacks Culture / Class / Religion
• Ihra now also gain protection on entrance
• Brud now also heals off of Plague
• Arjana reworked, now applies Blind on hit, increases all Freeze / Blind stacks by Dexterity
• Kull no longer increases all evasion, now just gains 3 evasion on step / dodge
• Naqui now also gains 1 attune on being attacked
• Baghatar now instead deals +5% damage per empty prayer charge
• Reaver extra attacks now also trigger on initial attack
• Worm first prayer now deals 300 Psychic damage to self if no enemies live
• Mehtar reworked, now on game turn / prayer does everything per stack of dream (up to 5): summon a phantasm, apply 1 Dream to self, perform a Hit against one 1 enemy in a 4 tile range
• Hadad 3rd prayer now gains charges when you attack, max charges raised to 6
• Apophis 3rd prayer now gains 2 charges on glory rising, consumes all charges when used
• Pallas 3rd prayer now upgrades main-hand if no off-hand equipped, also upgrades block
• Yu now gains Refraction = Willpower and adds +3 to all applied effects
• Phoenix self-damage now occurs on prayer / stand still, instead of game turn
• Eresh now works in the path of dust Powers
• Added "on learn" text to several "on entrance" powers to clarify the mechanic, especially extra familiars being summoned
• Chamakana now also triggers off of slash / pierce damage
• Morbumancy / Pyromancy / Cryomancy damage increase now scales with skill level * stacks on the target
• Frostpulse damage scaling increased
• Geistform reflavored as Crystalform, no longer limits speed, doubles inflexibility
• Master Freeze no longer heals, now deals damage to all enemies with Freeze Prestige
• Added Anroth, "powerless" prestige class, doubles attributes (when learned), fully heals and upgrades weapons when glory rises
• Added Ogham, can't manually use prayers or receive divine interventions, performs random prayers per empty armor slot on initial attack
• Dread Legion / Grave Chant added to possible Necromancer requirements
• Master Freeze should no longer prevent self-scorch application from Surtmir
• Doomsayer now prevents enemies from removing Doom
• Crowform damage now also scales *5
• Frenzied One self-damage trigger changed to on stand still / being attacked, instead of on attack
• Strijela now deals main-hand weapon damage instead of Pierce damage
• Executioner changed to "on killing an enemy" (infinite attack combo)
• Psychonaut now requires you to deal psychic damage in a 3 tile range to trigger the teleport (infinite damage combo)
• Surtmir should now be able to apply Scorch to self through Master Freeze
• Arch-Lizard and Gallus armor requirements reduced
• Death Knight now also applies Doom when allies block / shrug off Items
• Xyston description changed to "a unit" stepping next to you (includes allies)
• Emerald Helm now only heals 5% but also triggers on prayer
• Marsh Trabea now applies Evasion instead of Poise
• Robe of Vigor now grants allies +10% of your max Life, and increases Vigor life gain by 50
• Agni Skirt and Agni Helm reworked to be more like Agni Mantle, scaling with Dexterity / Willpower, Mantle now applies 10 * Strength Scorch
• Hamid Pendant now deals fire damage to you equal to your Corrosion stacks
• Talwar given "on attack" trigger
• Vine Scythe, Fire Scythe and Doom Blade given "on attack" trigger
• Transal Chakram now performs a hit against a random enemy whenever anything teleports
• Rebel Jambiya now once again doubles the target's lowest-stack harmful effect
• Jade Helm reworked as Jade Veil, now performs a Hit against attackers, damage equals total effect stacks Enemies
• Curbed the cycle scaling for max life non-guardian enemies
• Raised the glory-reward of several early enemies
• Added Purge to a number of enemies - removes all effects from the target on hit

Can't say I'm comfortable being in the slow update era of the Path, but it's to work on the new iteration, a more expansive game of battles and lands {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/92a3573f8b04cfd401704e144fdb9e93becb69a5.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/85f4b56f5a7ae051f338055ce6ec60726812629e.png Gratitude to everyone, new and old, thank you for the support

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/47813a389692160ce1bc25055a823b5d66212ca8.png I am HONORED to present some new Granga and Swamp content, haha. Focused on adding some more enemies, funky prestige classes, and in general buffing a lot of stuff that seemed weaker (this is in general what I like to do). I've actually felt guilty since everyone in early access got to experience really rapid additions and all the new people haven't gotten to "enjoy" that. However I think the burnout is pretty much gotten over, it was very helpful to take a break

General
• Added FPS limit option
• TAB no longer instantly enters a new world-tile if it's the only option
• Slightly increased item spawn (ideally it's possible to find everything pre-void)
• Some new verses from the vizier-imp Enemies
• Added 2 new special Void location: Astral Swamps and Blue Tower
• Added Tethic Monk as an early enemy
• reduced Jawhara cycle-hp scaling Culture
• Skeleton starting health lowered to be in line with Imp / Morlock
• Arjana now also heals on being attacked
• Albaz heal increased
• Protection (Ihra) no longer removed on self-damage Class
• Baghatar now deals +1 damage per stack of each effect on self
• Myrmidon now deals +20% physical damage per point of Inflexibility
• Upuat now requires empty chest armor to enter Jackalform Religion
• Apophis's first 2 prayers max charges raised to 9
• Worm first prayer no longer deals self-damage
• Eresh's passive heal / damage now scales on number of items in your bag, damage range is now global
• Eresh first prayer no longer removes Doom
• Mouths of Eresh are now correctly tagged as Undead
• Dumuzi's first prayer now also removes Doom
• Mehtar extra hit range increased to 4 Powers
• Psychic Retort now instead grants repulsion on being attacked
• Shimmergang now summons Blinksnakes (reptiles), that teleport themselves / enemies on hit
• Sparkform should now apply when you learn it as well (to match other "on entrance" powers)
• Grika (Ice Familiar) now redeals blunt damage as ice Prestige Classes
• Added Elementalist, 20 points in "kinesis" powers
• Added Suwag, 20 points in Gore Cleave
• Added Aqliyya, 20 points in Mindfighter
• Starjumper now instead teleports to a random tile on step (trying this out)
• Sahasi now deals +3 damage per stack of Poise on self Items
• Crimson Staff ability range raised to 4
• Muruna Sash now also performs an extra attack on step
• Hamid Pendant no longer protects you from fire damage triggered by Corrosion
• Mask of Acid now works on non-adjacent attackers
• Staff of Earth now applies 3 Poise to self on stand still and scales damage with encumbrance
• Xyston now also performs an attack against enemies that step adjacent to you
• Several Shields gained an "on being hit" trigger (Skiagh, Fire Shield, Bleed / Acid / Meditate shields)
• Skiagh now applies much more inflame
• Tachi damage raised to 100% of Main-hand Hit and given wind animation
• Amethyst Helm damage raised to 300% of Main-hand Hit
• Ragna Axe changed to on attack, deal Fire and Ice damage to a random enemy = 100% of Main-hand Hit (previous form had an infinite damage combo)
• Changed several swords into axes, robes into necklaces / trabea Bugs
• Rebel Jambiya no longer sometimes applies non-harmful effects
• Stormbringer no longer also applies charge on kill (old effect)
• Bloodrage should now heal allies if they get it
• Poison Familiar's poison damage should now work correctly
• Inuqqa should now correctly protect against damage from freeze when standing still
• made some changes that should help with crashes relating to loading a save from the demo / older version into the new version - it should at least not immediately crash now, and give you a chance to clear your save in-game instead of messing with the files
• Fixed many more less-remarkable ones *Next update is going to focus on some new kinds of feats, and ways for the game to back up your save in case of steam cloud messing up / other stuff

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/57feec766d8fffeeb72c60767464c5c81788442b.png Wanted to make a post welcoming all the new players and to say more content is coming (examples above). The release went a lot better than I expected and I've taken the opportunity to begin to recharge my energies In general, even though it's been deemed "version 1" I want to add a lot more enemies and fill in more gaps, so that's the general roadmap for the Path, along with many other things that I'm not thinking of, haha It's been amazing getting to meet all you new folks both here and in the discord. Thank you to everyone who commented on the last big post, it kept my spirits high throughout the launch Simultaneously, I've also begun some preliminary work on a continuation of the Achra universe, now that I've learned more about how to build a game, and seen that other people actually enjoy this dark ancient-earth fantasia {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/391d77b7d4d2b816e4fa5dee295bc68e35cb3d35.gif So there may be some additional updates on this stuff as well Thank you again. The response for PoA has given me a way to pour out a lot of creative enthusiasm, and everyone I've interacted with has motivated me to take the work further

Thanks for all the good vibes, feeling the love, hope to give it back some more Mostly just a bunch of typos / bugfixes / attempted bugfixes here, thank you to all the new people who found stuff and sent in reports

• Apophis self-damage raised to 7% and now correctly does astral (was wrongfully dealing fire damage, which had a very invincible combo with fire healing)
• Added Esty8nine and Pawnce to content creator credits (they're awesome, forgot to add due to my sleep deprivation)
• Tried to shore up a bug that was causing spam-clicking the prayers (with a mouse) to crash the game, let me know if it's still happening
• Fixed a bug that was causing Phoenix's 3rd prayer not to charge
• Inuqqa should now correctly prevent freeze-triggered damage
• other bugs / typos

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/3287c73f3ca89efd2ddee4cdbfa6184f892031e9.png At long last, the first "official" version of PoA. This has been a very new experience for me, not just the computer stuff -- I've never worked on and thought about a single project for 2+ years like this. I have a lot of appreciation for you all who helped me do it, and tried to describe it in this credits screen: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/d943086fb3508c93d13b059c415efc23e8daa481.png new stuff for version 1.0

• Added 8 more cycles, can now right click the cycle bar to go down in cycle
• Added Arjana, culture, apply 1 Blind when attacked, +1 stacks of Blind applied by you
• Added Myrmidon, class, +1 Inflex per 5 points of Dexterity, Block doubled against non-adjacent enemies, shield retaliates with block-scaling death damage
• Added Apophis, religion, grants you strength every time you enter a level, causes you to inflict % max life astral damage to yourself whenever you are attacked
• 4 new starting poems, from the tablet of the vizier-imp
• 3 new tracks to round out the theme of the recent ones
• Added a brief "credits" screen

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/39b552c0b2d3d1cda60f2d4d5df5ea59dd6c43ae.png other tweaks -- as always, ongoing

• Kull now grants +1 stacks of Evasion applied by you
• Baghatar's Kilij now grants +2 physical damage per point of speed
• Takhal 2nd prayer now deals 100 * (number of enemies) damage to yourself
• Stormbringer changed, now instead gain charge on dealing ice (not freeze on lightning), removed on kill part, area damage now also triggers on divine intervention (previous freeze from lightning was causing an infinite combo involving crystal hand)
• Crowform self-damage changed to flat 15
• Zealot Hood heal reduced to 5% of max life
• Ill Manica changed, now deals poison damage on attack, applies meditate to self on dealing poison damage (previous form had an infinite combo involving cobra staff)
• Arja Spear ice damage changed to your total Block
• Xyston now increased physical damage by 20% of your armor
• Prayers no longer charge if you're dead
• Eris no longer continuously gains upgrades in the Path of Dust
• Skeleton is now treated as having a full bag in the Path of Dust

some plans for beyond v1.0

• more special void areas
• more interesting / flavorful feats
• the eternal tweaks / rebalancing of items / powers
• potentially other stuff, depending

Thank you again for joining me here. Makes me seriously very happy *also thank you for the bug reports / typo-finding, you've caught more than I ever could alone, it's been tremendously helpful

alright if this didn't break anything then next update will be may 7th, version 1.0, thank you everyone for helping with this

• the data for victory markers is now saved independently from the maqbara -- it'll be updated if you enter the character select screen, then going forward it will update when you win, and you should be able to delete Maqbara entries with impunity without losing the victory markers
• (hopefully) stopped players from entering a new land after dying on the map screen (this crashes the game)
• (hopefully) fixed a bug that was letting you try and enter the path of dust after deleting all maqbara entries (this crashes the game)

thank you everyone, again, the support has been really helpful, probably going to bugfix / tweak this one then hold onto the next one for 1.0

• Added Arbestus, hand armor, perform a hit against 1 enemy in a 2 tile range on attack / stand still, repeat for each bare fist
• Kaza Whip ability range increased to 3
• Blight Helm now also summons a Cadaver if you attack a target that has Doom
• Astrohunting cost raised to 5, now gives -1 inflex per level
• Snakeform now gives dodge instead of armor, no longer reduces speed
• Virya now sets weapon size to 7
• "on entrance" added to templar anoint
• Ashem now applies 1 Grace to you on being attacked
• Angra 1st prayer now a 4 tile range, 3rd prayer now applies sickness and bleed
• Takhal 2nd prayer now loses a charge when an ally dies (if enemies live)
• Humbaba now heals 10 on kill, 1st prayer now applies 5 Bloodrage
• Mehtar now also performs a hit against an adjacent enemy per stack of dream (on game turn, up to 10)

2 weeks until 1.0, combing through the powers some more, another void item, thank you for the reports

• Added Ill Manica, void arm armor, apply 3 sickness on dealing Astral damage, deal Astral damage to the target when attacking with a bare fist
• Astrostoicism now applies Poise instead of Meditate (overlap with Master Teleport)
• Starstone Discplate now instead applies 5 Meditate and 5 Poise
• Acidify now applies Corrosion to 3 enemies in a 3 tile range, amount increases with level, also triggers on attack
• Oros no longer grants AOE to shimmering orbs (they'll still have AOE if the base weapon does)
• Psiblade cost increased
• other typos and stuff

did a few power reworks, apologies if this creates any volatile easiness, haha, some good stuff here for retaliatory builds though

• Added Imp, culture, -2 Inflex, change all dealt damage into a random damage type
• Eris's upgraded items now fully transfer their attributes when sacrificed
• Astrostoicism changed to "on being dealt damage by an enemy"
• Poison Skin now applies sickness to enemies at any range
• Frost Armor now applies extra Freeze per level
• Master Scorch's damage is now retaliatory and triggers on being attacked, cost increased
• Upuat now requires "if unencumbered" to enter Jackalform
• Acidify now also deals poison damage to all enemies with corrosion on divine intervention
• Angra first prayer now does minimum 1 damage (if at full life)
• Snakeform cost reduced, now heals on divine intervention instead of dealing poison damage
• Pugilism / Psiblade now only need the main-hand to be a bare fist for their bonuses to work (even a "two-handed" bare fist, like an Oros orb)
• other bugfixes / tweaks

the "path to version 1.0" streak continues, thank you so much to everyone who has been putting in bug reports and feedback, it's very doable to continuously modify stuff right now

• added Beastmaster, prestige class, 20 points in a beast familiar, summons a more powerful version of your highest-level beast familiar (poison, fire or ice)
• Master Teleport now also triggers when any unit teleports, and deals damage to a random enemy when you teleport
• Crystal Plating now applies meditate per point of inflex instead of dealing ice damage
• other bug fixes

had to rework night-crow a little bit because it wasn't working at all (damage events being triggered by the transformation itself was creating a sequence disruption between things like batform) also it should now actually be unlockable from finding staffs + some tone-downs of aurora chant and mura since they were already written in

using these daily updates to do some rapid difficulty calibrations, apologies for the flux

• The player will now always try to enter levels near wall clusters, instead of it being totally random -- this should somewhat alleviate "firing squad" scenarios
• Re-adjusted some enemy frequency (Death Knights had been recently, mistakenly set to spawn up to 6 in a level, haha)
• Virya now also transforms your starting weapon(s) into Mighty Blade, regardless of damage type -- can get fun things like a Mighty Blade shield with this
• Zasadzka Claw now counts as a bare fist
• Bolga now causes you to lose 1% all resistances per stack of charge on self
• Hazar description clarified, only heals from enemies on acid terrain
• In the end screen, you if you mouse over the stats (like damage dealt) it will show some more number-info in place of the poem -- will add more to this

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43099919/6ed18ca2b5a04551f1268c08193bf2db2ce21fd1.png Path of Achra will be officially leaving early access on May 7th. To that end, there will be a fun content sprint this month, as the starting options, items and prestige classes are completed and revised, along with a few other features. I'm pretty much excrutiatingly grateful to you all who have helped bring it here, and 1.0 of course won't be the end of updates As for this update, all the lore entries have been added. I didn't originally think it would be the kind of game for lore, but players have shown interest, and surprisingly a world has emerged...it would be fun to make a 4x-type thing with this stuff, haha... PLEASE keep sending in the bug reports, I put them in a big list and they feel really satisfying to fix

• Feats renamed as Lore, all lore entries completed (still subject to future change though, as is everything)
• Ikshana reworked slightly, no longer summons on step, no longer makes allies stationary, 1st and 3rd prayers now gain charges when you step if not adjacent to an enemy
• Uspori now only applies paralysis to enemies in a 2 tile range
• Inuqqa now correctly removes freeze from itself, instead of every other effect
• Crow Visage reworked slightly, removed its meditate stuff, the self-damage is now "on stand still" which should work better with other stand still heals and not get queued separately, although it will always be bizarre in how it works (stand still can cause deaths which create new stand still chains within the queue) (also, in a vacuum the crow visage is now pretty much a "cursed" item, which is nice)
• Mind Diamond reworked to apply 5 Repulsion to self and perform a Hit against 1 enemy at any range
• Raised the cost of Life Chant to 5
• Generally tried to make sure all effect-enhancing abilities get applied before effect-duplicating ones (like Freeze becoming Doom)
• Fixed a bug where Pearl Mirrors were taking damage from your hits - they will still trigger on-hit effects though
• Fixed Zealot Hood not healing if no enemies live
• Fixed some more bugs with abilities that trigger on applying Freeze
• Steam achievement for Anqarak
• Other typos / inaccurate text Didn't get to it but immediately planned: search bar for start menu, indication of which options you've won with in start menu (want to rework how it looks before doing this)