Hail, Scribes - and happy New Year!
Welcome to the first update of the year, Interlude Patch: Author-ity! Wield an expensive new Spender Spell, express yourself with Emotes, test your damage with Endgame Review, relax in new Vignettes, and enjoy many smaller improvements!
Our next major chapter comes later this month- be sure to keep up with our progress with the in-game roadmap!
Overrule - Dealing With Difficult Subjects
O hail the Sovereign Scribe - first of their fame, guardian of the Library, descendant of the first mend, collector of pages and chromatic wielder: INKBORN!
Overrule is the newest Spender in the Scribes' arsenal; Ascend and brandish a Sceptre for 2.5s to sentence foes to destruction!
The Torn are indeed difficult subjects - but this high-damage, single-target beam of power might just be the answer! As an expensive spell, make sure to keep 3 mana in your coffers to deal with the challenges throne your way.
Emotes - It's An Expression
Sometimes, in multiplayer games, jumping and pinging and random spells just isn't enough to really get your point across.
Sometimes, you just need the perfect gesture to Emote with! We've added a selection of emotes purchasable in the Illuminated Library with Gildings.
Equip your 4 favorite, most contextually-expressive actions and become the thespian you were meant to be!
Vignettes - Duality of Respite
To find oneself in strange times and stranger lands can be a wish come true.
To lose one's self in such reveries, however...
Endgame Review - Practice & Theory
Tome? Mended. Boss? Defeated. But how?!
Enter the Endgame Review - after defeating a boss, Scribes can summon a set of training dummies to unleash and observe the power of their Pages and Ink.
Attacking these dummies records a rolling average of Damage Per Second on the back board - review your build or just practice, then head back to the Illuminated Library or brave the Appendices! (Speaking of reviews - if you're enjoying Vellum Early Access so far, let us know in the Steam Reviews; it helps us a ton!)
Epilogue
Interlude Patch: Author-ity has tons of goodies to kick off the year, lots of details and some quality of life improvements to accompany the content centerpieces. There's so much more to come as the 1 year mark of Early Access approaches on the horizon.
Thank you for your support!
- The Vellum Team
Interlude Patch: Author-ity - Full Patch Notes
Features
New Spender Spell: Overrule
- Ascend and brandish a Sceptre for 2.5s to sentence foes to destruction.
- Damage: 40/s
- Mana Cost: 3 (invokes mana effects every 0.65s)
- A collection of Overrule Pages of Power may now be found in Tomes
Emotes
- 11 New Emotes are now available in the Library in exchange for Gildings
- Scribes may equip up to 4 emotes at a time
New Vignettes
- Distant Oasis and Timeless Alcove may now appear in Tomes
- New Lore Pages for these Vignettes
Endgame Review
- Training Dummies can now be summoned after defeating a Boss
- Damage Per Second will appear on the back board, showing a rolling average of damage dealt by each Scribe
Gameplay
- Scribes can now aim at higher and lower angles (Scribes can now look down at those directly beneath them)
- Inkling, while transformed, should get stuck less often
- Inklings will correctly benefit from multiple uses of Green Mana
- Generator Spell: Enkindle should now properly be invoked by other Pages of Power
- Spender Spell: Eclipse will now invoke mana effects every 2s
- Spender Spell: Passage will now invoke mana effects every 1s
- Page of Power: Expense Management now has reduced spread of extra projectiles
- Outlines around foes will now appear after 5s of being outside line of sight (was 6s)
- Torn Page: Darts and Boards should now properly reset Tangent attack speed
- Many Torn knockback effects have been reduced in intensity
- Adjusted Torn health in Tutorial
- Splice: Ogre should now appear more accurate in wind-up and attack direction
- Splice: Rattlespike ground line of spikes can no longer hit Scribes multiple times
- Binding: Lava Floor now has visual and audio feedback when damaging Scribes
- Binding: Explosive has enhanced sound and visuals
- Vignette: Skyline Belfry Bells should now behave more like bells, less like Torn
- Navigation fixes for many combat arenas (should result in fewer stuck Torn)
- Binding damage scaling for 0-10 has been adjusted (Torn were getting some unintended power)
Visuals & Misc
- Random Loadout function now requires holding Interact for 0.75s
- Endgame summary now also displays the Tome's icon
- Visual improvements to projectors (e.g. range indicator when hovering a Page of Power)
- There is new fanfare VFX and SFX when unlocking/equipping Spells in the Spellbook
- Enhanced VFX for Ink Level Up interface
- Various instances of "Ability" text changed to "Spell"
- New audio fanfare when unlocking/equipping Cosmetics
- Cosmetics locked behind achievements now have a trophy indicator
- Visual adjustment to Font Power interface
- Font Powers in the summary list will no longer overflow
- Font Power interface has text formatting adjustments
- Adjusted text location in Torn Page selection interface
- Library Tutorial process will no longer lock Scribes out of the Spellbook
- The Questboard now has indicators for "Back" keybinds