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Son of a Witch
- Released
- May 16, 2018
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New servers
Version 6.0.0. is live with new servers in China and USA. The servers use different connection method now, so it should all work much faster. The previous US server had bandwidth problems and China server was shut down for a while. The Hong Kong server is going to be removed as n
Original postVersion 6.0.0. is live with new servers in China and USA.
The servers use different connection method now, so it should all work much faster. The previous US server had bandwidth problems and China server was shut down for a while.
The Hong Kong server is going to be removed as no longer necessary.
Please update to 6.0.0. to avoid having connection problems.
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Halloween mode
This version brings a couple of bug fixes and new Halloween mode which will unlock on October 28. If you want to try it out earlier, check out the Discord . Here are the changes: fixed a bug where icon and text for freezing would show up on the screen when the Rogue uses Glacier
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This version brings a couple of bug fixes and new Halloween mode which will unlock on October 28. If you want to try it out earlier, check out the Discord. Here are the changes:
- fixed a bug where icon and text for freezing would show up on the screen when the Rogue uses Glacier special to disguise
- added a popup text when a player gets poisoned
- the challenge room with 4 baby dragons and 4 bushidos no longer shows up in RPG mode
- internal source code cleanup and improvements
- special mod for Halloween. It will be active every year from October 28 until November 1st. There's a secret a way to activate it outside of these dates as well. Check out the Discord or Reddit for details.
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Minor bug fixes and Spanish translation update
Version 5.35 is up: - updated Spanish translation - fixed English text in a couple of places - fixed bug that text in some languages wouldn't use the proper plural form (Spanish, Polish, German, etc.) - fixed overdraw bug on wide screens. If you have a wide screen or ultra wide s
Original postVersion 5.35 is up:
- updated Spanish translation
- fixed English text in a couple of places
- fixed bug that text in some languages wouldn't use the proper plural form (Spanish, Polish, German, etc.)
- fixed overdraw bug on wide screens. If you have a wide screen or ultra wide screen and don't like the stretched graphics, go to Settings, Graphics, Experimental Features and change the "Pixel Perfect" setting to "No". - GamingOnLinux
Fun hack and slash dungeon crawler Son of a Witch gets a massive free expansion
With a price increase to come mid-March, the amusing action-roguelite Son of a Witch from Bigosaur has a huge content expansion out now with the Demon Hunter update. Read the full article here:
Original postWith a price increase to come mid-March, the amusing action-roguelite Son of a Witch from Bigosaur has a huge content expansion out now with the Demon Hunter update.
Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/03/fun-hack-and-slash-dungeon-crawler-son-of-a-witch-gets-a-massive-free-expansion
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The Demon Hunter update is live!
This MEGA update is a free upgrade to the base Son of a Witch game. The update will is free for existing players, but the game price is likely to go up mid-March, so grab it while it's hot. This update is the biggest update to the game so far. It contains new hero, level, enemies
Original postThis MEGA update is a free upgrade to the base Son of a Witch game. The update will is free for existing players, but the game price is likely to go up mid-March, so grab it while it's hot.
This update is the biggest update to the game so far. It contains new hero, level, enemies, bosses, weapons, items, pets, quests and challenges, potions, magic scrolls, achievements. Here's the full list of new features, changes to existing features and bug fixes:
1. Heroes
- new hero: Lich. Undead, uses health energy to cast spells instead of mana. Can heal with mana gaining items or pets.
- Rogue Hero starts with pickpocket and speed buff effect
- Rogue hero magic key costs 1 mana, and can unlock boss room doors from the outside
2. Levels:
- new level Hell with new music, thrist effect and 26 new room layouts
- special room: minotaur labyrinth, gives access to the Lich hero
- special room: pentagram, needs donation of mana, health rune, gold and king scepter to enter hell
- special room: forest in ice level where you play hide and seek with Amanda
- special room: prison surgeon where you can donate health for gold
- special room: knife avoiding twins challenge in the desert
- special room: treasure challenge with multiple bushidos in the desert
- special room: fishing with bow and arrows in hell
- new object: Crystal Sphere - protects demonic enemies and blocks magic scrolls until destroyed
- new object: Lava Pit - petrifies players standing over it when it spits lava
- new object: Minotaur Statue - teleport to the start of the level
- new object: Bag Statue - players can now transfer gold coins amongst each other
- hell shops have new type of protection and require mana to buy items
- new treasure room in the catacombs and the desert
- required distance for the second jump in the Long Jump quest reduced to 80
- in hard mode the evil princess has become the queen and has strong guard in the throne room
3. Bosses:
- New boss: Demon Legion - big demons spawning unless you kill them all once
- New boss: Matilda - a huge witch that creates traps for players
- New boss. Ghost of Rhadamanthus - shoots many orbs and buffs his minions with random effects
- New boss: Demon Lord - fight in active volcano arena with lava petrifying players
- Ice dragon sometimes shows up on the battlements
- Elephant boss knocks down units when walking across the screen
4. Enemies:
- New: Imp - standard melee warrior, immune to fire and petrification
- New: Familiar - infernal mage can block your mana usage
- New: Fiend - quick with poisoned swordes and abilit to teleport behind your back
- New: Succubuss - shoots orbs and cheers at players with a beer, reversing their controls
- Newy: Efreet - flies around and spits very flammable fireballs
- enemies in the old catacombs no longer have huge HP in hard mode
- Bandits in the dungeon sometimes carry flaming swords
5. Weapons
- new weapon: Spellbinder - shoot orbs and block enemy mana usage
- new weapon: Magic Crossbow - shoots arrows and creates gold arrows using mana
- new weapon: Blacksmith's Hammer - throw at enemies and smelt weapons into shields
- new weapon: Overlord Staff - give random positive effects to self and allies
- new weapon: Blade of Light - triple damage vs undead and demons
- new weapon: Hypnosis Staff - turn non-boss enemies against each other
- new weapon: Brutus Gladius - a sword with high backstab damage
- Increased combo timer for the Barbarian Axe to 3 seconds
- Increased base damage for Ice Bow to 50
6. Items
- new item: Homing orbs - chance for magic orbs to auto-target enemies
- mew item: Magic Ice Bottle - use mana to create ice arrows
- new item: Four-leaf Clover - increased double damage chance
- new item: Holy Grail - Speed UP, Health UP, Magic/melee/archery UP
- new item: Faustian Ring - increase melee/magic/archery for 20 health
- new item: Minotaur Figurine - teleport to avoid death
- new item: Honey Jar - temporary speed up when you get hit
- new item: Stone Cross - double damage vs demons and undead
- new item: Hourglass - speed down, melee/archery/magic increase
- new item: Chili Pepper - enemies burn when they hit you
- new item: Wizard's Amulet - get 1 extra mana when entering new rooms
- new item: Claw Hammer - get coins when barrels break
- new item: Cooper's Ring - get mana when barrels break
- new item: Phylira's Necklace - break barrels to get armor points
- new item: wine - reduced thirst effect
- new item: Lich Ring - full heal after boss fight
- new item: Scales of Balance - increased damage when hungry, thristy or poisoned
- new item: pair of heart-shaped earrings - double healing effects
- reduced mana cost for Rogue's Magic Keyring to 1 so you can sneak around the levels freely
- Silver coin teleport out of old catacombs is now allowed
- Alchemist's Visor now protects from Santa's exploding presents as well
7. Potions
- New potion: Blood is Magic - lose all HP, get 3 mana
- New potion: Blood donor - turns current HP into gold
- New potion: Ironclad - increased damage scaling with armor
- Extravagance spends coins only when you enter new rooms
- Pickpocket effect now gives coins on room entry
- Bugfix: Dragonfire potion would remove arrow damage multiplying upgrades
8. Magic Scrolls
- New scroll: Summon Demon - all enemies attack it at once
- New scroll: Mark of the Beast - everyone loses 666 HP
- New scroll: Hypnotize Minions - enemies attack each other
- Added more units and bosses to Gamble scroll rotation.
- Duplicating weapons now clones damage, range, arrow speed upgrades as well.
9. Pets:
- New pet: Koala - a free item in every shop
- New pet: Panda - fetches gold coins and food
- New pet: Skunk - sets enemies on fire
- New pet: Sabertooth Tiger - gives +1 shield after every battle
- New pet: Squid - gives random positive effect after every battle
- Whale pet gives you a Kindling upgrade once a campfire stops burning
- Penguin pet no longer tries to attack enemies who have freeze immunity
- Snake pet no longer attacks enemies who have poison immunity
10. Other new features:
- new main menu graphics and music
- 27 new achievements
- You can now hold the drop button to drop the whole stack of items (arrows, keys, etc.)
- tracking win/lose streak for regular game and hard mode.
- allow entering any text as level generator seed (it gets converted into valid seed)
- now you can drop gold to double it with a scroll, or heal via gold diet
- Tar of Akhal picture shown in the final mom dialogue
- show the exact speed increase over speed buff status icon
- added option to reset all controllers to default settings
- allow binding Stomp attack to a separate button
- optional setting to shoot orbs using the regular attack button
11. Fixes:
- Allowed using ranged weapons for the Goliath achievement
- fixed Paladin to do double damage to undead with ranged weapons as well
- fixed a bug where ranged enemies would try to hit the Turtle pet endlessly
- fixed a bug when some monsters would get stuck attacking Turtle pet forever
- fixed a bug where the dialogue would pop up without key/button to continue the talk.
- fixed a bug where Undead Archer was unable to animate other undead sometimes
- fixed a bug with raised undead Archers always shooting arrows to the left
- prevent players getting stuck when hedgehog pet blocks the rolling spiked balls
- Vampire Slayer NPC now says Thank you when her quest is done
- achievement animations keeps working if you go from game into the main menu
- prevent raising petrified undead
- remove Confusion and Peace effect when undead unit dies
- added sound effect when some action fails (no money to buy stuff, etc.)
- imprved camera controls and thus enabled Baseball Quest for players with screens below 1680x900 pixels
- imprved camera controls and thus enabled Hornet Quest for players with 720p screens
- Message text for some actions would be hidden behind player status effects. Moved them above when status effects icon is visible.
- added statue players can use to teleport if they get stuck with dead player in co-op (gold shop, alchemist quest, treasure rooms, etc.)
- The final portal now shows that hell level is beyond instead of ice level
- allow re-binding strong and special attack to the same button
- fixed problem with minimizing game window on macOS in fullscreen mode
Steam version (PC,Mac,Linux) specific changes:
- added Steam leaderboard for the Endless arena
- you can now see the daily challenge rankings for friends only
- when some actions failed for a network guest, the reason would show on network host screen instead
- fixed netcode bug where some actions would fail without any notice text
- just minimize instead of closing the game when opening game's Steam page
- prevent mouse clicks when way outside of menu items in the main menu
- press F1 twice to see the progress for achievement counters
Have fun playing!
- Developer post
关于国区服务器连接失败的小伙伴看这里啦！
Notice: the following information about server connection is only relevant to players who live in China, thus the text is in Chinese. If you are outside of China, please disregard this post. Thanks. 数月前，通过开发者与译者的努力，我们租用了一台国内阿里云轻量应用服务器，从此游戏内添加了中国服务器。不得不说是一个挺令人高兴的事，但经过这段时间玩家在群内给我的反
Original postNotice: the following information about server connection is only relevant to players who live in China, thus the text is in Chinese. If you are outside of China, please disregard this post. Thanks.
数月前，通过开发者与译者的努力，我们租用了一台国内阿里云轻量应用服务器，从此游戏内添加了中国服务器。不得不说是一个挺令人高兴的事，但经过这段时间玩家在群内给我的反馈，还是有很多小伙伴连不上服务器，或是不能进入彼此的房间。我们尝试了很多办法，但是收效甚微，猜测应该是不同运营商之间的问题。最后发现还是用其乐论坛 的羽翼城大佬开发的一款P2P游戏联机工具解决了这个问题。
具体请看大佬博客
注意事项：下载后需解压，解压密码为dogfight360
运行tap-windows-9.9.2_3.exe安装虚拟网卡,一路next即可,驱动提示记得选安装
运行UsbEAm_LAN_Party_V1.0.exe，选择连接
本游戏是采用UDP端口的，所以建议使用UDP模式
联机时，需要所有的小伙伴一起开启才有效果，某一方单独开启是没有用的哦
如果发现其他问题，欢迎在讨论区或者这个公告下方留言
- Developer post
New server for Chinese players
Version 4.2.3 is online: - changed the online server code to allow adding/removing servers without having to rebuild both the server and client code. Because of this, everyone has to upgrade to a new protocol to be able to play online. - added a new server in China East region fo
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Version 4.2.3 is online:
- changed the online server code to allow adding/removing servers without having to rebuild both the server and client code. Because of this, everyone has to upgrade to a new protocol to be able to play online.
- added a new server in China East region for players who had problems connecting to Honk Kong server. Depending on usage, the Hong Kong server might get removed in the futureMake sure you update to 4.2.3 or higher if you want to play online games.
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Turkish translation is available
Version 4.2.2. is online: - Added Turkish translation.
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Version 4.2.2. is online:
- Added Turkish translation.
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German translation is available
Version 4.2.1 is online: Full German translation . Unlike most other languages, this was done by a professional translator who isn't a regular player of the game. In case you notice that some of the translation is missing a point, or have a suggestion for improvements, please com
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Version 4.2.1 is online:
- Full German translation. Unlike most other languages, this was done by a professional translator who isn't a regular player of the game. In case you notice that some of the translation is missing a point, or have a suggestion for improvements, please comment below or contact me at [email protected]
- Also updated a bunch of other translations
- New feature: when you select the option to enter a custom seed, the value defaults to the seed of the last game you played. Note that it's meant for quick replay of the same seed without having to remember to write it down, so it doesn't work after the game is restarted.
- Bugfix: after getting a bubblegum and shooting at least 2 orbs, some of the orbs would get destroyed instead of bouncing against walls and obstacles. This is now fixed
This is a warmup. One more big update is planned later this year with demon enemies, hell level that requires doing something special to unlock, new items, weapons, pets, etc.
Have fun playing!
- Developer post
New US server
In order to provide better online experience for players on the West Coast of USA, the New York server is replaced with a new server in Texas, USA. Make sure you update the game to version 4.1.9 or newer to be able to access it. The old New York server will go offline in a couple
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In order to provide better online experience for players on the West Coast of USA, the New York server is replaced with a new server in Texas, USA.
Make sure you update the game to version 4.1.9 or newer to be able to access it.
The old New York server will go offline in a couple of days.
Have fun playing!
- Developer post
64bit Linux support and more
Version 4.1.7 is live: 64 Linux build - you can also select 32bit at launch if you need it Support for XBox compatible pdp joysticks Money is Power potion removed from the Endless Arena pool Yeti and Golem familiars no longer knock down the Dragon Master When Fireball Staff magic
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Version 4.1.7 is live:
- 64 Linux build - you can also select 32bit at launch if you need it
- Support for XBox compatible pdp joysticks
- Money is Power potion removed from the Endless Arena pool
- Yeti and Golem familiars no longer knock down the Dragon Master
- When Fireball Staff magic is used, all players get fire immunity regardless of the room they're in
- Fixed enemy HP bug on higher levels of Endless Arena
- Fixed netcode bugs when Baby Dragon mounts die
- Fixed rare bug where music would play over other music
- Updated some of the translations
- Turkish and Korean translations are half-done. I added those to the menu. If you speak those languages, please consider chipping in with some translation so that we can get it to 100%. You can access the translation interface from the Settings menu inside the game.
Have fun playing!
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Version 4.1.0 is live
A new version is up on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Here's a list of changes since the Paladin/Alchemist update: - heroes get HP increase when they die in RPG mode. Looking at players playing on Twitch, I discovered that players do have enough damage in RPG mode, but being able to
Original postA new version is up on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Here's a list of changes since the Paladin/Alchemist update:
- heroes get HP increase when they die in RPG mode. Looking at players playing on Twitch, I discovered that players do have enough damage in RPG mode, but being able to survive long enough posed a challenge. So this change balances that out.
- fixed Rogue sneak attack for mana based melee weapons (Earthquake staff, King's Scepter)
- Vampire Slayer NPC, Alchemist's Golem, Skeleton Ranger NPC and Baby Yeti Familiar would try to attack enemies in a different room if you escaped a room before the battle is over, for example by using a bomb, teleport scroll, silver coin or escape scroll. This is now fixed and they retarget to enemies in the current room where the leading hero is.
- concealed characters (Rogue and heroes using Rogue Sword) are now visible during cut-scenes
- Alchemist can summon Golem to fight other players in PvP game
- Earthquake staff magic knocks down other players in PvP game
- updated French and Russian translation
- Developer post
Free DLC-sized update: RPG Mode, Paladin, Alchemist and more...
New features: new RPG game mode where you keep all gear and restart the current level when you die new Endless Arena mode where you fight waves of enemies new hero: Paladin, who has divine shield and does double damage to undead new hero: Alchemist, who has a Golem companion, and
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New features:
- new RPG game mode where you keep all gear and restart the current level when you die
- new Endless Arena mode where you fight waves of enemies
- new hero: Paladin, who has divine shield and does double damage to undead
- new hero: Alchemist, who has a Golem companion, and prepares potions
- 8 pets with new effects (details below)
- 3 new random potion effects (details below)
- 6 new special effect items (details below)
- 10 new weapons (details below)
- 6 new achievements
- 2 new allied troop summons: Baby Yeti, Stone Golem
- added a new blocked challenge room in the forest
- added a new challenge room with baby dragons
- added a new challenge room in the ice level (it’s a surprise)
- added a quest room in the ice level to unlock the Alchemist hero
New pets:
- Crocodile - creates slime puddles that slow down enemies
- Mouse - drastically increases your poison damage
- Ladybug - buzzes around one enemy giving it a confusion effect
- Monkey - disables floor traps
- Whale - extinguished campfires
- Cow - increases rage attack damage
- Bee - gives you max rage when you get hit
- Cat - saves you from sudden death blows: a hit that would kill you when you have more than 1HP just lowers your HP to one.
New potion effects:
- Cold blood - enemies get frozen when they hit you
- Veteran Elixir - every potion you drink increases you melee skill
- Astral Projection - separates your soul and body so you can walk through obstacles as a ghost. The effect lasts for a short time and when it expires you are returned to the body. While in ghost form you can still attack and take damage. The only difference is ability to walk through walls, rocks, trees, etc.
New items:
- Ghost orb - lowers your damage but you can shoot through obstacles. It applies to orbs, arrows and thrown weapons
- Critic’s Shield - get 100% critical hit chance until the end of battle if you get hit (does not stack)
- Paladin Shield - immunity to muscle spasmsl
- Alchemist’s Visor - immunity to explosions
- Halo - removes all negative effects and increases co-op death timer in hard mode
- Ancient Voodoo Doll - mark all enemies in the room (4 mana cost)
New weapons:
- General Sword - rage attack gives 100% critical chance to all allies until the end of battle
- Cripling Katana - hits slow down enemies
- Executioner’s Sword - adds 300 damage to stomp and smash attacks. For melee heroes, every time the enemies are on the ground the smash attack would be used (usually it's only done for the last enemy on the screen)
- Dark Slayer - triple damage vs bosses
- Splitting Axe - rage attack halves enemy's HP
- Paladin Sword - rage buff gives you Divine Shield - a short term invulnerability to hits and 30% damage increase. Does not protect feet, so you can get hurt by floor spikes and burned by walking on campfires
- Alchemist Sword - rage attack summons and heals the Golem companion. Only one Golem per hero is allowed at a time. Only usable by Alchemist class.
- King Cobra Staff - poison weapons of all allies
- Snow Tiger’s Paw - summon a baby yeti familiar for 4 mana. One yeti per hero allowed at a time
- Steady Shot Bow - slower arrow shooting time (like archers use to work before) but increased damage (95 bow damage)
General improvements and gameplay balancing:
- allowed summoning mercenaries into boss fights (except the final boss)
- removed slowdown effect from Heavy Boots
- Retort no longer creates mana potions
- only one Retort shows for sale in shops
- removed poison immunity for the final boss
- significantly increased Poison Cloud spell damage
- Poison Cloud effect scales with enemy size
- improved AI for Snail, Ram and Snake pets
- using teleport staff twice returns you to the starting point
- fixed runestone drops in various barbarian challenges
Bugfixes:
- Ethereal bow now shoots through barrels and boxes
- Dog pet doesn’t take mercenary’s beer in the tavern
- Foundry doesn’t melt mercenary’s beer anynore
- Thief and Ringleader don’t jump on allies when confused
- fixed bug with item drops when Yeti Elder and Earth Golem roll
- fixed network bug for Racoon pet bombs
- fixed network bug when pets would jump too much
- fixed drawing position when Barbarian is mounted
- fixed rare sound effect bug with Yeti babies
- fixed position for some of the teleportation animations
- fixed text showing last level seed instead of control hint after player dies
- fixed rare crash when closing game from the main menu
- fixed occasional crash on MacOSX
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Version 3.7.9 is live
The new version brings mostly some balancing and game difficulty tweaks. Most significant is that bosses are now guaranteed to drop runestones. Looking at the complaints from players, the main issue was being able to get more powerful as you progress through levels. So far, this
Original postThe new version brings mostly some balancing and game difficulty tweaks. Most significant is that bosses are now guaranteed to drop runestones. Looking at the complaints from players, the main issue was being able to get more powerful as you progress through levels. So far, this has mostly been done by breaking rocks to get runestones, but it seems that many players don't like the randomness this brings, esp. if you don't get the Squirrel pet nor the Miner Ring. Experienced players would simply break random rocks to try to get it, but you might be hours and hours in the game before you discover this mechanics.
The yellow runestone was considered mostly useless by many players. The thing it that it was useful for non-archer characters who start with low archery range, which meant it was used for a secondary weapon and not much useful in most of the runs. I have changed it to increase the arrow speed instead. The upgrade is still tied to a bow, and you can see the exact upgrade effect when you pause the game if the bow is your main weapon. BTW, since the arrow speed is increased it also increases the range.
Features:
- bosses always drop at least one weapon damage upgrade
- yellow runestones upgrade initial arrow flying speed for bows in regular game
- heroes who start with a bomb, now start with two bombs in the regular game
- Archer and Rogue characters are always unlocked in Casual/Party mode
- Rogues start the game with the dagger in Casual/Party and PvP modes
- Updated Polish and Serbian translationsUpdate 3.8.0:
- fixed boss drops: always drop one runestone, 50% chance to drop two
- to balance out, reduced runestone drops inside rocks (by 1 per level, so if level would usually have 5 runestones inside rocks, it now has 4)
- fixed occasional crash that would happen when a player wins an achievementThis is just a warmup for 2019. Many more updates to come this year.
Have fun playing!
- Developer post
New servers in Hong Kong and New York are online
In the past, all online games used to go through a server in Germany. This sometimes created latency problems for players outside of Europe. To solve this problem I got two additional servers, one for players in Asia, located in Hong Kong and another for players in the US, locate
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In the past, all online games used to go through a server in Germany. This sometimes created latency problems for players outside of Europe. To solve this problem I got two additional servers, one for players in Asia, located in Hong Kong and another for players in the US, located in New York.
You need to use version 3.7.7 of the game or above to use these new servers. The game host selects which one to use and guests will automatically get routed.
If you had connectivity issues before please try it out and leave a comment whether it's fixed now. Maintaining 3 different servers takes some effort, so I want to make sure it's worth it.
Have fun playing!
Update (Dec 6th). Version 3.7.8 is online:
- fixed bug with lightning based weapons being able to go through metal shields even when you did non-lightning attack
- fixed bug when item pickup info would show for dead players
- the old EU server for online games is being shut down by the end of this week. Make sure you update to version 3.7.8. if you want to play online games!
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Nintendo Switch version for EU/Australia region is on eShop
This is the same version as the one on Steam (but without online features like multiplayer and daily challenge) and the following languages are supported: English, French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian. Update for the Switch version for the North American region is coming
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This is the same version as the one on Steam (but without online features like multiplayer and daily challenge) and the following languages are supported: English, French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian.
Update for the Switch version for the North American region is coming on December 22nd.
- Developer post
Find online co-op games
If you're looking to team up with other players to play some online co-op, or you just want to chat about the game, you can join the discord channel here to exchange game numbers and passwords: Have fun playing!
Original postIf you're looking to team up with other players to play some online co-op, or you just want to chat about the game, you can join the discord channel here to exchange game numbers and passwords:
https://discord.gg/hVcbJjk
Have fun playing!
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Big update: New hero class and much more...
Since the Nintendo Switch port launched, I have been working hard to bring new features to the game. Version 3.7.3 is online: - New hero class: Rogue. Special ability is to use the sneak attack as the special attack with any melee weapon. You can still use the weapon's regular ra
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Since the Nintendo Switch port launched, I have been working hard to bring new features to the game.
Version 3.7.3 is online:
- New hero class: Rogue. Special ability is to use the sneak attack as the special attack with any melee weapon. You can still use the weapon's regular rage attack if you use it in the off-hand slot. He also has a special item that can unlock any door (except boss room doors), so you can unlock treasure rooms and escape tough battles
- New potion: Vampire blood (get HP from kills. Multiple potions stack)
- New potion: Pickpocket (earn extra gold until you get hit. Stacks)
- New potion: Confidence (deal extra damage when full HP. Stacks)
- Added a new combat item: Sticky bombs. You can plant these as traps. When an enemy walks into one, it activates.
- Added a new pet: Racoon, who randomly drops sticky bombs across the room
- Added a new special room in the castle: the Gallery Room. This room is filled with enemy portraits and you can pick your favorite enemy to do double damage to them.
- Added a bunch of new achievementsNew NPCs:
- Join the Vampire Slayer NPC in the catacombs and help her kill a vampiress or the vampire boss for reward
- Dwarfs now sell stuff in the ice level
- Dwarven Blacksmith shows up sometimes and gives you ability to smelt weapons into runestones which are used to upgrade other weapons
- Mercenary NPC in the castle tavern gives you an item which can be used to hire mercenaries for fixed amount of gold. DON'T TOUCH HIS BEER!
- A Redhead Warrior NPC might challenge you for a duel on the battlementsTweaks and improvements:
- Redhead Warriors in the desert now buff their swords before doing the petrify attack
- Vampire Sword now gives HP while hitting enemies (instead of on-kill)
- Disabled invulnerability frames for revival in dungeon shops
- Reviving in regular game now gives 41HP instead of 61HP
- Celestial Hammer rage attack now strikes all enemies in the room
- Darkness, Confidence, Money is Power, Mega Boost effects scale the skill percentage instead of adding to it. For example, if you have 50% melee and 100% darkness, it results in 100% melee skill (not 150%).
- fixed bug when the remote player could join the game twice (i.e. two heroes would show up) if (s)he pressed the button twice too quickly
- fixed bug then Steam library is installed in a path with non-ASCII characters
- minor fixes and tweaks to UI
- updated some of the translations
- dialogue in the intro story now supports translationsHave fun playing!
- Developer post
Nintendo Switch version is on eShop
The game is finally ported to Nintendo Switch and ready for release. Porting the game for another platform was beneficial to Steam version as well, because many bugs were detected and fixed and I also refactored some code and added various performance improvements. Also, some new
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The game is finally ported to Nintendo Switch and ready for release. Porting the game for another platform was beneficial to Steam version as well, because many bugs were detected and fixed and I also refactored some code and added various performance improvements. Also, some new features are added, the achievements information is available in the game menus, there's a setting that enables you to skip the intro cut-scene for faster loading, etc.
After the Switch release goes live, the focus will go back to adding new features to the game. I plan to have a big update in a couple of months, most probably for the winter holidays, which will include a new hero (Rogue), a bunch of new special rooms, new potion effects, new special items and a couple of new NPC characters as well.
I know that game is pretty much "complete" as it is now, and you can play for dozens of hours before you unlock everything, but I have so many more ideas that I want implement in the game. I want to thank all the players for supporting the game -- that's what keeps me motivating and improving it all the time.
If you have some ideas for new game features, feel free to open a thread in the discussions. I cannot promise to implement everything, but community feedback has proven to be a great source of inspiration so far:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/539400/discussions/
