Svarog's Dream news & patch notes

Hello everyone,

In this post, we will talk more about what comes next from VI Game Forge after Svarog's Dream.

Our studio roadmap:

Patch 7.1.0 update

• Removed weapon requirements from ~30 skills. This has been requested a few times, and it made sense for improving build variety. You can now more easily mix classes, even make something like a melee-fire caster or a marksman-necromancer if that's your thing.

• Buffed spellbooks AA damage scaling.

• Added a small chance to find a basic fishing rod in the base game.

• Some performance improvements when leading a larger army of summons.

• A handful of minor bugfixes for issues reported in the past couple of months.

Some thoughts

It’s been almost 2 years since release, and nearly a year since the expansion. Time flies, doesn't it?

I hope those of you who have followed the journey of Svarog's Dream are doing well.

As mentioned before, we're happy with where Svarog's Dream is now, so there won't be major updates coming next year.

The bigger news is that we're working on a completely new RPG, something different, and in some ways even more unique. It won't be an ARPG this time, but rather a game that dives deeper into philosophical themes. I can't share much yet, but a proper announcement is planned for the end of Q2 next year.

If you've enjoyed our work so far, keep an eye out for that reveal.

• A new parallel story with a new game ending
• New areas to explore and enemies to fight
• New classes to master
• Exciting new mechanics like fishing, gods' devotion, and faction wars
• Hundreds of new items, new world events, and much more!

• A new option on the map to display faction ownership of each region in the world.
• Filters added to the log page for easier navigation.
• A new game setting to enable character comments about the environment, including warnings about potential dangers during nighttime.
• The ability to move all alchemy ingredients to the alchemy bag with a single click.
• A new way to rearrange skill slots by dragging them.
• The addition of a class name for combinations of two or more classes.

• We further polished movement and controls.
• We made balance changes, focusing on buffs and mini-reworks for dexterity-based skills.
• We fixed almost all bugs reported over the past few months.
• The patch also includes extra polish and several performance improvements.

• Horde area to the far west of Breza is not meant to be farmed. Horde monsters are buffed in this area, and we have set up a hidden trap for players who venture too deep.
• Added a bit more humor to the dialogues with the first two philosophers on the path of not doing (the main quest).
• Fixed an issue with the interaction between the Cheating Death skill and the first philosopher test.
• Fixed an audio bug with the Last Guardian in cases where the player would quickly slay his first phase.
• Green trolls and cyclops are buffed a bit more.
• There is one new message to hint to the player how to leave the Eternal Warrior's Hall after Game Ending 2.
• Adding positive talents with game favors will make them more expensive if the player has 9 or more positive talents already.

• For the first 30 seconds after game load, the player can spawn units without cooldown (hunting dogs, necromancer skeletons). The player also gains 90% damage immunity for the first 30 seconds or until he attacks an enemy.
• When the player removes the trait of being "Old", he will gain immunity to acquiring it again.
• Added 2 new hidden talents and 3 new hidden characters.

• Buff to Runebinder "Rune Of Sorcery" skill (now it also increases magic damage).
• Walking Dead skeletons cost 20% more mana to summon (their mana per second is unchanged).
• Buffed stone golem health pool.
• Equipping the "bat necklace" now also provides night vision.

• Fixed issue with wrong animation when switching to a shield without a weapon equipped.
• Fixed bug where the screen would shake while golems or trolls fought in the distance.
• Fixed issue with horde shout sound at game start.
• Fixed issue where attributes would not passively grow when fighting unarmed (without weapons).
• Fixed issue where discovering a lot of alchemy recipes would not unlock new recipe books straight away.

• Feeling Lucky skill is a bit smarter now, when casting it over far-away enemies, it will try to avoid low-range skills.
• New shortcut - when looting a fallen enemy, press enter to take all items automatically.

• Buffed the "drunk" effect.
• Lowered Griffin attack range.
• 'Feeling Lucky' won't cast skills with long channel times during combat.
• Fixed a bug where summons would attack all non-aggressive animals after being ordered to do so once.

• To support multiple classes, there is an option in the game settings to enable a new set of skill slots with weapon swap.
• Updated borders of the Inventory UI.
• Outside of Ironman mode, players can have multiple save files for the same run.

• 3 classes are split into 12 new classes, featuring upgrades to core skills and new passives.
• Improved skill effects, rebalanced them, and reworking some to make them more interesting.
• Players can now combine classes, and skills are more independent of weapons.
• Added a new hard difficulty.
• Updated rings to support mastery updates.
• Added ragdolls to enemies upon death.
• Added trails to all weapons in melee combat.
• Added new sounds in combat.
• Made the camera smoother and added better camera shake.
• Increased character movement acceleration fivefold for easier controls.
• Improved bow ranged combat animations.
• Added an option to enable character health above the character's head.
• General UI improvements around the action bar.
• Added an icon to enable the action bar directly through the UI.
• Added new skill tooltips and a new mastery UI.
• Updated tooltips, help pages, intro pages, and others to reflect new skills.
• Added option to enable extra mastery slots.
• Added an undo button to mastery selection.

• Fixed floating precision issues that caused problems with navigation in dungeons and the underworld.
• Fixed issues where sometimes AWSD controls would not be as precise as mouse controls.
• Performance improvements have been made around how content is loaded from the hard disk.
• Fixed some graphical issues that caused ground textures to appear in a worse resolution than intended.

• Fixed a bug where ingredients would not automatically go to the alchemy table when clicked on the recipe list and ingredients are in the second bag.
• Fixed a bug where the priest in the wrong village would also give leads about the honest man quest giver.
• Fixed a bug where the Shadow Jump teleport skill would miss the location when clicked on a location far away on wide screen resolution.
• Fixed a bug where the werewolf quest giver's conversation would stop working after starting it right after taking the Honest Man quest.