Across the Obelisk News

Paradox Interactive and Dreamsite Interactive’s deck building adventure game Across the Obelisk is coming with a new Hero Pack! Amelia the Queen brings back the astray Queen of Senenthia to help search for her missing daughter, the princess. This new hero comes with a new set of enchantment cards specializing in cold damage and vanishing cards. The Queen also comes with new card backs, emotes and skins for more diversity to your game. Embark on your journey to solve the mystery of the Obelisk with the Queen herself at the helm of your party.

Amelia the Queen comes with:

• A new hero: The Queen, with a set of cards focusing on cold damage and vanishing cards
  
• Rifty, a new pet that removes buffs from your opponents
  
• 3 skins for The Queen
  
• 3 new card backs
  
• 5 emotes for the Queen
  
• New reply options during events
  

Alongside Amelia the Queen the game will also receive the 1.3 update for free for all owners of Across the Obelisk.

[h2]Important Note! [/h2]
Due to major changes between the two versions, current games will not be compatible with the new Update 1.3.0. This does not affect unlocks or game progress.
You can access the latest stable version (1.2.5) in the Steam beta program. If you want to switch to it, you will be able to select it through the Steam beta options by selecting the "v125-legacy" branch

[h2]Features:
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• Rifts! A new phenomenon that will open up new paths through the first 2 acts of the game
  
• 3 new monsters
  
• 7 new items to equip your heroes with
  
• New events that will give the player the opportunity to obtain ‘blob’ pets
  
• A sandbox mode for Obelisk Challenges
  
• Shady Deals: A new option in shops to trade shards for gold
  
• Christmas themed weekly challenges
  
• Christmas decorations throughout Senenthia
  
• New languages - Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese
  

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Gameplay changes:

• Bree: Unforgiving Nature, increased crack applied to 2 (from 1) with the blue/yellow upgrades.
  
• Evelyn: Elemental Proliferation, blue/yellow upgrades changed to +all damage instead of fire/cold/lightning.
  
• Magnus: Valiant Defender, increased block a bit and now also grants fortify.
  
• Thuls: Black Talons, reduced poison and dark bonus charges to +1 (from +2), but now it will also apply 1 poison on hit and dark on hit is increased to 2 (from 1).
  
• Thuls: Subterfuge, now also dispels 1 curse when hit.
  
• Zek: Absolute Darkness now increases the damage of the dark explosions by +35%. Fixed a problem that caused the shadow resistance to decrease instead of increasing the damage of the final dark explosion. Improved the Stealth shader, which sometimes, depending on the skin, caused graphical anomalies.
  

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Bugs

• Fixed numerous issues reported.
  

Amelia the Queen is returning to Senenthia! Bring Amelia on the journey to find her missing daughter the Princess and uncovering the mysteries of the Obelisk!

Amelia the Queen is coming on December 12th 2023 for PC!

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Fredrik Wester (CEO Paradox Interactive) and BjornB (Community Manager) will be playing some Spooky Night in Senenthia to celebrate Halloween!

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Update 1.2.5 for Across the Obelisk adds 3 more skins to the Spooky Night in Senenthia DLC! All existing owners of this DLC will have the new skins added to the already existing seven without any further action required.



For the next 9 days, Senenthia will be decorated to celebrate the holiday, and you will have access to a special Halloween challenge which will reward you with the exclusive “Treat Cardback” should you succeed.

We also have a livestream tomorrow Nov 1st over at twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive at 15:00CET with Fred Wester and BjornB playing some co-op)

Happy Halloween!




To celebrate this spooky holiday you can also pick up Across the Obelisk and any additional content at a discounted price!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385380/Across_the_Obelisk/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168960/Across_The_Obelisk_Spooky_night_in_Senenthia/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2511580/Across_The_Obelisk_Sands_of_Ulminin/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2325780/Across_The_Obelisk_The_Wolf_Wars/