Greetings, Gatekeepers!
Update 1.0, titled The Nowhere Throne, is finally here — and we have a lot to share with you!
Content
New Gatekeeper
Aegis
Final Boss Battle
After completing 5 locations, you will encounter the Corrupted Quorium. It leads to the Throne Room, where Chaos awaits.
The Corrupted Quorium can be purified to start the next loop.
3 new music tracks have been added, which only play in the Throne Room.
New Objective - Instability Generator
A new objective joins the familiar Chaos Wards, Totems, and Cells of the Ancients: the Instability Generator. Once activated, Instability Capsules begin spawning on the location.
Gatekeepers must deliver the capsules to the generator.
New Locations
Cursed Crossing - Aridune
Forgotten Depths - Palium
Quiet Place - The Nowhere
Throne Room - The Nowhere
New Arena Visuals
Arena - Aurora
Arena - Celestium
Arena - Purgatory-17
Arena - Palium
New Artifacts
Purifier Core - Removes all negative status effects upon reaching a health threshold.
Healing Pearl - Restores a percentage of health after taking damage.
Keen Fang - Killing with a critical hit temporarily increases critical damage.
Runner’s Flask - Increases regeneration while sprinting.
Bloodrush - Chance to deal increased bleed damage.
Merchant’s Codex - Reduces artifact cost on Delta.
Lucky Coin - Chance to get a discount on artifacts at the obelisk.
Overcharge - Chance for elite enemy kills to reset skill cooldowns.
Fissure - Chance to deal damage to enemies with "Immune" status using any skill.
Providence - Chance to drop rare artifacts from Gift of Arcanum.
Manifold Key - Chance to expand artifact selection in obelisks.
New Triads
Triad of Status - Status effects have a chance to spread to nearby enemies.
Triad of Isolation - While the second, third, and fourth skills are on cooldown, the first deals more damage.
Triad of Bounty - After a Siren dies, an artifact drops on the ground.
Triad of Thorns - Each Root hit applies a bleed stack.
Triad of Severance - Momentum deals damage and pushes enemies away.
Triad of Bloodshed - Rendstone projectiles apply bleeding on hit.
Triad of Breach - Essence and Confines projectiles deal damage to enemies with the "Immune" status.
Triad of Heartburst - Triggering Rune of Rebound causes an Extrasystole explosion.
Triad of Ferocity - Killing enemies grants multiple Berserker's Token charges.
New Chaos Ward Effects
Tornado Grasp - After activation, tornadoes begin moving around the location.
Hailfire Disk - After activation, turrets appear and launch wall-bouncing discs.
New Elites
Celenic - Each hit triggers chain lightning bouncing between living units. Periodically strikes the ground with lightning around itself.
Vesperal - Conceals all other enemies within a radius.
Merchant's Altar
A Merchant’s Altar has appeared in Quiet Bay.
Initially, the Gatekeeper must restore the altar using Omni stones (progress is saved between runs).
Once restored, the altar allows exchanging Omni stones for Prisms. The exchange rate matches current pedestal prices.
New Events
Pursuit by Immortals - Immortals appear in the location. One per Gatekeeper. Each Immortal hunts their specific Gatekeeper.
Immortals have a permanent Immune status and can only be damaged with specific artifacts. Any hit from an Immortal is lethal.
Opaline Shields - All enemies on the location have an Opaline Shield that must be broken before damaging their health.
Omni-Suits
Each Gatekeeper now has an alternate skin.
Unlock it by finding the corresponding statue and investing a large number of Omni stones.
Achievements
21 new Steam achievements have been added.
Mechanics Changes
Fractal now breaks on use. Once broken, a new Fractal can be picked up.
Broken Fractals can be melted in the Forge.
Triad of Regeneration has been replaced with Triad of Fractal, allowing unlimited Fractal use.
Shield Module no longer blocks all incoming damage. It now absorbs only an amount equal to shield units.
The Immune status now prevents the application of negative status effects to enemies.
All damage over time effects (burning, bleeding, poison, etc.) now deal damage in a single tick to improve clarity.
Infurion now grants 1 damage for every 2% of missing enemy health.
The Enhancer artifact now works for Void Model, reducing Entropy cost of the second skill (description is also updated accordingly).
Elite, Event, and Siren Spawning
In Normal mode, up to 3 Sirens can now spawn from a single statue. Their count and elite status depend on difficulty level and run time.
The same logic applies to events and elites. Early on, simple elites appear on lower difficulties, and no events spawn at all.
Later in the run, elites get tougher and events start triggering more often, sometimes multiple at once.
On 200% difficulty, this escalation begins much earlier.
Quality of Life Changes
Max artifact ban slots increased to 10.
Minimap icon added for Shrine of Triad.
Artifact ban cost reduced from 5 to 3 Omni stones.
Pressing Esc no longer closes the lobby screen (to prevent accidental exits).
Random Gatekeeper selection added (available if you have more than 2 unlocked).
Skill and evolution descriptions have been standardized to match artifact formatting.
All skills now display their stats.
UI for obelisks, the forge, and artifact popups has been updated for better readability.
Astral Elite projectiles no longer fire during damage intake. Instead, they launch upward on death and redirect to Gatekeepers.
Significantly reduced healing of Sirens by Exalted elites.
Siren shields (from events or elite status) are now visible on the main HP bar.
Hovering a locked ban slot in the Emporium now shows your artifact progress toward unlocking it.
Burning and bleeding no longer interrupt player sprint.
Added option to enable a dark background under the crosshair with adjustable transparency.
Small enemies can now be pushed aside to avoid body-blocking.
You can now view current run stats on Delta and Arena locations without ending the run.
Resurrection count (how many times you've revived teammates) is now shown in the run stats.
Any HP penalties (e.g. from Empty Carapace) are now shown directly on the HP bar.
Dash mode can now be toggled between movement direction and cursor direction.
Lobby code is now hidden by default (streamer-friendly).
Minimap readability improved.
Option to enable auto-sprint has been added to the settings.
Healing numbers now appear when a Gatekeeper is healed by anything other than natural regeneration (can be disabled in settings).
Improved visibility of the Fractal activation effect.
Aeonic Elite
Aeonic elite effect changed: instead of freezing cooldowns, they now slow them by 50%.
UI
Almost all interactive UI elements have been reworked.
UI is now less visually cluttered and gamepad navigation is much clearer.
Most in-game text has been enlarged for better readability.
Difficulty
80% difficulty has been removed.
Other difficulties have been rebalanced so that 100% feels comfortable for new players, and 200% provides sufficient challenge for veterans.
Database
Now displays:
Kills per specific enemy
Artifact pickup counts
Crafted triads
Runs per Gatekeeper
Delta Redesign
Complete redesign of Quiet Bay.
The location was reduced by ~30%, and diagonal paths were rebuilt for easier navigation.
Lighting has been improved for better visual clarity.
Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements
Astral Elite attacks on Drudge spawned flickers that exploded on the Gatekeeper.
Totem charging could fail after death and reconnection.
Fixed some abuse cases of Arcanum’s Bounty artifact.
Fixed a case where the Forge or Obelisk UI could become unclosable if a full artifact category was banned in the Emporium.
Onslaught marker jittered heavily near moving enemies for teammates.
Fixed various issues after reconnecting to a run.
Drudge count could be incorrect after melting Halfmetal Head in the Forge.
Drudges no longer respawn if their owner is dead.
Some achievements no longer trigger for dead Gatekeepers when completed by teammates.
Major rework of projectile handling for Gatekeepers and enemies over the network to reduce lag and improve stability.
Ground artifact pickup popup no longer fails to close.
Enemies frequently getting stuck on environmental corners has been fixed.
Significant work has been done in collaboration with the developer of the networking plugin we use. Many network-related issues have been fixed. Some problems and disconnects may still occur. If you experience any of them, please contact us immediately.
Fixed an issue where the camera could get stuck after death and resurrection.
Fixed UI lockups when rebinding gamepad or keyboard buttons.
Fixed incorrect obelisk spawn chances on some locations — in some cases, they were mistakenly too low.
Other
Analytics has been added to the game. You can disable it on first launch. We recommend keeping it on. We only collect anonymous in-game data to help identify which systems work well and which need improvement.
Supporter Pack functionality expanded:
You can now customize the Gatekeeper outline color
Blend any other color into their outfit
The main menu background has been completely reworked to a brighter and calmer view of the ruined Temple of Time
See you in the Throne Room. — Gravity Lagoon