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Usurper Reborn 1.1.11 Team HQ upgrades reach everything they name: your hits (not damage-over-time ticks), the enemy hits you take (not poison or disease ticks), every healing potion and every combat XP award. Joining or leaving a team takes effect at once. Team rankings count re
Usurper Reborn 1.1.10 Mael'Keth is tuned so a level-30s party can win: 22,000 HP and 265 Strength. A level-32 party wins a little under half its fights. The five floors before every Old God grow tougher, up to +25% HP and damage on the floor before the god. A god's War Cry and si
Usurper Reborn 1.1.9 Two player reports, fixed: the feet slot offered weapons instead of boots, and gear sets ignored most of the gear people were actually wearing. Choosing the feet slot to equip from the backpack now lists your boots. It listed your weapons. Armor, rings and we
Usurper Reborn 1.1.7 A repair release for the economy. A bug closed back in v0.65.3 left a few items in the world with stats and prices in the hundreds of millions, and it turned out the ways those were made were not the only ways left open. This release puts limits on what an it
Usurper Reborn 1.1.5 - Hold the Line Last release made the world boss show up on time, made it killable, and made it pay. This one makes fighting it a game. Before, the boss's turn was a die roll: sixty percent of the time some ability, picked at random, with nothing to do about
Usurper Reborn 1.1.3 - Keep Them Alive Someone told me their companion took nine of ten hits in a fight. That is the targeting doing what it is meant to (a fighter beside an Assassin draws the attacks), but it showed me that allies had no way to look after themselves once their p
Usurper Reborn 1.1.2 - The Open Issues After the bug pass I had a short list of things that needed a patch, plus the oldest requests on the GitHub tracker. Seven of the eight are in. The eighth, the Player District, is big enough to be its own release. It is designed and will com
Usurper Reborn 1.1.1 - A Bug Pass Regalia added systems. This one fixes things. I checked 5 main codebase areas. About seventy problems came back, and each one was checked against the source before it was fixed. Nothing new to learn here. Some things you were used to living with
Usurper Reborn 1.1 "Regalia" - Gear Sets and a Black Market Worth Visiting Coronation put you on the throne. Regalia is about what you wear once you are there. This is the first release since 1.0 that adds systems instead of fixing them, and it is aimed squarely at the stretch fr
Usurper Reborn 1.0.6 - Typing Fix One fix, and it is the one I have been chasing since the online server opened. When a chat message, a tell, or a world event landed while you were in the middle of typing, it would wipe out what you had typed. Every time I fixed it for one way of
Usurper Reborn 1.0.5 - Polish I walked through the whole game after 1.0.4 looking for things that get in the way of new players. This release is the result. Nothing new to learn. Update and play. The game was telling you the wrong keys Five hints pointed at keys that do something
Usurper Reborn 1.0.4 - Bug Fixes Six fixes for bugs you reported, plus one change to how the world names its people. Nothing new to learn. Update and play. Party XP split no longer resets If you set your party to share XP evenly and later found your character quietly taking all o
- New Persistent Auto-Map in the Dungeon (change in settings or press 'P' from the dungeon map to display. - Fixed a bug with team mates not showing up on eachother's teams. - Fixed a bug where character HP could go negative. - Fixed auto-combat - Some combat tweaks
The previous security hardening update broke SSH authentication for some Steam and Desktop users when authenticating to the online server. This has been fixed.
Usurper Reborn 1.0 "Coronation" The Beta label comes off. Nothing in this release is a new subsystem. Version 1.0 is what the last year of work was building toward: a world that runs whether or not you are watching, a progression curve that no longer punishes the players it was m
Update 0.65.7 - Painted Faces and Player Choice This update brings AI-painted character portraits to the online realm, puts your difficulty setting on screen and under your control, overhauls the Online Play client's color rendering, and ships a stack of fixes from a full pre-rel
v0.65.6 Patch Notes: Renewable Lives, Death's Door, and Smarter NPCs Two major passes in one release. The headline: we did a full end-to-end analysis of the online player experience, from live combat telemetry down to the math of the resurrection economy, and fixed what it found.
v0.65.5 - Countdown The road to 1.0 continues. We just ran a full audit of every system in the game ahead of leaving Beta, and this release fixes everything serious it found. No new content this time: this is a correctness and stability release, and some of these fixes matter a l
v0.65.4 - Countdown A player-experience update focused on the early game and on making character progression something you can actually see coming. Plus the biggest companion-writing addition in a long while: every companion now has a story that starts early and builds the whole
Usurper Reborn v0.65.3 - "Countdown" A big maintenance and balance update on the road to 1.0: two Power Strike fixes, a high-severity economy exploit closed, a data-driven early-game survivability pass, and a stack of quality-of-life improvements pulled straight from player feedb