September Update

Hello Knights!

As we prepare for the introduction of our newest area, Anville – The Great Forge, to join the Ember Knights Universe, we wanted to get another quality update out for you. We have a new skill, new and updated relics and more multiplayer progress in the form of using your own Ember Tree in multiplayer games!

We’ve included much more as well as addressing a bunch of feedback from our community. Check out the full list below!

Note: items marked with 🔥 are a result of player feedback.

New content and features

New Staff Skill – Arcane Orb
• When choosing the Nexal Staff, players will automatically start with the brand new Arcane Orb skill equipped

Ember Tree – Multiplayer Support and Revive Changes
• In online multiplayer games, players will now be able to access, equip and upgrade their own individual Ember Tree 🔥
• Soul Link (previously Lease on Life) will share up to 4 revives across all players
• Second Wind (previously Soul Shelter) will now only apply to the player with this upgrade equipped
• Soul Link and Second Wind cannot be equipped at the same time

New Freeze Relics
• Glacial Light
• Shivering Touch

Added the ability to roll cancel charging Skills 🔥 Added bonus Ember rewards for running on different difficulties 🔥 Many UX improvements across various screens

Balancing

We’ve also made the following tweaks and adjustments:

Weapons
Guardian Bow
• Increased arrow speed by 50%
• Increased base HP by 10
• Set the piercing arrows to pierce minibosses; no change to bosses
• Perfect shots can now chain together

Nexal Staff
• Decreased the charge time by 10%
• Added the ability to cancel the final hit of the charge attack via rolling

Relics
Toxic Bangle
• Applies a poison stack on all attacks, not just the first

Poison Wheel

• Applies a poison stack on every roll

Bruma’s Ring

• Applies the Frozen status to anything in its expanding ring

Status Effects
Frozen
• Added diminishing returns to multiple freeze applications
• Minibosses and bosses can now be frozen. While not immobilized like regular enemies, their movement and attacks will be slowed

Poison

• Each time a poison stack is applied, the lifetime is reset for all poison stacks

Burn

• Increased the lifetime from 6s to 15s

Stun

• Added diminishing returns to multiple stun applications



• Adjusted charge reduction from 20% to 15% for the Nexal Staff mod Focus
  
• Adjusted the Rakkling Nest so it can be stunned
  
• Updated The Forlorn’s laser VFX to be more consistent with their hit box 🔥
  
• Added spawn indicators for the flags in the Steadfast Citadel’s miniboss room 🔥
  
• Revive now requires a press and hold to prevent accidental revivals 🔥
  
• Disabled the run timer in the Offering Pit, secret rooms, Evee’s intro room and the level exit rooms 🔥
  
• Set HP bar icons to hide for disconnected players 🔥
  
• Removed collision on a bunch of small props in the Wightsbury miniboss room
  
• Added an idle animation to the worlds in the area loading screens
  

Bugs

And finally, more bug fixes! Those include:

• Fixed a bug with Skrixxa Za getting stuck in its jump state if players die while it’s jumping
• Fixed a bug with Weald Wolf where the attack indicator disappeared after attacking him once
• Fixed some collision issues in the Steadfast Citadel’s miniboss and preboss rooms
• Fixed a bug with auto revive that was reviving fully after a miniboss instead of 50%
• Fixed a bug with auto revive that wasn’t checking for disconnected players
• Fixed an issue with the Rift Hammer’s Fissure mod AOE not working properly for clients in multiplayer games
• Fixed a desync bug related to rerolling relic and skill selectors
• Fixed an online multiplayer bug that was causing players to start subsequent runs with the host’s mods instead of their own
• Fixed an input bug when disconnecting a controller in multiplayer games
• Fixed a roll invincibility input bug
• Fixed a visual bug that was not showing the damage flash for clients
• Fixed a visual issue in multiplayer games where the client was not seeing the enemy stun bar
• Fixed a bug with the Ember Tree where players were having their original upgrades equipped after dying and restarting in multiplayer games
• Fixed a few bugs related to the Ember Tree restoration sequence
• Fixed a visual bug with drops where animations weren’t resetting properly
• Fixed a few bugs that were preventing props from being destroyed
• Fixed a bug with the Bow mod Decoy that was causing the player’s eyes to disappear
• Visual fixes and tweaks to Burma’s Ring relic
• Fixed a bug regarding the rounding of ATK stat boosts
• Fixed a bug where the game would get stuck on the loading screen when manually switched to Offline Mode
• Fixed some visual issues related to player disconnect messages
• Fixed a few various sound bugs where the sound wasn’t playing

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