Soulslinger: Envoy of Death news & patch notes

Heya Soulslingers!

We’ve just rolled out Update 1.031, and this one has some serious under-the-hood improvements that you should feel right away:

⚙️ Major Performance Improvements

We’ve rebuilt shader compilation from the ground up, making it more thorough and precise. What does that mean for you? Fewer hiccups, smoother gameplay, and a more consistent experience overall.

On top of that, we’ve done major optimizations to rendering and enemy systems, allowing the game to handle intense combat situations with far less performance loss. Things can now get a lot more chaotic without your framerate taking a hit.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

As always, we’ve also squashed some nasty bugs, with the main focus being fixing a crash that made life much worse while playing in the Outskirts.

Here's the full changelog:

CHANGELOG FOR VERSION 1.031

IMPROVED FEATURES:

• Rebuilt shader compilation from scratch to be more thorough and precise, resulting in an overall smoother experience when playing

• Major optimizations across the board regarding rendering and enemies, the game can now handle a lot more action without performance loss

• Map loading takes a lot less time now

• Adjusted several texture sizes to improve performance in the Land of Memories, Haven and the Graveyard

• Optimized rendering across the entire game to reduce stutters

BALANCE:

• The level of weapons found in the Graveyard and Outskirts realms will now be slightly higher

• Weapons found in the Trauma realm are now at a significantly higher level than the rest of the game

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Outskirts

• Fixed a bug where you could fall out of the Haven map

• Fixed a bug related to coins that would often cause severe stuttering when coins were dropped

• Fixed a bug where enemy HP bars were updated even when hidden, reducing performance

This update is another step toward polishing Soulslinger to the level it deserves. Thank you all for continuing to report issues and share feedback — it genuinely helps us make the game better with every patch.

See you in the afterlife, The Elder Games Team 💀🔥

NEW FEATURES:

• Added Hungarian localization

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a bug where enemies could get stuck in walls in the Outskirts realm,

• Fixed all Japanese localization issues

💀 New Realm: Trauma

🧨 Face the Final Villain: Victor

🚨 Launch Sale — 50% OFF!

🎁 And Much More...

CHANGELOG FOR VERSION 1.0

• New realm: 'Trauma' with four new, incredibly challenging enemies
• New boss: 'Victor' can be defeated at the end of the Trauma realm
• New weapon: the 'Phantom Triad' can be unlocked in the middle of the Forgotten Graveyard realm
• New crafting category: when crafting 'Tomes', new perks and ultimate abilities are unlocked for each essence
• Added a brand new game mode 'Trail of Ghosts', an endless survival mode with new and unexpected challenges
• Added new conversations with NPCs in Haven that wrap up the story of most characters
• Added new items to purchase from the pirate vendor
• Added 20 new achievements
• Redesigned gamepad controls from scratch for the main menu, in-game menu, workshop and totem screens

• Bullets of Vitality are now limited to only healing once (even if it kills multiple enemies with one shot)
• Bullets of Vitality are now affected by healing power
• Increased the chance of a Healing Shrine spawning from 30% to 50%
• The 'Fond Memory' Nia Blessing now gives 15% bonus attack each time an active ability is used, and is reset at the end of the battle
• The 'Initiative' Nia Blessing now deals 200% damage instead of 250%
• Increased the health bonus provided by the 'Essence of Life' Blood Essence perk from 10 to 20.
• Enemies are much tougher in difficult mode
• Wraiths (Land of Memories secret challenge enemies) have more health and more of them appear now

• Vastly improved enemy pathfinding
• Improved the Land of Memories challenge arena collisions to allow free movement and a more challenging fight against Wraiths
• Added gameplay option to disable headbob

• Fixed a bug where the Bestiary icon was not removed after visiting the Bestiary
• Fixed a bug where in the temple arena, enemies would get stuck on the top of a rock
• Fixed a bug where Wraithshot bullets would stop dealing damage to bosses
• Fixed a bug where Wraithshot bullets would not be piercing enemies after a while
• Fixed a bug where the Cursed King's rotating markers would remain on the battlefield after the bossfight
• Fixed a bug where time would remain slowed down during a cut-scene if any time altering abilities were in effect
• Fixed a bug where the healing shrine sound would not stop upon exiting to the main menu
• Fixed a bug where you could glitch through the cave ceiling in one of the Land of Memories maps
• Fixed a bug where the King's Guard would get stuck on top of the warp gate or one of the rock edges
• Fixed a bug where the decorative bars in the secret challenge arena would block enemy attacks
• Fixed a bug where the Contagion perk would restart the poison delay on already poisoned enemies
• Fixed a bug where the heat gauge would be visible when using the Silver Defiler

Enter Trauma

Victor Awaits

Introducing Craftable Tomes

• Tome of Fire – Unleash devastating fire-based abilities that make it much easier to set enemies on fire, as well as the Firestorm ultimate ability.
• Tome of Lightning – Harness the storm to stun enemies much longer, and also unlock the Tempest’s Wrath ultimate ability.
• Tome of Blood – Turns the Blood Essence into a powerful tool for survival, making health regeneration more viable than ever.
• Tome of Poison – Inflict slow, painful damage with enhanced toxin-based attacks, and unlock the Plague’s Embrace ultimate ability.

Trail of Ghosts Mode

A Fitting End

Soulslinger 1.0 – The Journey Comes Full Circle

CHANGELOG FOR VERSION 0.741:

• Vastly improved performance, the game should overall perform 2-3x faster than before
• Optimized all bullets (both player & enemy bullets)
• Fixed a performance issue where the bullets of Keeper of Fire and Devourer enemies were not initialized correctly
• Performed a major optimization related to the physics of destructible crates

• Fixed a bug where weapon pickups were sometimes automatically picked up when approaching them
• Fixed a bug in the Outskirts where an enemy could spawn within a rock wall
• Fixed a bug where the Stormcaller Revenant's indicator circle would remain on the battlefield after its death
• Fixed a bug where the Blightbone Sapper in the second realm would be classified as 'spectral' and therefore suffer all debuffs of spectral enemies
• Marker for the Bestiary in Haven will now be removed once it's been visited
• Fixed a bug where you could unlock a Well of Tears upgrade even with insufficient resources if you had the resources in a previous visit to the Well
• Fixed a bug where the effect of Bullet of Vitality would remain even if replacing it with another bullet effect
• Fixed a bug where the pirate vendor's exit gate wouldn't open in the Outskirts realm

• Added new arenas to the Land of Memories and the Outskirts
• You can now interrupt reloading and swap weapons
• Added new conversations with NCPs in Haven
• Added the Credits video to the main menu
• Weapon FOV is now independent from the game and respects ultrawide resolutions as well
• Added new sound effects for Voidcasters, Void Harbingers, Bandits and the Revenant Sheriff

• Significantly reduced the health of the Sentinel boss to make it less repetitive / easier to beat
• Reduced the amount of enemies and damage dealt during a Victor's Army rush
• Reduced the health of Victor's Army
• Reduced the amount of enemies spawning in the Outskirts during a fight
• Slowed down all enemy projectiles of enemies native to the Land of Memories
• Slowed down the Cartel Brute's projectile attack
• Even imbued shots can recharge ultimate abilities now

• Vastly improved weapon handling
• The crosshair now responds to what type of object you're pointing at (turns red in case of an enemy or explosive, turns brown in case of a crate)
• Reduced the recoil camera shake
• Replaced the visual effect of the Devourer attack (the difficult mode ghost) to make it clearer
• Added a guide particle effect to the chase map so it is immediately obvious what path you must take to reach the end
• Added an option to disable the camera dust post-processing effect
• Enemy death animations are much faster and do not have the spark effects anymore
• Reduced the size of enemy projectiles or completely replaced their VFX for higher quality and better readability
• Reduced the size and brightness of the electric dash/stun reload VFX
• Replaced numerous visual effects for the sake of much better visual clarity during battle
• Cleaned up collisions in ALL battle arenas, movement should be much smoother in general
• Replaced the "Loading" texts with more immersive, world-specific texts
• All of Death's clothing now has proper physics, preventing weird stiff cloth pieces
• Optimized the game's memory footprint for less RAM usage
• Adjusted/fixed the volume of weapon sounds

• Fixed a bug where shots were fired slightly below the crosshair
• Fixed a bug where the electric bullet damage was not calculated based on the base weapon damage
• Fixed a visual bug with the Wraithshot weapon pickup
• Fixed a bug where shadow marks were not visible on enemies
• Fixed a bug where battle shrines were visible when loading a saved game
• Fixed a bug where the character's hand would be floating next to the shotgun
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to get stuck in the place where a Windcaller Scout was killed
• Fixed a bug where enemies kept burning even after dying
• Fixed a bug which caused shots to be inaccurate if firing rapidly
• Fixed a bug where the dash input would sometimes not register, especially when dashing sideways
• Fixed a bug where crates would be floating above the ground
• Fixed a bug where the battle shrine would hide the ability icon from the bottom-right when upgrading a skill
• Fixed a bug where replacing the currently equipped Wraithshot would cause the bullet ability to remain inactive
• Fixed a bug where the second ability (spell) was cancelled because of switching weapons
• Fixed a bug where the Sentinel would just get stuck and not fight
• Fixed a bug where opening the Workshop while leaving Haven would lock the game
• Fixed a bug where using melee while aiming down sights would cause weird animations
• Fixed a bug where dealing melee damage to bosses could cause them to get locked in place

• The second half of the 'Outskirts' realm has been added with new arenas and new enemies
• Added a massive new cinematic right after beating the Revenant Sheriff, this introduces 'Victor', the main villain of the game
• Added a new weapon: the ‘Wraithshot’ schematics can be found upon defeating the 'Revenant Sheriff' boss
• Introduced 'Rush Encounters', these become available after meeting Victor
• Added five new, elite enemy types summoned by Victor during Rush Encounters
• Added a new boss: the 'Sentinel' can be defeated at the end of the 'Outskirts' realm
• New relic: the Scroll of Wealth schematics can be purchased from the pirate vendor, causes coins to stay on the ground longer
• Added "Remnant Bossfights", you can now fight realm bosses such as the Cursed King or the Countess again for more rewards
• Lots of new conversations back at Haven that provide more lore and story details
• Added the final Well of Tears upgrades that unlock Battle Shrines
• Added Battle Shrines to the game, these offer unfair temporary advantages in exchange for sacrificing health

• Bossfights are now mandatory and cannot be postponed -- if you still want to do that, there will be an endless mode
• Slightly reduced the Dune Guardian's health and increased its cooldown
• All Death Offers are now more powerful or have less severe downsides (excluding Reaper's Resilience)
• Slightly increased the Night Quartet's cooldown cost
• The 'Bullet of Vitality' perk is no longer consumed upon use and works like other bullet perks
• Buffed Shock Bullets to deal much more damage
• Buffed the Lightning Strike spell to have a significantly higher range
• Nerfed the amount of damage resistance you can get from all sources
• Increased Cursed King and Countess damage
• Reduced the requirement of the melee achievement from 1000 to 100 punches

• Performed an overall optimization pass, the game should run smoother in general
• Optimized the performance of the electric dash/stun reload visual effect
• Added the segment info (the one you see on the loading screen) to the character screen as well
• Replaced the melee animation with a more impactful punch

• Fixed a bug where the Blood Rune would not become usable again if it was reset after traveling through a gate
• Fixed a bug where the death sound would play twice if the "Boss Defeated" message was displayed while loading Haven
• Fixed a bug where the Shotgun and Night Quartet weapons would only fire a single projectile if fired while using ADS
• Fixed a bug where summoning a Golem right before entering a gate disables enemy AI in the next arena
• Fixed a few instances of the bug where enemies could be summoned inside unreachable building interiors in the Outskirts realm
• Fixed a bug where the Silver Defiler wouldn't work with the gunslinger Well of Tears upgrade
• Fixed a bug where killing a Nightmare creature would immediately destroy its projectiles
• Fixed a bug where entering the Countess bossfight would reset the current save to the Land of Memories immediately
• Fixed a bug where the lowHP sound event would carry over into Haven, shutting out a lot of the sound effects
• Fixed a bug where the "Who needs powers" achievement could only be unlocked in difficult mode

Changelog 0.47:

• The first half of the new realm called 'Outskirts' has been added; you can reach this after defeating the Cursed King
• Added 5 new enemies
• Added a new boss: the 'Revenant Sheriff' can be defeated at the halfway point of the new 'Outskirts' realm
• Added a new weapon: the ‘Silver Defiler’ schematics can be found upon entering the new 'Outskirts' realm
• Added the 'Desolate Essence' and all its related abilities and perks. You can access these in the entire game after entering the "Outskirts" realm
• Added 'Nia Blessings' to the game, these are special perks that you can access after beating the Cursed King
• Added a new pre-rendered cinematic, giving a bit of insight into who Soulslinger used to be in real life
• The Cursed King and the Countess can now be unlocked in the Bestiary (they are automatically unlocked if you've defeated them already)
• You can now collect the black crystal resource from the Bestiary entries of the Cursed King and the Countess
• Added the 'Impervious' and 'Punishment' upgrades to the Well of Tears

• Greatly increased the chance of finding a Healing Shrine
• Projectiles fired by the Nightmare enemy deal 5 damage instead of 15 now
• The Power Totem will now require Embers, Shards and Blueprints for some upgrades instead of Tears of Oblivion
• Removed Insane Mode and the related achievement; a new game mode is coming soon instead
• Extended the passive skill inventory so all collected abilities would fit

• The currently selected weapon is now marked in the inventory
• Added the weapon perk tooltips to the weapon replacement screen as well
• If you stand next to a spawning enemy, that enemy is now briefly disabled to avoid sudden unfair attacks
• Picking up a new weapon no longer switches the order of weapon slots
• You can now use the mouse wheel as well to switch weapons (in addition to the key configured in the options menu)

• Fixed a bug where footsteps could not be heard in Haven
• Fixed a bug where the in-game health value would not match the one displayed in the Power Totem
• Fixed a bug were falling down into a chasm would place you inside a wall
• Fixed a bug where in the secret challenge arena, falling down into a chasm would just place you above the chasm again
• Fixed a bug where a warp gate appeared to be too bright in the Pyrehelm arena
• Fixed several bugs where it was possible to clip into Warp Gates in the Forgotten Graveyard
• Fixed a bug where the Devourer enemy outline appeared only on his body instead of his full equipment, leading to glitches
• Fixed a bug where aiming was not entirely precise when using ADS
• Fixed the bug where 3D icons would not appear on the side of gates for certain rewards
• Fixed a bug where invisible enemies were present in the first area of the Forgotten Graveyard
• Fixed a bug where some weapon perk tooltips would not be displayed on the inventory screen
• Fixed a bug where the Forgotten Graveyard portal sound effect would still play when quitting to the main menu

• You will be able to enter the new realm called 'Outskirts' and make it to the next miniboss (equivalent to the King's Guard in the previous realm)
• New enemies with brand new enemy types, different AI than before, some of them are smarter or behave very differently from what you've seen so far
• A new voiced NPC with an important role, main cut-scene and lots of dialogue
• Two new spell classes, one of them is a new essence, the other is tied to Nia, Soulslinger's love from real life
• A new pre-rendered cinematic giving a bit of insight into who Soulslinger used to be in real life
• A new weapon
• The black crystal resource required at the Well of Tears, as well as the next two Well upgrades

CHANGELOG FOR VERSION 0.452

• You can now carry up to 2 weapons
• You can now find weapons out in the game world; their level, damage, and bonus stats are randomized
• The Night Quartet weapon can now be found by just entering the Forgotten Graveyard
• Introduced weapon-specific perks, randomly applied to gun pickups
• Added a new relic that can be acquired when beating the Countess; this increases the levels of weapons you find
• Unclouded Eye now reveals enemies instead of crates and barrels
• The inventory screen now contains information about the owned weapons
• The weapon FOV is now separated from the rest of the game, making guns appear larger and feel better during gameplay
• Replaced the VFX of the poison shockwave
• Replaced the VFX of the Vengeance homing projectile
• Replaced the Flaming Bullet perk with a new bullet that triggers an explosion every time you hit burning enemies with another status effect
• Scaled up the length of the 'Double-Barreled Fury' weapon

• Surrounding branches are no longer set on fire by enemy attacks; we've found this to be an unfair feature rather than an actually good gameplay element
• Explosive barrels now only deal 20 damage to the player (they still deal 100 damage to enemies)
• Removed the teleporting ability from basic Swarmers
• The Power Totem now gives 8 health for each upgrade (instead of 2)
• Balanced the amount of elemental Power Totem bonuses

• Fixed a bug where the camera would clip into Soulslinger's arms when landing
• Fixed a bug where the blood rune instructions would stay on screen after winning a fight
• Fixed a bug where Bullet of Vitality would not remain until the end of the battle when a Night Quartet was equipped
• Fixed a bug where the essence selection screen could not be used with gamepad (works with the D-Pad now)
• Fixed a bug where Vengeance homing projectiles would just hover in the air if there were no enemies left
• Fixed a bug where jumping and falling sounds would play during the loading screen

• New realm: the 'Forgotten Graveyard'
• Added four new enemies
• New boss: 'The Countess' can be defeated at the end of the Forgotten Graveyard
• New weapon: the 'Night Quartet' is a cooldown-based 4-shooter that you can loot from the Countess
• Added the 'Spectral Essence' and all its related abilities and perks, you can access these in the Forgotten Graveyard
• Added the 'Blood Essence' and all its related abilities and perks; you can access these after beating the King's Guard for the first time
• You can now construct the 'Power Totem' at Haven; this allows you to upgrade Soulslinger's stats infinitely
• You can now construct the 'Orb of the Seer' at Haven, this keeps track of your stats and efficiency
• Replaced the visuals of the Poison Bullet explosion with a much better looking and more impactful visual effect
• Movement with a gamepad is now based on a curve and has a deadzone, so moving the left or right thumbsticks will now respect the strength of movement
• All missing items are now indicated in the Workshop, along with instructions on how to get them

• Reduced the length of time dilation caused by the Darkened Moment ability
• All AOE dash abilities now trigger 100% of the time
• Removed Healing Shards as separate rewards, these became redundant (the Blood Essence has the exact same perk)
• Healing Shards can still be acquired as boss rewards or at the challenge arena
• Reduced the health of the Cursed King from 9000 to 6000
• Reduced the impact circle of the stones thrown by Cartel Brutes
• Reduced the gravity of the Ardent Assassin's fireball projectile, making it slightly more effective

• Fixed a bug which caused massive stutter at cut-scene transitions when DLSS was enabled
• Fixed a bug where the crafting screen status was not immediately updated upon collecting resources from the Bestiary
• Fixed a bug where the hidden gate downside obtained with a Death perk would never reset after loading a saved game
• Fixed a bug where saving the game immediately after beating the Cursed King would result in a corrupted saved game
• Fixed a bug where an empty or corrupted perk would be displayed when picking up a reward
• Tons of visual fixes and tweaks to make sure VFX doesn't overwhelm the screen
• Improved the map selection algorithm to make sure maps are repeated less frequently

• Rebuilt the lighting and color settings of the Land of Memories from scratch
• Added a bright, noticeable indicator whenever a ranged enemy launches its attack
• The Shotgun spread works very differently now, vastly improving the usability of the weapon

• Reduced camera sway during ADS
• Fixed a bug where the Fire Guard's massive sword strike never dealt damage
• Fixed a bug where the flying Wraith's projectile would collide with seemingly nothing and disappear
• Fixed the Devourer's Bestiary description
• It is no longer possible to set max FPS due to major performance issues this caused