Read the full news here: https://play-warman.com/news/update-2-1-world-reborn/

New Features

• Multi-map support: the engine now supports multiple maps loaded at once

• Overworld-style hub area replaces waypoints and town portals

• Profile selection on game start, with profile switching available from the main menu

• Homing projectiles as a new projectile behavior

• Channeling skills as a new skill type

• Basic scripting added on top of WarScript for more dynamic map logic

World & Exploration

• New map trigger/unlock system driving area gating

• Home portals now stay open and spawn a return portal on your home island

• Elevators can be logically linked: ride them up/down between maps, not just as spawn points

• Checkpoints replace waypoints and are now placed near elevators for fast travel

• Full respawn logic rework

• Entering a map no longer auto-heals you

• Travellers' Road reworked into a mountain climb (new biome)

• Arena reworked into a monster arena mini-game where you earn items

• Treasure Hoard dungeon reworked

• Bonepit dungeon reworked

• Lower Prison inner layout reworked; first room now has 3 chests; 1 extra room added

• Prison and Castle now have dedicated "inside" biome variants (different water, shadows)

• Indoor biomes are now fully dark; player has a light above them in dark areas

• Castle water is now red and deals 2 pure damage per second

• Portal interact time is now 3.5 seconds

• Portal exit position mirrors your entrance position

• Faint dotted lines show where you'll enter a portal

• Docks portal only opens after you've discovered the Docks

• Removed unused Plains South and Upper Castle West rooms

• Removed unfinished Path of Danger map

• Added missing chests to the Plains area

• Removed intro_1 waypoint (checkpoint retained)

Quests & Progression

• All quests added to the codex

• Quest trigger objects marked with a big ? icon; quest-unlock interactables get a 3D glowing yellow question mark

• Quest-locked blockers marked on the world map with a big red X

• Hover quests and blockers on the world map for info: blockers show which quest is required

• Tutorial migrated to the new quest system

• Intro weapons chest locked behind a quest

• Locked areas now use visible gates that open when their quest unlocks

• Rooms containing quest unlocks have proper level design

• Class-specific unique codex drops added (from Bonelord boss)

• Unique mastery book modifiers are now visible as modifiers

Combat & Balance

• Major combat balance pass: health, damage, armor, item scaling, regen, trap damage all retuned

• Regen disabled in combat; out-of-combat regen is much stronger (bosses included)

• Heroes gain +0.25 magic damage per level

• Caster class cooldowns reduced across the board

• Aura radius increased

• Chain Lightning damage buffed

• Bandit Slice cooldown increased from 0.5s to 1s; counter chance reduced from 25% to 10%

• Combustion proc chance reduced from 15% to 10%

• On-take-damage skill passives reduced from 20% to 5% proc (Warrior and Bow)

• Wind Mage: Sturdy Frame now also makes totems elite

• Wind Mage: Tornado totems now use a homing Wind Slice auto-attack

• Each class's on-attack DoT passive now has a core DoT modifier

• Reined in player DoTs that scaled off % of target's total health

• Summoned units no longer grant XP

• All traps deal pure damage; floating and rotating saws deal damage per tick; spike trap also deals normal damage ticks

• Elite spawner chance reduced from 15% to 5%

• Removed heal skill from enemy spawners

• First Plains room no longer spawns elites

• Boss arenas now have an aggro zone

Items & Loot

• Rebalanced which stat rolls can appear on each item type

• Item level range is now 1–10 (no more level 0)

• Level requirement removed from items

• Items migrate properly across save files

• Removed from rollable stats: % lifesteal, extra projectiles, health potion potency, % max health, % max regen

• Quiver now has +2 projectiles baked in as its base effect

• Other back items now get base effects so quiver isn't automatically best

• Normal chests can roll purple items

• Enemies can drop up to purple items

• Elite enemies drop higher rarity loot

• Bone currency removed

UI & HUD

• New cursor icon

• New, better font

• Stronger hover and focus highlights across UI elements (especially sliders)

• Fade in/out animations on UI (position + opacity); HUD also fades in/out

• Opening a UI window focuses a sensible default element

• Interact indicator changed from diamond to triangle (active-action objects); hover-only objects show a small white dot

• Focus cursor appears on all hoverable objects

• Gold piles now have a hover label

• Rare chests get their own icon

• Damage popups now include a damage type icon — sword (physical), spark (magical), red magic (pure)

• Removed all popups except damage and level up; tuned font sizes and colors

• Heal-on-hit shows a heal popup

• XP gain notifications added

• Minimap shows current map difficulty and now renders cliffs (flat color, no more height shading)

• World map: default zoom further out, icons scale with zoom, room icons only show once discovered

• World map: collected chests/keys/bones snapshot and hide when collected

• World map: big JPG backplane added

• World map: boss spawner custom icon, locked waypoint marker removed

• Mastery book now shows active passives

• Backpack stats have icons

• Better handling of long item names

• Sliders support step sizes

• Main menu UI moved to the left; right side shows 3D hero preview; Change Hero is its own window

• More detailed hero preview in main menu and settings

• Random name button in hero creation

• Loaded profile name shown in the main menu

• Green plus icon on HUD now shows a hotkey hint when you have a skill point

• Attack and roll noticeboard hints split into two

• Settings UI overhauled

• New "pill-UI" layout for change scenarios, hero list, workbench properties, and keybind rebinding

• Workbench: possible properties panel always open (toggle removed); auto-roll has animation; you can stop auto-roll without closing the UI

• Hero menu hotkeys disabled while shop/workbench/storage is open

• Shop: refresh button (costs gold) to roll a new item set

• Portal and elevator hover labels now use white text (custom portal names no longer get special styling)

• Removed all context cursors (pending a replacement cursor system)

Controller Support

• Broad UI navigation improvements

• White hand cursor on the focused element so you don't lose track

• Scroll views let you focus non-button elements; up/down moves the scrollbar

• Dropdowns, sliders, game lobby, and settings now fully navigable

• L/R Bumpers swap hero menu windows; L/R Triggers swap tabs

• Settings system buttons mapped to controller

• Hero menu uses hotkeys only (no cursor nav); hero tab menu can't be reached via controller

• Virtual keyboard opens when relevant text fields are focused

• Close buttons for settings and mastery skip controller cursor focus

• Mastery: BACK clears selection; back arrow added; hotkey swaps positions

• Workbench: BACK clears the select slot; keybind hints show/hide correctly

• ESC and LMB can no longer be rebound (core navigation)

Audio

• Music added to every map and biome

• Dungeon and Castle biomes have deliberate silence gaps (they're indoors)

• Removed general combat music; added music volume ducking

• Separate volume sliders for UI and ambience

• Linear audio rolloff (works better with top-down camera)

• Random volume variation on SFX (not just pitch)

• Ambience loop ranges tuned

• Audio normalized on import

Visuals

• Improved item bag glow

• Hourglass VFX above the player when disabled/can't act

• Object lights turn off in biomes with real sun lighting

• Added missing VFX: Fire wand Searing Touch, Bandit Sharp Strike DoT

Editor & Modding

• Undo/redo for terrain modifications

• Paint multiple cliff textures per room; cliff texture index can be locked

• Terrain mover supports step sizes

• Layer remapping tool for the unified terrain layer

• Unified all terrain texture layers (255 layer cap)

• Doodads place properly on walkable platforms

• Object transform overrides apply to doodads

• Enemy spawn points expose an enemy count property (can be limited to 1)

• New "outlet" object: modifies charges on interactables

• Default properties exposed in the property inspector

• Cleaned up the base mod's doodad folder structure

• Mod content loads asynchronously

• Portals support mod-defined width, height, collider, and effect

• Map expiration timer configurable in engine_config.xml

• Removed the dev console (testing happens in the Underground sandbox)

Performance & Under the Hood

• Upgraded to Unity 6000.3.2f1

• Open-world maps expire after 10 minutes of inactivity (timer resets on entry)

• Maps don't expire while a player is inside, a home/return portal connects to them, or an active respawn point exists

• Home map never expires

• Generic room spawn points defer enemy spawning

• Config file no longer syncs via Steam Cloud

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory leak when returning from game to lobby

• Fixed projectile pierce (including stopping one target too early)

• Fixed Fire Mage Inferno not working

• Fixed elite enemy XP multiplier not working

• Fixed workbench auto-reroll getting stuck

• Fixed being unable to replace a property on an item

• Fixed hover UI not appearing after focus switched to a new item post-collection

• Fixed boss hover collider size

• Fixed interactable indicator shifting while moving

• Fixed being able to use an interactable from the previous room after an elevator teleport

• Fixed checkpoint lights defaulting to on

• Fixed being able to partially walk on void

• Fixed Prison enemies spawning inside the spawner's collision area

• Fixed aggro zones not working

• Fixed XP particles being too slow with vsync off

• Fixed scrolling in chat

• Fixed Change Hero and Create Game window titles using the wrong font

• Fixed fades for all room and map transitions

• Fixed camera render distance cutting off in tall rooms

• Fixed portal sizes where the interact line wasn't visible

• Fixed Lower Castle north entrance position

• Editor: fixed world map not saving position

• Editor: fixed playtest not restoring original room (breaking world map / changeMap)

• Editor: fixed duplicate rooms created in connection loops

• Editor: fixed not being able to give custom properties to zones

• Editor: fixed charges on interactables with implicit infinite charges