Arise, chosen!

Thanks to the dedication of our passionate community member Pad, Strife game servers are now back online! Game is accessible again on Windows and Linux. And by efforts of Strife community some improvements and bug fixes were implemented. Trials of Strife continue and you were invited to join!

Community Discord Server

Before we go to patch notes, please check out our community Discord server. Here you can find a group to play with, contact developers, share your thoughts about the game, find instructions to assist us improving the game and so on.

Map editor added

We are thrilled to announce the release of the Map Editor for Strife! This powerful tool allows you to create your own maps and modify existing ones, bringing your unique visions to life. We can't wait to see the amazing creations you come up with!

The Map Editor is currently available exclusively for Windows users. You can access it through Steam. Simply launch Strife, and a selection dialog will appear, guiding you to the Map Editor.

Shattered Trials map

Faster start. Intense action. Only one lane. Shattered Trials map added to custom games. Perfect for smaller teams of 1-3 players, but feel free to unleash chaos with a full 5v5 lobby for an endless battle. We're eager to hear your thoughts and feedback on the map, so join the fight!

Hero changes:

General:

• Effects of following abilities were not displayed to enemies if area of effect's center was not visible (in bushes, for example). Now effects for the abilities will be visible if any part of area of effect is not in fog of war:
  • Ace: Avalanche (W);
  • Aemon: Consecration (Q);
  • Bo: Inner Rage (W);
  • Buford: Poison Slug (Q);
  • Caprice: Anchors Aweigh (W);
  • Carter: Yak Attack (W);
  • Claudessa: Dragon's Reach (Q), Scorched Earth (R);
  • Eanu: Breaking Wave (R);
  • Flak: Explosive Shot (W);
  • Iah: Quickpit (W), Eclipse (R);
  • Jin She: Whirling Embers (W), Firestarter (R);
  • Malady: Dark Storm (W), Golden Gate (E);
  • Midknight: Chains of Judgement (R);
  • Moxie: Catastrophe (R);
  • Pal: Trip Beam(Q), Energy Reversal (R);
  • Ray: Burrow bots (Q) (just explosion, not mines);
  • Rip: vanish (W);
  • Shank: Ground Pound (Q);
  • Trixie: Pot Shot (Q), Croaking Curse (R);
  • Vermillion: Cheese Shot (Q), Rocket Jump (R);
  • Vex: Orbital Drop (R);
  • Zaku: Sticky Trap (W) (once trap triggered).

• Following abilities no long visible globally:
  • Ray: Death Ray (R);
  • Rip: Smoke Cloud (Q);
  • Trixie: Pot Shot (Q) (last bounce), Aether Beam (E).

• Hunter Mode (R)
  • Reduced bonus damage from 100% to 10%.

• Piledriver (R)
  • If enemy hero use CC Break to avoid being launched into the air, Nikolai gets mana refunded and ability is put on 3 second cooldown instead.

Quality of life

• Ability Cooldown Pings added: now you can ping your ability icon to quickly let your teammates know if the ability on cooldown, you have not enough mana or you are ready to attack! Works with items and pet active ability as well.
• While searching for match number of players in queue is shown.
• Hero selection is now using grid view by default.
• Effects and voiceline in skin store preview disabled.
• On hero select screen added a warning about longer queue times to heroes, that are selected by too many people in queue already.

Bug fixes

• Fixed Jin She Whirling Embers (W) area of effect decreasing after she learns Firestarter (R).
• Removed Blazer's missing skin from UI.
• Fixed or improved tooltips for following abilities:
  • Jin She: Everthrist Flame (Q);
  • Claudessa: Scale Shield (W);
  • Bo: Inner Rage (W);
  • Lady Tinder: Tinder Touch (W).

• Fixed how-to videos not playing in launcher.
  
• Fixed crafting showing as free while free craft from tutorial was already used.
  
• Fixed wrong fur colors for Moxie's Flash and Neon dyes.
  
• Fixed account progress bar showing wrong number of games for level up.
  
• Removed broken effect on Minerva in lobby preview.
  
• Fixed keybinder pop-up appearing under settings menu in game with new UI.
  
• Fixed gameToggleScoreboard bind resetting to default value after game restart.
  
• Fixed range indicator radius for Shank's Ground Pound (Q).

Miscellaneous

• Baldir and Cindara colors reverted to the original colors.
• Discord button added to main screen.
• Removed 'New' markers from non-new Heroes, Skins.
• On Windows removed restriction to 32x32 size for cursors.
• Disabled currently unavailable or broken options:
  • Clubs tab disabled;
  • Scrim Arena mode button disabled;
  • Game quests and Player Ladder tabs on Account details disabled;
  • Boosters buy button for feathers and craft materials;
  • Gem purchase buttons removed;
  • Community website guides button removed;
  • First login prompt to link existing account removed.

• Updated German and Portuguese localization.

New Website and Leaderboards

We’re proud to announce the launch of our brand-new website, where you can explore games and check out the leaderboards! This is a major step forward, enabling us to start hosting community events. Speaking of which... Stay tuned this weekend.

Shoutout to everyone involved in developing or testing the changes brought to Strife so far:

• Pad
• The Chiprel
• Kairus
• Gab
• nudelchef
• chainsawkid

We hope to see you on Trials of Strife!