We took some time compiling all the feedback we received during the Season 2 launch and are happy to bring some substantial changes to Striving for Light. Including balancing changes, improvements and bugfixes (even for some seldom occuring crashes). As Update 1.1.1.0 contains bi
We took some time compiling all the feedback we received during the Season 2 launch and are happy to bring some substantial changes to Striving for Light. Including balancing changes, improvements and bugfixes (even for some seldom occuring crashes).
As Update 1.1.1.0 contains bigger changes we are are rolling it out into the public playtest branch before it will go live. We invite everyone to engage with the changes and give us feedback so that we can fine tune everything until it will go core.
How to join the public beta
Steam -> Striving for Light -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> select public-beta branch
Upcoming Race Event:
Depending on the feedback we receive on the public beta we plan to host a race event very soon.
Balancing
Changes to Dodge:
Dodge in its current state sets a fixed invulnerability time, where when chaining multiple dodges with shorter/interruped dodge duration will keep the invulnerability on going for ever. Furthermore, the dodge invulnerability had overwritten vulnerabilities by a recent hit that could lead to multiple hits taken in a very short duration.
We want to make some changes to the dodge behaviour to prevent a state of permenent invinibility that renders the entire game mechanics obsolte and fix the issue that dodge resets the longer invincibility from a recent hit taken.
Therefore dodge invincibility is now decoupled from main invincibility that got activated from a recent enemy hit. It will not reset the current ~2s of invincibility after a hit taken. This should solve a lot of frustrating moments where multiple consecutive hits after suboptimal dodges appear.
To fix the permanent invincibility, dodges now have a dynamic invulnerability time that matches the dodge duration with a short vulnerability window attached. So that when ending a dodge inside an enemy AoE field or trap you will receive damage as intended.
Our ultimate goal here is to keep all dodge builds viable, spaming dodge all day is fine, it should just not be a source of infinite invicibility. Dodge should still upkeep a requirement for tactical movement and positioning.
Let us know how these changes feel, we are happy to further adjust and tweaks.
Changes to Descent Defense:
We are making big changes to how the descent defense, so that each defense encounter has sort of a fixed duration that can not infintely be increased by adding modifiers.
Intensify defense modifier does not increase enemy spawn amount per wave and keeps them at a decent duration. Therefore, the intensify modifier increases enemy HP by 50%.
Prolong Descent Defense Modifier now adds a dedicated new defense section instead of increasing wave duration, which delays the reward for one descent encounter but increases your chest reward by 2 chests (instead of 1 before). For each additional added defense wave enemy hp increase by 20%.
Each defense descent section does now grant exp additionally to the granted exp when finishing the entire desent defense world event.
Orbiting blades not have fixed spawn radius
These changes target to make descent defense more interesting and challenging while keeping the duration reasonable.
General Balancing:
Movementspeed multiplier is now limited to 3 (was unlimited before). This made doding almost indistinguishable from normal movement
Higher map tiers are now appearing slightly later. We wanted to extend the early game slightly as we felt new players got overrun by high damage multipliers on tier 1-2 maps quite early.
Improvements to new maps/enemies: The attack speed of the new enemies/bosses on the jungle and skypath map has been reduced.
Rift enemies have increased hp scaling on higher rift levels.
Skills Rebalancing:
Lightning strike base damage got incresed to 35 (was 20). Lightning Strike now has higher scaling with skill stacks. The lightning strike spawn algorithm was improved to make this skill more usefull and targeting enemies more reliable.
Improvements to minimap: Minimap is now zoomed out more, to have better map overview. The minimap fog of war overlay now covers the entire map on rifts as well to prevent leaking the level layout ahead of time.
Reduced the visual size/thickness of the druid range totem projectiles to make the screen more readable
Increased the damage number visual distribution for better readability
Skill shards have improved visual effects to improve visibility of dropped shards.
Bufixes:
Fixed a seldom occuring crash when clicking on a skillnode when having a certain combination of skills/ cosmetics active/selected
Fixed wrong Player orientation after dodging
Fixed not working tooltips on hovering over character image in stats window to view default character stats
Fixed a potential crash when using cyclic might attack replacer together with melee attack effects and switching scenes between skilltree
Fixed wrong damage numbers on tooltips for skills that only scaled with skillstacks
In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Hotfix 1.1.0.4 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Improvements Improved new bone vulture attack pattern to indicate projectile shots more prominently. Bone Vulture project
Hotfix 1.1.0.4 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback!
Improvements
Improved new bone vulture attack pattern to indicate projectile shots more prominently. Bone Vulture projectiles have improved visibility and collider has been reduced in size.
Bugfixes
Fixed echoes of fate unlock discount increasing endlessly on map tiers above 20.
Fixed a crash when unlocking goladir on spanish localisation settings.
Fixed not being able to switch weapon or toggle minimap overlay when approaching and NPC and triggering dialogue from too far away.
Fixed light fragment UI indicator being overed up by skygems if you got a lot of light fragments.
Fixed an issue where when having less than 10 light fragments on the tree of light when spending it got applied twice (v.1.1.0.4a)
In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Hotfix 1.1.0.3 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Improvements Melee attack replacers Cyclic Might and Colossal Strike can now apply weapon weakening effects to enemies. B
Hotfix 1.1.0.3 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback!
Improvements
Melee attack replacers Cyclic Might and Colossal Strike can now apply weapon weakening effects to enemies.
Bugfixes
Fixed rift rank not being displayed on completed rift UI and the rift leaderboard entry
Fixed permanent companions not triggering player effects
In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Hotfix 1.1.0.2 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Bugfixes Fixed abysal hunger melee weapon not applying base weapon endurance cost to your attacks Fixed sandfall event se
Hotfix 1.1.0.2 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback!
Bugfixes
Fixed abysal hunger melee weapon not applying base weapon endurance cost to your attacks
Fixed sandfall event setting marking the aeodra arena world event as complete
Fixed sanguine chest ending early on high map tiers
Fixed reward chests spawn arc on descent defense and rifts that could trap you, when spawing a big bunch of chests
Added missing awakened gatekeeper achievement images for new maps
In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Hotfix 1.1.0.1 bring further fixes and improvements based on your player feedback for the new Season 2 content update. Thank you for being part of season 2 and for reporting occuring issues! Improvements Echo Weapons without upgrades are now displayed as Tier 1 instead of showing
Hotfix 1.1.0.1 bring further fixes and improvements based on your player feedback for the new Season 2 content update. Thank you for being part of season 2 and for reporting occuring issues!
Improvements
Echo Weapons without upgrades are now displayed as Tier 1 instead of showing empty brackets
Minipet cosmetics are now not affected by player effect transparency setting (as you can deactivate the pet manually if it distracts from gameplay)
Exiting world events (with despawned enemies) now properly reduces enemies on map counter again
Fine tuning of the overgrown monstrosity jungle gatekeeper fight
Specialisaton granted weapon condition damage is now working with melee attack replacer skills like cyclic might, colossal strike or trembling ground (v.1.1.0.1a)
Damage numbers font size is now slightly bigger matching the pre 1.1 size (v1.1.0.1b)
Reduced visual size of sunderbow range weapon (yes this weapon was very huge) (v1.1.0.1b)
Bugfixes
Fixed a crash when entering the skilltree while an elite enemy dies and the sanguine cosmetic finisher effect present on map
Fixed echoes of fate light fragments unlock cost being removed from wrong darkness/normal stash
Fixed sandfall event after completion not interactible with controller input
Fixed not directly updated available map shards in darkness/normal mode in the pathfinder
Fixed missing translation in the druid specialisation
Fixed Attack Range stat on craft echo weapon window showing large numbers
Fixed grip button not being interactible for certain conditions in the echo weapon crafting UI
Fixed wrong druid specialisation description for firefly specialisation nodes (v.1.1.0.1a)
Fixed interrupted trembling ground attack animation leading to cutoff attack effect each second attack (v.1.1.0.1a)
Added missing echo fragment localisation (v.1.1.0.1a)
Fixed a server side issue that prevented updating gatekeeper and rift leaderboard scores.
Fixed exiting skilltree could trigger barrage skill only firing one bullet and could lead to a crash (v.1.1.0.1b)
Added missing awakened gatekeeper localisation for new maps (v.1.1.0.1b2)
Even though Season 2 version 1.1 was just launched a few hours ago we have already supplied an array of hotfixes tackling arising bugs and issues. Here are the consolidated patch notes: Improvements Sandfall world event now grants additonal sand on higher map tiers Sandfall rewar
Even though Season 2 version 1.1 was just launched a few hours ago we have already supplied an array of hotfixes tackling arising bugs and issues. Here are the consolidated patch notes:
Improvements
Sandfall world event now grants additonal sand on higher map tiers
Sandfall rewards prices have been lowered slightly
Charge: Range Attack Modifier can now as well trigger effects with lower than 100% spawn change like totems up to 3x on full charged attack (v.1.1.0.0f)
Bugfixes
Fixed sandfall reroll cost being wrongly displayed with 50 (was 100)
Fixed a potential crash on steamdeck when navigating the sandfall reward screen
Fixed sandfall reward window not being able to be closed on steamdeck
Fixed tree of light spending 10 light fragments at once grants 20 light in legacy progress (1.1.0.0d)
Fixed merchant switching up light stash from darkness and normal difficulties. (v.1.1.0.0e)
Fixed a crash when crafting weapons at goladir (v.1.1.0.0e)
Removed some of the left over +1 additional projectile stat modifiers on the druid specialisation nodes (v.1.1.0.0f)
Fixed sandfall event challenge not triggering after enduring the challenge (v.1.1.0.0f)
Fixed missing localisation on for the druid class (v.1.1.0.0f)
In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! The wait is over, after many months of hard work we are hyped to share the full patch notes for the FREE Season 2: Era of Darkness content update. Official Season 2 Trailer Stay a while and listen ... and read of course ... This content update is massive a
Welcome back wanderers! The wait is over, after many months of hard work we are hyped to share the full patch notes for the FREE Season 2: Era of Darkness content update.
Stay a while and listen ... and read of course ... This content update is massive and turned out to be much bigger than initially planed and expected. So we included some of the new music coming with Season 2 to set the vibe for reading through this massive patchnotes.
We decided to make the content update including the Druid class a FREE update for everyone to not fracture the playerbase and balance the new class without following the meta of overpowering new content to set buying incentives. We therefore packed fun ideas we had for purely non-gameplay affecting cosemtics into a Supporter Pack DLC for those players that want to support the ongoing development of Striving for Light and future Seasons.
Featuring 28 cosmetics including: character back attachements (yes including wings), auras, footstep effects, minipets and boss finisher effects. You can check it out here:
We are happy to announce that the Druid character class will be joining the roaster of Striving for Light in the upcoming Season 2.
The Druid is a naturebound class wielding and bending the power of nature. The druid calls ancient spirits and constructs powerful totems to shift the odds in her battles to her favour.
The Druid comes equipped with 2 new starting weapons: Totemic Staff and Totemic Maul, read more about those new weapons further down below.
The Druid Specialisation will grant you access to following specialisations, opening up a variety of new build possibilities. Take a look at all Druid Specialisations in detail:
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Flicker Dodge: You are shapeshifting into a swarm of fireflies when dodging that trigger 3 melee on hit effect along your dodge path. This limits your dodge regeneration to 1 dodge each 3s.
Call Spirit Wolf: Call a spirit wolf companion on each active trinket trigger that attacks enemies with frozen fangs freezing enemies dealing and scaling with companion damage. Lasting for 20s.
Glowing Storm: Call firefly companions on each active trinket trigger that create burning AoE effects on attack that deal burning condition to enemies. Lasting for 12s.
Fireflies: Call firefly companions on each defeated enemy that create burning AoE effects on attack that deal burning condition to enemies. Lasting for 20s.
Totemic Slam: 25% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a melee totem construct. That frequently errupts earth shockwaves dealing and scaling with your melee damage. 6s construct duration, attacks each 2s.
Totemic Reach: 25% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a range totem construct. That unleashes a fixed bullet salve which damage scales with your projectile damage. Construct lives for 6s attacking each 2s.
Totem Mastery: 50% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a range totem construct. That unleashes a fixed bullet salve which damage scales with your projectile damage. Construct lives for 6s attacking each 2s.
Season Lead Mechanic - Sandfall World Event
Scattered across the forsaken lands of Ankerath you will find relics of time itself. Just waiting to release the sands of time.
Sandfall is a time based world event where enduring within the event area will let you collect sands of time. Acumulate sand and trade this new currency into precious and powerful items. Some with beyond ordinary quality, which will grant you a high chance to receiving multiple duplicates of the same item or weapons and trinkets with higher stat rolls and crafting potential.
But beware the longer you endure the more devastating sandfall can become. You can exit the event area anytime but beware once your character gets defeated all sand vanishes like the time itself.
Trinkets
New Fifth Legendary Trinket Slot
The new trinket system will grant all players a new legendary trinket slot, so you will be able to carry 5 trinkets in total.
So you will be able to carry 4 normal trinkets and 1 legendary trinket. The legendary trinket slot is represented by a taller equipment slot. When picking up a legendary trinket you are only able to equip or exchange trinkets in your legendary trinket slot.
Legendary trinkets will not have any requirements (trinket color requirements) and therefore the active ability can be used directly after equipping and charging up the active ability. So you will be free to assemble your trinket setup to your liking by still use whatever legendary trinket complements your build best!
New Trinkets
What would be a trinket system overhaul without new trinkets to play with? We therefore are adding 8 new trinkets. These trinkets will not only add entirely new and exciting mechanics but also opening up new playstyles.
What about an exploration map, granting you a bounty quest? When completing this will reward you with a bonus chest to double your loot on map completion.
A battering ram that will crush boss shields.
A toxin coil that triggers a AoE effect consuming a massive amount of enemy DoT stacks to deal the DoT damage instantly.
A talisman granting you a damage boost that can be prolonged by defeating enemies.
But this is not all, we also worked on trinkets with low ability cooldown time that allow calling temporary companions, triggering hard hitting melee and range attacks or applying massive condition damage.
We are sure that these changes to the trinket system will make trinkets even more fun to use and allow for a big array of new build possibilities.
New Weapons
5 new weapons are added opening up for new playstyles and build possibilities.
Totemic Staff - A range weapon with 25% chance on attack to create a range totem construct that fires salves of 6 projectiles.
Totemic Maul - A melee weapon with 25% chance on attack to create a melee totem construct that freuqently makes the earth shatter dealing melee damage to all surrounding enemies.
Longsword - Rapid attacks with a wide frontal range.
Thorn Vine - Each hit applies bleeding to enemies. Attacks in a large area in front of you in a whip-like pattern.
New Skills
The content update will bring new skills to the extensive roster of build possibilities.
Vulcanic Hit - Melee Skill
Each melee hit unleashes a volcanic eruption spreading a burning AoE field, setting enemies on fire and applying burning condition, which has a 50% chance to replicate up to 2 times.
Barrage - Range Attack Replacer
Your range attacks unleash your projectiles as continuous barrage instead of an instant attack and spread in chaotic movement. You gain +3 additional projectiles.
Opening up even more build variety to take on the new challenges that await you in the Era of Darkness content update.
New True Roguelike Mode: Darkness Modes
With Season 2 the Era of Darkness is spreading corruption on the vast lands around Ankerath, and even breaching the city gates.
The Darkness Mode is a new True Roguelike Game-Mode where no meta progression can be taken to your next run. The darkness mode will grant access to the Tree of Darkness, a corrupted version of the Tree of Light that will grant you more powerful powers for your current run.
Darknessmode brings plenty of further changes to the ruleset of the game, i.e.:
You are starting with 3 echoes of fate skill slots, and the echoes of fate is always unlocked in darkness mode. The echoes of fate skill spawn chance with +50% (instead of 25%) is increased in darkness mode.
The blacksmith Goladir and the Scholar Heleja in Ankerath will craft weapons and skillgems
Darkness Mode comes with 3 difficulty tiers and will allow to experience Striving for Light from a Roguelike perspective. On Darkness Mode you can as well select if you wish to play normal or hardcore mode. Which totals up to 4 new ways to experience Striving for Light.
The separate leaderboards will allow to compete against other players where everyone starts at the exact same point on each run.
Each run will challenge you to turn the odds to your favour and requiring a new approach to build crafting. This game mode is perfect for players that want to experience the entire content without spending time to unlock everything first.
New Maps
As the vast worlds around Ankerath remained undiscovered for quite some time now, we decided its time to add new destinations that bring new variations into your journeys and summon new challenges for all travelers brave enough to venture into the darkness for Season 2 once more!
The Skypath
High above the skies lays the skypath. Leading to unknown destinations.
This map focuses on airborn creatures like vultures. And featuring the most complex map design we ever did for a random generated map.
Jungle
Overgrown pathways lay beyond this mystic jungle.
We focused on maps that enrich the palette of available destinations to make your runs as varied and dynamic as possible. These new maps will be available from the start without unlock requirements and will be added into the map pool to bring more variation to the early game progress.
Of course these maps will bring new enemies to hunt down, including unique new gatekeeper bosses and new unique boss weapons to farm. These enemies will enrich the existing world events like the aeodra arena or the descent expeditions to bring even more variation into the game.
Expanded Endgame Map Tiers
With Season 2 we are extending our current 20 endgame map tiers up to infinite map tiers. This will ensure the game difficulty will not plateau at a certain point (we thought no one would ever reach, but got proofen wrong :) ). This will ensure a steady challenge increase to put your build to the test.
New Music
The official soundtrack was extended and is now featuring around ~100 minutes of music. We never thought the official soundtrack would grow to this colossus.
Improved Damage Numbers: Damage Numbers now display abbreviations for (1k for 1.000 and 1M for 1.000.000). Furthermore the damage numbers now have darker outlines that make them better readable on various backgrounds.
More Responsive Leaderboards: As we are now having ten thousands of leaderboard entries viewing leaderboards became unresponsive and sometimes even timed out. Therefore the leaderboard archetecture was rebuild and improved to ensure responsive leaderboard interaction.
Faded Maps Rework: Faded maps now support more dynamic map background and accurate color grading to align the mixed map appearance with respective map environment.
Improved Effect Culling System: For improved performance the effect culling system was extended to also support rotational player effects.
Streamlined Tutorial: The game tutorial has been updated and streamlined to make the new trinket system easier to understand.
Improved Audiosystem: Max amount of audio streams have been introduced to prevent audio dropouts
New Achievements: New seasonal challenges and steam achievements have been added.
Coop Mode: Plenty of improvements and bugfixes for the coop mode. Including controller thumbstick attacks and various crashes.
Balancing
Heleja Character Specialisation: Blink does not increase dodge cost (was +2 dodge cost before), blink now limits the dodge regeneration speed to 1 dodge each 3s. This makes blink much more useable during early game.
Active ability cooldown times for legendary trinket have been rebalanced and reduced overall in order to allow for more active use within your builds.
Bugfixes
Fixed Tree of Light exit buttons showing tooltip hints
Fixed pause menu triggering when exiting Tree of Light by hitting ESC action
Fixed bugs causing attack effects not being triggered
Fixed hidden tooltips on selecting difficulty with steamdeck on the create character screen
Fixed a crash when entering a map with instant drop of a loot goblin
Big array of further bugfixes
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Season 2: Era of Darkness - Release Event With the Era of Darkness content update release we will also kick off the Season 2 release event! Duration 24th April -1st May, 7pm CEST Pricepool 1st Place Seasonal Challenges Normal Leaderboard: Design Cosmetic with Devs 1st Place Seaso
Season 2: Era of Darkness - Release Event
With the Era of Darkness content update release we will also kick off the Season 2 release event!
Duration
24th April -1st May, 7pm CEST
Pricepool
1st Place Seasonal Challenges Normal Leaderboard: Design Cosmetic with Devs
1st Place Seasonal Challenges Hardcore Leaderboard: Design Cosmetic with Devs
1st & 2nd Place Leaderboard Normal Tier 1: Supporter Pack DLC
2 Supporter Pack DLCs random along all participating players.
How to Participate
If you want to participate drop a short message in #s2-eod-event-chat on our discord to sign up to be eligible for prices and get the @Season 2 Event discord role.
Supporter Pack DLC
If you would like to support the continuous development of Striving for Light we are also launching a Supporter Pack DLC along the free Era of Darkness content update, including purely non-gameplay affecting cosmetics.
Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will share the exact release time for Season 2 and the supporter pack DLC and share the official trailer and unveil the new Era of Darkness season lead mechanic. In case you have missed Part 5 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2
Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will share the exact release time for Season 2 and the supporter pack DLC and share the official trailer and unveil the new Era of Darkness season lead mechanic.
In case you have missed Part 5 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529874682677036185?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release.
Season 2 Release Date
Season 2: Era of Darkness and the Supporter Pack DLC will both be releasing at:
24th of April 2026 at 7pm CEST
So you can save the date. Of course there will be a leaderboard reset with the start of Season 2.
Season 2 Release Event
We have plans for a release event with the start of Season 2, where we will share further details very soon.
Season Lead Mechanic - Sandfall World Event
Scattered across the forsaken lands of Ankerath you will find relics of time itself. Just waiting to release the sands of time.
Sandfall is a time based world event where enduring within the event area will let you collect sands of time. Acumulate sand and trade this new currency into precious and powerful items. Some with beyond ordinary quality, which will grant you a high chance to receiving multiple duplicates of the same item or weapons and trinkets with higher stat rolls and crafting potential.
But beware the longer you endure the more devastating sandfall can become. You can exit the event area anytime but beware once your character gets defeated all sand vanishes like the time itself.
Cosmetics - Supporter Pack DLC
Era of Darkness Content Update is a free content update! Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
We decided to rather work on a Supporter Pack DLC where we can implement all the fun ideas for purely cosmetic non gameplay affecting cosmetics.
Currently there are already over 28 unique cosmetics. These cosmetics will allow to customise your character appearance and add unique visual twists to Striving for Light.
The Supporter Pack DLC is now available to wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4606350/Striving_for_Light__Supporter_Pack_DLC/
Supporter Pack DLC Pricing:
6.99$ / 7,19€
The Supporter Pack DLC is meant for those that wish to support the future development of Striving for Light.
We want to say thank you to every single one playing and supporting Striving for Light and our vision!
You will be able to access the cosmetics from conveniently everywhere within the stats menu. If you wish to change your appearence mid map you are able to do this with a few clicks not interrupting the gameflow.
Upcoming Announcements
We will share the full patch notes when moving closer to the era of darkness release date 24th of April.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will unveil the Season 2 release date and a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 4 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you
Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will unveil the Season 2 release date and a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness content update for Striving for Light.
In case you have missed Part 4 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/537754717717005670?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release.
Season 2 Release Date
We are currently aiming to release the Era of Darkness Content Update at:
24th of April
So you can already save the date. Of course there will be a leaderboard reset with the start of Season 2.
New Skills
The content update will bring new skills to the extensive roster of build possibilities.
Vulcanic Hit - Melee Skill
Each melee hit unleashes a volcanic eruption spreading a burning AoE field, setting enemies on fire and applying burning condition, which has a 50% chance to replicate up to 2 times.
Barrage - Range Attack Replacer
Your range attacks unleash your projectiles as continuous barrage instead of an instant attack and spread in chaotic movement. You gain +3 additional projectiles.
Opening up even more build variety to take on the new challenges that await you in the Era of Darkness content update.
Cosmetics - Supporter Pack DLC
You might have asked yourself how the cosmetic system will work, and what cosmetics will be available on the upcoming Supporter Pack DLC.
You will be able to access the cosmetics from conveniently everywhere within the stats menu. If you wish to change your appearence mid map you are able to do this with a few clicks not interrupting the gameflow.
There are 5 categories of cosmetics that will come with the suporter pack DLC.
Character Back Attachements (yes including wings)
Character Auras
Footstep Effects
Minipets
Boss Finisher Effects
Ever wished to have a capibara following you into the darkness and some bringt wings, footsteps and aura that spend you some light? Well soon you will.
Ever wanted to rip bosses apart when defeating them. The finisher cosmetics will exactly allow that among other fun effects like making bosses vanish into butterflies.
Or perhabs your desire your druid to be bound to nature even more, by root back attachements, flowery footsteps and and a magic butterfly minipet.
But maybe your character does not look terrifying enough and you desire your appearance to be more ... dark.
Currently there are already over 25 unique cosmetics and the amount keeps growing daily. These cosmetics will allow to customise your character appearance and add unique visual twists to Striving for Light. Furthermore, the Supporter Pack DLC is meant for those that wish to support the future development of Striving for Light.
As already mentioned on the last update post:
We decided that the Era of Darkness Content Update will be a free content update!
Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
We decided to rather work on a Supporter Pack DLC where we can implement all the fun ideas for purely cosmetic non gameplay affecting cosmetics, we have collected while being on this ~5 year development journey.
Upcoming Announcements
We will share the full patch notes when moving closer to the era of darkness release date 24th of April. And there will be an in depth announcement showcasing the full content of the Supporter Pack DLC as soon as its ready in the following weeks. So keep an eye out on these announcements.
To ease the wait and fire your excitement for this massive update here is a Era of Darkness Wallpaper for you to download:
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 3 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here:
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light.
In case you have missed Part 3 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529872149958100158?l=english
Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release.
New Maps
As the vast worlds around Ankerath remained undiscovered for quite some time now, we decided its time to add new destinations that bring new variations into your journeys and summon new challenges for all travelers brave enough to venture into the darkness for Season 2 once more!
We focused on maps that enrich the palette of available destinations to make your runs as varied and dynamic as possible.
These new maps will be available from the start without unlock requirements and will be added into the map pool to bring more variation to the early game progress.
Of course these maps will bring new enemies to hunt down, including unique new gatekeeper bosses and new unique boss weapons to farm. These enemies will enrich the existing world events like the aeodra arena or the descent expeditions to bring even more variation into the game.
Expanded Endgame Map Tiers
With Season 2 we are extending our current 20 endgame map tiers up to infinite map tiers. This will ensure the game difficulty will not plateau at a certain point (we thought no one would ever reach, but got proofen wrong :) ). This will ensure a steady challenge increase to put your build to the test.
You might already have spotted some hints for the upcoming Supporter Pack DLC bringing a vast variety of cosmetic options to fashion up your runs.
We will share more about the upcoming Supporter Pack DLC on the next announcement, along some further exciting news.
We have plenty more major features and content to reveal for the upcoming "Era of Darkness" content update.
As already mentioned on the last update post:
We decided that the Era of Darkness Content Update will be a free content update!
Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
We decided to rather work on a Supporter Pack DLC where we can implement all the fun ideas for purely cosmetic non gameplay affecting cosmetics, we have collected while being on this ~5 year development journey.
To ease the wait and fire your excitement for this massive update here is a Era of Darkness Wallpaper for you to download:
Check back on 20th March. for the next part of the Content Reveal and development update.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 2 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here:
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light.
In case you have missed Part 2 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/498345684383040147?l=english
Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release.
New True Roguelike Mode: Darkness Modes
You might have asked yourself why is the Season 2 Content Update not called something Druid related if a new class is a major part of the Season 2 content Udpate...? Well here it is. We are happy to announce that we are adding a True Roguelike Gamemode to Striving for Light in Season 2.
With Season 2 the Era of Darkness is spreading corruption on the vast lands around Ankerath, and even breaching the city gates.
The Darkness Mode is a new True Roguelike Game-Mode where no meta progression can be taken to your next run. The darkness mode will grant access to the Tree of Darkness, a corrupted version of the Tree of Light that will grant you more powerful powers for your current run.
All skill and weapon unlocks will be available from the start in this game mode and Heleja and Goladir will support your venture into the darkness by supplying you with new weapons and skillgems.
Darkness Mode comes with 3 difficulty tiers and will allow to experience Striving for Light from a Roguelike perspective. On Darkness Mode you can as well select if you wish to play normal or hardcore mode. Which totals up to 4 new ways to experience Striving for Light.
Each run will challenge you to turn the odds to your favour and requiring a new approach to build crafting. You can play the Darkness mode in Normal mode and Hardcore mode and there are separate leaderboards.
In darkness mode your run based decision making is all that counts and this game mode is perfect for players that want to simply experience the entire content without spending time to unlock everything first. The separate leaderboards will allow to compete against other players where everyone starts at the exact same point on each run.
We put a lot of thought into this new game mode to breath fresh air into Striving for Light and give you more options to experience Striving for Light the way you like it. This game mode is entirely optional.
We have plenty more major features and content to reveal for the upcoming "Era of Darkness" content update.
As already mentioned on the last update post:
We decided that the Era of Darkness Content Update will be a free content update!
Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
We decided to rather work on a Supporter Pack DLC where we can implement all the fun ideas for purely cosmetic non gameplay affecting cosmetics, we have collected while being on this ~5 year development journey.
To ease the wait and fire your excitement for this massive update here is a Era of Darkness Wallpaper for you to download:
Check back on 6th March. for the next part of the Content Reveal and development update.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 1 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here:
Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light.
In case you have missed Part 1 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529869613052200406?l=english
Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release.
New Character Class: Druid
We are happy to announce that the Druid character class will be joining the roaster of Striving for Light in the upcoming Season 2.
The Druid is a naturebound class wielding and bending the power of nature. The druid calls ancient spirits and constructs powerful totems to shift the odds in her battles to her favour.
The Druid comes equipped with the starting weapons:
Totemic Staff - A range weapon with 25% chance on attack to create a range totem construct that fires salves of 6 projectiles.
Totemic Maul - A melee weapon with 25% chance on attack to create a melee totem construct that freuqently makes the earth shatter dealing melee damage to all surrounding enemies.
The Druid Specialisation will grant you access to following specialisations, opening up a variety of new build possibilities:
Flicker Dodge: You are shapeshifting into a swarm of fireflies when dodging that trigger 3 melee on hit effect along your dodge path. This limits your dodge regeneration to 1 dodge each 3s.
Call Spirit Wolf: Call a spirit wolf companion on each active trinket trigger that attacks enemies with frozen fangs freezing enemies dealing and scaling with companion damage. Lasting for 20s.
Glowing Storm: Call firefly companions on each active trinket trigger that create burning AoE effects on attack that deal burning condition to enemies. Lasting for 12s.
Fireflies: Call firefly companions on each defeated enemy that create burning AoE effects on attack that deal burning condition to enemies. Lasting for 20s.
Totemic Slam: 25% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a melee totem construct. That frequently errupts earth shockwaves dealing and scaling with your melee damage. 6s construct duration, attacks each 2s.
Totemic Reach: 25% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a range totem construct. That unleashes a fixed bullet salve which damage scales with your projectile damage. Construct lives for 6s attacking each 2s.
Totem Mastery: 50% chance on all melee and range attacks to spawn a range totem construct. That unleashes a fixed bullet salve which damage scales with your projectile damage. Construct lives for 6s attacking each 2s.
We have plenty more major features and content to reveal for the upcoming "Era of Darkness" content update.
As already mentioned on the last update post:
We decided that the Era of Darkness Content Update will be a free content update!
Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
We decided to rather work on a Supporter Pack DLC where we can implement all the fun ideas for purely cosmetic non gameplay affecting cosmetics, we have collected while being on this ~5 year development journey.
To ease the wait and fire your excitement for this massive update here is a Era of Darkness Wallpaper for you to download:
Check back on 20th Feb. for the next part of the Content Reveal and development update.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Welcome back wanderers! It has been a while since our last post regarding the next major content update for Striving for Light. As the content update is nicely shaping up we are happy to share some first details about what to expect from our next major content update. Era of Dark
Welcome back wanderers! It has been a while since our last post regarding the next major content update for Striving for Light. As the content update is nicely shaping up we are happy to share some first details about what to expect from our next major content update.
Era of Darkness - Season 2
The release of the content update "Era of Darkness" will mark the start of Season 2!
As you might already suspected based on our timeframe, the Era of Darkness will be, bigger than intially planed (who might guessed it...?) and will not only bring a new leaderboard season, but also a big array of new content and features for you to experience!
While the season title and artwork might already throw some hints on what awaits you in Season 2, we want to reveal the new content stepwise as things shape up until the final release date.
Free Content Update
We spent some time thinking about the future of Striving for Light and how we want to approach content updates and upcoming Seasons.
First things first. We decided that the Era of Darkness Content Update will be a free content update!
Despite the size being more leaning towards a DLC, we do not want to fracture the playerbase, nor following the meta of setting buying incentives by making new content "stronger". We are just two persons loving ARPGs and Roguelites who want to craft the best gaming experience we can, balancing the game to our vision.
Supporter Pack DLC
There might be some players that would love to further support the development of the game and future content updates, so a separate Supporter Pack DLC with pure cosmetic non-gameplay affecting content seems like a better solution for that, instead of putting content behind of paywalls.
Over the last 4 years we collected plenty of ideas for alternate and additional effects, skins, attachments and pets that we would love to implement to give you some possibilities to change character appearance add or change effects, to keep things fresh, especially if you have been playing the game for many hours.
Now lets dive into the first small fraction of what the "Era of Darkness" content update will bring to you...
Trinket System Overhaul
When we implemented the trinket system back then our goal was to add another active playstyle component to Striving for Light. We also liked the idea of completing sets to get access to powerful legendary powers. The reality however showed that legendary abilities are very seldomly used as the trinket requirements are time consuming to achieve and mostly requires to carry sub optimal trinkets just to enable the legendary ability. Also the trinket requirements are very hard to understand, especially for new players. We realised that the trinket system as is, falls short at our main goal, adding support for more active playstyles.
So we went back to the drawing board and overhauled the entire trinket system to allow more active playstyles, make the system easier to understand and more straight forward to use and even open up new build possibilities.
New Fifth Legendary Trinket Slot
The new trinket system will grant all players a new legendary trinket slot, so you will be able to carry 5 trinkets in total.
So you will be able to carry 4 normal trinkets and 1 legendary trinket. The legendary trinket slot is represented by a taller equipment slot. When picking up a legendary trinket you are only able to equip or exchange trinkets in your legendary trinket slot.
Legendary trinkets will not have any requirements (trinket color requirements) and therefore the active ability can be used directly after equipping and charging up the active ability. So you will be free to assemble your trinket setup to your liking by still use whatever legendary trinket complements your build best!
New Trinkets
What would be a trinket system overhaul without new trinkets to play with? We therefore are adding 8 new trinkets and counting...
These trinkets will not only add entirely new and exciting mechanics but also opening up new playstyles.
What about an exploration map, granting you a bounty quest? When completing this will reward you with a bonus chest to double your loot on map completion.
A battering ram that will crush boss shields.
A toxin coil that triggers a AoE effect consuming a massive amount of enemy DoT stacks to deal the DoT damage instantly.
A talisman granting you a damage boost that can be prolonged by defeating enemies.
But this is not all, we also worked on trinkets with low ability cooldown time that allow calling temporary companions, triggering hard hitting melee and range attacks or applying massive condition damage.
We are sure that these changes to the trinket system will make trinkets even more fun to use and allow for a big array of new build possibilities.
We have plenty more major features and content to reveal for the upcoming "Era of Darkness" content update.
To ease the wait and fire your excitement for this massive update here is a Era of Darkness Wallpaper for you to download:
Check back on 6th Feb. for the next part of the Content Reveal and development update.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Balancing Dark Wanderer: Initial character attackspeed malus was reduced to -10% (was -25% before) Bugfixes Fixed fast successive projectile hits not triggering hit effects. Changes to lyxara awakened endboss attacks to prevent invisible obstacles.
Balancing
Dark Wanderer: Initial character attackspeed malus was reduced to -10% (was -25% before)
Bugfixes
Fixed fast successive projectile hits not triggering hit effects.
Changes to lyxara awakened endboss attacks to prevent invisible obstacles.
Improvements: Improved glow effect of sky gem drops Tower spike attacks now have bigger reach and increased damage Tower spike attack has new trails and glow effects Proper time formating for rift leaderboard entries in m:ss format (v.1.0.4.2c) Bugfixes: Fixing a crash when start
Improvements:
Improved glow effect of sky gem drops
Tower spike attacks now have bigger reach and increased damage
Tower spike attack has new trails and glow effects
Proper time formating for rift leaderboard entries in m:ss format (v.1.0.4.2c)
Bugfixes:
Fixing a crash when starting the descent defense event
Fixed wrong placed collider on tower spike attacks
Fixed ice traps not shooting after being offscreen (v.1.0.4.2c)
Fixed tower projectiles not updating directly after upgrades (v.1.0.4.2c2)
Update 1.0.4.2 brings a redesign to the descent defense, dynamic damage number scaling system, a new tower spike attack, improved item drop particle effects for improved performance and more. Major Features and Improvements Improved Descent Defense Tower Upgrade System: The tower
Update 1.0.4.2 brings a redesign to the descent defense, dynamic damage number scaling system, a new tower spike attack, improved item drop particle effects for improved performance and more.
Major Features and Improvements
Improved Descent Defense Tower Upgrade System: The tower defense upgrade system now has limits on how often additional projectiles and effects can be upgraded. After the max amount of upgrades are reached you will continue to be able to increase the damage for these attacks. This ensures and prevents from stacking so many effects in the late game that performance issue occur.
New Tower Spike Attack: The tower spike attack was entirely redesigned and now shoots big swirling flail spikes.
Damage Number Improvements: Damage numbers now dynamically adapts to your damage output to not display all numbers as high threshold numbers. The crit icon was redesigned for a more condensed less cluttered look.
Improved Item Drop Particle Effects: Item drop particle effects from items that could drop in big amounts like skygems and hearts have received improved particle effects that should prevent performance issues when a lot of them drop nearby.
Rift Improvements: The rift level selection now automatically scrolls to your current max rift level. Time format for rift time is now mm:ss for increased readability.
Stone Statue Enemies have more accurate colliders for their attacks
Bugfixes:
Fixed stone statue enemies after death having active attack hitboxes during ragdoll animation
Fixes to echo weapon stats
Fixed tower spike attack damage not being applied properly
Rift leaderboard entires now do properly update the required time for the highest rift level
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Thanks for your reports on some bugs that sneaked into the latest tech upgrades from season 2 that we rolled in to bring immense performance improvements to Striving for Light. Bugfixes: Fixed cyclic might not dealing any damage to enemies (v.1.0.4.1c) Fixed not unlocking achieve
Thanks for your reports on some bugs that sneaked into the latest tech upgrades from season 2 that we rolled in to bring immense performance improvements to Striving for Light.
Bugfixes:
Fixed cyclic might not dealing any damage to enemies (v.1.0.4.1c)
Fixed not unlocking achievements for sun orb and sunfire sceptre (v.1.0.4.1b-c)
Fixed not unlocking achievements for skillgem hoarder II & III (v.1.0.4.1b)
If you encounter any bugs or issues reporting them directly to us helps fixing them asap.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Hello Wanderers, with update 1.0.4.1 we are continuing to roll in new tech from the upcoming Season 2 content update that we feel can't wait until its release! You might have noticed that we rolled back 1.0.4.0 the last few days as there was one bug occuring that has lead to some
Hello Wanderers, with update 1.0.4.1 we are continuing to roll in new tech from the upcoming Season 2 content update that we feel can't wait until its release!
You might have noticed that we rolled back 1.0.4.0 the last few days as there was one bug occuring that has lead to some projetile on hit effects to not trigger properly. Update 1.0.4.1 fixes this issue and brings some further fundamental improvements to the game:
Major Features
Grid Based Culling System: Our player effect culling system that had visually hidden player AoE effects that overlapped to keep the screen readable and to improve performance got completely rewritten and upgraded. Culling now uses a grid based system to speed it up immensly.
Effect Merging System: A new player area effect merging system was implemented that now allows for areas when spawned on top of each other to transfer their their damage and applied conditions to the already present area below, instead of spawning duplicated effects. Providing drastic performance improvements.
Further improvements
Convert items to light darokin dialog has been renamed to "Convert items in city to light" to clarify what this option does.
Bugfixes:
Fixed a bug in 1.0.4.0 update that has lead to some projectile on hit effects not being triggered
Lyxara voice is now routed to voice channel instead of SFX
Fixed unlocked achievements not being saved in rare cases
Fixed not unlocking achievements for sun orb and sunfire sceptre (v.1.0.4.1b)
Fixed not unlocking achievements for skillgem hoarder II & III (v.1.0.4.1b)
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
Update 1.0.4.0b next to additional performance improvements to the Descent Defense tower attacks brings further fixes and improvements. Thanks for all your support, we deeply appreciate it! Major Features: Performance improvements for Descent Defense Tower Projectiles and Attacks
Update 1.0.4.0b next to additional performance improvements to the Descent Defense tower attacks brings further fixes and improvements.
Thanks for all your support, we deeply appreciate it!
Major Features:
Performance improvements for Descent Defense Tower Projectiles and Attacks
Bugfixes:
Fixed focus regain in Descent Defense world event continues the game when tower upgrade UI is still open
Fixed Riftbreaker V achievement not being able to be unlocked
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
