Greetings, Adventurers! We're excited to launch THE SKINS UPDATE (v0.6.25), bringing new customization options, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life enhancements to Ancient Kingdoms. Dive in, style your hero, and conquer the battlefield! Here's what's new:
⭐ New Features
- Introducing the Ember Weaver, a new NPC in Milldenn offering exclusive skins!
- High-end bosses now drop Soul Embers!
- Use Wardrobes in your house to equip or remove skins effortlessly.
- Adjust screen resolution in settings, ideal for windowed mode.
- New Elixir of Restoration potion heals mercenaries for 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).
- New Veteran Skills: Gouge (Rogue) and Battlehoned Accuracy (General).
- Winterforge Update: Progress now at 80%!
⚖️ Balance Changes
- Druid:
- Flourishment: Improved mana regeneration.
- Verdant Renewal (Merc): Reduced healing regeneration.
- Ranger:
- Nature's Call: Increased mana cost.
- Wizard Mercenary:
- Flame Blast: Decreased mana cost.
- Warrior & Rogue Mercenaries:
- Now use a rage system similar to players.
- General:
- Spirit of Wolf: Duration increased to 15 minutes.
- Vowkeeper's Staff: Reduced spell power (was higher than intended).
- Increased healing bonus cap.
- Adjusted Arcane Resolution and Master of Arms bonuses by level.
- Mercenary Healing:
- Scroll of Restoration: Heals 20,000 HP (120s cooldown).
- Battlefield Restoration: Heals all mercenaries for 5,000 HP and restores 3,250 Resource Points (60s cooldown).
- Elixir of Restoration: Heals 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).
⚔️ Pet & NPC Behavior
- Pets now run away from area effects but won't move toward the player.
- Nyxarion & Formidrax: Increased follow distance to reduce accidental fight resets.
- Nyxarion: Slightly improved stats.
- Aggro Area no longer affects NPCs to prevent unwanted interactions.
📝 Quality of Life & Bug Fixes
- Materials like Ethereal Hide, Essence of Pure Fire, Ancient Cyclops Bones, Black Dragon Scales, and Savage Blood are now unique and non-tradable.
- Reduced Adventurer Level required for Augments (Tier 1) and Radiant Emblems.
- Chest of Lost Adventurers now requires 5% Adventurer Level.
- Added protection to prevent launching multiple game instances from the same folder, safeguarding save data.
- Wardrobe price increased to 12,000 gp.
- Blazewalker Boots typo fixed, with adjusted stats.
Show off your new skins and conquer the realm! Share your feedback in the Steam Discussions. Thank you for your support, and happy adventuring!