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Patch Notes - July 2024 - 1.6.0



Changes inspired by our community!

[h2]Major Features[/h2]

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  • New Playable Hero - Yamat (PAID DLC): 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 play styles
    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 dialogue 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!
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  • New Playable Hero - Yamat (Free Content): See Yamat hanging out in the Garden

    Collect and use 2 Yamat Echoes during the runs

    Fight Yamat's Shadow Clone
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  • We now start with 2 base Aura slots instead of 1 with a maximum of 5 instead of 4 with Zim-Zim upgrades to create more synergies
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  • Auras: Added 23 new astral auras:
    - Fire Propellant
    - Homing Ember
    - Careless Wispers
    - Shrineless Flame
    - Heatseeker Shield
    - Sickening Spark
    - Weaponized Conduct
    - Sleety Cloud
    - Magnetic field
    - Power Line
    - Glacier's Fall
    - Ice Pick
    - Snow Day
    - Cold Sap
    - Icarus Slime
    - Icy Shiv
    - Burn Your Idols
    - Sparkling Stars
    - Maddening Darkness
    - Disorienting Weapon
    - Bigger Body Initiative
    - Blade Dance
    - Cast Off
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  • You can now meet up to 4 Zodiacs per run in the Andromeda's Bar, 1 new is added per world there instead of having always 2 Zodiacs there

[h2]Small Features[/h2]

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  • Yalee Kingdom: Increased astral auras spawn chance in Yalee kingdom and added 3 reroll possibilities (unlocked with progression)
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  • Echoes island: Yalee for resets allows 3 rerolls instead 1
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  • community inspiredEffects: Fireshield: If it's already active, creates a pulse that applies 2 Burn
    Ignition: If the target is already ignited, apply 2 Burn
    Reduced Combustion damage
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  • Icons are displayed previewing the Zodiacs inside Andromeda's bar
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  • Added new icons displaying Aura's current, and upgraded version, effect affinities

[h2]Balancing[/h2]

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  • Auras: Spinning Spirit: Reduced Ravaging Spheres CD from 15 to 10 seconds
    Multi-Purpose Barriere: Reduced CD from 36 to 18 seconds
    Ring Of Sol: Reduced Fireshield CD from 18 to 10 seconds
    Incandescent Rain: Reduced CD from 12 to 6 seconds
    Raw Force: Increased combustion damage from 50% to 75%
    Piercing Surprise: Reduced Freezing needle CD from 2 to 1 seconds
    Sudden Frostbyte: Reduced Aqua ball CD from 3 to 1 seconds
    Snow Amulett: Reduced critical hit from 20% to 10%
    Ignited Scar I, II and III: Added 6, 5 and 4 seconds on Ignition from critical hits

    Sorcerer mantle: The effect now only triggers when there are enemies nearby to avoid the mana exploit
    Blinding Comet: Increased magma number from 3 to 6
    Blazing Scars III: Added 100% to regen man but with a 4 seconds of CD
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  • Passives weapons: Added mana regen on the weapon passives
    - Ayla Lunar Dagger :Parting gift
    - Ayla Moonlight blade: Starfire
    - Kiran Raging fist: Flower power
    - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Coniicio Iocor
    - Octave Pistor Vocatis: Priora Signa
    - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Seco Verbera
    - Octave Magnum Cupitere: Anima Vampiris
    - Calie Polytechnical Gems: Aerial Strike
    - Calie Service Spear: Wolf Hole
    - Calie Service Spear: Homing Spear

    Added a reactivation CD for the weapon passives:
    - Ayla Moonlight blade: Ray of light
    - Kiran Raging fist: Double tap
    - Kiran Burning Bo: Magnetic Personality
    - Octave Exterminatum Exemplaris: Fragor mortis

    - Improved cast speed for the passive ""Judgment cut""
    - Increased damage for the passive ""Santôryû""

    Reduced the unlock condition for the “Hunter X Hunger” passive from 100% to 75% attack speed
    Reduced the unlock condition for the ""Homing Spear"" passive from 60% to 45% critical

    - Octave Priora Signa: orbs spawn closer to the ground to hit more enemies

    Weapon Passives should not be appearing in special rooms anymore
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  • community inspired ⭐ Thousand Knives spell now attack faster enemies
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  • Pisces Clones (Zodiac Spell) now has a bigger hit range
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  • Spells: Reality distortion: Increased cast speed
    Water bubble: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible
    Topaz Gladius - Guardian: Sword now only activate if enemies are visible
    N°686 Hidden Dirks : Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible
    Pisces Zodiac spell: Increased clones explosion size and damage
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  • Echoes: Zimzim-Laugh: The effect now only triggers when there are enemies nearby to avoid the mana exploit
    Ayla's Flashing Knives: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible
    Calie's Sigil Weapons: Projectiles now only activate if enemies are visible
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  • Shadow clones: Octave: Added a hit cd when he does his spinning attack
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  • Zim-Zim Laugh echo (infinite mana) now needs a valid enemy in sight to trigger to avoid exploits

[h2]Level Design[/h2]

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  • Shadow clones can no longer spawn in world 1

[h2]Music & SFX[/h2]

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  • Added sounds on missiles effect
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  • Increased sound when a passive weapon is equipped

[h2]Interface[/h2]

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  • Added new icons in the glossary for Combustion, Spark and Frostbite
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  • You can now see the telescope bonus in the interface
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  • Improved texts colors of main menu and options for better readability
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  • New ""Additional Content"" for DLCs on Main Menu

[h2]Visuals[/h2]

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  • Better readability on Invincible Clones
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  • Added an easter egg in the hub
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  • Elliptic Rose and Amethyst shadow colors have been changed to visually fit better with the main color
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  • Added effect icons under aura loot for better feedback (colored for current effects and gray for next rarities)

[h2]Narrative Design[/h2]

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  • Name achievement ""Guardian Angel"" renamed to ""Zodiac Angel"" because there was 2 achievements ""Guardian Angel""
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  • community inspired ⭐ French typos fixed

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

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  • Amount of owned Sun pieces would not display while near a Yalee to reset Echo in the Echo Isles.
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  • If you were dashing and launched a spell or signature spell you would still be considered as dashing resulting of being able to go through fire dash portals
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  • community inspired ⭐ Meeting your Zodiac Sign during runs achievement from Sier Bapy was not giving Sun Pieces the first reward
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  • You could damage boss before fight starts
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  • Some enemies you cannot target could have armor points visible
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  • community inspired ⭐ Calie Spell Deadly Connection would sometimes not work during fps drops
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  • Velocity attack speed % was wrongly displayed (no change to the behavior)
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  • World 3 water elemental enemy could often get into walls and ground, its behavior has been reworked to fix the issue
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  • In co-op, during Scorpio Challenge, Scorpio would sometimes not target the player making the challenge
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  • Octave Rocket Launcher target could remain in hub if you select him then select another character
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  • Ophiuchus now summons correctly Taurus and Pisces in Phase 2
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  • community inspired ⭐ Rosewood color was displayed grey on shadow colors
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  • community inspired ⭐ Portraits of Heroes at the Memory Library were not displayed correctly since 1,4
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  • community inspired ⭐ Ruby Spear - Domination spell could set enemies in walls
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  • community inspired ⭐ Leo could fall out of borders while doing his jump attack with the axe
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  • community inspired ⭐ It was possible to get stuck out of the level screen by spamming inputs at start of some layouts


- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Yalee Plushies Pre-orders!

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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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Last chance for physical editions!


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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First DLC Release in 4 days!




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

New Hero Preview - Yamat

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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

Physical Editions and Ayla Figure!

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

Spanish Language is now available!

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