Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde news & patch notes

:mb2spark: Greetings Spirit Hunters! :mb2spark: Its been one month since our console launch and we are finally winding down on Spirit Hunters. The team has moved on to new games at this point, or having a break. This will likely be the final update outside of any newly found bugs and one potential feature we are testing. We want to thank everyone in the community who has helped to make this a game we can be proud of finishing. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/7b7b80abee2b78f9ab397301de64d39b296eb8fa.png :sadhf: DIVINITY WEB PURCHASABLE HIGHLIGHT This is one of the most requested features we have had for a long time. Now that the game is done and 99% of the bugs are cleared out, we have had the time to get it in. Once you have more than 50 points spent in the Divinity web, there will be a highlighted, arrow that will point to any node you can currently afford to unlock. This counts for both resources and kill gates. This should make mid to late-game Dweb navigation much easier to manage. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a13d24cb07e3f24fa7bff07bf7c9257b247ac4dc.png :sadhf: ENEMY LOCATION UNDER KILLGATES The number 1 question we still get is "Where can I find X monster?". So we added the zone where you can find the monster under each kill gate. Many enemies can be found in multiple zones and we didn't want to put a big list. So the zone displayed is the easiest place to find the monster. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png We squashed a few more bugs that players have been finding since launch. :al_bug: There was an issue where pausing the game could cause some elements with a lifetime to play out their lifetime while paused. This little cheeky error has been fixed. :al_bug: The Controller cursor could be snapped outside at the top of the screen and then left in limbo unable to come back. Forever alone. :al_bug: There was a long-standing issue with soft locking the game when leveling just at the time when entering the shop / pausing the game. This has been fixed. :al_bug: Arrow Spectre and Arrow Blocker now have the correct location info set on their data. :al_bug: Character Shakpana + Lighting ability now properly applies his passive. :al_bug: Issue with the HP meter that meant that it was not aligned with Sickles HP. :al_bug: Issue with boss medals fixed due to missing kill gate on Desert ruins brutal. :al_bug: Some nudging of images in the character select screen due to overlapping with text. :al_bug: Updating Hearty Dweb description to be correct. :al_bug: A number of spelling mistakes As always, thanks for all the feedback and support from the player community. If you enjoy the game please give a thumbs up review. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/cd508e103b54a71edbadcf42fe7c0fd5394b39de.png We are very happy to announce that Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde is NOW AVAILABLE on consoles! :mb2spark: Nintendo Switch :mb2spark: Playstation 4 :mb2spark: Playstaton 5 :mb2spark: Xbox One :mb2spark: Xbox Series X/S Phew! We've been working hard over the last few months to bring out all consoles at the same time! It's been a lot of work, but we're super happy that we are finally here! Links to Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde on all consoles are available on our website or you can simply search for Spirit Hunters on your preferred system. https://www.creaturecauldrongames.com/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/126b7e6d077ae708c94db3ce2158d59c741b3020.png :sadhf: Thanks to our porting partner, Subsilico for helping us make this happen! As always, thanks for all the player feedback and support. :engineercat:

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/2dfbdadb483c465a48188df534dd40237564d9cd.png Hello again, Spirit Hunters! We are incredibly excited and proud to release the finished Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde version 1.0 today! It's been a full year of amazing player feedback and big updates to get us to this point. We want to thank everyone who helped us shape this game into what it is today. :mb2spark: For new players and those who are coming back to the game after a long break, here is what Spirit Hunters has grown into over the past year: :sadhf:8 Unique heroes with their own powerful active abilities, passive abilities, and synergies with each ability. :sadhf:42 Abilities and mods have all been buffed and balanced multiple times :sadhf:20 pets with different passive stats that have also been updated and re-balanced :sadhf:9 environment zones each with unique monsters and layouts that change the game flow :sadhf:Normal, Hard and Brutal levels of difficulty for each map! :sadhf:200+ Unique monsters including 70 minibosses and 27 end bosses :sadhf:80 Unique Build Challenges found in the Ledger :sadhf:A large amount of stats that are tracked in the Ledger. :sadhf:670 total unlockable skill tree nodes :sadhf:A Bestiary where you can read up on the lore of the enemies you have vanquished. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/cbe024a33a184650ea1d1a0e67bfdf0011e8423b.png For the 1.0 patch we have added some more languages, QOL changes and minor balance tuning :sadhf:French Language added :sadhf:Russian Language added :sadhf:Added rank numbers to pet banners so its clear how many levels each pet has :sadhf:Added check mark to finished ability stats so you know when you have maxed out any given stat :sadhf:Enemy spawner adjustments in multiple zones to make certain challenges easier to accomplish :sadhf:Lots of enemy HP balance tweaks :sadhf:Lots of new enemy animations across the game :sadhf:Tutorial Updates and indicators are pointing to the tutorial and Ledger challenges. PLEASE READ! :) :sadhf:Font adjustments for better readability on smaller screens and Steam Deck :sadhf:Improved hero animations for Hugo and Vivian :sadhf:Optimisation work around spawning, and rendering. :sadhf:Improvements to the controller-based cursor and how it clips on edges. :sadhf:More controller improvements when using in-game. :sadhf:New Oracle dialogue comments :sadhf:Reworked credits page {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/60e2dd25ba8c3f884188dcfdc515da424f215ced.png NEW ACHIEVEMENTS We added 13 new achievements to round things out to 100 total achievements. Each normal mode boss now has an achievement and we added 4 more difficult ones. :sadhf:Pet Whisperer - Win a run with all pet slots filled and maxed out :sadhf:Max Hero Level - Win a run with all 4 abilities maxed to level 25 :sadhf:Golden Run - Win a run with 20,000 gold :sadhf:Elite Boss Hunter - Defeat all 27 end bosses including the final Cavern boss, Endlord {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b92441267aec87cf58d9400b5779359f04aa2072.png STEAM TRADING CARDS+ We finally added Steam trading cards and other steam assets to the mix :sadhf:8 HERO trading cards - The Moon Mummy card is not real... just don't tell him that. :half_moon: :sadhf:5 Badges :sadhf:5 Pet Emoticons :sadhf:3 profile Backgrounds {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png Since this is the full launch, we wanted to spend some extra time on refinement and bug slaying :al_bug:Fixed issue where controller snapping wouldn't function properly in higher resolutions. :al_bug:Moving to the bestiary screen and then back again, could cause the divinity origin to be reset to its last position which meant you could lock yourself off the screen over time. :al_bug: Mining nodes and chest nodes could very rarely spawn with the wrong texture and/or scale. :al_bug:Fixed an issue where Poison arrow damage did not get improved with Whoodoo and Shakpana passives. This now behaves correctly. :al_bug:When upgrading the arrow to poison arrow it would stop performing critical damage. It now crits like an arrow! :al_bug:Fixed an issue where title screen music could play more than once. :al_bug:Fixed an issue where Big Tex had a negative effect on the split arrow mod. (Was less an issue with Big Tex, and more an issue on the split arrow and how it worked out its splitness). :al_bug:Dragon Fireball mod had a textual rounding issue. That is fixed. :al_bug:There was a way you could lock the start of hardcore mode so you could never progress past Oracle text (because it never appeared). :al_bug:You could get the tutorial into a state where it remained on screen. No longer! :al_bug:A particular hard-to-replicate error could happen where if an enemy spawned precisely below the player, it could sometimes cause a crash. (Nate ed: That was a reet annoying one) :al_bug:Echo slash copies of the player were not animating. :al_bug:More spelling mistakes! Oops! Hotfix (22/06/23) :al_bug: Achievements should now pop for bosses you have killed prior. :al_bug: Additional achievement checks are made to ensure they are not missable :al_bug: Fixed a sneaky double chest spawning location that could spawn 2 chests on top of each other :al_bug: Fixed ordering of some ground visuals in Desert Ruins Hotfix (26/06/23) :sadhf: Added Traditional Chinese localisation :al_bug: Fixed bug with Poison Cloud where its dot damage could be reset. :al_bug: Fixed bug with Poison Cloud where the dot damage on the level up banner was off either with numbers, or when levelling up again. We humbly and graciously thank all our testers and players for helping us improve the game and turning it into something we are really proud of. Also thanks to our wives and families who have put up with our long hours to get this project complete. If you are enjoying the game please consider leaving a positive review. It helps far more than you know. ːsteamthumbsupː

ːmb2sparkː Greetings Spirit Hunters! ːmb2sparkː Happy late May! It's been 1 year since our first early access launch. It has been a fun and challenging road that has led us to this point. We are very happy and excited to announce the release date for the finished 1.0 version of Spirit Hunters! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/3dfb029df259316755fc949a773a3d8b347b104c.png INCLUDED IN 1.0 RELEASE We are finally adding all of the usual Steam extras in with the 1.0 release: * 13 new Steam Achievements - bringing the total to 100 * Steam Trading Cards * Steam Medals * Steam Backgrounds * Steam Emojis While the vast majority of the game is finished, there will still be some in-game updates: * New Languages * Minor game balance updates * UI updates * Loads of bug fixes, QOL and optimization passes. * The final Moon Mummy buff... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/785ae871a80e03562675282549a1f71fcb4d4d82.png As usual, a full list of specific details will be in the 1.0 release patch notes {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ea3f2b1c7753fed522f5cad7016e61bf02f47586.png CONSOLE VERSIONS! We have been hard at work porting Spirit Hunters to Switch, Playstation 4 & 5, and Xbox One and X/S. There is still a lot of work to do here, but we hope to have these ready to go in the next couple of months. We will keep you updated and let you know when they are dropping for consoles. As always, we HIGHLY appreciate all the great feedback and support from the community throughout the year and we look forward to delivering a well-polished, final version to you all soon. If you are enjoying the game, please consider leaving a positive review. Every thumbs-up helps tremendously. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Instagram | Website

:mb2spark: Greetings Spirit Hunters! :mb2spark: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/67957a1b3f2ac9d2f8404f49f24509cb0b04b374.png We are happy to finally be releasing our biggest and final major content patch prior to the 1.0 release! This has been a massive undertaking over the past couple of months and we really appreciate the support and patience for this update. There is a LOT to get through, so let's jump right in! NEW HEROES {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/bb3a21951ca4c0cfdcc68135609f6b8df4c73ca7.png :sadhf:McDIGGINS McDiggins, the crazy miner is our resource-gathering/farming specialist. All of his starting ability synergies are based on gathering more resources. :mb2spark:PASSIVE - All Crystal nodes turn into Ember Core nodes in every zone. :mb2spark:HERO ABILITY - McDiggins gains move speed, invulnerability and knockback for 4 seconds. Enemies hit by the knockback have a 30% chance to drop a crystal. This can be used as both a powerful escape and a great farming tool. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/547b5f05ac905b3fac04811e13b677d841ed0e3f.png :sadhf:SICKLE Sickle was an elite miniboss in the Spirit horde army but she was betrayed by Moon Mummy. She joined the Spirit Hunters on a quest for revenge. :mb2spark:PASSIVE - Sickle does 25% bonus damage with all abilities and her starting synergies add even more damage. She can't heal making her the most challenging hero to play. :mb2spark:HERO ABILITY - Sickle uses Death Mark to slash all enemies around her instantly. The lower her health the faster it recharges and the more damage it does. Every 50 missing HP changes the stats. *Full health: 300 HP = 35 second cooldown - 400 damage to all near enemies *Near Death: 50 HP = 10 second cooldown - 1400 damage to all near enemies :sadhf:MAGNUS Magnus got a minor starting HP buff and his Hero Ability has gained 2 charges. From 5 to 7. NEW ZONES {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/5dbcdf4840d0627928b53ac68f57a74fc08f9072.png :sadhf:TWILIGHT OASIS This is the 3rd and most challenging zone found in the Desert map. Will you play it safe in the open desert or seek out the many treasures hidden in the dangerous tall grass? This zone features a bunch of new enemies including the Scorpions, Shock Beetles and the epic Antlion. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/3828ad4e87a78502e394503b712bd2e6163a24b0.png :sadhf:LUNAR CAVERN The final map and zone features a unique enclosed layout and the Molemen Cultists who uncovered the ancient Moon Mages who unleashed the spirit horde into the world. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/946f342a3206c3f75057ba3559103fe467edec17.png We added a bunch of new monsters to the game for the new zones and did some balance changes to a lot more. Here are some of the new Oasis and Lunar Cavern monsters :ns_blue:16 new standard monsters :ns_blue:5 new minibosses :ns_blue:6 new End bosses {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/1ba377e6662326903af1832c217e427345cb5b01.png Some of the new Minibosses :ns_blue:Nightblade :ns_blue:Swolpion - best name evar! :ns_blue:Soxy We also buffed "a few" of the existing minibosses. These ones are a bit tougher than before: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/cf3bdd480793a7a708b0ebe95d565e49801a31e5.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e5f54d9b627714298a2c8dee99811d7586092693.png MOON MUMMY.... It finally happened. Moon Mummy got really angry that we didn't give him a buff in this patch. So he revealed and unleashed his true form: Megnacron, lord of the Spirit Horde... I always knew that moon mummy was up to something! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/32a8cc6515a4965c1de90277fe437378c471938d.png The Ledger is the biggest system update we are adding to the game. Now there are 10 Ledger Challenges per hero that push players to try unique builds. Starting a challenge from the Ledger will give you level 1 versions of every ability and pet needed for the run. Complete the requirements and win the level to win the challenge. These new challenges also tie into new Steam Achievements to unlock! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b3c31309921a41c1c59d50302307b2560b40b6ed.png The ledger also provides a way for the player to now follow stats from their runs, so if you're into knowing how many pet cages you've opened, or how many enemies you've actually clobbered then there is a page in the ledger for you! ** Important note, Most of the ledger stats are new to this patch, and as a result are only just being tracked from this patch onwards. Your old saves will work just fine, but just keep in mind when you look at your stats and they are set to 0. ** *We highly recommend starting a new save file to get the ideal game experience and new flow. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/86a81f304070495772e84c73f1a3754b5daab31b.png We did a bunch of ability and mod tuning to continue pushing for good balance. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f73a44707ecb9152d5ff85e2a990555744c2f689.png POISON CLOUD got a design update and a significant damage boost. Instead of the original shoot in the facing direction that was always hard to aim, it now fires a double shot left and right upon growing to full size. Now it has far greater damage output and stronger crowd control. UPDATES :ns_blue:ORBITAL FIRE - Gains +1 damage banner after unlocking Multiflame doing double damage mid-game. :ns_blue:Arrow - Arrow shot speed and range increased :ns_blue:TORNADO - Minor starting CDR buff :ns_blue:MOD - BREAKING WIND - Now gets double the shots due to Poison Cloud shooting two bursts. :ns_blue:MOD - FLAME DRAGON - Damage banner increased Flame Dragon damage :ns_blue:MOD - POISON ARROW - Massive damage increase per level :ns_blue:MOD - ARROW MULTI SHOT - Shot speed and range increased :ns_blue:MOD- JINN SHOCK SHOT - Stun chance increased per level :ns_blue:MOD - CHAIN LIGHTNING - Overpowered CC - Reduced stun chance {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f415c58125f251112802e78ccc0ad8da8f0a04ef.png :sadhf:PET UPDATES WHOODOO got a buff with 2 more scaling damage levels Before: 3 levels (3/4/5 damage per tick) After: 5 levels (3/4/5/6/7) NOMICRON changed dramatically. The damage was reduced but the size is greatly increased. Now the levelling up damage area is massive. SCOOP no longer digs up small coins. Now when he finds gold its a large sack. Payday! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b01e7f25db74b287d94326f31ca00c855543276a.png We added a bunch of quality-of-life updates to improve the overall game experience and communication. Plus some accessibility and balance updates. :sadhf:NEW LANGUAGES ! Spirit Hunters is now translated into Japanese and Korean! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/043cf6ac3e5858534921ad1ab9fb068e52522a7e.png :sadhf:BANNER RANKS We added a rank to show the current level and max level of any given stat on the banner during the level-up selection. :sadhf:REROLL BUTTON Many players did not even notice there was a REROLL button so we changed it to look more like the rest of the banners. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/48caf4a44937e2582872a9db4fc9a825ad88a76e.png :sadhf:PET PANEL We added a panel that shows current pets and their levels when you are selecting pets from opening cages or in shops. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/5e66808a7fe57cfd0eebbc63dbf62e36cdf38ad7.png :sadhf:MOD REQUIREMENTS Now when you pause the game you can see the required levels for available mods based on the abilities you have. No more memorization or guesswork is needed during a run. :sadhf:REROLL COST Ability reroll cost has been reduced from 100 gold to 50 gold Pet reroll cost has been reduced from 250 to 100 gold :sadhf:BOSS DEATH SPIKES Will no longer kill you in one hit. Now they're the Boss Hurty Spikes and just do a large amount of damage. :sadhf:SHOP PET RANKS Before you could only purchase level 1 pets in shops. Now all pet ranks are available to purchase in shops. :sadhf:MORE TREASURE BUGS We added a lot more treasure bugs to all zones across the game. :sadhf:KILL GATE ADJUSTMENTS We reduced some of the kill gate number requirements and added a few more waves of specific enemies to make the kill gates easier to achieve. No more grinding out multiple runs for a single kill gate required... unless you die early... then we can't help you. :sadhf:HERO ABILITY / LEVEL-UP TIMING A frustrating issue existed where when levelling up just as you pushed the hero ability would cause an accidental selection. We've put a little cooldown to prevent that and some timing work. :sadhf:BRUTAL POWER PROPER UNLOCK Now that we have the final zone in the game, the first enemy to drop Shadow Souls to unlock Brutal Power is in the Hard mode Lunar Cavern. This is the way it was always intended to be. Of course, you can still get to it early using the currency exchange hack. :) :sadhf:ANIMATION POLISH Worked through a number of enemies and improved their animations. :sadhf:MAPS POLISH Repainted all the maps to look much better and show the zones more clearly. :sadhf:FULL CONTROLLER SUPPORT We've spent a good chunk of time making sure that the controller is fully supported throughout the game, and the game is fully playable now with a controller. Some important controller things to note: :ns_blue:Cursor movement is now on the left stick rather than the right. :ns_blue:Snapping system to make selection easier. You can turn this on/off in Options. :ns_blue:In the Divinity web, the right stick pans the camera, and the Bumper buttons Zoom in and out. :ns_blue:Gone through the game and updated all screens to support controllers. :ns_blue:Just lots of controller / UI / interaction fixes. (LOTS!) Like such classics, such as "You can now navigate back through the menus with B!" etc. There are still some minor issues to address, but we think you'll like the love that's gone into this. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e1eca76ab62ba2483107ad2e827295c74d5c075f.png :sadhf:NEW ACHIEVEMENTS We have 22 new achievements added to this patch, mostly focused on the ledger challenges. :ns_blue:Unlock McDiggins :ns_blue:Unlock Sickle :ns_blue:3 Twilight Oasis achievements :ns_blue:3 Lunar Cavern achievements :ns_blue:14 Ledger Challenge achievements {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png We squished a lot of bugs from Major ones to minor ones. Here are some of the core ones. :al_bug:BUG - Oracle Dialogue Text Box - The dialogue text box had to be clicked to clear, this functionality has been removed as it was frustrating for controller users. :al_bug:BUG - UI Ratio issues - Went through the UI and fixed some reported issues when in certain ratios. :al_bug:BUG - Bestiary Tab Mixup Issue was fixed where if you left the bestiary and went back it could have the wrong tab selected for the information displayed. :al_bug:BUG - Boss Death Registering - Fixed an issue where a boss death might not be registered as a kill and thus require you to go through it again. :al_bug:BUG - Divinity Web Panning Bug + UI Cursor off-screen - You could pan forever and lose the centre. You could also lose your UI cursor. UI Cursor is now bound within the screen. :al_bug:BUG - Timing Soft Locks Hopefully caught all the issues where a combination of pausing and triggering levelling or hero ability could cause a soft lock where the game remained in a paused state despite closing down out of menus. :al_bug:BUG - Double Buy In Shops - Can no longer double buy in shops by spamming button. :al_bug:BUG - Invalid Pets for Heros - Certain heroes have certain pets disabled that would not benefit them at all, however, they would still pop up in Shops. They no longer pop up in shops if disabled. :al_bug:BUG - Hero ability was triggerable after death ... oops! You shouldn't be able to fire off your hero ability when you have died. :al_bug:BUG - End Result Auto Complete - When using a controller or WSAD + Space - you could not trigger the autocomplete on the end result screen. Yawn! Now you can. Hurrah! :al_bug:BUG - Localisation Spillage - Some text was spilling over components. We've done a full pass and HOPEFULLY caught them all and also tidied up localisation within components. :al_bug:BUG - Spawning After Death - When you died, things would continue to spawn like minibosses or even bosses - creating a bit of a weird experience. They no longer do that. :al_bug:BUG - Northwood Boss Audio - The audio for this boss was very loud! We've dialled it down from 11. :al_bug:BUG - Minibosses escaping - Minibosses are properly tidied away when they get so far away that they become impossible to catch up. :al_bug:BUG - Typos and Localisation fixes - We had a few textual issues with Pets and other things. We did a few more typos passes. :ns_blue: HOTFIXES :ns_blue: :al_bug:BUG - Kill gates have now been added to Oasis difficulty unlock nodes on the Divinity Web :al_bug:BUG - Kill gates have now been added to Caverns difficulty unlock nodes on the Divinity Web :al_bug:BUG - Fixed some typos :LupCoin:PRICE INCREASE:LupCoin: GET IT NOW BEFORE THE PRICE GOES UP! 48 hours after this patch goes live, we are raising the price of the game to $7.99. We want to give players the opportunity to still get the early access version with all the content for a lower price before the pre-1.0 price increase. There were a lot of changes in this patch, so please if you run into any bugs/issues or just have general feedback then send us a message or join our discord as we'd really appreciate it! As always thanks for all the support. If you are enjoying the game and the updates, please take a moment to leave a positive review. Thanks! Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Instagram | Website

:mb2spark: Greetings Spirit Hunters! :mb2spark: Happy April! We are hard at work on the next huge patch. We added so many new things that its an epic challenge to test, bug fix and polish them all. Everything is in now and we just have another 1-2 weeks to iron it all out before we can set it free. This is a follow on from our previous progress report that also covers a lot of the things we are adding into this page - Progress Report 7 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b52211c98732f58524ea7e084e903ccccb0179f4.png The new characters with their unique passives, Hero Abilities and starting synergies are currently being refined and balanced. McDiggins is the farmer who gets loads of extra resources. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c82c089992fbb6a810bbe8dc38f1b30324a271b5.png :sadhf: LUNAR CAVERN The final map has been a fun one to make and a very difficult one to balance. It has a few spicy twists that make it quite different from other zones. Also updating the art for all the other maps. That Dark Forest drawing has been pretty rough since first launch. haha! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8be71d3b7f9f5b8535f63c4847a502a23cafcd6d.png :sadhf: MOLEMEN CULTISTS The final zone has a bunch of new enemies featuring the Molemen cult, followers of the Moon God... :sadhf: LOADS OF OTHER UPDATES! We have a LOT of quality of life and improved communication updates coming. Here are a few: * Improved Controller support * Purchase higher level pets in shops * See current pet builds in shops * See Mod level requirements in run * See max level of any given banner upgrade * Tracked Stats for a bunch of things in the game. * Tons of tuning and balance across the whole game. :LupCoin:PRICE INCREASE:LupCoin: Reminder! After content patch 8, we will be increasing the price of Spirit Hunters. This will take affect a couple of days after content patch 8, so new players can still get all the new content at the current lower price. This of course wont affect anyone who has already purchased the game. As always thanks for all the support. If you are enjoying the game and the updates, please take a moment to leave a positive review. Thanks! Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

ːmb2sparkː Greetings Spirit Hunters! ːmb2sparkː It's been a busy month since our last big update. We are hard at work on wrapping up the final characters, zones and core features of the game. Here is an update to talk about what's coming next. Content Patch 8 is going to be a big one that adds a lot of new features and updates to the game prior to the 1.0 release. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8aeb0def492dd5bfb3edc6d3d3895e02c2ef1df6.png ːsadhfːTHE LEDGER The last major system we are adding to the game for 1.0 is the Ledger. The Ledger is a book that will have a number of interesting stats on your playthrough. It will have medals for winning zones and lots of Ledger challenges. Each of the 8 heroes will have 10 unique challenges across the different zones. More details coming soon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/83be83fd17d4e17563de4ca2241bd23379f59184.png The last 2 heroes will be in Content Patch 8 ːsadhfːMcDIGGINS The crazy miner will be the best resource farmer in the game due to his unique passive and Hero Abilities. ːsadhfːSICKLE The miniboss traitor will be the highest damage dealer, but also the most challenging due to her evil passive. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/45a9df298f5360f571525e5ddd67a36c84f1140e.png 2 new zones with unique gameplay are on the way. ːsadhfːTWILIGHT OASIS This is the 3rd and most challenging zone found in the Desert map. It will feature the scorpions and some new environment and enemy gameplay. ːsadhfːLUNAR CAVERN This will be on its own new map and the 9th and final zone featuring the mysterious final boss of the game and the source of the spirit horde. We also have a ton of quality-of-life updates, balance changes, more languages, new achievements, bug fixes and other features that will be included in this update. More info is to come in the patch notes. This will be the last major content patch prior to the 1.0 release of Spirit Hunters. ːLupCoinːPRICE INCREASEːLupCoinː After content patch 8, we will be increasing the price of Spirit Hunters. Due to increasing development costs from all the new content we have been adding, localization and console porting, the low $5 price point is no longer profitable for our team. An increase in price will help Spirit Hunters remain financially viable into the future. This will take affect a couple of days after content patch 8, so new players can still get all the new content at the current lower price. This of course wont affect anyone who has already purchased the game. As always thanks for all the support. If you are enjoying the game and the updates, please take a moment to leave a positive review. Thanks! Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

:mb2spark: Happy February :mb2spark: Over the past 6 weeks, we have been working very hard on getting a lot more skills and mods into the game as well as some major changes, updates and balance to improve the overall experience. Lets get right into it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8438057c34f7bc9ae0538d770d7f7c450e3a0223.png :mp_star: LOCALIZATION Our first major update is our first wave of localization/translation. We have added support for localisation throughout the game and converted the entire game into multiple languages. Our first languages are: * Simplified Chinese * Spanish * German * Brazilian-Portuguese More languages to come in the future. :mp_star:NEW ABILITIES AND MODS We added 18 new abilities and mods to the game so now every temporary space in the Dweb is filled. Each ability now has 2 mods. As always mods can stack to combine in countless build variations. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e4e8c7e2c01d7f3ec938a4fd3cc94475bcfbcee6.png Descriptions for all the new things: :sadhf:SHOCKBOLT Bolts of lightning shoot out in quick succession causing low damage and stunning enemies in range. :sadhf:SPARK TURRET Shockbolt changes from surrounding the player to dropping multiple turrets that attack monsters. Level up Spark turrets to reduce time between turret placement to create a huge area of shock chaos. :sadhf:CHAIN LIGHTNING Modify Shockbolt to allow extra bolts to bounce between enemies. Add multiple levels to gain maximum shocked and stunned targets. :sadhf:JINN One of the original Spirit Hunters who was killed in Hardcore mode so the Oracle could not bring him back to life. He still assists the team as a spirit himself casting powerful piercing fireballs at the nearest enemy. Jinn also has his own magnetism to pick up souls and loot for the player. :sadhf:VILE AURA Jinn gains an aura that does damage to monsters and increases his magnetism size. Add multiple levels to icrease the size to create a large area of constant damage. :sadhf:STUN SHOT Jinn's fireballs turn into shock shots that have a chance to electrify and stun enemies. Add levels to increase the stun chance. :sadhf:STAR SHOT Shuriken changes from a focused line of damage to an even spread. The more levels spent in number, the more shots fire around the radius. :sadhf:RICOCHET Shurikens bounce off enemies doing reduced damage for each bounce. Combine with Star Shot for some full screen ninja star chaos. :sadhf:FLAME DRAGON Orbital Fire changes into a dragon that shoots radial fireballs that match base damage levels. The more levels spent in Frame Dragon the faster it shoots. Combine with Multi Blaze to double and triple the number of fireballs :sadhf:POISON ARROW Adds the poison slowing and damage over time affect to all Arrows. :sadhf:SPLINTERS On impact bone shot splits into multiple piercing shards every 5th shot doing 50% current bone shot damage. More levels in splinters increases the number of shards :sadhf:IMPALE Every 10 boneshot spawns a large area of bone spikes shooting from the ground causing 2X current bone shot damage in a wide area. More levels in Impale increases the size and area of effect. :sadhf:FROZEN DEATH Enemies that are killed while frozen have a chance to emit a frozen blast that freezes enemies around them. This can create an epic chain reaction of Frozen Death! More levels in FD increase proc chance. :sadhf:ICE STORM Icicles will rain down on your foes doing 2X Ice Ring damage per hit. Ice Storm falls randomly withing the current size/range of Ice Ring, so a larger ice ring will spread the damage further and a smaller one will keep the damage closer range. More levels in Ice Storm adds to the frequency of the falling icicles. :sadhf:ECHO SLASH A ghosted version of your hero will follow echoing all Cleave attacks at a lower damage. More levels will increase the damage and eventually add a second echo. Combine with Final Slash for a huge wall of range damage. :sadhf:COLD MINE Mine explosions change to cold damage and leave a small area of ice that will freeze enemies that walk over it. More points in Cold mines increases enemy freeze duration. Frozen enemies cant hurt the player, so you can shove past them. :sadhf:ZAP MINE Mine explosions also shoot bolts of lightning damaging and stunning enemies. More levels into Zap Mines adds more bolts to the attack. :sadhf:GOLD HEX Grand Hex changes to gold and gains a chance for defeated enemies to drop gold. More levels in Gold Hex increases enemy drop chance. Get this early game to get rich! :sadhf:FOWL HEX Enemies hit with Grand Hex have a chance to turn into pink chickens that do no damage. This works well for dealing with harder enemies with lots of HP. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e65492dedf842c113036934436777eab6340dc2e.png :mb2spark:Disappearing XP We have heard all the feedback about souls and resources vanishing. The entire game has been rebalanced to make the change for souls, gold, hearts, and all other resources to stay on the ground until picked up or the end boss spawns. :mb2spark:Immunity We have also addressed the concerns about immunity. Normal enemies are no longer immune to any skill. Ice Ring has been slightly adjusted to account for the change. Brutal Scourge, Some minibosses and End bosses are still immune to Freeze, Shock/Stun and Poison. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8d2eddb46b224fd93e8bd172bf45377560c6e371.png :mb2spark:GAME SPEED The overall game speed has increased again. All hero base move speed has increased by 12%. Normal mode enemies speed is unchanged making it easier across the board. Hard mode base enemies move speed increased by 8.5% :mb2spark:BRUTAL POWER Late game Brutal power has been adjusted for overall game balance. Some reduced some increased to improve pacing and challenge. :mb2spark:MONSTER BALANCE As usual loads of tuning has gone into many monsters across the game. Way too many monsters, minibosses and end bosses have been updated with minor health, damage, speed balance adjustements to type it all out. :P :mb2spark:MOON MUMMY Moon Mummy is spawning even more often. Expect to see him 25% more often. It's not a real buff, but don't tell him that. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/86a81f304070495772e84c73f1a3754b5daab31b.png :sadhf:ABILITY - POISON CLOUD *Poison Cloud size level cap has been increased from 10 to 12 *Poison Cloud damage levels have increased from 10 to 15 :sadhf:ABILITY - ICE RING *Ice Ring has lost one level in duration to account for all the enemies that used to be immune. :sadhf:ABILITY - HOLY ARROW *Arrow starting size has been increased by 10% increasing all Arrow size levels and Dweb upgrades. *Arrow has +1 max size rollable. :sadhf:ABILITY - SPEARS *Starting spears have been increased by from 2 to 3. :sadhf:ABILITY - MAGIC MINES *Magic Mines explosion size banner increased from 10 to 12% :sadhf:ABILITY - ORBITAL FIRE *Early rotation speed has been slightly increased and each rollable has been reduced. Late game rotation has been reduced to balance the power of Flame Dragon and Multi Blaze mods. :sadhf:ABILITY - TORNADO *Tornados base move speed has increased by 12% *Tornado got a minor cooldown buff to increase late run and Chaos storm power. *Chaos storm move speed has increased by 12% {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f415c58125f251112802e78ccc0ad8da8f0a04ef.png :mp_star:NEW PET! - BLOCKER *Reduced enemy projectile damage recieved by 5/10/15/25 :sadhf:PET - SCOOP *Increase digging speed by 300% Hurry up! :sadhf:PET - WEBSTER *Web attack frequency increased by 10% {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b01e7f25db74b287d94326f31ca00c855543276a.png Here are some of the new updates and additions we have added this month {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e5dc05d1e979178931eeb08aeb75da86282eff2e.png :sadhf:New Barrels and Chests *Barrels will be mixed in with crates and have a slightly higher chance for better drops. We now have 4 tiers of chests with different chances to spawn. *Gray chests are the lowest value standard drops. (50% chance) *Gold chests are 2X drops and higher value gold. (30% chance) *Grand Chests drop 4X drops plus large value XP souls (15%) *Legendary Chests drop 8X drops plus epic white souls and the highest value resources. (5%) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a3650ddc9f8f6f1c33c9dce2a354bd3f5c2d3da1.png :sadhf:New Chests and Mining Nodes Pet Cages now have a 20% chance to be Epic which gives 5 choices instead of 3. Mining Nodes now have a 10% chance to be Epic which drops 5X more crystals. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/722205cf6e2c06fdbd19627b76c0eb6851ff66d4.png :sadhf:Loot Shellbugs We added 4 different Loot Shellbugs that randomly spawn and quickly run away dropping their respective resource as they flee. Chase them to pick up the drops and defeat them for a big reward. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/4eb1e5452ea5c94e0998319d4df7194d47c06643.png :sadhf:Divinity Web Updates We have adjusted and cleaned up the layout and added large art to Heroes and Zones for ease of locating them. Some nodes have moved to different locations and some resource costs and killgate numbers have been adjusted for new content balance. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c10ba78cfe2cee5094d2abc0a7b8bfec00514813.png :sadhf:Tutorial We have added a tutorial button to the start screen and a couple of images explaining some of the core concepts in the game that some players are not understanding. :sadhf:Hero Ability Clairity We added a chime sound and a flashing glow to indicate when the Hero Ability is ready to use. :sadhf:Resolution selection In options, you can now change the resolution. Useful for windowed mode. :sadhf:Controller mouse cursor speed Increased the movements speed of the mouse cursor when using controller by 100% {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png :al_bug: When you have a large trail of pets following you and you came to a stop, they jovially danced around in an erratic way. There should be less of that now. :al_bug: Firing off your hero ability after you have defeated a boss allowed the player to move around! This could lead them to do things like run into the death spikes...we can't have that. Now when the boss dies, you can no longer fire off your hero ability. :al_bug: There was a weird hit flash issue with the large tornado enemies. This weirdness has been removed. You're welcome. :al_bug: General standard spelling mistakes etc. Oopsie. :al_bug: Minor issue where if you had a mod that could be unlocked but rerolled and the new item in its place was a normal ability, it would have the wrong background. :al_bug: Multi-blaze at higher ranks could go weird. This has been fixed and now works nicely with the flame dragon. :al_bug: Getting a pet like Big Tex could cause some issues with certain ability mods, where they could zero out. This has been fixed. :al_bug: When we switched to collectables staying for a much longer time (XP etc) a long-standing issue made itself known. The issue was one where although GOLD had been dropped, the visualisation would show GOLD and SOMETHING ELSE like blue souls. This issue has been fixed and things are cleaned up properly on reuse. :sadhf:HOTFIX 20.02.23 :mp_star:You can now convert currency fast by clicking and holding the convert buttons! :al_bug: Fixed an issue where for a few people the game was crashing when quitting. :al_bug: Fixed issue with Chinese language and "Unknown" monsters in the Beastiary. :al_bug: Jinn banner upgrade divinity web node "Range +5%" should now make more sense. :al_bug: Pressing delete save file button will now provide the correct text to explain what is happening. :al_bug: Several small typo fixes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c7f45f915540352f31ac49b2a98c5233823bf5a5.png We are excited to be collaborating with fellow creators in the genre on a new bundle: :mp_star:Bounty of One :mp_star:20 Minutes Till Dawn :mp_star:Spellbook Demonslayers Thank you again to everyone for the amazing ongoing support for Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde. *If you are enjoying the game, then please leave a positive review. Every thumbs-up helps. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

:mb2spark: Happy New Year! :mb2spark: We hope you all had a happy new year. The team took a few weeks to spend time with family over the holiday period, but we've been back at it for a few weeks now! We just wanted to drop a quick update on what we are working on and what to expect in the near future! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/2011c4da9a10de22287ddc75a8429c193a31818b.png :mp_star: LOCALIZATION Our primary focus for this upcoming patch is localization/translation. We have added localisation to support to the entire game, and we are working with different people on converting the entire game text into multiple languages. Our first languages will be: * Chinese * Spanish * German * Brazilian-Portuguese and more to come in the near future We have a bunch of balance and Dweb updates, New zones, enemies and some new gameplay elements in the works. Some of these things will be in the next patch and others will release in the future. More details and info are to come in the next content patch notes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f156e013eb50b9d3edf9f2648cd0d3d159968180.png The other area we've also been focusing on is getting the remaining abilities and ability mods in! We have done a ton of Mods. Some will be in the next patch and others will be a bit further down the line as we have a lot of balance work to get them all feeling good and synergizing well with each other. Thank you again to everyone for the amazing ongoing support for Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde. *If you are enjoying the game, please leave a positive review. Every thumbs-up helps. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/aca3021af210dc3dd2887ccb5f690972afb370fb.png Happy Holidays! We hope everyone is having an enjoyable December! This month we have focused on getting in some end game challenge and power with Brutal mode. We've also included the remaining hero abilities for the current heroes! We've also added few more ability mods (Still lots to come!), pets and more tuning across the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b4aa2097161749f0b10012e15760b0b9beb8f6b1.png NEW ABILITY MODS: :sadhf:CLEAVE: FINAL SLASH The final slash in a Cleave combo fires a piercing wave of damage across the screen. Level 1: 50 damage Level 2: 100 damage Level 3: 150 damage Level 4: 200 damage Level 5: 250 damage *Becomes available at Cleave level 10 :sadhf:ARROW: MULTI SHOT Arrow spreads and splits its size and damage across multiple shots. Level 1: 2 arrows Level 2: 3 arrows Level 3: 4 arrows Level 4: 5 arrows *Becomes available at Arrow level 10 :sadhf:ORBITAL FIRE: MULTI FLAME Double and triple the burning power and protection of Orbital fire Level 1: 2 Orbital Fires Level 2: 3 Orbital Fires *Becomes available at Orbital Fire level 15 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/86a81f304070495772e84c73f1a3754b5daab31b.png :sadhf:ICE RING Ice Ring now has a damage rollable stat so it can reach level 25 like all other abilities. :sadhf:SPEAR CAGE Spears Mod- Spear Cage has been improved. The damage radius has been slightly increased and It now knocks enemies away from the player. Added visual effects, improved animation and sound effect. New Hero Abilities! NEW HERO ABILITIES {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/7c562bff1dc81c7a5a12a0a8705ab3df25fc5dc4.png :sadhf:MAXINE: SABLE LASER Maxine's cat, Sable charges up to 3 levels of power and releases a massive laser firing in the left or right facing direction. The laser lasts for 4 seconds and does constant damage and knockback to all enemies in its wake. Each level of charge increases the width and damage of the beam. Level 1 charge - 50 damage per hit Level 2 charge - 100 damage per hit Level 3 charge - 150 damage per hit *30 second cooldown per charge {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/01733c2c6a90ac5e2a599e074cbf6853c3df821d.png :sadhf:HUGO: GOLDEN LANTERN Hugo spends gold to summon his great lantern. All enemies are attracted to the lantern for 10 seconds. It also fires damaging bolts at enemies. Enemies killed by the lantern drop gold. Golden Lantern is available to use as soon as you have the gold to spend. First cast - 100 gold 2nd cast - 200 gold 3rd cast - 300 gold 4th cast - 400 gold 5th and beyond - 500 gold cap :sadhf:SHAKPANA: PLAGUE BRINGER We updated Shakpanas Hero Ability to give it more power. Before it was ticking up 1 point every 3 seconds and available at 10 = 30 seconds and maxing at 50. Now its available every 20 seconds, ticks up 3 times faster and maxes at 300. Still poisons all enemies on screen and reduced their move speed by 65%. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a616bdccfe8264136a6fdc6b4b8ebe1273167381.png NEW PETS :sadhf:TROVE Trove is a map wielding treasure hunter. He points out the nearest chest using a screen edge indicator making farming those resources. :sadhf:WEBSTER Casts a large area of web stunning and slowing enemies for a brief time. :sadhf:PACK RAT This rune hoarder doubles all runes collected after she joins your party. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f415c58125f251112802e78ccc0ad8da8f0a04ef.png :sadhf:HEARTY Hearty got a buff to gain more hearts. Old - Level 1: heart every 30 sec, Lvl 2: 20 sec, Lvl 3: 10 sec New - Level 1: heart every 20 sec, Lvl 2: 15 sec, Lvl 3: 10 sec :sadhf:CHICONRAD Reduced the max level of Chiconrad from 5 to 3 to avoid zero damage from 5 damage swarmers. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/0f7545c4df8ba90c4a6ba6c07062dec37cb87fb2.png BRUTAL MODE! All 7 current zones now have a 3rd and final difficulty mode with new harder waves and the Scourge, a group of very dangerous enemies that can drop Shadow Souls. Brutal mode is faster and the enemies have much more health and do more damage. Use the new currency, Shadow Souls to unlock brutal modes and defeat the final hard mode boss, Blitzen to unlock "Brutal Power". This is 164 new Divinity Web nodes focused on late game damage. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/1556b4d1a7206bf3f9f87211aadfe785c9621852.png Brutal mode is challenging yet is not required to unlock any gameplay. All heroes, abilities, pets, mods, maps, etc are still unlocked through Normal and Hard modes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8d2eddb46b224fd93e8bd172bf45377560c6e371.png :sadhf:GAME SPEED The overall game has been sped up again. All player and enemy base speed has been increased by 12%. :sadhf:HARD MODE We made some minor tweaks to hard mode zones, enemies and bosses to make some of them a bit easier. Now that we have brutal mode for late game, hard can be easier overall. We will continue tuning this over time. :sadhf:MOON MUMMY BUFF Moon Mummy now ignores all other enemy and environment collision. He can fly through anything on his relentless quest to destroy you... or at least get a hit in before you swat him like a fly. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png :al_bug: Some Pet cages were spawning off centre so some of them were behind rocks or hidden in environment objects. Resolved! :al_bug: Tubby Screebler missing image in Divinity web. Fixed! :al_bug: Audio bug where Shakpana Hero Ability noise was getting louder after each use. Fixed! :al_bug: Screen indicators covering money when in shops. Squashed! :al_bug: Spearit Skully Bestiary location was wrong. Fixed! :al_bug: Ice Spear was not doing damage to ice-immune enemies. Now they won't freeze, but will still take spear damage. :al_bug: Fixed an issue with Orbital Fire and Magnus Hero ability - where you could end up with abilities not coming back on. :al_bug: Fixed another issue to do with Magnus Hero Ability linked to the above. The issue was on dying when you had fired off the hero ability and had the orbital fire in play. :al_bug: Indicators now render under the hud elements in the top right. :al_bug: Fixed a weird issue with Vivian Soul Vortex hero ability that would leave xp collectables invisible after use. :al_bug: Fixed an invincibility issue where certain abilities like Hugo on damage passive, or Magnus hero ability could have their invincibility turned off. Invincibility now stays on! :al_bug: Fixed camera zooming out further than it should after some adjustments. :al_bug: Vignette not being as intense as we’d like on certain maps. :al_bug: The usual spelling error updates... I'm sure there are still more floating around. :P :sadhf:Hot Fix - 20.12.22 :al_bug: Shakpana Ice Ring synergy fixed :al_bug: Orbital Fire Multi Flame mod rank requirement reduced from 18 to 15 and description updated :al_bug: Cleave Final Strike mod rank requirement changed to 10 :sadhf:Hot Fix - 21.12.22 :al_bug: Hitting lvl 100 (max) will now show correct UI images :al_bug: Webster pet now has a more useful description :al_bug: Hearty pet shop description now matches its actual cast speed.

This month we have been focused Hero Abilities, game changes and planning out the rest of the game. We now have solid gameplay plans for all of the remaining Heroes, Abilities and Zones. We look forward to sharing as we continue to flesh out the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/fd83f4f6d4c38b0aed68ad31b55d83aba03ed9e5.png We have some hero abilities in! :sadhf:VIVIAN: SOUL VORTEX {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b4ea02ec264a09c00c816912fa08ce40e9751aac.png Vivian calls upon her siren sisters to create a vortex that collects souls and turns them into a torrent of destruction. This is very powerful so it has a 90-second cooldown. :sadhf:MAGNUS: VAMPIRE NIGHT {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/7116b6fc4b1ece680189e8131178746c4b2cd4a2.png Magnus changes into a fast-moving, invincible vampire that steals life from every enemy he touches. This is an incredibly powerful ability, but he can only cast it 5 times per run. It has a 30-second cooldown. :sadhf:CONRAD: HOLY SHIELDS {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a1b84e248653bb6ab9e11efd70f9a222fea7eda8.png Conrad slams his shield into the ground creating 4 holy shields that do minor damage, knock enemies back and heal Conrad a small amount for each enemy hit. :sadhf:SHAKPANA: PLAGUE BRINGER We updated Shakpanas Hero Ability to give it more visual impact like the others. The gameplay is the same - Still poisons all enemies on screen and greatly reduced their movement speed. *Hugo and Maxines Hero Abilities are both in progress but have some more work needed to finish them. We decided to not delay the patch, so they will be in the next one. We did some work on Desert Ruins to give our first map a more interesting environment design. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/bba2a188de018d8de7f08d4586af16732a0481b7.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8d2eddb46b224fd93e8bd172bf45377560c6e371.png :sadhf:SHOPS We have reworked how shops spawn to make sure they are fewer early and more showing up later in a run when you have all that extra gold on hand. :sadhf:PET CAGES We have changed the way pet cages are spawning. Now it is possible to find nearly twice as many pet cages in a run. :sadhf:IMMUNITY CHAOS We know we way overdid the Ice and Poison immunity. We greatly reduced the number of immune enemies and mad it far more simple to understand: *Plants are immune to Poison *Ghosts and Spirits are immune to Ice :ns_blue: Poison Cloud buff - Reduces enemy move speed by 65% :ns_blue: Shakpana Plague Bringer buff - Reduces enemy move speed by 65% :ns_blue: Minor changes to Desert Ruins normal mode enemies :ns_blue: Minor changes to Spine Dunes normal mode enemies :ns_blue: Miniboss Paul update - more HP and WAY more cones :ns_blue: HP increase - Cemetery Tombstones :ns_blue: UI tweaks - description updates :sadhf:NEW ANIMATIONS We finished animating all the end bosses and a bunch of other monsters across the game. :ns_blue:Character - Improved Magnus Animations :ns_blue:Boss - Spicy Demise :ns_blue:Boss - Giant Tribal Beetle :ns_blue:Boss - Hammer Horse Knight :ns_blue:Boss - Frostbite Viper :ns_blue:Boss - Molten Tombstone :ns_blue:Enemy - Flame Skull :ns_blue:Enemy - Desert Skeleton :ns_blue:Enemy - Forest Skeleton :ns_blue:Enemy - Shield Skeleton :ns_blue:Enemy - Molten Skeleton :sadhf:MOON MUMMY BUFF Moon Mummy gained 10% move speed and 10HP and 10% brighter moon art. (Nathan ed: Do we have to?) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png :al_bug: Viper Turret was not spawning correctly in Viper Village hard mode. Fixed! :al_bug: Collider issues in Spine Dunes resolved. :al_bug: Spearit Skully Bestiary location fixed. :al_bug: Fixed a few issues with certain triggered passive abilities firing twice and this caused hard-to-replicate issues. Hopefully fixes some issues with Hugo. :al_bug: Fixed an issue where the Freeze Spear mod would not deal any damage to enemies that were immune to freeze. Now they are still immune to the freeze but take damage from the spear as designed. :al_bug: Fixed a minor issue where the banner ability background for pets could be wrong if an ability mod had been used in that slot before. :al_bug: HOTFIX - Version 2252 - Fixed an issue with playing a second round as Conrad resulted in him not being able to die! That issue is fixed now.

WHATS NEXT

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c7376f380d4d71e7897f979bdc846db8cb05516f.png Now that we are adding Hero Abilities that make the game easier overall, it's time to add some much-needed late-game challenge. Brutal Mode will come with a new resource and some new Divinity Web power. Plus Maxine and Hugo Hero Abilities and some new pets. Thank you again to everyone for the amazing ongoing support for Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde. We sincerely hope you are enjoying the game and are as excited about the future content as much as we are. If you are enjoying the game and updates, please consider leaving a review on steam. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

Its finally here! A major content update 6 weeks in the making. We have a ton of new content and overall game improvements to get through, so lets get this party started! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/17be15fd438927e3c4811b30e93a2587f5cbdc3e.png :sadhf:NEW HERO: SHAKPANA, THE PLAGUE BRINGER Shakpana is a voodoo master of poison. All creatures, living or dead fear the glowing stare from his cursed mask. It is said that anything he touches becomes plagued. *Shakpanas' starting synergies add or increase damage over time for all abilities. Shakpana is the first to get a HERO ABILITY. PLAGUE BRINGER is an active ability that can be used when the player chooses. He has a unique icon next to the health bar. This ticks up every few seconds and becomes usable when the number reaches 10. It can be charged up to 50. Upon activating, all enemies on the screen are hit with a poison attack, slowing them by 60% and hitting them 3 times for that number. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/071ac13b007aa6756938a6a21fc15ae99670ebb9.png :sadhf:NEW ABILITY: POISON CLOUD Poison Cloud is a low damage, crowd control ability that has strong protection and combos well with heavy attack abilities. A cloud grows around the player making a temporary shield that gets thrown in the facing direction when it reaches its full size. Poisoned enemies are slowed and take damage over time. Some enemies are immune to poison. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/16a40d0df421130fe07326d456a38f306214f22a.png :sadhf:ABILITY MODS The primary focus of this update was the inclusion of the Ability Mods. This includes the foundational work to support them going forward, and also the initial mods to get the ball rolling! Ability mods provide ways to evolve and modify abilities as you progress through a run. Mods are unlockable in the Divinity Web. Each ability will have 2 mods and mods can be combined together to add a lot of new build variety. The foundational work will allow us to get more mods in a lot quicker in future patches! How Ability Mods work in Spirit Hunters: Once unlocked in the Divinity Web, new mod banner choices show up at certain ability levels during a run. Example: Reaching Tornado level 8 adds Bouncy Wind mod to the random upgrade pool. Reaching Tornado level 15 adds Chaos Storm mod to the random upgrade pool. Each mod has a different level requirement that shows in the character/ability select screen. :BlueOrbus:Tornado - Bouncy Wind: Tornados last longer and bounces off environment :BlueOrbus:Tornado - Chaos Storm: Tornado changes to shoot a constant single shot in all directions :BlueOrbus:Spears - Spear Cage: Changes spear formation to spawn in a circle around the player :BlueOrbus:Spears - Frost Spears: Adds a large freeze chance aura to spears :BlueOrbus:Tangle Vines - Bomb Pods: Flowers that grow on the vines and explode when they despawn :BlueOrbus:Tangle Vines - Vine Spitters: Grows turret plants that shoot a stream of piercing projectiles :BlueOrbus:Poison Cloud - Breaking Wind: Each point in BW shoots an extra gust in a random direction from the main cloud :BlueOrbus:Poison Cloud - Poison Trail: Leave a puff of poison behind the character. More points spent thickens the trail. *All abilities will have mods in future content updates. *All future new abilities will have mods included when released. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/86a81f304070495772e84c73f1a3754b5daab31b.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/807f81fd5e5980a1d5ba25ce4a79800b41c8c219.png :sadhf:ABILITY CHOICES UPDATE We have updated every ability in the game. Before we had a fixed 25 levels in each ability, so you could choose the order of each upgrade, but any max level ability would always be the same. That has been changed to add more player choice. We added more of certain banner choices while still retaining the 25 level cap. Here is an example: Before: Spears - 10 levels in number, 5 levels in damage, 7 levels in CDR, 3 levels in size = 25 Now: Spears - 25 levels in number, 15 in damage, 7 in CDR, 5 levels in size, 4 levels in Frost Spears, 1 Spear Cage = 57 (still 25 max) This means now you can fill the screen with +25 number in spears, but they will have low damage, stay small and have a long cooldown. OR you can go crazy high damage, size and CDR, casting a few very large and powerful spears. OR you can use some of your levels on mods to change things up. You can find some pretty OP combos. How you build an ability is more up to you... but now you can also make some pretty bad choices. :sadhf:SHURIKEN REWORK Shuriken got a major speed buff and a gameplay change. Volleys used to last for 4 seconds making it a super strong boss killer, but making it difficult to use through the majority of a run. Now volleys only last 1.6 seconds so it can switch targets much faster. Banner choices and Dweb nodes have been updated to adjust for the changes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/53e53ac3c10bf4f64840eb06ce355799c7ba5080.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/eec3846ec46802550410db7ad0635caebc225f93.png :sadhf:NEW ZONE: HIGHLANDS NORTHWOOD Welcome to the frigid land of the Frost Trolls. This will be the 3rd and most challenging zone found in the Highlands map and most difficult in the game so far. Beware of the rolling snowballs, very tanky Yak riders and massive swarms of Icesquitos. Some new, very strong minibosses and The largest end bosses with new mechanics will test your spirit hunting skills. With high difficulty comes higher rewards. Expect a great resource multiplier on this one. :sadhf:NEW MONSTERS Northwood also have a slew of new monster to fight and unlock in the bestiary. :ns_blue:Miniboss - Yak-o-Lantern :ns_blue:Miniboss - Zombie Yak Rider :ns_blue:Miniboss - Pizza Delivery Troll :ns_blue:Frost Trolls :ns_blue:Yak Snowball Rider :ns_blue:Troll Spear Rider :ns_blue:Icesquito :ns_blue:Cold Shellbug :ns_blue:End Boss: Yak Collosus :ns_blue:End Boss: Blitzen :sadhf:SICK BEATS! We got a sweet new music track from Injekted for the Northwood zone. If you like the Spirit Hunters music, check out some of his other jams here: *INJEKTED SPOTIFY* {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b01e7f25db74b287d94326f31ca00c855543276a.png :sadhf:GAME SPEED IMPROVEMENTS We did a huge wave of updates to increase the overall speed and pace of the game. All character have been given a speed boost. Abilities move faster, resources move faster to the player, level up choice banners have been sped up. A lot of the enemies move a bit quicker as well. We feel like the overall pace of the game is in a far better state now. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f74f920b95059cad1de0be82ffc190e76bf455bd.png :sadhf:NEW AND IMPROVED ANIMATIONS We have a load of new monster animations in the game. All the normal mode end bosses have been reworked to give them more life. Plus a bunch of others across the game. Here is the full list of new monsters animations: :ns_blue:End Boss: Horned Beetle :ns_blue:End Boss: Horse Knight :ns_blue:End Boss: Tombstone :ns_blue:End Boss: Demise :ns_blue:End Boss: Viper Shaman :ns_blue:End Boss: Tempest :ns_blue:End Boss: Yako Colossus :ns_blue:End Boss: Blitzen :ns_blue:Frozen Rocky :ns_blue:Troll Snowballer :ns_blue:Mega Yako Rider :ns_blue:Troll Spear Rider :ns_blue:Spearit :ns_blue:Frost Troll :sadhf:NEW STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS Of course with new content comes new achievements. Enjoy these easy ones for now. With Brutal mode achievements are going to be much more challenging in the future. Bwahahahaha! :jydgedeathshead: :ns_blue:Unlock Shakpana :ns_blue:Unlock Poison Cloud :ns_blue:Unlock Highlands Northwood zone (Normal mode) :ns_blue:Unlock Highlands Northwood zone (Hard mode) :sadhf:MENU UPDATES A bunch of new icons, tooltips, text and changes have spawned across the menus in the game. Here is a list of all the things... thanks in advance for helping us find all the new typos that have come with every one of our menu updates. Making games is hard. Spelling is even harder. :P :ns_blue:Added a Roadmap button to the title screen. So players can always see where the game is heading. :ns_blue:Added Hero Ability icons and tooltips to the character select screen (Shakpana only for now) :ns_blue:Added Mod icons and tooltips to the character select screen :ns_blue:New Divinity Web description updates :ns_blue:New Oracle dialogue lines :ns_blue:Updated choice banner wording improvements :ns_blue:New Bestiary stats and descriptions :sadhf:PET VFX UPDATES A few pets got some much needed visual clarity to match up with their gameplay. :ns_blue:Nomicron - Now has a clear attack visual tied to its level up damage range. :ns_blue:Scoop - Now has a clear dig visual. :ns_blue:Hearty - Now has healing VFX added to the heart drop. :sadhf:OTHER STUFF Some extra little things that make the game better Immunity popups for freeze and poison when an enemy is... immune :ns_blue:Level up VFX updated :ns_blue:Continued localization prep work for future updates :ns_blue:Reworked damage dealing on larger enemies to provide a better and tighter experience. :ns_blue:Pushing escape in bestiary now goes back to Divinity web rather than main menu. :ns_blue:More Moon Mummy :jydgedeathshead: OBLIGATORY MOON MUMMY BUFF :jydgedeathshead: Moon Mummy moves 10% faster (we didn't tell him that other minibosses also got speed updates) He found out about Shakpana and the Poison Cloud updates then demanded poison immunity. Of course, he is also hidden somewhere in the new Northwood zone because he complains if he is left out of any location. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png As always, we will be continuing to hunt down and exterminate as many bugs as we can. We are happy to see the list shrinking as we tackle all the little issues that pop up. :al_bug:Bug: Fixed an issue where abilities would fire off while loading into the game. :al_bug:Bug: Bosses now face the way they die…as it should be. :al_bug:Bug: Fixed missing collision in Hinterlands zone :al_bug:Bug: Arrow and other projectiles now move at a standard speed no matter the direction. :al_bug:Bug: Hopefully a fix for a hard-to-replicate bug where certain SFX could start spamming. :al_bug:Some spelling mistake fixes :al_bug:Bug: Fix for a possible way to get stuck in hardcore mode, where pushing escape would not take you back to the main menu when starting a new hardcore mode play-through. :al_bug:Bug: Put a certain missing punk into the bestiary where they belong. :sadhf:HOT FIX :al_bug: Bug:03.11.2022 - Fixed issue where some level up banners were not showing decimal numbers correctly, SO WHATS NEXT??? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ac5b474da915e3618e9d43dcfe5e05fdde414e75.png This was a HUGE patch. The next one is going to be a lot smaller and more focused so it should be out much quicker. For the next one, we will be focusing on getting the active HERO ABILITIES done for Magnus, Maxine, Vivian, Hugo and Conrad. This will add some extra gameplay variety to the different heroes. Thank you again to everyone for the amazing ongoing support for Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde. We sincerely hope you are enjoying the game and are as excited about the future content as much as we are. If you are enjoying the game and updates, please consider leaving a review on steam. ːsteamthumbsupː Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

End of the month and end of work being done on the next patch. Here is our regular bi-weekly progress update: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/9803437d80178f539eb3af924ba0d753ceea0bde.png We have the majority of the content in a good place with a few loose ends to tie up and a load of testing, tweaking and bug fixing to get done before releasing into the wild. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/7b6c87a5e5fcf4d45f240d9c03ba574114796d29.png Chaos Storm combined with Bouncy Wind getting crazy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/78b67b84df2607d6c7676adbe9adc93be4e724ae.png Poison Cloud mods stinking up the place. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ab151428bdb796524c7244686924d61b1f5fbcc5.png Frost Spears might still be a bit too strong. Minor tuning still in the works. :P Loads of improvements across the game that will be covered in detail in the upcoming patch notes. If all goes well, we hope to get this patch out on Halloween... or a few days later if we all eat too much candy and have to take some time off to recover. :P Thank you again to everyone for the amazing ongoing support for Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde. We sincerely hope you are enjoying the game and are as excited for the future content as much as we are. Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

Happy October! Here is our regular bi-weekly progress update: Since this is another large patch that is taking us a good chunk of time to complete, we figured we would do another progress bars image to show you exactly what is coming and where we are at with everything. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/1d077c1fbe206da8f3328ea4261c8d7cf116e055.png Here is the big list of things we have going on. A lot of progress being done across multiple aspects of the game. Nate did a lot of foundational work to get the Mods systems working great. Lots of new enemies in a very different feeling map. Beware of the huge snowballs constantly rolling down hill! Ant is continuing to add a load of great new animations to the end bosses and other enemies across the game to give a lot more motion and life to the game. A load of minor and major ability tweaks and an overall game speed boost are also happening. We will go into more specific details upon release of the patch. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/424dc4b737e121d492f06db82d0cd65753d479cf.png The new hero Shakpana is coming and he is the first character to get an active ability. All characters will be getting very cool and unique active abilities as we continue to develop the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/970dcfa98e563975730f4f804d6f5750f1d27295.png We are making our biggest and baddest boss yet for the new map. Yeti Colossus will crush you! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/4830fd421dba350a473183b13571e7164c2abfed.png Got some new Halloween style minibosses in the works for this month. I hear Moon Mummy loves pizza, so don't be surprised when he shows up. If all the testing goes well, we are looking to have this next patch out sometime in late October.

Its been 2 weeks since the Bestiary update and Roadmap with plans for the 1.0 release. Here is a progress report explaining what we are working on now and what will be in the next patch. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/03cef20f1b90c1f4a385fe304bf0ea5b2688f152.png We are primarily focused on getting 2 ability mods for each of the existing abilities. These will give a lot more player choice and options for making unique builds. For the first ability patch we are focusing on 3 existing abilities and a new one. Here is what we are playing with now. Please understand that these are work in progress and can change if we dont think they are working well enough for the game. ːsadhfː {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/7a475e8b75ef77fbde1b5f404a26b1c893fd1dd9.png ːns_blueːSPEARS (testing) Spears is getting 2 new banner mods: Spear Cage and Frost Spears Spear Cage - Changes Spears from random spawn locations to a ring around the player. This trades overall damage since default spears hit enemies every time, for full control and predictability. Frost Spears - Frost spears adds the ability to freeze enemies at a small reduced damage cost. Frost Spears can work with both normal and cage modes. ːns_blueːTORNADOS (testing) Tornado is getting 2 new banner mods: Chaos Storm and Bouncy Wind (best name ever?) Chaos Storm - Changes Tornado to shoot one at a time very rapidly in random directions. Bouncy Wind - Tornados now bounce off objects so things can get pretty crazy in tight areas. These can combo together to make different tornado builds. ːns_blueːVINES (testing) Vines is getting 2 new banner mods: Bombs, and Spitters Bombs - Choosing bombs will grow explosive pods on your vines. Spitters - Choosing spitters will grow monster plants that shoots poison. You can only choose either bombs or spitters. Choosing one will remove the other from that run. ːns_blueːPOISON CLOUD All future abilities will be getting multiple mods from the start. So we will have the base ability plus the 2 mods on release. This one is still in prototype/figure it out mode, so cant give solid details yet :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/cdb5a4f7b456e3ef27cde2af2b0f613bbd0e2a04.png A new hero is coming with this coming update: Shakpana the Plague Master With the new poison debuff system and the new ability we are working on, it makes sense to release this new hero with it. Plus he will be the first to get an active hero ability. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/6de76ddf3aeb4a1cbb17b759ed8cf77d6750997c.png ːns_blueːNEW ZONE AND ENEMIES We are adding a new zone to the Highlands map: Northwood is the home to the Frost Trolls and their Yax they ride. These are some tanky beasts so you will need to have some good Dweb progress before trying this one. There will be a load of other new enemies and minibosses as well... and more Moon Mummy. ːmp_starːPlus lots of new boss and enemy animations, some minor bug fixes, and hopefully some new music.ːmp_starː

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/15b3cc0fccd2905baa313742818ec1fd208e0497.png Hello Spirit Hunters! We have been planning and figuring out our future plans for Spirit Hunters based on our current budget and timeline for the final game. Here are the core features that we will be working on over in the coming months as we head towards the 1.0 full release. Please keep in mind, that a lot of these are WIP concepts and are subject to change as we develop them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/388bc720f29fedd2c0f9c43091cc7421d9eefebf.png ːsadhfːABILITY UPDATES This is our primary focus that we are already in the process of creating. We will be adding loads of variations to existing abilities. Once we get this system in, there will be a bunch of different ways to build any ability in the game. We will also be working on new abilities, with the first being Poison Cloud. Poison cloud will also come with a new enemy status effect that we can use across multiple ability variations. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/00d978ef15e1df33fe7f98314f9c0a12bd5c2acd.png ːsadhfːNEW HEROES The next 3 heroes in Spirit Hunters are going to add a lot of uniqueness to the game: ːns_blueːShakpana - The voodoo plague master. ːns_blueːSickle - The miniboss reaper traitor. ːns_blueːMcDiggins - The crazed miner. ːsadhfːHERO ABILITIES Each hero will be gaining a usable ability that matches their play style. We have concepts for each character to further push their gameplay variety. ːsadhfːNEW PETS We will also be working on a bunch of new pets that we will roll out throughout the development cycle. ːsadhfːSKINS! We are excited to announce collectable skins for heroes and pets. These will be unlockable through doing quests and earning achievements. Keep an eye on our discord and future steam posts for some fun ways to get your ideas into the game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/6445624a221a544b3037387c1614cdaa1423bbfa.png ːsadhfːNEW MAP The Ancient Caverns is the final map of the game. This is where you will fight the hardest enemies and the final bosses. ːsadhfːNEW MODES Brutal mode will be the final difficulty and add a lot of challenges for the end-game players. We are also going to roll out a new mode that is different from anything else in the game. We will talk more about this later towards the end of early access. ːsadhfːNEW ZONES We will be adding more zones with a load of new, unique enemies to fight. The next one is Highlands Northwood, a snowy zone which is home to the Frost Trolls. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8f0ec1b855b5d57df362acf03ce9ac50140736c8.png ːsadhfːORACLES LEDGER This will be our quest progression and tracking system. Each character will have a wide range of quests that will greatly change the way you play a run. They will range from super easy to very challenging. ːsadhfːMORE STEAM ACHIEVMENTS Of course, we will be adding a load more steam achievements as we continue adding more content. ːsadhfːSTEAM TRADING CARDS We can already do this, we just need to find the time to make it happen... BAD MOON MUMMY! You don't get a card! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/3e6f54bdea2237b48a7d8ef1a59f94ed9c21918d.png ːsadhfːLOCALIZATION We are adding in support for localisation, and We will have a bunch of language options available in the near future. ːsadhfːCONTROLLER UPDATES The game already has full Xbox controller support, but it needs some refining and support for other controllers. It's certainly on the list of things we need to get done before 1.0, and we want to give it a proper pass! ːsadhfːCONSOLES We will also be releasing Spirit Hunters on Switch, Xbox, Playstation and hopefully... Dreamcast! We will have larger versions of all the images on our Discord if you want to see anything better. Come by and chat about things, ask questions or give us some feedback. As always we appreciate the input. :)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8944e809842228f548c8a7ee16c2b1bda2470416.png Welcome back Spirit Hunters! This is our second smaller quality of life update where we focused on adding some much needed features, a bit of balance and Dweb RNG cleanup. We have also done a lot of behind the scenes foundational planning and work on the schedule/roadmap. The next update will be another bigger one with a lot of new gameplay. :mb2spark: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/12d2ab4e31d6f2045f5dbae6a0dde1fdf48659d0.png :sadhf:BESTIARY Our primary update this month is the Bestiary. It feels like half the questions we get about the game is asking the location of a certain enemy. Once you defeat any enemy once, you get their name, location and stats along with a fun little bio for each of the 170+ enemies in the game. Before doing this we did some localization setup prep... seemed like a good time, since this added 30x more text to the game... We appreciate all the typo feedback that will likely pour in since all 3 of us are terrible at spelling. hehe. Thanks in advance! ːsteamhappyː {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ac58125fd0baf2a6cd16dd13888d73afa7a2fea6.png :sadhf:PET RE-ROLLS A feature players have been heavily requesting is pet rerolls. The cost is higher than ability rerolls due to the pets in shops economy balance, but now you can use your gold to have a far better chance of maxing the pets you want in any given run. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/388ed26d089cf44ddf344af2636cb02b309b1d45.png :sadhf:NEW MONSTERS :ns_blue: Fairy Caster :ns_blue: Banshee Spector :ns_blue: Bone Guard Spearit :ns_blue: Flame Bat :ns_blue: Lil Twista Bros :sadhf:MORE MONSTER ANIMATIONS We continue to add more unique animation to our monsters, and this is a task that we will be working on throughout updates during our early access development. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/fe6dd659010c2e614f911fdca76d5690f59c5ba5.png Our musical maestro Injeckted has provided some new custom tracks for Spine Dunes, and Viper Village. Enjoy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8d2eddb46b224fd93e8bd172bf45377560c6e371.png :sadhf:KILL GATE UPDATES We removed all the RNG based minibosses from kill-gates and replaced the remaining ones with new enemies. So now there is no more luck required to complete the Divinity Web and the speed runners can rejoice! :sadhf:MONSTER BALANCE Some general monster tuning has happened across many zones. Monster counts, HP and damage tweaks to continue ironing out the game balance. :sadhf:PET BALANCE Scoop got a minor buff: Level 1: 10 - 8 sec cooldown. Level 2: 8 -6 sec cooldown. :sadhf:MOON MUMMY We convinced him that being on the Bestiary icon and the patch notes title graphic is better than a buff and he fell for it. So no Moon Mummy upgrade this time. All pet shop prices have been adjusted to account for changes and pet reroll balance. Some costs went up some went down. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png Bugs are an ever-present danger, and must be squished! There are still some outstanding, but with each patch, we remove more, and more. :ns_blue: Indicator Drawing Off screen Fixed an issue where indicators are either being drawn off-screen or closer to the player rather than around the bounds of the screen. This should be fixed now. :ns_blue: Controller Navigation in in-run menus Fix for controllers not getting control over menu navigation within in-run menus such as level up choices, pet choices or pet shops etc. :ns_blue: Fix for more controller support Support for more controllers and hopefully fixed issues where controllers were not working Found and hopefully fixed an issue for a range of controllers where they were not responsive (not causing the cursor to move in the main menu etc). :ns_blue: Incorrect image(s) for kill gates There were one or two of these that we have fixed. :ns_blue: Ram enemy vs Vivian The ram in highlands has been adjusted so it doesn’t just push Vivian along and properly deals damage to her. (I had to rewrite this patch note after realising how it initially sounded). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/15b3cc0fccd2905baa313742818ec1fd208e0497.png We are excited to share some of the ROADMAP plans that clarify the future of Spirit Hunters development on our quest to 1.0. We will share that in a separate update tomorrow so people don't miss this one. As always thanks for any and all feedback! :sadhf:HOT FIXES :ns_blue: Enter key should now work as intended. :ns_blue: Double desert skelly removed from the Bestiary

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/92baab7faa8e948e45cba0c1c1b5093c92cc4422.png It has been 2 weeks since our first major content update. We are planning to do a few smaller improvement-focused updates that address feedback, set up systems for future work and make the current game experience better. For this update, we focused on improving some game clarity issues and making harder monsters more valuable... and of course cleaning up some annoying bugs. :al_bug: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/0af0d560c9b521b58bb321596f499adfc7c818a5.png :sadhf:DIVINITY WEB VISIBILITY We heard all the feedback about not being able to plan where to go on the Divinity Web due to unlocks being hidden. So we reworked the way things are displayed. You can now see the name and type of all major nodes from the start of the game. The minor nodes and costs are still hidden, but every skill, hero, pet, map, and all passives are now dark grey icons with visible information. We also used this opportunity to improve some of the visuals on the divinity web for clarity reasons. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e6c9daeb77731a8b7a8708ce0acb15a2b2039428.png :sadhf:INDICATOR SYSTEM We've introduced a new indicator system, to provide more clarity on certain objects, and to perhaps do some "interesting" stuff in the future. :sadhf:MINIBOSS INDICATORS As soon as a miniboss spawns, an arrow with an icon will point out the direction it is (if offscreen) and it will stay onscreen until you defeat it or the end boss spawns. So you can always chase them down or if you are trying to avoid a miniboss like that evil Fire Cactus with the massive aura, you will always know where it is coming from. If the boss dies offscreen, the indicator will be used to point at the chest it drops. :sadhf:SHOP INDICATORS "I have all this money and I can't find a shop!" We hear this a lot, so we added shop indicators. When you get close to a shop, an arrow will point it out. Once you have found a shop, an indicator will point towards it but will begin to fade out the further you get away from it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e595b3a021252e9c31dd0d570cedfe364ce86d6d.png :sadhf:HIGHER XP SOULS Since all enemies have the same soul drop chance, small easy enemies were worth the same value as harder ones. Now we added higher value souls that drop from harder enemies and a rare white soul that can drop from chests. :sadhf:SPINE DUNES LAYOUT UPDATE Spine Dunes had too many very long walls and a bunch of dead ends making it really difficult to traverse. So we changed the layout to have far more openings and removed all dead ends. It's still not open like some other zones, but it's a lot easier to explore and get out of tough situations. :sadhf: NEW MONSTER ANIMATIONS Some monsters have had new and more interesting animations added. Things like rocks burst into rubble on impact now. This will be ongoing and more and more monsters will be further animated as development continues. :sadhf: SAVE FILE CLARITY Before it looked like every new save file was automatically set to hardcore after you unlocked it in the Dweb. Now its more clear that it's a checkbox that is set to default by... default. You have to check the hardcore box to change it into a hardcore save file. :sadhf: MOON MUMMY Our self-appointed mascot gained 7HP... It's not much, but it fulfils our contractual obligation to give him a buff in every update. *Edit Nate - Dammit Peet! We don't have a contractual obligation! Stop buffing Moon mummy!* *Edit Peet - Dont let him hear you say that... We don't want to see the dark side of the moon...* {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/171577cf7a041e777c7a8744729392814b791da2.png As always we are continuing to address all the bugs we see in the Steam forum and our Discord. :al_bug: A projectile issue has been resolved. This was primarily on Viper Village bosses and a few other rare situations. Basically, in magical circumstances, it was possible for projectiles not to be initialised, and have zero speed or damage. So they'd just sorta float from the place they were fired from. :al_bug: Invisible mouse cursor when the controller plugged in issue should be fixed. These were some changes to help enhance controller support in the future but should have the added benefit of HOPEFULLY fixing the drift bug that caused the controller UI to drift. :al_bug: Controller cursor checkbox issue fixed. :al_bug: Issue fixed on the map screen, where your map selection could reset upon hitting "start" when using a controller. :al_bug: We have an issue where upon updates some anti-virus applications flag the executable as a false positive. This can put the game in a sorta "sandbox" where the game cannot save/load properly and save games end up getting corrupted. We've now added a flow where when you click start, and before the save slots are shown, a few tests are made. If problems happen then you will be shown a warning screen with some information on where to go for more information. This is less of a bug, and more of some hopefully help prevention as we look into ways to resolve this false-positive flagging. If you run into issues with saves - checkout discussion Topic on our steam forum :al_bug: Certain enemies exploding can no longer shoot the player across the screen... even though it was a pretty fun bug... unless it happens on the end boss and you are launched into the death spikes. hehe :P :al_bug: Maxine randomly starting with Vivian data should be fixed. :al_bug: Hugo clipping through Cemetery treelines is fixed. :al_bug: Minor environment collision fixes across multiple zones. :al_bug: Some optimisation work on what gets loaded into the maps. :sadhf: HOT FIX :al_bug: - Several Minibosses were immortal, this has now been fixed. So what's next on the list?.....

Next Content Update: Bestiary + Pet Rerolls + Core Roadmap!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c8f035ae0d58f705349c1b1fbeae9a55ce3236b6.png Here is an early concept for the Bestiary. There are still some things to solve, but we have a pretty good plan in place for it, and we're excited to get it in the game. We are also working hard on future ability and progression system designs that will add massive depth to the game. Hopefully, we can share some of this soon. :) As always we greatly appreciate your patience and we continue to refine the game. We will continue to welcome and read any and all feedback.

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CONTENT UPDATE 01 IS HERE!

It's been a crazy 2 months since we released our first rough version of Spirit Hunters. The team survived covid and other personal chaos. We have received loads of great feedback from the community and got a lot done for our first content update. We've reworked the whole game to support our vision, respond to feedback, and provide better long-term foundational support for future updates. So if you are at the end game, we suggest you start a new game to get the full much better and quicker flow. There are now multiple save slots so you don't ever have to overwrite your old game. All of the new content is available in the first few hours of a new game. As always, all feedback is read and appreciated, but feedback on the overall new experience is of the highest value to us. Thanks in advance! :sadhf:NEW SPIRIT HUNTER: HUGO - THE TREASURE GENIE All enemies in the game do different amounts of damage, but not to Hugo. He has a unique health mechanic where he has 8 health vials. Each hit reduces his HP by 1 regardless of what he gets hit by. Each heart simply refills one vial. Upon taking damage Hugo turns invisible and gains a major boost in move speed for 5 seconds with the ability to phase through enemies with no collision. He also leaves a decoy that continues to attract all nearby enemies until the 5 seconds is up. This makes Hugo the master of escape as he can simply float through hordes of enemies after taking a single hit. All of Hugo's starting ability synergies are gold-focused. With the right build he can easily gather over 1000 more gold than any other hero in a run.:WGoldCoins: :sadhf: OTHER HERO UPDATES: Magnus - Minor move speed increase from 135 to 140 Vivian - Move speed increase from 135 to 150 Conrad - Move speed increase from 80 to 95 Maxine - Move speed increase from 180 to 200 + 15 starting HP. Added challenge level stars to each character description for difficulty clarity. This will also be important for future quest/in game achievement content. :sadhf: PLAYER CONTROL We reduced the amount the player slides when coming to a stop. This greatly increased the accuracy of player movement when using WASD, mouse or controller. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/8e7fb1740df7cf22eb396fbc3fcf9f25eba6675d.png :sadhf:DIVINITY WEB BALANCE We heard all the feedback about the game feeling too grindy and we fully agree. We reduced the cost of nearly every Dweb node by 30-90%. We reduced the majority of kill gates by a lot and nearly all the miniboss kill gates are reduced to 1. Power increases across the board. Far higher damage numbers so the power ramp feels better. :sadhf:REROLLS, RESOURCES & CURRENCY EXCHANGE We massively increased the overall rewards. We added more starting chests, mining nodes and shops to each zone. We also greatly increased the crystal drop rate of each mining node. The loot tables have been improved so the rewards are better the harder the location you are fighting in. From the feedback we realized that we have never communicated exactly how the shops, chests, cages, etc. system works. We will add some Oracle dialogue to explain these soon. For now, let me give you the lowdown here: All nodes; Shops, chests, pet cages, and mining nodes have a set number that is always on the map. 5 shops, 8 chests, 8 mining nodes, and 7 pet cages. As soon as you use any one of these, another is instantly spawned somewhere else on the map. There is no limit to how many you can find. So you don't ever have to worry about wasting a shop because there is always 5 on the map at all times. Getting a "more shops" Divinity web upgrade adds another one to that pool. Same with all other similar Dweb nodes. We hope this info helps. :) The reroll cost has been cut to a flat 100 gold for every reroll. This means players can easily use 5x more rerolls in any given run. Now you can have far more chances to get the choices you want. Currency exchange for Ember Cores has been reduced by 70% Runes is now 300/1 and Crystals is 30/1. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/86a81f304070495772e84c73f1a3754b5daab31b.png We increased the damage of everything so we can have a wider range of ability variation. Too many of the abilities were doing similar damage regardless of what their role is in a build. Now it is getting closer to what we want to achieve for the big future ability updates. We compressed the max level of an ability from 40 to 25 and removed some of the CDR level and other less interesting things. We made sure each ability does more damage at level 25 than it used to at 40. So you can get stronger faster and max out 2-3 abilities in any given run. :ns_blue: ORBITAL FIRE We deleted all 10 levels in DOT (damage over time) and sped up the base dot damage to .5 damage speed. (2 ticks per second) so it has a fast, consistent dot speed forever. The ticks have been reduced to 5 so it doesnt burn for as long, but we also changed the base damage and dot damage to be the same. No more 1s ticking away. If the base damage is 10, then each damage over time tick is also 10. So it does WAY more damage overall much quicker. :ns_blue: GRAND HEX The big GH has become absurdly strong. We bumped its overall damage up by about 3x early game and about 4x late game. CDR, AOE/size and Crit levels have been reduced from 10 to 5 each and the value doubled for all. Same speed and size, much quicker in a run. Oh! It also briefly stuns those caught in its damage area. :ns_blue: BONE SHOT Bone got a large overall damage boost and just like Grand Hex, 3 of the banners have been cut from 10 - 5 with double value in each. Early game bone does far more damage, but the damage falls off a bit late game since its machine gun speed + stun makes it insanely strong. :ns_blue: SPEARS We reduced CDR to 7 levels with a 15% increase in each level and reduced AOE/size to 3 level with each being 120% more. So the final size is a bit smaller than before since it was overly visually obstructive, which is more of a problem now due to needing to see and dodge enemy projectiles. We reduced the damage levels from 10 to 5 and doubled each, so spears early run potential is significantly increased. :ns_blue: HEAVY ARROW Arrow starts with much higher damage and lower cooldown for improved early run speed. CDR numbers have been cut to 5 with each level being about 50% more. So the final attack speed has been reduced in exchange for earlier power. :ns_blue: MAGIC MINES Mines got a significant design update. The challenge with Mines was when you get them large enough, they would basically be an invincible safe spot so we counldn't have it get really fast or strong. Now size no longer affects the mine itself instead its the explosion size which gets huge. So now we can give it more damage and dramatically increased the amount of mines that can on the battlefield at one time from 6 to 30. Spam away! :ns_blue: CLEAVE This was the biggest balance problem ability that needed a complete rework. It was the only ability in the game that didn't have a clear identity so it didn't work well with any other abilities. Now cleave is a higher damage, multi-slash closer range melee attack. Early power makes it feel a lot better as a starter ability. :ns_blue: TORNADO Tornado got a minor damage bump and a large boost to CDR. The main update is we reduced the knockback levels from 10 to 3 and boosted each level by 350%. Now the knockback is far better much faster. The angle of tornados has been changed so it has a slightly less defensive perimeter when it immediately comes out, but they have been moved closer together so they create a more consistent pushing wall with no space for monsters to squeeze between. We also updated Tornado so it will target a random enemy, rather than just picking a random direction. :ns_blue: TANGLE VINES Vines has been updated so it always starts close together, but overlaps less when its larger so the overall damage area is more reliable and useful. We slightly sped up the damage over time speed and gave it a massive damage boost. :ns_blue: SHURIKEN This was a confusing ability because it had +number count and separate CDR banners. The ability used to have a 3 second gap between volleys that used to drop to .5 seconds after 10 levels in CDR. We deleted those annoying CDR levels and just started that gap at .5 seconds. We also gave Shuriken a potentially too much damage boost... These babies cut through anything like butter. :ns_blue: NEW ABILITY: ICE RING Ice Ring is a heavily defensive ability that freezes enemies in place. Frozen enemies can't hurt you and can be pushed out of the way by the player. Its by far the lowest damage ability in the game, so you will need to build other sources of damage in your build. Not all enemies are freezable. Nearly every monster in the Desert maps can be frozen, but certain enemies like ghosts and spirits are immune. So Ice Ring is less effective in Dark Forest zones. Unlike all other abilities, Ice Ring maxes at level 13. This was also an opportunity to work on a status effect system and get that implemented to support frozen enemies. More status to come down the line! :ns_blue: DAMAGE NUMBERS!!! Now you can see how much damage each ability did over the run during the end stat screen. Total damage numbers are located under the abilities stats. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/f415c58125f251112802e78ccc0ad8da8f0a04ef.png A bunch of pets got some major balance changes. :BlueOrbus:NOMICRON Our little book of knowledge learned how to do a truckload more damage. This one got a massive power boost. :BlueOrbus:BEACON We finally got the time to make Beacons gameplay visually clear! Now he flashes and shows his decoy range. We also added a grace period for getting into beacons beacon range! Beacon has always attracted enemies to him this way... now you can actually tell what the hell is going on. :P :BlueOrbus:WHOODOO Whoodoo got a minor power boost to slightly improve Orbital fire, Vines and Mines damage output. Since Ice Ring does DOT (damage over time) any major power boost to Whoodoo would make Ice Ring way too strong. It is already strong enough as is... and for the next Hero its going to get crazy. :BlueOrbus:MAG SLIME Poor Mag Slime is the only pet to have a reduction. The magnet power has been reduced to a more balanced range as it became stronger than Vivians passive. :BlueOrbus:HEARTY I used to love Hearty when we were first making this game. Lately this little bastard has been giving me nothing! The random % chance for health gamble is over. Now Hearty drops a heart every 30 seconds at level 1, 20 seconds at level 2, and 10 seconds at level 3. :BlueOrbus:SCOOP Our resident shovel raccoon didn't really need a buff, but he's my favourite pet and I didn't want him to feel left out so he digs more often. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/388ed26d089cf44ddf344af2636cb02b309b1d45.png Tons of work on monsters has gone into this update! :ns_blue:HITBOXES!!! We know this was a major issue and pain point in the game. We heard you so we did a massive hitbox accuracy pass on every one of the 150+ monsters in the game. Now all the small enemies are WAY easier to dodge and avoid. :ns_blue:ENEMY TUNING Due to the epic power boosts to all abilities we had to rebalance a lot of the monsters health. Low level, swarming monsters haven't changed. We added a more HP to the stronger monsters and a TON more HP to minibosses and end bosses. Of course that means Moon Mummy got his regularly scheduled buff. :ns_blue:NEW MONSTERS We added more than 30 new monsters and minibosses to the game + 4 new end bosses. We are to the point where we can't keep track of where they are all located. So yes, the Bestiary is now very high on the priority list. :P :ns_blue:ENEMY BEHAVIORS We added loads of new enemy attacks! Projectiles, ground attacks and damage auras are here! Now Butler Sandworm throws teacups Cactferno is literally on fire... just run from this one. It's no longer worth it. hehe Lots of new monsters with unique behaviors and a load of updates to some of the older ones, and more to come now that we have support for them! :ns_blue:BOSS RING UPDATE! You know that super fun ring of death that slowly shrinks at the end boss? Well, we broke it. Now it no longer shrinks. Now you will have as long as you want to fight the end bosses. Scarab, the beetle boss was pretty upset about it, so we gave all end bosses a huge health boost to avoid them going on strike. :ns_blue:MOON MUMMY Is the best monster in the game. -Moon Mummy {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/1509e45bb18e6284fd67764efc5004240b86eaa3.png We added 2 new map zones to the game. Each with normal and hard modes featuring unique monsters and bosses in each. :ns_blue:HIGHLANDS - VIPER VILLAGE Deep in the wind-swept hills lies a village of Vipers. These beasts have grown in number and their hordes have laid waste to all that surrounds their growing camps. :ns_blue:DARK FOREST - CEMETERY A crumbling graveyard lost to the gnarly grip of the dark forest. An eerie mist falls over the decaying tombs and crypts as the hordes lay siege to any who stumble into this forgotten place of eternal unrest. Now that the abilities have more early damage, we were able to go through and updated all the other zones in the game and added 30% - 90% more monsters in each and did more balance tuning to the waves. Let us know if the normal maps are too difficult for the early game. We and our testers are too good at the game, so we need more feedback to balance these. We're really happy with these changes though, and they are much more in line with how we wanted the game to feel like. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/fe6dd659010c2e614f911fdca76d5690f59c5ba5.png We got our boi Injekted to add some more upbeat, drum and bass action to the soundtrack. Let us know what you think of the new musical direction. 4 new tracks have been added. One for each map. We added some new sound effects and did a load of audio balancing along the way. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/1a46c862a7d445afc9223c05000591394ea73513.png Here at Creature Cauldron, we take pride in being uniquely innovative. So we dug deep and came up with something totally new. We call it... Multiple Save Slots. Now that we can save more than one game we can do things like... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c3d615b5ce4097473077ba8fa68283cb6a80edad.png This is the first iteration of a new mode. You start at the Oracle and she gives you a nice starting resource bump of 500 Runes and 100 Crystals... then lets you know that she will not be able to revive you. Hardcore mode plays exactly the same as a standard game, but if you die, there is no coming back. You must win every run. Upon death, the defeat screen will give you a final score and your file will be deleted. This is a mode for people who are looking for an extra spicy challenge. Please share your scores on our discord... so we can support each other in our time of loss. :jydgedeathshead: New content means new achievements! Here are the new additions: 6 NEW STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS :ns_blue: Hugo Unlocked :ns_blue: Viper Village Unlocked :ns_blue: Viper Village Hard Unlocked :ns_blue: Cemetery Unlocked :ns_blue: Cemetery Hard Unlocked :ns_blue: Hardcore Mode Unlocked During this time we also fixed a ridiculous amount of bugs. I'm sure we didn't find them all and likely created a few more, so thanks in advance for reporting any mistakes or oddities you find. Your feedback is invaluable to the continued progress of the game.

WHATS NEXT FOR SPIRIT HUNTERS?

We have also been working on loads of future plans. We are not ready to roll out a roadmap yet, but we have a lot of stuff in the works that we will share with you as soon as we are ready. A few of the next things we want to tackle are: :ns_blue:SHOP INDICATORS Edge of screen Indicators that point out shops and other points of interest. We don't know exactly how we are doing this yet or which things we are going to point to, but its high on the priority list. :ns_blue:BESTIARY This has been in the concept phase for months, but we haven't had the time to do it yet. We have a lot of monsters and we just added more, so having a screen with stats and locations is very important, so this is also higher on the list. :ns_blue:PET REROLLS The ability to reroll pets for a cost. This will greatly help with getting the pets you have to max level. :ns_blue:LOCALISATION Adding the support for localisation and getting the text localised into a number of languages is high on our list. :ns_blue:THE HUGE ABILITY UPDATE Here is a few early concepts for some ideas we have in the works. *See full-size image on our Discord. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a27e08e50f3a888dcbb51afec600714015c6e976.png Much of the work in this patch allows us to do a lot of the stuff we have planned for phase 2 of our abilities! We would love to keep working on Spirit Hunters for the foreseeable future. If you are enjoying the game, see the potential in what we are trying to make, or just want to see more content in the future, please consider leaving us a positive review. ːsteamthumbsupː Our review score directly affects our sales figures which directly influences how much we can continue working on the game. Hopefully with this update, you will see that we are listening to feedback and working hard to improve all aspects of Spirit Hunters. We hope you enjoy the update! As always we greatly appreciate any and all feedback.

The team survived the Covid wave and is back to full power! YAY! We are starting on week 5 of our first big content patch. 90% of everything is in and being tested. Loads of new bugs to squash and a few very weird issues popping up. Like pausing and ending a run early in the upcoming hardcore mode is technically a death... so its quite easy to accidentally lose your hardcore game... not like I did this myself... multiple times... in the same day... Definitely fixing that. :P Got a ton of work on ability balance happening. Reworked 100% of the damage numbers in the game. Every ability, enemy, Divinity Web node has been adjusted to make the game feel better and the player feel stronger and progression smoother. We changed it so abilities get to max level faster. What used to be level 40 cap is going to be compressed to 25 and we reduced the number of levels in things like CDR to 5 instead of 10 then doubled each level value. So you get stronger much faster. Maxing abilities at 25 means you have more levels to spend on other abilities. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/bd6116f5b5cc93bd7e2a6d47cd42cade7bc057aa.png The last big hurdle for this patch is the new enemy behaviors. We didn't want to make new maps until we have new gameplay for them. We have 3 new behaviors with loads of variations for each. This will add some much needed variety to all the zones. PROJECTILES! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/3c563a585cbd8dc29ddb1ab6291ee4af3c355c57.png Of course we want to have shooting enemies in the game. Whats a dodging game without bullets to deal with? ...Moon Mummy!... Stop it! DAMAGE AURAS! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/662496c2615d4fe6907924e76e3cea28d6e58c30.png Some enemies will have large damage areas around them. Standing in these will do minor damage per second... unless you are playing Hugo then you don't care as much. GROUND ATTACKS! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/0297bfd9f354e68782676ff2c64a8fa13fb167be.png These will all have a 1-3 second tell circle before the attacks spawn. Some will make breakable blockers. Some will be pure damage attacks. We can do a lot of different things with these in the future. The majority of the code work is done for all of these. Nate has been working hard! Thats a lot of work for one programmer. :) We have a few in working well. Now we need to put them all in the game and change a bunch of waves to integrate some of this stuff. There is still a load of tuning and tweaking to do across the game. If all goes well we will be done with all the content for the patch this week. Then we test, test, fix, test, test, fix, test, test. Get as many bugs out as we can before releasing it to the wild. :) As always thanks for all the feedback and patience as we work to improve the game.

Hello friends! Here with a bi-weekly progress update! 2 of our 3 man team caught the Covid plague, so some things are moving slower than expected. Luckily nobody has died yet, so things are mostly still on track. :) Here is a list of all the things we are tackling for our first major content update with progress meters to show how far along things are. Other than a few snags and some reworks to a few things, it's all going fairly well overall. We don't have a solid date for the update. We will get it out as soon as it's done. ːengineercatː {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c05cdb4153c8c1195b3f1bbba7c3cb19b2c2da9d.png Ability Balance pass: Still working on it. Loads of buffs coming for the majority of the abilities. We are reducing the time needed to level up so power comes much faster. Pet Balance pass: This is done and in the final testing phase. Divinity Web Balance pass: Greatly reduced the majority of node costs across the entire skill tree. Some killgate reductions as well. Enemy Hitbox Updates: Went through all 150+ enemies and tweaked hitboxes. There was some REALLY bad ones in there. This will make dodging a lot of the small enemies far easier. Boss Cage Changes: Boss cage no longer shrinks so players will have much more time and space to play with. It still kills you, though so don't touch it! More shops: Added extra shops to all maps Spirit Hunter Hugo: Hugo has been feeling great for a while now. Just continuing to test and tweak his starting synergies balance. He has some very unique gameplay that we are excited for you to play with. New Ability Ice Ring: This has gone through a bunch of versions and reworks and we are quite happy with where it is now. Some very minor tweaks still needed to make sure it works in many situations. New Map Cemetary: The environment part of this map is complete. Probably still needs 1 more new swarmer enemy and the new boss mechanic tuning. Needs more playtesting for ironing out collision bugs. New Map Viper Village: The environment part of this map is complete. The fort walls are causing a bit of an issue, so I need to make a few more openings. Still needs some boss work. Multiple Save Slots: This is done! 3 save slots so you can try something different without losing your main save file. Total Damage Numbers: We have a good plan in place. Will get to this in a few days. New Enemies and Behaviors: New enemy behaviors are coming! Lots of new enemies and minibosses in progress. Some with new unique gameplay too! We will also be going through and adding some of the new behaviors to older enemies to freshen things up a bit. Reroll Cost Update: Scaling reroll cost is going away. Flat 100g for rerolls is being tested now. We will be adding a lot more banner options in the near future so letting players reroll far more often is going to be important for future content. Hardcore Mode! It is working in our test build and I can say from personal experience.... DON'T DO IT!!! I had the privilege of being the first player to lose a deep run in Hardcore mode. I thought I was good enough to do the "Maxine hardcore challenge" and it didn't work out well for me. hahaha! :P BUGS! As always we will be searching and listening to players so we can keep tracking down every bug in the game. We have been going through our list and squashing a few every day. Thanks for everyone helping with pointing things out. It's been a great help! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b5df13cb9c7eecc60efa70221f93d8a1b4cb15a1.png As always, we will be posting more regular updates on our Discord for anyone to see. 🙂 Thanks for your feedback, patience and support. The Creature Cauldron team Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

Its been a couple of weeks since our last patch so its a good time to communicate what is happening with the team and the game. After crunching our faces off to ship the first version of the game and the following 2 weeks of primarily reactionary bug fixing instead of working on the new content, the team was quite exhausted so we took a break. Yesterday we got back to full time work on Spirit Hunters and had a long meeting to figure out what we want to prioritize going forward. Originally, we were trying to get Hugo and the Ice Ring out before we took a break, but they were ultimately not ready. Now we decided this wouldn't be enough to justify a great update so we are going to wait until we have a nice chunk of content for the first major update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/2ff6c6d28c9737acba5e59aa0db68df2e1669b4b.png

• Hugo: The newest Spirit Hunter with the ability to turn invisible and leave a decoy after taking damage.
• Ice Ring is a new defensive starting ability so everyone will have it unlocked from the beginning.
• New Highlands map: Viper Village + new enemies and bosses.
• New Dark Forest map: Cemetery + new enemies and bosses.
• Updated boss mechanics. Making changes to the spike death ring... now it will kill you twice. jk :P
• Showing overall total damage numbers for each ability on the end of run screen.
• A big pass on refining our enemy hitboxes.
• More ability and pet balance before the big ability update which will be clarified in the upcoming roadmap.
• Hardcore mode: Use one of the new save slots to start a new game with extra resources for the Dweb and see how far you can get without dying. Good luck. Bwahahahahaha! :jydgedeathshead:
• Bug fixes and more!

There is no solid date for this update. It will be live when its ready to go. We are working on it now and making great progress. We will be posting regular updates on our Discord for anyone to see. 🙂 Thanks for your feedback, patience and support. The Creature Cauldron team Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

For the past few days since our last patch, we have been focused on addressing lots of feedback and fixing the vast majority of remaining bugs. Since we have been so heavily in fixing mode, we haven't had enough time to get Hugo and Ice Ring to a ready state, so they will most likely be in the next update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ed395393070ed8a6945f368062163c480f8b2c38.png We added a new Currency Exchange node to the Divinity web. Once unlocked, this will allow players to trade excess crystals and Runes for Ember Cores. This is just the first implementation of this system, so it will get refined over time. I'm sure you will let us have it... I mean tell us how you feel about it. :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/03cef20f1b90c1f4a385fe304bf0ea5b2688f152.png

• The return of spear crit! For some reason crit stopped working on spear. Its back to its original state.
• Bone Shot stun was not working if it was hitting more than one enemy. Fixed and improved stun.
• Also added a Bone size increased by 30% synergy on Conrad.
• Epic vine buff! No more completely random direction. Vine now targets the nearest enemy. So you can now walk the path in the direction of your choosing... until it gets to chaotic, then good luck aiming it. haha!
• Grand Hex got another huge buff. Starting base damage increased from 5 to 12. Now Grand Hex has a 100% stun chance on enemies that get hit and still live... which wont be many. :)
• Arrow and Bone CDR have been reduced. Sorry no more broken arrow. :P
• We are well aware that Cleave is currently OP which will be addressed in the near future. Some big and exciting changes coming to all abilities.

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• Evil Spirits Mask kill gate had the wrong image. FIXED!
• More spelling and typo fixes. I'm sure there are still a few straglers. :P
• Butler Sandworm hitflash is now properly aligned. Now he can better serve you.
• Reroll button could get stuck on the edge of the screen due to ability to interrupt its animation. This should now be fixed.
• Splash screen volume now pulls from the set audio values.
• Divinity Web: Fixed issue where nodes could be purchased under the Oracle dialogue box. "Maybe that accidental purchase will keep you alive for a few extra seconds, Spirit Hunter." She can be such a troll.
• Shell Bug hive being spawned in Desert ruins hard were randomly being spawned close to or on top of the player. Now they will only spawn off screen. Fixed!
• Mine Crit Damage numbers now properly colored... or coloured if you are from that part of the world. :P
• Functionality to turn off the Boss Flash that happens when you defeat a boss for the photosensitive peeps. This can be turned off in the main menu options.
• Fix for enemies spawning from within others not having hit flashes or if a miniboss not having a sprite to show on end result screen. Now Moon Mummy image should no longer be a white square when he’s killed from spawning from Pumpkin in Dark Forest. Now Moon Mummy can properly spawn from anything in the game... you will never know when hes coming.
• Character select - start button, no longer renders its glowy bits beneath the portraits.
• So many texture optimisations.
• Red Reapers no longer respawn forever! Sorry to the few RR farmers out there. Now the first one spawns as a tiny reaper, then on death respawns bigger and faster, then the 3rd and final one is even bigger and faster. :)
• Fixed issue where you could pause the game just as it had finished loading, making it appear as if the game had locked into loading screen.
• Audio from end result screen will no longer blow your speakers up if you click to clear it.
• Chests and Miniboss chests could rarely appear with their ring nearly finished. This is now fixed.
• Hinterlands missing environment colliders fixed. No more hiding in the house! haha!

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• First big balance pass of the Divinity Web costs to reduce the grind and improve overall balance and game flow. Lots of prices have been reduced. Some more so than others. A few nodes have been increased to stop the Oracle from quitting. She was quite upset about this whole thing.
• A bunch of kill gate quests have been rebalanced to be less grindy.
• Slight rebalancing of Ember Core drop rates to account for the currency exchange.
• A few minor enemy adjustments to make Hinterlands normal mode slightly easier.
• Miniboss spawns added to Hinterlands Hard mode
• Miniboss spawns added to Dark Forest Hard mode
• Miniboss spawns added to Spine Dunes Hard mode
• Now it should be easier to get all the miniboss killgates that people are missing and make the Ember Core drop rates on par with Desert Ruins Hard.
• Hard mode balance changes across all maps.
• Whoodoo Pet has been raised from 1, 1, 1 damage over time to 3, 3, 4.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/79e3e6d2460bfd9ef8f718a1e54f92265a905b49.png 4 New mini bosses added to Dark Forest map: Speart Reaper, Masked Reaper, Clown Skelly, and Lebone James. Each of them may or may not have a low chance to spawn Moon Mummy. Who knows? :P Nate stopped Peet from committing the invulnerability check box on Moon Mummy. By far, the biggest save for this patch. Peet gave Moon Mummy a 10hp raise to keep him happy. :) We have also been doing a lot of back end prep work for upcoming updates and features. A full ability overhaul is in development that will add a load of new gameplay changes. This is only the start of what we have in store for Spirit Hunters. Thanks for your support and patience as we continue working towards making this a truly great game. <3 Thanks for all the amazing support The Creature Cauldron Team Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website

Hello Spirit Hunters! We are back with another patch! This time we added a lot of ability buffs and a couple of previously announced features. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ebef9cb9646fd57b8ae133823784f33ee678f47f.png *Grand Hex got a massive CDR boost in the last patch. Now its getting even stronger with a 10% size/radius bump. *Tangle vines damage over time now lasts longer. *Orbital fire’s rotation speed gets is increased by 10% *Arrow starting cooldown reduced by 10%... which means its even faster at max... is that possible? *Mines got a big fix. The upgrade banner will read correctly to match the 2-3 second starting cooldown. XP scaling and balancing You can now unlock a node in the divinity web that gives you access to a 4th ability banner when you level up! Now you will have more choices so you can get closer to the desired build. *Added current build to the ability upgrade screen so you can... see your build... as you are building it. :P *New divinity web nodes that once unlocked add starting gold to your run. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/c1b42df2f12869acaf9ec1d440356f52bb3d6dca.png Hard mode bosses that you guys were chewing through in seconds got a lil beefier. Also added the new Hammer Horse Knight to the Hinterlands Hard mode. That evil little Screebler Bomber got nuked. Reduced speed, damage and explosive radius. A few bugs squashed: *Missing boss icons on the battle timeline have been added. *White box at the end of Dark Forest bug should be gone... should be....... *Missing XP scaling at super high levels fixed. *Moon Mummy not spawning enough on every map has been resolved. :) Finally a huge Magnus synergy buff! Every Magnus starting synergy has been massively improved for powerful late game healing. Plus a small bump in starting HP.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/93187687c98ceed6921e39e1961f709a0bdfcb9f.png First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who joined us for this early access journey to make a great game. This is just the very start and the bare bones foundation for Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde. We appreciate all the feedback and support. We look forward to working with the community to make this a game we love to play. After a crazy launch 5 days ago, we are finally mostly done with the major bug fixes. Still some stragglers and typos that we will continue refining and a lot of hitbox polish that will continue. But now we can focus more of our time on new features and content. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/018f81819a0a3c8d3d21f7382fb6cb89912ab1a5.png Our first content patch will be out very soon. We are in the process of testing a new Spirit Hunter: Hugo, the Treasure Genie. Unlike the other heroes, Hugo never takes more than one hit of damage at a time. Upon taking damage, Hugo will gain invulnerability, gain a boost of movement speed and be able to phase through enemies for a short period of time. This means he will be able to get out of tough situations far easier than other heroes. Hugo also has a unique health system in development. Our first new ability is Ice Ring. This is a highly defensive support skill that stacks freeze chance and duration. While it is weak from a damage standpoint, it brings 360 degree player protection. It also turns enemies blue, so thats... cool. Sorry... couldn't help myself. :P {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/ec76e087ffe968ace85694549ff8ffcfa688e28e.png Before finishing Hugo and Ice Ring, we will be patching in a few quality of life updates: A 4th choice option is being added to the Divinity web. This will help players get closer to the desired build and allow us to expand the "type of upgrade scrolls" we want to have in the future. Some unique twists in the works. :) We are also adding multiple starting gold nodes throughout the Divinity Web. With a few unlocks this should help with the early reroll issues and early shop spawns. Loads of ability buffs on the way too. If you are enjoying this very early version of the game, please consider leaving us a review. :)

Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde Hot Fix - 0.1.1198 * Fixed issue with data setup of Magic Mine Ability where Cooldown rate could be pushed into the negatives. * Adjusted damage Pet Nomicron deals (made stronger) * Adjusted Killgate number Screebler Brutes from 1000 to 300

Hey everyone! It has been an absolute whirlwind of chaos over here at Creature Cauldron as we gear up to release Spirit Hunters:Infinite Horde onto Steam Early Access on the 25th of May! HURRAH!!! Release date for Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde -25th May 2022 Here is some of the awesome new stuff we have been packing into this game for you to enjoy!

Illustration

Peet has absolutely smashed it out of the park with this wonderful Spirit Hunters:infinite Horde key art Illustration. This is a major undertaking and it turned out amazing. We are extremely happy with this image and you can expect to see this being splashed all over the place. This illustration has so many amazing uses, from logos and Steam shop images to the actual start screen and much more. Take a look! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/a424d8fdb2ba8009c5158290c82cbc99191bbe2b.png

Pets!

In Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde, alongside the powerful abilities you can unlock, upgrade and obliterate the hordes with, you can also unlock these fun pets! They will follow you around the battle field giving you major stat and ability buffs! You have to first unlock them in the Divinity Web (Upgrade tree) and then you can find them in many place. These little guys can really turn a battle in your favor. From increasing the size of your loot magnet, making you cause more damage, increasing your movement speed to fetching you health, dragging monsters away from you and much more. Which one do you think will be your favorite? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/97a7b3e09b0a0b31c6544d47e9032d117731aa94.png

New Location - Grave of the Ancients

Battle among the giant skeletal remains of the ancients! Decimate thousands of monsters in the tent villages between the enormous bones and claim your victory.... if you can survive long enough that is! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/2956af9243bee9d9586e7014c762930a8c2d9833.png Better watch out for the Screeblers that inhabit this area, they are not as cute as they look! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/56580380f466e5833c97532029976c02ce14877c.png

Boss battles

We have added a LARGE amount of bosses for you to face. These are randomly thrown at you and each has its own personality and stats. You wont know which ones you will be facing in each run and there are a few in here you want to hope you never have to cross! Killing these bosses rewards you with a ton of runes and crystals to spend in the Divinity Web so be sure to take them on as soon as they approach the battle field! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/e35727965aa7101e054ec02e97fc9fa509acac58.png

Divinity Web

Upon death, a Spirit Hunter is brought back from the dead by the Oracle. An all powerful sorceress who upon your return gives you the oppertunity to spend your Runes and Crystals on upgrades, new abilities, pets, new battle locations and more! There will be in the region of 500 upgrades and stuff to purchase at Early Access launch so expect some serious content for you to enjoy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/9e896b4f2c05a5746185f6fe23e6dca72faed3ab.png Thank you all so much for the ongoing support and interest in Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde! Be sure to WISHLIST the game today so you dont miss any pre launch news and of course the actual release! Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website Thanks again and much love! The Creature Cauldron Team

Hey everyone! So much has been achieved since the last Steam update. We have been working super hard on Spirit Hunters: Infinite horde and so much has been polished, tweaked and added to make this game ready for its VERY SOON release into early access! Outside of content building and polish here are some cool stuff we have added recently.

Monsters

So many new monsters are now lurking in the horde to obliterate you! There are still plenty more to come. We are currently working on some really cool behaviors for these monsters so expect the unexpected when fighting the infinite monster hordes! Here are some of the new monsters! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/67ed8c13fafc787579ad3d34d767d2f0c3435979.png

Boss Battle

At the end of a battle you will be met by the big bad boss! When its time for the final show down you will be fighting inside an ever shrinking arena of spikes! You are going to want to kill the boss as fast as you can because if you leave it too long you will fall to the spikes! No pressure! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/b46d4ee5f6a390d402c20a19352008cc709a2f3a.png

End Screen

Who doesnt love a good reward! Every single battle you take part in will reward you for your efforts. This means that even when you fall in battle you are still winning. You use the runes and crystals to upgrade everything and unlock new and more powerful abilities, characters etc. Every single fight is helping you become stronger and more capable of taking on the Infinite Hordes! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/09d4a31543c2e3bcd8b77cafec3568a877dc8cd2.png

Characters

Lots of work is going into making the awesome Hero's in Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde. Here are some of the characters you can expect at launch and very soon after launch in post release updates. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42056218/3861566d989c84c1a33b115f4ae0795da3ac08e9.png Thank you all so much for the ongoing support and interest in Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde and we hope you are excited for the upcoming release (date reveal very soon)! Follow us on... Discord | Twitter | TikTok | Twitch | Instagram | Patreon | Website Be sure to SMASH that wishlist button, thanks again and much love! The Creature Cauldron Team