The Stormcaller Update 0.9.5 is bringing 2 new lightning skills to Strivin for Light: Survival. You can now unleash a mighty lightning storm over enemies or set up constructs or summon companions that will unleash the storms for you. There are so many ways you can use and combine these skills with exisiting skills and weapons. We have also improved our backend leaderboard systems and fixed builds not being saved consitently and reworked cursor movement on controller for better experience on controller and Steam Deck.
New Features
The new skills bring some brand new mechanics to Striving for Light: Survival. The lightning skills have a range of 1-3 possible effect triggers which can be increased by stacking the skills. Damage is also scaling with skill stacks but as a trade off they don't scale additionally with your projectile or melee damage. So in contrast to other skills you will gain not only more skill damage but also more possible skill effect triggers. If you for example stack 5 of the same lightning skill your attacks will trigger 5-15 of those lightning effects.
We these 2 new skills we have now reached 60 unique skill nodes available in the game.
Discharge: New Melee On Attack Skill
Your melee attacks discharge a lightning ray from your position in a random angle piercing through all enemies in this attack angle. Damage and the amount of discharge rays scale with your skill stacks.
Lightning Strike: New Range On Attack Skill
Your range attacks call 1-3 lightning strikes to a random area around you damaging all hit enemies. Damage and the amount of lightning strikes scale with your skill stacks.
Backend improvements and fixes
Backend systems have been improved and several fixes have been supplied which should fix the issues with not transfered and saved builds and characters to your leaderboard entries.
Controller/ Steamdeck improvements
Cursor movement with controller has been completely reworked adding a softer and more fluid cursor movement when using a controller in the skilltree.
Improvements
- Tutorial for toggle skills to save attack speed improved
- Improved visuals of the light staff projectiles
- All player projectile trails are now affected by the player effect transparency setting
Bugfixes
- Fixed streamer online tooltip layer on game over screen
If you encounter any bugs or issues please let us know. The best way to engage in the ongoing development of Striving for Light is our discord: