*Update promotional artwork made by Assley (a.k.a Busta_Machine)!
On the day prior to the first year anniversary, a new update for ATLYSS surfaces, bringing forth the ability to fully play the game using X-input game-pad support! Nearly all menus, prompts, bells and whistles are now controllable via game-pad!
*You can still play with steam input templates by using the mouse and keyboard input setting in-game.
...But that's not all! Many changes alongside some content additions come into action for this update as well. Here's the patch notes:
ATLYSS Version 112025.a1 released.
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*NOTICE: Due to many skill adjustments for this update, skills on outdated characters will be reset, and skill points will be reimbursed.
Game / General
X-input game-pad support is fully implemented! A notice panel asking you to choose between keyboard or game-pad will pop up on game startup. It will not prompt again when a choice is made.
Added more dungeon patterns to the Sanctum Catacombs and Crescent Grove.
Revised the dungeon instance pattern system for entering a dungeon, making it a server-side shuffled queue rather than basing the last played pattern on the player.
Fixed bug where starting a party inside of a dungeon instance will not allow new party members to enter the party leader's concurrent dungeon instance.
Reduced the amount of breakable vases in some Crescent Grove patterns.
Decreased the size of all Boss Chests, and added a currency drop to them.
Adjusted the defense stat formula, making the bonus against standard weapon attacks less harsh. This change is to make melee combat more impactful, especially for lower level experiences.
Increased the attack rate speed of Katars / Fist weapons.
Increased base damage outputs on many of the lower level weapons.
Critical hits can no longer be passively blocked.
Added 5 more storage tabs for the item storage system, up to 8 storage tabs in total!
Spike now opens the storage immediately without having to press a dialog button after his introduction dialog.
Updated the Who Tab, making side icons for list refreshing, muting / unmuting toggle, invite to party, and leave party buttons.
Added a buffer for Lobby hosting / creation. Once the lobby is loaded, then it will appear on the list browser. (This mostly fixes getting stuck on load screen, followed by disconnection).
Fixed the password input panel for lobby hosting being multi-line instead of single-line, which lead to issues of accidental line additions by pressing enter.
Added a "Notice" icon on the stats button in character creation to signify that there are unassigned attribute points.
Added a toggle to disable the net-play disclaimer when hosting or finding a net-play lobby.
Parties can now hold up to 6 people. Larger party sizes will be considered.
Updated the party member cells, making them more readable and cleaner.
Added a button to teleport to the party leaders map instance in the Who Tab. The player will need to be either on the Communing Catacombs quest or have completed it to use this function.
Added a party leader ownership transfer system. You can give someone in your party leadership in the Who tab menu if you are the party leader.
Added a share quest function on the quest menu tab. You must be party leader to share quests to others in the same party. If the players do not meet the requirements, they will not get the quest.
Added a quest track toggle system for the Quest Tab Menu, allowing you to hide / unhide certain quests from tracking progress if the hide tracker setting is disabled.
The tracked quest lists will now display where to return to after completing the quest.
Added a counter next to the quest cells while in a party, to see how many party members have the quest to make quest sharing process easier.
Quests will no longer show a progress message if they are completed, such as slaying more of the mobs that are needed to be slain for the quest, or with the amount of items needed.
Locked quests on the quest selection menu will no longer display the description / rewards on the tab menu cell panel.
Increased the fade in and fade out speed of the centered map / zone title text.
Updated the font for the chat-box, making it more readable / simplistic, since the old font was very stylized and overlapped characters.
Room chat has been replaced by the older "Zone" chat channel. This channel will display messages sent by players who are on the same map instance as you. This feature was often requested, and the prior Room Channel was reportedly used often as a zone chat channel amongst players.
Game logic feedback and chatbox text will no longer abruptly fade in / fade out while the in-game UI hide toggle is on.
Increased the opacity of the cool-down counters for action / skill slots for more readability.
Fixed projectile prediction issue where mob projectiles on client-side go through the players.
Fixed object pooled projectiles spawned from players and mobs on client-side exploding / destroying on spawn.
Fixed the Stat panel projection for applying attribute points (+1's, etc) for client-side, as it was not displaying correctly.
Fixed being able to wrongfully purchase multiple items with a trade item currency with split stacks.
Fixed being able to unsheathe / sheathe weapon while blocking / holding the block input.
Fixed a collider issue at the gateway area in Sanctum which got players stuck, having to restart the game to get unstuck.
Fixed passive skill objects not instantiating on client-side if the player spawns into a different map instance from the local player. (Bulwark effect not appearing, etc)
Fixed the UI host console ban / kick / disconnect buttons not functioning due to the nickname / command call fix.
Fixed skill icons that have no resource cost not greying out if the player is dead.
Updated the Store, Storage, Enchantment, and Quest Selection dialog prompt panels, designing them to be more consistent with current UI changes.
Removed the keybinding input setting for the Lexicon as it does not exist anymore.
Holding the dash button will disable interaction queues with portals and other interactables.
The Ctrl + F12 hotkey to disconnect only applies while loading now, it will no longer function when in-game. The disconnect / cancel is the back button for X-input game-pad mode.
Player character models should no longer do the alt idle / look around animation while casting skills.
Slightly decreased max mana bonus for the Mind Attribute.
Mob Balance
Increased the max health of all mobs to compensate for the defense stat formula / decrease adjustment.
Mobs will no longer evade or passively block incoming attacks if they are parry staggered / stunned.
Elite mobs now display as golden dots on the mini-map.
Slime Diva's level decreased from 12 to 10.
Slime Diva's AI rotation is sped up considerably.
Miasmas siphon leech and Toxin's poison is much less powerful, and duration is decreased.
Added a shine telegraph effect for slime attacking animations.
Skill Balance
Sally now provides a lv-12 skill scroll quest in conjunction with Angela and Enok.
Several skill scrolls given from quests such as Focus Shot, Multi Bash, and Curis can no longer be sold to a vendor.
Skill scrolls given from quests are now categorized as "Quest Items".
Melee skills now provide 0.2sec i-frames on cast.
Increased the strength weapon damage bonus % from 15% to 40% for Strength Mastery.
Increased the mind weapon damage bonus % from 12% to 40% for Mind Mastery.
Increased the dexterity weapon damage bonus % from 18% to 40% for Dexterity Mastery.
Increased damage scale of Spire, where it should no longer potentially deal 0 damage if magic power is at 1.
Decreased cool-down for Spire from 8sec to 5sec.
Decreased cool-down for Focus Shot from 12sec to 8sec.
Decreased cool-down for Multi Bash from 8sec to 6sec.
Decreased cool-down for Fira from 8sec to 6sec.
Life Tap now prevents casting / greys out skill slot if the player's mana is at maximum.
Life Tap no longer costs a % of the players max health, and costs at a fixed amount of 20 health instead.
Life Tap now replenishes a fixed amount of 60 mana instead of the entire mana pool.
Decreased cool-down for Life Tap from 80sec to 6sec.
Talus no longer deals damage before impact.
Fighter
Lethal Strike is now a passive. Much like the Mystics Blink and Bandits Agile Technique, it is now a dash modifier skill that requires holding and releasing the dash button to execute.
Execute now siphons life on hit for each target, healing the fighter 15% of the damage back to them on successful hit. Perhaps a taste of what's to come for the future Berserker subclass?
Bulwark now removes knock-back from hits that are lower or two levels higher in comparison to the fighters level, allowing more sustainable melee combat. Does not apply to traps / hazards.
Fixed the stamina cost reduction for blocking with Bulwark, as it was never properly coded in.
Bulwark now provides a 45% chance to ignore stamina cost when successfully blocking an attack.
Increased skill point cost on Execute to 3.
Increased cool-down for Execute from 6sec to 10sec.
Increased stamina cost for Execute from 6 stamina to 10 stamina.
Increased stamina cost for Blood Gush from 5 stamina to 6 stamina.
Increased rate speed of Blood Gush from 1.2sec to 0.5sec.
Decreased condition length of Blood Gush from 8sec to 5sec.
Decreased the bleed damage scaling for Blood Gush to compensate for the faster bleed rate.
Increased damage scaling for Stomp.
Decreased defense reduction for Stomp.
Increased damage scaling for Cyclone.
Slightly increased time of Cyclone before coming back to the Fighter.
Added a timer to force the return of Cyclone to the Fighter.
Decreased skill point cost for Reflect from 6 to 3.
Reflect now has a visual effect when blocking.
Removed the 10 defense and magic defense stat buff from Bulwark.
Mystic
Decreased skill point cost for Blink from 6 to 3.
Added a 100 max mana stat bonus for Manaflow.
Bishop
Fixed Shadow Ward initialize sound to prevent loudness.
Bandit
Agile Technique now has a visual effect when dash tap jumping and bouncing.