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Patch 1.1.1.4

Hello Heroes!

We are changing a few things today, related to the launch of Dwarves of Runenberg DLC:

[h2]Features[/h2]
  • The omen "Omen of Many [Weapon]" now has two effects instead of just one: the weapon appear more often and its level of rarity will always be above common
  • Added 4 new scrolls with the following skills: Moving Wall, Walls of Pain, Geo Cannon and Armageddon (DLC owners only)
  • Added more race restrictions on portrait face assets

[h2]Balancing [/h2]
  • Perfect Guard gain stacks during Heroes' turn

[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed enemies health bar, now when a poison Runestone is triggered, the ennemies health bar turn green
  • Fixed the inability to hover the second row of medals in the metashop with a controller
  • Fixed Glintfein start button not being clickable in 1024x720 resolution
  • Fixed Heroes with "One armed" trait being visually generated with two arms despite the trait
  • Fixed a bug where enemies hit by "Earthquake strike" would display a panic icon
  • Fixed the magic circle seal color to orange to match Gildenberg

Join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to discuss with the team and other players!

Hotfix 1.1.0.5

Hello Heroes,

In today's update:
  • Fixed a softlock happening on a dialogue during the Final Night of Runenberg when playing in French

Join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to discuss with the team and other players!

91% rated fantasy tactical RPG gets huge new DLC, update, and discount

If there's one thing the strategy and RPG game genres need more of, it's heavy metal aesthetics. Aside from games like Total War: Warhammer 3, They Are Billions, Brutal Legend, and Diablo, there just isn't enough to scratch this particular itch. That scarcity is one of the reasons why 2023's The Last Spell is so compelling. A blend of tower defense, roguelike, and RPG game, The Last Spell is one of the more arresting entries to each of the genres it belongs to - and it's just received an update, its first DLC, and an accompanying discount on Steam.


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Dwarves of Runenberg DLC & Free Update OUT NOW!

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Hello Heroes,

It's FINALLY here! We are so excited to release the very first DLC for The Last Spell! Creating this DLC was a big challenge for the team, and we hope you'll like it. And now, time for the traditional BIG blogpost with all the changes that we’re bringing with this DLC.

Enjoy 🔥

[h2]The first DLC of The Last Spell, Dwarves of Runenberg, is now available on PC! [/h2]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2795980/The_Last_Spell__Dwarves_of_Runenberg/

Gather your team of dwarves, pick up the new weapons and use the Runestones to your advantage on the brand new map!

[h2]Dwarves of Runenberg includes:[/h2]

[h3]Three new weapons[/h3]
🔥 Gauntlet
🔥 War Shield
🔥 Cannon

[h3]New map: Runenberg[/h3]
🔥 Runestones
🔥 Dwarves Statues

[h3]New race: Dwarves[/h3]
🔥 Unique collection of Perks
🔥 Unique passive
🔥 Unique haircuts and faces

[h3]New items: Stone Medals[/h3]
🔥 Unique new Perks available as wearable Trinket

[h3]New consumables: Beers[/h3]
🔥 Stout
🔥 Amber
🔥 Pilsner

A free update is also available to every player of The Last Spell, which includes bug fixing and a few other features like the Weapons Selection! More details available below.

Dwarves of Runenberg


[h2]Three new weapons[/h2]



Dwarves of Runenberg is adding three exclusive new weapons to the game. These weapons have been created to change the way you play The Last Spell, thanks to the addition of weapons' Perks. Not only will these weapons have unique spells, each one of them will also have a unique Perk:
  • Gauntlet: a magical weapon that morphs from a close range to a long range weapon when a certain threshold is reached
  • War Shield: a melee weapon designed to tank damages before letting you unleash your power as retaliation
  • Cannon: an extremely powerful range weapon paired with a risk of overheating, altering the cost of its abilities

Equip your Heroes with the magical Gauntlet, the long-range Cannon and the powerful WarShield. One new weapon per type of damage, available to all Heroes!



[h2]Runenberg[/h2]


Welcome to Runenberg, a new map of 8 Nights set in the mountains. A gigantic cave will greet you from one side, as the large bridge built by the dwarves will allow monsters to come at you from another with a vast and powerful wave. Get ready, this dwarven map's difficulty will be set between Glenwald and Elderlicht and unique Runestones are located on the map with variable effects (ice, fire, poison).


On the Final Night, hell will let loose, Dwarves Statues will gradually be activated and Corrupted Runestones will randomly appear on the map. As you resist against the horde of monsters crawling and growing bigger each new turn, Dwarves Statues will make things even more difficult for you by empowering the monsters around them and targeting the Corrupted Runestones.



[h2]Dwarves[/h2]

The dwarves are joining the fight! New haircuts, new faces but also new (and small) sizes. Get to know your new friends on the battlefield!


Dwarves have an exclusive Perks collection related to their race as well as one exclusive passive:
  • "Toss me!": Ask your lovely friend standing next to you to throw you across the map in order to effectively slaughter thousands of enemies. Talking about it, you may remember a particular scene between a human and a dwarf doing exactly just that...

Here are a few Perks examples of what you may find in the DLC:
  • Warcry: The more a Dwarf is injured, the louder he shouts, inspiring his comrades to fight that much harder.
  • Look at my Muscles: Dwarves expose their muscles to fight longer... It's a Dwarf thing.
  • Emergency Tunnel: Dwarves tend to jump headlong into battle... But they’re also able to quickly tunnel back to safety.

Dwarves may be smaller, but they are also tougher! This will be reflected upon their stats, as they will have less Movement Speed than humans but in return will gain more Block and more Health Regen.

By starting a run on Runenberg, your team will have at least one dwarf.

On other maps, you'll have a chance to have a dwarf in your starting team. By visiting the Tavern, whichever map you play, you'll get as much chance to have humans as dwarves Heroes.



[h2]Stone Medals[/h2]

These new trinkets allow you to equip brand new Perks specifically created for it. The Perks available on the Stone Medals are all new and won't be available on the Perks page of your Heroes.



[h2]Beers[/h2]

What would Dwarves be without their favourite Beers? Three new consumables are added to the game: Amber, Pilsner and Stout, and each one of those Beers has unique properties.
  • Stout Beer: Increases your Mana, reduces your Health.
  • Amber Beer: Increases your Accuracy, reduces your Damage.
  • Pilsner Beer: Increases your Critical, reduces your Critical Power.
Free Update


[h2]New features[/h2]

In addition to the DLC Dwarves of Runenberg, we're adding some free features for ALL players:
  • Weapons Selection: Before the start of your run, choose which weapons you'd like to wield in it
  • Old Medals: A new type of Trinket using the existing Tier 4 and Tier 5 Perks

[h2]QoL[/h2]
  • Added a tutorial for the "Selection of Weapons UI".
  • "Total Damage" has been changed to "Perk Damage" for better understanding.

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

[h3]Perks[/h3]
  • Fixed "Boom" Perk where the damage is not redistributed on the second target if it is on a trap.
  • Fixed "Poisonous" Perk where the poison is not applied on enemies standing on a trap.
  • Fixed missing action points and several movement points on characters with the Perk "Glass Cannon" activated after a reload.
  • Fixed "Glass Cannon" Perk: now the loss of current life cannot exceed the minimum value of 50.
  • The "Sadist" Perk now applies Opportunism bonuses as soon as the "Poisonous" perk inflicts his effect on one or more targets. Players no longer need to take additional actions to trigger this effect.
  • Fixed a bug on enemies affected by "BOOM!", "Human Ballista", and "Spiky Counter" Perks were not counted towards the "Harvester" Perk's kill count.
  • Fixed the "Relentless" Perk: now the player can no longer gain more movement points than the activation threshold (3).
  • Fixed the "Blood collector" tooltip: now it also displays the actual amount of health regenerated at the end of the turn, taking into account "Health Received".

[h3]Others[/h3]
  • Fixed the randomization hair button in the customization panel.
  • Fixed the Apocalypse tooltip visible in the Omens menu when you hover at the bottom of the screen.
  • Fixed a bug when you played with a controller and destroyed the magic circle with a catapult: the circle animation froze and rendered the cursor immobile.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible to use the spell "Contamination" on a non-targetable enemy.
Phew, that’s it, the first DLC of The Last Spell is now out! What a ride!

We can’t wait to read your discussions on Steam, Discord & Reddit and discover which new weapon will be your favourite or how many dwarves you were able to toss into battle.

Share your best strategies with us or the horrible moment you realized you couldn’t win this Night! Will you be the unbeatable player able to first try every new map?

Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!

Dwarves of Runenberg: Cannon

Hello Heroes,

Did you read the news? The Last Spell is getting a DLC!

Dwarves of Runenberg is the first DLC coming to The Last Spell, and with it comes multiple additions to the game, including three brand new weapons. Today, we're gonna give you a little more insight about one of them: the Cannon, a ranged weapon with explosive skills and a tendency to overheat due to its instability…

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1105670/view/4111295701225220288

Cannon


The Cannon is a simple ranged weapon, yet filled with enormous firepower. It could easily be in talk for a “weapon of mass destruction” title, but such a destructive tool should always come at a price. Thus, the Cannon demands careful resource management or it might lead you to dire consequences.

[h2]Cannon’s Skills[/h2]

[h3]Cannon Ball[/h3]

It shoots. Hard.



[h3]Rocket Jump[/h3]

Have you ever dreamt of flying? Jump into the melee and unleash chaos upon the monsters.



[h3]Mortar[/h3]

A long distance skill to slow down the horde. It has a high chance to Stun the primary target, and a lower chance to Stun its surrounding monsters.



[h3]Armageddon[/h3]

Turn the air into hellfire with a very large multihit AoE. Probably the most powerful skill ever created by the dwarves.



[h2]Weapon perks[/h2]

With the release of Dwarves of Runenberg, we are introducing Weapon perks, a new way to design and play the weapons at your disposal. Weapon perks are available on the Gauntlet, War Shield and Cannon.

[h3]Overheat[/h3]

The price to pay to access such firepower.

Each skill of the Cannon will generate Heat, determined by the skill’s cost. Upon reaching Heat 7, the Cannon overheats, now requiring Health Points to use its skills in addition to their current cost. At the end of the turn, the Cannon begins to cool down, providing you a brief respite.

When the Cannon is overheating, firing it will trigger an explosion around you, damaging everything around them, monsters and structures alike. The Cannon will always survive the overheating, but your Hero might not.



Now that you know everything about this new weapon, we can't wait to see you using it on the battlefield! The Cannon is one of three weapons available in the upcoming DLC: make sure to wishlist it! Dwarves of Runenberg will be available on April 24th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2795980/The_Last_Spell__Dwarves_of_Runenberg/

Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!