The Specialist Update is here!
As we introduce new features, our long term goal is to make the game more strategic and create more versatile play styles. They're also a step towards the new game mode we're working on.
Giving players more agency over the game means the difficulty may change as we tune it, and if players have more ways to master the game it provides a path for us to create more hardcore, challenging content in the future!
This update includes a very important feature:
Choosable Stat Boosts
There are now multiple types of Stat Boosts with different effects!
These also give you a choice between 1 of 3 stats to gain, to help you balance your build the way you want!
New Stat Boost types are:
Basic - Choose 1 of 3 primary Stats to increase
Compromise - Choose 1 of 3 primary Stat to increase, -1 to the other 2 choices
Specialised - Choose 1 of 3 primary Stat to increase a lot, -1 to all other stats
The Basic type can also appear as a Cursed Stat Boost.
15+ New items
As we continue adding content we're aiming to keep filling out areas which need more variety, as well as adding more synergies to make existing items more useful! This is a long term goal for us, though we're excited to share our first batch of new items.
These includes the beginning of spell cast synergies, more versatile Stalker set cards and a special frog-related treat...
We won't spoil too much, so you can discover the new items yourself.
10+ New achievements
Over time we'll be adding a mix of Achievements for you to naturally unlock over the course of playing Ring of Pain, as well as more specific challenges which require extra thought.
Thank you to all players for your support, feedback, and sharing.
We're excited to keep building the game, and will continue tuning the experience. We welcome any thoughts and feel free to join our discussions on Discord.