Astral Ascent News

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You know Sagittarius, our tough badass Zodiac that spends her days screaming at people and showering arrows on prisoners' heads at the Garden. But do you know that behind this aggressive and annoying attitude, there's a cute little girl that makes Yalee plushies as a hobby? ːtaffyː

That's her little secret, but I'm really bad at keeping secrets, so I got some of her plushies and decided to put them on sale because... well, WHY NOT? ːtaurusSmirkː

[h3]Hurry up and get yours, before she finds out and takes them back! [/h3]

Xoxo, Yamat

PS: Don't dare to tell her it was me

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The community asked and we made it! We have ran an event on our Discord Server for potential merch and Yalee Plushies have been the most upvoted by far!
If you like Astral Ascent, this is the perfect occasion to support our work and on top of that get a super cute plushie of one our cutest characters, the Yalees!

This will be available for a limited time only, so don't miss the opporunity if you're a fan – or if you simply likes fluffy cats in coats! And if you really enjoy our plushies, we might even try to convince Sagittarius to stitch different ones... 👀



The way it works with Makeship.com is that we need at least 200 pre-orders on a concept of the plushie (which you can see above) for Makeship to craft the first version of the plushie and open final pre-orders.

Pre-orders at this stage are even more important as they make it more likely for the plushies to be created based on the visual concept, if we do not reach the 200 pre-orders they simply won't be crafted. If you have any questions you can check the Makeship FAQ for more details about shipping countries, shipping costs and more!

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We would also like to remind you there is only 3 days left (JULY 28, 2024 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME) to pre-order the Limited Run Games Physical editions and the Ayla figure!



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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3073420/Astral_Ascent__Yamat_the_Breach_Traveler/

You can already wishlist it to be notified when it comes out on July 29th! and it can also help us getting more visibility on launch!

Have an excellent day and see you in 4 days for Yamat DLC + 1.6 release! ːbarbecuePogː

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

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[h2]Yamat the Breach Traveler is coming on July 29![/h2]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3073420/Astral_Ascent__Yamat_the_Breach_Traveler/



[h3]YAMAT, THE BREACH TRAVELER - [/h3]
Play as Yamat, a powerful Breach Traveler who has been wandering through all of the astral prisions created by the Master to challenge the strongest fighters and prove herself.

The new prisioner has a very bold personality and carries a lot of mysteries with herself – her motivations and personal goals will unravel within each escape attempt.



[h3]DLC CONTENT - [/h3]

• 16 new unique spells - summons powerful wild creatures, spinning giant blades and more!
  
  
• Pixel Art hand-drawn cinematic animation!
  
  
• Signature Spell - Forbidden Power transforms Yamat into her flying draconic form allowing her to move freely around while shooting magic missiles to nearby enemies.
  
  
• 37 Associated Perks to modify her Signature Spell
  
  
• 3 Weapons types for different playstyles
  
  • Dark Energy Fists - close range quick attacks of dark matter unleashing flaming magical creatures
    
  • Two-Handed Dark Sword - longer range powerful slash that can hit several enemies at once
    
  • Dark Bow - shoots from afar and shower enemies with arrows
    
  
  
  
• 9 Weapon Passives - Each weapon comes with 3 unique passives to change playstyle, making Yamat an even deadlier fighter,
  
  
• New Papa Yalee Stories - 4 new stories to learn more about the mysterious Yamat
  
  
• 1000+ new lines of dialogs between Yamat and all the other characters of the Garden – including heroes – fully voiced in English and Japanese
  
  
• Pixel Art ending screen - a new ending has been added to the game for Yamat!
  

[h3]ADDITION TO THE BASE GAME - [/h3]
Even if you do not own the DLC, you still will be able to-

• See Yamat hanging out in the Garden
  
  
• Collect and use 2 Yamat Echoes during the runs
  
  
• Fight Yamat's Shadow Clone

[h2]1.6 version details[/h2]
Apart from Yamat, a lot of new changes are coming with this new version!
23 New Astral Auras with specific effects for new builds and many changes such as allowing more rerolls in rooms, finding more Zodiacs in the bar and many other things!



[h3]DLC PRICE - [/h3]
We are aiming for $4.99 for this new character DLC.


We hope you will love Yamat as much as we do! ːzagplsː

Have an excellent day,

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Pre-orders from our partners Limited Run Games are opening from June 28 to July 28 for PS4 / PS5 and Nintendo Switch!

Link for pre-orders

It also comes with limited quantity of leftovers Ayla figures from our Kickstarter campaign!

Link for pre-orders

Have an excellent day ːzimzimSmileː

We are happy to announce that you can now play Astral Ascent in Spanish with the 1.5.1 version!

You have asked for this translation a lot so we were happy to deliver it!

Muchas gracias, y... diviértanse, gracias. ːzagplsː

Hello everyone!

Version 1.5 is out now on Steam! This time again we did not do a simultaneous release on console because we wanted to keep iterating based on our Beta Public feedback, this update adds a variety of small changes and bug fixes. We hope you will enjoy it!

[h2]Patch Note[/h2]

Read the full Patch Notes here
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/4174351172249174630

[h2]Reminiscing Mirror[/h2]

We have added a new feature in the Garden, next to Papa Yalee, the Reminiscing Mirror!

You can interact with it to see all the Pixel-Art Cinematics, there is 38 cinematics in the 1.5 Update and it will go up to 40 in the 1.6 Yamat DLC.



This should allow you to see what you still have to unlock, in particular for endings and you can see again these cinematics when you want!



A new cinematic has been added in 1.5 linked to another important change.

[h2]Destiny Level 100 and Resilience Mode
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Destiny Level maximum used to be 54, with a secret hidden at this level.

We were surprised and amazed by the quantity of players who cleared the Destiny Level 54 which is incredibly hard! We wanted to add more content for these players, we initially wanted to add a Destiny Level 100 with only Stats increase (more life and damage on enemies) in the 1.4 Update but we listened to feedback and decided to postpone it to 1.5 and make it a bigger than initially planned based on the initial reception of it.

We re-balanced the elements that seemed too punishing in Destiny Level 54 to make it less frustrating, for example adding a cooldown when getting hit and losing max hp/mana/quartz. The ghosts spawning have a delay before attacking and the armor on enemies is less frequent.

This makes Destiny Level 54 easier so you have more chance to get to see what's next!

For 1.5 version we decided to create a new column of 5 elements in the Path of Destiny.



This new column can only be activated if you did beat Destiny Level 54 first.

In a similar way of the 6 first Destiny Levels, the 5 last one need to be beaten one by one to get to progress.

[h3]Destiny Level 60[/h3]

The first element is Ophiuchus Giant Swords falling on players during most rooms.


[h3]Destiny Level 70[/h3]

The second element is more Elites which also gives more Stars to also give a bit more power.


[h3]Destiny Level 80[/h3]

The third element is fighting 2 Star Guardians at once, Star Guardians are a place that experienced players defeat easily so it makes the fight more complicated.

You have 2 extra Gambits loots when defeating Star Guardians at this Destiny Level.


[h3]Destiny Level 90[/h3]

The fourth element is even harder as it requires you to fight 2 Zodiacs at once with their improved fighting skills from Destiny Level 6.

You have 2 extra Auras loots when defeating Zodiacs at this Destiny Level.


[h3]Destiny Level 100[/h3]

Finally the last element is making the Ophiuchus fight harder for a final climax. Ophiuchus summons 2 Shadow Clones in Phase 1 instead of 1 ( 1 by 1 ) and he summons 4 Shadow Clones in Phase 2 instead of 2 (2 by 2). Ophiuchus also summons real Zodiacs you have to kill instead of Zodiacs only doing 1 attack. Finally Ophiuchus also gets Elite Aspects that only happen during Shadow Clones and Zodiacs attacks to avoid impossible to dodge attacks during Ophiuchus patterns.

Glory is the main reward of finishing Destiny Level 100 as we already gave a big extra reward at Destiny Level 54 but we still added an extra small ending to express our gratitude to players going this far in the game.

Each Destiny Level also adds damage and life to enemies and Zodiacs but the life added is not too high to avoid enemies becoming too tanky.

[h2]Resilience Mode[/h2]
We are also adding an option for players wanting to experiment the game but having a hard time doing it. The Resilience Mode is similar to Hades God Mode, if you activate it, the more you die the more resilient you become so it adapts to you so you can keep going in the game if you are stuck!


[h2]Banning Spells[/h2]
You can now ban spells, 3 per hero and 5 common spells so if you really do not like playing with some spells you can make sure you do not find them again in your runs!


[h2]Other smaller changes[/h2]

Burn Stacks can now go up to more than 10 stacks, if you had more than 10 stacks on an enemy you would lost the extra stacks while now they are kept. Combustions are also triggered faster than before when reaching 10 stacks.


A Yalee in Echoes Island appears once you beat Destiny Level 6 once (like Yalee in Telluric Ruins) and allows you to reset one time the Echoes choice.


Icons of Echoes you get from Void Catalyst and Telescope appear above player in the first room so you don't miss them.


New icons showing spells and gambits elemental affinities. This change is part of more changes coming to the game to better understand the loots affinities and effects. You do not need to open the spells anymore to see their affinity, we know that for gambits the affinities are more obvious but we also wanted to keep a consistency among loots.


Equipping an Aura on the same Aura will increase its quality if Aura can be improved. 2 Common Auras become a Rare Aura and 2 Rares Auras become a Mythic Aura.



[h2]Yamat is coming![/h2]

The next update will be 5th character, Yamat DLC and we will communicate more about it when possible, target is Summer 2024 but until then you can see her animated portrait!


Have an excellent day everyone!

- The Hibernian Workshop Team