The gates of Old Valorath are finally open to adventurers!
A new chapter awaits, bringing fresh challenges, dangerous encounters, and epic quests for every class!
Are you ready to uncover the secrets of Old Valorath?
Alongside this new content, we've introduced significant improvements to mercenary AI, combat targeting, class balance, controller support, and several quality-of-life features.
Here's everything included in this update!
🌟 Gameplay & Mercenary Improvements
- Improved Tab targeting to prioritize enemies fighting your party, followed by the nearest targets.
- Improved mercenary positioning to reduce unnecessary movement and avoid pulling nearby enemies.
- Ranged mercenaries no longer reposition behind enemies unnecessarily when already outside their frontal attack range.
- Mercenaries now prefer the nearest safe escape route when dodging area attacks, provided they can reach safety before impact.
- Increased the cast range of all mercenary buffs.
- You can now hire mercenaries even when your party is full! Newly hired mercenaries will be stored at the tavern.
- Stat bonuses provided by house beds now apply to mercenaries too.
- The Repair All button now repairs equipment and items in your inventory.
- Increased NPC levels in Felarii Village.
⚖️ Class Balance
- Warrior: Reduced Charge cooldown from 60 to 30 seconds.
- Ranger / Druid: Increased Spirit of Wolf cast range.
- Bard: Adjusted Bulwark Chant values.
- Bard: Adjusted Discordant Verse values.
🎮 Controller Improvements
- Fixed controller sticks not activating menu navigation when starting the game.
- Fixed character sheet navigation getting stuck on the experience bar when no attribute points were available.
- Corrected default LB + D-Pad shortcuts to match the HUD: Up for Journal/Bestiary and Left for Quests.
- Improved Bestiary navigation with automatic entry focus and consistent row-and-column movement.
- Fixed the controller highlight around the quest tracking checkbox.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Quality of Life
- Fixed an issue related to resetting specializations.
- Fixed an issue with Aegis Aria.
- Fixed an issue affecting Final Cadence.
- Fixed conflicting loot tooltip requests that could prevent tooltips from appearing or display mismatched text and icons.
- Fixed a typo involving Necromancer mercenary recruitment.
- Added missing translations.
- Updated the game engine.
⚔️ The Gates Are Open!
Old Valorath awaits those brave enough to venture into its depths.
Gather your mercenaries, prepare your equipment, and set forth on a new adventure!
As always, thank you for your continued support and feedback. Your suggestions help us make Ancient Kingdoms better with every update.
See you in the Kingdoms! 🏰