Astral Update - January 2022

We hope you spent a good time during the holidays! On our side, the studio members took a well deserved holiday break and had a great time. We feel reinvigorated and we are very motivated for this !

How to better start the year than with a brand ? We have been delaying this new version as we wanted to do a with polished content before collecting your thoughts about it, this new version includes:

• the Red barrens (second world of the game) with new enemies / challenges
  
• 5 new bosses to face (Virgo, Leo, Sagittarius, Lupus & Pegasus)
  
• 3 new room types to discover
  
• 2 new hub NPCs to meet with new progression systems
  
• 10+ new Auras
  
• 13 new spells to use
  
• and plenty more...
  

You can check the

dedicated patch-note here

, it is probably not complete as the update was so massive but we tried to be exhaustive.







You need to have the , if you already have it the new version will update automatically, if you do not have it already:

• Join our
  Discord Server
  and follow our Kickstarter Assistant instructions in the
  #kickstarter-rewards channel
  to get your
  backer Discord role
  .
  
• React in the
  #playtests-register channel
  to get the
  Playtester role
  .
  
• Welcome to the
  #playtests channel
  where you can
  ask for a key
  .
  
• Use the key in Steam.
  

Your last playtest saves will be saved if they were from 0.21.10 or more, if you lost your saves you can now .

We have created

a new survey here

to . We have improved the game a lot thanks to your previous feedbacks so thank you if you take the time to answer it this time again. You can also create suggestions tickets in the of the Discord Server.
(without comments is fine too) are so we can better see how you react to the game elements.


The second world of the game is now , we have recently added that will appear on the explorations room to make those rooms more dangerous and lively. We did not want to add traps at the beginning of the development but we love how it turned out.
You'll see that they also are to your enemies.












We have also added (first world), these elements only appear in the Exploration rooms to make them feel more unique and more rhythmed.








For some time, we felt that Auras lacked funny and gameplay-changing elements, we decided to work on this giving to work with and create ! There is plenty of new Auras to discover and new interesting combos between the Auras or between Auras and Gambits, we hope you'll like them as much as we do!






We have also added new content to the main hub: !
The first one is a familiar face, from the Kickstarter stretch goals has finally arrived at the hub and will now and even giving you during your journey.






The second one is a that everyone named for obvious reasons. You will now be able to get to unlock during your next adventures!







One of the main changes we have made since the previous version is changing the structure of the runs:

• Fight rooms will now exclusively give keys
  - merchants became much more important
  
• Higher tier loots are rarer than before
  - collecting gambits became more interesting
  
• Exploration rooms have been shortened
  - experience is more dynamic all around
  

Those changes implied a lot of changes on progression during runs and, if you try the new version, you will see that it's quite different from what we had before, all of!
Among the progression changes, we decided to add a to the game, giving you the possibility to to use in the next shop, you can also .
It is now always exciting to find these rewards because if they are not fitting your current build you will still get currency to invest in something you need for your build at next merchant.





We really hope you will appreciate all this new content as much as we do.
Don't forget our Backerkit shop and our Discord Server to speak with the community and give us feedbacks on the game!






Have a wonderful day,

-The Hibernian Workshop Team