Thank you, Scribes!
Hello! Steam Next Fest has ended - but you can still play the Vellum Demo until next Monday, February 19th!
Thank you all for playing - together, you restored over 2,500 Tomes and beat back the Torn!
We spent many many hours watching the great content put out by our players - and even more time discussing the awesome feedback we received. Through the week (and early demo days), we pushed four patches to the Demo with changes that came mostly from what we heard from you!
These patch notes are visible on the Discord, but we've collected them in this post below to share as well.
Thank you all for your many hours spent playing and your detailed, passionate feedback. We can't wait to share more about the big changes and content ahead as we approach the Early Access launch of Vellum on March 28th!
You'll be hearing more from us soon, but for now - thank you for a wonderful Steam Next Fest and please continue to enjoy the Demo!
- The Vellum Team
Build - 0.27.0 (January 31)
Changes:
- Added new network region selector to settings
- Elites now gain powers from their Torn family (Raving/Splice/Tangent)
- "Air Elemental" Tangent Sniper Ability
- - Now starts on cooldown
- - Increased windup duration by 25%
- - Projectile speed slightly reduced
- Boss - Harvest
- - Portal projectiles spawn more in front of players
- - Portal projectiles speed slightly reduced
- New Enemy Upgrades added!
- Dynamic Music system upgraded from static tracks
Fixes:
- Fixed blurry floating combat text at far distance
- Enemy on-death AoE effects keep their size upgrades
- Updated AI network sync logic to prevent most latency-based teleports
Build - 0.27.1 (February 3rd)
General:
- Cosmetic Set: Rookie is ready to be claimed in Customization Menu!
- New SFX in Library game transition
- Updated Page, Torn Page, Font Power icons
- Tutorial Ultimate adjusted
- Several tooltip changes (Torn Pages, Punctuate Ability)
- Signature Ink Passives now show up in Tab Menu for Abilities/Pages of Power
- Addressed various UI bugs
The Torn:
- Several new Torn Pages (and retooling of some existing ones)
- “Sniper” Elite Tangent rebalance and primary ability redesign
- - Aimed Shot no longer pierces, has new visuals, more clear animation telegraphing
- “Scorpion” Raving ranged damage reduction, added damage to submerge pool
- “Gecko” Raving can now appear in Tomes more often
Build - 0.27.2 (February 6th)
Content Related:
- Final Legacy now affects any Flourish (previously affected from Generators only)
- Reduced the knockback intensity of the "Gecko" Ravings
- Scribes may now find additional Pages of Power: Albatross, Snap Judgment
- Enhanced the Page reward structure of Prologue: Spells and Ink
- Tangent Boss: Harvest is now guaranteed to appear in Of Scribes and Torn
General Fixes:
- Player movement in multiplayer should appear smoother
- The Flourish indicator is now more clear when using Punctuate
- Book/Pages of Power UI should now use Scribes' equipped ability names when hovering Pages
- Reviving players and progress should now be synced
- Team members should now show the correct Signature Ink in UI
- Fixed a floor issue in the Library
- Background error fixes regarding Steam Friends
Visual/UI Polish:
- Visuals updated: Yellow Brick Road
- Icon updated: William Bullet, Blood in the Air
- Tooltip fix: Conclusion Jump, Joust
- Range Display added: Battle Glow
- Prologue title update: Prologue: Spells and Ink
- Grass terrain colors have been darkened
- Book/Pages of Power UI now fades Team HUD indicators
- Various wording and text updates:
- Some reward and interstitial UI panel rewrites
- Torn tooltip updates: Raving, Splice, Tangent
Audio Polish:
- Updated sounds for Scribes' Quip ability
- Updated sound effects for Scribe Jumping and Landing
- Added sound to opening/closing Book UI
- Additional sound for the "Flail" Splice
Build - 0.27.3 (February 9th)
General
- New post-game Scribe performance UI
- New post-game overall summary UI
- New post-game Tome reward visuals (Tomes, Pages, other)
- Updated Torn spawn zone visuals
- Reduced Torn spawn delay for new spawn zones
- Camera sensitivity now has both Horizontal and Vertical sliders
- Camera sensitivity fix
- Updated "Earth Elemental" Tangent projectile VFX
- Replenishment now stacks correctly
- Tooltip adjustment for Hidden Gods