SpiritVale news & patch notes

Servers back up!

Reverted some changes made a few hours ago.

Phil is also banned from "updates" until the backend is fixed. So he will be working on content in the background.

Thank you for your patience!

Hey all!

Servers are under maintenance, we will let you know when they are back.

We will update you whenever anything happens. Thank you for your patience!

Hey everyone!

What's happening

It's been a rough launch, and we want to thank you all for your patience. The game itself was ready but launch surfaced issues we hadn't encountered before, and we know how frustrating that's been.

We had moved to a new backend architecture between the demo and EA, and it couldn't handle the unforeseen player count. Phil also only just received the Kickstarter funds, and am in the process of hiring a full-time backend developer. Although I'd been accepting applications for the role for a couple of months, the timeline (Playtest > Demo > Kickstarter > EA) left no breathing room to actually onboard a new dev.

Trade Lock

We are aware how frustrating it is to not being able to use one of our most important features in-game which is trade and vending. We know how needed this is and we are doing our best to get both systems fixed as soon as possible.

We're also using this time to tackle one of the biggest causes of lag: the Auction House. The AH is being reworked, and because we need to preserve everyone's data while doing so, working on it this way is a far better solution than shutting down the servers for extended maintenance. We're working on this nonstop.

Server Upgrades

We want to sincerely apologize for the lag spikes and freezes. We know how frustrating they've been, and you have every right to expect better from us.

We also want to be upfront about the cause. Many of you have suggested adding more or better servers, and we appreciate the feedback, but capacity isn't the issue. NA 1 never reached 100% CPU even on launch day, and with the additional servers, load is lower than ever.

What's next

We're focused on fixing the major issues (lag spikes, party issues, vending and storage issues) and improving the backend architecture, while continuing to look for more help. Thank you for sticking with us we'll keep you updated as things progress.

Hey all!

Hope you are doing well! We have an announcement to do regarding Demo version.

At first, we wanted to allow players to try the game before buying and have fun while trying SpiritVale. However, there has been way more players than expected and unfortunately most of them are breaking the rules of our community.

We want to prioritise the experience of our players for this, we will shutdown Demo version. We hope you can understand.

Demo version will be closed in the next couple hours.

Regarding Bots/Afk gameplay players:

We are very aware of this situation and we are constantly taking actions against those behaviors. We do have a Bot Hunter Program and they are AMAZING, but please if you find someone breaking the rules do not hesitate to report them through Discord tickets. We really appreciate your help, thank you!

Hi! Mostly focused on optimisation this patch. Also got more servers!

• Fix: Party issues

• Fix: Random lag spikes every 5-20s (let me know if its still happening)

• Fix: Loot filter not working

• Feature: You can now search the map name in Party Search

• Optimisation around monsters on maps, which was causing rubberbanding

• More servers for NA/EU/SEA (will look into SA and OCE next): more servers = less monsters per server = less rubberbanding

Fixes

• Fix: Can't click on ground/units/waypoints/use skills

• Fix: Can't area loot / pet loot

• Fix: Being put back into a party you left

• Fix: Grey screens

• Fix: Missed purchases

• Fix: NPCs not showing up. Wayfarers and Nevaris seems to have this issue. People can't become priests.

• Fix: Vending issues

• Improved map to instance layout (some instances had alot of maps, causing lag)

Other known issues

• Still some lag, hope to get some more servers today

• From last patch.

Hey all, quick update I know the launch was really bad

But we've been working non-stop (especially the mods) Aiming for stability by the weekend

Fixes

• Fix: premium currency purchases being rolled back

• Fix: channel switching resulting in blank screen (let me know if it still happens)

• Fix: better distribution of server instances to maps (more channels for the right maps) - this also resulted in blank maps for a bit, but should be good now

• Added new servers for EU/SEA/NA (+ more should be ready tomorrow) - these all become part of the server clusters, which means more channels

• Fix: pet pickup / pickup with V issues

• Fix: party / party search issues

Working on next

Input Issues:

• Looks like they are still around, currently still figuring it out. For now you can try switching channels or restarting if it happens

• There are some channels were you can't use skills and need to be jumping between channels to be able to use them.

• There are players not being able to use waystones.

Vending Issues:

• AH is showing outdated listings.

• Players are listing items, disconnect and when they get back there are not items listed and no gold in their accounts.

Other known issues

• Dagger skin not applicable for both, works on main hand but not second hand.

• NPCs not showing up. Wayfarers and Nevaris seems to have this issue. People can't become priests.

• Can lose items you get from dismantling (and the dismantled items) proly due to the lag right now.

• Pets not picking up loot.

Sooo, the moment is here! SpiritVale Early Access release is LIVE NOW!!

Thank you all for your support through all these months, we really appreciate it and Phil really does love to read your comments and see you playing his game!

We are very proud of SpiritVale and will keep doing our best to give you a great experience. We hope you enjoy the game as much as we do building it. Can expect a lot of content in the upcoming weeks-months!

If you find any bugs, have any suggestion. If you want to report a player, use our Discord.

Thank you again, thank you to all the members of the team Artist and Moderators!

If servers are crashing, be patient!

(Pre-Launch Notes)

0.30.0 Early Access Launch

Features and Improvements

Code Redeem

• See settings menu to redeem your codes!

Localization

• Added support for 15 languages

Guilds

• Added new Guild system

Auction House & Trading

• Added new Auction House system

• Reintroduced Vending Stalls through the Stallmaster

• Improved delivery box flow for purchased items

• Improved vending sale history

Controller Support

• Improved controller aiming

• Added RStick aiming + Aiming reticle

• Added camera rotation while aiming (hold LStick and rotate with RStick)

Maps & Monsters

• Better naming for many monsters

• Updated Turtle Nexus

• Updated Forgotten Depths 2

• Updated Dark Forest

• Updated Treant Trail

Chat & Party

• Added Chat Room System

• Added customisable chat tabs

• Whisper conversations now appear as draggable tabs

• Added Block / Unblock player

• Added map information to Party Search

Gameplay

• Added Character Slot purchases

• Improved summon AI behaviour

• Summons now appear in the status bar and can be dismissed with right-click

• Toggle skills / self buffs can now be cleared with right-click

• Added coin costs to Essence crafting

• Added boss information when interacting with boss graves

• Monsters no longer spawn near NPCs, portals and waypoints

Server Performance

• Major server architecture improvements for better scalability

• Servers regions are now act as server clusters

• Chat and Party persist across the whole regional server cluster

• Summons, clones and status effects now persist when changing channels / relogging

UI

• Added draggable windows

• Added Inventory pagination for improved performance

• Updated PvP rank icons

• Updated element icons

Cosmetics Store

• Is now purchased from inside the game (click on balance). No longer linked to Ko-Fi donations.

Weapon Cosmetics

• Apply cosmetic skins to compatible weapons

• Unlock weapon appearances with Cosmetic Converters

• Umbral Weapon Cosmetics

• Bone Gatling Gun and Launcher Cosmetics

Costume Sets

• Sunken Set

• Fox Sets (Fire & Ice)

• Easter Bunny Set

• Priest Set

• Wizard Set

Accessories

• Head Ribbon

• Kamen Red Face

• Necro Skull Face

Mounts & Pets

• Fire Fox

• Ice Fox

• Banana Duck

• Green Whale

• Updated Horse & Griffin Mounts

• Updated Cats, Dogs, Griffin Pets

Emotes

• Added emote cosmetic system (barebones for now)

• Use /emote to play

Exclusive / Redeem Only Cosmetics

• Cuervo (Kickstarter)

• Angel of Vale (Kickstarter)

• Demonic (Kickstarter)

• Angelic Pet (Kickstarter)

• Demonic Pet (Kickstarter)

• Angelic Lion (Kickstarter)

• Demonic Dragon (Kickstarter)

• Angelic Aura (Kickstarter)

• Angelic Walking Trail (Kickstarter)

• Demonic Aura (Kickstarter)

• Demonic Walking Trail (Kickstarter)

• Spirit Valer Stall (Kickstarter)

• Spirit Valer Outfit (Playtest Reward)

• Support Star (Supporter Reward)

• 100M Cape (Demo Reward)

  Balance Changes

  Progression

  • Increased EXP requirements towards higher levels

  • Reduced Essence drop rates

  • Adjusted equipment drop rates

  • Increased crafting material costs

  • Reduced Boss Crystal drop rates

  • Removed Weekend Bonus EXP

  • Party even share is now reduced beyond 30 level gap, zeroed at 50 level gap (Lv130+ counts as Lv130)

  Ghost Element

  • Added the Ghost element

  • Reworked the Element table

  • Updated many monsters to Ghost element

  • Converted Summoner skills to Ghost

  Cards and Gear

  • Added / moved many cards

  • Removed Skill Damage cards

  • Removed Weapon Element cards

  • Reduced equipment Potential values

  • Neutral resist is now excluded from all resist mods

  • Siphon scaling reduced

  Paladin

  • Sacrifice: Reworked. Applies 5-10% of HP as damage. Ignores defences, triggers hit effects

  • Shield skills: damage +30%

  • Consecration/Heal: Removed regeneration buff

  • Holy Shield: Removed all resistance buff

  • Oathbreaker: Removed +1 matk per str, changed to 10% block

  • Judgement Blade: damage -25%, no longer triggers hit effects

  • Grand Cross: no longer triggers hit effects

  Gunslinger

  • Complete class rework

  • All guns now have the same scaling (5% dex)

  • Skills now auto-swap to the right loadout

  • Heavy Loadout: Unlocks Launcher/Gatling Gun + 3rd weapon loadout

  Pistol \ Fan Fire (5) - Max Level reduced, same damage Panic Burst (10) - unchanged Trigger Happy (5) - unchanged

• Sniper \ Piercing Shot (5) - Applies 4% per level damage buff to Sniper Shot Sniper Shot (10) - unchanged

• Shotgun \ Shock Absorber (0) - Removed, added to Jump Shot Shrapnel (5) - 5s Cooldown, Remove Charges, \, Applies 4% per lv damage buff to Point Blank Point Blank (10) - 6s Cooldown, otherwise unchanged

• Gatling \ (Heavy) Lockdown (10) - 10s Cooldown. No longer disables movement. Applies stacking buff when standing still. (Autocast disabled, +30% multi, +15% attack, +20% aspd, stacks x10)

• Launcher \ (Heavy) Freeze Grenade (5) - 6s Cooldown, Remove Charges. Applies Vulnerability Explosive Grenade (10) - 6s Cooldown, Area 5 > 7, Remove Knockback, Remove Charges. Applies Launcher Boost buff: Sets aspd to 175 and 100% autocast Explosive Grenade for 3s Poison Grenade (5) - 6s Cooldown, Remove Charges. Applies Launcher Poison buff: +50% status damage and Poison on hit.

• Utility / Base Kit \ Flash Bang (3) - Max level reduced Jump Shot (5) - Now usable always. Applies Shock Absorber buff for 5s. 20% chance per level to Silence for 1s, Cooldown 11 - 1s per level. Aerial Shot (5) - Now usable always. Suppressive Shot (5) - No longer has piercing shot pre-req Snipers Nest (5) - No longer reduces movement speed, stand still for 1s to activate Weapon Swap (1) - Removed Fury Heavy Swap (1) - 3rd loadout + unlocks Launcher and Gatling Gun.

The moment you has been waiting for is here!

Official SpiritVale dates for the upcoming days and months, please read carefully:

June 8: End Playtest and Wipe.

In this day we will end Playtest and game progress will be wiped. Everything you have will wiped, if you bought premium currency you will get them back once Early Access release.

From June 8 to June 12th: Performance

We will work on polish, fixes, performance in the game to assure everything is running smooth for Steam Next Fest Demo and Early Access. We will probably need to check how things goes on Demo and fix them before Early Access.

June 12th - June 22nd: Launch Demo

On June 12th we will launch Demo, this Demo won't have the content limited. Everyone will start from Level 1 to give new players coming from the Steam Next Fest event the opportunity to experience and enjoy the Demo. June 15th starts Steam Next Fest. At this point we will have already a few days with Demo live, should help with position on Steam most played demos.

At the end of the Demo, we will wipe everyone progress moving forward to Early Access fresh start.

July 2: Kickstarter campaign

Kickstarter campaign ends and we will start contacting backers to arrange rewards.

July 15th: EA Release

Early Access release, fresh start. We will welcome everyone to play the game on Steam, you will be able to play from level 1 with no advantages.

SpiritVale will be buy to play, it will cost around $15 usd with regional prices. As we discussed months ago, it will be only one-time payment (no subscription).

Between June 22 to July 15, servers will be down unless Phil needs to stress test servers.

Hopefully this clears up some concerns, if you still have any questions feel free to contact us!

Wishlist the game!

Hey, all!

We have reached this milestone together and we couldn't be more happy to finally say KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!

Check it out here! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiritvale/spiritvale

Share this with everyone you know!

Please, read!

As a backer you will receive the rewards from the tier you are pledging (+ add-ons if you buy them). Let me explain how rewards will be delivered here:

- Steam Keys will be delivered on July before Early Access release (be aware you won't be able to play the game until EA launch).

- Digital rewards such as cosmetics, will be delivered on July. We will send a questionnaire to every backer in order to arrange rewards.

- In-game package with goodies means "more space slots in bank" this is totally quality of life and nothing p2w.

- Designer tiers will receive their rewards on July except by the custom items such as weapon design, pet design, mount design and NPC design. These need more time to take details from backer + Artists work.

- Ultimate Founder will be delivered on July except by the custom items such as weapon design, pet design, mount design and NPC design. These need more time to take details from backer + Artists work.

- Discord roles will be given later this month.

A quick tutorial about add-ons.

You can select add-ons when you first back a project or when managing your existing pledge.

Once you are backing:

- Click Back this project and select your reward tier.

- After selecting your tier, the Add-on menu will appear.

- Click Add next to the items you want and specify the quantity.

- Click Continue to proceed to payment and confirm your pledge.

If you want to modify an existing pledge:

- Go to the campaign page and click Manage your pledge.

- Click Change your pledge.

- Re-select your current reward tier (this will not cancel your current spot). The add-on menu will appear.

- Choose your additional items and click Continue.

- Confirm the changes to finalize.

Any more questions, please feel free to open a ticket or dm me.

Hey, hey!

We are very happy to announce our Kickstarter campaign and New Trailer! Very proud of all the work behind this from Artist and everyone involved.

We expect to deliver the best experience in SpiritVale and we hope you guys like what Phil has been doing along with an amazing volunteer team.

Follow our Pre-launch Kickstarter here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiritvale/spiritvale and get notified once Kickstarter launch!

Thank you always for your support!

New Trailer here:

Patch got delayed due to balancing difficulties with a small testing team, and a bit of feature creep. We were also going to include some new passives (think talents) but it took a bit too long and was not included.

Patch tldr;

• The game balance had gotten pretty bad, getting out of hand with each class release but not much time to address them. We've rebalanced all class damage and sustain based on several metrics. These metrics will be used to balance future classes so we don't get into the same situation.

• Damage and sustain was very spikey, with one-shots and full heals being the norm. The game was becoming more like an ARPG where it only promoted solo aoe farming. The changes aim to start turning it around where combat is a bit slower, more fair, and promotes working together.

• Some QOL additions and missing features.

• Shared skills and passives (Heal/Haste/Cure/FreeCast) were removed, and distributed amongst base classes. This is to start give classes more of an identity/niche.

• Status effects have been revamped, for better clarity and reduce status bloat for future classes. Also gives classes different niches with which status effects they have access to.

• All armor sets have been revamped (late game armors were overshadowing everything else too much).

Monster & Boss Changes

Changes

• Monsters now have Def and Mdef

• Removed regen from Bosses

• Monster damage reduced by around 25%

• Removed random casting and extra cast range from bosses

• Spawner Bosses now have 60s of No KS protection for the Spawner and Party. This is cleared if the Spawner leaves the map

Goals

• Giving monsters certain strengths and weaknesses (therefore giving different builds/classes different niches). Much like how the introduction of Crit Defence means Crit builds are less effective in some maps. This is just the start of it, we will slowly push maps to different niches as we do map expansions

• Reducing spikey-ness of incoming and outgoing damage

Threat System

Changes

• Monsters target the player in range with the most threat.

• The party screen shows relative threat.

Threat is generated when - You deal damage - You cast a targeted skill - You cast a skill near aggressive monsters - You use a threat generating skill like Taunt

Goals

• Pretty standard system in MMOs, was just missing before

• Allows tanks to keep aggro and DPS to monitor their aggro generation

We've just reached a special moment where all base classes have an advanced class for the first time! That should be it for advanced classes for EA.

There will now be more dev time towards balancing and new features.

• All base class max Job levels new set to 50

• Added Damage Meter in monster inspect menu

• Added craftsman recipe display to world map

• Added advanced class display to character creation

• New weapon visuals by Soupsi and Sunna!

• New spiritvale logo by Brilett!

• New Items: 6 Axes + 1 Utility

• New Gems for Berserker Skills

• Luxspire Staff, Darkhide Glove, Focus Band

• Fix Heaven Bug

• Fix bug where damage numbers accumulate when you're in another menu

• Fix Flinch applied for every multi-hit, now only applies per hit. Flinch duration set to 0.14s, so you can technically Flinch lock at 193

• Fix being able to interact with your own clones

• Fix being able to reset a skills cooldown by adding/subtracting a skill point

• Fix sometimes not being able to auto attack after being silenced

• Fix sometimes not being able to move after warping to town

• Fix flying off map after warping to town

• Fix some buggy visuals with rotation and movement

• Refactor Leap and Warp code: Fix bugs with Leap skills and Warping

• Refactor Input code (I think this was causing alot of lag, as it sent a message every frame when holding down the mouse)

• Attack speed curve revamped, now starts at a higher aspd and is less exponential towards the cap

• Skill delay now matches attack delay, requiring 177 aspd to reach 0.3s

• Skills like Blink/Stomp/Charge will automatically be casted at max range, instead of making you walk

• Skills like Stomp: Speed increased by 25%

• Skills like Charge/Aerial Shot: Speed increased by 33%

• Debuffs are no longer affected by Status Duration

• Return autocast combo finisher

• Skullhacker: WW Damage 50% > 25%

• Golden Axe: Moved Bash Area to War Axe

• Shinobi clone mp cost: 65% > 50%

• Shinobi clone autocast chance: 50% > 100%

• Flame Tongue Kunai: removed damage bonus

• Venom Strike: Reduced hits 5 > 1

• Exorcism: Increased damage 60% > 77%

• Priest's Holy Wrath: added 2nd part to the skill called Litany of Wrath

• Warrior's Honed Blade: max level reduced to 5, so crit damage +30% > +15%

• Weaver Mastery: Added +3 skill splash (targeted skills gain increased area)

Thank you again for all your support! Don't forget to wishlist the game :D

Hi everyone!

If you'd like to follow development, chat with the community, or give feedback, you can join our Discord here: 👉 https://discord.gg/SpiritVale

We've also put together a press kit with screenshots, trailers, and info about the game: 👉 https://impress.games/press-kit/baikun-interactive/spiritvale

Thanks for the support!