Siralim Ultimate news & patch notes

The massive 2.0 update is now live for beta testing! This update introduces multilingual support, new game modes, and hundreds of new creatures, traits, spell gems, achievements, cosmetics, and more. You’ll also find new specializations, currencies, quality-of-life improvements, UI upgrades, performance optimizations, and expanded game customization options. We've included balance changes, bug fixes, and a general layer of polish across the board. Once we confirm that everything is stable, we will begin rolling this update out to other platforms as well. Patch notes and Windows beta opt-in instructions: https://www.thylacinestudios.com/blog/siralim-ultimate-2-0-patch-notes

As mentioned in my previous post, the Siralim Ultimate backer shop is now open for business! Ever wanted to add your own ideas to the game? Now is your chance!

I'm pleased to announce that we've resumed development on Siralim Ultimate! Recently, we distributed a survey via Discord to see what players wanted to be added to the game. With over 500 responses, these insights will pave the way toward a new future for Siralim Ultimate, as well as our other games. Many of the responses took me by surprise, but let's jump to the part you probably care about the most: more content for Siralim Ultimate! Localization, Bug Fixes, and Quality of Life The game still has some bugs that need to be fixed, and those fixes will be included in an upcoming patch. I've also included some quality of life features. Lastly, the game will finally support localization so players can enjoy the game in other languages. Backer Shop Over one-third of survey respondents (far, far more than expected) expressed interest in the return of the backer shop. So, we're bringing it back, improved and streamlined based on past experiences. Here's what to expect: - We'll open a new page on our website where supporters can choose what kind of content they want us to create, payable via PayPal (no account required). The shop will open on May 1, 2024. - After choosing your content, we'll reach out to you via email to ask for some more details. - Once approved, your request will be added to our queue. - Your new content will be added to the game in an upcoming patch. It is important to remember that we will likely receive a lot of orders, and it is very difficult to provide an ETA on when your content will be ready. I'll do my best to keep everyone updated with our progress and plan to keep a public spreadsheet available so you can track this progress in real time. To be clear, this content will be made available for all players, so even if you don't want to pay for anything, you can still look forward to a huge new batch of creatures, spells, decorations, and much more - absolutely free of charge. New Game Content Unsurprisingly, most respondents were interested in new content - particularly, extra game modes (chosen when you start a new save file). Here are a few examples of some new game modes, but please remember these are all in the "ideas phase" and are subject to change, or might not even make it into the final game at all: - Sandbox Mode. Gives you instant access to all creatures, spells, decorations, cards, and more. This is great for testing purposes. - Ruthless Mode. This mode features fewer item drops, faster-scaling difficulty, and other tweaks to slow the game down a bit while making everything feel more rewarding. The name of this mode was borrowed from the same one in Path of Exile, so if you've played that, you should have some idea about what to expect here. - Story Skip Mode. You'll still start at level 1, but all story quests will be finished, and certain features will be unlocked immediately. - Randomizer Mode. You'll be able to randomize all kinds of different things, such as the creatures that spawn in each realm, the contents of shops, and much more. - Calm Mode. This mode aims to make battles feel less hectic by reducing the maximum number of actions that can be taken, such as the number of attacks/casts that can be done in one turn. Several traits and other effects will be modified to make it more difficult to reach these new limits as well. I have some ideas that are really creative and experimental as well, but I'd rather not reveal them until I'm sure I can make them work. These modes can be mixed and matched for a personalized gaming experience. We're also planning to unlock some new content through "stretch goals" in our backer shop, akin to Kickstarter campaigns. Patch Timeline The difficult part about updating Siralim Ultimate is that so many players (roughly 60%, judging by the survey results) use our cloud storage feature to access their save files on multiple platforms. Unfortunately, this means that if I add content to one platform, you won't be able to play that save file on another platform until that platform receives the new content as well. For that reason, I will keep this patch on our Steam beta branch for a pretty long time. The patch will include the promised localizations, bug fixes, suggestions, backer content, and much more. It will be an enormous patch that will take months of testing on the beta branch, but this will ensure that 1) your cloud storage service isn't interrupted and 2) supporters can see their new content added to the game as soon as possible. The Next Game Lastly, I'm very excited to announce that I've been working on a new game over the last 2 years. It's too soon to reveal any major details yet, but if you like Siralim, I suspect you'll enjoy the new game as well. It's yet another massive RPG that boasts thousands of hours of content. This year is going to be a massive one for us, and I can't wait to share more information very soon! Stay tuned for more updates and reveals.

Siralim Ultimate is on sale at 40% off for Android and iOS this week! This is the first time the game has ever been discounted on these platforms. And remember, you can transfer your save file between the mobile, Steam, and Switch versions of the game at any time!

Finally, Siralim Ultimate is available on Nintendo Switch in the North America, Europe, and Australia regions! You can use the Cloud Storage feature on the title menu to transfer your save files between the Steam, Switch, Android, and iOS versions as well. Enjoy!

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Patch 1.1.1 is now available on all platforms! Thanks to everyone who tested the patch and reported bugs/crashes. This update includes 10 new specializations, along with many new spells, minions, achievements, costumes, skins, anointments, and much more. On top of that, we've added several of quality-of-life improvements to the game as a result of your feedback. Here are the patch notes in case you missed them in my last post: PATCH NOTES - 8 specializations have been added to the game: Toxicologist, Engineer, Shadowbringer, Demonologist, Mime, Graveborn, Gladiator, and Brewmaster. You can unlock them via new projects. - 2 Challenge Specializations have been added to the game: Pariah and Deprived. Instead of providing you with bonuses, these specializations make you significantly weaker. However, if you're able to Ascend them, you'll earn a special reward. These specializations' projects are only available after you unlock the Gate of the Gods. - Additional content related to the new specializations has been added: 120 achievements, 30 costumes, 10 skins, new anointments, and more. - 10 spells have been added to the game. These were added to extend support for under-utilized debuffs such as Poison and Cursed. - 11 minions have been added to the game. Many of these work much differently than normal minions (and most are exclusive to the new Demonologist specialization), so check out the Codex for more information. - Each week, a new buff will activate that either increases your Card Drop Rate, Skin Drop Rate, Nether Stone Drop Rate, or Bonus Loot. You can see which buff is active by interacting with the new Calendar decoration in your castle (found in the Utilities/NPC category). - You can now choose to consume 1, 2, or 3 tickets at the Gambling Dwarves. This multiplies your rewards by the number of tickets spent, and also counts as playing that many times for the sake of Prophecies and Achievements. - The following new macro conditions have been added to the Macro Editor: Resurrection Count, Death Count, Is Not At Top of Timeline, Is Not At Bottom of Timeline, Has Trait, and Doesn't Have Trait. Note for those last two: prior to this patch, many traits were not recorded in your Codex (False Gods, God Battles, etc), so you'll need to encounter these traits in battles before you'll see them appear on the list. - You can sort Nether Stones by Locked and Unlocked in all interfaces. - You can now rename your Nether Stones at the Blacksmith using the new "Etch" function. - Most Arsenal and Booze spells have been changed/buffed to be more useful. - Most Exotic creatures' traits and backer traits are now more powerful. - The Lister and Jotun fights no longer use battle fatigue as their metric for victory, and are instead based on the number of turns creatures have taken in battle (24 total turns for Lister, 36 total turns for Jotun). The intent of this change is to shorten these fights under normal circumstances, make them a bit more predictable, and prevent players from feeling like they need to fish for certain realm properties to defeat Jotun in a reasonable amount of time. - None of the False Gods are immune to Blighted anymore, and False God self-healing from their innate traits no longer counts as healing effects. - Cabalist's "Flow of Magic" perk has been revamped because it was simply an inferior version of this specialization's "Prism" perk. - Enemies can no longer spawn with the "Saving Grace" spell. Note that they can still acquire this spell in battle through other effects. - Numbers greater than or equal to 1 quadrillion are now expressed using scientific notation. This means that all numbers can now be displayed so the game won't default to "?!?!" if you reach too high of a number. - Massive optimizations to make the game run smoother, especially in battles that drag on for a long time. - Several fixes and improvements for Steam Deck. - Tons of bug fixes.

Patch 1.1.0 is now available on our test branch! As with many of our previous patches, I've decided to release this patch on a separate branch that you must opt-into before you can download it. Please expect some bugs and crashes associated with this patch today. I will update the game pretty aggressively over the next few days to fix any issues that come up. With that said, if you feel like some hiccups might frustrate you, I suggest you wait until this patch is released to the main branch before playing it. In order to download the patch, please do the following: 1) Make a backup of your save folder. You'll find it in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\SiralimUltimate. Copy the entire "save" folder to somewhere else on your computer. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP! 2) In your Steam Library, right-click Siralim Ultimate, go to Properties, then the "BETAS" tab. Enter the code "specializations123". Click the "check code" button and then you should be able to select "test" from the list of betas in the dropdown menu. 3) The patch should download automatically now. If not, restart Steam. Expect this patch to remain on the test branch for a few weeks. Once it's stable, I will need to prepare it for all other platforms and launch it simultaneously on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android to prevent issues with cloud saves, so that will cause the full release of this patch to take longer than usual. Please note that this test is only for Windows; I'll release a Mac and Linux version when we're ready to send the patch to the main branch, or perhaps a few days beforehand. Let me know on our support board if you run into any issues! NOTE: Cross-platform cloud saving will not work while this patch is on the test branch. ___________________________________________ PATCH NOTES - 8 specializations have been added to the game: Toxicologist, Engineer, Shadowbringer, Demonologist, Mime, Graveborn, Gladiator, and Brewmaster. You can unlock them via new projects. - 2 Challenge Specializations have been added to the game: Pariah and Deprived. Instead of providing you with bonuses, these specializations make you significantly weaker. However, if you're able to Ascend them, you'll earn a special reward. These specializations' projects are only available after you unlock the Gate of the Gods. - Additional content related to the new specializations has been added: 120 achievements, 30 costumes, 10 skins, new anointments, and more. - 10 spells have been added to the game. These were added to extend support for under-utilized debuffs such as Poison and Cursed. - 11 minions have been added to the game. Many of these work much differently than normal minions (and most are exclusive to the new Demonologist specialization), so check out the Codex for more information. - Each week, a new buff will activate that either increases your Card Drop Rate, Skin Drop Rate, Nether Stone Drop Rate, or Bonus Loot. You can see which buff is active by interacting with the new Calendar decoration in your castle (found in the Utilities/NPC category). - You can now choose to consume 1, 2, or 3 tickets at the Gambling Dwarves. This multiplies your rewards by the number of tickets spent, and also counts as playing that many times for the sake of Prophecies and Achievements. - The following new macro conditions have been added to the Macro Editor: Resurrection Count, Death Count, Is Not At Top of Timeline, Is Not At Bottom of Timeline, Has Trait, and Doesn't Have Trait. Note for those last two: prior to this patch, many traits were not recorded in your Codex (False Gods, God Battles, etc), so you'll need to encounter these traits in battles before you'll see them appear on the list. - You can sort Nether Stones by Locked and Unlocked in all interfaces. - You can now rename your Nether Stones at the Blacksmith using the new "Etch" function. - Most Arsenal and Booze spells have been changed/buffed to be more useful. - Most Exotic creatures' traits and backer traits are now more powerful. - The Lister and Jotun fights no longer use battle fatigue as their metric for victory, and are instead based on the number of turns creatures have taken in battle (24 total turns for Lister, 36 total turns for Jotun). The intent of this change is to shorten these fights under normal circumstances, make them a bit more predictable, and prevent players from feeling like they need to fish for certain realm properties to defeat Jotun in a reasonable amount of time. - None of the False Gods are immune to Blighted anymore, and False God self-healing from their innate traits no longer counts as healing effects. - Cabalist's "Flow of Magic" perk has been revamped because it was simply an inferior version of this specialization's "Prism" perk. - Enemies can no longer spawn with the "Saving Grace" spell. Note that they can still acquire this spell in battle through other effects. - Numbers greater than or equal to 1 quadrillion are now expressed using scientific notation. This means that all numbers can now be displayed so the game won't default to "?!?!" if you reach too high of a number. - Massive optimizations to make the game run smoother, especially in battles that drag on for a long time. - Several fixes and improvements for Steam Deck. - Tons of bug fixes.

Siralim Ultimate is now available on iOS! Just like with the Android version, you can share your save files with the Steam version of the game using the Cloud Saving option on the title menu. Get it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/siralim-ultimate/id1601114348

Siralim Ultimate is now available on Android (Google Play)! You can even share your save files with the Steam version of the game using the Cloud Saving option on the title menu. Get it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thylacinestudios.siralimultimate Be sure to check your mailbox for a celebratory gift on all platforms!

Patch 1.0.5 is now available on our test branch! As with many of our previous patches, I've decided to release this patch on a separate branch that you must opt-into before you can download it. Please expect some bugs and crashes associated with this patch today. I will update the game pretty aggressively over the next few days to fix any issues that come up. With that said, if you feel like some hiccups might frustrate you, I suggest you wait until this patch is released to the main branch before playing it. In order to download the patch, please do the following: 1) Make a backup of your save folder. You'll find it in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\SiralimUltimate. Save the entire "save" folder somewhere else on your computer. Please do not skip this step. 2) In your Steam Library, right-click Siralim Ultimate, go to Properties, then the "BETAS" tab. Enter the code "optimizations123". Click the "check code" button and then you should be able to select "test" from the list of betas in the dropdown menu. 3) The patch should download automatically now. If not, restart Steam. Unless some major issues appear, I will move this patch to the main branch in a few days. Also, please note that this test is only for Windows; I'll release a Mac and Linux version when we're ready to send the patch to the main branch. Please let me know on our support board if you run into any issues! ___________________________________________ - ADD: "High Performance Mode" to "Display" options menu. This will make the game run more efficiently at the cost of FPS and some visual degradation. Steam users almost definitely won't ever need to enable this option and it's largely intended for the upcoming mobile ports for weak devices, but it's available on all platforms just in case. - CHANGE: Massive optimizations for the entire game. This is the biggest and best optimization pass I've ever done and the game should run much faster. - CHANGE: Revamped the way the game loads save files. This revamp is so fast that there's no longer a need for the Loading...20% etc when you launch the game. It's instant now. - CHANGE: Greatly improved the speed of cloud file importing/exporting. Also improved the overall stability and reliability of this feature. - CHANGE: Improved the way text is drawn to make it look cleaner and sharper in many parts of the game, most notably floating overworld text. - CHANGE: Removed "Export Data to Clipboard" option for Mac and Linux since it didn't work to begin with, and it's not possible to make this work with those platforms thanks to GMS' lack of support for it. - FIX: "Spectral Rain" spell only targeted allies. - FIX: Creature panels sometimes flickered in the Options menu. - FIX: "Explosive Armor" perk dealt the incorrect amount of damage. - FIX: "Balanced Swordplay" trait applied only to the creature that had this trait instead of the entire party. - FIX: "Balanced Sorcery" trait applied only to the creature that had this trait instead of the entire party. - FIX: Display issue with the "Pixies" skin. - FIX: Spell Gems could be incorrectly unequipped if you lost a battle. This issue was fixed a while ago for winning battles, but it still existed for losing battles. - FIX: When inputting text (renaming a creature, etc), the F key was supposed to move the selection to "Confirm". Instead, it removed the cursor and crashed the game.

Patch 1.0.4 is now available for Windows, and will be made available on Ubuntu/Mac very soon! - NOTE: Several specializations have been made stronger in this patch. For a full list of specializations and perks affected, please see the bottom of these patch notes. Some perks now have more ranks than before, so make sure you allocate your points as needed when you load the game after patching. - ADD: You can now lock Nether Stones from the item menu, preventing you from being able to crush them at the Arcane Refinery. - ADD: Materials in the Socketing UI can now be sorted by "Property Name" or "Material Name" (default for new save files) rather than just "Name". If you choose "Property Name", the name of each property will be shown, otherwise the material name will be shown. Some players were confused by the original implementation, so hopefully this will help. - ADD: God Favor HUD option now includes your current Favor Rank. - CHANGE: You can now release your Animatus or Herbling at the Menagerie. When you do this, you will be given 100% Mana to re-summon these creatures. - CHANGE: Significantly increased rewards from Slot Machines. - CHANGE: Significantly increased the amount of Knowledge gained from Hunt Missions. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of treasure received in certain Nether Realms. - CHANGE: Increased chance to find personality-changing tomes by 50%. - CHANGE: Increased chance to find Nether Stones by 20%. - CHANGE: Nether Stones can now be found at all realm depths, not just your highest-ever depth. This change is now reflected in the Codex. - CHANGE: Imp Impington, Saint Althea, and Loid Prime are now the only False Gods who are immune to Blight. - CHANGE: The player's creature with the highest Speed now always goes first against story bosses. This ensures you have the opportunity to inspect these enemies to learn their unique mechanics. - CHANGE: Increased maximum number of characters allowed in NPC dialog from 128 to 300. - CHANGE: Decoration counter is now wrapped in brackets instead of parenthesis to make it easier to tell if the number is part of the decoration's name or not. - CHANGE: Simplified many Prophecy descriptions. - CHANGE: Extended the timeout window for cloud storage to help people with slower internet connections. - CHANGE: Cloud ID is now saved immediately after you change it. This is particularly useful if you change it on the title menu and then exit the game before saving. - CHANGE: Pressing the equivalent of the F key on gamepads while inputting text (such as when you brand an artifact) now moves the selector to "Confirm" immediately. - CHANGE: "Viscous Web" trait has been revamped. Enemies take 25% more damage for each debuff they have that they're resistant to. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Exacerbate" trait has been renamed to "Neon Grave" and has a new effect. After this creature attacks, it has a 35% chance to cast Affliction. - CHANGE: "Corrosion" trait damage increased from 50% to 100%. - CHANGE: "Villainy Thrives" trait no longer has a damage penalty. - CHANGE: "Perpetual Disease" trait has been renamed to "Vicar's Blessing" and has a new effect. After an enemy takes damage from Blight, this creature has a 35% chance to cast Minor Healing on it. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Diamond Attunement" trait has been revamped. All Spell Gems are 50% more potent. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Black Hole" spell has been renamed to "Astral Dimension" and has been revamped. Your creatures' Spell Gems are unsealed. This Spell Gem cannot be Sealed. - CHANGE: "Spectral Rain" spell no longer affects the Inverted debuff. - CHANGE: "Eternal Reprieve" now has a 25% chance to activate, down from 100%. It now heals 20% Health, up from 5%. - CHANGE: "Formation" now increases defense by 5%, down from 25%. - FIX: Rare freeze in battle. - FIX: Cloud storage feature claimed the file was successfully uploaded before it was finished, resulting in some players corrupting their cloud files if they exited the game too quickly. - FIX: "Strength of Soul" perk applied to enemies as well. - FIX: "Bravely Inspired" trait was still setting creatures' health to 1 despite that functionality being removed a few patches ago. - FIX: Extremely rare case where Exotics wouldn't drop mana or knowledge. - FIX: Ariamaki's rank 60 relic perk activated for all your creatures instead of only the creature it was attuned to. - FIX: Display issue that caused realm properties to be shown on the map in god boss rooms. - FIX: "Chronic Affliction" trait sometimes dealt the wrong amount of damage. - FIX: False God runes could sometimes spawn on top of other objects or in walls. - FIX: Some spells couldn't have the "Increased Stat Potency" property even if they affected stats. - FIX: "Born Again" perk didn't activate in all cases. - FIX: "Internal Combustion" spell's extra damage and debuffing was applied to the wrong creatures. - FIX: "Ascendancy" trait didn't work on Ethereal Spell Gems. - FIX: "Praise the Light" trait's version of the "Holy Nova" spell only targeted enemies which caused it to skip healing your own creatures. - FIX: Realm Boost that caused enemies to drop a chest in the next battle didn't stack correctly. - FIX: "Projection" trait's defending component caused creatures to provoke instead of defend. - FIX: All effects that related to "Arrow" spells didn't include "Fragmenting Arrow" or "Disintegrating Arrow". - FIX: Stardust currency achievements still existed despite the fact that this currency was removed from the game during Early Access. - FIX: "Beast Within" trait didn't work when creatures gained Maximum Health. - FIX: Option to mute menu sounds wasn't available for Mac or Ubuntu. - FIX: "Ascendancy" trait sometimes didn't work. - FIX: Performance issues, freezes, bugs, crashes, and all kinds of other horrible things related to the "Unending Boon" perk. - FIX: "Unending Boon" perk could sometimes allow multiple copies of a buff to exist on the same creature. - FIX: Enemies still used their Fusion palettes in boss rooms even if you had this option disabled. - FIX: Crash/bugs related to cloud storage if you aren't connected to the internet. - FIX: "Next battle" realm boosts were completely removed after battle, even if they had multiple stacks. - FIX: It was possible to exit out of the Musical Crystals menu in the Forbidden Depths which also caused a crash. - FIX: You could re-roll realm properties while Realm Instability was 0 which caused you to waste Power. - FIX: "Band Warchief" creature had the wrong lore. - FIX: More typos. ASTROLOGER Protostar: now activates after 1 death instead of 3. DRUID Aptitude: increased chance from 7% to 10%. Pack of One: increased chance from 7% to 10%. CABALIST Embrace the Arcane: increased chance from 10% to 20%. EVOKER Overload: increased activation chance from 30% to 50%. FANATIC All perks that rely on specific Godspawn to activate now choose a Godspawn at random if the creature wasn't originally a Godspawn. In other words, you can now change your creatures' races in battle and still benefit from this specialization's perks. This only pulls from Avatars that are in your bestiary. Note that these changes do not extend to the "Master of Godspawn" trait. GROVETENDER Defensins: now also grants resistance to debuffs. Fertility: increased evolution speed from 33% to 50%. INQUISITOR Defy Evil: increased defense penetration from 2% to 2.5%. Judgment Day: increased damage from 100% to 150%, and damage reduction from 50% to 65%. Miracle: increased damage from 1% to 1.5%. MONK Blurred Strikes: increased chance from 2% to 2.5%. Fake Out: increased chance from 2% to 3%. Protective Winds: increased chance from 2% to 3%. Windwalker: increased chance from 2% to 5% per dodge, maximum chance is now 80% up from 70%. PALADIN Hand of Light: increased healing from 1% to 2%. Perseverance: increased damage reduction from 2% to 2.5%. Seraphim: now also increases current health. RUNE KNIGHT All Rune spells now deal damage based on the caster's highest stat, and each one now has an additional, unique effect. Empowerment: now causes creatures to cast Rune spells 1 additional time per rank, maximum of 2 ranks. Runic Empowerment: renamed to Runic Might. Decreased bonus from 15% to 10%. Now affects the gems' potency instead of only damage. SPELLWEAVER Chromatic Layering: now at maximum rank, provides you with 1 of each Infusion rather than random Infusions. Elemental Empowerment: increased damage from 5% to 10%. Spectral Affinity: now grants whatever Infusion you have the least amount of rather than a random one. SORCERER Flabbergast: now works on the next lowest enemy on the Timeline instead of the enemy directly below your creature. Undertow: revamped. At the start of each enemy's turn, there is a 10% chance that your Spell of Roots, Spell of Slumber, and Spell of Frost perks will activate. This chance is increased by an additional 10% each turn. After this perk activates, the chance is set back to 10%. Ruin: increased damage from 1% to 2%, and damage reduction from 1% to 1.5%. Description now correctly mentions damage reduction cap of 90%. Unity: increased damage from 2% to 2.5%. TRICKSTER Even the Odds: now has an additional effect. If enemies are immune to this effect, they lose 20% of their Current Health. Hidden Hand: increased chance from 1% to 2%. Immaculate Recovery: now activates when damage is taken from an attack or spell rather than after resurrection. Pilfer: now has 2 ranks, up from 1. WINDRUNNER Aeroforged: increased bonus from 2% to 3%. Sidestep: reduced activation threshold from 300% to 200%. Zoom: has a new effect. Your creatures always dodge.

Patch 1.0.3 is now available for Windows, and will be made available on Ubuntu/Mac very soon! - ADD: 1 new creature. - ADD: Creatures that are obtained from realm objects (Satyrs from flutes, etc) are now listed on the teleportation shrine interface along with the other creatures that naturally spawn in the selected realm. - ADD: You can now sort the Fusion interface by "In Party", meaning creatures that are in your party will appear at the top of the list. - CHANGE: Unsocketing a Nether Stone no longer destroys it, and instead places the stone back into your inventory. This change has been reflected in the Blacksmith's option dialog as well as in the Codex. - CHANGE: Increased the base amount of resources gained from breakable objects by 40%. - CHANGE: Increased the base amount of resources gained from resource nodes by 30%. - CHANGE: "Glucose" trait now activates before the start of battle. This prevents each creature in your party from overriding each other on the Timeline when the trait activates. - CHANGE: "Sunny Disposition" trait now only activates when an enemy manually casts a spell. - CHANGE: Resistant Snared/Frozen debuff descriptions are now more detailed in the Inspection interface. - CHANGE: Keyboard splash screen's "Press E to continue" text looks better now. - CHANGE: "Master of Beacons" trait has been revamped since it didn't really do anything before: At the start of battle, your Beacons' stats are averaged and then increased by 25%. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Master of Animations" trait has been changed slightly. It now grants your Animation creatures a 50% chance to receive all effects that require them to be adjacent to your other creatures. Functionally, this is how it always worked but the description was misleading. The major change to this trait is that it now works even if your entire party isn't composed of Animations, but now at a 50% activation rate instead of 100%. The reasons for this change are that the original effect was confusing to understand, and that its original version caused some performance issues that could sometimes even lead to crashes. - FIX: Trait/spell searching now correctly ignores icons in text so you can search for text such as "When this creature attacks" without needing to worry about the attack/sword icon being in the way. - FIX: "Ritual of Summoning" spell description was incorrect. - FIX: "Brethren" spell didn't work correctly. - FIX: "Aftermath" spell had the wrong description. It should attack random enemies, and there's a maximum of 10 attacks per cast. This was always the case but wasn't documented in the spell's description. - FIX: "Balance In All Things" spell didn't correctly resurrect allies. - FIX: "Quietus" spell didn't activate on-minion effects. - FIX: "Grandiose" trait counted the additional buffs/debuffs/minions incorrectly. - FIX: "Molecular Betrayal" perk didn't increase Current/Maximum Health. This was originally intended, but was missing from the perk description so I decided to buff this perk a little rather than changing the description. - FIX: Freeze some people were experiencing when fighting the 2nd or 3rd tier of Giran (Nether Boss). - FIX: Spell Gems could be incorrectly unequipped under certain circumstances. - FIX: "Formation" trait only gave stats to the damaged creature, not to all your Uraloses. - FIX: "Dispossession" trait worked at the wrong time. - FIX: "Charge" trait description incorrectly stated that it only activated at the start of your creatures' turns - should have been any creature's turn. - FIX: Vertraag's level 35 blessing granted only +50% favor from orbs, not 100% as intended. - FIX: "Ruby Attunement" trait granted 100% health instead of 75% when it was used by an enemy. - FIX: Crash when pressing the confirm button on an empty Projects UI. - FIX: "Eye of the Thylacine" trait caused the original caster to cast all the additional spells instead of your Godspawn. - FIX: "Rise to Fall" trait's increased healing could incorrectly result in less healing. - FIX: "Hearts and Minds" trait gave stats to the wrong creature(s). - FIX: Enabling/disabling anointments didn't update the counter on the UI until the next time you opened it. - FIX: Several typos.

This update is available on Windows now, and will be made available for Mac and Ubuntu very soon. - ADD: Keyboard splash screen now instructs the player to press E to continue. - FIX: Effects that worked based on a creature's lowest/highest stat calculated Health incorrectly. - FIX: "Nihilism" trait damaged the wrong creatures. - FIX: "Master of Animations" trait didn't work for the player - only enemies. - FIX: Alchemist costume had reversed left/right animations. - FIX: Relics could sometimes have incorrect/unadjusted stats as a result of changes made in a recent patch. - FIX: Crash related to the "Unbidden Miracle" trait. - FIX: Crash related to multiple creatures having the "Draconic Arrogance" trait at the same time.

After 16 months of alpha, beta, and early access testing, Siralim Ultimate has finally exited Early Access and is fully available for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam! Special thanks to everyone who took the time to contribute feedback and submit bug reports to make Siralim Ultimate the best game it can be. This game is the culmination of over 8 years of work on the series, and I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out. I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it. Please spread the word about today's release, and if you haven't done so already, please write a review of the game on Steam - it helps more than you know! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289810/Siralim_Ultimate/

- CHANGE: Ascending a specialization now also rewards you with 1 Perk Point to ensure you have enough points to purchase your new perk. - CHANGE: Reduced Loid's health during the main storyline. - CHANGE: Tartarith is now immune to debuffs during his storyline battle. - CHANGE: Optimizations to improve game performance. - FIX: One of the Nether Realms still reset after each battle. - FIX: "Sobered Up" trait didn't work. - FIX: "Infestation" trait didn't always work. - FIX: "Spiral Ward" and "Long Live" traits didn't calculate damage reduction correctly. In addition, their descriptions were missing the 90% damage reduction cap associated with similar effects. - FIX: Several traits that activate when the creature with that trait dies didn't work. - FIX: "Pedigree Safeguard" trait didn't work. - FIX: Various minor typos and sprite fixes. - FIX: "Hog Wild" trait didn't work. - FIX: Erebyss' god fight trait caused creatures to be killed on her first turn instead of every other turn. - FIX: Crash related to the "Pull the Strings" trait under certain conditions. - FIX: "Hymn of Brawn" trait could prevent the Timeline from progressing. - FIX: Some "Empowering" achievements had the wrong requirements. - FIX: "Glucose" trait sometimes didn't work. - FIX: Shallan's god battle trait didn't work correctly. Spell Adjustments: Mutilate: reworked. Now damage is based on the caster's Health instead of that of the target. Trait Adjustments: Appreciation For Ancestry: Increased damage bonus from 50% to 75%. Barbearian: Now also increases the creature's Defense by 35%. Blood Thirst: Increased number of Dire Wolf stacks from 3 to 5. Bravely Inspired: No longer reduces health to 1. Now also boosts your creatures' Health. Decreased stats gained from 35% to 25%. Cantripology: reworked. After this creature attacks, it casts its top-most, Unsealed Spell Gem. Then, that Spell Gem is Sealed. Counter Slash: reworked. After this creature is attacked, it deals damage to the enemy equal to 50% of this creature's Attack. Cull the Weak: reworked. After an enemy is killed, your Uralos creatures gain 15% stats. Darkbloom: Now base stats are 20, plus 5 for each spell gem. Maximum is now 8 gems. Dead Butterflies: No longer causes the creature to skip its turn. Now causes the creature to take 75% more damage and deal 50% less damage. Double Vision: Increased chance from 30% to 40%. Eldritch Creation: Increased number of Spell Gems gained from 1 to 2. Escalation: Now only activates from Uralos creatures. No longer increases attack. Increased Intelligence gained from 20% to 35%. Formation: No longer increases attack. Increased Defense gained from 20% to 25%. Grovel and Beg: increased health activation threshold from 35% to 50%. Hunger for Blood: reworked. After your Uralos creatures attack, your Uralos creatures gain 10% Attack. Improbable Catapult: Now activates at the start of the creature's turn instead of at the start of battle, and this trait can only activate once per side. Lost In Forever: No longer prevents attacking/casting. Now causes the creature to have 50% lower stats other than Health. Mind Reave: reworked. After an enemy casts a spell, this creature deals damage to it equal to 35% of this creature's Intelligence. Outgrow: No longer prevents attacking/casting. Now causes the creature to have 50% lower stats other than Health. Puff Up: Increased stats gained from 25% to 30%. Reactive Heads: Decreased chance to activate from 20% to 15%. Rollout: Damage nerf is now 0 to 50%. Red In Tooth And Claw: Increased chance from 35% to 50%. Shared Consciousness: Increased chance from 25% to 35%. Triple Suns: Reduced damage taken by these effects from 100% to 90%. True North: Reduced stat reduction from 90% to 50%. Undead Legion: Increased number of Zombie stacks from 3 to 5. War Dance: reworked. After your Uralos creatures Defend or Provoke, your Uralos creatures gain 20% Speed.

Siralim Ultimate will exit Steam Early Access on Friday, December 3 for its full release! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed feedback and submitted bug reports during Early Access. As always, I will continue to monitor our forums for any issues. Later today, I will release a small patch that fixes some minor bugs that were reported since the last update, and this patch will also change the version number to 1.0.0.

FAQs

Q. Will my save files carry over to the full release? A. Yes. You won’t lose any progress. Q. Do I need to do anything on my end to prepare for the end of Early Access? A. Nope! This release won't affect you at all outside of causing uncontrollable excitement. Q. Is the Mac port still coming? A. Yes, I'm working on that right now and fully expect to have it ready before December 3. Q. When will Siralim Ultimate be released on other platforms? A. I'll start working on console and mobile ports very soon, but there's no way I can provide an accurate estimate this early on. While console development is my top priority, the certification process involves a lot of downtime while I wait for Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft to do their part. For that reason, the mobile ports will likely come out before the console ports since I'll be able to work on mobile development during console certification. I will provide you with regular updates about my progress on all platforms. Q. Will I be able to transfer my save files to the mobile/console versions when they're released? A. You'll definitely be able to do this on Android, iOS, and Switch. I'm not sure about Playstation and Xbox simply because I haven't had a chance to dive into those platforms yet.

- ADD: Accessory graphics now appear in the loot box so you can see what they look like without scrolling to your inventory. - CHANGE: Realm property that limited the number of times your creatures can resurrect has been removed from the game. If you still see this property when you load your save file after the patch, you simply need to refresh or complete a realm. - CHANGE: Increased bonus resources and experience granted by Knowledge from 15% to 30%. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of resources gained from all battles other than normal battles (normal battles are those that occur when you physically run into an enemy in the overworld). The exact amount increased varies depending on the fight, but they were all increased. - CHANGE: Increased resources gained from loot (treasure chests, etc) by 70%. - CHANGE: Disabling battle music now works on all battle music, not just normal battles. - CHANGE: Increased chance to encounter beneficial Nemesis Creatures. - CHANGE: Paper stacks in the Land of Breath and Balance should now stand out better from the floor. - CHANGE: "Blue Tether" trait now only works on attack and spell damage. - CHANGE: Floating text that tells you if a creature has too many traits has been removed, but still shows up in the battle history. - CHANGE: Accessories are now displayed in the loot window when your loot filter is set to "Normal". - FIX: Text overflow when gaining multiple reputation levels with a guild at the same time. - FIX: "Mender's Oath" trait healed the wrong creatures. - FIX: "Heightened Learning" trait worked on the wrong creatures.

Patch 0.12.0 is now available on our test branch! As with many of our previous patches, I've decided to release this patch on a separate branch that you must opt-into before you can download it. Please expect some bugs and crashes associated with this patch today. I will update the game pretty aggressively over the next few days to fix any issues that come up. With that said, if you feel like some hiccups might frustrate you, I suggest you wait until this patch is released to the main branch before playing it. In order to download the patch, please do the following: 1) Make a backup of your save folder. You'll find it in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\SiralimUltimate. Save the entire "save" folder somewhere else on your computer. Please do not skip this step. 2) In your Steam Library, right-click Siralim Ultimate, go to Properties, then the "BETAS" tab. Enter the code "massivepatch". Click the "check code" button and then you should be able to select "test" from the list of betas in the dropdown menu. 3) The patch should download automatically now. If not, restart Steam. Unless some major issues appear, I will move this patch to the main branch in a few days. Also, please note that this test is only for Windows; I'll release a Linux version when we're ready to send the patch to the main branch. Please let me know on our support board if you run into any issues! ___________________________________________

Patch Notes

- ADD: 9 realms and gods which can be unlocked via Projects after finishing the main storyline. These realms were designed by our backers. Note that there are currently a few minor graphical issues with some realms, and we're working to get those fixed ASAP. - ADD: 9 Godspawn projects, each of which are unlocked after you complete their corresponding realm's Project and reach favor rank 20 with that god. - ADD: 9 relics, each of which are unlocked after you complete their corresponding realm's Project. - ADD: 9 god battles, each of which are unlocked after you complete their corresponding realm's Project. - ADD: 9 Avatar creatures. - ADD: 9 Godforges for your Avatar creatures. - ADD: Accessories. These are cosmetic items that can be applied to your creatures to change their appearance. Each creature can equip up to 6 accessories at a time. You can change the location of each accessory, flip them, resize them, and specify whether they're placed behind or in front of the creature. Note that accessories only affect a creature's battle sprite, not its overworld sprite. Examples of accessories include hats, pets, horns, beards, and much more. You can acquire accessories as random drops via loot. You can customize your creatures' accessories at your Wardrobe in your castle. There are 388 Accessories to collect, 4 of which were designed by our backers. - ADD: Otherworld Portals have a chance to spawn in realms beyond realm depth 30. In these portals, you'll encounter "Exotic" creatures. Defeat them to obtain their mana. Information about these portals can be found in the "Realms" section of the Codex. - ADD: 207 creatures, all of which were designed by our backers. - ADD: 207 trait materials, all of which were designed by our backers. - ADD: 18 Rodian Creature Masters, each with their own costume and trait material for you to unlock. - ADD: 255 creature skins, 4 of which were designed by our backers. - ADD: 582 decorations, 2 of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 18 floors. - ADD: 10 walls. - ADD: 118 costumes, 92 of which were designed by our backers. - ADD: 10 music tracks that can be unlocked for your castle. - ADD: 102 castle backgrounds. - ADD: 649 achievements. - ADD: 54 Realm Quests. - ADD: All remaining backer NPCs. - ADD: You can now forfeit battles by holding down E, F, and Q at the same time for several seconds while the battle menu is not visible. This allows players to escape from rare circumstances when battles are stuck in an endless loop. This new functionality is documented in the Codex as well. - ADD: When you acquire a Card, and doing so grants you enough Cards of that race to unlock a new bonus, dialog will now appear to tell you what that bonus is. - ADD: Decorations list now shows the number of each decoration you already have in your castle. - ADD: Realm Map now tells you if a Master is still alive in the current realm. - ADD: When you talk to a Master, your current Mastery level is displayed along with their dialog. - ADD: Creature personalities are now included in the function that copies your team to the clipboard. - ADD: "Skins and Accessories" section to the Creatures Codex. - ADD: The total number of decorations in your castle is now displayed at the top-left corner of the screen while you're in Decoration Mode. - ADD: When you find a costume and it appears in the loot window, that costume's art will now be drawn in the loot window so you can see what it looks like. - ADD: When you find a decoration and it appears in the loot window, that decoration's art will now be drawn in the loot window so you can see what it looks like. Note that this feature does not include floors or walls, though it does include floor tiles. - ADD: At the start of the game, Nortah now tells the player that you can re-order your creatures at the Menagerie. - ADD: When a Dumpling or Treasure Golem flees from battle, this action is now added to battle history. - CHANGE: Conducted a polishing pass on story dialog, tutorial popups, and all user interfaces. The changes are subtle but make for a more polished game. - CHANGE: Rebalanced story boss health. Some bosses were too easy while some were too difficult. The difficulty curve should be much smoother now. - CHANGE: Reduced the average number of realms required to complete most Projects. Each Project was adjusted differently, anywhere from a 33% to 50% reduction. Missions are unchanged other than Assassination missions which were reduced by 25%. - CHANGE: Sound volume is now split into battle volume and non-battle volume. Note that when you load your save file after this patch, your battle volume will be set to 100%. - CHANGE: Game difficulty level is now saved specifically to your save file rather than being part of your global game configuration settings. - CHANGE: Game difficulty level is now much more drastic than before. - CHANGE: Default game difficulty is now 1, up from 0. - CHANGE: A tutorial popup will now appear after you've finished at least 50 battles to inform you about the Game Difficulty option. - CHANGE: The type of Master that spawns is now based on your lowest Mastery level. - CHANGE: Realm objects that start battles against creatures that belong to specific races now typically only choose from 1 race - previously, several chose from 2 races. - CHANGE: Realms now spawn different creatures by default than before. There are also fewer races (5, down from 10) used when realm instability is set to 0. - CHANGE: Azural and Tenebris now sell Smiths and Reapers (respectively) at their shops instead of Yetis and Shadows. - CHANGE: Ascension now requires you to defeat 30 gods (up from the 21 old ones). This change is not retroactive, so if you already ascended a specialization, you'll keep that ascension after this patch. - CHANGE: You can now view Realm Properties and False God runes while you're in a boss room. In other words, the in-game map now appears on the menu in all rooms... minus the actual map part of it. - CHANGE: Creature battle sprite flipping is now done in the Accessories interface (Wardrobe) instead of the Recolor interface (Fusion Lab). - CHANGE: Spell Gems have new icons. - CHANGE: Significantly increased the chance to find decorations and costumes, especially early on. - CHANGE: Fused creatures now inherit the strategy and macro of the primary parent. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of loot received from completing Realm Quests by 50%. - CHANGE: Increased the number of Perk Points rewarded by defeating story bosses from 25 to 50. This should allow players to realize their class identity much earlier in the game. - CHANGE: "Extra Cast" spell gem property now scales to 100% at tier 15, up from 97%. - CHANGE: Piety Candles can now be destroyed in realms after they're used. - CHANGE: Enemies can no longer spawn with the "Unrighteous Fire" spell. - CHANGE: Enemies now have a casting animation just like your own creatures do. - CHANGE: Nemesis Creatures have significantly more health. - CHANGE: Expanded the "Currency" menu to include 9 new emblems, one for each of the new gods. - CHANGE: Significantly increased the amount of Notoriety rewarded by the Slot Machine minigame. - CHANGE: Teleportation Shrine menu now fits the creatures that belong to a realm on the same panel as the realm properties so you no longer need to toggle with A/D to see them. - CHANGE: Teleportation Shrine menu now supports paginated realm selection in order to make room for the new realms. - CHANGE: Enemies gain much less benefit from the "Mend" buff at the very start of the game to make it less annoying for new players to deal with. - CHANGE: It now costs 100 Brimstone to socket an Artifact's first Stat Slot, down from 1000. This should make it much easier for new players to engage with artifact crafting early on in the game. - CHANGE: Players now start the game with 5000 of reach resourece, up from 3000. - CHANGE: Increased the bonus experience points gained from defeating story bosses from 100% to 1500%. - CHANGE: Story bosses now drop 1000% more resources. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of treasure received from treasure chests. Previously, they were the worst source of treasure in the game which didn't make any sense. - CHANGE: Increased treasure received from Mimics. - CHANGE: Increased the chance to receive spell inscriptions from papers in Venedon's realm. - CHANGE: Realm Boosts that decrease enemies' stats now decrease stats by 5% per stack, down from 10% per stack. - CHANGE: On-death effects no longer remove the "Rebirth" buff from creatures if the creature isn't actually dead. - CHANGE: Squash/fruit battles now involve random creatures instead of Efts/Waspids. - CHANGE: Jotun (False God) no longer provides damage immunity runes to the player since he's already immune to damage. - CHANGE: Substantially improved game performance in battles. - CHANGE: Improved game performance when players have a lot of Spell Gems. - CHANGE: Improved performance for late-game players when looting. - CHANGE: Improved realm generation speed. - CHANGE: Increased Grovetender's Herbling creature base stats from 20 to 25, and health from 30 to 40. - CHANGE: Increased Animator's Animatus creature base stats from 18 to 25, and health from 38 to 40. - CHANGE: Increased "Blight" debuff damage by 100% (so now it causes damage equal to 50% of the healing done, up from 25%). - CHANGE: "Tempest" trait now causes spells to also be cast on the target, and it targets dead creatures. This is useful for spells such as Resurrection. - CHANGE: "Never Fade" trait has been revamped. This creature and its adjacent allies are immune to Disarmed. This trait was adjusted to optimize game performance in battles. - CHANGE: "Timewalk" spell now also increases the number of turns the target has taken by 1. - CHANGE: "Shadow Bulwark" trait now reduces indirect damage by 90%, down from 100%. - CHANGE: "Flagellation" perk now works at 100% effectiveness, up from 35%. - CHANGE: "Flow of Magic" perk has been revamped. After your creatures manually cast an Ethereal Spell Gem, they gain a random buff. - CHANGE: "Diabolism" perk now also prevents Rune Spell Gems from being Sealed. - CHANGE: "Perplex" perk now works on all damage. - CHANGE: "Abyss Orbs" trait now activates after 2 turns, down from 3. It also now afflicts a debuff at the end of the enemies' turns in addition to the start of their turns. - CHANGE: "Farsight" trait can now activate a maximum of 1 time per turn. - CHANGE: "Squall" trait can now activate a maximum of 1 time per turn. - CHANGE: "Master of Soulflayers" trait now works on all your Soulflayers without all the creatures in your party needing to belong to this race. - CHANGE: "Bob and Weave" trait now works based on enemies' buffs instead of debuffs. Increased chance from 20% to 25%. - CHANGE: "Illumina" trait has been revamped. After your creatures attack, they have a 25% chance to gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to 50% of their Maximum Health. - CHANGE: "Liberation" trait now works based on the number of minions it has instead of the number of debuffs. - CHANGE: "Mind Prison" trait has been revamped. After this creature provokes, it Seals 3 of a random enemy's Spell Gems. - CHANGE: "Forsaken Horizon" now also increases the number of times the creature's Arsenal spells are cast by 2. - CHANGE: "SKREEE!!" trait now activates at the start of creatures' turns instead of at the end. - CHANGE: "Alternate Reality" trait effect changed to 60%/40% from 40%/100%. - CHANGE: "Chasing Infinity" trait now also grants 50% more spell potency. - CHANGE: "Life Transformation" now deals 50% damage up from 25%. - CHANGE: "Hymn of Guile" trait now prevents enemies from gaining Invisible via buff effects rather than constantly removing this buff. - CHANGE: "Spit Poison" trait now has an additional effect. If enemies already have Poison, its potency is increased by 30% instead. - CHANGE: "Amongst Gods" trait has been revamped. After an ally attacks, this creature has a 20% chance to resurrect one of your creatures with 50% Health. - CHANGE: "Ninetails's Revenge" trait now works on all your creatures instead of only the creature that has this trait. - CHANGE: "Elusiveness" trait now activates after 3 turns, and correctly states that it only works on your creatures (the old description was a typo). - CHANGE: "Insight" trait now only works on attacks. - CHANGE: "Empire" trait now reduces potency by 50% down from 90%, and casts 4 extra times instead of 3 extra times. - CHANGE: "Slop" trait has an additional effect. If enemies already have Blind, their Speed is decreased by 20% instead. - CHANGE: "Heartrage" trait damage increased from 30% to 80%. - CHANGE: "Lion's Roar" now works on all damage, not just attacks. - CHANGE: "Anxiety" trait has been revamped. This creature's Spell Gems have 100% more potency, but are Sealed after they're cast. - CHANGE: "Patience" trait has been revamped. Enemies take 50% more indirect damage for each turn they've taken in the current battle. - CHANGE: "Subtlety" trait damage bonus increased from 50% to 100%. - CHANGE: "Guardian" trait now also reduces incoming damage by 50%. - CHANGE: "Heads or Tails" now causes the creature to gain a buff or a minion, rather than to gain a buff or afflict a debuff. - CHANGE: "Wallop" trait defense reduction decreased from 40% to 30%. - CHANGE: "Hangover" trait has been revamped. At the start of each enemy's turn, this creature has a 35% chance to cast a random Booze Spell. - CHANGE: "Master of Shades" trait has been revamped. If all the creatures in your party are Shades, they gain Invisible at the end of their turns and have a 100% chance to dodge while they have this buff. - CHANGE: "Master of Apises" trait has been revamped. At the start of battle, your Apises gain the Long Live trait. - CHANGE: "Final Act of Judgment" now deals 1% damage up from 0.5% damage based on 0.5% of its missing health up from 1%. In addition, the damage cap has been increased from 25% to 35%. - CHANGE: "Tellur's Scales" trait now reduces damage by 20% for each time the creature has taken damage, up from 5%. - CHANGE: "Poof" trait now grants a 90% chance to dodge, up from 50%. - CHANGE: "Master of Golems" trait now grants the Double Take or Chip Off The Block trait. - CHANGE: "Charity" trait now heals 300% more. - CHANGE: "Master of Paragons" trait now works on all your Paragons without needing to have all the creatures in your party belong to this race. - CHANGE: "The Shadows" trait now resurrects with 100% Health up from 20%. Stat gains have been reduced from 50% to 25% but are now granted to all your creatures. - CHANGE: "Crystal Spears" spell has been revamped. Target takes a moderate amount of damage, plus additional damage equal to 20% of the caster's Current Health. - CHANGE: "Glory" spell can now cast a maximum of 3 spells. - FIX: "Lingering Frost" trait didn't work. - FIX: Wardens had the wrong default costume. - FIX: "Genius" nemesis affix didn't work. - FIX: "Fragmenting Arrow" spell's subsequent damage effect didn't always work correctly. - FIX: "Summon Horde" spell didn't work correctly. Also adjusted the spell description for clarity. - FIX: "Sidestep" perk caused performance issues. - FIX: Rare crash when interacting with cocooned victims in Regalis' realm. - FIX: Millions of typos. - FIX: Unlocking the Pyromancer specialization granted duplicate wardrobe costumes. This fix is not retroactive (yet) so players affected by this bug prior to this patch will still have 2 duplicate costumes. - FIX: God dialog didn't always show their portraits, and instead played a random sound effect for no reason. - FIX: "Fracture" spell didn't work correctly. - FIX: "Kaito Banner" trait material should have been called "Kaito Symbol" and also had the wrong icon. - FIX: "Improvised Recitation" spell only cast 1 spell instead of 3 as intended. - FIX: It was possible to be sent to an empty Nether Realm. - FIX: Resource conversion UI was missing a description panel at the top left corner. - FIX: "Indiscriminate Summoning" spell gave -1 minions instead of +1. - FIX: Animatus and Herbling could sometimes appear on the realm map. - FIX: "Nerlyx's Veil" trait could activate more than once per turn which was inconsistent with similar effects. - FIX: "Supplicant Sacrifice" spell didn't work. - FIX: Display issue related to the "Aamon's Embrace" skin. - FIX: Regressive bug that caused certain story bosses to have the wrong overworld sprite in their boss room. - FIX: "Cataclysm" trait applied far more times than intended. - FIX: Crash related to Nether Stone interfaces. - FIX: It was possible to sort several interfaces while a dialog message was displayed, resulting in all kinds of bugs and crashes. - FIX: "Death" minion's activation chance was significantly lower than intended. - FIX: Double credit was given for completing the "Kill Grimoires" quest in Zonte's realm. - FIX: "Pull the Strings" didn't work correctly and also sometimes caused a crash. - FIX: "Next battle, your creatures always dodge" realm boost worked for enemies instead of your creatures. - FIX: "Disintegrating Arrow" spell's resurrection prevention didn't work on resurrection effects that immediately preceded creatures that were killed by this spell. - FIX: "Splitting Arrow" spell used intelligence instead of speed to determine the damage dealt. - FIX: Regalis' rank 3 blessing didn't start working until rank 5. - FIX: It was possible to obtain certain cards that don't actually exist. - FIX: "Secret Ingredient" trait worked for enemies instead of allies. - FIX: Stat reduction achievements counted progress from your creatures losing stats. - FIX: Ent card set claimed to have 8 cards in it instead of 9. - FIX: Some painting decorations had the wrong collision boundaries. - FIX: False Gods weren't immune to OHKO effects. - FIX: "Nine Meteors" spell didn't deal damage. - FIX: "Yuck" trait worked even if enemies weren't afflicted with the "Disarmed" debuff. This trait also didn't work consistently with similar effects. - FIX: Sosig floor tile doecration had the wrong sprite. - FIX: Rare crash on anointments UI. - FIX: Rare crash related to the "Martyr" perk. - FIX: Rare situation where creatures (usually enemies) could take repeated turns indefinitely for no apparent reason. - FIX: "Greater Dispel" spell didn't always remove all buffs or debuffs. - FIX: Rare crash related to cloud saving. - FIX: Crashes and freezes related to the "Hederas' Grasp" trait. - FIX: "Contagion" spell didn't always remove all minions. - FIX: "Redefined" trait didn't work in all cases. - FIX: "Dispelling Dervish" spell didn't always remove all buffs. - FIX: "Fiery Stew" spell only healed and didn't do its other intended effects. - FIX: It was possible to interact with the Reliquary while you didn't have any creatures in your party, resulting in a crash. - FIX: Rare crash related to the "Timewalk" spell.

The next patch for Siralim Ultimate will be the largest the series has ever received!

New Realms

Thanks to our Kickstarter backers, we're adding 9 new realms for players to unlock. Yes, that's 9 new tilesets, each with their own new gods, creatures, items, blessings, relics, realm quests, avatars, and much more. These realms won't be available during the game's main storyline, but after you defeat the final boss of the tutorial game you'll have the opportunity to unlock and explore them whenever you want. Here's some battle background art to whet your appetite for now: Forbidden Depths, ruled by Anneltha, Goddess of Earth: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37630551/dc0730bb83a7d1f830a7129122ac2a6bb766b819.png Amalgam Gardens, ruled by T'mere M'rgo, God of Fusion: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37630551/6ad81bc3a1a22003cd8e3fe524eff987e0b21908.png Astral Gallery, ruled by Muse, Goddess of Creation: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37630551/823091a154abbcbc1f266ca89f725954fda0b97c.png I want to reiterate that these new realms were designed by our Kickstarter backers, and I can't thank them enough for their support.

New Creatures

The next patch also includes nearly 200 new creatures for players to collect! Just like with the new realms, these creatures were all designed by our Kickstarter backers. All backer-designed creatures will belong to the new "Exotic" race. Unlike normal creatures, Exotic creatures can't be found running around in realms like usual. Instead, you'll sometimes encounter an "Otherworld Portal" in realms that will take you to a boss fight against a randomly-selected Exotic creature. If you manage to defeat the creature, you'll receive enough Mana to summon it in your castle. Each creature comes with its own bestiary lore and trait material. Other than their method of acquisition, Exotic creatures behave exactly like normal creatures - you can fuse them, go on assassination or hunt missions for them, and everything else you can do with the creatures that are already in the game. ------------------------------------- As you can imagine, these new additions to the game are massive in scope, so I can't give a reliable ETA for when this patch will be ready. However, I'm already pretty deep into implementing all this new content and I'm confident that it'll be ready sooner than you might expect. That's all for now! Thanks to everyone for their support. I hope you're all enjoying the game.

- FIX: "Unrighteous Fire" spell targeted the wrong creature(s). - FIX: "Clogged Pores" spell locked targeting to allies. - FIX: "Chaos Reign" spell targeted the wrong creature(s). - FIX: "Greater Dispel" spell targeting didn't include enemies. - FIX: Nether Realm with bones caused the bones to respawn after battle. - FIX: "Forbidden Unity" spell description incorrectly stated that it didn't affect the caster. - FIX: "Dark Summoning" spell only worked on the caster. - FIX: "Contradiction" trait didn't put creatures at the bottom of the timeline. - FIX: False God Nether Orbs sometimes had the wrong sprite and description.

Patch Notes

- IMPORTANT: If you use our Cloud Storage feature, make sure your Cloud ID is 12 digits in length before updating to this version of the game. If it's not, your Cloud ID will be randomized to include 12 digits after you update. - ADD: You can now adjust the difficulty of enemies in realms via a new Gameplay option. This new option allows you to specify a difficulty modifier from 0 to 9 which drastically increases enemies' levels. This option gives no additional bonuses (not even additional experience points) and is intended for players who are looking for a greater challenge. Note that this option currently affects all your save files but it will be save file-specific in a future patch. - ADD: There is now a third selection for Turbo Mode in the gameplay options menu. When this option is enabled, you don't need to hold down the E key to quickly progress through battles. Note that this does not automate battles - you'll still need to make menu selections and choose your target, but this should be a good accessibility option for players who don't want to hold buttons down for extended periods of time. - ADD: You can now hold down the F key and press E to toggle the different Turbo Modes in battle. This new feature couples nicely with the new Turbo Mode mentioned above, since sometimes you'll want battles to progress a little more slowly so you can see what's happening. - ADD: 20 Nether Realms, 19 of which were designed by backers. They're all pretty ugly (the realms, not the backers) but they will be polished and decorated in a future patch. - ADD: 105 new spells, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 109 traits and trait materials, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 42 new costumes, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 16 new creature skins. - ADD: 13 new decorations, 5 of which were designed by backers. - ADD: Icons are now displayed in the overworld HUD when your Goblet is full, if your Rune of Prophecies is 100% complete, if you have a mission that needs to be turned in, or if you don't have an active bounty. - ADD: Realm Properties all have unique icons. - ADD: Sound effects for realm objects that didn't have one. - ADD: If a creature can't cast a spell for some reason, that reason will now be printed to the battle history rather than failing silently. - CHANGE: Nether Bosses now drop slightly more key fragments than before. In addition, the number of fragments rewarded now scales with the number of times you've defeated the final Nether Boss, up to 3 times. - CHANGE: You can now purchase gate of the gods key from god shops after reaching favor level 50. They cost 20 emblems each. - CHANGE: Increased the maximum number of decorations you can place in your castle from 1000 to 3000. After you have over 1500 decorations, a warning message will be displayed that the game's performance could be adversely affected. - CHANGE: God Favor Ranks now slightly increase the amount of loot received from all sources in all realms. This ensures that it's worthwhile to continue leveling up your favor beyond 100 after you stop unlocking blessings. This change has been reflected in the Codex as well. - CHANGE: Creatures in the arena no longer acknowledge their personalities for the sake of stat growth rates. - CHANGE: Battle history text is now smaller and more compact, so now it can fit several more lines on the screen at a time. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of rewards gained from Forage missions. - CHANGE: "Barrier" buff maximum strength is now based on a creature's highest stat rather than maximum health. - CHANGE: Trait/spell search in the Codex now also searches the names of traits and spells. - CHANGE: Loid (Story Boss) can no longer spawn with Maniac Mutants as its allies. - CHANGE: Loid Prime (False God) fight has been redesigned. - CHANGE: Slightly increased the rate at which enemy levels scale as your realm depth increases. - CHANGE: Menagerie dialog is now chosen from any of the 5 lines for that creature rather than it being based on the creature's personality. - CHANGE: "Vivacious Vodka" spell can now only target 1 creature at a time and can only be cast once at a time. Without these restrictions, the spell was largely detrimental to your own team. - CHANGE: "Sorrow" trait has been revamped. Enemies with Cursed take 50% more damage from this debuff. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Solar Flare" trait now activates while defending as well, and casts Stellar Flare instead of Firestorm. - CHANGE: "Heated Ichor" trait now deals damage based on the creature's health rather than that of the enemy. - CHANGE: "Timewalk" spell can now only target 1 creature at a time and can only be cast once at a time. Unfortunately, this spell caused massive performance issues under certain conditions that are not realistic to fix, so this spell needed to be toned down. - CHANGE: "Companion" perk now has 3 ranks, up from 2. Reset your perks to ensure you have enough points. - CHANGE: Lister (god fight) and Jotun (False God fight) can no longer resurrect. This change was made to prevent them from being fully unkillable. - CHANGE: Vulcanar's rank 100 relic perk now activates a maximum of 3 times per battle. Otherwise, it granted immortality. - CHANGE: The ability to import/export macros has been removed. Players were attempting to manually edit them which caused issues with their save files by inputting incorrect data. - CHANGE: Creature race icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Relic icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Reliquary UI icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Slot machine now runs much faster. - CHANGE: Inscriptions are now displayed even if you have the "Strict" loot filter enabled. - CHANGE: Surathli and Mortem have new floor decoration tiles. - CHANGE: Simplified Soulflayer trait descriptions. - CHANGE: Optimized performance in battles, especially battles that drag on for a long time. - CHANGE: Optimized decorations to substantially improve performance in your castle. - FIX: Avatar skins were unavailable to choose for transmogrification and customizable creatures. - FIX: "Ethereal" trait allowed creatures to be immune to Althea's blight debuff. - FIX: Realm Boost that granted a random spell gem at the start of battle could grant ultimate spell gems. - FIX: It should no longer be possible for the player to get stuck in a realm with no path to the teleportation shrine. - FIX: "Overrun" perk didn't have a 100% chance to activate. - FIX: "Marshal" trait didn't work as a result of changes made in the last patch. - FIX: "Soul Rending" perk always had a 100% chance to activate. - FIX: "Myrtle's Perseverence" trait didn't always activate. - FIX: "Hearty Appetite" trait had some incorrect interactions with other effects. - FIX: Booze and Arsenal spells will now correctly be added to the macro spell list after you unlock the Gambling Dwarves and Arena, respectively. - FIX: Crash related to rank 100 Rosenthorne perk. - FIX: "Transmogrification" trait also prevented debuffs and minions. - FIX: "Call of the Grave" trait didn't affect all enemies. - FIX: Realm map didn't display "False God: NAME" as a realm property. - FIX: Rare case where Attack and Spell damage were sometimes treated as indirect damage. - FIX: Extremely rare case where creatures could take infinite turns. - FIX: Devil's Nest blessings didn't work unless they initiated a battle. - FIX: The text "-5555" could be printed to the history log for no apparent reason. - FIX: "Love And Other Disasters" trait didn't correctly block all effects. - FIX: Althea's permanent Blight debuff didn't work. - FIX: Enemies could sometimes be fused with the exact same creature as their base creature. - FIX: Blessing list showed entries past favor level 100. - FIX: Each on-resurrect action counted against the resurrection limit. - FIX: Crashes/bugs related to the "Emerald Power" spell. - FIX: Wild Arena rules that forced creatures to belong to a certain class weren't enforced past the first battle. - FIX: Realm property that increased enemies' spell gem slots didn't work. - FIX: Rare crash when teleportation to a new realm. - FIX: "Dark Strike" spell didn't afflict Inverted. - FIX: "Bonsai" skin worked on Efts instead of Ents as intended. - FIX: Animatus card should no longer drop since it wasn't supposed to exist. - FIX: "Eternal Jinx" sometimes didn't work. - FIX: More issues that caused Cloud IDs to be the wrong length or negative. - FIX: Crash related to the "Last Stand" perk. - FIX: "Inverted" debuff could have the incorrect potency when applied by certain effects. - FIX: Cyhra's boss bottle will no longer give its allies damage immunity if one of them manages to acquire its trait. - FIX: Some "next battle" realm boosts weren't applied after they were acquired. - FIX: Master Arena Mode still gave players the wrong creatures. - FIX: "Random Music" decoration option should no longer re-randomize the music so frequently while you're choosing wall/floor/background styles. - FIX: Crash related to the "Multitheism" perk if you had creatures in your party that were converted to Godspawn mid-battle. - FIX: "Questions Unanswered" trait worked on all debuffs, and sometimes didn't work at all. - FIX: Zonte could sometimes become invincible during his god fight. - FIX: Surathli's fight could sometimes have terrible performance. - FIX: Void Essence rank 40 perk gave max hp to the wrong creature. - FIX: "Skew the Odds" and "A Little Help" achievement lines didn't progress as a result of the new Realm Boost system introduced in the last patch. - FIX: Dolphin costume didn't have animated left/right-facing frames. - FIX: Kraynaks' friends didn't change appearances after transformation. - FIX: Guild bonuses no longer apply in the arena. - FIX: "Derivation" perk always acted as if it was level 1. - FIX: Card stat bonuses applied in the arena. - FIX: Cards gave higher bonus stats than intended. - FIX: Buffs and debuffs could be overwritten by the same buffs and debuffs even if they weren't more powerful. - FIX: "Nature's Blessing" trait description now correctly states that it doesn't stack. - FIX: "Equinox" perk didn't produce floating combat text, history dialog, or activate on-minion effects. - FIX: "Master of Inquisitors" trait didn't produce floating combat text, history dialog, or activate on-minion effects. - FIX: "Insight" spell didn't have the correct effect. - FIX: On-death effects counted as a creature dying each time they activated.

Patch 0.11.0 is now available on our test branch! As with many of our previous patches, I've decided to release this patch on a separate branch that you must opt-into before you can download it. Please expect some bugs and crashes associated with this patch today. I will update the game pretty aggressively over the next few days to fix any issues that come up. With that said, if you feel like some hiccups might frustrate you, I suggest you wait until this patch is released to the main branch before playing it. In order to download the patch, please do the following: 1) Make a backup of your save folder. You'll find it in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\SiralimUltimate. Save the entire "save" folder somewhere else on your computer. Please do not skip this step. 2) In your Steam Library, right-click Siralim Ultimate, go to Properties, then the "BETAS" tab. Enter the code "backercontent". Click the "check code" button and then you should be able to select "test" from the list of betas in the dropdown menu. 3) The patch should download automatically now. If not, restart Steam. Unless some major issues appear, I will move this patch to the main branch in a day or two. Also, please note that this test is only for Windows; I'll release a Linux version when we're ready to send the patch to the main branch. Please let me know on our support board if you run into any issues! ___________________________________________

Patch Notes

- IMPORTANT: If you use our Cloud Storage feature, make sure your Cloud ID is 12 digits in length before updating to this version of the game. If it's not, your Cloud ID will be randomized to include 12 digits after you update. - ADD: You can now adjust the difficulty of enemies in realms via a new Gameplay option. This new option allows you to specify a difficulty modifier from 0 to 9 which drastically increases enemies' levels. This option gives no additional bonuses (not even additional experience points) and is intended for players who are looking for a greater challenge. Note that this option currently affects all your save files but it will be save file-specific in a future patch. - ADD: There is now a third selection for Turbo Mode in the gameplay options menu. When this option is enabled, you don't need to hold down the E key to quickly progress through battles. Note that this does not automate battles - you'll still need to make menu selections and choose your target, but this should be a good accessibility option for players who don't want to hold buttons down for extended periods of time. - ADD: You can now hold down the F key and press E to toggle the different Turbo Modes in battle. This new feature couples nicely with the new Turbo Mode mentioned above, since sometimes you'll want battles to progress a little more slowly so you can see what's happening. - ADD: 20 Nether Realms, 19 of which were designed by backers. They're all pretty ugly (the realms, not the backers) but they will be polished and decorated in a future patch. - ADD: 105 new spells, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 109 traits and trait materials, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 42 new costumes, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 16 new creature skins. - ADD: 13 new decorations, 5 of which were designed by backers. - ADD: Icons are now displayed in the overworld HUD when your Goblet is full, if your Rune of Prophecies is 100% complete, if you have a mission that needs to be turned in, or if you don't have an active bounty. - ADD: Realm Properties all have unique icons. - ADD: Sound effects for realm objects that didn't have one. - ADD: If a creature can't cast a spell for some reason, that reason will now be printed to the battle history rather than failing silently. - CHANGE: Nether Bosses now drop slightly more key fragments than before. In addition, the number of fragments rewarded now scales with the number of times you've defeated the final Nether Boss, up to 3 times. - CHANGE: You can now purchase Gate of the Gods keys from god shops after reaching favor level 50. - CHANGE: Increased the maximum number of decorations you can place in your castle from 1000 to 3000. - CHANGE: God Favor Ranks now slightly increase the amount of loot received from all sources in all realms. This ensures that it's worthwhile to continue leveling up your favor beyond 100 after you stop unlocking blessings. This change has been reflected in the Codex as well. - CHANGE: Creatures in the arena no longer acknowledge their personalities for the sake of stat growth rates. - CHANGE: Battle history text is now smaller and more compact, so now it can fit several more lines on the screen at a time. - CHANGE: Increased the amount of rewards gained from Forage missions. - CHANGE: "Barrier" buff maximum strength is now based on a creature's highest stat rather than maximum health. - CHANGE: Increased the number of realms needed to encounter a False God from 5 to 15. These encounters became a bit too repetitive considering there are only 10 of them, and fighting them alongside Nether Bosses every 5 realms was just too much. - CHANGE: Trait/spell search in the Codex now also searches the names of traits and spells. - CHANGE: Loid (Story Boss) can no longer spawn with Maniac Mutants as its allies. - CHANGE: Loid Prime (False God) fight has been redesigned. - CHANGE: Slightly increased the rate at which enemy levels scale as your realm depth increases. - CHANGE: Menagerie dialog is now chosen from any of the 5 lines for that creature rather than it being based on the creature's personality. - CHANGE: "Vivacious Vodka" spell can now only target 1 creature at a time and can only be cast once at a time. Without these restrictions, the spell was largely detrimental to your own team. - CHANGE: "Sorrow" trait has been revamped. Enemies with Cursed take 50% more damage from this debuff. This trait does not stack. - CHANGE: "Solar Flare" trait now activates while defending as well, and casts Stellar Flare instead of Firestorm. - CHANGE: "Heated Ichor" trait now deals damage based on the creature's health rather than that of the enemy. - CHANGE: "Timewalk" spell can now only target 1 creature at a time and can only be cast once at a time. Unfortunately, this spell caused massive performance issues under certain conditions that are not realistic to fix, so this spell needed to be toned down. - CHANGE: "Companion" perk now has 3 ranks, up from 2. Reset your perks to ensure you have enough points. - CHANGE: Lister (god fight) and Jotun (False God fight) can no longer resurrect. This change was made to prevent them from being fully unkillable. - CHANGE: Vulcanar's rank 100 relic perk now activates a maximum of 3 times per battle. Otherwise, it granted immortality. - CHANGE: The ability to import/export macros has been removed. Players were attempting to manually edit them which caused issues with their save files by inputting incorrect data. - CHANGE: Creature race icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Relic icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Reliquary UI icons have been revamped. - CHANGE: Slot machine now runs much faster. - CHANGE: Inscriptions are now displayed even if you have the "Strict" loot filter enabled. - CHANGE: Surathli and Mortem have new floor decoration tiles. - CHANGE: Simplified Soulflayer trait descriptions. - CHANGE: Optimized performance in battles, especially battles that drag on for a long time. - CHANGE: Optimized decorations to substantially improve performance in your castle. - FIX: Avatar skins were unavailable to choose for transmogrification and customizable creatures. - FIX: "Ethereal" trait allowed creatures to be immune to Althea's blight debuff. - FIX: Realm Boost that granted a random spell gem at the start of battle could grant ultimate spell gems. - FIX: It should no longer be possible for the player to get stuck in a realm with no path to the teleportation shrine. - FIX: "Overrun" perk didn't have a 100% chance to activate. - FIX: "Marshal" trait didn't work as a result of changes made in the last patch. - FIX: "Soul Rending" perk always had a 100% chance to activate. - FIX: "Myrtle's Perseverence" trait didn't always activate. - FIX: "Hearty Appetite" trait had some incorrect interactions with other effects. - FIX: Booze and Arsenal spells will now correctly be added to the macro spell list after you unlock the Gambling Dwarves and Arena, respectively. - FIX: Crash related to rank 100 Rosenthorne perk. - FIX: "Transmogrification" trait also prevented debuffs and minions. - FIX: "Call of the Grave" trait didn't affect all enemies. - FIX: Realm map didn't display "False God: NAME" as a realm property. - FIX: Rare case where Attack and Spell damage were sometimes treated as indirect damage. - FIX: Extremely rare case where creatures could take infinite turns. - FIX: Devil's Nest blessings didn't work unless they initiated a battle. - FIX: The text "-5555" could be printed to the history log for no apparent reason. - FIX: "Love And Other Disasters" trait didn't correctly block all effects. - FIX: Althea's permanent Blight debuff didn't work. - FIX: Enemies could sometimes be fused with the exact same creature as their base creature. - FIX: Blessing list showed entries past favor level 100. - FIX: Each on-resurrect action counted against the resurrection limit. - FIX: Crashes/bugs related to the "Emerald Power" spell. - FIX: Wild Arena rules that forced creatures to belong to a certain class weren't enforced past the first battle. - FIX: Realm property that increased enemies' spell gem slots didn't work. - FIX: Rare crash when teleportation to a new realm. - FIX: "Dark Strike" spell didn't afflict Inverted. - FIX: "Bonsai" skin worked on Efts instead of Ents as intended. - FIX: Animatus card should no longer drop since it wasn't supposed to exist. - FIX: "Eternal Jinx" sometimes didn't work. - FIX: More issues that caused Cloud IDs to be the wrong length or negative. - FIX: Crash related to the "Last Stand" perk. - FIX: "Inverted" debuff could have the incorrect potency when applied by certain effects. - FIX: Cyhra's boss bottle will no longer give its allies damage immunity if one of them manages to acquire its trait. - FIX: Some "next battle" realm boosts weren't applied after they were acquired. - FIX: Master Arena Mode still gave players the wrong creatures. - FIX: "Random Music" decoration option should no longer re-randomize the music so frequently while you're choosing wall/floor/background styles. - FIX: Crash related to the "Multitheism" perk if you had creatures in your party that were converted to Godspawn mid-battle. - FIX: "Questions Unanswered" trait worked on all debuffs, and sometimes didn't work at all. - FIX: Zonte could sometimes become invincible during his god fight. - FIX: Surathli's fight could sometimes have terrible performance. - FIX: Void Essence rank 40 perk gave max hp to the wrong creature. - FIX: "Skew the Odds" and "A Little Help" achievement lines didn't progress as a result of the new Realm Boost system introduced in the last patch. - FIX: Dolphin costume didn't have animated left/right-facing frames. - FIX: Kraynaks' friends didn't change appearances after transformation. - FIX: Guild bonuses no longer apply in the arena. - FIX: "Derivation" perk always acted as if it was level 1. - FIX: Card stat bonuses applied in the arena. - FIX: Cards gave higher bonus stats than intended. - FIX: Buffs and debuffs could be overwritten by the same buffs and debuffs even if they weren't more powerful. - FIX: "Nature's Blessing" trait description now correctly states that it doesn't stack. - FIX: "Equinox" perk didn't produce floating combat text, history dialog, or activate on-minion effects. - FIX: "Master of Inquisitors" trait didn't produce floating combat text, history dialog, or activate on-minion effects. - FIX: "Insight" spell didn't have the correct effect. - FIX: On-death effects counted as a creature dying each time they activated.

The next few patches will focus on implementing backer content (new trait materials, spells, costumes, nether realms, creatures, etc) along with community suggestions. I'll also polish the game as much as possible during this time. After that, I'll work on a massive patch that adds 9 new realms, 9 new gods, and everything else associated with new realms including new creatures, blessings, decorations, and more. Please note that in the next major patch, if your cloud ID is not currently 12 digits in length, you will be assigned a new cloud ID when you load your save file. If you've been using the cloud storage feature and your cloud ID is shorter than 12 digits, you should change it and re-upload your files as soon as possible.

Patch 0.10.X is now available! ___________________________________________

Patch Notes

- NOTE: This patch includes a balance pass on all the traits in the game. You can find details about these adjustments at the bottom of these patch notes. Don't be scared - most of the changes are buffs. - ADD: Ascension. If you defeat all the gods at difficulty 10 or higher with a specialization, that specialization will Ascend. This unlocks an exclusive creature skin, decoration, and a new perk for that specialization. - ADD: Blessings of the Gods. As your Favor Rank with a god increases, you'll unlock additional bonuses for that god's realm. Some of these bonuses are generic (such as increased resources earned from resource nodes), while others are realm-specific (the potions in Zonte's realm will gain additional effects as your Favor Rank with him increases). You can view a full list of the bonuses you've unlocked at each god's altar or in your Codex. - ADD: You can now press F when viewing the map in a realm to view all the buffs, debuffs, minions, and other bonuses you've gained in the current Realm. - ADD: All realms have new objects for you to interact with, and many old objects have been re-designed with new effects. - ADD: All realms now have resource nodes. Previously, the Temple of Lies, Refuge of the Magi, Where the Dead Ships Dwell, Torture Chamber, The Barrens, and Unsullied Meadows realms didn't have resource nodes. - ADD: You can now purchase treasure chests from god shops after you reach a high enough favor rank with them. - ADD: Several new Realm Quests. Many other Realm Quests have been adjusted, and some have been removed from the game as well. - ADD: Gameplay Option that allows you to auto-interact with certain realm objects, such as resource nodes and destructible objects. This option will not work on certain objects, such as those that start battles. - ADD: Gameplay Option that allows you to disable floating overworld text (for example, the text that displays when you receive a realm buff). - ADD: Cross-platform cloud saving, available from the title screen menu. This function allows you to upload your save files to our server and import them on a different device later on. Note that this feature is still in an early testing phase and you should not rely on this feature to make backups of your save files yet. - ADD: "Cloud Storage" option to the Options menu. This allows you to export your save file to the cloud without needing to go to the title menu. - ADD: "Save and Upload to Cloud" option to the Save Game menu, which is a more convenient and streamlined version of the addition mentioned above. - ADD: You can now apply creature skins to your character via the Transmogrify feature. - ADD: You can now use creature skins as Customizable NPC sprites. - ADD: Guild reputation levels now grant small bonuses in battle. You can view these bonuses by interacting with each Guild in your castle. - ADD: Cards now grant a very small stat boost (0.1% of a certain stat that corresponds to the card's class). These stat boosts are displayed in a new interface by highlighting the "Card Album" from the main menu. - ADD: 30 new achievements which are also unlockable as Steam achievements. - ADD: 109 wardrobe costumes, all of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 125 decorations, 82 of which were designed by backers. - ADD: 51 creature skins, 20 of which were designed by backers. - ADD: You can now very rarely find Cards in loot. - ADD: "Random Music" option for your castle, which causes a random song to be chosen from all the ones you've unlocked when you enter your castle. - ADD: You can now press the toggle button (default F) at the Creatures -> View/Unequip Artifact menu to show the artifact's Nether Stone properties. - ADD: You can now type text using an on-screen keyboard when you have a gamepad plugged in. To disable this functionality, disable gamepads from the options menu. - ADD: Anointments are now included in the function that copies your team information to the clipboard. - ADD: Section to Codex: Reference Lists -> Blessings of the Gods. - ADD: Section to Codex: Realms -> Blessings of the Gods. - ADD: Section to Codex: Gate of the Gods -> Ascension. - ADD: Several new sound effects for various realm objects and UI elements. - ADD: Essence cost is now displayed when fusing creatures together. This has always been displayed when interacting with the fusion station, but some players missed it. - CHANGE: Rebalanced Realm Quests - hopefully, they'll all take roughly the same amount of time to complete now. There is also no longer a quantity variance for Realm Quests so they will feel much more consistent now. - CHANGE: Buffs, debuffs, minions, and other effects obtained in realms are now realm-specific rather than being granted at random. For example, in Surathli's realm, you'll gain Shell, Barrier, and other protective buffs instead of receiving a totally random buff. - CHANGE: Most realm objects are now significantly more rewarding. - CHANGE: Many realm objects previously either completed a realm quest OR benefited the player in some way. Now they always do both of those things. - CHANGE: You are now more likely to receive Realm Quests that are exclusive to that realm/god rather than a generic Realm Quest. - CHANGE: Increased maximum number of decorations you can have in your castle from 300 to 1000. - CHANGE: Improved enemy AI. - CHANGE: Carvers, Golems, and Nixes have new battle sprites. - CHANGE: Battle history text that states a creature has attacked, casted, healed, resurrected, gained stats, lost stats, buffed/debuffed/minioned/whatever too many times is now only printed once per creature per turn. This should reduce a significant amount of clutter in the battle log. - CHANGE: Several realm properties can no longer be found as hidden realm properties. - CHANGE: Increased realm property item bonuses for all properties - some more significantly than others, but they were all increased. - CHANGE: At the start of battle, trait-granting effects now occur first, and trait-sharing effects occur after that. Previously, there wasn't a particular order that these effects occurred in. This change has been noted in the Codex "Start of Battle Effects" section as well. - CHANGE: Orbs (the ones that sometimes spawn after battle and empower your creatures for the next battle) have been removed from the game, as their functionality has been baked into the new Blessings of the Gods feature. - CHANGE: Treasure chests no longer have a 100% chance to spawn after certain realm object battles. This change is compensated by an increase in the amount of loot you'll receive from other sources in realms, as well as the new blessings. - CHANGE: "Sacrifice" perk now sets health to 50% rather than dealing damage equal to 50% of max health. - CHANGE: "Ruse" perk now grants the Increased Damage property instead of the Cascading property. - CHANGE: "Spell Leak" and "Divination" spells now seal gems instead of destroying them. - CHANGE: Battle history now shows what stat was gained/lost too many times in a turn instead of simply calling it "this stat". - CHANGE: Battle history now tells you if a creature has been damaged too many times in a turn, or has resurrected too many times in the current battle. - CHANGE: "Overrun" perk has been revamped. After your creatures gain a buff, they recover 30% Health. - CHANGE: Bloodseeker relic tier 1 perk has been changed to heal the creature instead of grant them Maximum Health. - CHANGE: Bloodseeker relic tier 4 perk reduced from 15% to 3%. - CHANGE: "Can't Resurrect" realm property now limits the number of times a creature can resurrect rather than preventing resurrection completely. - CHANGE: Relic Synergy will now override relic stat bonuses if they are higher. - CHANGE: It now always costs 3000 Power to use the fusion station's "Level Up" feature regardless of how many levels you choose. - CHANGE: Realm buffs no longer count against the cap imposed by the "Maximum Buffs" realm property. - CHANGE: Automaton card bonuses have been updated since they were completely useless before. - CHANGE: After you defeat a Rodian Creature Master, a new one will not spawn at that Realm Depth again. The Codex has been updated to reflect this change. - CHANGE: Added additional text to the Combat -> Additional Tips codex entry that explains what "This trait does not stack" means in trait descriptions. - CHANGE: Default arena draft selection is now the middle creature. - CHANGE: Traits will be added to the Codex after you receive mana for a creature. Previously, you needed to summon a creature for its trait to be added (you can still do that as well, though). - CHANGE: Several additional creatures can now be summoned at the Divination Candle, including Mimics (other than the actual Mimic creature), cross-over creatures (Tanukrook, etc), and more. - CHANGE: Your creature with the highest Speed is now guaranteed to go first against False Gods. Previously, all of them were placed at the top of the Timeline. - CHANGE: Improved the accuracy and consistency of several trait descriptions. - CHANGE: Improved readability of the Anointments UI. - CHANGE: Nether Realm portals have a new sprite. - CHANGE: Gods have new UI icons. - CHANGE: You can no longer leave a False God's boss room until after you've claimed your reward from the Nether Orb. - CHANGE: Codex now mentions that a creature can gain a maximum of 10 temporary traits in battle. This has always been the case but was not documented. - CHANGE: "Immune to Indirect Damage" False God rune is no longer offered to players when they're hunting down Loid Prime as this made the fight impossible to win. - CHANGE: Number shortening now supports numbers up to 999 Decillion. - CHANGE: "Chaos Inoculation" spell is now called "Spreading Plague" and is now a Death spell. - CHANGE: Performance optimizations to make the game run better. - FIX: "Stellar Blessing" perk didn't interact with Purgatorian perks correctly. - FIX: "The Best Offense" perk worked for enemies as well. - FIX: "Diabolic Celebration" trait didn't benefit from effects that increase the number of creatures that belong to a race. - FIX: "Last Word" perk granted stats based on the target creature instead of the creature who provoked. - FIX: "Winter Solstice" perk only worked if you also had "Summer Solstice". - FIX: Crash related to the "To Move On Is To Grow" trait. - FIX: Cerberus traits that prevented them from manually casting spells were ignored by macros. - FIX: "Conflagration" spell didn't always deal damage to the correct creatures. - FIX: Wild arena rule that made creatures belong to the same race forced enemies to have the same race for all 5 battles. - FIX: Font size issues when holding F while in battle while floating text was being displayed. - FIX: Some spells didn't appear in the macro spell list. - FIX: "Mental Clarity" perk didn't always work. - FIX: "Burn Their Corpses" perk worked even if the enemy wasn't afflicted with Burned. - FIX: Excessively large battle history logs caused the game to lag. - FIX: "Channeling" trait gave 15% health instead of 5% per gem, and also worked on non-Ethereal gems. - FIX: Creatures with the Frozen debuff sometimes had strange behavior when their position was manipulated on the Timeline. - FIX: "Lingering Sickness" perk didn't always make debuffs last forever. - FIX: Bestiary scroll speed was too slow. - FIX: Transformation effects (Lycanthropy, etc) removed enemies' skins. - FIX: Clarified "Starwrath" relic's rank 100 perk description as it was misleading before. - FIX: Unplayable creatures (False Gods, etc) were counted toward card totals in the card album. - FIX: "Big Boned" trait set creature stats to 1 rather than their actual minimum amount. - FIX: Socketing an artifact with a spell gem or nether stone could very rarely delete a random material from your inventory. - FIX: "Evolution" spell no longer works on enemies in non-normal battles. - FIX: "Master of Harpies" trait worked on non-Harpies. - FIX: "Potent Porter" spell worked on Ethereal spell gems. - FIX: "Ditto" trait caused the original caster to cast the Scourge spell rather than the creature that has this trait. - FIX: Nether Realm shops had scrambled inventories if you exited the shop and came back immediately after. - FIX: Page numbers didn't appear on the spell gem equipping UI. - FIX: Creatures could sometimes gain Maximum Health for no reason after they were resurrected. - FIX: It was possible to prevent Loid Prime's head from resurrecting the other parts, making the battle unwinnable. - FIX: "Eternal Dream" perk was always active even if you didn't have it. - FIX: "Pact of the Gods" perk didn't share ultimate gems. - FIX: "Dark Ritual" and "Death Siphon" were allowed to have some spell gem properties that didn't affect them. - FIX: Chroma's tier 3 trait didn't correctly prevent indirect damage. - FIX: Chroma's traits worked on your creatures. - FIX: Traits that counted or otherwise interacted with a creature's race sometimes didn't work. - FIX: Arena tutorial popup text was inaccurate. - FIX: "I Am Above" trait didn't work. - FIX: "Feed The Fire" trait didn't work. - FIX: Effects that granted permanent buffs/debuffs didn't always work as expected. - FIX: "Knife's Edge" spell crashed the game. - FIX: "Cannibalistic Tendencies" trait didn't activate certain on-stat-gain effects. - FIX: "Lost in Echoes" perk didn't work under certain conditions. - FIX: "Edge of Reality" perk didn't work under certain conditions. - FIX: When the loot window is visible and a battle starts at the same time, the items will now be added to your inventory instead of getting lost. This mainly affects instances where you'd receive a card but would get interrupted by a secondary battle. - FIX: "Life Orb" spell didn't target dead creatures. - FIX: If you encounter an enemy and a Dumpling or Treasure Golem at the same time, the battles will no longer be combined into one weird, bugged-out mega-battle. - FIX: Chroma battle always started with Chaos immunity - now it is random as intended. - FIX: Aeolian's god battle started with no class weakness at all. - FIX: Chaos Guild shop sold the same plant twice and was missing a plant. - FIX: Certain effects that caused immunity to debuffs also worked on buffs and minions. - FIX: Several effects were ignored when the game was loaded, such as the "Master of Shapeshifters" trait which resulted in your extra equipped gems being placed back in your inventory. - FIX: "Greed" trait could sometimes affect the player's creatures. - FIX: "Invoke" perk didn't trigger on-gem-gained effects. - FIX: Transmogrification UI didn't block the main menu from opening when canceling out of it, and interacted with the wardrobe immediately after the player chose a costume. - FIX: Fruit combination effects that debuffed enemies in the Cutthroat Jungle could sometimes apply to the player instead of enemies. - FIX: "Anger Management" perk caused on-resurrect effects to occur. - FIX: Relics were able to cast Epiphany which was not only useless, but crashed the game. - FIX: "Faulty Fortune" prevented all buffs. - FIX: Some rare crashes and bugs related to the Timewalk spell. - FIX: Nightmare Golems didn't drop Nightmare Golem cards if their traits activated in battle. - FIX: "Nature's Boon" perk didn't calculate stat bonuses correctly. - FIX: "Master of Leeches" sometimes didn't work. - FIX: "Whisper" relic's rank 20 perk didn't work. - FIX: "Master of Dryads" sometimes didn't work. - FIX: "Eggnapper" trait didn't work and sometimes caused a crash. - FIX: "Sapphire Power" spell lasted forever, even after battle. - FIX: "Drain Power" spell always gave your gems 1 Charge even if it affected multiple targets. - FIX: Enemies with extra spell slots didn't fill their additional slots with spell gems. - FIX: Starwrath relic's 3rd perk could affect your creatures as well. - FIX: Some realm properties were mentioned in the Codex that were removed from the game a long time ago. - FIX: Chance for Pandemonium Brilliance trait to activate was rolled all at once for all the creatures with this trait instead of individually.

Balance Adjustments (Creature Traits)

Acid Body: now has an additional effect. After this creature is attacked, it seals one of the enemy's Spell Gems. All For One: revamped. Your creatures cast spells 0.5 additional times (rounded down) for each Familiar fighting on your side. This trait does not stack. Alleviation: increased damage from 5% to 10%. Arachnophobia: revamped. Enemies with Snared take 65% more damage from their Poison debuff. This trait does not stack. Ascendancy: removed the requirement to activate this trait. Bad Blood: now also afflicts Bleed. Blessing of Sands: clarified description, but the functionality remains the same. Blessing From Below: decreased stat reduction from 50% to 25%. Bloodfury: now also grants Savage. Bloodlust: now has an additional effect. Your creatures receive 30% more healing. Book of the Heretic: reduced chance for spells to fizzle from 30% to 25%. Book of the Warlock: now has an additional effect. At the end of your creatures' turns, they have a 30% chance to gain Arcane. Brain Drain: increased intelligence stolen from 10% to 15%. Breach: now also activates when the creature is resurrected. Breaker: reduced damage bonus from 125% to 100%. Call of the Bloom: now heals for 30% Health instead of 30% missing Health. Camaraderie: increased absorption from 50% to 100%. Cana: chance increased to 50%. Chastity: decreased threshold from 95% to 90%. Cataclysm: now has an additional effect. If enemies already have Burned, its potency is increased by 30%. Center of the Universe: now has a maximum of 5 gems that can be shared. Closure: now also gains current health. Cold Touch: revamped. After this creature attacks, it decreases the target's highest stat by 20%. Consciousness: increased health gained from 5% to 15%. Conservation of Energy: increased chance from 35% to 50%. Constrict: now also afflicts Fear. Corsac: chance decreased to 50%. Curse of the Outspoken: now also applies Vulnerable. Cyhra's Adamance: decreased damage from 100% to 50%. Deterioration: decreased damage reduction from 15% to 10%. Now has a maximum of 90% damage reduction. Disciple of War: now removes 2 debuffs instead of 1. Discord: now also increases the damage of Chaos Bolt by 100%. Divine Mending: now prioritizes its ally with the lowest Health. Double Take: now increases attacks and casts by 2, up from 1. Renamed to Triple Take. Drinking Game: increased chance from 1% to 5%. Drunken Brawler: increased damage from 20% to 40%. Earthen Attunement: now has an additional effect. This spell is cast 1 additional time. Eggnapper: now works on all your creatures' Spell Gems, but only non-Ethereal ones. Eldritch Essence: now casts the spell twice instead of once. Endless Distraction: increased damage reduction from 30% to 35%. Endurance Aura: reduced damage mitigation from 80% to 70%. Equilibrium: now only works with damage from attacks and spells. Eternal Jinx: now has an additional effect. This creature deals 75% more damage to enemies with Stone. Etta's Seduction: increased stat gains from 5% to 15%. Fable: revamped. At the start of battle, this creature's race becomes Godspawn. Your creatures deal 25% more damage for each Godspawn creature fighting on your side. This trait does not stack. Fraud: now has an additional effect. Your creatures' Scourge spells cannot be Sealed. Giftwrapped Army: decreased number of buffs from 2 to 1. Haunting Memories: increased chance from 30% to 50%. Heartrage: increased damage from 20% to 30%. Hee Hay Ho Ha: now only affects casting count. Here Until Forever: now grants Rebirth instead of Barrier. Hopelessness: revamped. Enemies with Snared take 50% more damage. This trait does not stack. Hotspur: increased chance from 35% to 50%. Imbibe: increased healing from 20% to 40%. Impossibility: revamped. Your creatures with Invisible are immune to damage from spells. Inner Hatred: reduced attack bonus from 150% to 100%. Jolt: now has a 100% chance to afflict Stone, up from 40%. Karma: now also activates when spell damage is taken. Katarina's Asylum: decreased damage penalty from 50% to 35%. Lagopus: chance increased to 20%. Lash: increased damage from 20% to 30%. Lingering Essence: reworked. This creature takes 18% less damage for each of its living allies. This trait does not work if another creature has this trait. Living Flame: no longer stacks. Long Live: increased damage reduction from 1% to 2%. Lunacy: increased damage from 35% to 40%. Mantra: Major Healing spell granted by this trait now has 100% more potency. Marshal: revamped. After your dominant creatures move to the top of the Timeline, the others have a 25% chance to attack a random enemy. Mass Summoning: now grants 1 to 3 minions instead of always 1. Master of Abominations: now has an additional effect. If all the creatures in your party are Abominations, enemies take 50% more damage. Meat Bomb: revamped. After this creature provokes, it deals damage to all enemies equal to 50% of its missing Health. Then, it is killed. Memoriae: increased chance from 65% to 75%. Misanthropy: now attacks 2 enemies, up from 1. Mockery: now has a cap of 90% damage reduction. Nature's Blessing: now has an additional effect. Your creatures take 15% less damage. Nice Haircut: creatures now resurrect with 50% Health instead of only 1 health. No Sudden Movement: now has an additional effect. Also decreases enemies' Speed by 30%. Nothing to Lose: decreased number of attacks from 10 to 5. Nutrient Blood: increased healing from 45% to 50%. Oulala: decreased damage from 200% to 150%. Optimism: increased stat bonus from 15% to 25%. Outnumbered: increased damage from 75% to 125%. Outrage: no longer requires Berserk for the damage bonus to activate. Overcome: increased chance from 35% to 50%. Pallida: chance increased to 20%. Pandemonium Brilliance: now has a 100% chance to activate. Pandemonium Exploit: increased damage from 25% to 50%. Pandemonium Life: increased damage from 1% to 2%. Periphery: now has an additional effect. Your creatures always deal critical damage. Pica: now has an additional effect. If you're not in a Realm, this trait acts as if you've collected 10 objects. Piercing Dragon Claws: increased damage to 30%. Qila's Safeguard: increased damage reduction from 30% to 40%. Quell: OHKO threshold decreased from 50% to 35%. Ramses's Conspiracy: increased damage from 20% to 25%. Ramses's Plot: increased damage from 20% to 25%. Rattle: now also causes the creature to attack the enemy. This trait now stacks. Release the Cure: now also activates when spell damage is taken. Recombobulation: no longer removes class weakness. Resprout: increased healing from 65% to 100%. Revolt: now also activates when spell damage is taken. Ruby Attunement: reduced health bonus from 100% to 75%. Sarea's Plot: increased damage from 10% to 15%. Screeching Barrage: increased damage from 20% to 25%. Sealed Fate: now also increases single-target spell damage by 50%. Seize: now also afflicts Snared. Sense of Purpose: increased healing to 35%. Sin and Sentence: OHKO threshold increased from 35% to 50%. Siren Charms: now afflicts Confused on 3 random enemies instead of all of them. No longer stacks. Skyttels: no longer works on creatures that also have this trait. Sloth: reduced stat reduction from 40% to 30%. Something To Complain About: increased damage reduction from 7% to 10%. Sorrow: increased chance from 20% to 25%. Spooky Technique: increased damage from 25% to 35%. Smoking Kills: increased damage from 75% to 100%, and increased damage reduction from 25% to 35%. Spiral Ward: increased damage reduction from 1% to 2%. Stank: now has a maximum 90% damage reduction. Stay Dead: increased damage from 40% to 60%. Steady Gaze: now also works on spell damage. Tellur's Fangs: increased damage from 10% to 15%. Tellur's Scales: now has a damage reduction cap of 90%. The Truth: revamped. Your creatures' Artifacts' Nether Stones are 100% more powerful, and their Nether Stones' Spell Gems have a 100% chance to activate. Thermal Void: decreased damage from 100% to 50%. Through the Gloom: decreased threshold from 95% to 90%. Touch of Red: decreased damage bonus from 35% to 25%. Transmogrification: penalty is now that the creature can't gain additional buffs. Treachery: now afflicts all enemies with Stone. Twist of Fate: now only works when the spell is cast manually. Unholy Prayer: now also causes Murder of Crows to deal damage 2 additional times. Velox: chance increased to 50%. Vendetta: now also works on casts. Vlora's Lies: revamped. After this creature is moved to the top of the Timeline, your other creatures gain a random minion. Volley: increased critical chance from 12% to 20%. Worship: now only activates from manual casts. Wrath: now also increases damage by 30%. Xyrxzy's Plan: now has an additional effect. Mind Control causes enemies to attack 1 additional time when affected by this spell. Year of the Trollboar: increased damage from 15% to 25%. Zerda: chance decreased to 20%.