Hello Fellow Tormented Souls!
We hope you all are doing well so far. As for us, we’re happily working on things to come and making plans further down the road. As previously announced after the last update, we decided to take it a bit slower. The next update will take until early next year, probably late January or February, mostly because we’re going to take a little break during the festive season.
But still, we have some progress to share with you. This is a quick preview of things to come.
We’re currently working on two things in parallel. The first one is a smaller free update with some new items and artifacts. Balancing, bug fixes, and performance improvements are coming as well. Further below you’ll find a small excerpt. If you’re interested in the full list, you can find it here: https://open.codecks.io/hot
The second part will be a paid DLC: the Supporter Pack. It will contain mostly visual changes to heroes and the in-game HUD, and also a small training area to test out some of your favorite builds in a controlled environment.
In 2025 we will keep working on Halls of Torment. Besides working on console support for Halls of Torment we’re also planning to work on content DLCs that will bring new stages, characters, and abilities. But more about that next year.
Free Update 01
Six new artifacts for additional challenges, including a smaller rebalancing of the Torment Levels.
Torment Levels will have a reduced increase in Damage and Movement Speed for enemies.
- New Artifact: Enemies will gain Block Strength with each player level.
- New Artifact: Reduce elemental chances but increase elemental damage.
- New Artifact: Make enemies bigger, fewer of them spawn but they have more health.
- New Artifact: Chance for each regular enemy to spawn as an enhanced version, dropping goodies.
- New Artifact: Reduce the maximum number of abilities.
- New Artifact: Reduce crit and effect chance with bigger area and range.
There are also four new items coming. One will be a bit special as it will not have a common version. You’ll only ever get the uncommon version of it.
- Elemental Capacitor (Necklace): Apply Damage bonus to Burn, Spark and Frost.
- Beast Master’s Hide (Body): Spawns beasts fighting for you. They despawn once they’ve taken too much damage.
- Demonic Grasp (Footwear): When moving spawn summoned hands that grab enemies, XP, and items.
- Ability Signet (Ring): Enables the wearer to upgrade an ability three times. (can’t be unequipped)
With the Ability Signet we also updated the Sage’s Mark that upon equipping it with the sage it allows the sage to use the 3rd upgrade of an ability on his main ability.
Other changes coming:
- Many smaller technical performance improvements.
- Changing the spawn pattern of waves to reduce lag spikes.
- Additional information in the character stats about things like burn, spark and frost damage.
- Shrine of Archeologists will now be teleported to the player like the well after defeating a lord.
- An option to make the pickup range visible.
- Vsync On/Off option to enable higher FPS.
- Vault will spawn champions after 30 minutes.
- Live DPS overlay.
- Some additional things we’re still working on!
Supporter DLC
- We’ll add an alternative cosmetic skin for each character.
Those are purely visual and do not change the gameplay of characters.
- Three HUD designs that can be selected via the settings.
- A training area to test setups in a controlled environment.
We also want to say a big thank you for all the support the community has shown. Your feedback is always very helpful for us! We wish you all a good end of the year 2024! See you soon!
- Chasing Carrots