Ember Knights News

Hello Knights!

This is it - our last scheduled update before 1.0 drops!

While we're hard at work getting the remaining content in for 1.0, we've included the following for 0.12: multiplayer reconnect support, the ability to swap items via an overhauled Offering Pit, balancing to some weapon mods, more boss rewards, a new secret/achievement, and various quality of life improvements to the Ember Tree, Compendium, and shops.




The Offering Pit gets a functionality change in this update. Previously players would offer gold to get a reward. Now, you can offer up to 4 items from your inventory to Bob and he will spit out 4 new items of equal type. Got a relic or two that doesn't fit your build? Give them to Bob to try for something new!

The Offering Pit wasn't really working how we wanted it to. Instead of being an interesting choice where you choose how much gold you want to wager against a reward, it ended up bing more like an inferior shop. This update should make the Offering Pit a more desirable room encounter. Swapping items is a feature that we've had requested a few times and we listened!





This has been a massive undertaking for us but it's a feature we wanted to bring to you before the final release. There are so many scenarios to test this feature thoroughly so you may encounter some issues along the way. If you do experience any problems, we would greatly appreciate letting us know so we can address them!



After taking some time to look at the Leap mod for the Rift Hammer, we came to the conclusion that it was too spammable while still maintaining I-frames. We wanted to address this but also didn't want to take away the ability to use it multiple times in a row nor reduce the I-frames given. Our solution was to introduce the concept of "Leap charges".

Leap can only be activated when you have a Leap charge available. You gain Leap charges by hitting enemies with the 3rd Attack in the normal attack chain. Up to 3 Leap charges can be stored. These are displayed beneath your Knight.

It's our hope that this change will encourage a more fluid transition between normal attacks and Leap attacks and promote a healthier playstyle that is more enjoyable for everyone.




Please see below for the complete list of patch notes!



Note: items marked with 🔥 are a result of player feedback

[h2]New content and features[/h2]
[h3]Offering Pit - Swapping Items[/h3]
An overhauled Offering Pit now allows players to swap up to 4 items! 🔥

[h3]Multiplayer Reconnects[/h3]
Disconnected players will now be able to rejoin their multiplayer game! 🔥

[h3]Weapon Mods[/h3]

• Leap - Introduced the concept of Leap charges. Collect charges by using the 3rd attack and spend charges to perform the Leap. Also reduced the minimum distance but increased the damage
  
• Connoisseur - Changed to give one skill selector each time the player beats a miniboss

[h3]Ember Tree Updates[/h3]

• Separated the Skill Selector reroll and Relic Selector reroll so players can have both 🔥
  
• Removed the bonus damage to elites and champs, and replaced the bonus damage to normal enemies with bonus damage to non-boss enemies to also include elites and champs
  
• Removed the Stat Selector reroll
  
• Various UI improvements

[h3]Shop Changes[/h3]

• Added a chance for Ash to appear in all shops 🔥
  
• Added more levels to the rerolling 🔥
  
• Added progression to the podiums - additional podiums become available as you progress through different worlds
  
• Adjusted the cap price of all items
  
• Streamlined the Nexus Shop unlock sequence

[h3]Compendium[/h3]

• Toggle through variants behind their base version
  
• Various UI improvements

[h3]Boss Rewards[/h3]
Increased the rewards given for beating a boss!

[h3]New Secret/Achievement[/h3]
With the change to the Offering Pit, we had to replace Core Finances. Keep an eye out for a way to defy the mystifying laws of gravity in the Nexus!

[h3]Localizations[/h3]
More translations and fixes! 🔥




In addition to the new content and features, we’ve also made the following changes:

• Added an end-game conversion of gold to ember for any remaining gold left at the end of a run🔥
  
• Added the concept of rarities to Relic Orbs. Visuals will now represent the rarity of the relic behind the Orb
  
• Adjusted Mimics - added scaling HP and attack power, and decreased base HP
  
• Gave the Mimic King a voice
  
• Reduced the default volume to 50% 🔥
  
• Replaced the door mat icon for minibosses
  
• Replaced the intro logos for Doom Turtle and Twin Sails with their animated versions

And finally, some bug fixing:

• Fixed a bug that was causing Evee's Care Package reward to occasionally spawn out of reach 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was resetting the difficulty modifiers between runs 🔥
  
• Fixed some visual issues with Anville's miniboss attacks
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the Cleaver's supercharge attack animation 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing the prompt to advance NPC dialogue to disappear
  

As usual, if you want to stay on top of the news, see new content before it's live, share your favourite memes, or simply chat strategy about the best weapons and skills, join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

We will also be especially grateful for your feedback and suggestions during the Early Access and beyond, so be sure to join our Discord to share your comments directly with our development team!


Stay tuned for more news and updates!

Greetings, Knights!

We've just passed 1 year in Early Access and we wanted to take a moment to recap what we've accomplished as well as share a little bit about what we're working on to get ready for 1.0!



Taking all the feedback we received from our Combat Demo, we launched with the following stats and over the course of the year, added the following:



[h3]Lord Bruma got a bit of a glow-up![/h3]


[h3]We even found some early art concepts...[/h3]Skrixxa Za's cave

Rakkling Nest

Chillvalier progress

Evee's Skill Convergence

Skrixxa Za, in color


[h3]Our amazing community![/h3]
We had very modest expectations when we launched but were quickly overwhelmed with the amount of support we received. Thanks to all of you, we hit the incredible milestone of reaching an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam and grew our Discord community to over 4000 amazing members! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your support and trust in us to work hard to bring you the best version of Ember Knights we can!





So, now what?

We have one more update before the full version launches.
0.12 is dropping at the end of May and we're planning to include the following:

• Reconnect support for disconnected players. This has been a massive undertaking but we feel pretty good about this being ready for 0.12
  
• The ability to swap items via an overhauled Offering Pit
  
• Improvements to the Ember Tree, Compendium and other systems
  
• Additional boss rewards
  
• And more!
  

As usual, player feedback has been an integral part of the development process and we're happy to implement a lot of player-requested features, especially the mechanic to swap items! Bob will be your new best friend!



After that, we're in the final stretch to 1.0, coming this summer. It's been extremely busy with making sure everything is ready and without spoiling too much, you can expect the following:

• The fifth and final area of the story
  
• The Praxis fight
  
• A new weapon
  
• A completely overhauled difficulty modifier system
  
• Boss variants
  
• And a few more surprises that we still have up our sleeves!
  

Thank you for an incredible year and we'll see you soon!

Doom Turtle

Hello Knights!

We've found a few bugs with the previous update and have addressed them with this hotfix update!

Note: items marked with 🔥 are a result of player feedback.

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Ash from being used to purchase weapon mods 🔥
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing players to get stuck on the weapon podiums 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing skills to be used automatically if charging immediately after using the Rift Hammer’s Leap mod 🔥
  
• Fixed some visual issues with the player’s flame effects 🔥
  
• Fixed a multiplayer issue where black dialogue bars would remain when clients are disconnected during dialog sequences
  
• Fixed a multiplayer issue where clients wouldn’t receive damage from Plague Bringer’s poison pool
  
• A bunch of localization fixes 🔥

A big thanks to our incredible community for always helping identify and troubleshoot some of these issues!

That's it for now. We hope you enjoy!






As always, if you want to stay on top of the news, see new content before it's live, share your favorite memes, or simply chat strategy about the best weapons and skills, join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

We will also be especially grateful for your feedback and suggestions during the Early Access and beyond, so be sure to join our Discord to share your comments directly with our development team!

Stay tuned for more news and updates!

Hello Knights!

We're getting closer and closer to 1.0 but before that drops, we have a couple more updates for you!

For 0.11, we've improved the matchmaking for multiplayer games, added a bunch of new languages, balanced the relics system, buffed some skills, adjusted the weapon unlocks, and fixed some pesky bugs.




Something we've wanted to improve on was the ability for players to quickly find teammates when looking for multiplayer games and we felt like implementing Discord's Rich Presence was a useful addition.

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To complement Rich Presence, we've also created special channels and roles available to members of our official Discord server.



You've asked and we've listened! Ember Knights is now available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish!



Please note: while these languages are now available, they are currently a work-in-progress and you may encounter issues or incomplete translations. If you see any problems and would like to help us improve the quality of the localization, please let us know via our dedicated localization channel in our official Discord server located here!



With 1.0 around the corner, it's important that we balance each system to where it should be for the final version of the game. For this update, we've adjusted the relics, skills, and weapon unlocks.


Please see below for the complete list of patch notes!




Note: items marked with 🔥 are a result of player feedback.

[h2]New content and features[/h2]
[h3]Discord Rich Presence[/h3]
Improved matchmaking and real-time status updates for players!

[h3]Localizations (WIP) 🔥[/h3]
Languages now available: Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish!

[h3]Relic System[/h3]
Adjusted the default pool and unlock order

[h3]Skills[/h3]

• Blast Bomb
  • Reduced the refresh rate from 15 to 12
• Cyclone
  • Increased damage
    
  • Lowered tick rate
    
  • Standardized damage and pull radius for charged and perfect casts
    
  • Reduced the refresh rate from 15 to 12
• Judgment
  • Reduced damage
    
  • Reduced the cast delay
    
  • Increased charge time
• Phantom Spear
  • Increased damage
    
  • Standardized tap and charge damage
• Rupture
  • Increased damage
    
  • Reduced refresh rate from 15 to 12
• Normalized the shop cost for all skills in the Nexus shop to 400 Ember
  
• Moved Arlan's Lucky Dice from the default pool to being unlocked via the shop. *Only applies to players who haven't yet unlocked it.

[h3]Weapon Unlocks[/h3]
Adjusted the Ember threshold for the following:

• Nexal Staff
  • Reduced to 800
• Rift Hammer
  • Increased to 1500
• Razor Wind
  • Increased to 2200

In addition to the new content and features, we’ve also made the following changes:

• Removed the kill criteria for Elite enemies to appear. They'll now appear from the beginning of the game 🔥
  
• Increased the damage multiplier on Phantom's stake projectile
  
• Adjusted the volume and frequency of the SFX for the Red Dwarf relic 🔥

And finally, some fixed bugs:

• Fixed a bug with enemy damage numbers that was causing extraordinarily large damage numbers to appear on the summary screen 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug with homing projectiles where they weren’t tracking the target properly if directly behind the source 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was preventing secret rooms from showing in certain map layouts and multiplayer games 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug where players could teleport out of Skrixxa Za’s room with the Razor Wind 🔥
  
• Fixed a visual bug with Skrixxa Za when all players have died
  
• Fixed a few multiplayer issues that were affecting revives and shop rerolls
  
• Fixed a few bugs when using the Nexal Staff’s Clairvoyance mod and Hailstone Armor 🔥
  
• Fixed an issue where the black bars from the shop cutscenes could persist 🔥

As usual, if you want to stay on top of the news, see new content before it's live, share your favourite memes, or simply chat strategy about the best weapons and skills, join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

We will also be especially grateful for your feedback and suggestions during the Early Access and beyond, so be sure to join our Discord to share your comments directly with our development team!


Stay tuned for more news and updates!

Hello Knights!

We’re back with another update for everyone!

For 0.10, we've added some new relics, improved a few more, added another secret color, included some quality of life improvements and fixed a bunch of bugs. We hope you enjoy this update and thank you for joining us on the journey to 1.0!

As always, items marked with 🔥 are a result of player feedback.



[h3]New Relics 🔥[/h3]

• Red Dwarf - Third weapon attacks shoot a giant fireball across the screen
  
• Razor Claw - Crits now deal twice the damage
  
• Spell in a Bottle - Whenever an enemy is defeated, a skill is refreshed by 1 hit
  
• Magic Tome - Whenever a skill is refreshed, AOE damage is dealt
  
• Smoldering Toxin - Whenever an enemy is burned, they're also poisoned
  
• Trusty Wizard’s Hat - Whenever an enemy is stunned, 6 seconds of additional skill damage is applied
  
• Traumatic Blow - Whenever a regular enemy is stunned below 20%, they're instantly killed

[h3]Improved Relics 🔥[/h3]

• Chronograph - Skills refresh quicker in every combat room, not just boss and miniboss rooms
  
• Empowered Bangle - Each first skill hit to an enemy deals bonus damage, not just the first skill hit in a room
  
• Decayed Scepter - Now, every skill hit to an enemy poisons them. A normal cast applies 1 poison stack, a charged cast applies 2 poison stacks, and a perfect cast applies 3 poison stacks
  
• Tainted Conduit (previously Venomous Necklace) - Poison ticks have a chance to conjure lightning
  
• Lethargic Brew - Now, in addition to slowing enemies, their attacks are also slowed
  
• Shock Troop - Increased the number of skill charges that are refreshed
  
• Doom Shell - Now, the Doom Shell triggers on the first perfect skill cast and not when taking damage
  
• Urn of Vengeance - No longer requires taking damage to release the collected souls. Now, a ghost is released whenever an enemy is defeated

[h3]New player color (and secret room...) 🔥[/h3]
There's a new player color that's sure to be electrifying!





In addition to the new content and features, we’ve also made the following changes:

• Reduced the amount of enemy HP scaling per additional player in multiplayer games 🔥
  
• Made the snowy Nexus turn on and off based on the date
  
• Updated the weapon info and mod screens for 6 weapons
  
• Reduced the volume of music in the Mimic King room 🔥

And finally, we've tackled the following big list of bugs:

• Fixed a few bugs that were causing some scenarios where players couldn't roll-cancel 🔥
  • Ember Blade’s third attack - can't roll during weapon attack
    
  • Razor Wind's third attack - can't roll during weapon attack
    
  • Guardian Bow's Volley mod - can't roll during cast animation
• Fixed a bug that was causing players to get stuck on a black screen before the start of the opening cinematic 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the proper button icons from showing when using different controllers 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing an occasional crackling sound 🔥
  
• Fixed a few bugs related to enemy shadows causing issues
  
• Fixed a bug that was moving the player during certain cutscenes due to a camera clamping issue
  
• Fixed a bug with the Steadfast Citadel’s minibosses where they could end up out of bounds
  
• Fixed a few issues where enemy projectiles could spawn out of bounds
  
• Fixed a few bugs responsible for players occasionally getting stuck with Knight’s Charge 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug with Hypercharger that was causing lag
  
• Fixed a bug with Rakklings and Rakknids spawning and not being able to be killed in the Skrixxa Za boss fight 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug with pets (Wisps, Ballistas, etc.) that was causing their death animation to not play while frozen
  
• Fixed a bug with Hypercharger that was allowing it to jump during certain cutscenes
  
• Fixed a bug that was allowing Shockers to move while spawning
  
• Fixed a few visual issues with The Forlorn’s laser
  
• Fixed a few visual issues with Barrier Pendant in multiplayer games 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that would have the player’s shadow disappear after beating the game
  
• Fixed some minor spawning issues with various enemies 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the “Waiting for all Players” message to appear in Anville
  
• Fixed a bug with Ember Blade’s Fortune mod that was giving the same relic instead of a random relic 🔥
  
• Fixed a visual issue that was causing the transition visuals to stay on the screen after exiting to the main menu during a room to room transition 🔥
  
• Fixed a few bugs with seeing Arlan’s shop the first few times
  
• Fixed a bug that was preventing players from equipping the energized weapon skin with their mouse 🔥
  
• Fixed a bug with Effigeist that was causing its VFX and crystals to remain when killed during its Praxis buff
  
• Fixed a bug with Effigeist that was causing the gem reward to take excessively long to spawn when killed while buffed by Praxis
  
• Fixed an issue with the Nexal Staff and Effigeist where the staff was hitting twice
  
• Fixed a few visual issues with the Phantom’s VFX
  
• Fixed a few visual issues with the Overlord Mack’s VFX
  
• Fixed a few issues related to the gameover screen in multiplayer games
  
• Fixed a multiplayer issue where a player’s visuals would appear in the game after they disconnected from the lobby while the game is starting
  
• Fixed a visual issue with Lord Bruma where his VFX were playing while he was invisible 🔥
  
• Fixed a few collision issues with the miniboss variants in Scoggfirth
  
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the healing numbers of the Scoggfirth miniboss to be shown to clients in multiplayer games
  
• Cleaned up a few visual issues with Blast Bomb when multiple bombs are detonated
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing the lock icon to disappear on Ember Tree upgrades if many are purchased too quickly
  

As usual, if you want to stay on top of the news, see new content before it's live, share your favourite memes, or simply chat strategy about the best weapons and skills, join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

We will also be especially grateful for your feedback and suggestions during the Early Access and beyond, so be sure to join our Discord to share your comments directly with our development team!


Stay tuned for more news and updates!